Yaro Starak is one of the most influential bloggers out on the scene today. For a few years now, he’s been dominating the blog how-to market with his Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com site. Yaro’s posts and thorough and loaded with gems of advice and recommendations for up and coming bloggers. He built his business on perseverance, testing and [...]
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What’s the ‘One Thing’ Behind Your Blog-Religion?
Here’s proof that you can approach anything from a religious point of view. Jeff Lubell loves wearing jeans. He eats, sleeps and breathes denim. But not just any denim as he explains on the TrueReligionBrandJeans.com website: “Jeffrey Lubell founded True Religion in 2002 with the intention of redefining premium denim. His vision was to make [...]
The Holy Trinity of Blog Religions
OK, while Carrie Ann Moss might be my idea of a futuristic goddess, she’s not part of the Holy Trinity I’m talking about. What I’m talking about forms the crucial foundations for truly successful blog-religions. In this post, we’ll examine the three elements every blog-religion must incorporate into it’s structure in order to attract followers, [...]
Why Blog-Religions Shatter the Traffic Myth
A common myth about blogging is that you need massive amounts of traffic and RSS readers to realize any significant return on investment. More visitors, more money, right? If you have a thousand hits per day to your blog, you’re bound to benefit. That’s the conventional wisdom and it’s true in most cases. But what [...]
Blog-Religion Case Study – ProBlogger.net
Ask a blogger who they think is one the most authoritative blogging influences and the response you’re likely to hear is “Darren Rowse.” Darren’s ProBlogger.net has become the definitive resource for authoritative yet practical information for bloggers both professional and part-time. The case study below presents a view of ProBlogger as a blog-religion. In it, [...]
How the ‘Religion’ Model Works for a Blog
In the last post, I wrote about -not only the the central message of this blog- how you should think of your blog like a religion. Click here to read the original post. Today I want to show you some of the basic architecture for taking that idea a bit further. Below is a simple [...]
Why Your Blog Should Be a Religion
Incense permeated the air and I inhaled deeply. At first the aroma was enticing, then it became a bit thicker. I focused on my breathing and took another deep breath. Ommmm…….cough..wait a sec. Was I having trouble breathing? cough..sputter..wheeze..crackle..clear throat…choke. OK, so much for creating a monastic visual of calm devotion and clarity of thought. [...]
Why Baby Steps Are Crucial to the Success of Your New Blog
Building a successful blog can be a daunting undertaking. But taking ‘Baby Steps’ is the sure-fire way to get there Have you ever seen a baby learning to walk? As the father of four children -3 are all grow’d up now- , I can attest to both the enormous challenge that it represents as well [...]