For a part-time blogger, Neil Patel is pretty successful.

Patel’s main focus is KISSmetrics, a mid-sized company that helps businesses track important online metrics. His business and marketing blog, Quick Sprout, is really more of a side project.

But that hasn’t stopped Quick Sprout from exploding in popularity and earning Patel recognition as a Top 100 Technorati Blogger. I’ll profile Neil Patel below and explain how Quick Sprout helps him earn a million dollars a year even though turning a profit was never part of the plan.

What You’ll Learn:

The benefits of writing confrontationally
Why SEO is becoming less important by the day
What makes Quick Sprout’s ‘About’ page so unusual
The one thing all of Patel’s monetization techniques have in common
Quicksprout Today

Global Alexa Rank: 8,033

Yearly Income: Over $1,000,000

Twitter Followers: 119,000 (@NeilPatel)

Facebook Likes: 45,139

Pinterest Followers: 1,865

(Stats accurate as of 9/5/2012)

Blogger Profile: Neil Patel



Content

Spill the Beans

Have you ever had a strategy that was so effective that you weren’t sure if you wanted to share it with everyone else?

Since Quick Sprout’s subject is online marketing, many of Patel’s readers are bloggers and business owners. In other words, they’re his competition.

But Patel doesn’t worry about keeping his most effective strategies highly guarded. He’ll give his readers the inside track and “lay it all out there” because, as he says, “Sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.”

Write like an Alpha Dog

In business negotiation, Neil Patel advocates being assertive and cutting people off in conversation in order to demonstrate that you are “the alpha male of the group.” He says it helps you come off as confident, nonchalant, and in control.


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