Affiliate marketing is a common way to begin monetizing your blog. Affiliate marketing involves endorsing products and linking to them on your blog. If someone makes a purchase from your link, you earn a commission. Perhaps the most widely used and popular affiliate program is Amazon Associates. That’s because there is such a wide selection of items available there, that you’re sure to find ones ... View Post
6 Steps to Getting Comfortable With Self-Promotion
Some people worry that self-promotion is the same as bragging just to get an ego boost. But the truth is, self-promoting isn’t about that, it’s about sharing what you can do for others and how it will help them. The thing is, every single human being has worth in the world, including you. But, if you’re not going to talk about your own self-worth and what you’ve done to reach your goals and ... View Post
Why We Focus So Much on Generating Traffic
The one thing about online marketing that you cannot ignore is getting traffic to your website, blog, or landing pages. After all, your website is where everything begins and where everything ends. It’s where your business lives. Even if you have an offline business, you’ll want to focus on getting website traffic that matters so that you can grow your business the same way a person with a solely ... View Post
3 Tips For Building a Network of Bloggers
As a blogger, you may feel a bit lonely and overwhelmed, wondering if you’ll ever gain a big following, or even just a few regular readers. Don’t despair. It takes time and consistent effort to see a rise in readership. However, there are definitely some steps you can take to move ahead in your pursuit of an audience for your blog. Networking with other bloggers can be a fun, educational and ... View Post
4 Experts Who Belong On Your Team When Building An Online Business
When you start and run a legitimate business, you will be dealing with a lot of rules, regulations, and fees. It’s impossible for you to know everything. Unfortunately, not knowing the law is never allowed in your defense. For this reason, not only do you need to educate yourself about your business, and all the rules and regulations regarding it, but you need to hire the right team to help you ... View Post
3 Tips for Improving Email Deliverability
You’re spending a lot of time each week crafting emails to your subscribers, but none of that will do you any good if you don’t have a decent delivery rate. If those emails land in your potential customers’ spam folders, you don’t have much of a chance of making a sale or building a relationship with them. Here are three tips that will help insure that your emails make it to your subscribers’ ... View Post
3 Steps To Creating Blog Post Titles That Compel People To Click And Read
I’ll let you in on a little secret. The most important part of your blog post is your title. How well you write, how well-researched your content is, or how pretty your images are means nothing if you can’t get readers to click through and start reading your post. And the single most important thing when it comes to getting readers’ attention is your blog post title. It’s also the most ... View Post
Ditch Plurals and Stop Talking to Your Target Audience
Whether you're writing for a blog, emails, or social media - it’s tempting when you write content for your audience to speak to them as a crowd. But the truth is, this is a big mistake. When you address a crowd, you’re trying to include everyone, and that can make crafting the words problematic. It’s difficult to please everyone and when you try, you dilute your message to the point that no one ... View Post
The 3 Types of Data You Need To Track for Duplicatable Success
The data you should track depends completely on your goals for your business. For example, if you’re trying to make sales, you’re going to want to track hits to the landing page, and conversions once they get to the landing page. There are a variety of methods to do this - from using heat maps to testing out different elements on a sales page to different forms of advertising. Each step of the ... View Post
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