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Internet Entrepreneurs: Do You Need a Website or a Blog to Make Money Online?
Making Money In the article, What’s the Difference Between a Website and a Blog, I tackle the question, “Do you really need a new blog, or a website.” Both are simply web presences. But, the devil is in the details. In this case, it’s how each is used. Blogs offer some distinct advantages over websites, which is why they’re the perfect medium for making money online. Following are two primary advantages. 2 Advantages Blogs Have Over Websites When ...
Continue readingHow to Choose a Domain Name for Your Blog That Will Generate the Most Traffic
Domain Names & Hosting Years ago, the conventional wisdom when it came to selecting a domain name was to keep it simple, short and ended with a .com. Think Pets.com, Cars.com, Shopping.com, etc. The idea was to give web searchers something easy to remember that also said what the site was all about. However, domain names like this have long been registered. So, how do you name a blog or website for maximum profit? Thankfully search engine optimization (SEO) has ...
Continue readingInternet Marketers: How to Know When It’s Time to Change Your Blog’s Design
Making Money Most bloggers start out on free blogging platforms like blogger or wordpress. This is understandable, as very few bloggers have a concrete idea of where they want to take this “blogging thing” when they first start out. When bloggers start to get serious is when most settle in on a design – and then proceed to forget about it. But, there comes a time when the design of every blog should be changed. Following are two such instances. Your ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Place a Traffic-Drawing Ad
Making Money Last week, I wrote a three-part series on internet marketing. Many readers wrote in asking additional questions, which has drawn out this series. This is the unofficial sixth – and last – installment. Today’s topic is how to place and ad – not the mechanics of it, but the factors you should consider when you want to place an ad that will draw traffic and increase sales. Internet Marketing: Guidelines to Think About BEFORE Placing an Ad ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Find Affordable Outlets to Advertise In/On
Making Money Finding affordable outlets to advertise in/on is 90% of the battle if you’re an internet marketer with a teeny, tiny budget – as the majority are. Last week, I wrote a three-part series on internet marketing that’s kind of morphed into an unofficial six-part series. This is the “unofficial” fifth installment. Today, I’ll tell you how I go about finding affordable online outlets to market your products/services. Note: I’m a ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: Where to Spend Money to Make Money Online
Making Money Last Wednesday, I finished up the series entitled Internet Marketing: How to Tell When to Start Spending Money to Make Money Online. However, there was so much more to say so this week I’ll be addressing some issues that readers raised. To recap, as the title suggests, the series addressed when new and/or cash-strapped internet marketers should consider spending money to make money online. As a freelance writer and self-publisher of ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Tell When to Start Spending Money to Make Money Online (Pt III of III)
Making Money In yesterday’s post, I divulged the #2 guideline I used to judge whether or not I was ready to start spending money to make money online. Today, in the last part of this three-part series, I’ll talk about my last guideline. Before I do, however, I just want to back up a minute to say that these guidelines did not come as a result of any planning I did. I wish I was that organized. As I said in Pt II of this series, I never thought of my ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Tell When to Start Spending Money to Make Money Online (Pt II of III)
Making Money In yesterday’s post, I divulged that I’d started spending money to make money online. Maybe not a novelty for some, but I laid out my rationale. If you’re a small-time marketer like me who doesn’t work with a big budget, this three-part series explains how you can tell when it’s time to start spending money to make money online. The #2 Guideline to Consider Before Spending Money to Make Money Online That being said, the second ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Tell When to Start Spending Money to Make Money Online (Pt I of III)
Making Money If you’re a regular reader of my posts here on BloggingTips, then you know that I’m a freelance writer. In addition to working for clients, I write and publish my own ebooks. While I’m a big proponent of article marketing, I’ve recently started to spend money to promote my line of ebooks. Just to give you a little background, I’ve been writing and publishing ebooks since 2004. I’ve never spent money to promote my line until recently. ...
Continue readingOnline Marketing: How to Find an Expert Source to Direct You to Success
Making Money Most of us suffer from information overload. Especially those of us who spend a good deal of time online, eg, freelance writers, internet marketers and bloggers. Yesterday, I was listening to a podcast of a blogger who went from making about $20/month (yep, a measly 20 bucks!) to over $4,500/ month. One tip she gave near the end of the interview kind of popped out at me. The Blogger Who Went from $20/Month to over $4,500/Month She is a fitness ...
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