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For years, I’ve wanted viable newsletters to accompany my many WordPress blogs. I love the idea of having someone read one or more of my posts and fall in love with them to such a degree that they search for a method that would allow them to read via email. Or to be alerted to my news posts via email. Or to receive anything at all from me via email. I’ve actually set up newsletters through plugins and Mailchimp in the past, but as time has worn on, I’ve become disenchanted with how it all worked. I never really liked how the plugins operated and I’ll never forget the day I received a notification from Mailchimp that not everyone on my newsletter subscriber list had received the newsletter email. Apparently, I ran over the free number of 500. What a bummer. Imagine being notified that due to your success, you now have to begin paying to have emails sent out. Substack is set up to deliver a massive number of emails for absolutely no cost. It’s a newsletter website. Authors write and Substack mails that writing out to subscribers. When I first heard of this, I was blown away. I began thinking of ways I could use both WordPress and Substack together. And one day, I figured it all out. In today’s post, I share my discoveries and I let you peek behind the curtain of how I now operate my blogs and newsletters. It’s outstanding, if I don’t say so myself and I encourage you to follow my lead – of course, if you’re interested in this sort of thing. Click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

Unbeknownst to many a beginner blogger, blogs evolve. So many of the most popular blogs we see on the internet today oftentimes began as whimsical hobbies or very amateur business ventures. The earliest posts displayed on these popular blogs were absolutely horrific. They were short, didn’t include any sort of heading structure, didn’t include proper keywords, and didn’t include any type of introductory paragraph. Needless to say, they were lackluster at best, a waste of time at worst. The good news is, the owners of these blogs stuck with it and, through the years, learned how to properly blog. Today, their posts are well researched, well structured, well written, and well promoted. What happened? The bloggers in question transitioned from beginner bloggers into advanced bloggers and their hard work paid off. In today’s post, I discuss the process of what I just discussed above and I lay out a blueprint that can help that transition occur. I discuss blogging niches, why writing schedules are critical, how a blogger can take advantage of their competition, why social media matters, the benefits of launching a newsletter, and so much more. So if you’re about a year into blogging and you’d like to know which steps you need to take to move your beginner blogging along to the level of advanced, click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

As a person becomes more and more involved in a thing, the person learns that sometimes the most challenging part of the activity isn’t so much the labor that’s required, but the thought behind the labor. The brain work, if you will. For instance, let’s say you’d like to launch a blog. You write very well and have scored high in all of the writing classes you’ve ever taken in school. You have full confidence in your abilities, but you find yourself plagued by one nagging issue – you simply don’t know what to write about. If you’ve ever faced an issue such as this, know that you’re not alone. Nearly all creative people roaming around out there face similar types of issues. The trick is to find what the world now refers to as “hacks.” Tricks that have the potential of helping you sail right by what once blocked you so you can begin your work in earnest. In today’s post, I discuss the problems many writers face today and then I share my very own tried-and-true solutions for each one of them. I know they’re solutions too because I’ve taken advantage of them for decades with my own writing. Once you read what I’ve written, I think you’ll find that your greatest obstacle is an obstacle no more. Click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

If you’ve searched anything via Google or Bing in the past few years, you’ve surely noticed how blog post authors have begun adding numbers and dates to their post titles. For instance, titles like, “Great WordPress Themes” have morphed into titles like, “15 of the Best WordPress Themes Available.” And titles like, “Best WordPress Plugins” have morphed into titles like, “The Best WordPress Plugins in 2024.” Notice how the latter titles have numbers attached to them. These numbers add specificity and whether we like to think so or not, people love specificity. Authors wouldn’t be going through the trouble of adding them if they didn’t increase clicks to their websites. In today’s post, I teach how top-level WordPress authors set their blogs up to accept short code that can assist with adding dynamic dates. Whether it be a month, year, or current date, I teach how to add them to blog posts and pages. And the good news is it’s so, so easy. So if you’re interested in adding dynamic dates (dates that update automatically) to your blog posts, click through to learn how to do it today. Thanks! Continue reading…

Blogging is an incredible hobby. I’ve personally been hobby blogging for decades. I initially began when I bought my very first house. I took photos of my renovations and gave updates on everything I was up to so family and friends could read about it all. Years later, I realized that I was actually quite proficient at blogging, so I decided to make a living out of it. I launched a few more blogs – this time for profit. Since then, the world has caught on to how lucrative blogging can be. And also since then, savvy bloggers have scoured the internet in hopes of finding its most profitable niche. While blogging about a favorite activity can be fun and rewarding, blogging about a favorite activity that’s also highly profitable can be even more fun and rewarding. With today’s post, I help out all those internet sleuths who are bent on making a go of it and launching their own blogs. I list which niches are the most profitable online today and I give a lot of advice on how to go about approaching each one. But beyond offering well-paying blogging niches, I also list sub-niches. If you want to jump on this bandwagon, it’s the perfect time. Blogging for profit has never been more popular. Click through to read my post on how to make the most money doing it. Thanks! Continue reading…

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…