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The post Discover a New Way to Protect Yourself from Data-Loss Nightmares appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Cookie the Pom on Unsplash How do you backup your computer/s? This past month I’ve changed my approach and I wish I’d done it earlier. In this article I’ll tell you why I’ve switched. For many years I’ve used hard drives onsite at my house and have then backed up those drives to others offsite at a family member’s house. The problems with this are numerous. Maybe you can relate. Photo by Lorenzo Herrera on Unsplash So Much Data Firstly – the size of our backups keeps growing as we take more photos, videos and create more docs. While some of

The post How to Be a Purple Cow Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Daniel Quiceno M on Unsplash One of the common mistakes that I see in many blogs is that they are quite simply unremarkable. We’ve all seen seen these blogs – (and most of us if we’re honest will admit to having written them at some point) – they are the blogs you look at for a few seconds without actually seeing anything before you surf on to some other site. Blog readers only stay on any given post for an average of 96 seconds. Its not long! So you’ve only got just over one and a half minutes to make an impression – to do something remarkable that will rock

The post 11 Ways to Create More Compelling Content for Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Today I wanted to share some tips on how you can make your content more compelling, whether it’s written, video or audio content. I’m mixing things up and testing out my new camera to create some video content for the blog. For those of you interested in the production aspects of this video . . . I’m happy with the visual aspects of the video considering it was shot with only the light of a window beside me (and the light changed over the 10 minutes of the video). I need to pick up a microphone as this audio is straight from the camera and will in future consider some extra lighting. The

The post 5 Mistakes Bloggers are Making with Online Courses appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash By ProBlogger expert Sam Nordberg. Online courses are the hottest thing right now. Everyone seems to be launching their own course, and looking for ways to make what they believe is “passive income” – but here are five of the biggest makes people are making with their online courses right now: 1. Not thinking about who they are writing for When you are creating a course, you need to think really carefully about the end user. Who are they? How much do they know already? What do they want the outcome to be? How do they want to consume the information? If you really want people to learn from

The post How I Turned One Blog Post Into a 7-Figure Business (And How You Can Capitalize on Going Viral) appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash In 2013, I experienced a writer’s dream come true. My blog post, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, went viral. And not just a little viral, it went mega-viral. It was read by millions of people in a matter of days. And then Forbes.com picked it up and it reached more than 10 million more readers. Within a week, national radio shows were about talking my article. Major publications were asking to reprint it. News channels were calling to interview me. And if that weren’t enough, in the midst of the viral superstorm, a literary agent called

The post Seven Types of Product You Could Sell From Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Elizabeth Villalta on Unsplash It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one for Digital Photography School. They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. Back in 2014, I wrote about the experience, and how it nearly never happened: My big issue was a severe lack of time. Between juggling two growing blogs and a growing family (we had just had our first child), I wasn’t sure how I’d ever write an eBook. I also had a long long list of other excuses to put it off. I’d never written, designed, marketed a product of

The post How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Timo Volz on Unsplash Scrupulous readers should have noticed that blogging is not just about writing and getting their opinions, rants and random stuff online. In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Every opportunity to enhance communication and reach out through various media should not be taken lightly. As part of the online marketing mix, blogging plays a significant role because right now much of the marketing effort still revolves around driving people to your web site. When you want your prospects to buy something, you want them to visit your site and proceed to the order / payment page. If you want them