Trent Hamm personal finance blog the Simple Dollar attracts more than 1.2 million page views each month. When I interviewed Trent earlier this year, he shared strategies top that he used to build his audience. This position includes five strategies that Trent used to take his blog from zero to a million and best practices now that he fulfills his dreams. How this sensation? Trent describes when it began happening: "it was a little scary to know that I have met so many people," he said, but added that now it feels good, since it has become comfortable with it.
A month or two of launch, the Simple Dollar had some views of hundreds of thousands each month. Trent said: "I was very lucky to get a few popular sites to link to me from the beginning, and I expect that.". However, pressed, Trent admits he was strategy. Trent began by seeking "to a few very popular blogs at the time - Lifehacker and a few other" and then "tried to reflect a bit on the type of positions be useful to their readers." Trent then intentionally wrote a few posts beginning with that in mind.
(_Points_d'action_:_ _1) find a popular blog in your niche, 2) to study their style, 3) writing to their public.
A momentum of Trent to launch his blog was a major financial crisis. Married and with a newborn, Trent realized, I a hole me of debt and following a career path that would get me far write. "Thus, it is committed to change. Trent began by sitting for two to three hours a day to focus on writing. A few years later the Simple Dollar generated enough income that he could leave his job.
Trent remembers "it was very scary" to quit, but needed to do so because it was a "well gigantic time."
How can you do what Trent? He said it is not instantaneous, but it is not impossible either - the reality is somewhere between the two. First of all, he said, "I has not quit my job until I knew that day that I came through the door of my income would be sufficient to cover expenses." Once this is the case, said Trent you win the freedom of time, and you can work on projects of your liking. To reach this point, Trent said: "I have spent much of my free time to obtain a loan platform, so that I could skip." He spent more than two years writing every day and its goals to things such as watching television.
(_Points_d'action_:_ _1) build your platform, 2) earn enough to cover expenses, 3) take the jump.
Some bloggers use a widget "start here" to welcome new readers on their blog. The Simple, Trent dollar provides an overview of the content with its 14 money rules. "These", says Trent, "are a critical set of things that people visiting the site can read and get the basics". Trent think hard about its rules and said: "they have evolved over time." Even if some of these rules have had highlighted in positions earlier, Trent, said, "I kind of sitting and solidified the things that I had spoken in years."
You need to believe in your rules, and it is permissible to classify them. Favorite Trent is rule # 6 - Stop trying to impress other people, which developed after he realized that his work "social events" were not really important for him, and have significant expenditures. By making sure that your rules reflect your values, give you people an honest presentation of your writing.
Points of action: 1. Think to what matters to you, 2. Write to it, 3. Solidify your rules in a list.
Trent believes "when I read other peoples sites, it is a relationship of trust." I am leaving their advice come to the door of my life. "Therefore, if this writer is something advertising that Trent does not feel good subject, it is not trust this person as much anymore. When writing for the Simple Dollar, Trent will be "look at decisions" are viewable "point to" view of the reader. This means that Trent do not sell the information to its readers and it is not in the service of the positions which are paid by someone else. "Essence", says Trent, "if it is something, that I do not want to see someone, I read, I will not do to my readers."
By applying a strict ethical filter you will build a stronger relationship with your readers and keep them coming back. "People may not agree with everything I say," says Trent, but at least they know that I have a real environment. »
Points of action: 1 Consider your writing from the perspective of the reader, 2. Be faithful to yourself, 3. Build trust with your readers.
Blogs of Trent began by recounting advice on changes, he did in his financial life. Trent remembers that it was simply "two, three, four paragraphs" and that it would be "" write several per day, jot down those out in 15 minutes, and then to the development of the - they were ready to go. "" Now, Trent publishes twice per day with longer and more thoughtful posts, and he attributed, in part, on his experience of philosophy.
During his journey, Trent has kept track of his thoughts in a book of idea. He said that in doing so, once you have all your ideas in once place, you can go ahead and start acting on them.
Points of action: 1 Generate ideas, 2. Follow the in your own version of a book of the idea, 3. To use them.
Those who are only five of the many strategies that Trent used to launch his career as a writer. None of these strategies do you use in your writing?
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