Which Comes First: Traffic or Monetization? (How Everything Has Changed)
Which comes first for your blog: Traffic or monetization? It used to be that you had to build the audience before you could monetize. Is that still true?
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Which comes first for your blog: Traffic or monetization? It used to be that you had to build the audience before you could monetize. Is that still true?
Sometimes the best way to get the juices flowing for your own membership site is to take a look at others. Here’s 10 different membership sites, from different niches.
Got a nasty email from a reader or customer? Got a complaint? Maybe it is out in the public and you’re worried about the right way to handle it? This simple guide discusses the best ways to handle complaints in your online business.
The ad industry is broken. User privacy is being abused. Sites get deplatformed. Could the Brave browser and the Basic Attention Token be a potential solution – and a new option for blog monetization?
A blog doesn’t make money. If one wants to make money, you don’t start a blog in order to do it. Here’s some real-talk about exactly what makes money – and how.
Try these 10 best practices (backed by data) to get traffic from Twitter (without paying for it).
Many people read blog income reports. I even used to post my own. However, I stopped long ago. Here are the reasons why I stopped posting them… and why I think you should stop reading them.
How do you figure out the best price to charge for your digital product or service? This guide covers the psychology of pricing, how it affects conversion, how it affects YOU, and your relationship with your customer.
15 psychological triggers to help you increase conversion rates on anything – with examples and why they work.
The ‘Contact Us’ page is often an afterthought. However, done correctly, it can be an effective tool for driving sales and conversions. Here’s how…
How to move from blogging to true content marketing using some actual strategic planning. Craft your content marketing calendar with this ultimate guide.
How do you get blog traffic? How do you generate traffic when you’re first starting out? Which strategies are more effective than others? This guide goes into it – in detail.
What does a real blog monetization strategy look like? What’s the business model? This guide will walk you through the business model to make money blogging, step by step.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything changes. And the internet is certainly changing. Here’s what’s happening… and what this means for bloggers, content creators and online marketers.
A short code of conduct for monetizing a blog and making money while respecting your reader at the same time. This is a voluntary code, of course, but helps keep things going smooth.
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?
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.
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.