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Does finding and settling on a niche have you stumped? You want a niche that makes money, yes, but you also want something that will keep you energized, particularly when you’re just starting out.
Having an opt-in list is probably one of the best ways to get, and keep, a loyal base for your blog.
With an email list you can….
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Let’s face it. Blogging is a lot of solitary work. Over time it can become a chore and you lose the edge, the passion, that you had when you started.
That’s an easy mindset to get fall in to. How do you keep your passion? Although I don’t feel I’ve yet hit my stride, I do it by thinking about what I have to contribute, to give to my audience.
Watch this video and see if it doesn’t charge your batteries.
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In a recent poll, Facebook outpaced Twitter 2 to 1 in generating viral content and took more that half of the votes in all other social media including LinkedIn, YouTube, StubleUpon and others. Here are the results:
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To be a successful blogger you can’t keep your head in your blog without seeing what your audience and competition is up to. You need to be constantly aware of your audience’s needs to stay in tune and your competitor’s strategies to get or stay in front.
However, that can be a daunting task — sometimes akin to drinking from a firehose — consuming a lot of your time. In this article, I’m going to suggest a technique that can reduce your workload significantly while ensuring that you don’t miss a thing to stay ahead of the game.
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or you just don’t “get out” much, you know those articles are in abundance. So rather than rehashing something that can be easily found with a Google search, I thought, “what would be really useful,” “What could I use myself?” and came up with the idea of this guide.
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After getting your blog online, it’s not too uncommon to have a sense of urgency to begin throwing posts, building backlinks, and all the follow-on tasks involved with a working blog; however, I suggest taking a more deliberate, slower approach — developing a progressive routine that matures over the next month or so.
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If you’ve been around this business for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard the rallying cry, “If you build it, they will come.” We all know by now that it’s not that simple, yet the quote from the movie, “Field of Dreams,” still persists. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is the checklist you probably think of when you’re looking for a checklist to start your blog. It contains the nuts and bolts. If any of the tasks are beyond your capabilities consider outsourcing it, especially if it’s something you’ll do only once or infrequently. It may be less expensive in terms of time and effort if you consider what it will take to learn it yourself. This checklist, or portions of it, can be used to help identify the requirements you need to find someone to do the job as well as giving them a guide to use and checking their work.
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While this is a short checklist, the tasks included can take some time…if you let it (you’d be wise to set yourself a deadline to complete these tasks). If you’re the type that prefers doing things on-the-fly, by all means skip this but I think it’s important for several reasons:
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