how to make a hefty six figure income from your blog

selling digital products

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You can find the notes at this address:

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In order to make big bucks, we need to start at the beginning. Without that foundation, nothing will happen.

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The Importance of Great Geek Help

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The First Obstacle That’s Holding Us

Back From Making Big Bucks

No matter what your business goals are

is a lack of…

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SEO - Search Engine Optimization

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If you are not fully invested in pinterest, then you are losing out.

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No One Ever Talks About.

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Top Pinterest Tips That Work To Drive Massive Amounts of Traffic To Your Site

• Use a pin it button plug in that is either static or hovers on images. I use the JQuery Pin-it Button For Images - plugin

• Sign Up For Rich Pins. There will be a bold headline underneath all of your pins.

•Make images with graphics that you add to your page. Folks Love these.

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More Pinterest Tips

• I use pic monkey to make all of my graphics - it’s a barrel of fun

• Try to join group boards and engage with other pinners

• Pin from your blog a minimum of 5 times a day, but more than 20 is unnecessary.

• Optimize your pins. What that means is— use descriptive terms that people are searching for. Pinterest is like a mini google

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Try This: Contact Pinterest after you’ve been on a while and ask

them to send you more followers.

It’s worth a try.

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The Third Way to Bring More Traffic to Your Blog

• Suck up to influencers - but only ones you genuinely admire (and BTW, everyone here is an influencer!)

• Comment on other blogs - you will get a back link. Ask to exchange blog rolls after developing a relationship

• Go to conferences, trade shows and join an accountability group

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But There’s Something Even

More Important Than Traffic

For Blogging Success!

Your Email Subscription List

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They aren’t coming back.

ever.

Here’s The Mistake

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What To Do Instead Of Wimpy Opt-In?

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My Email Provider Is Mail Chimp

• You will definitely need your geek help to set that up.

• Turn your freebie into a PDF and upload it to your image library.

• You set up a series of auto responders and your free offer gets sent to them via a link in the auto responder.

• Your freebie is up to you. You can look at your most popular posts for clues. Do not take more than a few hours to create it.

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AN EXAMPLE OF A POP UP THAT COVERS THE ENTIRE SCREEN. THIS IS A SCREEN SHOT OF MY ENTIRE SCREEN, TABS AND ALL. :] THERE IS MORE ON THE PAGE, BUT IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT THERE IS. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BRIBE HOWEVER.

Now You Have the Basics In Place

• Getting found by Googs and doing whatever is necessary to stay in his good graces. ;]

• Leveraging Pinterest - using the Tailwind App

• Creating Relationships and getting those golden backlinks!

•Creating a powerful bribe that will entice people to sign up for your email list.

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TIME TO TALK ABOUT YOUR BLOG - dum, dum, dum…

• We’re going to discuss the nitty-gritty, the down-and-dirty. (don’t ever write “nitty-gritty” and “down-and-dirty!” because they are cliches!)

• The most important part of your blog bar none - CONTENT

• But it’s not that lame platitude that CONTENT IS KING • It’s that your reader is…

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WHY READER FOCUSED CONTENT IS THE

MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR BLOG

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A CRASH COURSE IN BLOG WRITING

The most crucial part of your post to get right is the headline.

The Three Main Takeaways From The Design Bloggers Conference

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The Interior Design Field is Full of Backstabbing Shrews

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It’s Human Nature

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Your reader’s brain 90% of the time.

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Your reader’s brain when they see your blog in their inbox

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This is the Problem

• We’ve all been raised to be LADIES and GENTLEMAN— To be “nice.”

• Well, if you want to have success as a blogger, stop being so damned nice. I don’t mean rude or mean.

• Nice isn’t interesting. Nice isn’t awesome. Nice is boring and boring means you won’t be read.

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An Example of a Headline That Went Viral

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THE SHOCKING

TRUTH ABOUT

RESTORATION HARDWARE.

The Bloody Blog Post!

There are more great writing tips in your notes because I don’t want to drown you with information today.

https://laurelberninteriors.com/notes/

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The Hard Truth You Don’t Want To Hear

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How Much Time Is This Going To Take?

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How Often Do I have to Blog?

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CONSISTENCY

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You are building trust and authority

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COMMITMENT

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ONE OF THE WORST THINGS SOME OF YOU ARE DOING.

(no worries, I did it too)

There is a tutorial in your notes about images

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And now, we are ready to discuss how I make money from my blog.

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What Is a Digital Product?

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How Will I know When I’m Ready to Sell?

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How Do I Figure Out What To Create?

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How Will I Know That This Is Going To Work?

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Coaching and Accountability

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You WILL Feel Like Throwing Up!

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Build Excitement With Your Readers by working in what you are doing into a post and sharing bits of your new product.

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How Does This Selling Thing Work?

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Marketing Your Product &

How Much To Charge?

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THE LAUNCH

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Common’ Fess Up, Laurel…

Did You Really Make $100,000 In One Year?

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Sorry Mom, But You Were Wrong…

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