Find Your Unique Niche Now

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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.

“Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”
~ Anthony J. D’Angelo ~

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How to Set-up an Email Opt-In List for Newsletters and Exclusive Content

Having an opt-in list is probably one of the best ways to get, and keep, a loyal base for your blog.

“It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s lives.For that I give thanks.”
~ Christina Aguilera ~

With an email list you can….

  • Interact with your audience
  • Offer Exclusive Content
  • Promote products and services

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How to Maintain Your Passion

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.

Note: The part of this clip I want you to see is the first minute and a half.



How about you? Do you see your own blog as an opportunity to offer your abilities, talents, and gifts; to build something bigger than yourself. Tap into that power to enrich yourself and others.

Getting the Most Bang for the Buck with Social Media

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:

“Don’t worry about polls, but if you do, don’t admit it.”
~ Rosalynn Carter ~

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How to Easily Gather Intelligence on Your Audiences’ Needs and Competition Without Information Overload (with Checklist)

“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.”
~ William Pollard ~

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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How to Cultivate Valuable Content

When I first started thinking about writing this post, I had the thought of generating a source list of ideas for posts but, unless you’re really new
“One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interest ways.”
~ Peter McWilliams ~

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.

I put together, not really a checklist, but a tickler list for searching out content that your audience will love you for. I aimed not for just random ideas but rather, ideas that you can link back to your audiences’ needs and wants.

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Your Blog is Online. Now What?!?

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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Overcome the Barrier

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 »

Blog Launch Checklist 5.0: Blog Set-Up

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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Blog Launch Checklist 4.0: Develop Initial Content

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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