Subscribers

This guest post is by AJ Kumar of Single Grain. One of the most under-utilized pieces of website real estate out there is the About Us page.  While most webmasters treat it as a throw-away repository for a stock biography or company history, consider the mindset of the visitors who arrive on these pages. They’re interested enough in you and your brand to want to take the next step and learn more about you—indicating that they’re more receptive to sales or other conversions that those who have simply

This guest post is by Jeevan Jacob John of Blog Networking 101. You have traffic. You have a great number of people reading your blog posts daily. What do you want to do with these people? Have them subscribe? Comment? Read? Simply put, you want them to take action, right? And how are we going to do that? Yes, of course: through different strategies. In this blog post, we will take a look at some strategies to “awe” your readers to take action—to subscribe, to comment, or to do whatever.

This guest post is by Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro.com. Let me be straightforward with you: I’m no email marketing expert and I don’t plan to be soon. But email marketing is just so important to my blogging that I can’t ignore these very important techniques. If you’ve been following Darren for more than a few months now you will have noticed how much emphasis he places on email marketing for bloggers and how important it is for his business. The same is the case for most top

I’m a big advocate for building a list around your blog, then making the most of it. A current list of email subscribers is an advantage to any blogger who wants to build their presence, whether you’re monetizing your blog or not. Often, new bloggers tell me they want to find readers, and more experienced bloggers are always wanting to continue growing their blogs, rather than see readership plateau over time. Your email list can help you meet both these challenges.

This guest post is by Jeff Nickles of MySuperChargedLife.com. My blog grew by leaps and bounds in 2011.  It was exciting! But it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made a few smart investments in my blog—investments, you could say, in my success. I’m a regular guy and a part-time blogger just like many of you.  I’ve learned how to grow my site through trial and error.  Over the last four years, I have probably made more mistakes than the average joe.  I’ve done a lot of the wrong things, but

This guest post is by Shakira Dawud of Deliberate Ink. You’re getting regular traffic, but it’s flatlining. The regular crowd is still with you, but your subscriber base is fluctuating. And you’ve noticed you’re not being shared on social media very often. If you were to ask, you’d hear all kinds of reasons why, but I guarantee you the basis of all of them is always personal.

You really stepped in it this time. Perhaps you were late for your daily blog post and you ran it without obtaining double verification for a specific fact which turned out to be wrong; or maybe you went off on a tirade against an industry personality or a particularly grating commenter and crossed the line; or perhaps you typo’d your $100 prize for your email newsletter contest and set it at $100,000. No matter what you’ve done wrong, it’s now time to apologize: quickly, thoroughly, and profusely. Here’s

This guest post is by Michael Alexis of WriterViews. Frustrated with unsubscribes on your newsletter? You aren’t alone. Most of the metrics associated with our newsletters are fun to watch. Image by Bruce Berrien, licensed under Creative Commons

This guest post is by Michael Alexis of WriterViews. In this post, I’m going to show you the exact steps one blogger used to earn over $1 million. Not long ago, I interviewed Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. If you’re serious about making money blogging, then you need to read this interview.

This guest post is by James Penn of AcceleratedNicheProfits.com. I’m sure you’ve had it drummed into you by now that an email list is vitally important to your blog and your business. Darren often discusses how vital it is to build your email list and he recently Tweeted this graphic to emphasize his point. He says: