How to Make Brian Clark Furious And 6 Other Risky Traffic Secrets

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How many sock puppet Twitter accounts do you have? That’s not cool, you know. – @copyblogger

When in the course of blogging events it becomes necessary for one blogger to dissolve the blogging bands which have connected him with another and to assume the powers of the A-listers, the separate and equal station to which the First Rule of Two Hour Blogger entitles him, a decent respect to the opinions of his subscribers requires that he should declare the causes which compel him to write his blog post.

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Here’s How You Can Win My Copy of Tribes by Seth Godin

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Do you want to lead a tribe?

Perhaps you have done some private investigating into this whole “popular blog” thing and concluded it is all hype.

There are countless writers who give bad advice. Sadly, most aspiring bloggers are steered wrong by courses and articles that mean well but do not deliver the brass tacks.

Yet the fact remains that you can build a popular blog if you learn the right way.

The first step in leading a tribe is to educate yourself in what good leadership involves. Your niche is waiting for you to lead them, but do you have what it takes? What is the first step?

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Sick of Blogging? You Are Not Alone

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Do you feel like quitting?

That deep, queasy feeling in your gut – you cannot blame it on salty lunch soup or the gas price. It is not your subscriber rate – you are slowly growing.

It is not that you are unpopular either. They are still talking about that epic post you wrote on Problogger last month. The emails trickle in explaining how your eBook has changed people’s lives.

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Why Your Blog Will Never Make Money

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Real businesses never monetize, because they were created from the ground up to make money…Monetization is incredibly hard. – Clay Collins

Have you ever wondered why some people are very successful online and some are not?

It has nothing to do with being lucky or at the right place and the right time. It has to do with a basic knowledge of how a business works.

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