Archives for July 2024

If you’re reading this right now, chances are you’ve got some interest in becoming a blogger. Good for you. Blogging not only has the potential of becoming an incredible hobby, but it can become a lucrative career to boot. That is, if you’re successful. In years past, I’ve read posts like the one I’m hoping you’ll read by clicking the above link. The posts I’ve read were okay. Just okay. The overarching issue I found with most of them revolved around the fact that no one ever bothered to describe what success exactly was. What is a successful blog, anyway? What does it mean to succeed? In my post, I answer that question and I take many steps beyond. I share eight extraordinary tips to help you, as a new blogger, reach that success. My tips are quick and easy to follow. And best of all, they work. I’ve been blogging for decades and I’ve eliminated all the fluff you can find elsewhere. I saved the good stuff to share with you. So if you’re interested in getting into blogging and becoming the best blogger in your field, click through to read this post. Thanks! Continue reading…

Guest blogging as a method of website marketing is big business. If you were to search Google right now for “Guest Posting Websites”, you’d be inundated with results. The entire slice of the industry is quite lucrative and being so, it’s attracted those with varying degrees of talent and intention. Simply put, those of us who’d like nothing more than to market our websites and services through guest blogging would also like nothing more than to do so efficiently and even more so, effectively. The problem is, how do we cut through all the bad actors? How do we actually find websites to which we can post? How do we know if the websites are of the highest quality? How do we write the actual posts themselves? How do we contact the editors/owners of the websites? how do we track our results when the job is complete? If you’re looking for the answers to these questions, today is your lucky day. If you click through to read this post, I think you’ll be presented with more than enough information to guide you through the entire process of guest blogging. Or guest posting – whichever you’d like to call it. Click through to learn more today! Continue reading…

It’s not difficult to sit down and write any ol’ blog post. Just launch your WordPress admin area, create a new post, and write whatever it is that’s on your mind. It’s simple enough. When it comes to writing professional looking business to business or business to consumer posts though, things get more complicated. You’ll need to prepare more than you would need to when writing a personal post. You’ll need to ascertain your goals. develop a structure, locate appropriate images and video, use appropriate language. A lot goes into a real blog post when it needs to inform, persuade, and sell. In today’s post, I explain all of this in detail. I clue you into the essential ingredients you’ll need to use when writing a business blog post. I have the experience and I did the research so you can hit the ground running with your own blogging. Click through to find out exactly what you’ll need to write that perfect post today. Continue reading…

Many potential bloggers face an enormous hurdle that keeps them from ever blogging. That hurdle is a lack of confidence with their writing. Confidence is a huge aspect of sharing any type of creativity with the world, so it’s critical that you feel good about what you’ve worked so hard at and excited about what you’ve shared with your readers and followers. The question is: how can we as writers build confidence? That’s what this post is about. The bottom line is that in order to build confidence with pretty much anything, you’ll need to learn how to become good at that thing and then do a lot of it. After a while, the lack of confidence you once felt will dissipate and will be forgotten about. All you need to do is follow a few tried-and-true strategies. What are these strategies? Read the post and find out. Click through today! Continue reading…

Becoming a well respected, prolific, and successful blogger isn’t the most challenging thing in the world to do. It just takes practice, time, hard work, and a lot of focus. And when I say focus, I mean at the very beginning. Focus on what your blog is going to be about – your blog’s niche. In today’s post, I define what a blogging niche is, offer my opinion on why someone might want to consider creating a niche blog, and give tons of tried-and-true suggestions for finding and settling upon that perfect niche for you. Thinking of a blog topic and then running with the idea takes more effort than simply getting a thought and writing about it. Because of the extraordinarily high rate of failure in the blogging world, it’s imperative to take the time at the beginning of your endeavor to think about what can carry your writing through the years. While this initial effort might seem daunting at first, once finished, the sailing will be smooth and the writing will be profuse. If you’re interested in learning how to pick the perfect blogging niche, click on through. Continue reading…

Here’s the situation; you own a blog and have consistently written very high quality posts that have gained lots of traction online. You’re at the point of inflection – do you simply continue writing posts and enjoying life or do you use your blog to generate an income? The answer is pretty clear – now that you’ve got a popular blog, you should be monetizing it to make money. But how? That’s the question I answer in this post. If you’re interested in using the online asset you’ve created to make an income, please click through to read my suggestions. I’ve included seven tried-and-true methods for generating revenue that have been used through the years by some of the most prolific and successful bloggers on the internet today. I guarantee you’ll learn something. Continue reading…

There certainly are advantages to operating a self-hosted blog, yet there are advantages to operating a completely managed option as well. The question is, which is better? In this post, I answer that question. I focus on two such options; WordPress.org (the downloadable, self hosted option) and Substack. You’re most likely familiar with WordPress.org. It’s been around since the early part of the century. You may not, however, be too familiar with Substack. Basically, Substack is a managed platform that allows writers to write to their heart’s content. It’s an enclosed system that offers a large ecosystem of other writers and it’s simply fabulous. But is it better than WordPress? Click through to find out. Continue reading…