These are questions bloggers have every day:
What’s the best way to use social media marketing?
How do I increase web traffic?
How do I improve blog SEO?
How do I create a self-hosted WordPress blog?
Should I use a free blog service?
How do I move from Blogger to WordPress?
How do I choose a blog design?
How do I use a free WordPress theme or a plugin?
How do I put ads on my blog?
The problems with trying to find the answers to these questions are:
- You’re not sure what words to use in your search for answers.
- The answers are too technical or whoever wrote them cannot explain themselves very well.
- The “answer” is nothing but a thinly-disguised sales attempt and you don’t trust it.
- It takes forEVER to find all these precious puzzle pieces of trustworthy information and assemble them into a picture that makes sense.
- Nobody mentors you as you try to implement what you’ve found.
- NONE of the information is specific to your exact needs and your blog–it’s too general.
Maybe you’re just starting out with your blog–or you haven’t even started, yet. Or, maybe you’ve been in the game for a little bit and now it’s time to get serious about blog SEO or you want to know how to increase blog traffic. One thing you could do is spend huge amounts of time as I described above: floundering around looking for scraps of solutions. The other option is to…
- Talk to a human being–a blog consultant–on the phone and get answers, guidance, strategies, and tactics, which means you can truly succeed with your blog.
- Have an expert blog coach who helps you overcome the steep learning curve, which means you can succeed at least twice as fast than if you were on your own.
- Get live help over the phone as you and a blog coach look at your blog together, which means you’re getting specific answers and suggestions about your blogging no article or ebook could ever give you.
Sounds pretty good. Who could possibly offer such a fine service?
Why, that would be me. 
Live, In-Person Over-the-Phone Blog Help Consultations
The best help I can offer you, which has the biggest impact and makes a real difference in your life, is to help you with blogging strategies and tactics by talking with you, answering your questions, and giving you actionable, specific help with your blogging–and how you can reach your personal blogging goals. Blog coaching, in other words.
Experience Breakthrough Moments
There are these moments when clients and I speak together on the phone when they finally understand something vital about blogging that had been eluding them. There’s just something about working live with another person as you both look at your blog on the screen together and talk strategy–it creates breakthroughs.
Here’s what some of my clients have to say
When I switched my blog over from Wordpress.com to an independent hosting service, I lost 100% of my hard-earned organic search traffic. I had been told by experts (at my day job) that re-directing was impossible. I believed them until I found Michael. He gave me the key to the Wordpress re-direct gate and in less than an hour all of my old search engine traffic was pointing directly to my new blog. He was such a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend him.
~ Alaina (MsSingleMama.com)
“If you wish your blog was better, you need to talk to Michael. I thought I was experienced enough that if there was an answer, I knew it. After talking to Michael I realized that there were some simple, important things I’d missed. After only a few consulting sessions I noticed these changes made a real, positive impact on how I attract clients.”
~ Jennifer Gniadecki (jennydecki.com)
“Michael Martine puts the ‘remarkable’ into blogging in so many ways. As a PR person who is new to the blogosphere with a personal venture, I knew a ton about marketing, writing, editing, business & research, but was really restrained by technical hurdles.
So many of the new Internet gifts are ‘free’ to use, but have zero technical support, and for a low-tech person, it’s extremely time-consuming and frustrating to search FAQ’s & forums without ever getting to the right answer. Michael was an amazing, ‘remarkable (!)’ short-cut, not only making new tools & resources available, but explaining in a very simple way, how I could start to drive these things as well.
He has a keen business sense, and has combined valuable consulting, excellent communication skills, and a very approachable personality, to create a fantastic go-to option for anyone looking to create or extend their web business.”
~ Amy Smith (businessofmotherhood.com, momtinilounge.com, writeideas.com)
“The blog posts bring more traffic as time goes on with longer tail KWs but all considered - before 55K uniques a month and now 70K but what is more important to me is the number of people asking questions and visiting the forum - this has more than doubled.”
~ Prav Solanki (cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk)
“Michael Martine is one of the best in the blogosphere.
His insights are impactful and on the mark. He’s one of those rare people who understand the technical AND social side of the blogosphere. He’s creative, and finds unique solutions to difficult problems. When he worked with me, he showed me some answers to questions I didn’t know I had.”
~ Phil Gerbyshak (makeitgreatguy.typepad.com)
Reactions like those above are why I do live, in-person, over-the-phone blog consulting.
You can ask me any question, you can be at any stage in your blogging, from beginner to advanced. We can talk about anything from what to blog about to how to increase subscribers and anything in between. Strategy stuff, technical stuff, it’s all good. Think of what your most burning question is about blogging: ask me that.
Here’s how it works
- You click the button below for either a 30-minute or a 90-minute session.
- In the secure form which follows, you ask your question or tell me what you want to know, and pay for your spot in my schedule.
- I write you back and we set up a time for us to talk. My hours for calls are weeknights from 7pm to 9pm Eastern time.
- When that time comes, we do our thing and we rock it and you come away from it brimming with answers, ideas, know-how, and next steps, or you get your money back.
- Return to step 1 and repeat as necessary.
