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You Can’t Wow Them Until You Whoa Them; Writing Headlines
Blogging, Writing Do you suck at writing headlines? Does it seem like you can’t get your blog posts read? Maybe it’s your headline. You want the headline to stop them from skim reading so you can wow them with your content. There’s been a lot of talk about content lately. I hate to repeat that content is king, but it really is. However, if your content isn’t getting read, it doesn’t matter how great it is, no one will know about it. ...
Continue readingIs Quality Content the Key to Blogging Success?
Blogging Or is valuable content more important than the quality? If you don’t feel like your writing skills are up to par you can implement video into your content planning. Video and even audio content is still content, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the written word. However, the majority of people still enjoy reading content, so lets cover some tips on why you need to give value to your readers. The important thing is you want your ...
Continue readingOff the Wall Tactics for Content Ideas
Blogging We all have times when content ideas are hard to come by. We look at the blank screen and wonder what the heck we can write about today. Since I’ve been writing web content for over ten years, I have a lot of old material on my hard drive. Sometimes I go through it and see what ideas it sparks. This isn’t off the wall, but I was doing that today and the topic of “cat blogging” popped out at me. The premise behind this is ...
Continue readingNo Sales? Have You Tried Being You?
Making Money Are you having trouble getting people to sign up for your list? Or do they sign up and then unsubscribe? Not seeing the sales you’d like, whether it’s your product or sales from affiliate marketing? Have you tried being you? If I join your list will you greet me as yourself in emails or will you go straight into your sales pitch or promotion? Do you tell me how your day/week is going? Do you share a little personal tidbit with me? ...
Continue readingUsing Old Content for New Content Ideas
Blogging Do you ever feel like you’ve ran out of things to share with your readers? Does your blank screen ever intimidate you because you can’t think of anything to write? Don’t worry, it happens to everyone and it’s not the end of the world. Next time you’re faced with the blank screen and need new content ideas, give these tips a try. They say that if you want to reach your goals you need to write them down, but that ...
Continue readingFinding a Niche
Blogging Everyone tells you to have a niche; you can’t make money with out a niche. So how do you choose? What all do you need to do for finding a niche that you’re going to love, that draws traffic and turns out to be profitable? Well, first off, any niche CAN be profitable. That doesn’t mean it will be, but if you’re passionate about crocheting miniature kittens and you love it enough to write about it several times per week, ...
Continue readingThere is No Easy Button
Blogging, Making Money You can stop looking for it. It doesn’t exist. There are things to make life and your business easier, but the fact is, there’s no easy button to do it with. I had a little tangent about the easy button on my personal blog. I won’t cover that here, but you can read that post if you’d like. What I didn’t go into was how some seasoned marketers or “gurus” make you think it’s easy to build a ...
Continue readingHaving the Will to Succeed – The 5th Key to Success
Making Money This brings us to the last in the series on the keys to success. The Will. Each article I’ve written in this series have given me a greater understanding of what goes into creating success, but as I come to this last one, I’ve decided that I may have gotten it all backwards. You decide. Used as a noun, as in this case, it means: 1. the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over ...
Continue readingHow Good is Your Customer Satisfaction Record?
Making Money The money is in the list. Build a big list of responsive people. Create exceptional products. All of those are great advice for building an online business. Many experts even bring up taking care of your customers, but how well do you really take care of your customers? Why isn’t this stressed as much as it should be? Is your customer support top notch? I’ve been taking an online course. Each weekly lesson is unlocked and available ...
Continue readingDiscipline – The 4th Key to Success
Blogging, Making Money Discipline – This has to be the toughest key to success. We almost have to discipline ourselves to be disciplined. Anything you want to accomplish in life takes some level of discipline, whether it’s to get healthy and fit, write on a daily basis, build a business or create success. There are several definitions of discipline, but I chose this one as the best for the purpose here: activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or ...
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