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5 Ingredients Required to Create a Blog Schedule That Works

A blog schedule is to help you be more productive and to get more out of your blog – don’t let it cramp your style or set you back! Use it as a tool for advancement and greater success in what you’re already doing. The schedule is yours and yours alone to change and edit over time – at the end of the day you have to live with it!

21 Quick Actions You Can Do Today to Set Your Blog Up for Massive Success

You can read all the blogging advice in the world, but none of it matters unless you take action. To set your blog up to be a massive success, you have to ruthlessly focus your efforts on things that work, and stop spending precious time on things that don’t.

5 Writing Tips That I Learned From My Wife

You could know all the “tricks” in writing great blog content and still be a terrible writer and have all of it go to terrible waste! We must all continue to master our skill of writing constantly!

3 Simple Changes to Increase Your Subscribers by 50%

In the last three months I’ve increased my subscribers by a whopping 50%. All with three simple changes. Because simple is fun and good, and really, it’s the best way to do things.

Two Email Marketing Strategies that Work

The first strategy will help you get more subscribers and build your authority in your niche, while the second will help you get more page views and affiliate sales—all in an ethical manner, of course. Both of these methods will also help build stronger relationships with your subscribers, and get them to trust you. This is vitally important, as the better your relationship is with your subscribers, the longer they will stay around.

2 Blogging Myths: Traffic Measures Success and Content Is King

Traffic is not a valid measure of success. If traffic were a valid measure of success, every blogger starting out would be an instant failure for months, if not longer.

How To: Create a Blog Post Series and Why You Need Them!

Creating great blog content can sometimes seem like a mystery to even the most experienced bloggers out there – what exactly attracts readers so that they subscribe and keep coming back for more? What style of writing, tone, voice, and perspective are needed to create that “killer” blog with that “killer” content?

7 Ways Guest Posting Can Boost Your Reputation

Today, we’re going to look at the brand and reputation that can be created through smart guest blogging. From building an audience for your own blog to increasing awareness of your product, here’s why you should guest blog for reputation alone.

Creating Effective and Profitable Evergreen Blog Content

An “evergreen” post is a blog post that is one of your better posts that is so well crafted that it becomes one of the most significant and high-trafficked blog posts for your blog.

How I Organize Google Reader for Blog Commenting

When it comes to commenting, the obvious bonus of using this system is that you get alerted to when your favorite site has a new post. That way, if you are trying to get in that first commenter spot, you have a better chance of doing so by jumping on the post when it goes live.

Do You Have to Respond to Every Blog Comment?

A blog conversation is like a dinner party. You have invited everyone to your home for some food and conversation. Your content is like the appetizers. You offer it up to get things rolling.

When You’re Feeling Uninspired

I’ve learned two vital lessons about what to do at times like these when I’m feeling uninspired. And knowing the difference between the two has been essential to my being able to create and stay sane.

Adding A Contact Form To Your Site {tutorial}

Ever wondered how you could add a spiffy Contact Form to your website? I’ve got an easy tutorial to share with you! It’s what I used and I love it! It makes contacting me from my website, easy, fast, and secure. Just follow these easy steps.

A Survey Changed the Way I Run Giveaways Forever

The survey form also got good reviews from my readers, who have commented both that they like it because it’s easier to enter and that they like it because then actual comments or questions on the post don’t get buried, and real conversation can happen.

The A to Z of Excellent Copywriting

Today I offer you the guide I wish I’d had back then: an A to Z of the absolute essentials of copywriting — plus a good bit of further reading for each. If you tackle just one of these principles every day, you could conceivably master the basics of copywriting and content marketing in less than a month.

Community and Conversation on 3in30 {How to Use Disqus}

Now, I know some of you have had bad experiences with Disqus in the past, but I have found that the benefits of using the Disqus commenting system outweigh the negatives

How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week

You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you’ve set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.

How to Optimize Traffic from Other Blogs

Keep track of who’s talking about you and especially who’s linking to you.

What is good traffic?

Why are you asking the traffic question in the first place? Do you want to make money and aren’t sure if you have enough traffic to do so? Do you want to build a strong, intimate community? Do you want to know if a move to a more robust hosting plan is warranted?