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Marketing yourself: How to stand out from the competition

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 28, 2009 · 24 comments

The blogging world is packed with marketing, some more transparent than the rest. From uber-self promoters to blogs set up entirely as a marketing tool, more and more people are using their blog to promote themselves, their services, or their business.
The most effective way to stand out in the crowded blogosphere is to blog for yourself. The following tips, tricks, and strategies will show you how to retain your blog’s personality, all the while establishing yourself as a blogger worth listening to.
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How to get exponential success on your blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 23, 2009 · 33 comments

Like most bloggers do, this morning I checked my Feedburner stats and see that my blog Cats Who Code had 6000+ RSS subscribers. I decided to check out how many readers I had one year ago. I wasn’t surprised to read that I only had 900 readers at the time.
So, how did I manage to get 4000 new readers in 2009, while I only managed to get almost 1000 the previous year? This is what I’m going to explain in this article.
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Christmas giveaway : Win a premium WordPress theme!

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 20, 2009 · 15 comments

Even if content is king, it is important to have a professionally designed website when you want to achieve success in blogging.
Being a Christian, Christmas is a very important time of the year for me, and I’m glad to offer a premium WordPress theme from our sponsor Templatic to three of my readers. Good luck with the contest, and merry Christmas everyone!
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How to monetize your RSS feed in WordPress

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 18, 2009 · 19 comments

RSS is a popular format that allow people to aggregate blogs content in order to receive automatic updates. This format is very popular in the blogging world, and most bloggers are proudly displaying how many loyal RSS readers they have.

RSS, like any other parts of your blog, can be monetized in order to make you earn more money online. In this article, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of this technique and show you how you can integrate ads in your RSS feed.
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Does your blog speak authoritatively?

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 17, 2009 · 14 comments

Authority commands, authority dictates, authority leads the way. There’s so much power in authority that no matter how countless of books, videos and articles have discussed about it – no one has yet succeeded in unraveling the ‘ultimate guide’ to gaining authority.

More so, unlike traffic, subscribers or followers, authority is such an elusive, unquantifiable concept. There’s no existing way to measure authority other than the concept of social proof (which in itself is also a very vague term).
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While you are reading this, many people are making money online by selling digital products as such as premium WordPress themes, hosting or ebooks.
If you have something to sell on your blog or website, you should definitely set up an affiliate program and let other bloggers promote your products for you. It’s definitely easier than you think.
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