- How We Used Our Content Growth Model To Boost Blog Traffic By 95% in One Month At the beginning of March we built a growth model for traffic to this site. The point of the growth model was to turn traffic estimations from a hopes and dreams model, to a predictable calculation. To do this, we built a bottoms up growth model. That means, instead of a top-down model that says “we got […]
- Content Promotion: How We Grew from 0 to 32,977 Users in 5 Months with Zero Paid Traffic We case study how we grew traffic from 0 to 32,977 unique visitors in 5 months using only content promotion via communities.
- How We Grew Traffic to 16,000 in 4.5 Months on $52/Month (And Every Tool We Use) Benji and I have only met once. But in 4 months, we’ve taken a brand new domain and blank WordPress install, and managed to do the following. Get over 16,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days Got kudos on content from the likes of Sean Ellis… Rand Fishkin… Has marketing become the toughest position […]
- Why Marketing Has Become The Hardest Position to Hire For Lately, I’ve been hearing the same set of questions over and over again: “Do you know anyone good for a demand gen role we have open?” “I’m having a really hard time finding our first marketer” “I need to build out my marketing team but am having a hard time finding good talent” While most […]
- How This Fitness Site Got 1,892 Hyper Targeted Subscribers With Facebook Ads That Cost (Less Than) Nothing Today we’re profiling a fitness site that grew traffic and subscribers with Facebook Ads that made them money. We’re going to see how Erika of Erika Volk Fitness added 1,892 email subscribers and got 11,850 unique visitors in one month with a Facebook ad campaign that hasn’t cost her a dime. In fact, she’s come out […]
- How to Turn Your Blog’s Thank You Page Into a Lead Generating Machine For companies using a blog as a way of driving traffic and generating leads, getting an email subscriber is just step 1 of the conversion funnel. While getting e-mail subscribers is great, the real goal of most company blogs is to generate leads for your sales team or get your prospects to make purchases online. Excluding customers […]
- The 3-Step Bulletproof Formula To Writing Kickass Blog Post Headlines 8 out of 10 people read the headline. Only 2 out of 10 actually read the body copy. In other words, if you screw up your blog post headline, it’s almost like you didn’t even write that new blog post you’ve been working on for weeks because no one is going to be reading it. […]
- Getting 76% Growth in Traffic in One (Leap) Month Traffic We got 7,614 users to the site in February. This is how that compares to the previous months (blue line is target exponential growth, orange dots are actual): It’s funny, when I drew up that blue line at the beginning of this blog, I said multiple times to “take it with a grain of […]
- Why You Need a Growth Model For Your Blog (And How to Create One) Last month we had 7,614 unique visitors (users) on this site. In the next 30 days we want to get 20,000 users to our site. Not pageviews, not unique pageviews, not sessions…users. I know, it’s absurd. But we set a goal of hitting 40,000 users in a 30 day span in 6 months and we’re 3.5 […]
- Going Viral: How I got 10k Views on Medium in 4 days Going viral on Medium doesn't happen just by luck. Here's the exact process I used to get my first Medium post to go viral.