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How to Use Journaling for Deeper Self-Understanding
10 Important Metrics to Track for Your Blog
As a blogger, one thing you can do for your blog to increase your chances for success is to track your metrics. The main reason for doing this is to ensure you are reaching your goals. So before focusing on tracking your metrics, you'll want to get very clear on what your goals are for your blog ... then cross reference those goals with the data you receive from your tracking. Then, you are in a position to match that data with software which tracks the metrics which determine whether or not ... Read the Post
3 Simple Ways to Show Your Email Subscribers They Truly Matter
You know the saying, quality over quantity? This is a philosophy I personally adhere to. When it comes to your email subscribers, you want to do everything you can to show them that they - as a person - matter to you. Long gone are the days of selling for the sake of making the almighty dollar. In this technological age, more and more people are yearning for human connection. Let's take a look at some numbers. Let's say you have a subscriber list of 1000 names and 10% choose to become ... Read the Post
How to Use Content to Strengthen Your Reader Relationships
The key thing about online community relationships is that the more you communicate and step forward to your readers in a useful, honest, and direct manner, the more trust you will build. And the more trust that you build, the more likely it is that your community and readership will continue to grow. The people in your community may, over time, become your online friends ... and maybe even clients. It is important however, to nurture the relationship with your readers first and foremost. It ... Read the Post
How to Use Landing Pages for Impact & Efficiency
For as long as I've been blogging, it took me a good while to learn what a landing page is and actually does, let alone to understand the importance of a landing page. For those of you in the same boat I once was, a landing page is defined simply as the page someone lands on when they arrive at your blog or website. However, many bloggers misunderstand the purpose of a landing page, or why they should even want one. Learning to use them more effectively can provide a better user experience for ... Read the Post
The Many Fabulous Benefits of Journaling
There are a number of reasons why people have kept journals throughout the ages. Many of the earliest ones in English were for the sake of reflecting on how the person could improve their life and be a better person. Interestingly, 2 of the earliest journals were written by women, Julian of Norwich, a nun, in the early 1370s, and Margery Kempe, a middle-class housewife in the 1430s. Kempe met Julian of Norwich and was no doubt inspired by her. Both talk about their spiritual progress in their ... Read the Post