Guest Post at John Chow dot Com

Read my guest post on John Chow dot Com  here “Top Five Killer Reasons Why Online Businesses Fail“

Build a Niche Store And Make Money With EBay

So how you like this idea to build an online niche store where you can sell your EBay products and get paid a handsome commission when people click and buy those products?

Well in plain English I am asking you to open a shop of your own on the internet. This is not a brand new idea; people are doing it and making tons of money by selling EBay products through online niche stores, for this all you need is to do is to build  your very own Online store .

A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing on; Therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intending to impact. You can build several niche store promoting specific products.  For example marketing and promoting a book to a specific group of buyers, such as people in a certain geographical region, or people with a specific hobby or interest. Books published for a niche market may be sold nationally, but mainly are sold through specialized retail outlets.

BUILD A NICHE STORE (BANS)

Well there is one Website Development Platform out there which can help you build a niche store in few minutes. For over 2 1/2 years Internet Marketers, Work At Home Mom’s, Retired Hobbyist’s, even ‘Money Wise’ Kids have been successfully using BANS to make Hundreds to Thousands of Dollars a Month, even a Day – by building “Product Based” .

Build a Niche Store – Succeed as an eBay Affiliate

With BANS you can build unlimited stores that can earn you unlimited income on both new sign-ups to EBay, and on all purchases made within 7 days of a person visiting any one of your stores. For example, if you live in the United States, there are over 28,000 EBay categories, and thus over 28,000 stores you can build. Building a store is super simple with Build a Niche Store (BANS),choose your category, or target niche, and then BANS will instantly create for you a professional, fully functional, search engine friendly website. This site will contain all of the products listed for sale on eBay relevant to your chosen market.

The most important task in this whole exercise is to build the traffic to your site. As your targeted traffic increases, your site will generate more and more money for you.

Here is an example of Niche Store (Click to see how an online niche Store looks)

Check out Build a Niche Store

How to Make Money By Creating Fun Videos

Video is the next big thing, no secret, but the actual secret is that how you can make money with videos?  I am giving you Maria  known as Video marketing Queen who will teach you how you can make tons of money by creating fun videos that attract new clients, transform the size of your list, and make money while you sleep.

Check out this video here and get your FREE audio report on “The Three Simple Secrets to Creating Videos That Make You Money While You Sleep” to enter the site, use your first name and a valid email address.

Inside this report you will learn:

• How to position yourself as a Expert & Maven in your marketplace.
• What to do to have your videos viewed and how to have your videos convert into sales & profit.
• How to avoid the mistakes most entrepreneurs make with video marketing.
• How to attract your ideal clients and have more free time to do the things you love.
• How to transform the size of your list of clients who are eager to buy your products and services.

If you want to make money with social media & video, actually converting your followers into paid customers, and want to expand your online presences then you’ve got to check out some KILLER Free Videos that Maria Andros just released. They’re SPECIFICALLY designed for “work from home” entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners who want to take their business to the Six & Seven Figure mark without spending a fortune in advertising.

Maria, who’s also known as “The Video Marketing Queen” started  out as a beginner online two years ago with no technical background and now generates a high six figure income without AdWord and can show you exactly how you can do the same. She’s well known for helping her students get onto the FRONT Pages of the Google search engines for free in as fast as 66 minutes and you will love the free videos and the step by step, value that she provides.

Check out complete Video

How To Integrate Google Custom Search into WordPress Blog and Make Money?

Google custom search can be use as a money making tool if you know how to fix it properly with the soul of your WordPress blog theme. I must say that the default WordPress search engine barely serve the purpose, So I am giving you here a heck to replace that search engine with the Google Custom Search and also make some when your users search a quarry and click ads placed on Google Search Results page.

Here is the screen shot of how I integrated Google Custom Search into my WordPress self hosted blog.

Now let me explain how you can do this in seven small and easy steps:

STEP 1

Sign up for your Google AdSense Account if you haven’t registered yet here https://www.google.com/adsense/ . If you are using AdSense ads on your site the you can head over to google custom search via Google AdSense > AdSense Setup > AdSense for Search.

STEP 2

Fill in the necessary parameters like Search Type: whether you want your  users to search your site only, or a collection of sites, or the entire web. If you want users to search your sites then specify it in the given box with complete URL of a site or list of sites to search across. These can be individual pages, parts of sites, or entire sites.

STEP 3

After that choose search Box options, this is where you specify the look and the feel of your search box. You can shape your Google Custom Search Box.

STEP 4

Now this is the step which will integrate google custom search into your WordPress self hosted blog, so please read it carefully.

While selecting opening of search results page you need to select “Open results within my own site” and specify the URL like:

“http://www.yousite.com/search/”

Exclude inverted commas in URL above and replace “yoursite.com” with the domain name your site. This /search/ would be the page where we will display the search results within our blog.

STEP 5

In this step you need to Specify where you want the AdSense ads to be placed in relation to search results. Your options are top and right, top and bottom and right. Well you can see that I have chosen AdSense ads to be appearing on Top and bottom of search results. Well if you wish you can manage these setting later on  through Google AdSense > AdSense Setup > Manage ads.

STEP 6

Now save your search Engine. Check the term and condition box (well if you agree). Name your search engine in the given box something like YOUR SITE SEARCH ENGINE and then hit the SUBMIT button.

You will get two boxes with codes. One is search box code. Paste this code in the page where you’d like your search box to appear. If you want it to appear in sidebar then follow this, WordPress Admin>Appearance>Widgets> select Text widget and then paste the code.

STEP 7

Now you need to paste the code given at the second box. For this you need to create a new page in your WordPress blog with the name “search”. This should exactly be the same as we typed while specifying the URL in step 4. For creating a new page go to WordPress Admin>pages> Add New. You can uncheck allow comments and allow pings boxes given below under “Discussion” option of your new page.

Select HTML window of your WordPress editor, paste the code and PULISH this page and you are done. To test type some keywords in Google Custom Search Box and see how the search results are appearing on your blog.

Now some of you may raise your eyebrows as I ask you to create a page with name “search” and publish it the step 7 above but you can’t see such a page on my page list in header, Is this going on in your mind right now? Well if you search google you will find enough information on how you can hide OR exclude some pages to appear in your site page list. If you wish you can use a WordPress Plugin for this purpose, Exclude Pages is a WordPress Plugin which adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages.

I hope this will help you integrate your Google Custom Search into your WordPress Self Hosted Blog, and also make some money when your users  click your AdSense ads appearing onsearch result page.

Are You Feeling Uncomfortable, That’s Good

Actually we all keen to live an easy life. We always love to create a very cozy comfort zone around us, we feel bumpy if someone ask us do anything which falls beyond our comfort zone. This habit of being always living in comfort zone never makes you push yourself to do extraordinary things or to do things in extraordinary ways.

You never try those “New Scary Things”, you never push yourself hard. You start thinking that there so many things that you never been able to do in life, there are certain big things in this world which are not made for you, it’s ultimately end up living an ordinary life.

How to come out of that comfort zone? And why it is important?

Well I am nobody to ask you to come out of your comfort zone, but I know that you always wanted to do certain things which you are not doing right now, aren’t you? Do you feel that you are not made to do those things which you are doing at present? Are you feeling uncomfortable with your present situation? It’s good for you because this discomfort will help you to get out of your comfort zone and do the things which you really love to do.

Have you heard about this theory of “shooting for the moon”?  Steven K Scott is a great mentor, philosopher and thinker; he explains this theory and believes that one way that you can force yourself come out of this comfort zone is to aim too high, instead of setting “realistic” goals. Set “impossible” goals, that is, goals that push you totally out of your comfort zone.

This seems to be a crazy thing at first place but if you do this you will soon realize that it’s the best thing that you can do to achieve incredible success. I want to share this with you that since the time I have adopted this theory I have seen amazing improvement in my blogging business.   It has made a huge difference in my prosperity. Things which were appear to be impossible once now become handy. The dreams which were beyond reach are now getting closer and closer. Hit the bull eyes, living the dream. Test this theory and share your experience too.

Picture coutesy : JoshuaBENLEY

Google Analytics Plugin For WordPress

This is for all you guys who keep on checking their blog’s google analytics stats every few hours. Basically an e-mail marketing company MailChimp has come up with wonderful idea of creating a WordPress Plugin integrating WordPress Blog and Google Analytics.

It uses the power of Google Analytics to tell bloggers what kind of an effect they’re having on overall website traffic. They have made it super easy to tell if your blog posts (and email campaigns) are driving traffic to your website — it’s all embedded right in your WordPress Dashboard! You don’t have to be a MailChimp customer to use or benefit from this Plugin. But if you do happen to have a MailChimp account, it will mash in your MailChimp campaign stats too, giving you a bird’s eye view of the cause and effect of all your hard work.

Download the free Plugin

See this video to know how it works.

Joy Ride By Cable Car

I am very lucky because the place where I live is surrounded by beautiful green mountains of Himalayas, few months back I posted some pictures of my visit to Shimla better known as Queen of Hills. There is one more happening place called “Timber Trail” very near to my place where you can hang around on weekends.  It’s a place well known for its Cable Car ride, plus you can enjoy great hospitality there; a small resort there at uphill and an amusement park for kids. I visited that place couple of time now but it was first time with my family. It was quite a joy ride for my son Aditya, I wish if you could see the smile on his face while he was right in between the Cable Car ride over the beautiful green subterranean valley. Me too enjoyed a lot and rejuvenate myself to get ready for another round of hard make money online blogging.  :-)

I am giving you here some picture for your delight.

Avoid These 3 Mistakes at Twitter

I am giving you today Shama Kabani (formerly Shama Hyder) who is talking about 3 Twitter’s Don’ts. I guess it will help you build a more potential community and followers at twitter for your blogs or small business businesses.

She has been dubbed “an online marketing shaman” and “a millienial master of the universe” by Fast Company. She is the President of Click To Client, a full service web marketing firm. When not working directly with clients, Shama travels the world speaking on social media marketing.

Make Money Online with Affiliate Venture Group

Introducing Affiliate Venture Group (AVG), they are in the internet marketing town from quite some time now. AVG have over 100 best campaigns, neatly categorize into different segment like Auto, Education, Business Opportunity, Health, Finance and sign ups that you like to promote and make money.

Frankly speaking I was not sure first to share this affiliate network with you as some of you will join and  will increase the competition for me ( Evil me) specially when Affiliate Venture Group have many exclusive offers. Beside they have some of the exceptionally productive and highly paid campaigns.

The Affiliate Venture Group

Affiliate Venture Group located in downtown Wilmington, Delaware is comprised of a team of experienced and long term, online marketing professionals. It is one of the fastest growing private networks. They are committed to provide advertisers and publishers with attentive and professional account management. Affiliate Venture Group is working hard to minimize CPA while maximizing sales and exposure. Thus providing a guaranteed ROI!

Short Simple and sweet

If you haven’t tried any Affiliate Network yet then this is for you. It’s the easiest affiliate network to understand and navigate, to choose offers, to generate reports, to comprehend the affiliate marketing. You just need to register and log into your account admin area and very soon you will understand the system; how it works and how you can milk PPC and make hell lot of money with affiliate venture group. I am sure you can learn basic of affiliate marketing here sooner than on any other network and act like a pro-affiliate very quickly.

AVG Referral Program

You can also make some quick cash just by telling your friends about Affiliate venture Group. Affiliate Venture Group has a referral program to reward each new accepted sign-up. You will be paid for each accepted sign-up $7.00. They have very good system in place for accepting new affiliate into their network. Each application reviewed systematically before allowing being partner with AVG.

Sign up with Affiliate Venture Group here.

Playing With Emotions

This morning I got one message from my friend Jennie, she was in trouble, her blog was down from last couple of days, initially she felt it was just a glitch but it was worse than she was thinking, her web host EzNet-Hosting.com close down everything and run away draining down all databases.

She started this blog “Marriage and beyond” in 2005, wrote close to 1,400 articles and her blog witnessed every big occasion of her life, be full of deep emotions, sentiments and passion. It was like a big shock to her.

She did some digging about the host and found through whois that the domain was transferred to a new owner, she ask me if I can do something about it.

When I check up I found that this new owner is a Chennai based Indian guy , after many tries I was able to talked to this guy over phone, I was can’t believe what he told me, he said he has won this domain EzNet-Hosting.com in a contest. I felt surprised to hear this. I asked if he could give me further detail how he got this domain, he then referred me to the following thread at digital point forum.

Just have a look at it how shamelessly this web host is offering a domain on which he already sold hosting spaces to many blog publishers and developers just to change the ownership and parting all responsibilities on somebody else shoulder. I mean this is something ridiculous, how someone could do this, selling web spaces and then run off ditching many clients in between.

Jennie somehow manages to restart her blog again but lost so much in recollecting things again, you can read her post on this hosting disaster HERE.

Stand on the Shoulder of Giants

I really don’t understand when it comes to web hosting why people chooses a unknown web host instead of a big and renowned web hosting service provider. It always very safe to host your WordPress blog with some hosting giants, WordPress also recommends hosting provider like BlueHost, DreamHost, and GoDaddy. I advise you – if you are with some “CHEAP” web hosting company of closet corner than change it to any of the webhost suggested.

WordPress backup Plugin

Make sure to take your database backup from time to time. My friend Austin Matzko has solution for your all database back-up problems. He has made wonderful WordPress Data Back-Up Plugin which creates database everyday and sends it to your provided e-mail address. This is a must install Plugin, in case anything bad happened to your blog this will save you getting insane.

Also Backup your Image folder

You WordPress Images are hardcoded in your post pointing to a WP content folder which contains your post images. I advise you to back-up this folder also from time to time.

See if you could extend any HELP

I have explained above what had happened to Jennie’s blog, I make an appeal here if you have any suggestion or if you wish to help her in getting her database back from his runaway HOST you can do so by leaving your comment below. I or Jennie will contact you.

Disclaimer

I am writing this post on the basis of information provided by aggrieved blogger Jennie and on my own prima Facie findings. If you think information provided in the post above are untrue or are different from what have been stated above I invite to make clear your point by  writing to me at the e-mail address given on contact page. I will look into this and update the post accordingly.

Three Rock Solid WordPress Themes

Today I am sharing with you the three most popular WordPress Premium Themes. The founders of these themes claims that installing these themes will change the way you blog, these are optimized for SEO so you will get extra amount of Traffic from Search Engines. But before taking any decision regarding buying and installing these themes please make sure to compare each other features, also share your experience if you have any one of these themes ruling on your blog.

The Ultimate Blogging Theme

Carl Ocab, this 13-year old guy (He is claiming himself thirteen year old since 2006, don’t know when he will grow up LoL) also claims that he owe all his success to the amazing theme on which he runs his blog. He claims to grab the top spot at Google for keywords which some people have been trying to rank for such a long time. Well, he’s number 1, sometimes number 2 or number 3 for the keyword phrase “make money online” Not only that, he manages to earn a handsome four figure monthly income because of his top Google blog. He states that this is all due to his well-optimized WordPress blog theme.

He is now selling his blog theme which he calls ‘The Ultimate Blogging Theme”

Grab The Ultimate Blogging Theme HERE

Frugal Theme

This theme has two versions, one for free download and other one is Premium version with some extra features and tweaks. Frugal theme’s unique selling point is that it is light and clear. When it comes down to it, your blog’s content is MUCH more important that the theme itself.  Sure, you don’t want your site to look tacky or amateurish or misrepresent the focus of your blog, but at the end of the day, it’s WHAT you’re saying that creates the draw for your potential subscribers, not what color the background is when they read it (though that can have an effect).  Keeping this in mind John Doe come up with a theme which presents your work neatly and nicely.

Grab your Frugal Theme HERE

Thesis Theme

Since its introduction to the World of WordPress everyone is talking about this theme. I guess this is the most talked about WordPress Product, but why people are recommending this theme, the reason is pretty simple this theme is supported by respectable, commanding and esteem big bosses on blogging world Rae Hoffman, SEO guru Michael Gray, Darren Rowse, Scott Beale, Chris Brogan, and LeVar Burton and presented by copy blogger Brian Clark. This theme has been used by search legend Danny Sullivan, Google’s Matt Cutts, and Microsoft search engineer Jeremiah Andrick.

Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. Not only that, Thesis also contains additional options that will allow you to fine-tune each and every page of your site. The days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over—with Thesis, your strategy is “just add killer content.” Not a coder? Not a problem. The Thesis option panels allow you to command your site with ease, while Thesis does all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. You’ve never had this much control over your site before, and this is precisely what makes Thesis indispensable to critical webmasters all over the globe.

Grab The Thesis Theme HERE

Google Lifted Ban from John Chow dot Com

It’s a very long story, to make it short let me tell you that back in December of 2006 John Chow started a very aggressive link exchange campaign, he give a link back for every review of his blog when the text anchor ‘make money online’ was used. John now exchanged over 870 links from various sites as a direct result of this campaign. This has proved to be very fruitful for John and his income grown from $2790.05 in December of 2006 to $12,569.61 in June of 2007.

But big Daddy didn’t like his idea and banned him for indexing in his giant search engine.  Poor John chow, he has to survive in blogging world without Google. You know very well that from where you get maximum traffic to your blog, yes its Google organic search, and imagine how difficult it is to survive in blogosphere without Google’s support. Even when people search for keyword ‘john chow’ someone else blog was appearing at no # 1 place. Kudos to Mr. John chow, he struggle hard this entire tough time and maintained his popularity in blogosphere without the help of Mammoth google.

Couple of hours back he contacted me asked me to check whether his blog is appearing in google for search word “John Chow” and my reaction was ‘YES SIR, you are very much there at # 1”. What a relief, he regains his sanity and dignity from Big Daddy google. Here is short conversation between me and john chow immediately after google lifted ban from his blog.

John Chow: Search for John Chow in Google and tell me what’s #1?

Me: YES SIR – you are very much there at first place and that’s comes under organic results

John Chow: Yes google has lifted my ban

Me: CONGRATULATION SIR

John Chow: Thanks, Now if they would only restore my Page Rank lol, I guess that will be on the next update

Me: have you done something about it or it is their Suo ”MOTO” efforts

John Chow: I went to Matt himself I’ll be doing a blog post about it, we held peace talks

Me: How you feel about it now?

John Chow: It worked out well. Google is happy with it and so am I, One thing I do have to say. If the re-include request comes from Matt Cutts, things happens REALLY FAST!

Me: Yes, everyone respect his knowledge

John Chow: They fear him too! LOL, since he controls how Google does it search, He’s pretty much God in the SEO world

Me: You and matt met on various occasions, so why it took so much time to convince him?

John Chow: I never met him face to face

Me: In India Data centre you appear at #7 for Make Money online Keyword now.

John Chow: I’m on page 2 for North America

Me: how were these long three years without Google?

John Chow: Before Google wouldn’t put me pass the 5th page rank I think I was like page 20 for make money online

Me: It will also save you some money as I notice earlier you were spending on AdWord for paid searches for your own name since you were ban.

John Chow: That’s not me that was someone else

Me: Congratulation again john

John Chow: Thanks

Music Video with Webcams

Well if you ask me this is something which I see everywhere but still I can’t hold myself posting it on my blog. Now this is what i called creativity, the entire music video has been shot with web CAMs. If you watch it carefully you will see how much of hard work has been put into making this music video.

This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

2009 Zealot Co., ltd / Neutral Nine Records

WordPress 2.8.1 is Now Available for Download

• Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
• Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
• The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
• A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
• Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
• Translation of role names fixed.
• wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
• Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
• Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
• Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
• SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
• Switched back to curl as the default transport.
• Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
• Stricter inline style sanitization.
• Stricter menu security.
• Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
• RTL layout fixes.

What Went Wrong With Your Blogging?

“I WOULD PREFER TO BE A HONEST FAILURE THAN TO BE A CORRUPT SUCCESS”.

This morning one of my friends e-mailed me, asking me to guide him whether he should join a “specific” program which pays for clicking ads. My answar was striaght “NO” to this. These sorts of programs called PTC means they promise to pay you huge amount just for clicking ads on web sites and mails. If any one of you involved in these sorts of programs I strongly advise you to please get out of it as soon as possible.  These programs can’t make you rich and the most importantly these are not legitimate. Remember there is no short cut to success and to become rich you really have work hard, use your brain to productivity and creativity.

Choose the long and hard way, use your potential, explore possibilities and strengthen the entrepreneur in you.  Aim high and always work hard to make your dream turn into reality. Come out of your comfort zone and test ablities against all odds, push yourself hard toward your dream goals. As I mentioned it hundred and thousand times already on this blog, saying again, there is no short cut to success.

Download and Read this FREE report:

It will help you understand what went wrong with your blogging, and learn exactly how you can start using it to start profiting from your blog today! It’s from my friend David Risley, a successful six figure blogger.

Why is it that there are people out there who don’t produce even a FRACTION of the quality content you do, yet they make a full-time income on the Internet? There is a huge wealth gap out there. Bloggers produce a HUGE chunk of the quality content available on the Internet, yet most struggle to make any money. There is a HUGE missing ingredient. This missing ingredient is the one thing that could skyrocket your blog’s traffic and income. If you want to find out what’s missing for most bloggers out there, grab your copy of this free report, The Blogging Wealth Gap. Find out what went wrong for bloggers.

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