There are 4 specific reasons to plan your content in advance, which I share in this episode. Plus, I’ll share some more details on exactly how I planned out this podcast so far in advance. Behind the scenes, baby! 😉
The term “pillar post” is often used to refer to that initial batch of blog posts that you create to kick off a brand new blog. But, exactly HOW do you go about creating these pillar posts? In this episode, we discuss how to do data-driven pillar posts… meaning how to create highly strategic pillar posts based on real data that will not only help you kick start your traffic, your niche standing, but also help bring you traffic into the future.
Continuing on the theme of the last episode, this one contains several actionable tactics about high leverage content creation… How to work less and produce more when it comes to making content for your blog and social media channels.
No doubt, writing blog posts can be tedious and time consuming. And it can be a big problem for blog owners who hold a day job or have a business to run. In this installment of our series, we talk about how to leverage your time to make creating content less time consuming and more productive.
The world of SEO has changed, and instead of just worrying about keywords and backlinks, we now need to think about user engagement. In this episode, we talk about what is going on with Google, and how this has everything to do with getting your readers to SCROLL and reach the end of your blog post.
The headline is the most important part of every blog post. In this episode, we discuss a counter-intuitive, but highly effective exercise you should go through on EVERY blog post in order to model and create highly effective blog post headlines.
Many people end up writing blog posts “just because”… without any real strategy behind it. While there are many factors that go into doing it in a strategic way, there are 2 primary questions that I believe you MUST ask yourself before you hit the Publish button on any post – or better yet – before you even sit down and start writing.
Do you find some of your best blog posts fall kinda flat – kinda like a bowl of soggy rice krispies? In this guide, I talk about content packaging and how it has everything to do with how your content will actually get read.
What kind of content marketing strategies can we observe and apply from the new media network, The Blaze? Put the politics aside… and let’s learn.
We all need blog content ideas. And this 7 word question is a simple solution. Drop it into your email welcome sequence and let the ideas come naturally.
The effectiveness of pure 100% written content is waning, and more and more people are moving to video and podcasts. So, we have to ask… is the blog post dying?
I personally use a spreadsheet to manage my editorial calendar. My spreadsheet is hosted on Google Drive that way it is shareable with others. And the nature of a spreadsheet means that I can have columns for any field I want. And, here are the fields which I personally use.
I have been blogging for a long time now and during that time, I’ve had many different styles of content planning. I’ve tried the “no planning” approach, where I’ve sat down knowing I needed to write something but had no idea what the hell to write. Been there, done that. 🙂 I’ve done the “mini planning”…
I’ve done series before and they did a lot better. I ran one on membership sites that did far better. I ran another on the future of blog monetization which led up to a product launch and that series absolutely crushed it. But, this most recent 30 day series didn’t crush it.
Visually schedule blog posts on your blog on a calendar. A truly invaluable feature for a high-content site with or without multiple authors.
I used to run a blog that required more content than I cared to write. So, I hired writers for my blog. Here’s what I learned about finding, qualifying and paying bloggers for hire.
How do you start writing faster? How do you speed up your content creation? Here are 8 (sometimes counter-intuitive) tips.
50 blogging tips… circa 2008. How have things changed in the last 11 years? Let’s go through these 50 tips and get a little blast from the blogging past.
The Morning WP is a weekly newsletter for solopreneurs building on the WordPress platform. Become a smarter, more self-sufficient WordPress site owner… in just 5 minutes per week. So you can grow your business effectively.
The Founder’s Memo is more personal. More about things I’m trying out. Things I want to share. Strategies and insights and things I’m excited about. There aren’t multiple sections. No “latest posts”. None of the fancy newsletter-y things. Just… an email that I write and send to you and I hope you find it useful.