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Blogging

More on Your Blog’s Unique Selling Proposition

In my last blog post, Blog Business Plan: Your Unique Selling Proposition, I covered the following three perspectives for creating a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for your blog:

Assembling a tribe;
Recruiting a small army;
Your 1,000 true fans;

As promised, in this post I’m going to cover three more perspectives for creating your blog’s USP.
Here they are:

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Blog Business Plan: Your Unique Selling Proposition

This is the third post in my “Blog Business Plan” series. Here are the first two:

Blog Business Plan – 35 Creative Ways to Market Your Blog
Blog Business Plan – Monetization

This post is about creating a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for your blog.  I realize that not all of my readers have blogs, but the [...]

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Free Ebook – “Step-by-Step Tutorial: Write, Publish and Market Your Ebook”

As promised, here’s the step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to write, publish and market your ebook, in ebook form (it’s a free ebook, so go ahead and download it right away):
“Step-by-Step Tutorial: Write, Publish and Market Your Ebook”.
It’s a .PDF file which you can easily open by downloading Adobe Reader (free download).
Here’s some [...]

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Write, Publish and Market Your Ebook: Step-by-Step Tutorial

There are many reasons to write an ebook, including selling it for a profit, as a creativity project, to share your knowledge with others, to increase traffic to your blog or web site, or to establish your expertise in a given area.
Today, one of the best businesses in the world is information publishing, and you [...]

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Blog Business Plan – Monetization

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
– Napoleon Hill
Three weeks ago I published the first post in my “Blog Business Plan” series: “35 Creative Ways to Market Your Blog”. For our purposes, marketing is about drawing traffic to [...]

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35 Creative Ways to Market Your Blog – Blog Business Plan

A while back I promised to share a “Blog Business Plan” with you; well, here it is. Instead of one humongous post, I’ve decided to break it down into three or four sections and write a separate post for each section. The sections will roughly be the following:

Finding a Niche for Your Blog
Marketing Your Blog [...]

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Blogger’s Checklist

Here’s a checklist that I created for myself on things to do and things to check for before hitting the “publish” button. I’m sharing it with you in the hopes that you’ll find this Blogger’s Checklist useful.

Write something useful that provides value and will enhance my readers’ life.

Write something unique.

Add an interesting image.

Don’t tell [...]

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Get Out the Balloons – Choice for New Blog of the Week

(The “Balloon Bouquet” photograph is courtesy of Pink Sherbet Photography).
“Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online” has been chosen as “New Blog of the Week” by Barbara over at “Blogging Without a Blog”. Thank you Barbara. New visitors may want to start off by reading the best of “Abundance Blog”:
A Guide for Creating New Habits
The [...]

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