Earn as You Learn
I am not lost nor have I gotten rid of this blog,yet. I had to set up my other online businesses and you will forgive me if I post only once in a while and not with a set posting schedule.I think it’s now obvious that I am not a very good blogger but I do not aim to make a living online by blogging. I too have a dream of coming up with the newest facebook and be bought by Google. I am sure Google will not be buying a blog soon.
I have an idea I wish to implement and have now found my self in the situation where I need to build a business plan, find financing ,promote it and market it. I believe you can learn a lot from good bloggers. However, I am finding it rather interesting that bloggers keep on insisting that only bloggers can make money online. I believe it is a tool and not an end all product. Only insisting on blogging is really losing the whole idea on making a living online.
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Why Business Plans For Online Business ?
The new blogger has a problem thinking of his blog, web site, forum, community etc as a real business. I am an advocate of starting to do something even before you do a business plan. Everyone wants to start their own business but only a handful ever start. A business plan before you get your feet wet can actually be a lazy man’s option of never starting a business. The best Venture Capitalists actually never want to see a business plan before they finance you. They would rather hear or read about your idea, then they will hire a professional to work out the business plan after you have started implementing your idea.
So even though you need a business plan, by all means let it come after you have started something. An example is a friend of mine who wished to start making Joomla templates to sell. He had great ideas for the templates and I actually used a few of them.However, when he decided to start writing a business plan ,he went for 2 months without producing a single Joomla template. Suffice it to say he had to convince me to continue using his services. So do not take too long coming up with your own business plan then forget to do your online business.
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Life is Too Short for SEO Optimization
I was just about to do some SEO stuff on my site (I am becoming a dedicated blogger now), when I realized that I seriously don’t know what search engine optimization is. There is too much snake oil being sold out there in the name of the best SEO tactics. I have bought quite a number of SEO secrets e-books but it seems I never read them, don’t understand English, or just did not follow up on all those little SEO gems.
I tried to figure out how many of these SEO tips I could handle in a day and I discovered that God might have made a mistake coming up with 24 hours where I had to eat, sleep, go to work and do a little tweaking of my SEO. There is no time for this SEO thing.
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Get Rich or Die Whining
I am going to join the cry baby blogger as a sign that what they do really works.It is just amazing to see how bloggers switch from hating google one day then another bunch of bloggers say how the love it the next. Since there is no Google pagerank update so far( as if it matters) some bloggers have now adopted the ” I hate some one else for succeeding “ ,model.
It’s a simple model really. You find a heavily trafficked blog. You find something you don’t like about it. Then you just post a “That blog is useless” post. You sit down wait for the traffic, then sell your own piece of crap with big signs that says, ” I am the only one who can show you how to make money online”. It is a good one I must say but it just smells rotten to me. However, I will do it with pleasure if it gets me more rss subscribers.
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Top Internet Marketer Lies
You have seen them all. “Buy me e-book and make 1 million dollar”, “my Internet club will make you rich”, “my SEO tactics are legendary”, “watch my video blog and become rich”. It is easy to fork out $10 for an e-book when you are starting out in your online business. However, after about 10 e-books all of which have the first chapter explaining to you that Al Gore really did not invent the Internet, you get to be a bit wary.
I do not have a problem with anyone selling an e-book or any product. Information is not cheap and people need to be compensated for the time and effort they took to create their product. However, next time you look at a sales page , think of the following Internet marketing lies.
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