Can You Start A New Business For Free? Today, I wanted to share an opinion that goes to the mindset of some people who are looking to start from scratch with an online business. As you can imagine, I get a lot of people here at the Blog Marketing Academy who are looking to spin…
Should You Have A Blog Sidebar? You may have noticed that I’ve done a lot of switcheroos when it comes to my blog layout. Sometimes I’m testing things… sometimes my mood just changes. 😉 But, one of the things that has gone back and forth is my usage of the blog sidebar. For awhile, I…
Content Audit Part 4 – Evaluating Your Old Blog Posts In our last couple issues, we got a little nerdy to be honest. 🙂 We were busy collecting and exporting data about all of our old blog posts, throwing it into spreadsheets, yada yada. Now, we can begin the actual evaluation process. First of all,…
In our last issue of The Daily, I shared with you how to get ahold of two sets of data about your entire blog posts archives that you can use as you do a content audit. We talked about… Getting a spreadsheet of every blog post, including word count for each one. Getting spreadsheet of…
Let’s continue talking about doing a content audit on our site. This is where we go back into the archives of our blogs and bring all that content up to speed (and likely delete a lot of it, too.) Some of our goals for doing this are: Find ways to improve our SEO Find the…
Have you ever done a content audit on your blog? If you’ve written a lot of blog posts and the answer is “no”, then listen up. Because, this is something that will be worth your time. It is something that has been on my list of projects here at the Blog Marketing Academy for a…
You mighta noticed, but there was quite a lot of salesy email being sent in the last week. The whole Black Friday / Cyber Monday thing has everybody doing big, massive offers and sending them to their email list. And, as you no doubt noticed (unless you’re a Lab member), I was doing the same…
Last week, I did a combination Lab Workshop + Office Hours session for my Lab members. Usually these are separate things, but since Thanksgiving was this week and we’re not doing any live sessions in The Lab, I did a combo session. Anyhoo… I took a lot of questions. And one of them was simple:…
My new post: The Danger Of Reading Blogger Income Reports My friends, tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the U.S. And it is one of my favorite holidays of the year. I’ve got some thought to share with you on this (see below), but first… You have no idea how thankful I am FOR YOU. For…
You may have been hearing about the new editor for Wordpress coming down the pike: Gutenberg. I’ll be honest with ya… I haven’t tried Gutenberg yet on my own site. It’s on my todo list. But, I do keep my ear to the ground and, so far, it sounds as if the Wordpress community is rather…
In the last issue, I talked about many people’s outright refusal to hire anybody to handle technical issues that are holding your blog and business back. My only goal there was to perhaps change your viewpoint a bit on it. Because, it really is funny how we hire people in our regular lives for so…
Sometimes we do have constraints that bump right up against our lack of skills. Common for many in this business is lack of technical skills. And this is often coupled with the habit of comparing yourself to others where you see other good looking blogs and you try like hell to make your own look that…