The $100,000 Challenge: October Update

By Neil Patel

search traffic

The seventh month of the $100,000 challenge has wrapped up. In October, overall traffic on Nutrition Secrets was 42,822 visitors, down from 66,743 in the previous month.

The traffic drop was mainly due to social media. The blog posts didn’t do very well on Facebook in October compared to September. But the overall search traffic is continually rising. For example, October’s search traffic of 25,086 surpassed September’s number of 19,595.

The interesting aspect of October’s activities is that we finally started to monetize our product in hopes to bring in revenue.

Here’s how things are looking…

Traffic

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The Single Best Way to Create Hit Content in Record Time

By Demian Farnworth

how to refurbish and republish your best content

Once in a while, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to publish a piece of stunning content without writing it from scratch?

You’re in luck, content marketer, there is.

But wait … No doubt right about now you’re wondering if I’m depriving some village of their idiot.

If maybe I hit bottom and kept digging? If maybe I’m about to introduce you to the content creation version of the ShamWow?

Relax. What I’m saying is completely achievable. It’s called republishing.

Republishing is the process of updating and polishing an old article — and then publishing it on a …read more      

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The 15 Best Tools for Creating Content as a Team

By Neil Patel

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Creating great content, week after week, has a set of challenges.

It’s one thing to understand how to create high quality content, but it’s an entirely different thing to actually do it.

What you’ll quickly find is that if you want to adopt an aggressive content marketing strategy, you’ll need a team to create that content.

And anytime when you have a team working together, things can easily slide into chaos if you’re not careful.

There are basically two ways you can keep a content team working smoothly:

  1. Good planning
  2. Using useful tools

Both are important. Even with the best tools in the world, you …read more      

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3 Content Marketing Infographics to Help You Present Your Ideas with Style

By Stefanie Flaxman

Copyblogger Collection - three infographics to inspire your content

Style is the answer to everything.

A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.

To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it.

To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

– Charles Bukowski, Style

The concept of style has multiple layers of meanings, and this week’s Copyblogger Collection contains multiple layers of insights.

At first glance, the following is a series of three handpicked content marketing lessons that will show you:

  • How to tell a meaningful marketing story
  • How to optimize every blog post you write
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How to Write Email Subject Lines that Make People Stop, Click, and Read

By Beth Hayden

subject lines that get attention

Email subject lines are our first (and sometimes only) chance to make a good impression on our subscribers, so making them interesting and compelling is essential to your email marketing success.

If you miss your chance to capture and hold their attention, your subscribers are less likely to open your emails, read your content, and click on your call-to-action links.

Today we’re going to cover the elements of captivating subject lines and how to discover which types of subject lines work best for your specific audience.

Let’s get started.

General guidelines for effective email subject lines

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