So, here’s something I’ve seen out there on blogs many times that I wanted to say a few words about… It is posting recipes. As in, things you can cook. This is very common in the health market, weight loss, natural health, you name it. And you see a lot of people posting these things…
Every week… every day… every hour… you are doing certain things. It could be working really hard on a project, doing something at work… having dinner… or even just sitting down to watch something on Netflix. Every moment you’re alive, you’re doing SOMETHING. Life is basically a track of individual now’s. A sequence of individual moments……
My wife takes care of posting EDGE issues to the archives. And she has told me before… “I don’t know how you do it!” In other words, how do I write so much. So often. And come up with ideas. Writing is pretty easy for me. It is one of my “super powers”, as it…
OK, so this is a topic I’ve talked about before. But, I feel it bears repeating. Plus, might be a bunch of you out there for whom this is new. You know you need to build an email list with your blog. And, if you follow the Blog Monetization Model which focuses on building funnels…
As you might imagine, I get a lot of questions about “finding your niche”. A lot of people confused on what niche to blog in… or how to “narrow down your niche”. Ugh. I honestly hate the topic. I know, I know… I shouldn’t say that because it happens to be one of the most…
Today, I’m going go tell you how a lot of people set themselves up for a tough time when starting up a new online business. This is going to be some “real talk” here. Because, it involves spending money. And a lot of people don’t like that idea much. See, a business has startup costs….
In the last couple issues of THE EDGE, we talked about the idea of, essentially, email blogging. In short, it goes like this… Instead of posting open blog posts like everybody does, instead you “blog” exclusively to your email list. Your homepage essentially becomes a squeeze page to join your list… and your posts remain…
In the last issue of THE EDGE, I talked about building up a premium subscription email newsletter. Essentially, email blogging… but done better. But, we all know that building an email list is a pretty big deal. Thing is… A lot of bloggers end up creating some of their best stuff and it sits there…
In my last issue of THE EDGE, I talked about 5 trends I think will (and already are) affecting content creators and bloggers. One big theme that came from that was less focus on advertising, less focus on raw traffic numbers… and MORE focus on serving audiences with premium content. There’s something you may want…
One thing that is constant is change. It’s been said over and over, of course. But, it is most definitely true – especially on the internet. I’ve been blogging for over 20 years now. I started back when the word “blog” didn’t event exist. I literally hand-coded my articles… like some kind of nerdy nut…
Are you still trying to play the traffic game from 6+ years ago? Perhaps you are and you haven’t realized it yet. Because here’s the thing… If you’re still relying on things like guest posting, SEO, social sharing and backlinks to try to build your traffic, then you’re playing an outdated game. One that has…
You have probably noticed that getting traffic to your blog is hard! Am I right? But, what if I told you that it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Will it take work? Yes. But, does it have to be this long, overwhelming, complicated slog that it is often thought to be? No, it does not. The…