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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.
Interview with a million dollar blogger
Posted by: | CommentsWhoever said bloggers can’t make BIG money had not heard this story.
Yaro Starak – my blogging coach – interviewed his previous student, Alborz Fallah, who is the owner of caradvice.com.au – a car blog for Australians, which was valued at $5 million dollars and generates close to $50,000 a month.
You can listen or read the interview here -
Alborz Fallah Interview – Million Dollar Blogger
Alborz started his blog like most people, sitting at home, writing content each day outside of the time he spent at his full time job. His blog grew, he started making money and he just kept working.
Eventually he was approached by people who wanted to buy his blog. He said no, until someone came along who only wanted to buy a share in the site and help it continue to grow. Alborz agreed and
his blog immediately went from part time hobby, to full time business.
Today Alborz’s blog has full time employees, he travels to Europe to test some of the most prestigious cars in the world and it’s fair to say he is living a dream – making big money writing about a topic he loves.
In this interview you can hear Alborz talk about how he grew his traffic, how he brought on investors to help grow his site and what’s it like being in charge of a multi-million dollar blog.
It’s worth listening to this interview because you can learn some key things to help with your own quest to make a profitable blog, for example:
- How Alborz chose the topic for his blog is a great lesson for anyone else out there struggling to come up with a blog topic
- The search engine advice Alborz offers is powerful yet simple and will immediately help your own blog get more traffic, if you follow it
- The story of how investors came on board to take Car Advice to the next level is unique, but definitely worth hearing because it shows how you can grow a blog from just making a few hundred dollars, to making six or seven figures a year.
The interview is available for instant download in MP3 or text transcript. Here’s the link again -
Alborz Fallah Interview – Million Dollar Blogger
Yaro released this video to inspire people to believe what is possible with a blog.
If you want to follow in Alborz’s footsteps, consider taking on Yaro as your blog coach and join his Blog Mastermind coaching program and you might just become the next Alborz.
Andrea J. Stenberg
Make Money From A Blog – This Video Tells You How
Posted by: | CommentsIf you have ever wondered how someone makes a six-figure income online using a blog, I have
a video you just HAVE to watch.
Here’s the link:
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve heard me talk about Yaro Starak. Yaro’s a well-respected blogger and blog trainer (he trained me), and has released a free video that takes you inside his Internet business, which is based on just one blog.
Using his blog, Yaro generates a steady $10,000 to $20,000 each and every month.
His system is not your usual story of using a blog and sticking AdSense on it – he’s taken a much more BUSINESS focused approach.
He calls his system “Conversion Blogging” because it combines a blog with an email list to create consistent income. - Why blogs are the only Web 2.0 marketing tool you will ever need - Exactly how Yaro uses his blog to build a MASSIVE email list - How just a blog can turn you into the No. 1 authority in your market - What methods Yaro uses to translate his blog into a steady cash-flow stream - How you can replicate Yaro’s methods using just one blog and get started in minutes I loved this video because it’s not full of marketing hype, just a very down to earth and practical presentation. I guarantee you will enjoy this and learn something too. Set aside 32 minutes now, grab a drink, sit down and watch this video - Andrea J. Stenberg
Inside the video you will learn:
