Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name is Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 81 of The Blog Millionaire.

The top bloggers in the world have successfully implemented a specific

type of psychology into their blogs, which leads to phenomenal results. This simple psychological

hack can make the difference between getting 2,000 visitors a month, or 25,000, having 1,000

on your email list, or 100,000, and making $50 a month or $5,000 a month.

Before I show you how to use this growth hack on your blog, let me quickly explain the psychology

behind it. One of my favorite books of all time is influence by Robert Childini. In the book,

Childini identified six shortcuts that guide human behavior, which he calls the six principles of

persuasion. One of these principles is known as consistency. He states that people like to be consistent with things they have

previously sit or done. The way the principle of consistency is activated is by asking for small

commitments that can easily be made. In his book, he looked at the famous study that asked people

to erect a large, somewhat ugly wooden board on their

front lawn to show their support for a neighborhood drive safely campaign. When the researchers

asked homeowners in a local neighborhood to place a sign up in their yard with no previous

commitment, the large majority of them said no.

The researchers ran a variation of the same study in another neighborhood,

and four times as many homeowners said they would put the sign up in their yard.

The variation that led to the 400% increase was the strategic use of asking for a small commitment.

Ten days earlier, the researchers asked the homeowners to place a small postcard in their front window,

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