A Blogger In Need And A Friend Indeed
How many times can lightning strike in the same place? Well when is comes to my hosting of this site apparently over and over. This past Saturday night I was chatting with Monika on Skpe and posting an article about choosing partners for your home based business. As always I posted it on Blogging Zoom, but there was an interesting plug in I was looking at and tried to use my FTP client to experiment with it. I soon discovered my hosting had been merged with another account that I own with Blue Host. Initially I was confused, but the site was still operating so I e-mailed support, because their 24/7 support department had the weekend off for Easter.
I woke Easter morning to find my site acting up and quickly backed-up my data base. Then the site disappeared, poof , gone. I was a little more than concerned when my e-mails went un-answered for the better part of 24 hours. I finally reached them at 1 AM my time on Monday morning. Here is where it gets really fun. They have no idea how that happened, nor did they know where my database went. I talked with them on the phone for about 2 hours and gave up
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Baby Steps Lead to Big Changes
For weeks now I have been brainstorming a concept for my home based business. Since the launch of this site in September of 2007 my purpose has been to help others realize their own dreams through my experience over the last 30 years. I have helped some, and for that I am proud. I have tried diligently to filter out the MB’s of garbage out there and offer my readers a safe haven for ideas and concepts they could apply to their own businesses. I have in my estimation made baby steps, but those baby steps will lead to big changes.
The Necessity of Networking
The title says it all. Networking is a necessary component of any business, home based or traditional, yet I still encounter business owners resistant to making an effort to do so. It occurred to me that perhaps I could remind everyone of a few basic fundamentals to restart your networking strategies. Your voice, your words left to their own devices will only go so far. If you could tell 1000 people a day about your business that’s great. There is a ceiling to what you can effectively promote in a given day, but what if those 1000 told a thousand more and so on. When you get others to talk about how remarkable your product or service is, your story becomes viral. The news spreads through multiple sources and your business essentially gets launched
Effective Niche Marketing for Home Based Business
This Post was written by Monika Mundell
As many of you already know by know, there is a lot of money in niches. But niche sites aren’t straight out niche sites. There is a slight distinction in regards to how a niche can be built and this post will touch on this a little more closely.
But before we go into this I’d like to look at why niche sites hold so much fascination with small home business owners. What gets us excited about building niche sites opposed to building a blog or a website?
Vic Franqui to Make Video Debut On Blogger Unleashed
I had to take some time out and stray off topic today to share this .I stopped by Blogger Unleashed to see how many readers he has added since his hiatus from the site and to see if he had posted anything new. Sure enough his numbers were up and he added a post. Seems he has been busy with restoring his business projects since he and Blogging Zoom were hacked a few weeks ago. The post told us that while he was gone he had purchased a video camera and the related accessories need to start producing Videos on his site. It is a well known fact that Vic’s keyboard doesn’t t necessarily function like most of ours do. For instance where your keyboard has an “a” his has an “r”, etc. By his own admission he cannot type. It’s part of his charm, but his video debut could provide some of the best entertainment in recent memory. Folks this could be fun, but I have some questions that I would like you to answer.
Banners Mall, Affordable High End Banner Designs
You may have noticed a new banner on my site. Banners Mall is a new affiliate and like all my affiliates I use their services. I contacted Senthu at Banners Mall about a week ago with a request to design a header for my new Fantasy Baseball News Site. I had chosen a premium theme from Brian Gardner’s Revolution Series and immediately went to work on making it my own and unique. I contacted Sen on a Friday and my new header was delivered on Tuesday. We decided to add one minor edit and minutes later it was on the site adding some pizazz and color . I love the look, and we are going to put him to work on a few more projects.
Getting Legitimate RSS Subscribers
It would seem someone is trying to tell me something about RSS of late. It started rather innocently in a discussion with Vic about his RSS count which by the way is at 954 at the moment. We discussed ways to increase it and I kind of left it that. I have never made a big push for RSS subscriptions since I launched this blog. Shortly after that conversation I was exposed to a post by Maki at Dosh Dosh who put his feed count on his site. Maki said “ My feed count was also deactivated until I reached 8000 subscribers, which means no one could discover how many subscribers” That was accomplished in about a year. What’s more impressive is that he didn’t use conventional methods of building his count.
The Times They are a Changin
I am noticing a trend recently that I think is interesting. There seems to be shift in momentum from the make money online niche. There is a reason for it. How many sites do we need to tell us how to make money online, generate traffic or sell us on the latest and greatest affiliate or widget guaranteed to make money . The answer for me is one is too many. Stop the madness , get off the train, jump ship, get the hell out Dodge, use whatever metaphor you like, but make a move, the times they are a changin.
So When Do You Make Money
I have had this post in draft form in my blog for several weeks now. When do you make money? When do we make money? I receive e-mails most every day about someone wanting to make money in sales with their blog or website, frankly it’s why I created this site and I love it. As a result the outline of this post has changed somewhat. I want to address something that seems to be a common concern, making money is sales.
WordPress or Websites
Often times I am asked by someone wanting to set up an online site as their home based business, should I use Word Press or a website? First off know this. You can make money with both. The arguments for both are valid. Start with an evaluation of your own personality. Your answer is in there.
You Need Initiative to Make Money Online Now
I was talking with a friend of mine today about starting a blog. We chatted for bit online and he decided he was going to investigate further his chosen niche. I was telling him that personally I was fearless when it came to these things. The investment is so low, and the overhead is well, in your head. Your knowledge. What he was lacking is initiative. He has a niche, he just not willing to scratch it.
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