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What is the Difference Between Internet Marketing and Blogging:
Jul 26th
Sometimes I need to refresh myself on the difference between blogging and internet marketing. When you write an article for a blog about internet marketing, is it still considered blogging?
I think most people consider blogging to be a form of expression that is directly related to their personal life. Wikipedia defines internet marketing or online marketing, for more details visit to www.sell-using-the-web.com as the marketing of products or services over the World Wide Web.
For the most part, the distinction between a blogger and an internet marketer is a bit fuzzy. The most obvious realization is that the average blogger probably doesn’t make that much money online whereas the business savvy internet marketing might make a fortune selling advertising and affiliate products.
Generally bloggers write about their experiences, their opinions, current events, and things that interest them. Internet marketers tend to focus on subjects like search engine optimization, affiliate reviews, and marketing techniques. They are focused on making money plain and simple.
The typical internet marketer spends half their time in the field writing and the other half researching, optimizing and obtaining inbound links. Bloggers generally spend half their time writing and the other half of their time trying to get their peers to read their blogs.
To make a long story short just because you have a blog doesn’t necessarily mean you are marketing it correctly. If you are serious about your blog either way you will most likely need to acquire internet traffic to leverage your blog. Regardless of whether or not you want to earn money online with your blog, learning the basic principals of internet marketing will most likely prove to be very useful in the acquisition of internet traffic.
There are many things that are important to being a successful Internet marketer. But three things in particular, in my honest opinion, are critical to success. In fact, you really could say that these three things pretty much cover the essence of Internet marketing. I’m talking about training, product and promotion. In this article, for more details visit to www.mrx-interview.com I’m going to explain why these three things are so important.
Let’s start with training. How many people in this world do you know who are successful at something who don’t know what they’re doing? I certainly wasn’t one of them. When I first started as an Internet marketer, over six years ago, I was so clueless that I made all of $28 in my first five months. Why? Simple…I didn’t have the training I needed. Once I started to get that training, I began to make a steady income online.
Now, you can pay for that training or you can go about getting it in bits and pieces by going the free route such as by digging through forums and the like. The downside to the free route is that it can be very time consuming. By paying for training, you can cut months off the learning curve. Of course the downside is that it’s not free. If you’re tight on funds, the free route may be your only option.
What about product? Well, you have to have something to sell to people. Nobody is going to send you money because of your good looks. Now, you can create your own product, which is going to give you the most control and the most income, or you can sell an existing product as an affiliate. The downside of the latter is that you are competing with many other people. However, there is almost no cost involved and the process is a lot quicker than having to create something from scratch. Either way, you have to have something to sell or you’re not going to have a successful business. And…it has to be something that people actually want. Not need, want. Big difference.
Finally, we have promotion. I’ve said this a thousand times and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousands times more. I don’t care how great a product or site you have. If nobody sees it, you’re not going to make any sales. You have to promote. Again, you can go the free route, of which there are some excellent options like article marketing, or you can pay for traffic, such as you would do by using pay per click advertising. But whatever you do, you have to promote. The traffic won’t just come to you.
If you concentrate on these three things, you’ll find that your marketing efforts are more focused and your results will be a whole lot better.
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Getting Started With Your Blogging Business
Jul 19th
Are you considering starting your own blogging business? If so, you aren’t alone! In fact, many people have found a way to create a handsome income through blog writing, so there is no reason why you can’t do it as well. At the same time, if you are currently working and you are thinking about jumping into the world of blogging, there are a few steps you should take in order to make certain you make a smooth transition into the blogging world and that your finances are under control.
Get Your Feet Wet
Before you turn in your resignation and hit the web, it is a good idea to get your feet wet in the world of blogging. Spend some time reading some blogs and interacting with blogging communities so you can get a better idea of how blogs work and how the communities are built. You might also want to guest blog for some of the more popular blogs or even write blog paid blog posts for someone else so you can better determine whether or not writing blogs is something you enjoy. Of course, you can certainly set up a free blog with a site such as blogger and you can get started with your own blog. If you notice that your blog is generating some interest, you may very well have found a way to leave the rat race and start a successful home based career.
Monetizing Your Blog
After you have successfully built up a community with one blog, you might want to start dabbling in different ways to monetize your blog. Allowing pay-per-click advertisements to be placed on your blog is one way to monetize your site. You might also want to get involved with affiliate products and look into selling them through your website. Another option is to sell advertisement space on your blog. In fact, if your blog becomes popular enough, you will find people coming to you and asking to place their ads on your blog.
Spreading Your Wings
If you find that you were able to make one blog a success, you might want to start looking into creating additional blogs. The key is to make certain you don’t overburden yourself by creating more blogs than you can keep up with while still holding down your job. After all, building a successful blog takes time and maintaining a successful blog requires making a commitment to add new blog content on a regular basis. Therefore, you don’t want to have so many blogs going that you cannot keep up with them.
Until you start earning enough income from your blogs, you may have to juggle both your regular 9 to 5 job as well as your blogging business. But, once your blogs take off and you start earning a decent amount of cash from them, it just may be time to spread your wings and jump into blogging full time!
Larry McCullough has been marketing and writing on the internet for over 10 years. Owner of various websites. Main site Blog
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Do You Know How We Can Make Money From Blogging?
Jul 13th
One of the questions I see frequently asked on online discussion forums is, “Can You Really Make Money from Blogging?” People want to know if there’s some way to profit from the time they spend maintaining their web logs or personal online journals.
My answer is an emphatic “YES,” because I do it… everyday!
Today I’ll share with you how I do it.
Let me begin by saying that I don’t make thousands per month from MOST of my blogs. However, I do have many making hundreds. Since I don’t put in a lot of time maintaining them, and I enjoy blogging, I consider the money a bonus. I blog while sitting in my yard with my laptop (on a wireless connection)… watching the clouds roll by.
Another bonus I get from blogging is that it helps my regular websites that are set up as my “money machines.”
The search engines visit my blogs more often than they visit my regular sites, and they follow the links from my blogs pointing to other sites. Some of these links point to my sites, and some point to sites of partners. This does help the search engine rankings of these sites MASSIVELY.
How Do I Monetize My Blogs?
I monetize my blogs by creating blogs on topics people are searching for… and that they are spending money on. I know which niches are hot to an extent based upon what my research proves pay-per-click advertisers are willing to spend their advertising dollars on.
I run Google AdSense ads on my blogs. You can visit www.bloggers-guide-to-profit.com I simply insert these ads in my menu bar and other strategic places on the webpage. I also experiment with other paid advertising on my blogs.
I sell affiliate products from my blogs. I simply find affiliate products at places like PayDotCom.com and Commission Junction. I incorporate these into my blogs. I do things like product reviews, how-to articles, etc. You can also locate suitable affiliate products by typing your target keywords + “affiliate program” at any major search engine. This should point out numerous websites with suitable affiliate programs to you.
How Do I Setup/Host My Blogs?
I have blog hosted on some of my own domains using Moveable Type. This is just one of many great pieces of blogging software. You have other choices… my programmer recommended this one to me.
I also have blogs hosted for free on Blogger.com. I have them on Blogger.com because they are incredibly easy to set up and maintain. A secondary reason I have them on Blogger.com is that Google OWNS Blogger.com and they index webpages hosted on their servers OFTEN and FAST!
The secret to getting Google and Yahoo! to visit your blogs often is a technique called “blogging and pinging.” It’s a method of notifying all of the major search engines, and blog directories, each time that you update your blog. The search engines come to take a look and they follow links from your blog to spider other blogs/sites. It’s very powerful.
I won’t go into too many details on blogging and pinging here. If you want more information on that topic I invite you to drop by my free, Internet marketing discussion board and ask any and all questions! It’s at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Examples of Profitable Blogs?
I know, you want to see examples of profitable blogs 
To show you how simple it can be I’ll show you just ONE. It s less than 2 months old
The problem is that as soon as I show a site to anyone as an example, it’s instantly ripped off. So, I’m going to “sacrifice” one making me about $60 per day from affiliate product sales and about $20 per day in AdSense revenue. That site is at:
http://cure-nail-fungus.blogspot.com
The above site currently ranks Number 6 on Yahoo for the term “cure nail fungus.” It’s a small niche but one that makes me $2400 per month… just from that one blog.
If you searched on the same term at Google, this site is not very highly ranked. However, THIS page is Num ber4:
http://www.chitterlings.com/no-more-nail-fungus.html
That happens to be one of my pages too I won’t tell you what ALL I’m up to on that page… that’s another article. The technique involves using your own domains to promote affiliate products rather than advertising someone else’s domain… so it improves your link popularity.
I’m not going to show more of my blogs because that just invites competition. Instead, I’m going to answer another question you have to be wondering…
“How do I find time to maintain all of these blogs, even if they are profitable?”
Well, first of all, I don’t really need a lot like the “sacrificial lamb” that I showed you above to keep me satisfied.
I do have a number of secret weapons though. One is called Auto logger. You can check it out at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/auto-blogger.html
What Auto logger does is allow me to queue up a number of posts for my various blogs in advance. It lets you queue up “articles” which can really be anything you want. Then you tell the software at what frequency to make a post.
My Auto logger account allows me to automatically post to an UNLIMITED number of blogs.
WARNING: A program like Auto logger can get you in trouble if you misuse it! If you use it to spam or abuse the search engines, it’s just going to get you banned. If you use it to abuse the blog hosts, they’re just going to delete your blogs.
Here’s how I use Auto logger:
I have sites where I discuss Internet marketing… as just one example. On these sites I share many of my articles and tidbits. I simply queue up these articles/tidbits to post at a given frequency. This frequency can be a set number of hours, days, weeks, or months. So theoretically, I can set up a blog, pre-schedule 50 posts, and not touch it in months, while it is automatically posted to for the next 50 intervals.
Auto logger even lets you set it to start rotating through the posts again when they run out, if you want to. I personally wouldn’t do this since you’d just be posting duplicate content.
Auto logger allows you to insert RSS feeds right into your blog posts. So in addition to posting articles you can also auto-update by adding new RSS feeds at a set interval. Since I HATE sending my traffic to other sites (without reciprocation), these RSS feeds generally pull from MY sites. That way, my traffic is only sent to my other sites.
If you don’t even feel like queuing up a lot of posts, you can go to a site like Elance.com and hire someone else to do it for you… or just hired your kids to do it for you. It can be as easy as you want to make it.
OK, I’ve just proven to you that you can make money off of blogs. In-fact, you can make more money than many people make off of their REGULAR websites. It just takes a little thinking outside the box!
It also takes not being too greedy. You can log on www.blog-link-generator.com What I just showed you works for me because I’m not doing anything that’s likely to get me banned from the search engines, Google AdSense, Blogger.com, or any affiliate program. It’s only when you get carried away, and do things that harm the search engines that you “shoot yourself in the foot.”
Set up blogs providing useful content. Make regular posts to these blogs but not in a manner that seems unnatural. By that, I mean don’t auto-post twenty times in an hour, or post every hour for a month! No human can possible post to a blog at these rates for long, so the search engines detect something is “wrong.” They don’t generally prohibit you from using tools to make your job easier… just don’t get carried away!
There are actually, thousands of people earning a living doing things similar to what I just shared… but with little twists. I’m meeting up with many of them in New Orleans in September. You’re invited to join us. We’ll basically be sharing how we make a fortune off of niche websites and programs such as Google AdSense.
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Home Business Ideas – How to Choose One
Apr 12th
Why does we need home business ideas? After all what is the advantage of having a home business? Why are work at home jobs essential?
Most people opt for a home business after they become parents. The rising cost of day care and the increasing risks in trusting your child to a baby sitter are making more and more parents leave their jobs and work at home. No matter what, running a home business has certain advantages:
- You can look after your children and your home while you earn money
- You don’t need to go to work at a fixed time; you can decide your own hours
- You don’t need to spend money in buying a new wardrobe for your office; you can work in your pajamas.
- You can tailor your home business to suit your abilities
Home business is quite a profitable way to earn money and requires no or minimum investment. Most business experts predict that sales and network marketing will continue to grow in the coming years. There are many kinds of home business ideas which can be utilized to earn money and can be chosen as per your skill and aptitude.
Here are some of the home business ideas which can help you to earn good money sitting at home:
1. Create a product or e-book and sell it on the net: Do you specialize in some subject? Do you know more about a subject than an ordinary layman? If you are a doctor, gardener or a chef, you can write a book about recipes, cures or plants and sell it online. Make sure that you make it interesting and enjoyable to read since there are scores of books available on every subject on the internet. Most of these are free so your book needs to be real good to attract people and make them buy it!
2. You can use affiliate marketing and earn commissions by selling products for others: Are you a good sales person? Can you write good product reviews? Are you good with words? If yes, then you can work at home by selling affiliate products where you get commissions for every sale. This means you need to promote the product through websites, articles and other tools so that your product gets more visibility and you get more commissions.
3. Online Auction: Do you believe “old is Gold”? If you do, then you can try conducting online auctions or start an online auction business where people can sell their old stuff by auction.
4. Internet Travel Business: Travel is an industry which the experts predict will continue to grow and increase about $7 trillion dollars in a span of 10 years. Your internet travel business can help people plan their vacation, trip and itinerary.
There are many other work at home ideas which can really help you to make more money than you have ever made! Setting up a great home business is a great way to enjoy your kids and work too!
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The Best Blogging Tools
Mar 12th
Because of the tremendous popularity blogging has now reached, bloggers can now, for business reasons, increase their presence on the internet, and be more quickly found by “spiders” so as to raise one’s rankings with Google.
To accomplish this, one first needs to have a specific blogging program, such as “Blogging To the Bank”, or Google’s own “Blogger.com”. Once you have created your domain name, and designed your site, (make sure it looks professional), you need to start writing blogs at least 3 times/week. The purpose is to inform your readers and provide them with information they can use to help them grow their business.
Occasionally, you can refer, through emails, to Affiliate products that you are selling on your blog. You can also sell your own products by having your blog reference free gifts and downloads, which can lead to your own Sales Page, and your own product. Be generous of your time and gifts. You can use PLR products to help benefit your followers. Ideally, your blog domain name should reference your website domain name, which in turn should relate specifically to your niche.
You may want to have a personal photo head shot so your readers know better who you are. You also can liven up your blog and your web site with videos.
Two tools that you should check out to assist your growth are Camtasia.com, and Traffic Geyser.com. They are both very important in growing your business.
Also, get software to help readers opt out if they no longer want your emails, and make sure you have a warning at the bottom of the site, that you will not share their information and will not spam.
To post entries on the blog, format may slightly differ. The basic concept is to type the title and the text you want to accompany it in the platform. Choose a tool with flexibility so as provide italics, various font sizes and styles, and you may need to use HTML in order to achieve the best result. Should you want to copy-paste Microsoft Word text, before choosing your software, check to see whether the blogging platform allows copy-paste without interference with RSS feeds.
To be able to upload videos and images on the blog, you or your webmaster may want to use Adobe Photoshop. You may have to resize the images in order to make them easy to download by readers.. You need tools that enable you to align the photos so that they can be placed in the best place within the overall format of the page. Embedded multimedia files are also widely used by bloggers, to enhance their site and provide more clarity to their viewers. An example would be embedding a You Tube video. All you have to do is include a JavaScript in the posts in order to allow the blog users to access the photo or video files you upload.
The RSS support can be very helpful in assuring greater success for the blog. This is particularly so because most online users are mainly concerned with accessing blog content via RSS feeds. There are a variety of RSS formats available. Moreover, most tools include some sort of RSS installation.. To be certain the blog looks professional to the targeted viewers, check the RSS formats that the special software offers before actually purchasing or installing it.
Hope the above info was helpful. Look soon for the next blog.
To your success.
Howard
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The Sales Funnel
Mar 5th
In internet marketing, there are many strategies to build traffic. Getting people to your blog, giving them as many helpful hints and free gifts as possible, and truly trying to be a mentor and not a sales person are some of the important ways to relate to your potential client. As your list grows, it becomes important to maximize conversion of people opting in to something you are offering, and leading them further into your sales process so that they can build their business.
At the very beginning most mentors recommend that you get into affiliate marketing. In order to do that you should familiarize yourself with Clickbank., and the Clickbank Marketplace. There you should choose the niche that you want to start initially marketing into. Then you want to go into ClickBank products and see what products are available that fit the niche you have chosen. In choosing your first 2 or 3 affiliate products to market, you want to screen using “Gravity”. What is meant by Gravity is a number that tells you how popular and successful a particular product is amongst other marketers, and in sales. The number seems to be arbitary, but scores above 200 would be best. Read the product description and make sure that it makes sense to you. Read any testimonals you can find, and read any product reviews you can find.
Once you’ve chosen your produc,t apply for an affiliate URL so that you that you later can get financial credit (commission) when one of your customers buys that product. The vendor of the product will have banners and possibily other promotional material that you can directly import to your own sales page to help sell the affiliate product. You want your customers to get to the product by first passing through your own Sales Funnel so that they order through your link, thereby allowing you to get credit from the merchant. This also prevents you from losing your optin new client to the merchant which could happen if they were lead directly to the merchant’s page.
So when your potential customer opts in they are led to a Thank You page, which then leads them to a FREE GIFT page, and perhaps a bonus of an additional series of gifts. If you are ready, you can offer a product of your own, or reference to future bonuses and gifts. Very often a well developed sales funnel will also use more than one sales product. It can also use special OTOs (One Time Offers), or joint ventures as additional sales material.
At the end of the funnel, after the final download, the customer should be sent an email confirming their purchase with download instructions for what they bought, especially if they did not download after making payment through a link on either Paypal, ClickBank paydotcom.com, or any purchasing software or shopping cart. Usually the link says “Return to Merchant”, but sometimes people forget to do this. So the email sent through the Auto-Responder will allow them another way to download their purchase.
This sequence of events decribes the Sales Funnel.
