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However, if you are really serious about building a travel blog that will lead to work and getting paid to travel the world, I really suggest joining Super Star Blogging. SSB is a community of very experienced and up and coming bloggers who are positive, helpful people looking out for travel blogging as whole.

We all help each other. Also I might as well mention here, if you really want help and to keep your blog running strong, I suggest getting your site managed by a professional. These are the guys who keep your blog updated and running smoothly, who fix things when you break them, back up your site, and save your life when your site goes down, etc. I have been meaning to update my About Me page for 2 years. I am mentally chiding myself as I write this BUT I am saying it for you guys — the About Me page is likely one of the first pages people will click on when they land on your site.

Once you start blogging and delving into this weird community of people who live out of backpacks around the world who you may or may not meet one day and who may or may not look like their Twitter profile pictures, you will realize there is a huge range of styles, passions, niches, genres, philosophies, business models, and well, ethics AS WELL AS a huge amount of people online looking to take advantage of you. If you want my advice, you need to remember one simple thing — your blog is your baby.

Tell them all to fuck off. Or if you think they are decent, then tell them to kindly fuck off. People will be asking you for links on your blog, tell them no. You just link to the things you find relevant and important when and where you want. It sets a terrible precedent for you and for the travel blogging community as a whole. We need to work together and not undermine each other. One day you will get invited on cool trips.

The more selective you are, especially early on, the better your blog will be in the future. I did the same thing. And it was the BBC. So really focus on the things that will actually bring you readers who will stick around and become part of your community. Create tutorials to help non-photographers take better pictures.

If you like making videos, make Youtube your blogging platform. Find your voice and run with it. At the end of the day, people usually say it takes at least a year for you to start making money travel blogging. I blogged for 2 years for fun. You have to love it. So protect that passion and run with it. Your email address will not be published. This is such a great post, thanks for sharing, Liz. I was SO relieved to see point number one. Everything I was reading in the travel community advised to use SEO-rich words in your name, such as the ones you listed.

As usual, thanks for sharing. Nice post to share. I also love the name. Thank you so much for this wonderful post. I love reading traveling blogs as I am a travel freak. I too am about to launch my own travel blog and this is SO helpful and actually a resource. It is very tough to take a decision between Squarespace and WordPress. Both have some pros and cons.

But from my opinion WordPress is best for the beginners because it is user-friendly CMS and have a huge number of responsive themes. You can also get some tutorial on WordPress at http: I love your no-nonsense approach to all this. Well I am not sure you need to blog full time to use TBS. TBS is more about how to build a successful blog from the very beginning. I was in it while I was still working from home. If you really want to take your blog to the next level, then I would join.

I am just getting ready to relaunch my blog, so these are all great tips! Always great to hear from someone who already does it well! Which goes to show you, anything is possible, guys.

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So without further ado, here are my 10 best tips for starting a successful, kickass travel blog! If you want my advice, and you are looking to break into the travel blogger community, avoid the following words if possible: Host your blog Hosting whaaaaaat? How easy was that? So much less painless than when I did it. WordPress all the way Why was my blogging start so painful? From there you will login to your blog from www.

Or use Wix and let them do all the work Nowadays you can also use Wix to build your site in a very simple, easy to understand way. So, you have to stay persistent. Sure, your traffic numbers may be pitiful now, but over a period of years, the compounding growth will result in a massive audience. You just have to keep going, and eventually it will all pay off. Usually, they are at a few hundred visitors per day within a month or two, and they are receiving a few thousand visitors per day before the end of the first year.

And if you ever want your blog to be popular , you desperately need to change your strategy. The opposite is also true. The greater your understanding, the greater your traffic will be. Email readers who comment on your blog and ask them what they would like to hear more about. Call them on the phone. Read the comments on popular blogs in your niche. Listen to what people are saying on Twitter. And then look for patterns. If you listen, your audience will tell you every single time. In fact, the larger your blog becomes, the easier it is to get distracted, and so the more intently you have to listen.

This blog is launching with the most fanfare of maybe any blog in history. And if I want to be true to my own strategy, then the only appropriate way to begin is by listening. I want to meet you exactly where you are, right now, and give you the exact information you need to get immediate results. The only metric I really and truly care about is your success , because if I can help you, and we work together to spread the word, then I believe traffic and revenue and all of those other things will take care of themselves.

Shane Mar 12, Farhan Syed Mar 12, I publish an empowerment blog for women and after a year I have around hits per day. I believe there is some awesome information on my blog but I am still struggling to attract more readers who comment and share. I think I will go ahead and ask my 55 subscribers what they want help with instead of giving what I think they would like. Gregg "Tommy" Thompson Mar 12, Diane Mclaughlin Mar 12, First, let me say congrats and bravo on this new site!

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I always love reading your stuff, and this was no exception. Write to answer those questions. I write what comes to my mind and heart. This may very well be out of your area of expertise, but do you have any ideas for someone like me? Thanks, and again, great site! Last year, you helped me realize I was in the wrong niche with social media blogging. Damian Thompson Mar 12, I am so looking forward to this, I am using you as my inspiration to get off the sidelines and launch my blog correctly the first time. Haley Mar 12, Excellent post to start off with!

I get overwhelmed just thinking about that! Nikhil Goyal Mar 12, I have been waiting for this blog for super long time. I am big fan of you John. I just want you to keep coming with some pretty awesome and serious stuff as soon as you can. Mary Anne Shew Mar 12, My struggle is blog topic and audience. I love leadership, I teach leadership, I coach leadership.

The topic is 10 miles wide and miles deep. Everything about it interests me, and I see much interest across the internet in many of its subtopics. How the heck do I choose? Do I write for women? For CEOs or for someone starting their career? For new entrepreneurs or for established business owners? The gray is hard to read. Mary Mar 12, I write about personal finance. Ruth Zive Mar 12, Caroline Miller Mar 07, The difference between a diary and a blog is that the blog writer hopes others will read the material.

To do that, one chooses topics of mutual interest. Where I disagree with Jon Morrow is in the presumption that a writer should chases numbers, bagging people as if they were commodities. Chasing numbers is what marketers do who wish to sell a product. A writer looks for like minds with whom to share ideas. The number may prove to be small but if the exchange is satisfying, it is enough. Ken White Dec 16, Caroline, I like what you said here. It fits well with my objectives for a blog… my goal is to have a place where I can capture and express my thoughts and feelings: It also provides a kind of archive where my grand-kids, say, can go to get glimpses of me that may go unexplored otherwise.

That is because I am changing the name. I hope it appears soon. Catherine Feb 03, This is my goal exactly…to find like minded people, people who have experienced what I have. Eric Venture2Adventure Sep 22, Writing a travel blog, I think I need to write everyday. Not post everyday, but at least get something down on paper that I can revisit and flush out. I do agree that trying to do too much at once will put you off blogging very quickly.

Trying to write quality posts and grow your Facebook and twitter following can be exhausting. Stan Dubin Mar 12, I look forward to more blog posts like these! Rosemary Jayne Mar 12, Suddenly Jamie Mar 12, Off to pick my daughter up from school and then back to enjoy what I already know will be an informative and entertaining post.

Ileane Mar 12, Susan Mar 12, I absolutely love your no nonsense approach!

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Congratulations and wishing you much success. Looking forward to future posts. Donna Mar 12, Jon, This was an excellent blog. What I got out of it is that we need to remember that a blog is a dialogue not a monologue. To succeed we need to keep our focus on our target market s and see how we can add value for them.

In any case, I think that any of these mistakes, if made in isolation of a larger and more comprehensive blogging strategy, can be dumb. Mark Mar 12, Subscribed to this and looking forward to learning a lot from it. Congratulations on getting up and running with this. Nikki Mar 12, The Calcutta Kid Mar 12, Jon — Great blog and an awesome article.

Just the title and the sub-titles are a bit challenge to read. Jeremy Myers Mar 12, That is where I need help. Karen Cameron Mar 12, One constructive criticism, if you will, the light grey text color — esp. Thomas LaRock Mar 12, With regards to writing a post every day, is it a bad thing to do if you simply enjoy writing and have the time?

Sherie Mar 12, Joseph Shaw Mar 12, Scan out and give us the 50, foot view on a strategy for launching a blog, getting traffic, and getting your list building started. Great way to create curiosity and make people want to click. Patty Gardner Mar 12, Well, that kind of made me want to quit. I have 50 subscribers. I average between 80 and hits per day. My highest has been last week. I am writing daily, commenting on other blogs, promoting on twitter and facebook and trying to learn. I listen to my readers and friends and try really hard to produce practical, quality, relevant content.

When my readers ask about something, I provide. One of my readers mentioned being afraid of using yeast so I wrote a series on Overcoming Yeastaphobia. I have been waiting for the snowball effect. But my blog did not explode in the first few months so does that mean I should quit? I really want this to work. They tell me I am. Plus I was hoping to eventually make a little bit of money. I guess I need to either switch gears or get out of the car. Hashim Warren Mar 12, I see some people attract and keep traffic using a very social strategy, and participating in all sorts of networking sites.

Then I see others use a more direct marketing strategy, using landing pages tied to keywords and such. I seem to move through a different tactic a week. Adam Costa Mar 12, Hired writers for more content. Started contacting bloggers for guest posts got one on ProBlogger, woo-hoo! What I think your fellow readers may be interested in hearing more about is how to scale your blog.

Ben Berkompas Mar 12, Or would that be too formulaic? Kelly Mar 12, I am planning to launch a blog soon — not my first rodeo, but I want to make it uber successful this time. So my question is this: Google search results are a bit overwhelming sometimes, as is scouring a specific category on Technorati!

Is there a better way? Steven Devonport Mar 12, Kevin Mar 12, Here in Canada we have a lot of wide open expanses of unblemished Boreal forest, which means we Canadians like to beat around the bush. Thanks for the bluntness born of experience. Sarah Arrow Mar 12, Kevin Costner Syndrome should have a vaccine, too many people and not just bloggers are infected with it. Alexander Wilkas Mar 12, Robert Chen Mar 12, I struggle with keeping the faith that it is going to work out.

Look forward to your future articles. Merl Miller Mar 12, Thanks for starting this blog. My blog is 3 weeks old and I am beginning newbie. How do I find other blogs in my chosen field and how do I determine how popular they are? Ken Benjamin WisdomWebsite Mar 12, On the plus side, I do have the answer to the secret of life. A month in now and loving it.

Scott Lesovic Mar 12, I look at blogging as something to dread. I have my doubts though. All I want to do is perform shows. Who are those people though? Am I one of them? Laura Christianson Mar 12, Love what you said about writing every day. Most of us even those of us who blog fulltime for a living have a life outside of blogging, and posting fresh content every day is an unattainable and unrealistic goal.

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Besides, we need a break! I find that giving myself a day off every week helps me return to blogging refreshed and ready to write. I see an incredible amount of horrendously ugly blogs with hot pink type on a black background and 37 widgets in the sidebar. People do judge a book by its cover, and a clean, functional design works wonders at boosting traffic and credibility. Pauline Gaines Mar 12, Joy Mar 12, Perhaps I was afraid to be successful through my site. I had to want to soar before I could.

Melissa Breau Mar 12, Thanks for the post.

You asked what we as readers are struggling with and need to know. For Moxy, our audience grew quickly initially. We spread by word of mouth. Tips on how to do that would be great. Emma Lawrence Mar 12, Great opening post — those mistakes sound all too familiar! In addition to growing my audience, I would love to know how I can get my readers more involved by posting comments, asking questions, sharing their experiences etc.

Joe Polivick Mar 12, Leanne Regalla Mar 12, Right now I mostly struggle with time. Full-time job, a business, and songwriting on top of it. But I am pulling out my toughest ninja swiss-cheese time management strategies to get this stuff done. You know what they say, if you want something done, give it to a busy person. Don Sterling Mar 12, Lori Zanteson Mar 12, So excited for this! Love your voice and your advice is always so on. I have the fear factor going on which has meant that my blog is empty. Chris Corbett Mar 12, Suzannah Burke Mar 12, The post was worth the wait. My blog is stagnant at the moment and I am knocking myself out with assisting other authors to promote their work, which I love to do.

However the new additions of followers of my blog is just not happening. I am preparing for the release of another book, the first two being moderately successful, and I am starting a new blog for the launch. Would I be better off doing the promo on my existing site? Do people really want to know about yet another book launch? Se7en Mar 12, Oh I am so excited about this project of yours!!!

Really I know I am going to learn so much over here!!! Thank you so much for the brilliant work you do to encourage bloggers to grow and improve!!! Since you ask for questions, I have one: I would like it to continue to grow without adding in bazillions of hours of extra work… 24 hours in a day and all that. My question is this: Household Budgeting Guy Mar 12, Good, turn me upside down, shake me and hit me around a little bit. Then tell me specific ways, based on what I am doing now, that I could improve by household budgeting site.

Dan Gershenson Mar 12, Thanks for speaking to the 2 things I get sick of hearing all the time from people who get up on stages with microphones: Make your content remarkable and blog every day. Why not start slow, focus on creating something useful that people want to hear, then scale up the frequency over time? Ross Arcemont Mar 12, Looking forward to the future of this blog! Nancy Roe Mar 12, Catherine McKinney Mar 12, Congratulations Jon, a great opening post, smashes some myths and explores better ideas of approach. Literally beginning a blog I was overwhelmed with the tasks of developing voice, topic approach and social media tactics.

Maybe you could address a few of these concerns individually. I plan to learn as I go. But now I have a great friend to accompany me. Austin Furey Mar 12, Jon- I feel like my real estate blog has plateaued. How do I rekindle the spark? Tess Mar 12, Trying to figure out what to do next. Tony Fuentes Mar 12, My second would be branding, coming up with an irresistible offer that people scream, jump and faint over like Michael Jackson and getting to know my audience better than they know themselves. Lisa Mar 12, You are truly and inspiration. I would like to grow my audience and expand my reach.

I am guest blogging, commenting on other blogs…not sure what my next move should be. My guest blog contributions get thousands of views sometimes but that does not translate to traffic on my blog. PS I really want to subscribe in my feed reader. Can you give me a hint on how I might subscribe to the feed?

Benjamin Mar 12, Thanks for the perspective! I am such a novice that I do not even have a blog yet! I am so confused about how to start that I am allowing myself to do nothing in an informational paralysis. Do I self host? What sftware should I use? How do I choose a template? I want it to be great so bad that I have not done anything at all yet! I Lovely Mar 12, Radford Castro Mar 12, Am I doing something wrong? Where do you draw the line between popular blogs and not-so popular blogs? I do make substantial mods to them though. Most of them come from the conventions we visit.

Kimberly Houston Mar 12, I spend alot of time thinking about what readers in my niche might be struggling with so I can write about that on my blog. The way I figure this out is to spend a fair amount of time on other similar blogs and pay attention to the comments, as you mention in here; I also visit forums to do the same thing. My goal is to add value to my readers, and I want them to come away from a blog post with something actionable they can go off and do right then.

Robert Mar 12, Elizabeth Mar 12, Now I have 3 posts ready to go up, an MVP to go along with it, and 10 part autoresponder series. I was mentioned in a forum posting that had a lot of people viewing and my traffic spiked and then slowly dwindled back to the views a day range. You asked us to share our problems…mine is that I have solved a problem — a big one — about how Shakespeare wrote his plays — by candlelight and with a quill pen. Further, I can tell you why we go to these plays even when we know the outcome of everyone of them.

To the extent there is a market, it is dominated by people who have asked and answered the wrong questions. Which just makes these plays more mysterious. Susanna Perkins Mar 12, Looking forward to what you have to say going forward. Annie Andre Chief Adventure-ologist Mar 12, Jon, This gave me lots of perspective and loads to think about especially the piece about writing what people want to hear vs what we think they want to hear.

For 8 months i was just searching. Now i want to know how to find places to guest post that will most help my blog. How to craft those letters to the site owners. I would love to know how Joint ventures are done. What is typical what is not when asking someone to contribute something to my product for free like an interview which will be included in a paid product. Firstly I am excited to be here and to comment on your very first post on the new blog. I thought I was nearly done but yeah, this post erased that illusion pretty fast.

I did start off my blog by creating a good number of content first but please bear with me that was before I saw your webinar about your course and guest porting okay? So now I have content and well I love writing so I am doing a post at least once a week but at the moment I am busy finishing the book so that takes more of my time at the moment.

BUT, I am getting only around 25 visitors on average to my site per day. Now you mentioned something very important that caught my attention. Maybe I was writing about what I wanted to write about and not what the readers or people out there want. Although my keyword research suggests differently and that those ARE highly sought after topics I write about.

I have no idea how to find that micro niche if I may call it that. I have no idea how to narrow down and focus on a specific thing. I love writing and I know how to know things and more importantly: I love to teach others how to do things. If narrowing down my niche would mean more traffic and interest, then I have no problem with starting all over. Jon Spooner Mar 12, Totally struggling with 4 — I painted myself into a corner by jumping into an un-named pro theme that means I have to update WP as well as the pro theme. I slacked on keeping up with it and now I am stuck back in an old version of WP with an old version of the pro theme.

I am struggling with too many options to move forward! Do I rebuild the site to be responsive for mobile? Do I rebuild towards a more Pinterest-y style? Mark Davidson Mar 12, A great blog post…. A story about our lives should always have some action steps to take. Providing a solution to a problem through story telling is always a big plus. Simple designs are the most effective. Case in point, your blog here. Rather than creating posts of value, create posts that are personally relevant to your audience. Write for your audience. As human beings we are constantly sorting, filing or deleting information.

The goal is to create a fully associated experience in the brain and nervous system of our readers. This will anchor our message in the memory of the reader. Emotion is a powerful tool. Depending on the objective, there are a variety of human emotions we can stimulate. Emotion also helps to anchor messages. Write with an end goal in mind. What kind of response or action are we looking to generate with our post? Never assume the reader will fill in the blanks on their own. We have to tell them. Ambiguity is the hallmark of lazy communication. Random posts about random things will produce random results.

Human beings are funny that way. Write for human beings. Hire a proof reader. Selena Moffitt Mar 12, Nadia Chaudhry Mar 12, More of an ethical issue. Bert Mar 12, We are in the middle of re-branding our site and we really struggled with the transition. After 10 years and some time spent with your colleagues from Copyblogger we have taken that step. Our site is turning into a blog while our services are in their own sites. One challenge is as we learn from you and turn that message into our own words for our customers and readers, how do we give credit where it is due? What is the best way?

We added some of the look for testimonials that we really liked on the CB site. Our concern was how much did it look like we learned vs took.

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Julie in Provence Mar 12, Me and everyone else of course. Jim McFarland Mar 12, Bigglesworth purring on your lap, right? How do I approach my blog brand, and launch in a way that stands apart from all others in my niche? Jim Cantwell Mar 12, I do write everyday, but I only write for and post to my blog once a week on Sunday I started my blog about a year ago, writing on what I thought people would want to read, and I hated it.

In part because I was writing about things I had no interest in. I had visitors, and a handful of comments, 0 shares and 1 subscriber in a year A few weeks ago I was ready just to delete my wordpress blog, and give up when I read a couple of great posts from 2 great writers I have become friends with that gave me my aha moment I renamed my blog and off I went started writing more about what I am interested in and really decided not to care about the traffic coming to the blog and focus more on my voice and engaging better with the readers that do happen upon my blog and by doing so the numbers are up as of today traffic is at from in just 2 weeks so in 2 weeks I had more views than I did the entire year before.

People are sharing on social sites now, commenting and linking back to my blog on theirs. I still have a long way to go and a lot to learn and find my niche. Would love to hear any input you have. Sophie Lizard Invisiblogger Mar 12, I chose a free blog theme and did my own graphics, but I probably wasted half a day trying out different colour palettes and typographies. I do spend time on Twitter, not so much Facebook. Twitter is where fun people are and my blog, so far, is not where people are at all.

But I know from experience that, unless you do something to push it along, the snowball is veeeeeery slow-growing and eventually reaches the plateau at the bottom of the hill. I am struggling with 3 jobs, 2 blogs, a toddler, and various other things not worth listing. I know you can help with that, because you already have. My end goal is to have an online business of steady revenue. Amandah Mar 12, It comes down to writing quality content, finding and sticking to a posting schedule, and enjoying your blog topic. Be genuine … be you! Greg Nudelman Mar 12, I am now much more reader-focused, and write shorter pieces with my genuine voice, so my first free webinar is about to sell out.

Any way to automate knowing where the traffic is coming from using Google Analytics tag? How do I balance comments with signups? Eventful Woman Mar 12, Felicia Shelton Mar 12, Thank you for this, Jon. I, for a second, thought about leaving my blog behind, but I just love it and I like to inspire people about design, travel and now my new home, Paris. I know that something is about to happen. Thank you for your words of truth and encouragement. Jen Mar 12, Your list has definitely helped me see where I should focus my time.

Any tips on how to find a similar audience on Twitter would be really helpful too. Lowe Mar 12, Tranque Mar 12, We should all be paying attention to that! Paul Mar 12, Where am I struggling? I started my site for the love of it after becoming jaded with online marketing my day job. I also had some bad Internet karma to work off. Now I want to turn it into a full time thing, and that means getting paid.

It feels wrong to me to ask for money from people for what I do for them. John Howlett Mar 12, Until now I have not asked people to subscribe is that a mistake, will it turn people off from visiting? What are the best ways to grow the my number of readers and then subscribers? What are the benefits of using WordPress over Blogger. Jenifer Cotter Mar 12, Jon — I think you just saved my sanity! Looking forward to reading your blog to help me along the way!


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Frank Eves Mar 12, When I was working full-time, I often wished there were far fewer after-hours phone calls, from my patients. Why on earth am I reading boostblogtraffic. Do I miss the conversation? Thanks Jon, I appreciate your time and expertise. Deborah Mar 12, I enjoyed your article. I am about to launch my website Nutrition Therapy and I wish I had more time to write articles. Mary Speller Mar 12, Jon, I love it. This blog is so YOU and it is great.

For me developing a process that I can follow regularly to build traffic would be great. It would stop me jumping around and help me to develop consistency. And while I wait, I am going to have a near-death experience in an explosion, get naked, write a blog about it, and hope it makes me millions of dollars. Sherice Mar 12, Randine Mar 12, I feel the same way. I started with the idea of building a load of content fast and when I saw what people actually read and liked, I realized the content of the blog was what was important.

It needs to be what people just like me want to read, learn, explore. Not just what I wanted to spew on a page. John Frenaye Mar 12, You talk about successful blogs and how they need to have several hundred readers a day initially and then several thousand a day after a year. While this is true for some general blogs, what about the niche blogs?

Certainly this barometer is not the same. My blog is a community news and events blog. It has grown pretty well sure we all want more but I have taken it from zip to 90, UV in under 3 years. I have people looking to advertise with me my revenue model. But I am focused on a particular geographic area.

Any suggestions on increasing traffic for finely defined blogs? Frank Stapleton Mar 12, I have a website showing my large abstract paintings. I have another website about inventing. I wrote a book called celestial conversations which I love and that I would love to share with people. Hunter Boyle Mar 12, Congrats on the new blog launch!

Perfect topic, solid advice and a snappy headline of course. Looking forward to more posts and blogging wisdom. I have to agree with other commenters that the gray text strains the eyes a bit. Otherwise, keep the good stuff coming …. Jan Schochet Mar 12, Have been waiting and not disappointed. Thanks for this post. I appreciate your corroboration. As an aside, I was going to remark on the illegibility of the subheads, but see that Sherice beat me to it. Very very light and hard to read. And how can I get more readers?

Anca Mar 12, I subscribed before you launched this blog, being intrigued by what was yet to come. Various circumstances led me to your blog and the Den. I know I attracted this through what I wanted. I am confident I am in the right place now. I want to put my freelance writer career in motion and attract well-paying clients. In fact, I heard about you through Carol, in an interview she did with you a month ago on writing great headlines. And I downloaded a copy of your Headlines Hacks. I can relate to some of the mistakes you describe. Will keep following and look forward to learning a lot from you.

You are a true example that anything is possible with drive and motivation. Sharon Baker Mar 12, Congrats and wow, words and I read every one — many of the comments too. Who says all blog posts have to be words? But the bigger problem is that there is so much information already out there about my topic that I feel most of my ideas have all ready been written by others. But the most read post on my blog is about where I live and tulips, not content writing. Mar 12, I do write daily on FB followers and blog once or twice a week on Tumblr 23 followers. Charles Bohannan Mar 12, Renee Mar 12, Debbie Happy Maker Mar 12, Great first post Jon.

Wow Will I ever get there. I do know one think that I am not dong is the guest blog post. I find myself running out of time from doing all the other things. No, I am not making up excuses for myself. I know i have to do better. Jay Mar 12, Thanks Jon — Really helpful and thank you for that. I do worry about SEO and social networking to bring in more followers etc.

Have a great week, Jay. Annamarie Mar 12, How do I find them? Ryan Hanley Mar 12, Amazing post, you know that at minimum as of my typing this other people have told you as much. What I want is real life actionable advice and tips and strategy… not 6 bullet points…. Karen Friend Smith Mar 12, The starting point is definitely the hardest — knowing where to start — and you hit it on the head. Thanks also for busting out the myths.

Thank you for that message. So, I guess the next challenge — get out the q-tips. I will be listening very closely to everything you say. And watching your strategy.

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Bush Mar 12, Following advice and most of my hair has been pulled out. There simply is not enough of me to go around.. I honestly have a real business to run and all this social media time is not really helping. We are there to serve… but there must be a return. Annmarie Mar 12, How to find those folks who need what I have to offer when they need it. My site has services and a blog. Sharon Wieland Mar 12, Hi Jon, This may be elementary, but it is my problem: I get so much spam in my comments that I had to stop reading them!

I may miss a real comment in the future because I do not take the time to go through the thousands of spam comments any more. What should I do? Thank you for any suggestions. Laura Mar 12, Such great wisdom, thank you! I would love your help with my blog. I have been actively blogging for a year in a faith niche. And I wonder about writing what people want to hear… I am an expert in my field and that may not be what people want to hear, so how do you think about that?

Dennis Ingwersen Mar 12, As I was reading down the page, I kept going, yep, been there and doing that. I know enough about business to know you have to give people what they want. I cant ask them what they want and they dont give it up when they drop by. Can you relieve my frustration?

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Jennifer Mar 12, I must agree — loving the information. Figuring out what not to do as well as what really works is very beneficial. I also had a difficult time reading the lighter text but certainly looking forward to more great articles from you — thanks again! Tommy Walker Mar 12, Certainly writing about things people have questions about is the first logical step, but where do you find the questions?

And next, how do you get your post in front of the people it can help? Roberta Budvietas Mar 12, Jon you are a man with a powerful heart. I look at the slow growth of my blog and the noise ringing in my head keeps saying not my blog but guest blogging. I have done some but not enough in my space which has taken me a long time to really figure out. I keep listening and comment and write.