Blog Success

As we get closer to launching Blog Success 2.0 everyone is busy creating content (there will be loads of new videos and audios included) and rearranging the site to make sure it becomes more accessible to everyone.

We have had a number of new members join this week – so welcome to them – and I have been in the forum as always answering questions whenever I can along with other Blog Success members.

For now there really isn’t much to report until the major change takes place and the new Blog Success is launched but I will be back with plenty of news once that starts to happen. If you are not a member of Blog Success you can take a look here http://www.blogsuccess.com and take advantage of the trial period.

Diane

The last two weeks have been busy with our continued efforts to improve the training area inside Blog Success.

Blog Success 2.0 is due to launch in the next 4-6 weeks so we are eager to get everything running as it should be. The training area will include even more audio and video tutorials, allowing you to learn on the go plus the forum will also give members an even better opportunity to ask all the questions they need to about their training, technical issues and anything else.

Having a place to come and sort out anything technical has been one of the big plus points of the Blog Success forums along with the opportunity to receive constructive feedback on your blog.

Over the next few weeks, now that the content has been moved and updated, the actual inside of the members area will begin to change and once that is complete the only thing left to do will be to launch the new Blog Success 2.0.

A short report today as I am busy with chats and new updates that are coming to Blog Success soon. It is a really exciting time and in an effort to continually improve the learning experience for members Blog Success is about to receive a new look by the end of this year.

I can’t tell you too much about it right now but it will include more details on how to make money with your blog in less time than it takes you to make money by building an authority presence online, because becoming an authority isn’t something that happens in a few months, but when it does it is sooooo worth it!

If you are an expert it is my personal opinion that Blog Success is THE place to learn how to take your expertise and turn yourself into an authority in your niche but the training is not just for trained professionals, it is also for mom and pop businesses, parents looking to bring in some extra income and anyone really who wants to leverage the power of the internet.

It’s time for me to go connect with another member of Blog Success (as a member you can book time to speak with me via Skype) but before I go I want to wish you an awesome weekend, have fun whatever you are doing and remember to keep connecting – it’s what being online is all about

Diane Corriette
Membership Manager
Blog Success
http://www.blogsuccess.com

This week has seen activity in the forum pick up as people return from holiday and get stuck into making activity happen on their blog.

Rusty Moore over at Fitness Black Book reported great success with signups for his new free giveaway, building a list of 50,000 after using one of Jack Humphrey’s techniques available to all Blog Success members. He had 3,000 opt-ins the first seven days and is now holding a consistent 120-150 per day. The great news is the conversation rate he is receiving with a massive 80-90% for the first few days and maintaining 60-65% now. Imagine giving away a free product and having 60-65% of those people buying your product offer. What difference would that make to your finances right now????

Well done Rusty!!!

The newsletter was sent out this week too and the focus is all on leveraging the material you already have by repurposing content.

Repurposing content is all about taking something you already have e.g. an article and turning it into content in different formats – like an audio, or a video, use it as a blog post, or post it to your remote blogs. The whole newsletter focused on providing members with practical tips to use immediately which would in effect double the content they already have.

It has been a great week in Blog Success and if you are not a member you might want to give it some serious consideration! Your Blog’s success depends on it

Diane Corriette
Membership Manager
Blog Success

Well it is finally time to get back to seriously looking at your blog as a business. Thanks Giving is on the way and so is Christmas and the best time to think about what you will promote for these holiday seasons is now – not two months from now!

Have you even began to think about how Christmas might factor into your plans right now? If you haven’t I would give it some serious thought and if you are not a member of Blog Success now is the time to take the plunge because it will give you enough time to learn what you have to do to improve your current blog and if you do not have a blog you can get yourself ready for valentines…. yes I do mean February 2010!

Future planning is essential so that you know what you focus on now and what will be bringing in your income so start thinking and remember you get to have a 20 minute “chat” with me to help you get focused.

Diane Corriette
Blog Success Membership Manager

Its summer break and loads of people are right now enjoying life in the sun someplace (hopefully) or at least taking a break from the usual routine of work.

When people return at the end of August the usual thing to do is to complain about going back to work and think about what alternatives are available. This is when people turn to how they can make some extra money or change career for those who blog about how to work from home or how to make money online this is an ideal time for you to make sure your blog is in order and ready.

Plus for those of you who run theme blogs Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner so even more reason to work on the SEO of your blog to make sure that when people are looking for gifts they find you!

That is the message I passed on to members last week and I thought I would share with you too

We had an awesome webinar this week with content creation expert Anissa Wardell who spoke about something many new bloggers find difficult and that is content development. The trouble comes when people do not have a plan and Anissa took everyone through exactly how to build a content development plan which was excellent.

There are some great changes coming by the winter this year because at Blog Success we are continually looking at how we improve and provide the best quality service to members. It is my personal opinion that Blog Success exists purely to create professional authority bloggers and it can take a little while to develop your authority but it is well worth it as one member announced in the forum. He is looking at selling is blog for a very high 5 figure sum (over $60,000) after building it based on what he learnt at Blog Success. He didn’t advertise or try to make money but spent his time building his authority in his niche.

Great stuff

Busy week doing a lot of helping out new members so not much to report, nothing new happening right now at Blog Success so I am spending all my time helping people as they come through the door…… I want to ask you something….

What’s the point of having a blog if it isn’t doing anything for you and why are people so “afraid” of research?

That is the question I seem to be asking new members a lot lately, either one of those or both questions because I seem to hit the same resistance. No one wants to research their niche, they are in a hurry to get their blog up and get going so all they want to do is buy a domain and do this thing!

Unfortunately without knowing why you are putting your blog up you will find that eventually you will run out of things to write about. From all the work I have done with new bloggers if any of them say they can’t think what to write about I ask them who they are reaching out too (target market) and all of them to date do not have a strong idea. They have an idea of their niche but not their buyer – yet it is the buyer in that niche who will be getting their wallet out so you need to bring them to you.

When you know…..

what your blog is there to do

how it is going to help

who it is targeting

…….then writing content really does become easy. In fact you soon find you have more ideas than you can handle and the best thing to do is write them out and future post them on your blog.

Research doesn’t have to be boring

I love the research part of setting up anything and I encourage people to treat it like a treasure hunt. By carrying out research you hunt for what people want on the net and when you find what they want you have found gold. You then take that gold and turn it into money for you.
It’s a well known fact that you need to “find the hungry fish” or “find the hungry market” in order to succeed and it is no different with your blog.

Call yourself a pirate and go on a treasure hunt or call yourself a detective and go searching out what people are looking for/asking about.

Go on to forums and see what questions are being asked, get yourself on amazon then search out your niche and click on their best sellers link, do the same on Barnes & Noble, use the normal keyword research tools and see how many people are searching for your idea.

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Miss out research and your blog will become a ghost town after a gold rush…… and you will have to spend five times as much energy to get visitors to your blog.

Always remember …….

Research = treasure = gold = millions!

No research = no readers = no one buying = frustration and time wasting

You choose

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