For a beginner, blogging should not be difficult, and that is why you are advised to blog about what you are passionate about. There are a lot of free online blog services like www.blogger.com , www.wordpress.com, www.blog.co.uk, www.blogcatalog.com and a host of others. Starting up a blog should be piece of cake.
However, it is strongly advised to at least, have a registered domain name because it makes you look more professional. You could decide to host your blog on blogger.com or any of the other free blog services, or if you prefer you could host it anywhere else. Registering a domain and hosting it shouldn’t cost you a fortune you know…. You could get original website templates for your blogs for FREE!
With your own domain name advertisers would likely take you more seriously. The advantage you have starting of with your own domain name and hosting is that, once your blog becomes popular and you have gotten a lot of good rankings from Technorati, Alexa, Google and the rest with lots of backlinks, its not so neat to change and this could affect your blog tremendously.
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Once your blog is setup, you are ready to roll! Here are just a few things to note;
- Try to know your readers and make sure to carry them along. Even though you might want a search engine-friendly page, your readers come first. You need to interact with them. Reply to their comments, respect their opinion even if it’s a negative comment.
- Make your contents unique and of good quality, that is what differentiates you from others (millions of bloggers out there). Write your own thoughts in your own words about things you are passionate about. That is what branding yourself is all about.
- Always be consistent about updating your blog, an un-updated blog is a dead blog. You could start with twice a week, and increase the frequency as you move on. You don’t need to write lengthy posts, about 200 to 1000 words should be O.K.
- Join your blogging community, exchange links with blogs related to your content. Reachout to other bloggers. You could visit other blogs, post your comment, and leave a link for them to checkout your blog.
- Always proof-read your content before hitting the “publish” button. You can do this with firefox browser, “save and continue editing” in Wordpress.com, or you could use your Microsoft Word. If after publishing, you have to make some adjustments, do so immediately.
- And lastly, Monetize your blog. Do not make the ads on your site look rowdy and irritating to your readers. There are different neat ways of making good bucks from your site or blog space.
See you soon!
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8.31.2007
8.27.2007
Here are some online money-makers.
Hi there,
Now lets get down to real business. First and foremost, before deciding on what sort of business is right for you, there are certain questions you might need to ask yourself;
* Is it a legal and legitimate business, with a pure source of income?
* Are you actually filling a need or you are just joining the band wagon?
* Is it what you have a passion for and enjoy doing? So that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
* Have you made enough research to give you a likelyhood of making good returns from your venture?
* Do you have the kind of focus, determination, hard work, diligence and all that it takes to make headway in your chosen market?
* Are you in a delusion of get-rich-quick kind of schemes?
* Do you have a fair idea of the kind of product(s) your target market would really be interested in buying?
* How do you get to people patronize you over and over again? Legally and legitimately.
* Can your customers trust you, how reliable are you?
These and a lot more, are what you should ask yourself before going into any form of business either in the virtual world(online) or the real world(offline). One very important point to ponder when getting started with a business idea is ... what is the NICHE of your business. Being able to target a specific market make a whole lotta difference, even with regards to your pay-per click campaign ads on seach engines, in order to get targeted visitors to your site thus improving your conversion rates(which we'll talk about later). Your NICHE could be .... Religion, Home improvement, Personal improvement, Home schooling, Parenting, Computing, Marriage counselling, Helping the disabled, Healthcare, Dieting and Nutrition and so on. Here are some examples of work from home businesses;
# Affiliate Marketing- which involves selling other peoples' products in order to earn commisions for refferals and or sale.
# Selling on Online stores and Auction sites- like Ebay, Tway, Ubid, Bidz, Amazon, 2checkout, Pricegrabber, Shopping, Shopzilla, Froogle and so on.
# Creating and selling your own product(s)- it could be physical or digital in nature. Softwares and E-books are good examples of digital products.
# Membership sites or Forums - a networking site for probably a particular group of individuals with the same goals, proffession, belief, or business.
# Ezine publishing could also be quite lucrative. Whether free or paid membership.
# Blogging could also make you some cash if you can monetise your blog.
# Data entry jobs being offered by some companies.
# Typing jobs are also available online.
# Getting Resale rights and or Master resale rights to other peoples' products to sell and keep all the profits.
# Buying Private label rights to other peoples' write ups or products and rebranding as your own.
After scaling the hurdles of setting up your business, you now need to get the life blood of your business in order to remain in business. That is where the issue of ADVERTISING comes in. Basically, Online or even offline advertising could be a free, paid, or a combination of both, which is more realistic. Driving targeted audience to your products or services could be through any or a combination of these;
* Pay-per-click
* Pay-per-lead
* Traffic exchanges
* Link exchange with related or partner sites.
* Blogging (Web blogs)
* Press releases about your products and or services
* Writing and submitting content-rich articles to article directories and including your resource box so that interested readers can locate your site.
We will be looking at some of these points as we move on. Bye for now.
Now lets get down to real business. First and foremost, before deciding on what sort of business is right for you, there are certain questions you might need to ask yourself;
* Is it a legal and legitimate business, with a pure source of income?
* Are you actually filling a need or you are just joining the band wagon?
* Is it what you have a passion for and enjoy doing? So that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
* Have you made enough research to give you a likelyhood of making good returns from your venture?
* Do you have the kind of focus, determination, hard work, diligence and all that it takes to make headway in your chosen market?
* Are you in a delusion of get-rich-quick kind of schemes?
* Do you have a fair idea of the kind of product(s) your target market would really be interested in buying?
* How do you get to people patronize you over and over again? Legally and legitimately.
* Can your customers trust you, how reliable are you?
These and a lot more, are what you should ask yourself before going into any form of business either in the virtual world(online) or the real world(offline). One very important point to ponder when getting started with a business idea is ... what is the NICHE of your business. Being able to target a specific market make a whole lotta difference, even with regards to your pay-per click campaign ads on seach engines, in order to get targeted visitors to your site thus improving your conversion rates(which we'll talk about later). Your NICHE could be .... Religion, Home improvement, Personal improvement, Home schooling, Parenting, Computing, Marriage counselling, Helping the disabled, Healthcare, Dieting and Nutrition and so on. Here are some examples of work from home businesses;
# Affiliate Marketing- which involves selling other peoples' products in order to earn commisions for refferals and or sale.
# Selling on Online stores and Auction sites- like Ebay, Tway, Ubid, Bidz, Amazon, 2checkout, Pricegrabber, Shopping, Shopzilla, Froogle and so on.
# Creating and selling your own product(s)- it could be physical or digital in nature. Softwares and E-books are good examples of digital products.
# Membership sites or Forums - a networking site for probably a particular group of individuals with the same goals, proffession, belief, or business.
# Ezine publishing could also be quite lucrative. Whether free or paid membership.
# Blogging could also make you some cash if you can monetise your blog.
# Data entry jobs being offered by some companies.
# Typing jobs are also available online.
# Getting Resale rights and or Master resale rights to other peoples' products to sell and keep all the profits.
# Buying Private label rights to other peoples' write ups or products and rebranding as your own.
After scaling the hurdles of setting up your business, you now need to get the life blood of your business in order to remain in business. That is where the issue of ADVERTISING comes in. Basically, Online or even offline advertising could be a free, paid, or a combination of both, which is more realistic. Driving targeted audience to your products or services could be through any or a combination of these;
* Pay-per-click
* Pay-per-lead
* Traffic exchanges
* Link exchange with related or partner sites.
* Blogging (Web blogs)
* Press releases about your products and or services
* Writing and submitting content-rich articles to article directories and including your resource box so that interested readers can locate your site.
We will be looking at some of these points as we move on. Bye for now.
8.21.2007
wanna make money online?
For quite sometime now, there has been a lot of buzz and fluffs flying around about making "boatloads ", "truckloads" of cash online. Everybody wants to sell one Ebook or another. You find out a lot of times, that some of these books suck.... just another piece of crap. And most turnout to be far below your expectation and don't even contain all the HYPES that you've promised. Its a good thing a lot of these products are backed by money back guarantees, and hope you get your refund.
You even get some phoney Testimonials to back 'em up, to me that's cheap. Usually when things sound too good to be true, then they really must be. Imagine me seeing a very familiar picture of a guy giving a testimonial about a certain product some days back with a certain name, only for me to see his face again on another product's testimonial page with a different name, can you beat that! They couldn't have been TWINS with different names and surnames? And how come it was the SAME picture.
Creating a product shouldn't be a hush-hush job, no need to be desperate. Your readers deserve the best, at least you owe it to them to give good value for their hard-earned cash. That is why when creating a product, your watchword must be QUALITY and QUANTITY. These two go hand in hand, and that is what determines even the price of your product(s). Developing a good rapport with your customers is the most important thing for your online business, selling them a fake product certainly puts you in their BAD books. Wanting to get people to buy your product shouldn't cause use you to tell lies, its allowed to get them excited about it but not by lying, they are the life-blood of your business.
Let me first point it out here...., while its true you could make money "while you sleep", it is worthy of note that while getting started with anything you want to do, you must put in some amount of effort in order to succeed. Some people struggle real hard to make their first few sales. The orders don't just start "rolling in" as most people want you to believe. You have to build your business, even if you got your domain name and website for FREE. Be it Affiliate marketing(selling other people's products) ,Auctions(even if you use drop shippers your credibility could be at stake you know, there's need for monitoring), Forums, Membership sites, you name it, you have to do some work in order to get enough exposure to bring in sales, and nurture your online business.
It's not everyone that gets to be a success story, a lot of us desire it..... but we cant always get what we want. But, you can truly make a good living online I advice everyone to try, be you a house-wife, student, or even a college professor. You just give it your best shot and work hard at it. With a little bit of determination, patience, tenacity, focus, diligence and prayers, the sky could be your starting point. You never know, you could be your own success story and be able to inspire the people around you to achieve GOOD things.
Watch out for up coming blogs about tips and ideas about your online business.
Have a great time!
You even get some phoney Testimonials to back 'em up, to me that's cheap. Usually when things sound too good to be true, then they really must be. Imagine me seeing a very familiar picture of a guy giving a testimonial about a certain product some days back with a certain name, only for me to see his face again on another product's testimonial page with a different name, can you beat that! They couldn't have been TWINS with different names and surnames? And how come it was the SAME picture.
Creating a product shouldn't be a hush-hush job, no need to be desperate. Your readers deserve the best, at least you owe it to them to give good value for their hard-earned cash. That is why when creating a product, your watchword must be QUALITY and QUANTITY. These two go hand in hand, and that is what determines even the price of your product(s). Developing a good rapport with your customers is the most important thing for your online business, selling them a fake product certainly puts you in their BAD books. Wanting to get people to buy your product shouldn't cause use you to tell lies, its allowed to get them excited about it but not by lying, they are the life-blood of your business.
Let me first point it out here...., while its true you could make money "while you sleep", it is worthy of note that while getting started with anything you want to do, you must put in some amount of effort in order to succeed. Some people struggle real hard to make their first few sales. The orders don't just start "rolling in" as most people want you to believe. You have to build your business, even if you got your domain name and website for FREE. Be it Affiliate marketing(selling other people's products) ,Auctions(even if you use drop shippers your credibility could be at stake you know, there's need for monitoring), Forums, Membership sites, you name it, you have to do some work in order to get enough exposure to bring in sales, and nurture your online business.
It's not everyone that gets to be a success story, a lot of us desire it..... but we cant always get what we want. But, you can truly make a good living online I advice everyone to try, be you a house-wife, student, or even a college professor. You just give it your best shot and work hard at it. With a little bit of determination, patience, tenacity, focus, diligence and prayers, the sky could be your starting point. You never know, you could be your own success story and be able to inspire the people around you to achieve GOOD things.
Watch out for up coming blogs about tips and ideas about your online business.
Have a great time!
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