How I Launched A New Website And Received 1,200 Visitors Day One

If you read my August 2014 Income Report, you know that I recently just launched my newest project, Famous Parenting.  I'm really excited about this project, as it is a collaboration between my wife and I (the first time together online)! The goal of the site is simple: find the best parenting articles online and share them with other parents.  Now that I'm a parent, I've been looking for fun and interesting articles to read.  But what I've found across a ton of different parenting sites is the following: Coupons, sponsored posts, and crap Aggregator sites that pull RSS feeds and don't curate the crap Mom bloggers that dislike dad bloggers and vice versa Fun family photos, with no story or message The bottom line is, I … [Read more...]

How To Craft a Blog Post Marketing Plan

You've probably heard the saying, "You should focus 20% of your effort on creating content, and 80% of your effort on promoting and marketing it."  It's one of the sayings that many of the top bloggers subscribe to - and I know I just recently read it on Derek Halpern's Social Triggers site.  But you know what?  I've been blogging for 4 years, and I never really understood what that meant until the beginning of this year. I want to share with you what I have learned about building a blog post marketing plan, and I'm going to walk you step by step through what I do - from the beginning of post generation, all the way through publishing and promoting.  And you know what I've learned along the way - if you do it right, you really do spend … [Read more...]