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7 Tips For Growing Your Blog While Having A Full-Time Job

7 Tips For Growing Your Blog While Having A Full-Time Job

Many bloggers are trying to grow their blogs effectively while holding down a full-time job. In this episode, David talks about 7 tips to leverage your time effectively so you can make the most of your available time. Put these 7 tips to use – some of them are looking forward into things we will discuss in upcoming episodes – and get started on the right footing.

How To Successfully Grow Your Business, According To An Ancient Chinese Military Strategist

How To Successfully Grow Your Business, According To An Ancient Chinese Military Strategist

Over 2,500 years ago, an ancient Chinese military strategist named Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. In that book lies the answer to how you can grow your online business. In this post, I’m going to talk about what it is and how you can immediately apply it. The result of this mission – if you choose to accept it – will be less overwhelm, less confusion, and more structured action to get the revenue and traffic you want from your blogging.

Hate Marketing? Consider This.

Hate Marketing? Consider This.

If you just hate doing marketing for your business, then you may want to stop and consider where that feeling is really coming from.

55 Lessons About Online Business I’ve Learned Over 15 Years

55 Lessons About Online Business I’ve Learned Over 15 Years

  In “internet years”, I am an old goon when it comes to blogging and online business. I’ve been at it now for 15 years. I got started as a technology blogger, built that into a six-figure business, then started this site about 10 years later. In doing it myself, by helping other people do…

The 3 Reasons People Fail In Business

The 3 Reasons People Fail In Business

Why do people fail? Why is it that people who come into online business are engaging in all this random motion and not getting anywhere? Why are they left confused on what to do next, with everything looking the same? The answer lies squarely in an understanding of systems.

A Sad State Of Affairs

It has been estimated (depending on where the stats come from) that between 50% and 70% of businesses started will fail within the first 18 months. While I don’t have numbers to back it up, I can almost guarantee you that once we go online, the failure rate is higher than that. And, 18 months? Pfft. It happens a lot sooner than that, usually. Most never get off the ground in the first place.

The 10 Commandments Of Online Blog-Based Business

I recently sat down and created a Getting Started page for the Blog Marketing Academy blog. The purpose of this page was to help new arrivals to this blog get oriented, get connected, and know what I stand for. And, in doing this, I decided to list out some of the big “key points” that I have echoed many times throughout the years in various ways.

The Power Of The Mastermind Group – Dismiss This At Your Own Risk

  One of the absolute most important help mechanisms available today is the mastermind group. If you’re not a member of one, then I want you to drop everything right now and read this post. OK, everything dropped? Do I have your attention? OK, then. Let’s move forward… The idea of a mastermind group was…

Can Blogging Generate Enough Income To Quit Your Day Job?

There’s a lot of people these days looking for alternative ways to make money. Some people have lost their jobs and are looking for alternatives. Some aren’t having much luck finding a job and are, too, looking for alternatives. Some just want to make some extra money. And, you have some more who just want…

What Does Success Mean For A Blogger? Income… Or Being Famous?

I want to talk a little bit about what success actually means for a blogger. Now, this is an item that can generate some debate and, in fact, what brought it to mind for me was actually a question that Deborah Ng (she’s the community director for the New Media Expo) actually brought up on…

Forget About Internet Business. It’s Just Business.

Since when did internet business or internet marketing become a different kind of thing from what people have been doing for hundreds of years?

The Internet is a new medium, yes. But, on that medium, we conduct BUSINESS. And we conduct MARKETING.

Don’t Chase Chump Change On Your Blog. Think Bigger.

Are you a blogger with a smaller blog… looking to grow your revenue into something worth your time? Then consider this…

When you spend your time chasing “chump change”, then chances are that’s all you’ll ever make. Chump change is basically some amount of money which is insignificant.

It Is About Lifestyle Design

It Is About Lifestyle Design

Lifestyle design is simply creating the life that you want and doing the things which are necessary to empower you to have the life you want.