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September 11, 2019 by Editor Leave a Comment

Do You Feel Comfortable Letting Readers Brag about Your Blog?

I read a 5 star review of one of my 100 plus eBooks a few moments ago.

I re-read the review.

How does it feel to have readers brag about you? Good? Bad? Why?

Do you feel comfortable letting readers brag about your blog?

As I scanned reviews for my eBook: 11 Proven Tips for Aspiring Bloggers

I came across a dandy and posted the review word for word to my Facebook Page because I felt good doing so. Why not allow people to brag about me? Happy readers drive increased business through my eBook income stream.

A few years ago, I lived a different story. I flat out ignored positive reader reviews. Why? I believed I did not genuinely deserve glowing reviews. I also felt a little embarrassed to get 5 star reviews because I felt I was no one special. Of course, these limiting beliefs held back eBook sales because if you give little attention and energy to folks who love what you do, few folks love what you do.

I did wake up though. Now I promote my eBooks and 5 star reviews freely on social media, on my blog and through videos. Naturally, eBook sales continue to rise because if you promote people’s glowing endorsements you connect with more folks who love what you do and buy your eBook.

Where Your Energy Goes Grows

Where your attention and energy goes, grows.

Give your energy to folks who love your work. Promote their reviews. Allow these loyal fans to brag about your blog. Succeed.

ALSO READ: 1 Time Saving Tip for Busy Bloggers

But most bloggers move in the opposite direction because most bloggers feel highly uncomfortable allowing readers to brag about them. Bloggers either hate the spotlight or feel non-deserving of success, shun publicity, never promote 5 star reviews and struggle to succeed because said bloggers do not give their attention and energy to people who love what they do. By default, these bloggers fail simply because they give their energy to struggle, not success.

Get Comfortable with Receiving Success

Get comfortable with receiving blogging success. See more success.

Allow people to brag about you and to shout out your blogging skills. Even if it feels a bit uncomfortable at first, feeling good about positive reviews and promoting endorsements helps you get clear on your products and services. From there, things get easier in terms of driving traffic and making money blogging because each fan is a brand advocate and every positive review is a money maker.

People love buying based on word of mouth marketing. Imagine being an aspiring blogger who sees this 5 star review for the above eBook?

“All because of this book, I was up at 4AM brain-dumping ideas the other night. And that hasn’t happened for me in a long, long while.

If you blog, you need this book! It just frees you of so many blogging worries. (At least it did for me.)

Sure, everybody tells you to become a writing machine. Make writing a habit. But Ryan actually tells you how to do it. And it flat out works. Ryan gives you his own schedule. Helps you figure out why you write and makes it fun and freeing. Helps you ignore useless criticism and really write for yourself.

I wish I’d known before what he says in chapter 9 about branding. Would’ve saved me many hours and a lot of my money.”

Do you see what I mean? My eBook title and summary seemed helpful but reading a verified buyer’s glowing, genuine take on my eBook inspires you to buy the thing. He tells you to buy it because the eBook frees you of blogging worries. Hmmmm…is it worth about 7 bucks to be free of blogging worries? I believe so. Especially if an established blogger shares his honest thoughts to verify the eBook reduces your blogging anxiety.

Why do you know about this positive review?

I promoted the reader’s 5 star take explicitly via this guest post.

Let your readers brag about you and do not be shy promoting their positive reviews.

Multiply your success by being comfortable with promoting your loyal fan’s endorsments of your work.

About the Author:

**Ryan Biddulph inspires you with 100 plus eBooks, audio books, courses and his blog at** **Blogging From Paradise**.

August 12, 2019 by Asaolu Olubayode Andrew 1 Comment

4 Tips to Be a Smarter Blogger [updated]

Smart bloggers rule the roost in their niche.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get this memo nearly 10 years ago.

I was a blogging dingbat, doing insane stuff like posting to my collective blogs 60 times a day.

This thin, wispy content did little for me. I wasn’t leveraging, I wasn’t building relationships and I sure wasn’t following smart blogging advice.

Fast forward 10 years. I blog from a more intelligent, helpful, clear space and success seems to find me with increasing ease.

You will easily cut months and even years off of your blogging learning curve if you do things from a smart, effective space.

Follow these tips to become a smarter blogger.

1: Learn from Smart Bloggers

I did some dingbatish things as a newbie blogger because I didn’t follow successful bloggers.

When I smartened up I learned from smart, successful bloggers how to practice blogging, how to create helpful content, how to build my blogger friend network and how to monetize my blog effectively.

Learn from smart bloggers.

Cut your learning curve by years.

2: Make Your Day all about Leveraging

The smartest bloggers leverage the stuffing out of their presence.

Effective blog commenting and guest posting are 2 awesome ways to leverage your presence quickly.

Example; a few minutes before writing this post, Asaolu asked if I had written him a guestie. I obliged immediately because writing this post leverages my presence, aiding me in helping his reader network.

Writing 3-4 paragraph long, personalized comments has the same effect. Imagine wowing the socks off of some 100, 200 or even 1,000 readers in Darren Rowse’s 300,000 member Pro Blogger community?

That means steady blog traffic for you.

Intend to make an impact with every single act.

If you write 6 posts a week, place 2 on your blog and 4 on other blogs as guest posts.

Be smart.

Leverage your presence.

3: Promote other Bloggers Freely

The most intelligent way to blog is to build your friend network by promoting other bloggers freely.

Doing so helps you build friendships which bring you immense rewards.

Example; after I promote a fellow blogger through Twitter or Facebook for a few times the individual is likely to retweet or Facebook Share my post too, as the friendship develops.

This means that as I am sleeping in New Jersey, my blogging buddies in India and Nigeria and Pakistan are sharing my content with their friend networks, expanding my reach far and wide, in quite passive fashion for me.

Attempting to do everything on my own, promotion-wise, would be unintelligent. I’d be up creating and promoting my stuff until 3 AM and would eventually burn out.

Go the smart route. Promote other bloggers freely. Make friends. Watch your presence expand exponentially as your blogging network grows.

4: Work on Your Mindset

If you blog from a place of fear you will do cowardly, flat out dumb, things.

I saw 80 spam comments on my blog this morning. Each of these bloggers – or each of these blogger’s hired guns – is making a stupid, boneheaded mistake, blogging like a dingbat.

If these folks sat with their fear of losing traffic or wasting time the fear energy would vanish and they’d spend their time creating value, building bonds through effective blog commenting and guest posting and you betcha they would succeed.

Work on your mindset.

Meditate. Pray. Do yoga. Whatever helps you face and embrace your fears, do it, so you can blog intelligently, with love.

5. Move to self-hosted WordPress

if you haven’t already. Yes, you’ll be able to build a well-liked blog on WordPress.com or Blogger.com, however there are innumerable reasons to move your blog to your own host, together with having more management and looking more skilled.

6. Build your email list.

First, attract the proper reasonably traffic to your blog. Then impress them along with your savvy, knowledgeableness and generosity, and guess what? They’ll subscribe.

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Your Turn How are you being a smarter blogger?

What tips can you add to this list?

About the Author

Ryan Biddulph is a blogger, author and world traveler who’s been featured on Richard Branson’s Virgin Blog, Forbes, Fox News, Entrepreneur, Positively Positive, Life Hack, John Chow Dot Com and Neil Patel Dot Com. He has written and self-published 126 bite-sized eBooks on Amazon. Ryan can help you build a successful blog at Blogging From Paradise.

April 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment

3 Clear Words to Increase Your Blogging Income

3 words pop up in my mind.

Every time I ponder my blogging income problems from the past I think of these 3 words.

Struggling bloggers should dwell on these 3 words.

The 3 words boost your blogging income. If you believe in the phrase.

Are you ready for the delightful trio?

“It’s only money.”

3 Words for Bigger Profits

I tweeted the product page for my blogging audio course 5 minutes ago. I tweeted the same sales page twice prior today.

Why?

It’s only money.

Meaning I offer the course via a means of exchange called “money”.

Bloggers feel uncomfortable promoting business products or services once, twice or 3 times daily. Some see sharing product pages as spamming. Others believe sharing business pages feels pushy or maybe is a bit too much promoting for their tastes, but only because they have a negative idea of money.

The few bloggers who see money as only money – nothing more, no big deal – promote their premium offerings freely, get clear on their offerings and increase their blogging income over the long term.

Fear

Bloggers fear promoting products and services because bloggers cling to fears regarding money. Every fear regarding money is untrue because money is just money. Money is only money. Money is not scarce. Money is not limited. Money is just a means of exchange.

Knowing this, you immediately take the negative, fear-based charge out of money. You have every right to share something helpful in return for a means of exchange called “money”.

You have an important duty though; face, own, embrace, feel and release money-related fears that add a negative charge to your premium offerings. Most bloggers experience a sort of heaviness when promoting premium offerings because most bloggers give a powerful meaning to money. Money is not powerful, nor is it scarce. It is just money. Neutral. No big deal.

Taking this blase attitude about money inspires you to promote both your free content and premium offerings generously because when you see money as only being a neutral means of exchange you get clear on your premium offerings, promote these products and services freely and increase your sales through your newly established clarity.

Meanwhile, bloggers who feel awkward or uncomfortable around money tend to pull back on promoting their products and services, and as you hold back, it is held back from you, as the good book says.

Not me.

If anyone has issues with me promoting my premium stuff, it has all to do with their fear around money and nothing to do with me and my pretty detached feeling about money.

Remember; it’s only money.

The more relaxed, calm, chill and detached you feel about money the more money flows into your life through your blog because you will have a harmonious relationship with money.

The Lords of Illusion

Beware; society has a very screwed up, fear-based, totally untrue idea of money, believing money to be limited and scarce.

Do not allow the general public’s inaccurate view of money to infect your mind.

It’s only money.

Do not allow your country or government to shape your view of money; governments are in the business of manipulating people through mass fear and scarcity, from the United States to European countries, to developing nations around the globe.

It’s only money.

You are not asking for someone’s first born child, or their arm, or their leg, as a means of exchange for your blogging course. Nope; you’re just requiring a means of exchange called “money” to change hands for goods rendered.

It’s only money.

Remove the stories about money that you attach to money. None are true, save money being a simple, neutral means of exchange.

When you remove the charge from money you will have few issues making money through your blog. As the stories die, so do the fears, and as the fears die, you’ll align with prospering ideas, prospering people, prospering circumstances any…..money.

April 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment

How to Blog on the Cheap

Cash flow got ya down?

I know how it feels to blog when money seems to be tight.

Even these days I spend more money but don’t have a huge budget for building my blog.

How can you build a rocking blog on a shoestring budget?

The first step involves accepting this core truth: if you spend little money you need to spend great time and energy building a successful blog.

Therefore, this brings the question of “How to blog”

1: Give Freely to Receive

Most budget bloggers are cheapies in terms of offering their time to blogging.

Said bloggers have no interest in spending much money on their blogs, which is understandable. But the cheap crowd often makes the fatal mistake of wanting to spend little time learning, practicing and flat out *being* blogging.

If you spend little money to build your blog you will spend a great deal of time and energy over the next 2-4 years of your life learning how to blog, practicing your writing, connecting with pros and creating helpful content.

The split second you blog on a shoestring you need to give as much time and energy as established, pro bloggers, to build your blog on a solid foundation.

Example; if you do not have the budget to hire a team of content creators you need to practice writing in order to create helpful, thorough content frequently. Setting aside 30 minutes daily for writing 1000 words in a Word document takes up a chunk of your time but is necessary if you need to write your own blog posts.

2: Spend on a Domain and Hosting

Blogging on a shoestring means not blogging for free.

Impossible.

Spend money on 1 thing; a domain and hosting. Non-negotiable deal here.

Spend at least $5 to $10 USD monthly – or more – because if you buy cheap hosting you cannot succeed online.

Spend all of your budget on your hosting if necessary. Own your online real estate. Brand yourself effectively. Gain reader trust. Set up your blog for proper monetizing.

3: Learn the Art of Leveraging

I only reach 60,000 folks through Blogging From Paradise.

Publishing this guest post on this rocking blog leverages my presence a bit beyond the 60K folks in my BFP tribe. But I do not stop there. I guest post on many blogs within my niche.

Leveraging is the great secret of bloggers who expand their presence without breaking the bank. Unless you’ve deep pockets to pay for big time Facebook marketing campaigns you’ll need to master the art of leveraging your presence with free methods like guest posting and genuine, valuable blog commenting.

4: Invest in Low Priced Products

I wrote an eBook for a few bucks:

How to Build a Blog on a Shoestring Budget

I packed a handful of helpful tips for budget conscious bloggers into the eBook.

Buy it if you dig this post.

Purchasing low-priced but valuable eBooks gives you helpful resources for building a successful blog on the cheap.

Top bloggers offer a mix of free, low-priced and premium, high end content to help bloggers with different budgets. Some people can only spend a few bucks on research. Drop the dough and give yourself a resource to use for accelerating your blogging success.

Note; even though you want to build a blog on the cheap I strongly advise against trying to learn blogging through free blog posts alone. Imagine trying to get your college degree with free content, mixed and matched in hodgepodge, chaotic fashion? Almost impossible.

Ditto for any blogger hell bent on learning blogging without buying a premium resource or two.

Save money and time by spending a few bucks on resources that cut your learning curve and accelerate your blogging success.

March 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment

4 Tips to Act Like a Pro Blogger Before You Are a Pro

One blogging concept may confuse the heck out of you.

Becoming a pro blogger requires you to be a pro, well before you earn a dime through blogging.

Bloggers struggle like a fish out of water because they choose to be an amateur hour, cheap, non-committal blogger. Of course failure besieges said bloggers.

But the few who act like a pro blogger before traffic or profits flow through their blogs become blogging leaders.

Follow these tips to act like a blogging big gawd before you go professional.

1: Study the Greats

John Chow.

John Rampton.

Syed Balkhi.

Zac Johnson.

I observed each pro speak at a summit in NYC last year.

More than one explained how they made nary a penny through their blog for 8-12 months.

One blogger noted publishing 2-3 helpful posts daily for about a year before making dough.

This is being a pro before becoming a pro, or acting like a pro before you see pro dough, let alone get a scent of a cent.

Most bloggers panic horribly if they see no blogging money after working sporadically for 3 weeks.

Pros lay the foundation for a successful blog, being generous and detached well before the chedda flows in.

2: Pay for Your Domain and Hosting

I stepped it up today.

For the first time I am on a VPS. This means I am paying up to play up.

I’ve been a pro for years yet going all VPS on it will move me up in blogging circles even more quickly. Pros continue to grow, ya know?

As a newbie you need to pay for your domain and hosting to act like a pro from day 1.

No way around this one.

Amateurs stay amateurs until amateurs drop ducats on premium hosting and domain names.

Act like a pro. From day 1. Buy your domain and hosting to convey a professional blogging image.

Brand yourself effectively.

Gain trust.

3: Work on Your Mindset

Work on your energy.

Detach some from outcomes.

Follow your passion, not profits.

Doubling down on energy work goads me to write these words at 1:30 AM on a Monday morning. I ain’t working hard though; play all day, this is for me.

But I did not play most of the day until I purged deeply held fears related to blogging.

Purging fears required me to spend time daily:

Meditating
Doing yoga
Jumping into a cold shower
Praying
Exercising

I walked for 90 minutes today, meditated for 20 minutes and did 30 minutes of yoga. Toss in 10 minutes of prayer and a cold shower for the perfect energy management ritual.

As within, so without.

Working on energy helps you persist through thick and thin, so you can act like a pro before becoming a pro.

4: Be Generous

This one is the pro maker.

Pro bloggers act generous years before becoming pros.

My friend Alonzo Pichardo leads a massive, rabidly loyal tribe. He runs thriving online businesses.

The guy has been incredibly generous with me and super generous with his followers for years. No doubts why he’s a pro’s pro, a dyed in the wool online influencer; he acted like a generous professional before he saw professional results.

Set up income streams of course but help folks freely too. Be generous. Help people all day long. Eventually, paying customers and clients find you, slowly but steadily boosting your cash flow to professional levels.

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February 19, 2018 by 2 Comments

1 Time Saving Tip for Busy Bloggers

3 days ago I received an email from someone pitching me a sponsored opportunity.

2 days ago – after I told him of my sponsored post rates – he emailed me back, letting me know he really wanted me to become an affiliate.

I emailed back “No thank you.” 3 words.

1 day ago he wrote me a long, in-depth email trying to convince me of his opportunity. After I wrote “No thank you.”

I estimate he spent/wasted 30 minutes unclearly trying to convince someone who’d zero interest in his offering.

He’d have been wiser to spend those 30 minutes reaching out to 5 highly targeted folks by commenting genuinely on their blogs, by promoting them on social media and by helping them in as many ways as possible, to build friendships.

Blogging buddies tend to accept prospering opportunities from trusted friends.

Or blogging buddies promote friend’s prospering opportunities to their friend networks, growing each other’s business.

The biggest time saving tip for any blogger: spend time building your friend network *now* so prospering opportunities multiply exponentially for you down the road.

Pitching?

I have not pitched any blogger on anything in years.

Why?

I spent years building strong friendships with top bloggers, promoting them, endorsing them and commenting genuinely on their blogs.

Business opportunities, profits and traffic flow to me freely now. I waste zero time pitching any blogger, let alone disinterested parties.

I pick and choose opportunities which is effective and efficient, and a massive time saver.

The silly blogger who emailed me 3 times wasted 30 minutes because he was a stranger to me, outside of my direct niche and he had no idea I get emails like that from strangers all the time, all of which I ignore.

Why?

Good blogging friends move to the front of the line when it comes to helping people. When friends speak, I listen. Even if I don’t pursue business partnerships you betcha I promote my blogging buddies, expanding their reach and growing their business.

I ignore strangers who pitch me because they are not genuinely interested in me; they’re only interested in what I can do for them.

Can’t you see why it’s idiotic to waste hours, weeks and months pitching strangers?

Can’t you also see why it’s smart to spend hours, weeks and months building meaningful friendships which lead to steady blog traffic and blogging profit increases over time?

One of the ultimate time saving tips for busy bloggers; promote other bloggers without looking for anything in return to build meaningful friendships. Every second you spend building meaningful bonds pays exponential returns down the road.

Think Beyond Today

Get out of Survival Mode.
Stop thinking only about how much money you can make today to put a roof over your head and food on your table. Stop blogging to survive because your desperation leads to endless failure.
Focus on building strong friendships over the long haul.
Promote other bloggers. Endorse other bloggers. Comment genuinely on their blogs.
Use time effectively.
Build powerful bonds with top bloggers.
The returns you’ll see over months and years will be staggering.
Save your time.
Think beyond today.
Be an effective and efficient blogger.

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