Blogs And Bucks: How To Make Money Blogging

A casual search on the key word “blog” returns over 1.3 billion links, and a search of the keyword phrase “how to blog” gives you 770 million results. With millions of people blogging everyday, your blog is virtually guaranteed to be lost in the sea of Internet variety and choice.

If you blog, the idea of marketing or promoting your blog should be a major concern. Successful bloggers improve the stickiness of their weblog with content that encourages both longer and repeat visits.

Like any conventional website, your ability to attract visitors is critical to your success in terms of ad click thrus or sponsorship. While blog pioneers with thousands of daily visitors have managed to monetize their sites, most of us languish in obscurity with hardly a visitor, much less sponsorship or ad driven revenue.

Recently several products have come online that promise to revolutionize the blogosphere with predesigned templates geared towards innocuous blending of text with sponsored links and banners. These products also assist you with keyword placement, headlines, content, and issues specifically aimed at search engine optimization (SEO). One product I have reviewed suggests you can turn an ordinary blog into a cash machine. According to the author of this product, revenues in the $4,000 range per month is very realistic. You can read about his offer at Blogging To The Bank.

While many of us came to the blogosphere with a desire to share content and ideas with others, with a “shareware” type attitude, I’m finding earning a little cash from my rants is a nice thing.

Why Can't I Get Rich?

People look at the wealthy and wonder, “Why can’t I be rich?”
Rather than ask, "Why Can't I be Rich?" why not ask yourself, "How Can I Become Rich?"
Achieving financial wealth is a process of doing the right thing over and over. We all know intuitively what these "things" are, but to remind you, here are some things you can start doing today to achieve wealth:
1. Starting today, spend less than you earn. By that I mean, you have to discontinue or severely limit credit card use in any case where the balance cannot be paid in full each month.
2. Reduce or eliminate your consumer debt by paying off all your credit cards as soon as possible. 3. Begin to save a minimum of 10% of your income. 30% would be better, but is not realistic for most of us. Tuck 10% of your pay into a savings account to start building a nest egg.
4. Once your savings account, money market fund, or CD has reached a level equal to at least six months' worth of your living expenses, begin to invest in appreciable assets.
Those are the basic steps. They are deceptively simple, but when properly applied to your daily lifestyle, they can produce dramatic results.
W. Clement Stone once stated that if you lack the ability to save, you lack the ability to become wealthy. Quite simply, spending less than you earn and managing to move your surplus income into an asset (saving, investment, etc) that provides you with a passive income source is the foundation of any wealth creation system. In George Clason's classic work, "The Richest Man in Babylon" he expands on the concept of saving 10% of your income and illustrates how compounding interest has the capacity to create financial wealth. If nothing else, saving part of your income gives you a nest egg to fall back on during emergencies.
Since you are apparently working online to learn more about creating personal wealth, you have the right idea of exploiting income opportunities. Expand on this. Start a home-based business and learn how to make money outside the typical second job routine. Do not use your extra income to buy what Robert Kiyosaki calls "doodads." Rather, use your extra income to fund investments in appreciable assets that provide passive or portfolio income.
One of the key suggestions of Michael Masterson in his book “Automatic Wealth” is that to achieve a million dollar net worth in less than seven years requires substantially increasing your income. Sounds logical. Masterson goes on to say the best way to achieve this goal is to start your own business. During the past few weeks I have helped 46 people start their own business. I invite you to take a look at my income opportunity by pasting the link below into your address bar.

http://www.automaticbuilder.com/bt45223

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

It’s been said that nothing succeeds like success.

In network marketing, you succeed by helping the people in your organization succeed. The key to this success is the proper training of your downline.
Training is critical to helping your downline develop and stay motivated. Training is an ongoing process that involves constant effort on your part to make the basics of this business second nature to your people. Consider the professional football team. These people are experts, they’ve played football their entire lives. But what do they do five and sometimes six days a week? Train.

As your organization grows you need to make regular training sessions in your living room a habit. Invite everybody in your organization, and cover the basics of the business over and over:

a. Focus on the big picture

One of the most important things you can do for the members of your downline is to keep them motivated.

To do this, remind them why they joined. Rekindle the fire of their dreams and aspirations, and be an example to them that is worthy of emulation. Have a dream session at the beginning of each meeting. Ask each of the attendees in turn, “Why did you join this company? What can I or any of the other associates do to help you succeed?”

b. Goal setting

At this point the people in your downline should know how to set goals. During the meeting ask people to share their goals with the group and then lead the group in a discussion of how that person can best achieve that goal. Remember, keep the goals focused on those areas where results can be seen and measured, preferably within the month.

c. Working the Action Plan

The same applies to the action plan as to the goals in item (b) above. Openly discuss each individual’s action plans, and help him or her, as a group, to fine-tune them. Throughout the training session, reinforce the idea that your organization is a team, and should work together and openly, to help one another achieve his or her individual goals.

d. Demonstrating the product

The importance of sells is discussed in the next section. In your training session it is important that you not only remind members of your downline of the importance of sales volume, but also give them some ideas on how to do it. Don’t be like the proverbial boss who assigns a task to some hapless laborer, then walks away without providing the tools or training to accomplish it. If you are serious about sells, then train your people how to conduct sells. If you don’t know yourself--learn; or ask someone from your upline to come in and help.

e. Recruiting

The issue of recruiting should be discussed in every training session, and individuals should be allowed to share with the group their successes and failures in this area. One of your distributors may be on the edge of dropping out, fearing that his recruiting failures are unique and incurable. However, fifteen minutes of group discussion may show him that he is not alone. A few more minutes of group brainstorming may find a solution to the problem.

A group of people, working towards a common goal, has access to an enormously powerful tool called synergism. Synergy is where the culmination of the mental resources within a group is greater than simply adding up the number of people in attendance. Synergy lets you share ideas, enlarge upon another person’s thoughts, correct somebody’s misperceptions, and feel the joy of teamwork. In your training sessions, don’t waste this valuable resource by not engaging everybody in the training process.

f. Managing the business and your image

Finally, remind people of the criticality of presenting themselves and representing the sponsoring company in a professional matter. Be a good example here. Your downline will follow your lead in this area quicker than any other.

Ron Taylor is involved with a company that automates the entire process of showing the plan, recruiting new members, and managing product orders and shipment. While product sells and recruiting are not required to succeed in his business, personally sponsoring members and product usage will increase residual income levels. During the past month Ron has demonstrated his commitment to supporting his downline by moving over 40 new members into the downline of his leader group.

To join Ron Taylor’s organization, please visit his website:

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