Your blog has probably been shouting at you over the holiday break, if it’s anything like mine.
You sit down to check your emails, and all of a sudden there’s a nagging voice coming from your PC, saying ‘You should update your blog!’.
Our blogs are relatively undemanding beings most of the time, but they do require some basic things to be in place to flourish, just like kids, animals, and friends!
One of the main things you can do to keep your blog happy and quiet is update it regularly, publishing regular interesting content to it.
When it comes to monetizing a blog you have a lot of options. If you know your audience and are good at marketing, you can try and sell your own advertising. Another alternative is to place advertisements on your site through Google Adsense. Depending on what type of web site you run, your results will vary. In this post we will break down Google Adsense and see if it’s right for your blog?
Are you getting jaded with your blogging?
Sometimes when we use a blog as our primary vehicle for sales and marketing for our company, it can seem much more like a chore than a pleasure to produce great content and keep the enthusiasm burning.
When people get fed up with their blog, it really comes across to their customers and it’s easy to tell when someone is feeling bored or uninspired through their blog posts.
I haven’t been properly steaming drunk for many years, but I still remember what it felt like to have the most amazing evening of my life, only to wake up in a mess hours later, fully clothed and with a hangover that lasted for about two days of misery.
While it was great fun at the time, the repercussions were always tough to deal with – it was about weighing up the pros and cons and deciding that a heavy night in the pub was worth paying for later. It never seemed like a good idea afterwards, but at the time, knowing what I would have to deal with, I still used to go out and do it!
How consistent are you really, with your blog?
Do you stick to a set schedule, being rigorous with your writing, or are you a bit more unreliable, putting up an article here and there when you have time?
One of the things I’ve learned over my time as a blogger is that it’s really important to be consistent, as to develop a great relationship with our readers and offer them what they need, we have an obligation to offer consistent, accurate and timely content to support them when they come to visit our sites. Plus Google likes consistency.
Do you remember when you first heard the term ‘blogging’?
If you’re anything like me, you immediately launched your favourite search engine and looked up this new phenomenon.
It seemed to herald a shift in online communications, changing the way we interacted with businesses online, forever.
180 Million (plus) Blogs and Growing…
Since that time, the blogging phenomenon has grown in popularity, as ordinary people realised that all they needed to get their voice out and heard in the blogosphere was a PC and a little time to write.
This guest post was written by Zac Johnson, an internet marketer with over 15 years of experience, and blogger at ZacJohnson.com.
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What makes some blogs more successful than others? With the millions of bloggers out there, competing against the billions of blogs on the internet… why are some getting your attention and not others? In this post I will highlight three very simple tactics that can get your blog more love and activity from the readers coming to your site.
Here in the UK, we’re just passing the longest day of the year already, and it seems like only a few weeks since the winter passed and spring arrived.
One of the best parts of the warmer weather is that you can get out in the garden and see to all of the jobs that you wouldn’t do in winter, like planting up pots and baskets, clearing the flowerbeds and mowing the lawn.
I was out in the garden the other day having a tidy up, and it struck me just how similar gardening and blogging actually are.
I was recently interviewed by Brandon Yeager (The Infopreneur).
This one is a video interview.
We had a great time and I share 3 key pieces of advice for people starting out blogging.
Please leave any comments on his site and any re-tweets or shares would be very welcome.
Here’s the link:
Spread Your Word by Blogging – Interview with Andrew Rondeau
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Have you been practicing your communication skills today?
Have you spent a good proportion of your day answering e-mails, calling people up, responding to blog comments and posting up comments of your own?
If the answer is no, it could be that you’ve become caught up in your business, wondering about how to enhance your products or services instead of keeping your customers happy.
The Fundamental Trait
While both sides of running an online business are important, communication is fundamental.
Without it, our customers begin to feel unloved, and you run the risk of them drifting away to another, more friendly, service provider.
Last week, I listened to the interview I completed with Leon Ho, Creator and Owner lifehack.org.
And Leon’s discussion on ‘Long-term Goal Setting’ jumped out for me.
I realised that I had never set long-term goals (i.e. 5 or 10 years away) for myself. Well not seriously anyway.
Easy Question To Ask, Difficult Question To Answer
It is a bit like the question at an interview ‘Where do you want to be in 5 years time?’ An easy question to ask. A hard one to answer.
I think most individuals answer by saying ‘In your position’!
If you are a small business blogger and you want to increase your income via your blog then today is the day to take some action.
Today is the last day where you can get 50% off our Income Blogging Course.
http://www.incomebloggingguide.com/stepbystep/
After today, we will be closing the doors to new members.
We realize, when it comes to blogging people need a helping hand – they need someone to walk them along the blogging path.
In the Income Blogging Guide Course, we have people from all over the world.
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