Top 10 Lifestyle Influencers and Bloggers You Must Follow

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Becoming an online influencer seems like a fun and profitable venture. Because 90% of marketers say that influencer marketing helped increase engagement in 2017, it makes sense for you to jump in and get your slice of the influencer pie.

However, due to the thousands of influencers coming from the woodwork, the competition gets tougher each passing day.

Therefore, if you want to be one of the most sought-after lifestyle influencers in the market, then you need to learn from the best. Below are ten of the most influential lifestyle online personalities to date.

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Twitter Marketing: The Do’s and Don’ts for Bloggers

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Twitter is home to 326 million active users!

But if you think each one of those active users is authentic, you’ve got another thing coming.

Some are burner accounts and can’t do anything to help grow your brand.

Sure, you can distinguish the authentic accounts from the fake ones. But it won’t be easy.

Don’t worry, though. Despite all the funny business, it’s possible to use Twitter to help your brand achieve heights.

Take it from Taco Bell’s journey.

It engaged with its most influential followers. And via retweets, mentions, and recommendations of these influencers, it maximized brand awareness.

As a result of its clever approach, its engagement levels rose!

That and it reached 600,000 followers!

So if Taco Bell can do it, so can you!

It doesn’t matter if your brand isn’t as big. What matters is you do things the right way.

So let me show you how to do Twitter marketing and build a substantial following for your brand.

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Why is Branding Important to Bloggers? Here are 5 Reasons…

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As a blogger, all you want is to share your ideas. So you create content on your blog.

But you should know, creating excellent content is not all there is to blogging.

In fact, if your content is not “branded,” it’s likely to get ignored.

Are you a random blogger slash virtual stranger?

If so, you shouldn’t assume your target audience has nothing better to do than check out what you cooked up in your blog.

You’ll end up breaking your own heart if you do.

If you don’t have a well-established brand, many people will not bother with you and your content.

So don’t be one of those bloggers who overlook the need for branding. Even if you perceive yourself as a business and not a brand, your branding matters.

And stop badgering yourself with the question, “Why is branding important?“. Instead, approach the matter head-on: make a brand.

In this post, I will tell you why you need to focus on your brand as a blogger. And for these reasons, you will understand why it’s a key ingredient in every blogger’s success!

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7 Community Blog Sites to Promote Your Content

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Blogging is a two-way street.

Scott Chow of The Blog Starter thinks so, too. He says “Blogging at its heart is interactive.”

Every blog post is a platform where you can share ideas that your audience can discuss. It bridges like-minded people and gives birth to better ideas about the topic.

Then again, writing a blog post alone won’t do you much good. That is if you don’t promote it to blogging communities relevant to your niche.

So here’s a list of some of the best and most popular community blog sites. Use these sites to share your latest content and generate buzz to it!

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How to Speed Up WordPress Site and Increase Conversion Rate

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Every second counts in your online business. Literally.

Did you know that a second-long delay reduces conversion rates by 7%? That means, if your site suffers from a 5-second delay, your blog will lose 35% of its initial visitors.

Imagine your site or blog losing 35 visitors out of a 100 because it doesn’t load fast enough!

If your blog or site is loading immensely slow, don’t fret just yet. You can still salvage your site from loading time purgatory.

In this post, You will learn how to speed up WordPress site so you can convert visitors into clients effectively.

Without further ado, let’s do this!

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How to Get More Email Subscribers for Your Blog

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Even with the wave of digital marketing trends like chatbots, email marketing still remains to be the most effective strategy when it comes to getting more leads and improving conversion rates.

Why? Because literally everybody you know has at least one email account that they use to communicate with people, both in their personal and professional lives.

Best of all, emails deliver results.

According to SalesForce, the average ROI of email marketing is a whopping 3,800%. That’s $38 earned for every dollar spent!

This reason is why lots of articles share techniques on how people can get more email subscribers. Whether you’re a blogger, a business owner, or a digital marketing specialist, you’re sure to get real results from building your email subscribers list.

But what if you lack time, expertise, or motivation to implement list building strategies?

Don’t worry because this article will teach you some easy list-building strategies that you can implement in five minutes or less!

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5 Most Important WordPress Plugins Every New Site Needs

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Upon setting up your WordPress site, your mind is racing with the gamut of things you want to do with your site. What products will you be selling? What kind of design you want your site to have? What blog post topics do you want to publish on your blog? Who will write for your blog?

While all these things are equally important, questions that get lost in the shuffle are the following:

  • How can I protect my site from malware and hackers?
  • What’s the best way to get rid of comment spam?
  • How should people reach out to me if they have problems with the site?
  • What should I do for Google to index my site?
  • How can I make my site load faster for the sake of my visitors?

From the untrained eye, you’d think these questions have nothing to do with making money on your blog. However, at closer inspection, all these questions affect the bottom line of your website. Without am efficient website, for instance, almost a quarter of your visitors will leave your site (especially if it loads longer than four seconds). Also, you won’t have visitors at all if people can’t find you on search engines.

Therefore, before thinking big about your WordPress site or blog you built, you need to download the most important WordPress plugins below first before anything else.

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How to Streamline Your SEO Content Creation Using SurferSEO

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With lots of blogs creating killer content and promoting them at breakneck speed and efficiency, you’ll just play catch-up with them. It’s difficult enough to write content that drive traffic and engagement from your audience. It’s another thing to spend time promoting each one on different online channels.

However, instead of doing the same thing every blogger is doing, you need to go the road less-traveled. Therefore, when developing SEO content creation process, you need to plan and optimize your content using a different method to increase your chances of ranking on top of Google search.

In this post, you will learn what SurferSEO is and how it can help you jumpstart your SEO content creation and reach more people on organic search.

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How to Organize an Event as a Blogger

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As a blogger, you may have been continuously building your brand online because the impact of blogging as it is is not even debatable. Few months or years of blogging can do you so well but sometimes, there are far more things you want to achieve and you will eventually reach the stage when you are ready to take your business to the next level.

There are things you can do online, however, aside from focusing on all the best online outreach and promotional tactics. You can also build more relationships with people face-to-face using offline marketing tactics.

One way to do that is to organize an event that’s geared towards building your brand.

First, let’s see benefits of doing an offline event for your online blog.

  • Showcase your products and services
  • Build stronger relationships with your followers
  • Get noticed by a larger audience
  • Meet other bloggers

After that, we’ll take you to the steps on how to organize an event as a blogger. Here are five must-do things for your future event.

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How to Create an Online Store Within Your Blog

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Starting a blog is undoubtedly hard at first but you will find more challenges on your path ahead. Fixing how your blog looks and how you can grow and build a solid audience is one thing, figuring out how to make it profitable is another thing.

Selling products on your blog is one way of turning your audience into a customer that can provide you with a consistent flow of revenue.

Setting up your store on your blog is only a small step towards a long journey so we’ve listed these tips below to help you:

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