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12 Affiliate Networks to Monetize your Blog in 2023

There are several ways by which a blogger can monetize his blog. The popular options include affiliates, contextual ads, sponsored posts and paid guest posts.

When it comes to affiliate marketing, there are many ways to approach it. Almost every site on the internet that sells something has a built in affiliate marketing option. All it takes for a blogger is to sign up, get approved and then start displaying their banners, links, reviews and ads which will convert in a sale and give a commission.

While there is nothing wrong with this process, it will just takes more time registering on individual platforms and then wait for payment which will be slow as you will only get paid from a single source of sale.

To scale this process, there are networks where on one side there are merchants with their products and on the other side there are marketers and bloggers with reach and influence who are able to make a sale.

Here, in this article, we will discuss several affiliate networks where one can sign up and start selling products:

1. Amazon Affiliates: Amazon is perhaps one of the biggest market place available today. Their affiliate program is easy to use. There are so many products that are listed on their site, simply get their affiliate link and start referring it to your audience and get a sale.

This is ideally great for YouTubers and Bloggers as they can easily mention a relevant product with their affiliate link and get quick sales.

2. CJ.: Popularly known as Commission Junction, this is perhaps one of the oldest affiliate network with a huge amount of digital products in their inventory. The joining process if fairly easy and if you get approved then all you need to do, is to show their affiliate links and start selling products.

3. ClickBank: If you are looking for more places to find affiliate products then this is a great network to get started. Be a bit more careful in selecting the products to promote here.

4. JV ZOO: If digital products is your main goal then this is another network where you can find good products. However, do note that bigger networks have a more strict policy which isn’t the case with smaller networks like this. On one hand it becomes easy to get started, but one needs to be extra careful in case you end up promoting a product that isn’t as good.

5. Rakuten: This is a fairly established network and gaining popularity at a rapid pace. The overall feedback for this network is good and people who are using it, is giving it a very good rating. Last year the network completed 25 years of working, which shows how much it has grown over the last two decades.

6. ShareASale: Another popular network which has been a favorite of all online marketers for the past few decades. If you are looking for a network that sends timely money, has several options to send money, has plenty of niche products and merchants to promote then this is one network that you shouldn’t skip.

7. PepperJam: When it comes to transparency, there’s none other than PepperJam. One can easily communicate with merchants and partners to discuss and plan the promotions. Other than that, they offer a quicker payment as their minimum payout is just $25. Additionally, they support paypal which makes it further easier for people to use this network.

8. Shopify Affiliate: Shopify is the market leader when it comes to setting up eCommerce websites. Their system is fairly easy to use, all you have to do is to buy a plan, and get your site ready and start selling products. These paid plans can also be further sold by being an affiliate partner. The commission percentage isn’t huge, but if you can get a lot of sales then it will make more sense.

9. Studio Press: There are many networks that provide premium wordpress products for re-selling and thus earn a commission. Studio press is a very popular wordpress theme platform. Back in days when they used to sell their revolution theme packages, this network has been a huge success.

Their strength lies in the very loyal and huge customer base which speaks volumes about their product. When the product is a success, selling it becomes fairly easy. This is one of those reasons why marketers like this network a lot.

10. Partner Stack: For business to business partnerships, especially in the field of digital tech and SaaS business models, this network has proven to be a success. With payments starting from as low as $5, anyone who can sell something can get paid easily. The recurring payments can go for a lifetime if the client sticks around.

11. Awin: If you are looking to sell some real world items, preferably from popular platforms like AliExpress, then Awin is your number one affiliate network. It does have enough merchants in every physical and digital niche possible.

They have acquired sites like ShareASale and commission factory which makes their network stronger. These companies operate separately, but they are still under the ownership of Awin.

12. Flipkart Affiliate: Just like Amazon, every eCommerce platform has an affiliate system. Most of these places are easy to join and get started. Flipkart too has a huge range of products that cover almost every niche. All one needs to do, is to find products that fit their audience and then start selling and recommending those products using the affiliate links.

Every time there is a sale, you earn a small commission from it. This amount is fairly smaller compared to most other networks, but if one can scale it, then eventually the numbers will add up.

Surely, there are way too many networks out there where one can find more merchants and increase their sales. At the same time, certain products who are great but isn’t part of any network can be joined individually and time allows.

11 Under Used Blogging Tips to try out in 2023

When it comes to blogging, some tips and ideas are utilized more and the same tips are repeated and rehashed over and over by most bloggers. On the other hand, certain ideas for blog growth and monetization aren’t talked much, hence those tips goes un-used.

People will obviously use tips that they read, if the fellow bloggers, influencers and market leaders focus more on SEO and other common ideas then most new bloggers will be stuck with limited options to grow their blogs.

Here, in this article, we will discuss some of the under used blogging tips and how best we can used them to grow our blogs.

1. Change your webhost: Some web hosts limit the traffic to your website. That way when your site starts to get more traffic from organic search results, many of those visitors don’t see your site, they are somehow blocked. This is a nasty way for web hosts to make sure that their resources aren’t wasted by your site visitors.

While for the web host, it might be a genius idea, it is pretty disastrous for you. If you see web site traffic issues, your SEO efforts aren’t giving you enough results, it is best to change your website and try a new one.

2. Actively include social media CTA: When your audience sees good content, they want to share it with their friends and family. However, people are just too lazy to take an action. As a blogger you can motivate your audience by making it easy for them to share your content. As a start one can include social media sharing buttons. Include click-to-tweet bytes, Pinterest share option on images, social media follow buttons and links.

While writing your content, always ask people to share the content on various social sites. Actively link to social sites like LinkedIn etc. from within your article body so that people can click on the link and go to LinkedIn, Pinterest and even Facebook and share your content.

3. Collaborate: Joining hands with other bloggers can quickly speed up your blogging progress. However, this collaboration does not mean guest posts only. One can easily join multiple bloggers to create content, share the same on the social media, email it to their newsletter subscribers etc.

4. Create a Sitemap: Most people consider these tips as old fashioned and some of the new bloggers don’t even know what a site map is. Basically, a sitemap is the place where your entire site, every page of it, is linked so that one can navigate to any part of your website by clicking on the links mentioned in your sitemap.

But a site map is hardly used for navigation; it is an option mostly used by search engines to list your pages in the search engines as crawling a website is easy if everything is available on a single page.

5. Give life to Old Posts: Your older content is your asset and it needs to be treated properly. Edit your old blog posts and add the following, few Canva edited images of various sizes so that every social site can be leveraged, date changed to the latest and mentioned at the top as edited and revised article, internal links updated, new and fresh external links added etc.

There’s always so much that can be done to old posts to make them relevant for the current year. Even evergreen content needs to be updated with fresh ideas so that it stays relevant.

6. Include Stats: If you include statistics in your content then your claims will be a lot more authentic. People will question your content less if you have a stat that that backs up your claims. Other than that people just love the data and if you add some of those stats at the very top of your article, it will lower your bounce rate because people will start skimming your numbers and end up spending more time on your site.

7. Leave Perfection Behind: It is generally a bad idea and very unproductive practice if you start to focus too much on perfection. If you have written a piece of content and have proofread it a few times, even read it loudly for how it sounds and there’s nothing much to include now, then your post is good to go live. If you think too much on it, it will still stay more or less the same, the only difference it will create is that you will miss out of a deadline and your posting schedule will get affected.

8. Free services in exchange of Reviews: There are thousands of blogging services available on the internet and most of them are paid. However, every single of those services are looking for reviews and testimonials. If you are ready to provide that then reach out to those services and ask them to give you their premium plans for free so that you can test their service and write a review of it on your blog. Leverage the influence of your blog to earn you free stuff.

9. Use Trello for Planning: We have so many going in our heads but as most of it is undocumented, they vanish in time. Organize your content and marketing ideas by using sites like Trello where you can write down and plan plenty of things.

10. Create a Lead Magnet: This step is pretty common and yet most bloggers don’t utilize it. All you need to do is to compile a few of your blog posts and turn it into an eBook where your article title will become chapter names. Once your eBook is ready, give it for free to your readers and use it as a lead magnet so that people drop their email ids to gain access to your free eBook.

11. Speed up your loading time: At this time a fast loading website has a lot of benefits. Your audience will thank you for a fast loading website and the search engines will start to rank you better for your loading speeds.

It is always better to try out new things. If you have already tried the regular tips and they haven’t given enough value then keep looking for more actionable tips and start implementing them. Focus on one tip at a time and keep the rest in the bucket. Measure results from the tip that you are using and document it so that you can cover it in detail in your next blog post.

16 Ways to Promote your Startup Online

A startup can be many things, for example: a niche product, a blog, an online eCommerce platform, a service based business, etc. The only thing common between all startups is that it still needs to be promoted and worked on.

There are several ways to promote a startup and make it popular. However, we are only going to discuss the free options where it does not cost money to promote a startup. These tips are not just free but they are also easy to implement and mostly directly actionable.

Here’s the top ways to promote a startup for free.

1. Kickstarter: This site isn’t just for funding. Raising money is the main point here, but money can be raised by several ways, like angel funding or bank loans, but when you compare it with kickstarter where a startup gets so much attention that raising money seems like only part of the benefits. Think of the user base and the promotions a startup gets when it starts to trend on platforms like this.

2. Product Hunt: It is a place where products and startups trend. If you have a startup then get it listed there. However, it is only the first step, if this site has to be used to the full potential then it is important that you build a strong profile and following there. Make sure to up vote and comment on as many products listed there as possible on daily basis. Then you will see that several of those people you are interacting with are taking out the time and checking out your listed startups as well.

3. Facebook Group: Facebook has this amazing feature of groups. If you search deeply then you will find several groups that are directly on your niche. You can share content on these groups and in time try to build a relevant group for your business as well.

4. Linkedin: Depending on the niche of your business, this social network can be a top priority for your startup. Even if your niche isn’t a fit here, one should still try to build a following on Linkedin as there are plenty of people here, who might be interested in what you are trying to build. Even if you can’t find customers on your niche in Linkedin, you might still be able to find investors for your niche here.

5. Guest Posts: There are many businesses that have grown and established themselves with the power of guest blogging. Every startup can utilize guest posting, all you need to do is to look for popular sites and blogs on your niche, top media and news sites and magazines that anyone can pitch and start your outreach.

This process takes time and chances are that many of the sites where you are pitching starts to reject you. Learn from your pitching mistakes and see what is working and plan ahead.

6. Contests and Giveaways: We are mostly talking about free options but giveaways works best when you actually give something of value. If you have a product of your own then giving that to lucky ones and contest winners can be a great way to get some attention.

Make a rule for following your social profiles as a requirement for taking part in the contest and it will give an even greater benefit.

7. YouTube: If you have a startup where you make interesting stuff that can be documented then YouTube can serve as a platform for promoting your business. Simply take videos of what you do and edit it a bit to make it look good. Then upload it to YouTube and slowly build a following.

8. Use Canva: Taking regular pics of your startup, what you do, how you make your product and your office photos and then sharing them on social media is a good way to get publicity and at the same time, letting your customers know more details about how you conduct your business.

These images can be further edited by using a service like Canva so that they stand out and look catchy.

9. Join Twitter Chats: There are many twitter chats that are hosted almost every single day and several of those might be on your niche. Search for these chats and try to join them when they next happen. They follow a schedule so catching the next twitter chat from the same host is pretty easy.

10. Ask for Reviews: If your customers love your product then actively ask for reviews and testimonials. These reviews can be shared on so many places and if you provide the links to the places where your customers can post these reviews themselves, then you will start to trend on many of these review platforms.

11. Work on SEO: Search has always been a free channel to promote anything. Look for content pages on your startup, this can be your blog section or your knowledge base articles. Optimize them so that they start to rank on the search engines. Slowly, in time, try to SEO your product pages and other pages of your website so that you can utilize the full power of SEO.

12. Start Email Marketing: Several email marketing tools provides free options to get started. Surely having a premium plan can speed up your email marketing efforts but if you want to get started for free, that can be managed as well.

13. Build a following on Instagram: When it comes to social media platforms, instagram is one of the top platforms we have online. Simply share short versions of your videos that you make for YouTube and optimize the image size for Instagram and you are set.

14. Utilize Quora: If you search on Quora then you will find that there are so many questions, many unanswered too, which are strictly on your niche. If you spend time to reply to those questions and sometimes even link back to your website as a related resource, you can get a lot of targeted visitors to your startup.

15. Give Interviews: People love to read interviews and it gives a lot of publicity and a backlink which boosts your SEO efforts.

16. Beta list: This is also a place to list your startup and just like any other platform, if you give it time then your startup might start to trend here as well.

There’s no end to the places where you can submit your startup or get free promotion and traffic for your startup. The secret to utilizing these platforms properly lies in your effort. If you are ready to give time, build a profile and following, contribute then surely you can pitch and promote your business on these platforms and gain benefits.

15 Tips to Make a Successful Startup in 2023

Start up has become a huge buzzword lately. Everyone wants to build their startup today and grow it to form a successful company some day. If you are someone who is already running a startup and looking for tips to make it successful then your choices are limited. Surely, you can still utilize the tips and optimize the business that you already have and make it further successful. But for those who are simply looking for ideas to make their startups, they have an opportunity to start on the right foot.

If you are planning on a startup and you want to make it a success in the near future then follow the below tips and make sure that the startup you are planning, passes the various points mentioned in the articles.

1. Lean Startup: This is the first thing one should look into a startup. If the business you are building isn’t heavy on the codes, that is it is easy to get started and the technical aspects of it is low and developments costs are a bare minimum, then the overall business is lean.

When we start a business, the biggest obstacle is mostly the development side of the business. If the cost of getting started is too heavy, the regular maintenance is costly, then it is a business that one should probably skip.

2. Profitable from the Start: If you are starting a business that might be able to sell something in the future, where the revenue model isn’t as clear then you should re-think your idea. A good startup should make money from the first day and should be profitable from the start.

3. Unit Economics: At the very core of any business is the unit from where it is making money. This unit is basically a customer or a sale that happens as a regular of marketing activities. So, if you spend money to acquire a customer and get a sale and the money you have spent to get that customer is lower than the value of the customer, then it is a positive unit economics.

This unit might not be positive right away but if you calculate the lifetime value of a customer and it is positive at some point of time in the future, then it is still a positive unit economic.

4. Market Size: Whatever market you are in, if the full size of the specific market is huge then you and your investors have a good opportunity to grow in the future. However, if your marketing size isn’t in the billions, or the market is declining and moving over to something else, then at a larger scale, the business has an issue.

5. Subscription model: One of the easiest ways to grow a business is by creating a paid subscription model. This way, even if the cost of acquisition of a customer is higher, the business will still be profitable in the long run, as the monthly subscription revenue will make way for the profits in the near future.

A subscription business model is also a stable and safe way to grow a business. Here, one does not really have to worry about the next sale, as every order is a repeat order and at the end of the month, the business knows that its customers will be billed and money will keep flowing in.

6. Scalable: There are several ways to scale a business. One of the easiest ways to grow and scale a business is by utilizing pay-per-click advertisement model. If the business can easily be scaled by putting advertisement money and getting sales, then the model can be quickly grown. Surely, the unit economics still stands as the ad expenditure needs to be lower than the sales amount, else it cannot be sustained in the long run.

7. Easy Exit: For the founders, investors and the team, as much as it is important to stay involved and get the business growing, it is equally important to have an exit route. No one wants to stay bounded to a business. Knowing the exit option gives everyone the flexibility to leave the startup and make way for others to join in and fill the gap.

8. Investable: A startup should be investable. If it is too difficult to invest in the startup then the chances of growing it and scaling it is slim. There can be several reasons why a startup isn’t investable, for example the market size is small, the founders aren’t easy to work with, the churn rate is high or the product isn’t market fit. Whatever be the cause, but if the startup can’t be invested in, then it won’t grow.

9. Build a Team: While growing a startup, it is often seen that the founders are so involved and talented that they think, they can do everything by themselves. This is helpful up to a certain extent, but after that the process becomes difficult and rather than helping, it starts to hurt the progress of the startup.

Even if the founders are good at everything, one should still focus on building a team so that many aspects of the business can be managed and run by others and free up the founders time.

10. Churn Rate: Any business will have a churn rate as it is almost impossible to please everyone. At the end of the month, some customers will leave the business and move away. However, it is still best to have this rate, as low as possible. It is always expensive to acquire a new customer, so making sure that existing customers stay it a top priority.

11. Utilize Content Marketing: Not all marketing has to be expensive. There are some free and cheaper ways to market a business, for example, SEO, starting a blog and doing content marketing.

12. Optimize for Social: Social media has grown to become a huge marketplace for businesses to make the best out of it. Build a following on sites like instagram, make video content and target sites like YouTube and TicTok, stay up to date on sites like Facebook, twitter, Pinterest etc.

With the growing amount of startups in the world, the space is getting competitive and slowly the chances of making money from growing a startup is becoming increasingly difficult. In a competitive market, it is important to take care of the basics and grow the business in the correct way and monetize it and keep growing it day by day.

13 Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid in 2023

Email marketing is one of the best online marketing tools available to digital marketers. This is one medium of marketing which isn’t controlled by 3^rd party sites. If you compare it with social media then you will notice that your twitter profile isn’t truly yours, after all Twitter is the owner of your profile and they can close it at any time they wish.

If you have your customers email id then you have an unrestricted access to their inbox which is pretty much a private space. If you gain access to this space and your emails are accepted here, then surely you have done a good job with email marketing.

However, it might not be the case with everyone, after all, we all make mistakes and there are several mistakes that you can learn, without really committing it.

Here, in this article, we will cover several email marketing mistakes that you can avoid.

1. Send a generic welcome email: This is a mistake that almost everyone makes with their email marketing. You know that you have to send a welcome email and it has to be on automation and without any second thoughts, you set it up on your auto-responder.

It is best that you customize your welcome email with as much details as possible. Don’t let it be a simple template, skip automation if possible, and send this email with the best of your ability so that it stands out and make way for a lasting relation.

2. Let users reply to your email: Having a no-reply email id attached to the email newsletters that you send, is perhaps one of the biggest mistake that almost every company does. These practices of having a don’t-reply email id have been accepted into practice and are almost unquestioned. This is perhaps one of the worst mistake that you can do and fixing it is equally easy, all you have to do is to add an email id where your recipients can reply and get your feedback on it.

3. Sending emails when ever your heart desires: If you don’t send emails regularly and consistently then people will forget you and when they suddenly see your email, and can’t recall you anymore, your email will go straight to spam.

The solution here is to set up an auto-responder email series where your subscribers will get emails on regular intervals and eventually they will start to expect your emails on the scheduled days.

4. Failing to personalize your emails: Email subscribers are regular people and they don’t understand that their names on the email opening or the subject lines are automated. Most people just consider that since the email has their name on it, the sender isn’t a bot and has taken out their time to write the email personally and specifically for them.

If you fail to do this basic step then surely you are going to miss out on a great deal of personalization which will eventually cost you subscribers.

5. Sending emails with Typos: No one wants to read content with basic spelling and grammar mistakes. The email content does not really have to be top-notch; it is after all, only a few paragraphs of content and needs to be written in a friendly and conversational tone. People like to skim through emails, so a scanable email with short sentences is the best way to go about it. Just avoid the basic writing mistakes and it should be ok.

6. Un-optimized and generic subject lines: It does not really takes a lot of time to add the usernames and first name fields in email subject lines and the previews and openings. Yet, people make this basic mistake and the entire email campaign becomes unsolicited.

7. Not adding a visible un-subscribe text or button: If any of your subscriber wants to go away, it is best to let them go. If you have people on your list that isn’t interested in your emails, they don’t open or read the emails, then it is a far better choice to let them leave. However, if someone wants to leave and can’t find the un-subscribe button then the situation is far worse.

The quickest solution here is to make sure that the, unsubscribe option is clearly visible in the email footer.

8. Adding too many Images: Having images in the email body makes the email stand out, but it happens only if the images are loaded. Most email service providers don’t like the images and they either block those images, or does not make them visible. When it comes to emails, plain text is a far better choice.

9. Don’t add attachments to your emails: No one really takes the time to download the attachment that you send everyone by email. Never send any attachments via. emails, unless it is that ebook which you promised when they signed up to your newsletter.

10. Over sell: Try to make sure that your emails are more about educating and informing rather than selling. People don’t like to see every email to be a sales email. Try to keep sales and promotional emails to a bare minimum.

11. Not having email signup options on website: Don’t want for traffic to start flowing before you add the email signup button. Try to get the subscribe now button and the exit intent popup to catch email ids from the very first day your website is live.

12. Ignoring Call to Actions: Unless your subscriber buys something or takes a CTA decision, the real purpose of your email campaign does not gets fulfilled. It is important that you optimize your CTA buttons so that the user clicks on them.

13. Missing out on test emails: Surely, your email is flawless and you have already checked it multiple times and it is ready to be broadcasted. However, do note that if you press that send button, there’s no getting back and all your subscribers will receive the email. If there are any mistakes with your email, you can’t fix it if you have already sent.

Here, the only true option is to send you a test email and then check it thoroughly before sending out the email campaign.

It is only human to make mistakes, but do note that these mistakes costs time, money and reputation. You do gain knowledge by committing mistakes, but the same amount of knowledge can be acquired easily if you just take note of the mistakes that other people do and make sure to not do it yourself.

12 Health Sub Niches to Start a Blog in 2023

Health is a serious niche where content has to be flawless and preferably written by someone who has an education background on the exact topic he is writing on. This qualification can be on topics like dietician, yoga certification, General Practitioner or even pediatrician or orthopedic, depending on the niche of the content.

However, not all health niches require the same amount of expertise. Some topics like healthy food, diet, general health and motivation topics can be easily researched and covered by writers who do not really have a strong background on health.

Here, in this article, we will cover several health sub niches to start a blog.

1. Health News: If you browse through the Google News search or look for trending hashtags on the social media regarding health topics then you will find that there are plenty of things that keep happening on the health niche. These are news related topics and ranking for these terms will mean instant traffic.

In the longer run if your news content is really good then try to get your health news site listed on the Google and other search engine for news search. While this step isn’t impossible, but it is fairly difficult to get into the news search and will require your site to deliver top-notch content consistently.

2. Weight Loss: Being overweight is a serious issue. Losing weight isn’t easy, on the other hand a very little lack of proper food choice can quickly increase the weight further. This is such a tricky situation that makes the best of us lose sleep thinking on how to lose the extra weight.

There are many articles that can be written about losing weight naturally by making good life choices, healthy food choices and other regular and everyday tips.

3. Yoga: There are many certificate courses that one can complete and become a certified yoga instructor. This will allow you to write yoga related content with authority and naturally it will help you to rank better. Search engines prefer that the content should be written by someone who is well qualified to write on the specific topic.

4. Hair: There can be so many causes for people to lose their hairs. Be it unhealthy eating, dandruff, water issues, side effects of specific medicine, the reasons are simply limit less. This also makes way to write content that does not have a limitation as this sub niche is pretty wide and there are plenty of things to cover.

5. Self Improvement: When it comes to topics like self improvement, it does not really take an expert to write on it. There are plenty of sub niches like happiness, or good habits, stress management etc. that can be easily covered and plenty of articles that can be written on it.

6. Pregnancy: Certain topics like pregnancy can be covered by expectant mothers in a far better way than someone who is an expert on the field. The search engines might disagree, but it will be their loss. If you are an expectant mother and you are covering your pregnancy, week by week, in your blog section then your content will be far more valuable than the experts themselves.

7. Healthy Living: This is another easy to cover niche where the topics are fairly easy to research. The very basic fundamentals of life like waking up early, going to bed early, drinking enough water, losing the sweetening drinks etc. are the type of topics that can be covered in this niche. Many sub niches falls under this wide healthy living niche, thus the chances of running out of topic idea is an almost impossible thing on this niche.

8. Diabetes: In this day and age, with our life style going from bad to worse, diabetes has surfaced as one of the really serious health issue. From dinner in the restaurants to often fast food cravings, eating unhealthy snacks, skipping breakfast, drinking cold drinks, minimum exercises and no physical activities are some of the major causes of this disease. Furthermore, heredity is also a top cause for getting diabetes.

While this disease can never be truly treated, in most cases one needs diabetes management which means there’s plenty of content that can be written in this niche.

9. Exercise and Fitness: You might not go to the Gym regularly but writing content on fitness and exercise is still fairly easy. One can easily research and write about these topics and cover them is great detail.

10. Healthy Eating: Not all foods are made equal. Certain foods are treated as super foods, while some others like broccoli, spinach etc. are more than healthy and should be taken regularly. From dry fruits, to season’s best vegetables and organic foods, everything naturally grown is good to eat.

Various foods content different nutrition values, like anti-oxidants, vitamin profile, protein content etc. Writing about such topics in details can be really helpful and it will allow regular content posting as well.

11. Health Products and Reviews: There are many products on the health niche. Not all of them are good, but if you look into the reviews and ratings properly, one can find out which products to promote and which ones to skip. Article content can be created around these topics which will allow the regular flow of content on your niche blog. There are no limits to the amount of products on these niches, so one can write as much as he desires.

12. Skin Care: Skin is another very serious topic. From natural skin care which involves mostly creams, drinking water, eating dry fruits etc. to high end cosmetics to even medication for serious health issues, everything falls under this niche. For the writers, this niche is tricky, but if one does not really cover the very serious parts of this niche then in general, this niche is still easy to write on.

Surely, there’s no limit to how many sub niches one can explore on the health category. Every sub niche has more sub-niches under it, so one can be as specific and as niche as one wants to be.

17 Tips to Stay Motivated as a Blogger

When you start out as a new blogger, you are always charged up, fully motivated with plenty of ideas and thoughts flowing through your system. You have several posts schedules, many outlines and drafts pending and there’s always so much to do.

For months, you don’t have to worry about content as there’s something always cooking in the pipelines. Unfortunately, at some point of time you will face the burn. There’s writer’s block which is bound to come and attack you when you will be least expecting it. No matter how well you are prepared, you will, at some point of time, face blogging motivation issues which will hinder your progress.

Here, we will cover several tips to stay motivated as a blogger.

1. Write a thousand words every day: Taking a target and sticking to it will keep you in the habit of writing regular content. Article writing is a habit and if you wish to write more content, it is important that you set yourself a content writing target and stick to it.

2. Follow content schedule religiously: When you set specific days for posting new blog entries, your blog start to perform better. Readers start to expect new content on days that you have set aside for article posting. This is also a sort of habit at your end and when you follow this schedule for months, you stay motivated to keep this posting schedule going.

3. Check income stats: Money is the biggest motivator and if you have earned money from blogging in the past then check those checks or deposits, it will keep you motivated. However, as a new blogging, you can check the income reports of other bloggers for staying motivated.

4. Read Motivational Books: There’s many bloggers who have written books on blogging motivation or positivity. Reading such books keeps us moving further and helps us stay focused on our blogging goals.

5. Treat yourself for success: Everyone has their own definition of success. If you target bigger results then you will miss out on the smaller and more achievable success goals. Check out the smaller targets, like 100 organic traffic per day, or 1k email subscribers etc. When you reach such goals, treat and congratulate yourself as achieving goals is always worth celebrating.

6. Join Blogging Communities: Blogging isn’t a solo journey, to stay ahead in the blogging business, one needs to join blogging communities in facebook, linkedin and other places and stay connected. Discussing blogging matters on such communities keeps the blogging motivation going and the feeling of being stuck alone in the blogging journey does not bothers anymore

7. Fix your Design: It is important that a blogger should like the look and feel of his own blog. A custom theme isn’t as important but the design and the logo should be unique. The blog should look good and match the bloggers personality.

8. Learn from the Pro: There’s many popular bloggers around. These people have been blogging consistently for years. It is good to get a firsthand experience from these bloggers. So whenever they launch a course or a consultancy sessions, join it and learn the ideas directly from the pros.

9. Diversify your income streams: Having multiple income streams is always a good idea. If something happens to your only income stream then your revenue will get impacted and you will immediately lose all of your blogging money. This is the reason why a blogger should have multiple income streams. More money will generate more interest and motivation.

10. Learn to turn down offers: Accepting too many of those guest posts and sponsored posts requests are also a reason for burn outs. Don’t read too many of those pitches simply ignore or say no to the unsolicited pitches.

11. Get away from Social Media: As a blogger there’s a reason to be active on social media. You need to share content, connect with fellow bloggers and influencers etc. However, mindless scrolling of the social media time lines does not helps and one need to stop doing that.

12. Take a break: Blogging from morning to evening everyday can be a huge cause of burnout. Do note that when you work for others, your work timing is usually 9 Am to 5 PM. But as bloggers, we tend to work for 18 hours a day which is way too much. Take some time off, and spend time with friends and family. It will get the creative juices flowing once again.

13. Make a blogging time table: If you blog at any time of the day then it is best that you make a time table for blogging and stick to it. Set aside time for content creation, guest posting, commenting etc.

14. Set time for email management: Reading and checking out emails every few hours is a bad way to kill your productivity. It is best to allocate some time for checking emails, it can be twice a day as people need to be answered as soon as possible. When you open an email, try to respond to it and get that done. No point opening the email, reading it and leaving it later for posting the reply.

15. Outsource boring work: Not all work is fun but even if certain aspects of blogging is boring, they still need to be done. If outreach isn’t for you, or you don’t write good content, then it is time to outsource those tasks.

16. Take part in Twitter Chat: Twitter chat is another amazing feature of twitter and is far underused. Check for hosts that run these chats and note down their timings. Take part in those chat when they next time host it again.

17. Field the comments: Replying to blog comments is a very positive and motivating work. If you do this consistently, your blogging motivation won’t leave you in a hurry.

Hitting a writer’s block is easy but getting out of it is tough. If you manage your blogging time well, chances are slim that you have to hit such a block. When you try to do too many things and keep pushing yourself further, that is when things goes wrong and you start to find yourself in a block. Blogging is simply, keep it that way.

11 Tips for Bloggers to write more Content

As a blogger, the success to your blogging activities lies in the amount of content you create. Agreed that everything still has to be done, from link building to promotions, but the biggest factor for the blogging success remains with the content.

When you create more content, your posting schedule improves, that is rather than posting one to two posts a week, you can speed up your content by posting 3 to 5 times a week. If you still manage to write more than the extra content can be used for guest posting, or running other blog sections like LinkedIn pulse or Medium.

Here, in this article, we will discuss several tips to help you write more content.

1. Be active in the comments section: If you have an active comments section then simply replying to and discussing with other commentators, you will be able to get more content ideas. However, if your own comments section isn’t as active then start reading the comments that other blogs in your niche gets. Those comments, often ignored by your competitor, is truly a gold mine of ideas and thoughts. Go through it deeply and you will find enough ideas to start working on some new blog posts.

2. Quora: This site isn’t just a question and answer website, it is truly a social network targeted to the question and answer niche. If Quora is utilized properly, it will serve as a hunting ground for ideas on any niche. Whatever your niche might be, Quora has questions waiting for you to answer.

Take out some time answering questions on Quora. This will increase the ideas that you have on your own niche and the more your research the more knowledge you will gain.

3. Take a Walk: Sometimes sitting in front of the computer does not help to gather the ideas. Out in the open, perhaps walking around a park often helps to collect ideas. This is where you should carry a notepad with you and quickly jot down the ideas that you gain from spending quality time off line.

4. Read books: If you truly want to master your niche, it is important that you read a lot of good books on relevant topics. Look for good authors who have written on topics that you often write content. If you aren’t able to find related books, then join some networks like good reads and it will automatically start suggesting you various books that you should be reading.

5. Review a product: There are so many products on your niche find them on Amazon and other places. Buy them if you have to and start reviewing them. Good or bad, write an honest review and try to cover them in as much detail as possible. Do not worry about being negative here as the idea is to write good content and not to please anyone.

6. Cover Television: If there are shows or even films on your niche, take out some time to watch them in full. Then write a detailed review of the show you have just watched. There’s always something relevant, no matter what niche you are in. For us entrepreneurs, there’s shark tank, which is a reality show and worth covering in your blog section.

7. Check what is trending: Google trends are a great tool for finding topics that are currently making the waves. Surely trends and hashtags are visible on most social media sites, like Twitter, but Google has a very detailed page on trending topics. They even have a hot trends section for content that is getting a lot of views.

8. Interview someone from your niche: While interviews are a great way to add content, it is also an opportunity to do some networking. For interviews, most of us target the popular people from our niche. If you manage to get time from an influencer from your niche then it is also a great opportunity to know more about the influencer. This is truly a networking opportunity and the influencer is surely going to remember you after the interview.

9. Start story telling: Readers always wants to know more about the person behind the blog. Surely, you do have a story about yourself and how you got started which is something that you keep in your about us section. But once in a while, writing more about your personal life in the form of blog posts helps in making a stronger bond with your readers. If you are able to connect with your readers on an emotional level then your readers will have a strong bond with you and in time, this relationship will become further stronger.

10. Turn off distractions: When you are finally ready to start finishing up the article, it is time to block all distractions. Get rid of the music, if possible close the doors and the windows and remove the unwanted tabs that are open in your browser. In the long run, try to find a white noise option that will get rid of the stronger and disturbing outside sounds.

11. Re-purpose content from other sources: When it comes to getting content created, you might already have a variety of content ready. There’s content created for the newsletters, or Guest Posts, or other form of content that goes into slide share or even infographics. All these content are different but still several of this content can be easily re-purposed into the blog section.

As a blogger, our main work is to create content. This can be for the main blog section, or guest posts, or social media and micro blogging. Every online marketing activity in some capacity requires the creation of content. If you are able to write more, you will be able to do a lot of marketing activities. In such a case it is always better to invest in oneself and work harder to get more content created.

15 Tips to Get Started with Email Marketing

Email marketing is perhaps one of the strongest sources of online marketing. If you compare most other marketing methods, like Social Media, you will find that the amount of control anyone has over their followers on social sites like Twitter, Facebook etc. are almost none. The entire following you create on a social media site is ultimately, not yours. In an instant, that following can be taken from you.

Now, compare that with the emails you collect. You have complete control over your list. This is one of the main reasons why, along with other forms of online marketing, one should keep a dedicated budget and time specifically allotted for email marketing.

Here, in this article, we will discuss email marketing tips.

1. Start Early: Catching email leads is the first thing one should start. Even if the website isn’t ready, a coming up page can catch email leads. While catching email leads, always give a small introduction of what your email subscribers will expect in future emails.

2. Create Lead Magnet: Normally, even without lead magnets, one can easily catch email leads. But the process becomes easier and more people start to drop their email ids if there is some kind of benefit associated with giving their email ids.

3. Work on Auto-Responder series: Auto-responders are email content where the subscribers start to get a number of emails which are sent one after the other, in the form of a series. This is a great way to bring in a new customer and educate them about your business and let him know how things work at your end.

4. Work on your welcome email: Usually saying, the very first email that you send your subscriber should be short and easy. This is mostly the welcome email. However, take your time and craft a good welcome email that explains your system and business. Send this email later through, perhaps once the subscriber starts to receive the auto-responder series, is the right time to send this extended and detailed welcome email.

5. Let them know the real you: Emails with pitch and sales is something that is best sent when the subscriber is matured enough to receive those emails. At the start of an auto-responder, always write emails that explain more about you and how you started your business. The more personal details you share about yourself, the stronger your connection will be with your email audience.

6. Re-purpose your blog posts: You have always wanted that more people should read your blog post. So finally, you get the opportunity to email some of this blog post content to your readers in the form of auto-responders. This way, your email audience gets to consumer more content, instead of promotional emails.

7. Personalize your emails: Make sure to personalize your emails and even the subject lines so that it gives better open rates. Include the name field in the email subject line and the opening part of the email body, this will make sure that your subscriber will quickly open your emails.

8. Always setup double-optin: This is one of the major reasons why catching email ids with content upgrades tied with double opt-in works really well. The user, in such an arrangement, has to confirm their email ids before they get their gifts. With double opt-in your subscribers are so much more dedicated and far less people will unsubscribe from your list

9. Use exit intent popup: Among the several ways you will be using the email subscribe form on your website, the exit intent popup will be, by far the most effective means of catching email leads. This pop-up is triggered by your user’s mouse movement, the moment the user tries to leave the site, this email submission pop-up launches.

10. Occasionally, sell stuff: Your email audience is also a sales channel. Just like social media or your blog section, where you occasionally sell stuff by pitching and sharing, the same can be done with email marketing. Note that over doing this will result in people un-subscribing, so need to balance sales and content based emails so that benefits can be taken while keeping the quality high.

11. Email Feedbacks: When a user provides their testimony or feedback, this builds a positive trust for your brand. This positivity needs to be shared and what better way one can let other know about this feedback, than to email your subscribers. Once in a while, send out emails letting people know that you are getting positive feedback, testimonies and reviews. Along with this, ask others to leave reviews if they support your work.

12. Let people unsubscribe: Make sure to include a link to unsubscribe at the bottom of every email you sent. Some people will always be unsatisfied and it is best to have those people removed. If someone does not like your emails, let them go.

13. Keep the email body small: Emails aren’t articles where you need to keep writing and adding more details. When it comes to emails, a few good lines of catchy text is usually more than enough. Having images in the article body can be a good thing as it catches user attention.

14. Segment your subscribers: Not all people are the same, and depending on their interests etc. segment your list into various parts so that you can send them more targeted and personalized emails.

15. Keep the auto-responders longer: Note that your subscribers should keep getting regular emails. The moment they stop receiving your emails, is the moment you lose them. If your subscribers haven’t received any email from your end for months, then you can no longer connect with them. They are as good as gone.

Email marketing can be tricky but if done properly then it can be a good way to communicate with your audience. It is difficult at first to make your presence acceptable in your subscriber’s inbox, but if you manage to do it successfully then slowly in time, your audience will start to expect your email.

Top 11 Tips to Scale your Online Business Quickly

Every business grows with time and sooner or later the various stats like leads, sales, profits etc. starts to grow in numbers. But this growth takes time as organic and natural growth, without any specific and planned influence, happens in its own time.

On the other hand, when it comes to an exponential growth where your business goes to another level, mostly with VC funding or by some other rare factor, it starts to scale. This speed of growth, known as scaling might happen naturally someday, but if a business wants to achieve this by working on it, then we have compiled some tips to help scale your business.

Here, in this article, we will cover some tips to scale your business quickly:

1. Retain Existing Customers: The costs of getting a new customer is always very high and when you compare it to retaining a customer that you already have, the expense is next to nothing. This is the reason why a business should always focus on their churn rate.

To boost your customer retaining percentage, make sure to keep a good communication going with your customers. That way if anything goes wrong, your customer will immediately respond and you can quickly fix the issue. Along with that, keep your apps and sites in good health, update content information and keep improving your products.

2. Catch Leads: The easiest way to catch leads is from your own site and your content pages. If your blog is ranking organically then your own blog will be your best place to catch leads for free. Now compare these with the leads you catch from social media and elsewhere and you will realize that maintaining a blog is the best thing to do.

3. Check what is already working and do more: The best way to scale is to first analyze what is working today. Then, slowly start doing more of what is working and even spend more money in that direction to boost your revenue further.

4. Out Source: To speed things up, outsourcing is a great option, as it does not require employee trainings, office space etc. Simply hire the right talent, show them what to do and expected turnaround times and then wait for the work to be completed.

5. Plan on Paid Subscriptions: Scaling a subscription business is easy and safe. Even if the customer acquisition costs are high, you are still safe because they are on subscription. However, if your churn rate is too heavy then even a subscription model won’t last forever.

6. Research your Competition: You are not the only one in your niche or you aren’t the first person to do what you are already doing. In most cases, some form of competition already exists. Check how they scaled their business, how your niche was tapped and used. This research will become the key ingredient in your long-term business.

7. Look into Pay Per Click: If you have money to spend, your sale is on paid subscriptions and your cost of acquisition and churn rate is low then using PPC is going to benefit you heavily. Simply increase your budget, spend more money and at the end of it, gain more paid customers and keep scaling it.

8. Read books on Growth and Scaling: Not all ideas and knowledge can be found in the blogs and on YouTube. Think on it, the digital universe is fairly new, not even two decades old. However, people have been doing businesses for thousands of years and some of those business models have been documented for eons. All that knowledge and more are available in the books, waiting for them to be read.

9. Keep measuring new customer acquisition costs: It is important to keep a check on the money that is costing the business to acquire a new user. There is always more than one way to get the customers. Check which acquisition method is cheaper and yet scalable, organic, social media, pay per click etc. Push on the method that works best.

10. Balance your Debt and Equity: When the time comes to scale, most businesses start to think about taking in debt or giving away equity. Today, especially for startups, when they get funded, they take it that they had become successful. This is however only the start of a long journey.

In the long run, when you look back and see there isn’t a lot of equity left under your portfolio then you will realize that you haven’t done a good job with your money raising process. Similarly, if you raise too much debt and you find yourself in a position where working capital is difficult to get, then again you have made a mistake. The secret to success is somewhere in the balance, raise money as much as it is needed and spend it in ways that grows your business and brings back money.

11. Optimize your conversion rate: The final piece of this scaling process lies with the CRO, the more your conversion rate is optimized, the better sales you will get. Check your cart and if there are any tech issues then fix it. Sometimes, the buying process of a business is complicated and it takes a lot of hard work for their customers to reach to the payments page, if those issues are fixed, it will immediately speed up the sales.

There’s still a lot that can be done, for example sending discount offers when cart is abandoned. Working on lead magnets to catch emails and further boosting the conversion rates of email submission forms etc. Everything ultimately adds up and slowly keeps improving the CRO for long term benefits.

Scaling a business is difficult but given the right tools, budget and planning, it can be done in time. The technology too plays a huge role in helping scale various businesses. The best kept secrets of scaling a business is all in the process and planning.