Guest Posts

All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.

Blogger Interviews: Amazon Author, Udemy Instructor and Web Designer Rob Cubbon

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Rob Cubbon is a London-based blogger that I connected with several years ago through blogging communities and social media networks. It’s been a pleasure to watch Rob build his reputation and authority online through his blog, freelancing and web design expertise. To date Rob has published several Kindle books on Amazon covering WordPress, passive income, home-based business and more. It’s been several months since the last time an interview was posted here on the blog, but I really wanted to share some of Rob’s story here because I know you will get inspired by what he’s done just like I did.

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The Best Email Marketing Tips For Beginners

Email Marketing Tips For Beginners

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Email marketing is important simply because it’s a way that you can create a community around your target niche. That’s the “correct” way to say it. The real reason why marketing through email is so important is because every successful marketer knows that it’s a license to print money. The rules of business and marketing have changed, and those changes have killed many businesses. But the changes have also created enormous opportunity for thousands of others. If you understand the new playing field, grabbing your prospects attention and building a relationship with him or her has actually gotten a lot simpler in many ways.

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Why You Should Develop Personas for Your Blog

Killer Tips to Help You Develop Personas For Your Business Blog

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Though you can craft well-trafficked blog entries that will inevitably help your brand, failing to understand who you want to be landing on your pages could mean you’re not getting the most out of your investment. Buyer personas are, in short, archetypal (but research-based!) characterizations of people you hope to read your blog – your ideal customers or clients, with all their unique behaviors and needs. Knowing who they are is crucial to developing frame and context in blog writing and, ultimately, to pinpointing (and segmenting) your desired audience, generating sales leads and – you guessed it — improving your bottom line.

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Animate Social and Blog Scheduling with Coschedule

Animate Social and Blog Publishing with CoSchedule Editorial Calendar

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I’ve tried a few WordPress editorial calendars over the years, but none of them really stuck. Then I started using CoSchedule, a blog editorial calendar that costs $10 per month per blog. Six months after my original review (which netted me a one year trial account), I’m still using it – and it’s because of one killer feature: the integration of social publishing with the editorial calendar. Let’s have a look at how the rest of CoSchedule works.

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Are Businesses Still Creating Websites Specifically for Mobile?

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Creating a specific website just for mobile can still work for many companies. Unfortunately, creating a website that favors the small screen is quite different than a website you would create for a desktop. This puts extra pressure on web designers because they have to create a website for both a desktop as well as a mobile-optimized version. If you do not have a web designer, then thinking about these different ways customers get information will be important. A website is usually the first thing a startup company creates, so there are a few things to bear in mind.

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The Science of Commitment: Are Your Readers Loyal?

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Are your readers loyal? Loyal to your blog? (meaning they are returning visitors/clients/subscribers).
Let’s forget that for a moment…Do you know why I am writing this? I do love writing on other blogs, but beyond that, I love the traffic that I get from my guest posts.

After reading this post, some of you may visit my blog, which is what I want. But, my ideal goal is to convert you into returning visitors (Hey, I love new visitors as much as the next guy, but I prefer returning visitors. Don’t you?). So, let’s talk about commitment (or loyalty. Call it whatever you want, it’s valuable and very powerful).

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How to Use Twitter Lists Like a Pro

The Complete Guide To Using Twitter Lists Like a Pro

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Your Twitter is a mess! At least that is what your mother would say if she saw how many tweets were flying around in your Twitter stream right now. The problem might be that you are following way too many people, right? Well, you are certainly not alone. So what is the solution to all your woes?

Twitter Lists.

Twitter Lists will, first and foremost, help you clean up your Twitter mess, let me show you how.

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