Monday, August 25, 2008

7 Habits To Create A Deadly Skilled Content For Your Blog Success




As a supplementary part of jump starting your blog, here is another essential points you should learn. Many blog beginners having difficulty filling the blog's content. They often feel "somehow incapable" to write appealing contents for their blog. They tend to feel "something is wrong with my blog" or for short let's call it "always incomplete feeling". Many of them ask themself "will there any one will actually like my writing ?"

Well, you can try these tips to make your writings appealing :

  1. Write with your peace of mind. Write with no pressure, no rush, and everything will be just fine. You will not have notable obstacles to seek for suitable words to flow out of your head. Write down everything you want to write. A good blog usually have original content, written with sincerity. So, basically you can write down anything you like, to let your soul flow within the text you type so it has a "touch of feelings".
  2. Write only useful things. A successful blog knows best what the readers want to ensure every one reading the blog don't leave the blog with empty hands. The blog readers will expect to have something new and useful for them every time they visit the blog. Give plenty of information every one can use. Do not disappoint their visit to your blog.
  3. Find solutions for others. First, before trying to solve other's problem you should know for sure who are your blog readers. After recognizing them, then you can predict what kind of problems they might have which lead them to your blog. After that prediction, you can accurately make an analysis about the right solutions for their problems. The problem is, what if you don't currently have any readers? New bloggers have this problem for sure. No problem, don't panic and start by reading other blogs with similar reader group. Let's call it a blog reference for you. If you are completely out of ideas to offer solutions for the visitors, try to understand the problems from the readers at the reference blogs. Usually at the comment section, readers submit their problems. After that you can submit your own version of solutions.
  4. Don't just write about your self. No one will like to read a long page describing only about your self and nothing else. They will think your blog is useless, and nothing they can take advantages of. Statistically, a diary-like blog usually have only a small number of reader, for a short period of time, unless the site contains something else and its useful. Psychologically, writing about your self too much on your blog will reduce the creativity within your mind, thus killing your spirit to keep writing your blog further. So, what should you remember to NOT make your blog like a diary ? Always remind your self that you are writing not only for your self, but mainly for others, all around the globe. Share to others your personal life, about what is happening with you every day and also share what people learn to others. That way you will avoid writing all about your self and only your self.
  5. Touch your readers. Try to interact with your readers. How ? Don't just reply to the comments your readers write. Aim for something more creative i.e. commenter will be rewarded by free ebooks.
  6. Make an attempting headline. Headline or the main title is one of the deciding factor whether your blog will be read or not. Why ? The answer is simple. Every body who wants to join in your blog will start the decision process by reading the headline. No matter how important the content if the headline is not attractive the content will never be read. Yes, you read that right : NEVER. So, how can we make a powerful headline for us ? Just use the W.I.M method : Watch, Imitate, and Modify. To become highly skilled at making deadly headlines, first you watch other blogs, magazines, newspapers, or other sources widely available on the internet for free. Take a note on the headlines in the famous blogs. Find out how those headlines can be so irresistible for you. After that just use the second technique : imitate. Just imitate the style they use. Do they use question marks ? Do they use "how to"s ? Simplified newspaper style ? Just imitate the style you like. After that you can use the final technique : modify. Make a better style from the one you imitate earlier.
  7. Focus on the important. Don't waste your time and efforts for things that will not increase your blog's traffic. Are there such things can waste your time and energy ? A lot of things like too much looking for a perfect picture for your blog, or too much redesigning the blog lay out can waste your time and energy for no impact on the traffic. Spend your time on the essentials only for your blog. Writing the content and interact with the readers are two most important thing, more than anything. So make sure you minimize anything else not connected to these activities to gain more productivity.

The 7 habbits above are the essential habbits every good bloggers must have. After that if some how you still feel incapable of writing, just wipe that feeling away. Good or bad of a blog's content is decided by the readers, not you. ;)
Now, do you still have problems writing an interesting content ? If you answer yes, let's share it here... I'll be waiting :) ok ?

Sunday, August 24, 2008

5 Simple Steps To Jump Start Your Blog



In my previous post, i wrote about how to get maximum income from a simple blog. Now i will show you the next steps.

I will start this section with an analogy. Most people, probably you too, judge people from the outfit. Even outfit is not enough to describe the internal character and personality of someone in full, how people dress themselves actually make great impacts to others. Someone with nice and neat outfit will automatically be judged as a good person.

That kind of analogy exists in the online world, specifically the blog world. Your -offline- physical appearance is never a problem to the online community since it will never be seen, but your blog will represent what kind of person you are. Its always a good advice to remember : make your blog as attractive as possible to make sure its good for the eyes to see. Confirm the design does not look awful, it should be pretty, easy to be read, and it is useful. Every one will like to hang around neat people, polite, and stuffed with lots of information.

Of course, the design and contents does not and should not leave your personal style behind. Align your blog with your special style. Keep in mind that strong personal impression of a blog strongly the success level of your blog.

Then what next ? To grow your blog you should practice the following secret stuffs, start with getting to know them one by one :

  1. Build yourself a blog network with others. Trust me on this : lots of friend means lots of wealth.
  2. Learn the content-writing skill. I will write down another success point on content-writing soon, to help you write a good skilled content for your blog.
  3. Make a strong image and brand for your blog. Remember, the online world works on the "survival of the fittest" method, and that means only the strong brands will survive.
  4. Teach yourself a SEO (Search Engine Optimizer). Make friend with search engines to increase your site's traffic.
  5. Learn the essentials of marketing skills. The proficient art of selling things will greatly help you sells. Especially if you actually have something (a product) to sell on the internet. If you don't have a product to sell, yourself and your blog itself are products you can sell. Interesting isn't it ?

Go ahead and try the points above. You should see a significant improvements on your blog. If your skill is repeatedly to get better over time, you can point your blog's growth towards any direction you want. For further reading have your self a great writing gears.

Have a Great Success with Your Blog !

How to get something from a simple blog

As a start, go ask yourself a question : Do you have a blog ?

You don't have one ?? Oh wow, the answer for the above question is embarrassingly simple : "why don't you make a blog ?" ;)

Correct, the answer for the question is another question. Why on earth you don't have a blog if making a blog is very easy. Yes, blogging is easy, very very cheap (most of the case its free), and the best part : it (can) makes money. Why i said its "almost" free above ? Well, there are so many free blog service like blogspot, wordpress, multiply, hubpages, and many others; they offer a free standard (read : awesome and rich-featured) blog, with their standard naming like this : yourname.blogspot.com. but if you want an extra crispy stuff like www.yourname.com that redirects to your original blog, well there's a fee for it. Best of all, its amazingly cheap. it costs only $10 - $20 per year. Can't beat that on any hosting plan!

Next, after you own a blog, the development, content, and control are absolutely in your hands. That means no one can touch your blog without your permission. Do you want to increase traffic ? increase your promotion. Want to increase the posting ? Just post more frequently. Now if you want to make money, there is one key for it : increase traffic.

The more visitor to your blog, the easier you get ads, the higher the price of the ads in your site. If you want to use a direct-income model, all you have to do is just provide free contents for your blog, and the advertiser will pay for you. Easy isn't it ?

Is there another way ? Yes, you can also use an indirect-income model. Your blog must provide a free content, but you must provide better products or services. Your blog will act like a traffic forwarder or flow control to another site who provide the products or services. This model makes a lot of money bigger than the direct model, as supplying your own products and services will increase the profit margin. You're free to set the price of your products and/or services. Compared to the use of 3rd party advertising company (i.e. adsense), you must share your profit with them, and the advertising price is appointed by them.

That is why it is highly recommended for you to create your own products. Creating your own product is equal to faster way for a higher gain which will lead to a financial freedom. Would you agree ?

Are you in a serious debt problem ?

Warning Signs of Debt Trouble


If you answer “yes” to any one of them, you are probably in or headed for serious debt trouble:
  1. Are your credit cards charged to the maximum?
  2. Do you use one credit card to pay another?
  3. Are you making only minimum payments on your credit cards while continuing to incur charges?
  4. Do you skip paying certain bills each month?
  5. Have creditors closed any accounts on you?
  6. Have you taken out a debt consolidation loan? Are you considering doing so?
  7. Have you borrowed money or used your credit cards to pay for groceries, utilities, or other necessities (for reasons other than to get perks on a credit card)?
  8. Have you bounced any checks?
  9. Are collection agencies calling and writing you?