So You Want to be a Famous Blogger?

Posted by Karl Foxley on Sep 19, 2010 in Blog, Blogging, Coaching | 10 comments

Blogging = Fame + Riches

Well, that’s what a lot of the ‘Get Rich Quick’ e-books say!

This is how a lot of people who would like to make money from the Internet initially step into blogging, they see the success of someone like Darren Rowse of Pro Blogger and decide that they too want to make ‘blogging’ their day job too.

The reality is, a lot of people start blogging with this goal in mind and, after only a few months of hard-work and no results, give-up and abandon their blogs to collect dust in an ever-growing Internet graveyard.

You can literally find thousands of these ‘failed’ blogs in Google, some even have great content. You can spot these blogs a mile away as they generally haven’t been updated since 2007 and there’s no trace of life except the comment spam promoting the latest ‘get rich schemes’.

Why did these bloggers fail?

Your guess is as good as mine but I would hazard to say that they suffered from some common complaints that many bloggers have today…

• They didn’t receive enough traffic to build an audience
• They didn’t make enough money to turn blogging into a lucrative full-time venture or, at least, a worthy part-time activity
• They didn’t plan each step of their blog and blog promotion (remember, if you fail to plan you plan to fail)

I want to help you get past these sticking points and take you on the journey of becoming a famous blogger.

You see, it is probably even easier now than it ever was before to become a ‘known’ person in the blogosphere and this is how to do it!

Before you continue, I cannot promise you that you will become a famous blogger, that relies on you, your content and how it is received by your audience, but what I can promise you is this:

If you follow each suggestion in this post you will dramatically increase the exposure of your blog, earning you more visitors, readers and subscribers and, maybe, even making you some money along the way!

7 Things Every Beginner Blogger Should Do Before Hitting Publish

Posted by Kelly Foxley on Sep 5, 2010 in Blog, Blogging, Coaching | 0 comments

Have you ever published a post only to notice that you forgot to add something?

I know I have! What’s worse is when you only spot those ‘forgotten elements’ a few days after publishing and the post has already received 100+ visitors!

For this reason, I like to run through a check list before I publish my articles in the hope that I catch any errors or missing elements before the end user, my readers, even get to see the post.

The great thing about having a pre-publishing check list is that it slowly becomes second nature the more you run through it, allowing you to create and establish some positive writing practices.

With that being said, I hope you find the following check list useful.

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