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Episode 4: So You Want to Start a Profitable Blog (Part 2)

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This is the second of our 2-part series on starting a profitable blog. In Episode 3, we talked about the four questions you must answer if you want to start a profitable blog. In Episode 4, Susanna gets into the nitty gritty of the technical side of things -- what you need to know to set up your blog in the right way, using the right platform and host, to make the "profitable" part easier and more streamlined. Did you know that some hosts and platforms make it harder for you to …

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Episode 3: So You Want to Start a Profitable Blog

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Anyone can start a personal or hobby blog, but if you want a profitable blog, there are some bases you need to cover before you even start writing. In this two-part series, Susanna and Kitty share what you need to do to lay the groundwork for a blog that will add to your income. (Hint: think "business," not "blog". . .) Listen to the podcast as Susanna reviews that statistics you don't want to be a part of, and then explains how to get started right. She starts by reviewing the four …

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Beautiful Pro WordPress Theme for Bloggers [Review]

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Beautiful Pro is a WordPress child theme that runs on the Genesis Framework. It's got all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a StudioPress theme, including: mobile responsive HTML5 markup custom header custom menus page templates, including a landing page This theme is purely for bloggers -- if you need a non-blog-style homepage, look elsewhere. But if you want to blog, Beautiful Pro is worth more than a second glance. Its look is clean and uncluttered, so readers can focus on what …

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Jump-Start Your Portable Career as a Travel Blogger

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Would you like to travel and get paid for it? How about traveling and getting paid for it without a boss, an editor, or selling? Are you already sharing anecdotes and snapshots about the places you go on Facebook, Twitter or other social media? If you answered yes to those questions, you might be a travel blogger. . . Nomadic Matt. . . Wandering Earl. . . Solo Traveler. . . Everything Everywhere . . . A Little Adrift . . . They're all successful travel bloggers. What's the …

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Need Portable Income? Create a Money-Making Website

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If you have a particular area of interest or expertise, you can develop an income by creating a website or blog around that topic. Then, when you move overseas you can make that income portable -- as long as you have a computer and an internet connection. There are lots of different versions of these money-making websites. Some of them are pretty awful, with more advertisements than useful content. Others do a fantastic job of purveying high quality, useful information to their …

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Why Your Expat Website Needs an Editorial Calendar

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If you're creating a portable career to help support your overseas living, you probably have a website as well. Maybe you're a life coach, a freelance writer or a photographer, and your website is a big part of your marketing strategy. Perhaps you're a blogger, and your website is the foundation on which your business rests. If your website is static -- if it doesn't change very often -- you can skip this article. But if your site is a blog or includes a blog or regular new articles of some …

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