Social Media and the Power of Giving

Did you shy away from the title of this post at first? No worries I am sure most people did. It is born in all of us. We are far better at taking and receiving than giving aren’t we? Now before you hit the back button, because you are thinking you are not that way, give it a few more minutes. It really is related to blogging. How many sites have you visited that busy receiving without regard to giving. Winston Churchill once said , We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Seems there are bunch of them who read the first part of Churchill’s statement and choose to ignore the rest. If you are not willing to give in the social media world, and everyone has that decision to make, don’t plan on receiving much.

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Interview with Courtney Tuttle and Vic Franqui

Recently I e-mailed Courtney Tuttle to ask if I could interview him for my Making Sales Making Money readers. You see Court is somewhat of an idol of mine in the blogworld. His inclusion of a post of mine generated more back links than anything I have done thus far. Not totally un-expected, he said yes he would love to. I was in the middle of my inforpreneur series , and told him I would send him the questions soon. Meanwhile, I met Vic Franqui and Court’s partner in the wildly successful BloggingZoom. Vic recently launched his new blog Blogger Unleashed and I reviewed it last week. He has attracted over 400 RSS subscribers in 14 days. He and I had a conversation. We talked blogging, talked about the fact that until not too long ago, he lived down the street from my home in Florida. I found out he loves baseball as much as I do, and except for the fact that he is a Marlin’s fan, that’s very good. I found a very down to earth man , sincere in his wish to help bloggers become better bloggers. So I popped the question to him about an interview, he said he would love to. I asked them both some rather benign questions, but Vic seemed to get a touch wound up on question number 3, then finished with a flurry. These 2 guys are 1st rate versions of themselves. I hope you enjoy it, I know I did. You’ll want to read it through to the end.

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Content + Traffic + Pre-Sell = Monetize

Originally I had planned to make this series a 6 part post. I have decided to combine traffic and monetization into one. Why? Because you won’t have one without the other. Your online business, and niche, simply will not function as a business without them working in tandem.

If you were opening a restaurant or retail store of some sort, your first priority would be location, location, location. When you start your online business, for the first time in your business life you will be at least the start, on equal footing with everyone else. The Internet.

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Blogging Zoom, November Traffic Report and more

It’s that time of the month when all the big blogs like to post about how much money they made in the previous month. Let’s get that out of the way for me right now. I made just under $100.00 this month, down significantly from the $300.00 plus in October, but that’s the truth and I promised early on to tell the truth.

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