Making Money From Your Blog or Ezine

By Paula Pollock

"How is my blog/ezine going to make me money?" Consider both to be very cheap, 24/7 sales employees that take very little time to maintain. Think how much time and money you spend to traditionally attract a new prospect and then the investment to convert them to a client. This is too cheap not to do.

Businesses hire PR firms to gain exposure to their brand. In a marketing world where our clients have ultimate control over what messages they will notice, blogs and ezines capture the attention of an elusive but profitable client - the fanatic or fan. Additionally, SEO pros will share that inbound links (someone clicking from your blog to your website) definitely help with your search ranking. When you speak regularly to someone that's remotely interested in what you have to say, you are given a golden opportunity to connect with them through this impersonal medium called the Internet. With so much information available to potential buyers, you need to make a connection to stand out.

Which should I use, a blog or an ezine? My answer is both since the blog is passive - readers finding you (push marketing) and the ezine active - readers requesting you (pull marketing). Sometimes even these two aren't enough. Multiple blogs on different market segments of your business will work best. Blog readers like niches. Only those who blog to entertain can really get away with random brain-dumping. If you have a blogging darkside, have a separate blog with the remotest connection to your business. Yes - you should still connect back to your business site since that reader may find your ranting refreshing and may seek to patronize you because of it.

Purpose Comes First: Decide your goal for each and stick to it. Nothing kills readership like ever-changing messages. Blogs should focus on something of value - usually information or entertainment.

Delete! Unsubscribe! Common Boo-Boos Ezines should be client conversion focused. People subscribe to them to gain information about what you have or know. The difference from a blog is to make a personal connection with information and sales pitches.

Blunder 1 - Pitch them to death! Many ezines are hard core sales vehicles (push marketing). You are barraged with pitch after pitch forcing you to search just to find a link to their website with a lame article buried amongst more pitches.

Blunder 2 - Infrequency. People like their information regularly and delivered the same time each week or month. Quarterly isn't worth the effort, by the way. You need to be top-of-mind when they discover the need for what you offer.

Blunder 3 - Dull Content. If you can't write with interest please do your business a favor and let anyone else in your company write it. Sadly, the people who write boring stuff usually think it's great. This also goes for humor: if you often need to explain it's too vague for an ezine. Though it could be perfect for an esoteric blog.

Money Tree Marketing is an information blog that occasionally has some wry humor, but always focuses on marketing information. My weekly ezine has a high value article for my clients, a greater personal connection and first-releases of my products, seminars and consulting openings. If you would like to take a look at a simple EZine format that works subscribe below.

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Doing E-Business

By Paul John Collins

Deciding to start an online business, you have to at least know your market, have enough money to start the business and of course the knowledge on the internet. Without the internet, your dreams of doing your business online will not work at all.

You also need to know some of the basics of website design and some knowledge of setting up a business because it is an important factor have these things.

Doing E-Business
By Paul John Collins

Deciding to start an online business, you have to at least know your market, have enough money to start the business and of course the knowledge on the internet. Without the internet, your dreams of doing your business online will not work at all.

You also need to know some of the basics of website design and some knowledge of setting up a business because it is an important factor have these things.

This is just like setting up other types of business as you have to fulfill certain requirements to start. The only difference is that online business is as its name implies an online version of business.

The use of the internet for business activities is quite easy as you think. You post your products on websites, blogs, bulletin boards, chat rooms, messengers and other ways you can exchange with the consumers. It doesn't matter if your products don't sell at first, sooner or later people will notice the things you are selling. With these, you don't have to apply for a business permit.

Most, if not many of home based business opportunities use the internet to sell their product to consumers who doesn't want to leave their house or doesn't have the luxury of time. It quite beneficial to both sides as one just orders the products through the net, and the other just sends it through delivery service providers. Payments are just a matter of settling your account through money transfers on one bank account to another.

At the most, doing an online business wont risk too much capital as you will only pay for the web hosting and the bills you pay to set up your business' website. You don't have to use your own money to make the certain product consumers order because the money they sent you will be enough to cover the costs of things.

And thanks to the internet business, transactions of consumers and entrepreneur is as easy as just a click of the mouse button.

Adding to that, provided that you have a good web hosting company to upload your website with will add let you see your site on top of the list of search engines through search engine optimization or SEO. This is a good thing for your business as long as you keep your website up to date and running.

On the other hand, there are also risks when running an online business because not all products you made your investments at, will not sell as much as you think. Somehow, you just have to consider what kind of market you are selling to in order for your business to be stable in the long run. As long as you sell your products to your desired market, things will eventually fall into place.

It all boils down to these things: your willing to risk your investments, how innovative you are when you venture into business and your patience. After all, business is taking risks and having a good market strategy.

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Very much involved with Franchising and Business opportunities, always willing to help and advise, Paul has helped many people on the road to starting there own businesses.

Paul has also owned and run successful retail units, franchises and printing Companies, the most recent project was overseeing and advising on a expansion of a local magazine

Paul is also a very successful Internet marketer and has made money from several projects on the internet.

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Top Ways For Teenagers to Make Money - Internet Cash During Tough Times

By Perry Webbing

With the unemployment rate rising, it is getting a little difficult for kids to get jobs in fast food restaurants and other establishments. This is because those losing their jobs have to fill these positions to make ends meet. This problem is something that those teenagers wanting to make money of their own have to face and they don't like it one bit. The parents don't like it either because they need their teens to learn responsibility.

That is usually the point in which the teens start hitting up the Internet.

Here are the top ways for teenagers to make money:

• Blogging - Teens have a lot to say about everything. They are up on pop culture, fashion, and so much more. There are teens using affiliate programs and selling ad space to make their extra cash.

• Creating websites for teens - Teenagers love websites that are geared toward them. Usually, these websites are created by other team. By selling advertising space, the teen is able to bring in some cash.

• YouTube - If you have or you are a talented teen when it comes to the camera, there are teenagers making money on YouTube through product placement. When they have a large viewership, companies will pay to have their products displayed in the video.

These are some great and fun ways for teens to make money. Even though things are rough in the economy and many of the jobs that teens take are already taken, the Internet is still laden with plenty of opportunities. All it takes is a little imagination to get things rolling.

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How to Make Money from Blogs

By John P. Matthew

It's easy to make money from blogs. There are all kinds of programs, affiliations available to make money from blogs, in fact, even easy money.

What is a blog?

Blog is a personal space, rather a personal diary, with the difference that it is not a closed diary but one that is open to anyone to walk in and read and leave a comment. There are various types of blogs, some are business blogs, and some are social networking blogs. Some blogs are personal some are professional but most of them have a theme on which the contents are based. Creating a blog is easy, even a child make a blog.

Types of blogs

Comment blogs are the ones that offer comment on events in the writer's life. It takes a subject or incident and makes a comment which the reader may be interested in. Comment blogs often substitute for newspaper editorials. Needless to say they are a combination of news and opinions. Blogs are tools in the hands of writers to keep in touch with each other and also to inform the world about events in the writer's life. Recently, there have been instances of bloggers updating the world about events in countries that have undergone political change, when no other traditional media was allowed to cover the events.

The other type of blog is filter blog. Filter blogs are similar to comment blogs but point to other locations within the internet for articles and have minimum of content, and more of links. Owners of such blogs can be requested for links to sites, for a fee, of course. You can make money online using these blogs.

You can opt for any of these types to make money through blogging. Most blogs such as blogger.com and wordpress.com are free to subscribers and you can easily create a blog in a few steps and earn good money.

Creating a Blog

Blogs are easy to create on Blogger.com and wordpress.com. There are other blog creation sites such as typepad, and MSN's live.com. It only takes a few clicks to create a blog. Have a name that is appropriate to the theme of your blog so that they will show up in search engine results and it can also impact your ranking on search engines. For example if your blog is about mobile blogging have a name such as mobile-blogging.blogspot.com. Do not combine the two words, i.e., don't create a blog with the name as mobileblogging.blogspot.com. It's a better strategy to use the former to let search engines find your blog.

Promoting Your Blog

First of all submit your blog to the major search engines before you can earn money from blogging. Slowly, your traffic will build and you can paste a visit counter to check the progress of visitors on your blog. Also send a link to your friends and extended contact lists to visit your blog and link to you. When the number of links of your blog increases, so will your popularity and your rating with the search engines. Keep promoting your blog without let up.

Apply to Affiliate Programs

When there is a constant flow of visitors to your blog everyday you can start the process of earning money from your blog. First apply to affiliation programs which pay money to feature their ads on your blog. After registering with them copy and paste their code in the appropriate sections in your blog. Affiliate programs pay per click or pay if a sale is made through a click from your blog. So choose your affiliate program wisely.

Register with Google Adsense

Google runs their advertising program on websites and blogs which is called Google Adsense. When you register with Adsense, Google supplies you with the code that you can copy and paste on your blog. Once you do this you can track your blog's performance by registering on Google's analytical tool ' Google Analytics. This free analytical tool will analyze the number of visitors to your site each and also give you the demographic data of the visitors.

Do not give up. As the popularity of your blog grows, both traffic as well as ranking on search engines can only become better. So the more popular your blog the more will be your revenue from Affiliate programs and Adsense.

Most importantly, if you are seeking to make money from blogging, spread your interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all your eggs in one basket.

Some Good Money Making Affiliate Sites:

www.google.com/adsense

As mentioned above, Adsense is Google's advertising program and when featured on your blog can bring you revenue when a visitor clicks on the ad links. If you place the adsense code strategically on your blog then you can get more clicks. It should be right at the top of the blog, and preferably at the top right hand side. Also you can choose an ad size that is prominent enough to display it prominently on your blog.

www.amazon.com

Amazon has an affiliate program that includes products like books, CDs, office products, household products, etc. It also has a contextual advertising program in which you have to place a code in your page and all words on your page that has association with Amazon products will turn into a link. This has more chances of making money as the reader is directly reading content relating to the advertisement, and therefore has a greater chance of clicking on the ad.

www.register.com

Register.com is a website that is in the domain booking and related services realm. It has an affiliate program by which their ads can be featured on blogs and the blogger can earn referral income. For more details read the affiliate page on the website.

www.g2bux.com

Though G2bux doesn't have an affiliation program it rewards members with G2points which can be converted into cash when it reaches a certain limit. Users can find tens of ways to make money online on G2bux. It is a good site to make money from and offers a number of modules through members can earn money. Registration is free and is open to all.

www.ebay.com

Ebay.com also has an affiliate program in which bloggers can become a member. Ebay is a popular site for buying and selling used and new products and your visitors would certainly be interested in the products for sale on the site. Visit ebay.com for their affiliation program and sign up if you think it will work for you.

John P Matthew is a business writer, blogger and web content writer. He finds working on online media challenging and has contributed his writing to various online forums. He is one of the founding members of two writing-related message boards Caferati and Shakespeare and Company. At present he is with g2bux.com. To get more details, please visit http://www.g2bux.com/ . Please feel free to write feedback on this article. John P Matthew can be contacted at webmaster@g2bux.com

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