Archive for May, 2010
Blogging For Beginners: Is there a best way to organize the content on my blog?
For organizational purposes it’s also necessary for you to create specific categories and subcategories on your blog. Figure out what most of your posts will be about. Choose 3-4 broad categories like Social Media, Wellness, and Internet Marketing for example.
Subcategories for Social Media could be Facebook, Twitter, & Youtube. Under Wellness could be Whole Foods, Exercise, Supplements, Spiritual, Mindset, etc… And under Internet Marketing could be Pay-Per-Click, Article Marketing, Social Bookmarking, Search Engine Optimization, Forum Marketing, etc…
This helps you to stay more organized and helps your readers find topics of interest.
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Tomorrow we will get into one of the most important aspects of blogging… choosing and crafting your content!
Yours in support and mastery,
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Blogging For Beginners: Are there certain things I should recommend on my blog so I can make money?
There are loads and loads of systems, tools, and info products on the Internet that are fantastic and jammed with value. Many of those offer affiliate opportunities to generate income for recommending them to friends or readers on your blog. If you honestly feel that they will help people succeed, then you should promote them.
A display of your ‘Recommended Resources’ is very simple to do and can generate you a nice bit a cash with little effort. This is a powerful way to grow another piece of your income pie and help people in the process with finding products that have worked well for you.
Just like a movie or a good restaurant, people are constantly talking and referring people to stuff all the time. Well, when you have a blog you now own some real estate on the Internet to do the same.
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I guaranty that if you find the very best to promote, people will love you and love to buy from you, too.
We will speak again soon my friend.
All the best,
PS Remember to get your blog set up and ordered right away so you too can begin earning some extra income while sharing your passion online…
Blogging For Beginners: How will I get traffic to come to my blog?
First of all, it’s essential that you have a way for people to connect with you on the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. This is how your messages and content can spread virally. This strategy produces powerful mouth-to-mouth referrals to content that gets passed quickly and massively throughout the Internet.
Two important WordPress Plugins that are a MUST are Tweetmeme and the Simple Facebook Share button. You’ll want to have these buttons placed within each page and post on your blog.
The reason that these buttons are so massively important is they are your conduit for people to syndicate or share your content to their friends on these very busy social media sites. This tactic is literally how bloggers get so many page views in a short amount of time and why blogger incomes can grow so quickly!
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So if it’s your goal is to get your ideas and content in front of a massive amount of eyes, you’ll definitely want to load up your blog with links to the social media sites. There’s no debate about it!
Yours in knowledge,
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Link to Blogging For Beginners: How do I grow my subscribers list with a WordPress Blog?
Blogging For Beginners: How do I grow my subscribers list with a WordPress Blog?
Today I’m going to reveal one simple fact… You must, must, must have a subscription/optin box. This is absolutely crucial and necessary! Without it you have no way to grow your ‘list’ of people to market to and to invite them to return to your blog when you have new blog posts to share.
And TRULY the only way you’re going to grow this list by the dozens each day is by presenting a unique offer or give-away on the side bar area of your blog. It needs to be something of value and also match what you’re passionate or knowledgeable about.
Think about this… if you build your subscribers to 500 or 1,000 or more… you have the opportunity to syndicate or promote your new blog posts, videos, articles, or products or services to them anytime you want.
That’s powerful stuff, people! And if they find it all valuable they will tell others. It’s just the way it works!
See you next time when we’ll be talking about how to connect with massive amounts of people on the social media sites and how to get those millions of eyes looking at your content.
Yours in support and mastery,
PS Without a place to grow your subscriber list, you’re leaving a ton of money on the table with what you can do with online marketing.
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Blogging For Beginners…
The blogging world is opening up and shifting drastically right now. We are on the verge of an absolute tipping point in the way that people communicate, interact, and do business online. Over the next several weeks I’m going to be sharing with you a series I call “Blogging For Beginners.”
In the coming posts I’m going to share how I, a new and completely clueless elementary school teacher, went from 0 to 44,324+ page views on my blog, became the top enroller for my network marketing company in my second month, and had top industry entrepreneurs calling me to lead webinars and coach their top tier coaching clients… all in less than eight months!
But before we get into the how-to’s and nuts and bolts of how to piece together a social media blog, I want to share the process I implemented leading to this massive exposure and success online.
First and foremost, everything I’m going to share and that you need to be doing initially is about developing relationships, acquiring skills, and growing as a leader. I won’t share anything that I’m not already doing, too. This is important because I’m not here to paint pictures of theories or to pass along ideas that I’VE HEARD might work.
Let me explain… As people get to know, like, and trust you they are going to be more “open” to what you’re doing. And if you are sharing valuable, thought-provoking content you are going to find yourself very magnetic in your readers’ eyes.
People will be calling, messaging, skyping, or e-mailing you every day with questions, requests to be friends, and wanting to know what you’re working on. As you unconditionally give, give, give, they are drawn into the idea that they can also learn even more from you by getting personal mentoring or by joining you in business. By offering so much in value and information, people will feel compelled to partner with you any way possible…
Trust is definitely earned by placing the needs of others first… DON’T PITCH a biz opp right out of the gate! (We call this PUKING ALL OVER THEM!) But ask questions, listen, and offer real solutions after asking permission to share.
Allow your readers and new friends opportunities to get to know you by telling stories, by sharing personal info about yourself, by posting pictures and videos, and by doing anything possible to let people see into your world… This bridges the gap between their interests and yours. You’ll become more interesting, relatable, and approachable.
If you use your blog’s platform to inspire, educate, entertain, enlighten and so on, you will HOOK them and keep them coming back for more. They’ll be loyal and ferocious FANS! This will also open more opportunities to grow your subscriber list, grow your network marketing team, and to ultimately GROW YOUR INCOME! That is what everyone wants, right?
As I learned the blueprint for putting everything together on my blog, my main goal was to serve and help as many people as possible… while looking for people open to working and learning these skills together.
In that process, I was able to connect and make deep, long-lasting relationships with vast numbers of other entrepreneurs and bloggers. Through this alliance I was able to get my questions answered quickly and found that there was tremendous POWER AND LEVERAGE in my new-found “TRIBE.”
Once you have these rock-solid relationships established, it is natural to roll out your blogs together and to support one another. You will learn so much in this process; it’s absolutely CRAZY!
Over the next few weeks in this series I will be handing you a manual and map for how to put a plan into action for launching your blog. With this check-off list you will be breezing your way through getting your blog up and ready, or you’ll be able to make simple and quick changes to your existing blog… especially if you’re not getting the results you desire with that blog right now.
We’ll soon get started with Day 1 of my series ‘Blogging For Beginners’…
Yours in support and success,
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My Three TOP Discoveries of the Week
Every week and almost daily I run across HOT new tools, content, and tips on the Internet. I just wanted to share with you 3 that stood out as worthy to pass on to you today… Thank you friends for passing these resources on to me!
- My Live Signature: Ever wanted to spice up your posts, emails, blogs and other digital content? Want your own free personal signature? I did this and love the options that they have…
- 5 Ways Facebook’s Open Graph Will Impact E-commerce: Mitchell Harper of Mashable shares this incredible new announcement about Google’s #1 competitor… My buddy Clifton also shares some thoughts in his post called “People Believe Facebook.”
- Skype Recorder for PC’s: Key Features Include
- Record ANY Skype Call
- Save Video Chats – 5 Options
- Capture Voice Conversations
- Highest Quality Digital Recording
- Super Easy to Use
Hope you enjoyed these little gems and thanks for any ReTweets to share these with your friends. Feel free to share any more discoveries you’ve had recently that others would love in the comments section below!
All the best,
