I am so, so lucky (but perhaps sometimes I take it for granted!).
Why am I so lucky?
I work from home. I have done for the past 2.5 years and it’s FAB!
I love it. I work when I want (well most of the time) and I have the freedom to do want I want (to a certain degree).
Of course, it’s not always a bed of roses…I do work hard but it is the freedom, the lifestyle I love. The fact that I can take a break WHEN I WANT TO IS PRICELESS.
I purchased a new computer at the weekend. A faster more updated one. My current PC was getting slow as I was working on more and more client’s sites and opening lots of different applications.
Things were just taking a bit longer than I wanted and it was frustrating.
Problem: I now have to transfer all my applications and data across. It will take me a while to do that.
Solution: I’m going to dedicate an hour a day to getting my new PC up and running.
I was recently interviewed by Brandon Yeager (The Infopreneur).
This one is a video interview.
We had a great time and I share 3 key pieces of advice for people starting out blogging.
Please leave any comments on his site and any re-tweets or shares would be very welcome.
Here’s the link:
Spread Your Word by Blogging – Interview with Andrew Rondeau
Thousands of on-line business owners are creating products that just don’t sell. That’s right…don’t sell.
This is how you can follow them:
1. Decide to create your product based on what you like instead of what the customers needs
2. Do no research and create something that you THINK will sell
3. Don’t check the market for demand
4. Choose a subject which you don’t know anything about
5. Choose a subject that you are not passionate about
6. Make it appeal to a tiny niche
7. Make a sub-standard product
We often read and hear about on-line small business owners and their ‘overnight successes’.
…especially when someone is trying to sell their latest product or when someone is promoting someone else’s product as an affiliate.
They often tell you how much income they are making…TODAY.
And their income today may be true.
But they VERY RARELY tell you how long it took for them to get to that stage.
It took me 3 years of part-time hours working on my own on-line business and today…I do make a living. I do make a decent income to live a comfortable life.
Morbid question, I know but it is a serious one, isn’t it?
Seriously, what would happen to your blog if you were to unfortunately die tomorrow?
Would it be taken over by someone else?
Simply disappear?
Well, Brandon Hopkins has written an excellent post on the subject. It certainly gets you thinking and wanting to take action.
You should read it now…
Yep, here I am again TELLING you to make sure you have secure backups in place.
I don’t want you wasting hours of your time trying to get your site back, if you ever lost your data.
But this message is time critical.
Why?
Because the best backup plugin (see my best WordPress backup review) has just been updated and if you order before this Friday, you get 30% off.
Just go here:
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/backupbuddy.htm and use the special discount code: APRIL30PB
This upgrade of Backup Buddy is a major release and has more than 75 new features and enhancements including:
If you are a small business blogger and you want to increase your income via your blog then today is the day to take some action.
Today is the last day where you can get 50% off our Income Blogging Course.
http://www.incomebloggingguide.com/stepbystep/
After today, we will be closing the doors to new members.
We realize, when it comes to blogging people need a helping hand – they need someone to walk them along the blogging path.
In the Income Blogging Guide Course, we have people from all over the world.
It’s a wonderful feeling when someone writes to you and they ask if they can publish a guest blog post on your site.
Why do I say that?
There are a number of reasons:
1. It means I have a break from having to create a blog post myself
2. I and my readers get to find out about a new blogger and a different perspective on the subject of the blog post
3. The guest blogger hopefully gets some new visitors to this site
4. The guest blogger gets some link love from my site and I feel I’m helping them
When working as a manager in the corporate world I was often asked by my staff, “what do you do all day?”
They saw me coming in to the office early. They saw me leave the office late. I was often not at my desk.
So I can understand the question.
Now I have left the corporate world and I run my own small business I now get asked the same question by friends.
So I thought what I would do is simply make a note of what I do whie running my small business.
This is a guest post by Rebecca Chelsey, a designer who works for Homeseasons.
If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
If you are reading this post, chances are you own a blog or are interested in starting one.
It would be a bit disappointing if you have been blogging for a while now, but you only get comments here and there. This is just the same as making a speech in public only to hear crickets chirping in the background.
In my previous post in this Blog Expert Series, I discussed the Mandatory WordPress Plugins Your Blog Should Have installed.
In this post, I shall share with you the plugins I have installed that I feel are ‘definitely worth adding to your blog’
You have to sign-up to Yoast’s newsletter to get this one but it is worthwhile. It removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from a post’s slug (url) and helps with SEO.
It shows a link to the last post from the commenters blog. It rewards your readers and encourages more comments.
Hi, Andrew Rondeau here and this blog, my blog, will not lie to you. I will give it to you straight.This blog is about blogging, the Internet and sharing my experiences and advice on how to make a blog and a blog income. I also build blogs and websites for clients.
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