There are a zillion things you need to do to build a profitable blog, right? I mean, there’s traffic building and content writing and product creation and reputation fortifying and comment encouraging and a bunch of design stuff and on and on. And on. Fortunately, there’s a mountain of resources—online and offline—with suggestions, ideas, and [...]
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If you’re going to blog for profit, you’ll need a way to accept shopper’s money for whatever you are selling, whether that’s a service, products, advertising, or memberships. With the shopping cart comparison I’m doing, I know a dozen decent ways to do just that. Some are easier than others, some are cheaper, and some [...]
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I’ve been looking over shopping carts for weeks, and wow. All carts are not created equal. Good developers make a cart that works. Really good developers know we need— A smoothly paved checkout for our customers, not one filled with roadblocks and speedbumps (like registration and logins), The shopping cart to look a lot like [...]
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Roger C. Parker wrote about planning your blog content awhile back. He offered a diagram for success that put writing in between Planning and Promotion, with well-earned Profits as the result. It’s a great visual, and there are a few more Ps to add: Purpose, Personality, Persistence, and Patience. I don’t have a cool visual [...]
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