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5 Excellent Tips to Know When You Get Blogging Advice

Posted By admin on September 3, 2010

When you start blogging there may be lots of things that you want to know and lots of things that you need to figure out. This can be for any number of reasons – to get more people to read what you have to say, to make more money, to share your passion with other like minded people. Now, instead of taking years to find out all the secrets to these things there is a simple way to get all the best blogging advice you can. You got to get a guide which provides blogging advice that discusses all the details around blogging and how you can turn your passion and interest into a full time business.

Here are 5 excellent tips you need to know before getting any blogging advice.

1. Specific info – Your guide got to have every detail about blogging that you can think off including the discoveries and information shared by the author. The guide got to be very specific and offers a lot of useful information that really helps. From experience, I do get many ebooks and guides that you will find will give you a lot of meaningless stuff and not very specific info, perhaps for fear of giving too much away or something.

2. Author’s philosophy – If I were you, I do look for author who has the philosophy of giving more, by telling everyone the secrets to successful and profitable blogging. He does this as he knows it is not going to harm his business in any way. It is a win win situation and you will be spending good money for all this information.

3. Step by step instructions – Blogging guide which you buy got to have step by step instructions. With these, it makes it easier for any blogger to understand and to set everything up Preferably, the guide includes step by step screen shots of all the details and during your blogging process, this will be a perfect handbook to refer to at any time to help you along.

4. Resources – Your blogging guide must offer you other websites that you need to join, where to find links that will pay you, and how you can get the best keywords to use to optimize your blog site in the correct way. All the details that you need to know about the setting up, the maintaining, the planning and the profit making are all listed in this not too long, very comprehensive eBook.

5. Setting the stage right – The last important factor is that the author does share with you the right mindset of setting up a blogging business. The blogger, who is successful, knows what you got to take to be as successful as him. He knows that for you to know the technical stuff is not enough. He educates you to learn and digest about the type of mindset a successful blogger needs to have.

It is with these details that you can thrive and is great for those that don’t really have a lot of spare time to learn the ropes of the internet and blogging world. You just need to follow a blogging guide book and take all the blogging advice that you can get from it. When you get the right guide book, it will become a one stop shop with helpful hints, great resources, links to websites and tools that you will need to use, things to avoid and not only this, but it will basically tell you in order just what to do and how to do it. With the right book, you will not need to use another eBook or blog guide ever again if you get the right one and you will soon be making a great amount of money from this venture.

John Yeo is the author of Blogger’s Paycheck. He is a pro-wedding blogger and social worker who generates $2000 each month of passive income just from his one wedding blog.

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Afraid To Take A Vacation? Put Your Business On Cruise Control

Posted By admin on September 2, 2010

By Nicole Dean

“I started my business so that I’d have freedom, but I’ve never felt more trapped….”

I come across a statement like that at least once a day on a forum post or in email. You start your internet business because of the freedom of being your own boss and working on your own schedule and then promptly sit on your hind-end for 12 hours/day EVERY DAY. No wonder you feel burnt out. And no wonder family and friends are feeling neglected when all you can think and talk about is your business.

Freedom sounds pretty miserable to me if it means freedom from fun and the ones that I love. So, how do you break free?

Start by taking a good look at your business and getting your goals and priorities straight. Don’t worry, it’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds. I’ll walk you through it right now. Ready?

Grab a pen and a piece of paper or open your favorite word processor.

Divide your page into four columns. Now you’re ready to brainstorm. Write everything down as it comes to mind. Don’t overthink this. Just start writing.

First, figure out what is working. Whatever it is. It may be one of your websites, your ecourses, a joint venture, a certain marketing method. Where is the bulk of your money coming from, currently? (If none yet, where do you believe will be the place where the largest profits will come from?) Write those items in column #1 under: “Do More”.

Second, figure out what is not bringing in money. Is it hanging out on forums or posting classified ads to freebie sites? Is it endlessly checking your stats, or email? What are your daily time-suckers? Write those under column #2: “Do less”.

Third, figure out what could work better. Do you have upsells in place? Are your websites designed to bring you cash from every visitor? Make a list of ideas in column #3: “Improvements”. (If you don’t know yet, don’t worry. There are plenty of ways to improve your business as you learn and grow.)

Fourth, figure out what can be automated. Which tasks are repetitive and boring, albeit necessary? Many of those types of tasks can be automated with simple tools. For instance, if you’re submitting articles to directories by hand, there are tools and services to do that for you. Add these to column #4: “Automation”.

Now that you’re armed with your list, it’s time to get to work.

Look at your list in Column #1: “Do More”. Those are the tasks that you should focus your energies on. It’s a good idea to tackle one or two of the tasks on that list first thing in the morning – every morning. Believe me, it’s much more productive than checking out your favorite blogs or logging into twitter. And you’ll be amazed at how much you can get done quickly when your mind is fresh.

Look at your list in Column #2: “Do Less”. These activities should be forbidden until after you get your #1 list done, if you do them at all. For instance, hanging out on Twitter is fun, but do not do it until everything in column #1 is finished for the day.

Now, go back to Column #1, 3, and 4. Your “Do More”, “Improvements”, and “Automation” lists. Look at all of the items that are on those three lists. Now, circle each task that you …

• Can’t Do
• Don’t Have Time to Do
• Don’t Want To Do

Those are the tasks that you’ll outsource. Freedom means a lot of things. It means freedom to do the things that you want to do. However, it also means freedom to NOT do things that you really dislike doing.

For me, it’s graphics. I have outsourced all of my graphics since 2001. I don’t have the time, patience or inclination to learn how to make my own graphics. I have more important things to do, like write this article and then go on a bike ride with my son. Perhaps when I get back from my bike ride, my graphics will be waiting for me in my in-box. Now, that’s freedom to me.

Want to outsource but don’t know where to start? Nicole Dean and Jimmy D. Brown invite you to www.OutsourceWeekly.com where you’ll learn how you can get free time (and earn more money) while others run your business for you.

Building Your Web Presence – A Few Important Basics

Posted By admin on September 1, 2010

Building a website is really not that difficult anymore. Gone are the days where one had to spend thousands to have a simple website designed. In those days, only major businesses and corporations were able to have a web presence.

Lucky for us, things are no longer this way and the internet is now an open medium where just about anyone can have a presence and communicate with their audience of choice.

Still, even today, it is sometimes difficult to get on the net if you don’t have at least a little experience. It doesn’t have to be too complicated though and these tips will help you get started.

Building a web presence the easy way:

Don’t over-complicate things – You really don’t need a flashy website or a super-impressive one to communicate with your audience. In fact, a simple website that is personal and an extension of your personality is a win/win proposition.

At the start don’t worry about building a website that is absolutely perfect. All businesses and websites evolve over time. The web is a changing place and you’ll periodically update your business and website as you go along. So there is really no need to aim for absolute perfection at the start.

Instead keep it simple, and concentrate on building a website that connects with its audience and carries your own unique voice and personality.

Communication is key – More important than your overall look is how you communicate with your audience. Aim to be professional while maintaining a friendly tone. Above all, be yourself. You’re not going to please or connect with everyone that visits your site, but by being uniquely you, you’ll forge a stronger connection with the people that do relate to you.

Communication doesn’t have to be difficult, simply write how you speak. Remember to write as though you were having a chat with a close friend over coffee. Communication on the internet is less about writing to please your English teacher and more about writing to connect with people – the best way to connect with someone is to let down your guard, be yourself and just state your point.

Use easy tools that remove the brain work. There are many tools available now to help you build your web presence the easy way. Don’t worry about learning HTML or other complicated programs. You really don’t need to know how these things work or spend time learning “techy” details that won’t add much value to your business overall.

Instead, look for tools that minimize your effort and maximize your time. This allows you to spend time adding value where you really need to add it. Using easy tools also means that you’re more likely to stick to the task at hand. Your overall life will be easier and you’ll have more time to spend on the tasks and activities you enjoy.

And if you’re looking for a great tool to help make building a website that helps you connect with your market effortlessly, try the Internet Based Family Easy Website Builder . It includes online support and full training to help you build a profitable website from the ground up – no technical or previous experience required!

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Article Writing: Top 5 Skill Demanded By Businesses (How to Cash In)

Posted By admin on August 31, 2010

A hiring trend report from Elance.com found that article writing is one of the top 5 skills that businesses are outsourcing to freelancers. It’s really no surprise, especially since Elance caters mostly to online businesses. After all, what is the Internet made of? Images and WORDS, and it’s those words that are crucially important.

And believe me, most Internet marketers don’t have either the skill or the time to write – or both, and that means a lucrative opportunity for people like you with some writing skills.

But outside of article writing, there are other in-demand skills for online ghostwriting, such as copy-writing, blogs, press releases, email marketing, white papers and more. This means less competition for you and more opportunities to specialize and actually charge MORE for your services.

If you’ve been thinking of breaking into ghostwriting and doing it quickly, I recommend this guide to ghostwriting. It will show you:

- How to market your services without spending on advertising
- Where to find clients with deep pockets
- Why and how to put up a professional website
- Which industries are virtual gold mines for ghostwriters
- How much to charge to actually make profit
- How to set yourself apart from your competition
- How to develop your portfolio especially when you haven’t had a single client yet, and more!

To have a successful ghostwriting business, you need the right tools and strategies that successful entrepreneurs use. This guide gives you the stories of two successful ghostwriters who earn a full-time income writing from home. Not only are they inspirational, but they give some great tips too.

The best part is, because this guide is written for Moms, the price is just right. In fact, you’ll easily earn back the cost of this guide with your first writing assignment. I better just stop writing about it and let you check it out yourself. Click here to learn more about the Just Add Sweat Home Business Ideas for Women, Get Paid To Write: Become A Ghostwriter.

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50 Blogging Ideas – Part 3

Posted By admin on August 30, 2010

Here is your last set of the 50 Blogging Ideas. Enjoy and get blogging!

33. Photo – A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.

34. Hot topics – Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche. Check out Google for what’s trending now and write about it.

35. Pros and cons – Examine what’s good and bad about something related to your blog topic

36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com

37. Guest post - Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog

38. Reader’s post – Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog

39. Inspirational post – Write a motivational post for your readers.

40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.

41. Beginner’s guide – What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.

42. Best list – Patterned after “best dressed lists” make a list of the best ___ in your niche.

43. Worst list – Make your version of the “worst dressed list” for your niche.

44. New uses for - Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.

45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.

46. Bribe post - Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.

47. Around the world - Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.

48. Seasonal - Relate the month or season to your blog topic.

49. Blog carnival – Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day.

50. Host a virtual “conference” on your blog – Invite “speakers” to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.

There you go 50 Blogging Ideas. Hey what are you waiting for, pick out one and get blogging. ;-) and have fun! Visit Blogger’s Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit.

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50 Blogging Ideas – Part 2

Posted By admin on August 29, 2010

Here’s your next set of 50 blogging ideas to help inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Remember most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won’t run out of blog posts for months to come. Coming up with fresh, new content and posting frequently – twice a week at the very least – keeps readers interested.

If you want some more information on how to make more money from your blog, Blogger’s Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.

17. Definitions – Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand

18. New products – Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche. This is another good opportunity to drop in some affiliate links.

19. Biggest problem – Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.

20. Biggest problem follow up – Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.

21. Biggest problem follow up series – Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.

22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.

23. Big list – Compile a big list of various resources, just like this one. The bigger the better!

24. Reader Survey – Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.

25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.

26. New idea – What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?

27. YouTube – Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a “video day” once a week.

28. YouTube version 2 - Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.

29. Freebie – Scour the ‘net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.

30. Personal story – Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.

31. Free to publish articles – Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles… but don’t publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.

32. Link love – This is a post with links to other blogs. Some bloggers set aside one day a week to publish a list of the best blog posts on their topic.

Tomorrow the last of the 50 ideas, hope you’re enjoying them and they’re sparking ideas for you. Visit Blogger’s Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit. Don’t forget the last of the 50 blogging ideas will be posted tomorrow. See you then.

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50 Blogging Ideas – Part 1

Posted By admin on August 28, 2010

What’s the hardest thing about blogging? Coming up with fresh, new content! And you have to publish new posts frequently – twice a week at the very least – to keep readers interested and earn the search engines love.

If you’re feeling stuck as to what to blog about, over the next few days I’ll be listing 50 blogging ideas that are sure to inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won’t run out of blog posts for months to come.

And by the way, if you want to make more money from your blog, Blogger’s Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.

1. Special events – Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.

2. News – Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.

3. Book review. Write a review about a book you’ve read and also work in your affiliate’s link in case someone want to buy the book based on your review.

4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.

5. Blog milestone – Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment….

6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.

7. Blog memes – Join in blog memes such as “Wordless Wednesday”. There’s at least one for every day of the week!

8. Product review – An excellent way to work in some affiliate links.

9. FAQs in your niche – Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.

10. Blog comment response – Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.

11. Predict trends – What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?

12. Historical view – What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?

13. Top tips on any topic of interest to your readers.

14. Best of… – A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.

15. Contests – Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.

16. What I learned from… a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.

Now that you’ve got a start on a steady flow of fresh blog ideas, how do you actually make money from your blog? Visit Blogger’s Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit. Next set of 50 blogging ideas tomorrow.

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Stay at Home Moms are Work at Home Moms

Posted By admin on August 27, 2010

Stay at Home Moms already have a full time job of taking care of the kids and household, and this in itself is a full time job. As a stay at home mom you may wish you could also contribute to the finances as well. A great way to do both is to create either a website or blog site.

SBI is a great way to create your website and share your knowledge on most anything. But sometimes creating a website can be overwhelming, but with SBI you can pretty much work at your own pace and guess what you’ll have all the tools you’ll need all in one place. As well as a great forum of people ready to answer your questions or even give you feedback on your site if you ask. SBI is one of my favorite ways to create a website.

I created my 1st website there and since they were running a special then I got a second site for a fraction of the price and used the 2nd one for my son, he has his own site too (about something he loves – playing games). If you find you can’t afford the program in one lump sum they do offer a Monthly Payment Option (scroll towards the bottom and click on “Recession Buster”, which is reasonable and great; they didn’t have the monthly plan available when I signed us up for our sites. Which was good or I would have been the only one to have the site and not him (LOL, just kidding but I may have done two monthly plans and not saved near as much).

SBI is like taking an online college course, you just follow the Action Guide, but don’t jump ahead or skip the steps, that seems to be when someone has a problem with SBI. They thought they knew best or were in a hurry. Remember you want something that we be around for a long, long time. You want your visitors to keep coming back and to buy from you. For more about SBI (Site Build It) check out the video below or just click here for more information.

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Check out the cute video below on why this “6 year old Loves SBI!”


How to Make Your Own Web Page

Posted By admin on August 26, 2010

Whether it’s for business or personal use, it seems like everyone has a web page these days. That may be because it’s become so affordable and easy to put a web page together. Web page building is no longer for the “tech geeks”. Once upon a time, you had to learn HTML (hyper-text markup language) to build a web page but today you have so many options to create your own website that don’t require you to learn complicated coding. You can use a WYSIWG (What You See Is What You Get) editor like Microsoft’s FrontPage. This software allows you to write your web page as you would any other document and you can drag and drop images easily. It takes a bit of practice to make things look the way you’d like, but you can also purchase templates to create a professional look and feel.

So, now we know that you don’t have to be a technological genius to build a web page — what else do you need to create your web presence?

Domain: This is the name of your website. You will need to purchase a name that will represent your company or personal web presence. For example: ebay.com is Ebay’s domain name.

Web Host: You will also need to find a company that will store your various files on the Internet. This is called a web host. You usually pay them monthly for their service.

Your Next Steps to Building Your Web Page:

WYSIWG software can cost hundreds of dollars and allows you to build web pages that provide basic information to your visitors. If you are looking to have more interactivity and features to your web page like: message board, shopping cart (allows you to securely sell products on your site), mailing list, coupons and other options, you may want to look at a more comprehensive web building service, like the easy site builder at Easy Website Builder. This service allows you to create feature-rich and professional looking web pages in a matter of minutes. You can also purchase your domain there and they will host your pages on the Internet. There is a 10-day free trial to help you ensure it’s the right web-building tool for you.

All in all, building a website isn’t as complicated as you may have thought previously. All it takes is some point-and-click web building software, a domain name and a web host.

Looking for an even easier option to build your web pages? Take the comprehensive website builder at Easy Website Builder for a 10-day free trial. You can choose from over 1200 templates and your account includes all kinds of interactive features including: message board, shopping cart, mailing list, coupons and more.

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Moms Want Content – Give it to Them

Posted By admin on August 25, 2010

Statistics show women control the purse strings in the household budgets and they’re spending a great deal of that budget online. A large percentage of these women are moms turning to the net for information on all sorts of household and parenting issues.

Most of these moms don’t necessarily go online with the view to buy a specific product. In many cases they’re just looking for information first, whether it be information on how to teach their toddler to potty train, how to stop sibling rivalry or how to cook nutritious meals for their family, moms want and are looking for information.

“What Moms want [online] is information,” says Ken Goldstein, EVP and Managing Director of Disney Online.

Give them the information they’re looking for and you’re tapping into an enormous market: there are 31 million moms online, and they’re spending more time online than they are watching TV (13.2 hours/week vs. 7.6 hours/week).

Whatever your online business is, you’ll want to make sure you’re marketing to the lucrative mom market, and the number one way by far to reach moms on the net is to provide the high quality content and information they’re looking for.

Eliminate hype and ultra-creative ads

Moms don’t want to see how clever you are, Goldstein says. “It’s not Superbowl advertising. It’s clear messages, features and benefits, and more about information than entertainment.”

That’s right, moms are practical creatures. We want to know exactly why we should use certain products, how it works and most importantly will it work for us. A sure way to do this is by providing quality content first and then and only then presenting your sales offer.

And make no mistake; moms are not only practical they’re smart. They’ll spot a sales pitch a mile away and all it takes is one click and they’re gone. However, approach a mom online the right way and she can be one of your most loyal customers for life.

Always, concentrate on providing practical, quality information first. Provide informative articles, real life product reviews, and don’t forget to list product features and benefits (include the down points too). Get these things right and you’ll tap into one of the biggest spending powers on the net, moms.

If you’re looking for great content to appeal to moms, get it cost-effectively at All Mom Content.

Here are a few more links for some different Content Memberships/bundles:

Perhaps your site’s on Finance & Credit ===> Finance & Credit Article Bundle

Or maybe you need just a few articles each month here are a couple mini membership sites to check out:

==> All Travel Content Mini Membership

==> All Craft Content Mini Membership

Want to try All Content out here’s a free PLR bundle for you to check them out, let me know what you think ==> Free Resell Rights PLR

Better yet check out all the bundles and memberships here ===> All PLR Reports

Do you need to know how to utilize all that PLR, check out this free ecourse ===> How to PLR Free Email Course

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