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Are You Generating A Positive ROI For Your Blog Sponsors?
Making Money Most bloggers depend on some form of advertising revenue to survive. Yet few really know how to create value for the advertiser. This post, therefore, will attempt to uncover some ways to attract and retain blog sponsors for long-term gains. The Numbers Game Sponsor’s love to look at statistical data. So, create a web page containing your blog’s estimated daily or monthly unique visitors. Don’t guess this. Use web analytics tools such as ...
Continue reading5 Practical Things You Can Do with Twitter
Blogging, Making Money, Social Media Yesterday, Kevin announced the launch of Blogging Tips first WordPress plugin, Twitter User, which lets users integrate their Twitter username with their profile information in WordPress and display a link to their Twitter account in the footer of every post (or elsewhere in the template). However, many, including those who currently use Twitter, have wondered just how useful the service really is. Though there is a lot being said by ...
Continue readingMaking Money Online: Unplugging to Get Things Done
Making Money I updated my Twitter account for the first time in nine days this morning. I didn’t realize it had been that long. I unplugged last week – as in – minimal email interaction, no social networking and no blogging (except for paid gigs). I did so to hunker down and finish an ebook me and a co-author have been working on. As I said in my post to my Twitter account this morning, at first, it felt strange to unplug like this, then it felt ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 1
Blogger, Making Money In the past few years, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of companies who have a presence online. Almost every major retailer now offers the service to purchase their products online, while consumers are more likely to look up local businesses online rather than reach for a bulky telephone directory. For small businesses or companies who previously have little experience with web design and site building, the process of building a ...
Continue readingBlog Networks: A Faster Way to Make Money Online, or Not? (Part III)
Making Money In Parts I and II of this series, we looked at the pros and cons of joining a blog network. Whenever I’m stuck trying to make a decision, I always write it down in black and white, asking what I call “root questions” of myself along the way. There’s nothing like seeing it on paper to make it clear. With that being said, following are some questions to ask if you’re trying to decide whether or not to pursue joining a blog network. ...
Continue readingBlog Networks: A Faster Way to Make Money Online, or Not? (Part II)
Making Money In yesterday’s post, we discussed what a blog network is and four advantages of joining one. Today, we’re going to address the flip side, ie, the disadvantages of blog networks. 4 Disadvantages of Joining a Blog Network Control/Freedom: If you’re a control freak, joining a blog network might not work for you. To explain, most blog networks have guidelines you agree to adhere to when you join, eg, how much to post, when, on what topic, ...
Continue readingBlog Networks: A Faster Way to Make Money Online, or Not? (Part I)
Making Money When most of us think of starting a blog, we think of toiling away obscurely in our own little space, hacking away at our blog until we build up some traffic, then monetizing that traffic into – well, blog superstardom, of course! But, there may be another way to reach blog fame and fortune. What is it? A blog network – the topic I’m going to discuss here this week. Hopefully by the end of this three-part series, you will be able to ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions
Making Money I thought I’d round out the week here by going back through the series of posts I’ve written on my foray into affiliate marketing and answer some of the questions many have sent in about article marketing. As I wrote in yesterday’s post, Article Marketing: The Plan I Use to Bring in $100-$200/Day, “. . . if you’re a regular reader of my posts you know that I’m an avid article marketer. . .” Some of the questions I answered in the ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: The Plan I Use to Bring in $100-$200/Day
Making Money Last week here, I wrote about my foray into affiliate marketing. And if you’re a regular reader of my posts you know that I’m an avid article marketer – it’s how I promote my ebooks, as well as my affiliate product. I only have one at the moment, but have several more lined up to promote as soon as I can catch my breath. I received quite a few emails asking me which article directories I use. I answered in the comment section of one ...
Continue readingHow to Use Blogs to Increase Your Online Income
Making Money In spite of the fact that I have my own blog and blog for clients, there are very few blogs that I read on a regular basis. As a busy freelance writer, I simply don’t have the time. When I visit some blogs and they have a long list of “favorited” blogs, I think to myself, “How in the world can they keep up with all those blogs?” Even trying to keep up with a few is time-consuming for me. So, what does all this have to do with using ...
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