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How To Get A Blog Post To Go Viral (Even If You’re A Small Blogger)

  |   Blog Income Report, Business Tips, Social Media Marketing   |   82 Comments

How to get a blog post to go viral (even if you have a small blog) -- step by step tips anyone can follow!

Pop quiz time:

There's a big company you admire + just so happens to have an audience full of people in your target audience.

And you want to get in front of them in order to grow your fledgling blog or business.

But you want YOUR blog post to be the one that's circulated among their fans and clicked on hundreds of times, not a guest post you simply wrote on their site.

How do you do it?

As part of my regular blog income and traffic report today, I'm going to show you how to get a blog post to go viral.  (And it's not as hard as you may think.)
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The 5 Reasons You’re Being Ignored On HARO

  |   Business Tips, PR   |   28 Comments

The 5 big reasons your publicity efforts are being ignored by Help A Reporter Out, + how to fix that.

When people first hear about Help A Reporter Out (HARO), they freak.

"You mean I can get quoted in The Huffington Post or CNN with no PR firm or marketing budget? Where has this BEEN all my life?!"

Shortly thereafter they usually embark on a binge emailing session, cranking out response after response to the dozens of journalists' queries landing in their inbox (in full -- yet deeply misguided -- expectation that by the next day they'll be #BreakingTheInternet along with Kim Kardashian).

But after about a month of this, a new reality sets in. And it sounds wayyy different than the first:

"Why are none of my responses being published? Why are reporters not contacting me?! Is this HARO thing a scam or what???"

The problem, of course, is not with Help A Reporter Out.

The problem is with the way people approach the reporters.

So with that, here are the top 5 reasons why people are not getting published on HARO.

Whip out your fanciest pen, my friends; it's time to take some PR 101 notes!
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