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Big Changes For 2014

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2014

The New Year seems like a blur. The ball dropping in NYC feels as if it happened many months ago. It’s not even 40 days after the New Year. Some of the big goals of my New Year’s resolutions were changed while others got added.

You are really going to want to subscribe to my YouTube channel now because there are going to be a lot of giveaways throughout the year. I am working on Lead The Stampede, and there is a chance that the book gets published before the end of the first quarter. I will be giving away the paperback book on my YouTube channel. I will also be giving away free coupons to my Twitter Domination and Power Blogging training courses.

In addition, my YouTube videos are going to get a big upgrade. Better lighting, longer videos, and a whiteboard behind me are some of the additions for my upcoming YouTube videos. I have some videos already scheduled for a good chunk of the first quarter, but you will see the new videos soon (I have to do the videos first).

In addition, I will be hosting some pin to win giveaways on Pinterest. Liking a pin, repinning a pin, or subscribing to my blog would give someone an extra entry in a giveaway.

Tweet to win will also become something you hear more of in 2014. I’ll have to figure out the rules for that contest, but when the rules for everything get figured out, I’ll let you all know.

2014 is going to be a year of big changes. Giveaways is going to be one of the big changes, and there are going to be plenty of other changes as well. Here are two things that you can do right now in order to be prepared for those changes:

  1. Follow me on my social networks. You will always know about certain giveaways. Some giveaways will not be announced on my blog.
  2. Share your suggestions. I want to make really big changes in 2014. I am open to all suggestions towards giveaways and other things as well.

2014 is going to be BIG, and I can’t wait to see what it turns into.

Twitter Case Study: When I Decided To Tweet Every 30 Minutes

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Twitter is the big reason why a lot of people know about me. I tweet every hour so people see me frequently. When people see me frequently, this builds trust. Twitter ensured 125 daily visitors to my blog, and this only happened when I decided to tweet 1 hour every day.

The need for exponential growth is critical towards success. In order to increase my exponential growth, I decided to tweet every 30 minutes. I tested this out one day, and I was very pleased with the results. On the first day I tweeted every 30 minutes, I got over 200 visitors which is more than a 25% increase in traffic from Twitter. After making the change, my blog was consistently getting 200+ visitors from Twitter every day. As my following on Twitter grows, that statistic continues to go up.

Scheduling that many tweets requires twice as much time. That’s 48 tweets a day! My approach to saving time is to create a document and have a list of all of the timeless content that you want to tweet. This strategy constantly gives you 48 articles to tweet about. By finding new articles to tweet about, you will have a greater variety of tweets.

Does tweeting a lot annoy your followers? I am sure there are people who think that tweeting every 30 minutes will annoy their followers. However, that is not the case. The average user is on Twitter for 20 minutes. That means most of your followers will only see one of your tweets each time they go on Twitter.

Tweeting every 30 minutes has dramatically increased my blog traffic, retweets, and clicks (which have doubled). Tweeting every 30 minutes does require a lot of work, but the extra work does have its benefits.

 

BIG News: My First Webinar Is On January 16th

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I am excited to say that I will be answering Twitter related questions on a webinar hosted by Katie Swinehart. The webinar takes place on January 16th from 7 pm to 8 pm EST, and you can sign up to the live webinar here. The webinar is free for all. In the webinar, I will answer questions, reveal tactics that made me successful on Twitter, and tell you about a $7 coupon code for my Twitter Domination Training Course.

If you want to learn tactics that will get you a targeted following and increase your engagement on Twitter, go here to sign up for the free webinar.

 

My 2014 Resolutions

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Every New Year is a year that we set the bar higher. You may have given yourself a lot of goals for the New Year, and I want you to leave a comment sharing your goals. I will offer tips and advice that will help you accomplish those goals as well. Here is a list of my 2014 goals:

  1. Publish 6 books. I have been inspired by John Locke to pursue publishing numerous books again. At first I thought I would publish 1-2 per year. I was mistaken. My book Lead The Stampede may end up being published before summer.
  2. Launch 15 Udemy training courses. Udemy is something I have been using for a short amount of time, but I have already been able to create training courses about blogging and Twitter.
  3. Get 1,000 daily visitors on my blog. I have been consistently getting 150 daily visitors on my blog.
  4. Earn $50,000+ annually. I won’t go into how much I am earning now, but this is a possibility.
  5. Have 100,000 Twitter followers. If I go back to gaining 200+ followers every day (I’m currently at 150+ daily followers), I will have 100,000 followers before the end of the year. This will also help out towards my goal of getting 1,000 daily visitors on my blog.

I choose to publish this blog post a week after the New Year so everyone would be reminded of their New Year’s resolutions. What are your resolutions?

 

UPDATES:

Instead of publishing 15 Udemy training courses, I am going to publish 2-3 training courses with at least 40 hours of content each. Quality over quantity.

I am also aiming for 50,000 followers on Pinterest.

I will publish at least 4 books, but I will strive to publish 6 books.

 

 

Lead The Stampede Book: Summer 2014

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Back in October, I wrote a blog post called Lead The Stampede. Looking back at it, I realized I could have wrote about leading the stampede in greater detail. There are a lot of components that go into leading the stampede. It wouldn’t be possible to explain all of the components in a single blog post. I considered writing a Part 2 blog post and a bundle of blog posts, but I came up with a better idea.

My next book is going to be Lead The Stampede inspired by the blog post. I am excited about this book because of the following:

  1. This book will most likely be my first 200+ page book. If I don’t reach 200 pages, I’ll be very close.
  2. I am going to create a paperback for the book using CreateSpace.

Lead The Stampede will be about standing out in your niche, the characteristics you need to stand out in your niche, how to effectively manage your time, and more! I’ll bring more updates as summer approaches.

 

4 Ways To Make Money With Your Blog Content

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Visitors can read your blog content for free. They can view all of your blog’s archieves and read a book’s worth (or more) of content. When most people think of making money with a blog, they think about advertisements. I do not believe in advertising on a blog because the advertisements take people away from your blog. However, you don’t need advertisements to make a lot of money from your blog. These are the ways that you can make money with your blog:

  1. Search through all of your blog post titles, and choose one that can become your next book. Instead of trying to think of new ideas, one of the ideas you already came up with could be your next book.
  2. Create training courses based on your blog’s content. I created a Twitter Domination Training Course combining content from my book, blog posts, and other sources to create a product.
  3. Create YouTube videos about your blog posts while using AdSense in your videos. The reason advertisements on a YouTube video are good while advertisements on a blog are bad is that everyone is used to waiting 5 seconds. After 5 seconds, the viewer can skip the ad, and then they get to watch the video without any other interruption. Ads on a blog will result in constant interruption that ends when someone clicks on an ad and leaves your blog.
  4. Have blog post based consultations available for your visitors. Offer different consultation plans based on your best blog posts. If you charge $200 an hour and consult people for 20 hours every month, that’s an extra $4,000 every month!