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June 10, 2020

What Time of Day is Best to Publish to Your Blog?

This post is based on episode 130 of the ProBlogger podcast. When I started blogging (back in 2005, when RSS feeds were really big), I paid a lot of attention to when I published my posts because it seemed to affect how many people saw them. These days their visibility seems to be affected more by the timing of my social media posts and emails than of the posts themselves. Still, here are a few things you might want to consider in terms of when you should be publishing your posts. What the Studies Show Lots of studies have been done...

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June 5, 2020

Pro Blogging Tip: Get Comfortable with Receiving Money

Get comfortable with receiving increasing amounts of money to become a more successful professional blogger. Everybody needs to bump it up a few levels to reach the next stage of their professional blogging career. Pump it up by raising your rates. Raise your prices too. Get comfortable with receiving more money through the products you offer and service you render to reach into even higher circles. Pay close attention to happy, prospering professional bloggers. Pro increase their rates, prices and income steadily because in order to make more money you have to leverage your pricing. Don’t work harder and longer...

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June 4, 2020

First Step to Beating Writer’s Block: Finding out Why You’re Stuck

This post is based on episode 83 of the ProBlogger podcast. This week I want to talk about writer’s block. Actually, I’ll be talking about it for the next few weeks. It’s such a common problem for bloggers, and it can really mess up your plans of having a successful blog if you don’t learn how to beat it. Notice that I said “beat it” and not “avoid it” because I’m not sure you can avoid it. Every writer faces it at some point or other, including me. And so over the next few weeks I want to share some tips...

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May 31, 2020

Seven Important Things I’ve Learnt from Eleven Years of Freelance Blogging

Have you ever thought of giving paid blogging a go? Maybe you see it as a means to an end, or perhaps a handy way to make some extra money to support your own blog. But paid blogging can also be a great way to super-charge your growth as a blogger. I’ve been a paid blogger for more than 11 years, and in that time I’ve learnt all sorts of useful things. Getting a behind-the-scenes look at how dozens of blogs work introduced me to lots of tips and tools. And many of the things I’ve learnt over the past...

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May 28, 2020

How to Create Products and Sell Them on Your Blog

This post is based on episode 67 of the ProBlogger podcast. This week I want to talk about creating a product for your blog. Last month I talked about my various profit streams, and how nearly a third of my profits come from product sales. And that’s obviously one good reason to create and sell products – it’s a great way to monetize your blog. But there’s another reason you should do it that goes beyond money. But before I get into that I want to tell you a little story. A tale of two buskers A while back my family...

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May 27, 2020

What 2 Travel Blogging Factors Help You Go Pro?

Do you want to jump into the travel blogging game but feel worried about the competition? Consider two travel blogging factors that help you go pro. Bloggers tend to overlook these two factors because most worry about the competition. Kick this fear out of your mind right now. Blog from a creative, not competitive, energy. Making this simple shift does wonders for your travel blogging campaign because you see these two factors easily separate you from all people in the niche. What about the fear of competition? This anxiety vanishes, the instant you own your experiences and voice are both...

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May 21, 2020

9 Blogging Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got over Them

This post is based on episode 57 of the ProBlogger podcast. Today I want to talk about nine hurdles I’ve faced as a blogger, and how I got over them. While you may never have to deal with them all, chances are there’s at least one you’ve either faced in the past or will face in the future. And so hopefully you’ll be able to get over them (or perhaps around them) without them slowing you down too much. So let’s start with the first hurdle I faced… 1. Not understanding the technology When I first started blogging back in...

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May 12, 2020

How to Turn a Boring Blog into Something Special

List building is one of the things you hear and read about everyday in blogging and content marketing. Email marketing in itself is a whole lot of work put together. Many successful bloggers have succeeded to build a large list for their businesses and that works with a lot of attraction. Well, the size of your email list isn’t always a point. The quality and relevance are the most important factors. These go a long way to affect your bounce rate which is a corner stone in email marketing. We will be talking about this a bit below but let...

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May 5, 2020

What Can You Blog About When All the Good Ideas Are Already Taken?

When you’re trying to come up with a great idea for a blog post, does it seem like every topic has already been done to death? You might want to write about your ten favourite WordPress plugins. But a quick Google search shows there are dozens of similar posts. Maybe you want to share your experience of raising children, but you know loads of blogs already covering similar ground. Whatever your idea is, there’s a good chance there’s already something similar out there. Here are five ways you can make the most of your idea, regardless of what’s been done...