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In this digital age almost everyone is aware of blogging, even if only casually. Few people realize the true value of being a blogger and the possibility it has to earn money from blogging. When done correctly it can be a very profitable source of income. I have been an internet marketer for several years now and for me, blogging has been one of the best and easiest methods for me to earn money. Blogging is great for beginners, it takes very little financial involvement and creates big financial gains. It is a great way from anyone to earn money.

When done right and by following a few simple steps that make sure you earn money from blogging, you’ll be guaranteed to succeed. Here are a few ways to get you started.

Google AdSense provides for one of the the most done ways to earn money from blogging. Created by Google, AdSense allows bloggers to place advertisements on their blogs and have these ads automatically relate directly to the blogs topic. This is done after adding your Google code into your blog template, after that your readers are presented with highly targetable ads and you earn a commission for every time someone clicks on one of those ads.

Another way for someone to earn money from blogging is with affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are companies that pay others to advertise and sell their products. You can earn higher commissions off of some of these, but they can be harder to sell. Many affiliates make large sums of money just off of these types of programs. There are plenty of programs out there so there is plenty of chances in finding a company for your blogs topic. This is important, choosing an affiliate based on your blog topic will increase sales off of that product rather than advertising for unrelated items.

A third way to earn money from blogging is to sell your own product. You can write an ebook, ebooks are great because customers can download them and have access to your product immediately. You can also have membership sites, although this is not recommended for new bloggers as it takes a lot of work and participation. You can sell any type of product but ebooks are the best because they are easy and free to make, if you do them yourself, making all sales a profit.

Blogging is a great way to start your internet business, but with so much information on the internet it is hard to sort the good from the bad. Ensuring that you follow the proper steps and practices will help your blogging business be a success and allow you to earn money from blogging easily.

Why you need to be marketing via Social Media

Do you need to get into Social Media Marketing (SMM) – Almost certainly YES because a) the other approaches don’t work so well anymore, and b) because it offers a much wider reach, to a more closely targeted audience. And it’s free.

a) Other approaches don’t work any more:

• Cold calling on the street – when was the last time anybody got invited in to make their pitch?
• Cold calling on the phone – talking to voicemail isn’t fun anymore.
• Print and other broadcast media – far too expensive and unproductive.
• Email – authorized sender lists and other filters send these to Trash.
• SEO your marketing site – Google ranks advertisers first and content (in blogs) next.
• Adwords – cost per click is driven up by big brand budgets and only Google makes money.

On top of these is the resistance we all have to intrusive advertising. Our brains, our Firefox or our Tivo, allows us to filter it out.

b) Social Media platforms aren’t intended for marketing, but do help us get messages out there, to people interested in the subject. The creators built these systems so communities could interact, on the Internet. Members avoid advertising like everybody else, but as in other social places, they are open to meeting people and learning and sharing. Participating in these communities, we can meet people who are buying what we sell.

Social Media Marketing is:

1. More effective
2. Wider reach to people who are interested
3. Free!

The Seven Secrets to Being Welcome

Getting started with SMM can appear intimidating. All of these places seem full of experts who use their own special languages. We have to write and publish stuff in ways people want to read. Most of all it seems to take up so much time.

But actually it’s easy, provided we stick to the fundamental principles:

• Avoid Internet Marketing Experts like the plague. Sites are dominated by these characters trying to drive readers to their blogs, in the hope they’ll click an Ad. They know less about SMM than we do, or they wouldn’t act the way they do.
• Find some genuine (there are a few) SMM experts and read what they generously share in their blogs. A great starting place is chrisbrogan.com. Find Chris’ paper “Fish Where the Fish Are” for the most clear explanation.
• Sign up to sites where your prospects, or people they know, hang out. Be social. Fill out your profile as if you’re joining a club. In Social Media, members like to know the person behind the business. It’s just like meeting people at a cocktail party.
• Write blog posts on stuff you really understand. Make these posts short, to the point, and offer genuine expertise. The objective here is not winning a Pulitzer Prize – it’s sharing your expertise. Don’t pretend to know something. Frauds are exposed in a heartbeat.
• Write comments in forums, sharing what you know with people who don’t. Answer questions posted with short comments directly on subject. People interested in the same subject watch the answers to questions. The question becomes the focal point of a mini community. Here you can answer one question and have ten people recognize your value add.
• Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Bad news about a product or service will be around the world in a nano second and consign the perpetrator to oblivion.
• DO NOT SELL. There are plenty of fools who do, but they’re noticed as Spammers. There’s no need to sell. When we know what we’re talking about, people in the market will want to buy.

Anybody following these rules will be welcome on discussion forums and other meeting places.

Easy Steps to Global Presence

We need to think of the Internet as a spinning plate. We can stand in the middle and not move while it goes on around us, but we know there’s stuff going on out there. The perimeter is moving much faster then the center. It’s all a blur.

To join in we’ll need to move toward the outside and be prepared to move more quickly. The further we get out there the faster we have to think, and move. What’s happening isn’t near the center, it’s out there on the edges. In today’s world it’s a case of “be out there, or be square”.

In B2B, the good news is we don’t have to get to the extremes of what the gurus are dreaming up. Our audience, being more focused on business than redefining the world, congregates in places where it’s easier to play a part. Not that far from the center. Further out there will be opportunities in the future so we should stake out a place, but we probably aren’t going to do business there – yet.

Most of the sites out there have been started by people wanting to get paid for advertising, one way or another, and run the site for their own benefit. Why not start at Front Office Box User Group ?- it’s run for your benefit. You can manage your own communities, get all your blog posts automatically sent to content distributors. Get your profiles indexed by Search Engines, and advice from the Social Media Marketing group.

At WeCanDo.Biz create a profile in the directory, receive endorsements from customers and business partners, contact other members via messages and post any business needs to the community. Coming soon will be a business forum.

At implu.com find up to the minute details of 167,000 company officers, create a personal profile and share your “stories” about corporate America. There’ll be blogs and a forum coming soon.

Not many people know but you can set up a business profile on Facebook go to Mari Smith for a guide.

Next go to to Linked In. Here we find 25+ million professionals, like us, wanting to connect for business: reconnect with past colleagues, receive job offers, get help from their peers. Linked In has 1,000s of special interest groups and posts questions and answers in 100s of categories.

Growing fast is a host of special interest sites using Ning and Collective X software. Both offer directories of their sites. There are 1,000s of Ning sites, some with 100,000s members, focused on special interest or geography. Ning makes it particularly easy for us to set up our own, and keeps a consistent profile of us and our “friends” across all of it’s sites. Find some interesting groups, join and join in discussions. You’ll be familiar with the way it all works- the user group’s a Ning site.

Spread your Internet footprint by submitting content at Ezine Articles. From December 2008 join AddsYou for more of the same opportunities. Post the same content in Squidoo lenses and Google Knols. Contribute to Knols Debates. – researchers use these like encyclopedia. 
Get a Google account. Post content in your Blogspot blog, publish it in Google Sites pages, make videos and publish on You Tube.

Answer others’ questions anywhere you find them – particularly at Linked In, Yahoo Answers and Knol Debates. People appreciate the help, and Google is watching – by now you’re becoming a world authority on your subjects. (worth remembering 99% of the content on the web is regurgitated garbage – if your stuff is good it’s easy to stand out).

Microblogging and What We Can Do With

At the extreme edge of our plate we come to microblogging with Twitter, Pownce, Yammer, Plurk and a few more – on the face of it the most meaningless service imaginable, with broadcast publishing limited to 140 characters and a host of complimentary software/services adding value to it. The number of people joining Twitter is growing at a blinding rate, because the members are creating purpose for it as they go along. With Twitter the lunatics really have taken control of the asylum.

Even further out we come to Twingr. This is a site/service letting people create their own communities, just like Ning but limited to the 140 character post size. (It’s brand new so might need some time to fix a few things.)

Why limit messages to 140 characters? Because it cuts to the mustard. People out there want to benefit from our insight, not out literary skills. The limit focuses minds on the meat. Readers can scan hundreds of posts in a few minutes, choosing ones they want to know more about.

Microblogging started with simple status updates – what I’m doing now – between friends. Then it exploded with users and innovation.

Now news services monitor Twitter posts to find out what’s happening. Journalists monitor them to find out what people are thinking. Politicians are doing the same, and engaging a new public with their own ideas. Software companies are publishing service notices to their users. Brands don’t need customer surveys anymore, they just monitor Twitter.

Sales guys are monitoring Twitter to find out who’s interested in what, and what’s being said about their competitors. This is the new source of sales leads, and we don’t have to look for them, they come to us.

More than a million early adopters are publishing news and opinions to the rest of the world. The service is so successful, developers everywhere are writing programs to add value – including Twitter Search, monitoring keywords and sending every post using them to our RSS reader, and Twellow, a directory of Twitter users with more than 620,000 entries.

With Twitter we can find new friends and colleagues anywhere in the world. We can learn of a new opportunity, evaluate and decide within just a few minutes.

We can be so much more productive, because we’ve got access to so much more information and support. It’s the ultimate question and answer service.

What’s Next ?

Beats me! We just need to keep up with pace.

In this industrious world of hectic work schedules and unfathomable chores, making out enough time for one’s own recreation or self-indulgence is gradually becoming obsolete and faded. Blogs can be quite enriching for every individual, nourishing their creative instincts into an enterprising feature. However, due to the lack of enough time and energy blogging may take a backseat in the process. With the latest and trendsetting micro blogging, the story, however, takes a different turn altogether.

What is micro blogging?

Micro blogging is the latest in the block. An innovative way of blogging, this type refers to short written texts of about 140 words that is published online and viewed by all or to a restricted few. Most uniquely, the brief blogs, in the form of messages, can be imparted even through a number of means such as instant messaging, email, text messaging, MP3 and of course on the web.

What do you write about?

Most often people are found wondering and completely bewildered as to what to write for the blog posts. Something as simple as blogs on “eating stuffs” and “boarding a cab” can also catch the attention of a good readership. The crux of the entire thing, however, lies on effective communication and networking. It’s all about that – to reach out to the world outside one’s own domain.

How do you write a micro blog?

Micro blogging is the generation-next trend of online communication and networking. Simplicity is the rule of the day. It is the small and simple that calls for the ultimate attention. Nobody has enough time these days to sit before the machines writing pages after pages on a topic. Simplification is what that calls for the maximum attention. One of the common social networking sites, Twitter, allows members to type in less than 140 characters to communicate with others in the network. It’s more to do with effective communication and networking rather than writing a thesis of an article.

How does micro blogs help in expanding your business?

In fact, the business world, today, is also harnessing on the latest technology of micro blogging. Rather than advertising with the general ‘buy our stuff’ tone, tycoons and companies are seeking the micro blogging way to best suit the client-based interaction. This can be done in a number of effective and useful ways. For example, with this particular technique, the companies can keep in touch with their clients, informing them with the constant developments. In this way, the companies can also declare discounts and offers to the blog readers across the web. At times, customers may prefer to talk to any particular staff of their choice. Micro blogging makes the job easier to know whether the staff is available online or not get a more honest feedback Besides these, there are many other applications of the very concept of the ultra micro blogging that is already taking the business and social world by storm.