About Steven AitchisonWhat is blogging really? It means a lot of things to a lot of different people; for some it’s the chance just to put their thoughts out into the big wide world, for others it’s a chance to showcase their music, their writing, their artwork, their business, their skills. Blogging is so much more than what it was when it first started out in the late 90s.
If you have a business, a blog is a must, because a blog is essentially a website nowadays.
But how do you learn the art of blogging? How do you position your blog? How do you get more people to come and read your blog?
One lesson that will explode your blog
The one lesson I wished I had learned as a blogger to attract traffic, and learn more about blogging, would be to interview the top people in my field. Imagine having all the top experts in your field, and readers coming to your blog to listen to interviews or teleclasses, and you were the host. How many more people would come to your blog? Thousands.
That’s what Sid Savara and Srinivas Rao (Srini for short) have done with BlogCastFM
They have interviewed most of the expert bloggers online, and packaged it in a easy way to help other bloggers grow their blog, make money from their blog, get more subscribers, and leverage their blog for your business.
But you will notice when you visit their blogs they have become huge over the last year simply because they have interviewed most of the successful bloggers online – success by association. They have developed a network of top bloggers, authors, and marketers – how amazing is that.
You can copy their strategy and get the best people in your field and start doing audio interviews, or video interviews and watch your traffic soar.
BlogCastFM Premium
Sid and Srini have put all their interviews online, together with transcripts, action worksheets and mindmaps of each interview and put it into a membership site called
BlogCastFM Premium
Here are just some of the bloggers they have interviewed:
Brett Mckay
The Art of Manliness
This module contains:
- How he Grew his First Personal Blog to Roughly 1000 Subscribers
- How he Quickly Grew to 75,000 Subscribers and 2.6 Million Page Views a month in 2 years
- The Importance of Consistence Branding and Messaging
Ramit Sethi
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
This module contains:
- How to Write a Series that Generates a Shitloa#$# of Traffic
- The Keys to Effective Email Marketing
- Dispelling the Passive Income Myth (something you really need to hear)
Adam Baker
Man Vs Debt
This module contains:
- How He Built Relationships With A-list Bloggers and Leveraged it For Rapid Growth
- A Fundamental Shift That Took His Subscriber Growth To The Next Level
- How of a Blogger Went From 80 to 980 Subscribers in One Week
Dave Navarro
The Launch Coach
This module contains:
- How to Leverage a Bigger Blogger’s Audience
- How to Build a Truly Scalable Business
- How to Frontload Your Efforts to Develop Long Term Passive Income
- How a Blogger Made Five Figures From an Email List of Less Than 100
Scott Stratten
Author of Unmarketing
This module contains:
- How His Very First Blog Post got 10,000 Readers
- The Problem with Focusing Your Relationships on the A-list
- What Goes Into Viral Videos for Brands and Individuals
- How to Get Your Public Speaking Start
- How He Used Twitter to Setup an Entire Book Tour
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneurs Journey
This module contains:
- The Smartest Thing You Can Do for Your Blog
- How To Pick The Right Market/Leverage Your Strengths
- The Most Powerful Traffic Technique For Blogs
- The Blogging Snowball
- The Compounding Rule of Blogging
- The 3 MegaNiches of Online Business
- How Yaro Makes Thousands of Dollars off Single Blog Posts
Now, if you know anything about blogging you will recognise the names above as being expert bloggers. Sid and Srini have interviewed scores more of expert bloggers, taken their knowledge and packaged it into a premium membership site.
Why I am endorsing this as an affiliate
I have known Sid for a long time as he has a personal development blog, we have worked together lots of times on my own products and he is one of the hardest working people I know, and tone of he most knowledgeable. Sid is also just a hell of a nice guy and always thinks about ways to give his readers a better experience.
I have spoken to Srini many times via email and will be doing an interview with him soon, again he is just such a great guy.
All the links above are affiliate links for BlogCastFM Premium so I will make a percentage if you decide to become a great blogger, and join their site. As ever ,as I say to everyone when they buy a product, join now – if you don’t like it just ask for a refund – that’s how good their site is.
Bonus giveaway
If you join BlogCastFM Premium I will give you access to all the guides I have written so far for free. Just send me a copy of your confirmation when you join BlogCastFM Premium and I will send you all my guides from CYTGuides.com
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HI Steven,
Success by association rocks! I always loved blogging for this very reason…cause in a good healthy network of bloggers, each hold each others hand and help them grow. Be it by links, by subtle mentions, by comments, social media…..And now as you have mentioned interviews. I love this idea. Its a very happily positive approach to growing your blog. I know from personal experience, that once I started doing big book reviews & opening my blog up for guest writers, the blog has been flying. I love how blogging makes me a better person in the real world too
Yay Sid and Srini! You guys do rock and bring back the funnn in blogging (ok more funnn in blogging)
Lots of love,
Z~
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That’s a great point you make. Even if your blog isn’t widely known, the top influencers in the industry will be known. They usually will let their readers know about a post someone wrote about them or an interview if they feel it will provide value for their audience.
I appreciate the advice. I’ll definitely see who I can work with to line up some interviews. Now to start building those relationships…
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Hello Steven,
Whatever the reason anyone has for their own
voices to figuratively be heard and ideas be
known,blogging provides a remarkable forum
to do so.
I’m starting to see the light now and I have
you to thank. Adding interviews to your
content can expand readership exponentially.
By providing this value, you can expose your
readers to another perspective they ordinarily
would not be exposed to…and who would not
want to take advantage of that?
Thanks for this refreshing post. You have
definitely lit a fire under me to strongly
consider adding this feature to my blog.
Stay growing,
Kevin Tyler Smith
Promethean Life
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I just got done reading an article at Tim Brownson’s blog about social proof – this seems to tie into that really well! When we interview/associate with the big names in our niche, people are more likely to also consider us an expert in that field.
Those are some quality names being interviewed at BlogCastFM. I will definitely check it out.
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I love this blog! The blogcast is a really good idea…you never know, you might attract the record companies too?
ha, just joking. In all seriousness, I’ve checked it out, and i will continue to do so. Love this post.
That’s a great bonus for joining! Too bad I’m already in and loving it, or I’d definitely take you upon that offer!
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This looks like a great offer Steven. I’ve had the idea of doing podcasts with other known experts for my own blog. I love audio and I believe that people connect a lot more to voice than to just written text. Plus I love talking
.
All the best,
Eren
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