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[Case Study] From 48 to 1,147 subscribers + full-time income in one year

Blog Smarter Case Study Jess Renzi

Jess Renzi’s transformation from Blogger to Business Owner After a year of blogging, Jess Renzi was stuck. She knew she could help people. She knew she had information they needed. And she knew she had the potential to turn her knowledge into a profitable business. But how? After being referred to the Blog Smarter program by a friend-of-a-friend, […]

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9 questions to FOCUS your biz + build a stronger brand

Take a fistful of warm spaghetti noodles out of the pot. Bend your elbow, cock that arm behind your head, and LET ‘ER FLY. Splat against the wall. :: If that sounds unsanitary, it IS…but people do it. Why? To test whether the spaghetti is cooked — to see if what they were trying to […]

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She wanted $60K/year from blogging. What she got was even *better.*

Make money blogging: Leslie's income

You already know you’re working too much. That little “hobby blog” turned into Gol-dang-zilla the moment you decided to make money from it. The posting. The planning. The social media free-for-all. …and that’s why you need to see what happened to Leslie. About 15 months ago, Leslie made some powerful changes on her blog, and […]

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The Kind of Success That Will Burn You Out (+ HOPE for the weary blogger!)

The Blog Maven | Blog Smarter.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS. That’s how much money most folks think they want to make with their blogs. Sure, it starts out simply enough. Y’know, follow a basic tutorial on “how to start your blog” and actually blog from the heart when you first start out. But as soon as you paste some ad code in […]

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Is your blog’s subscribe machine missing THIS vital element?

The Blog Maven | Blog Smarter.

WARNING. There’s a silent killer prowling your website. It starts out as a simple oversight — something you forgot to add when setting up your mailing list. But as your traffic grows, the effects of this disease multiply. This condition often goes undetected for years…because you THINK it’s “taken care of” (you have a pop-up, […]

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You don’t have a traffic problem. Instead? It’s THIS.

Jet off to any blogging conference, and you’ll see the same thing: A sea of bloggers clad in Professionally Feminine tops (forget the fact that they were in yoga pants and a ratty old t-shirt just 24 hours ago). Elevator pitches at the very tips of their tongues, poised like a skydiver with the plane […]

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