Hello, do you really think you're safe?
Here's why you may need to put on a gas-mask as of 10 years ago! ...
*******************************************************************
I'm WARNING you!
You must do something about the air you're breathing.
Think it's safe -- think again ...
--> http://www.ScienceDaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201220.htm
Here's an excerpt:
"...[e]xposure to them (pollutants) poses a high risk to
community health."
More ...
"Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Southern University,
University of Houston Law Center and The University of Texas
Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston collaborated with Rice on the
study, which focused on benzene, 1,3-butadiene, formaldehyde and
diesel particulate matter.
"Based on the results of our study, we strongly recommend
immediate action to lower the ambient concentrations of the four
hazardous air pollutants we researched," said principal
investigator Matt Fraser, associate professor in civil and
environmental engineering at Rice. "The level of air toxics
concentration that we're seeing in the Houston area poses a
dangerously high risk of cancer and other health problems."
Even worse! ...
"Benzene, also a product of petrochemical manufacturing and
present in motor vehicle exhaust, averaged an annual
concentration of 1.7 ppb in Houston during 2004; the amount in
Los Angeles was 0.9 ppb. Benzene exposure leads to an increased
risk of leukeumia as well as noncarcinogenic effects, including
decreased blood cell counts.
"Formaldehyde, a gas formed through atmospheric chemical reactions
and also emitted directly from various sources, had an annual
average concentration of 7.9 ppb in Houston in 2004; Los Angeles
was close behind with 7.2 ppb. Exposure can cause irritation of
the eyes and respiratory tract. Inhalation of formaldehyde causes
degenerative effects in laboratory animals and nasal tumors in
rats, and similar risks are anticipated in humans.
"Diesel particulate matter (PM) originates from widespread
sources, including vehicles, engines, and generators. Diesel
particulates are not monitored routinely at local air quality
monitoring sites, but recent air pollution research studies in
Houston indicate concentrations of diesel PM between 1.6 and 3.7
micrograms per cubic meter. The report estimates that if one
million people were exposed to this level over their lifetime,
between 50 and 1,000 would contract cancer."
Now, even if YOU think you can beat the odds,
must not allow yourself to get sick due to the accumulation of all
this "JUNK" inside you from (believe it or not) just the "AIR" you
breath.
And even though the study reports on Houston mainly, this is not
the only city where these chemicals are filling the air -- they are
EVERYWHERE!!!
Your lungs are moist and made of layers of tissue, so they act like
a wet SPONGE would if exposed to the same stuff.
And the LAST THING they need to soak up is all this industrial CRAP!
=> But what should you do?
Perhaps a "gas-mask" is not very practical, right? (If you wore one
all day long people would think you were some sort of freak, right?)
>> But guess what Dr Suzanne has done for you,
Inside her brand new "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" there's more than
just a mere *fat-loss solution* -- it also gives you an entire way
to "FLUSH-OUT" all the stored and soaked up, absored "JUNK" from the
environment!
This amazing "secret" actually forces all the *garbage* out that
you've been breathing in all your life!
When you breath this filthy stuff in, it forms deposits all
throughout the various thousands of tissues all through your body.
Over time, it causes sickness and disease -- and yes, even DEATH!
But by getting rid of it, it NEVER has the chance to take you down
-- because YOU get rid of "IT" first, and BEFORE it has a chance to
get rid of YOU!
So if you take yourself, your life, and your health seriously, then
grab her brand new "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" for yourself N0W!
(and before it's too late for you!)
It's already pretty late in the game for you,
you're now just finding out about all this when you should have at
least 10 years ago!
So why allow another second to go by and bring you 1 second closer
to DEATH or DISEASE?
Take action for your own sake TODAY! ...
--> http://TopSecretFatLossSecret.com
To your absolute good health,
~
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Ebook Times
perlihatkan selengkapnya 31 Jan
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In order to explain what this script does, let me ask you a
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Are you familiar with the concept of Butterfly Marketing?
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So what is Butterfly Marketing?
The term Butterfly Marketing was coined (and the concept made
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Put in very simple terms, Butterfly Marketing (BM) is a
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(1) Increase your subscriber base at high speed.
(2) Generate big income WHILE growing your subscriber base.
(3) Grow a massive army of affiliates that will turn your
website viral -- so that it continues to grow and grow with
practically no effort on your part once you've set it up.
Essentially, it works like this...
You develop a product (an ebook/software/service/whatever)
that's targeted at your niche - or any niche you're interested
in trying out. (Keep in mind that you can also apply this
concept to an existing product of yours.)
You offer that product for free to your visitors in exchange for
them becoming members of your site. (That's the part where you
build your list.)
Now, once they've signed up, you present your new members with a
One-Time-Offer (OTO). As the name suggests, this is a special
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By doing this, your members will not hesitate in promoting your
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Why?
Because, firstly, you're giving something for free, secondly,
they're interested in the same niche and, thirdly, they can make
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Okay, that's the basic gist of Butterfly Marketing.
It's a simple enough system and one that has proved hugely
successful for a great deal of marketers.
The problem, however, is that the original Butterfly Marketing
script that runs the whole shebang costs $1,500.
That's just too expensive for many people. Even if you're
certain that you can get a return on your investment, you might
not be able to afford the investment in the first place.
That's what's so exciting about this new script I mentioned
above.
It's called "Viral Mini Sites" and it does all the stuff you
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And you're NOT limited to one website. You can use this script
over and over again to make as many BM sites as you can handle.
The script is EASY to set up, and excellent instructions are
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Lastly, and by no means least, the people behind this script
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I really recommend trying out the BM concept. Whether you decide
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for you in 2008.
All the best,
Michael
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Mike Filsaime
perlihatkan selengkapnya 31 Jan
Hi Imam,
Just over a month ago, I posted on my blog
that Ron Paul got my vote for _________ marketer
of the year.
Pretty bold, ey? You'll see why soon enough.
And NO, this isn't about politics...
It's all about a certain type of marketing.
I pasted the blog post for you to read below.
BUT, before you scroll down to read it,
I want to stress the fact that he didn't
manage to set the ALL TIME internet fund
raising record in a 24 hour period by a
politician on accident.
It was purely by design.
And he harnessed the power Social Marketing
to accomplish this amazing feet.
You can read exactly how he managed to pull in over
$10 Million in small donations using ONLY Social Media
in this Free Case Study written by Jack Humphrey:
http://MikeFilsaime.com/Recommends/ronpaulcasestudy
This guy was practically a NOBODY in the world of politics
and now he has put himself on the map as a major contender
in the coming election.
All because of what he did which is REVEALED here:
http://MikeFilsaime.com/Recommends/ronpaulcasestudy
Here is what I posted to my blog at MikeFilsaime.com
After reading the report about Ron Paul, feel free to
post your comments at my blog about it under the post
titled -
"Ron Paul Gets My Vote For Social Marketer Of The Year"
Here is the link to the case study one last time:
http://MikeFilsaime.com/Recommends/ronpaulcasestudy
To Your Success,
Mike Filsaime
============================ BEGIN BLOG POST ===========================
NEVER before in history could a REAL TRUE grass roots campaign
have taken effect with JUST THE RIGHT message and and NOT the
right amount of money.
Just 20 years ago, if you wanted anyone to hear you, you had to
have the money in your party and not always the message. Or heck...
you could have been like Ross Perot and bought your way into a
party nomination
How may good presidents have we never seen because they did not
have the money to go against people with deep pockets and lots
of money pouring in from lobbyist?
Ron Paul has the right message (for many) as is obvious by his
popularity with web savvy people (like me.) Yes, I even donated
to his campaign and I wear his shirt on my little carton below
(many of you picked up on that.)
But here is a person that, along with his team, REALLY AND TRULY
get social media marketing better than, honestly, anyone I have
ever seen.
THEY ALL LAUGHED WHEN I SAID I WANT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT....
THEN I RELEASED MY YOUTUBE VIDEOS...
Here is a guy that some would have laughed at 4 years ago because
he had very very very little financial backing. TODAY, he as set
a record for the MOST MONEY EVER RAISED in one day in the history
of American politics!
Way to go Ron!
I honestly feel, that you are witnessing the future of American
and World politics. Finally GRASS ROOTS can get the message out.
But with that said, I think Ron Paul is actually 4 or even 8, or
12 years ahead of his time. He has changed the way politicians
get the message out.
Again, you need a good message to do it.
While I AM a Ron Paul supporter, I also encourage you to watch
his marketing and how he uses social media better than any person
in the history of the Internet.
He raised $6 Million in one day! Never had that been done before.
So sites to pay attention to are:
RonPaul2008.com
www.teaparty07.com/
www.ronpaulblimp.com/
Or just Youtube Search Ron Paul. Then you will see why it is
OBVIOUS he gets SOCIAL MARKETER OF THE YEAR!
Thanks,
Mike Filsaime
================================ END BLOG POST =============================
P.S. Here's that link for the free case study just in case
you made it this far and still haven't downloaded it:
http://MikeFilsaime.com/Recommends/ronpaulcasestudy
(c) 2007 MikeFilsaime.com, Inc.
Dirk Dupon
perlihatkan selengkapnya 2 Feb
Sibawaih, you receive this email because you signed up
for Jimmy Brown's "How to sell 300% more of your product..."
report a while ago. To leave my updates, see info below.
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Pretty nice, 'ey?
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Follow these simple steps to get your OWN site up
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=> Step 1.
The type of web-site you'll be creating (similar to
the sample above) is called a blog.
A blog is a "content-based" site in an online
journal format.
Like most web-sites, the heart of a successful
blog is its "content". Without some sort of
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After joining IGR, come back and continue on with
the next step here...
=> Step 2.
Before proceeding with this next step, you will need
to decide on a topic for your BLOG.
I recommend that you login to the IGR members'
area and take a look at their various content
categories. Simply choose a category/topic that
interests you.
Here are a few possibilities, just to get your
juices flowing:
-Health and Fitness
-Pet Care
-Real Estate
-Marketing
-Home Improvement
-Music
-Gardening
-Travel
Once you have decided on a topic you are ready
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Give some consideration to your BLOG title. Since
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the name "ultimate-body" was chosen as the title.
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Note: To get to the "Posting" section you need
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Visit the sample blog above to get an idea of
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Inside the IGR members area, simply search or
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I recommend using the "Format Article" link found
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cool feature.
Then, simply Copy and Paste each of your selected
IGR articles into the text box provided in the Post/Create
section of your *Blogger* account!
Make sure to click "Publish Your Post" as you enter
each article.
At any point, you can use the "View Blog" link to
make sure your site is coming along as planned.
Note: Blogger's "Help" menu is EXCELLENT. If you
have questions or want to modify your site in additional
ways, consult the Help menu and you won't be
disappointed.
This is FUN stuff, isn't it?!
=> Step 3.
The final step is to "monetize" your site.
There are two very easy ways to do this. One way is
by inserting affiliate links to products and services
related to your blog topic.
You can find thousands of affiliate products at places
such as:
-ClickBank.com
-AssociatePrograms.com
-CommissionJunction.com
-Web-Sites related to your topic
You can insert affiliate links (and related ads) right
within the articles you obtain from IGR and post to
your blog.
You can also add affiliate links in your blog's "Link
list" if you'd like. To learn how to modify your Link list,
go to Blogger's Help menu and Search on "links".
Click on "How do I edit my link list?" to proceed.
You'll also be invited to participate in Google's
popular "Adsense" program inside your Blogger
account (on the Dashboard home page).
Some people make THOUSANDS in commissions
every month with Adsense alone!
This is one of the most effective ways to monetize
your new blog. Google provides you with instructions
on how to easily incorporate Adsense listings into
your blog.
If you ask me, IGR and Blogger.com are a match
made in heaven!
Every profitable blog demands quality content
- content that is FLEXIBLE by nature so that you're
able to modify it to suit your needs by inserting
affiliate links, attaching your resource box, signing
your name as author, etc.
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cost you a dime, and that can GENERATE unlimited
profit with very little time and effort invested)!
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Best regards,
Dirk Dupon
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STARTING A BLOG
5,263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog
So you’re starting a blog from scratch, or maybe you have some experience and want to make sure that you’re not missing anything. Either way, I think I can help you out. I wrote this monstrosity of an article because I couldn’t find one anywhere that was thorough enough.
I want people to be able to get started after reading a single article, and there is no such article that I know of. This is the most thorough article on this subject I have seen anywhere on the internet.
Lately I’ve had quite a few friends ask me how to start a business online. I’ve even had a few friends start up some sites. I can see why, it’s such an intriguing way to make money. When people see you making money this way, they obviously hope that they can do it, too. So they start asking questions, and since they’re starting from scratch they usually have a ton of them.
I wish I had more time to teach everyone one-on-one. Since I can’t mentor everyone this way, I want to create a resource for everyone.
Where I Would Start
If I had to start my entire business from scratch right now, I would start a blog. (I actually did start this blog recently, although I already have some profitable websites.)
Definition of a Blog
For those of you that are brand new to internet marketing, blog is short for weblog. It’s kind of like a journal or diary, except you don’t use it only for history. You can use it to post news on a topic, give tips about a specific niche, or to write random thoughts if you want. A blog puts the latest entry at the top, and the blog creates archives all of the older entries for you.
If you go to the homepage of this blog, you will see the latest post I’ve made. To the right, you will find 10 or so recent posts. These are the last things I’ve written for you on this blog. You will also see categories. With a blog, each time you post, or write an entry, you choose which category you want the entry to appear in. You will also see archives. Usually a blog organizes the entries you post by the date they were posted. Since this is the first month this blog is online (written Feb. 2007), under the archives you can only see February. This will be expanded to show more months as time passes.
Sounding Complicated?
I know that many of you are thinking right now that it sounds really hard to create a site that will do all of that for you. I know that it can be overwhelming to learn something brand new. The beauty of a blog is that YOU don’t have to make any of that work. There is free software that will do all of it for you. (We will get to that a little later, I just want to let you know now so you don’t get scared and click the back button.)
Why I Would Recommend Starting A Blog Instead Of An E-commerce Site (or any other type of site)
The biggest reason I would recommend starting a blog is because it’s easier. You don’t have to learn HTML. (HTML is the programming language that websites are written in.) Your biggest obstacle as someone trying to learn how to make money online is learning how to put a website together. You have to make tons of pages (that you designed yourself), and make sure they all work together. You have to create the layout, design, links, navigation, and content. (For the newbies, content is the articles, entries, and posts you put on your site. It’s the actual material that you write.) If you start with a blog you don’t need to do the layout, design, links, or the navigation. It’s all done for you, you just write the content.
Another reason I would start with a blog is that your blog will do some of your marketing for you. The program that I’m going to tell you to use will automatically alert some blog search engines when you post a new entry. These blog search engines will create links for you, and people will be able to find your site. The more you post, the more exposure you will get with the blog search engines. Even if this was the only marketing you ever did, you would be able to get some visitors and build up your list of readers.
My most recent protégé just started a blog about fitness. He just started last week! He and his mother are working together on the project. They haven’t done any marketing at all, other than the marketing their blog does for them, but they have already been able to get a few readers to their site. (Along with a little bit of money, which brings me to my next point.)
Blogs are easy to monetize. In other words, it’s easy to create a revenue stream for blogs. There are quite a few ways of creating revenue with blogs. The easiest and most effective way of monetizing a blog is with Google Adsense. If you look at the top of this article, you will see a Google ad unit. If one of my readers clicks on one of those ads, Google pays me. Depending on a number of factors, I might get between $.10 and $2.00 for a click. Google direct deposits this money in my account every month. You can opt for a check if that’s what you prefer. You make money day or night, as long as you have readers that click on ads. Some of your readers will naturally click because they will see things that interest them.
The reason I like Google ads over other similar programs is because they match up really well with the material on your pages. If they find this site because they’re interested in internet marketing, I don’t want them to see ads about tennis shoes or home loans. Google does a good job of showing ads that are related to the site.
Using Google Adsense is 100% free. After you have a website up, you can sign up with their service and use their ads on your site.
Hopefully You’re Convinced That Starting A Blog Is The Way To Go
If you are, let’s talk about where you go from here.
You Should Choose A Topic
Choosing a topic isn’t the easiest thing in the world. What are you passionate about? I’ve seen lots of different kinds of blogs work! This blog is about internet marketing and personal development, but I have other blogs that are more technical. I have a site where I publish cell phone news, and it does quite well. The most important aspect of picking a topic is your interest level. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Parenting
Personal Development
Finance
Real Estate
Fitness
Recipes
Technology
Politics
Dieting
Celebrities
Art
Movies
Update: 5/1/2007 - Check out a new article I have called “Ideas For Profitable Blogs“
You could literally start a blog about anything that you’re interested in. The important thing is that you have enough interest to keep working. Most blogs die out after a month or so, the owner loses interest!
What do you read about? I’m constantly reading about internet marketing, and how to better myself as a person. I spend a lot of time searching in those two areas, and that’s why I chose to start a blog about them.
You Should Then Choose A Domain Name
A domain name is the .com name for your website. The domain name for this site, of course, is courtneytuttle.com. Your first option is to use your name, like I did. Your other option is to choose a name that is more related to the subject of the site.
For your first site/blog, I would use a name that is related to your subject material. This can spark some interest from people that see the name and can make it a little easier to do well in Google and other search engines.
By choosing to use the name courtneytuttle.com, I know that it will take some extra work. People who see the name won’t have any idea what the site is about. I have to put in some extra time to establish my domain name as a brand.
By opting to use a name that is related to your subject, you can save yourself some marketing time.
How To Find Out If A Domain Name Is Taken/Registering Your Domain Name
There are plenty of sites around that allow you to do this. The one that I use for this is www.prouddomains.com. If you go to the site, you will see a search bar, where you can type in any domain name. It will tell you whether the name is already taken. If the name you want to use is available, you can register it there for $8.99. You will then own the name for one year.
You will probably find that quite a few names are already taken! Here are a few tips that you can use to find a good name that’s available.
Pick your subject and add a name to it. For example, if your subject is real estate, you could try prosperrealestate.com, or mountainrealestate.com. You just add another word at the beginning.
Use .net, .biz, .org, or .info extensions. Some webmasters would disagree, but I haven’t found any difference at all between using a .com,a .net, or any other extension.
Once you decide on a name, you will go ahead and register it. Make sure to save your login information! Save everything or you will definitely regret it later. Congratulations, by now you should own a domain name.
Setting Up Web Hosting | What Is Web Hosting Anyway?
A web host is the computer on the internet that stores your website. You buy web hosting so that your site/blog has a place to ‘live’ on the internet. I use prouddomains.com for my web hosting as well. (The same company that I use to register domain names.) They aren’t the absolute cheapest anywhere, but they are pretty cheap, and they have a support phone number that you can call if something gets messed up. I’ve called them quite a few times, especially in the beginning when I made quite a few mistakes.
If you use prouddomains, you need to get the deluxe hosting to make everything work properly. Its cost is $9.99 per month. At one point they will ask you if you want a Windows server or a Linux server. You need to choose the Linux server.
Once you buy the hosting account, they will guide you through setting it up. You will basically setup a user name and a password that you will use to access your site later. After you setup your hosting, it will take a few hours to become active.
Install Your Blog
Once your hosting is setup, you want to install your blog. The blog software I would recommend using is called WordPress. It’s the best around, and WordPress does a lot of the work for you. This site was built using WordPress.
If you are using prouddomains.com for your hosting, it’s going to be really easy to setup WordPress. Prouddomains.com will actually install it for you. This is what you need to do. First, you will go back to prouddomains.com. You will then hover your mouse over Web Hosting, which is a blue button up at the top. It will drop down a little menu for you, and you’re going to click on My Hosting Accounts. Prouddomains.com will then have you sign in, unless you’re already signed in. Once you sign in, they will show you your hosting accounts. Most of you will probably only have one. You should see a link that says ‘open’. It will be under the control panel column. Once you find the ‘open’ link, click on it. It will then open up the control panel for your hosting account.
At that point, you will see quite a few little icons, (Account Login, Domain Management…..) and you are going to look for one that says, “Value Applications.” It looks like this:
Once you find this icon, you’re going to click on it. You will be taken to another page where prouddomains.com has some applications that can be installed on your site. One of these applications is WordPress. You’ll find it listed in the left column under community tools. Once you find the link to WordPress, go ahead and click on it. You will then see a red button that says, “Install Now.” Go ahead and click the button.
It will then ask you which of your domains you would like to use. Most of you will only have one, so you will select it, (if you have more than one you will select the one that you want to use) and then you will click continue. You may need to scroll down a little to find the continue button. It will then have you fill in a ‘Database Description’ and a ‘Database Password’. For the description you can put anything you want. You could put ‘Dave’s Blog’ if your name is Dave. It really doesn’t matter at all what you put there. For the password, fill in whatever password you want to use. Make sure that you save this information. Write down the information every time you fill out something like this. After you fill it in, click next.
Another screen will come up that will ask you to choose an install directory. Since this blog is going to be your whole site, you don’t want it in a directory. After your domain name, you will see a box that will probably have the word, ‘WordPress’ in it. You need to delete it. Click your cursor in there and backspace the whole word. You will then click next. It will take you to another screen where you need to fill in a little more information. It will have you choose an admin name, and an admin password. You will also need to enter in your email address. It needs to be a real email address. It will also have you give your blog a title. This can be changed later if you want, so fill something in. As you can see, the title of this blog is, “Internet Marketing And Personal Development.” You can use whatever title seems relevant to your subject. Don’t waste a lot of time here, again, because your title can be changed later. Once you have filled that in, click finish. For now you’re all done!
It will take prouddomains.com anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to install your blog. When they are done, you should be able to see it by going to your site in internet explorer. Once it’s setup, somewhere on your website you will find a login link. You will login with the admin name and admin password you just set up. Once you login, I think you will find everything to be pretty self-explanatory.
If you have any questions about how to do anything, please leave a comment! I will be more than happy to answer any questions. I would at this point take some time to click on everything in there, just to see what everything does and how it works. You Now Have A Website! If you have made it this far, that tells me that you’re probably pretty persistent. Will you make it through this entire article? I’m willing to bet that most people won’t. This is pretty frustrating to me!
So many people ask me for help, but somehow I know that if I direct them to this article, they won’t even read the whole thing. Most people are looking for an easier route. They don’t want to put in the time. They are looking for the easiest way possible to realize their success.
That’s why I really don’t believe that most people can make money with the internet. It seems that most people can’t be successful at all! They simply don’t have the persistence. I would ask you right here whether you are a persistent person. If you can’t muster the energy to do everything in this entire article, I don’t think this business is for you. If you haven’t been a persistent person in the past, perhaps this is the time to learn how to be one. If you can be persistent, you can make this work.
Now You Have A Site - What’s Next?
Now is the time for you to start writing. We need to get some material on your site. Really quickly before you publish anything, let’s check on one little marketing tool that you’re going to need. Login to your site, go to options, and then go to writing. Scroll down to the bottom, and you’ll see a box labeled Update Services. You need to make sure that the following URL is in the box - http://rpc.pingomatic.com. If it’s there, your blog will let the blog search engines know each time you update your site. This is a very important marketing tool, so if it’s not there make sure to copy the URL above and paste it in. Make sure that you click the update options button if you have to do this.
As soon as this is done, you’re ready to add some categories. You probably want to start with at least 5 categories. Every subject has some categories of information, and you should take a little time to decide how to split things up. My most recent protégé started a site about health and fitness, and has the blog divided into these five categories:
Aging Gracefully
Fitness Exercise and Weight Control
Fitness Tips
Muscular Strength and Endurance
Stress Relief
This site will end up with quite a few categories, but started with these basic five:
CourtneyTuttle.com News
Finding A Voice
Motivation
Promoting Your Blog/Site
Search Engine Optimization
I have added a category for beginners, and can see that I will be adding more soon. I tell you this so you know that your blog will always evolve. Don’t worry about trying to create a finished product right now, just come up with the best five you can.
How To Add Categories To Your Blog
Once you’re logged in to your site, you will go to Manage, and then to Categories. You will see a link that says, “add new.” You will click the link and then it will let you fill in the category name. Don’t worry about filling in the other stuff; it will fill it in for you. Once you’ve filled in the name, go ahead and click, “Add Category.” You will need to do this once for each category you want to add.
Now You Need To Add Entries To Each Category!
Now is the time to start writing! What do have to say to the world? If you’re hurting for ideas, you should have a look at my article, “Read Your Competition’s Work.” It’s always good to read what your competitors and fellow bloggers have to say. You should also be reading sites that offer news about your subject. You can use ideas to get at those sites to start writing. It’s never worth plagiarizing! People want to know your unique perspective on things; it does no good to write the exact same thing as everyone else. People want to know what you think!
By now you should have an article in each one of your categories. Well done!
What Now? How Often Should You Blog?
This topic is highly debated, but I can tell you that you should try to blog every single day. A blog gives you the unique ability of getting repeat visitors that will come back every single day. Most websites don’t have this kind of draw, but you can! Of course, if I go to your site tomorrow and see the exact same thing I saw yesterday, why would I check it everyday? If you want to do well, you will create new entries at least 5 times per week. For more on this, check out this article, “If You Can’t Post Daily, Don’t Quit Your Day Job.”
How Good Are Your Entries?
Even more important that how often you post is the type of material you’re posting. I try to make my articles extremely thorough. That’s why this article ended up so big; I wanted to ensure that people who read it could realistically end up starting a blog. Your users will know if you’re really trying to help them, or if you’re just trying to get something on the site that day. If you focus on writing material that actually helps people, people will come back again and again. I want this site to be a place where people can go to find help. I want them to grow when they read what I have to say; in fact I want this site to be the best site out there for this!
I understand that this will take some time, but I really believe that if I continue to be thorough and aware of what people need, I can make it happen. You have to try to provide the best information you can.
Blogging And Comments
One nice feature about a blog is that people can leave comments. If you’re reading this entry, you’re more than welcome to leave a comment when you get to the bottom. Some webmasters believe that responding to visitor’s comments is too time consuming. I absolutely disagree! Responding to comments is one of the best things you can do, it creates trust between you and your visitors, and makes it so they want to come back to the site again and again.
At some point, your site may outgrow comments! If you’re getting too many comments to manage, you may need to eventually turn them off. Until then, it’s a great way to establish a relationship between you and your visitors.
Respond to your visitors and answer their questions. From time to time they will ask you questions that you don’t know. It is most definitely in your best interest to find the answer for them! You can learn yourself and also establish yourself as an expert in your field. Other users will also see that your site is an interactive place where they can find the material they’re looking for. From time to time, you will see that your visitors answer each other’s questions!
Do You Want To Have A Quality Site?
Many of you are probably just in it for the money. I teach people how to make money online all the time, and the truth is that most people I teach don’t want to do very much work. They want to do the bare minimum. I read the blogs of many successful online entrepreneurs, and there is one common mentality that they all have. They want their sites to be the absolute best in their industries. I notice that I said they want their sites to be the best. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are the best.
One thing is certain, they give their all to make their sites the best resources they possibly can. You should keep in mind that when you’re starting from scratch, you won’t be the best right away. Over time, you can establish your site/blog as a great resource for people.
Promoting Your Blog / Getting More Traffic
Now you have a site, let’s talk about getting you some traffic!
#1 Way To Get Traffic - Creating Valuable Material
The absolute best way to promote your blog is by creating content that actually helps people. Many bloggers and internet marketers rely on search engines for 100% of their traffic. In reality, it’s a lot easier to get traffic from word of mouth than it is from search engines! If you are pumping out material that is truly helpful to people, they will keep coming back, and they will tell lots of other people about it. They will link to you with their blogs. They will link to you from myspace, facebook, and send emails to everyone they know.
When I think about writing for this site, I try to think of what topic will help my readers the most. I know that the only way I will reach my goals is to help other people to reach theirs. I’ve met so many people that really want to learn this business, but don’t know where to start. I want this site to be a resource that they can use from start to finish. This means that everyday I think about what information will be the best for you, my readers!
When you create material that will actually help your readers, they will notice. Remember that you will always be more successful if you write for your readers.
You want to make sure that your blog’s content is original. I find original things to write about all the time. I do it by writing about things I can’t find anywhere. I searched for months for an article on how to make money blogging. I found quite a few, but couldn’t find anything that covered all the major topics, start to finish. Even though I know a lot about making money online, blogging has some unique and interesting characteristics that make it a little different from traditional website marketing.
Over time, I have learned a ton, but never found an article that covered everything. This is the kind of topic I look for, that’s why I wrote this one!
Pinging The Blog Search Engines
This part of your marketing will be done for you if you’re using a WordPress blog. Earlier, I had you make sure that this was set up properly. Each time you publish a post on your site, WordPress will ping (send a special message) the blog search engines. They will update their search engines, adding your new material to their results. The way blog search engines work is quite different than the way regular search engines work. Blog search engines will show the most recent entries found under each topic. This means that you can increase the traffic to your blog simply by posting more often.
Commenting On Other Blogs
One super effective way of getting traffic for your blog is by commenting on other blogs. When you comment on a blog, they allow you type in the URL to your website. When you type this in, you want to put in the entire URL. When I do this, I type http://courtneytuttle.com/. It will then make a link that people can follow to your site. Usually when I comment on blogs, quite a few people will visit my site to check it out. The webmaster of the blog I’m commenting on usually has to approve the comments, so he ends up visiting my site too.
Often bloggers will read other blogs to find significant material for their readers. Bloggers who have found me this way will often link to my blog, as they find material that is useful for their readers.
Blog Carnivals
Blog carnivals are places that feature a ton of blogs about a certain subject. There are blog carnivals about almost any topic. If you do a Google search for blog carnivals, you’ll find quite a few sites that do them.
Usually you’ll see a list of a ton of topics, and if you want to get into a certain blog carnival, you simply have to write an article about that topic. You submit it to the carnival, and they link to your site. This can drive quite a bit of new traffic to your site. If people like what you have to say, they will continue to come back again and again. Other bloggers will be checking out the carnival as well, and some of them may link to you if they like your material.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is making it so that your site does well in the major search engines. As of the day I’m writing this article (2/25/2007), Google by far is the biggest search engine. Yahoo! and MSN can also bring significant amounts of traffic to your site.
If you want to do well in any of these search engines, let me point you in the right direction. The most important method you will use to do well in search engines is keeping your site updated. If you stop adding new material to your site, your search engine traffic will slowly die. Most search engines want to see fresh material added to your site constantly, and this is especially true with Google. Google will drop your site altogether if it isn’t updated for a while.
How Do I Get Into Google In The First Place?
Luckily with a WordPress blog, this will be taken care of for you, as long as you continue to publish new material. When your posts get you into the blog search engines, Google, and all the other search engines will naturally find you.
How Do I Get A Better Ranking In The Search Engines?
There are two articles I’ve written about this, and I’ll post them here for you:
Onsite SEO
Offsite SEO
To learn more about getting better rankings and search engine optimization, you can also visit the search engine optimization section of this site.
How Long Until I Start Getting Traffic?
This totally depends on you! If you start commenting on other blogs, you will start getting traffic right then! The more blogs you comment on the more traffic you will get initially. Blog carnivals are also ways of getting traffic in a hurry.
As far as traffic from search engines, it will take you at least a few months. As your site continues to grow, so will your traffic from search engines.
How Long Until I Make Money?
This is the most asked question by far! It will take at least a few months after your blog gets set up. Of course, the more direct marketing you do (word of mouth, commenting of other blogs), the more accelerated this process will be.
Sometimes people are learning this business, and they ask if they should quit their jobs. My answer is almost always, “Are you crazy?” You don’t quit your job while you’re learning a brand new business. Learn the business, and then quit your job!
Yes, you can make a very significant income doing this. However, not everyone is going to make money. To tell the honest truth, you have to be pretty smart and wicked persistent. Most people can’t handle writing day after day. When you have a website, you do the work and don’t see the results for months. Most people honestly can’t handle it.
Hopefully This Gives You Somewhere To Start
I really want to create a helpful article that could help my readers to get started. If I could only give you one piece of advice, it would be to keep learning. I will continue to leave you with valuable tidbits of information. I will try to give you the material you need to find success.
I take this from: http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/02/25/starting-a-blog-in-5263-words/
HOW PEOPLE MAKE MONEY BLOGGING
April 13th, 2007 by Court
The internet is full of ways to make money. There are a lot of different approaches you can take to make money online. Let me introduce you to blogging - more specifically let me explain to you how people make money blogging.
What Exactly Is Blogging Anyway?
According to Wikipedia:
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
In plainer English, a blog is a website that shows the newest entries at the beginning, usually on the homepage. This website is a blog, and for that reason you will always find my newest writing on the homepage, at the top. As you scroll down, you will find the other entries I have written, newest to oldest.
What Are Blogs About?
There are blogs about everything! This blog teaches people how to make money online. There are blogs about sports, news, fitness, cooking, humor, teaching, parenting, celebrities, and everything else you can imagine.
Blogs are a great format for news sites. Since blogs show the newest entries first, readers can easily find the most recent news stories. Bloggers (those who blog) post news about every industry, and provide their own opinions on the subject matter.
When blogs first started, they were created primarily to be online journals, but have now evolved into websites about anything and everything.
How To People Make Money Blogging?
The simple answer to that question is that blogs get traffic and convert it into money. Getting traffic is very possible with a blog, in fact it’s much easier to get traffic to a blog than it is to get traffic on traditional websites. Traffic is a subject that I won’t discuss here, but if you’re interested in that you can see the promoting your blog section of the site.
Blogs can develop quite a following by people interested in the blog’s industry. Popular blogs can get thousands of hits per day. Gizmodo, Engadget, and Perez Hilton are three mega popular blogs which all get hundreds of thousands of visitors per day.
The traffic of most blogs is converted to money through advertising. That probably sounds difficult to you if you’re new, but it’s actually really easy. The primary revenue streams of most blogs are:
Ad-Boxes
Google Adsense - Anyone can sign up for this service and it’s 100% free to use. Google will display ads on your blog and pay you when they get clicked on. This is by far the easiest way to make money with your blog. If you look closely at my pages you will find ad units labeled ‘Ads by Google’.
Yahoo! Publishing - Yahoo’s version of Adsense. Yahoo’s version is also free to use.
Contextual Ads - These are ads that are displayed throughout the text of your blog. If you look closely through my pages you will see links that are double underlined. These are actually ads and if you hover over them, a little ad-box will pop up. The contextual ad company will pay for clicks on the links or the ad-box.
Intelitxt - The first major company to offer this type of advertising. It’s quite difficult to get an account with them unless you have over 500,000 hits per month.
Kontera - Another player in the contextual ad game. Kontera is easier to sign up for when you’re still small.
Affiliate Programs - Many bloggers sell products and services for other sites and receive appropriate commissions. There are tons of sites out there that offer free, affiliate programs including:
Amazon
eBay
Shopping.com
Text Links - Bloggers can sell links from there pages to other websites. Most bloggers that use this kind of revenue stream use a company called text-link-ads.com. Their service is free to use and their company will sell the ads for you. The sites that purchase them pay monthly, and you get paid monthly.
Direct Sales - Some bloggers sell their own products and services.
How Much Can A Person Make Blogging?
That’s really tough question to answer. Some blogs create $500,000 per year and some make $0. The amount a person can make with a blog depend on a lot of factors including:
Blogger’s Knowledge and Experience
Quality and Quantity of Blog’s Information
Marketing
Determination
Longevity
Luck (This isn’t a joke but it is of course possible to create luck.)
I think that it’s very possible to create an income in the high five and even six figures for individuals that posses the right talent and determination. If you are thinking about becoming a blogger, you should visit this article: Making Money Online - Is This Business For You?
In my opinion, blogging is the easiest of all the methods of making money online, at least for beginners. It is also a stepping stone for those wishing to move onto more difficult online, money-making methods. If you’re interested in starting a blog, you should read this: 5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog.
I take this from: http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/02/25/starting-a-blog-in-5263-words/
Make Money Online w/ Court
Flagship Blogging - Topic Selection
Posted: 06 Feb 2008 10:21 PM CST
This article is part of my flagship blogging series.
Choosing a topic for a flagship blog is anything but simple. Most people will start by reading a bunch of ‘make money online’ or ‘internet marketing‘ blogs and then decide that they want to create their own version of those sites. For this reason there are about a bazillion blogs about internet marketing - most of which never turn a profit.
Don’t get me wrong - copying a profitable business model IS the way to go in most cases. The problem with ‘make money online’ as a topic is that the competition is ferocious. Since the competition is very extreme, many people struggle to find a way to stand out in the crowd. Choosing a topic that doesn’t have that level of competition can make your life a lot easier.
On the other side of the discussion, many of you are trying to think of ideas that have never been done before. While this is still possible, it will be a lot easier and effective for most people to use adaptive creativity, building on someone else’s ideas instead of creating brand new ones on your own. There is no reason to take more than a couple weeks to choose your topic.
The Beginnings of Topic Selection
In order to start brainstorming for a topic for your flagship blog, you will want to start directly within your own background. What is your area of expertise? If you are really good at something, you may have already found your topic.
For most of my adult life I have messed around with computers. I build them, fix them, hack them, and mod them. When my friends and family members have a question about their computers, who do they call? Me! Could I start a flagship blog about computers? Absolutely. I also have a lot of expertise when it comes to search engine optimization and internet marketing in general. When friends and family take their businesses to the internet, who do they come to? Me. Can I run a flagship blog about this topic? Yes I can.
On the other hand, I know very little about thousands of other industries. I have a buddy who knows about 1000 times more about finance than I do. Compared to him, I’m pretty much brain dead when it comes to stocks, bonds, options, and annuities, etc. Could I start a flagship blog about finance? I sure could, if I wanted to invest like three years to learn! Could my friend start a flagship blog about finance now? Absolutely.
The biggest mistake most people make when they are starting a flagship blog is that they choose a topic they know nothing about. While it is possible to make money on the internet with a topic you know little about, you don’t want to make it a flagship blog. Instead, you will want to set it up as a keyword sniping site or blog.
Now what happens if you don’t have expertise in a specific field? Well, then I would ask yourself what your hobbies are. What do you do with your time? Do you read books, watch t.v., play on the internet all day? If you read a lot of books you could probably create a brilliant flagship blog about books. You could do the same with t.v., in fact you could do the same with pretty much any hobby, as long as there are a lot of other people that share that interest with you. If your hobby is staring at the wall, you may have a problem.
I would start by choosing something that you are good at or interested in, and then proceed by testing the market of that particular topic.
Testing The Market
The easiest way to find out whether your skill or interest can turn into a profitable blog topic is by trying to find successful sites that are already established in that industry. If there aren’t any successful sites in the industry you’re looking at, there may not be a market for that topic. I personally would try to find a site in your prospective industry that has at least 50,000 RSS subscribers. This isn’t an absolute necessity but it helps you to see that there is a big enough market to shoot your sights on.
Some of you are probably wondering why I have a flagship type blog in an industry that doesn’t have a site with 50,000+ subscribers. The truth is that I wish that this market was A LOT bigger and this industry is sitting right around the minimum size I would consider building a flagship blog around. If I didn’t believe that I could gather a readership of at least 50,000 in the next few years, I would never have chosen this topic.
Before nailing down your decision on a topic, I would take a look at Wordtracker or Wordze to see if people are searching for keywords relating to your topic. You want to find a topic that has a good amount of keyword searches, since SEO will be part of the marketing strategy for your flagship blog.
Flagship Blogging Is About The Passion
I have received emails and have talked to more than a handful of people that tell me that their online ventures are all about the money. I personally don’t think that there is anything wrong with this, but I don’t know if flagship blogging is the way to go if this is your only motivation. Generally with a flagship blog, the money takes quite a while to come.
Why would a person want to start a flagship blog at all, if the money takes a while to come? The answer is pretty simple - once the money comes, it really starts to come. This will of course vary wildly across different industries, but for the most part each RSS subscriber will be worth at least $1 per month to the flagship blog owner. That means that 2,000 RSS subscribers will translate into $2,000+ per month to the flagship blogger. 5,000 RSS subscribers will equal $5,000+ per month and 50,000 RSS subs will equal $50,000+ per month of income. These numbers, of course, are very rough but I can tell you that people that think outside the box are able to make upwards of $10 per RSS subscriber so thinking that $1 is possible is within reason.
What takes a person from $0 per month and very little influence to a huge subscriber base and an enormous income? Without question it’s passion for the topic. A blogger that loves his/her topic will often continue to pay the price, even when the money isn’t there.
Before I started Court’s Internet Marketing School, I knew without a doubt that I would keep fighting until I made the site work. I don’t want to get all preachy with anyone, but I can tell you that I have never stopped believing that I could make this site work. I knew from day one that I would always be interested in internet marketing, plus I already had the skill I needed to help a lot of people to learn how to make money with the internet.
How did I keep working day after day when the money wasn’t there? I had passion for my topic and refused to stop believing.
What To Do If Your Passion Is ‘Internet Marketing’
Some of you love to read all day long about internet marketing or blogging techniques, and for this reason have established flagship-type blogs in this industry. I can tell you that the road in this industry is long and hard. That said, I have never listened to anyone that said that it couldn’t be done. If that is your passion, you should follow that passion. I can tell you, however, that you need to be smart and have another way to provide for yourself for at least a year or two. Don’t be naive enough to think you can make an impact from day one if you don’t yet know what you’re doing. Learn as you go, and over time you will develop your own voice and audience. If you are a noob, plan on spending at least two years to develop this type of a site.
What To Do If Your Passion Is Anything Else
Follow that passion and never, ever quit.
I take from: emailenfuego.net
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