How to Build a Successful Blog Business by Answering Questions
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Dave Taylor |
Too many bloggers miss the key shift that you need to make for your blog to become a business: instead of writing about what you want to talk about, you need to write about what your readers, your online community, want to read. It’s subtle, but incredibly important if you want to drive big traffic and generate meaningful revenue. Long-time blogger Dave Taylor will talk about how he’s grown AskDaveTaylor.com into his primary revenue stream, his iPhone and iPad apps, and how answering questions is easy, rewarding and lucrative. If you want to learn a better way to monetize your blog through compelling content, this is a must-attend session!
The Manifesto Money Trail
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Scott Ginsberg |
How to craft and launch a manifesto that drives readers into a content funnel and leads them to a sale. I’ve done this twice. First when launching my book, Career Renegade, I used a manifesto to launch the blog and drive pre-orders with a gated upsell at the end of the manifesto. Then, again, when launching my Tribal Author brand with a manifesto that led the launch of the the TribalAuthor.com blog, then drove readers to live book-marketing events and my soon-to-come virtual trainings.
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