If you still need to hold down a full time job while at the same time trying to build up your online portfolio you should be looking to build income from projects that take little maintainance. It's all very well for someone to write a book telling you to create a site then submit 5 articles a day for a month (This was really the recommendation in a report I read this week!) but it's not realistic.  Yes you could outsource the work but you'd soon have spend $750-$1000 before you'd made a cent. This is now money that you have to recuperate before you are in profit. I've seen people just … [Read more...]

When it comes to creating an online business lack of focus is probably the biggest thing holding us back. Focus is important on 2 levels. Firstly you have your long term focus which is what you want to ultimately achieve. Stop reading this for a moment and ask yourself what do you want? Financial freedom? To be able to leave your current job and work at home? A new house? A world cruise? That is your long term focus this what will drive you if you harness it. If you want it enough and focus on it you will get it. … [Read more...]

Ok so John Reese's Blogrush has been launched amid a fanfare of trumpets and claims. So is it the best thing for Bloggers since Wordpress or is it a spammers wet dream? Well reading a few blogs and reports it seems it might be both if every post was to be believed. So it's time to look at this rationally and see if we can come to a consensus. I'll also reveal something about it that could make it much more than a traffic generation tool... … [Read more...]

I've recently been spending a lot of time looking at Blogs and analysing how they are being monetized. I've come to the conclusion that far to many people are rushing into monetizing their blogs without thinking about what would be the best method of Monetization.  I've come up with some general advice that might help you to make an income from your blog. Firstly don't rush into monetizing your blogs until you have generated a good level of traffic.  If you haven't got the visitors then you won't make money.  Placing adsense ads all over your site may even affect the indexing of your site. … [Read more...]

Over the past few months there has been lots written about Affiliate Marketing some of it good some of it bad. If like me you've read most of it then you will probably be confused. So if you don't know your Bum from your crack then this is for you. Bum marketing: Using article marketing to sell products. Low costs, doesn't need a site but takes time and effort. Niche Marketing On Crack (NMOC): An advanced version Of Bum Marketing add a little twist to the mix you need a website and still need to create artilces, however due to various twists you need fewer articles. I actually like this … [Read more...]