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Google disabling Kulwant Nagi’s Adsense account was the turning point of his life

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True and potential marketers have a different view of everything around us. They try to find a strong marketing opportunity every time a normal person fails to notice it. But, don’t worry as marketers or bloggers aren’t born with this talent. The biggest example for us is Kulwant Nagi, a successful affiliate marketing expert, and famous inspirational blogger. Kulwant Nagi’s hardworking and motivational life story teaches everyone how to survive in the darkest of time and not give up on yourself.

Who is he?

Today, Kulwant Nagi is the founder of Blogging Cage and the Managing Director of AffloSpark. Throughout all these years after passing engineering in 2010, he has mastered the art of digital marketing and every other aspect of it. A couple of years earlier, he’s daily income summed up to around $500$800. Kulwant believed that living in this era of digitalization you either benefit from it or become its prey.

Kulwant was born in a town called Fatehabad located in Haryana. He didn’t belong to a financially affluent family. But, his dream to go and study abroad made him work hard. After he received his engineering degree from the Institute of Technology and Management, he wanted to appear for GRE and TOEFL. The tuition for his preparation and exam fees didn’t come easily to his family. But, Kulwant got results of his hard work when he scored 1300/1600 in GRE and 99/120 in TOEFL.

But, his dream to go and study abroad shattered into million pieces when he was supposed to show at least a bank balance of Rs. 22 lakhs to receive a U.S. visa. His father didn’t have ample money so he turned to his relatives for help. But, life taught him lessons the harsh way when he realized he was on his own. Kulwant had withdrawn the applications from foreign universities.

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How Kulwant entered into the blogging world?

He gave up after trying for another year and failing to arrange sufficient money. Kulwant started working for a company but resigned out of frustration within a year. It is then one of his friends; Ravinder Kumar pushed him to try out blogging and digital marketing. He tried writing an article in his friend’s blog and it received more than 200 comments within a day. This made him realize that he can start his blog and start making money.

Kulwant eventually got deeper into it and turned the course of his life. In 2011, he launched his first blog, KulwantNagi.com, and next year he created BloggingCage.com and invested his time in affiliate marketing. But, this was just the beginning of the 18months struggle.

Survival and motivation

Kulwant earned his first dollar after seven long months whereas most people give up after three or four months when they can’t make money. Earning a little money after seven long months made his passion stronger. He said that, for the first eighteen months of his blogging, he used 2G internet. It is nearly impossible for us to have patience and work with 2G internet. But, he proved that if one has a strong vision nothing is impossible.

He started using Fiverr and made enough money to keep himself motivated. He sold his first blog for $30 only to meet his costs extremely needed for survival. But, eventually, his monthly income started increasing and now he is a successful affiliate marketer earning millions. In 2017, he earned around $9000 just in four days doing email marketing.

Kulwant’s secret mantra of keeping himself motivated is reading tons of inspirational books. He prefers reading biographies of people who have become successful in the entrepreneurial world. 

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Kulwant’s advice to people

According to Kulwant, blogging, or in simpler words content writing is on high demand these days. But, the problem with our generation is we are overloaded by information. We cannot set a fixed goal as we keep switching from one opportunity to another. Kulwant says that if we find an interest we should do research and start working on it. Sitting and watching other people achieving success won’t get us to that place automatically. He also says that, once we start working we should work diligently for the first six months without expecting any fruitful outcome. One just needs to find a niche and keep working for it.

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Evan Williams : The Man Behind Major Startups Including Blogger, Twitter, and Medium

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Entrepreneurship demands skills and experience, but for some people, it comes all by birth. They do not need much experience, instead, their passion helps them to reach their goals. One such name is Evan Williams, who is the founder of the biggest blogging websites, Blogger and Medium. He has also co-founded some other ventures and is one of the co-inventors of the largest micro-blogging website, Twitter. From a part-time farmer to an internet entrepreneur, Williams’ story, definitely, includes motivation for people.

Early Life

Evan Williams was born as Evan Clark Williams on March 1972 in Clarks, Nebraska, to Laurie Howe and Monte Williams. His family was into farming, so he also worked in the farms in the summer holidays as help. After completing high school from a local government school, Williams joined the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he also became a member of the FarmHouse Fraternity. But as he was more into starting his own business and making a career, he left college only after a year and a half.

Career

Blogger co-founder Evan Williams
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Looking for a better work opportunity, Williams ended up working with a few startup companies based in various parts of Florida, Texas, and Austin. Later, he moved to Sebastopol, California, to join the marketing team of O’Reilly Media. While working at O’Reilly, he switched to the coding department of the company. He was successful in learning the required skills and developed a personal blog website EvHead.com. Eventually, he left the job to become a freelance coder. As a freelancer, he worked with companies, like Intel and Hewlett-Packard.

Founding Blogger

Evan Williams along with Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs. The aim behind founding the company was to create management software for businesses. The first product that the company produced was a web application named ‘Pyra’, which included a project manager, contact manager, and a to-do list.

I999, they used the elements of ‘Pyra’ and created a blog-publishing tool named Blogger. It was officially launched in August in the same year. The platform was entirely free, so it faced a lot of trouble to survive. But soon, when it started getting ads, it began to stabilise. Soon Williams added some premium features to the platform, to monetise it. Hourihan left the company just after a few years of the inception of the company.

In February 2003, Google acquired PyraLabs, and eventually, Blogger. With the acquisition, the premium features of Blogger also became free to use. Williams continued to work with Google for one year after the takeover and left the company in 2004.

With Google, Blogger got new redesigns every few years and became the number one blogging platform. Blogger has provided its users with the freedom to create blogs for free. It provides the users to create beautiful looking designs for their blogs, and also, buy a separate domain to host their blogs as a distinct channel.

After PyraLabs: Obvious Corporation, Twitter, Medium

After PyraLabs, Williams went on to found Odeo, a podcast company, in October 2004. Sonic Mountain later acquired the company in 2007. He also co-founded Obvious Corporation in late 2006.

The famous micro-blogging website, Twitter, was one of the various projects that Williams co-worked on along with other key members of Obvious Corporation. Later April in 2007, Twitter was spun off to become a separate company. Williams held the position of the CEO of Twitter, the most successful venture he has worked on, in 2008. After serving the company for two years, Williams stepped down as the CEO to focus entirely on product development. Williams holds around 30-35 per cent stake in Twitter.

After Twitter, Williams wanted to develop a platform that would provide the users with an increased character-limit to write their blogs, as in the beginning, Twitter allowed writing 140- characters. So, in 2012, he founded Medium. Initially, it was only open to the early adopters, but later, it was opened for public.

In the first two years of its inception, the platform did not have much of users, but by March 2015, the platform recorded over 1.5 million hours reading time by its visitors. The company hired a staff of writers and editors to put good content over the platform. In 2015, the platform was nominated for the National Magazine Award.

In May 2017, Medium.com had gained an average of over 60 million unique monthly readers. By this time, the company started paying the writers based on the likes and the number of readers their posts had on Medium. Williams added ad banners to the platform, such that to make some profits through ads, but this business model did not work for the company, and he had to remove those ads from the platform.

Personal Life

William is married to Sara Williams and has two children. He lives in San Francisco with his family. He has a net worth higher than $1 billion.

William got his name under the list of top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35 in the MIT Technology Review TR100, in 2003. In the next year, he was named “People of the Year” along with his partners Hourihan and Paul Bausch in one of the PC Magazines.

Brian Dean : The Founder of Backlinko, ‘the Future of Modern Day’s SEO’

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Blogging is one trendy and the easiest business for earning some good cash. It has lured and helped a lot of young minds who can nurture their creativity through an online platform. But before one decides to open their own blogging site, there are certain rules and strategies one should get accustomed to. SEO, CRO, social media marketing, higher traffic, top ranking are some of the common terms that one usually comes across while blogging.

So, what if we tell you that you can get online training for becoming a good blogger, increase more traffic over your blogs, and even, get your site to the first page of Google? Backlinko, a site that maintains its own blogs and SEO expertise, is an awesome guide for all potential bloggers, digital marketers, and entrepreneurs out there.

Brian Dean, founder and CEO of Backlinko, formed the company back in 2013, to teach people more about practical blogging strategies. In no time, he became a very significant figure in the world of SEO and content marketing. But, success did not come to him overnight. He went through a number of failed businesses and tight financial circumstances before Backlinko happened. The flawless strategies of Backlinko seized the attention of the innumerous audience and brought immense success to the company in just a few years.

Early career of Brian Dean

Dean quit his job in 2010 to focus more on creating a niche in the world of SEO, but initially, there were a lot of failed attempts. The most fascinating thing about Dean is he always accepted failure as a path to success. He never thought of giving up even though he didn’t have sufficient money to invest in his business. Before his own startup, he worked as a freelance writer on Elance and Livestrong.com. After Demand Media (a company that owned Livestrong.com) went out of business, he was able to think of starting something of his own.

Backlinko

Starting from scratch, he started the business all by himself. His first successful website was live in 2012, achieving immense traffic. He started reading more SEO blogs to take this to the next level, but he was utterly disappointed. And, that is when he started to create his own blogs, and eventually, built Backlinko. The first blog of Backlinko was posted in 2013, and it attracted a lot of readers. With the overwhelming response, the company decided to take a step ahead and created its first flagship course, ‘SEO That Works’, in the same year.

Since he was the only member of Backlinko at the beginning, he did not have access to many amenities to shoot the videos for the courses. So, one of his friends helped him out by shooting the videos in Dean’s apartment. It took him around four months to deliver the first version of this course. But once it became popular, it started receiving around 200,000 unique visitors per day.

Business strategy

Dean, from the very beginning, focused more on the content, rather than the products of the platform. He was aware that most of the audience will gather around the unique blog titles and their content. So, he decided to focus on the quality of the content and posted one blog per month. These blogs comprised of unique content and effective strategies that, at the same time, were practical and achievable, too. Instead of writing several paragraphs, he crafted his articles in the form of tutorials and focused on making them easier to comprehend for the readers.

The first launch of Backlinko made around $80,000, and since then, it is only rising. The company also focused more on email marketing, and according to Dean, it is the key to the success of every business. The company also focused more on gathering customer stories and interviews. The process was time-consuming but quite fruitful. It helped the company grow and move ahead of its competitors.

Within a span of six years, and with only three team members, the company has become one of the top small online businesses. Currently, the site receives 25,000 visitors per month, and thousands of subscribers are regular over the Backlinko newsletter.

Dean targets on understanding his audience thoroughly, and according to him, once he figures out the type of audience he is dealing with and their demands, it becomes a lot easier for him to write the right content for them.