Marketing

How A Blogger Made $10,449 Per Hour

As a reader of my site, you know that I am quite open about this fact: Blogs don’t make money. Businesses make money. And businesses sell things. Seems pretty simple, but most bloggers just fail to comprehend this one. They’ll chase the Adsense fairy for any loose change. To illustrate the alternative, and the truth [...]

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You Can’t Build Relationships in 20 Minutes

This guest post is written by ZK. He blogs at WebTrafficROI . You can also follow him on Twitter. The other day I was talking to someone who found me via Twitter, he wanted to add me to Skype – and I said, why not? So I gave him my username to Skype. So we [...]

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Why I Use Multiple Landing Pages [Reader Question]

When I relaunched The Twitter Manual on it’s own landing page, I was asked on Twitter why I used a separate landing page. The question posed by Brent (@function_ality) was: Why do you setup different url’s instead of putting these on DavidRisley.com site? I never understood this. He went on to say it dilutes my [...]

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The Blogging Ninja Guide To Strategic Positioning

The Blogging Ninja Guide To Strategic Positioning

What I’m about to share with you is a bit meaty, but it can have a huge impact on your blogging income. I want to address questions like: How accessible should you be with your readers? How do you deal with the issue of pricing of your products and avoid “sticker shock”? I’m aware that [...]

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Are Long-Form Sales Letters Dead?

Are Long-Form Sales Letters Dead?

Alright, let’s be honest. We’ve all seen people say things are “dead” just to get attention. Email is dead. Blogging is dead. I’ve heard it all, and each time, they are stupid ploys for attention. Today, however, is no ploy for attention. I am asking an honest question. This has been rolling around in my [...]

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Driving Behavior, Not Conversation

From my observation, I think there is a very important strategic component of blogging that too many overlook. I preface this whole post by saying that it depends on your intentions. If you want to ultimately make money with your blog, then pay close attention. If you just want to get high comment counts and [...]

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How To Pause The Aweber Autoresponder

My readers know that I am a big proponent of Aweber for mailing list management. Out of the many things that you can do with Aweber, one of them is an autoresponder. If you’re not already familiar, an autoresponder is simply a pre-scheduled series of emails that get sent out to a new subscriber on [...]

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How To Psychologically Evaluate Any Blog Niche

I have a new video for you today. This video shows a simple way of evaluating any potential blogging niche from a psychological standpoint. I’m getting down to the emotional core of the reader here. In this video, I mention two particular (big) markets and how they measure up. But, the power comes in getting [...]

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How A Blogger Makes Money Without Being a Slimeball

OK, well perhaps the topic is a little bit misleading. In reality, it is not any kind of requirement that you have to be a slimeball to make a buck in this business. The reality is, though, that there is a segment of the blogger population who thinks this is the case. Are you adverse [...]

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Never Underestimate The Value of Free

This is a guest post from Sharron Field from KKomp.com. Do you get the feeling that internet marketing is becoming difficult? These days, unless people know and like you, it’s harder and harder every day to get started. If an unknown internet marketer offers a product that guarantees to make the customer a millionaire overnight, [...]

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