Blogging for Dollars Blog

Do you want more traffic to your blog? Building a readership can be a real challenge for many new bloggers. However it’s quite simple. You need to give your readers what they want: when you do, they will become loyal subscribers.

Here’s how to make your blog a success.

1. Who’s Your Audience? Do They Need Your Information?

Start by thinking about your audience.

Describe your typical reader in five sentences.

Tip: imagine just one reader, because it’s both confusing and intimidating to think of an audience of thousands of people. When you think about just one person, and direct your information to that person, your blogging will be warm and personal. Because you’re comfortable, your readers will be more comfortable too.

Now think about what your reader wants, and needs.

For example, if you have a weight loss blog and you’ve decided that your reader is an obese woman in her 30s, with a young family, and a full-time job, make a list of what she needs.

She may need healthy recipes she can cook in 20 minutes or less, information on nutrition, and tips on fighting cravings.

When you think in terms of your reader and the circumstances of his or her life, creating content for your blog is much easier and simpler — and you’ll never run out of content.

2. Are You Real? Your Blogging Needs a Personal Touch

If you’ve been using blog automation tools, stop that right now. Your blog should be carefully crafted. Anyone who tells you you can get readers with an automated blog is lying to you.

You can only be successful if you put yourself into your blog. Therefore, if you don’t already have an About page, create one right now. Tell your reader your story, and connect with him (or her).

3. Promote Your Blog Where Your Audience Hangs Out

You need to promote your blog, but don’t start promoting it until you have sufficient content on the blog. This will usually be when you have at least 10 to 20 great posts which are worth reading.

Remember that when you promote, first impressions count. You want readers to reach your blog, and subscribe to your RSS feed because the information is excellent.

In a nutshell, your blog will be as successful as you want it to be: put your heart into it.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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Do you want to make money online? Consider micro-blogging — sites like Twitter have millions of users. Let’s look at how you can use micro-blogging for marketing.

You can market anything you choose: your small business, your services and products — even affiliate products and sites.

Here’s a simple process for you.

1. What Is Micro-Blogging?

Essentially, micro-blogging is a combination of instant messaging, blogging, and social networking.

Does that sound complicated? It’s simple in practice, and explaining it takes longer than actually doing it. Once you get into the swing of it it will become second nature, because you’ll find it’s fun.

There are many sites you can use for micro-blogging, Twitter is perhaps the most popular, and is also very easy to use. If you don’t already have an account there, create an account today.

2. Claim Your Brand and Keywords

Since micro-blogging is still relatively new, there’s a great chance that you’ll be able to claim your brand names (if you’re a sole trader, that would be your own name or your business name), and specific keywords which relate to your marketing efforts.

Make a list of 5 to 10 keywords, and add two or three of them to your Twitter profile page. This means that searchers will be able to find you.

One of the big benefits of Twitter is that it’s a combination of public and private messaging. There are many Twitter clients which allow you to collect your followers into groups, so that you can communicate with just a subset of your Twitter audience. You can also communicate with people privately by sending them a direct message.

3. Commit to Spending Time: Continue the Conversation

Many people start marketing but when they don’t achieve instant success they stop.

If you’re an experienced marketer, you already know that it takes at least three months to see results. You’ll need to persist and continue your micro-blogging activities.

When you do build up a following, remember that these people are your audience. Treat them well: put the emphasis on helping them firstly, and only secondly on marketing, and you’ll achieve success.

DIY Copywriting – the Secret to Big Sales Every Day

Copywriting has been called the secret of business success, and it’s no exaggeration. Expert copywriting can double and triple your profits within a year.

However, top copywriters are expensive. Worse, they’re always booked well in advance.

What if you could do your own copywriting? You can become an expert copywriter with Angela Booth’s “Copywriting Master Class – Ten Weeks to Copywriting Genius” – the class takes you from beginner to copywriting pro.

Do your own copywriting: sell more. Discover the communications’ secrets of the top copywriters. At the end of the class, not only can you do your own copywriting, you can also sell your copywriting services to others.

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