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Are Your Blog Posts’s Permalinks (URLs) Losing You Traffic? - DailyBlogTips

Are Your Blog Posts’s Permalinks (URLs) Losing You Traffic? - DailyBlogTips


Are Your Blog Posts’s Permalinks (URLs) Losing You Traffic?

Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:53 AM PST

One frequent mistake bloggers make is to leave their post permalinks (URLs) as the WordPress default.

This is actually becoming less common, as WordPress now prompts you to change the permalink structure … but if your blog's been running for a while, you may be missing out on traffic due to poor permalinks.

The two most common problems that come up are:

  • Permalinks with just a number
  • Permalinks with dates

Permalinks with Just a Number

The default WordPress permalinks look like this:

www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=123

This does nothing for your readers or for your SEO. There's really no reason at all to use numerical permalinks like this. If a reader comes across the URL out of context (e.g. without the post title) they'll have no idea what it's linking to, plus you want to have keywords in your permalinks to help your posts rank well in search engines.

Also, permalinks like this brand you as a "newbie" and can make your blog look less professional.

Permalinks With Dates

Often, you'll see links that look like this:

www.dailyblogtips.com/2013/11/28/sample-post

As Joost de Valk of Yoast explains:

Having a date in your permalink structure has proven to diminish the CTR from the search results for older posts. People are just not likely to click on a result that's two years old, even though it might very well be that your post has the answer they seek.

While this isn't a total disaster – ProBlogger seem to be doing OK, despite having the date in their permalinks – it can put readers off your older posts. It also makes for long and unwieldy URLs if you want to include them in a newsletter or even on a printed brochure or business card.

Changing Your Permalinks

It's incredibly easy to change your permalink structure.

Just log into your WordPress dashboard and go to Settings –> Permalinks.

Click on the "Post name" radio button, then click "Save Changes" (both are shown in a red box below).

change-permalinks

That's it! Note that WordPress should redirect your old permalinks (so that links don’t break) but if you do find that you have broken links, the WordPress SEO Plugin from Yoast can sort them out for you.

Customising Your Post Slugs

The final part of your post – the "post name" – is also called the slug.

When you add a new post, the slug defaults to be your whole title. You may want to shorten it and make it more concise. This is optional – but it's something that many big blogs do.

Copyblogger and Zen Habits, for instance, often cut the post slug to a single word:

Are You Too Lazy to Write Less? – copyblogger.com/brevity

How Creativity Works, & How to Do it – zenhabits.net/creativity

(This option has been around in WordPress for ages – just take a look at this post by Daniel back in 2007 – but a lot of bloggers don't know about it.)

So – over to you!

What do your post permalinks currently look like, and will you be changing them?

 

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Time tested affiliate program and a big opportunity

Posted: 26 Nov 2013 01:55 PM PST

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Last week I did a video interview with Jeffrey John who is one of the foremost experts in the astrology affiliate industry.

Many affiliates are always chasing the next hot thing.  I know… I have been there.  But things go up and down… especially CPA networks.  Dating,  MMO,  Free+ models, Ringtones, whatever.. it’s not.. it’s dead.

The astrology niche has not only stood the test of time but also can be advertised in many ways that these other niches can’t.  So affiliates who take their knowledge in other spaces and apply it to the astrology space can totally crush it.

I experimented with this a couple months ago and pretty much replaced our eye catching dating ads on Facebook with copy for astrology… With little effort I made over $4,000 which was about a 50% profit margin.

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Now I am running the PAR Program full-time and that is my future. I’m taking that company to the house!  But I can’t help being an affiliate from time to time because it’s what I love (as a hobby in my spare time).

So I wanted to share with you a lot of insight on this niche and invited Jeffery to do a video interview to shed insight on the niche.

In this video Jeffrey reveals:

  • The opportunity at hand.
  • Ways to drive traffic.
  • Who’s successful and what they are doing.
  • Where to go to get the best payouts.

Check out the interview here:

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MIT Study on Prices Ending with $9 - DailyBlogTips

MIT Study on Prices Ending with $9 - DailyBlogTips


MIT Study on Prices Ending with $9

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 04:34 AM PST

Did you know that around 60% of all retail prices end with a 9 digit? No one is sure about why the digit 9 in specific, but most marketers and economists know that ending a price with it tends to increase sales.

For those who want empirical evidence, back in 2003 some MIT folks did a quite interesting study around the subject. The basically used a mail-order company that sells women’s clothing, and the priced the same pieces at three different levels: $34, $39 and $44. Care to guess the results?

The $39 price tag outsold the other, by a factor of 15% up to 30% in some cases. If you didn’t get the insight yet, let me re-phrase it: the same product sold more units with a price of $39 then with a price of $34!

The same results were found when they used $44, $49 and $54 price levels, as well as $54, $59 and $54. In other words, the price tag ending with a 9 virtually always outperformed the other price tags, were they higher or smaller.

Here’s the conclusion from the paper:

We have presented three ?eld experiments demonstrating that $9 price endings increase demand but that the effect is context dependent. The effect is stronger for new items that customers have seen less frequently in the past.

Pretty interesting huh? Here’s the link to the PDF if you want to read it in full.

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Are You Building a Business or Just a Blog?

Posted: 26 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST

Not every blog makes money. And not every blogger wants to.

That's fine. But if you're blogging with the hope of making money, and you're currently getting little or nothing for your efforts, you might need to stop thinking of your "blog" and start thinking of your "business".

Some bloggers will say that their blog is their business. Here’s a different way to look at it.

Your blog is a publishing platform that allows you to market to people around the world, 24/7.

That's a pretty amazing thing!

But your blog by itself doesn't bring in money.

You could write brilliant posts, draw in thousands of readers, and still not make a penny.

Yes, you can run ads on your blog – but you'll need lots of traffic for those to pay off. (I make a living blogging, but I'd be making less than $100/month if I relied on ads alone.)

Most bloggers find other ways to monetise, even if they use ads as well: we've covered the key ones here.

And whether you're selling a product or a service, or even promoting someone else's product with an affiliate link, you need to think and act like a business.

Today, take some time to think about your business, not your blog.

Consider:

  • How does your blog make money?
  • Do you need to make your products / services / affiliate links / etc more prominent?
  • What could you or should you change to be more business-like?

As I said at the start, of course you can simply have a blog in order to share your thoughts with the world. If you want to make money, though, you need to stop thinking of yourself as just a "blogger" and start thinking of yourself as a "small business owner".

Let us know in the comments whether this brings up any new thoughts for you – and tell us what you're going to change.

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ProBlogger: The Day I Almost Lost My Blogging Business By Having Too Many Eggs in the One Basket

ProBlogger: The Day I Almost Lost My Blogging Business By Having Too Many Eggs in the One Basket

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The Day I Almost Lost My Blogging Business By Having Too Many Eggs in the One Basket

Posted: 26 Nov 2013 08:37 AM PST

It was 17 December 2004 and my dream was falling apart, right before my eyes.

I had just celebrated the 2nd anniversary since I started to blog and I was on the tipping point of my part-time earnings becoming a full-time income.

I’d quit my only other employment to devote 100% of my time to blogging and had recently started ProBlogger to share what I knew about blogging for money. I had just been interviewed in a national paper about my business and all in all, I was pretty happy with how my dreams were progressing.

Then it happened. Most of my traffic disappeared, almost overnight.

I had been averaging 12,000 visitors per day to my main blog (a camera review blog that no longer exists) – around 80% of which came from great Google Search Engine rankings.

That level of traffic was enough to make a living from using the Google AdSense program (which accounted for 95% of my income).

I woke up on the morning of the 17th December 2004 to discover that my blog’s healthy Google rankings had disappeared overnight.

The result was that I was dropped to 2000 visitors a day (from nearly 14000) on my main blog and my other blogs lost even larger amounts of traffic.

Here’s how my traffic looked on my main blog at that time.

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Of course, with only a sixth of the traffic I previously had I also saw my income from AdSense take a similar tumble. Rather than a full time income, I was looking at earning enough money to call it a 1 day per week job.

I was devastated.

I was confused.

I was angry.

I was also deeply embarrassed.

Not only did my friends and family know that I’d quit my job to become a blogger… so did the world because I’d talked about it here on ProBlogger.

Falling from the rankings in Google was the single biggest challenge I faced as a blogger. I didn’t understand why it had happened and I came very close to giving up blogging altogether.

Thankfully I didn’t give up.

I’m glad I hung in there because just under 2 months later I began to rank in Google again and saw most of the traffic that I’d lost return. I’m also glad because that that really tough period taught me a lot about blogging, and about business.

The Biggest Lesson Learned: Diversification

That experience taught me many things but one of the biggest lessons was about diversification and becoming too dependant on any one area of a business.

Thankfully I learned this lesson very quickly. In this post (which I wrote 3 days after falling out of Google) I wrote about my mistake of having too many eggs in the one basket.

I was too reliant upon Google for traffic and too reliant upon AdSense for income.

Rather than see this challenge as something to stop me I decided to see it as a hurdle – something to get over that would make me stronger in the process.

I decided that I would not only keep blogging but that I was going to work hard to rebuild my blogging in a way that was less reliant upon any one source of traffic or income stream.

This mind-shift led to a range of decisions to diversify in the coming months and years.

It also led me to regularly ask a simple question that helps me avoid this problem again…

Is there a single thing that could kill my business right now?

I regularly ask myself this question (in fact our team discussed it the other day). By asking it on a regular basis I get a good sense for whether the balance in my business it out and whether I need to adjust my approach to spread the risk a little.

In a post in the coming days, I’ll talk more about some of the areas I’ve diversified what I do to help with this but in the mean time, I’d love to hear your own reflections upon this.

Have you ever realised that you’re too reliant upon any one form of traffic or income stream? What have you done to diversify what you do?

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Happy holidays and be safe!

Posted: 26 Nov 2013 08:45 AM PST

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thanksgivingI am getting ready to travel to see relatives and celebrate Thanksgiving with family.

I wanted to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving.

Be safe. No drinking and driving!

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ProBlogger: 5 Fundamentals That Determine How Fast Your Blog Grows

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5 Fundamentals That Determine How Fast Your Blog Grows

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 08:39 AM PST

This is a guest contribution from Tim Soulo.

This year I've managed to grow a photography blog by 500% in about 6 months and I think I've learned something along the way.

I was following five fundamental things that you can learn from any marketing blog, but I like to think that I've made a few personal discoveries about each of them.

And the most important of all the discoveries is how these five fundamentals unite into one solid strategy. Once you comprehend it ­ your blog will start growing.

So let's see if I'm good enough in sharing what I've learned.

1. Write Mind Blowing Content

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I know it's been said thousands (if not millions) of times how much the quality of your content matters. But let me try and give you a deeper understanding of this matter.

Poor content doesn't get shared on social networks.

Of course you can always trick people into sharing your articles with all these "Social Locker" plugins (those will hide the content from readers unless they click on social sharing buttons). But this will only get you so far.

If your content is poor ­ there's no motivation for visitors to click the "tweet" button.

Unless of course you have a raving community of fans, who will support just about anything you do. But…

Poor content doesn't attract fans.

How can you expect a person to stick with your blog if he can hardly make himself read the first few paragraphs of your boring article?

Remember this: every time you allow yourself to publish a mediocre article, you lose a few potential fans (and maybe a few existing ones as well).

Most free content is poor content.

I think many blog owners will support me on this one. How many guest post offers do you guys get per week? And how many of them are actually worth being published at your blog? Hardly a few.

And that is one of the reasons everybody hates SEO guys.

They order cheap content from freelance copywriters (like $5 for a 500 words article) and then send out canned emails to every blog they're able to find, offering this poor content.

In their turn, lazy blog owners are often tempted by the chance to publish a ready­made article on their blog. Somehow many of them still think that the more posts you publish, the better your blog performs.

And, to be honest, it's not just SEOs. Many bloggers will challenge themselves to something like "write 3 guest posts per day for 30 days" in order to promote their blog.

But can one write 90 awesome articles in a month? No. Maybe 30? Sorry, but No. I guess this very post will take me 2­3 days to be finished (but I'm not doing this full time of course).

Even the content you pay for can be lame.

At a certain point you may feel you need to hire a few people to help you with your blog. Well, the fact that you pay them doesn't mean they will write great articles.

Unfortunately most of the so­called "freelance copywriters" will treat their work as a routine, where they exchange a certain amount of words to a certain amount of money. While in an ideal world, they should be looking for someone to pay them based on their level of expertise and the amount of effort they put into their work.

So now you understand why poor content won't get you anywhere. Here's what you can do about it: learn to write awesome articles.

2. Get Serious About SEO

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People should be able to find your awesome articles. And Google is where they will search for them.

But you have to do quite a few things to make your articles rank well in Google.

On the photography blog, that I was talking about earlier, the traffic from Google was growing by 10­15% each month. And surprisingly I didn't do much to achieve that.

So what are the basics to get you started?

Learn to pick relevant keywords.

As they tap into SEO, most bloggers will always go for very broad and popular keywords… and fail miserably.

I mean for a post titled "10 Leather Camera Bags Reviewed", newbie bloggers will pick the keyword "bags" ­ as it's more popular and should bring more traffic once you're on the first page of Google.

But what they don't understand is:

1. Shorter, broader, more popular keywords are much­much harder to rank for. So you're doomed to stick somewhere at page 15 of Google's search results with no visitors.

2. A person searching for "bags" is not necessarily interested in "camera bags", with even a smaller chance of being interested in "leather camera bags". So why do you want to show him your article anyways?

Think logically. You want to show your post to people that search for "leather camera bags" or, to be even more precise, "leather camera bag reviews". That's the keyword you should go for.

Learn to optimise your articles.

I guess the majority of you guys know it already, but I can't just make gaps in this article, so…

In order to optimise your article for a certain keyword, you should put it to:

  • Title of your article;
  • Headline of your article;
  • URL of your article;
  • Meta Description of your article;
  • Content of your article.

And there's a handy free plugin for WordPress that will help you do this ­SEO by Yoast.

Build links.

The last ingredient of your success in Google is links pointing from other sites to your article.

Where do you get them? Just reference your articles all the time!

  • Writing your next post? ­Reference a few of your past articles.
  • Writing a guest post for another blog? ­Put a few links to your own articles.
  • Writing a comment somewhere? ­See if a link to a post of yours would be relevant.
  • Writing a post on forums? ­Well.. you've got the idea.

The more trusted links your article has coming in, the better it ranks in Google. So you should get serious about your SEO starting today!

Ask any blogger and he will tell you that Google is responsible for 40% to 70% of his total blog traffic. That's definitely something worth investing some of your time.

3. Master the Art of Guest Blogging

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Google is huge, but it takes lots of time to build traffic from it. How about some instant visitors?

You can get them quite easily by tapping into the existing audience of relevant blogs that dominate your niche. How? Just write them a guest article.

But not every guest article will bring visitors to your website. Only those that follow the next two principles:

Make readers care about you.

Your writing style is super engaging ­ good for you. You're sharing tons of tips and giving out lots of value ­ well… I guess… thank you? But why should readers care about YOU anyways?

Here's the thing: people won't read your author byline and follow the link to your personal blog, unless they are interested in you.

Take Problogger per se. There are dozens of people, who write exceptionally well, but do you remember all their names? Most of them share super valuable advice, but again, can you recall if they have personal blogs?

So how do you make people care about you? The answer is damn easy: tell stories about yourself!

Did you notice how I started this article? ­ "This year I've managed to grow a photography blog by 500% in about 6 months…"

This is a part of my personal story which helps me to differentiate myself from the rest of the guys who share cool articles at Problogger.

To be honest, this particular fact is not too memorable, but you can always add some extra information about yourself later in the article.

So since we're speaking about guest blogging… The very first guest post I wrote got published at Moz.com (a very popular SEO/Marketing blog) and to my sincere surprise it became a Top Post of 2010 in three categories: "thumbs up", unique visits & retweets. Which makes me kind of a big deal (just kidding).

See how it works? Now you are interested in my persona a little bit more, so there's a better chance you will check my author byline.

It's not that hard to tell stories about yourself, unless of course there's nothing too exciting that you can share. Well, why don't you DO something exciting, get some impressive results and go tell everyone about it?

PS: I didn't know about the storytelling trick back in the days, so sadly this huge guest post I wrote for Moz.com didn't land me much traffic.

Reference your articles.

Most bloggers don't like it when you "self promote" too much. But hey, everyone understands that the primary reason why you're contributing an article somewhere is to promote yourself and your own blog.

So just don't go overboard with linking out and you'll be fine. Make sure you're referencing only articles that truly deserve attention and make sure they fit nicely into the post.

I think the best way to link out is when you mention something that deserves an article of its own and by a lucky coincidence (hint! hint!) you already have that article published earlier on your own blog.

And yeah, the actual article that you're contributing should be perfect in all senses! This way the blog owner won't resist, even if there are a few of your links here and there.

Just to wrap it up, don't waste your time writing numerous guest posts if you don't know how to make readers interested in you and don't have any solid articles on your blog to reference.

4. Outreach Is Your Gun Powder

Let's say you have a friend with 100k followers on Twitter. You've just published a new article and you ask him for a tweet…

Bam! A couple hundreds of visitors land on your newly published article immediately! You wish you had more friends like that, right? So just work on it!

Connect with other bloggers.

I'm not necessarily talking about the big guys. They are already overwhelmed with people, asking them for "small favours".

You can start with bloggers that have the same size of the audience that you do, or maybe a little bit bigger. They are much easier to connect with and who knows, maybe in a year some of them will grow really big.

Oh, and by the way, once you contribute a guest article somewhere ­ that's a perfect way to start building a relationship.

Later you can exchange tweets, reference each other in your articles and maybe even mention each other in your email newsletters.

Mention people and let them know about it.

Surprisingly enough this doesn't necessarily refer to mentioning other bloggers in your articles (though this tactic has proven to work really well).

When I was running a photography blog, we did a series of articles like:

  • 50 Brilliant Photo Sites of Professional Photographers
  • 50 Awesomely Inspiring Tumblr Blogs for Photographers
  • 100 Incredibly Tasty Instagram Accounts for Foodies to Follow

And then we went ahead and reached out to everyone saying that they were featured in our article.

As a result, most of the guys "liked" and "tweeted" the articles they were mentioned in. Their friends saw that and did the same, which was kind of a chain reaction.

In other words, when you mention 100 people in an article and let them know about it ­ prepare for a noticeable traffic spike.

But remember, at the end of the day it all comes down to the quality of your content. If your articles are lame ­ people won't care about them, even if you point them personally.

5. Make Your Visitors Stick

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Most bloggers refer to it as "community building", but you won't build a community unless you make your visitors stay at your blog right after their first visit.

When you've mastered the first four fundamentals that bring a plethora of visitors to your blog, it would be really silly to just let them bounce and never come back.

Take their email address.

Once you have it, you can bring back a person to your blog anytime you want (and do all sorts of other cool things).

But most people won't just give you their email address for nothing. That is why most pro bloggers are offering tons of free stuff in exchange for your email: pdf ebooks, email courses, free downloads, exclusive updates, etc.

Three best locations for your email capture form with a freebie are:

  • pop­up email form upon first visit;
  • sidebar email form;
  • email form below the post.

If you ask me, I use all three of them on my own blog, with pop­up form bringing me the most email subscribers.

Interlink your articles

Remember the trick with mentioning something that deserves an article by itself and actually linking to your own post?

Well, each article on your own blog should be full of such cliffhangers that make it impossible for readers to get a feeling that they've already learned everything they needed.

Show them your best content

Most visitors are likely to leave after reading the article they've landed on. So your job is to advertise them your most amazing content till they're still here.

I'm talking about:

  • "popular posts" section in your sidebar;
  • "related posts" section at the end of your article;
  • resource pages that list the best articles of your blog.

Once they read your best work they are much more likely to stick around and follow the future updates of your blog.

Get rid of the clutter

I don't remember where this thought comes from, but I like it a lot:

"If people don't click a certain element on your website you should either replace it or remove it."

Learn analytics and put tracking everywhere. Try to make your website a black hole where people can easily get in, but can't get out. Everything on your blog should be carefully crafted to make people stay longer.

That's all Folks!

I honestly believe that these five fundamentals will make your blog grow once you put enough effort there.

And I hope I was able to demonstrate that they heavily rely on each other. Once you drop one of them, the whole system will slow down.

Want to talk about that further? See you in comments!

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Tim Soulo is a blogging experimenter and conversion junkie. Check his free email course if you want to grow the traffic of your blog or check his free online tool that will show you the most popular articles of any blog you put there.

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Chirp chirp for iPhone

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 07:41 AM PST

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Chirp_chirp_by_aldwyn.jpg (1131×707)I wish someone would make an app that passed voice messages in iMessage.

Just something simple.

Siri kind of defeats the purpose on that while it records you it transcribes instead of giving you the option of passing the audio file.

I used to love nextels ptt functionality. Is there an app for that ?

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How to Make Your Posts More Conversational

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 05:17 AM PST

One great way to make your blog more engaging is to write your posts in a conversational way – as though you're chatting to the reader over coffee.

When you do this well, your posts will put the reader at the centre, hold their attention, and encourage them to comment.

The problem is, a lot of bloggers write in a rather stilted, formal way.

Perhaps it's how they were taught to write in school, or they've got used to writing quite formal documents in their job.

However experienced (or inexperienced) you are with writing, these tips will help you create more conversational posts.

#1: Write Directly to the Reader

When you write, imagine you're writing to just one reader. Address this person as "you" and don't be afraid to use the word "I". (Yes, this is usually a bad idea in an essay for school – it's fine in blog posts.)

Depending on how old you are, you may have been taught to use the word "one" in this context, such as:

When one begins blogging, one often has questions…

This sounds old-fashioned to most readers today. Instead, you can simply write something more personal, like:

When I began blogging, I had a lot of questions…

If you're just starting blogging, you probably have questions…

For more on this, see Why You Should Use "You" and "I" In Your Posts."

#2: Use Everyday Language

Avoid using long or complicated words unless you really need them. Here are a few you can probably rewrite:

ascertain = find out

enquire = ask

occupation = job

obtain = get

If your topic requires a lot of jargon, then try to spell out acronyms the first time you use them in a post (unless they're extremely common ones). Explain any terms that might confuse your readers.

#3: Avoid the Passive Voice

The passive voice weakens your sentences by hiding the subject (the person or group taking an action).

Passive voice:

Some mistakes were made last week.

Active voice:

I made some mistakes last week.

It's not necessarily wrong to use the passive voice, but you'll normally find that rewriting passive sentences brings your writing alive. For more examples, see 7 Examples of Passive Voice (And How To Fix Them)

#4: Use Contractions

Like me, you might have been taught in school to avoid contractions in your essays – writing "do not" instead of "don't", for instance.

In the blogging world, it's fine to use contractions. In fact, it's expected, and your writing will seem stilted and stand-offish if you don't.

(Just take a look through this post and you'll find plenty of examples!)

 

Do you find it easy to write in a conversational way, or is this something you're working on? Share your thoughts and tips in the comments…

 

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Fast Company Article on “Amazon Whisperer”

Posted: 23 Nov 2013 11:55 AM PST

I came across this article I wanted to share on Fast Company Magazine that I found pretty interesting.

There is a lot of fluff in the article but the just of it is this.

This guy has created a multi million dollar company by:

  1. Using software tools like Amasuite to find high searched terms
  2. Look at the existing products for those terms.
  3. Read reviews and see the feedback from customers on what additional features they would like to see.
  4. Create those products having the features customers are looking for.
  5. Put products on Amazon dropshipping them.
  6. Repeat.

They have over a dozen employees using Amasuite to find the products ALONE.

What a cool story and again emphasizing what an amazing time we live in and what huge opportunities there are.

You can find Amasuite here: http://jvz5.com/c/50621/63621

You can read the full article here

Skills to pay the bills,

-Jeremy

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