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How to Monetize a Blog Without Ads When Your Traffic Is Still Small

Blogging, Monthly Guides / Angela Brooks

You do not need an ad network or big traffic to earn from your blog. This is the September money path in order: one offer, the right price, the road that brings a buyer in, and how to find the spot where she slips away.

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Is Social Media Marketing World Worth It When You Are Building on the Side?

Blogging / Angela Brooks

I paid $1,100 for an All-Access ticket after thirteen years of talking myself out of the flight. Here is what each ticket actually includes, the recordings detail almost nobody points out, and the deadline that matters more than the price countdown.

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Most People Build Pages to Be Read, Not to Convert

Blogging / Angela Brooks

You can rank a useful post and collect traffic for years while making almost nothing from it. A blog post that converts is built differently from the title down. This covers what changes in the title, the middle, the ask and the last paragraph, and what a page built only to be read quietly costs you.

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How to Get a Capitol Tour Through Your Senator’s Office

Travel Systems / Angela Brooks

Our senator’s office got us a private Capitol tour, last minute Bureau of Engraving and Printing tickets, and Senate gallery passes, and none of it cost a thing. Here is how a Capitol tour through your senator works, what we saw over three rainy days in DC, and what I would skip.

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Sell Your Own Digital Product Instead of Everyone Else’s

Blogging / Angela Brooks

When you sell your own digital product, you keep the buyer instead of handing her to somebody else’s list. An affiliate sale pays once and ends. This covers what your first product should be, the three things you need to sell it, and how to route affiliate links so the lead stays yours.

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Nobody Clicks a Link That Says Click Here

Blogging / Angela Brooks

Trying not to sound salesy is what turns people sleazy. You soften the recommendation until it says nothing, slide the link in without explaining it, and avoid mentioning that you earn from it. All of that is less straightforward than saying outright what is behind the link and that you get paid.

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Most of Your Posts Were Never Able to Sell

Blogging / Angela Brooks

A post can be well written, well ranked and completely incapable of selling. Whether it could sell was decided during keyword research, because a keyword either brings you a woman with a problem or a woman looking something up, and no call to action fixes the second one.

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Most Readers Never See Your Signup Form

Blogging / Angela Brooks

Every page about this says to put your signup at the end, because anyone who reads that far must have liked the post. The scroll data says most readers never get there. Where the form goes, why the bottom fails, and how to find the right spot on your own post in ten minutes.

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The Price You Charge Is Also Your Job Description

Blog Systems / Angela Brooks

The low ticket vs high ticket question gets answered from the buyer’s side everywhere you look. The answer that changes your week is what each price obligates you to after she pays, and why the rung most people skip is the one that makes the larger offer sellable at all.

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Choosing the One Offer You Sell First

Blog Systems / Angela Brooks

Deciding what to sell on your blog is harder when you have four ideas than when you have none. The course you keep outlining, the templates people ask for, the coaching you did once for a friend, the thing you almost built last spring. Every one of them could work, which is the problem, because

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