The Power Of Blogging

Coming from a background of IT, I realized many people lack many aspects of doing a website. But strange enough there are still many people quite successful on the Internet world without the knowledge. 

If you feel you must be an expert in IT in order to be successful online. You are totally wrong! I have met more great Gurus like Ewen Chia, Edmund Ng, Stephen A. Pierce . If you ask them about what is HTML they can just simply reply you with only knowing what a web page does and how it can generate money for you.

Actually you do not need to know what it is all about! 

To them, websites are virtual real estates that can help you to generate revenue for you online! What they did that many people are also doing is to outsource to others to do their work online for them. 

It is what we call working smart and getting more things done this way. It costs money but they do calculate very carefully what they should spend on and ensure there is a ROI (Return of Investment).  
If you are new to Internet Marketing and would like to start up, I suggest you sit down and write down what your budget is. Focus on what you want to be good in and create a website from it. One big suggestion if you are just starting out, create a non-Internet Marketing related product, as there are tons of competitions online if you decide to sell something related to Internet Marketing. 

I started from scratch with no one knowing who I was, until I started this blog site and I strongly encourage people to start up a blog. As it is the easiest way to setup a website without much knowledge needed online. 

A great resource you can start from would be from my web site at www.BlogCashGuide.com, in there you will find 10 videos where I have gone through with baby steps on how you get start blogging today in the next 5 minutes.

Make Money Blogging Tips

How can you “Make Money Blogging Tips”. There are many tips and advice that you can write to people on the internet. As an expert in article writing and blogging, I faced many questions by many people online regarding what type of tips to write. 

Here are some great tips on how you can make money blogging tips 

1. Blog On Tips Of Your Interest 

The best tips to make money blogging tip is to blog on topic that interests you the most. Make sure you know of a lot about the tips you are writing about. One very good example what types of topic to write is ask yourself these 3 questions. 

What have you been doing for the past 3 years? 
What is your job scope? 
What is your most favorite hobby that you can read about every day but never get bored? 

Answer the above questions to find out what type of interests do you have. It is important to know what’s your key interest before you blog about tips you want to share. 

When you target yourself as an expert in a field, people may question your articles and advice so it would be safer to always talk about things you know most about so that you can answer their feedback when they contact you. 

2. Blog on Tips by Giving Reviews 

You can also make money blogging tips on review of other people’s services and products. What you write your reviews, do make sure that you had done your research before you start commenting about the services or products. This is to avoid any people from flaming you for giving false reviews. 

In your reviews, you would want to talk about what you like about the product or service. And also, you would want to talk about some disadvantages of the services and have a fair balance in your review so that people will know both sides of the product. 

3. Blog on Tips by Asking for Feedback 

When you start to blog, ask your visitors what they like about your blog. Do contests, feedback and ask people what they thought about your blog or article advice. Do give incentives for people to comment to encourage people to participate.

In everything, that you blog you would want to have these few things in your articles. - Ask for a back link - Create a call to action for your readers - Ask for comments in your post 
To get more tips on blogging, go to 

http://www.BlogCashGuide.com to grab your free video there =)  

5 Basic Things Internet Marketers Must Have

The Internet has become a major source of revenue for nearly every kind of business. Whether it is big corporations or home business owners, every one can be found having an Internet presence through which they hope to multiply their prospects and earn huge profits. The Internet offers cheap means of advertising and promoting while exposing any business to a virtually limitless market.  

Successful marketers rely on certain tools for Internet marketing and a few of these are listed below. 

Email This is obvious to most people but what needs to be stressed is that you must have an email account that has a large storage capacity. These days, emails are not just plain text and your mailbox must not flood over through heavy attachments.  

Auto Responder Beyond a certain limit it becomes impossible to handle all your emails personally. In the old days, businesses employed secretaries to handle the mail. Now, you must get an Auto Responder. 

You will receive many kinds of email and you will need a system that can automatically detect the nature of the email and generate an automated response without you having to get personally involved. Sometimes it might just be a matter of letting someone know that you are aware of their interest and you would like to thank them personally, the automatic responded can do that for you. 

List Server This server is helpful with handling incoming inquiries, requests, orders, and complaints. List servers are basically meant for shooting of large number of mails in an instant with appropriate content. If you are promoting a new product then you can use the list server to instantly email the details to all your members.  

PDF Writer EBooks in PDF format are a good way of distributing information and promotional material. You will need a tool that can convert your documents into PDF files. E-Books in PDF format also provide content security in that they cannot be copy-pasted by anyone easily.  

Website Like email, a website is also an obvious tool. This is the one place where all your visitors will land first so it must belong to you. There are many cheap solutions for getting your own website and you must make sure you have your own domain name so that all visitors know they are on your website and not sitting on some free host. Your website must be info and useful. Besides products you must also include information and advice that are relevant to your visitors. 

There are many tools used by Internet marketers but the above five are the most basic ones and anyone can set them up to promote their business. 

Building a business around the perceived want and needs of the target customer base is hardly enough to ensure the attracting element that equates successful purchases being made.

Thus taking the time to research the current needs of the market sentiment would be well worth the trouble as the individual can then identify products that can cater to the said needs.

The importance of this factor should never be underestimated as it is the one factor that separates the successes and failures of any business.



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What They Want

Making it the company mission to understand, cater and design products or services to fit the findings should at the fore front of each business plan.

During the process of garnering a stable and continuous customer base one should consider the reasons the customers keep coming back for the said product or service.

Some of these reasons may include customer satisfaction of the item, pricing of the item, after sales services provided, good and prompt attention given to the customers and many others.

Thus in gaining this knowledge the company can then actively and continuously strive to provide the entire above element at an always improving state.

Some of the ways one can get the information needed to keep the customer satisfied is as follows:

• Encourage the customers to always feedback whether of a positive nature or a negative nature, and when this feedback is received ensure that is given the due attention it was initially promised.

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• Monitor the general sentiments regarding the product, company or service being provided or sold. By using the various tools available on the internet this task is not only easy but its accessibility is worldwide.

• Take the trouble to research and improve on the item being advertised and ensure they stay innovative and relevant.

• Learn from employees who are indirect contact with the customer base about their reasons for their loyalty or lack thereof.

Blogging Traffic

Discover The Little-Known Secrets Of Blogging Free Website Traffic From Blogs! 

 Alvin Phang - CEO of www.GatherSuccess.com

 Top 5 Secrets To Blogging 

I have been blogging for almost 4 months now, generating quite a number of visitors lately and I am very happy with my Alexa ranking as it just increased again to 134,000. Thanks guys for your kind support =)  

I noticed when I teach my students there are few guidelines that many people fail to do for their blogs so I decided to write an article on my top 5 secrets to creating a good blog! 

No. 1 Secret - CONTENT IS KING 

Yes, you hear me right. Content is the most important in creating any blog. Without good content, will readers actually bother to come back to read your site? Not only must you have good content but it must be of quality content and do not be too concern about how your blog layout looks like! Anyway people come to your site for the content not to see your nice graphics.

Be as honest as you get in your articles. Do not be afraid to share your ideas in your comments, in fact I realized that the more honest and open I was in my articles, the more people were sharing my information around the Internet. 

No. 2 Secret - Find A Good Niche Topic 

Before, you go out there and setup your domain or blog. You first have to decide what topic you want your blog to talk about? Let’s say you are good at playing soccer and you want to focus on writing about soccer related topics. Find a good niche market on the internet to find out what people like to know about soccer and create a blog or site based on soccer only! 

Example, my site www.gathersuccess.com it focuses mainly on helping others to improve on their sites with topics related to Internet Marketing. Why niche topic? Well the more targeted your topic is the more targeted your readers on your site will be.

Meaning those who visit your site often are the people that are generally interested to know about the topic you want to share!  
So like me, I talk most of the time of topics related on Internet Marketing. Have you ever seen me write an article about dog food and soccer?  

No. 3 Secret - Forums  

Go to forums! Join communities that are related to your topics and share information in those forums, put your signature link in your forum postings to provide more information of your site. This will give you free traffic from visiting forum members. 

No. 4 Secret - Install Feedburner 

If you have a blog, and you’re not getting indexed by Google. You must install FeedBurner to your site. FeedBurner will help you announce to search engines what you have posted on to your blog to allow RSS readers to subscribe to your site and at the same time the search engine will index your entries on your site! More about feedburner at www.feedburner.com

No. 5 Secret - Register with Technorati.com

Because my website is not only a site but it is also a blog, I can submit my site to Blog Search Engine. One very famous Blog search engine you must know is Technorati.com. I got free traffic coming from Technorati.com every time I post something up onto my blog. It’s VERY useful. Register your blog at www.Technorati.com.

These are my top 5 secrets that I use and implement on my site, I hope you’ll do the same to yours too =) If you have not started a blog and have no clue on where to start, I have actually created a set of videos to help you create a blog in just 10 minutes at www.BlogCashGuide.com . Do take a look, it’s 100% FREE =) 

The Eight Steps to Success in Business

The steps that I about to introduce applies to all businesses whether they’re offline or online. What I’m about to share is what I’ve learnt from my past 2 years in business.  
Step 1: Find a large and easy to reach niche market 
90% of businesses that I have come across (including my first business which was a flea market) are always looking for the hottest product to sell.  
In actual fact, that’s the No.1 mistake that most entrepreneur make when they first start out! Instead of looking for a hot product to sell you should actually look for a large and easy to reach niche market where there is a huge demand.  

Below is definition of Niche Market 

Step 1: Niche Market = High Demand / Suppliers Example: Blue Cars = 10,000 (demand) / 100 (suppliers)  

The bigger the amount the better it is as it will be more niche where you will have less competitors. 

Step 2: Find a Product or Service the niche market demands for! 
We talk about Niche Market but how do you find the product or service that the niche market is looking for?  

Here are some of the ways: - Survey your customers - Forum Postings - Blogs - Search Engines - Discussions  
Basically, this allows you to know what people are looking for. All you have to do is get in and tell them you offer that service or product. 

Step 3: Setup your store front 

After you have found your niche market and product you like to offer. You need to setup your store front so that your customers know where to find you when they want the product from you. 
Listed below are some of the various store front options: - Internet Website (Recommended as its very low cost) - Rent a shop at a major shopping center - Open Flea / Bazaars markets - Auction (Ebay, Yahoo Auctions) 

Step 4. Have a great Sales Team 

You have your store, you have your market and product but most importantly you need a great Sales Team. Why is that so because your sales team is the one that will determine your sales in your business. 

With a strong sales team, no matter what product or service you sell the team will help grow your business better without you worrying too much. 

Here are some various sales teams that are available: 
- Employ sales people - Get affiliates to work with you based on commissions - Online Sales Man (Website Sales copy – Recommended low cost) 

Step 5. Create a database to collect email addresses 

Why email address? Well do you need to pay anything to send an email? No, right? Thus when ever you have a customer you would want to collect three details from them. 1st is their email address and 2nd is that name and lastly their contact number.  

With these three details, you can follow up with your current customers to get repeated sales from your customers and build credibility with them. 

Step 6. Have a great sales process 

Make your payment matters as easy as possible. You do not want to make your customer go through so many steps just to make a payment for you.  

 Step 7. Make your business scalable 

You would want your business to be scalble  Niche Market able so that you can expand your business. There are various ways to scale your business. Here are some of the ways. 

- Franchise your business - Allow affiliates programs in your business - Do joint ventures with other businesses  

Step 8. Back end, back end and back end!

The most important step of all is back end! You want to keep repeating your processes with your customers again and again with your back end follow-ups and services.  

This is where most people find it hard to do as the temptation to fail in this step is rather high as many don’t really do back end and follow-up with customers. 

Once all the steps are in process you just need to keep on testing your strategies that you have used in your business until you find the right one that works and keep doing it to be successful. 

Recently, I have pretty busy doing SEO and stuff and I was seriously surprised at the response I got and it is working like crazy! I truly believe in the law of attraction and it truly has attracted a lot of people to me! 

I have been asking to know more about SEO and many unknown serious marketers online came to me and said hi! And if you know me, for those who contact me always, I will always try to find a way to promote either the person, that is just me - I like to share the love of others.. 

So what did I learn from these SEO experts who now are my close friends! I think if they’re reading this I think they will kill me for telling because what they told me were their trade secrets. 

Actually, everyone knows about this method if they just Google for it, but hearing their experience and getting high demand searches on Google. I was sure what they told me was real and truth! 

Have you been busy doing article submissions and don’t know why it seems the keyword you’re targeting does not seem to get ranked highly? Want to know why? You got to email me to find out.. haha.. I just found the key to why some of my keywords are not rank high and it so simple but yet people do the hard way! 

Also… I have been secretly using a free tool and I really love it! You want a shortcut to get high page rank keywords? Well instead of you writing a long article and put it on article directories which what many people are doing why not use blog comments?  

Yep you heard me right, blog comments can create back links too! And I found this tool here call Blog Comment and the interesting part is that this tool searches Wordpress blog by its keywords. 

But wait here is the more interesting part, it also shows you the blogs’ PR ranks. So what can you do with that? Comment in the blog and say HI! and back link back to your site in the comment!  
To download Blog Comment just go to 
http://www.gathersuccess.com/wpcontent/uploads/2007/04/blogcommentorlite.zip

Web 2.0 PLR

81. Create a weekly podcast that is distributed on the iTunes store 82. Produce short screencasts or PowerPoint videos and publish the video across the web using TubeMogul or TrafficGeyser 
83. Use the material for a BlogTalkRadio internet radio show 
84. Create step by step video tutorials using Jing or Camtasia 
85. Pre-load an iPod with audio, video, and eBook content, then sell it 
86. Develop an iPhone app
87. Develop a Facebook application 
88. Create a slideshow and share it on Slideshare
Other Creative Approaches
89. Inspire yourself by using the PLR.me wallpapers as your computer background on YOUR computer 
90. Use the PLR wallpapers to add some flair to reports 
91. Create a calendar with wallpaper graphics and motivational quotes 
92. Translate the text and publish it as a book in your native language 
93. Combine the content with interviews with industry experts to give your clients something they can really sink their teeth into 
94. Collaborate with other business-minded individuals and create unique packages and programs for sale 
95. Reorganize the materials to create a more persuasive sales letter 96. Use the materials as inspiration for poetry, stories, or fables 
97. Create pamphlets and brochures advertising your products and services 
98. Use the content for postcards or mailers 
99. Prepare a media kit promoting your business 
100. Use the material as talking points. When the media or your clients call you, you’ll be ready. 
101. Use the content as a market research and brainstorming tool
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Product Creation PLR

50. Add the content to a membership site 
51. “Niche-ify” the content, making it hyper-targeted to a sub-niche – like stay at home moms, students, or grade school teachers. 
52. Create a print-on-demand book using a service like Lulu 
53. Develop a companion worksheet, checklist, spreadsheet, or cheat sheet 
54. Create a web-based e-course. Learn more about creating e-courses with the List Profit System 
55. Package the content as a complete home study course 
56. Incorporate the content as part of other products
57. Create and sell a training guide to corporations or small businesses 
58. Create a coffee table book with inspiring images using PLR images or wallpapers 
59. Run a paid teleseminar training series 
60. Get your teleseminar transcribed, then sell it as an eBook or course 
61. Create a “how-to” video course with snippets from the materials and PLR graphics. Post samples of the video on YouTube to promote the course 
62. Program a 365-day email autoresponder as an automated self-guided email coaching program. Check out: Aweber or 1ShoppingCart 
63. Use PLR wallpapers to create on-demand physical products like mugs, magnets, stickers, and other items with CafePress, Arts Now or Lulu 
64. Create prints or posters with online printing services that you can sell on-demand without inventory 
65. Create mini guide books or booklets to inform, inspire, or educate others 
66. Use PLR affirmations, quotes, and snippets from the materials to create coasters, business cards, or post-it notes with your contact details 
67. Record the text as an MP3 audio book and sell the recording 
68. Rent a booth at a trade show and sell the physical products you created using the content 
69. Create videos and audio content on CD or DVD 
70. Record subliminal audio with the PLR affirmations, reflections, or motivating quotes. Even record a personalized message at the beginning of the track for a premium price
71. Offer digital versions of your product as an upsell on a branded USB key. Learn more about creating upsells with The Upsell Report 
72. Produce illustrations, comics, or graphic novels based on the content 
73. Develop tiered packages or memberships that offer different content for the different tiers 
74. Develop a “Dummies” type guide 
75. Create a full fledged website and flip it for profit 
76. Record an audio book version and sell it on the iTunes and Amazon stores 
77. Create attractive t-shirts and badges and sell them 
78. Develop flash cards for students or parents 
79. Create greeting cards with the PLR graphics, quotes or affirmations 
80. Use the materials to create landing pages for affiliate products 

Loyalty Building

28. Send snippets of content as an email tip to encourage customer to return to your website 

29. Give away a “free report” to boost the size of your mailing list. Learn more about starting a Small Reports Business with Small Reports Fortune 

30. Use the content to address any objections you’ve faced when selling your products or services 

31. Use the content as a free giveaway for your long-time customers 

32. Use the material as an unannounced bonus for buying your products 

33. Host a “town hall” meeting or teleseminar and use the materials to facilitate the discussion 

34. Add recent stats, figures, charts, or graphs to the content to boost authority 

35. Create a Wiki to encourage your visitors to collaborate and contribute to your vision. Use a free service like Wet Paint 

36. Develop a social networking site discussing topics relevant to your niche. Use software like Buddy Press or Ning 

37. Build a Facebook page, separate from your profile, that uses the materials.  You will be able to interact with your customers on a whole new level 

38. Use the content in your in-person workshops and seminars 

39. Use the content as a topic of conversation for coaching calls 

40. Send out a printed newsletter to your clients using the materials 41. Print out the professionally designed materials and include it when you ship physical products as a bonus

42. Create viral quizzes with the content to test your audience’s knowledge 
43. Create a role-playing activity at a workshop 
44. Custom brand the PLR desktop wallpapers and give them away to your clients so your logo will be on their computer at all times 45. Use the material as a gift for long-time clients 
46. Make attractive promotional bookmarks to surprise buyers with purchase of your physical products and books 
47. Create a business card tip sheet with your contact information on one side 
48. Tweak an article and submit it on another blog as a guest post 49. Re-write the article and submit it to newspapers or magazines 

101 ways to use PLR

Next few post I will cover where you can get best PLR.

Traffic Generation Strategies

1. Post it to your website or personal blog 

2. Create an automated blog that auto-posts a mix of PLR content and scraped content. Check out: AutoBlogged and PLR to Wordpress 
3. Rewrite the content yourself or hire a rewrites to re-purpose and reuse the content 
4. Create a FAQ, Q&A, or informational “how-to” page based on the material 
5. Split eBooks or long articles into several smaller articles and blog posts 
6. Translate the content into other languages to capture international visitors 
7. Critique the content or write your own commentary by playing the devil’s advocate 
8. Spin an article into a 10 Best” list 
9. Tweak the content so it’s relevant to current events or celebrity stories 
10. Use the material as a promotional tool for your affiliates. If it’s a PDF, then use Viral PDF to allow affiliates to custom brand their affiliate link in the PDF. Learn more about creating freebies for affiliates with Sales Army Secrets 
11. Respond to “Yahoo! Answers” questions and discussions using the materials 
12. Answer questions on discussion forums using the content as a basis
13. Take your knowledge to a local talk radio show 
14. Start new “feeder” websites and blogs dedicated to specific niches and affiliate products that link back to your “money” pages. 15. Use the material to create Adsense sites 
16. Use the content to promote an eBay store 
17. Rewrite to create Squidoo Lenses 18. Create a Hub Page 
19. Rewrite and post on a Blogger.com or Wordpress.com blog 
20. Compile the information as a report with your affiliate links embedded in the PDF. Submit to Scribd 
21. Transform generic niche articles into a different niche by swapping the essential keywords and tweaking the materials 
22. Create a discussion forum where you post new content to be discussed every day 
23. Snip the content and post the short blurbs on Twitter 
24. Rewrite the material as a press release 
25. Write a manifesto to spread your ideas and name all over the ‘net 
26. Create a “what to look for...” buyer’s guide to help people make buying decisions. 
27. Rewrite the content from the perspective of your child, dog, parrot, or mother – if it’s funny enough, it may go viral!