Why Are There So Few Money Making Blogs?

There Are A Number Of Reasons That There Aren’t More Money Making Blogs!

“If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.” – Sonia Simone is the Senior Editor of Copyblogger.

I love that line that Sonia used in the above referenced article. People who get into this “business” forget just that…it’s a business. First and foremost, unless you are a struggling writer trying to hone your craft, or unless you are a non-profit advocate, you have to remember that you are indeed blogging to make money.

To quote Sonia in another article she wrote, “ if the problem you’re solving isn’t compelling, you’ve got a rough road ahead. She went on to quote Seth Godin and said, no one cares much about their “I’d like a slightly better version of something that is already just fine” problem.

So I have a quick question. Are you working each day to solve a problem or deliver what your prospective consumer really wants? Do you even know what their problems or desires are? Do you know how to find out?

If you can’t answer those questions then why are you blogging and how can you expect to have one of the few money making blogs? If every thing you write or email out is a pitch to buy something, then you are going to fail miserably. That is unless your subscriber asked for you to pitch them over and over again…which I highly doubt.

Look at some of those who are successful in the industry you are seeking to penetrate. If you want to sell your SEO services then perhaps you may want to take a look at SEMOZ. If you want to show people how they can better copywriters then perhaps Copyblogger may be the place to look.  What you will see on both of those sites is tons and tons of usable information.

They help solve their readers problems…and they also know what those problems are. So what audience are you trying to reach? Are you trying to reach an audience that wants to make money on the Internet? Do you think selling them a product that promises to make a million dollar sin 30 days really solves THEIR problems? Sure, it may solve some of yours, but that’s a short time player’s mentality.

Here’s a better way to do that and still make money online. How about identifying a segment of people who need to make some money in a short amount of time. Let’s say you target people who would like to make $1,000.00 in the next 60 days. That would be a realistic amount to make, even for a newbie. Now show them how to do that.

Show them how they can make $1,000.00 in the next 60 days. Now show them how to do that for free. Prove to them that you know what you’re talking about. No blurred out photoshop inflated figures. No telling them I have a Lambo and you can do BS. No telling them that you have cracked the almight Google and for $197.00 you can too.

No, solve a problem before you ask for money and do it in a clear and concise manner. So you’re asking yourself..”why in the work would I give away what I know”. Simple..because I don’t know you! I don’t believe you! You have no credibility. You have no standing. Or in the words of the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou“… you ain’t bonafde! (love that movie!)

But don’t fret. it won’t take you long to diffrentitae yourself. That’s why you can become one of the few money making blogs out there. Most of the scammers and small timers are looking for the quick hit and the fast easy money that comes from duping everyone.

Making money online isn’t hard at all and no one should be telling anyone anything to the contrary. But it does take work and it does take being taught how by credible sources who are willing to help you solve your problems and obtain your desires.

We try to stand behind what we publish here and if you want to see how we can help you make money or at least solve some of your problems that you may be having in your endeavors online, simply check out the video below.

Who knows, maybe you can be counted as one of the money making blogs online in no time at all!

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Are You Seriously Stuffing Envelopes For Money?

Stuffing Envelopes For Money Is Like Using A Typewriter To Create A Letter!

While I guess it could work, the bigger question would be why would you want to? I mean, I’m actually old enough to remember what a typewriter was and I know a lot of real estate agents who still think that it’s modern technology, but why would you use one in today’s wired age? Besides that..it’s a scam!

Even the postal service regards it as such. (please note, if there any ads for stuffing envleopes in the Google box at right, they were assigned to this page by Google Adsense…not by me)

Sort of the same question in regards to stuffing envelopes for money? I am also old enough to remember reading ads for people to stuff envelopes in the back of my comic books and “magazines”. For some reason they were always near the ad about the guy having sand kicked in his face and the “amazing cream that…well could make things grow”. (if you know what I mean…and unfortunately I think you do)

We are about to turn the page on another decade. Soon it will be 2010 and I can’t fathom that will all of the opportunity available to make money on the Internet that some would continue to try to earn some quick cash by stuffing envelopes for money.

I’m not one to look down my nose at anybody. All I am saying is that if you are looking for a way to make some extra money, there are a number of more efficient and definitely more rewarding ways to make money online. What I fear is that people are so afraid of being scammed and lied to that they would rather try to do something that they don’t take the necessary steps that they need to make some real money.

Being an Internet marketer isn’t hard, but it takes knowledge and perseverance. Sprinkle in a dose of reality and you have the recipe for success online. The knowledge you need to succeed is available for free. Watch the video below and learn how you can learn how to begin your new life as an Internet marketer.

It’s easy and you won’t have to lick a lot of toxic glue stuffing envelopes for money.

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Making Money With Blogs As A Business

5 Easy Tips To Begin Making Money With Blogs

When you have a radio show and a high trafficked blog you get a lot of questions about making money with blogs. What you may not realize is how many people are intimidated with the prospect of doing so.

We all have heard of the paralysis of analysis but it seems to permeate throughout the make money on the Internet newbie crowd. So let’s look at some quick things you can do to begin making money with blogs.

1. Commitment: Allocate a few hours per week to developing your blog. Commit to writing at least 3 articles per week. Don’t worry about becoming the next Stephen King. Just start writing. Obviously make sure your grammar is correct and use the spellcheck often, but right now, just get used to writing.

2. Use An Egg Timer:Well, maybe not an egg timer but how about a digital clock. Realistically if you are starting a blog in something you are passionate about and know something about, it should not take you more than 10 minutes to compose 300 hundred words or so.

3. Forget PPC:Don’t even think about it. If you don’t know what PPC is then fine..all the better. Right now you need to simply concentrate on being comfortable putting finger to keyboard. The last thing you need when you get started is losing money on PPC. You’ll get frustrated and you’ll end up quitting before you start.

4. Don’t Be A Copy Cat:Nothing is worse than someone who steals someone else’s work. You’ll never progress to any degree of success by taking the easy way out and stealing someone else’s work.

5. Ignore Naysayers: I hate negativity and you should too! A lot of people will want to criticize you for beginning a new endeavor. They are going to tell you that you are wasting your time. Ignore them and keep moving towards your goal. Let nothing deter you.

So right now, I bet you’re saying to yourself, “how does this help be understand how I can be making money with blogs”?

Well, that’s not what I said at all. What I said was I had 5 tips for you to “begin” making money with blogs. You see, one has to start at the very beginning before they experience great reward.

I remember when I first began learning how to drive. I wanted to get on the road and open up. Dad had other ideas. My first lesson was to learn what the car was capable of. I had to learn the responsibility I had when I got behind the wheel. I had to learn that my license was a privilege.

So before you can begin to run hog wild wanting to make money on the Internet, learn a bit about what you’re getting into. Learn how this can be a lifelong adventure if you act responsible and hone your craft.

Check out the video below. It will help explain a lot to you and its free! Can’t beat that can you?

Once you learn the basics, the next steps come much easier and you’ll learn how easy it can be to be making money with blogs.

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The Squeeze Page May Be An Outdated Concept

Are you employing a squeeze page as a part of your online marketing effort? Do you even know what a squeeze page is? Well, don’t sweat it, we’ll give you some info here that will give you a working knowledge on squeeze pages and their viability in today’s Internet marketing world.

So you always hear marketers, and would be marketers say that the “money is in the list”. That may indeed have been true in the past but people are becoming more and more immune to the daily email from 20 different marketers all pitching the next big thing.

I have a question from all of the marketers who are pitching the same crap over and over again. If I received an email from you last week, and you told me I had to buy this or that product to make money online, then why are you sending me an email telling me that product du jour is the next big thing?

Please…you’re emails are tired and now that everyone and their mother has a list, the squeeze page is becoming obsolete. Think I’m full of it? Then tell me why everyone is chasing a 1% conversion rate? Why would you get out of bed for a 1% conversion rate?

Oh yeah…I know why…because you need to continue to find more and more suckers to buy the products you are pushing. I think the concept of the squeeze page is a big fat FAIL. So does that mean that I think that email marketing is dead as well. No, quite the contrary.

You see, I believe that email marketing is a misnomer. I believe it should be called integrated relationship marketing. Well, that’s just a big phrase for what Seth Godin coined as permission marketing.

“Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them. It recognizes the new power of the best consumers to ignore marketing. It realizes that treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention.” – Seth Godin

We have decided to build a relationship via our use of the squeeze page. I would like to reward our readers and subscribers. By rewarding our readers we are using our email marketing as an extension of the content that they already find valuable. I’m not saying it’s valuable, they are telling us so by asking for more of it.

Has anyone that you have sent an email to told you that they want more of what you are offering? Imagine how that would fell. Imagine readers (customers) asking you for more information.

We are offering our readers a continuing wall of content. Educational and instructional both. We’re pretty sure they have some fun with it as well. Never do we make pitches or promote crap to them. When we have a product that we wish for them to view, they find it as an integrated component of the very content that they value.

So instead of using a squeeze page which everyone now recognizes as nothing ore than a sales pitch, why not engage your reader with valuable content that they find integrated therein? It’s easier than you may imagine. Once you have your reader’s attention and they anticipate your email, you’ll never need a squeeze page again.

If you’d like to know how we implement our content integration technique, simply watch the free video below.

Did you see how I just did that? Who needs a squeeze page?

Looking For An Internet Make Money Online Program?

Have You Been Looking For An Internet Make Money Online Program?

Ok, please excuse the title of this article. We are doing an experiment on semantics and keywords and we are testing this keyword for search engine rankings. From time to time these are the types of things that we need to do to determine the patterns that relate to how our site is performing.

This article can however be used to provide you with some information in addition to it’s weird sounding title and our need to explain to you what we called it such an odd sounding name and included the phrase Internet make money online program.

Thanks for visiting our site and please be sure to watch the video that you see below and don’t forget to leave your name and email address i the form below the video.

Obviously if you landed opn this article then you are looking for ways to make money online and you are intereste din finding a program or system that will help facilitate your success.

When you watch the video below you will see our introduction to the Massive Profits Money Matrix Course. We feel that it is the ONLY course that you will need to learn how to make money online. Best of all it is completely free. No credit card needed, no trial and then sneaky charge..nope..100% free. So check it out.

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Earn Money From Internet Marketing Strategies That Work

This seems to be quite an easy precept to follow but you would be amazed at how many people we speak to who try to earn money from Internet ideas that don’t make any sense. I really don’t blame a lot of beginning marketers. It’s not really their fault. They are fed so much crap by so many people that it’s hard for them to really get the gist of things.

In order to make money on the Internet you have to take the time to actually learn what you are doing and even with that you need to learn the “right” things. In an effort to help those beginners, we’re going to begin a new series of posts next week that will be designed to give noobs the information they need to begin raking in their piece of the Internet money pie.

What kind of information are we going to discuss? We’ll we will start with the basics and work our way forward. We’ll be encouraging your participation. If you have something to add that you think can help someone then by all means..we’d love to hear from you. To the contrary, if you feel that we say something that you don’t agree with then we would love to engage in spirited debate. Such banter helps everyone improve their game so we definitely would like that kind of feed back.

So what kind of tips and strategies are we talking about? Here’s an example:

Tip: Less Maybe More When Backlinking!

It appears that getting a bunch of backlinks from as many sites as possible may not be as effective as getting a few backlinks from some very trusted sources. We recently viewed a Whiteboard Friday installment by SEOMoz. Take a look and see what you think.

We truly feel that the Internet marketing business holds tremendous opportunity for us all to network and share information and that the more competitive the business becomes the more the need for the sharing of relevant tips and strategies becomes important.

So look out for the our new series beginning next week and I think you will find a great deal of information from our discussions. I firmly believe that if you participate in the discussion that you will be able to earn money from Internet marketing strategies that actually work.

You’re Not Making Any Money Because Your Landing Pages Suck!

So you have decided that you want to make money on the Internet and that you are going to lay claim to your spot on the Information superhighway and rake in as much Internet money as you possibly can. So you start off a full of energy and grab a few CPA offers or delve into a few niche markets and wait for your millions to roll in but unfortunately nothing happens.

Could it be that you lack conversions and that your rise to be the next Internet millionaire is being impeded by the fact that your landing pages suck?

Well a recent studyby CrownPeak determined that 66% of Internet marketers don’t really know how to create landing pages that actually convert. While the study speaks about advertisers in general, the same malaise affects a ton of Internet marketers. They design great PPC campaigns and then have those campaigns directed to lousy landing pages or irrelevant home pages.

Not only are marketers not making any money, they are ensuring that they won’t. The data in the study was quite eye-opening.

“The goal of our study was to determine how smart holiday marketers are being with their online PPC spend, and the results were surprising,” said Jim Howard, CEO of CrownPeak. “By driving traffic to irrelevant content or the company’s home page, marketers are virtually guaranteeing that they aren’t going to convert Web visitors to buyers through online ads.”

What we all should know and what should be very obvious, is that if someone is searching for  “blue widgets”, they should be taken to a page that is promoting the very same “blue widgets”. What the study found is that for some reason most marketers simply don’t get what is considered to be a core strategy of Internet Marketing.

So when you wonder why you are enduring the dreaded “Google Slap” or why you’re pages don’t show up in the serps or why your offers aren’t making any money for you, now you know. If you plan on being successful in this business you have to design landing pages that are relevant and give the searcher what they are looking for. To do otherwise is pretty much a waste of time.

However there’s a bit of real good news in this study that you can see very clearly if you read between the lines. That is to say, with so many people screwing things up there exists a huge opportunity for you to generate massive profits if you take the time to learn how to design campaigns around relevant and consumer appealing landing pages.

So what kind of landing page are you going to design today?

Did You Know That The Biggest Users Of Social Media Sites Are Women?

I did not need a special report to know this. I only had to look in my own home to come to this conclusion. My wife and my college attending daughter are all over Twitter, Facebook…etc. I mean for hours at a time. So when I read arecent report by Pingdom, it only served to underscore that which I already knew. If you want to make money on the Internet then you had better be involved in social media and have offers that appeal to women.

Makes you wonder why so many of the gurus are men doesn’t it? It also makes me think that the industry is ripe for the taking for the right female guru. But back to the report.

The Pingdom report says that 84%of the social media sites have more female users than male users. While men seem to focus more on news sites like Digg and Reddit and while Twitter and Facebook are just slightly skewed towards women, almost all of the other social media sites are dominated by female users.

So the information in this report brings about two questions for me.

1. Why are more women involved in Social Media than men? Perhaps it’s by it’s very name, a more social aspect of the Internet and more suited to women. Have women found that they can network for everything from career and business information to family and home concerns? Are men not as skilled on the use of social media sites? Are men too busy trying to sell on Social Media sites instead of networking and interacting? I don’t have the answer and would love to know your take on it.

2. And this is the big question… what can we do as Internet marketers to turn those obviously savvy women into customers? If they are that involved in Social Media they have surely seen pitch after failed pitch and can sniff out hype and BS. So the marketing message that reaches the female social media user needs to be very well strategized. What’s your social media strategy? How are you going to reach out to women online?

I think it’s important for those seeking to make their share of the Internet money pie to come up with a very defined social media strategy designed to capture these women.

How Much Online Advertising Is Too Much?

As a for profit enterprise, we constantly strive to maximize our profits. We have to work hard at finding a balance where too many offers overshadow our content. After reading a recent BusinessWeek article, I realize that we are not alone.

It seems this is a big dilemma with anyone who has a popular site and wants to grab as much Internet money as is available. Our goal is to use our blogs and sites to make money on the Internet.

Whether they be for affiliate products that show people Easy Ways To Lose Weight Fast or the Best Exercise To Lose Weight Fast. It doesn’t really matter what we are promoting.

The goal is to seize the opportunities available to us and generate massive profits.

The CBS network is trying to gauge just what is the tipping point right now. A new metric has emerged and it’s called “online-ad saturation”. It’s basically the point where people zone out after seeing too many ads. Funny the big execs did not seem to worry about that with television and they certainly have not thought much about it on radio, but they are surely worried about it in a medium like the Internet where the click of a mouse is easier than the flipping of channels on a remote. They also seem to be worrying about their online reputation as I’m sure that social media is a factor in all of this.  Why do I think this? Well..because they used responses from Twitter users.

Rachel Mueller-Lust from Nielsen says that her research shows that people are 31% more likely to recall an ad online than on TV. That’s really interesting. While the study focuses on television ads, think how you might be able to apply this in regards to your revenue generating endeavors on your site. It’s been said that those online, even those who complain about ads, are mostly unwilling to pay for ad-free models. In fact 96% of those polled wouldn’t even spend $1.99 to avoid ads.

So I guess ads are here to stay and that the consumer knows that they’re there and given the size of the industry and my last AdSense check, they actually do value online advertising. It’s amazing how many people trying to make it online still don’t understand this.

Is Your Website Or Blog A Big Fat Load?

If you have any plan on being successful as an Internet marketer or if you really want to be a player and make money on the Internet in any meaningful amount, then you want to show up in the top 10 on Google. Well if you didn’t have enough to worry about, now you may have to put your site on a diet!

It seems that the Google algorithim is being tweaked yet again to include page load times as a factor in how it ranks your page.

A recent article found on Blogstorm says that Google may be taking considerable interst in how quickly a page loads. Patrick Altoft of Blogstorm says that “if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don’t want that as much.”

So how fast is fast enough and how slow is too slow? Geez…just another issue for us to worry about in getting into the SERPS highly enough where it matters.