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.

Affiliate Program

On a side note if you want to make money by promoting my new eBook “dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic” then surely you would like to join my affiliate program. You can make a good 9.98 per sale. No minimum payment threshold limit. I will pay your due commission to your PayPal accounts within the first week of every month for your previous month’s sales.

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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.

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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.

What is Blogging and How Bloggers Make Money from Blogging?

Back to the Basics

Whenever someone come across to my blogging thing or whenever I tell someone that I am a blogger and write a make money online blog, then surprisingly a question mark immediately appears on their faces, hands goes up and a little shout “what the hell blogging is, I still don’t know what you are doing man”.  Ha Ha, Blogging is still not very popular on India. The next important question they ask to me is “are you making money out of it?’. Actually in India we believe in doing everything for money, and if it isn’t for money we Indian consider it as waste of time.

So I’m trying to explain here what blogging is and how we make money from our blogs. It’s a efforts to introduce blogging and making money from blogging to a newbie and a journey back to the basic for those who are already blogging and making money out it.

What is a blog?

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries called blog posts consist of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

It means:

• A blog is a specific website
• These are organize by writing articles called blog posts
• Blogs usually maintained by Individual persons
• Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order i.e. most recent post at the top.
• Each blog posts can become a discussion to comments left by its readers

From year 2003 more then 113 millions blogs have been created worldwide. The big deal about blogs is that each individual works as a news media source, express his or her opinion which is read by a high number of a small community.  Its now has become a powerful tool to convey your voice and reach a large audience. Most blog readers are other bloggers of similar interest who reads, comments and links each others blogs. A celebratory blogger can now interact with his/her fans through a blog.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important feature of blogs.

How to start a blog?

[1] You can start your own blog for free as there are so many websites which provides you space to create and maintain your very own blog. There is not much of technical or web designing skill required for creating and maintaining a free blog with these sites.  Two most popular website which offer free blogging space are:

Blogger.com

WordPress.com

[2] If you decide to blog but don’t want to use free blog services like blogger.com or WordPress.com then you can setup your blog on a remote host by buying web space form any hosting company, install a blogging software available at WordPress.org, Joomla, Drupal, etc  and start blogging. No doubt you need some technical skill to install and setup blogs on a self hosted space. The basic difference between a self hosted blog and a free blogs are:

• If you chosen a free service then your blog URL would be something like www.yourblog.wordpress.com or www.yourblog.blogspot.com whereas in self hosted blog you can buy any domain of your choice. Like this blog is setup on a self hosted space using WordPress blogging software.

• In a free blogging site you probably not have much control over designing and look of your blog and would have to choose your design from free generic theme or templates available by free blogging service. While in a self hosted blog you can adopt various themes and design to give unique look to your blog.

• If you are blogging to make it a business then free blogging sites will not help you a lot as you would not have much control over selling ad space and monetizing your blog.

How to make money from blogging?

Now the second question how bloggers make money from blogging. But First I want to make it clear that there are various ways you can make money from “internet” but I’m giving you only means to make money from blogging.

[2] Google AdSense

This is the most popular and easy way to make money from blogging. You just need to register with google AdSense program, submit your blog to google for approval and then if they approve your blog for AdSense program then you need to paste Google AdSense codes at space where you want to show Google AdSense ads. Google AdSense display targeted Google ads on your website’s content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions. AdSense gives you access to Google’s vast network of advertisers, so you can show ads that are suited to your audience’s interests. But do remember before submitting your blog to google for their AdSense Program you must fill in your blog with 20 to 25 articles or blog post on your subjects.

After that you need to optimize your blog for google search engine, gain high page rank and increase visitors from organic search.

Sign Up for google AdSense

[2] Selling Private ads on your blog

Selling ads on your blog is not easy, for this your blog must receive high traffic, high readership. You can sell ads on your blog in various formats. Selling ads on a blog which is on a free blogging platform like blogger.com or WordPress.com is hard. Whereas a blog on self hosted space can place and market private ads more easily.

Read this post for further help.

[3] Paid Review

If your blog has a high page rank then you can submit it to various sites which offer paid reviews. To rank high in google index various products and service sites needs bloggers to write reviews about their products or services and pay high amount in return. This is a great way to earn a little extra money from blogging.

I’m giving you some sites where you can register your blog for writing paid reviews.

• B5media
• Bloggerwave
• Blogitive
• Blogsvertise
• InBlogAds
• Payperpost
• PayU2Blog
• ReviewMe
• Smorty
• SponsoredReviews
• Weblogsinc

[4] Selling Affiliate Products or services

You can sign up with various affiliate networks, a small list of recommended affiliate network given below, can opt to market an affiliate products related to your blog niche and promote it by writing reviews, if someone click on those affiliate link and purchase the product or services then you get paid a handsome commission by affiliate ad network. Again the condition is that your blog must have at least 1000 or more unique visitor per day then only affiliate marketing through blogging can be effective otherwise people choose to use e-mailing system to earn through affiliate marketing.

• ClickBooth
• Market Leverage
• Pepperjam Network
• Motive Interactive

Hope this article will help newbie to understand what blogging is and how bloggers make money from it. If you still need any clarification or have opinion about any thing explained above and you are more then welcome to comment below.

Money Does Grow On Trees

These guys’ believes that money does grow on trees. That’s why they named their program as launch Tree. Sound Interesting. Two of Internet Marketing’s “Heavy Hitters”, Mike Filsaime and Anik Singal have joined forces this year and have created a brand new money getting system “Launch Tree.”

Launch Tree will teach you EXACTLY

• How PPC Classroom built a $10M+ Business by giving away free DVDs for 6 days,
• How Mike Filsaime built $10 M+ Business giving away free software,
• How you’re leaving 456% of your money on the table
• How 3 “15 Second” tweaks made a marketer $350,000 more in 90 days.
• Launch tree already opened the door for registration on May 12, 2009.

Have a look at HERE what these guys are up to :

Learn How Daniel Scocco Launched $10,000 A Month Membership Site

This is not luck by chance sort of story. The man studied the things, worked on it, applied it and turned out. People asking me how the membership site formula works. Well I’m not supposed to tell you how it worked but yes I can show you example which proves that it worked.

Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips applied this success formula of creating membership and succeeds in generating $10000 in just five days.

Daniel Scocco is a blogger from Brazil who used his blog as a launch pad for a membership site. He went through Yaro Starak’s Membership Site Mastermind program, and then went to work to launch his membership site OnlineProfit.com . He did a 5-day launch and brought in OVER 200 members at $48 a month. If you do the math on that, he generated a $10,000 a month income stream in just five days.

That’s incredible and inspiring stuff and you can hear Daniel and Yaro break down exactly what he did in this podcast interview here (it won’t cost you anything). Set aside some time now, download the podcast and enjoy the discussion – it’s truly motivational stuff.

Download the MP3 [ 43 Minutes - 60 MB]

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What’s Your Story?

CPA Affiliates read it carefully

Heard about those Rags to Riches stories, inspired by that, well may be most of us like to listen to those stories again and again and get motivation. If you ask Gauher Chaudhry, he believes that if you are a good story teller then it may help you sell affiliate products or anything online.

One of the most powerful methods of selling anything online is by telling a story. People are captivated by stories and love listening to them. And if you have a good story to tell, it can not only help you to sell a ton of your products or services, people will *also* pay to hear a story.

Many people have set up *fake* dieting blogs telling a story in order to get people to fill out the dieting CPA offer that can pay the affiliate as much as $40 per lead. These fake blogs are not only unethical and illegal; the FTC has now started to crack down on these types of misleading blogs. But the fact remains that these type of blogs work extremely well because they tell a story.

I know some affiliates who were generating over $100,000 a day in affiliate CPA commissions with these types of blogs. Gauher tells us how you can learn from these *Fake* blogs to sell our affiliate products through a video.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS VIDEO

Offices of Some Big Bloggers and Your

Wonder how offices of these top shot bloggers look like? Well in my quest to become a successful blogger I always think about it. Most of the Tech Geek Bloggers  uses their laptop for blogging purpose but most of the top bloggers have their very own blogging headquarters, a very fine decked fully loaded and equipped office. I always wanted to have a workplace like this.

I’m giving here pictures of offices of my favorite bloggers for your delight. Hope you would like it.

Send in picture of your office

If you like to include your blog office picture here then send it across to me I will keep on updating this post with your office setup pictures in UPDATE just received section below.

Here is the Top Boss of world’s biggest corporate blog TechCrunch Mr. Michael Arrington at his home office in California.

Jeremy Schoemaker busy blogging about how he can help you to increase your skill to pay the bill. Have you seen his private beautiful swimming pool with big Shoemoney Dollar sign on its floor?

This is the office of Super Affiliate “Spiderman” Mr. Zac johnson. look at his collection of super hero toys.

Let’s have a close look at Zac’s office.

Chris Pirillio’s office. Well this guy as you know is great in “defining things”.

Chris in his den. You can catch him live HERE ( check if he is there right now )

Thats John Chow office. He calls it his Blogging station.

The root of all Make Money Online “evils’ Mr. john Chow at his Blogging Station.

That is Darren Rowse Blogging Head Quarter. He hasn’t posted any picture of his office on his blog (although he runs a digital photography school) only a video available showing his office setup from which I extracted this picture. Sorry for poor resolution.

Darren Rowse in his Blogging Head Quarter.

Great guy Yaro Starak at his office. Yaro is in this blogging and internet business from a decade now, and just back to his home country Australia after his around the world tour.

Yaro’s partner in his Road to  become a Blogger program Mr. Gideon Shalwick at his office desk.

Affiliate Marketer and Blogger Ian Fernando’s office. Ian blog about his success and failure in life and make money out of it.

The dream of any Internet Entrepreneur, any one would be jealous of Stefan Didak’s office equipped with multiple monitors.  I’m sure all of you would like have one such office, what say?

The man with the million dollar smile on his face. Our very own India’ s no. 1 blogger Mr. Amit Aggarwal at his home office  in beautiful city of Agra.

Now talk about those who uses only their laptop for blogging. Matt in the above picture seen with his Dell Laptop, as he has to travel a lot to attend WordCamp  around the world he uses this laptop for updating his blog.

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[NEW] Community and Social Media Expert Chris Brogan’s Office Space at Courtyard. He love to Blog from Book Stores.

This white beautiful laptop belongs to Megastar , Bollywood actor and now a active blogger Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Mr. Bachchan’s blog is on a social networking site BigAdda.com  which runs on WordPress MU Platform. if you watch it closely you can see on Mr. Bachchan’s laptop WordPress Editor is open, he directly writes posts from WordPress Editor and surprisingly despite of his so busy schedule he update his blog everyday without fail.

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan used to blog a lot few months back but now he is not a very active blogger. aamir with his Dell.

I think i have seen this cute little boy somewhere. Thats my Son Aditya at my work station. 

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Abhinav Sonkar’s Work Station. This qualified engineer from Nagpur  has some really cool latest Bollywood guitar codes and also lessons on how to play guitar on his blog.

Pinal Dave send it across this picture of his home office. Pinal is a principle database architect , developer and Project Manager, Expert in SQL Server Programming with 6+ years of hands on experience. Sound Cool. He writes mosty about SQL stuff on his blog.

The Chetan’s Work Station, Chetan is a blogger from nagpur, india and talks about on his blog about Technology, WordPress and other cool Technical aspects of Web. 

Here is Muhammad Azhar Qayyum in his office. Azhar writes on his corporate blog about blogging, hosting, website designing and other technical aspects of web devlopment. 

Professional Indian Blogger from Bhopal,  Afzal Khan at his home office.  Afzal writes on Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing  at TopRank SEO Blog  and AfzalKhan.org . 

Internet Is Not Just About Making Money

You probably would like to kill me for this, Niche of this blog is “Make Money Online” but today I’m telling you stories about two passionate web masters, who have earned a lot of name fame and respect in web and technology world but never intended to make huge money out it. These stories are not sort of “How I made – - – - – -$ in four months” these stories tells us how couple of ordinary guys come up with some extra ordinary achievements in current web 2.0 and that too for the sake of their passion and love for their work and not at all to pull dollars from somebody’s pockets and building lavishly designed offices. These two guys are;

1. Mr Jimmy Wales -Founder of Wikipedia.org
2. Mr. Craig Newmark -Founder of Craigslist.org

Wikipedia

Have you ever seen and advertisement sort of thing flashing at Wikipedia.org, yes you haven’t seen any, that’s because Wikipedia, the world Largest on line Encyclopedia dose not run any business model. Wikipedia.org has the total number of monthly unique visitors 42,880,000 and if Mr Wales he could earn millions of bucks by just placing a single Google AdSense Ad Inventory.

Jimmy Wales started it all in year 2001 which now has 12 millions articles written by Wikipedia volunteers around the world and still counting. Brainchild of Jimmy is still growing everyday in this cut throat competitive World Wide Web.

Let me tell you how Wikipedia Works

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour, all of which are recorded on article histories and recent changes. Inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly, and repeat offenders can be blocked from editing. Anyone can edit almost any page, whether content, grammar or formatting. So it’s a website created by one man Jimmy Wales and then developed by contribution of thousands of contributors from around the world.

Craigslist

Craigslist.org is an Online Classified Network and it is so big that it has almost die down big news papers classified ad business. You need job, house or pet just search for your term in Craigslist and you will find it right in there. And since these classified are free you can always add up your listing.

Craig Newmark manages it from a tiny home office in San Francisco. Craig Build this site to help community, the initial idea was to list local event which eventually build up later on as the biggest ever Online Classified ad Network.

Both Craig and Jimmy advocate that internet was never made to make money. The communication through internet should always be free. Instead of become Internet Millionaire Mogul these guys keep on working on their project and building a free communication system. Both has get many times some really huge tempting buyout price, they could have sell their projects and buy an island somewhere but then there are always few people who set examples -Its not all about money HONEY.

Jimmy Wales Founder of Wikipedia

Craig Newmark Founder of Craigslist.org

 

Achieve your motive of Making Money Online with Motive Interactive Advent 2.0

The following is a paid review, it is completely of my opinion and my review is not influenced by being paid.

Its time now to give some rest to your butt, as it has gone through a lot of pain while you were signing up with bunch of affiliate networks lately, “undertaking” their offers, generating some goofy reports and then again damning yourself for earning peanuts even after you endeavoring your level best. Have you heard this before “I’m a good guy in a bad company”? If your affiliate attempts are not generating bucks then this may be one of the reasons -You are not walking along with the best affiliate network in the industry.  Your affiliate Network may be sucking your blood and giving you penny in return, never care to guide you or give some tips on how to go along.

Well, what exactly I’m going to do here is to give you a review on this kick-Ass Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Affiliate Marketing Network, which will truly empower you to “Learn and Earn” with affiliate internet marketing.

Motive Interactive provides publishers the tools to generate maximum revenue. With an expansive network of quality advertisers, and highest payouts Motive offers publishers the ability to choose only proven, pre-screened, high performing offers for reliable, consistent, and revenue-boosting results. Our proprietary Affiliate Marketing and lead generation platform allows publishers to launch streamlined campaigns with easy-to-use tools, while ensuring that you’ll be provided with accurate and reliable payouts and attentive customer service. With Motive, you have the power to launch campaigns that will succeed. The first time and every time!

About the company

Founded in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 2003 Motive Interactive is now the industry’s leader in online advertising companies. The company now operates its technical, marketing and sales operations from San Diego, California. This performance based advertising network is known for introducing Advent 2.0, a performance advertising platform which is design to maximize a publisher’s revenue and increase advertiser’s Return On Investment(ROI). So if you want to be with Motive Interactive, I can give you a guarantee that you are walking along with the best in the business.

Before moving further to explain Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 System, one more thing I would like to mention here that to become the industry’s leader you have to give your users something unique, something very productive like Advent 2.0 technology by Motive Interactive. You cannot achieve this status by simply distributing T-shirts, Mac Book Airs or Flip Monos – You know very well which company I’m talking about, I guess you got me.

The Dashboard

The best thing I like about this home page of Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Affiliate Network is that it is neat and clean and very simple to grab current standings of your affiliate efforts. It contains all the information which you would like to know in the first instance. Your account manager’s contact number, e-mail ID, and AIM chat button. Beside there are Systems Notification, Customizable Quick stats section, your current revenue earning graph and again a customizable campaign watch. Definitely you would like to keep an eye on some of your best campaign that you are running. So the homepage include following five sections as you can see in the picture below;

• Dashboard
• Offers Page
• My Offers section
• Reports
• Account

Please Note: motive Interactive provide me a Demo login user name and Password to test the system, so whatever graphics you see here are from their DEMO page and not my actual earning/status.

Offer Page Section

I first check this section while doing review of any Affiliate Network Program, as I consider this is the most important aspect in choosing a right Affiliate Network Program. This is the page where you choose your offers that you would like to promote on your website or with any other affiliate marketing tool such as e-mail marketing or through PPC tools like AdWords. What I like with Motive Interactive is that they have placed everything right on their offer page. I guess they have gone through an extensive research and development before launching this beauty which called Advent 2.0. You can drill down/navigate the offers on various basis like offer type (CPA, CPL, and CPS) Distribution type, and categories of offer you are looking for.

My Offers Section

Once you select an offer to promote on your website it goes down to your My Offers page section, In most of the cases an offer that you choose approves instantly but for some offers its takes 24 hours time by the network to approve or disapprove a particular campaign for you. So here in this section you can see the entire approved offer that you are going to run. Unique features again Motive interactive provides you complete HTML codes of the campaign if you wish to run it through your website or through e-mail marketing.

Report

To be a successful affiliate marketer you need to understand the power of generating and understanding various reports of your affiliate network campaign. Reporting section of Motive interactive is very powerful, it comes with advanced real time tracking and reporting. I repeat “Advanced real time tracking and reporting”. What you see, most of the time in some other CPA affiliate network reporting section are yesterday’s stories. Motive interactive helps you access real time data. You can see daily, weekly and monthly exportable reports. Basically you can generate these types of reports:

• Accounts -Summery of account Stats
• Campaign -Customizable detail of your each campaign
• Leads – Allows you to see the statistics about each leads your website has generates.
• Saved Report – Allows you quick retrieval of previously saved reports.

Referral Program

The referral payout percentage of this industry highest paying affiliate network is not so high but yes you can earn 5.5% commission for the lifetimes on referral earnings. This comes with a condition that referred publisher must continue to generate commissions without a lapse of twelve (12) calendar months in order for the referrer to continue receiving the 5.5% commission from that publisher each month.

In addition to above Motive interactive have a publisher rewards system in place for qualified publishers. The rewards payout ranges from 1% to 2%. Cool.

Founder and CEO Brendan J. Smith on Motive Interactive

Motive interactive is a brain child of Brendan J. Smith. He is in the industry now for more than ten years, started his journey in internet marketing around 1996, as a website owner and Publisher. He is very optimistic about his new cool tool Advent 2.0 will help publisher to make more money online. Let’s see from the man himself what he has to say about his Advent 2.0 and Motive interactive.

That’s not it; this space is not enough to compile the features and technology which Motive Interactive has. So go on, join and check yourself this most talked about advance system for affiliate Marketers and start making some more money, which off course is your motive.

Sign up for Motive Interactive