How to Create Sponsorship Proposals For Your Blog

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You’ve started a blog and you’ve found your groove. You’ve put in the time to build your space and have a solid, engaged readership and now you’re yearning to grow your blog into a sustained brand complete with sponsors. You might even have some brands that you’re speaking with that you think are a great fit for your blog.

Your next goal is to compose a sponsorship proposal that will send them over the moon. Securing sponsors is an art (as well as a science) and it can grow your blog into a trusted source of entertainment with solid traffic.

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3 Ambitious Blog Subjects for Small Businesses

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All new business strategies involve risk. After all, if you want to improve the way your company functions, you’ve got to make changes. However, many professionals shy away from the prospect of introducing new ideas for fear of potential failure. While it’s understandable for business owners to have a healthy respect for the unknown, it shouldn’t stop them from trying new things. And that goes double for their blog and content strategy. In fact, it’s counterproductive to avoid ambitious blog topics. Bland, banal, expository work won’t resonate with anyone –– no matter how much interest they may have in your product or service. With that in mind, here are three ambitious blog subjects all content creators should look to utilize in their upcoming schedule:

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5 Clean Energy Blogs to Read in 2019

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Clean energy is a powerful force for battling climate change and saving the environment. For the first time, two states- California and Hawaii- had committed to 100 percent clean energy goals last year. That means a total of one hundred cities have committed towards 100 percent clean energy.

The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport in Tennessee announced in 2018 that it would be the first airport in the U.S to run on 100% solar power and other airports are interested in the same thing. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia is also researching how to merge solar power and battery storage to help power the airport during cloudy days and during the night.

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How to Start a Food Blog (A Step-By-Step 2019 Guide)

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If you are a talent in the kitchen and you want to share your culinary thoughts with the world, you are probably thinking it’s time you start your own food blog. It’s the digital age, after all.

The good news is starting a food blog isn’t a difficult task. If you Google food blogs you’ll see plenty of others who are already sharing their wisdom and it has never been easier to get involved. Blogs are an affordable, simple way to spread your message.

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How to Prevent Your Emails from Getting Marked as Spam

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If someone were to ask me my biggest nightmare as an email marketer, I would say spam complaints by the subscribers. Getting marked as spam directly hampers your email deliverability as these emails will not land in the subscriber’s inbox. Such emails get blocked by the Internet Service Provider, and this in turn will lead to increase in the bounce rate. It will also spoil the email sender reputation. 

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Top 4 Online Business Ideas for 2019 Success

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The New Year may bring you some new opportunities, especially if you are looking into starting an online business. There are the old online business go-tos like starting a blog or ecommerce store. These are still good options, but there are also plenty of other online business ideas for 2019 success.

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PayPal? Shopify? Worldpay? Which Offers the Best Payment Processing for Your eCommerce Store?

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Consumer behaviour is changing. According to Statista, eCommerce’s share of total global retail sales in 2017 was 10.2%, and that figure is set to rise to 17.5% in 2021.

With this in mind, and with eCommerce platforms becoming increasingly easy to use, it would seem that the door is open for new merchants to profit on market change.

Hence, whether you’re looking to turn your blog into an eCommerce store, open a brand-new online shop or discover new, untapped ways to maximise your profit and save on processing fees, this post is something you’d want to consider. [Read more…]

WordPress vs Blogger Comparison: Which One Should You Use in 2018?

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Every year, major blogging platforms roll out new initiatives and features designed to help people showcase their work and create an online following. Two of the largest blogging platforms are WordPress and Blogger. Each offers unique features that appeal to different types of bloggers — for example, one is more suited to those who want to sell products through their blog. It’s important to do a WordPress vs Blogger comparison before you start blogging, especially in 2018 when so many different options are available.

Deciding which blogging platform to use is a large decision that shouldn’t be made lightly. Once you’ve created a series of posts and habits, it’s more difficult to switch those to another platform. So choosing the right platform for your purposes before you get started is absolutely essential.

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5 Ways to Create the Banners You Need

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You need ads on your site. They need to catch a reader’s eye, so you need something different. How do you get unique ads without spending hours learning Photoshop?

There are five ways:

  • Pay $5 to a freelancer in a land far, far away
  • Use a free graphics site
  • Use a banner creator
  • Use graphics software
  • Pay a graphic designer

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