Nov
28

Insane Traffic Generation Challenge

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This week’s challenge is going to have each contestant focus on generating an insane amount of traffic to their blog posts. Insane Traffic Generation Challenge  Team member with the most points wins immunity! This week’s tasks: Produce at least 2 post on the TheNextGoal blog.  (20 Points per post) Get as much traffic to this…
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Nov
24

Thanksgiving Giveaway: Free Copy of Engagement from Scratch

Thanksgiving Blessings to You

I hope that you’re enjoying some wonderful quality time with family or gearing up for some Black Friday shopping!  For that very reason, I’m going to keep this post brief. I wanted to take a moment to let you know that I’m grateful for you – yes, you!  I’m grateful for loyal readers like you…
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Nov
21

Week 6 Results

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The members of TheNextGoal (Team 2) really hustled this week!!  Most of them accomplished the near impossible feat of securing guest posts in just one week!  Not only did they write the posts, but they were able to get them published all in less than a week!  I’m an experienced guest poster, and I know…
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Nov
18

How to Find an Intern

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All This Talk About Interns – How do you find one? Ever since I wrote a guest post over at ComLuv entitled, “The Least Expensive Way to Outsource Some Blogging Tasks,” I’m beginning to see more and more info about working with interns starting to pop up everywhere. We’ve already had some lively discussions here…
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Nov
14

Forums, Guest Posts & Links Challenge, Plus Week 5 Results

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By now, you’ve probably noticed that each challenge builds on previous challenges.  The skills that the team membere used in those challenges still apply to the current challenge but generally requires them to extend themselves just a bit further. This week’s challenge is definitely going to extend the contestants.  It’s got a variety of ways…
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Nov
10

How To Effectively Use Interns In Your Social Media Marketing Efforts

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Guest post by Justin Lee A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of reading a guest post by Nick Stamoulis here on WeBlogBetter titled Should You Let An Intern Manage Your Social Media Marketing? In the article Mr. Stamoulis summizes that the cons of hiring an intern to “handle” your social media marketing (he…
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Nov
07

Newsletter Subscriber Challenge, Plus Week 4 Results

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Building an email list is probably one of the slowest and most difficult tasks when it comes to blogging.  It’s difficult to get people to give up their email addresses when there are so many blogs asking for them. But having an email list that you can contact when you’ve got valuable information to share…
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Oct
31

Blog Engage Challenge, Plus Week 3 Results

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Blog Engage continues to be one of my favorite voting sites in the blogosphere.  It’s a really great place to network with bloggers that you wouldn’t otherwise have had the opportunity to meet. Not only does this site give bloggers a way to increase engagement on their own blogs by including a voting button, it…
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Oct
29

3 Critical On Page SEO Elements

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Guest post by John Morinaga Too many webmasters focus their efforts on off page SEO and ignore the important aspects of on page SEO. Targeting your desired customers with keyword enriched content on-page is critical to competitive ranking on major search engines like Google. Websites that do not include instances of their targeted keyword phrases…
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Oct
26

So you’ve Created your EBook, Now What Do you Do?

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I’ll admit, there are so many confusing tidbits that go along with blogging – it’s no wonder people get overwhelmed and quit.  When I try to explain what’s needed to sell an eBook or any product via a blog to a new blogger, I have to pass them a napkin to wipe the brain matter…
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Oct
24

Social Proof Challenge, Plus Week 2 Results

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Go to any successful blog – look around and I’ll tell you what you will find: Active Twitter Counters, usually in the triple digits Lots of Twitter followers Lots of Facebook Likes/Fans Lots of RSS subscribers Lots of comments (unless they’ve disabled them) Lots of people interacting with each other What a successful blog is…
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Oct
19

WBB’s 2nd Anniversary! Celebrate with a Free Gift

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Two years ago today, this blog was created.  It feels totally weird that time has flown by so quickly, but I’m so proud because in that same amount of time, I’ve seen great blogs come and go – so I’m super happy that WBB is still standing and going strong. To celebrate, I want to…
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