Originally published October 25, 2010 and republished as a BlogcastFM Classic on December 22, 2011.
In our survey, some of you had asked us to do a segment where we follow a blog in progress, so we did. April and I spoke shortly before BlogWorld. She was the winner of the 1-hour consulting session that we gave away here at BlogcastFM. When I spoke to April, her blog was only one month old. She took just one of the ideas from the consulting session that I did with her and got some phenomenal results.
Here are some highlights from our chat:
- Going Through the Forums in Your Niche to Identify Key Problems You Can Solve
- How She Went from 20 People Reading Her Blog to 800 Visits in One Day by Writing a Series
- How the Series She Wrote Resulted in 11-13 Email Subscribers Per Day
- Why the Series Put Her on the Etsy Must Read for Success List (like a guest post on Problogger for her niche)
- Positioning Your Series in Such a Way that It is Incredibly Appealing to Other Bloggers (even when you are the smallest blogger)
- The Keys to Making Sure that Nobody Participating in Your Joint Series Drops the Ball
- How Even a Small Group of Writers Collaborating Can Reach a Large Audience
- The Amazing Relationships that Resulted from Writing a Joint Series
- Using the Power of Small Bloggers to Connect with Big Bloggers
Blacksburgbelle was started by April and her mother-in-law to help other creative women lead more fulfilling lives doing what they love. Their mission is to teach people how to fill their days with creativity, inspiration, time with friends and family, and of course, money, honey. You can follow her on twitter @blacksburgbelle.
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Wow, so many great tips and advice in this interview. I follow April's blog, of recent, and this was great to hear her voice and chatting about what she is so passionate about. Jeanie
that is such a cool cool idea, and it inspired me to do something similarly epic !
SQUEAAAAAAL!!!! I can’t believe April was on BlogcastFM!!! So exciting to see..hear you guys work together!!! What a treat for me first thing this AM!!! April is FANTASTIC with her blog and I am a very very loyal follower of her blog, as well as BlogcastFM!This is so interesting to hear about her big success happening after a consultation from Srini and following up on one/few of the concepts.Keep up the great job you both!!! Looking forward to constantly learning from both your blogs!
@ABCityStudio Carrie, thanks for your kind words. I’m glad you learned so much from this interview. The good news is we’re going to be giving our listeners a way to get this kind of consulting advice in the new format we’re working on so I think you’ll really enjoy it.
I listened to that interview again this morning. April really knocked it out the park. I would be interested in know how she’s doing now.
Bruce Soileau we’ll probably bring her back to catch up with her soon. She really was awesome wasn’t she?
These are the results of previous hard work and learning curve, I really appreciate it.
@Bundberg Hard work creates momentum and momentum creates results.
I found this podcast through April’s blog. Great interview with lots of good tips. It has inspired me to give this a try in the next few months after I’ve done some research.