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During the course of the summer break, I have taken a total of one month off. First it was a week in a mountain cabin, then it was almost a 3 week trip with my wife and kids in our RV. The RV trip was a lot of fun. We clocked 3,100 miles of…
Are you confused and overwhelmed about getting your blog or online business off the ground? No idea what to do next? Here is a 4-step formula to bust up that confusion and get the ball rolling.
You ever written one of those blog posts which seem to get pretty decent traffic, but it doesn’t seem to be doing you any good? Here are 8 strategies to increase your conversion rates from individual blog posts on your site.
I heard a story about a woman who was a member of another blogger training program for 8 months, and STILL had no idea how she was going to make any money with it. Whuh?
You could be sitting on a goldmine with your blog, even if you have what you consider to be “small” traffic numbers. In this post, I talk about a very unfortunate mindset that too many blog owners and marketers get into, and it DIRECTLY contributes to their own failure.
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.
Instead of blindly creating a big ebook or other opt-in bribe, let’s create something which a lot less work – and MUCH more effective. Here is how to create an effective lead magnet, along with a 7-point checklist to run your next idea through.
This is a walk-through for the simple daily template I use to structure how I spend my day, keep my focus, and get more done.
When it comes to growing blog traffic, we need to think bigger than just blogging. Today, you have to think bigger and play a bigger game to really gain any traction when it comes to traffic and the size of your audience. I believe this “deadly quartet” is the required answer.
One of the drawbacks of double confirmation is that a decent number of people just don’t subscribe. And not all of them are invalid. Here’s a way to deal with it if you use an email provider which supports it. I call it “hybrid confirmation”.
Do you always need to give away something for free to get people to join your email list? Perhaps not. We talk about that in this video, as well as a tactic you can use to get more BUYERS on your email list.
If you just hate doing marketing for your business, then you may want to stop and consider where that feeling is really coming from.
After a lot of thought, as well as denial, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to walk away from my original website. Here’s the story of PCMech.com, how it got started, where it stands today… and why I’ve decided now is the time to sell.
The Internet is full of useless tips. I mean it. How many times can someone tell you to grow your presence online by interacting more on social media?
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.
In this post, we talk about how re-evaluating what you really need – and want – in your life can make it much easier to cut the cord to your day job.
With all the talk about the need to test everything and run thousands of split-tests, I think in the beginning you can throw all of that stuff right out the window. In this video, I talk about what the MOST important thing to test is.
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.
For new bloggers, picking the right niche can be a paralyzing kind of decision. Will anybody care? Is there any money to be made? Those post covers 6 of the biggest mistakes I’ve watched people make over the years when it comes to picking their niche.
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.
Traffic. It is that thing we all want more of. It is that big barrier faced by all new blog owners. Like an unscalable summit. How do you get it?
This post breaks all the various strategies and tactics into a 6-step formula which unifies them all.
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?
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