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2 Reasons You Must Keep Blogging at Your Old Blog When You Move to Another Domain
Blogging My blog has the moving shivers these days. I recently moved it from blogger to wordpress – and back again. It’s an ongoing saga that pains me because I have one more move to make. I’ve given up free blogging platforms and have hired a professional team to design a new blog that will be hosted on my own domain. I’ve learned quite a few lessons in the process, which I wrote about in the piece entitled, 7 Things You Must Know Before Moving ...
Continue readingWhy Online Information Sellers are Changing the Home Business Landscape
Making Money Online information sellers are changing the home business landscape, allowing many more to attain the dream of working from home than ever before. I’ve seen it first-hand, in the following ways. Instant Feedback: The beauty of online information products is the gratification you receive from instant feedback. If you want to know about a particular business opportunity, you can almost always find feedback on it on the web. For example, one of ...
Continue readingA Growth Plan for a Six-Figure Online Information Business
Making Money This post is a continuation of last week’s post entitled Is Your Online Information Business Ready to Grow Beyond You? In this post, I talked about how my business was undergoing some growing pains and how I needed help. This week the focus is on how to get the right kind of help to propel growth. How to Know When It’s Time to Push Your Online Information Business to the Next Level Right now, my business is in a growth phase. I’m at that ...
Continue readingIs Your Online Information Business Ready to Grow Beyond You?
Making Money I’m going through an interesting phase with my online business right now. It’s growing, which is good. But, it’s also making me feel scattered, not quite as pulled together as I usually am. As with everything in life, here are a few lessons I’m learning from this interesting phrase. 3 Signs It’s Time to Hire Help I’ve accepted the fact that my online information business is ready to grow beyond me. I’ve been a solo entrepreneur and ...
Continue readingBlog Posting Rates: 6 Things to Consider Before Lowering Your Rate
Blogging Even though my blog posting rates are listed on my site, clients sometimes ask for lower rates. Following are the guidelines I use to determine if how/when/if to lower my blog posting rates: 6 Things to Consider Before Lowering Your Blog Posting Rates 1. Topic/Niche: Some topics are general in nature while others are more technical. For example, a recent client I acquired owns a few sites. He hired me to do some blog posts for each of them. ...
Continue readingTo Achieve Blogging Success, Grow Some Marketing Cojones
Promote your blog My blog was recently in a competition. Even though it came through the first round okay (there are several rounds), one of the knocks against it was that it was a tad bit too self-promotional. This didn’t upset me because in my opinion freelance writing, as an industry, has this thing against marketing/self-promotion. Which, I think is why so many lead a starving artist existence. However, this did get me to thinking about the mind of a ...
Continue readingThe Mind of an Entrepreneur versus The Mind of a 9-5’er
Making Money I was talking to a girlfriend of mine a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been friends for over 17 years. We used to work at the same legal publishing firm in New York City (ahh, the good ole days). Anyway, our conversation that day left me thinking how the mind of an entrepreneur is vastly different from that of somewhat who works in corporate America. Let me explain. And yes, this does have to do with blogging. I’m taking the scenic route in ...
Continue readingDoes Social Media Marketing Really Work for Most Blogs?
Promote your blog When blogging became all the rage a few years ago, nobody gave much thought to traffic generation (except maybe the geeks who figured out long before most of us that there was money to be made from it). Now that social media sites drive much of blog traffic, much of the content written is to feed the needs of these communities. I have to say, I write this post out of a bit of frustration because many of the social media sites don’t meet my ...
Continue readingHow to Effectively Use Blogging to Build Your Freelance Writing Credentials
Blogging In today’s blog post, I thought it apropos to answer a question I received from a reader. Sometimes, I think those of us who are more experienced leave newbies out because well, “everyone should know that, right?” So, here’s a question a lot of aspiring or new freelance writers might wonder about. The reader, Fred, wrote the following to me: QUESTION: Hi Yuwanda, I realize you’re busy, so if you don’t have time to deal with ...
Continue readingShould You Go “Off Topic” On Your Blog?
Blogging Most of us who blog have a theme, a mission statement, a defined focus for our blog. And that’s as it should be. However, there are some times when it would help to go “off topic” on your blog. Following are three such times. 3 Times When Going “Off Topic” On Your Blog Can Generate More Traffic for Your Blog First, let me say, don’t go so off topic that your readers don’t even identify the content with you at all. My point in even ...
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