If you're a regular reader of this blog, chances are good you'll want to sell something on your blog one day. Even if you don't have anything to sell and think selling is evil, you can still learn a lot by studying the techniques of ...
If you're a regular reader of this blog, chances are good you'll want to sell something on your blog one day. Even if you don't have anything to sell and think selling is evil, you can still learn a lot by studying the techniques of ...
Sooner or later, every blogger thinks about writing an ebook or other information product. For most of them, that's as far as it ever gets. Fear is mostly to blame. Sure, maybe the idea isn't perfect yet, or the amount of work seems overwhelming. But take away fear, and all of the sudden these problems become ...
This is a guest post by Rachel Wilkerson, from rachelwilkerson.com and the bloggers' blog Hollaback Health. When I was in college, I ran all the recruitment activities for my sorority and I loved it. It's a hectic time -- the "parties" during which we met potential new members (PNMs) was a carefully ...
I gave away free blog coaching calls to 10 health bloggers for two main reasons: 1) To learn as much as I could about what problems real health bloggers face, in order to make this blog better. 2) To learn if I could provide enough value to offer blog coaching as a paid service. I'm happy to say ...
Guess what? I'm in an e-book! Mary, the blogger behind A Merry Life, took her three years of blogging experience and combined it with input from several well-known bloggers in the health niche to create A Merry Life Guide to Creating a Better Health Blog. (My contributions were mainly to the search ...
I recently got the biggest opportunity I've ever had in my year-and-some-change of blogging: I wrote a guest post for the hugely popular blog, Zen Habits. There's a good chance you've heard of it, even though it's not in the health niche, ...
Blog growth is rarely steady. You do something good, and traffic spikes. Then you get a little bit comfortable and the stats float back down to Earth, but to a permanently-higher level than before. Then you do something really good again, and traffic spikes even higher. And ...
Well, my free coaching call giveaway has been open for a week, so I figured it was time to pick some winners! (The fact that I finished finals today may have had something to do with it, too.) Picking the winners was so hard. Without ...
So many people email me asking for blog advice. I usually end up getting excited, spending half an hour on the email, cramming WAY too much information into it, and probably giving the poor person more than they can handle at once. But they tell me it really helps. That their traffic goes up a few ...
There's a trick for writing headlines that's so popular among copywriters, it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that everyone knows it. But then I remember: Not everyone studies copywriting. Not everyone even reads Copyblogger, where I first heard of the idea.