Blogging Tips – 10 Hobbies You Can Turn to Money Making Business
If you have spent time following some of the popular bloggers & affiliate marketers on the internet, you may have noticed a very common factor. Most of them have been able to turn their hobby into a money making business.
Although, like any business, the initial months are always difficult, it is much easier (or so it feels) to make a successful business out of your hobby than anything else. That could be because you really do not feel the pain, or the expense, or even the frustration when you do something like your hobby, that you love doing so much.
Affiliate Marketing Tips – 8 Reasons to Use Craigslist in Viral Marketing
In this article in the Affiliate Marketing Tips Series, I wanted to look at another great website that has not been mined effectively by the serious affiliate marketer. In fact, Craigslist often does not figure in most of the affiliate sellers’ marketing plans!
The reason probably is quite simple – Craigslist is overshadowed by Facebook, Twitter etc. And the second reason is probably the fact that there is absolutely no advertising about Craigslist – it hardly shows up in any of the Social Media news. It’s rarely that we get to hear from Craig Newmark about the immensity of his website.
Effective Blogging Tips – 10 Steps for Effective Blogging in 2010
2010 is going to be a great year! The economy is coming back to normal, advertising rates are increasing & the advertisers have more inventory, there are more publishers in several new niches & people are spending more time online & shopping online.
These are great indicators for an exciting year ahead. In this article on Effective Blogging, I decided to list down 10 Things we should do to make our blogs more effective in 2010. Also Read Blogging Tips – McKinsey Report on Post Recession Consumer Behavior for more insights.
Effective Blogging – Improving Your Readers Experience
This is continuation of my Series of articles on Effective Blogging.
You are getting enough hits from the search engines but the time users are spending on your website is very less. You are getting readers but they are not viewing more than one page. Your hits are growing but your repeat readers are not. You are losing subscribers. You are not able to retain your readers for more than a few seconds.
If this sounds familiar, then you are probably not providing a great experience to your readers. They come in, they see, they leave & they don’t remember you any more!
Lessons from the Corporate Life – What This Weak Economy Taught Us About Employers & Jobs
This article is part of my Lessons from the Corporate Life Series.
This economy had taught all the full time employees a big lesson! And something that new bloggers could think more about. More importantly, for those of you who are still waiting to start your blogging & grow it like your business, here is your chance to start now!
Blogging Tips – It Realley Takes 9 Minutes to Set Up A Business Blog
A friend of mine, Gordon, has been very interested to set up his music website but did not know how to. He had been reading my articles here & on the Sunny August 30 he met me to find out if he can really set up his music business website in 30 minutes.
“30 Minutes”? I asked. “You could be making me well in 15 minutes”.
“Really? Well can you make that TEN?” he tempted. So began the race to set up his music business website in 10 minutes or less.
Blogging Tips – 11 Things I Learned from Atom & Tipsy About Blogging
Over the past year that Atom & Tipsy has been with us, I picked up a few things about them that I want to implement in my blogging. Some have to do with habits & some have to do with their inherent nature.
However hard or sometimes silly these things are, I will slowly implement in my blogging practices. For those of you who have someone like Atom or Tipsy with them, will surely agree with me!
Lessons from the Corporate Life – 10 Really Dumb Sales Strategies That You Should Not Make
This article is part of my Lessons from the Corporate Life Series.
In this I am going to talk about the really dumb strategies that companies have tested without success. While some large companies have enough money to overcome their failures, you are smart enough not to make them!
Blogging Tips – Is Your Blog Ready for Guest Posts?
More & more bloggers are opening up their websites & blogs to guest writers. Guest posts are mutually beneficial posts that help in promoting a new blogger & also helps in having new content published.
There are new challenges in opening up your blog to guests. The one that has the biggest impact is whether your readers will appreciate that? I have not seen may reader express their opinion but they can drop off silently without you even knowing!
Lessons from the Corporate Life – Affiliate Marketing Tips on Call to Action
In my corporate existence I have seen so many salesman fail because they do not know how to call for action. Or they do it at the wrong time. Or they make it too complex. Whatever the cause be, they fail to close a deal.
For online affiliate marketers not having to see the prospective customer is challenge enough. Having a poor call to action would be the end!
So what is the best & the simplest call to action for online affiliate marketers?
