Your 42 Point Blog Post Checklist

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What goes into writing and promoting a blog post? Did you ever stop to think that each post has an additional 42 steps to it? No? Neither did I until I started listing them in this post

7 Things You Should Know About Social Media Profiles and Blog Traffic

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A few weeks back Keith made a comment about social media traffic and I replied I’d write something for him. Yep, we now do requests over here, that’s how Joey got his Yacht  and I want one too Social media optimisation is now part of the blogging world. Social media sites are often the first [...]

AIDA – Still Useful in 2012?

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Copywriting is the art of persuasive writing. Writing in such a gorgeous way that the words sells products, services, ideas and concepts. Depending on which copywriting flavour of the month you speak to, the main concern of a copywriter isn’t branding; it’s conversions. Conversions are the the percentage of people who “buy” after reading your [...]

10 Strategies to Market Your Blog Part 2

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Last week we looked at 5 simple ways of marketing your business blog that you may not be using. I also shared the best headline ever if you read the post last week – and if not, why not?? – you’ll know that I promised to conclude this week with the second part, and share [...]

10 Strategies to Market Your Blog Part 1

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When you start out business blogging, you start doing things a certain way because it suited you when you started at that moment in time. This post is aimed at business bloggers who have been blogging for 6 months and have some strong content under their belts. These strategies are simple and effective for a [...]

Shh! The Secrets of Viral Reports

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A free report that goes viral can bring in traffic much faster than SEO and PPC combined, making it a powerful weapon in your blogging arsenal. It can be deployed to bring you free targeted visitors, in addition to generating hundreds of backlinks that’ll help you rank better in the search engines. Viral reports are one [...]

How Do I Create an Ebook From My Blog Posts?

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One of the methods often suggested for repurposing your content is to create an ebook from your best blog content. But how exactly do you do that? An ebook from blog posts may be for selling or for giving away as an “ethical bribe” to your new subscribers. The ebook may be something that you [...]

Only Blog When You Have Something to Say

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Hey you. Yes, you. Do you have something to say? No?? Oh so you’re one of the quiet ones… one of the groups of people who only blog when they have something to say. I hate this piece of blogging advice; to me, it invokes laziness in the blogger. It makes it easier for Resistance [...]

What Newspapers Can Teach You About Blogging

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Have you ever landed on a blog site that is text only? Not an image or a graphic in sight? How did you feel? Was it word overwhelm? Did you stop to read the words or move off of the page as quick as possible? If you moved away from the site you need to [...]