This is a guest contribution from Marcus Taylor of Venture Harbour. In Western cultures, there is a prevailing belief that you ‘work your way to the top’, ‘climb the ladder’, and make slow and steady efforts to achieve success. This way of thinking is undoubtedly a smart approach, particularly...

In the first two lessons I explained how you don’t need as much traffic as you think you do and revealed a smarter, more advanced model of making money from a blog. If you have not read this series from the start, I recommend you catch up here first: Part 1: The Myth Of “Being Everywhere”...

In the previous lesson I debunked the myth that you need to be everywhere, on many different platforms, to succeed with a blogging business. If you have not read it, begin here: Part 1: The Myth Of “Being Everywhere” And The Smarter Path To Traffic Now in part two we continue to explore...

I may make enemies of some of my fellow bloggers by saying this, but it has to be said… The current best-practice idea that you need to “be everywhere” in order to build traffic is bad advice. It’s bad advice because most people follow it at the wrong stage of their business development...

It’s been a long time overdue but I have finally started to do a complete review and update of the Blog Profits Blueprint, my ground-breaking report from – and you won’t believe this – 2007! Yep, that’s right, it’s now six years since I first published the Blueprint....

Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes If you ever wanted to join in with me and a friend as we talk about business and technology, and just listen to our conversation, this podcast is a pretty good representation of what happens. Walter and I jump around from topic to topic in this episode, but I have...

A Rarely Talked About Traffic Strategy That Almost No One Uses… Here’s a little flashback in time for you… It was the mid 2000s, I had recently surpassed 1,000 subscribers to my RSS feed (this was back when RSS was all that mattered to bloggers). The blog considered the “leader”...

This is a guest contribution from Nicholas Whitmore, freelance journalist and website content editor.copy With search engine traffic becoming increasingly difficult to rely on, it’s important for bloggers, like you, to think of different ways to drive people to your website. After all, there’s no...

A Rarely Talked About Traffic Strategy That Almost No One Uses… Here’s a little flashback in time for you… It was the mid 2000s, I had recently surpassed 1,000 subscribers to my RSS feed (this was back when RSS was all that mattered to bloggers). The blog considered the...

Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes If you ever wanted to join in with me and a friend as we talk about business and technology, and just listen to our conversation, this podcast is a pretty good representation of what happens. Walter and I jump around from topic to topic in this episode, but I have...