Content Marketing Strategy: Plan Your Content Calendar In Advance (Plus Template + Worksheet)
How to move from blogging to true content marketing using some actual strategic planning. Craft your content marketing calendar with this ultimate guide.
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What To Focus On: A Simple, Numerical System For Ranking Your Ideas And Figuring Out What To Do, When
How do you decide which project or idea to work on first? What should you be spending your time on right now, given all that you have to do? This post gives a simple, numerical system to rank your to-do’s and determine what to do next.
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How To Build And Monetize A Blog In A Crowded Market (A Strategic Launch Plan)
How can you start a blog in a crowded market? Are you just too late? Here’s a different approach to enter a saturated market.
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Anatomy Of The Perfect Blog Post: A Complete Guide To Ideal Blog Post Structure And Formatting
A complete guide to the 9 separate factors that go into crafting the perfect blog post – optimized to have maximum traction after you hit the publish button.
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Focus Mapping: An Exercise I Perform Every Morning Before I Get To Work
In this video, I continue on the subject of my last video. In this one, I talk about focus mapping. This is a simple exercise that I do every single morning before getting to work. It guides me on the tasks I do that day, and most importantly… it helps me weed out the ones which are a waste of my time (or that I shouldn’t be doing). In this video, we go right to my screen and I’ll show you exactly how it works.
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A Productivity Tool That Has Transformed My Work Day (HINT: It Isn’t Software)
At the beginning of the year, I implemented a new productivity tool into my daily workflow. This isn’t a software based tool. And, as you can probably tell from the screenshot, it is actually just a simple black notebook. What do I do with this notebook which has provided a HUGE sense of focus to my daily schedule? Watch and find out.
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How To Avoid The Most Common Pitfalls While Growing Your Online Business
There are 3 things that are absolutely the most common constraints to people working on building their online business. Here’s how to avoid them.
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The Web As You Knew It Is Dying – And This Is How It Has Changed Everything For Bloggers and Marketers
Everything changes. And the internet is certainly changing. Here’s what’s happening… and what this means for bloggers, content creators and online marketers.
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What If You Emailed Your List Every Day? (A Different Look At Email Frequency)
If somebody recommended to you that you email you list every day, what would you say? If you’re like most, you would say they’re insane. Is that true?
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Case Study: How This Mental Health Blog Can Make More Money (By Removing Banner Ads)
An in-depth look at a mental health blog called the Radical Transformation Project and how she can improve her site – and increase revenue by dropping banner ads.
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The Fastest (Often Overlooked) Way To Making Money Online
Looking to make money fast? If you’re looking to do that through traditional blog monetization, you will likely be sorely disappointed. Let’s talk about what works.
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How To Sell Without Selling: Making Money Without Being A Pushy Salesman
How do you make an online sales from your blog without coming away feeling like you just sold your soul? Here’s how to sell without being pushy.
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Ultimate Guide To Building An Email List: List Building That Works And Makes You Money
The complete guide to how to build your email list from your blog, including opt-in and lead magnet strategy that is working today.
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Starting An Online Business: 6 Dangerous Habits That Can Sabotage Your Success
Starting an online business can seem pretty hard… especially if you have one of these 6 common dangerous habits. The first step is to know what they are…
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How To Get Social Proof When You Don’t Have Any Testimonials
Social proof is important to making sales, but what do you do if you’re just starting up and don’t have any testimonials yet? Here are multiple ways to build in social proof.
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The 6 Core Pages Of Your Blog – And How To Tweak Them To 2X Your Conversions
In this post, I’m going to talk to you about how to tweak your blog for conversions. We’ll talk, specifically, about 6 important core pages and how to tweak each of them in order to double your conversions (or more).
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Why Today Is The Day You Should Stop Blogging
If you want to actually make money and have a real business and use the Internet to make real sales, then stop blogging. Let me explain EXACTLY what I mean…
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58+ Headline Formulas: The Ultimate Non-Copywriter’s Guide To Writing Headlines That Get The Clicks
58+ blog post headline formulas + the ultimate swipe file. Also, why you should write 25 headlines for every single blog post you publish. I tried it. Here’s how it went…
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How To Increase Your Blog’s Optin Rate Without Creating Any New Content
What if you could double your email list signups simply by rearranging some of the content you already have – and not have to actually take the time to create anything new? Perhaps you can.
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How I Would Market And Sell Web Development Services If I Were Still A Web Developer
In the web development business? Perhaps graphic design? Getting clients a real pain? This is how I would personally market a business like that.
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The Second List: How (And Why) To Set Up Your Blog For Retargeting
Your blog is leaking prospects faster than a water main break. And it doesn’t matter how effective your list building strategies are, your blog is HIGHLY inefficient. But, there’s something you can do about it. Also, it is insanely easy to do.
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Blog Monetization Case Study – Increasing Revenue From A Fashion Blog Turned Mommy Blog
An in-depth look at a fashion blog, turned mommy blog and how she can make more money with sponsorships, tweak her design, and increase her traffic. Our February blog monetization case study.
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7 Effective Lead Magnet Ideas To Build Your List (That Aren’t “Ebooks”)
I personally hate the word “ebook”. It is just SUCH an overused word. It could literally mean anything from a one-page PDF, to a several hundred page digital novel, to a Kindle book. But, there is another thing I hate about it… It is that little word “book” in there. That word immediately brings to…
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How To Have A Targeted Opt-in Form For Each Blog Category
Offering a unique opt-in offer for each blog category can often give you a higher opt-in rate. In this post, you will learn how to set up a unique sidebar opt-in for each blog category.
