I would like to share with you how I created this blog for under 100 dollars in less than 8 hours of work. Hopefully this will help all of you who have aspirations for creating your own blog save time and money.
First, since I knew little about wordpress I found a host that I could easily set it up on. I used bluehost.
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Marketing on Twitter
(beginning from Obox)
1. Tweet about old posts once in a while. The chances are that your new followers have not read previous, top drawer, posts from your blog. Let them know. The key here is to only tweet it once and to make sure that you timed it correctly.
2. Create conversation. Don’t just tweet about your post, talk to other tweeples. Show people that you are normal so that when you tweet about your post they will respect it. If you don’t involve yourself in the community you will seem like a corporate machine
3. If someone tweets something good about your blog then retweet their comments and maybe even follow them, it is good twitter etiquette.
4. Use pingbacks to let users know that you are posting about their content.
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Quick Sprout
About Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.
Inspired Startup
Andy is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is also a stubborn, die-hard Seattle sports fan. He currently runs BuddyTV and sits on several boards. Inspired startup is a collection of ideas and thoughts around entrepreneurship, finance, success, online marketing, investing, giving, and random interesting stories.
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The goal of starting this blog is to increase the likelihood that others will not make the same mistakes that I have made in the past. I will teach you how to create a successful blog for under 2,500 dollars. There will be four main purposes to the blog:
1. Save money
2. Save time
3. Growth
4. Make Money
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