Podcasting Guide: How to Do a Killer Podcast from Your Blog
Blogging is so competitive these days that written content is often not enough. And as Apple continues to grow, smart phones become smarter and iTunes gets bigger, a podcast from your blog is a good way to find new audiences and reach your fans using something different.
But how to podcast?
Setting one up can be annoying, especially if you are a beginner. However, it is something that is so worthwhile I wanted to write an instructional post to let you know how.
In this post I’ll go through all the things you’ll need to set up and record a Podcast including a final step by step review of the whole process. I really hope to hear some of your Podcasts soon!
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5 of the Most Engaging Blog Comment Areas & Why They Work So Well
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I don’t do much right here on Blog Tyrant (due to laziness) but it is clear that I do get a lot of comments. Normally its between 60 and 90 and sometimes as much as 250.
And as much as I bang on about the importance of email subscribers, the comments I get on this blog from my amazing readers is what keeps me going. It is what makes the blog appear alive and well and it is those comment-leaving angels that spread the word on social media.
In this post I want to show you some of the most engaging comment areas that you will find on a blog and talk about why they work so well. Hopefully it will inspire you to update and tweak your own comment areas in order to make them more attractive and enticing to your readers.
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How to Redirect Your Blog Comments to a Thank You Page
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One of the most common questions I get asked is how I get my WordPress blog comments to redirect to a fancy little “thank you” page. In fact, I probably get one or two emails every week asking me how it is done.
Getting your comments to redirect like this is an extremely good idea because it allows you to develop your relationship with a first-time commenter as well as getting them closer to sign up to that ever important mailing list.
In this post I’m going to show you how you can redirect your first time comments to a squeeze page.
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How to Skyrocket Your Blogging Output
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If you want to succeed at blogging you need to increase your output. It doesn’t have to be a lot of posts per say, but you do have to hit certain levels of work production.
And blogging is not just writing posts. It is researching keywords and topics, editing, tweeting, commenting and so on. There are a lot of things to get to.
In this post I’m going to talk about a few strategies I have used over the years to skyrocket my blogging output. Some of these tips helped me to sell a blog for $20,000 in the first year.
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How Do You Know When You’re Cooked?
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How do you know when you are done? How many hours, days, weeks and months do you put in to something before you realize that it’s just not going to work for you?
This is a question I have been asking myself a lot these days.
In this post I’d like to ask a few questions, and come up with almost no answers.
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