Let’s face it: you’re not starting the next BuzzFeed. No matter how clever your headlines, you won’t match Upworthy’s viral success. Business Insider and Mashable? There is no chance you can match their traffic levels — or even come close. What about being able to do anything if you put your mind to it? If […]
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5 Skills Bloggers Need To Become Freelancers
Does blogging pay the bills? For many blessed bloggers, the answer is yes. The luckiest bloggers can make enormous incomes if they work hard enough. For most of us, making a living just with our blogs and related activities (ebooks and other products) doens’t quite pay the bills. If it does, there isn’t much left […]
Stop Making Money from Your Blog: Use Your Blog To Make Money Instead
If you’re trying to make money from your blog, you might be living in the wrong decade. For a good while blog advertising paid, sometimes well. In recent times those revenues have greatly dwindled. Unless you’re getting well more than a million unique visitors per month — rare even for high-quality and well-read blogs — […]
10 Tools To Help You Create Content, Promote Your Blog, and Manage Everything
The role of bloggers has grown immensely in the last decade. In the early 00s bloggers mostly wrote. They’d find a topic of interest, pontificate for a bit, and let the commenters have their digs. As the decade trucked along, the face of blogging changed in a way that required bloggers take on more responsibilities. […]
Sell Products to your Readers instead of Selling your Readers to Advertisers
How are you currently making money from your blog? For many bloggers — indeed, too many — the answer is CPM ads. These are prominent throughout the web. Load up any random blog, and chances are you’ll see many 300-by-250 rectangle display ads, along with the occasional banner, skyscraper, or leaderboard. There is a good […]
Are You Suffering From A Blogger’s No. 1 Problem?
You work hard on your blog. Every day you’re putting yourself out there, crafting posts and sharing them with everyone imaginable. You’ve worked on your writing and explain your points in clear, concise language. You respond to comments to keep the conversations flowing. In other words, you’re doing seemingly everything right. Only, you’re not seeing […]