Boost Your Blog #2: Start an Email Newsletter

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to boost your blog, today’s tip is:

This is another tactic that I know many bloggers are convinced of. But for one reason or another it’s seen as something they’ll do “one day”—maybe when they have more traffic, maybe when they have more time. The reality is that by starting an email list early on (and using it smartly), you’ll accelerate both the driving of traffic to your blog and the monetization of it.

Do you have an active email newsletter for your blog?

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Boost Your Blog #1: Create a Product

Yesterday I gave an example of something I’d been putting off doing to improve my blog—even though I knew it would have long-term benefits.

Today I want to continue on that theme and being to suggest a number of areas that bloggers could be investing time into today—and enjoying payoffs from in the future. Some of them will lead to financial benefits while others are just going to improve the effectiveness of a blog.

Every time I talk about monetizing blogs by selling a product of your own, I get comments from bloggers telling me that they’re thinking of, planning to, or wondering if they should launch a product of their own.

Yes there’s significant work in creating your own product, but there are also many many tangible benefits of doing it.

Have you created a product of your own?

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