Blogging may be the single most effective way to market a small business, yet a surprisingly large number of people fail to take it seriously. It’s cheap to start, and cheap to scale. It works in almost every industry. It generates sales in the short-term, and is an incredible brand-building tool in the long-term. When…
If you ever want your blog to really skyrocket, you need a way to scale. You need to develop a system that will allow you to grow consistently over time, without hitting any sort of plateau. Without hitting a ceiling, or any limits. I started this blog because I knew that this market had limitless…
Every blogger has something called a power base. Your power base is very similar to your network, but it’s a bit more refined – your power base is those people that you’ve connected with so well, that they will take a given action to support you if you request them to do so. These are…
Going from an ordinary blogger to an extremely successful businessperson is all about scale. You start off by developing a profitable system. When, and only when you finally have a good system in place, you scale it up as much as you can and reap the rewards. Of course, neither of those are easy. Many…
Networking with other bloggers in your niche can be extremely powerful. You do not specialize in everything, and there are areas where other bloggers could not only help you grow as an expert in your niche, but provide more value to your readers as well. Not to mention, networking tends to benefit both parties and allows…
If you’ve ever taken the time to analyze other blogs in your niche, I’m willing to bet you’ve come across some that are doing quite well, but absolutely suck. Their content is sub-par at best, does not go into anything specific, and is barely written in English. Posts are short and unhelpful, ads are everywhere,…
Every blogger should try their hands at Kindle publishing at least once. Income from blogging is far from passive. When you stop working on your blog, traffic slowly but surely dwindles away to nothing. New sites emerge and take over your rankings, sites with your links go offline, and your business dies. Kindle publishing is not…
Is it possible that one link inside of a forum signature could send you to the front page of Google? Are forum signatures the key to blasting your rankings above all of your competitors? Should forum posting be part of your SEO strategy? Ten years ago, this actually could’ve been true. Unfortunately, today forum signatures…
Which of these two options sound better to you? One, you could have a blog post go viral, bringing thousands of visitors to your website in one day. Or two, you could have one well optimized post that brings you a small amount of organic traffic (that is, traffic from search engines) each day. A…
Note: This article is outdated. GPT-3 is now considered an ancient model. I’m leaving this article up for legacy purposes. GPT-3 may bring the single biggest shift to content publishing, since the advent of the internet. Yet while this technology may radically change the publishing and SEO landscape, it also comes along with a huge…