Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Making Money With Blogs
Making Money
With Blogs
How do you make money by using
blogs?
Many network marketers have found
ways to use their blogs to earn residual and multiple streams of incomes. They
are doing this by stepping “outside the box” and using one of the most
on-the-rise trends in marketing.
They have found ways of using
their blogs for advertising, selling of products, reviews, how-to’s, and much
more. In this Tidbits, I will cover several of the ways that marketers have
turned this trend into a revenue venue. Combining the information that they,
and you too, already have at your fingertips can drive these marketers into
realms of the undiscovered territories on the Internet.
First, these top marketers start
with their pay-per-click search engines. They research the keywords and phrases
that other marketers are using to drive traffic to their Websites. They also
use the same technique to find out what people are searching for. With these
techniques, you can create a very tightly woven niche market for the creation
of a blog.
Secondly, use your Google Adsense
in a more power-driven area than you have in the past. By inserting your Google
Adsense ads onto your blogs in strategic places, you can increase your Adsense
income. However, when using something like Adsense, don’t overlook other
advertising revenues you may have at hand. These include your own classified
sites that you have set up with an autoresponder service, paid-to-click
advertising, banner ads, and others. I will go into this further in another
Tidbits.
Having your Adsense ads match the
content of your blog will enable you to create click throughs from visitors to
sites that are related to the content of your blog. This can also work with the
other sites like Adsense.
Third, don’t forget your affiliate
programs! Do they have products that are customer-worthy? Use a blog to give
product reviews of any of the products that you have personally used, have sold
to others, and received testimonials on. Write articles on how best to use
these products with specific tasks or problems that these products will solve.
Don’t let my short list slow you down. You have a technique that is working for
you already with affiliate programs. Add it to your blog.
While this may seem obvious, it’s
important that the products listed in your affiliate programs should be related
to the content of your blog. Providing a source from which to purchase will
create a sense of “ease” for your customers. For instance, if your blog is
talking about a particular brand of tea, having a subtle advertisement or
banner on your blog leading to a green tea product will be beneficial to you
and your visitor and result in more sales revenue.
If you don’t have an affiliate
program that has products, I suggest that you search for targeted affiliate
programs that will suit your needs as well as those of your customers.
Make sure to keep each blog topic
specific to maintain your niche market. Going off topic could cost you traffic
as well as potential customers. Adding content to your blog at least once a
week, will also help you maintain a better ranking on search engines and ensure
that repeat visitors will have fresh material to read.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Help Others, Help Yourself
One of my longest standing male friends told me something a few days ago that really bothered me and provided the basis for this article. He said that, for many years, he supported the United Way, various churches, and a lot of local charities with generous donations. But now, after all this time giving to these groups, he said, “I’ve never gotten any benefit from any of them so I’m going to stop supporting them all.” I was distressed. Does my friend really feel when he gives something he expects to get some monetary thing in return? That started my thinking about why any of us do what we do.
What is the reason for any home-based entrepreneur to put in the long hours and assume the sometimes great risks they do? Home-based operators are innovators, described in the dictionary as someone who helps to open up a new line of research, technology, or art. Our businesses all require technology, and the way we present it to our customers involves an element of art. Isn’t a well-designed Website an art form? And there are many reasons we do what we do. Many want to be their own boss, escape office politics and the corporate rat-race, avoid endless traffic congestion, or get rid of health-destroying stress associated with most “real” jobs. Have you thought, however, that in addition to all these reasons, a significant benefit is you’re doing something productive that helps your customers in some way and gives meaning to your life? We do hope to make money, of course, but this is only one reason we take on the great responsibility of self-employment.
My own reason for being self-employed, after all the above reasons, most of which certainly apply to me, is to make more money than I need so I can help those around me. I know exactly what it’s like to have many troubles, and there were two or three people who helped me get through the bad time. I’m truly grateful to them for what they did, and I want to help someone else who could use monetary or other help. I need a little extra money to do this, so this is a compelling reason to continue what I’m doing as an entrepreneur and innovator. This is the real meaning in life—helping others.
Whatever you give to someone, if done willingly, without expecting anything in return, you will get back in some way many times over. It will give you a continuing reason to live. Follow the advice in the book Both Riches and Honor and who knows what good things will happen to you? In the book, Annie Rix Militz says:
Act wealthy. Talk prosperously. Be a free avenue through which riches may pass to all. The world needs to learn the spiritual science of wealth, and your home can be a classroom.
It is obvious celebrities and professionals will do anything for publicity. They want to build their personal brands however they can. Even bad behavior will do; Hollywood has excelled at this lately. Wouldn’t it be better to gain this recognition for some kind of good work, like raising money for a charity, or going to Katrina land to promote recovery operations, or even going to some foreign country to help people achieve better lives?
The Peace Corps offers many ways to give you a reason for living.
When speaking of the Peace Corps, most people think of young people just out of college. Indeed, it began in 1960 when Senator John F.
Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country by living and working in developing countries. Since then volunteers have been in at least 139 different countries around the world. The Corps has changed significantly, however. In keeping with the idea of giving meaning to life, it is now possible for Peace Corps service to be undertaken by those taking a sabbatical from work, retired individuals and couples, and those seeking a mid-career change. Maybe you would like this, especially if you’re close to being a Baby Boomer.If you don’t want foreign travel, there is a U.S.-based service program called U.S.A Freedom Corps. This is really a group of programs providing local help for education, public safety, and the environment. It includes AmeriCorps, Citizen Corps, Learn & Serve America, and Senior Corps. Participants serve 10 to 12 months in a position. Together these groups offer unlimited opportunities for life-enhancing ways to help those less fortunate or who have special needs.
Successful athletes and other wealthy people often set up charitable foundations supporting various causes and non-profits. This is partly a tax decision, but most of them really seem to enjoy what they do. It’s a shame that many times some of this money gets siphoned away by greedy and unscrupulous people with great power. Really bad examples are the UN officials and Iraq oil money under Saddam and the recent Myanmar cyclone disaster where the rulers apparently used a large part of the gifts from other countries for their own gain. But then you have Bill Gates, who gave up leadership of Microsoft, which he started and nurtured into a dominant company in the Information Age, to oversee his family’s worldwide charities. He even got Warren Buffett to throw in his billions. The reason this is significant is Bill and Melinda Gates obviously have excellent management skills and so will be able to keep most such siphoning of funds from happening. All the major charities should have necessary controls in place to assure their money reaches the intended recipients.
These foundations, along with the hundreds of community foundations throughout the country that provide ways for “regular” people like you and me to create charitable endowment funds, are also a way for people to add meaning and purpose to their lives. Baby boomers everywhere are reaching the age where they turn from emphasis on making and accumulating wealth to trying to figure why they are here in the first place. What is their reason for living? Where is the meaning in the things they do?
One way you can give meaning to your life is to dedicate everything you do to someone: the janitor, traffic cop, your executive assistant, anyone you would like to honor. This is a kind of gift you can give to a deserving person. Many of us are not in a position to have a charitable foundation but would really like to help people. How can they do this with little or no money? This is one easy way with no cost at all to add meaning and a reason for living to your own life. Most of the time, the recipient of your gift will know nothing about it; but you know, and that’s what is important to this discussion. One of my role models was a very wealthy farmer who shared his wealth with many individuals and local charities. Most people who received his help never knew the source. I help a few people with a very little bit of money and I take extreme measures to remain anonymous. To my friend, and to me, an anonymous gift gives much more meaning and satisfaction. You can find some further discussion of the idea of life meaning through giving away the things you do in A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink.
On his Website, Authentic Happiness, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman describes his new program in Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research shows it is possible, with a positive attitude, to be happier, more satisfied, and have more meaning in your life. Visit this site for many ways you can use this new idea; about 700,000 people around the world are using the resources, all free, presented here by Dr. Seligman. A specific way to add meaning is through gratitude for good things that happen to you. Gratitude replaces unpleasant or negative thinking with positive ideas. Dr. Seligman describes a wonderful way to thank those who have helped you in the past but you have never adequately thanked them for what they did. He suggests writing a “gratitude” letter to your helpers in which you go into great detail what they did for you and how grateful you are. He advocates delivering and reading the letter to your benefactor in person Wow! How moving will that be to both of you? This action also has the possibility of becoming viral. That is, the recipients of your gratitude letter may write some letters of their own, their recipients could write similar letters, and there you go.
There are also many informal ideas that will help others and add meaning to your life; most of these you can develop yourself. Look around in your community or local area. There are many Hispanics now in the U.S., and a lot of them need to learn English as a speaking language. Ask around local churches, schools or libraries for volunteer opportunities if you have Spanish skills. There could be a need in some areas for other languages, as well.
Some other ideas might be preparing food as a volunteer for a church, PTA, or some other organization as a fundraiser. Or try helping out in some way at the local animal shelter. There are many other local organizations that help others with very limited funds; they depend on local volunteers—all these ideas can provide deep purpose for your life.
Our ageing population offers many opportunities for volunteer service. With life expectancy in the U.S. close to 80 years, there are increasing opportunities and many ways to help older people. Often they are left in situations where they need to visit doctors on a regular basis but have no way, or only inconvenient ways, to go where they need to be. The same is true for grocery shopping and other needs. And the current cost of gas may make trips of any kind impossible for those on fixed incomes with large medical expenses. It may be life-saving just to check with older people in your neighborhood, especially during periods of extreme heat or cold. This last activity costs nothing and it could mean everything to one of your older neighbors. If you are good with tools there are many ways to help those less fortunate than you are. There is always something broken that only takes a few minutes to fix; usually this won’t cost you anything, either. Just look around for a lot of ways to add depth and meaning to your life. Your personal spiritual reward is much greater than whatever effort may be required.
On a wider basis, Volunteer Match is a place where willing volunteers can find opportunities to serve among 58,832 member organizations, some of whom are in every community. They claim over 52,000 current opportunities, and say they have made over 3.5 million referrals. That’s a lot of opportunities and a lot of ways to find meaning in your life by volunteering for some great cause close to you. There is a least one opportunity that exists in almost any community. There is one that immediately turned up in my area which is located, really, in the middle of a swamp. The opportunity to volunteer is to host a foreign exchange student in your home. This is a chance to help an English speaking student from somewhere in the world further their education in America. These young people are insured and have their own spending money. Your job would be to give them a caring atmosphere where they can assimilate a new culture. What a great way to promote the American Way. This is only one of the opportunities available.
Better still is Volunteer Match’s list of virtual opportunities. These you can do from your home or computer, wherever you may be, even in your pajamas if you wish. It’s like the advantages of being a home-based innovator. An example is working for Katrina’s Angels writing press releases, folders, posters, and other media to promote the activities of the group. All this can be done without leaving home. At this time there are over 300 similar virtual opportunities listed.
Do Something lists more ways to become involved in helping others. Some of the causes are nothing some people would want to get into, but there are many others that you can choose that will be helpful to people across the world. Check it out and surely you can find one that is of interest to you.
Since the accumulation of wealth and achievement of goals by themselves don’t seem to provide the purpose and meaning people want in their lives, how can someone learn to be grateful? There are several things one can do to build gratitude for the many good things that happen to them. Meditation can be effective; it does require finding how to meditate which you can discover with an online search for this term. Then you need to practice on a daily basis—it’s harder to get into than it may seem. And there’s the 21-day “no complaint” idea. You may want to try this and you can find a lot more about it from Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek. But there is a much simpler way to become grateful—it is called “gratitude training” which you learn by daily exercises. As soon as you wake up, ask yourself, “What am I grateful for in my life?” Then write at least five things in your life you really appreciate. Make yourself do this for awhile, and soon it will become part of you. For more about gratitude see this page.
In the U.S. and all around the world, there is a revival of the quest for spiritual meaning and the purpose for our lives. Most of you are not yet at the age of baby boomers; they are your parents, but from just being around them and from observing all the weird things people young and old are doing, you realize the strong search for a reason to live. Begin to use some of the ideas we have discussed to make your life richer and more fulfilling. Don’t wait until retirement, as many have. It’s never too late to revive your spiritual needs, but if you begin early, your life will be a lot happier, your health will be better, and you will enjoy everything you do. There are a lot of clinically depressed people in our culture. If more people found deeper meaning for their lives at an earlier age, it would do away with a lot of these depressed people. Just try a few of these ideas that interest you; no one can do them all.
Help others—help yourself!
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