One effective way to repurpose your old videos and podcasts is to provide transcripts of these videos and podcasts. Repurposing your videos and podcasts for a reading audience increases your reach and therefore, potential clients/followers/fans/buyers. It also means doubling the content on your blog. And, ultimately, the money you make online.
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Sprout an idea

Identify what people are looking for. Ask yourself if you can provide solutions to their needs. If they are looking for free know-how, can you quench their thirst for knowledge? Align this need with your capability.
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The diagram below is a result of ongoing research into why people go online and where and is a project called Rudd Finn Intent Index.

It basically classifies people’s reasons for going online into seven categories in descending percentage order:

1. Learn

2. Have Fun

3. Socialize
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Today Daniel post a killer article for bloggers at his blog Daily Blog Tips 4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic Beyond 1,000 Daily Page Views. This is a post I’ve always needed!

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Daniel made his case so simple and yet so true. I’ll definitely take this as a guide and improve my blogging.

If you have been actively blogging and reading blogs for some time there is one blogging trend that is hard to miss: successful bloggers all have buddies!

Darren Rowse teamed up with Chris Garret for their book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.

Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick are right now busy promoting their Become a Blogger program and one successful blogger promoting Become a Blogger is Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips.

Not surprisingly, when Daniel started his own membership site Online Profits Darren Rowse of ProBlogger and John Chow promoted the program on their blogs.

The power of collaboration in the blogging world cannot be underestimated.  Yes, we can all start our own blogs and run it too, but to be successful in blogging you cannot do it all alone.

Why successful bloggers have blogging buddies and so should you!

The Golden Rule:  Do unto others what you would like to be done to you.

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