Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
Everyone’s heard they need an elevator pitch. This pitch is supposed to be less than ten seconds, but it should be so compelling that your elevator companion immediately goes wide-eyed and captivated, clasps your hand and declares that they’ve never needed anything so much as they need you and your services, right now. In an online world, pretty much no one rides the elevator with a prospective client.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 24, 2011
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Google+ had a hot start, but has since cooled down. For a lot of people, that means ignoring Google+. I want to warn you that is a bad idea. Although the lights are on and it seems like nobody is home, trust me: there are people there. And they are the very people who can have a huge impact on your blog and business.
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Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, I have done it. I have found the ultimate secret to success. The magic bullet, if you will. It’s a precise method that takes you from where you are now (nowhere) to where you want to be (pool side, surrounded by beautiful individuals and sipping on something that’ll get you very intoxicated). Best of all, you won’t have to pay $997 for some bloated ebook + video course that takes 40 million hours to get through and bores you half to death.
Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Simple and easy are often used interchangeably, and in many cases they are. But simple and easy are different words with different meanings. What is simple is not always easy. This is an important distinction, because we often look for so-called ‘secrets’ the probloggers guard only to find that what they do is fairly simple stuff. And almost straight away, we discredit or downplay those ‘secrets’ because we don’t believe it can be that simple.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. If you’re a blogger, do you know how to stay on the right side of the law? Do you know what you need to do to keep the FTC from knocking on your door or to keep from getting a dreaded cease and desist letter? Fortunately you don’t have to be a lawyer or law scholar to understand the laws that govern blogging, particularly in the U.S.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
This guest post is by Danny Iny of firepolemarketing.com. Everyone is looking for the best strategy for growing a blog. Is it SEO? PPC? CPV? Guest posting? Twitter? Facebook? CommentLuv? Networking? Attending conferences? Writing great content? The list goes on—I could fill a page if I had to, and I’ll bet that you could, too. Every one of these strategies will work for some people, and some of these strategies will work for most people.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
This guest post is by Katy Farber of Non-Toxic Kids. When I started Non-Toxic Kids four years ago, I had no idea I would never run out of things to write about. In all those four years of posting between three and seven times I week, I never struggled for more than a few minutes with a topic to post about. Why? Maybe it has to do with my tech-savvy mom who is constantly sending me interesting links to articles about current parenting and health issues.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
By James Altucher of jamesaltucher.com. I’ve published seven books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), and the last two I’ve self-published. In this post I give the specific details of all of my sales numbers and advances with the traditional publishers. Although the jury is still out on my self-published books, How to be the Luckiest Man Alive and I Was Blind But Now I See (the latter was just published last month and is #2 for
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
This guest post is by Paul Jun. Coffee has been consumed (and hopefully breakfast). Brain is revving, fingers are warm, your neck just cracked in the most awkward way, but it feels great. Image copyright tlorna - Fotolia.com And. Go! Go! G– Sigh. Nothing. Nothing is happening, fingers are paralyzed, brain feels disconnected from the spinal column, and the constant scratching of your head has turned into an everlasting burn.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
This guest post is by the Blog Tyrant. The sidebar is the second most important place on your site. It is where, after engaging with your content, people head over to subscribe to your list, follow you on Twitter, or buy your product. It is vital that you get it right. In this post I am going to show you some of the web’s best sidebars, and then talk about how you can improve yours with a goal to get more subscribers and conversions, and make more money.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
This guest post is by Tom Treanor of the Business Blogging Telesummit. Blog readers have a myriad of reading options for almost every topic you can think of. In fact, within your niche, potential customers may be enjoying blog posts written by your competitors while they ignore your blog like the plague. So what do you do about this dire situation? Do you hire ghost writers to create more content?
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 24, 2011
This guest post is by Sanjeev Mohindra of Makewebworld. SEO is one of the most used—and most mysterious—words in the blogging world, but it is one of the best ways to gain free organic traffic for your blog. Till now, the strategy for SEO has been to create a new post with good on-page SEO techniques, and do the promotion to create a great off-page SEO.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
This blog post is by Rhys Wynne of The Blogging Dojo. Recently I’ve been a part of a great discussion on a few blogging forums where we’ve talked about Fiverr. Fiverr is a website where, for $5, you can get a variety of tasks completed. For bloggers, particularly those starting out, outsourcing some of your blog to a third party may seem to be a luxury you can ill afford.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
This guest post is by Matt Long of LandLopers.com. People are attracted to travel blogging for a lot of reasons. For some, they are doing a year-long trip and simply want an easy way to keep in touch with friends and family. Still others are attracted to the niche travel blogoshpere for the sheer love of travel, and any partnerships with the travel industry are a bonus.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 20, 2011
This guest post is written by Ava Jae of Writability. If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time, you’ve heard that content is king. You’ve been told that everything else—design, SEO, in and outbound links—those things are a bonus, but the real thing you need to focus on is your content. And it’s true, content is king, because even an SEO-optimized blog with a beautiful, user-friendly design and a parade of in and outbound links will fail without great content.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
This is a guest post by Jeff Goins of Goinswriter.com. The other night, I was catching up with a writer friend who is taking his first steps towards becoming a professional blogger. He was frustrated and upset, wanting to quit. Listening to him, I realized something: writing is discouraging work. It’s a time-consuming, underpaid, solitary activity.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
This guest post is by Orna Ross. If you’re a blogger, you should meditate. That’s the conclusion of a flurry of recent research from the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Willpower, discipline, and hard work may squeeze your blog post out. But if you want to produce words and ideas with ease, if you want to revel in the joy that makes it all worthwhile, and if you want to be as good as you can be, you need to know how to nurture inspiration, detach from daily distress, and cultivate creati
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
At the recent ProBlogger training day in Melbourne, surprise guest Tim Ferris said something that resonated with many attendees (if the number of tweets it got was anything to go by). His message was simple: define what success means to you. Many bloggers that I meet start out with a goal of having a successful blog, but have little idea what that actually means.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. We all have pet peeves. Things that annoy us. Products that we would never spend money on. And things that we swear we’ll never do ourselves. But sometimes, fate turns the tables on us. That’s what happened to me, and that’s why I ended up writing the kind of book that I usually hate. Image copyright moshimochi - Fotolia.com It’s all because of Derek Halpern.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
This guest post is by Jon Morrow of boostblogtraffic.com. You know that feeling you have when you’re onto something big? Your heart is thump, thump, thumping, your mind races down the roads of future possibilities, and you drift through the day with strange grin plastered on your face, like someone shot you up with happy juice, and you’ve yet to come down.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 5, 2011
This guest post is by Peter G. James Sinclair of selfdevelopmentmastermind.com. When I was only 14 years of age I was handed a set of lyrics from an adult friend demanding that I should add a melody to bring the words to life musically. I’d never written a song in my life, but his belief in me allowed me to produce my first masterpiece. This then led to hundreds of original lyrics over the next ten years that culminated in a number of professional recordings.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
This guest post is by Jon Morrow of boostblogtraffic.com. Okay, so not everybody is a natural-born Steven Spielberg. You might like the idea of creating a trailer for your next launch. You might even believe it’s doable after reading this guide to creating movie trailers. Image copyright Rafa Irusta - Fotolia But is it reasonable to think you can be “spellbinding?
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 25, 2011
With the holidays almost upon us, now is a time for bloggers who are Amazon Affiliates to act to capitalize on what is usually one of the most profitable times of the year. While Amazon is not my biggest source of income (it makes up around 5% of total income for me) it does spike at this time of year. Here’s how Amazon performed in 2010 and into the early months of 2011 for me.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. When it comes to social media, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter are the big three. If you’re not on these social sites, then you are missing out on great business opportunities. If you are on these sites, however, you probably know that getting meaningful engagement with your followers isn’t easy. You can easily drown in the noise, so you need tips and tools to help you break through that noise.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
This guest post is by Björgvin Benediktsson of Audio Issues. The biggest insecurity we bloggers face is the question of whether anybody is actually going to buy our product. We can’t give away our content forever, and those Google ads are hardly going to pay the bills. That’s why every blogger should offer his or her own product. You can recommend other products without seeing a noticeable return.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
This guest post is by Aman Basanti of ageofmarketing.com. If you have been in the blogging game for any number of months, you already know about the power of guest blogging in generating traffic and exposure to your blog. Yet there are new bloggers out there who hear about the power of guest posting, but still do not understand why it is so effective.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
This guest post is by Alexander Heyne of Milk the pigeon. You’re paralyzed. You started reading how to drive more traffic to your blog, write viral content, and make money online… Three hours later you wake up and realize you haven’t actually done anything. You think you’ve had a productive day, and can visualize the influence and money in your future, but time passes and it never comes.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
This guest post is by Aman Basanti of ageofmarketing.com. If you have not yet started a blog, stop. Write 20 to 30 posts before you launch. It may sound counter-intuitive, but this strategy may just be the thing to help you succeed as a blogger. Why? It stops you from quitting. Here is the number one reason most bloggers fail: they lose the will to continue.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Tens of thousands of ProBlogger readers have completed the popular 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge and next week we’re taking it to a new level with the release of the 2nd edition eBook. 31DBBB – the Story So Far. Back on 30 July 2005 I had a crazy idea – what if I ran a series of posts over the month of August that year that would give ProBlogger readers a little bit of teaching each day and a homework activity to go away and do – each one focused on helping the
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
This guest post is by Sean Madden of Mindful Living Guide. These past few months—in my summer and early autumn creative writing classes—I’ve not focused so much on the mindfulness aspect of my teachings. Perhaps this had to do with the energetic pace of summer, which only recently faded here in the South East of England. Just last week autumn seemed finally to arrive and with it the cozy, heartwarming smells of wood and coal smoke rising from the chimneys of local cottages.
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