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I’m doing the ultimate blog challenge
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In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a little lax in my blogging lately. I’m busy with a joint venture project, client work, teaching and [insert favorite excuse here].
Since I know blogging is important to my business – it drives traffic, gives me SEO, helps me focus my thoughts – I knew it was time to get back on track.
That’s why I joined the Ultimate Blog Challenge. People who join commit to writing 30 blog posts in 30 days. Each blog post must be a minimum of 100 words, and rated PG. You can tweet your post with the #blogboost tag. You are also encouraged to visit other blogs in the challenge and participate by leaving comments.
Throughout the month, blog challenge hosts Michele Scism and Michelle Shaeffer send e-mails with topic suggestions and encouragement.
Why would someone who’s been blogging for 3 1/2 years join the challenge? It doesn’t matter how much you love what you do, every once in a while you get stale or stuck. I thought the blog challenge would be a fun way to get me back into the groove of providing what I hope is great and informative content for my readers.
So hold on tight; I think April is going to be a fun month. Wish me luck!
Andrea J Stenberg
Truth in Blogging
Posted by: | CommentsWriting a blog has been an interesting experience. While I often include my own personal thoughts and opinions, I also try to include useful information paired with hard data. As a result, when I come across an interesting statistic or a quote by an industry leader, I try to include it in my blog post (complete with a link). This habit comes from my journalism training. Plus I hope it makes the articles more interesting and useful.
The other day I came across a link to an interesting blog post that included a very startling “fact” about social media use by small businesses. It said that 65 percent of small businesses don’t use social media at all. Naturally I clicked the link to the article. It repeated the startling fact and included links to the sources for the statistic. Because I wanted to know more, I clicked the links.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that one of the links wasn’t valid and the other link went to a study that didn’t include the statistic mentioned. In fact, the data mentioned on the study could be interpreted to mean the exact opposite of what was quoted in the blog post. It mentioned that 64 percent of small businesses use social media for answering customer questions. No mention at all of businesses not using social media.
This misrepresentation of the data left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Rather than adding this blogger to my RSS reader and quoting him in this blog, I’ll never trust what he has to say again. By fiddling with the data to create a catchy headline, he lost a reader forever.
I’m all for using surprising or startling facts in your blog posts or headlines. They make for interesting reading. Just make sure that the “facts” are true. Otherwise, you’ll lose me as a reader, customer and referrer.
Andrea J. Stenberg
Here’s some advice to improve your blogging
Posted by: | CommentsI expect you have seen what Yaro Starak released during the previous week. The videos and interview with a million dollar blogger he published to help us all become better bloggers really impressed a lot of people – including me.
Today is your chance to become the next blogging success story and Yaro is willing to help you get there.
His private coaching program has just opened to take on new students. You can join here -
Blog Mastermind Coaching Program
The program, called Blog Mastermind and is the coaching program I used to get started blogging. Blog Mastermind is comprehensive and includes:
- A step-by-step coaching course delivered in weekly lessons in text and audio format
- Private members-only forum community and access to regular live training calls with Yaro (you can ask him anything you want about your blog)
- Video case studies of blogs and a ten-part series of audios from Yaro covering the core aspects about what it takes to earn big dollars from a blog
- Access to the social traffic club, a special community of members who help each other drive traffic to their blogs from social media sites
- 5 unique interviews with professional bloggers like Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Andy Wibbels
- Plus loads more.
You can take a behind the scenes tour and hear Yaro talk about his coaching program if you watch the short video at the start of the sign-up page here -
Blog Mastermind Coaching Program
This is definitely the only course I know of that teaches you how to make a full time living blogging only part time, and how to build a real business from a blog, taught by someone who has actually done it.
Yaro’s teaching style is unique, he’s easy to learn from and has an ability to make complex subjects simple to understand.
He’s also one of the only bloggers I know of who really understands Internet marketing and how to build a business that doesn’t suck all your time.
Plus he makes over six-figures a year from his blog, so that’s enough proof for me!
No matter what level of blogger you are, whether you are brand new and still don’t even have a blog, or you are an experienced blogger who wants to take their income to the next level and stop working so hard, Blog Mastermind is for you.
Yaro is offering 3 fast-action bonuses for the first 100 new members who join his program today. They include three interviews and videos on important subjects to any blogger -
- How to effectively implement Yaro’s “Conversion Blogging” system on your blog
- How to use video to market online, just like Yaro did with his recent videos, with advice from video expert Gideon Shalwick
- Advanced tactics to improve your conversion rates to sell more from your blog posts and email newsletters, coming from Will Swayne, the conversion specialist Yaro hires to improve his blogging business
You can read more about the bonuses at Yaro’s blog post here -
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/954/fast-action-bonuses/
These bonuses are only for the first 100 new members today, so you better hurry if you want these extra goodies. Here is the link to join the coaching program -
Blog Mastermind Coaching Program
Even if you don’t join Yaro’s program today, make sure you study his videos and the Blog Profits Blueprint report he gives away.
Yaro offers so much great advice that won’t cost you a cent and I’m sure if you follow his instructions you will begin earning rewards from your blog.
I’ll speak to you soon,
Andrea J. Stenberg
PS. Remember, if you want the fast-action bonuses you have to join Blog Mastermind within the first 100 people. As I write this, 60 people have already joined up.
Blog Mastermind Coaching Program
Don’t be a Blog Spammer
Posted by: Andrea J. Stenberg | Comments (6)Wrong!
Nine of those comments looked like this:
Not similar to that, EXACTLY the same. All from the same person, promoting the same website.
Guess what? I went into my comments folder and spammed them all.
I know that many internet marketers tell you that a good way to get incoming links to your website is to comment on other blogs. In fact, I tell people that too. You may have read it right here on this blog.
If done properly, blog commenting works. For a long time, Read More→