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How To Stand Out From The Crowd

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In today’s world where everyone and his company are trying to sell you something, people are getting more wary about being sold to these products and services.

According to CBS News, the average person is exposed to up to 5,000 ads per day. And that figure is in 2006. In 2008, you can expect that number to be even higher.

Wow! Can you imagine that? 5,000 ads per day?

This explains why as time progresses, more and more people are becoming more immune to these ads or marketing messages.

For example, if you are watching a TV program and the commercial comes in, what do you typically do? Switch to other channels or go to the bathroom or do something else, of course!

How many people do you think actually sit down and watch the commercials? Granted, there are people who do that, but I strongly believe that number is very insignificant.

“Now what has this got to do with us Internet Marketers?” you might ask.

Well of course it has everything to do with us, especially if we make money by selling products and services to people.

It doesn’t matter if its Internet marketing or offline marketing, as long as you sell products and services to people, this has everything to do with you.

If you just follow along with what everyone is doing or has already done, then you will not stand out from the crowd and nobody is going to notice you, unless you have already established a brand of your own in your niche.

If you are unique and stand out from the crowd in a positive way, people will notice and recognize you. This, in turn, will make it easier for you to sell your products and services to them.

So how can you be unique and stand out from the crowd? Well, here are 2 ways:

1. Give value first, receive second

This is one of the best advices I can give to any marketer out there. Like I said before, this does not apply only to online businesses; it very well also applies to offline businesses as well.

When everyone is doing their sales pitches to prospective customers, you give value to them without expecting anything in return.

Well, actually you are expecting something in return, and that is to hope that they find value in what you have given them so that they trust you and eventually buy from you.

But my advice is you should really expect nothing in return, and just give value to them first, regardless of whether they will buy your products or not.

Have you heard of the saying “Give and you shall receive”?

Well this couldn’t be truer!

Once again, just concentrate on striving to give value first to your prospective customers, and they will buy from you eventually.

2. Provide excellent customer service

Most business owners and marketers fail to realize the importance of providing great customer service to their clients.

Sadly, once their customers have bought something from them, they neglect their customers by providing poor customer service or no customer service at all.

After customers hand in their money, these marketers say “goodbye” to them.

These business owners and marketers are only concerned in making new sales every day, which means they have to find new customers every single day.

They fail to understand that to get a happy, existing customer to buy again is much easier and cheaper than acquiring new customers.

This is because to get new customers, you first need to convince them that you are the authority in your field and you also need to convince them to trust you. This requires effort and time.

Compare this with a customer who has previously bought from you and are satisfied with your product and the great customer service you have provided.

Which one do you think is easier to convince to buy your just-released product?

There is probably, another method for us Internet Marketers that we can use to stand out from the crowd of all other Internet Marketers in your niche.

Now for the sake of beginners, let me just explain what an opt-in form is. Intermediate and advanced marketers, please bear with me a little okay?

If you take a look at the upper right area of this blog where it says “Free Internet Marketing Scoop”, you will notice that there are two fields where you can enter your first name and email.

This is known as an opt-in form. The purpose of this opt-in form is to collect the data (first name and email) of this blog’s readers, so that I build a list of prospective customers on a consistent basis so that I can contact them later on.

If you have been marketing online for a while now, you should know that most marketers ask for your name and email when you opt-in to become their subscribers.

Now, just a few days ago, Ryan Deiss explained a trick that you can try to increase your opt-in rate. The trick is to ditch the name field so that people only need to enter their emails in order to opt-in. There is no need to enter the first name.

For his case, he managed to increase his opt-in rate by 5-8%. Of course this figure may not apply to you because different niches respond differently.

As for myself, I have not tested removing the name field yet because of other more important tasks at hand that I need to complete.

But it never hurts to try! So if you have the time, go ahead and test it out for yourself. Me and my blog readers would appreciate you sharing your results here, so if you do try it out, please let us know your results okay?

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6 Ways To Stay Focused On Your Goals

Almost every Internet Marketer or anyone that I meet admits that they have difficulties staying focused on their goals.

Well, even though this is the case, they are still a lot better than those people who do not have any goals at all.

Most of the time, they find it difficult to stay focused on their goals because there are a lot of distractions out there.

You know, those get-rich-quick-schemes that spread like viruses all over the Internet, and those emails about receiving a humongous amount of inheritance from some middle east countries.

I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of the saying “if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is”

In this article, I’d like to show you 6 ways on how you can focus on your goals:

1. Chop your big goal into smaller goals

Do you know how to eat an elephant?

Before you exclaim “No way! That’s impossible!”, what if I say that to eat an elephant, you simply cut it into small pieces and put those pieces into your mouth?

If your goal is too big, it is very hard for you to stay focus.

Let’s say that your current goal is to achieve $10,000 nett profit/month from your Internet business. Maybe $10,000 nett profit/month may sound out of reach for you, and you feel a little discouraged by that huge figure.

Now what you can do is chop or cut your $10,000/month goal into smaller, more achievable goals such as $1,000/month for the next 3 months, and $3,000/month for the next 6 months, then $5,000/month for the next 12 months, and $10,000/month for the next 18 months.

Chopping your big goal into smaller, more “human-like” goals will motivate you to work harder on achieving them because they are more achievable and your confidence will definitely grow as well.

2. Focus only on the goal that you want to achieve

A lot of folks, myself included, tend to lose focus when they are working on their businesses.

It does not apply only to Internet Marketing. I’m talking about all kinds of businesses, whether online or offline. Everyone must have lost their focus at some point.

For example, let’s say that your goal is to achieve $3,000/month from affiliate marketing.

This means that the only activities that you ought to be doing are those that are geared towards how to make money from affiliate marketing. Such activities may include driving traffic to your sites, or how to build and maintain good relationships with your customers.

However you and I both know this is not always the case. Sometimes Often, you might wander off browsing and participating in forum discussions about HYIP or Forex, which have nothing to do with your goal!

My advice is to only do those things that have a direct impact in helping you achieve your goal. As for the rest, you can forget about them, at least for the time being.

3. Set a specific dateline for you goal

Simply knowing your goal is not enough, you need to set a specific dateline as to WHEN you want to achieve it.

Typically when we are asked when we are going to achieve our goals, our answers revolve around “as soon as possible”, “the sooner the better”, “next year”, or “2 years from now”, etc.

Do not use these words because they are very vague!

What does “as soon as possible” or “the sooner the better” mean? Tomorrow? Next week?

What does “next year” or “2 years from now” mean? January? December?

When you set a dateline, be specific. For example, setting a dateline like “5 Septermber 2009″ works great because it is specific.

You see, our brain works a lot better if your goal and the dateline for your goal is specific.

4. Remind yourself on a consistent basis what your goal is

Often, we set our goals today only to forget about them in the next few days or weeks.

This is why you must remind yourself on a consistent basis what your goal is.

Write your goal clearly with a big font size on your whiteboard so that you can see it every day.

If you don’t have a whiteboard, you can write your goal on your computer wallpaper or cell phone wallpaper, or just anywhere you like. The point is to make sure you can easily see it every day, so that you always aware of what your goal is and not lose focus along the way.

5. Inspire and motivate yourself

One of the best ways to inspire and motivate yourself is to find out the people in your niche who have already succeeded, and watch, listen, and feel their success.

How much money do they earn every month? What have they done with these money that they have earned? What have they done for themselves or for their families? What kind of lifestyles do they now currently enjoy?

When you are feeling down or frustrated and everything seems to not go your way, stop your work for a moment and imagine yourself having achieved success like these people. Imagine the money that you would have had, and the lifestyle that this kind of money would bring.

By doing this, you will recharge your “down” state so that you become inspired and motivated to work towards your goal once again.

6. Eliminate all distractions while you are focusing on your work

If you really want to focus on your work so that you can achieve your goal, then you should eliminate all distractions.

What I mean by this is that you turn off your Yahoo Messenger, Skype, MSN (unless you use them strictly for work purposes), Facebook, MySpace, your favorite non-work-related forum, Outlook, your cell phone, and of course your TV.

Why?

Because they are total distractions in getting your work done for the day.

I’m not saying that you can’t casually chat with your friends or check your personal email or Facebook account, it’s just that you should set aside a specific time for these non-productive activities, so that they will not distract you when you are working.

By doing this, you are bound to increase your productivity!

So there you have it, the 6 ways to stay focused on your goals.

Do let me know in a comment below what your thoughts are, or if you have anything to add that I might have missed, I would be happy to hear them

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4 Tips To Creating Your Own Products

I have been really busy these past few weeks preparing for the launch of my brand new product which is going to be released this Wednesday, August 6 2008.

However this product is made in the Indonesian language and specifically catered to the Indonesian people.

If you’re wondering why I made my new product in the Indonesian language, it’s because I am from Indonesia and I want to help my home people learn about Internet Marketing.

Most of the time they have difficulty buying Internet Marketing products out there on the market to educate themselves about IM because of their limited English skills. So here I am and I want to show them how they can make real money too from the Internet

This new product of mine that is going to be launched in just 2 days time is actually my third IM product in the Indonesian language.

The first two went very well when they were launched back a few months ago, and they are still bringing me in consistent money every day, right as we speak this moment.

If you’re at all interested in finding out more about my Indonesian IM blog and the two products that I currently have, you can click here to see them for yourself.

Just keep in mind that all of them are written in the Indonesian language and you won’t understand a single word I say, alright?

Some of you may be asking if I have any IM products that are in the English language.

I currently do not have a paying English product yet, but I have a Free report in English titled “Your First 100 Dollars Online” that will open your eyes to the world of Internet Marketing and show you how you can make your first $100 online.

So if you haven’t yet got yourself this report, go get it now. Hey it does not cost you a single red cent.

Having successfully launched two IM products with a third just a few days away, there are some lessons to be learned when it comes to creating your own products (now please take note that it applies to every niche, not just the IM niche):

1. You need to do some planning

You don’t have to plan every little smallest detail because if you do, you will probably suffer from too much planning and eventually not doing anything at all.

Most people who are planning to launch their products for the first time suffer from action paralysis because they plan too much and they go into too much detail.

Yes, you definitely need to do some planning, but just enough so that you know the crucial things that you need to take care of.

For me, doing some planning to launch a new product would include things like: registering a domain, hosting, setting up payment systems like PayPal to take orders, graphic design for the mini site, sales letter, product creation, etc.

2. You need to set specific datelines

After you have done some planning for your product launch, you need to set specific datelines for each individual task that you plan in step 1.

Specific datelines means doing such and such task by this date. For example, you might write down that you are going to get the graphic design for your mini site done by Monday, August 4, 2008.

Don’t just say ASAP (as soon as possible)! Because ASAP usually never comes.

3. What resources do you have available?

The next thing you need to take into account is what resources are available to you.

If you want to set up an affiliate script for your new product, do you know how?

Do you know how to design great looking mini sites with nice headers, footers, and 3D graphics for your new product?

If you are not good at these things, or if you don’t have a clue how to do it, it is best to out-task or outsource them to a professional.

Yes, you might end up spending more money; but you save yourself time which you can put to better use. Time that can be used to focus on the things that you are really good at.

Imagine if you know nothing about graphic design yet you try to design your mini site yourself. After spending tens of hours, you have just managed to design a mediocre header. Great!

4. Realize that you can’t be perfect

Just like nobody is perfect, no product out there is perfect either.

Especially when you are preparing your product to be launched to the market for the first time, it is okay for your product not to be perfect.

If you wait until your product is perfect before you actually launch it, you will never ever launch your product.

Just launch your product and improve it along the way. That is why a lot of products have version 1, version 2, version 3, etc.

The key here is to get your product out there, and everything else will follow

So those are the 4 tips about product creation that I have learned based on my experience in creating my 3 products. I hope you find them useful.

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Should You Have An Office To Run Your Internet Business?

If you are currently a part-time Internet Marketer while still working a full time offline job, you probably perform your Internet Marketing tasks at the office when you can find spare time, or you do them when you get back home from the office.

Now what happens if you are a full time Internet Marketer doing business on the Internet?

Does that mean that you absolutely must have an office space of your own to work on your business?

Of course not!

With the advancement and readily-available technology that we now enjoy, you can run your Internet business from anywhere in the planet, as long as you have a laptop and Internet connection.

I know this may sound cliché, but it’s very true indeed.

Why do you need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in rental and maintenance fees every month when you can run your own Internet business from the comfort of your home?

You could use the savings that you managed to squeeze for better purposes such as advertising costs, out-tasking part time workers to bring in more traffic and JV partners, outsourcing customer service tasks to third party companies, etc.

This is especially true when you are relatively new in your Internet business and do not have much to spend. You would be a lot better off investing your money wisely in other areas such as those mentioned above.

In this digital era where technology has made our lives so much easier, communications between you and your team can very well take place using emails, instant messaging, and teleconference calls.

And you do not even have to be at your home to run your business. As stated above, you can be anywhere you want, as long as you have a laptop and an Internet connection.

You can enjoy your dream lifestyle like those that are portrayed on sales letters where people sip pina coladas by the beach overlooking the beautiful blue skies with their laptop.

The benefits of running your Internet business from the comfort of your home are that you save money and time in the process.

No longer do you need to spend hours after hours battling that dreaded traffic congestion.

No longer do you have to spend money filling up the gasoline.

Bottom line: you save both time and money, and you relieve some of that traffic congestion stress.

Of course when your business grows too big at some point, having an office dedicated to running your business can catapult your business to new heights.

Lee McIntyre is a great example of this. He has just recently set up his own Internet Marketing office.

Lee is a great Internet Marketer who has earned a substantial amount of money online, so having an office focused on running his Internet business makes sense.

But about you and the average Internet marketer out there who has yet to make some distinguished amount of money online?

Well, my advice is that you work from home for the time being (just like me ).

When your business starts to take off, sit down and plan carefully to achieve bigger goals and objectives. When that happens, maybe you need to seriously consider having an office to run your business just like Lee did.

But before that can happen, you must bring your business to tremendous heights first

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5 Reasons Why You Need To Track Your Visitors

I don’t know if you have noticed this or not, but over the past few years, the number of websites is definitely growing at an alarming rate. Everyone and his dog (yes there are even websites dedicated to a person’s pet!) seem to have their own websites.

Blogs are probably one of the most common ways to develop these sites nowadays.

If you do business on the Internet, my very important question to you is: “Do you know your website metrics? Are you tracking your visitors?”

What exactly do I mean by website metrics and tracking visitors?

By that I mean you need to know how your current website is performing so that you can make it better, and so that you can improve your website performance.

Of course the end result is that you maximize your profit earnings!

But before you can undertake any work to improve your current website, you need to first know how it is performing NOW.

I recommend using Google Analytics to track your visitors. It is a great program provided by Google for Free.

There are basically 5 reasons why you need to track your visitors. By tracking your visitors, you’ll be able to know things like:

1. How they found your website

This information is very valuable because if you know that the majority of your visitors are coming from one or two sources only, you can focus your effort and time on these sources.

For example, let’s say that after you have done your homework, you discover that most of your visitors are coming from Google using a certain keyword phrase, and very few of them are coming from a banner ad that you pay to put up on website x.

This means that you should focus your time and effort optimizing for that keyword phrase, so that your website appears on the first page of Google.

2. How many visitors visit your site each day

This information is also very important to you as a website owner. Knowing this number will allow you to get an idea of how popular your site is.

When you know this number, you can strive to find ways to increase the number of visitors to your site.

But before you can judge if your promotion efforts are in fact bringing in any results or not, you must know your current position first - in this case the number of visitors who go to your site daily.

Get this number first before you start finding ways to increase traffic

3. How long they stay on your site

The longer your visitors stay on your site, usually the better your content is. Of course, just one person staying on your site for 1 hour does not warranty that your site’s content is superb.

You need to have more visitors who stay longer on your site to justify that your site’s content is indeed great.

The converse is also true as well. If most of your visitors stay only very briefly on your site, usually it is a sign that you need to improve on your content.

4. Which pages they visit

By knowing which pages they visit, you can get an idea of what topics garner the most interests by your visitors.

For example, topics like “make money with Adsense” are usually more popular than topics such as “make money through typist job”.

Well I think you get the idea

When you have this handy information at your fingertips, you can post more content that is related with “make money with Adsense”, which your visitors like.

5. How well do they convert to subscribers and buyers

By effectively tracking your visitors, you can also get specific numbers like how many percent of your visitors become free subscribers, and how many percent of your visitors become buyers.

Terry Dean has done an awesome job outlining this. Head on to his blog now to see what he has to say.

Having read this far, you should have seen and understood the benefits of tracking your visitors. If you don’t track, you don’t know your metrics. And if you don’t know your metrics, you can’t improve your conversions, and if you can’t improve your conversions, you can’t maximize your profits.

If you are currently not tracking your website visitors, you are losing money every single second!

Go to Google Analytics and open a free account now. Do not procrastinate, just do it now!

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Yay! Google Adwords Keyword Tool Update

Just a few days ago, Google had just updated its Google Adwords Keyword Tool in a way that will definitely benefit us as Internet Marketers.

So what’s the update about?

Well, if you have used this tool previously, you should know that this tool used to present the volume of searches for a specific set of keywords in a green bar fashion, and when you hover your mouse over these green bars, it would say “low search volume”, “avg search volume”, “high search volume”, etc.

In other words, it does not give us the exact number of searches performed for that specific set of keywords. It just gave us an idea of how popular they are.

Not very helpful isn’t it? (Although it’s still better than nothing).

We still need to use other sources to guestimate (guest estimate) the number of searches performed on that specific set of keywords.

Well now you don’t have to do any guestimate work anymore because Google Adwords Keyword Tool will give you the volume of searches not in a green bar fashion anymore, but instead it will give it to you in numbers!

Talk about convenience and how this will help us to more accurately predict the demand for a given set of keywords.

And when you know the demand for that given set of keywords, you can predict how popular that niche is.

Enough of the talk, let’s see this tool in action shall we?

Go to Google Keyword Tool:

Type in “home theater” as shown above and click “get keyword ideas”.

As can be seen from above, the keyword phrase “home theater” is searched 3,350,000 times in the US for the month of June 2008.

This means that “home theater” is searched 111,666 times in the US per day. This indicates “home theater” is a very popular keyword.

If you go down the list and take “home theater system”, “home theater design”, “home theater installation”, etc. into consideration, you will discover that the home theater niche is indeed a very popular niche that is in very high demand.

For your case, you simply need to type in the keywords you are interested in researching, and then click the “get keyword ideas” button.

So it can be seen that with this updated tool that will give us the search volume of a specific set of keywords in numbers, we can definitely predict the popularity of any niche more accurately than before.

Now we don’t have to stare at those green bars and wonder how much “low search volume”, “avg search volume”, or “high search volume” translates into numbers anymore. No more guestimating.

Excellent job, Google!

Seriously, I really am happy and excited about this updated tool as I am sure that it will benefit me and other Internet Marketers in terms of doing keyword and niche research.

What about you? What do you think of this updated tool?

Please post your thoughts in a comment below…

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Are Those High Paying Adsense Keywords For Real?

Once in a while I would go to Google and do a search on “high paying adsense keywords”.

I generally don’t believe in sites that claim certain keywords pay up to $30 or $50 per click, but just for the fun of it, I would occasionally go to Google and look for these types of keywords.

Just for fun you see

For example, since this is now July 2008, I would type in “high paying adsense keywords july 2008″ in Google and click “search”.

The latest result that I can find is a post written on this blog on March 9, 2008 (I’m just too lazy to be going through page 7 and above of Google’s search results).

According to this blog, the top 5 high paying Adsense keywords are:

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austin dwi $66.89
austin dwi attorney $58.30
san diego dui attorney $54.56
houston criminal attorney $47.44
san diego dui $42.83

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What do you think?

Do you believe that you can get paid up to $66/click for the keywords “Austin dwi” or $42 for the keywords “Austin dwi attorney”?

Like I have stated above, I generally don’t believe in these hyped-up numbers. But that’s just my opinion though:P

Why not use the Google Keywords Tool to see how accurate these numbers are?

Below I’ve made a table that summarizes the numbers:

Well, as can be seen from the above screenshots, there is clearly a huge difference between the numbers given by the Google Keyword Tool and those that are written on the blog I found.

And let’s not forget that the numbers given by the Google Keyword Tool are actually numbers that you would have to pay if you want to bid on those keywords on Google Adwords.

What this means is that the numbers for Adsense payouts will be smaller than those given by the Google Keyword Tool.

And to add to that, don’t forget that you also have to split your Adsense earnings with Google. This makes your earnings even smaller!

So my take on these “high paying Adsense keywords” is that don’t take their numbers too seriously. I really don’t believe anyone can get paid $66 for a single click!

However, in my opinion, the blog is partially correct in saying that the keywords listed are “high paying keywords”.

Well I’d certainly put $9/click in the high paying category.

What about you?

The highest pay per click that Adsense has awarded me was $3 though, although it’s not about austin dwi or san diego dui or anything similar to that.

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Stupid People Succeed Faster?

When it comes to Internet Marketing or business in general, the hardest part is making that first move.

That first elusive move or action that has the ability to turn around your destiny.

Yesterday while I was driving to pick up my girlfriend from work, I tuned in to a local business radio station.

There was this talk show called “Stupid people succeed faster”. Although it didn’t say faster than what, I can only assume faster than smart people?

Anyway, the guy behind this “Stupid people succeed faster” talk show is a somewhat well-known local businessman in my country. I have heard of his name before, though I forgot where. Maybe it’s through the local magazines or newspapers portraying his businesses and how successful he is.

The radio show went on to talk about how “stupid people” with only junior high or high school education, because of their ignorance, are not afraid to try new things.

These “stupid people” are not going to analyze all the possible scenarios before they try on something new. They would just go out there and take action, and if any problems arise, they just deal with it on a case by case basis.

Contrast this with the way how “smart people” (you know those with bachelor’s or master’s degree) would do things. These guys would plan ahead and analyze every possible scenario.

They would not take any action at all unless everything is planned out carefully and flawlessly. As you might already knew, nothing is perfect and you can’t expect to embark on something new and don’t face any unexpected problems along the way.

That, in a nutshell, is basically what the radio show is trying to convey.

I agree with the speaker to a certain extent in that unexpected problems do happen, and we can’t be perfect trying to plan everything before we actually take any action.

I do, however, disagree that we have to take action without any planning at all. In my opinion, if you fail to plan, you also plan to fail.

My view is that you still need to plan what you want to do. Just don’t try to be a perfectionist trying to plan and analyze every possible scenario before you actually take action. This will lead to action-paralysis, and eventually you take no action at all.

And if you take no action at all, then you achieve nothing!

I was once a perfectionist-wannabe as well. I would over analyze things down to every last detail.

And you know what, the more I analyze and plan, the more confused I became.

Fast forward a few years later (which is now) I have finally learned to take things a little easier and just let everything flow without much analysis.

It does not mean that I don’t plan and analyze before I do something. I still do, it’s just to a much lesser extent.

Mind you, I certainly don’t want to suffer from brain damage!

What about you?

Do you over analyze and over complicate situations and problems?

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Money Blogging or Personal Blogging?

If you take a look around the web today, you will find that there are a large number of blogs out there.

The reason why blogs have become so popular is because it is so easy to build and maintain that almost anyone can do it. Yes, even those people without technical background knowledge.

Now these blogs cover a wide variety of different subjects; ranging from blogs about teens who want to network with their friends, blogs about the hottest and latest music, blogs about cars, blogs about politics, entertainment, food, fashion, finance, etc.

The list goes on and on.

Whatever the topic of the blog, it can be categorized into two types of blog: Personal Blogging or Money Blogging.

Personal Blogging means that you are blogging simply  for the fun of it. You blog because you want to share your feelings and opinions, because you want to network with your friends and peers. You don’t expect anything in return other than the good feeling it brings.

Money Blogging, on the hand, is blogging for the sake of making money from your blog. Yeah, you may enjoy what you blog about and you may feel good about it, but the real reason behind why you blog is because of the money it can bring.

Now let us take a look at the nature of these 2 different blogs.

Folks who are involved in Personal Blogging typically use free blog platforms like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com. Using these blog platforms virtually doesn’t cost any money as you only need to pay for your ISP (Internet Service Provider) fee and electricity fee for your PC.

People who indulge in Money Blogging usually use blog platforms like Wordpress.org This is different from Wordpress.com in that it (Wordpress.org) requires your own domain and hosting.

There are, however, in some few cases where people are also using free blog platforms for Money Blogging.

So which one are you? Personal or Money Blogging?

Or maybe you haven’t got a blog yet?

There are still people out there who don’t have a clue that blogging can bring in money, real good money.

If only they knew, I bet a lot of them would switch to Money Blogging, don’t you think?

For instance, when I told a friend of mine that one can earn money by blogging, his reactions was: “Yeah right, how exactly will blogging earn me money? Blogging is just for personal stuff you want to share with your friends and family. You enjoy doing for the fun of it. Nothing more.”

See?

My response to him was: “I’m serious, you can really make money from blogging. You just need to blog consistently and bring in visitors to your blog on a consistent basis, and when your blog gets crowded, you can sell advertising space on your blog.”

This is called monetizing your blog.

So if you currently own a blog but have not monetized it yet, why not switch from Personal Blogging to Money Blogging?

You would blog the same way you have always did, the only difference lies in the fact that you are going to sell some space on your blog for advertising purposes.

One of the easiest ways to monetize your blog is through Google Adsense. Every time someone clicks on one of these ads, you are paid.

As simple and straightforward as that!

There are other ways to make money from your blog other than through selling advertising space. I will cover these in later posts.

For now, just keep in mind that you can always switch from Personal Blogging to Money Blogging anytime. Since you have already made the effort and time to write to your blog, why not make some money in the process?

You don’t have to do any additional significant work. You just slap some Google Adsense ads and you are good to go.

And if you don’t have a blog yet, why not?

Go out there NOW (not tomorrow or next week), and start blogging on the topic of your interest!

Creating and maintaining a blog is really simple. All you need to do is just write your content and then click “publish”, and your blog is live and ready to be seen and recognized by the world.

Creating your blog is definitely easier than creating a site using Dreamweaver or Frontpage!

So which one are you? Personal Blogging or Money Blogging?

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The Easiest Way To Create Your First Website

Do you have a website of your own yet?

If yes, that’s great.

If you still don’t have a website yet, why not?

It’s really easy nowadays to create your first website with the different content management systems available. Compare that with the past when you need to understand HTML just to create a simple static website and you’ll feel so grateful that you are living in 2008

The easiest and best way is to create your website is through a blog.

Why is this so?

Well, because:

1. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Live love blogs

Blogs are easily indexed by these search engines. The more blog pages that are indexed, the higher the probability your blog will appear in the search engine’s query results.

What this in turn means is, of course, the higher the probability that someone will come across your blog and clicks on it.

2. Very easy to install

You don’t need to have complex programming skills in order to set up a blog, although a little HTML would help in doing some customization to your blog.

Overall, it’s pretty much straightforward with its highly intuitive point-and-click platform.

3. Installs in 2 minutes

Yes,it takes only 2 minutes to install your blog and get it up and running. Can you find something else that will install faster? Don’t think so!

4. Every Internet Marketer has a blog

What about you? Care to join them (and me) to make some real money?

5. Very easy to maintain

With its highly intuitive admin dashboard, managing posts and pages, adding and deleting links, and posting new content become very easy.

Now that you have seen for yourself the advantages and pros of creating your website through a blog, it is now time to choose a blog platform.

There are a number of blog platforms available, such as Wordpress.org, Blogger, Drupal, Typepad, and MovableType.

I highly recommend Wordpress.org as it gives you a lot more flexibility and options to tweak and customize your blog according to what you want.

If you are just starting out, you probably have little or no money to spend on domain and hosting. If this is you, then you might want to register for a Free domain and get Free hosting as well.

However, if you have some money ($10 per year for domain and $3-$10 per month for hosting) to spare, I highly suggest that you register your own domain that ends with a .com and register for a paid hosting account.

Having your own .com domain name looks much more professional, and having your own paid hosting account is much better than free hosting because they will provide you with support should you have any questions or if anything goes wrong.

To learn how to install Wordpress on your domain, grab my FREE report “Your First $100 Online” simply by typing your first name and email on the top right corner of this page. Turn over to page 19…

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