Basic Blog Tips

Why Every Freelancer Should Have a Blog of Their Own

65 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Zac Johnson / 05/01/2012

It doesn’t matter what type of freelancer writing, marketing or consulting you are offering, you are doing yourself and your business a disservice by not having a blog of your own. The benefit from having your own blog, whether for personal branding or business exposure is limitless. The start up costs are also minimal, and now you can setup your own Wordpress driven web sites with literally the click of a button! In this post we are going to cover just five of the many reasons why you MUST have a blog for your business, and how it can massively expand your reach and sales in no time.…continue reading…

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Is Blogging Full Of Crap or Should We Use Email Marketing Instead?

76 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Caleb the MarketSecretsBlogger / 04/29/2012

What crap am I referring to? Things like posting every single day, going to all the social networking sites, plus writing dozens of outside posts for guest blogging only to see a trickle of visitors. You see it has been a little over six years since I have been on this make money online mission and the avenue I’ve found most worthy of pursuing is building email databases of potential customers across diverse niches. Better known as list building.…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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Buying Blogs, Sites and Domains to Expand Your Business

101 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Zac Johnson / 04/24/2012

When looking through web sites and blogs that are for sale on the open market place, nothing is more exciting than seeing a web site up for sale that you already visit and read every day. This is exactly what happened when I saw Blogging Tips for sale on Flippa a few years back. I already knew the owner Kevin from a few emails we sent back and forth over the years, so I knew a little bit about the owner of the site, but no idea on the actual revenue/profit numbers until the actual auction posting was up.…continue reading…

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How to Get Your Small Biz Podcast Listed in iTunes

61 Comments / Podcast, Tech / Ileane / 04/22/2012

Let’s discuss the benefits of having a podcast. Starting a podcast can be the answer to your content marketing prayers. You don’t need to get in front of a camera and yet you can create a connection with your audience through a podcast that goes deeper than the bond you create on your blog. Your readers will get to hear your voice which helps them relate to you on a more human level. Once you start your podcast, you can instantly boost your credibility and elevate yourself as thought leader and recognized authority figure in your niche.…continue reading…

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How to Attract More Guest Bloggers on Your Blog

98 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Anil Agarwal / 04/20/2012

As a blog owner, we need to produce high quality contents in the form of posts on daily basis to make sure our blog is moving in the right direction. Sometimes it becomes really difficult to generate targeted posts due to the busy lifestyle we all are living or we are short of blog post ideas. Guest blogging can fix this problem to a great extent. To solve the problem of publishing relevant contents on regular basis, you should incorporate a guest blogging system on your blog.…continue reading…

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How To Curate Content and Build Authority With Scoop.it

189 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Tech / Ileane / 04/18/2012

Scoop.it is an online content curation tool that helps you keep track and share stories on topic related story boards based on our interests. You might compare Scoop.it Pinterest but it’s so much more. Collect snippets of information in an organized collection. Curating content with Scoop.it helps build your authority and share your expertise within the community and to your most popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus.

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