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The Secret to Getting Motivated
2007-10-29 02:50:00
Whenever I talk to people trying to reach certain goals, this excuse often seems to come up: “I can’t reach my goals because I don’t have the motivation. Some days I’m motivated and I get a lot done. But other days I feel lazy and I get nothing done.” Can you relate to this? I certainly can. How can you stay motivated in reaching your goals especially in online business - where there seems to be many things to do and not enough time to do them? I think the secret to getting motivated is doing the hard work of getting started. I’ve found if I wait for motivation to strike me like lightning I won’t get much done. However, if I just get moving and doing something to move me forward to reaching my goals, I’ll begin to get motivated. Sometimes when I’m feeling lazy, I make myself do something productive. Afterwards, I feel better about myself. I don’t feel lazy anymore. Not only that, but I feel productive because of wh...
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Stop Crying?I really don?t give a S#$! about PageRank!
2007-10-28 13:20:00
Ok, so we are all writing about the BIG G giving PR drops. WHO CARES! well I don’t and I’ll explain why. Granted this is a very selfish reason, but I do not make money by using my PageRank to show my overall standings for traffic because it’s about a useful as Alexa! and we all know how accurate Alexa is…right? Since about 2003 I have never looked a PageRank as a way to work out how much traffic a potential website has. Google should have dumped it years ago..the only thing I feel PageRank has done is enable the likes of Text Links Ads and Text Links Brokers to build a business model from it by ways of infalting the price of a link based upon PR. Google (you’ve got it wrong) we can still buy and sell Text Link Ads and Google will still give your SERPs a boost based on your keyword buying. I prefer this, as you can purchase on the evalution of actual (real) site traffic and not some stupid toolbar which is highly inaccurate. I think PR will only matter ...
More About: Writing , Pagerank , General , Stop , Give

5 Reasons to Sell Some of Your Content
2007-10-26 20:34:00
I want to start a new income stream. I’m choosing between a paid content site and PPC affiliate marketing. I’ve been thinking a lot about the paid content business model. It seems like a good idea. Now I don’t plan on charging for all my content. I would still produce quality free content to draw readers in and build my brand. But here are a couple reasons why I think you should sell some of your content. Make more money. You’re reading this blog because you want to make more money. It’s called Net Business Blog not Net Hobby Blog. And if you’re building a business, you need to sell something. Some of you are saying, “I sell advertising.” That’s fine and you should continue selling ads. But if you sell some of your content, you’ll make more money. Raise your perceived value. Perception is reality. If you’re selling a quality product, you automatically look more credible. You look like an expert. You lo...
More About: General , Content , Reasons , Sell , Tent

Selling PageRank is not a Good Business Model
2007-10-26 06:55:00
Why not? Well, check out these PageRank (PR) drops I found on Andy Beard’s blog. http://www.autoblog.com/ PR6 PR4 http://www.engadget.com/ PR7 PR5 http://www.problogger.net/ PR6 PR4 http://www.copyblogger.com/ PR6 PR4 http://www.joystiq.com/ PR6 PR4 http://www.tuaw.com/ PR6 PR4 http://www.searchengineguide.com PR7 PR4 http://www.searchenginejournal.com PR7 PR4 http://www.johnchow.com PR6 PR4 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/ PR6 PR3 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/ PR6 PR4 http://andybeard.eu PR5 PR3 Vlad PR4 PR2 These are quality sites with good content. So, why did they lose up to 3 PR points? I don’t know. There is a lot of speculation but one thing is sure, you can’t depend on Google. They can randomly wreck your PR. So, stop focusing on PR. It’s not in your control. Instead, focus on getting more money from each visitor by selling some of your content and also learn to promote your site without relying on Google.
More About: Business , Selling , Pagerank , General , Model

Excellent Basic Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing
2007-10-25 22:06:00
Zac Johnson recently published a simple but quality guide to pay per click (PPC) marketing. He recommends NeverBlueAds to find affiliate offers and Google AdWords for PPC advertising. He gives step by step instructions including pictures. Search Network Vs. Content Network The reason I like this guide is because Zac’s PPC background is in using the content network of Google AdWords rather than the search network. What is the difference between these two networks? On the search network, the AdWords ads show up on the Google search engine results pages (SERPs). On the content network, the ads show up on sites that have signed up to put AdWords ads on their pages. The search network has a better conversion rate. However, you have to set up landing pages and deal with quality scores in the search network. Landing pages are web pages you create that link to the offer and quality scores are scores based on the quality of your landing page. If you have a high score, you will...
More About: Marketing , Pay Per Click , Click , Guide , Basic

Being the First to Do Something is a Huge Advantage
2007-10-24 01:27:00
Aaron Wall is one of the most popular SEO bloggers. His Alexa rank is under 2,000. He writes: If you think about the success of this site, much of it is due to being one of the first bloggers covering SEO stuff. Start a blog about SEO today and it would be much harder to gain traction. I also was one of the first SEOs to make publicly available extensions for modifying search results and aggregating data via widgets. Too many people are starting sites in markets that are very saturated. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. But realize that you are making it more difficult for yourself to make money. Yes, being passionate about your niche is important. However, if you’re passionate about multiple niches, pick the one that’s less saturated and competitive. Also, you can develop a passion for less saturated niches. This takes getting out of your comfort zone and having a teachable attitude. So, find a niche that’s small but growing and be one of th...
More About: General , Huge , To Do , Some , Advanta

For All You Non-Techies: $10/Year For a Wordpress Hosted Blog
2007-10-23 06:01:00
One of the things that keeps people from being as effective and efficient as they could be in blogging is a lack of technical skills. Some of you may be like me. I don’t have much technical and programming skills. It took me awhile to learn tasks like installing Wordpress or modifying themes. It would’ve been great to see a service like this back when I was starting to build Wordpress blogs a couple months ago. TechBurgh has teamed up with Tubu Internet Solutions to create a new hosting service where you can get hosting for a Wordpress blog on your own domain for $10 a year. This is a great price for someone looking to start blogging without dealing with the technical hassles. Even if you have a blog already, you might have a friend that wants to start blogging but doesn’t want to use free blog hosting (like blogger.com and wordpress.com). TechBurgh’s hosting service is a great way for that friend to start blogging. They can use their own domain name. T...
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Have Fun Getting This Permanent PR5 Link
2007-10-21 22:25:00
Link building doesn’t have to be boring. Here’s a PR5 link that can be fun to obtain. Go to Shoemoney’s store and buy a shirt. Take a picture of the shirt. The more interesting the picture, the better. For example, you could wear the shirt and take a picture in an interesting location. Send the picture to Shoemoney along with the URL of your site. Shoemoney will publish your picture and link to you on this PR5 page.
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Underrated but Effective: Forum Marketing
2007-10-20 22:08:00
I don’t hear too much about forum marketing even though it’s a great way to promote your site. You might not get a lot of traffic, but the traffic will be higher quality because the people clicking through are oftentimes visiting your site because of your reputation. Also, the traffic is targeted because you’re gonna market in a forum related to your niche, right? Here are a couple ways to do forum marketing effectively: Pick a site that allows you to market your site. For example, I stay away from forums that don’t allow you to have links in your signature. Some forums like Digital Point Forum s allow you to have a link to the newest post on your blog. This link shows up on every forum post you make. Also, some forums don’t mind you linking to your site in your forum posts as long as you don’t overdo it. Read the rules of the forum and browse through some posts to find out what is acceptable self-promotion. To save time, rewrite your existi...
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Bad Press Helps You If You Have A Quality Product
2007-10-19 21:06:00
If you’re anything like me, you don’t like bad press. I don’t like being publicly criticized and you probably don’t like it either. However, Shoemoney has an interesting post that made me think differently about bad press. He says that if you have a quality product, you should actually welcome bad press. The people who criticize and badmouth you are giving you free promotion and publicity. And people will visit your site through the bad press to see if your product is really bad. But since your product is quality, many of those people will end up buying your product. Shoemoney writes: I will tell you right now every time I stumble across a ?sucks website? for a site or product I have or am affiliated with then lookup the statistics I will always find the conversion goals for that site to be higher than pay per click and general type-in traffic. Shoemoney gives an example with Blogrush. If you follow the make money online niche, you’ve seen the ba...
More About: Advertising , Promotion , Press , Product , Quality

Just Like Any Other Job, Blogging Gets Easier
2007-10-19 03:15:00
It used to take me forever to write posts, but over the last couple of days, my writing speed has increased significantly. Following this writing tip more closely has definitely helped, but I’ve also been experiencing writer’s block much less than I used to. I think sheer repetition has helped me overcome much of the blogging learning curve. Every job has a learning curve. I remember a couple weeks ago when my sister got a new job as a receptionist. She was freaking out and stressed because of all the new things she had to learn and keep track off. Fast forward to today, she can do her job without much thinking. Some of you may not know that I wasn’t much of a blogger before I got this job in July. I read make money online blogs a lot and knew the blogging fundamentals from following blogs like Problogger, Performancing, and Copyblogger. However, reading about blogging is very different from actually blogging. Blogging is a lot harder than it looks. So, if...
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Reporter vs Expert - Be the Expert Blogger not Reporter
2007-10-18 03:00:00
Yaro has an interesting post about two kinds of bloggers - reporters and experts. He believes that experts will make more money than reporters. Quick Definitions Reporter s write about the niche. They are journalists. They report news. They point people to interesting stories and people. They interview experts. Expert s have unique content that many people consider useful. They are the people that get most of the attention in their niche. Because of this attention, they can charge more for their products, speaking engagements, and advertising rates. Advantage of Being an Expert While some reporters will make a ton of money (think Engadget and Tech Crunch), being an expert is a better option because experts by nature are different from each other. This differentiation (or uniqueness) leads to a higher perceived value, which leads to higher profits. It’s hard for reporters to differentiate themselves because many of them will be talking about the same thing. You may have ...
More About: Blogger , Blogging , Pert

If You Want to Make Money with Content, Charge For It.
2007-10-17 02:56:00
The title of this post is a quote from an excellent free ebook I just read. It’s written Brian Clark of Copyblogger. Also, you can listen to it on mp3. The ebook and mp3 is called Teaching Sells and you can get it free at TeachingSells.com. You have to give your name and email, but you can always unsubscribe from Brian’s list if his business strategies are not for you. Brian’s report has helped me realize the best way to make money online is to charge for it. Simple, huh? He writes on page 2: We often expend large amounts of time and effort creating elaborate solutions to problems when a simple answer is right under our noses. I think many of you are free content publishers. Does this mean you should stop publishing free content and start selling it? Brian covers this point by talking about blogging. Blogging is one of the most popular publishing methods. However, Brian sees blogging as primarily a means to sell actual products instead of advertising. He...
More About: Money , General , Make Money , Charge

Review: TNX.net, a Text Link Service with a Different Spin
2007-10-15 08:40:00
Looking to buy links? TNX.net is a new website offering text links for advertisers and money for publishers willing to sell text links. Many of you will compare TNX.net to Text Link Ads, or TLA, the most popular text link service. I think TNX.net has some better benefits and features. If you’re an advertiser, you can buy whatever type of links you want based on PageRank, Yahoo backlinks count, and niche. You can also set the anchor text for the links. TNX.net will then search their inventory for pages with your desired characteristics and add your links to those pages. Right now, TNX.net has over 31 million pages in their database, so the selection should be pretty good. With TNX.net, you can get a bunch of links very quickly without having to manually select sites and pages where you want your links. In contrast, you have to manually select sites when buying links at TLA. Because of the way TNX.net sets up its code, search engines cannot track its links. However, TLA ...
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Quit Your Day Job Sooner By Spending Less
2007-10-14 06:17:00
Sometimes the best solutions are right in front of us. Mark gives us an excellent point about quitting your day job sooner. He simply advises us to spend less. He writes The less you spend in a month, the sooner you get to quit ;-) Mark illustrates his point by telling us about his car. He bought it for $825 five years ago and he still drives it! I live in dinky little town in Texas in a trailer. Yeah, a trailer. Not even an apartment. Trailers are cheaper and less noisy than apartments in my experience. The insulation sucks, but oh well. I pay only $380 a month and I have a roommate. As you can tell, my living expenses are insanely cheaper than most. A penny saved is a penny earned so figure out where you can cut expenses. Stretch yourself. Do you really need a $3.50 cup of coffee everyday? Do you really need to pay for 100+ TV channels every month? Then, exercise some self-control and actually cut some expenses. This will free up more of your budget and you’ll be...
More About: General , Spending , Quit

Review: Thousand Dollar Profits
2007-10-13 02:40:00
Note: I was given this link, advanced-marketing-systems.com, but it takes you to thousanddollarprofits.com/amb. When I went to the Thousand Dollar Profits , I was assaulted with big red text saying ?I’m About To Share With A Select Few, The Exact Details Of My Simple And Proven ‘Reverse Funnel System’ That Quickly And Simply Puts $5,000 to $10,000 In Many Students’ Pockets EVERY WEEK!? Hmm. Can you say hype? Then I checked out the audio. Ty Coughlin has a system called The Reverse Funnel System. It’s making him a lot of money - over six figures every month. He wants to show a select group of people his system. But you have to enter in your name and email to see if you qualify to be in the select group. I don’t like to give away my email and name, but I can always unsubscribe :) I put in my name and email. I was taken to a sales page letter. This sales page letter was insanely long. The letter had too much hype and not enough substance. It...
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Good Online Business is Art
2007-10-11 23:32:00
Photo by AP-TURE Not to take away the importance of business fundamentals, testing and market research, but what if you thought of your online business as art? What if you thought of yourself as an artist? Would this line of thinking make your business better? I think it would. The internet is being more and more overcrowded with new sites and online businesses. More people are jumping online to try to make money. This list has over 200 make money online blogs. Many of these blogs are less than a year old. I think the artist metaphor is an excellent way to help you stand out from the big crowd and be unique. Your website is your canvas. Your content is your art. Your marketing is art too. Even the way you monetize can be art. Art, by definition, is unique. Art is worth more. Art provides a unique experience. Art touches the heart not just the head. Art happens when you’re being yourself. An Example I’m thinking of starting a blog in a relatively small game-r...
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Promote Your Site As Though Google Didn?t Exist
2007-10-10 22:15:00
Brian Clark has an excellent post about relying too much on Google for traffic. Believe it or not, my strategy since the beginning of Copyblogger has been to pretty much forget search engines exist. Don?t get me wrong? I?m not doing anything to annoy them, and I certainly don?t turn away visitors from search engines. I just don?t depend on them for traffic. This is a timely post because of the Google has been dropping the PageRank on some sites that sell links. Danny Sullivan, a premier search journalist, contacted Google about this and this is what they said: [Google] confirmed that PageRank scores are being lowered for some sites that sell links. In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached to prevent them from ranking well. Maybe Google even targeted this site because we’ve gone down from PR5 to PR4. How to Stop Relying on Google Traffic Brian’s post gives three p...
More About: Marketing , Promotion , Promote , Site

Review: Reseller Hosting Guide
2007-10-10 04:31:00
Reseller Hosting Guide (resellerguide.com) is a website with information about setting up a web hosting company by buying a dedicated server or a reseller hosting plan. This is a good online business because of the recurring monthly income. First Impressions The site design is clean. It doesn’t look bad but it is a little boring. There are not many colors, images, pictures, or icons so it doesn’t stand out from other sites. However, the site loads quickly. The biggest problem I had with the design is the front page is too cluttered. Here is what I see on my screen. Because of the clutter, I wondered which parts of the site were the most important. Was it the newest blog entries? Our should I click on the tabs? Then, there are the links on the top right. And what about the text on the yellow box? Is that important too? Basically, the front page has too many things going on. I think the blog should go on a subfolder rather than the home page. And the owners don...
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The Secret Blogging Weapon
2007-10-09 03:23:00
I just read a very interesting post by Lyndoman. He writes that the secret blogging weapon is you. Lyndoman’s tells us that the top blogs are personality driven. He says, … it is the brand of the author that transcends the content itself. Of course the content goes a long way to developing the online brand of the author, but when it is established the content is less important. I don’t think I’ve been doing a good job being myself on this blog. Maybe it’s a subconscious thing. Maybe I’ve forgotten that blogging is a personal communication channel. Or maybe it’s because I’m a hired blogger. Whatever it is, I need to stop making excuses and show the real me. What is the real me? Hmm. I’m not really sure. I think I’ve been copying too many bloggers in personality and tone that I’ve forgotten my own personality and tone. I’ve become part of the crowd instead of standing out. There’s nothing wrong with...
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Link Building
2007-10-05 04:51:00
Links are crucial to online business. If you have links, you’ll get traffic - from the link and from search engines. If you don’t have links, well, you won’t get traffic. But there’s one thing many people seem to forget about link building. It takes time. In link building, the rich get richer. Sites with many links get links more easily than sites with a low number of links. (I’m talking about quality links, because those are what really count in Google.) If you have many links, you’ll rank well on Google. The Linkerati, or the people that give out links, use Google often. Guess who they will be linking to. The sites with a lot of links, because they’ll be on page one. If you’re on page 20 on Google, it will be hard to get links. The Linkerati can’t find you. So, a new site faces a catch-22. It needs links to get on the front page of Google, but the sites on the front page are getting most of the links. You can get on ...
More About: Marketing , Building , Writing , Link Building , Link

Marketing Your Blog in a Saturated Niche
2007-10-03 21:51:00
This is a guest post from a relatively new make money online blogger, David Peralty. Check out his blog at xfep.com. I especially like the new podcast he started last month. I want to start by saying that the reason a niche is saturated is usually because at one point or another it was a very popular way to make money online, or at least brought in a great deal of traffic. I am sure Darren Rowse thinks about his first time mentioning which blogs he made the most money on and dreads having mentioned it, as overnight a dozen blogs were created in the same niche and began competing with him. So many bloggers though try to copy what bloggers are currently doing, and fail to realize that it took many steps to get the blogs to their current status, and without going through those steps, your blog probably won’t do very well. Identify Your Competition The first thing that I recommend bloggers do, no matter the niche they select is to locate all your competitors. They can be your l...
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How to Keep Your Marketing From Becoming Spammy
2007-10-03 03:09:00
I wrote an article a couple days ago about doing marketing without spamming. Spam is not a good idea. You might get some quick traffic but you put your reputation at risk. If you spam other bloggers, they may insult you in public. Or more often, they’ll just ignore you and never promote your stuff. If you spam social media users for votes, they can report you and your account may get banned. I gave these 3 equations to help people understand the difference between good marketing and spam. Promoting low quality/irrelevant content = spam Promoting without a prior relationship = spam Promoting with good content and networking = good marketing Read the whole article, How To Do Marketing Without Spamming. I give reasons why good content and networking are essential to avoid spamming while promoting your site. Also, I thought of another equation. Overdoing your promotion = spam You might have the best content and good business relationships. However, if you’re emailing ...
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September Recap - Site Design, One Site Vs. Multiple Sites, Outsourcing, an
2007-09-30 23:08:00
These are some of the highlights from September. Site Design (Packaging Your Site) I wrote these three posts to help webmasters improve their site designs. How?s The Packaging And Formatting Of Your Site? Blog Design: Improve Your Site Packaging Usability and Navigation: Improve Your Site Packaging The One Site Business Model Why Building One Site is Better Than Building Multiple Sites This is my favorite post so far. I took me awhile to write it. It went viral on StumbleUpon. In this post, I give reasons why focusing on one site will earn you more money than building multiple sites. Attention Grabbing Headlines 22 World Class Headline Templates Try these headline templates and watch your traffic increase. How to Outsource Well 10 Outsourcing Tips That Actually Work Here are a couple of tips if you are considering outsourcing or you currently outsource some of your work. Outsourcing is an excellent way to grow your business and improve efficiency. Feedback What were your fav...
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Rookie Blogging Mistake: Posting on the Weekend
2007-09-30 04:45:00
I just realized I’ve been making a rookie blogging mistake. About two week ago, I asked Adie (the owner of this blog) if I could post lower my posting schedule to 3-4 times a week instead of 7 times a week. I asked for this because I wanted to spend time marketing instead of just blogging. He was kind enough to let me start marketing and post less often. Well, I think so far it’s been a good idea. I did some marketing on StumbleUpon for a couple of my posts and got a bunch of traffic. However, while StumbleUpon has been working out well, I also had a huge drop in traffic. I think a big reason for the drop is because I’ve posting on the weekend. Oops. The weekend is when traffic numbers go down. In fact, I think even on Friday traffic goes down. From Friday to Sunday, less people are online. Many of you bloggers probably already know about the lower weekend traffic. However, for those that don’t, if you’re posting less than 5 times a week, try t...
More About: Blogging , Weekend , Posti , Mista , Rookie

Are You Using Your Strengths?
2007-09-28 06:28:00
One of the best books I’ve read about business is Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. In the book, they argue that is the secret to having a fulfilling and successful work life is to know your strengths and use them as much as possible. I remember a passage from the book where they talk about Warren Buffett, a famous investor and billionaire. Here is the exact passage found on page 15: “I am really no different from any of you.” Warren Buffett, with his usual down-home style and slightly disheveled appearance, is talking to a roomful of students at the University of Nebraska. Since he is one of the richest men in the world and since most of the students can barely cover their phone bill, they start to chuckle. “I may have more money than you do, but money doesn’t make the difference. Sure, I can buy the most luxurious handmade suit, but I put it on and it just looks cheap. I would rather have a cheeseburger from Da...
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