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.
Part Time Blogging – How to Overcome 5 Challenges of Part Time Blogging
Most of my readers are part time bloggers & many have written to me that they have benefited from numerous articles & ebooks published here. The one most popular has been All Ways to Make Money Part Time, meant specially for new people who are looking for ways to supplement their income.
Prior to this, we had written about Various Issues Faced by Part Time Bloggers & shared a few ideas on How To Solve Their Problems. The sorry state of the economy, now in its 14th month has made part time incomes more essential & even more challenging. Many of you have shared all the Challenges Part Time Bloggers are facing in the time of a recovering economy & I am going to share a few of them here.
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.
Emerging Affiliate Marketing Niche – Get Started Early to Profit in New Niche Markets
Affiliate Marketers & Affiliate Bloggers are constantly looking to break into new niches markets. With a little persistence & a strong marketing roadmap, you can see success in any of these niches.
The secret is to be early in the game & partner with the best affiliate programs (Click Here to read our Evaluation of the Best Affiliate Programs). And to persist for at least 12 – 18 months before deciding on whether to quit! The last & probably the most kept secret is to be able to decide whether you want to sell volumes of products with less margin or sell less of those with high profit margins.
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 – 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!
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?
Affiliate Blogging Tip – 12 Months to Grow Sales
Holiday seasons are the best times for Affiliate Marketers. People shop a lot & with the rise of online sales, your online affiliate marketing can grow tremendously if you plan for the most popular events of the year.
You can literally sale 12 months of the year. And with a little planning ahead of time, you can do well with these international holidays & festivals.
