Blogging. Is it dead, or is it still a viable business strategy?
For the mighty goal of answering the question above, I’m joined by Yaro Starak. Yaro is one of the most famous bloggers out there, and has branded the term “live the laptop lifestyle”. Over the years, he has helped thousands of people launch successful businesses. All of which, had a blog as their core.
Yaro consistently makes $10-40K a month from his blog, which is now set on auto-pilot. Starak still puts in a few hours a week into it, but even when he doesn’t – business continues as usual.
In today’s episode we discussed how to choose a market with buyers, find your unique selling proposition, and offer your first product. Click play now:
How To Start A Successful Blog – Episode Highlights:
- Is blogging still a relevant business building strategy in 2015? (01:10)
- How to validate that there’s money in the market you’re considering? (03:25)
- Figuring out the language your target audience will resonate with (04:25)
- Creating your first product when you have no customers, no list, and no money (05:40)
- Should you be using paid traffic? (08:50)
- What you need to do to get noticed (10:05)
- How Yaro learned to be less negative, and why it’s crucial for your success to do the same (14:06)
- Skills every blogger needs to develop (19:15)
- How to get unstuck (20:10)
- Ask yourself this question, and you will stop quitting, and start winning! (21:36)
- What should your content product include? (23:29)
- Get Yaro’s book – Blog Profit Blueprint – in PDF and audio format… for free! (25:33)
Mentioned Resources
- Entrepreneur’s Journey (Yaro’s blog)
- Yaro on Twitter – @YaroStarak
- Get Yaro’s book, Blog Profits Blueprint 2.0 for free!
- Yaro’s Blog Mastermind 2.0
- Yaro’s guide to Master Your Mindset & Productivity
- Yaro’s Beginner Blog Traffic (how to grow your blog from 0 to 1000 subscribers). Traffic won’t be a problem anymore after this resource!
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Thanks for having me on your show Meron, and thanks for the Israeli chocolates too!
Yaro
Hi Meron I admit I was reading my email this morning when you’re headline caught my attention. I like the commentary style of podcast. It gives me a preview of what to look for when Yaro was speaking so I can zone in. A shorter format is good. I find a lot of time similar genre type of podcasts go on too long and I zone out. This whole topic of blogging and building an email list if something I’ve not been too successful at so I’ll probably listen to this a few more times as it is a goal for this year. In the meantime, I’ve built up a decent income using teaching platforms and stock footage video platforms. I’ve done this with a very small audience. I don’t believe you’ve covered this before so please feel free to reach out if it is something your audience would be interested in as it is true passive income.
Meron and Yaro!
Once again, invaluable advice from the people who have “been there and done that”. Yaro, it is awesome that you freely give away such important, practical and valuable advice on Meron’s show. Excellent skill list and how to get unstuck…..because we all get stuck from time to time.
Thanks!
Trevor