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Top 8 Mistakes Way Too Many Blog Owners Make – Are You?
When I do personal blog consultations either on an Academy mastermind call, a blog critique, or a 1-on-1 consultation… I see a lot of commonalities. Common mistakes. They’re trying. Really hard. They’re doing what they THINK should work, but it just isn’t. And, that’s often what brings them to somebody like me. When I look…
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How Internet Marketers Are Misleading People With Tiny Email Lists (And How To Recover)
So, I just spoke with a consulting client. She ran a coaching business. And she had questions about how to properly handle her email list in terms of autoresponders, the content of the emails, etc. Like a lot of people, she had her email list hosted with Mailchimp. She had a list of 224 people….
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When Is The Right Time To Ask For The Sale?
As you’re building your blog or online business, are you afraid to ask for money? Be honest. 🙂 One of the biggest barriers I see when I’m helping people generate revenue from their blogging – primarily when they’re in the beginning phases – is simply the willingness to ask for a sale. The fear of…
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Should You Be Bummed When Somebody Unsubscribes From Your List?
You just wrote what you believe is an important email for your subscribers. Perhaps a link to your latest post which you know rocks. Or perhaps even a product recommendation that you truly believe is awesome and will benefit your readers. So, you send the email to your list. And… You check back the next…
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Super Easy Tip For Higher Open Rates On Your Email List
I’ve got another tip for you today on how to get higher open rates on your email. And it works particularly well if you use video and here’s why. Aweber uses a tracking image to actually track open rates. So, there’s a little invisible image in the email like, 1×1 pixels – that’s a little transparent image….
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How To Use Email Segments To Get Higher Open Rates
One of the things that we all want with our email list is high open rates. We want to know that when we send out an email that the highest percentage of our list as possible will actually open it. Now, one of the things to keep in mind is that systems like Aweber use…
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Do Pop-Ups Still Work?
We’ve all been there… We’re surfing around the net looking for something – or perhaps just checking up on some of our favorite sites. You click onto a website which looks promising and – BAM! You’re greeted with a big-ass popup asking for your email address. And odds are that I can guess your next…
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Why I Use And Recommend Gravity Forms For Wordpress
There is a plug-in that I have installed on every single site that I operate. And that plug-in is Gravity Forms.
In a nutshell, this plug-in will allow you to make web forms on your blog. At first glance, it seems a bit boring and unrelated. The only form you think you might want is a contact form – and there are several free contact form plug-ins out there already.
But, let me tell you a little about Gravity Forms…
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Does Social Media Violate The 80/20 Rule?
The 80/20 rule is a pretty well known fact. It goes like this:
80% of your results will come from 20% of your efforts.
Which means that approximately 20% of the things we actually do are responsible for a huge majority of the results we achieve.
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The Changing Landscape of Email Marketing
We’ve all heard the saying “the money is in the list”.
You’ve heard about the importance of building your list. And the whole free giveaway thing to get on the list.
But, that is SUCH an incomplete story!
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Why Periodically Deleting Email Subscribers Makes Sense [Subscriber Re-Engagement]
What if I told you it might make sense to delete a bunch of email subscribers from your email list?
Would you think I was nuts?
Well, let me explain why it isn’t nuts. And, in fact, it might be something you want to do on an annual basis.
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6 Uncommon Techniques For List Building
We all want to build up our email lists and get more subscribers.
And the common way to go about that is to offer an “ethical bribe”, or “free giveaway”. And, in almost all cases, this ends up being an ebook.
In some niches, an ebook is still a rather novel idea. However, in a growing portion of the Internet, free ebook giveaways are getting so common that the effectiveness of the offer has dropped a lot.
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Why Story-Telling Is The Super Glue For Your Blog
Why is it that you can give the best information in the world on your site, and yet barely hear a peep from your readers?
No comments, no retweets, no shares. Its like being in the woods in the dark of night – crickets.
Yet… somebody’s shitty blog with hardly any real useful content seems to get all the activity.
Are they just lucky? What’s the missing X-factor?
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How To Find and Hire Writers For Your Blog (The Complete Guide)
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.
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Is Your Email List Really Small? Read This Now.
They say that size matters. But, I think how you use it is more important, no?
Now, get your minds out of the gutter…. I’m talking about email lists here. 😉
It seems that many bloggers have a really bad habit of under-valuing their email lists due to size. You read tips about email marketing, or read other people’s stories of using their email lists to make good money. Then, you look at your own list…
Not so big. Maybe under 100 people? Doesn’t really measure up, as you see it. Then, perhaps, you think the following thought (which is suicidal, really)…
