Blogging: Not Just a Hobby Anymore

Blogging is a great way to express yourself, keep in touch with family and friends. Blogging is not just something you do for fun anymore. It is a great tool to also increase traffic to your website and your business. While we have had a tough economy, it's also one of the best avenues for free advertising. There are many ways you can blog and make money. I see blogging as one of the best Marketing tools to help boost my business, and any leads I get from it I see as a bonus to what I am already doing.

Blogging has been very successful for many people, but don't count on it to be a stable income. What you want to do is build multiple streams of income. Most successful bloggers have been doing it for several years. I have been now blogging for one year, and I am happy when I do get the occasional paid blogging job.

Here's a great post:
13 Tips to Recession Proof Your Blog

Some of my friends have great blogs:
http://doubledeej.blogspot.com/
http://www.joelcomm.com/


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Questions You Should Ask an MLM Company Before You Join.

How many people out there signed up for an MLM company with big expectations of making money then find out later that it’s a very hard way to succeed. There have been many times I have been sucked in the pretty picture they paint. I hate when some of the people working with these companies lie to you just to get as many people as they can underneath their organization, then offer you no help once you join. The majority of MLM companies make it sound easy and say “anyone can be successful”. I don’t want to knock all MLM companies out there. There are some good ones that are legitimate. There are details you should look at with every company before you spend the money to invest. One of the most important things you should do is research. You will need to find out how stable each company is are and compare them to their competition.

1. What is the start-up cost and what does it include? Beware of huge upfront fees, the risk is usually much greater and make sure you are getting a good value for the money.
2. What kind of training do I get once I start? Make sure if you sign up that you sign up with someone that has proven to be successful and is willing to spend the time with you to properly train you.
3. What type of service or product will I be selling? Is this something you can truly believe in and feel good about selling?
4. Will I be expected to put in a minimum order every month or every quarter? Make sure you can sell more than the minimum amount required each month or quarter.
5. Will I be expected to recruit a minimum amount of people? Many MLM’s require you to recruit a specified number of people in order to make money in your downline.
6. How much commission will I make?
7. If I want to purchase something do I get a special discount off the retail price?
8. Is shipping & handling additional or does it come out of my commission?
9. How long do items typically take to ship to my customer?
10. What kind of Guarantee or Warranty does the company have on their products?
11. Will I need to purchase supplies such as Catalogs, order forms, etc.?
12. What other company benefits or incentives does this company have and how easy is it to achieve those goals?

Selling Products Online: Writing a Good Ad

In my years of experience in the print and advertising industry, I found that writing a good ad is one of the most important keys in advertising. If you are currently selling products on eBay, eBid, Etsy, Bid Owl or other auction websites, it is important to write a good ad. This works well especially for advertising a business, or for informational advertising. Your ad can make or break a campaign. It's important that you have good content; All of the information in the ad should give an accurate description with correct information. Get to the point and give as much detailed information as you can without making it lengthy. If you are going to sell a product, here are a few tips how you can start writing your own ad.

1. Have a few key words to make your ad catchy.
2. Have a good design. If you can't design a good looking ad yourself hire a professional.
3. Keep your ad short and sweet, with good content.
4. Give accurate and detailed information.
5. If you're going to sell a product, more pictures are always better.
6. List contact information in case anyone has any questions.

Be a Magpie on Twitter

You have probably noticed by now that I am a twitter user and I have written a few blogs about twitter. Did you notice I just added an icon in the right hand column of my blog? It is called Magpie. This is a great new program to bring you some income for referrals that click on your link. Here is how it works you click here to sign up.

Magpie works one of two ways to earn money for you. When you sign up as a twitter user Magpie will place a text add in your twitter account that is relevant to your tweets. You tell Magpie how often you want the add to run. You place an icon on your web page or blog. You earn money for everyone that signs up.

You can also advertise on twitter by using Magpie. You can use your earnings to run ads on twitter.

Twitter Marketing 101: Do you tweet?

Twitter has been the latest trend in social media network marketing. For those of you that don't know how twitter really works you are truly missing out on something huge. What ever your use for twitter it can help you meet other people that have the same interests as you. Twitter can help you gain an income that you may have never thought imaginable. It can and will bring more traffic to your website when used to it's fullest potential. Twitter is currently the fastest growing internet network marketing source on the web. You will find all types of people from all walks of life around the world that tweet on twitter. If you don't know what a tweet is, it is a short little sentence about what your doing in 140 characters or less. Here are some different types of tweeters you may encounter on twitter.

1. One Timers - Those that sign up but never use it again.
2. Occasional Users - Are those that use it once a month or less and for special occasions.
3. Weekly Users - Are those that will tweet up to a few times a week but never daily
4. Daily Users - Are those that use it at least once a day, sometimes will take weekends off.
5. Extreme Users - Are those that use twitter every day and use all avenues and devices to tweet such as cell phone, Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo etc.

To be successful with twitter you should maximize the usage. This is one of the easiest things you can do that doesn't consume a lot of time.

• Send a text message and tweet from your cell phone.
  
• Link your twitter account to other network marketing sites. You can tweet remotely from these sites.
  
• Follow everyone that follows you. By doing this you will create a snowball effect and get more traffic to your website.

There are many other ways to maximize twitter. How and when you use it can determine how successful you are. I initially started as a Weekly user, then graduated to a Daily user. When I was a weekly user I found that very few people were watching me and the amount of users were under 20. Since then I have graduated to a Daily user, my traffic on my website has more than doubled as well as the amount of people that watch me. I wen from 15 watchers up to 60 watchers in less than a one month period. I found that this was producing much more exceptionable results. So do you tweet? Which type of user are you? Find out what twitter grade is. I am trying the Extreme User method. Follow me on twitter and I will let you know how it works out in about a month.

Video Marketing

Video Marketing is a great way to promote your website. Since I posted my first video on YouTube, I noticed that my website has had a huge increase in traffic. Also I have found there have been multiple sites that have picked up my video including other countries. The thing I love about YouTube, is you can type in almost any subject and there is a video about it. My conclusion is if you don't try YouTube, your missing out!

Here are some of the links.

The Long Dog Blog

Videos.es

Han.MTV.com

DVBS.EU.ORG

hotelposada.net

Video.i7i.us

Burma Videos myitworld