Aweber Subscribers: Pocket Changed
Note: That headline is not a typo. My mailing list at Pocket Changed has increased fourfold from the end of 2011 to the writing of this post (March 22nd). Keep reading this post to find out the six exact strategies I used to do so.
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you should know about the power of building your mailing list.
Social media followers and RSS subscribers are great, but until you harness the personal connection you can have by communicating through someone’s inbox your influence online will suffer.
Just like Derek Halpern talked about in our latest interview, you need to be growing an email list.
Sure, you could try to promote everything you do passively by mentioning your latest content on your different outlets on the web.
But, compare the results from hoping that people will click through all the noise to when you can send an email to thousands of people and reach their inboxes in seconds. Now that is power.
In this post I’ll outline the exact six step strategy I used to quadruple my mailing list in less than three months on Pocket Changed. [Continue reading…]
The latest social media fads may come and go, but some strategies for attracting an audience online will always be in style.
Here are 42 of my favorite timeless ideas for attracting more visitors to your website. You can bet the farm on these. They’ll be as effective in five years as they are today.
Make Your Content Irresistible
- All the promotion in the world won’t build a thriving audience if your content sucks. Truly incredible content, products or services can be your best marketing tool. Everything you do online has to start with creating something incredible.
- Don’t be afraid to say what everyone else is thinking but not saying. Other people are probably thinking about it too, and they’ll love you for being brave enough to say something.
- Write epic shit.
- While you’re at it, make a real case for why the world should actually give a shit about what you have to say.
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This is a guest post from Peter Vogopoulos of Firepole Marketing.
If you run a website or blog for your business, it’s safe to say that you want more traffic and more income.
And it’s also safe to say that you know what you need to do to get more traffic.
And though you know you are supposed to take action, you haven’t gotten around to the “doing” just yet. Hey, I understand. Stuff happens, day-to-day happens and next thing you know, we are 90 days into 2012 and you are not where you want to be. And it’s easy to get frustrated.
Before we get too down on ourselves, let’s just take a second to understand why this happens. Then, I’ll share with you a quick 4-step process to help you get productive and get moving on your traffic goals in just 3 hours a week. [Continue reading…]
Like we talked about Tuesday, sometimes you just don’t know what to write about.
Well, there’s one surefire way to still publish epic content on a regular basis without getting burnt out.
Start running interviews on your blog.
Just look at blogs like BlogcastFM, RiseToTheTop, and Mixergy that only do interviews and have even built an entire business around it.
Besides, if you are the only person who ever writes on your site it will be refreshing for your audience to hear another person’s perspective.
In this post we’ll discuss our experience with and advice for doing interviews in all sorts of mediums (audio, video, text) as well as some tips for how to reach out to A-Listers and land an interview with them. [Continue reading…]
This morning I found myself staring at a blank screen.
I needed to write a blog post but couldn’t think of any ideas to write about.
After about 30 minutes of reading to stimulate my brain, I started wondering: why is it easy to come up with blog topic ideas sometimes, while other times a good idea can’t be found to save your life?
I started thinking about the most successful things I’ve written over the past few years. I realized the most popular and engaging things I’ve written were also some of the easiest topics to come up with.
Interesting.
In many cases I didn’t even sit down to think about the topics that have inspired my best work. They just came out of nowhere. [Continue reading…]
There are literally hundreds of millions of blogs in existence. Thousands more are started every day.
In a world where 99.9+% of blogs go mostly unnoticed, Derek Halpern has made a big name for himself and his blog Social Triggers in less than a year.
If you’re interested in blogging, marketing or the psychology behind what makes people “tick” online, don’t miss this over-the-top interview with Derek.
Here are just a few things you’ll learn:
- Why Derek doesn’t subscribe to the “1,000 true fans” rule
- The one decision Derek made early on that set the stage for Social Trigger’s incredible growth
- Derek’s strategy for making it easier to win in your niche
- How Derek identified his blog’s “secret sauce”
- The overlooked place you can rely on for breakthrough topic ideas
- How you can become known for your most powerful ideas
- Why you’re shooting yourself in the foot by promoting your social media accounts on your website
- The most important thing to accomplish with your next blog post
And trust me, there’s much, much more in this video. This was one of the best conversations I’ve had in a while.
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