Are You a Blogging Lone Wolf or a Team Player?

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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

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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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The 1 Gig Every Blogger Must Do!

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It’s an undeniable fact.

Every freelancer knows that once in a while the gigs pipeline runs dry.

You can’t find a gig anywhere no matter how hard you try. You return empty-handed from all your searches and pitches. Usually reliable sources yield nothing.

Nothing on your favorite job board.

No projects from your top client.

No referrals from current customers.

Thankfully, there’s a way out.

It’s an easy gig any writer at any level can do.

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Exit Intent ~ Increase Email Signup to 600%, reduce cart abandonment!

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Exit Intent is basically, an Internet marketing technology that monitors mouse behavior of website visitors and detects when they are likely to leave the website or web page.

The intention of website readers can easily be read following the direction they push their mouse cursor. When they move their mouse pointer to the close button of the web browser, their intention to close the window is quickly and easily deciphered.

Exit Intent technology comes in at this point to decide what to do with the reader who intends to leave. What generally it does is trigger a lightbox with information intended to hold the reader back from exiting. This lightbox is generally referred to as Exit-Intent Popup.

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Are You Asking the Wrong Blogging Questions?

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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)

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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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