tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16270986636232643802024-03-14T01:32:10.550-07:00The Secret of Bloggingtembus langithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928072952762634010noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627098663623264380.post-60430359861854518372009-11-18T05:08:00.000-08:002009-12-19T22:38:46.327-08:00Top 5: Social Media Lessons from PodcampAZ<div style="text-align: justify;">From Wordpress to crowdsourcing to personal branding, fellow digital gurus shared their best tips at PodCampAZ. It started off with tips from a millenial talking about blogging and included the story behind the famed ShalerJump. Here’s the top 5 outtakes from a great PodCampAZ Conference:<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Wordpress Blog Development</b>. As blogging continues to expand it’s popularity (with over 250,000 bloggers on WordPress today), there are a few tips that can take your game to the next level. First off, you should update your Wordpress as the latest version has additional security. Top recommended plugins include All-in-One-SEO, Wickett-Twitter-Widget, Podpress, and WpTouch.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Personal Branding</b>. Fame is subjective: the second that one person that you don’t know, comes to admire you, you have begun your road to fame. Brian Shaler shared his tips on paving the road to a higher profile, “Be creative and interesting, do some experiments, and make it talk-worthy. Above all, actively manage your personal brand by giving people a way to summarize you in a memorable way. Taglines help.”<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Social Audience Segmentation</b>. Your social marketing efforts will work better if they are targeted and relevant. Of course, it’s a little more difficult to target in social media than it is using direct mail. To help you think about your audiences, you can use Forrester’s Groundswell tools (free) which is a social technographer based on audience participation in social media: creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, and inactives.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Crowdsourcing</b>. Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding can help lower the barriers to entry by providing you with greater access to resources. Ariel Ferreira of Local Motors shared tips on getting the community involved, “Have an open call to engage customers in making something together. You want to get active participants who are invested. Once the crowd is involved, you might be surprised at some of the outcomes, so keep an open mind.” For those who haven’t heard of Local Motors, they are a cool auto startup that crowdsources their design so that they are literally...<br />
</div>tembus langithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928072952762634010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627098663623264380.post-159271343868136512009-11-18T05:06:00.000-08:002009-12-19T22:39:15.350-08:00Do You Want to Make Money On The Internet?<div class="KonaBody" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">If you want to make money on the Internet, you can find themselves suddenly filled with tons of ideas, but none of the methods as they do. For example, you may have heard about creating a site, but you do not know exactly how to do it! Or you may have heard about blogs people online or write articles, but you don't know where you can leave them to earn money.<br />
All of these issues can be easily answered here: register online forums-there are many marketing forums online, you can enter (free), and you will find many professionals who can direct you to the answers to your questions. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Many of these forums for many blogs and useful posts that can show you the answers to most of your problems, for example, where submit articles as begin writing that is a child. This can save you a lot of grief to do so as soon as you will also know that fraud and what legitimate Web sites, as well as through members there.<br />
This will help you in such a huge path, so you will always do what you will actually make money on the internet, rather than be your hard earned money on a scam programs. Local marketing team-a lot of online marketers originator groups that they will meet with the local brainstorming, exchange of information, ask questions, get mentoring, and joint ventures. If you live in the big city, you will not be really difficult to find these groups and to join them.<br />
Don't be afraid to meet with Internet marketing, or afraid to ask your questions, because even in my experience, they are often extremely useful, and not deliberate on what you are. We all know that we start something, and this is the Next Best thing, coming to the forums, and often works particularly well, if you are looking for be offline business goes <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">online </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">business</span></span>. (Such as the creation of Web sites for clients and their business forum).<br />
Know the conditions-in addition to the above, if you really know the conditions that you want to do, and begin to learn as much as you can in your spare time about things, you will be easier to adapt to <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">earn </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">money </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">online</span></span> with programs you will find. You also need to obtain a better understanding of things when you are on the forums and meetings with Internet marketing, when they speak in real, and they can show you that each term actually means. It really makes things easier and it is best to do to receive information in advance.<br />
</div>tembus langithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928072952762634010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627098663623264380.post-58825394809193092222009-11-18T05:03:00.001-08:002009-12-19T22:39:29.430-08:00What Blogging Can Do For Your Business<div class="KonaBody" style="text-align: justify;">Blogging has made it possible for any individual to publish his/her ideas on the internet easily and freely. For businesses, this marks a truly innovative change in the way that products and services can be promoted to a large audience and at a considerably reduced cost compared with traditional advertising methods. With blogs, average business people can write about what they know and are passionate about, as well as what they can offer to others. When this is done properly and is updated regularly to keep the content fresh, it can be a very powerful marketing tool that naturally draws the customers to your business instead of forcing yourself upon them, as in traditional advertising.<br />
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</b></i><i>Well-crafted blogs can significantly impact your business in 3 distinct ways. </i><br />
<b><i>1)</i></b><i> <b>Advertising. </b>A good blog containing the right <span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">keywords</span></span> and key phrases can give you higher ranking in the organic search engine result pages, which increases the liklihood that visitors will find you and be interested in your business or products/services. </i><br />
<b><i>2)</i></b><i> <b>Public Relations. </b>Since a blog offers a more personal touch as an information resource, it may cultivate greater brand reinforcement and more interest and trust in potential customers researching what you have to offer. </i><br />
<i><b>3</b></i><b><i>)</i></b><i> <b>Direct Subscription</b>. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) capability gives rise to a kind of modern day direct marketing technique that will enable you to be easily found by your prospective customers.</i><br />
<b>The Value of Blogging on a Regular Basis<br />
</b>Blogging can increase the visibility of your business because search engines favor content-rich blogs over websites. Blogs include timely information on various topics, which is an important complement to other marketing tools; however, it must be done on a regular basis to create the necessary interactive dynamic between your prospective customers and you. It is a discipline that you must adhere to in order to get results. If you can’t do it yourself, you should consider paying someone to blog for you based on the things that you want to showcase.<br />
<b>Free Blogs Are Frequently Not the Best Choice<br />
</b>For those business people with the interest and inclination to create and maintain their own blogs, a lot more is involved in the whole business-blogging process than one may realize. Some of the issues include the exact brand design, security, ownership, and search optimization needs of the business. It may pay to bring in outside help. When maintaining your blog, there will inevitably be maintenance challenges. If well managed blog solutions, service, and a reduced learning curve are available in a cost-effective manner, it is probably worth a great deal to a business. In truth, there are good free blog technologies available; however<b>, </b>what appears free is never really so.<b> </b><br />
Due to the availability of WordPress and other open source software, it is possible to set up a very attractive looking blog in a very short time. But what is often overlooked is that creating an effective site involves much more. Getting traffic to your site means nothing if you don’t engage visitors with a compelling story that entices them to click deeper and make a purchase or respond to your other calls to action. It is the combination of good development, superior design, effective <a class="kLink" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/what-blogging-can-do-for-your-business-1470345.html#" id="KonaLink1" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">SEO</span></span></a>, and persuasive writing that will make your blog capture customers and sales in the end.<br />
<b>The Advantages of Customized Blogs<br />
</b><i>We use a </i>customized version of WordPress<i>,</i> which is the number one blogging software. It is user-friendly software that can be easily optimized for search engine indexing. We monitor and deploy core WordPress updates and the most important features coming out of the open source community, carefully evaluating and testing them. You should be less concerned about blog technology than you should be about blog content<i>.</i> Let us worry about the technology. <b> </b><br />
The best blogs are those that are customized to enhance the special features of your business and increase the power of exposure in search engine results. All of the following must be considered to maximize the effectiveness of your blog:<br />
The customized blog:<br />
<ul><li>Should be an integral part of the <a class="kLink" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/what-blogging-can-do-for-your-business-1470345.html#" id="KonaLink2" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">business </span><span style="color: #009900; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">website</span></span></a> and have the same look and feel</li>
<li>Should be optimized for search engine optimization (SEO)</li>
<li>Should have the necessary add-ins for either automatic or semi-automatic syndication of the content to the popular social media networks</li>
<li>Should have the necessary add-ins for automatic syndication to blog directories</li>
<li>Should have additional add-ins per customer requirements</li>
</ul><b>The Bottom Line on Business Blogs<br />
</b>The true competitive advantage in blogging comes not through a concern with blog technology but rather through a focus on blog content and its syndication and the ways in which it gains attention for your business by posting interesting and enticing blogs, which the main search engines single out.<br />
All in all, blogs are powerful advertising tools when used to their full potential. They increase your advertising visibility for a potentially unlimited number of topic keywords and phrases, while reducing traditional advertising costs.<br />
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</div>tembus langithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928072952762634010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627098663623264380.post-28257376155368354922009-11-18T05:01:00.000-08:002009-12-19T22:39:44.487-08:00Searching for the Perfectly Designed Free Blog Templates<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For the experienced webmaster, nothing beats a website stocked with well-written content coupled with eye-catching design. But for the regular blogger, it’s hard to look for a good free blog templates design considering the number of styles available online. Aside from that, downloading just any can run the risk of being typical. Fortunately, there are certainly ways on how to look for the right blog design you want.<br />
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After setting up your free blog, you are automatically given a default blog template. You have the option of sticking with it or swapping it with a well-designed one. But where should you look? Surprisingly, there you don’t have to look any further than your own host’s library of template design.<br />
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Bloggers of the same host you’re subscribed with often submit their own creations to the website. This is the best chance in finding good free blog templates. You might even stumble upon a design that will perfectly fit your blog’s message. If you’re worried about the price, well, they would certainly not cost you any penny because they’re most likely to be offered for free. And since they are submitted to you’re host blog site, they’ll be easy to use and configure. These types of templates are already optimized for use. Installing them will only take a few clicks.<br />
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Other users like to post their personally designed templates on their own blogs. Looking for these designs is as simple as doing a simple query at the search engines. From there, you just have to look for the best blog site, which for you carries the well-designed templates that will surely fit your style.<br />
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Furthermore, professional web designers also put up their own blogs. Oftentimes, they post designs of their own for everyone. This is the best opportunity for you to grab a professionally designed template. Although the design will probably be nothing compared to paid designs, you can expect to get top-notch styles.<br />
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If you’re an experienced blogger or website owner, you can opt to hire a professional designer to provide you a specially designed template. While they will certainly cost a lot more than free blog templates, you can expect your blog to be unique. These types of designs typically run from a mere hundreds to a few thousands. What you must remember, though, is to choose a designer who has an extensive portfolio and experience in the business. Don’t forget that you are paying a fortune for the design and must imperatively get your money’s worth.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Writing weblogs(blogs) or blogging is becoming increasingly popular with budding entrepreneurs as a way to earn a living online while, at the same time, doing something they really enjoy. In a lot of cases bloggers can profit with very little continuing effort. However, there may be a fair bit of work involved in the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is usually because of designing a method of gaining revenue and promoting the website but once this is established simply maintaining the blog with regular postings may be enough to keep the revenue rolling in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But lets not gloss over one of the words in that last sentence. Promoting. You see, you have to make your site known to the world; Obvious, yes, easy, not quite, but do-able, yes. And thats because there are a lot of programs and utilities out there, free and ones you have to buy. that can help you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now two of the most popular methods for creating a profit from blogging include advertising methods. This includes advertising with AdSense and securing independent advertisers. This article will discuss these two methods of advertising on a blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Using AdSense to Generate Revenue</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Using AdSense is one of the most popular ways for bloggers to generate revenue from their blog. This method is so popular because it is also very simple. AdSense is a program offered by Google where bloggers agree to have advertisements on their website and are paid when users click on these advertisements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers simply have to create a blog and submit the website address of the blog as well as some other information to apply for participation in AdSense. Once a blog is approved the owner is given code they can simply copy and paste to have advertisements displayed on their blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Google then sends appropriate advertisements each time the blog is visited by someone. Whenever possible, the advertisements sent to the blog are closely related to the content of the blog. Google knows what type of adverts to send because it crawls the website ahead of time to see which ads are relevant to the blog content. Blog owners do have some ability to place restrictions on the types of advertisements which may appear on the blog. For example the blog owner can specify that adult advertisements are not to appear on the blog and Google will filter these out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This sounds simple and it is, but be prepared that it may not always be plain sailing to register for Adsense. Sometimes your request may be delayed because your site just is not old enough or does not have enough posts yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">How Advertisements on a Blog Generate Revenue</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Many bloggers use advertisements on their blogs to generate a profit. This method of advertising is more difficult than using AdSense but it can be significantly more financially rewarding to the blogger. This method of advertising is similar to the type of targeted advertising often seen in magazines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For example magazines for parents often feature advertisements which will appeal to parents such as advertisements for toys, children's clothing or foods popular with children. Similarly a magazine for canoeists may feature advertisements for life jackets, waterproof clothing, races or equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In these cases the advertisers pay for advertising space in the magazine in the hopes that the magazine's audience will be enticed to buy products or services after seeing these ads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Blog owners can use this type of advertising, but it can be hard to find willing advertisers. However, there are some factors which may make an advertiser more willing to have an advertisement appear on a blog. One of the most important factors for advertisers is the amount of traffic the blog receives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are important because advertisers who are paying for ad space are more likely to invest in a blog with high traffic than one with very little traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another important factor for advertisers is the focus of the blog. Advertisers are more likely to purchase advertising space from a blog with a specific focus of interest, or niche, to the advertiser's target audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like the examples listed above of magazines for parents and canoeists, advertisers want to advertise on a blog which is already reaching the same target audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Selecting a niche is relatively easy - you may already have an interest in a certain area for instance. Getting traffic will require some initial work, which is why you have to actively promote your site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are a number of different ways in which bloggers who make use of advertising on their website can be paid. For instance, a set fee may be paid by advertisers for the ad to run on the website for either a set amount of time or for a set number of page views. This means the advertiser may buy space for a set number of days, weeks or months or may purchase space for a set number of times the advertisement is revealed to your blog visitors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or the advertiser may choose to pay the blogger according to the number of times something specific happens. This may include users clicking through the advertisement or users buying something after clicking through the advertisement. You will have to work out the type of compensation with the advertiser beforehand to agree a fair method of payment.</span> <br />
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