Note from Adam: The most effective way to earn a full-time living from your blog is to become a freelance blogger. The best thing about this is that no matter how challenging it is to make money in your niche, you can make it happen by leveraging your skills and knowledge as a blogger. To […]
I did a rather odd thing this one time… I went to a popular blog, read their guest post submission guidelines, took notes, and then deliberately designed my pitch to break most of those guidelines, and sent it out. Guess what happened? I got the spot. I got my post published. “Wait, what?! How?!” – asks
Feel like you’ve lost your blogging mojo lately? No matter how many drafts you end up writing, none of them says what you have in mind. Your headline stinks, your post reads like a term paper, and you have a boring intro. You end up chalking it up to blogger’s block and barely having time
What do you do when your million-dollar blog post idea strikes? You scramble to your computer, giddy with excitement, and type as fast as your little fingers are capable. If there were competitions for typing, you’d be taking home the gold. When all your ideas are down on paper, you breathe a sigh of relief,
How many of you think Pinterest is only a place for women to share their latest recipe or DIY project? If the top 30 Pinners are food, fashion, design, and wedding bloggers, it’s safe to say it’s a scrapbooking paradise for women. So, it’s easy to push this visual search engine under the rug because
Have you ever clicked on a link while reading a blog post only to find yourself on the infamous 404 Page? Disheartening isn’t it? You were sure that the extra piece of information would help, but alas it isn’t meant to be. But, if it’s a problem on the websites you visit, then it might
I’m strange. (I actually prefer the word weird but I guess they have similar meanings). Strange people do strange things… Which is probably why I attempted (and failed, I managed just 43) to write 50 high-quality guest posts in 3 months. But why? To generate opt-ins for my personal Marketing Messenger Weekly Newsletter? To build
If you’re a freelance blogger or you offer some other freelance service online, you probably already have a few of your own stories about clients from hell, don’t you? I’ve been a full-time online freelancer since 2014 — and over the past two years, I’ve experimented with offering a whole bunch of different services. Everything from freelance
The web is a noisy place. And cutting through that noise isn’t easy. It can be hard work. Really hard work. I guess we could say that it’s more of a battle. But the truth is that it doesn’t have to be such hard work. And in this post, I’ll show you how to expand
That’s the social media dream, right? To set it and forget it, and gain thousands of followers without even trying or thinking about it? To be honest, getting 8k followers on Tumblr in 5 months without ever logging in was never my intention. Tumblr was distracting me from my “real work” so I thought I
