Ryan Hanley, Author at Basic Blog Tips

7 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Podcast

62 Comments / Guest Posts, Tech / Ryan Hanley / 03/22/2013

Podcasting is not for everyone. Podcasting is long-format content marketing, which means the audience expects you to dive deeper into your area of expertise. Yet despite the many experts, gurus, rockstars and ninjas within the content marketing space moving their voice to the podcast format, podcasting will NOT work for everyone. I outlined seven reasons you should NOT start podcasting. This serves as a guide to excuse yourself from moving into the podcast format of content marketing.

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Why Free eBooks Drive Huge Email List Growth

71 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Ryan Hanley / 08/14/2012

Giving away information (Think FREE) is a great way to get the attention of potential blog subscribers…
Your blog readers are lazy. They might be interested in subscribing but the simple act of entering their email address prevents them. However, throw in a reasonably well designed eBook with some good solid information and the barrier comes crashing down. Email list growth becomes almost guaranteed. I created an eBook using the Anthologize plugin for Wordpress and Fiverr. The eBook itself is a collection of blog posts that I am very proud of and tell a no nonsense story about the mental side of blogging success. …continue reading…

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Share Button vs Like Button For Best Facebook Exposure

131 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / Ryan Hanley / 04/27/2012

We all have ways to share our content to Facebook (If you don’t that’s a MUST DO right now!) in the form of a button placed somewhere on your blog. Ileane uses floating social media buttons that trail the post as you scroll down. That is one way to do it. Some people place their social media buttons at the beginning of the post, others at the end and others yet, at both the beginning and end. I use a social media plugin called Socialize which places social media buttons at the top of each blog post and then creates a Feature Box at the end of each post with additional social media buttons.…continue reading…

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Why Zombie Subscribers Are Killing Your Email List

49 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Ryan Hanley / 04/03/2012

By now you’ve probably read at least three dozen out the thousands of articles written on why collecting email subscribers is so important to the growth and success of your blog. And to a certain extent this is going to be another one… as I agree completely. Email subscribers are of the utmost importance… Truly the only non-revenue counting stat I care about. If you are like me and you constantly tweak your newsletter to produce the best product then feedback is very important. You could be writing killer content but see increasingly diminished results because of Zombie subscribers inaction…continue reading…

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