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Five Traits of a Successful Blogger

Five traits of a successful blogger.

Today’s blogging tip is going to cover what it takes to become a successful blogger. In a previous post, I stated that 99% of the blogs online fail.

I believe there are five traits that you need to have in order to be in that top 1%.

#1 Looks forward to the writing experience

I don’t know if I need to expand that one any further. In order to be a successful…

Featured Writer Friday – Tawnya and Sebastian

My Featured Writer Friday guests this week are Tawnya and Sebastian.

Hello!

First of all, a HUGE thank you to Dan for having us on his blog!

We are Tawnya and Sebastian. We started Money Saved is Money Earned to help the average individual by picking up the financial education slack. Tawnya is a teacher and Sebastian is a retired financial analyst, and between us, we have a wealth of knowledge…

Splendid Ways You Can Make Tech Work for Your Business

No modern business is going to get very far without the use of technology. Technology has become so prevalent in the last decade that businesses would pretty much collapse without it. Even businesses that are strictly offline, such as the agriculture industry, are finding it necessary to make use of tech to help the business. There are so many benefits that will help the company become more…

Tips for Getting Your Blog Off the Ground Successfully

One of the things that’s so appealing about starting a blog is that anyone can do it, and with the right idea, execution, and planning, anyone can succeed at it too. It’s an entirely democratic platform in that way. If you’re about to start a blog for the first time in 2018, there are some things that you will need to get straight and sorted out if you want things to launch smoothly and…

Why No One Is Reading Your Blog Post

Let’s face it. You are not the only blogger out there. And neither am I. Every day there is a ton of content being written and honestly, most of it is duplicate content. No so much duplicated content, but duplicate content topics. Breaking through all that noise is getting harder and harder every day. So how do you get people to read our content and stay engaged? Here are five things to think…

Are You Doing All You Can to Promote Your Blog?

Blogging can be a fickle business. You can work really hard to produce great content, yet your reader numbers remain low. You might think that you’re doing all you can to promote your blog properly, but are you missing a trick or two?

Take a look at these basic promotion tips to see if there’s anything missing from your blog promotion strategy.

Include tags

Tags are an important way to…

Featured Writer Friday – Melissa Flickinger

This week my Featured Writer Friday guest in Melissa Flickinger.

Hello Blogging World! My name is Melissa and my blog is called “Perspective Changes Everything.” I am not sure where I fit in, in the blogging realm. I am not a fashion or beauty blogger, a lifestyle blogger, a travel blogger, or a self-help blogger. I just write about the topics or situations close to my heart. In a way, I feel…

Be Sure to Do These Things Before Shipping Orders

When you get an order through your business, it’s not the end of the customer journey. You still need to make sure that your customer will be happy with the items that they receive. Of course, you also need to make sure they receive it in the first place. When they get their order, you want them to be satisfied with it and perhaps even pleasantly surprised at how it’s presented. Before you…

Make a Product Stand out in Five Simple Steps

Whether you’re selling a service or a physical product, there are plenty of wrong and right ways to market something. The cause for your low sales volume might not have anything to do with the product itself. In fact, there are hundreds of products that go on sale every year that have absolutely no problems and are great value for money. The problem isn’t necessarily in the product or service…

How to Monetize Your Free WordPress Website

How to monetize your free WordPress blog.

My two posts about how to monetize your website was pretty popular. A lot of great comments and questions came from that post. One, in particular, was can you monetize a free WordPress.com website?

So today’s blogging tip is about how to monetize a free WordPress website.

  Affiliate Links

The short answer is Yes, you can add affiliate links to your post.…

3 Fundamental Elements Of Product Design

Strong product design is something that is essential for most companies to get right. Even the best ideas can be developed in a manner that detracts from the overall excellence of the offering and turns people off as a result. This is why many millions are spent in the theatre of product design across the free market. No company is exempt from it. Conversely, all companies stand to gain…

Featured Writer Friday – Al Bell

Featured Writer Friday guest this week is Al Bell.

Hello everyone,

My name is Al and I blog at asimple-view.blog. Here, you will find information focused on inspiring men, women, and children in life, health, and fitness.  Currently, I live in the United States in the state of Ohio and in the city referred to as Buckeye Nation.

When I am not writing, I am either physically working out in the gym…

Simple Ways To Take Your Website To Higher Prospects

Your blog is just another way your company connects with its customers. It’s a place specifically designed for them to read up on helpful tips and tricks related to your product or service, and a chat board for them to directly let you know about their needs and opinions. But increasing the prospects you have based on these outlets can be hard to do, and it’s very easy to miss out.

So you’ve…

Stranger Things: Weird But Effective Advertising Ideas

Marketing has never been easier, right? Thanks to the ubiquity of methods available, entrepreneurs can raise awareness in a variety of different ways. Praise be to the internet for this fine offering! As you may know, the cyber highway hasn’t quite been the messiah that was promised. With so many techniques to choose from, it can be hard to find the right balance. Even worse, rivals and…

The Followers & the Finances: Your Options When You Physically Cannot Write Your Blog Anymore

It can actually get to the point where you’ve seen so many blogs fail, but you’re one of the lucky ones. Now, you’ve seen that your blog soar, and all the sudden, your life has been turned upside down. It’s not just something you do on the side anymore, but an actual way to earn a living. But, when it gets to the point that you are putting your all into your blog, and there is so much coming at…

The Ultimate Guide to Bringing Your Website Alive

When you first set up your website, you might not really know what you want from it. Because you’re green and you’re just getting started. So it’s super easy to choose a free hosted website, a free theme that looks good enough, and just get going. But before long, you’re going to realize that just can’t cut it. You know you need to upgrade your hosting to make changes and really personalize your…

How to Set up Your Site Icon

Today’s blogging tip is covering how to set up your site icon.

Today’s blogging tip is more of a WordPress Tip. I’m going to cover how to set up your site icon. The site icon is the little image that shows up on the left-side of your browser tab. My site icon is a capital D with a pen going through the middle.

  Select your image. It needs to be 512 pixels by 512 pixels.

In the menu bar on the…