When should you start off with your list building? And what goes into putting together a fool proof list building plan in place? Now that we know how to create a lead magnet (we discussed this in the last post), let us look at the step-by-step process to start capturing email addresses on our blog. If you would like to skip this post and go to the …

In the last post we discussed about creating a reader profile for your blog. A reader profile primarily identifies your readers so that you can write for them. At the same time, the reader profile also gives you another very critical information which is one of the pre-requisite to creating a lead magnet. In this post we will discuss about how to c…

Have you ever seen a “Not Secured” notification in front of a website URL on the address bar? What was your first thought when you saw that? If you are anything like me, you would have asked yourselves if you really want to click through to the website. Isn’t it? Now imagine if it was your website. A little while back, Google came out with an updat…

Note – This is a continuation to the last post where we discussed about Buyer Personas. Just go out there and publish a post every week.. Isn’t that the advice you generally get, when you are just starting to blog? It isn’t a wrong advice but can you just go out there and publish a post without knowing who your audience is? In fact, this is a mista…

Struggling with how to create a buyer persona for your blog or, website? Then you might want to read on for some simple tips to create one. But before that, let me ask you a few questions. Are you marketing to the right people? Do you know your audience well and are you pitching your content to the right person? In my last post I had spoken about s…

“I am Back!” T-850 (Terminator – Rise of the Machines) Remember that famous dialogue from “Terminator 3 – Rise of the Machines”? It’s that one dialogue that has become synonymous with Arnold Schwarzenegger, now. In fact nobody does it better than he does. And when he says it, you can see the joy and conviction in that statement. It is clear that he…

How does page load times affect your websites? The other day I was searching for a specific recipe that I had bookmarked some time back. I was on my mobile phone and I had to quickly access the recipe blog. I clicked on the link and waited for the page to open. The wait went on for a few seconds and the page was still loading. Out of desperation, I…

Are You spending a lot of time writing Clickbait Headlines like Buzzfeed? Then you might just be doing the worst thing you could ever do for your blog.. A Clickable headline is what every blogger wants to write because his ultimate objective is to get readers to click on that link and come over to his blog to read his blog post. There are 2 notewor…

If you are struggling with low engagement in your Instagram posts then these Instagram Hashtags Best Practices can help you improve the engagement. One of the lifelines of Instagram is Hashtags. That is the pivot around which content marketing on Instagram works. Hashtags for Instagram is what Keywords are for SEO. Just as keywords get your content…

Instagram marketing is huge and the fact that a lot of big brands are making a lot of money from Instagram, stamps its authority and makes it all the more important for internet marketers to check out the social media platform. Considering that Instagram is a simple platform where you are to share images and that too using your mobile phone, it sho…

What are the different ways to use Content Curation as part of your Blogging Strategy? One of the questions I am asked the most, by people coming across my Content Curation course is the above. Most of them have never used content curation and they are absolutely unsure of how to and when to start using Content Curation as part of their blogging st…

What is a Curation Commentary and what is the right approach to an effective commentary? This is the 4 part in a series on Content Curation. You can find the other posts at the below links: Episode 44 – Content Curation Tools Episode 45 – Content Curation Types and Strategy Episode 46 – Common Content Curation Mistakes By now I am sure you would ha…

So we are into the 3rd episode on Content Curation and in this episode we are going to discuss about the most common content curation mistakes. You can read the other episodes at the below links – Episode 1 – Tools in Curation Episode 2 – What is Curation Content Curation is a very simple method. And all that you need to do is follow the basics. Th…

Wondering what is Content Curation and how you could make it a part of your content marketing strategy? There was a lot of feedback that I got about the last episode and some of readers even asked me to do a series on content curation. The most questions were around understanding what is content curation and what are the different types of content …

Hello and welcome to episode 44 of the DKSpeaks Podcast. Have you read some of the best weekly roundup on some of the top blogs around the web. Problogger does one for blogging and you will find many other blogs like Social Media Examiner doing the same thing. Have you ever wondered why would a blog as successful as Problogger would curate content.…

How to research Keyword for Blog Posts? Welcome to another episode of the DKSpeaks Podcast. In continuation with what we discussed in the last episode, on long tail keyword research, in this episode we will be discussing “how to research keywords for blog posts”. I was so confused with this entire thing that, whenever I read a blog post on one of t…

How do you do Long tail keyword Research? Keyword Research is one of the most misguided aspects in internet marketing. There are a hundred different methods and theories out there that tells you how to do keyword research. But most guides and theories out there complicate keyword research to such an extent that it is highly unlikely that you wouldn…

How to do SEO Yourself for your blog? SEO or, search engine optimization is a big thing. Or, so it looks! And videos and articles that talk about link building, Private blog networks, Google penalties etc. make it overwhelming for the average newbie. And we end up paying dollars to SEO experts who promise first page rankings for your websites. But …

How to Market on Instagram? I am sure this is one question that anybody who has not seen the potential of Instagram and has never used it for marketing would have. A few others would have tried marketing on Instagram and finally given up because they couldn’t figure out how to market on Instagram. In fact, I too had wondered as to how could you eve…

If you are wondering as to what push notifications for WordPress is, then you have not been reading some of the top blogs in the industry. Because it is unlikely that you would have missed that notification on the top-middle of the blog as soon as you browse over to the blog. And these days, pretty much every blogger, rather I should say, website i…

How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs? This is one thing that every blogger on the World’s largest blogging Platform – WordPress, is worried about. Why? Because WordPress is the world’s favorite CMS platform (sarcasm intended). According to a study by the security firm Sucuri, 4 out of 5 hacked websites that they investigated were running WordPress as…

Single Optin Vs Double Optin! Its the question of “To be or, not to be”. When I first started with SOLO ads, the first seller gave me a piece of advice – “If you want good conversions, then keep your optin settings to a single optin”. I was skeptical at first, because I was always told that optin settings should be at “double optin”. I never questi…

What’s Your Biggest reason to HATE Instagram, if at all you are? I seem to have started loving this picture sharing social media site. If you had asked me the above question about 6 months back, I would have had at least 12 different reasons for hating Instagram. And most of the reasons would have been around the flexibility to use the tool, the us…

How much money did you make on Instagram, in the last month? I know that is a slightly tricky question to ask and if you are anything like me, then the answer would be – “ZERO”. But with the growing popularity of Instagram (check out some of these Instagram statistics at expanded ramblings), if you are not using it then you are leaving a lot of mon…

What is your single biggest worry about online assets – your blog, your websites and your money-sites? If your response was anything other than “Security”, then you need to rethink. But if you answered in “Security”, then let me tell you that you are in the same league as thousands of other website owners. But the worst part in all of this is the f…

What is your Optin Form Conversion rates? If you have been into any form of online business, I am sure you know the importance of capturing your visitor’s email address. The single biggest reason for most internet marketers’ failing is not capturing emails. Visitor memory is short and if you are pitching something to a visitor who is not in a “buyi…

Whenever I talk about SOLO ads, the first thing that I get asked is – What is right for an email list – relationship marketing or, selling solo ads? I had read this on one of the blogs where a well know internet marketer had mentioned that if you could make $1.00 per subscriber in your email list pretty much every time you email them, then you woul…

What about your theme do you like the most? If you answer was “look and feel”, then let me tell you that about 95% of the blog owners are with you. They also chose the theme for that exact same reason. But is that the only thing that you should look for in a theme? Today, WordPress is the most used content management platform. In addition to the fa…

What is the best business model for 2016? The year 2015 is gone and it is time to look back at the year that went and evaluate all the goods and the bads. At the same time it is also the right time to put some concrete plans in place for 2016. For us, it was a mixed year with some accomplishments and some failures. The failures have given us the le…

Is there a Secret Formula to Succeeding at Selling SOLO ads? That was a question that I received from one of my listeners after the series that I did on SOLO ads sometime back. And I think, it was very normal for him to ask this question, at least after what he went through. He had started his solo ads business in late October. He had a list of abo…

How to setup a WordPress Blog? This is one of the most common tutorials that you will find on Blogging. Search Google and you will find hundreds of tutorials that will teach you how to setup a wordpress blog. But the biggest problem with most of these tutorials is that these are generic tutorials. When it comes to building WordPress websites for af…

Almost 90% of people who get into affiliate marketing never make a single dollar from it! That might sound demotivating and alarming but let me put that in slightly clearer terms. 90% of the people do not make any money with affiliate marketing because – They take a lot of training but never follow everything that is being taught They are looking f…

How do you analyze your affiliate marketing competition? Affiliate marketing is extremely competitive. And with more and more people jumping into the affiliate marketing bandwagon, it will only increase further. The success of an affiliate marketer lies in evaluating and analyzing the competition and then planning your strategy according to that. I…

What affiliate product that you are promoting is the most profitable? In fact, the most common approach in affiliate marketing is to pick any random product that fits you interests or, plans and to start promoting it. And hardly do we notice the fact that this specific product is not converting and that it is not making any money. Imagine if you co…

Do You Have a Definite Plan for Marketing? Did you get rejected yet again? Affiliate Marketing is all about finding the best affiliate networks and picking the best affiliate programs and offers. You might already know that but then all of this depends upon the best affiliate networks and the best affiliate programs approving your application. Cont…

What’s the difference between CPA and PPL? Now that is a question that I get often in the emails that I get. In fact when I started off with affiliate marketing, this was the term that I was confused about the most. I didn’t too much time into researching it and probably that is why I never really got into the CPA networks. It was only after I had …

Are you on Periscope? It has become so common these days. Social Media channels get launched and suddenly there is a rush from marketers to make use of the latest thing in the market. Some work and yet others do not. We saw it with Ello and we also saw it with a lot others. The latest one now is Periscope and all of a sudden people are flocking to …

“How to Make Money Online without investment?” 90% of the people coming onto the internet to make money, come in with this question. In fact I was not any different. I still remember the first time I searched the internet on how to make money online. I ensured that I add “without investment” to the end of the search query. As a matter of fact, I di…

The Facebook Advertising Wormhole! It’s something you can really get sucked into. And funnier is the fact that you will not even realize that you have just been sucked into a Worm hole. Facebook advertising is huge and it is becoming bigger and bigger each day. There are numerous products that are being launched all of which helps with advertising,…

What was the one thing that you noticed about the videos that you see in your Facebook Newsfeed? Let me tell you! Facebook Videos in the Newsfeed autoplays but without sound. If you have not noticed it until now, you might want to go to your Newsfeed and check it out. With native videos turning out to be a huge opportunity for people advertising on…

Did you try YouTube video ads yet? Youtube ads have become one of the most sought after form of advertising these days, thanks to all the promotions from the GURUs. Everybody is talking about Youtube ads and making money with it. But how many of you are really making money with Youtube ads? Youtube ads today is where Google Adwords used to be about…

What was the last internet marketing course that you bought? There is an 80% chance that it was a course to do with some social media advertising – most probably Facebook ads, and which promised you that you will make a ton of money, running these ads. Where did it end up? Did you actually make any money? Hello and welcome to Episode 17 of The DKSp…

Hello and welcome to episode 16 of the DK speaks podcast. This is part three and the final episode in building a successful solo ad business. In the last couple of episodes we discussed about some of the technical aspects of a solo ad business and what you need to do to build a successful solo selling business. One of the aspects that you might wan…

Welcome to Episode 15 of The DKSpeaks Podcast. This is DK. In this episode we will be continuing with our discussion on Building a SOLO ad business. I am assuming, you have completed the actionables that we discussed in the last episode and you are ready with selling SOLO ads. One of the minimum requirements that you need in order to sell SOLO ads …

Hello and welcome to Episode 14 of The DKSpeaks Podcast. In the last week’s Podcast, we discussed about buying traffic especially using SOLO ads. There are a lot more strategies in SOLO ad buying which can help you get better ROI, build a huge list and at the same time get clicks for FREE. We will discuss these in some of the future episodes. In th…

Hello and welcome to episode 13 of the DKSPeaks Podcast. IN todays episode we are going to discuss about SOLO ads – how to generate traffic with solo ads and what is the key to success with SOLO ads. SOLO ads is one of the best forms of driving traffic to your websites, to your blogs and to your offers. While there is a lot of debate on whether SOL…

Hello and welcome to Episode 12 of the DKspeaks Podcast. The last week was a happening one in Technology, thanks to the launch of the much awaited Windows 10. Microsoft was offering it as a free upgrade to all the windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users and considering that it was the first time that any version of Windows was being given away of free, it was m…

If you have signed up to email newsletters from any of the big internet marketers, I am sure you would have heard about the launch and the discounted offers on Long Tail Pro – a keyword research tool. There were a ton of emails floating around and pretty much everyone recommended this tool. In fact a lot of marketers use this tool. A few days befor…

“The Money is in the List” is something that you hear the moment you jump into internet marketing and it follows you whenever and wherever you go. And the fact that every experienced internet marketer tells you that the money is indeed in the list, goes to establish the fact that your list is your biggest asset and that it is the most important thi…

Before we get onto today’s episode, I wanted to let you all know about a few changes that I am making to this show here. As per all the requests and suggestions that I received, we are moving to a weekly frequency from the next episode onwards. We are also changing the day on which we telecast the show from a Sunday to a Wednesday. So The DKSpeaks …