Last month we asked you "what is the most tired or cliched advice online?" One phrase came up over and over again: "follow your passion."
Last month we asked you "what is the most tired or cliched advice online?" One phrase came up over and over again: "follow your passion."
Last weekend I was re-reading through The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and I realized that most bloggers start off with the wrong intentions. Most people focus in the beginning on how they can make their first dollar online. Oh, how wrong that is!
The latest social media fads may come and go, but some strategies for attracting an audience online will always be in style. Here are 42 of my favorite timeless ideas for attracting more visitors to your website. You can bet the farm on these. They'll be as effective in five years as they are today.
Like we talked about Tuesday, sometimes you just don't know what to write about. Well, there's one surefire way to still publish epic content on a regular basis without getting burnt out.
This morning I found myself staring at a blank screen. I needed to write a blog post but couldn't think of any ideas to write about.
There are literally hundreds of millions of blogs in existence. Thousands more are started every day. In a world where 99.9+% of blogs go mostly unnoticed, Derek Halpern has made a big name for himself and his blog Social Triggers in less than a year.
Note from Caleb: A trend we've been seeing lately is how bloggers have been using Kickstarter to fund major projects. A couple months back we featured the story of how Kristin and Shannon used their blog to reach more than triple their fundraising goal on Kickstarter. Also, our good friend Adam Baker from Man vs. Debt is launching his own Kickstarter campaign soon for a documentary called 'I'm Fine, Thanks'.
You started a website or blog because you thought it would be an easy way to make lots of money. Or maybe you knew this would take work, but you now realize your approach was all wrong. You thought you had it all figured out from the beginning.
If you're in desperate need of some motivation, we're going to fix that problem, right here, right now. Prepare yourself.
There are websites about nearly everything imaginable, but that doesn’t mean that they are all good! Here at Fizzle, we believe that anyone who puts in the right amount of focused effort can build an audience online, even if it is about an obscure topic.
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