The Internet is a huge and unwieldy animal....and finding your niche market is fantastic... but how will anyone find you?
Have you heard or seen SEO... that stands for Search Engine Optimization... and it is more than just placing keywords on your hidden meta tags, and in your text... it's about writing relevant text around the popular keywords so that the search engine crawlers pick up the page with high relevance.
Recently I was hired to write content for a business blog, the challenge here is that it is a new blog without ANY following.. In fact, I'm starting the blog from scratch - (and still tweaking but you can take a peek http://matthijssenonline.com/)
My audience should be small business owners in New Jersey looking for a full service computer solution company. It's a real challenge to find words that a business owner would use online and not get buried on the 144,998,009 page. It's a challenge... and here are some tools
1. Ask.com, provides a selection of searches on different categories. This URL will show previous weeks most popular searches Click Here
2. Dogpile, another search engine provides an interesting glimpse at currently searched words Click Here
3. Google Trends, this is my favorite. Google Trends allows you to put in your keyword and check it's ranking... AND, allows you to compare several keywords. Turns out that something I thought would be popular... sigh... wasn't even found. Click Here
4. Google Zietgeist, this is another fantastic tool from Google. This is a compilation of several tools that allow you to check out what's popular. Click Here
5. Yahoo Buzz, This seems like a fairly new tool. Honestly, I just found it today and since the URL says "beta" they obviously changed something. :O) I checked out the site and it looks like a great collection of most searched topics and keywords on Yahoo. Click Here
Once you have found the relevant search words, you need to incorporate them into your blog or web content. Blogging is a great way to education and drive traffic to sites.
Recently I purchased a great ebook (54 pages) on how to earn money blogging... I've been blogging for years and I never knew... how much I didn't know. Anyway, if you are interested in checking it out you can Click Here!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Help Writing an eBook from a Professional!
Want Ebook Publishing Help?
Here's an article on ebook publishing you'll find helpful!
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Let's Get One Thing Straight About Being A Published Author
- by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel
(c) 2002 - All Rights reserved
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Just for fun, evaluate the following statement:
"Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of the time."
Is the above statement true?
Not exactly. What's true is that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the opposite is true.
In fact, it's easier to write and get published today than ever before - especially thanks to the ebook "revolution." The field of ebooks is literally wide open for all who are interested - including, perhaps, you!
What does it take to write and publish your own ebook?
Three things:
1) A TOPIC you are interested in that others would also like to know more about.
2) The DESIRE to get the ebook written (note - you can write it yourself, but you don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get your ebook written and published for you.)
3) A simple, one-page, "sales letter" WEB SITE to sell the ebook.
Does it take a lot of money or any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but there are no special educational, financial or talent requirements to become a successful ebook author.
The truth is, it costs very little to get started. You can get a domain registered and online for as little as $9 to start and $6 a month for website hosting.
In fact, there are actually six ways you can create an ebook without ever writing a word of it - so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell you about one of them, in-depth, right now.
Think of a topic you know something about that you'd like to write an ebook on.
Once you have that topic in mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask you those questions... record the call... have the recording transcribed... and edit the transcription!
Presto - you've just created a "meaty" ebook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!)
By the way, if you don't want to transcribe or edit the ebook yourself, you can get both of those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases.
That's how we wrote our most recent ebook.
As authors ourselves, we came up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation transcribed. Using this phone call -transcription - edit route we created an ebook in about a week. It cost us a total of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and did the editing ourselves.)
So far we've spent *zero* money on advertising and, as we write this article today, we've sold over $49,683 worth of that ebook in less than six months!
We're not unique in that way. We know many others who have successfully published ebooks - including another small publisher who has used this exact same method to create dozens of ebooks.
If you can clearly understand a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough target audience and then create a publication that helps them get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help a great number of people at the same time.
If there ever was a "golden age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter is, today anyone can become a published author with an ebook in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 ebooks online and we're making money every day, even as you read this.
You can do the same. Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to seize the day and go for your dream - become a published author!
--
Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel are co-authors of "eBook Secrets Exposed," the authoritative resource for making a lot of money quickly writing and publishing your own ebook. Guerrilla Marketing series author Jay Conrad Levinson says, "If ever there was a 'must-read' for this century, it's this book." For more information...
Click Here=> For More Ebook Publishing Information
Here's an article on ebook publishing you'll find helpful!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Let's Get One Thing Straight About Being A Published Author
- by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel
(c) 2002 - All Rights reserved
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Just for fun, evaluate the following statement:
"Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of the time."
Is the above statement true?
Not exactly. What's true is that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the opposite is true.
In fact, it's easier to write and get published today than ever before - especially thanks to the ebook "revolution." The field of ebooks is literally wide open for all who are interested - including, perhaps, you!
What does it take to write and publish your own ebook?
Three things:
1) A TOPIC you are interested in that others would also like to know more about.
2) The DESIRE to get the ebook written (note - you can write it yourself, but you don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get your ebook written and published for you.)
3) A simple, one-page, "sales letter" WEB SITE to sell the ebook.
Does it take a lot of money or any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but there are no special educational, financial or talent requirements to become a successful ebook author.
The truth is, it costs very little to get started. You can get a domain registered and online for as little as $9 to start and $6 a month for website hosting.
In fact, there are actually six ways you can create an ebook without ever writing a word of it - so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell you about one of them, in-depth, right now.
Think of a topic you know something about that you'd like to write an ebook on.
Once you have that topic in mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask you those questions... record the call... have the recording transcribed... and edit the transcription!
Presto - you've just created a "meaty" ebook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!)
By the way, if you don't want to transcribe or edit the ebook yourself, you can get both of those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases.
That's how we wrote our most recent ebook.
As authors ourselves, we came up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation transcribed. Using this phone call -transcription - edit route we created an ebook in about a week. It cost us a total of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and did the editing ourselves.)
So far we've spent *zero* money on advertising and, as we write this article today, we've sold over $49,683 worth of that ebook in less than six months!
We're not unique in that way. We know many others who have successfully published ebooks - including another small publisher who has used this exact same method to create dozens of ebooks.
If you can clearly understand a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough target audience and then create a publication that helps them get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help a great number of people at the same time.
If there ever was a "golden age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter is, today anyone can become a published author with an ebook in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 ebooks online and we're making money every day, even as you read this.
You can do the same. Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to seize the day and go for your dream - become a published author!
--
Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel are co-authors of "eBook Secrets Exposed," the authoritative resource for making a lot of money quickly writing and publishing your own ebook. Guerrilla Marketing series author Jay Conrad Levinson says, "If ever there was a 'must-read' for this century, it's this book." For more information...
Click Here=> For More Ebook Publishing Information
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Free Blogging Blue Print Report
Email me at momblogger@rocketmail.com... and I will send you a free 35 report detailing the steps to a successful blog!
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Blogs – it seems like just about everyone has one.
If you don’t know what a blog is, it comes from the phrase “web log”, which is an online diary or journal of sorts. People have all kinds of reasons for starting a blog. They may do it for fun, because they love writing or just to have an outlet to express their thoughts, vent frustrations and more.
But you can make a blog into a money-making business, even if you have no blogging or business experience.
How to Get Started
You can actually start your blog completely for free. There are services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com that make it super easy. But note, John Yeo, profitable blog and creator of Blogger’s Paycheck the recommends that those seeking profit should Wordpress, but in a different way than is explained at Wordpress.com and he goes through it in detail in the course.
How to Make Money with a Blog
Simply put, pick a theme or major topic for your blog and start writing. Even if you have no product of your own, you can still make money from your blog by selling and displaying advertising, earning commissions recommending products and other activities. This is also something John Yeo covers in detail.
What if You Don’t Like to Write
Many people think they can’t blog if they don’t enjoy writing or feel they aren’t talented writers, but that shouldn’t stop anyone. A blog is about sharing thoughts and you don’t have to be an award-winning writer to do that. In addition, the growing popularity of online video and audio open up more possibilities for sharing content. You can also hire a ghostwriter if you want a text blog and want to avoid writing.
The Keys to Profitable Blogging
To profit from blogging, there are a few key ingredients:
1. Target a highly interested audience of readers who happen to be consumers. In other words, people who readily spend money to pursue their hobbies, interests and desires that you’ll be writing about.
2. Create interesting content that people are readily looking for, that they’ll talk about to their friends and come back for over and over again.
3. Sign up for the Blogger’s Pay Check Course that will take you through setting up your blog, building traffic, making money and more.
If you don’t know what a blog is, it comes from the phrase “web log”, which is an online diary or journal of sorts. People have all kinds of reasons for starting a blog. They may do it for fun, because they love writing or just to have an outlet to express their thoughts, vent frustrations and more.
But you can make a blog into a money-making business, even if you have no blogging or business experience.
How to Get Started
You can actually start your blog completely for free. There are services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com that make it super easy. But note, John Yeo, profitable blog and creator of Blogger’s Paycheck the recommends that those seeking profit should Wordpress, but in a different way than is explained at Wordpress.com and he goes through it in detail in the course.
How to Make Money with a Blog
Simply put, pick a theme or major topic for your blog and start writing. Even if you have no product of your own, you can still make money from your blog by selling and displaying advertising, earning commissions recommending products and other activities. This is also something John Yeo covers in detail.
What if You Don’t Like to Write
Many people think they can’t blog if they don’t enjoy writing or feel they aren’t talented writers, but that shouldn’t stop anyone. A blog is about sharing thoughts and you don’t have to be an award-winning writer to do that. In addition, the growing popularity of online video and audio open up more possibilities for sharing content. You can also hire a ghostwriter if you want a text blog and want to avoid writing.
The Keys to Profitable Blogging
To profit from blogging, there are a few key ingredients:
1. Target a highly interested audience of readers who happen to be consumers. In other words, people who readily spend money to pursue their hobbies, interests and desires that you’ll be writing about.
2. Create interesting content that people are readily looking for, that they’ll talk about to their friends and come back for over and over again.
3. Sign up for the Blogger’s Pay Check Course that will take you through setting up your blog, building traffic, making money and more.
Photo Blogging
Just like vlogs, photo blogs are born from the need to communicate and integrate in a community that has reached international dimensions. A photo blog mainly relies on photo sharing and publishing, while also using textual support as well. Nevertheless, when you visit a photo blog you'll understand where the focus really lies; the phenomenon deviated from blogging with the advent of the cameraphones that allow the instant photo sharing between web users. The big advantage of such pages is that they are very dynamic in nature as compared to traditional sites. There are photo blogs that belong to individual domains and others that use larger collective services such as Blogger.
Widely accessible all over the web, photo blogs are managed with the help of specific software systems that enable content control. Thus, photo bloggers are able to upload materials and manage all posts without any restriction; the same unrestricted form is maintained for the access to photo blogs, since all that is required is a browser and direct online access. There are cases when the transition from text to photo blogs is made with the use of plugins and even code rewriting; thus a combination of text and image is possible when a blogger selects a daily entry option.
Usually photo blogs have a single author, nevertheless it is not uncommon that two or three people contribute to the same web page. The posts display depends on chronology, with the main page showing the most recent entries, but you may go back to the archives any time you want. Photo blogs are highly interactive too since users may leave any comments they want for a special entry. The presence of friendly links is also important in the photo blogging community, given the fact that creators come to move freely between sites.
It is totally incorrect to take pictures galleries for photo blogs; while the former is a simple collection images, the latter is a chronological log that uses categories allowing the user to navigate among them from older to newer materials and vice versa. It is not uncommon to also have photo blogs and moblogs as one and the same unit; though they may also function separately as well. A photo blog that can be updated from a mobile location such as camera phones could be labeled as mob logs. Nevertheless this latter concept could well function without pictures as well. In a nut shell, the composite character of the Internet allows the happy existence of hybrid blog types that enrich the puzzle even more.
For More information about how to run and make money with your blog, CLICK HERE.
Widely accessible all over the web, photo blogs are managed with the help of specific software systems that enable content control. Thus, photo bloggers are able to upload materials and manage all posts without any restriction; the same unrestricted form is maintained for the access to photo blogs, since all that is required is a browser and direct online access. There are cases when the transition from text to photo blogs is made with the use of plugins and even code rewriting; thus a combination of text and image is possible when a blogger selects a daily entry option.
Usually photo blogs have a single author, nevertheless it is not uncommon that two or three people contribute to the same web page. The posts display depends on chronology, with the main page showing the most recent entries, but you may go back to the archives any time you want. Photo blogs are highly interactive too since users may leave any comments they want for a special entry. The presence of friendly links is also important in the photo blogging community, given the fact that creators come to move freely between sites.
It is totally incorrect to take pictures galleries for photo blogs; while the former is a simple collection images, the latter is a chronological log that uses categories allowing the user to navigate among them from older to newer materials and vice versa. It is not uncommon to also have photo blogs and moblogs as one and the same unit; though they may also function separately as well. A photo blog that can be updated from a mobile location such as camera phones could be labeled as mob logs. Nevertheless this latter concept could well function without pictures as well. In a nut shell, the composite character of the Internet allows the happy existence of hybrid blog types that enrich the puzzle even more.
For More information about how to run and make money with your blog, CLICK HERE.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
How to Make Money with your Blog
Before I get started, I want to tell you right off the bat... there is no easy way or special formula for earning money with your blog. Just like any job that pays, you need to expect to put time into your blog in order to see any revenue.
Most people that blog won't see a problem with that... because they are already putting in the time performing the single most important task..... Blog entries.
If you want to earn money with your blog, you need to post an entry EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Now, how can you make money? There are really 2 ways, you can sell a tangible items, or you can sell advertising.
Digital items or electronic items are very easy to sell on blogs. All you need is a product, (ie. Electronic book, digital photographs, music) a Payloadz account (http://www.payloadz.com/ is a method of selling digital downloads) and a Paypal account (I'm sure you know, that http://www.paypal.com/ is a method of receiving payments online)
If you don't have a product, you should consider the second method for making money, Advertising.
Again, there is really no easy way to make money.... but there are proven methods that work.... or don't work. Adwords is popular because it takes the keywords from your blog entry and displays ads for items that are similar. If you are using a free blogging platform like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com they have automated the implementation of adwords. That means, once you sign up for the Google Adwords account... and following your blogging hosts instructions to ad the widget... your work is done.
I have not had much luck with Adwords. My blogs don't get the traffic that is required to make advertising money in that way. However, if you are writing to a particular niche... the amount of traffic... is not as important as the quality of traffic.
However, the second option, affiliate advertising is a different story.
In essense affiliate advertising allows you to find products you trust and enjoy... and earn money promoting them. For instance, I recently purchased the program Rob Benwell - Blogging to the Bank
I have been blogging for years and was only making marginal income.... it wasn't until I read this 54 page ebook that I realized what mistakes I was making.
This is really a great product, and as a result I have a great time promoting it and earn a commission each time it sells.
If you are interested in investigating affiliate earnings, there are several places you should visit... www.clickbank.com and www.cj.com both of these websites are basically warehouses for companies that will pay you a commission for people that purchase items by clicking through your site.
In closing... it's important to keep writing. It's important to enjoy your topic, so that you can engage your reader... and it's important to find products that you are excited about so that you can promote them honestly on your blog.
Have a great day... keep blogging.
Most people that blog won't see a problem with that... because they are already putting in the time performing the single most important task..... Blog entries.
If you want to earn money with your blog, you need to post an entry EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Now, how can you make money? There are really 2 ways, you can sell a tangible items, or you can sell advertising.
Digital items or electronic items are very easy to sell on blogs. All you need is a product, (ie. Electronic book, digital photographs, music) a Payloadz account (http://www.payloadz.com/ is a method of selling digital downloads) and a Paypal account (I'm sure you know, that http://www.paypal.com/ is a method of receiving payments online)
If you don't have a product, you should consider the second method for making money, Advertising.
Again, there is really no easy way to make money.... but there are proven methods that work.... or don't work. Adwords is popular because it takes the keywords from your blog entry and displays ads for items that are similar. If you are using a free blogging platform like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com they have automated the implementation of adwords. That means, once you sign up for the Google Adwords account... and following your blogging hosts instructions to ad the widget... your work is done.
I have not had much luck with Adwords. My blogs don't get the traffic that is required to make advertising money in that way. However, if you are writing to a particular niche... the amount of traffic... is not as important as the quality of traffic.
However, the second option, affiliate advertising is a different story.
In essense affiliate advertising allows you to find products you trust and enjoy... and earn money promoting them. For instance, I recently purchased the program Rob Benwell - Blogging to the Bank
I have been blogging for years and was only making marginal income.... it wasn't until I read this 54 page ebook that I realized what mistakes I was making.
This is really a great product, and as a result I have a great time promoting it and earn a commission each time it sells.
If you are interested in investigating affiliate earnings, there are several places you should visit... www.clickbank.com and www.cj.com both of these websites are basically warehouses for companies that will pay you a commission for people that purchase items by clicking through your site.
In closing... it's important to keep writing. It's important to enjoy your topic, so that you can engage your reader... and it's important to find products that you are excited about so that you can promote them honestly on your blog.
Have a great day... keep blogging.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Advertising on Facebook - The Make Money Blogging Campaign
Well, friends the time has come.
Finally, I have decided to delve into the realm of paid advertising. For those of you that have been following my many Ralph Cramden-like escapades, you will have noticed that I have put my heart and soul into many different ways to communicate my great product(s) to the outside world.
Although the money is coming in.... it's not the river rush, but more of a trickling stream.
Today I am joining the "advertise on Facebook" bandwagon.
Here's what I liked about setting up my ad's... It was easy, and it can be as inexpensive as I like.
Today I set up 2 ads, both ads will run for 1 week. Both ads will cost me no more than $2.00 a day.
It will be interesting to see if that little ad will open the flood gates (as I hope), to the mad rush of incoming cash!
My current pet project is making money from blogging.
I have this report, I purchased it, it is AWESOME! I have been blogging for 4 years and I thought I knew everything there was to know about blogging and how to turn a profit doing it... but this report was fantastic and really put me on a different track.
It was worth every penny... and it was incredibly cheap! Click here for more info
But this blog entry isn't a sales pitch for the "Blogging to the Bank" program, even though it changed my blogging life... This blog entry is all about my experiment advertising on Facebook.
Today, I am going to experiment further... by placing an ad for a friend of mine that runs a Closet Organization Company, it will be interesting to see if 'work from home' guide will draw more clients then a physical product like Closet Experts. Hmmmmmmm
I will keep you posted.
3/22/09 is the end of the Facebook Campaign and I will share with you my statistics and the outcome of my first ever venture into advertising on Facebook.
Wish me luck!
Finally, I have decided to delve into the realm of paid advertising. For those of you that have been following my many Ralph Cramden-like escapades, you will have noticed that I have put my heart and soul into many different ways to communicate my great product(s) to the outside world.
Although the money is coming in.... it's not the river rush, but more of a trickling stream.
Today I am joining the "advertise on Facebook" bandwagon.
Here's what I liked about setting up my ad's... It was easy, and it can be as inexpensive as I like.
Today I set up 2 ads, both ads will run for 1 week. Both ads will cost me no more than $2.00 a day.
It will be interesting to see if that little ad will open the flood gates (as I hope), to the mad rush of incoming cash!
My current pet project is making money from blogging.
I have this report, I purchased it, it is AWESOME! I have been blogging for 4 years and I thought I knew everything there was to know about blogging and how to turn a profit doing it... but this report was fantastic and really put me on a different track.
It was worth every penny... and it was incredibly cheap! Click here for more info
But this blog entry isn't a sales pitch for the "Blogging to the Bank" program, even though it changed my blogging life... This blog entry is all about my experiment advertising on Facebook.
Today, I am going to experiment further... by placing an ad for a friend of mine that runs a Closet Organization Company, it will be interesting to see if 'work from home' guide will draw more clients then a physical product like Closet Experts. Hmmmmmmm
I will keep you posted.
3/22/09 is the end of the Facebook Campaign and I will share with you my statistics and the outcome of my first ever venture into advertising on Facebook.
Wish me luck!
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How to Start a Freelance Career
Work at Home and Earn an Excellent Income
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