Ask your phone this question: “Please remember the first time I enjoyed an ice cream cone as a 5 year old. Give me the details. Send me the emotions. How happy was I? How did it feel the moment the sweet treat hit my taste buds?” What happens next? Nothing. Phones … Read more
How do you make money blogging? Every experienced blogger gets asked this question during their careers. I want to share four tips I use to increase my blogging profits. Shedding light on what I do gives you ideas to explore. You make money by giving away free content for a while. No … Read more
I thought death was the inevitable outcome. Kelli and I were 3 hours away from the nearest human being. The rain pounded the hut for 2 days straight. Torrents savaged the tin roof, as if Animal the Muppet went mad on his drums. After this disastrous deluge, the water turned to silt. … Read more
The moment you decide to follow your dream resistance arises. Sneaky little voices in your head tell you: “hey you CANNOT do that!” Dreaming big correlates with setting big blogging goals. Issues arise the moment you consider how to reach these ambitious goals. You have a real blogging problem. That’s … Read more
No you do not. Publishing targeted, long form content consistently is enough. Long form content earns reader trust. Trusting readers build organic traffic and blogging income. But succeeding is nothing less. Blog Consistently Reread the word “consistently”. What does it mean? No one can predict specific timelines for successful blogging … Read more
Correcting blogging errors accelerates your success. Identifying these mistakes seems tricky. Two came to my mind. Bloggers try to be super heroes sometimes. Being truly helpful is important. But going overboard opens a can of worms. Most bloggers fear loss. Fearing loss motivates some to reply to everyone who reaches out … Read more
Successful blogs flash patterns. Knowing how to start a blog the right way isn’t as hard as you think. Top bloggers do a few things well to earn credibility. I struggled as a beginner blogger. I mindlessly charged forward without a clear strategy in mind. Learning how to build a blog … Read more
Analyzing blogging metrics is different than indulging in blogging metrics. Case in point; I checked my backlinks pointing to Blogging From Paradise Dot Com once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away: Cool. 84,000 links pointed to my blog in that dimension. Ten seconds after analyzing the metric I … Read more
Blogging From Paradise Dot Com. Get it? I do Blogging From Paradise Dot Com better than any blogger in the world. From owning the domain, to writing in my voice to tailoring my personal brand, it is the USP, the differentiating factor, the one thing that makes me stand out from millions of … Read more
I routinely find myself being assaulted by AI blogging copy these days. Experienced bloggers are not fools. I screwed up plenty as a new blogger. But I did not begin blogging with the blanket mindset of: “I know that there has to be a way to skip all of the blogging work in … Read more