Analyze the Market and Competitors
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research.—Attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), among others …Or you can take it a step further. If you research many, and then…
Build Blog Products That Sell 3: Develop Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the third weekly instalment in our series on how to sell products of your own creation, via your blog, in a world in which everyone’s reluctant to spend…
Build Blog Products That Sell 4: Price Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. If you’re late to this particular party, we’ve been spending the last few weeks examining ways to monetize your blog in an era when readers are holding onto their wallets…
How to Create a Sense of Anticipation on Your Blog
People read and then subscribe to blogs that they think will enhance their lives in some way in the future. Many bloggers create a sense of anticipation on a blog quite instinctively – but there are numerous things that you…
Nine Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post—Fast
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Did your latest post get all the readers, comments and tweets that it deserved? Probably not. You wrote a great piece, but somehow, it seemed bland. Your ideas were good, but…
Build Blog Products That Sell 6: Tell the World
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the final installment in our hexalogy, concerning how to sell blog products in an era when people are reaching into their pockets and finding mostly lint. So far,…
How Starting a Blog Changed My Life
This is a guest contribution from Joen Rude Falsner. Most of us have been there: we’ve all had this job where the financial compensation was the absolute single motivation to even show up. Luckily for most people this, usually, low-compensated, uninspiring and numbingly…
Master Your Year-End Review and Propel Into Success! 2023 Blogging Year Review
It’s time! The end of 2023 is fast approaching… You’ve done a great job this year and you should be proud – no step, no matter how small, is too small. Had a gangbusters year? Good on you! Had a…
Holiday Email Campaigns 101 with FeedBlitz
The holiday season seems to creep up faster and faster as each year passes. And because of this, it’s never too soon to get a jump-start on planning, content creation, and revenue strategizing. This guide covers multiple topics related to…
What do Gmail’s new Rules Mean for Bloggers?
This Guest Post is from email marketing expert Krystin Ruschman, owner of Email2Inbox. Gmail is implementing stricter email requirements for senders who send 5,000 or more messages per day. Maybe your mailing list isn’t quite at this volume yet, but…
A Blogger’s Guide to Success
Once upon a time, I shared a set of slides from a presentation which outlines a variety of lessons that I’ve learned as a blogger. Over the coming months I intend to expand upon many of the points in that…
Beat the Algorithms by Turning your Online Audiences into Email Subscribers
7 actions to take today to convert your audience and grow your email list. Social media and podcasts are incredible platforms for connecting with like-minded people and building a community. A downside of them both, however, is you’re at the…
4 Techniques Top Bloggers Use
Is it taking you ages to write blog posts? You’re not alone… Whether you’re new to blogging or you’ve been running your blog for a while, the time commitment can be really overwhelming. Just getting one post published each week…
Optimize Your Email Subject Lines with ChatGPT AI
You know by now that email marketing is an incredibly powerful tool for staying connected and engaging with your audience, but the success of your email efforts hinges on one crucial detail: whether or not your subscribers are opening your…
Why Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog
As I write this it is the last Tuesday morning of the month and I’m sitting in a local coffee shop going through my ‘end of the month routine‘. It involves a large lattè (everything else hinges on this) and…
The Power of Being Personal on Your Blog
Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring principles that are evident in many successful blogs. So far we’ve looked at Listening, Trust, Usefulness and Community. Today I want to get personal with you and share a story with you….
The Importance of Building Community on Your Blog
Today’s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story: I discovered the power of online community…
Get Into the Spirit with Free Holiday GIFs and Images
Have a little fun this holiday season with millions of free stock images and GIFs to add to your emails. Adding fun new images and GIFs is a simple and easy way to bring the holidays into your email marketing….
The Importance of Being Useful
Have you ever stumbled upon a blog that felt like it was speaking directly to you, solving a problem you didn’t even know you had? That’s the power of “usefulness” in blogging, a concept that’s not just a philosophy for…
9 Signs It’s Time to Switch Email Services
How to tell if you’ve outgrown your current provider. When it comes to email marketing, the time-tested age-old saying rings true: Your emails are only as good as the service provider sending them.*OK, this isn’t really a time-tested age-old saying,…
Why the Significance of Innovative Phone Number Discovery Tools in Revolutionizing Lead Generation Can’t Be Ignored?
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, businesses are continually on the lookout for more efficient and effective ways to generate leads. Traditional methods of lead generation, such as cold calling and email campaigns, are losing their luster in an era…
Principles of Successful Blogging #2
Today I want to continue our series of posts looking at principles of building a successful blog by looking at the topic of “trust”. A fundamental principle in marketing and relationship building is that people tend to do business with…
An Introduction to Forever Funnels
Imagine sending emails to your list that offer value, increase engagement, and strengthen brand awareness at regular intervals without creating new content for each email — for an unlimited amount of time. Oh! And it’s all done automatically. Sounds pretty…
How To Create Masterpieces with a Professional Ghostwriting Agency
The Power of Teamwork In the world of literature and storytelling, the concept of a solitary writer toiling away in isolation is shifting. Collaborative writing, especially through professional ghostwriting agencies, has emerged as a dynamic and highly effective approach to…