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How To Build An Email List

How To Build An Email List

One of the most common questions I get is how to build an email list or how to get more email subscribers. I do this a few different ways. Choose an Email Newsletter/Autoresponder Service Of course, before you can do anything you need to choose an email service to add subscribers too. I use AWeber,… Continue Reading

The Pitfalls Of Early Adoption

The Pitfalls Of Early Adoption

Anyone who works in the fields of marketing or technology will have come across the term ‘Early Adopter’ at some point in their career. An early adopter is someone who seizes on a new idea or gadget, hell bent on being the first person or company to present it to their customers. On a personal… Continue Reading

Using Digg To Enhance Your Online Success

As a blogger, I know it’s important for me to keep abreast of technologies which can support me in making my blog more effective. A number of people have been getting in touch with me recently asking how to best use Digg to promote their blog, so I thought I’d take a few moments to… Continue Reading

How Do You Measure Success?

I’ve been thinking a lot about blog analytics and measuring progress and success. There are lots of measures and measurers (not a real word) out there and it can be consuming what stats to believe. Here’s what I look at (I’m excluding revenue and income and any other financial measures): Blog Stats RSS Subscribers Email… Continue Reading

Do you Digg it?

It can be a bit confusing to know what social networking sites to target to improve your blog readership. One of the most popular sites to use to generate hits on your own site is Digg. Digg has been going since around 2005, and has grown steadily in popularity so that its website traffic was… Continue Reading

More Easy Blogging Tools For You

After my previous post on little known blogging tools, there are some more tools that may not be directly related to pressing Publish, but can certainly help with your blogging life. WebMii is related to the previously mentioned Social Mention and Addictomatic, but rather than looking at your brand reputation (though you can do that… Continue Reading

Little Known Blogging Tools That Rock!

There are thousands of plugins and addons that people can use to make their blogging easier and better. However there are some lesser known ones that may help you in certain aspects of your blogging. 1) HTML COLOR CODES When altering the design of your site or even adding a sidebar widget box, it is… Continue Reading

Three Resources To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

Another video for you this week. There are numerous free reports released every week it seems, but there is some great stuff in the middle of it all. The quick (just over 2 minutes) video below covers: Blog Traffic Fisher is a new free 5 day course to help you get more traffic for your… Continue Reading

How To Add Subscribers Name Or Email To Your Thank You Page

For a few clients I have set up their AWeber email subscription thank you page to show the subscribers name and, if they want, email address. Now this is something I actually don’t do myself on my own blog as I use my thank you page in a variety of different ways, but it’s a… Continue Reading

How To Add An AWeber Form To Your Facebook Page

Adding an opt-in form to your Facebook Fan Page is not something many people think of as a way of gathering more sign-ups. While it’s explained on AWeber I thought I’d repeat the instructions here for you. It’s actually pretty easy, there are a few steps that need to be completed. 1. First, log into… Continue Reading