What I Didn’t Learn At School

I really want to go deeper in the topics that I cover in this blog. The result should be some kind of information product that will cover Blogging, Marketing, Self Improvement, SEO and different Tools that I use. I will give this product away for free of course.

While waiting for my good stuff, I want to take some time to give you some great books about Blogging that I have read and that I recommend. They are all free and can be downloaded right away from the writers website.

• Deep Secrets of Successful Bloggers – By Chitika
• Who’s There? Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web – By Seth Godin
• How to Start Blogging: A Guide for Business Bloggers – By Icrossing UK
• How to Start a Business Blog – By Remarkablogger
• Blogging Blueprint – By Glen Allsopp
• Blogging On My Mind – By Enkay
• The Zen of Blogging – By Hunter Nuttall

This great collection of Blogging e-books have the same topics but are different in so many ways. Everybody has their own story just like real life. Many people got successful but in their own way. Hopefully you will find one of the authors you can relate to and that will be the guide for you to succeed in the blogging world.

The best of luck and happy reading!

I think it’s about time I slow down a bit and listen more to my visitors to get an better understanding on why you are on this blog and what you want to learn from it. That’s why this blog post will be a poll with the question; What do you want to learn in Internet Marketing?

I know a lot of the right people that are helping me, but what I struggle with is maybe not what you struggle with. So with a better understanding I hope to make this a better blog. So please take a few seconds and help me out. Also if you can, give me some comments so I have more to go on. Thanks!

So you got your blog up and wondering what’s the next step? Well you should pay attention to this series of articles with expert advice on how to tune your blog into an cash machine. I’ll let you in on a bunch of tips and tricks with Wordpress that will make your days more simple when blogging.

First step is knowing your traffic.
If there is something I have learned from my 8 years in online marketing it is to know your traffic. We are not talking about a simple website counter telling you how many visits you got today, we need to know much more. The way I see it there is three ways to look at the traffic and they’re all important.

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Hopefully you understand the reason for blogging. And hopefully you already have your blog up and running by now. I’m looking for more link exchanges so if you have your blog up and running and you put a link to my blog on your site let me know and I will link you back.

For the rest of you out there that haven’t got your blog up and running yet I’m here to help you out. A fellow classmate of mine from the Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program, Dean Holland, has just put together his first e-book that will help you step by step on how to get your blog setup. It’s called The Blog Setup Guide. As easy as that.

Dean Holland is a great guy and have taken a lot of his own time in putting this book together. He was a beginner too like all of us, he only started out with his blog for a little more then a month a go, and see how far he has come. Knowing that you can just imagine how simple it is to get your own blog up and running with Dean Holland’s Blog Setup Guide.

And the best of all.. he will give you his book for free. So go over to his blog and get your copy of the book before he figures out that the book is worth paying for.

If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get the word out to consumers about your product or service, and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you.

Blogging for business owners has a lot in common with all other types of blogging, but it has its own unique pitfalls and strengths. The key to having a successful blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure. It can be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you are just learning about the exciting possibilities of blogging technology, but if you want your blog to succeed you need to stay focused. Write up a plan for how often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.

If you already spend a fair amount of time blogging, money may come to you literally as soon as you ask for it. Once you have an established blog with a regular readership, it is easy to turn a profit through advertising. By hosting sponsored links or banners, you can see income from your hobby almost overnight. Even if you did not start your blog intending to turn a profit, making supplementary income from your blog may be easier than you think.

Of course, even for people who have spent months or years blogging, money from advertising revenue may not add up to a large sum. The amount of money that you can make as a blogger depends on a lot of different factors, but perhaps the most important element of the equation is the topic of your blog. If your blog is on a subject that appeals to a demographic that advertisers have a strong desire to reach, you will be more likely to be able to turn a large profit on your blog than if your blog is on a fairly obscure subject that does not draw the kind of audience that advertisers need to appeal to.
Of course, the only way to find out where you fall on this spectrum is to try hosting some ads. If you are already blogging, you have nothing to lose.