How Content Marketing Can Grow Your Business

Content Marketing Can Grow Your Business

Content marketing is here to stay.

Creating helpful content and sharing it across a wide range of platforms ain’t going out of style anytime soon. People crave help. People consume help across their online channel of choice.

If you run an online or offline entrepreneurial venture you are in the business of helping people.

One lesson I learned over my nearly decade long entrepreneurial career: gives folks the freemium and they buy the premium. This means that if you help people for free a healthy portion of these folks will buy your products or hire you, growing your business steadily.

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5 Evergreen Ideas for Attracting More Website Visitors

The dream of every website and blog owner is to create high-quality content, generate massive traffic, and make sales.

We all know the role traffic plays in helping you get an interactive blog community and in earning with your site.

Needless to say that without traffic your blog is as good as living in an internet desert and in total obscurity. Even though your dream is not to earn money with your blog, you still need people to read whatever you’ve got to tell them, right?

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3 Ways You Are Leaving Social Media Traffic on the Table

After reading thousands of blogs during my 9 year blogging career I spot patterns.

Successful bloggers master the principle of leveraging.

If you look at Blogging From Paradise – my blog – for a minute you see I give readers plenty of opportunities to join my list and to comment on my blog posts.

Email list traffic is traffic on demand; perhaps the ultimate form of leveraging. Blog commentators add credibility and content to my blog, both leveraging traffic builders. Social media tools fall into this category as well, such as an Instagram growth service which can be easily utilized to drive more organic traffic and increase the number of followers.

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How to Deal with People Who Don’t Believe Blogging Is a Real Job

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You may be dealing with a poop load of blogging resistance.

Because you don’t work a “real job” according to some people.

I know.

When new to blogging, family and friends asked me when I was going to land a real job. A job that paid the bills. A job that afforded me generous medical benefits.

Even today, some folks believe I am sitting on a computer all day long, dawdling around, passing the time doing something silly, or trivial.

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6 Words That Will Derail Your Blogging Career

Blogging Career

5:09 PM.

Friday evening.

I just returned home from New York City.

I pondered a few ideas after responding to comments on Blogging From Paradise and commenting on a few top blogs.

What would I do next?

1 idea immediately popped into my mind: write a guest post.

I love writing guest posts. I love helping people. I love giving. I love getting too. I enjoy earning money. I enjoy receiving blog comments. I enjoy seeing traffic flow to my blog. All good. All fun.

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1 Super Sneaky Profitable Secret of Successful Bloggers

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“Ryan, can you get me on Forbes?”

“Ryan, who do I have to talk to for a feature on Entrepreneur?”

I get these emails and social media messages regularly. Way too regularly.

I sometimes ignore the messages outright. Too much desperation. But sometimes I respond with the simple message to create and connect persistently, for years, to gain the right, the privilege, and to pay your dues to appear on such world famous sites.

After reading this brilliant blog post by Gary Vaynerchuk I wanted to share 1 profitable, prospering, powerful secret of super successful bloggers.

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