how to make money with your blog
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A crash course in inbound marketing and top 6 things to do to maximize the potential of your blog and increase ROI.TRANSCRIPT
How to Make Money With Your Blog
Stewart Sylvester,Inbound Marketing Manager, BrainSell
Sonja FridellGM, BrainSell
@brainsell
How it Works
Source: @hubspot
Is your website pushing or pulling?
OUTBOUND:Direct MailAdWords
Telemarketing
INBOUND:Blogging
Social MediaSEO
Customers Have Changed
They are now educated savvy researchers
A Crash Course in Inbound Marketing
unpaid traffic sources
To get started do these 3 things...
1.Start a blog2.Create compelling content3.Track your progress
*And stop obsessing over the way your website looks
●Choose a platform you like - wordpress, tumblr, or blogger
●Make it VISIBLE - use relevant headlines
●Enable RSS Feed - create a feed on feedburner
●Encourage Comments
●Distribute (linkedin, twitter, google+)
●Add CALLS TO ACTION - use forms
6 Steps to Increase Profitability of Your Blog
●Content is King●Write on Google terms (headlines matter) ●But "Don't fight with Ninjas" - D. Shah●Be a thought leader in your industry●Be conversational and to the point●Frequency (at least once a week)
Track your progress● Use Google analytics● Spreadsheet your reach (subscribers, followers, links, traffic)
●Hootsuite (twitter, facebook, linkedin) ●Google Analytics●Google Reader●Google Marketplace● www.google.com/addurl●Feedburner●Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr●Weebly (site builder with forms) ●Woofoo forms, Google forms●Marketing automation (Hubspot, Pardot, Net-Results)
Free Tools
Now What?
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