In this week’s audio post, I tell you exactly how I sell successfully from Remarkablogger by combining the blog and internet marketing style landing pages together. Enjoy!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
How to Sell from Your Blog 5 – How I Do It
Selling from Your Blog 4 – You Don’t Sell, They Buy
Despite the phrase “sell from your blog,” that’s not what really happens. You don’t sell from your blog, people buy from you. It’s not the same thing. There’s an old saying: Nobody likes to be sold, but everybody loves to buy. So, what’s the difference in practical terms? It’s about keeping your head on straight…
Selling from Your Blog 3 – Finding the Market in Your Audience and Avoiding the Biggest Mistake Ever
Your blog’s readers are also your customers if you sell any products or services. We tend to think of an audience as one thing, and a market as another, but they are the same people at different stages in the buying process. Your market is “hiding” in your audience. To bring the market out of…
Your Questions Answered – Should You Use a Video Service or Host Your Own Videos?
How to Add Video to a WordPress Blog the Easy Way is slowly turning into a very popular post. A reader left an excellent question in his comment, and I wanted to write a post about it instead of just reply in the comments. Rich asks: I want to add my own video clips (aka…
Selling from Your Blog 2 – Traffic
In my last post on Selling from Your Blog, I said you needed three basic things: expertise, a way to receive payment, and a way to facilitate the sale and download of digital products. In the comments, the issue of traffic was raised, and it’s a good issue to address in its own post. Without…
How to Sell from Your Blog (The Ultra-Basics)
If you can’t see the video in your email or reader, please watch it on the blog. I believe anyone can sell from their blog. Selling products (like WordPress SEO Secrets) or services (like Blog Consulting) from your blog will make you far more money than AdSense. In order to sell from your blog you…
Life in the Fertile Land between Blogging and Internet Marketing
If you can’t see the audio player in your email or reader, please visit the blog to listen. Definition of an ecotone: An ecotone is a transition area between two adjacent ecological communities (ecosystems). In this audio post, the two ecotones I’m concerned about are blogging and internet marketing. What you’ll hear in this audio…
Feed Count Chaos! Transfer Your FeedBurner Account to Google Now
You might have already known this, but Google bought FeedBurner a while ago. Like a Boa Constrictor unhinging its jaws to swallow a young calf, Google has been moving FeedBurner data over to Google’s vast data centers, and the transfer is nearing completion. How do we know? Because nearly everyone’s feed counts fell through the…
The Real Secret to Blogging
So you have this blog… and it’s just… sitting there. Not doing much of anything. You’re having a nearly impossible time getting traffic, comments, or subscribers. You’ve tried every trick in the book to generate traffic: social media, SEO, whatever. Nothing seems to be working, and it sucks. You feel like giving up. Why? Why…
New (Old) Blog Services Now Available
This weekend was great: I had several client blog consulting calls and was really able to provide help that mattered to people, that gets results. The kind of consulting I do is strategic: I help bloggers figure out their goals and game plans so they get the results they want out of their blog. Often,…
WordPress.TV Launches – Video Tutorials Galore!
WordPress.tv has now launched from the fine folks at WordPress. For all you blog DIY’ers out there who want to see how to do something in WordPress.com or a self-hosted WordPress blog, this new resource–from the source–is the place to go. Play the video above to check out the overview, or just head on over…
WordPress SEO Secrets News
Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you get both at the same time. That’s how it is with WordPress SEO Secrets. The part I got right? Bloggers want this, they need it. It fills a big knowledge gap most bloggers have and gives them the practical know-how they need to raise their blog’s…
How to Add Tweets to WordPress
Can’t see the video in your reader or email? Watch it on the blog. This video walks you through how to install a plugin for WordPress 2.7 (self-hosted) that displays your Twitter posts (called “tweets”) in your blog’s sidebar. I’m not doing this at the moment on Remarkablogger, as you can see, but I will…
Don’t Wait – Speed Thrills
If you can’t see the audio player, come listen on the blog Don’t wait. Speed thrills. Some thoughts about speed in online business (essence of these thoughts: faster is better). I bet there’s something you should’ve moved on, already. Is it still “out there” waiting? Write a comment and pledge to get moving on it….
Now is the Time for Renegades – Interview with Career Renegade Author Jonathan Fields
Jonathan Fields walked away from what was supposed to be a great job as a hedge fund lawyer. Fast-forward a few years and many mistakes later, and he’s become a yoga instructor and fitness entrepreneur, and a prolific blogger and marketer. In fact, he had a hand in helping me successfully launch Remarkablogger about a…
Free Blogging and Social Media Seminar with Janet Fouts and Me
I’m teaming up with business social media consultant Janet Fouts to deliver a FREE teleseminar about the crossroads of blogging and social media. Janet’s a friend and was, in fact, my first blog consulting client. Janet not only knows her stuff, she knows how to present to a group clearly and professionally. To learn more…
WordPress SEO Secrets Audio Sample and Price Deadline
WordPress SEO Secrets continues to sell well. I’ve seen a few tweets on Twitter from folks who say they’re reading, watching, or listening to it and learning a lot. The other day I provided an excerpt from the ebook portion of the course, which was very well-received as great stand-alone content in its own right,…
WordPress SEO Secrets – People Got Issues
The video may not play in your reader or email. Please visit the blog to watch it. WordPress SEO Secrets is moving off the virtual shelves at a good clip, and I’m quite pleased. The feedback from customers has all been great. People are tweeting and blogging about it, which is cool. But some people…
Make Money Selling WordPress SEO Secrets as an Affiliate
I sent out an email to my Remarkanotes list earlier today describing how things were going for the launch of WordPress SEO Secrets. In that email, I mentioned affiliates. I didn’t think anything of it. It was just some light “how ya doin’” kind of talk. So I was shocked to see a flood of…
WordPress SEO Secrets – The Doors are Open NOW
I feel like such a proud Daddy! I just couldn’t wait. I was going to open the doors on the home study course I’ve been blogging about for the last few days at 4pm Eastern, but you know, I just couldn’t wait that long. YOU CAN HAVE IT NOW: WordPress SEO Secrets is ready for…
WordPress SEO Secrets PREVIEW
WordPress SEO Secrets launches tomorrow, and the truth is that I am busier than all get-out preparing. But when I figured out how to create a killer blog post that was completely lazy of me but also great information for you, I had to laugh. I’m going to chop out a section of WordPress SEO…
WordPress SEO for People Who Think SEO is B.S.
If you were going to pay for a Yellow Pages ad in the phone book, wouldn’t you want to make sure it was listed under the correct subject heading so people could easily find it? Of course you would. That makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? And wouldn’t you sadly shake your head over a business…
ANNOUNCEMENT – SEO-Nomicon will be Renamed WordPress SEO Secrets
I wanted to have some fun with the name and the marketing of my WordPress SEO guide. But based on the feedback I’ve received, I’ve come to realize that I’m sacrificing too much for that. My idea of fun would be detrimental to recognition and sales. The new name will be WordPress SEO Secrets, and…
WordPress SEO Reader Questions Answered: How Web Analytics Fits in with SEO
Several people have asked me about how web analytics relates to WordPress SEO, so I wanted to explain this very important connection. I’ll start by pointing you back to the posts I previously wrote on blog traffic in advance of my Growing Blog Traffic teleseminar: Blog Traffic Terms Defined – Because Knowing What the Heck…
Are You Ready to Get Serious with Your Blog for 2009? Learn WordPress SEO
If you can’t see the video, watch it on the blog. OK, so 2009 is here. What are you going to do to take your blog to the next level? A few months ago, you had a great opportunity to learn how to diversify your online income streams with Online Business School. The challenge for…
