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Blog content must be constantly tracked so it can be improved
Tracking the popularity of individual blog posts reinforces one of the major themes in this series on the 7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content; it’s not about you and what you want to write.
Instead, success is all about your market, and providing content that your [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 7: Trackable

If it isn’t easy, it won’t get done!
Efficiency is the 6th of the 7 Pillars of Blog Content for a very simple reason: the likelihood of a task’s completion goes down as complexity increases.
Blogging success is based on consistency, but consistency is difficult if it takes too much time or effort to prepare each post. [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 6: Efficient

How to get your market to look forward to your posts
You know you’re blog content is succeeding when–after you miss a day because of travel or illness– you get e-mails asking Are you all right? or What happened to your blog post this week?
Anticipation is the highest stage of level of marketing effectiveness. Here are [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 5 – Anticipation

Blog content success requires easy reading
Readability plays a major role in the success of your blog content. Your prospects are in a hurry; anything that gets in the way of easy reading slows readers down and sabotages your message.
When visitors to your blog have trouble reading your message, they’re going to ignore it and move [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 4 – Readable

I’ve done many personal development courses, programs, read the books, been to the seminars… but to save you a heap of money….. this sums it all up in a hilarious 6 minute video….



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How to overcome any fears – A hilarious video!

Your blog must attract & maintain your market’s attention
Engagement is the third pillar of successful blog content; your blog posts must engage your readers attention and keep them reading.
Resonance
Each blog post must resonate with your readers; they must be able to immediately recognize the relevance of the post and think to themselves, “That’s me!” or [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 3 – Engaging

Blogs must have a purpose based on reader’s needs
The 2nd of the 7 pillars of blog content involves creating content that fulfills a meaningful purpose.
Unless you’re a Hollywood celebrity blogger or a political analyst, the best way you can establish an on-going relationship with your market is by providing useful information on a consistent basis.
The [...]



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7 Pillars of Successful Blog Content, Pt. 2 – Purposeful

Now that you have a blog, what about the content?
What are you going to write about?
Most blogs fail to achieve their potential because posts are often infrequently updated, lack relevance, and take too much time to prepare.
It doesn’t have to be that way!
In this 7-part series, I’m going to describe 7 practical & proven [...]



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7 Pillars of Blog Content, Pt. 1 – Planning

I’ve got a simple on here for those of you who are totally “green” to the online social networking scene. They are 2 very simple videos on How to set up a Facebook account and a Twitter account.
They’re the absolute basics!
The sound is a bit crap. I’m using JING and my audio settings need some [...]



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VIDEO: How to create a Facebook & Twitter account

A lot of people get confused between wordpress.com and wordpress.org so lets clear it up so you can make a decision on which to use for your business.
WordPress.com
PROS

It’s free and very easy to set up.
It’s hosted for you
Your posts are automatically backed up
Do well in search engines
There are about 70 themes (designs) to choose from [...]



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The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org