Are You a Blogging Lone Wolf or a Team Player?

If you ever wondered why networking is important simply observe the most famous musicians on earth.

I just finished watching The Defiant Ones on Netflix.

Strongly recommended viewing if you are a music fan or entrepreneur.

The series details the lives of moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.

One pattern popped up again and again; these 2 men who became worth billions and hundreds of millions of dollars succeeded through their passion for music and through teamwork.

Jimmy Iovine worked with some of the most iconic musicians ever. John Lennon.Bruce Springsteen. Tom Petty. Dr. Dre. Eminem. The list goes on and on. Every brilliant artist, from Gwen Stefani to Trent Reznor, got their start when Jimmy spotted these diamonds in the rough and teamed up with them. Some of these artists them teamed up with each other, with Dr. Dre and Eminem forming a formidable duo.

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WordPress for Beginners the Ultimate Guide to Help You

WordPress can be confusing for beginners. I still remember the day that I first started using the platform. It took me over 8 hours to set up my very first blog. This WordPress for beginners post is going to help you get started on the right foot with a self-hosted blog so you can start blogging without any confusion.

If you’re new to the blogging world or have been researching on how to start a blog, you’ve probably heard about WordPress. If you’ve Googled “which platform should I start my blog on?”

We have all done this as new bloggers at one point or another.

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Are You Asking the Wrong Blogging Questions?

I spent the past 30 minutes reading questions on Quora.

I answered some but filtered out a healthy portion of silly questions.

Why?

These bloggers asked all the wrong questions.

I am not talking about the common: “How do you make money blogging?” query. This is a legitimate question. If you are new to blogging and have no idea how blogging works of course you want to know how to actually make money through the platform. No worries.

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The Most Important Parts Of Your Blog Post (The Secret Sauce)

The Most Important Parts Of Your Blog Post (The Secret Sauce)

Getting more blog subscribers can be a pain in the butt. Wouldn’t you agree?

How many people do you think are actually reading your entire blog posts?

In order to become a successful blogger, you must know how to create the best content for your target audience and learn how to turn them into loyal subscribers and eventually customers.

You can’t just write up a new blog post and hit publish without following a proven plan for better content conversion.

It would really suck to spend hours writing a new valuable blog post for your niche audience only to find out it is not converting well and people are not reading the whole article and click away a few seconds after landing on it.

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March 2018 Blog Commenting Report ~ 88 readers made 161 comments!

It’s another new month to read articles and leave useful comments everywhere. On this blog, we had an exciting month of March.

There were many of you who read my blog. 88 decided to drop at least one comment. In total, we had 161 comments. This is beginning to get exciting.

In today’s post, I’m simply posting a list of my comment authors with a count of the number of comments they made and of course a backlink to their URLs.

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Got Keywords in Blog Comments? Convert them to Affiliate links!

If your blog is active and interactive, you are going to frequently find money keywords in blog comments. That means you have a massive opportunity to make more affiliate sales or drive more traffic to some internal pages on your blog.

I’m a blogger who makes money from blogging. I know every section on my blog can be used to ethically generate income. The comment section is not left out.

Once you are getting comments from your readers, you can actually reply to these comments, directing them to a resource on your blog or to an affiliate product. This can be done without manually inputting links in the comment.

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