Saturday, October 4, 2008

Business Blogs Have Rev Limiters - Learn Your Subscribers Tolerance

By Lance Winslow

Just because you are capable of posting hundreds of blog posts per month, does not mean you should. Anyone can write 3-blog posts a day and perhaps even make them all very interesting, humorous or informational. Nevertheless, if you blog too much and/or too often you will find that your viewership might become overwhelmed and no longer be interested. So, you are now wondering; just how much is too much blogging?

Well, you can blog once per day on a business blog and get away with it, much more than that and you may find your loyal readership becomes uninterested. I know this sounds weird, because if they were truly interested they would want more right? Yes, that is what you would expect, but in blogging that happens not to be the case. In fact, business blogs that blog every other day or 3-times per week seem to do as good or even better than those that have daily postings.

Most corporate communication blogs that deal with the customers realize that they must stay on message and with their branding strategy, diluting it with all sorts of off-topic comments and thoughts can actually hurt the company's marketing mission. After all, corporations spend big on putting forth a specific, simple message to the consumer, one which will resonate along a certain theme.

A small business person with a blog should not post too many blog posts too often because their customers are not expecting lots of blog posts. They are expecting interesting, unique and important information, but not all at once or at such a high frequency rate that they do not have time to read it all.


"Lance Winslow" - Online Blog Content Service. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/.

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Charlie Page Expert Blogger Review

By Joshua Valentine

Charlie page can show you how to stop your online business struggle and set your sights on success in the blink of an eye. He is a blogger who has a gift for telling the plain and unvarnished truth and he tells every one of the latest ad campaigns and internet marketing tactics and discusses them in true down to earth facts that everyone can actually relate to. With Charlie Page leading the way the world of Adsense words and Click Banks just got a little easier to live with. For people who have no real knowledge about the marketing ideas on the internet, his blog is like manna from heaven. His blogs explain without being condescending and he does not try to strong arm you into anything. He just brings the online world and the real world happily together. Charlie Page is an excellent copywriter who writes about the way things are and the way things should be.



Charlie Page was a former employee at a grocery chain and he actually worked in their deli, then he began to see ways to achieve his own success and help others with his internet skills. He has been responsible for creating open source scripts, and management systems. He helped create some of the software that even runs those ever popular blogs.



He has built many websites from the ground up and his Websites include Charlie Page, Insane Visions and Dynasty Wizard. Insane Visions is a website designed and customized to be the home to many of his programming projects. He has created many useful tools for you to use in your own business online and these are common sense approach articles and books that are written and crafted for everyday people , and they use everyday language that all can understand. As Charlie himself will tell you , he shows you exactly what to do , and he describes the concepts you need and what they will do for you. He will usually show you the real life results of the actual testing of each of the concepts, and all of the testing was done by him personally.



Charlie guarantees your satisfaction and will answer any questions about anything that you purchase from him to use in your own business efforts. He has written some great e-books for the public and these include:



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These are just some of his products that are available and they all come with a guarantee that you will be satisfied with your purchase. Charlie sincerely believes that the honest advice that you will find in them will create success in your own life


Joshua Valentine is a top internet marketer who works with industry leaders from around the world. He has a passion for helping others achieve their goals, dreams and aspirations. To learn more about Joshua Valentine and his team of Marketing Mentors Click Here

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Tips to Power Up Your Relationships in Blogging

By Jeremy Long Chia Teik

Blogging shrinks the world. Different people from different parts of the world are brought together through the blog. On the blog, making good conversations are rewarding as it brings more traffic, communication, interactivity, exchange of various views and opinions, and more importantly, it opens the door to building up effective relationships with other bloggers.

The blog can be used for personal reasons or it can be used for marketing purposes. No matter what intentions it is being used for, it can bring positive rewards and success. Therefore, it is essential to power up your relationships in blogging if you want to achieve great success on both fronts.

How can you go about doing it and achieving the success that you want for your blog and online business? Here are some tips that will guide and help you:

(1) Apply your voice effectively

The blog represents you. It requires a voice that speaks to the rest of the world in a manner that is both sincere and transparent. You will be able to win over the trust of others if you show that you have a listening ear too. This is one of the effective tips to power up your relationships in your blogging. People will be moved and will return to communicate more with you.

(2) Always be interactive

Blogging is intrinsically an interaction between two bloggers who would communicate views and opinions in a non-prejudiced way. Exchange of ideas increases the level of interactivity. Both bloggers get to learn from each other. This raises the level of confidence and trust that is so crucial to building the vital relationship needed in blogging.

(3) Show your love for feedback

In your blog, you will have the comments box. Encourage visitors to drop their comments on their visit to your blog. Comments will help you understand your blog better. You can then plan to make it work more effectively for your business. Sharing of views and requesting help will further draw your visitors closer to you.

(4) Aim to enhance your positive experiences

The blog provides the best opportunity for you to improve your positive experiences with other bloggers. Building the precious relationship will take some time; it will definitely grow naturally and progressively. Others will get to know you more and more in the future. You will thus be able to power up your relationships. Your positive experiences will cause the visibility of your blog to increase.

(5) Make yourself known to other bloggers

If you want to initiate, strengthen and grow relationships with others, you have to make yourself known first. You can achieve this via the feed. Others will develop a certain perception about you. They will be able to understand you better - your passions and personality traits through your blog and blog content.

(6) Aim to build mutual respect

In blogging, it is vital to build and strengthen the relationship between yourself and others. There must be the connection that will pave the way for future growth of your blog and business. One way that helps to power up your relationships in blogging is by means of links. Links prove effective especially when they infer that you have great content on your blog for your visitors to read and digest. Links indirectly are a measure of respect.

(7) Make full use of technology

Communication that is personalized is the main keyword in blogging. The blog is the platform to succeed in effective communication and useful contribution. Converse more with others who have the same interests. Now, there is Skype that provides the latest technology in real-time talk. Your relationship with others enters a new, refreshing and higher level.

(8) Use the email

The relationships that you have developed through your blog can be strengthened yet another level using the email. The email is simple and well-loved by many bloggers. It plays the role of extending the conversation from comments to your mail box. Through time, relationships will become stronger.

In conclusion, blogging provides many opportunities to build real and cordial relationships amongst bloggers. Provide your human touch and personalized voice, and you will be on the road to success in blogging.


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Blogging For Money - Making Online Cash

By Jason Warren Wieland

If you're wondering whether or not making money using blogs is possible, there are plenty of experts who are using it is a money making or marketing tool - a good example are authors that are currently on the New York Times and other best selling books' lists. The main reason that many of these books are successful is due to the authors' web sites and blog content. Using their blogs, they are able to keep in touch with nearly every reader, track statistics, and identify strengths in their marketing campaign to maximize.

That's one example, you say, but what about a more general blog (for more of an online entrepreneur novice)? In all honesty, I've come across many different blogs on the internet and many of them are apparently content-less and ineffective. Making money on the internet is not for the weak or faint of heart - if you don't know where you're headed and don't have a solid business plan, there's little you can achieve with a blog. If you bump across one of these bloggers, I'm sure you'll find that most of them are struggling. With all of the available ebooks and information on making money online, many have just picked up the blog trend and attempted to earn cash from it. The truth is, it's a bit more involved than it seems.

Having a successful money making blog requires networking, marketing (internet, word of mouth), rich content, and optimization for search engines. If people don't know about your blog or can't find it, you can write some of the most helpful content 15 hours a day, and you won't make a dime. If you want to make some money on the internet, a blog is a great tool, but you need to setup a business infrastructure first.

The main thing you need to do is to identify what business you're in. Blogs are information rich web sites, so if you're in the business of selling shoes and you don't have much news or updated content regarding your shoes on a daily or weekly basis, a blog won't do you any good. If you're in the service business (i.e. - coaching sales people how to make more sales), on the other hand, a blog will prove very useful - you can write books or ebooks and promote them on your blog; you can provide some helpful tips and resources on a weekly basis and optimize your web site to attract sales people who will find your ideas actionable. In this regard, a blog will be a great marketing tool to help you earn money online.

Of course, you don't need to be a superb expert to benefit from a blog - as long as your business idea and model can make use of the networking and content-rich aspects of a blog, there is a good chance it will be a useful marketing and thus, money making tool. There are a plethora of large market niches that you can probably associate yourself with, so taking the time to find out your passion and noticing what works and sells in specific markets of interest will prove to be the best starting point. In essence, jump into blog-mode only after you've resolved to pursue a blog-worthy business.


About The Author:Jason Wieland is a successful internet marketer and works with some of the leading marketers in the industry. His goal is to help others achieve the success online that he has been able to obtain. To learn more about making money with blogging, Visit Jason's BigTicket website.

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5 Things You Need to Know That Will Earn You Money From Blogging

By Emmanuel Emojevwe

If you have been wondering why other people make money from their blogs while your are still not making anything from yours, well here are 5 things you need to know before you start blogging. If you follow them closely you will be on your way to making your blog spits out money like a broken ATM machine.

1 -Let your blog posts be as simple as it can be, do not write about irrelevant things that does not have anything to do with what you are trying to promote,Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! Or MSN are looking for real, good contents.

2 -Your posts should provide your visitors with some information which they may not know, or want to know. Hence, provide them with information or links to the information your visitors will like to know, your posts should be well written that even a three year old can understand it, that is it should be self explanatory.

3 -You must update your blog on a regular basis, you have visitors coming to your blog does not mean that you should stop blogging, Regular updating of your blog can help you sustain the amount of visitors that come to your blog. When you stop blogging, your visitors may also stop coming back to your blog again. This does not mean you should update it every day, but when ever you can.

4 -Find a way to make your visitors come back to your blog for more after you have brought visitors to your blog, try to make them your blog fans. Try putting a RSS reader button on your blog so they can subscribe to it.

5 -Do a bit of market research to find out what are the areas which people are looking for. Research the topic you are blogging on in other to get paid from it and always try to blog on something that is profitable..

With these five points you should be making money as soon as you start applying them.


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Hub Pages - Here's a Sure Way to Get Your Hub Page Banned

By Donna Abreu

Hub pages are similar to Squidoo lenses and blogs. There are differences though, so let me outline those for you as well as give you some tips to save you time and effort of learning the long way!

1. When you first publish your Hub (from the Edit mode, there is a Publish button), it takes a couple of days for them to approve it. It was not super obvious to me that the page was "in review" and not yet published.

So when you start wondering what happened to your Hub page, it's probably still in review.

2. When you "test" your hub, you have to be sure you are logged out of your Hub pages account to perform a "true" test. I was logged in after I first created my Hub page.

And so when I went to my hub page, it appeared as if it was published. But it really wasn't! Others could not see it. I could only see it because I was still logged in without realizing it.

3. You can't have many links going out from your Hub page. One url at the beginning to your domain, and one at the end. That's about it, or it won't be approved!

4. Overall, building a Hub page is not as easy to build as a Squidoo lens. The interface is not as easy to use, and you can only insert pictures in between the other modules (such as a text module). So, your picture can't be to the right or left of your text.

Also, the image module will only support one picture. So to have multiple pictures, you need to create multiple image modules. This limitation makes it harder to get the layout that you desire.

5. Squidoo lenses and Hub pages can be thought of as blogs on steroids. Try to get in the habit of updating them regularly with new content, such as adding (or replacing) a new video, adding a new post/comment. Ping the site every time you make a change (do it immediately after the change). You can use iPings to do that. The frequent pinging will bring traffic.

For those of you newbies to internet marketing, creating a Squidoo Lens or Hub Page will be much easier and faster than creating a blog. You can do a Word Press blog later on, when you've gotten your feet real wet.


If you're interested in learning about these effective online marketing techniques, I invite you to sign up for my free 7-day bootcamp, where I'll teach you strategies that you can apply to any online business including network marketing businesses.

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Your Blog, Your Choice

By Dimitry Dowzhenko

Now that your blog is up and running you need to carefully analyze what you are going to deliver for your readers. Here are a few pointers that might be helpful.

Quality

This has everything to do with how much traffic you are going to attract. Whether you will have thousands visiting your site or whether none will want to take a look at what you have written will all depend on the quality of your writing contents. Plagiarizing or using information from other sites is a very cheap way to update your blog. Make your target audience satisfy with original fresh and controversial posts that will change the way people look at things or do things.

Length

You must also take in to consideration the average length of your posts. Much of this has to do with the type of audience you are reaching out to.

By inserting search polls in to your web you will be able to get a general idea of your targeted audience and the length of your post has to differ with whom you cater for. By taking these factors in to consideration you will be more equipped to decide the length of your posts.

Frequency

Sometimes it might be bothering you how often you should be updating your blog to keep your readers interested. Of course frequency would depend on your niche, what you write about. As an example if you are writing about an interesting incident about a celebrity which seems to be dragging on, like a divorce case, you will need to keep your readers updated on a daily basis, more or less sometimes twice a day. Other scenario is that you have a blog in which you share odd news stories and funny videos with your visitors. Do you think you would have strong reader loyalty if you only posted something new a few times per week? Probably not. Why? Because with as many strange things that get be expected to change rapidly. A blog focusing on something such as this would probably make multiple posts per day.

Think about your subject matter and your audience, then decide on a frequency that works best for you. The important part is that once you make a decision- stick with it! Nothing confuses your readers more than making sporadic posts.

Consistency

Many blog owners want to make that great first impression, so they'll be posting tons of really valuable self-written content. Sometimes after a few weeks, you'll notice the quality and frequency of the posts start to decline. Great self-written articles begin to be replaced by pulls from different RSS feeds. All of a sudden, posting YouTube videos seems much easier than coming up with new material.

In the end, you will fare much better with 50 loyal, regular visitors than you will with 500 random one-time-only visitors. Be consistent with whatever you do on your blog. Otherwise, you will just confuse your visitors and they'll go someplace else.


Now there are blog automation software such as http://www.blogwarriorelite.com to help you to keep your blog regularly updated with a frequency to your liking.

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Turn a Simple Blog Into a Great Home Business - 5 Tips

By Angela Booth

Did you know you can turn a simple blog into a great home business? Others have done it, and you can too. But wishing and hoping for success won't bring in the money; in this article we discuss five tips which will.

1. Create a Plan for the Blog, and Set Goals

Start with a plan. If you've already tried blogging and failed, you failed because you didn't plan both your content and your marketing before you created the blog.

Your plan can be brief, but it should contain:

* Your goals for the blog, with milestones at six months, one year, and two years;

* Your budget;

* The time you have available to blog;

* Your marketing plan.

Does this sound like too much work? Remember that you're creating a business. If you set your blog on a proper business footing from the beginning, not only will you make a profit from your blogging, you can also sell your blog if you wish.

2. Choose a Topic You're Passionate About, and which is Profitable

What would you really love to blog about?

Here's a clue: what do you discuss with friends? Do you talk about golf, makeup and beauty tips, home prices and your mortgage...? You'll spend a lot of time thinking about your blog, and creating the content. If you're lukewarm about the blog's topic, your blog will die from your lack of inspiration.

Competition in a niche shouldn't faze you. In fact lots of competition is a sign that the niche is profitable.

Other signs that a niche is profitable include: lots of advertising, many affiliate products, and big companies in the niche.

3. Research Other Blogs in the Niche - Do Something Different

Once you've decided on a niche, check out other blogs covering the same topic.

What can you focus on in your blog that's a little bit different? For example, there are many "food" blogs, how could you create a blog that's unique to you? Could you combine food and another area, perhaps? Something like... "fast and easy fat-free home cooking for busy working moms" - this blog could combine three or even four areas: recipes, dieting, parenting, and time management.

4. Build Content and Traffic - Create a Community

Three years ago, it was enough to create a blog. Traffic arrived of its own accord. That's no longer the case. Blogging has become super competitive, but don't let this scare you.

All it means is that you'll need to focus on marketing your blog, as well as on creating content.

In your plan for your blog, outline some ways you could get traffic: commenting on other blogs, writing articles for other blogs and sites, advertising - your marketing options are limitless.

You need to create community, too. Encourage comments, and interact with your blog's visitors.

5. Create Content and Market Your Blog Every Day

In the first few months of blogging, you should create content and market your blog every day. This not only builds up a presence in the search engines, so that you start getting a constant flow of traffic, but also creates the foundation of your business.


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Angela's blogging ebook package has a companion blog, the Blogging for Dollars Blog at http://www.dollars2blog.com/blog/ which keeps you up to date with what's happening in the world of professional blogging.

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Promoting Products Using Your Blog

By Andy Crofford

Promoting any type of product can be downright difficult. Especially when trying to promote someone else's product or website. The best part is that it doesn't have to be so hard. I will go over how to make product promotions easy.

Promoting affiliate products starts by simply enticing someone to visit the site where the item you are promoting is located. If you are a blogger you can make use of your blog to promote this product. Here is an example.

You find a product you think your blog readers will like. Your blog is about your personal life. To promote the product you could post an entry about it. Make it look like a normal post. Don't change your posting style or your readers will notice something is up. Emphasize how much you like the product, but don't over hype it. You will have to include your call to action. Again, you must make it look natural. Some believe this is wrong to do to your readers. To alleviate yourself of some guilt just make sure you actually like the product you are promoting and there shouldn't be a problem. Now, some bloggers have really loyal readers and they are fortunate enough to be able to come right out and say "Here is an affiliate link. I like this product. Please help me out by signing up." Unless you are incredibly lucky you will most likely have to follow the first bit of advice. This type of promotion is a lot like television. You have the show you enjoy watching, or in this case blog that you like to read, and every once in a while there is a commercial.

See how easy it is? There are a lot of people who make some good money promoting products this way. Use your blog to your advantage and let it make some money for you. Now that's what I call effective marketing.


Andy Crofford has been working on the web since the early 90's. He enjoys Internet Marketing as well as writing articles and reviewing products. His review of Project Quick Cash can be found at http://www.theprojectquickcashreview.com

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The Many Ways You Can Monetize (Make Money With) A Blog

By Yousef M Julaidan

It is a really good idea to monetize your blog after setting it up. There is no harm in generating some extra income for yourself right. It is much easier to monetize your blog if you are using your own template and your blog is hosted by your hosting company (which is the more difficult way for setting up a blog!) rather than being hosted by the blog own server. You can do this by making changes to your blog body and sidebar using any HTML editor. There are a couple of ways to monetize a blog:-

1- Google AdSense:- These are ads relevant to the page topics and when people click on it, you get paid!. Once again, it is very easy to do it if you have your own template and you used the second method to set up your blog.

a. Open up an AdSense Google account by signing up as publisher. Very straight forward; user name, password and other info and you are done.

b. Inside your Google AdSense account, there are set up tools to help you set up your AdSense units. Use it to set up the units to the dimensions and the colors you need.

c. After setting up the dimensions and colors of the AdSense units, you will be provided with a script. Copy it and paste it to a notepad file for later use.

d. Using an HTML editor, copy the script and paste it in the location you want the Google AdSense ad to appear in the blog. Make sure you use the right dimensions of AdSense units to match the space you want to insert it in.

2- Kontera text adlinks:- These are adlinks that highlight some keywords in your text and place links on these keywords to actual products and service. If someone clicks on a link and buys that products or service, you get a commission! The good news is, these can be utilized even if you don't set up the blog using method 2 above. Here is how to do it:-

a. Go to Kontera's website and sign up.

b. They will provide you with a script with a distinctive ID in it pointing to your account.

c. Open your blog text editor and write a topic as you usually do.

d. After you are done, switch to the HTML view.

e. Copy the whole Kontera script and paste it at the very end in the HTML code view of your blog editor.

f. That's it! The links will start to appear automatically after that when you or anyone views the blog.

g. Repeat the last 4 steps with every blog entry you write.

3- Your affiliate links:- This is by far could be the most profitable if you know how to utilize it correctly. Basically, everybody is willing to pay you if direct a customer to them and a sale took place. Big names like Amazon, e-bay, target, Wal Mart just to name a few. You can either put a text link in your blog or a graphic link like banners. Hyperlink it with your affiliate link and that's it. Here is how to do it:-

a. Go to the merchant you are interested to be an affiliate. For example go to Amazon.com and look for an "affiliates" or "associates" link.

b. Sign up and choose a password and user name.

c. Each merchant will have an arsenal of graphics and banners for you to use and place in your website or blog scripted and ready with your affiliate ID.

d. If they don't, don't worry. They will at least give you a unique link that you can connect to any graphics you can make yourself.

e. Use the tools there to make custom graphics with custom dimensions and looks.

f. After you are done customizing, copy the script and paste it in the desired place in your blog.

Next, you need to get some traffic (visitors) to your blog, which can be really challenging and will be the topic of another Article!


Yousef is an expert writer in business and money making topics and issues. His insights combined with his clear and informative style of writing has attracted a lot of attention lately. To subscribe to his free and valuable newsletter send a blank email to=> ibm-newsletter@aweber.com

Also check out Yousef's website http://www.internet-business-and-money.com

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