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Blogging in lean times, what to say during a recession

by Tricia

There are millions of people who turn to the internet whenever they need any kind of information. Some are looking for products while others are looking for certain services; still others are searching for solutions to their problems. Thus, the internet is a space where you can get the maximum exposure for your business. If you are a blogger, the first thing that you need to do is to put up useful content on your website that will help others.

Start networking

Despite the economic problems that are plaguing the markets today, you can still make it big if you can do your networking properly. Network with others in your same profession and you’ll do well. It is very important to know other people in your niche because they will help publicize your business. Even if you already have a good enough network, you still need to put enough time and effort in order to expand it.

A great way to expand your network is through various social networking sites. You can also ask your clients to refer to you in their contacts and thus spread the word about your business. You can also collaborate with a group of popular bloggers. Many bloggers get into mutual settlements via these groups to publicize each other.

Write about the necessities

One thing that you need to be aware of is that despite all kinds of budget constraints, there are certain things that people will continue buying, such as the bare necessities of life. Thus, if you are able to write about the absolute necessities of life, you will never be out of business.

In order to identify the necessities of life, try to observe the people around you – your family, your friends. By observing them you can understand more about the necessities of life. Once you identify them, try to develop an insight and write about it.

Enlighten and motivate others

When you are in the sphere of blogging and you know that there are many readers you cater to, make an effort to make a difference. Try to write about inspiring stuff that will help people and give them good advice and courage to face difficulties. Inspire the folks who read your blog. Also try to educate them about things that you know best.

A very important thing that you can write about is the job prospects of people. Try to offer ideas and also suggest alternative professions for those in a particular job. People are always willing to learn about a better job and get to know more about what’s going on in the market.

People are always looking to make more money. If you know of some tips to make money on the internet and if you have succeeded already, share it with your readers.

There are millions of things under the sun to write about. Choose your topic in such a way that you are comfortable about it and you have the required knowledge to write about it. Write with your heart and in a genuine manner.




Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: blog, Blogging, networking, recession, Writing

You can have your own affordable online success

by Tricia

Many online business ideas require some level of financial investment to get them started. When you are short on cash you must do the legwork and the promotion for yourself – in the beginning anyway! At least you know it will be done right.

There are however several affordable online success methods and techniques that can be started on a shoe string budget. Imagine that you have a budget of $100 (£50) to start your first online business. How would you use your grand budget of $100?

I’ve been running my own websites since 1995 and blogs since 2006 and I’ve barely put any money into them other than the cost of domains and hosting.  You really don’t have to spend much money to have online success if you are willing to work hard at promoting your sites and networking with other bloggers/ site owners.

So how can you have online affordable success?

You first need to research a theme or niche that your website will focus on. You can use a number of tools online and many of them have free versions. Wordtracker is the best trial software to use to complete your keyword research. So do your research to find a niche that has people looking for answers. Try to find keywords for your niche (usually three word (long tail keywords) are best) that have less than 50,000 competing pages. You will have more success if there’s less competition out there on your chosen keywords.

You’ll also need to find a good and relevant item to sell from your webpage, whether it’s an affiliate product that complements your site or a product that you’ve created on your own. Actually, the cheapest thing to do is make up your own product and the easiest product to create is an e-book. If you do create an e-book with information about your chosen niche, you should convert it to PDF.  You can convert a word document to a pdf using one of the many free PDF converters available.

Having written or sourced your product, you now need to work on a sales page that will convert website visitors into customers. The hosting and website can easily be taken care of in the beginning by creating a blog on blogger.com.  The sites are easy to manage and you can set it up in minutes, plus it’s free so you can spend your funds elsewhere or save your money for future projects.

To take payments you can use a Buy Now button from Paypal. The Buy Now buttons are quite simple to set up on your page. IF and when you begin to make sales of your product, Paypal will charge a small processing fee on a business account.  You now have your own internet business. It’s not that hard, really.

So, just to recap, in order to have affordable online success you can use free keyword tools to help you discover a niche that you will be successful in, you can set up a blog on blogger thus eliminating hosting and domain costs in the beginning and you can create or find a product to sell. The only problem is that you still haven’t spent your budget of $100. What to do eh? that’s what I call affordable online success.

You could of course spend some of your budget on low cost advertising to help get visitors to your site, but there are many ways to do that for free as well. I’ll discuss how to get free traffic to your site in a future post. Watch for it!

Filed Under: Blogging, How To, Making Money, Sales and Marketing Tagged With: advertising, Affordable online success, blog, Blogger, free online business, Internet marketing, keyword, keywords, Long Tail, make money online free, niche, paypal, PDF, products, sell products, success, website

A blogs theme or template can make or break your site

by Tricia

If you are serious about blogging you likely know that having a well put together, organized and attractive theme for your site is important.

Believe it or not, there are many people out there that judge a site initially on how it looks and if they see a blogging theme that’s a general default theme or one that’s been used on 1000’s of other sites without any kind of customization they’ll often move on to read another blog. The content on the site could be the best they could find, but they’ll leave the site simply because they don’t like the look of it. Silly really, but it’s true.

It’s a good idea to find a theme that compliments your blog and to customize it with a header that further defines your sites topic. You can pay to have a designer create a custom made theme for your site, but it’s easy enough to go into the CSS stylesheet or CSS files of a theme and change link or background colors to give the theme a more personalized look and feel.

I have a number of WordPress blogs and after spending several months looking at themes I finally changed the themes on a few of my blogs in May. I’m still keeping my eye out for themes that suit my other blogs as a few of them need a new look and or better functionality. This site could certainly use a new look.

If you are like me and you’ve been thinking of changing your sites theme it might help to know which themes are considered some of the best. I went searching for people that had already written reviews on what they consider to be the top WordPress Themes.

Top WordPress Themes:

Options WordPress Theme

Options WordPress Theme by Justin Tadlock I’m not even sure where to begin when I type “features” because it would be a daunting task to type them all out. Here’s some things you can play around with, but there’s so much more you can do …

I love this theme. I’m trying it out on one of the sites I’m developing and it’s fantastic. Options is a great name for it because there are a ton of different ways you can set this blog theme up to customize it’s look.

Top 8 WordPress Theme Download Sites (according to me)

These are my top sites I pick for finding quality WordPress themes. I love to look at themes for Worpress. Not just any themes for me though, I am hung-up on 3 column themes and I guess I always have… [[ This is a content summary only …

Comment on 10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Best of 2008 …

10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Mashable Sean P. Aune showcases ten WordPress themes that go beyond standard 2- and 3-column formats with design elements like large banners, Flickr integration, 4-column layouts, Ajax, …

The Top 10 Premium Specialty Themes for WordPress

WordPress has been a popular blogging platform for several years, but the market for premium themes has really just developed within the past year or two. Premium themes ideally will separate themselves from free themes by achieving a …

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 – Vote on Round 6!

Here are the top 5 themes for this week’s voting polls:. Sign of the Nature by Roger. Bloggy Grass by Damien Allen. Blue Moon by Alexandr. Fresh Editorial by Maruf Rahman. Photo Frame by Brian. Round 6 Series 3 Best WordPress Theme is. …

WordPress Themes Converted To Blogger Templates

Yardloo – If you ever fancy Magazine Style WordPress Themes, then you should visit Yardloo. This site reviewed the Top 10 Best WordPress Themes converted to Blogger Templates. Some of the WordPress themes ready for download include …

I’ll write a post about the best blogger themes and where to find them in the near future.

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