better blogging ( & net marketing ) for entrepreneurs
The Blogstarta Experiment
Aug 12th
Some people like to really get involved in their work, get to know what they are working on, really understand it and then tweak the product or service they are selling. They are real businessmen who make large amounts of money in what they do. They enjoy getting ‘into the business’, running and knowing every aspect of their operation. I am not one of those people.
I like distance. I don’t like the idea that my work owns me. As far as I am concerned, a business is not ‘complete’ if it can not function without me. I should be redundant, easily replaceable. I should not be running the damn show, just owning it.
Online marketing and blogging has been one such field of interest that has More >
Start a blog, get a life
Aug 11th
Life is hard.
It never lets you know what you’re gonna get.
But there you are, alive and hopefully kicking. You have to live it, this life. Might as well get used to it. So you try. You fail. Your try harder. Fail harder. And then you succeed. Only to fail a couple of times more. The successes are the punctuation of life. The don’t come often, but come they must, to make sense of it all. And they do. If you keep at it.
I am guilty of philosophizing life. Get over it, so are you. Everything has meaning, only if you have the right dictionary.
You need to get a life to live one. Streamline it. Compartmentalize and categorize it. Tag it even.
Everyone should have a blog. Open to all. Not to write the most personal of thoughts, no. But to write to open channels of communications. To read, to see, to learn. Hopefully.
Writing is therapeutic, they say. They are sometimes right.
3 types of blogs, which one fits you?
Aug 2nd
In my last post, I tried to categorize blogging into two generic categories. To be more specific, I tried to categorize two ways to make money using blogs.
That lead me to further think and try to come up with something that is more useful, something that we as bloggers can use to identify our blogs.
Why identify our blogs? Well, so you can work on them with respect to their type. This will lead to greater focus, less of the useless stuff and will help you win the Grand Prix (well, OK, not the GP but it will sure as heck sharpen your skills at pruning the useless activities).
Now, onto the three types of blogs:
- Money Making Blogs
- A Blog For Your Business
- A Blog As Your Business
Let’s see how each of these are different, and more importantly, what ‘high productivity’ activity can you do in each. More >
The Only Two Ways To Make Money With Blogging
Jul 31st
There are two distinct ways of making money with blogging, and you need to decide which way is yours to try out. This is the initial and crucial decision, which will decide everything else.
The only two ways to make money with blogging are:
- Personal Blogging Style
- Not-so-Personal Blogging Style
What the hell?
Let me explain. More >
Review of Profit Instruments
I have bought Profit Instruments (a course by Ritoban Chakarwati). And have used it through and through. This, ladies and gentlemen, is my review. 
First off, I think the course is a bit high priced for the kind of value it delivers.
And here’s the second part, it delivers some great value.
The beauty lies in its simplicity. I can tell you what the course tells you in perhaps a few, well though-out lines. But that information will be quite valuable to you. And the amount I paid Ritoban to get access to the Profit Instruments course, I have already made that back. It has yet to make me a thousand bucks, but I am almost half way there. And that’s with almost 2 months or so into the game.
Should you, as a potential ‘earner’, buy it?
I will break it down for you in the coming days… stay tuned (you can subscribe to this blog using the form on your left – the one with the blue background )
Talk to you soon,
God bless.
My first podcast. Ever.
Jul 23rd
One Samson Go Mic, the free Audacity software and some music loops from FindSounds.com later, I have my first ever podcast up and running.
Upon checking it out on my blog, there seems to be a problem with the theme that displays the embed code on the front page. But the post page of the blog has the player coming up nicely.
Learning from the best…
Jul 21st
4 running enterprises, two in the making, one in the pipeline. I am an entrepreneur, almost by habit.
I get to do whatever I want because I have all the time in the world. For example, the 4 hour work week by Tim Ferris did not teach me anything new. I have a lot of time on my hands, almost by default.
I buy nice things, but not expensive things, usually because they are expensive. Duuh! I am not rich, also almost by habit. But I make more than most, by God’s Grace.
And I am happy, by God’s Grace.
I do not believe there is a formula for success (normally, and somewhat crookedly defined as having making a lot of money). But I do believe that success, naah, in fact, the world belongs to the bold and not to the smart. I am too smart for my own good. Heh.
If there is a formula, More >
Google Images gets a revamp
Google will now display images results in a different way, and WTH!? it look uglier. But maybe research has shown it works. Google is big on testing and results and tweaks and what have you. That’s why they get to be so good. More at Google Blog here
Blogging on a ‘famous’ topic? Read this…
Jul 20th
I was asked a question, via email, where the friend told me how serious he was about blogging. He told me how he has already selected the niche (because he knew he had some solid corporate experience in that ‘corporate’ niche) and how he was now confused on how to go about blogging on his topic. The important bit of his question was:
The difficulty I’m facing at this moment is what topics to choose to write despite the fact that they are thousands of websites already available? Can you please guide me how and what should be my approach step by step. These days I have time to develop my online business…
First, he has one thing going for him More >
Blogstarta, the newness
Jul 19th
I have a few products, I know a few things and I have been blogging since blogging began.
It is about time I get myself a blog like Blogstarta.
More goodness, God willing, coming soon.
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