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Internet Marketing
Monday, July 19th, 2010 | 4 Comments
When someone first becomes interested in making money online, the first thing they do is begin searching the internet using phrases such as “make money online”, or “internet marketing.” And the first thing they learn is that this subject can quickly become overwhelming. Why?
The sheer number of websites claiming that if they buy this system or that method they’ll be the next internet millionaire in no time at all. It’s like anything else where there is a lot of money to be made. There is no end to the people who want to find ways to profit off other people’s ignorance. You need to be careful.
How To Use Google Docs For Internet Marketing
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 | No Comments
The key to internet marketing is keywords. Anyone who wants to make money online should be aware of that. With the introduction of Google Docs, it has become easier to keep track of the keywords you’re trying to rank for on Google. Before I really get into how to use Google Docs for internet marketing, there are a couple of concepts I should explain.
Review – Nomad’s Guide To Make Money Online
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | 5 Comments
Do you want to learn how they really make money online? I recently came across the most useful e book I have ever read on the subject. As it says early on, it’s for beginning internet marketers, and it’s worth every penny of the $37 I paid for it. I liked it so much that I signed up to sell it as an affiliate. I believe in it that much.
If you’re familiar with Griz Brears’ site Make Money For Beginners, then assuming that you’ve read it carefully, you know that Griz has always been very open about his method of online money making. The only problem with that site is that there are several years worth of posts to go through and it takes hours and hours to make sense of it. Griz himself directs readers of his site who are in a hurry to learn what he has to teach to buy this book. The author, Janet Smith has done the reading for you and assembled a logical and coherent guide to exactly what you need to do to begin making money online.
Blog
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | 5 Comments
Thinking about starting a blog? Here are some helpful resources. I was just sitting here thinking about a friend of mine from back in Maryland, when I recalled a conversation we had a couple of months back. I remember mentioning to him that I had a website, and he was suddenly very interested. He wanted to know how hard was it to set one up.
Back then he owned a golf business and had hired someone to build him a website. He didn’t know about search engines and ranking and never really got much business from it. So anyway, I remembered this conversation and realized that there may be other people out there who aren’t sure how to go about getting their own site, and I thought it might be helpful to write a few thoughts down about it.
Internet Marketing For Bloggers – Another Way Of Getting More Traffic
Monday, April 19th, 2010 | 6 Comments
Lately, I have been using a more mercenary method of finding topics for my internet marketing for bloggers articles. As my regular readers know, I am keenly interested in internet marketing, and my newest method of finding post topics is a reflection of that interest. I am using the Google Adwords Tool for a little help now. Most bloggers use the conventional formula of writing content, commenting on other blogs, and guest posting to try to increase traffic to their blogs, and if pursued with regularity and motivation it’s a surefire way to get more readers. The problem is that is exactly what you will get…more readers. If you’re interest is using your blog to increase your income, however, what you really want is customers…or at least readers who are likely to buy whatever it is that you may be selling, and become customers. Here’s the Plan.
What You Can Learn From Yaro Starak
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | 7 Comments
If you blog, chances are you have heard of Yaro Starak. Not only is he well known within the internet marketing community, he has a cool name. A name that you don’t easily forget. But here’s the more important thing to know. His extremely successful site Entrepeneurs-Journey.com isn’t his first site. Yaro has a business timeline on his site. You should read it. It’s quite illuminating.
The Primary Lesson
The primary lesson you can take from Yaro is to never stop thinking. Think about your business if you have one. Think about how you can promote it. Think about how you can improve it. If you don’t yet have a business, then think about what interests you have that might be turned into a business.
Yaro Loves Business
Reading Yaro’s timeline you really start to understand just how much the guy loves business. And that’s another lesson you can learn from him. One of the reasons he has been so successful is that he really loves what he does. That love is what keeps him motivated. There is a reason that those of us who have or have had real jobs find that we need vacations. The constant focus on something that you really don’t love is tiring. Over time you find that your mind wants to wander. Your thoughts turn to what you would rather be doing. Yaro and those like him that work at what they love find that it isn’t work. Of course every now and then everyone needs some time away, but that need is diminished greatly when what you would rather be doing is exactly what you are doing.
Interests Change
Another lesson from Yaro is that as your interests change, so can your business. Yaro’s first online endeavor was his MTGParadise.com site. A site dedicated to his passion at the time, Magic The Gathering, a card game. Eventually he found that his passion for the game had diminished to the point that he no longer wanted to work on it. He found buyers and was ready to devote his time to other interests.
How To Learn From Yaro (and others)
There is a tremendous amount of information on Yaro’s blog. This article encompassed just Yaro Starak’s blog. There is a lesson in that too. The lesson is that time spent examining the sites of successful bloggers or internet marketers can be valuable. Take some time and spend it on the sites of people like Yaro Starak, or Darren Rowse, or any number of other successful internet personalities. Try to see what they are doing to be successful. Analyze the content of their articles. Analyze things like the colors they use in their design. The list is endless. The point is that you should examine everything that you can think of that might help them to be successful, and think about how you can make use of that information.
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As always, comments are encouraged.
Never Take Counsel Of Your Fears
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 | 10 Comments
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Okay. Back home from Phoenix. 
I love road trips. I didn’t post much in the last week. Which brings me to a question. How often does a blog need to have new content?
I have noticed that there is a very wide variety to the frequency of posting on some very popular bogs. Of course, the really big ones add content pretty much every day, and some of them several times a day. Others don’t necessarily add anything every day. Some add every few days. So to refine the question further I am asking, does the time between new additions to your blog really make a big difference to your readers?
On Problogger there is new content every day, yet I find that I don’t check it every day. Daily Blog Tips, the same thing. I don’t necessarily check it every day. I have many blogs in my reader and I don’t generally visit a blog unless I see from the title of an article something that interests me.
As an experiment I have not posted in several days. While I have continued to move up in the Alexa rankings, I have noticed that my bounce rate has been climbing. This can only mean one thing. I have readers coming to see what I have written and upon finding nothing new, they leave. I feel guilty, and I think I should apologize. I will henceforth go back to frequent new entries on this blog.
Having now promised to post frequently, there is something else I am going to start doing with more regularity too. Commenting on other blogs. I am going to start treating this more like a job. At the same time I am going to start some niche blogs and see what I can learn about internet marketing. I will be posting more on that subject soon. Quite a bit of my time lately has been spent trying to learn as much a I can about making money online, and just trying to work up the nerve to try.
I am reminded of a period a few years back when I had earned a real estate license and hooked up with a broker. It didn’t go well. I failed for a couple of reasons. But the main reason was a lack of confidence which frequently kept me in “getting ready” mode. “Getting ready” mode is deadly to any endeavor when it goes on too long. The truth is you are not really getting ready. You’re avoiding that which makes you uncomfortable, or causes you to feel fear. In my case, although I had passed the real estate licensing exam easily, I still didn’t feel like I really knew what I was doing. I told people that I quit real estate because I felt that it took a certain arrogance to tell people which house they would be best suited for. I had all sorts of reasons for failing. The truth was that I should have just plunged in and made my mistakes. There were plenty of experienced people at the brokerage who would have been more than happy to lend a hand if I floundered. But I didn’t even really try. I don’t want to make that mistake again with internet marketing.
That last paragraph was hard to write. It’s hard to bare your failures before the world. But there was an important lesson there too. That’s why I decided to share. As you progress along the blogging road, do not allow fear to play a part in your decisions. American Civil War General Stonewall Jackson said it well. “Never take counsel of your fears.”
As always, comments are encouraged.
Blogging And Internet Marketing And Making Money Online And Keywords And Backlinks…
Friday, February 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Do you do keyword research? As this blog progresses I am becoming convinced that while commenting and guest posting are very worthwhile ways to spend your time promoting a blog, SEO and effective use of keywords are even more effective and are often ignored by most bloggers. Including me. At least that was true.
I think now however, that I am going to spend some time learning more about how to use keywords effectively. As I have said before, at some point in the future I plan on monetizing this blog. The best way to do that is to attract readers from search engines. The only way to get traffic from search engines is to rank on the first page of search results, and the higher the better there.
If you think I’m wrong about the importance of SEO and keywords, which is just another way of saying internet marketing, then consider this: Darren Rowse along with a few others has started a new membership group devoted to bridging the gap between “social media cool kids,” as he puts it, and internet marketers. I am NOT getting paid for that link, although it would have been nice. I simply put it there in case you wish to take a look.
This new group represents a synergy for which the term “The Third Tribe,” was coined by a commenter on the Copyblogger site in reference to a post that talked about the two teams or tribes. The bottom line is that there is a recognition now that to make money blogging, you need the quality content a good blog is known for, and the promotional skills of an internet marketer.
I have found a few sources of information that I trust, and I will write more about them in future posts. For right now though, I just wanted to talk a little about the new model for bloggers. For some it probably really isn’t that new, but for many it causes anxiety. In my travels around the internet, I have seen several internet marketers claim that bloggers feel like internet marketing is “cheating,” or somehow dishonest, or else they are just plain uncomfortable with it. I don’t understand how someone would feel that way. You have something valuable to present to people; your knowledge, your expertise in a certain area, perhaps just the style of your writing (Stephen King does pretty well with his style of writing) and it would be nice to get a return for sharing your valuable something. That’s where the internet marketing aspect comes in.
At the most basic level, we’re talking about advertising. That is what promoting your blog is. It’s just another way of saying advertising. No one uses that word when they write articles about getting visitors, or customers, if you will. Nope. What you see are articles titled something like, “How to get traffic,” or ” How to drive traffic to your blog.” An other example would be an article on “How to get readers through guest posting.” It’s nice to get visitors through guest posting, but I think Allyn Hane nailed it when he said that the real value of guest posting is the backlink. He wrote an article with accompanying videos explaining the value of anchor words and backlinks. He pointed out that while it’s nice to get what he termed a “trickle” of visitors from another site, what you should really be after is the value of the backlink. That will help your site rank higher in the search engines and that will lead a lot more people to you if yoou can rank high enough.
Stumbleupon and Digg are also potentially huge sources of traffic. But!!! They are not sources of traffic of visitors who may become customers. For the potential customers you need the help of the search engines. That’s what I am learning now. As I further my education on the subject I will share what I am learning with you. It’s really fascinating, and a little exciting.
If the internet is an oyster, and monetization is the pearl, then I think I found some sources for shucking knives. And I will share them with you as I progress.
As always, comments are encouraged.
How To Profit From The New Goldrush
Friday, January 29th, 2010 | 10 Comments
The internet is the new goldrush. But it’s different this time. I don’t think the gold is going to play out. It looks pretty much to be endless. In fact it’s still growing all the time. So the question becomes, not if you’re going to be a part of the rush (you have a computer, you are a part of it), but what part will you play?
I thought of this analogy while I was hitting some golf balls; my favorite way of relaxing and doing some thinking. It suddenly occurred to me that the internet is the goldrush all over again, and that the people who profited most from the goldrush were NOT the prospectors. Nope. If you could go back to those days and choose your part, and you wanted to really make the money, you wanted to be the storekeeper selling supplies to the prospector’s and miners.
As a storekeeper, what sorts of things can you sell the modern day internet prospector? How does the analogy hold up? Well, let’s see. Prospectors needed food, clothing, mining tools like picks, shovels, pans for panning for gold. I’ll take this opportunity to mention that at present I am not selling anything on this site, and receive nothing for any of the following links. They are there for two reasons. The first and least important is to give you examples of what I’m talking about. The second and most important reason is so I can suck up to them. With a little luck, maybe they’ll read this and see the value of my thoughts and words, and gimme a little link love. With that said, on to the analogies:
Food: Knowledge is the food of the modern day internet prospector. You can sell them food as an affiliate marketer. There are plenty of food producers. Two new sources of food just arrived at the stores in the last 2 days. There was Shoemoney’s latest offering, The Shoemoney System, but that’s closed to new members right now. It was a limited offering and sold out in just a few hours. I understand that a waiting list has been created, and you can find out more about it here. David Risley’s new program, The Blogmaster’s Club, just opened also. You can learn more here about that one. Both of these men have proven their abilities as expert prospector’s, and now they produce nourishment in the form of knowledge for prospective prospectors. Darren Rowse’s offering of 31 Days To Build A Better Blog is a famous and tremendously useful resource. Many times you can locate food sources for free. Sites like my online friend James Richmond’s The Infopreneur are valuable too. I learn a lot there. James has created a terrrifically active community of friendly, supportive bloggers. You should come join us. And of course this site. It’s growing quickly, and I mean for this to be a helpful and useful site. I have a pantry just filled to the brim with tasty little morsels I have found. These are the free e books that you can get for signing up on the mailing lists of some blogs. Paid for, or found for free, it’s all knowledge, and it’s all nourishment to keep you going.
Clothing. I suppose miners and prospectors need to be clothed. You wouldn’t want to see a naked miner would you? Nooo. At least not in my case…the fit jerk is a different story. I really need to spend more time at his site. By the way, fit jerk, I like the new look of your site. Clothing may be likened to the look of a website. Whether it’s a blog or an internet store, it has to look good. If it doesn’t look nice, you probably won’t be visiting very often. There is plenty of software to create the look you want for your site. Much of the time, you’ll want to tweak it, or have someone create the look for you. Interior decorators gotta eat too. In the case of blogs there are thousands of themes available. Some need some customization, some may suit you right out of the box. Either way, it’s important that your storefront be pleasing to the eye, and easy to move around in (navigation). If you don’t know how to change the code to get the look you want then either learn, or find someone who does know how. There are fellow prospectors out there who make their living decorating other people’s mines.
Tools. The tools of the trade are your computer. Your hosting. Your domain name. The nuts and bolts of having an online presence. I really haven’t any recommendations on this. I probably will after I have increased my traffic and subsribers, but for right now there is no monetization on this site. One day there will be, but that day hasn’t come yet. I’m still growing. This blog is only 6 days old, but has already improved its Alexa ranking by more than 15 million places.
Do you think I missed anything? Are there other analogies you can think of and want to share with the other readers and me? We can discuss it. Leave a comment because on this site:
As always, comments are encouraged.