Google, facebook and other big businesses dominate the headlines but here's some new you can use from "the rest of us". I bring you word from the valley, mobile apps, the gift cards and love markets. Facebook's boring anyway, right? … [Read more...]
Powers That Be And Personal Branding

Personal branding's the big story on Blogsuccess right now, so let's talk about it. As contributor, I feel an urge to support our friend-in-blogging, Nancy Marmolejo in her time of re-branding. What better way to do that than with related content? It's time to lift the veil a little, and share my own branding and rebranding experiences. I never really get to talk about The Merchant of New York City. Few people are ever really interested. I'm not one to brag so having a subject like personal … [Read more...]
Why Monitoring Your Top Articles Is Important and What to Do If Your Content is Copied

In the beginning of fall last year I wrote a celebrity inspired article about “How to Wear Riding Boots”. Shortly after I built sufficient internal links to the post, I ranked high in the search engines reaching the front page in goggle search results. I was surprised by the number of its pins and repins. The article became my number one source of traffic, bringing me more than two hundred unique visits a day, solely from this post, and redirecting those visitors to other related posts, thus … [Read more...]
How Not To Suck! (The Life Out Of Your Readers)

It seems like a lot of people like to approach blogging and content development from a completely clinical point of view. As if there's a quantitative formula for what constitutes a quality, valuable piece of content. And to them I say, you're thinking too hard about this! It is drop-dead simple to figure out what a group of people wants and then give it to them. We're on the freakin' internet. We have myriad tools to discover what turns our readers on. Start with other popular … [Read more...]
Make Money Blogging? Or Make Money Because You Bring Value To The Web?

There are a couple ways of looking at starting a blog or thinking about the role of your current blog in your business. Some blogs make money in and of themselves. These blogs do this with: Advertising CPA offers Affiliate product recommendations Selling links Some people make money blogging simply because they blog. There really is a difference. These “people who happen to have successful blogs” make money in far different ways than the bloggers above: Book … [Read more...]






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