Build Blog Products That Sell (PLUS Baseball & blogging)

Hi Reader,

How's your week going?

I just watched the Texas Rangers win the World Series baseball championship...

WOW! What an amazing effort!

In a sport where failure is such a big part of the game - where you get out more often than you get a hit - success is something to be celebrated.

In fact the Rangers lost 100-plus games - losing 2/3 of 162-games in a season - just two seasons ago. This is their first World Series title in Texas' 63-year franchise history.

I was most impressed by the efforts of the Rangers' second-base player and lead-off hitter, Marcus Semien who has played EVERY SINGLE GAME of the Rangers' 178 (regular season and finals) games this season. In doing so, he set a new record for the most plate appearances in a single season - coming up to bat 834 times.

This is a great lesson about consistency, dedication and developing the day-in-day-out habits it takes to be a world champion.

Bloggers are a bit like baseballers - we need to show up every day and give our best for our audience. We just need to occasionally reward ourselves with our own championship trophies.

Every strike brings me closer tot the next home run
- Babe Ruth

Read: Build Blog Products That Sell: Match a Unique Idea to Your Audience

How do you get readers to part with their money, especially when money is scarce?

This post is the first in a series where we’ll systematically prescribe a foolproof way for you to create worthwhile, lasting products that your readers can actually use—and that they’ll pay for the privilege of owning.

Earn: ProBlogger Jobs

The ProBlogger Job Board advertises blogging jobs every month and each ad is seen by thousands of writers. If you're looking to earn some money writing, or you're looking for writers for your website, there's many opportunities.

ProBlogger Jobs was recently named THE BEST WRITING JOBS BOARD by Growth Badger's Kyle Byers and ranked #2 in Denise Lim's Make Use of article The 8 Best Job Sites to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online.

️

More Jobs

Create Content Course

Building a successful blog starts with creating GREAT Content. How you do this will vary from blogger to blogger but there are some basic principles of creating great content. Let me teach you the lessons I’ve learned on the topic over the years to Create Content.

More Information & Register

Find Readers Course

It can be quite disheartening when you check the stats of your blog and realise that no one's been reading, let alone engaging with what you’re putting out into the world.

Attracting new readers and building your audience is crucial to sustaining your blog. Here's your roadmap to supercharged traffic with 6 clear steps to find readers.

More Information & Register

Build Community Course

There is no single way to build a successful blog, but in my experience a blog really comes alive when there is a community on and around your blog.

Build Community Course distils my years of blogging expertise into clear action points and easy-to-follow tasks that will increase engagement and build relationships with your readers and grow a community around your blog.

More Information & Register

Make Money Course

Making Money is the last stage of your journey to building a profitable blog where all your hard work creating content, finding readers and building community literally pays off.

Make Money course will help you understand and take action on:

The many and varied ways to make money blogging
How to create your own monetization strategy and
What to focus on first to develop your revenue streams

More Information & Register

Hope you have a great end to your blogging week!

Darren Rowse

ProBlogger

P.S. We're getting more reports from readers that email servers (particularly gmail) are filtering out the emails they actually do want to receive. To make sure you keep getting these emails, please 'star' this email, drag it to your 'primary' inbox, add darren@problogger.com to your email contacts address book or whitelist me.

ProBlogger
PO Box 1181
Blackburn North VIC 3130
AUSTRALIA

Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options

Build Blog Products That Sell (PLUS Baseball & blogging)

Older messages

Using Categories and Tags [PLUS How to be Funny]

How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release

5 Blog Naming Basics

Ramit Sethi Exposed: How He Earns Millions Blogging

52 Types of Blog Posts that Are Proven to Work [PLUS 5 Simple Font Changes]

You Might Also Like

The Biggest News of 2024!

Online Sales Grew This Much During the Holidays [Crew Review]

A strategy for more prospects in 2025

Influence Weekly #369 - TikTok At A Crossroads: 23 Experts Weigh In On The Ban, ByteDance, And What’s Next

Issue #48: When Hardware Hits Reality

The UGLIEST website ever? (He paid $55k for it)...

"Notes" of An Elder ― 12.27.24

10 busiest VCs in supply chain tech

🔔Opening Bell Daily: Housing Outlook 2025

There's no point in being Data-Driven if your data actually sucks