• Blog,  Blogging

    Grow Your Business with Sales Funnels

    Are you looking to kick start your sales?  Well, I have some GREAT news!  Isa Adney is back with another free webinar to help you grow your business through sales funnels. Why You Need to Use Sales Funnels Believe me, I know you’re thinking right now that this is something that is not for you!  Sales funnels are overwhelming, and email, in general, is terrifying and out of my comfort zone. But! If you want to be a successful blogger, you need to be utilizing your email list and constantly communicating with those customers.  Sales funnels, when done well, are a great way of building a relationship with your audience,…

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    Making Your First Dollar Blogging

    Are you trying to get started with email marketing but you feel like there is just too much to learn?  I still feel that way one year after signing up for a ConvertKit account. Have you ever wondered about all those success stories you see of people making a living online? Have you ever wanted to be one of those people? Well, why not you? Right now there are so many ways that you can use the skills that you have to make money online.  The internet is filled with so many specialty blogs to help other people by sharing their knowledge.  And it is so easy to get started.…

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    Why You Should Switch to ConvertKit

    If you are a blogger, the best thing you can do to grow your business is to grow your email list.  When you are creating an email list, you can choose from several different companies to manage that email list for you.  The best company to manage your email list is ConvertKit. ConvertKit makes everything easier.  They have a comprehensive library of tutorials that are so easy to follow explaining everything from the basics to advanced email marketing. Not only are their basic plans pretty inexpensive, but they also offer a completely free thirty-day trial for you to test out their product before making any financial commitment.   What if…

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    5 Reasons Your Blog Isn’t Making Money

    So you decided to start a blog.  You’ve been writing and writing blog posts but you’re just not getting the traffic you expected.  What are you doing wrong? Here are five common mistakes that you could be making. You’re not utilizing social media. Social media is the biggest way that you are going to drive traffic to your blog.  More specifically Pinterest.  I find that 80% of my blog traffic comes directly from posts that I pin on Pinterest. In order to have a successful blog, it is important that you master Pinterest. Mastering Pinterest can be complicated, they are constantly adjusting and changing their algorithms of what pins are…

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    How to Make a Living Blogging

    It seems like everyone is a blogger these days.  How to do you take your blog and turn it into a full-time job? Well, Alex and Lauren from Create and Go are here to help.  They have created this amazing course that teaches you all the tricks that they used to make themselves Six-Figure Bloggers. What This Course Will Teach You This course covers the strategies that a six-figure blogger should follow to have a successful blog. Affiliate Marketing, you will learn what it is and how to best use it to have a successful blog. Creating Digital Products – they will teach you that this is the most effective…

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    3 Reasons Your Blog Isn’t Getting Traffic

    Starting a blog can be a slow and tedious process.  You spend hours and hours creating and the visitors don’t just instantly come.  It really can be a trial in patience and perseverance. But, if you’ve been blogging for a while and you’re still not seeing a boost in traffic, here are three things you could be doing wrong. You’re Not Utilizing Social Media Social media can be exhausting.  But, if you are not putting your brand out there and getting followers, people will never see your articles. In order to be getting a constant flow of traffic to your blog, one of the things you need to make sure that…

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    How to Make Money From Blogging

    As a blogger, we all start because we have something that we want to share.  But typically we all have the same ultimate goal, to make our blogs profitable.  I have compiled a list of ways that you can take your blog and make it profitable. Affiliate Marketing The most common way that I have come across to make money blogging is through affiliate marketing.  Affiliate marketing is when you are paid a commission to sell a product for another company.  Common affiliate marketing websites are Amazon Affiliates and Share a Sale. These two websites, among others, provide you with links to different companies and products.  The link they provide…

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    How to Turn a Blog into a Side Hustle!

    Starting a blog was something I didn’t put much thought into… at first.  I used an already existing Gmail account and just activated a Blogger account.  I put together a few posts, tried to set up Google ads, sat back, and waited… and waited… and waited… It was quickly evident that this half-baked attempt to start a blog was not going to be the key to my financial freedom. So at this point, I was faced with a decision… do I throw in the towel?  Or so I invest some money, a lot of time, and figure out how to do it the right way.  Fortunately, I chose the latter.…

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    Courses Every Blogger Needs to Take!

    Blogging is difficult.  It requires a huge time commitment, dedication, and a LOT of patience.  When I first started my blog, I had no idea what I was doing.  I had been selling on Teacherpayteachers.com and felt like starting a blog was the next step.  For the rest of the story, check out My Blogging Journey. I changed my whole technique of starting a blog when I found the courses on Create and Go’s website. Pinterest Traffic Avalanche The first course that I took from them was Pinterest Traffic Avalanche. This class taught me everything that I know about Pinterest, other than what I knew from using it for recipes and…

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    Blogging: Dealing with Writer’s Block

    Trying to have something to write about constantly can be tough.  I always stare at my computer, waiting for the words to put themselves on the screen.  But when you are trying to create and run a successful blog, the most important thing that you can do is be putting out new content regularly.  Finding what you are going to be writing about is the biggest struggle. When I started blogging, I was putting out a new post twice per week.  I just really wanted to get as much content out there as fast as possible.  But after a few months of this, with my full-time job and other responsibilities,…