Author Archives: NoMeatAthlete

How to Write a Sales Page (and Pretty Much Anything Else)

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 ...

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How $73 and an Idea Can Make You an Author

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 ...

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5 Things Sorority Girls Can Teach You About Blogging

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 ...

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21 Tips Health Bloggers Need to Know Now

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 ...

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'A Merry Life' Guide to Creating a Better Health Blog

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 ...

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How to Land a Guest Post on a HUGE Blog—Now

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, ...

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10 Ways to Jump Start Your Blog By Next Week

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 ...

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And the Winners Are…

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 ...

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Announcing 10 Free Blog Coaching Sessions!

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 ...

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How to Come Up with 24 Post Ideas in 20 Minutes

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.

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