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I Am a New Contributor on RENewsBlog

By Christian

As many of you know I have a bit of real estate experience. I am still licensed to practice real estate. I help friends and family, as the opportunities present themselves, buy and invest in property. I am a big advocate of owning rental property as well.

The reason I mention this is because a lot of readers here may not necessarily be inclined to read RENewsBlog, a blog about real estate sales and investing. I wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I will now be a weekly contributor over at RENewsBlog.

The content I publish there will be focused on internet marketing and blogging, just like here, so if you like this blog, I encourage you to check out my articles over there as well 🙂

The fact is that most real estate professionals, like all small business owners, have a real need to market themselves effectively online. I will be the guy who covers online marketing and sales strategy over there on a regular basis. The concepts I cover will at times have a little bit of a real estate spin on them, which is cool because I know many of you readers of Next Level Blogger are in real estate!

But also this is great for everyone else as well, because the sales and marketing concepts I cover on RENewsBlog will directly apply to YOUR business as well, no matter what industry you’re in.

I invite you to swing by and say “hi”!

Professional Blogging Free Ebook

By Christian

I want to call your attention please to the new page I’ve added to Next Level Blogger. Click the page “Professional Blogging Ebook“, and it will take you to a new page where you can download a free copy of a new ebook I just completed.

Or you can just download it directly right here!

47 pages of simple-to-follow, straight up content on how to use blogging and social networking effectively to promote your business online. Any professional or business owner who wants to get started using new media marketing tools will get a lot of great tips and free advice.

Here are a few of the topics covered in the report:

  1. Why Blogging is Mandatory
  2. The Rewards You Can Expect
  3. Ways to Make Money
  4. Writing Tips
  5. SEO Tips
  6. Techniques and Tricks
  7. Automation
  8. Twitter tools
  9. Social Networking Tips and Tools
  10. Over 100 links to recommended additional resources, articles, recommended sites, books and more

I spent several hours putting this together…I hope you find a lot of value in this report. Download it for free, share it with your friends and coworkers, and let me know what you think!

Your Feedback Rocks!

By Christian

Please use this survey to provide your personal feedback on Next Level Blogger. It’s my goal to make this site as valuable to my readers as possible. The more I hear from you, the more I can help! This survey has 10 questions and should take you only a minute or two.

Of course, only if you wish 🙂

Thank you very much!

I Could Use Your Help

By Christian

I’m a big believer in asking for what you want. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. And making the assumption that people will do what you want just because you’re such a great person is an erroneous thing to do. So to follow through on that, I want to make sure I’ve asked for what I want to happen here on Next Level Blogger!

  1. Please link this site up on your blog, social media profile or anywhere you feel others would benefit from it.
  2. Please use the widgets I supply at the bottom of each post to bookmark posts you like on Delicious, Stumble, etc, to share them with others.
  3. Please comment the posts to share your thoughts. Interaction is one of my main goals!
  4. Please subscribe by email if you find the content valuable.
  5. Please contact me with ideas, thoughts or criticism. I welcome your input 100%!

I promise this isn’t something I’m going to hammer on. I won’t post stuff like this very often. It’s necessary to ask for what I want though, and I hope you do the same 🙂

By sharing this site with your friends, partners and coworkers, you are helping more than you may realize! One of the biggest challenges of course is getting the word out. It’s true there are a thousand things any webmaster can do to do well in the search engines and get good traffic. The fact is that this site is very well-optimized already and is getting an increase in traffic pretty consistently, but NO site does well ultimately without a solid community to back it up.

My goal is not to dominate Google. My goal is to build a strong community of people who find this content helpful and who are willing to help me improve it, so it remains something that is truly valuable to us all. Whether Next Level ultimately gets 500k visitors a month or 50k visitors a month is inconsequential to me. My focus is on individual people, not stats.

I hope you’ll help me out! And I hope you’ll tell me what I can do to help YOU out! Now let’s go kill the rest of ’09 and make it a huge year 🙂

Start Here

By Christian

I’m putting this post up for all new readers of Next Level Blogger. It will serve as an index of the more essential posts here. When I launch a site, the first content that goes up is the “pillar content”, a phrase I stole from David Risley. Pillar content is the main framework, the content that really is the foundational material of the site. So far of course, this site is brand new and only a few pages are up. As I continue to post material, I will link up the pillar content here, so you can quickly get to any of the most important posts very easily.

If you want to bookmark this particular page, I encourage you to do so…it’s the best page to bookmark on the site presently and will be a good reference for anyone interested in coming back here. I will keep this page updated very so often as the site develops. Thanks for reading!

Where to Start

About – start here for the basic premise of the site. This is a short article outlining what you can expect to find here.

Contact – if you wish to reach me directly, the best place is on this page. You can also find my other social networking profiles linked up here.

Consultation – I am more than happy to help you with any of your individual marketing or sales problems. Getting a blog up and running, promotion, making money, etc. This page outlines my consultation services and how I can help.

Subscribe – If you find value in the content here, please subscribe. You can subscribe by email using the form in the sidebar to the right. Or you can subscribe by RSS. RSS will deliver new posts to your reader or email address as you prefer. Subscribing by email will let you know about new posts, but I also interact with my readers by email, answering questions, getting feedback on posts, and I also offer insider tips and additional information not on the blog from time to time. I also use my email list as a way of promoting products I sell. If you’re not cool with getting a pitch from me on occasion, don’t subscribe by email. I contact my email list once or twice a week.

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  1. Google is Gravy – Why I Refuse to Depend on Google
  2. 10 Essential WordPress Plugins for Your Business Blog
  3. 100 Awesome Articles to Get You Fired Up and Motivated About Blogging
  4. How to Get Visitors to Look Forward to Your Emails
  5. Harness the Ultimate Niche and Destroy Your Competition
  6. 3 Simple, Killer Steps to Improve Traffic and Monetize Your Blog or Website
  7. Your “Internet” Business is Just as Much Offline as it is Online
  8. Use a Sales Funnel to Blow Up Your Blogging and Internet Marketing Sales
  9. Make Money Online by Selling More to Fewer People
  10. How to Identify Your Most Profitable Niche Market
  11. How to Improve Traffic from Your Social Networking
  12. How Should Business Owners Approach Blogging?
  13. Is Internet Marketing too Techy for You?
  14. Why Making Money Online with Advertising is not My Focus

These posts are a great place to start but of course are hardly comprehensive. I just wanted to provide this page as a lead-in, so it’s easy to get warmed up.

As always, if you have questions about an article or the business in general, please let me know by commenting or emailing me. I’m happy to help any way I can.