Earn Money While Bloging

Over the past year, Miku has became one of my favorite Japanese restaurants to dine at. Now that I live in West Vancouver, Miku is only a short hop across the Loin’s Gate Bridge so the restaurant is slowly becoming one of my regular hangouts. However, I don’t recommend hanging out there everyday unless you enjoy spending $130 for lunch all the time.

Miku is the first North American restaurant of the Tora Corporation. Founded by Seigo Nakamura, Tora operates seven successful restaurants in Japan and has built up quite an enviable reputation. When it came time to invade the West, Vancouver was their city of choice. And you can’t really blame them. Vancouver has a large Asian population and is ranked the best city in the world to live. Plans are in the works to open restaurants in New York and Los Angeles. But for now, the only way to experience Miku’s famous Aburi-style sushi in America is to come to Vancouver.

No doubt, you’ve had sushi before. But I bet you’ve never had Aburi-style sushi before. When most people think of sushi, they most likely think of raw fish on rice served with soy sauce. Aburi-style sushi, on the other hand, is lightly seared with a touch, topped with some other ingredients and paired with a French sauce. It really adds a new dimension to plain sushi.

Located inside the Guinness Tower at 1055 West Hastings Street, Miku is at the heart of the Financial District and caters to a high end clientele. The restaurant is awe inspiring with its 20 feet floor to ceiling windows. Miku means “beautiful skies” and the restaurant carries out that theme by integrating a giant glass waterfall and glass clouds that literally float from the ceiling. You can tell that Mr. Nakamura spared no expense when creating Miku. He even flew in his own chefs and head servers from Japan.

The Miku lunch menu is every bit as impressive as their dinner menu. For people living the Dot Com Lifestyle, It’s a great place to chill for a three hour lunch and watch all the suites hurry their lunch so they can get back to work on time. Sally loved their Miso Ramen Noodle and their Aburi Salmon with Garlic Butter Soy Sauce was the best salmon dish I’ve ever tasted. Everything else was simple amazing.

Discover the SECRETS I’ve Learned to go from zero a month to over $40,000 a month from blogging. Download Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com for FREE!

What if you could spend a few days with Jeff Bezos to pick his brain and discover how he built Amazon.com into the world’s biggest bookseller? Wouldn’t it be great to hang out with Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com? He’s now sold two Internet companies for over one BILLION dollars! And what if Donald Trump invited you over to his place to learn how he makes his millions? Would you want an inside glimpse?

If you are interested in profiting with your business, your answer would of course be YES! In fact, you’d probably be willing to pay top dollar to make it happen. I don’t know if any of those people have extended an invitation to you, but I’ve got some very exciting news which may be even more relevant to your online success.

By now I’m sure you know about Joel Comm. He’s been called “the Donald Trump of the web” for good reason. In his fifteen years online, Joel has…

• Sold a site to Yahoo!
• Written New York Times Best-seller books
• Become known as the world’s leading expert on Google AdSense
• Developed one of the world’s most popular #1 iPhone applications
• Produced the world’s first competitive Internet reality show
• Created content sites that get millions of page views each month
• and he’s just getting started!

For years Joel has held his multi-million dollar strategies and techniques close. Now, for the first time ever, he is inviting a limited number of people to get an inside look … and he is sharing EVERYTHING! This is the Internet marketing and business system that you have been waiting for. If you are SERIOUS about making money online, this is your opportunity to learn from the person who has done it all.

The Elevate Blueprint

People have been asking Joel for years to host his own conference, and last Fall he and his team held their own exclusive “Elevate” seminar, designed to provide inside secrets, techniques and strategies to anyone who wanted to create their own online business empire. Tickets to Elevate sold for up to $5,000, and people came from all over the world.

In this exclusive event, Joel and his expert team shared exactly how they make millions both online and offline. Now, for the first time Joel is releasing his ENTIRE blueprint for making millions on the Internet… but only for a limited time.

You’ve probably heard of the business systems that are based on strategies that worked for a brief time, but by the time you got to them they didn’t work any more. Well Joel’s systems are built on solid online business principles that work again and again, across ANY niche. Here are just some of the incredible behind-the-scenes money-making strategies you’ll get in The Elevate Blueprint:

• Discover the ONE action step you can take to shave years off your learning curve, save hours of frustration and headache, and dramatically shortcut your path to success.
• Learn the 4 ways to monetize your site so that it pumps out repeat profits for work you do only once!
• Find out the secrets of the “Guru” business model! If you’ve ever wanted to have 100% control of your business, see your name in lights, and keep the lion’s share of your profits, then you’re going to want to see what this is all about.
• Uncover 6 powerful psychological triggers that cause long term customer retention, a strong feeling of community, and an unbearable fear of loss if your members even THINK about dropping out.
• Learn the one, easiest, and most effective Search Engine Optimization strategy you should be doing, even if you’re not going to do ANYTHING else.

There’s so much more that I can’t even begin to list it here. You just need to go check out this incredible 18 module system specifically designed to help you build a highly successful business that can help you live your dreams. Nothing is held back and you’ll learn exactly how Joel built his multi-million dollar online empire, and how to duplicate his success.

Fast Action Bonus Offer

Joel’s a smart guy. He knows that only a certain number of people are action-takers, so he is offering a $100 discount to first movers. This is good for today only. In addition, I have an additional $100 coupon for the first 10 reader who registers for the Elevate Blueprint. All you have to do is enter C9SDGX7M at checkout. But you have to be among the first 10 people to use it so act fast! Go check out Joel’s Elevate Blueprint right away. It’s your ticket to living your online dreams.

Get The Elevate Blueprint

Discover the SECRETS I’ve Learned to go from zero a month to over $40,000 a month from blogging. Download Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com for FREE!

One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content.

• “Great content will market itself” - a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last year.
• “Write it and they will come” - a motto I’ve heard a number of new bloggers sharing as a secret to their yet to be found success.
• “Quality Content = Readers” - an ‘equation’ I saw being written about in one online blogging course recently

Each of the above statements has elements of truth to it. Many bloggers have built successful blogs on the back of great content. However there are almost always other factors at play.

The reality is that many blogs produce quality content that doesn’t get read. The reason isn’t that the blog’s not worth reading - but in many cases it’s because nobody knows to go read it.

Here’s the thing…..

Letting your content market itself DOES work IF you already have an audience to help with that process by spreading word of it through word of mouth - but if you’re just starting out and don’t yet have a readership the reality is that YOU are the only person who knows your great content exists.

Word of mouth can still play a part in your finding of readers - but as YOU are the only person that knows about your great content YOU need to be the one who starts the process and starts the process of getting the word out.

It’s time to hustle and get word out about your content.

Seeding Content

Later in the week I want to highlight 9 methods to do this - however today I want to start with a more general suggestion that comes from my own experience of getting content read

Seed it - Don’t Force it!

Perhaps it’s just my personality or style - but I find that sometimes less is more in the blog post promotion game. Here’s how I’d chart the effectiveness of my blog promotions vs the amount of effort (or aggressiveness might be a better word) put into the promotion.

Let me flesh this out a little:

• In my experience if you only put little effort into your blog promotion you get little results. This is what I talk about above - if you don’t let people know about your posts how will anyone find them?
• If you put in too much effort into it and get too aggressive with your promotion you can also get little results. In fact sometimes when you’re too aggressive you can actually go backwards and hurt your site.
• For me it’s about putting in some effort - but not getting too full on about it. It’s a real balancing act at times.

I like the term ’seeding’ to describe how I try to promote my content.

I’m not really a great gardener but I do know that in order for me to have a new plant grow in my garden I need to go to some effort - but that if I do too much I can actually hurt the growth of the plant.

To have a plant grow I need to plant a seed, I need to ensure it gets water, I can give it some fertilizer, I need to give it a little protection from my kids digging it up…. but after that it’s up to the seed and the environment to make it grow. It takes some effort - but there comes a point where I need to step back and let the seed do it’s thing.

This is similar to my experience of promoting content on blogs. Often it takes me getting the ball rolling but if I force things it can actually have the reverse effect.

As I look back on some of the biggest traffic events on my blogs there’s been a real mix of my own promotion (usually to start the process) and a more organic thing happening. Sometimes I push too hard and don’t get results - other times I don’t push enough and get little return also - however getting it right can lead to incredible days of traffic.

Later in the week I want to continue this train of thought and give you 9 practical examples of how to ’seed’ content.

Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

The Myth of ‘Great Content’ Marketing Itself

Share This

It might appear as common sense, but I beg to differ. I believe that most of us get lazy sooner or later, and we stop trying to learn new skills.

For most people this happens once they get out of university and start working a stable job. I have been there myself, and the feeling is that you already have had your share of studying and learning, and that now you just need to apply it all.

If you follow that logic for a long time, you will probably find yourself not too happy about your professional situation.

There are many reasons to always be learning new skills. First of all it will make you a more versatile person, as you never know what kind of projects you will be working on the next year or the next decade.

Secondly, the more skills you have mastered, the easier and faster it will be to learn new ones. It is like learning new languages, once you speak three or four it becomes really easy to learn a new one.

Finally, if you work on the Internet this is particularly important, because the web is the fastest changing environment that we have.

As a blogger or online entrepreneur, here are some skills that you could aim to learn over the years:

• HTML and CSS
• SEO
• Writing
• Graphic design
• Programming
• Networking and server management
• Copywriting
• Business planning and strategy

Don’t wait for tomorrow. Pick a skill that you could use and start learning it today.

---

Grab the "Make Money Blogging" eBook here!
Original Post:Always Be Learning New Skills

Guest Post by Joe Land

Paid Surveys have a ton of hype and controversy surrounding them. In fact there are over four million results for the phrase "paid surveys” on Google. There are tons of sites out there that are scams and that will do nothing but take your hard earned money. On the other hand there are a select few that can make you money.

What to Look For

When you are looking for a paid survey site or any money making opportunity in general, you have to be aware of a couple of things.

1. Is it free – When a survey site is free to sign up with then there is a good chance that it’s legit. Why? Because they make money from the companies who want their products surveyed not you.
2. Proof of Payment – If you are able to find lots of checks and proof that the site actually pays then you should go ahead and sign up.
3. Dig Deeper – Read reviews from other blogs and websites to gain other peoples perspective on the site.

Why Surveys Are a Legit Opportunity

Survey sites are labeled to be scams by lots of people. Here is why they aren’t. It all starts with companies like Dell and Pepsi. They need opinions on their products from people who use them everyday. So they go to research companies and ask them to distribute the surveys to users (you). When you complete the survey Pepsi gets their needed opinions, the survey site gets paid by Pepsi, and you get paid a small amount too. That is how survey sites are able to make money and stay in business.

Author Bio:
So you want to make money with surveys but don’t know where to start. There are only a few sites out there that are worth your time and effort. For starters I recommend CashCrate. It’s a site that is great for beginners. Not to mention it has great help and support in case you have questions.

What do industry giants like Disney, Microsoft, Intel, and American Express have in common? They’ve all sought out the expertise of the “master of targeted opt-in e-mail,” Jonathan Mizel. Now you can, too! Hardcore businesses pay thousands of dollars to hear Jonathan speak, but you don’t have to. Through an exclusive offer with Aweber, you can hear directly from Jonathan – for FREE!

Right now, the TWO-PART video of Jonathan’s sequential autoresponse seminar in London, England is in the Aweber control panel. This video puts thousands of dollars worth of intellectual material at your fingertips. If you’re an Aweber customer, you can access the video by clicking the “Help” link. The video is listed under the “more resources” tab. In this amazing hour long video, Jonathan reveals:

• Totally unique ways to use AWeber autoresponders
• TWO case studies of DOUBLED, even TRIPLED profits
• Secrets of super-marketers like MARLON SANDERS
• Jonathan’s own secrets, a peek inside his organization!

If you’re not an Aweber customer yet, you can take advantage of Jonathan’s expertise right now by signing up for a $1 Aweber trial account. The account is just like a normal Aweber account and includes unlimited email campaigns, newsletter, broadcasts and follow ups. It’s a great way to test drive Aweber to see what it can do for your blog. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you find that email marketing is not for you, contact Aweber within 30 days and they’ll give you the $1 back. However, after watching Jonathan’s video presentation, you won’t cancel because you’ll know that the money is in the list!

Create Your $1 Aweber Account and Get Jonathan Mizel’s Email Marketing Video Free

A Guest Post by Steve Martile from Freedom Education.

It’s normal to have a bad day, right? Well sure. But what if you have a bad week or a bad month?

I’ve been blogging for just over a year. And if there is one thing that I’ve learned is that you’ve got to be consistent. You’ve got to be consistently putting in an effort to build your blog. It won’t build itself.

So what about those bad days?

I’ve had them and they’re no good. You want to bounce back quickly. Get out of that rut. The quicker the better. So you can get back to blogging, life and other things.

And it all begins with the proper mindset. Here are 3 Mind Power Techniques to Become a Better Blogger:

Mind Power Technique #1: Overcome Writers Block With A Physical Change

When you’re writing and you get stuck, do this. Get up, walk around and sit in a different spot. See your screen from a different point of view. Sit in a different location and gain a new perspective.

Sound to hokey?

You see one thing that’s true for anyone is that a change in your mindset will change your physiology - your body posture, facial expressions, etc. When you think new thoughts, the chemicals in your brain change. But what many people don’t know is that the opposite is also true. A change in your physiology will also change the chemistry in your mind.

This the same reason why some writers will use exercise as a way to gain new insights and spark their creativity. A change in there physical state creates a change in their internal state. Body movement is an effective brain stimulator.

So get your body moving. Get up and go for a walk, get some exercise or just change locations to trigger that inner change - the place where you get all of those great ideas.

Mind Power Technique #2: Track Your Progress

I think over the past 3 months, 70% of the blog carnivals I submit to have either quit or stopped publishing. Which tells me one thing, that more than 7 out of 10 people will quit blogging within 3 months of starting. Don’t let that be you.

Keep your momentum going by using this mind power technique #2: track your progress.

Let me explain.

Recently, I spoke to a sales representative from iperceptions - a survey company that provides statistics and data for websites. What they do is survey people who navigate your website or blog. As part of their surveying process they tested different methods and found something really interesting.

What they did was add a status bar at the bottom of each survey page. That way users could see their progress as they went through the survey. When they did this, the survey completion rates increased by an astounding 67%!

Basically, this is what happened. When users new how well they were doing, they kept going. But if they didn’t have any signs of progress, they quit the survey altogether.

How can you use this technique with your blog?

Start tracking the traffic of your blog by creating a blog traffic diary. I learned this technique from Yaro Starak @ Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

A blog diary is basically a way to track the unique visitors and pageviews for your blog. I thought it would be a good idea to track my Newsletter subscribers as well. Here’s a snap shot of my traffic and newsletter subscribers each month from November 08 to May 09.

What I found from following this process is that I instinctively became more proactive. I started to think ahead about how I could improve my traffic. If I saw that my unique visitors were down one month, then I would brainstorm ways to improve my performance: either by creating better content or putting more effort into my marketing.

I’ve been pretty active with my blog diary. I still keep it up to date because it’s such a great tool. I’ve pretty much shared what has worked for me and what has not worked over the past year. You can see my blog traffic diary here.

Mind Power Technique #3: Use Comparison To Give Yourself A Boost

Here’s a mistake I made from the very beginning. When I was surfing and commenting on other blogs I would compare myself to those A-List Bloggers:

ProBlogger, StevePavlina, Zenhabits and a few others.

This seemed harmless in the beginning. It started with subtle comments to myself like:

• “Oh, he has more RSS subscribers than me,”
• “She has third party ads on her site and I don’t,”
• “He writes way better than I do!”

Then after a while this self-talk started to grow like weeds in my mind. As time went by I found more and more weeds taking up the space in my head. Which put me in a real bad mood, to the point where I didn’t feel like doing anything anymore - not even blogging.

The important thing here is to catch this internal dialogue quickly. You never want to compare yourself to someone who is better than you (unless you’re looking for ways to improve).

If you’re going to compare, then compare yourself to someone who is worse than you. You can always find someone who is down a notch from your current position.

As you start to compare yourself to someone who is worse off, you’ll start to realize how good things are. You’ll start to feel better about yourself and your position. You’ll start to feel more confident. And when you feel more confident, you’ll start to take action.

If you’re going to compare, compare yourself against someone who is worse than you. At least that way you can bounce back quickly and get back to what you do best.

Steve is a Mind Power Coach and the creator of Freedom Education - Mind Power for Your Personal Growth.  He is also the author of the ebook, The Genius Within YOU.  You can download his ebook here.

Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

3 Mind Power Techniques to Become A Better Blogger

Share This

When you plan to set up your own website for the purpose of making money online, selection of a proper domain name is essential. Domain name is the name which describes your website. When your website comes up in the search engine results, the domain name provides some information about it to the searchers. It should not be irrelevant or misleading and should match with the content of your website. Domain name selection is the first step to get your website online. Therefore, proper care should be taken when selecting the same.

The domain name selected should be short, memorable and easy to spell. It should relate to your core business. If your domain name contains more than three words, use hyphens. There are different domain name extensions available, such as, .com, .net, .org, .info etc. Of all these, .com is the most popular domain name extension (.org for non-profit organizations).

Domain names are easy to register. They are also cheap ( as low as $1.99). There are hundreds of domain name registration companies online. Some of the popular ones are, Yahoo, Register.com, Go Daddy, NetworkSolutions etc. These companies are all ICANN accredited. You can register your domain name for as many years as you want or you may register it for one year and extend it at the end of the year.

Before registering your domain name, make sure that it has not been already registered by somebody else. Even if a domain name has been taken by someone, it may be purchased from the owner. You may want to buy a particular domain name (which has been already registered) due to it's high page rank. You may buy used domain names through certain forums and websites such as, Digital Point, Sitepoint, Namepros etc.

When registering your domain name, you are generally given an option to keep it private. This will keep your details like name, e mail ID etc. out of the international data base.

Have you ever wanted to work for an affiliate network and watch all the big affiliate marketers make hundreds of thousands per month while you make peanuts? Well, you’re in luck because Clickbooth is hiring! Think about it. As an affiliate manager you’ll be able to see what offers all the top affiliates are running and copy them! …..Oh wait. If you do that, they’ll fire your ass… Forget what I just wrote.

All kidding aside, Clickbooth is a great company to work for. Located in sunny Sarasota, Florida (home of the second best beach in America), Clickbooth is ranked as one of Florida Trend Magazine’s “2009 Best Companies To Work For”. If you are an expert in online sales, marketing, business development, design, media buying, accounting or human resources and would like to become part of the Clickbooth team, then send them your résumé now! I would apply but living The Dot Com Lifestyle makes me unemployable.

Discover the SECRETS I’ve Learned to go from zero a month to over $40,000 a month from blogging. Download Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com for FREE!

This is a guest post by Satish G.. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

When we get into trouble we usually start looking for a solution outside, and more often than not it is under our finger tip!

I want to share my own experience with you today, and perhaps let you know about a very useful WordPress feature that you hadn’t used before.

Some days ago I published an article titled 60+ Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers, and later on I found that it had a spelling mistake. So I edited the article to fix the spelling and hit the “Update post” button. To my despair, on that day my Internet connection was acting wildly, and hence my browser got frozen….

I had alread tweeted about the article, and suddenly people started reporting to me that the URL of the post was blank. Basically when I tried to update the article with the spelling mistake fixed the whole thing got erased!

I got frustrated, as I had invested a lot of time to write that article. With frustration, I started looking all over to get some solution to restore the article.

The content of the article was even missing in my Feedburner feed, and the Feedburner email had not been delivered yet, so those were of no help.

The Solution

After some time, and with some luck, I found that WordPress itself had a feature to solve my problem. It is called “Post Revisions,” and it is basically keeps track of all the revisions that are made to your posts, allowing you to restore a particular one if necessary.

If you somehow lose one of your articles, just click on the latest Post Revision (with the help of date and time the article have been saved). Click on it to see the details like article title, content, and everything that has been saved previously. If it’s not the record that you were looking for, then you can select another Post Revision.

When you finally get the required post, just click on the restore button and the article will be restored and everything will work normally. And there is a tool to compare revisions too, which can be of some help if you have many of them.

Caution: this tip does not work when the whole article along with the URL is deleted. In such case you can contact your hosting company support team to get the recent backup file. If you are lucky enough, you will get the article back.

You can read more from Satish on TechnoTip.org, where he blogs about technology and the Internet.

---

Grab the "Make Money Blogging" eBook here!
Original Post:The “Post Revisions” Feature on WordPress