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Make Money Blogging:

Sure you worry about your income and wonder if you can really make money blogging. Well follow some of these important tips and you will discover that the answer is “YES”! The thought of owning your very own business and working out of the comfort of your own home is one that can be highly appealing to many people. Home-based business owners know, however, that this type of business can often come with its own set of challenges and considerations,

Seek out a mentor. A mentor is someone who has been where you are. A mentor can lend a kind ear or give you business advice. There are many organizations full of experienced people who would like to help people just starting out; all you have to do is ask.

Use affiliates to market your product. Look for a good program such as clickbank or mals-e.com. Trade affiliate links with other home business owners and help each other grow your business traffic. Join an affiliate program such as Commission Junction or LinkShare, and see if you can promote products that complement yours, so you can increase your revenue without adding any inventory or other work for yourself.

Whenever you make any money be sure to put aside a portion of that to pay your taxes at the end of the year. You will have to pay between 15 and 20 percent of your income back in taxes so it is easier to put it away during the year instead of scrambling for it around tax time.

Make sure you respond to any customer inquiries in a timely manner. Keep track of your messages to make sure every question gets answered. This will show customers you care about your business and they will come back to do business with you for their future purchases or business needs.

Receive consult from a tax professional who is experienced in dealing with your type and size of business. There are several different tax requirements for different businesses, and there could very well be special statuses and credits given for your type of business – so a consult with a professional is always a good idea.

Make Money Blogging by Giving the Customers What They Want

When establishing a home business, one important rule of thumb to remember is to develop a customer centric business plan. Building and maintaining business success requires a commitment to the customer which remains unwavering. By understanding your customer’s desires and needs, you will be able to establish a loyal customer base.

If you feel yourself getting stressed in your home business, take a breather. Sometimes when you work from home, it is easy to forget to take breaks. It’s more than likely your business on the line after all. But if something stressful is occurring, take the time to relax for 10-15 minutes. You’ll come back to the problem with a clearer head and be more productive in solving it.

Hire people to help you. You might imagine that because you’re a home business, you have to do everything on your own and that’s not so. There are number of places that you can find competent, inexpensive help for whatever you need done. Letting other people handle some things frees you up to focus on what you truly enjoy.

If you are running a home business, one of the most important things to consider are the distractions that may be present in your home. By identifying the things that may cause you to become distracted, you can then create solutions to alleviate the issues and thus, become more productive.

More on How to Make Money Blogging

One of the best ways to ensure that your home business makes as much money as possible is to effectively market your business and products on the internet. Marketing your business by writing articles, blogging, participating in discussion forums and sending out e-mails will help to increase the number of people that are aware of your business and this, in turn, will lead to big profits.

Whether you are just now considering starting your own home business, or already have a home-based business, we hope the information and suggestions presented in this article have been helpful to you. Successful business owners know that knowledge and careful consideration are key when it comes to business success. UPDATE: One new lucrative opportunity to make money online is to work for collection agencies. These companies regularly look to outsource their jobs.  If you need help with collections, a good number to remember is: 866-826-4101

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I met Andrew through a Blog post here on LinkMoney.org, first as a commenter and later as a correspondent.  I have come to know that he speaks honestly and he sincerely wants to help people achieve their online income goals.

During the creation of the Income Blogging Guide Membership Course, Andrew and Joel completed a poll on the number of ‘internet related’ products individuals had purchased.

You may not believe the results but 32% of those who responded had purchased over 20 ‘make money on the internet’ type products.

That’s almost 1 in 3 had purchased over 20 products.

One guy actually said, “I ticked the more than 20 box in the vote, only because there isn’t one that says more than 50!”

I’m sure he’s not alone.

Why do we buy so many make money online products?

Because they all promise some form of “overnight success”. You see the seller standing in front of the flashy cars and big mansions and you think, “I want some of that”.

However, the products they sell tend to be full of the same old theory. They grab your $97 and you never seen them again. And they certainly don’t care whether you benefited or even used the product. They take your cash and run.

You are then feeling all alone and if you were to shout ‘HELP!’ you certainly would not be heard. You have less in your wallet and a book. Well whoopee-do!

But I am telling you it’s different with Andrew & Joel. These are the first guys who have come out and said:

“Our course is NOT a silver bullet to making money on-line”

“Our course will NOT make you rich overnight”

BUT what they do say is:

“What our course does show you is how to build a solid on-line Internet business that will generate income for you on autopilot AND enable you to reduce your working hours so you get some freedom and time back into your life…but NOT overnight and with some hard work.”

That is quite refreshing, don’t you think?

They are being up front – in fact their sales letter will tell you how much they expect you to be earning after you finish the course and no it’s not anything like $10k. They are being open, honest and not keeping anything back.

I think that’s different to the normal hyped-up sales approach.

Joel and Andrew care about you and your business.

They won’t be running away as soon as you’ve put your credit card away…not with the bonuses they have on offer, at least.

And Joel is the blogging mentor to some of the world’s biggest and most famous bloggers. You cannot get better support than that.

If you’ve been looking for someone who cares about YOUR success, YOUR business, I thoroughly recommend you check out The Income Blogging Guide Membership Course. Here’s the link: Income Blogging Guide

(http://www.incomebloggingguide.com/stepbystep/ )

I can only recommend that you act now.

(The links within this post are not affiliate links. I am recommending this course not to earn any income but because I believe many of you will benefit from the step-by-step approach to making you own on-line business).

Rich

The common question “Can Blogging Make Money” has been addressed on this website many times and will continue to be explained to our readers, as the answer is an absolute “YES”.

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This is what I do for a living full time and then some.  About three years ago I was forced to make a decision as to how to support myself for the rest of my years as I had met with the most enormous disruption in life plans and literally had to start over.

I had been publishing materials on the internet for about 12 years, regarding my life long hobby of genealogy.  Everything I had put up on the net even starting before there was a world wide web, had been presented to fellow genealogists for free.  I never dreamed of trying to make money on genealogy, the net just created opportunities for connections and was very rewarding.

I had been using computers seriously since 1979 and had built companies of technicians that integrated computers into machinery control for automation of various manufacturing processes.  I knew how to create teams of extremely brilliant people and we were very successful at what we did.  All that said I didn’t know beans about programming, web design, graphics, auto responders, ftp, and all the necessary elements required to become good at website publishing.

That all changed with WordPress.  Here was an easy to learn method of publishing on the internet in story form and I concentrated every minute I could spare to learn how this thing works and to start to earn a living on the internet.

Now I have way over 100 web properties in all various levels of success.  More importantly I have carved out a niche that works for me in that not only do I build niche marketing sites for myself, I build, maintain, operate and write high quality blogs for other companies.

If you listen to the audio interview with Beat Schindler on this website you will hear me talk about the 3rd Party Blog program that I pioneered and now work in joint venture with S-GO Consulting where we do the complete blogging program for many different businesses in all different types of industries.  You may read more of this service at my site www.3rdPartyBlog.com.  We do the whole blog, including researching and writing all of the content.  This alone makes me a full time income now.

3rdPartyBlog.com

There is a HUGE need for this type of service and I would encourage all of our readers here on LinkMoney.org to look into the possibility of doing this for businesses in your area.  They need it, they do not know how to blog, or they do not have people that they can assign to a company blog, and you know exactly how to do it.  So go and sell yourself and learn for yourself as to whether or not if blogging can make money.

There I just gave you my most important method of making money online.  Now I want to share with you some information on a tool that I use almost every day.  In our 3rd Party Blog business it is my duty to research and write the content for all of these different blogs that we build.  Now if I had to do it alone I would be totally unable, as we have just too many clients to write for.  So here is what I do.

I do the initial research and first couple of articles, and then I hand the project off to our crack team of professional copywriters.  We have built a team of extremely talented people that are literally scattered all over the world and each and every one of them has super abilities and life experience that qualifies them to write on all of the different subjects that we are presented with.

Ultimately all of their output comes to me for the final edit and for additional items that I might want to include such as emphasizing a client product or a call to action and things that might come to mind at publication time.  Outsourcing is a developed skill that is not easy to acquire to do it properly but I feel as though I am very good at it and we have dedicated writers that will always rise to the occasion of a rush job and believe you me, I love them all for their brilliant talent and dedication.  We couldn’t do this job without them.

Now you might say; “Well just what the heck do you do then Rich?” Here is what I feel is one of the most important parts of this process.  Keyword Research! There I’ve said it.  No matter what niche or subject our clients hire us to blog about, my primary concern is that we make sure that our articles will be indexed well in the search engines.

Just as Willie Sutton answered to the question of “Why do you rob banks?” he said, “Cause that’s where the money is.” Well we do not rob banks, we do not do anything illegal or black hat, but what we absolutely do is to make sure our articles will be keyword rich in subjects that people are presently searching for, and even as, or possibly more important, that the keywords have a high degree of commercial intent.

What does that mean?  Well there are keywords and there are “keywords.” Some popular keywords are searched on for just plain old curiosity or in searching for the answer to a school exam question.  Those keywords do not have any commercial intent.  The searcher is not looking to purchase anything, they are just looking for free information.

We like to use keywords where there is a fair chance that the searcher is interested in making a purchase of a product or where we have a fair chance of promoting something that will make their life better or to solve some problems that are obvious that they would like to have solved.

Now here is how I do this and though this is an affiliate sales product and if you decide to click through and learn more about this product I will more than likely make a commission.  I never advertise anything that I do not use myself and fully believe in and if you know me well enough by now from my writing and presence here on LinkMoney.org then you know I speak the truth.

Micro Niche Finder Ad

I purchased my own copy of Micro Niche Finder (mnf) software about two years ago and I use it like I said, almost every day.  The man that dreamed this up and offers it to others is James Jones.  He is not a high pressure salesman.  He will explain the benefits of using Micro Niche Finder and it will be up to you to decide if this is for you or not.  Personally I firmly believe that if you publish on the web, that you need it, period.

Since I first invested in my own copy there have been many new versions that have come out, and each and every one of them has made Micro Niche Finder better and better.  You will make a one time purchase and all future updates and first class tech support are yours at no additional cost.

So what I do is to perform the research and then send the keywords to our writers and I start with the mnf tool.  All you do is type in a primary keyword in a niche that you are interested in and in a few seconds the screen will fill with suggested keywords that are relevant to that category.  They tell you approximately how often the keywords are searched for, the strength of competition and the approximate Adword cost of the keyword and will give you an overall view to be able to select the best keywords to use for your articles.

There are other keyword research tools and some of them are excellent also, including the absolutely free tool at https://adwords.google.com and I use these as well and suggest you should too.  However for day to day, quick and easy I always refer to Micro Niche Finder.

Check it out, watch the videos and hear directly from James about just how easy it is to find keywords to use for your articles.

My Dad

Oh by the way, that brilliant looking guy in the top photo, well that is the real me.  The logo that I have used for so long that looks like a crazy man, with his Charles Atlas stance, conquering arms up in defiance, well that’s my Dad!

Wishing you the best for the holidays and the most prosperous New Year to come.

Rich Hill

Wow there is a brand new method of publishing new WordPress Blogs and even what they refer to as “Pimping” your older installs of WP Blogs that seems unbelievable!

Here are some of the premises as I interpret the hype:  One button publishing.  Do your keyword research. Get a string of from hundreds to thousands of keywords in a few seconds, and then you push one button to publish each of those keywords as an individual Blog post article in mere seconds or a few minutes.   Thousands of keyword rich articles that you can back date as many years as you wish and they all look fantastically authentic just as if they had been written by humans.  So the free promo videos and free pdf downloads say.

Now along with each article come perfectly formatted affiliate ads from your accounts at eBay Partner Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction (CJ,) ClickBank (CB) digital download products, and even some mention of perfectly formatted AdSense blocks of code with your Adsense Pub ID number receiving the credit for clicks.

Some more bonuses that arrive with each article are free flickr images that absolutely match the article subject.  Free YouTube videos embedded that also match the keywords exactly, and content that is out of this world perfect.

You have your choice to select content from such places as Ezine Articles, Article Base and Yahoo Answers, maybe others.  Now the Mage republishes other authors works as your own article posts, which of course include all of the other above mentioned images and videos, etc.

Remember all of this stuff is done instantly, live and in living color right before your eyes, my fingers never leave my hands, it’s a miracle!

When you see the gorgeous layouts of these Blog posts that are demonstrated in the upsell videos you will be kicking the dog out of the way to get to your credit card.  Hey what’s a thousand bucks or more here and there when it comes to the millions of dollars you are going to make with this method over ‘some’ period of time?

I am very thankful that I have three dogs to jump over, because I took a breath and said, “What the Hell is a Mage anyway?”

Repeat after me, If something doesn’t seem right… (your turn.)

Here we are about to enter into a completely new world of respectable internet marketing.  The Federal Trade Commission rulings come in to effect December 1st, 2009.  I doubt the government will have the resources to regulate even one, one millionth of the potential violations of the new rulings.  They have said that they will likely only investigate violators that are reported to them.  So who would report them?  Why your competition of course.

So besides it is only the US government, right?  Well as in Monkey see, Monkey do.  You can bet your bottom Euro that the EU will be all over this like stink on a fart.  This is going to become the “rule” and not the exception, in my opinion.

Now thinking about that statement caused me to ponder another matter.  Why is it that some of the most successful extremely rich internet marketers are coming out of the woodwork to sell all of us their “personal” get rich schemes?  It has been working for them behind the scenes for many years and some of them have become billionaires. Or so they claim.  I am talking here about two other recently promoted automatic methods of getting rich programs as well as this.

Why is it that the promoters are living in countries that might not be affected by the FTC?  Could it be that if they spread their love around and make enough money from the subscriptions and the upsells from the millions of advertisers that are out there, that when FTC rules kick in they won’t give a damn?

Hmmm, I’m cautious.

Let’s analyze some of the above methods of creating content.  If one ‘borrows’ content from Ezine for instance, you are supposed to give full credit and internal article links and author and Ezine credits, in order to reuse the content.  How could all of that be accomplished with a Mage?

They tell you that they have an awesome method to spin the content.  They translate it into a foreign language and then back to English.  Huh?  Have you ever tried the old kids game of “Whisper a secret?”  It starts with one person whispering a secret in the ear of #2 and then on through each kid until the last and then the end person repeats the secret out loud.  Guess what?  It is gibberish.

I remember in high school French class we had a similar demonstration.  The French teacher whispered a French phrase in a student’s ear.  That student whispered an English translation in the next student’s ear.  That one again in French, and student #4 gave the English translation out loud.  Holy crap you had to pick some of us up off the floor from laughing so hard.  It was gibberish.

When the people that promote the Mage are asked about this element of word and meaning transposition, they play it down and say the search engine bots don’t really care.  Huh?

Don’t we want human beings to be able to read these Blog posts and that the article will have enough meaning that the reader will just be dying to click on an advertiser link?  I don’t know about you, but if I land on a page that even slightly smacks of automated content I hit that green left arrow so fast that the screen is a blur.  But maybe that’s just me.

The flickr images are reported to have the “CC” designation, meaning Creative Commons, and the person that uploaded the image to flickr states that it may be “seen” by anyone.  CC does not mean that everyone has the free use to republish those images, or at least in some cases that is so, I know for a fact.  Many CC images also have another little message block assigned to the author’s use terms.  Does “Some rights reserved” mean anything to you?  At the bottom of every flickr page is a little message that says “Respect the rights of content creators.”

So ask yourself, “Does the Mage ask for permission from the photographer and then give full credit to both the photographer and to flickr?”  Seems like a lot to accomplish in an instant.

YouTube videos I don’t think there is that much trouble with.  As far as I know is if an embed code is available then it is OK to use it, but I could be corrected here, that is just as I understand it.  I do question as to how the pen-ultimate associated content video could possible be selected in automation mode.

Let me give you a personal example that just happened to me just this morning.  I have a new niche that I am very excited about that the greedy gurus have not located yet, so that leaves it up to me to exploit.  LOL.  Any way, this is a technical field that would most likely be viewed by scientists, doctors, medical professionals, university level professors and students and little old ladies in tennis shoes.  So I was experimenting with a very simple minimal theme for a few days until my graphics guy can come up with a new theme header for me.  I suck at graphics.

So I have used this theme before and it converts well for affiliate ads and for Adsense, although on this new site there will be no advertising, at least not for now.  Lo and behold this theme had a YouTube element built in to it that that I did not know about.  I had never seen it before on about a dozen or so sites that I have used this theme on.  You would only see in single post mode and only for first time visitors.

I almost croaked when I found it quite by accident and it kicked in to auto play on a post about this very technical medical terminology subject and it showed this horribly ugly guy with two teeth, ranting filthy rap poetry with a caption something about having been from the Howard Stern show.  Well some people would likely find humor in that, even I admit I laughed at first, but it is no place for an automatic video.  I found the automated code and stripped it out of the theme.

I’ve got to tell you I was intrigued by this phenomenon, WordPress Mage.  I did click through to sign up for the “Free trial” period, then found out none of the automated plugins were available unless I paid the $1K.  No thanks.  I can’t afford your free gifts.

Am I going to buy it?  Nope.  Would I recommend it to my friends?  Nope.  Do I think these Blog posts that incidentally all have the Mage name in their code for all bots to see, going to be around for a long time?  Nope.  Do I think that Google will see the words that include Mage and de-index them?  Well, dunno, maybe though.  Seems possible to me.

Oh one more thing to all high pressure internet marketers that want to sell anything to me.  Do not make me input all of my personal email, phone number, mail address, credit card number and first born child’s blood type into an order entry form “before” you tell me what the price is.  That approaches slime in my book.

Fair notice.  No internet marketer has presented me with a free review copy of any program or gifted me with any goods or services to make this public review.  I am freely giving my opinion and am not swayed by cash offers.

I had the honor of being asked to do an audio interview about my experience with Internet marketing and Blogging by fellow BlogSuccess member, Beat Schindler.

So we did it last night over the telephone and Skype and Beat put the file up on his Blog this morning.  Beat is quite the interviewer and he drew out history and background and some personal information that you might find of interest.

I also gave some good tips on how to get started Blogging and gave some of the Blogging Make Money ideas that have worked for me, and was also allowed to talk about my favorite business venture, 3rd Party Blog.

What many business owners do not realize yet is that there are services such as ours that will take over the whole Blogging program for your company, from start to finish.

3rd Party Blog is not just an article writing service.  We do the whole thing, we come up with an appropriate Blog name, we procure the hosting for you, we install the WordPress Blog, and we install all of the plugins and gadgets that will make your Blog shine really bright in the eyes of the robots that spider your website.

Our team also does the market research, competition research, and keyword reasearch to get your new company Blog noticed by the search engines.  Our writers are expert at writing keyword emphasized Blog posts that will bring your site right up closer to the front of the pack.

Go ahead and listen to the audio interview by clicking on the link below, and if you have any questions please contact me.

Zigzag Chats: Rich Hill

Update 9/23/09

Beat sent me a copy of the audio file directly to include on this website.

The audio was run through a filter to clean up the noise a little.

You may listen to the interview here:

Blogging Make Money using Cybers eBay Plugin for WordPress.  Cybercoder who we discussed at length in a previous post makes a lot of money using automated eBay affiliate offers on some of his niche blogs.  He created this out of raw PHP code for himself and then recently released the code in the form of a plugin that you can download and get started right away making money with eBay.

You do not have a dog in the fight so to speak because the plugin just goes out to eBay and finds appropriate offers to match your keywords and you receive instant PayPal income when the reader makes the purchase.  No pain, no strain, no shipping, no handling, no work at all on your part.  How sweet is that?

Here is a screenshot image of how the Blog post would look:

It really is pretty cool and is absolutely a perfect money maker for all you niche marketers.

It is available at the very low price of only $17.00 which will be a mere pittance compared to the income it can make for you.

Just go ahead and click the “Buy Now” button and you will be up and running in a few minutes.

When I was a kid I grew up in dairy farming country.  The people that owned and operated these family businesses were the true salt of the earth in my opinion.  There are not many businesses where you get to work 7 days a week, 365 days a year with backbreaking labor, toil and sweat just for the opportunity to have some bulk milk buyer pay you what ever he wants at a rate that he sets according to the butter fat content of your milk delivery for the day.

Image courtesy flickr CC

At age 13 I worked on one local farm, boarded out as they say, for one summer season and decided I would have a career in electronics.  One thing that I remember vividly was when a man in a suit and hat stopped at the farm one day, suits and hats were a rarity around those parts, and he made a deal with the farmer to paint a huge advertising sign for his clothing company in the nearby city on the end of the barn.  My farmer boss was very excited to gain $20.00 per year in payment and he chuckled to think that from now on he would never have to paint that end of the barn.

Well that was a paid ad wasn’t it?  There were also little Burma Shave advertising signs along the road that you could read one sign after the other as you were moving and they were cute little rhymes which ended with the Burma Shave sign.  You might also remember seeing handbills or posters plastered all over blank wall spaces around construction projects.  Well those were free ads weren’t they?  You might have seen a sign that said “Post No Bills !”  Well what that meant was the property owner was sick and tired of offering his real estate to non-paying handbill advertisers.

Image courtesy flickr CC

So I am sort of wondering if we in the Internet Marketing business can gain anything from these older but similar situations.  You as a publisher own real estate.  Your real estate consists of from say 200 to 300 square inches of space on a video terminal.  You generally have some appropriate graphics and images that fit the theme of your website design, and then you have a body area where you write articles and include images or graphs and such.  Then on one or two sidebars you have some column advertisements that you provide “Free” real estate for, as in no cost to the advertiser, and the only way you can make any money is if someone clicks on that banner and then makes a purchase, and then trusting upon the integrity of the affiliate advertising manager, and sometimes I wonder, you will be paid a paltry sum of a commission for the transaction.

Well I do this on over a hundred websites, but I am not happy with it.  We are giving up space on our sites to increase the brand awareness of the advertiser even if no one buys, don’t we?  A better method would be to charge a minimal insertion fee that could be equated to a value compiled from say your traffic metrics or number of average views per month.  Would the advertisers be apt to go along with this?  Not a chance!  Not a chance that is unless we could all join in and start demanding at least some type of compensation for furthering the advertisers brand awareness.  It is only fair even though I doubt will ever happen.

Image courtesy flickr CC

So if you are torqued off about this you might want to consider inserting ads for your own products and kick the cheapskate squatters off your property.  Evict them for non-payment of rent.  Come up with an eBook,or sell crafts you make, or the Brooklyn Bridge, something, anything at all that you can call your own and that you will make 100% of the profit on.  Maybe if enough publishers started doing this to enough of the freeloading advertisers they might get the message.  What say you?

You ask, How can Blogging Make Money?

It’s a lot easier than you might think.

In these uncertain times, people who blog professionally
are more certain of their security than people who work
for someone else.

You can make part-time or full-time income from blogging!

(Even if you don’t know the first thing about it)

Learn how to set yourself up to earn a great living as a
popular blogger on the following page:

Click here for Blog Success

You have my word that this works!
Rich Hill – Linkmoney.org

P.S. – One of the bloggers you will be learning about makes
over $40,000.00 per year blogging about her daily life and
family!

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