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Just when I think Rich Schefren and Jay
Abraham have topped themselves, they go
and do something even more amazing...

Go here to see what I'm talking about (you're
going to freak--I know I did)...
https://schefren.infusionsoft.com/go/loemo/DeknMike/

Yeah, you read that right. More than 50 of the
world's most brilliant business and marketing
minds. All in one place. And all ready to help you
achieve the success of your dreams.

Six unforgettable sessions, sitting at the
feet of the masters in a series of intimate panel
settings, listening intently as they reveal their
most closely hidden secrets for building a mega-
profitable business.

Seriously--this "Group Think Tank" process has the
capability to increase your profits by up to
1,000%--or more--before the year is over.

Plus, an offer to save $4,849 On A $4,946 Home Study Collection
If our logic makes sense to you—take us up on it and save yourself $4,849 on a $4,946 business profit acceleration home study collection you'll be buying for a mere
$67 total.
Best of all it comes with our guarantee -- it'll make you a handsome profit in the next six weeks or it costs you nothing.
So read on and see what you think...
Jay Abraham only does high priced training programs. They run $5,000 to $40,000 for the live ones and $2,000 to $5,000 for the home-study versions.
He just completed a collaborative home study course on pure rapid (high-profit/high-performance) business building. It's called "Total Business Growth" because it focuses you on every high-impact, high leverage and high-performance area of your business that can be immediately improved and enhanced.
The course is broken down into nine separate "Business Multiplier Modules". All totaled over 129 different components. Each one looks at a separate way to accelerate and multiply the performance of a different area in your business you can improve the results on—right away.
Best of all it comes with our guarantee -- it'll make you a handsome profit in the next six weeks or it costs you nothing. In our offer -- if you don't profit you don't pay!

consistent action

Rapid action? Hah!  Great title, little action.

It's time to start this business up again.  Maybe I can get to where I should have been 3 years ago.  Got time now, but even less cash.consistent action.

The key to making money online is

Get a Great Host

As good as Blogger is for creating blogs quickly, if you're serious about business blogging, you'll need to install blogging software on your own site. With your own site, you can change the look and feel. You can add your own ads, or create your own members-only section.

You can pay a lot of money, but you don't have to. I've found that BLUEHOST offers everything I need for only a few dollars a month. (The current cost is $6.95) With the standard hosting account you get unlimited storage, Gigs of site transfer, an autoresponder, email accounts and an email autoforwarder, and most of the most common plugins. You get blog software, social networking support, poll & survey software, and multimedia support. Also included are e-commerce support, including the most common shopping cart solutions.

If you need a new domain name, it's free..

In short BlueHost is a good choice for site hosting. Click here to sign up at Bluehost.com

Link Building

Kathleen Gresham publishes Blog Design Journal, an internet-based collection of useful information to make your blog better. The July 3 issue is about link-building.

According to Gresham, there are 2 kinds of links: reciprocal links and one way links. You get a reciprocal link when two sites agree to put one another's link on their site. One-way links are when one site references another, like I did in the first paragraph of this post.

According to Gresham, "links from a relevant site it will rate higher than from a non relevant site. The number, or volume, of links is important as well. The more the better."

Links to your site are valuable because they tell the search engines your content is worth looking at, relevant to a topic, etc. Higher relevance means higher rank. Higher rank means it's easier to find. The easier to find, the more visitors. The more visitors, the more potential income.

And for the business blogger, that's the point.

Membership Sites

I heard some teaching tonite about membership sites. It's a great way to generate recurring income. The key is to create and post enough content that the people want to keep paying.

The key to creating a membership site is a way to manage the access. Standard access customers should not have access to premium content. Premium content customers should be restricted from seeing the content if they don't keep up the subscription. That's the purpose of membership management software.

I've found one that works with WordPress. It's $99 for one site or $199 for up to 5 sites. But at $27 a person, you break even the fourth customer or the fourth month. Learn more here.

Selling Content with Clickbank

If you don't have content ready to sell, one of the best places to find some is Clickbank. Hundreds (thousands?) of information products that pay you a commission for you to help them sell their products. Normally it's 50%-75% of their permanently-discounted $27 product, but then half of $27 is $13.50, and if you can sell copies for less than that, it's a profit. Sell enough, and you start making money.

It's also a pretty good place to place your own content until you build a list. You've gotta pay out that same commission to others to market your products, but then it's free sales and you capture the emails for future sales. It costs $49 to set up a sales account, but that's a one-time fee.

Give Clickbank a try!

Mike

Monitized Content

I used to have a blogspot account, but haven't touched it in a while. So I wasn't watching when Google added a "monetize" tab to the site. As a free content management system, that's pretty remarkable.

I prefer to use WordPress as a more flexible platform, but for the ability to generate income, with wordpress, you have to spend money to make money. By that I mean you have to pay to load the wordpress software onto a hosted account in order to use that software to monetize the site.

I tried to use a free WordPress site to promote a home business and to add click-thru ads. WordPress terms of service don't let you make money with the free site. And since Wordpress connected 4 different blogs to the same email address, when they blew away my blogs for "violation of terms of service," they terminated all 4 in the same night. I couldn't get to the content, couldn't argue the point, couldn't complain. It was done and all that writing was gone.

But Google makes money by selling ads. I've got an AdWords account, and pay to advertise clickbank products. Now that I have a Google-based Blogger account, I see where that content goes. Google will charge me out of one pocket, and then pay me some of that money back if my ads show up on my site as part of Google AdSense.

I'm guessing that if Google is that open to advertising, they'll let me advertise other things, even my own content. I'll give it a try in a future post.

(If you've made cash using your site this way, what worked best? I want to know! I've got orthodontia to pay off and am looking at college tuition coming real soon.)