3 Tips to Boost Reader Engagement Immediately

This is what I see by looking out of my bedroom window in Quepos, Costa Rica...Bienvenidos a la selva!

If you are an intelligent blogger you know engagement can make or break your blog.

Influencing people to respond and share your posts expands your home internet business presence quickly.

By engaging you:

• increase your trust factor fast as more people tend to trust someone who listens and shares answers or responses
• influence people to take your online business call to action
• build up a tremendous body of social proof, as your Facebook Shares, twitter retweets and LinkedIn shares go through the roof....yep your G Plus Shares jump too ;)
• have much more fun as you grow your internet business ventures in the online realm

Now you know why engaging is so darn important. You can grow your business by being a live body, by being a person, not some profile, or online persona.

People need to know, like and trust you before people buy from you.

So.....use these tips to boost your reader engagement immediately.

Ask Frequent Questions to Receive Frequent Answers

Have you noticed how each of my blog posts is summed up with a series of questions?

People dig being asked questions; it gives them a chance to write answers to the questions, to respond, to let their voice be heard.

Smart home internet business entrepreneurs allow people to be heard, because everybody just wants someone to listen once in a while, ya know?

Ask a bunch of questions to receive a bunch of online answers.

Show Up Frequently to Provide Answers to the Questions

Now you must prove that you are listening, to achieve some level of home internet business success.

Smart entrepreneurs listen in and answer quickly to prove that yep, they are not asleep at the wheel.

You need to be a live body to gain the trust of your audience. You have seen automated twitter accounts, or automated blogs.....as for the latter, I mean folks who write, post, and never listen, like how a machine would blog.

No personalizing, no engaging, no money. No good. Engage by responding frequently to questions or comments concerning your home internet business.

Do Not Quit When Nobody Shows Up

I cannot tell you how many times I asked questions for weeks, through my blogs, and received like 1 or 2 comments during the stretch.

This happens before you become popular. No worries. Keep asking. At least if you desire to grow a successful home internet business venture.

Your other option? Stop asking. "Immediately" can mean today, or tomorrow, or next week, so if you find that Tips 1 and 2 have not yielded, keep asking more, and responding quickly, to see a nice spike in engagement.

Keep showing up daily. The comments will come, and if you respond within a few hours, more comments will poor in, and your blog will be a hip place to party....ie - leave helpful, insightful comments.

How do you engage your blogging audience?

What tips can you add to this list?

Why Should You Treat Your Blog Like CNN?

I like cnn.com as I visit the site once daily for the latest news updates. I do not like following the news but I do enjoy getting up to date on things to see the latest and greatest trends in the world, and to gauge how these stories affect my home internet business.

Now if I visit cnn.com and see 1 news story for the day, I will be stunned. The site is an industry resource. You absolutely, positively, cannot stand out in the news world if you are late on news, or if you publish old news. But if you are publishing new, usable content multiple times daily, well, you have yourself an industry resource. This is why you need to become a more prolific blogger.

It is obvious, right? Once you create helpful content multiple times daily you will make your blog like an industry resource, a news portal, and yes, the big money can flow in soon after, if not big opportunities leading to big money. Because most bloggers treat their blog, like a blog, not as an industry resource. These folks are not acting like entrepreneurs.

They are acting and thinking like bloggers so the forward-thinking, resource-creating bloggers will lap them.

Create a Resource

Create an industry resource. Stop blogging. Start publishing 2, 3 or 5 times daily - or more - to push yourself out of your comfort zone, to challenge yourself, and to create a prospering vehicle through which you can grow your home internet business.

Now if you are committed to some other niche I understand blogging 5 times daily is impossible but if you deem yourself to be a blogger, what is your end goal? To post once daily and network for 10 hours a day? This is like cnn.com posting 1 news article daily and attempting to promote the article to hundreds of thousands of people.

It sounds silly for a news service but if you think about it, this approach is just as silly for as aspiring blogger. You want to create a massive, helpful, up to date resource, right? Why blog, if you do not want to create a resource?

Recruit

Create and recruit. Be the inspiring person you most want to be, by writing 5 times or more daily, then recruit people to join you on your resource quest.

Open up guest blogging and recruit people to join your team. Each person can expand their presence quickly, build their brand and of course, you will be building up your resource. You can monetize through advertising or offering your writing services.

Simply take the time to write frequently daily, learning your niche inside out, and take on more guest writers, to create a resource, and of course, make the big bucks now, and down the road, through multiple income streams.

This is not easy folks. I admit that, but if you want to be remarkable, to be inspiring, and to be the envy of most other bloggers, you have to push yourself to big league limits, to see these fab results.

Summary

Treat your blog like an industry resource. You are an entrepreneur, not a blogger.

 Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.

3 Tips to Help You Get the Job Done Now

I feel tired. My body hurts. This is Blog Post #4 today and I am feeling it. No complaints. Just observations of my feelings in the moment. No matter what I will get the job done. Rolling, rolling rolling, I am always because I follow these 3 tips daily.

 See the picture above? That is my life. Travel. Freedom. So I get the job done to do these fun things.

Be Present

I put off my blog post for approximately 10 minutes. Usually I post at the top of the hour. Temptation. I wanted to put off posting but know that posting hourly brings me success.

The strategy works so I must work it, right? Well, simply taking a deep breath and being present helps clear out all the mental garbage which prevents you from getting the job done. It just helped me. I mean, I actually dropped everything and wrote this post once I became fully present and focused on the moment.

This remains one of the easiest ways to prosper online but most home internet business never see it, and push forward, their minds worrying about the future or regretting the past. Mind your mind. Be present. Get the job done.

Slow Down

Mental hurry cripples even the most determined home internet business entrepreneurs. I know because this was me for a long, long time, and I still must discipline myself to slow down and get the job done when I feel anxious, worried, upset, or annoyed, and wish to bail on my duties.

I need to write 1 blog post this hour so, here we are! I slowed down my mind, became present, and now I slow down my writing, allowing prospering ideas to hit me, remember details - keyword-rich post, good title, etc - so I not only get the job done, I get it done from an effective, focused space.

Slow down all of your thoughts and movements to effectively focus your mind on the job you need to get done, then get working. Your job becomes easier once you move slowly and calmly, because your mind stops racing ahead and distracting you from the task at hand.

Remember Why

Why? Answer. Succeed. If you work you work for a reason. It has to be MUCH bigger than paying the bills to really get the job done because in the home internet business niche you must drive yourself beyond all types of difficult to embrace obstacles to see success.

Right now I feel drowsy. My fingers hurt. But I know why I want to work, as I almost nod off at the PC. Work is piling up but I embrace the responsibility, remain present and focus on the emotion of being free, which is the chief reason why I work to get the job done.

Once you have your inspiring factor in place you will simply never quit. You will never throw in the towel until you get the job done.

Summary

Be present. Slow down your mind. Remember why.

 Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.

How to Deal with Harsh Critics Online

Oh yes, it will happen. As you grow online expect to run into a ton of harsh critics. They will come as you grow your home internet business.

No worries though because in no time you can learn and master the great skill I have developed quite a bit recently. Of course I had to learn the hard way, just like many online entrepreneurs, but by learning some tough lessons over a sustained period of time I finally embraced the fact that critics are no big deal. Just unhappy people offering their opinion. Now when I say "critic" I do not mean someone who criticizes you from a helpful place, or who offers a blunt, sometimes low energy opinion. These folks are OK. If you feel angry about their feedback you have the problem because you need to be open to different opinions of your work.

By "critic" I mean people who call you gay, or a jerkoff, or who curse you out. I mean unhappy people - who some might call sick but I know better - who simply try to unload their unhappiness on you. I learned a LONG time ago from a wise trucker, back when I was a security guard working in a shipping terminal, that you never engage a charging bull, meaning that you ignore someone who is angry, or unhappy.

Ignore

Someone might loft an angry line your way. You spent 3 seconds reading the hateful, hurtful message. Never spend more than 1 second responding. Ignore the individual. They have their own stuff to deal with; you are not a savior, you are a mentor, helping people who want to be helped. So if you run into an unhappy person never engage them. Just block them and move on.

Billions of other people to meet. This is the most compassionate thing you can do as people need to learn how to interact with others, and big boys or big girls do not act like this. Maybe this person had a bad day. Sorry, my seconds are precious. Maybe they are depressed. Well, this will certainly be the wake up call they need, being ignored, because they soon realize that you must learn how to deal with your feelings to successful interact with others. I was depressed, and I was angry, and suicidal at one time in my life.

Nature never spared me the rod, but I took my beating like a champion, got help, helped myself, and soon learned that happy people all go through hell at one time, they just learned how to deal with their feelings effectively.

If You....

....run a home internet business you are not a savior, you are a mentor. Ignore critics. Ignore unhappy people. No more than 1 second. This is how I maintain peace of mind and a cheerful, sunny demeanor, despite encountering the same folks you encounter.

I do not deal with them. I release them immediately and ignore them. I ignore them again, and again, and they go away for good, and usually, they heal, and some might even return later and thank me. I did nothing for them except ignoring them, releasing them, and letting them figure out that unloading on others is not the way to become an online business success.

Summary

Ignore nasty critics. Let them disappear. Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.

How Can You Write 3 Five Hundred Word Blog Posts in 1 Hour?

OK I just did it. Now I need to share my home internet business tips with you because sharing is caring, right? By the time I complete this post I will have churned out 3 blog posts during this hour - 50 minutes really - with each post reaching 500 words. I know this sounds nuts but if you focus on a goal you reach the goal. This becomes easier, and easier and easier, to churn out helpful, relevant content, if you commit to doing something spectacular. I admit this sounded nuts to me, not a few months ago, when I created 1 post daily and patted myself on the back for a job well done. Well, The Onion, and The Huffington Post, and Mashable, do not path themselves on the back after publishing 1 post daily, and since I am gunning for the best blogs on earth - why the hell else are you in the game unless you aim to be the best????? - I gotta do as they do.

Slow Down

This 1 idea handcuffs most bloggers but if you think it through then apply the idea you will see why it works. When you acts from a calm, peaceful, slow place, you can publish a 500 word blog posts within 9 to 11 minutes, easily. The ideas flow from your mind to keyword with minimal effort and you can create and publish without the hurried, panicked feelings stopping most bloggers from creating 1 home internet business blog post each day. Keep writing from a relaxed, calm and confident place, never moving your focus to anything outside of writing, and you will naturally churn out content at a quick, focused clip. This 1 technique of slowing down and allowing ideas to flow through you changes your life instantly. You will no longer worry, fret, or experience writer's block. Oh no, you are golden now.

Shut It Down

Do nothing except writing or publishing that hour. Commit to writing 3 blog posts and only do stuff that leads to that end, meaning you should have a Word doc open. Then after you complete the post you can paste in the backoffice and publish. But if you want to really save time you better write directly into your backoffice because seconds count in this game. Simply say to yourself you will write 3 posts and do NOTHING else like social sharing or networking or staring out of the window or sitting there and complaining about having no ideas because each second delay holds you back and stifles your creativity.

Meditate

I meditate for 30 minutes each morning to clear my mind. Once you clear your mind of ideas like "I cannot write that much what is he crazy he must be lucky I do not have that talent" and all other sorts of bullshit which keep you average, you can easily create 5, 10 or 20 blog posts daily, easy, peasy. Honesty. You just need to sit through the mental and physical torture which arises at times when meditating. It is not easy until it becomes easy and then it becomes hard again and this is what meditating is all about; observing it all and letting go. Try it and watch how quickly you can churn out posts and grow your venture.

Summary

Slow down. Do 1 thing. Meditate. Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.

How Can You Kill Racing Thoughts Syndrome?

Well nobody is immune from RTS: Racing Thoughts Syndrome. We all experience some level of insanity when busy, or trying something new, or doing whatever we are doing to grow our home internet business. OK, returning to video today! It has been a few weeks since I last chatted in front of you, so please enjoy!
How to Kill Racing Thoughts Syndrome by RyanKBiddulph

You Could Look at the Picture Above

Yes I snapped it and yes it is on my fave beach on earth, Nai Harn Beach in Phuket, Thailand. Soaking up paradise does tend to calm you which also slows down your thoughts. That is one approach so take a deep breath, soak it up and chill, dudes and dudettes.

Guarding Against RTS

Be present. Put yourself in this moment and this moment alone to guard against Racing Thoughts Syndrome. I know, you are busy and I know your mind races but I laugh when I hear folks say that they cannot calm down until they slow down their mind. No, you slow down your mind by dropping everything, by NOT doing something because it is the doing, the thinking, the feeling and the anxiety which builds Racing Thought Syndrome.

Right Now

My mind races a bit because I see that I am not hitting my hourly goal of 2 blog posts. I will come up a bit short but big deal! I can simply begin writing again in the next hour and churn out my post. No worries, right? Well this should be the case but my mind continues to race, so you better believe that forcing things only makes my job more difficult. Nope, I will break in 80 seconds, drop everything for 10 minutes and observe my nervous energies arise, and subside. This is the key to success, to deal with your lower energies, to release your lower energies and to make room for your higher energies.

Be Present

Be present. Drop everything. Nothing is more important than feeling good so sit, relax and meditate on your feelings. Stop and drop everything, and be here, and now, to get back on your home internet business track. This takes practice guys. It does not feel easy at first to drop everything and trust because your first impulse is to sprint forward, to push harder. Force negates so that is a dumb, unfocused move. Just be present, drop everything and follow your breathing. Soon you realize that you are awareness, attending to the thoughts and yep, your thoughts slow down.

Summary

Stop. Let go. Relax. Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.

4 Steps to Quickly Start Your Home Internet Business Blog

I developed this blog yesterday and let me tell you, I have learned my lesson. After hatching 2 separate blogs I have learned quite a bit and want to share my insight with you. Starting your home internet business from an intelligent space saves you time and headaches down the road. Yeah; you can also make a nice chunk of change quickly by starting your blog from a smart, strategic place. On a side note, check out the foot long gecko I photographed in Bali(image above). See what you can do when you run a home biz? Traveling the world is just one benefit.

1 - Choose a High Paying Adsense Keyword

I build this blog around a prospering set of Adsense keywords because I want to grow a prospering home internet business. Even if you have no desire to add Adsense to your prosperity stream select high paying keywords since people are searching for these terms, and Google pays out big bucks for any Adsense clicks. Screw the idea of fearing the Big Boys. You will always stay broke by thinking small and always become rich by thinking, and acting, big. Go for the gold. Leave the crumbs for the 97% of online business failures.

2 - Use a Simple Design

People like simple. Look around this blog; simple design, correct? People hate clutter and dig simple, clear designs because you can get what you came here to get. Like, think about it. You are here to receive short and simple and practical tips to grow your home internet business. I share the tips in an easy to see and digest format because I use a simple, clean theme. Adding clutter to the equation makes it difficult for you to find and digest the content you most want. So, simple works best.

3 - Start Writing Like a Mad Man/Woman

Write write and write some more. Yesterday I posted twice; yeah, I started this blog at 4 PM EST so I had little time to put out 3 or 5 or more blog posts. Today I will be more prolific. Google likes prolific people. Google is not as keen on people posting once per week because....um....what newspaper do you know that posts once weekly? I mean, among the heavyweights? Daily posting guys because your blog is an online business newspaper.

4 - Think Through Titles Intelligently

Think through blog titles. You have a split second to snag your reader's attention so you better spend a few moments thinking through catchy, intriguing titles. People love numbers and steps, so I write this post wrapped up in the above title. Peep my prior posts; you see an intro post - appropriate - and a questioning post focused on writing controversial titles. Yep, these offerings pique your interest, for sure, dudes and dudettes.

Summary

Build your blog around high paying Google Adsense keywords. Use a simple design. Write like crazy. Think through titles intelligently. Ryan Biddulph travels the world and helps you grow your home internet business.