The Benefits of Starting A Blog Business Vs A Retail Business

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As a blogger or internet marketer, you can already appreciate the value in being able to start a business or web site of your own no matter where you are.

You could be in your parents basement, a data center, or even just through occasionally visiting a local coffee shop with internet access.

The bottom line is, starting a business through blogging is a million times better than getting involved in a retail brick and mortar business.

Sure, it will take time and lots of passion and work... but what business doesn't?

In this post we are going to cover some of the main reasons why starting a blog of your own and looking to make a business out of it is so much better than starting another retail store or business that may be destined for failure.

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Problogging Success Weekend Read: Internet Marketing And Blogging

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Welcome to another post in the Weekend Read series. I can't believe how fast a week passes by.

It seems as if I just posted a list for reading yesterday and here, I'm publishing the next one.

Its all relativity - I feel that the week has passed by very quickly because I was too busy the whole of this week. So before I could realize, the week is gone.

What kept me busy?

Well I had some extra dose of Blog Consultation and Thesis customization work with clients which I enjoyed very much.

And, the Write Killer Content course, of course.

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Simple SEO Tips For Bloggers That Make A Big Difference

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For many bloggers, SEO is a dirty word. Or a slightly smudged acronym at least. “I just want to blog and I'm good at it too,” comes the cry; which is all well and good - but you want people to actually read your meticulously crafted, absorbingly informative and oh-so-witty posts.

Cultivating networks and the online equivalent of word-of-mouth can count for a lot. If you’re really good, they’ll help you build a dedicated following.

But unless you go viral or that cult following becomes a fully-fledged religion, you'll want to benefit from the extra traffic that search engines can throw your way. This is where SEO comes in.

“So what is this SEO stuff anyway?” you cry once more.

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Giveaway: Problogger Productivity Ebook Blog Wise [Winners Announced]

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So its giveaway time. Short after the Blogging Tips Contest, I wanted to do something else to reward my readers.

The effect of the contest has not yet settled down (in terms of excitement and the traffic/buzz I was able to build; and I don't want these two to settle down lol).

So I got this idea of doing a giveaway, and I also wanted to give away something that you, my readers would love - not something that I would just giveaway because I could.

So I decided to shortlist a set of internet marketing products and ran a survey asking you, my readers, to choose what … [Read more...]

Problogging Success Weekend Read: Random Read

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This week I'm going to do some random link sprinkling .... meaning they are not organized by categories or anything.

But, the quality of the links are no lesser than the ones I usually share.

Why is this? Coz, I'm doing this post in a bit of a hurry at the last moment.

I had a funeral (one of my hubby's family member) to attend this week. I did less reading. Also less work.

As a consequence.......

The launch of my "Write Killer Post" series (did you notice the name change?) will be delayed by a week. But that's good too. Coz I'm launching it as a series as well as a free course (on a dedicated domain which I will soon share).

The free course will include the audio version of the posts so that if you're a hearing person (prefer to hear information on the go while commuting or working … [Read more...]

How Can You Find Blog Readers Without A Huge List Of Subscribers

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What you write got its purpose served only if there is someone read it

I am pretty sure most of you want to have a flock of visitors to come to your blog and read, comment, share posts or even buy something from your blog. In short, we all need traffic.

At the initial stages of blogging (whatever your blog niche is) I believe optimism, motivation and enthusiasm will be on top of everything in your mind.

Frankly speaking, as time goes by, those spirits can gradually fade out. One of the main reasons to get demotivated is that you don't get the … [Read more...]

Thesis Theme Vs Genesis: A Detailed Comparison To Help You Decide

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Thesis Vs Genesis - a detailed comparison

Even though there are a number of WordPress frameworks, Thesis and Genesis are the ones which offer great features than any other framework.

These frameworks are efficient and can be used for your extensive publishing purposes.

As I already mentioned last week in one of the weekend read series posts, I moved some of my niche sites and my blogs Jane Sheeba and Merry Relationships to Genesis framework (I was using Thesis earlier).

The thought of moving Problogging Success to Genesis is still not in my heart. And I don't intend to do so.

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Why Bloggers Face Serious Weight Problems And How To Start Changing Today

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“Overweight” and “obese” are very familiar terms in recent times, especially to bloggers. Whether we’re writing about it, reading about it, or living it, these words are a part of our daily lives.

Why are bloggers more likely to get obese?

Two major reasons:

As bloggers, we spend a great deal of time sitting at our desks, and it’s just so much easier to order in or grab fast food than it is to buy groceries and prepare a balanced meal.

Besides, who has the time?

The scary facts

Doctors look at our Body Mass Index (BMI) to measure our height, weight, body type and age against each other to determine a healthy weight range. Generally, people with a (BMI) of 18.5-24.9 are considered at a healthy weight, while people with a BMI of 25.0-29.9 are considered … [Read more...]

Probloggging Success Weekend Read: Blog Traffic, Make Money Blogging

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Another week full of business. This week, just like the last week, was so productive for me.

I took some time to step back and took a close look at my business to learn that I'm not doing so well for the past couple of months.

Both in terms of earnings and in terms of keeping up with producing valuable content.

I was able to identify a few potential bottlenecks. And, I'm happy I did this analysis on my business.

It has been a long time since I shot a video - whoo! I'm planning to do some soon.

On my list are the following major stuff:

1. The series (half baked as of now :)). The title is "Create Killer Content For Your Blog" and it'll be up in about a couple of weeks. The series is 10 posts long!

2. The blogging course I mentioned a while ago. I must … [Read more...]

Do Follow or No Follow? How to Tell The Difference and Why Should You Care?

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You have all probably come across the expression “do follow” and “no follow” many times in your online travels, but do you really know what the expression means?

What are do follow links?

“do follow” are links to your site from another which Google recognises and adds to your sites overall ranking power. Many refer to this as “Link Juice”. In theory the more of these links you have, and the higher the Page Rank of the referring site the better.

However one of Google’s goals is to promote good content which is developed in a natural way and from sites who do not try to manipulate the system as many do with automatic link building software. So for this reason there is a point at which you can have too many links produced too quickly.

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