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FILTER RESULTS ►Conversing on Comics with Greg Capullo
ROBOT 6's Chris Arrant spoke with artist Greg Capullo about "Batman," his relationships with Scott Snyder & Todd McFarlane and the progression of his career from Marvel Comics to "Spawn" and beyond.
How to Name Your Next Blog Product
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Here are some sample products, most of them ebooks, that I recently saw available for sale and/or free download on some popular blogs: “Ten Steps To A Better Golf Game” “Creating Your Personal Life Plan” “How To Make Money Online” “23 Gluten-Free Recipes For You [...]Show More Summary
Disable Comments for a Better Blog
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Feedback is great, right? Your honor, if it pleases the court, I’d like to contend that that’s a leading question. The answer to it might be “yes,” but not unequivocally. Steak is great too, but not in the middle of church. Providing a forum in [...]
Build Blog Products That Sell 6: Tell the World
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the final installment in our hexalogy, concerning how to sell blog products in an era when people are reaching into their pockets and finding mostly lint. So far, we’ve discussed how to plan out products drawn from your expertise, create them, distinguish yourself [...]Show More Summary
Build Blog Products That Sell 5: Finding Customers
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. History dictates that the current economic malaise will eventually end, but we’re still waiting for some unambiguous signs. That’s why for the past few weeks, we’ve been learning how to create products that are inspired by (and that tie into) your blog, and how to [...]Show More Summary
Build Blog Products That Sell 4: Price Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. If you’re late to this particular party, we’ve been spending the last few weeks examining ways to monetize your blog in an era when readers are holding onto their wallets more tightly than ever. Sure, you can make money by selling ads if all you [...]Show More Summary
Build Blog Products That Sell 3: Develop Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the third weekly instalment in our series on how to sell products of your own creation, via your blog, in a world in which everyone’s reluctant to spend money. If you’ve been following the series so far, (LINKS), then you’ve learned how to [...]Show More Summary
How to Source and Host a Guest Post Series
Yesterday, we published the second post in a series of guest posts written by author Greg McFarlane here at ProBlogger. And recently you’ll have noticed our multi-author series on generating blog comments. So today I thought it might be interesting to talk about the thinking behind trying out series, and step through some of the [...]Show More Summary
Build Blog Products That Sell 2: Analyze the Market and Competitors
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research. —Attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), among others …Or you can take it a step further. If you research many, and then forge something original, your readers will take notice. And then, if you market yourself [...]Show More Summary
How to Get Reader Feedback that Helps Shape Your Next Product
In our first article from the series Build Blog Products that Sell, Greg McFarlane makes an interesting point. “Don’t be afraid to solicit feedback,” he says, “but on the other hand, don’t cede the responsibility of initiative by asking your readers, ‘So, what would you like to see?’” I wanted to touch on this in [...]Show More Summary
Emerald City Comicon 2012: Interview with Greg Capullo
Artist Greg Capullo may be most well-known for his work on the horror title Spawn, where he took over art duties for Todd McFarlane, a task not many artists would be willing to do, let alone capable of accomplishing. There,...
Build Blog Products That Sell 1: Match a Unique Idea to Your Audience
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. How do you get readers to part with their money, especially when said money is scarce? As the worldwide recession enters its umpteenth year, it’s difficult for most merchants of any kind to make a sale. It’s particularly so if you’re a blogger who wants [...]Show More Summary
How to Create and Host a Blog Carnival
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Everyone has them, except possibly R.L. Stine. I’m referring to those days when you’re lacking either the inspiration or the energy to write something fresh and/or inventive. If you can somehow get those days to occur on a regular schedule, say weekly, there’s a [...]Show More Summary
Pageviews are Good. Pagereads are Better.
This guest post is by Paula Pant of Afford-Anything and Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Have you noticed how so many blogs are just … terrible? There’s no polite way to say it. The writing is garbage, the design inelegant, the content inane. A bird pecking at a worm-scented keyboard could craft more interesting [...]Show More Summary
Recession-Proof Sports Leagues
by Greg McFarlane Whether you call it a slowdown, a holding pattern or the dreaded R-word, it’s not exactly news that our economy is in something of a bad way. It stands to reason that entertainment and other frivolities would be among the first items people would cut from their budgets. So why is it business-more-or-less-as-usual [...]
When No One Knows Where You Are. Or Needs To.
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. As you’re reading this, it’s 80º Fahrenheit and sunny with a light breeze. Not necessarily where you are, but somewhere. That somewhere is where I’ve chosen to blog for a living. Most of the time, that means Las Vegas. Right now, this being November, [...]Show More Summary
Black Coffee: Yes, Virginia, They Really Do Make $350 Baby Shower Cakes
by Greg McFarlane
It’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy a Little Joe.
(No, a little joe. Don’t be silly.)
In a stunning display of hubris, Len thought he could hand the Black Coffee reins over to yours truly and that his readers would enjoy the finished product. Show More Summary
There Are 3 Thing’s Wrong With This Head Line
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash As a blogger, you expect your readers to give you their valuable time that they could be spending elsewhere. If you’re going to ask that much of them, don’t they deserve your best effort in return? When your posts are loaded with spelling and [...]Show More Summary
How To Get A House For Free
by Greg McFarlane Even in today’s depressed housing market, you might have trouble scrounging up the $10 to buy a somewhat functioning house. (Pro tip: if you’re going to exchange one Alexander Hamilton for a house, put at least two bucks down so you can avoid having to pay private mortgage insurance. That could easily [...]
Why Bieber SEO Copywriting Sex Doesn’t iPad Work Minecraft
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Today, I bring you heresy. Not on the scale of Galileo trying to convince Pope Urban VIII that the sun doesn’t revolve around the Earth, but close enough. Stop believing the lies. SEO is a fool’s errand. SEO copywriting is the worst invention since [...]Show More Summary
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