Imagine you have just written an amazing guest post, waves of traffic arrive on your site, hundreds of people subscribe to your email list. You feel great. Your blog is exploding. But without knowing it, you have just made a huge mistake in email list building; a mistake that cost you a lot of money […]
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Are you still suffering from being ignored by Google and other search engines? Do you want to get higher rankings in Google in order to get a lot of traffic? Tell me if this sounds familiar: You have applied every piece of advice shared on all of the big blogs… …but you still don’t get
OK, so technically wasn’t banned, but I couldn’t send any emails through MailChimp-and without that capability, I might as well have been banned. Here’s how I got into this predicament – without ever sending a single spam email – and how you can avoid the same fate. Building My List… in all the Wrong Ways When
Ahhh….. the good old days. Opening a business was as simple as setting up a folding table in your local park. You had a shoebox to collect money and sold the lemonade that your Mom helped you make. If you were particularly on the ball (or had parents who worked in local government), you might
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This post is a finalist in our Ultimate Guides Contest. Show your support for this, or any of the finalists by commenting, sharing and joining the conversation! As a solo myself – web developer, writer, and aspiring novelist – I’m fascinated by the nexus of the solopreneur (I call us “Couch Warriors”) experience and the
Your spouse, family, and close friends have faith that your business (or blog) can become a success story. Or at least, they’re trying to keep their doubts to themselves. But you have suspicions. You thought you would’ve seen good results by now. And that’s making you question your business idea and maybe even your ability
This post is a finalist in our Ultimate Guides Contest. Show your support for this, or any of the finalists by commenting, sharing and joining the conversation! How efficient is your blog? You spend countless hours writing amazing articles. And then you go out and work even harder to promote them. “Get more visitors” –
I’m really excited. Okay – I’m usually really excited – but today more so than others. Today, I’m excited to tell you about the last year at Paying for Life, which has gone from an idea to a blog with about 650 people paying attention to it. This is small potatoes in the blogosphere –
