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Written on November 4th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse
Why Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog
As I write this it is the first Tuesday morning of a new month and I’m sitting in a local coffee shop going through my ‘start of the month routine‘.
It involves a large lattè (everything else hinges on this) and some delving into my blogs metrics to see how they’ve been performing.
While I do [...]
Written on October 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business
Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed?
You might not have known it at the time – but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down.
I had one of those course changing moments early in my blogging. [...]
Written on October 6th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
6 Reasons to Join the ProBlogger.com Community
Since I announced ProBlogger.com mid last week the ProBlogger Community Forum has grown to well over 1300 paid members (note the member numbers are reported as higher but also include people who have yet to confirm their membership with a payment).
Because it’s a private, walled community it can be a little difficult for those not [...]
Written on October 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.com is Live! JOIN with 1200+ Bloggers to Improve Your Blog
What would happen if the thousands of bloggers who read ProBlogger each day decided to work together to improve their blogs?
This is a question that has been on my mind lately – I thought it was time to find out what the answer is.
So far 800 1200+ bloggers have agreed to join me in finding [...]
Written on September 26th, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
How to Create Reader Profiles/Personas to Inspire and Inform Your Blogging
One of the techniques that I’ve employed in my blogging over the last 6 months behind the scenes is to create Reader Profiles (or Personas).
The technique is simply – open up a word document and begin to describe a type of reader that you’re either attempting to write for or who is already reading your [...]
Written on September 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom
Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ’seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers.
Today I want to take the ’seeding’ idea a step further and give a few examples of ways [...]
Written on September 1st, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
The Myth of ‘Great Content’ Marketing Itself
One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content.
“Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last year.
“Write it and they will come” [...]
Written on August 24th, 2009 at 01:08 pm by Darren Rowse
Get These Free Goodies at Teaching Sells
Brian Clark over at TeachingSells is at it again – giving away some great free teaching.
The TeachingSells program has been closed to new participants for quite a few months now but in the coming weeks they plan to open the doors again. In the lead up to it Brian’s put together some great free content [...]
Written on August 19th, 2009 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
11 Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program
I have earned $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program since I began using it as a way to make money online late in 2003. Around half of that amount was made within the last 12 months.
In this post I want to share what I’ve learned along the way on how to make money with Amazon.
While [...]
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