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Blog Income Report – May 2015

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It is time again for another Blog Income Report – yaay!

I enjoy doing blog income reports as a way to help inspire others who are thinking about starting a blog about their passions.

I think the more people out there who share their blogging income results, the more people will be inspired.

If you’ve been enjoying the income reports, take a few months after reading this report to leave a comment and let me know!

Blog Content Report – May 2015

Here is a recap of all the blog posts I wrote this month:

Once again this month I’ve been able to maintain my pace of writing one blog post per day for a total of 31 blog posts in the month of May.

Blog Traffic Report – May 2015

In the month of May I had a slight increase in my traffic as compared to the month of April.  Here are my traffic stats for May 2015:

  • Total Users: 1,943
  • Total Sessions: 2,450
  • Total Pageviews: 3,544
  • Avg Session Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds

Besides blogging on a daily basis and emailing my email list and posting my blog posts on facebook I haven’t really been putting a lot of focus on growing my traffic, so I’m happy with even just a slight increase in my stats.

In future moths if I decide to put more focus towards growing my traffic stats, then we should see more drastic increases.

Overall my traffic this month was up by approximately 9% as compared to last month.

Now let’s take a look at where my traffic has been coming from.

Blog Traffic Sources Report – May 2015

My blog traffic distribution was pretty similar to last month, with just a few slight changes.

  • Direct Traffic – 932 sessions – 38%
  • Social Traffic – 353 sessions – 14.4%
  • Referral Traffic – 749 sessions – 30.6%
  • Organic Search Traffic – 409 sessions – 16.7%

Now for the fun part. 🙂

Blog Income Report – May 2015

Okay, so let’s get to the actual blog income report part of this post.

Before I start talking numbers though, just a quick income disclaimer.  My results are not typical, not guaranteed in any way, and you should check out my income disclaimer if that sort of thing floats your boat.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way, here are my stats:

Total Gross Income – $3,209.51

Total Expenses – $697.81

Net Income: $2,506.20

Alright, now that we’ve gotten the stats and numbers out of the way, let’s dive into what’s actually been happening in more detail.

Affiliate Income

My affiliate income increased again this month jumping up to $598.01, so just a few dollars short of $600.

A large portion of that, about $518 worth, came directly from my income from Empower Network.

This is by far the most exciting income stream for me because it represents long term passive income to me.

This is also the income stream with the most potential to grow and scale up in the near future.

As much as I love consulting income, it is difficult to scale that up as there are only so many hours per week that I can devote to doing coaching / mentoring / consulting.

With my Empower Network income, however, it’s virtually unlimited in potential as the income has the potential to scale up without much more effort on my part.

If you’d like to learn more about Empower Network and how I make money with it, click on this link here to learn more.

Mentoring / Consulting Income

My mentoring and consulting income was the same as last month and continues to be my highest income stream right now from my Blog.

One of the benefits of running a blog that many don’t realize is that you can use your blog to promote your own products or services.

Many people think that the only way to monetize their blogs is by having banner ads or affiliate links on their sites, but you can actually also make a really good income by providing products and services for sale on your blog.

Expenses

My expenses this month were very similar to last month.

Very few changes.

I do plan on cutting out a few more expenses for services and products I’ve been testing for a few months that I don’t need anymore.

My Blogging Goals for May

Here were some of my main goals for May:

  • Participate in my 5th 21 Day Blogging Challenge – Check!
  • Continue on with daily blogging – Check!
  • Research and test out free traffic strategies – Check!
  • Record More “Driving With Paul” Episodes – Check!
  • Increase my Blogging business profits – Check!
  • Grow my Empower Network Team and Income – Check!

Summary

To summarize, my blogging income continues to grow pretty steadily and I’m especially excited about the growth of my Empower Network income.

My Empower Network team is starting to grow and my team-mates are also starting to generate income from their blogs.

If you’d like to join my Empower Network team and learn how to make money by blogging, click here to learn more.

 

How to Succeed in an MLM When You’re Not Good at Sales

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In today’s episode of “Driving With Paul”, I answer the question of how to be successful in the MLM industry when you’re not a sales-type personality or you’re just not good at sales.

If you’re an introvert or just not good at sales you’ll love the ideas I share in this video for producing sales and sponsoring distributors in your MLM without having to sell anything to anyone over the phone, or face to face or at meetings.

Check out the video here:

If you’d like to learn more about the blogging platform I use click here to learn more.

 

37 Blogging Tips and Secrets Revealed

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It has now been over 5 months since I started blogging daily, so today I wanted to do a quick roundup of blog posts related to Blogging.

Sharing tips and ideas on how to be a better blogger is something I enjoy writing about, so I’ve written quite a bit of content on this topic in the last 5 months.

If you just recently started reading my blog, or if you’ve just been too busy to tune in every day, chances are you may have missed at least one or more of these blog posts which could really help you out with blogging.

Maybe there is one tip from these blog posts that could help you improve your blog, or perhaps you’ll find inspiration to start or re-start blogging after reading some of these articles.

Either way, I just wanted to do share a roundup of 37 articles that I’ve written this year related to blogging.

Enjoy!

37 Blogging Tips and Secrets Revealed

  1. Blogging to Generate Leads for a Network Marketing Business
  2. Kalatu Premium 7 Minute Blog Hacks Review
  3. How to Tap Into A Never Ending Stream of Blogging Ideas
  4. How to Stay Motivated to Keep Blogging Long Term
  5. Why Your MLM Business Needs a Blog in 2015 and Beyond
  6. How to Blog About Something You’re Not An Expert In
  7. How to Make More Money Blogging by Engaging Your Ego to Help You
  8. What it Means When Your New Blog Isn’t Getting Any Comments
  9. I Don’t Know What to Blog About
  10. How to Market Your Blog Properly
  11. How to Add an Archive Page To Your Kalatu Blog
  12. 3 Simple Ways to Overcome Writers Block as a Blogger
  13. How to Stop Being a Perfectionist as a Blogger
  14. The One Simple Mind Trick I Use to Program Myself to Blog Daily
  15. Why It’s Best to Start With a Proven Recipe to Make Money Blogging
  16. How to Get Rid of the Fear of What Others Think About You as a Blogger
  17. 3 Blogging Myths That Are Just Not True
  18. How to Structure Your Blog If You Have Multiple Interests
  19. How to Make Your Blog Post 100 Times Easier to Read
  20. How to Build a Blog / Vlog Audience in a World That Seems to Only Want Stupid Stuff
  21. 60 Blog Posts in 60 Days – 5 Tips on How I Stayed Consistent
  22. How to Make Sure Google Indexes Your Blog Posts
  23. One Simple Tool That Can Make Your Blog Post Easier to Read
  24. 101 Blogging Mistakes That Could Be Killing Your Blog
  25. 3 Reasons Why All MLM Distributors Need a Blog
  26. How Do I Start a Blog
  27. How to Start Blogging When You’re Not an Expert
  28. How to Choose a Blog Topic the Best Way
  29. Who Should Have a Blog and Why
  30. 7 Secrets of Blogging Daily
  31. How to Make Money Blogging in 2015 and Beyond
  32. How to Get Good at Blogging if You’re Not A Writer
  33. 3 Fatal Mistakes New Bloggers Make and How to Avoid Them
  34. Is Kalatu Better Than WordPress?
  35. Grow Your Blog Audience by Polarizing
  36. How to Easily Make Videos For Your Blog
  37. Is it a Good Idea to Give Away Your Best Content on Your Blog?

Your Power to Change – Interview with Bruce Lipton

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When it comes to understanding how the human mind works and the connection between the mind and the body, one of my favorite teachers on this subject is Bruce Lipton.

Bruce Lipton’s work with cellular biology and how our beliefs affect our biology and even our genes has been very enlightening.

Today I came across a blog post by Tamara Hawk which shared a recent interview with Bruce Lipton that I thought was spectacular so I wanted to share it on my blog as well.

Enjoy!

Use This One Ninja Tactic and Sell Anything to Anyone

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Want to know a secret Ninja tactic that will turn you into a sales superhero and allow you to sell anything to anyone?

Okay, I’ll spill my guts.

It’s very Ninja, but you deserve to know this ancient secret.

There’s a switch inside your head.

Yes, inside your head.

And if you flip this switch, you’ll have this superpower to sell anything to anyone.

So how do you flip this switch?

Well it’s basically all about correcting a misconception about human beings that we, as a society, have secretly all agreed to lie about.

Wait what?

Okay, let me explain.

Here’s the lie – “Human beings are rational.”

That’s a lie.

Human beings are actually NOT rational. We are EMOTIONAL creatures who make emotional decisions, and then justify them with rational logic so that we can keep pretending that we make rational decisions.

Now I know what you’re thinking…you’re probably thinking “Bullshit!  I’m rational!”

We defend our rationality (is that even a word?) because the rules of society tell us that being rational is GOOD and being irrational is BAD.

The truth is, however, that we are not rational and we don’t make rational decisions…

… so if you want to learn how to sell something to someone, you need to STOP focusing all of your energy on what the rational reasons would be for a person to buy your product or service.

Let me give you an example…

Let’s say that your job was to sell some dog food.

How would you sell it?

For example, what if you were put in charge of making a video commercial for a dog food company to sell their dog food – and more specifically a certain brand of puppy food.

If that switch was not flipped in your head, and you were still convinced that people make rational decisions, you might ask the dog company to provide you with a list of features and benefits of the puppy food.

And after some painstaking research you might create a commercial which tries to communicate the following RATIONAL benefits of buying that brand of puppy food:

  • This food’s first ingredient is chicken, not chicken byproducts
  • This food is all natural, and contains no chemicals or preservatives
  • This food will help your dog have a shiny coat
  • This food has glucosamine which can help to keep your dogs joints healthy
  • etc.

After creating such a commercial, which includes all kinds of rational reasons to buy this food over another brand of food, your commercial MAY sell some dog food, but probably not a lot of it.

Why?  Because your video will have spoken to the viewer’s intellect, and their rational thinking center, but it wouldn’t have connected with their emotions.

But what if you took a totally different approach?

What if you could create a commercial which communicates the emotions of love and joy associated with owning a puppy, and said absolutely NOTHING about the rational features and benefits of the product itself?

In fact, what if the only thing you said about the product was it’s name?

And what if you were able to associate that dog food and it’s name with those emotions of love and joy that new puppy owners have?

Do you think that could sell some dog food?

Well… you be the judge of that.  Check out this commercial and tell me what you think about it?

You may not realize it, but commercials like this are specifically designed to connect with our emotional centers, not our rational centers because the advertising industry has long known that human beings are EMOTIONAL decision makers, who rationalize their emotional decisions with reason.

But hey….shhhhh… don’t tell anyone, because as a society we’re all under this illusion where we pretend that we’re rational, and you wouldn’t want to burst anyone’s bubble!

What did you think about this video?

If you got your first puppy and you knew NOTHING about any brands of dog food, do you think that you’d be more inclined to choose this brand of dog food for your puppy?