Marketing
How To Create a Landing Page With Viral Potential
If you’re going to consider yourself a PROblogger, it won’t take long for you to realize that sometimes the blog isn’t the best place to make an offer. Inevitably, you’re going to find yourself using a landing page.
A well-designed landing page that asks for an opt-in (for example) is going to have a MUCH higher conversion rate than a blog. Period. But, it is still just a page that you need to somehow send traffic to.
You can either do all the traffic generation yourself, or you can set the mini-site up such that it has viral component built right into it. Here’s how…
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Using Ustream To Make Money
I have been a user of Ustream for some time in order to put together a live broadcast online. Have you ever thought about doing it yourself? Did you know that you can use it to make some money? Here’s how.
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Free Versus Paid? When Do You Charge?
Blogging is, by nature, the business of giving away free content. And it cannot be any other way. However, in order to make money, you’ve got to charge people for something. So, where is the cut off?
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The Case Against Auto-DM’s On Twitter
The Twitter footprint into our society has been growing like crazy. Celebrities and news organizations are now parading the word “Twitter” around as part of our normal lexicon. Of course, this means Twitter is a huge communication platform now…for everybody….not just for the early adopters.
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How To Get Blog Traffic By Pissing Off Your Audience
It has been said that you never want to upset your customers. However, I’m here to tell you that sometimes there is a place for it. IF you do it strategically…
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List Building Tips For Bloggers
Mailing lists are important. So, you throw one on your blog. You place an opt-in form on the blog sidebar and wait for the influx of subscribers. Hardly anything happens. What went wrong?
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Top 3 Suggestions For Driving Traffic To Your Blog
Most bloggers don’t really have a hard time writing and figuring out what to say on their blogs. The big challenge is driving traffic. How do we get people to pay attention to us?
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5 Tips for Getting a Blogger To Review Your Product
If you are a blogger with traffic, you become a person of interest to anybody out there looking to attract eyeballs to their product. I get requests routinely for both of my main blogs to check out and review various products. Unfortunately for them, I don’t really respond to most of them. Why?
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Internet Marketing And The Power of Trust
At my last mastermind meetup here in Tampa, I was talking with some people afterward. One of my local readers (JR Griggs) made an interesting comment. And it got me thinking…
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Twitter Marketing: Insider Tip
Chances are that you’ve heard about the potential of using Twitter to develop your brand. It works wonders if you use it correctly. You can also find clients using Twitter. The trick (if you really want to call it that) is to find people in their moment of need.
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
