{RANT}Avoid making the mistakes I made in the past by using the information given to you. You see for four years I bought all kinds of stuff. You name it, I probably bought it. I spent countless hours and only God knows how many thousands of dollars trying to make money online. The only thing I made sure to do is allow the materials I purchased to sit on my hard drive collecting cyber dust and continuosly fall into the sales copy pitch and buy the next best thing. I didn’t make one damn penny. It wasn’t until I lost my job that I decided to take some action and get it done.  That’s when I started scouring through my hard drive and found the two books that changed my life. I know it’s not easy, but learn from my mistakes and take action. {END RANT}

Okay, this E-book is a must-read and was written  by a gentleman named Ken Evoy. Again, if you don’t know who that is, don’t worry. I’ll fill you in later. It’s also FREE and I consider it my make money online encyclopedia. It’s a long E-book. It’s very thorough and will help you to get your mind right. You need to have a certain mindset in order to be successful and this will help you get where you need to be mentally.  Netwriting Masters Course.

This e-book was written to help you understand making money online and how to go about developing multiple income streams from your knowledge, ideas, and passions, affiliate programs, advertising, Google Adsense, and much more, all in the shortest time and without spending all your hard earned cash. However, you have to do one thing to get the most from this online money making manual.    You have to read it.

You still reading my text? WHY? Go download the book and read it.

When you finished reading both e-books, come back here to comment on what you thing about them. Let me know if they have changed your perspective on making money with a blog or if you still want to know how to start a blog.

Author: Emil Giurca

No matter how good your blog posts are they are literally useless unless people read them. And in order for people to read them , they need to make it to your blog . I mean , really make it there . It’s a struggle for them to find good content . And it’s a struggle for you to deliver and get them face to face with your good content .

And … to be honest … this isn’t about showing that you have the best possible car for sale . I’ve already addressed the topic of cloud blogging here . And , whether we like to admit it or not , cloud blogging is a fact . Chances are your content is just a variation of someone else’s ideas . But that’s not a bad thing . Baby steps . Nothing more than baby steps . That’s what evolution is . You take an idea and add a little something . Then someone else takes that idea and ads a little something else to it . And so on and so forth .

Picture a huuuuge parking lot with cars for sale . Every car is a blog . And every salesman is a blogger . Cloud blogging tells us that every car is a slight variation of another car from that parking lot .

Photo By Jcoterhal

And this is where the major rule of attracting visitors comes into play : ‘Don’t promote your blog , promote yourself’ .

This is what it should all be about . There is a very small chance that you are truly adding something brand new to the scene . Even this very blog that you are reading is , most likely , just a copy of someone else’s ideas . I just rearranged them and maybe added something new . That’s it .

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel . You will end up with a basket of frustrations and nothing more . Just use it .

This is what you are selling : yourself . It’s about the salesman that gets attention , not about his car ( surely , his car must be at least the same as everyone else’s ). The point is to get yourself in people’s face. Not in an aggressive manner , obviously . Just let them know that you know something about something . Make sure that after they talk to you they think to themselves : “I like him . He knows stuff .”.

Everyone tells you : promote your blog . Well , to be honest … I think it’s best to just promote yourself . It’s a whole lot easier to get people interested in you than in your blog . It’s easier to speak wisely and be funny and charismatic than it is to write original post after original post ( in fact – the ladder is basically impossible ).

Ohh , and yeah … charisma is an integral part in your blogs success .

About the Author:

I have been blogging for almost 4 years now , although I’ve only recently entered the big market of international blogs with Life within a page , a blog about … blogging . Hope I have something to share and you will enjoy my articles . Visit him at Promote your blog…

Photo courtesy of Michael

Want to learn how to start a blog but now sure where or how? Blogging is a lucrative source of income for some and blogs are hands-down the easiest to set up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are compensated for writing on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are.

The mere flexibilityof blogging makes it simple for you to just kick back, relax and go on a holiday if you feel like it.

In this article, we’re going to go over  how to start a blog of our own at no cost! Curious? Read on!

First, we need to get a blog. There are several different options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s discuss the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and more effective) www.wordpress.com. If you have a pulse, you must have heard of Wordpress. Wordpress is a free blog engine that is robust and boundlessly expandable.

Blogger.com is really owned by Google, so it will be discovered on Google’s search engine faster and you’ll be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a comparatively newer option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. Nonetheless, Wordpress is significantly more superior in the sense that it has more advanced features such as trackbacks and indisputably more customizable. With wordpress you’ll be able to change any and everything concerning your blog; giving you to opportunity to effectively make money with a blog. I mean, ultimately, that’s what it boils down to more about this later).

So, the first step to start a blog is to go to Wordpress or Blogger.com. Then, acquaint yourself by putting up your first post on your blog and messing around around with the options and templates.{Yes, I’m partial to Wordpress:}

**Note: Don’t spend too much time with the techie stuff. Just pick a topic that interest you and get something up.

Here are a few basic “blog-related” words to assist you along the way:

1)    Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2)    Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3)    Pinging – Blogging appears to be paired with pinging just about every time either one is brought up nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your web log  or blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the freshest post of your blog on their website. This is also a useful method to pulling in traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I’ll  leave you to trying out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the near future, we’ll discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to publish posts that keep visitors glued to your blog and keep coming back for more!

Please feel free to ask questions about how to start a blog.