Winner of Define Blogging Contest

If you remember I ask you to define blogging sometime back. Read this post if you can’t recollect. And I also proposed that the one who will define blogging in the most funniest, spicy and comical way will get one FREE copy of my eBook “dot Com guru Guide Twitter Traffic” worth $ 19.95.

My blogger friend and internet marketer Yan Susanto has to decide the winner but since he was travelling through some remote area of china and internet was not easily accessible to him so it took some time for him to come up with the results. He “appeared” few moments back and here is what he has decided.

In the truest sense of being funny, I can’t help but pick the entry by Nathan.

“Blogging is a superhero thing, a nobody by day and a blogger by night.”

I think it’s very, very true and if I could borrow a line from Gabe (wish I could pick both of you), a more relevant one should be:

“Blogging is a superhero thing, a nobody by day and a blogger by night in your underwear pretending to be more knowledgeable, rich, and charismatic than you really are.”

How else can we possibly be someone we are not offline? Certainly, blogging gives us the opportunity to pretend to be till we really are. Isn’t that fantastic?

-YAN SUSANTO

I like the way he mix it up definition given by Nathan and Gabe. So I am giving one FREE copy to each one of them.

Congratulation to both of you guys Nathan and Gabe. I am sending your FREE copy of “dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic” in via emails.

And Thanks very much for all who participated in this little fun.

Inspire Yourself – Gurbaksh Chahal – The Youngest Millionaire

The story of this high School dropout and now the world’s youngest Internet Millionaire will surely inspire you to push yourself further with this thought that nothing in this world is impossible if you have a passion and dedication about what you do in your life.

Gurbaksh Singh Chahal is an entrepreneur, author and self made multi-millionaire. At the age of 16, he dropped out of High School and started his first online venture ClickAgent, it was an advertising network focused on CPA advertising. He formed BlueLithium advertising and In 2007 Yahoo! bought BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. He remained CEO of the company through the transition period. He also wrote one book named The Dream.

He appeared on Oprah Winfrey Show. Here is a video of that show for your delight.  Tell me in comment how much it inspired you to achieve your dream too.

Membership Site Mastermind Is Live

Yaro Starak just opened his Membership Site Mastermind training program for the last time in 2009. The doors will close on Friday at midnight.

You can join right now at this page

If you’ve downloaded Yaro’s free 72 page eBook on how to make money from a membership site or watched his video on how he made over $200,000 in 8-months with just one membership site, then you already know that a membership site is great business model and one that can give you the Dot Com Lifestyle.

Get your Copy of Membership Site MasterPlan

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A Video to Inspire You to Take Action

When I started my blogging this guy was at 5 thousand FeedBurner subscribers and making few thousand dollars pouring in his account every month, but now he is at the top, regarded as the best mentor of this skill of blogging. I am taking about one of my favorite blogger and internet marketer, Yaro Starak, if you really wish to know learn how to blog for money and wealth then must watch this video I am sharing with you below.

You know how you always see Internet marketers selling products about how to make money online and it seems all they do is make money by teaching how to make money? Yeah, I’m pretty skeptical too, and that’s why I like this video. In the second half of this video Yaro Starak takes you behind the scenes of two case studies of people who are using his online marketing principles to build businesses in unique niches:

• Fran Kerr is helping people treat acne with alternative methods.
• Jay Jay is a professional illusionist and magician, who teach people his tricks using online video.

The start of the video is really inspiring, as Yaro takes you through a slide-show from his 8-month trip around the world. During his trip he conducted two different membership site launches in two different countries. One of these launches alone generated $211,969 and the other resulted in a $20,000 a month income stream. Yaro did this all while living in a different exotic city each week, traveling and running his business. Doesn’t that sound like an awesome lifestyle? The membership site model can grant some amazing lifestyle freedoms and I’m excited by what Yaro is teaching. I like learning from people who are actually living the life they teach is possible. Watch this video and I know you will be excited by the possibilities too.

Click Here to Play this INSPIRING VIDEO

Visited Taj Mahal

You can’t describe beauty of Taj Mahal in words, it is the most wonderful structure we have in the world. You feel blessed when you see it, standing gracefully tall and brighter, you feel like you are in a paradise.

I visited Taj last weekend with wife Shivani and Son Aditya. A tribute to a beautiful woman and as a monument for enduring love, this white marbled mausoleum at Agra has become the epitome of a man’s love for a woman.

You can imagine how beautiful this supreme temple of love is that when my four and half year old son aditya had first eye contact with Taj suddenly this word drive out of his mouth “WoW”, and believe me we never heard this word from him before, Maybe he learned this word by the Taj Mahal right there.

Delight for your eyes, I am giving you here some of the pictures taken from my Sony CyberShot MP 10.1

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Bharti Airtel Partners with Twitter

It’s a good news for Indian Twitter Users, Bharti Airtel Limited, India Largest Telecom brand has now partner with Twitter, Airtel Mobile users can now update tweet via SMS right from there Airtel Mobile Phones. I am on Bharti Airtel Network so I am that they give me one more option to be in touch with my 10k twitter followers.

Twitter Founder Biz confirmed it on Twitter Blog:

Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees. We are proud to have Bharti Airtel as our partner. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000. And spread the word!

Biz also mentioned about some Indian celebrities using twitter which shows that it’s getting pulse here and will rock the scene in next couple of years.  film stars Priyanka Chopra @priyankachopra Gul Panag @gulpanag, and Mallika Sherawat @mallikala, director Karan Johar @kjohar25, Minister of State Shashi Tharoor @shashitharoor, upper house member Pritish Nandy @pritishnandy, news anchors Barkha Dutt @bdutt and Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi, plus media outlets MTV India @MTVindia and NDTV@ndtv actively tweeting around.

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Twitter is no doubt biggest twitter Booster that you can have to boost massive traffic to your blog or website. I have explained everything in simple English in my eBook “dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic” about how you can build a massive Twitter Follower list and how you can drive targeted visitor to your blog posts. If you aren’t using twitter as a way of generating free traffic to your website, you’re missing out on one of the easiest marketing strategies ever to hit the Internet. So use twitter as a tool to drive an unstoppable flood of traffic to your website, at absolutely no cost.

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Do you think Google Ruins Creativity?

No Offence Google, but you will agree with me that this statement is true to some extent.

People start blogging and write what they like to express, Blogging is a platform where anyone can convey his views and thoughts on any subject and share it with the world. People who never get any opportunity to be heard can now beautifully communicate their opinion through blogging. I consider it as one of the form of art and yes it needs lot of creativity and visualization.

Then on one fine day someone visit your blog and comment “Hey buddy your blog is not very SEO friendly”

You ask yourself “now what the hell this SEO is?’ and then they explain you “ Brother you need to write in such a way that google index your blog posts in their Search Engine Result Page [SERP] better, you should stuff your article with some Keyword that people are searching  for”

Slowly and very firmly you start believing that google is your GOD. You start writing your articles in more Google Friendly ways, you start stuffing your post with lot of KEYWORDS that people out there are searching in google. You try to find out what people are hunting right now on internet and frame your posts around those subjects. As a Result you notice that you are now doing better in google and there is surely an increase in your visitor’s Traffic. And then you do everything to PLEASE google.

But somehow somewhere it hampers your creative writing.

You start your blog for your own pleasure and writing what you always love to but one day you realize that you are writing for google.

Share your opinion “Are you still writing for your own pleasure or to do better in Google?”

I love to see your reaction on this.

FTC to Regulate Blogging

Let me share this with you and I think it will help you to understand your Rights and Limitations as blogger. Blogging which up to now seems to be uncontrolled free medium of expressing views is now to be regulated by the FTC [ Federal Trade Commission]

The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.

The FTC approves the final Web guidelines, which had been expected. Violating the rules, which take effect Dec. 1, 2009 could bring fines up to $11,000 per violation. Bloggers or advertisers also could face injunctions and be ordered to reimburse consumers for financial losses stemming from inappropriate product reviews.

FTC recently crake down fake blogs and to me it seems they want more fair reviews of products and services which means paid reviews are not a better option for bloggers now.

Read this article here for better understanding of the new law and how they will affect you.

What is Blogging? Define and Win

Let’s go back to the basics, what is blogging? Many people see blogging as a medium to express their thoughts, vision and ideas, many people think that blogging is a platform where they can portray their creativity and people like me think that it’s a cool way to make money.

“Blogging means so much people with so little to say said so much to so few” isn’t funny, frankly speaking not. Can you define blogging better than this?

I Want you to DEFINE BLOGGING in a more funny ways

Let’s try and define blogging. You can add some spice and humor to its definition. Define blogging in funny way in comment below.

Start your comment as “Blogging according to me is …….. [Add your definition of blogging]

Define Blogging and Win eBook dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic

The one who will define it in the funniest way will win my new eBook “dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic” worth $19.95 as a prize from me.  This book will help you discover the Outrageous Secrets to Sending a Flood of FREE Targeted Traffic to Your Websites and Unleash an Instant Solution to Establishing Your Online Brand!

Now the question is who will decide which definition of blogging is the best, finest and funniest? My friend Yan Susanto will help me decide which one is the best definition. Yan is an authority on blogging; he is an Internet marketer and helps newbie bloggers on his blog Thau Shall Blog to blog better. So if you are planning to start your own blog or just started it and you are clueless how to go about it then you must visit his blog He will guide you through the basics.

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