The truth is that even professional email marketers make mistakes from time to time. What’s important is that you learn from them so you can be more effective down the line.
In this post, you’ll learn some of the common mistakes marketers make when building their email lists.
[Read more…]There are two sides of the blogging coin.
On one side are successful bloggers who run multiple revenue-generating blogs at the comforts of their home.
On the other side are bloggers who failed.
However, if there’s one thing that separates the good bloggers from the rest, it’s having a routine.
If you’re one struggling with making ends meet with blogging, don’t give up just yet!
It’s possible you haven’t established a blogging routine that you can replicate day in and out without fail.
In this post, you will learn how to develop a routine that provides you a clear direction on your way to having a successful blogging career.
[Read more…]News flash: If you help your customers, you are also helping your business!
While customer success is far from a novel concept, it’s also the easiest to forget especially if you’re focused on generating profits instead of genuinely helping people.
By ensuring a good customer experience, you also afford your business the opportunity to grow.
Through customer success, you increase customer retention rates. Also, you get to back up marketing, sales, and other vital departments of your business.
To get a clearer picture of an effective customer success strategy, I’ll elaborate on the top reasons why you must implement one for your blog.
This way, you can reap the benefits of lending a helping hand to your customers.
[Read more…]A landing page is a vital element to have on your blog or website. Its job is to help you convert your readers to leads and, eventually, customers.
Setting up a landing page is the easy part. Getting this to have a high conversion rate…that’s a different story altogether.
The overwhelming amount of online content published every day, combined with the ever-changing ways how customers decide what to buy, has made getting the right traffic to visit your blog more challenging.
Add to that is the reality that only 1-3% of your site’s traffic will convert into leads and customers.
So, rather than hustling to get more content published and promoting them like there’s no tomorrow, what you should be focusing on is improving your landing page’s conversion rate.
[Read more…]It’s 2019 and quality content is still king, which is why blogging is still as valuable as ever today. More companies and large brands are turning to blogging to boost the marketing of their products and services. Many individuals, who started blogging as a side hustle, eventually built their own businesses from publishing content on the internet.
Having your own blog is beneficial besides it being a profitable venture you can embark on. Blogs serve as a creative outlet, perfect if you love writing and its craft. It is also a platform that you can use to talk about topics that you’re passionate about and let these reach a wider scope. You even have the potential to provide solutions and value in another person’s life.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to blogging! And if your interest is getting piqued, you may be asking yourself, “How do I start a blog?”
Blogging is more than just typing in words and sentences, and then publishing them online. There are actually processes behind the craft that can help you build a side hustle blog that is successful. Whether your goal is to earn money from blogging or spread the word about a topic or cause, you can create a system that can let you achieve that.
[Read more…]Think you have a good grasp of your conversion funnel? Well, you might want to think again.
According to a study by Econsultancy, only 22% of businesses in 2017 were satisfied with their conversion rates. Aside from low conversion rates, companies also cited low visitor engagement and high bounce rates as their major concerns.
Leads won’t automatically turn into sales by themselves. You need to have a compelling reason for your visitors to do business with you. Here’s a quick guide on how you can get in more sales for your business.
[Read more…]Getting leads from your blog takes a lot of work. Converting those leads? Well, that’s a whole different ball game.
Whether you’re trying to rake up more sales or capture more sign-ups for an upcoming webinar or online course, remember one thing:
It’s all about making it easy for your target audience to find the information they’re looking for!
In this article, you’ll learn the secret to improving your blog conversion rate with five easy tips that you can start doing immediately.
[Read more…]Being a blogger sound easy. You just share your thoughts by writing down articles and prom oting them, right?
Wrong!
While the process above rings true up to today, it’s not as simple as it seems.
As the days pass, more and more people launch their blogs in the hopes of making it big.
That’s good and all, except for this problem:
The market is becoming more saturated and competition is becoming fiercer.
Did you know that 4 million blog posts are published daily? That means publishing a post on your blog is akin to dropping a pin in the middle of a forest.
As a blogger, you want to make your effort count!
You want your target audience to read and engage with your posts.
And arguably the best way to do that is through SEO – specifically keyword rank tracking.
You’re probably expecting me to say that building links, creating good content, and engaging with your audience as the key to your SEO campaign.
Don’t get me wrong: all of the above are important.
But here’s the thing about keyword rank tracking that people don’t talk about:
It gives you a bird’s eye view of your blog’s SEO performance thus far.
Keeping tab of your search rankings shows which among your posts are ranking on Google and are generating the most organic traffic
Even if you don’t practice SEO, there should be at least a page on your blog that’s ranking for a keyword or two.
Once you have the data on hand, you simply optimize them to rank higher.
No need to create new content (at least not now).
Make your pages better to increase their search rankings and drive even more traffic to your blog!
This way, you take advantage of low-hanging fruits on your blog and give them a little nudge.
With just minimum effort, you can yield maximize results if you track your keyword ranking the right way.
Speaking of which…
[Read more…]Ecourses have become quite popular these past years with many people looking for ways to improve their skills even in the comfort of their own homes.
This business article that features Danielle White shows you how profitable selling e-courses are in this day and age.
While it may seem like it requires tons of work, you don’t need an MBA or Ph.D. to create your own e-course.
You just need to know enough to be able to create a course that will help others improve their lives.
Excited to launch (or re-launch) your e-course? Then let’s begin!
[Read more…]The world is becoming more interconnected as the world becomes increasingly mobile, global and diverse.
A recent article in Forbes reported that China Now Boasts More Than 800 Million mobile global consumers. Even in India, where the number of internet users has experienced rapid growth, users will very soon reach 627 million, primarily driven by growth in rural areas.
Like China, the population of mobile users is exploding so much that by 2022, it is estimated that there will be 829 million smartphone users in India.
This growth isn’t exclusive to China and India. Rural areas of Africa and Asia are Also increasingly online, reading about new trends, making business decisions and dreaming about their next purchase.
These statistics and trends should elicit both alarm and optimism among today’s bloggers who have grown comfortable with their mostly homogeneous audiences.
But what will these new segments, new cultures, and new opportunities want and need?
Will they be loyal audiences to your blog or will they start their own blogs that are more in tune with their own cultural underpinnings and linguistic requirements?
Will your blog be able to adapt to serve them or will it miss the opportunity that awaits to expand readership?
Could these new users start their own blogs that easily target their unmet needs that you neglected to plan for?
These are all good question, and all are within the realm of possibilities.
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