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Social Spark has arrived! Well, it is still in the development stages but in the near future it will revolutionize blogging. For those looking to make money blogging Social Spark (SocialSpark.com) is one of the new concepts in blog revenue generation. In fact, it is a unique and revolutionary concept that combines the very popular module of blogging with the extremely popular concept of social networking. Essentially, Social Spark is a social networking platform for bloggers with an emphasis on earning revenue. This is music to a blogging entrepreneur’s ears!

Social Spark has the potential to be hugely successful because it provides the two main items that blogs need to be successful: traffic and advertising revenue. When you create a profile on Social Spark you are creating a profile not for the purpose of self aggrandizement; you are creating a profile to promote the various blogs that you have crafted. From this, the ability to significantly boost traffic is made possible because you profile becomes your main promotional hub. Other members of the network stumble across your profile and then they stumble across your blog. Not a bad deal, eh? Then again, you do not have to rely exclusively on “stumbling”. You can aggressively promote your profile which would, of course, have the resultant effect of greatly expanding traffic to the site.

Best of all, Social Spark offers direct sponsorship of the blog. That is, members of Social Spark have access to advertisers who pay flat fees ($5 - $25) to place permanent ads on your blog as well as advertisement that pay a nominal daily fee for advertisement. This is a HUGE plus over pay per click advertisement because no one has to click on any ads in order to draw revenue. There is no conversion and that makes an affiliation with Social Spark for those who may not have the colossal traffic needed for huge PPC conversion rates. This, in and of itself, makes it a very attractive venture.

Until next time, great success in all you do!

-Craig 

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The advent of internet has revolutionized the entire world. As a consequence of this, the latest hit among the marketing professionals is the internet marketing or e-marketing. As any other profession, internet marketing too has its own competition. Here are a few internet marketing techniques that would help you perform better with better results.

The first and foremost thing is to attract your clients. Calling every one of them and cajoling them to get your products or services may not be feasible. For better performance you can create a good web page with a professional look.

The content of the web page has more to do with final sale. The page should speak more for you than you speak. You can show case your skills, achievements, or any other positive stuff that makes the client find you. You can scan certificates, awards and stuff in your web page.

Always design a website that is user friendly. Have an accurate track of your website traffic. Track the user information from the data base and make follow ups with prospective clients.

Getting data on how the visitors landed up to your site, what kind of internet content attracts the user the most, how long they have viewed it, etc. is very important. This visitor data will surely help you to upgrade your website and to organize strategies to attract more traffic.

Provide links to other non-competing websites, this is professionally called reciprocal link baiting, but please do not provide Viagra links for people who are reading your recipe site. That is bizarre link sharing. And that kind of inappropriate sharing is not going to bring in new leads by link building.

Link building by directory submission is a good idea, but be careful to exchange links with good sites!

One of the most effective internet marketing techniques is email marketing. Establish yourself as a trustworthy and valuable resource that the visitors are tempted to sign up for your newsletter. Generate a data base of the subscribers and use the best service to send mails.

Use ezine advertising in the most effective way. Use apt words and advertise them in the appropriate sites where you can find out customers. Write informative and readable articles about your business or product which is published online as well as used by web masters. Also publish online press releases, which would ensure that your product is reaching a wide public.

One more powerful tool of internet marketing techniques is analysis writing from an internet marketing consultant or internet marketing coach. Competitor analysis is also prerequisite to find out what your competitors are planning for the future.

Use of affiliate marketing, reseller and associate programs or joint venture marketing to increase the promotion of your website increases the sales of your products or services. Bonuses and discount too help you go a long way.

You can also run contests through your website for attracting more customers. Last but not the least; one more potential solution in internet marketing techniques is to create blogs that facilitates clearly defined interaction with your visitors. Not all common man blogs. There is something called professional blogging, which many have forgotten. Differentiate between scrap blogging and professional blogging!

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

How can a list be magic you ask? Well most of the time it isn’t, but if it is used correctly, it can be a goldmine for your Internet business. What kind of lists do you usually see on a site or blog? Mostly the lists are for the “Best Posts of the Week” or My Favorite Blogs” or something like that. Those usually don’t drum up a lot of traffic or a lot of steady readers.

But a list that is beneficial to all, could drive in a lot of traffic for you and your readers and give you a mountain of repeat readers and these readers could also spread the news of your list on their blog. The list has not been perfected by all, but a few have masterminded it to make the most out of the list.

A great example of this is 45n5.com’s Top 100 List for Make Money Online blogs. This list has the Top 100 blogs in this niche that has a link to each and tells the Page Rank, Technorati and Alexa ratings. This is not only valuable for the blogs listed as they get PR-5 blog linking to them, it gives them a perspective on how they are doing against other like blogs.

Now Mark at 45n5.com has went a step farther and extended the list to anyone that sends him a link and his list is now at 330 members. The most spectacular thing about the list is that Mark also includes a widget for the blog owners to put on their site to list the ranking. So if only a third of these listed use the widget, then he has over 100 links back to him alone and that is great for his SEO.

So the next time you need to give your blog a boost, then come up with a list that will benefit all and you should do great.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

1.  45n5.com - Mark has started a great conversation on wether to blog for profit or passion.
2. SuperAffiliateMindset.com - Amit ask Does Direct Linking Still Work?
3. MyInternetLab.com - Scott updates us on his Wordpress Niche Site Project.
4. DoshDosh.com - Maki explains, step by step, how to set up a blog network.
5. ZacJohnson.com - Zac visits Google Headquarters.

Well, that is another week of great posts from around the web about making money online and improving your Interent business. I hope you have enjoyed this weeks “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Hi All,

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

Nothing ever stays still anymore especially with all the new technology that is available in today’s world. Nobody can go anywhere without thier iPods, cell phones with bluetooth and the GPS’s to go to the same office that they have gone to for the last ten years. And when a new version or upgrade is available, people rush out and get it to stay up with the Jones’.

Now if people would do that with their Internet business, they may be a lot more successful. Let me explain a little. There are people out there on the Internet that take it upon themselves to beat the search engines and try to defeat them at all costs. They are called Black Hatters and try every little dirty trick to gain any advantage, but actually these guys are OK because they are flexible and try new things and their little tricks help us change too.

But there are a lot of people who have Internet business that set up their website or blog, but do nothing to keep up with the Jones’ and while they may stick around for awhile, eventually they will fall by the wayside and become yardsale fodder.  So, take it upon yourself to keep changing whether it be with the latest software update, reading SEO news daily or getting the newest tool to help you. Remember be flexible, always.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

1.  WPDesigner.com - Stop by and meet the new owner Pawel.
2. eMomsatHome.com - Not a new post, but one worth taking a look at titled Top 10 Internet Home Business Ideas You Can Start and Run in Your Underwear.
3. PureBlogging.com - PB tells us how blogging will change in the future.
4. BloggingExperiment.com - Max shows us a way to triple our AdSense income.
5. RyanShamus.com - Ryan helps us understand what Black Hat SEO is.

Well, that is another week of great posts from around the web about making money online and improving your Interent business. I hope you have enjoyed this weeks “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

To make money online many people automatically go for setting up Google Adsense,  finding a high paying affiliate program to promote or set up Google Adwords and guiding traffic to their own website to sell a variety of affiliate products.  A lot of people dismiss the fact that they have enough knowledge available in their little noggin’ that other people would be willing to pay for, but remember that their are a lot of people that are willing to pay for knowledge because it is more than they have themselves.

Now, you just can’t throw down a bunch of words and thoughts on a subject and expect people to pay for it. You will need to lay it out nicely or you can pay to have someone make it look great for you. That little investment may mean thousands of dollars more in income than if you did it yourself.

Once you have your project done and it is ready to be sold, you now need to place it on a digital product site like  ClickBank or $7 Offers to make it available for others to buy and to promote. The never ending question is always why should I give someone a cut of my profits when I could earn it myself? My answer is always the same. I would rather have 1000 people selling my product for a $15 profit than only me selling a hundred copies for $30 profit. If those 1000 sell ten copies each, I then make $150,000 compared to $3000 I could make. Now you can take that to the bank!

So the next time you think that you are stuck and can’t make any money online, just dig deep into your brain and make a product for yourself to sell. I bet you will surprise yourself at the results. Take care and will talk to you soon.

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

It happens. It happens to you, it happens to me and it happens to the best of bloggers. You are staring at your blank computer screen and you don’t have the faintest idea what you are going to write about. Everyday for the last thousand days you have had no problem slapping down a post to keep your readers happy, but today you can’t even remember your name let alone think of anything to right about. And you know if you don’t post something now, you are going to lose every reader you have that you have worked so hard for.

Today’s post is going to give you some tips on what to do, and it will happen, when it happens to you. So take a deep breathe and take a walk around the block to clear your head. (Hint, hint….Tip #1) The last thing you want is to have the pressure of not being able to post preventing you from writing even more. Here are some other tips for you.

• Take a break - That is right, even if you have a deadline if it will help to take a break, it is better to be late than no post at all.
• Just write - Clear your mind and just write. It doesn’t matter what you write about, just get back into the groove.
• Change of venue - Get out of your office/home and go to the library or a friend’s computer to write.
• Check out other blogs - Maybe an idea will be sprout from someone else’s blog and get your creative juices going.
• Exercise - Have an exercise program. This will keep your body and mind fresh.
• Get a routine - Write at the same time, have your writing clothes on and your writing music going.

These are a few of the things that you can do to get back into the writing frame of mind. Just don’t go more than a few days without writing or it will probably get worse. Remember that not writing will most likely affect your income sooner or later, so get the problem fixed soon. Good luck and talk to you soon.

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. It is that time again. It is time for the best posts that I have found from around the Internet in the last week. I hope you enjoy this feature and if you have any favorite posts that don’t get mentioned, leave us a comment to tell us about them.

1. ProBlogger.net - A quick guest post on how to use Twitter to promote your blog.
2. TerryDean.org - Terry explains 7 Reasons To Start An Information Business.
3. 45n5.com - Mark talks about some questions his readers have about making videos.
4. CourtneyTuttle.com - Courtney talks about getting a DOUBLE first page ranking on Google.
5. Pureblogging.com - Pureblogging talks about Analyzing top blogs outside your niche.

Well, that is another week of great posts from around the web about making money online and improving your Interent business. I hope you have enjoyed this weeks “Best of the Rest” and hope everyone has a great weekend. See you next week!

Like what you’ve read so far?  Then we encourage you to subscribe to our RSS feed.  The feed shows my latest Internet Business posts in full and can easily be viewed in your favorite news reader.

To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

As many Internet marketers and online business people struggle to find a niche that is perfect for them, most of them ignore what is right in front of their noses every single day. All you have to do is go to Yahoo, MSN or your nightly news and read the headlines and there is your niche!

It sounds simple, but timing is everything. You have to be right on top of the news break and take action right away. I read an article on a recent event that took place that one person took advantage of and it paid off.

If you recall, a certain political leader from the state of New York was caught in a scandal that involved a call girl and this person was one of the first to get articles, a website with affiliate links, pictures and info out on this call girl and boy did she reap the rewards. She said her normal website traffic is around 25,000 hits a day and it went up to 1.5 million within hours of getting listed in Google and that she made about 8-9 months income in one day. Wow!

So, now the question is, is it right to make money off of someone else’s misfortune? I say no, but in this certain situation I think it was done correctly. The subject of the website was directed towards the call girl, who chose this profession, therefore this was not an attack on her unlike directing toward the ill fated ex-Gov who was caught cheating, letting his family and all of the people of New York state down and is now out of a job. Celebrity gossip is is a huge field, but be careful how far you take it.

So the next time you see some breaking news coming on the nightly news, get off your duff and take advantage of it and make some money. Thanks for stopping and will see you next time.

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

Everybody says that content is king, but I think that is hogwash. You can spend all you want on a fancy website, have the greatest content availble for your niche, have all of your AdSense placed just right, but if you have no one coming to your blog, then it doesn’t mean diddly.

A fellow blogger, Caroline Middlebrook, started a blog last August and currently has over 1700 subscribers to her blog. Now those aren’t DoshDosh numbers, but they are still pretty impressive to say the least. I recommend you visit her blog to check out her content.

I have to admit that I am impressed with Carloline’s progress in such a short time and what she did a few days ago is one of the reasons she is where she is today. Caroline goes beyond the norm, out of the box maybe we should say, to bring people in to her blog.

Caroline constructed a contest to give away one of her future products that is coming out shortly and it is themed with the Easter holiday. She is having a Easter Egg hunt and all you have to do is search her site to find the eggs, place a link on your blog to the found egg. She hid a total of 30 eggs, 10 at a time over a three day period. She is a genius!

In case you don’t see the magic of this, I will show you. If one person finds all of the eggs and places a link on their blog to hers, she has just linkbaited for 30 backlinks to her site. Now take in the fact that that person had to look at probably at the least half of her blog pages each day to find all of the eggs that is probably around 300 pageviews total.

So, for the big flick. In exchange for a free copy of a future ecourse from Caroline, she charged 30 backlinks and 300 pageviews. Now multiply that by 20% of her readership and she is getting an estimated 10200 backlinks and 102,000 pageviews over a five day period! She is my HERO! Not to forget about the 340 posts that talk about the contest that also bring in new readers.

There are other examples of this out on the web, go and find them. Now is the time to jump outside that box and be creative. You never know what it may bring you. Thanks for stopping by.

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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