This is how you go from a slow trickle of email subscribers to growing your list by over 1,000 new subscribers per month.When you first begin blogging, email list building is likely to be one of the lower priority items on your to-do list. You have so much to worry about from blog design to just getting your first few posts written.For beginner ...
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Blogging tips, tactics and strategies that I've personally used either for myself or clients that have proven effective.
The Best Investment I’ve Ever Made for My Blog: CoSchedule
For planning and organizing your blog editorial calendar, CoSchedule might just be your new best friend.Your blog, in and of itself, is a major investment. The time you put into it, the passion that drives it, and the vulnerability of creating something and sharing it with the world are all huge investments.That takes guts.After a while, you ...
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How to Promote an Epic Blog Post for 30 Days in 5min
A quick and simple template for creating 30 days worth of social media posts in 5 minutes or less!Let's say you've just finished up a blog post and it's a masterpiece. You've spent hours crafting it, ensuring that it's a literary work of brilliance. You've carefully crafted your content in a way that people are just going to eat it up and ask for ...
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How to Do a Yearly Blog Review
Understand how your blog has grown and the fruits of your blogging labor.A lot can be accomplished in 365 days, and unless you take the time to evaluate the last 365 days how can you have a proper perspective of what you can expect in the next 365 days?Do you have a yearly review process for your blog? Not to be confused with a blogging ...
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How to: Google Analytics Goals Like a Boss
A simple walkthrough for creating effective Google Analytics Goals to track your progress.Do you have goals as a blogger? I’m not talking about aspirations, hopes and dreams like, “I want to be as cool as Michael Hyatt some day.” I’m talking about the kind of goals you can track through Google Analytics.Not that I don’t fully support dreaming ...
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Stop Making Excuses: Your Voice Matters More Than You Think
We’ve all had the thought at some point, “I don’t have anything to say because it’s all been said before.”Content overload is a real thing. There has never been a time in history where information has been more accessible and knowledgable people have been more prolific.And you may have this same fear that many of us creatives go through— that ...
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How to Write Content That Isn’t Ignored
Writing for anyone and everyone will often ensure that it resonates with nobody and no one.You probably struggle with this, just as I do, every time you sit down to write. It’s not fun— it may even be painful for you.Or maybe you’ve been ignoring it altogether. We tend to avoid things that bring us pain, don’t we?But it has to be done.What ...
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How to Boost Your Email Opt-ins by 400% Instantly
This one strategy boosted my email opt-in rate by 400% in a single day. Not bad, eh?Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with some email list building strategies to help increase my overall opt-in rate. I’m happy to say, both of these strategies have proven to be a huge success.Today, I just want to tell you about one of these ...
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How to Get More Traffic Without More Writing (Think Evergreen)
Do you have an Evergreen strategy? Here's why you should have one, and how to start.If you've been blogging for six months or six years, you should have an Evergreen Content Strategy. This type of blog content can drive traffic and conversions for years to come, allowing you to write less frequently but continue to grow your audience.For those ...
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Forget Your Follower Count and Focus on This
I’ll just come right out and say it— follower counts are mostly worthless.Having a million followers doesn’t mean anything unless those followers are engaging with your content.It’s easy to hoard followers on social media. All you need to do is follow as many people as you’re allowed to and you’ll get people to follow you back. Heck, you can ...
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