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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.


 The eBook

 If you enjoyed this read and want to be a smarter and richer blogger grab my eBook:

 10 Tips to be a Smarter (and Richer) Blogger 

 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.

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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 to 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.

 

 

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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.

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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.

Time saving Tip for Busy bloggers
Time saving Tip for Busy bloggers

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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January 29, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment

3 Common New Blogger Mistakes and Corrections

I recall being a new blogger.

Equal mixes of joy and dread flooded through my mind.

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One minute I visualized myself appearing on Oprah, being interviewed by the billionaire titan. Yep; when I started blogging 10 years ago she still had her wildly popular show.

The next minute I rued investing money in my domain and hosting since I had no clue what in the hell I was doing.

This Jekyll and Hyde act is common among the newbie blogger set, as are the following mistakes.

Identify each error and make the appropriate corrections to cut your newbie learning curve.

 

1: Paper Chasing

I recall chasing that sweet paper back in the day.

Of course whatever you chase, flees.

This is why most new bloggers struggle to make money blogging; their fear of losing money repels the very money they want to acquire.

Turn things around bucko. Focus on your passion, not profits.

Blog your fun. Make blogging mainly about having fun learning blogging, creating content and building bonds with top bloggers.

Money flows in steadily after you passionately and patiently build a solid blogging foundation based on the content you create and connections you establish.

Ratio; devote like 3% of your attention and energy to exploring income streams. Devote 97% of your attention and energy to learning blogging, creating helpful content and building meaningful connections with top bloggers in your niche.

 

2: Not Building an Email List

Although you do not need an email list to be a successful blogger it sure don’t hurt.

Imagine people reading your blog posts from the convenience of their email inbox. Post goes live. A ding sound on your phone. You get your Blogging From Paradise fix within seconds after the post publish date.

Convenient deal for bloggers and their readers; 2 way easy street.

Most new bloggers err in believing that since they have no traffic or readers that list-building is not important.  Au contraire; the reverse is true. New bloggers drive traffic and gain readers by growing an email list.  When you publish new posts you receive instant traffic via folks who get said posts sent to their email inbox.

Do not make the mistake me and most bloggers make as a newbie. Start building your list from Day 1 of your blogging career. Add an opt in form to your sidebar. Use a pop up form if you’d like.

Gain subscribers and grow a blogging community through the convenience of list building.

 

3: No Networking

Not networking kills new blogger careers.

You cannot create a rocking blog in a cyber cave.

Nor can you be your only reader. Unless you crave writing a cyber diary.

Comment genuinely on top blogs. Craft 2-3 paragraph, personalized, authentic comments.

Share blog posts from your new blogging buddies on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.

Be generous.

Be a friend to become a friend.

Address this most common newbie blogger mistake to run circles around the masses of new bloggers who foolishly try to build thriving blogs through their own effort.

 

eBook

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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.

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December 10, 2017 by Editor Leave a Comment

5 Tips to Keep It Going with Content Creation

Whether you have a web-based business or promote a product (or service) online, it is content that will propel your efforts. Without focusing on the content creation part of your marketing plan, it’s almost impossible to begin to reach the goals you might have set for your business.

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You’ll need content (and lots of it), if you want to –

  • attract traffic to your site
  • build a following on social media
  • prove that you really know your stuff
  • collect emails from prospects
  • boost your site’s search rankings

Seth Godin says, ‘Content marketing is all the marketing that’s left’. And he has emphasized the point amazingly well.

Check out these content creation statistics:

  • 60% of marketers create at least one piece of content every day. [Source: eMarketer]
  • 78% of marketers agree that custom content is the future of marketing. [Source: DemandMetric]
  • 72% of marketers believe that branded content makes a greater impact than magazine advertisements do. [The Content Council]
  • 69% of marketers say that content is much more effective than direct mail and PR. [The Content Council]

The success potential of content is huge and proven!

You need to create lots of quality content to truly make an impact. It is through content that you can deliver your message and build an emotional connection with your audience. But the problem is that you’ll wrestle with content creation even if you’re a skilled writer. Often, you’ll miss deadlines wondering what to write or blog about next.

It keeps on happening to most of us.

Well, if your struggle with content creation, given below are some of the coolest tips that you can use to get the ball rolling.

By the way, I have created a course specifically to help you with content creation. You can check it out here.

 

Challenge Deeply Held Beliefs

Humans are quite good at assuming things. If you analyze the way most people think in your industry, you’ll come across many assumptions that have been there for a long time. Unchallenged.

Look for them.

Are there any rules that need to change? What are those beliefs that you believe should be discarded? Take a closer look and examine the current state of affairs to come up with such assumptions, and then start asking yourself how it can change. Can those things be done in a different way? If you apply this technique, you’ll definitely generate new ideas that you can use to create fresh and original content that your audience will like to consume.

 

Steal an Idea, and Make It Your Own

Different people have different ideas or opinions. Take a look around and you’ll find lots of interesting ideas.

Go, steal someone else’s idea – just anyone.

Copying someone else’s content and publishing it on your own website or blog is unethical – a punishable offense by the rule of law. But an idea is not the same as a piece of content. Right?

But what you should really do is lift someone’s idea and then cook it in a way that it becomes your own. And how exactly do you make it happen? There are many ways to do that. Pick someone’s idea and explain it with the help of an experience of your own. Write in support of an existing idea or refute it. Or, simply build upon it in your unique way. You can also pick an idea from a different industry and then repackage it to suit the needs of your own target audience or prospects. Not too hard, is it?

 

Share Your Success (or Failure) Story

Success stories have always been in great demand because they come along with valuable lessons of a lifetime.

They tell people what to do.

But stories of failures offer value too because they tell people what not to do. They make people aware of the pitfalls that need to be avoided or the hurdles that need to be dealt with. If you feel like you have exhausted topics for content creation, looking back at how you fared in your journey will equip you with some interesting ideas for your next blog posts.

 

Learn from Your Competitors

Be it any industry or niche, you’re always competing. If you don’t know it yet, find out who your top competitors are. Your top competitors are at the top for a reason. They’re doing their job really well.

And that’s exactly why you should learn from them.

Take a look at the websites of your competitors. What kind of content do they feature? What is their approach to a particular topic? If you dig deeper into their content creation techniques, you’ll learn a lot. Either follow in their footsteps or find new ways to do it better than how they are doing it. Researching and measuring yourself against your key competitors is a surefire way of improving your own content creation and staying ahead of the game.

 

Expand Upon a Popular Quote

Every industry has some of its famous quotes. Look for those quotes that relate to your own industry or niche.

 

Once you have some good industry-relevant quotes at hand, get ready to put your writing skills into action. Understand the meaning of those quotes on a deeper level and then explain it in a way that catches the attention of your target audience and teaches them something that they can use to improve their everyday lives. You can lend more strength to your expression by coupling it with suitable examples or facts.

 

Wrapping It Up

Almost every business owner or marketer struggles to keep pace with the demands of their content creation. To keep it going, you don’t just need lots of good ideas but you also need to plan ahead of time. The techniques or tips that you read about above will definitely equip you with ideas to inspire the creation of a bunch of blog posts for your site. Always remember that content marketing sees the light of the day only when you are consistent with your efforts. And that’s why you need lots of content that feeds the appetite of your audience or prospects for information – and tickles their taste buds too.

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Jane Sheeba

shares cutting-edge, practical blogging tips at her blog Savvy Blogging Tips. If you want to get a head start with blogging or want guidance to make progress, check out the FREE resource at this page.

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