3 Blogging Lessons I Learned from Publishing a Guest Post for a Million Member Readership

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I recently published this guest post on the wildly popular Positively Positive blog.

This community includes 2 million Facebook fans, 80,000 email subscribers and a massive Twitter following too.

I learned 3 critical blogging lessons that will help you land guest posts on highly popular blogs with monstrously large, loyal, engaged readerships.

Check this out -> How to build a popular blog in 90 days!

If you are starving to grow your blog traffic, email list and blog profits follow these tips closely.

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How to Easily Make Friends with Hyper Successful Bloggers

Your network determines your net worth.

Blogging is a relationships game.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Platitudes out the ying yang. I know. Heard ’em all.

Platitudes are platitudes for a reason; each rings true.

8 years ago I wrote a cyber diary masquerading as a blog. Crickets greeted me each time I published a post. Things looked bleak. Things WERE bleaker. Lean days.

Fast Forward

Fast forward to today. I am doing A-OK blogging-wise. Life-wise too.

I am writing these words from Thailand, having circled the globe for the past 6 years as a full time, professional blogger.

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Blogging Setbacks ~ How to Deal with them in 4 ways!

Blogging Setbacks

I am writing these words from beautiful Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Many people think I am lucky.

I have circled the globe over the past 6 years as a pro blogger.

But I am not lucky. I learned a lesson from happy, loving, successful people: people who live their dreams learned how to effectively deal with setbacks.

If you are not living your blogging dream you simply quit after facing some setback.

On the blogging front, you will face setbacks. Either you stop, or go forward. It’s that simple.

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6 Easy Ways to Inspire Your Readers to Trust You

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I watched Spider Man 2 this morning.

Super heroes get away with being masked men and women. Protecting your identity does indeed protect those you love. If you are a super hero.

If you intend to become a professional blogger, hiding away is the last thing you want to do because if people cannot see you as you are, something seems fishy.

Would I wear a trash bag over my head if we met on business at Starbucks?

Probably not. Unless donning trash bags becomes the “in” thing.

Having spent 2 weeks in NYC early last month I don’t see the trend picking up.

Now I’m living in Doha, Qatar for the month with my wife Kelli.

We saw some wicked wind storms earlier this week. Fabulous for branding in terms of videos and pictures. Not so hot for my sinuses.

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7 Tips for Getting Featured on High Profile Blogs!

Richard Branson’s Virgin Blog.

Forbes.

Entrepreneur.thriveemail

Fox News.

The Huffington Post.

I’ve appeared on some of the most famous blogs and news sites on earth.

I’ve also been featured on not quite as high profile but still famous blogs from my niche.

In total, I’ve landed on 250 plus high profile blogs.

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4 Blog Commenting Tips to Make Your Campaign Pop

Blog Commenting Tips

In a world of meager comments good blog commenting tips seem to be hard to come by these days. Few bloggers uncover proven, effective tips and even fewer share helpful insights because they have yet to ponder these questions:

Do you want to get paid by sharing your opinion? For free?

Even as a greenhorn newbie blogger?

When you think about it, blog commenting is a ridiculously cool, prospering way to market your blog by speaking your mind.

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