Blogging Strategies

When I started blogging years ago, I never imagined having thousands of posts on my blog. But when you are blogging everyday for a few years, your blog posts will add up quickly. Many bloggers do a good job promoting their new blog posts. Your old content matters too. In order to get the most [...]

I was a John Reese junkie once. For those of you not familiar with John Reese, he does have some interesting marketing products for those hoping to do better marketing and promotion for their business. I haven’t followed John’s work for a couple of years, but I did learn a couple of powerful concepts from [...]

So many bloggers treat their website as a place to lecture people on various topics. Bloggers are not professors and their readers are most likely not interested in being lectured. A boring blog won’t achieve its full potential as even its most loyal followers will leave it after a while. As a blogger, you owe [...]

As a startup owner, I don’t have the time to keep up with the latest TV shows and the celebrities. But it seems everyone is still talking about Charlie Sheen these days (even after earthquakes and major issues in the Middle East). Apparently, he went nuts on the Alex Jones radio show or did he? [...]

The iPad is one shiny, powerful tablet. It can be used as an entertainment device, a gaming tablet, or an e-book reader. Apple has already sold hundreds of thousands of units, and it is expected to sell millions of more in the near future. What does that mean for you as a blogger? It’s all [...]

Throwing a giveaway on your blog is a powerful way to attract new visitors and increase your traffic. People love freebies, and you’d be surprised how far some people will go to get their hands on them. Each giveaway that you host on your blog is an opportunity for you to get more traffic and [...]

Blogging is a very risky business, especially if you put all your eggs in one basket. Your risks are even higher if you are a pro blogger and do not have a backup source of income to get you through in case things go wrong with your blog. When you go to business school, they [...]

There are three types of bloggers out there. In one group, we have a bunch of people who know how to come up with original blog posts on a consistent basis. These bloggers have mastered the art of grabbing an idea and looking at it from a unique angle. In the second group, we have [...]

One of the best ways to get more popular in the blogging world is by giving people what they are asking for. In fact, that’s the recipe to success in any business. If you can identify what people need and give them exactly what they are looking for, there is no reason you can’t make [...]

When you get started with your blog, you only have a handful of posts for a while. So you don’t really get too much traffic from search engines. But once you hit those magic numbers (500, 1000, …) in posts, you are going to get a lot of passive traffic from all kinds of places. [...]