7 Insights Every Blogger Should Know

What is more important: quality or quantity?

The easy answer to this long and heated debate is both are very important – and I’ll give you that, they both are, but for free content I am in the quantity camp. Go ahead and paste me and leave 1,000 comments telling me I’m wrong – I don’t care, I will read… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Segment Your Subscribers When You Run A Blog Business

I was reading Dee’s recent article in his customer segmentation series where he talked about how to segment your blog readers.

One of his main premises was the difference between a person who leaves a comment, or many comments and those who don’t. I agree with Dee that these are possible options for segmenting your blog readership, but… Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Coaching Call Now Available To Download…

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We just wrapped up a mammoth, 2-hour 19 minute call with over 140 people live. The questions kept coming and Gideon and I didn’t… Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Want To Become A Professional Blogger?

Back in 2004 when I started blogging there really wasn’t anything such as a professional blogger. Those who were making money as a blogger weren’t talking about it… yet.

Over the next two years the idea of blogging for money, possibly even as a career, became a reality. Blog networks started up paying bloggers a salary, thanks to programs like… Read the rest of this entry »

The Triangle Of Trust Technique

I just watched Frank Kern’s latest free video called “Sneak Attack“, which for the first half is a bit of Frank’s usual silly antics where he attempts to sneak attack John Reese at his new south coast headquarters.

If you don’t have much time and want to zip through to the practical stuff, go through about half way… Read the rest of this entry »

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If You Can’t Write Words That Sell You Don’t Make Money

As you likely know, Gideon and I wrapped up the opening marketing campaign for Become A Blogger Premium a couple of weeks ago. During that period we both wrote lots of emails to our various subscribers, email being the primary communication method and also the distribution channel for delivering resources like the Roadmap report.

Most of you haven’t… Read the rest of this entry »

Podcast: How Much Traffic Should A New Blog Have After 2 Months?

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Thousands Of Blog Readers Within Two Months

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Why Don’t Bloggers Understand Email Marketing?

Over the weekend I worked hard on video presentations for the release of Blog Mastermind. Obviously the core topic of the videos is how to make money via blogging, however I’m introducing a new form of blogging for profit, something that can lead to income quicker, it’s more stable and in the long haul is a much better model for… Read the rest of this entry »

Will Feedburner Feed Counts Include AWeber Email Subscribers?

Andy Beard reported on his blog that AWeber will begin to report email subscriber numbers to Feedburner.

This triggered a line of thought in me that I hadn’t considered before. Let me tell you why…

I’ve been an AWeber user for ages now and it’s been my RSS-to-email service of choice for forever too. I never used any other… Read the rest of this entry »

Read This Article Today Or You Miss Out! Deadline Driven Marketing

One of the most powerful forces in marketing is a deadline.

Like other skeptical observers of the techniques Internet marketers pull to land more sales, I feel a sense of discomfort when told that a product is going off the market at a certain date. Yet, at the same time, I feel compelled – if I really want this product,… Read the rest of this entry »

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Blog Mastermind Closes Today

This is the last blog post I will make about this. Blog Mastermind is closing to new members today.

I’ve been blown away by how many people have joined in the last week and I look forward to working with all the new members.

This is going to sound cliche, but I just had to restart the server (yesRead the rest of this entry »

How To Market Your Blog With Conversations – A Free Sample Lesson From Blog Mastermind

It’s been a crazy last few days. I sent out a lesson to Blog Mastermind students about direct advertising and it was a huge lesson, more than 5,000 words, plus an extra video and audio – there is so much to teach about making money with blogs!

In between finishing that lesson for the current students I’ve also been putting… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Build Your Email List Using Your Blog – Video

Vittorio Bosio, the very first member of Blog Mastermind, sent me an email today about releasing some new videos on his blog in response to the advice I gave him in a video case study (in fact the first ever video case study I did for members – Vittorio had a lot of firsts!).

When I went to… Read the rest of this entry »

Will Blog Marketing Replace Email Marketing?

I’m in a unique position compared to most Internet marketers who have recently completed product launches. I was possibly one of the first to do a “Product Launch Formula” style launch with the advantage of an established blog, with an RSS readership as large as my email list. Most well known Internet Marketers have blogs, but they are not… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Grow A Great Blog Without Writing It Yourself

As an entrepreneur and a blogger I’ve been afforded a unique outlook on the whole blogging as a business discussion. Bloggers look at blogging as something they do for fun, for creative expression, for meeting people, for making money directly from advertising and affiliate promotions or indirectly by promoting a business. Most bloggers are either not blogging for money or… Read the rest of this entry »

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Is This The Only Sustainable Blogging Business Model?

It’s taken four articles to get here, but at last the final chapter in the series on sustainable business models that use blogs. If this is the first time you have read this series please read the articles in sequence. Here are links to the previous articles -

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Blog Traffic School Pre-Launch Blog

I’ve officially released the Blog Traffic School Pre-Launch Blog. The count down to the release of Blog Traffic School, the interactive online course to teach you how to grow your blog traffic from 0 to 1000 daily readers, has begun.

You can find the blog at www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/

This blog should serve two purposes to the readers of… Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Traffic Tips Newsletter

I’d like to think most readers of my blogs know about this already but I’ve not actually made a post specifically about my blog traffic tips newsletter so it’s about time I do.

You can sign up for free blog traffic tips, which I’ve been writing for the past few months by going to BlogTrafficKing.com (and listen to… Read the rest of this entry »

More On Building Traffic with Article Marketing

Brian Clark, the CopyBlogger, has produced a 10 page PDF report on Building Traffic with Article Marketing.

The first part of the report you will be familiar with because it’s my article Is Article Marketing Worth Your Time?, but the second part is all new content from Brian that will really help your article marketing campaigns if… Read the rest of this entry »