how to make a hefty six figure income from your blog
selling digital products
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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 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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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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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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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
OR
The Interior Design Field is Full of Backstabbing Shrews
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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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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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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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