I’m going to share with you a tip to writing articles. I’m going to share with you a four step sequence that gets me in such a state almost every time. Here it is:

1. Clarity
2. Leverage
3. Confusion
4. Power

Clarity

First, I ask myself “What do I really want to get out of this, and whats stopping me right now from getting it?”. Almost every time I tell myself that I just want to write productively for six hours and enjoy doing it. Usually I find whats stopping me is I am focusing on the negatives of article writing instead of the positives. I realize that if I want to enjoy the process, I need to think of all the benefits I get from writing articles. This gets me pumped up. This means I’m ready for the next step.

Leverage

It’s not enough to realize what I want, and how to get it. I have to actually feel compelled to take action on this information. Here’s how I do it. First, I think of how painful it would be if everyday I did something I didn’t enjoy doing. I imagine how poor of a quality of life I would have if I never broke through resistance, and had a weak will. Scary! Then, I imagine how great it would be if I could work all day while having a smile on my face and feeling good about myself. I also think about how cultivating this habit will improve other areas of my life.

What I have essentially done is changed how I feel about the task at hand. I’ve deliberately thought about how bad it would be to not change my state, and how good it will be to change my state to get what I want. It’s the old pain/pleasure principle. Just doing these two steps alone will make the article writing process much easier. But let’s not just stop there.

Confusion

Obviously, I linked negative feelings to writing for 6 hours. I realized I wanted to enjoy the process instead. I realized how much pleasure I would gain from it, and how much pain I would avoid if I made it happen. But wouldn’t it be great if I completely removed the negative feelings from my mind? Yes it would. Here’s how I do it instantly. You can do the same, and you’ll find you automatically start laughing and have a smile on your face when you sit down to write your article. First, I picture myself sitting at my desk, writing my articles. Then I picture myself with clown makeup on, writing the articles. Then I create a picture of me writing the articles upside down, on the ceiling. In my mind I imagine doing cartwheels at breakneck speed, shouting out the words to an article, birds flying in the window whispering research into my ear, and any other crazy scenarios I can come up with.

Every time I do this, it makes me chuckle. I have now changed my association of sitting down and writing an article from dread to comedy. When I actually go to sit down and write the article, I am no longer thinking it will be tedious – because the silly pictures pop into my head, and makes me laugh. I have created a whole new feeling to associate with writing articles. Now there’s only one thing left to do.

Power

It’s sufficient to create confusion to laugh at the process instead of dread it. But wouldn’t it be even better if, when you sit down to write your articles, you felt powerful? Imagine what it would be like if every time you wrote an article you increased your sense of fulfillment in life?

The trick is after you have created confusion about the pain and pleasure you link to the task at hand, you can now replace it with a new, empowering alternative. I use a metaphor. I imagine that every word I write is a brick, which is building a golden pyramid. Each article presents another story on this pyramid. At the top of the pyramid I see my ideal self. Each article helps bring me closer to my ideal self. Each article is a way for me to strengthen my discipline, commitment, will power and focus. Each article also generates me money, which I can use to invest in other business opportunities, to invest in my own personal development, or just to spend on things that bring me joy in life.

Review of the Technique

First, I decide what I want to get out of writing my articles. The ability to work all day and feel happy. Next, I motivate myself to actually want to strive to achieve this, by thinking about how pleasurable it would be to do so, and how painful it would be to not do so. Then I interrupt the feelings I currently link to the process at hand, by thinking of a ridiculous and silly picture. This “unlinks” any negative feelings I would have about setting down and writing. What is left is for me to “relink” my feelings to something extremely positive, and empowering, so I feel with each article I write, I fulfill my sense of purpose.

I want you to know something. The first few times I tried doing this, it didn’t really work. That was because it was a new process I wasn’t used to. I didn’t have a “golden triangle” metaphor yet created, I wasn’t sure how to create confusion (by thinking of a funny picture), and part of me was skeptical that it would even work. But whenever I try something new, I always make a 7 day commitment. I just say, “For the next seven days, I am going to try this. I don’t care if it works or not. I am just going to do it whole heartedly for the next 7 days, and then evaluate its usefulness.” After trying this process for three days, I started getting good at it. By the end of the week, It would work for me almost every time.

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RentACoder is a place where software buyers and software coders meet to do business. RentACoder was founded and is owned by Ian Ippolito. He is the Chief Executive Officer and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Central Florida. The offices are located in Tampa, Florida, USA.

Doing business in RentACoder is sheer simplicity. Buyers simply post their requirements on the site and coders (programmers and writers) make a bid for these requirements. The buyer hires the coder who they feel is best qualified and pays them when the job is completed. Think of RentACoder as a giant online marketplace where people with software needs find coders to meet those needs. It provides excellent opportunities for software programmers and freelance writers to put their hard-earned skills to use and earn cash. One of the marvelous things, writers can actually find work and get paid without ever leaving the comfort of their home.

How much can a coder make?

Fees vary depending on the nature and scope of the particular project. The smaller jobs can cost $20 or less while the larger jobs can pay you thousands of dollars. The sky is the limit in RentACoder. You get paid according to your skill level and your capacity and readiness to work hard and deliver the goods on time.

How do I get paid?

One of the best things about RentACoder is that they take care of the money side of your business transactions with buyers. They have a marvelous instrument called “Safe Project Escrow” which assures coders that they will be paid. Here is how it works: Let’s say a buyer selects your bid from the dozens of bids received. After approving your bid, the buyer puts the agreed upon amount in escrow, meaning the funds are automatically forwarded to the RentACoder website. Once your work is complete and the buyer approves and accepts it, the funds are released to you. Payment is usually sent a few days (two or three) after your selected payment period. There are three payment options on RentACoder:

(1) Snail Mail Check
(2) Western Union
(3) Pay Pal

How can I improve my chances of getting future work?

Put your best foot forward

When you sign up to RentACoder, there is a portion in the sign-up procedure that asks for your resume. Unfortunately, a lot of newcomers do not give enough attention to their resume. This is a major mistake. At the beginning and with no track record on the site whatsoever, your resume is one of the few things that buyers can study to assess your capability to do their job. When writing your resume, you should remember to be clear and concise. After all, you are a writer and clarity and brevity should be two of your strongest points. Don’t simply put down a laundry list of past positions and tasks you have handled in your career. Give brief descriptions to each of them, particularly about the writing aspect of that particular job.

Prepare an intriguing bid letter

Every time you make a bid for a project, you will have to write a bid letter. Make sure the first line in the bid letter catches the attention of the buyer. Make it lucrative and interesting. Another thing that buyers look for is speed and efficiency. Let the buyer know that you can tackle their particular job efficiently and quickly. Give them a firm commitment about meeting the deadline and assure them that you will be communicating with them regularly in the course of the job, if only to give them updates.

Send buyers your best samples

Although not every buyer requires coders to send samples when they bid for a project, it is always best to send them samples anyway. Your samples will give buyers an idea of how you write and whether your particular style fits their project.

At the beginning, aim low and sacrifice income

The most difficult time to get jobs on RentACoder is at the beginning when you are new to the site. That is because you are an unknown entity, with no track record on RentACoder whatsoever. You may have a glowing resume and impressive samples, but many coders want to know how you work given the parameters and conditions of RentACoder. For this reason your first priority should be getting a few jobs under your belt. Don’t disregard the small projects (small pay, small deliverables, etc.). You may also bid for the major projects but, as a newbie, your chances of getting the smaller jobs are better. Initially, your objective will be to establish a track record. Start with some simple projects that you can do easily. Don’t make the size of the payment a priority. In fact, you will be much better off if you don’t pay any attention to the payment at all. Once you have a number of projects under your belt – and potential buyers will take note of that – they are more likely to regard you favorably because you have a history of delivering the goods.

Deliver quality work

In every job you do always give the buyer your best work. There are two reasons for this. First, you make the buyer happy and increase the likelihood that they will use you again for future projects. Second, the buyer will give you a good rating after completing the job. On RentACoder, a coder’s rating is one of the main factors that buyers consider when handing out jobs.

Establish a good reputation

Aside from ratings, buyers also post comments on their coder’s work after they have completed the job. These comments are another thing that buyers look at since they convey much more than what a numerical rating can say. For instance, getting a 10 rating will tell prospective clients that you have satisfied your previous customers but the comments portion is where they will learn about your professionalism, attitude and working style.

Exhibit versatility

Since the projects on RentACoder run the gamut of practically any subject imaginable, it always pays to exhibit versatility to prospective buyers. Show them you can successfully write about a wide range of topics and that you can adapt different writing styles, be it serious, humorous, or provocative.

Meet all your deadlines

Most of the buyers on RentACoder have deadlines and they expect the coders they hire to deliver the work within the agreed-on deadline. This is a basic requirement for any professional writer. Deadlines have to be regarded as almost sacred. No one wants to hire an undependable writer. If you want to be regarded as a professional and paid like a professional, you have to act like a professional and meeting your deadlines is part of that package.

Give regular updates

In line with being a professional, freelance writers must also give their clients regular updates about how the work is progressing. Buyers will always want to know where their project stands. Most of the time, they just need to know that the writing is going smoothly and that you, the writer, will have no trouble meeting the deadline. However, they also want to know about any problems you may encounter, especially if these problems will hamper you from meeting the deadline or delivering quality work.

Be honest

As a professional writer, never assume to know what the buyer wants if you are unsure about it. If you are not clear about something, ask. Don’t go ahead and write about something if you are not absolutely sure about what your buyer expects. If you do and you are wrong, the buyer may ask you to rewrite the project all over again.

Make suggestions

Making suggestions tells the buyer that you have given their work some serious thought and they will appreciate the gesture.

Go the extra mile

This is a general rule for success in virtually every human endeavor. Go the extra mile and deliver more than what is expected. This does not mean writing more articles than the buyer wants. What it does mean is proofreading your work and putting in the extra time it takes to make necessary revisions. Do everything you can to insure that the work you submit is impeccable and represents your best work.

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Do you have some apprehension about your marketability? Do you wonder if you have what it takes to do freelance work? The best part of freelancing is that there is a niche for almost every skill. If you are good the demands upon your skills will be greater than the supply you can produce, you can identify your skills and make the most of them for the greatest profit.

How to make contacts and find freelance jobs? The immediate answer is technology. The days of typewriters are gone. The days of waiting for a response from a client by postal service are gone. We live in a world of modern technology. Documents can be written, saved, and transmitted over thousands of miles in just a few short seconds. Words can reach thousands of people instantly. There is email now. In fact, you can chat online with clients on a real time basis. Information is easy to find, store, and send. That is why you can live anywhere you like as a freelancer. You are not confined to any one geographical address as long as some type of internet access is available.

Another advantage of modern technology is the ability for freelancers and their clients to find one another. There are many websites where a client can post a job and a freelancer can instantly respond to it. Again, geographical distance is not an issue. A client can be in Japan and the freelancer can be in sunny Florida and they can have a successful partnership agreement. The answer to global connections and opportunities is technology. This allows a freelancer to work for clients around the world. This opens a multitude of opportunities to find freelance work.

What sort of niches are out there for freelancers? The possibilities are endless. I have listed some of the more common niches. They are like Writing, Web design, Voice-Over Work, Video and Screen Capture Video, Research, Help Desk Management, Engineering and Architecture, Marketing, Advertising, Legal and Paralegal, Translation, Training and Development, Graphic Design and Art, Software Development and Programming, Management and Finance. This is by no means a complete list. Rather it is a general overview of common areas in which people freelance. Find your own niche and go with it. The advantage of finding yours in the areas mentioned is that there are thousands of jobs posted everyday.

People who have created a full time prosperous career in freelancing did not jump into it blindfolded. They had a plan. They executed the plan and now they are reaping the benefits. The plan started with research. Reading this book is a good beginning. Next, start looking around. See how many freelance jobs in your area of expertise are on the internet. Below are a number of sites you can look into:

• Allfreelance.com
• Aquent.com
• Elance.com
• Craigslist.org
• RentACoder.com
• Ifreelance.com
• Bullhorn.com
• Guru.com
• Monster.com
• Sologig.com

Some of these sites charge for access, others are more like bulletin boards. Look around and see if your skills match with any of the jobs posted. Even if you don’t see many jobs requiring your skills, don’t give up. It could mean that your niche is in an untapped area. If so, Congratulations! This means that you will have a lot less competition. When you find various jobs that match your skills, look at how much these jobs pay. The amounts will vary. As clients become familiar with your work and you build trust and a reputation, you can begin to demand more money.

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Hide affiliate links helps you to make more sales in your affiliate program. Why you need to hide your affiliate links ? If your link looks like an affiliate link such as www.youraffiliateproductpage/ref=123456, some your visitors may not click on your link or they only use straight link to the main URL of the link. Here some tips how to cloak or hide your affiliate link:

Hide affiliate links using php script to make redirection

Method 1

<html>
<head>
<title>Please wait! Loading …</title>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1;URL=http://YourAffiliateLinkHere.com
<script>
url=’http://YourAffiliateLinkHere.com;
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); }
else { top.location.href=url; }
</script>
</head>
<body>Please wait! Loading …..
</body>
</html>

You can change 1 with 2 or 3 that mean how long (in second) your page make redirection to your affiliate site after your page load.

Method 2

<?php header(“location: http:// www .YourAffiliateLinkHere”); ?>

Create one php file with this code and rename it anything you like for example cheapjewelry.php and upload it to your root folder into your site using ftp software. So your affiliate link like this:

http://YourWebsite.com/cheapjewelry.php

Hide affiliate links using a zero-frame code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<title>YourAffiliateTitle</title>
<META name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>
</head><frameset rows=”100%,*” border=”0″>
<frame src=”http:// www .YourAffiliateLinkHere” frameborder=”0″ />
<frame frameborder=”0″ noresize />
</frameset> document.removeEventListener(‘click, clickHandler, true);
</html>

Hide affiliate links using htaccess

This technique easy to do just adding this code into your htaccess file.

redirect 301 /YourAffiliateName http://YourAffiliateLink

For example add this code to your htaccess file:

redirect 301 /seobook http://www.seobook.com/1528.html

Your affiliate in your website look like this:

http://MyWebsiteName/seobook

Hide affiliate links using javascript
The code sends the browser into your affiliate website.

<script type=”text/javascript”>window.location=”http:// www .YourAffiliateLinkHere”;</script>

Hide affiliate link using html

<html>
<head>
<title>YourAffiliateProductName</title>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://YourAffiliateLinkHere”>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Redirecting, please wait or click here:<br />
<a href=”http://YourAffiliateLinkHere”>YourAffiliateProductName</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>

Affiliate link generator freeware

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Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read other users updates their posts. Users can receive updates via the instant messaging, Twitter website, SMS, email, RSS or through an application. Twitter began as a research and development project inside San Francisco start-up company Obvious in March 2006. If you search in google or yahoo, you can find many Twitter tools out there that people use to help manage their Twitter account. Below some Usefull Twitter Tools that you can try it:

www.twhirl.org – A desktop app which allows you to do simultaneously connect to Twitter, Friendfeed, and seesmic accounts, shortens long URLs, allows you to post pictures to Twitpic, search Tweets, timeline filtering, and notifies you whenever you get a new message.

www.tweetlater.com – Tells you when someone signs up to follow you, gives you the option of sending them a custom thank you message, also gives you the option of automatically following them back. Also allows you to write a Tweet or series of Tweets but have it posted later.

www.ping.fm – Current secret code to sign up is “Legend of Ping.” If you post using ping.fm you can also sign up to simultaneously post to Twitter, Friendfeed, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, Brightkite, and about a dozen other social networking microblog type sites. This allows you to enormously increase your audience and saves a huge amount of time. You still need to go to each site and check your messages and interact with people, if you want to grow your customer base on those sites.

www.twitbin.com – You can send and receive messages via Twitter in your firefox Browser.

www.twitpic.com – You can post pictures to Twitpic through your phone, twitpic’s API, or through the Twitter site, and people can click on a link on your Twitter post and see your pictures.

www.twitdir.com – Find your friends on Twitter, find who are the most popular people on Twitter, find who follows the most people on Twitter.

search.twitter.com - Search the Twitterverse to find out what people are talking about right this minute on Twitter.

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The first step to creating your own information product is to figure out what people want to know about your niche. Think back to when you first started your business, what questions did you have? Let’s say that you own a business selling floral arrangements created from silk flowers, here are a few questions that people may want answers to:

• How do I make my own arrangements?
• Where is the best place to buy the items needed to make them?
• How do I preserve them to last over the years?
• How should they be cleaned?
• How can I start a floral arrangement business?

All these questions can be answered in one information product like an ebook ( electronic book) , but they can also be split up into a few different ones.

Write an ebook

Using your business knowledge that will teach other people how to start their own floral arrangement business. You can tell them everything they need to know about how to get started, and even provide them with a bonus resource sheet on where they can buy the best items for the best prices.

Write a step by step e course

Split it up into different lessons that teach people how to make their own silk floral arrangements. Once you have the course written, the rest is automated. Your visitor can sign up, pay for the course, and your autoresponder will automatically send them the lessons based on the schedule you have set up.

Promote through freebies

If you want to answer the questions about preservation and cleaning, then write up a tip sheet or small report and give it away to people who sign up for your newsletter. A 5 day e-course is another way to do this, and you will benefit in more than one way. First, youve captured your visitor and placed them on your mailing list and will be able to promote your business to them, but you’re also promoting your information product within the tip sheet, e course, or small report that they are reading.

How To Find Ideas

If you have a good idea of what people within your niche want, but youre having a hard time nailing down specific topic ideas, don’t worry, there are a few things you can do.

Amazon.com

This website contains a wealth of ideas that you can implement into information products.  Imagine the ideas that will flow after you use Amazon! Use the titles to create your own information on the same topic.

Search Engines

If you’re interested in silk wedding flower arrangements as a topic, but you’re not sure where to head with it, do a quick search and scan the listings to see if anything grabs your attention. You could create an entire line of how to e books that will teach brides to be, how to make silk flower arrangements for various wedding themes (country, Victorian, medieval, fairy tale weddings, winter wonderland, etc.).

Article Directories

By reading what other people are writing about within your niche you can create a large list of topic ideas.

Magazines & Books

Flip through your favorite magazines and books written about your niche, and make a note of anything that catches your attention. Headlines are particularly interesting and can spark some great ideas. Remember, when it comes to creating your own information product, you don’t have to “reinvent the wheel,” find out what others are doing that has proven successful and follow their lead.

Surveys

This a widely used form of conducting market research for online products because it is inexpensive (or free), and it can be sent out to your customers through email. If you opt to do a survey, make sure you keep the questions simple and don’t list more than 10. Otherwise, you run the risk of overwhelming them and taking up too much of their time. By keeping it short and sweet, your response rate is likely to be much
better.

Online Research

By using a keyword research tool like wordtracker.com, you can find out how many people are looking for information on your topic. So if you were to type in “silk floral arrangements,” it will tell you exactly how many people are typing that keyword into the search engines. If a lot of people are looking for information on your topic, then it may be worth creating an information product based on it.

Experiment

Test your information product by giving out freebies. You can do this in the form of a free small report or ecourse to test the waters before you create a large information product on your topic. Doing so will give you an idea of how many people are downloading your report or signing up for your free e course. If it turns out to be wildly popular, then an in-depth information product will likely prove to be just as successful.

Tracking

Software programs can tell you where your customers are going on your website, what they are doing, what they buy, and how long they stay. One way to use this method is to set up a category on your site with some information on your topic, and use your software program to find out how many people are going to that section and how long they are staying there. It will give you an idea of how much of your traffic is interested in that topic.

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As an online freelancer, you will enjoy a number of benefits. One of the good benefits is that you don’t need to go anywhere to make money and you are working on your own time schedule. Sounds pretty good huh? Interested to make money as a freelancer? Read on to find out what are the freelance opportunities you can choose.

Writing

Many websites need new and fresh articles. The owners of the website aren’t able to write all the new articles they want. So, they search on the Internet to find the article writers that can help them. If you are the kind of people that like to write, then article writing can be your long-term Internet freelance career. The demand for article is always huge. With consistent marketing effort, you can find a lot of people who will hire you to write for them.

Copywriting

A copywriter is someone who is responsible for writing the Internet sales letters and sales advertisements. A copywriter earns a good amount of money every time completed a copywriting project. It is a lucrative freelance career. But, you need more than a good writing skill to become a copywriter. As you are going to need to write a sale letter that can persuade the customers of your clients to make purchase, you will got to have specialized knowledge in writing sale copy. You will probably need to go through a formal training before you can become a copywriter.

Programming

Are you an information technology graduate who has bored on working for others? If the answer is yes, you may think about starting your own programming service business. There are a lot of programming related projects posted on the freelance websites like elance.com and guru.com, you can go to these sites and bid for the projects you’re interested. You set your own price and compete with other programmers for a project. But, since you already have experience in this field, you will have a good chance in winning a project.

Web Designing

This job is suitable for people who have training in web development. Both the companies and the individuals need website when they want to publish information on the Internet. Most of them don’t know how to build one and they will sure employ someone to do it for them. So, you can make a living by providing your web design service to them. The customers will have plenty of requests on how they want their website look like. So, you need to be flexible enough to meet all their requests.

Office Support and Accounting Services

Even works like data entry, medical transcription and book keeping can be found in freelance sites.  A lot of companies are outsourcing their admin and accounting works to others nowadays. If you can find a few companies that want to use your service for long term, then it is possible to make a consistent income in these fields.

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The best way to look at your business blog is to see it as both a marketing tool and a relationship building activity, which a decided preference given to relationships first and marketing second. You can promote your business on your blog and your readers will be responsive to your offers when they believe that you have approached them as a compatriot, a fellow member of their community. If you set out to be a guru, you probably won’t be received as one. But if you set out to share top notch resources and opinions naturally and consistently, you may soon be received as a thought leader. Let it come naturally. Some ideas you can post on your blog look like this:

• Share industry news.
• Professional accolades.
• Answer frequently asked pre-sales questions.
• Your products and services.
• Brag about a client’s accomplishments.
• Share articles and statistics.
• Comment on business trends.
• Display your knowledge of industry history
• Share text or audio interviews with experts your market is interested in.

Some very successful bloggers post several times a day and some post just a few times a week. The more you blog, the more you’ll bring yourself back to reader’s minds so be sensitive to that. Don’t come back to the forefront of their thoughts with a boring post or they’ll think you’re boring! If youre blogging about your products and services and inviting readers to subscribe to your mailing list, your blog will consistently add to your bottom line. It can also be used to build a second stream of income through the promotion of affiliate programs. Unless you have a very diverse business, it isn’t possible to provide everything your market needs directly. There will be opportunities to recommend other products and services. If you can find an appropriate vendor who offers a percentage or flat fee commission for referrals, go for it!

Post recommendations when you discover them and also create a page on your blog where you update a list of common recommendations. Blog experts encourage you be transparent about your affiliate links and let your readers know that you will earn a commission if they act on your recommendation. You can mention this with every recommend or you can create a blanket disclosure policy statement, post it on a page and link to it on your side bar. If the recommendation is targeted your readers won’t mind and they will appreciate your honesty. Keep your ‘second stream’ posts in an appropriate ratio with your other posts or your readers will grow weary of them.

In order to be a great blogger, you have to leave your blog on a regular basis and go out to visit other people’s blogs. Search for blogs on similar topics and read recent posts. If you have something useful to add or you want to give them a quick kudos, leave a comment. In most cases you’ll be given space to share your own blog URL when you leave your remarks. Add your favorite blogs to your blog roll which is a list of links on your sidebar. Some of these bloggers will return the favor. You should take every opportunity to share the link to your blog. Add a link to your main page and include the URL in your email signature. If you’re active on Social Networking sites, many of them ask for your blog URL. If you find a blogger that you find really interesting you could invite them to be a guest blogger on your blog.

This means that they write a full post that you share in their name on your blog. They may invite you to be a guest blogger on their blog in return, but if they do not – be patient. The blog love will come back to you. Another way to share readers is to initiate a cross blog conversation where you carry on a one on one conversation, almost as if you were emailing each other privately, only you post the letters on your blogs so that readers have to follow both blogs in order to catch both sides of the story. Depending on your market and surrounding online community there are some other fun ways to cooperate with other bloggers through blog carnivals and cooperatives but there are many types of businesses that would not be served well through participation in these projects so use your best judgment.

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A blog is an online journal driven by a script and a database. The blog script provides you with an online dashboard for typing in your journal entries and the database stores your words. Blog can be an online journal. It can be your web based diary. It can be your monthly web article archive or weekly newsletter repository. A blog can include whatever you would like it to include: words, sound, video, pictures, etc. It can be very personal or it can be quite businesslike. The odd little word is used in a variety of ways.

• I blogged today – means that you posted to your web log.
• Im blogging – could mean that you’re actively working on a blog post or that you blog on a regular basis.
• Im a blogger – may be used to let someone else know that you run a blog.

Why a Blog different from a regular website ?

A regular website is referring to a static HTML site, it is the database driven content that really sets it apart. There are many websites that have been built using a similar script/database (known as a Content Management System or CMS) and these sites have a lot in common with the blog since a blog script is essentially a CMS. The lines between blogs and other types of websites are blurring as more business owners choose to build their site with a CMS. While abounding blogs are advised to attending like a web journal, added and added are getting advised to attending like a approved website.

Because the agreeable you access into the blog is stored in a database, it can be broadcast as a abstracts feed. RSS is the feed that most blogs employ. (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.) With RSS, your content can be viewed through any RSS reader or aggregator on another website or on a computer or portable device. Addition account to getting database apprenticed is that the Software can acquire and affectation comments on specific posts and can ascertain if added sites hotlink to one of your blog posts.

What a Blog platform should I use?

There are several blog scripts available for use, including:

• Blogger – Free to use, can have a blog on their site or publish the content to your own hosting account.
• WordPress – Free to use, can have a blog on their site or grab the open source wordpress script for use on your own hosting account.
• Typepad – Paid service
• Squarespace – Paid service

There are bloggers using every type of blog script who swear by their tool of choice and list off great features that keep them loyal. So your own choice will be a personal one. For a business blog, a common choice is WordPress. WordPress is feature rich. It is an Open Source script. This means that anyone can take the source code and edit it. A community of creative and talented people are constantly improving the code and releasing updates for free use. WordPress is flexible. It works with a variety of plugins which are like hacks for the base code of the scrip. When uploaded and activated, they make the blog script work differently.

What should my Blog look like?

The look of a blog is determined by its theme. A theme is a set of page templates and a CSS style sheet. Together the templates and the style sheet tell the database how to display its data. This is what makes a blog so darn cool. At any time you can change the whole look of your website by simply changing the theme and there are hundreds of free themes and many paid themes available to choose from. The first customization task you can undertake is to have a custom header graphic created for the top of your blog. Some blogs dont use graphics at all, but youll probably want to carry your logo/brand over to your blog and the header is a good place to do it. Most important a blog must have:

• About Me page with background info about you.
• Links to your favorite blogs.
• A link to your RSS feed with instructions on how to use it.
• Mailing list sign up forum.
• Links that let readers submit you to Social Bookmarking sites.
• Widgets/Gadgets that promote Web 2.0 Social Network sites you belong to.

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Many marketeer will benefit from using multiple mailing lists. The goal is to develop a unique relationship with your subscribers. If you offer a variety of products, services or information, it can be very helpful to grow your business in future. Once you have their email address, you have the ability to market to them again and again. It is the start of a beautiful relationship. Take some time to think through what your goals are for your mailing list.

• What do you want subscribers to do?
• What information will you deliver to your subscribers?
• What do you want subscribers to learn about you?

If you host your mailing list on your own server you may run into the same problems with being labeled as a spam source. Yet many business owners do so without a lot of trouble by taking care to set up their list scripts so that email is sent out at a rate that flies below spam filter radar. To use a hosted solution since list management system owners have specialized in staying up to date with email deliverability issues and work very hard to stay in compliance so that more of your email reaches its intended destination. Another huge time saver, try to use Aweber where provides you with unlimited mailing lists. Aweber works in tandem with many popular internet marketing tools.

How do you decide what kind of mailing list to run?

Three basic list types. The Tips List is set up with evergreen content, which means that the emails are not date or season sensitive. You can load as many tips as you like into the autoresponder and set the delivery schedule according to your preference. If you want subscribers to receive one tip from you each week, you only need to provide 52 tips and the list will run without interruption for a whole year. And each subscriber will always get every tip from the very beginning of the series. You can add more tips as you desire. This is one of the easiest and most time savvy ways to run a mailing list. You can even outsource the tip writing to a ghostwriter and just add in personal remarks and personal messages to each one.

The Newsletter as I am defining it here is built around products or services and has as it’s primary purpose, the goal of promoting those products or services.

The Ezine is usually a more in depth publication offering a variety of articles and content centered on a topic of interest. You could prepare your Newsletter or the Ezine with evergreen content and load it into an autoresponder just like the Tips List but most often you will want to provide the content in a date sensitive fashion.

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