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How To Start A Blog For Free Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:05 PM PDT This is a guest post by James Ingles. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Learning to blog is fun and easy, and it doesn’t even have to cost a cent. In this post I’m going to show you how to start a blog for free (maybe you don’t need this info, but I am sure you know someone who does). One of the great things about blogging is that anyone can do it and the barrier to entry is nill, nought, zip, zilch assuming that you have or have access to a computer with an internet connection. I don’t know many people without a computer that don’t have an internet connection. Blogging is as easy as playing with Lego. I have always been the creative type. When I was younger I used to love playing with my Lego, I was totally awesome at it and could build models on the back of the boxes without any instructions. I even built a whole Lego land from scratch it was huge. When I grew up and got my own PC I discovered web design. Back when I first got on the net blogs and blogging never existed so I would build my web sites from scratch. My first web site was horrible. Then blogging came along, it took off like a rocket and soon the net was soon littered with blogs. It didn’t take long before blogs became a great alternative source of information besides magazines, newspapers and other media outlets. What I have learned over the years is that building a blog is pretty easy. You don’t need to be a designer or know how to code (although it does help if you can design and code) because building a blog is like building a Lego model. How is building a blog like building a Lego model? Lego models are made up of lots of little Lego parts that fit together to make a model, you can even buy individual bricks and elements to build your own model. A blog is like a Lego model except that the themes, posts, pictures, plugins and widgets etc… are the building blocks. Although you still have to know how to put those blocks together and combine elements to build a good blog. And blogging is free, Lego is really expensive these days! Anyone can play with Lego and build things without any knowledge but it doesn’t mean that they can or will build anything really cool. Blogging is the same, you can take a theme and build a blog but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be any good. I have seen plenty of good themes totally murdered by bad design choices, cheesy useless plugins, ugly colour schemes that make my eyes bleed. When you first install WordPress you get a pretty plain default theme, themes are like a Lego base plate that you build things on top of. Plugins, widgets, and posts are the building blocks for your chosen theme. Like Lego blogs, plugins, themes & widgets come with instructions but the instructions wont instruct you on building a great blog they will only tell you how to use the theme, plugin, widget or what ever it is. You will have to teach yourself how to build a good blog. There are plenty of blogging resources out there to read and learn from. Reading alone isn’t going to make you a good blogger, you will have to get your hands dirty. Your first blog probably isn’t going to be the best and you will make mistakes but don’t let that stop you because you won’t learn without making mistakes or building bad blogs. Mistakes are good but only if you learn from them. Unless you learn from your mistakes then you are doomed to repeat your past mistakes like ground hog day until you learn from them. I have built plenty of web sites and blogs, I have also made a lot of mistakes and bad design choices but I have learned from my mistakes and become a better designer. I still have a bunch of web sites, backups of old blogs and mock-ups of web sites that never got built sitting on my hard drive. If I were to look at some of them now I would cringe, one thing that I would see is that my designs and web sites got progressively better. So you have decided that you want to blog, and you have chosen WordPress great choice! You have two options. Do you drop some cash on a domain name (so you can have www.yourblogname.com) and a web host so you can have full control over your blog? Or do you go with WordPress.com which is free but will get you stuck with www.yourblogname.wordpress.com and very little control over your blog? The choice is basically WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org, one costs money the other doesn’t, one offers full control over your blog the other offers next to no control. Neither of those options sound appealing? No money? No problems. There is a third option if you want full control over your blog but have no money to drop on a domain and web hosting. There are many free hosting plans out there. Just Google "free web hosting" and you’ll find them. Although there are a few things to be aware of. The host needs to support PHP version 5.2.4 or greater and MySQL version 5.0 or greater. What you will get is generally listed under "Features", "What you’ll get", "Spesifications" just have a poke around any decent free web host will list what they offer If you choose to find your own free hosting be aware that some free web hosts will require that you let them put advertisements on your site, there are some free hosts that don't require you to advertise so check carefully before signing up. There is one trade off, because you are using free hosting you will get stuck with whatever URL they choose to let you have, usually it’s just a sub domain like www.yourblogname.zymichost.com, or www.yourblogname.freeaspwebhosting.org. Although it’s an acceptable trade off for having full control over your blog. If you are starting a blog for the first time, want a personal blog and don’t care if the URL doesn’t look that professional or just want to learn before you drop some hard earned cash on a domain name and hosting this is a great way to get started. If you start a blog get lucky and it becomes popular you can always buy a domain some better web hosting and move your blog to your new host. About the Author: James Ingles is a self taught web designer, blogger and computer technician who has been at it for 13 years. His blog Kulture is about computers, tech, and all things geeky culture including blogging. Original Post: How To Start A Blog For Free

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Have You Been Using Your Brain Lately? Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:11 AM PDT Surprising as it sounds, I think that the answer for the question in the title is “no” for most of us (myself included). I’ll explain what I mean by that. You probably agree that being able to identify where the Internet and technology in general are moving is one of the most profitable skills one can have, right? For example, the people who first saw the potential of the World Wide Web are all millionaires today (some are billionaires). If you were lazy you just needed to register a handful of domain names (e.g., pizza.com, beer.com, business.com) and sell them for a fortune some years down the road. If you had a more entrepreneurial spirit you could start an online business, perhaps to sell books, perhaps to sell computers. At this point you might be saying “Sure, back in the day it was easy, but these days such opportunities are all gone.” Well, this affirmation sounds quite similar to the one made by Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patents Office, in 1899 (mark the year). He said: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.“. Needless to say he became quite famous after that…. In other words, as long as the world is changing there will always be new opportunities, new markets, new business models. And the Internet is only accelerating the rate at which change is happening around the world. Want examples? Just think about Zynga. They identified that social networks would become one of the largest platforms for games, and started developing games for MySpace and Facebook before most companies. Today Zynga is worth over $10 billion. So yeah identifying the next big thing is possible even today. The problem I see is that most people (again, myself included, else I would be building my next big company instead of writing this post…) use the wrong approach to identify changes and new opportunities. Here’s the problem: Most people try to understand the future and see upcoming opportunities by reading the news and commentary from journalists, bloggers and what not. Guess what, if those people had the answers they wouldn’t be writing about them either, they would be building their own websites/companies. Sometimes there are gold nuggets around, but once it gets published online everyone else will also have access to it, and some people will probably move faster than you. The solution? You need to use your own brain. Sure, information you can grab around the Internet, on newspapers and on television can help. But if you want to have an edge over other people you’ll need to do your own thinking, your own analysis, take your own conclusions and bet your time/money on them. Sounds too abstract? Well, here’s the practical side of it: instead of browsing around the web all day long, reading news sites and blogs every 5 minutes, checking what everyone is up to on Facebook and what not, take 20 minutes per day to actually sit down and put your ideas on paper. Write about the segments you think will grow over the coming years. Research some numbers and try to understand why they are behaving as they are. Write about the technologies you think will change how people do things and so on. One day you might get an insight that no one has had yet. I am not saying it’s easy, but it’s probably the only way to go if you want to come up with something big/profitable, so why not try it? Original Post: Have You Been Using Your Brain Lately?

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The Art Of Mastering Skills–Are You A Blogging ‘Jack-of-all-Trades’? - DailyBlogTips

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The Art Of Mastering Skills–Are You A Blogging ‘Jack-of-all-Trades’? Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:02 PM PDT This is a guest post by Chris Kahler. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Isn't the definition of blogging kind of general? Not really the word itself, rather the definition of the profession. There are many individual parts that fit together to form a successful blogging venture. What exactly do I mean by this? It's simple really… A blog is not just a collection of words. Its doesn't depend solely upon a good design. Connecting on social media is only a portion of success. Other than providing beneficial value, blogs also need to get people sticking around in order to grow… In order to be a masterful blogger mastering as many of these various skills as possible is important. But, I'm not here to tell you of the importance of mastering skills. That’s a basic understanding… The important message here are the few skills to actually master. They are crucial if you desire to build your blog hands on and grow it effectively. I understand a lot of people prefer to outsource. That's why this is the art of mastering skills. As with other forms of art, it's only pursued by those who are interested in being skilled. As a self proclaimed chronic do-it-yourselfer, I prefer to master the skills first and if I don't thoroughly enjoy them over time, then I outsource. When you find skills that you enjoy learning and doing, that make this process worth it. Not only does this allow you to gain a specialized skill (or a few!) for your profession, it becomes an enjoyable craft as well. 3 Skills All Bloggers Should Adopt for Proficient Blogging Habits These are three skills to have as a "well rounded" blogger. All are learned through practice and concentrated effort. Of course, each skill has other parts to it. I've got the "sub skills" shown here as well so that you can relate the main skill towards blogging in a way that's beneficial to your venture: 1. Experimentation Sub skills: being creative, patient, and learning how to test. Experimentation is: learning how to run with new ideas and adapt yourself along the way for improvement. Being creative transforms almost any venture you undertake into one of enjoyment. Just as painters enjoy painting and poets enjoy reading/writing poetry, bloggers enjoy their craft as well. But it's only enjoyable if viewed from a creative standpoint rather than a business or work standpoint. People don't like the idea of work… it plagues them. But when your job becomes a place that you can extend your skills creatively it gains a certain luster. Having that spark and applying the desire to make something better than before leads you towards the cultivating of grand ideas. Experiment using patience, always apply creativity, and learn how to test your ideas for results. If you can do these things you'll expand your knowledge into new areas and maximize your benefits from doing so. What kind of experiments should you do? Well you can branch out into other forms of media. If you aren't making videos and sharing them online, start doing it. If you aren't putting out guest posts, start doing that too. The key is to start doing new things you aren't currently doing. That's an experiment because your taking a problem and attempting to overcome it using this "new thing" as the solution. Then you analyze your results from doing that "new thing" and improve accordingly…. it sounds like a lot, but it's really a no brainer for getting better at what you want to do. 2. Persuasion Sub skills: building rapport, understanding benefits vs audience problems, psychological triggers. I've been talking a lot about this topic over at my blog recently. There's a good reason for this. Persuasion will help you get what you want in life. It's a tool you should carry with you in all areas. Understand though, I'm not talking about manipulating people. What I'm talking about is natural persuasion. Being attractive enough so that people will join your cause willingly. How can you get someone join what you're doing… without trying so hard to influence them? It isn't how hard you try to persuade them that makes influence work… It's how much benefit they perceive to get out of you, followed by a simple "triggering" of an emotional chord inside of them to get an action. This works for blogging in very powerful ways. Your web design, brand (going in depth on this one below), and overall impression you make on your incoming audience establishes a sense of rapport. Rapport is a form of trust in case you were wondering. It's when you have something in common and are seen as genuine to someone. Rapport is an inner connection with a stranger. You need to establish a connection with your audience, understand what problems they are having, present to them benefits through your value, and use psychological triggers to help direct their attention for growing your blog. 3. Branding Sub skills: web & graphic design, developing your personal story, developing your unique voice Your online brand represents your identity across the internet. It's not so much what people believe about your brand that matters. It only acts as a trigger. What matters is the basic image you give off to others. They will build a perception of you and your business and through branding you can trigger them to recall associated emotions from that perception. You create your identity slowly over time through your actions. It's important that you build a reputation. The entire time you are building a reputation and fleshing out your personal story, you should be doing so in a uniform way. This is why I put web and graphic design in the sub skills list. It isn't necessary that you become a Photoshop expert overnight… the actual web design skill itself isn't super crucial to have. Understanding the motive which drives this skill in the background is crucial. When creating your brand… color scheme, slogans, logos, and all of that are a part of it and must be tied together appropriately for your cause. As you create value and solve your audience's problems, you should also be sharing your own personal story. It's unique to you and is what gravitates people to listen to you. Others will find you interesting only according to your personal story… otherwise we'd all be the same, right? Information is all out there; it's my belief that people are looking for unique style. Together, your personal story and creativity will help you to develop your own unique voice. As you present this story and unique voice across the internet in various ways (experimenting), doing so with a uniform appearance will "brand" your persona to your cause. That's how you create your own unique style and tie everything together. Eventually they will become one and the same to a point that someone merely needs to mention your name or your brand's name and others immediately feel a certain emotion or thought about you. Now I want to know… A lot of successful bloggers use these methods to help them grow their businesses. I know I've mentioned a few important skills to master, but there are more. It's because of this reason that I'm running a long term series teaching every important skill I can think of for those who wanna really learn to blog. What other skills are important for us bloggers to master in order to really gain an understanding of this wide reaching profession? If you have any examples of these skills in action, care to share your thoughts? About the Author: My name is Chris Kahler and I work as a copywriter and blog about strategies I learn through experimenting and improving myself. If you want to master these skills plus many more to become a Grand Master blogger, check out my Learn to Blog Series at BloggerITUS.com Original Post: The Art Of Mastering Skills–Are You A Blogging 'Jack-of-all-Trades'?

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Treat Your Online Work Like A Job And Watch Your Earnings Explode - DailyBlogTips

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Treat Your Online Work Like A Job And Watch Your Earnings Explode Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:04 PM PDT This is a guest post by Tiptopcat. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I have been trying on and off to make money online for a while and it is only recently that I have started to see the fruits of my labor. This is due to one thing. I stopped treating my online activities as a hobby and started to really think of it as a job. As soon as I started to make small changes, I started to notice an increase in my productivity level, my confidence and my earnings. If you implement the following things, you too could see a dramatic change in the way you view your online work which could lead to a higher level of success. 1. Figure Out When You Are Most Productive & Stick To It The huge advantage of working online is that you you can set your own hours. There is no boss waiting for you to arrive at the office and you are not stuck on the 9-5 treadmill. However it is really easy to allow yourself to drift from hour to hour without actually getting any work done so it is a good idea to set specific times when you are at your most alert and most productive. You can choose to work in blocks of 2 hours, 4 hours, or even in short bursts of 45 minutes. You can do whatever suits your lifestyle as long as you know that you will focus on the specific tasks that you have set for yourself. 2. Set Deadlines To Get Things Done As well as deciding when and how long you will work each day, it is also a good idea to set deadlines for your tasks. Out in the real world a boss would expect your work to be completed on the date that he or she sets and you would most likely achieve it. Now that you are your own boss, you need to make yourself accountable. If you are working on an eBook, set a deadline for the draft to be ready, if you are setting up a new website, set a date for when you want to have all the articles completed for it so that it is ready to go live. This will ensure that you are not allowing procrastination to get in the way of what you need to get done. 3. Invest In Training If you were at an offline job and you didn’t know how to do something, the company would have funds to invest in proper training for the workforce. Well this is what you need to do for yourself for your online business. You need to invest in your own trainging so that you can gain the necessary knowledged needed and work effectively and effieciently. For example, if you want to learn the skills in order to build up a network of affliate websites, then you should purchase the relevant eBook or training course. If you want to offer website themes but do not know how to design them, then you should consider signing up for web design classes. Spending a little bit of money to learn new skills will bring you closer to achieving or improving your online earnings potential. As soon as you can make sure that you invest some money and time into building up your knowledge. 4. Remove Distractions One of the worst things about working at home is the amount of distractions that there are. This includes the television, your bed, Facebook, Twitter and the many other social forums. You have to get out of the habit of switching on the television and channel hopping. You have to stop updating your Facebook account and you have to get out of bed! With no one around to make sure you get your work done, you have to make a concerted effort to reduce the amount of distractions or you will find that you will get nothing done which will lead to zero earnings. By implementing these few changes into your daily routine you will start to see a difference. Treating your online work like a job means setting some ground rules. If you can do this then success is just around the corner. Good luck. About the Author: Tiptopcat is a PLR content provider at The PLR Boutique. She provides quality PLR articles on a range of topics. Original Post: Treat Your Online Work Like A Job And Watch Your Earnings Explode

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Do You Still Subscribe via RSS and Use an RSS Reader? Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:14 PM PDT Around three years ago getting RSS subscribers was one of the main goals for any content-based website, blogs included. The reason? Most web visitors (most tech savvy ones at least) would use RSS readers to keep updated with the latest news and to decide what websites they would visit. Over time, however, some people stopped using RSS readers and subscribing to sites via RSS, to the point that news outlets proclaimed the death of RSS. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that RSS is dead or dying, because I think a lot of people still use it, and even if RSS readers are not that popular anymore RSS can be used for many other cool things. That being said, I do agree that fewer and fewer people are using RSS readers, and RSS is losing some of its important for content-based sites. I wanted to get some numbers to back this up, though, so I decided to run a poll. The question is: Do you still subscribe to sites via RSS and use an RSS reader to keep updated with your favorite sites and news sources? Cast your vote and leave a comment if you want to expand your thoughts. Original Post: Do You Still Subscribe via RSS and Use an RSS Reader?

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How to Write ‘Off Topic Posts’ Without Losing the Focus on Your Blog Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:38 PM PDT This is a guest post by Aman Basanti. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Being a savvy blogger, you understand the importance of having a focused blog. You make sure that what you write is relevant and specific to your target market. You do not post content that may dilute the focus of your site. Yet you still like writing about other topics, especially topics that are related to your overall market but are not specific to your niche. So how can you continue writing on those subjects without losing the focus on your blog? This was my dilemma. I loved writing about consumer psychology and wanted to keep my blog, Age of Marketing.com, focused on buyer behaviour. But I also enjoyed writing on other topics like blogging tips, entrepreneurship and personal success. What was I to do? The answer was to think outside the box, or in this instance, outside my blog. The Answer Just because entrepreneurship was not the focus of my blog did not mean it was not the focus of another blog, like Business Insider. Just because blogging tips were not the focus of my blog does not mean they were not perfect for ProBlogger or Daily Blog Tips. Turned out not only could I continue writing about other topics, I could turn it into a powerful traffic generation strategy for my blog. Here is how I benefited from writing off-topic posts and publishing them on other blogs: Kept my blog focused: I could still keep my blog focused on consumer psychology and buyer behaviour. Expanded the number of topics I could write about: It is easier to find post ideas when you have more topics to choose from. Made blogging fun: They say a change is as good as a holiday. While I loved writing about consumer psychology, it was fun to write about other topics as well. Built traffic and back-links: Traffic from guest posting is the highest converting traffic (in terms of blog opt-ins) I have ever got to my blog. What this does and does not mean Now this is not your ticket to writing and submitting generic, half-arsed guest posts to other bloggers. Nor is it an excuse to stop writing for your own blog. It just means that the next time you spot a brilliant post idea that is not directly related to your niche, then go ahead and write it up. Or if you start to feel stale and need a break, take time out from your blog and write for another blog. You will build traffic, back-links and recharge your batteries at the same time. About the Author: Aman Basanti writes about the psychology of buying and teaches you how you can use the principles of consumer psychology to boost your sales. Visit Ageofmarketing.com to get his new e-book – Marketing to the Pre-Historic Mind: How the Hot New Science of Behavioural Economics Can Help You Boost Your Sales – for free. Original Post: How to Write ‘Off Topic Posts’ Without Losing the Focus on Your Blog

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Blogging Is Still Going Strong Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:48 PM PDT Every once in a while you see people declaring the death of blogging, claiming that social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and lately Google+, will outplace blogs and personal websites. Well, every once in a while you also see people who abandoned their blogs or personal sites in favor of said social platforms admitting they did a mistake and reverting their decisions. This week it was Hugh Mcleod’s turn. Here’s a quote from his post: Earlier today I told everybody on Twitter and Facebook, that I'm leaving Twitter and Facebook. Why? Because Facebook and Twitter are too easy. Keeping up a decent blog that people actually want to take the time to read, that's much harder. And it's the hard stuff that pays off in the end. The post is titled "Reclaim Blogging": Why I'm giving up Twitter and Facebook, and it’s attracting a lot of attention (150 comments and counting). Worth a read (comments included), so check it out. Original Post: Blogging Is Still Going Strong

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