5 Little Missing Things That Could Break Your Business (Take A Good Look)

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Your blog exists for a purpose, right? There could be various reasons as to why you are having your blog. But what if lacks certain essential factors? What if your blog misses out on certain stuff and you think its OK?

Or you are probably neglecting those “little” things! Or you don’t have the time to take a closer look at your blog because you are busy building your business!

Well, there are certain essential things that you cannot ignore. Ignoring these “little” things (as you might think) is no joke.

The factors that I am going to discuss in this post are so important to the level that if you ignore them,

(i) they can break your … [Read more...]

How to MAKE time for blogging no matter how busy you are

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“I don’t have the time to blog!” or “I am too busy to blog consistently” is something that I hear too often. Well, blogging is a tedious job. No matter what reason you blog for, blogging IS time consuming.

Unless you have the dedication and will power to pursue blogging, you are most likely to lose motivation and quit. Blogging is not just about creating blog posts. Let’s see what are all the possible jobs that are consolidated within the single word “blogging”:

Content creation (of course this comes as a major task)
Keyword research (this should come prior to content creation)
Blog promotion
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How to promote your blog? My tips and answers!

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Blog promotion is highly crucial to get your blog content in front of more eyeballs; right eyeballs.

However you cannot simply blindly go about promoting your blog posts. There are quite a few things that you need to set right before you can think about blog promotion.

In the last post, I talked those things that you need to take care of or fix before you go around and promote your blog content. In this post, I am going to give you tips on how to actually promote your blog posts.

Now, I assume that you have taken care of all the stuff I have pointed out in my earlier post, because, I would like to stress once again, all your promotion methods (that I explain below) and your promotion efforts WILL go wasted if you don’t fix those points first.

So how to … [Read more...]

How to promote your blog? Things to do BEFORE you promote your blog

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All bloggers know quite well that promoting a blog is a crucial part of the game. Most experts suggest 20% content creation and 80% promotion and I agree with them.

If you simply create blog content and do not give it proper promotion, your content (and the time and effort you put in to create it) goes wasted. And no blogger wants that.

We all want our content to be read, shared, appreciated, and we also want to consistently gain traction, get subscribers, customers and a steady stream of income.

As you can see, blog promotion plays a very crucial role in the whole of your blogging system.

Actually there are two things: Quality content and … [Read more...]

How to write a blog post in 20 minutes (or less)

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How to write a blog post fast, Jane? I get this question asked a lot to me!

Given that content is the life blood of a blog, there is nothing surprising that bloggers want to write a blog post fast! I've searched for tips to write a blog post fast when I was a newbie and I can still remember that.

The title of this post might sound too fishy, since it is like promising something that is unbelievable. But trust me, writing a blog post in 20 minutes or less is totally doable.

The tips I share in this post will help you write a blog post in 20 minutes - the part in bracket - or less - comes out of practice. If you practice to write blog posts fast, you will surely master the art quite soon and yes you can then … [Read more...]

Why Information Overload Is A Big Hurdle To Your Blogging Success (and how to avoid it?)

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Overwhelm is quite hard to avoid these days. The web is quite a busy place and there is a lot of information on almost every topic that exists. This is a good thing. Information is good.

But too much of anything is not good. And we have got too much of information floating around the web, don’t you agree?

Entrepreneurs are one of the major victims of this information overload. Why? Because we are the ones who constantly look for information on the web. Our virtual workspace is on the web and we constantly look up for help.

When we learn to blog, we look up for blogging tips. We hunt for [Read more...]

5 Types of content you can create with much lesser effort

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Content is the backbone of a blog. And it can’t be just “any” content - it should be great content; epic content - so your business can really gain traction in this crowded web space.

But who has got the time to create long, in-depth content always? And it is a pretty daunting task too.

If you attempt to write longer, in-depth, detailed posts on every attempt - assuming you are publishing once or twice a week, you will soon burn yourself out.

You can put yourself in a lot of stress; blogging could become unpleasant to … [Read more...]

How To Stop Hiding Your Business Failures And Be A Real Success

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Let’s be honest here. How many failures do you hide from the public?

You say you run an online business. Do you openly tell people that you are not getting enough traction?

Do you tell your family and your relatives that you are only making pennies and not a consistent “real” income?

I know it is hard to tell the others - especially when the others are thinking you are an “entrepreneur” and when they see you sitting in front of your computer for extended hours doing serious work.

You do work hard. You work late at night. You wake up early to catch up with those great ideas that buzz in your mind while you are half asleep.

But when you … [Read more...]

5 Reasons That Force You To Quit Blogging [And How To Fix Them]

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You start blogging with all your dreams. You want to proclaim yourself as an entrepreneur. Or you may want to build that dream business you've always been wanting to build.

Or you want send your message out. Or may be you want to financially support your family by doing your part of "something".

Everyone has different reasons for starting a blog.

However I am quite familiar of coming across abandoned blogs. Blog that are trashed. Blogs that are just dumped as if they are of no use … [Read more...]

5 Key Things You Should Know If You Promised Yourself To Make Money Online

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So, you get all excited about making money online, right? I was SO excited when I first found out that I could make money online. That was back in 2007 when I first found out about blogging.

Actually I was away from home, at the Lancaster University, UK for my Ph. D. That was the first time EVER I was away from home, since I was born. Can you imagine?

I felt really lonely. I missed my mom, dad and everything else back home. Just to replace my loneliness with something else, I started hanging out online.

I usually visited sites that allowed me to download movies, forums, and … well, you guessed it right, BLOGS!

After a few months I started reading about … [Read more...]