To make a blog income and be a successful blogger I believe you have do 3 things each day:
1. Keep your blog up to date with blog posts and general maintenance
2. Market you blog via article marketing, blog commenting, social bookmarking, blog carnivals…
3. Creating your own products
Quite often you simply cannot do everything it takes to make that elusive blog income…along with relaxing, enjoying life and running a house.
Keeping blogs up to date on a regular basis is usually the last thing on a long list of priorities.
One of first products I created to sell on-line was a ‘Management’ e-book.
I had 30 years experience of being a Manager and managing people so I thought that would be an easy and good start.
Thee years later, it still sells today.
“Create once, sell many times” is a motto I like!
I have updated it and added extra bonuses etc throughout the thee years but 90% of the work was the original creation.
I know that it can seem overwhelming and sometimes impossible to get started, however many people are making money on-line with e-books and you could be too.
Back in July this year, Squidoo started cracking down on what you could and couldn’t add to one of their lenses.
Far too many people were adding lens after lens which just talked about affiliate products and gave no advice, whatsoever.
So the inevitable crackdown came. At the time, Squidoo said:
1. No Spam. This one’s not new!
2. No more X-rated or Porn lenses
3. No Junk Topics from our “SquidDon’t” List
4. A new limit on overly promotional lenses
Back in July, there was a huge amount of positive to come from these changes.
Imagine having 100 of the top blogging and SEO experts in a room and asking them, “Should we use Article Marketing as part of our on-line business?”
There would be arguments for, arguments against.
There’d be shouting and swearing, maybe even a bit of pushing and shoving. Well, maybe not, but wouldn’t it be fun to watch?
Why?
Because some would say, definitely include article marketing, some would say don’t, some wouldn’t know either way and some wouldn’t care!
So there is no correct answer, to “Should we use Article Marketing as part of our on-line business?”
By the end of today this will be all mine!
I am so excited!
In fact, I am shaking.
I just cannot believe it but…by the end of today I will be rich beyond my wildest dreams.
How?
Why?
I received an email saying I won on the Spanish Lottery. I don’t know how, but who cares.
I am a millionaire.
I always knew life would turn out great.
Here’s the email. I’ve hidden names and number because you might ring them up and claim MY PRIZE.
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In this series of Article Marketing, we have discussed:
1. How To Increase The Traffic To Your Website With Blog Postings
2. How To Write An Article Headline That Compels Readers to Take Action
3. How To Write An Effective ‘non-selling’ Resource Box
So now we are ready to promote your articles for maximum traffic.
Where are you going to submit them? Which sites?
How often should you promote to the Article Directories?
But before you start submitting, you need to decide how you are going to submit.
I’ve tried 3 different ways to submit articles to directories:
Too Much Information!
In the first blog posting of this series we discussed the overall benefits of Article Marketing and how it can generate loads more traffic to your site.
In the second we discussed How To Write An Article Headline That Compels Readers to Take Action!
And today, we shall discuss writing the Main Body, the Conclusion / Summary and How To Write An Effective ‘non-selling’ Resource Box that makes visitors click through to your website.
So let’s start with:
The Body
How much traffic are you getting?
You want to increase the traffic to your website through your blog postings. In fact, you have spent a lot of effort in writing that terrific recent blog posting and the positive responses you have received from your regular readers have been ‘out of this world’.
But, that’s the problem…you have only received positive responses from your regular readers.
Don’t the millions and millions of others searching the Internet deserve to read your amazing blog posting?
Of course they do and you want them to see it, don’t you?
…like Stan Laurel without Oliver Hardy.
What's Laurel and Hardy got to do with Internet Marketing? (photo courtesy of bdjsb7)
They go together, work together and the results are 10 times more successful.
In a recent posting I discussed the obstacles we have to overcome as Internet Marketers.
Article Marketing can be the one key you need to finally become successful in Internet Marketing. Internet Marketing and Article Marketing go hand in hand because using articles to market yourself, your website or your affiliate products is absolutely crucial in creating a complete Internet marketing solution.
Woo-hoo, you have a website / blog with some banner adverts, you’ve completed some Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and you are on your way to becoming a millionaire (some adverts and people will have you believe).
I want to get over to the other side! (photo by Giuseppe Bognanni)
Back to reality…
Picture this…you are watching TV, you are fully engrossed in the film or programme you are watching.
Then there’s a break…those pesky adverts…don’t they drive you mad!
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 
