Quick Tip Tuesday – Volume 5

Quick Tip Tuesday – Volume 5

Quick Tip Tuesdays are designed to give quick tips for everyone to be able to implement right now, or at least, this week. The tips are divided up into 3 categories: 2 tips for those who haven’t yet started their own site, 1 tip for those who need more traffic to their existing site, and 1 tip for those looking to find a new way to monetize their existing site. This is Volume 5.

Not Yet Started A Site:

Determine how much time you have to spend on your new site every day, and then commit to spending that much time each day. If you use either a paper or digital calendar, mark off that time so you don’t schedule anything else in its place. Having the mindset that you’ll spend X amount of time each day – before you even begin – will help ensure you actually live up to your commitments.
List five topics in your niche that no one has covered before. Research, research, research and come up with 5 areas that need to be covered. If you can’t find it, it needs to be covered, so be sure to include these in your site’s future topics list.

Need More Traffic:

Give something away for free. Try to be clever and create something of value that hasn’t been done 1000 times before. This could be something as simple as a Word template or an Excel spreadsheet that everyone could use – as long as it has “some” relevance to your niche topic. Make sure everyone knows about this freebie by letting all your “friends” on the various social networks know about it – and ask them to tell all their “friends” as well. Tweet and retweet!

Need More Monetization Ideas:

Hire an ad broker. If you find it too difficult to search for advertisers on your own, hire someone to do it for you. You can even find someone within your own social networking circle who doesn’t necessarily do that for a living – but you trust them to have the moxie to contact potential advertisers and negotiate ad deals on your behalf. By giving your new broker a nice cut of the advertising fees, he or she has incentive to work hard at finding new advertisers for your blog or site.

If you’ve already used these tips on your own, or just don’t have time right now, add them to a to-do list. You can implement many of the tips more than once, and you can always come back when you have time to tackle those you didn’t have time for.

Keep your Quick Tip Tuesday to-do list handy so you can add more later, and implement whenever you have some spare time.