75 million websites in the world use WordPress, which makes it the most popular content management system online. A WordPress blog is as functional as it is beautiful. It is free to users and the best part of it is that it can be modified to suit your personal needs. …
Challenges are popular on blogs. I have read many blogs in which the author challenged themselves to lose weight or challenged themselves to work harder and reach a defined goal, whether it be a traffic goal, financial goal, or lifestyle goal. To me, it is not important whether you reach …
Who is your audience? Who are you writing for? These seem like simple questions, don’t they? If you had asked me these questions in the past, I would have told you that I write articles for my subscribers. I would have told you that I write articles for my regular …
An email list means big business for organizations. In fact, it’s not only a beautiful way to get people back to your online store, blog or forum, but if you have enough people on the list it serves as a way to show off your social credibility. Telling people that your …
Email list not growing? Many great bloggers have only the vaguest of ideas on how to grow their subscriber list. Maybe you need more community features like private web conferencing. Stupendous Sign-Up Incentives On every blog I visit I am tired of seeing yet another tired old single page PDF …
RSS has decreased in popularity considerably over the last few years. I always assumed that this was due to the increase in usage in social media services such as Facebook and Twitter, however a Google survey with around 20,000 responses revealed that only 9.5% of people had ever used RSS. …
Love them or loathe them; Pop ups are one of the most effective ways of converting your visitors to subscribers. I have tried several solutions in the past. The last popup plugin I used actively on all my websites was Pippity, however I found it to be very buggy. The …
For years I have asked for a visitors name with my newsletter forms however when I relaunched this blog I questioned whether this was necessary. This may seem like a trivial issue however it will determine whether my newsletter list is built up with people’s names or not. I will …
Whenever I gave advice to new bloggers about promoting their blog I always told them that ‘The first few hundred subscribers are the hardest’. This is something I have believed for years and something which I believe still holds true today. It can be very infuriating at the beginning of …
Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …