Promote Your Blog Via Off-Line Media

For a $50 fee and $31.25 annually, my blog’s name will be visible to everyone who spots my car. In this day and age of “Googling” everything that strikes an interest, I’m sure the name might stick with a few people who will search it at a later date.

Andrew G R owner of Jobacle, a career advice and employment news blog writes.

He definitely has a point, can’t say why people do not opt to advertise their blog via off-line media. Television, Newspaper and local cable TV can prove a better choice for off-line advertising and branding depending on the subject and the kind of audience your blog covers.

But in india we can’t put our blog name as our number plate, we don’t have vanity number plate system here but anyway we can emboss it on back. few people will definitely Google by seeing it on your car.

how many other ways of off-line blog promotion you can suggest. share your ideas in comment below.

Stop Fooling Around and Just Get In The Game

If you are struggling hard to setup you very own WordPress blog on your very own hosted domain [Like This blog] and need some training on how to go about then stop fooling around and just get in the game. They say there are no shortcuts on the Internet, but I am positive that with the proper training anybody could have their own blog up and running in record. Get registered yourself to WordPress Wizard 2.0. This is the best time to join this course as they are throwing a straight $30 off Discount. You will get video tutorial on following basics of blogging plus much more…

• How to register a domain name [and host your site]
• How to install your blog with just a few mouse clicks
• How to load your blog with the most important add-ons [aka plugins and widgets]
• How to dress up your blog with gorgeous clothes [aka templates] – for free!
• How to add money-making options to your blog [to fatten your pocket]
• How to make your blog Google-friendly and attract more traffic – at no extra charge!
• How to test-drive one of the most powerful email autoresponders for only $1!
• Plus much, much more video tutorial content, sent your way, on a monthly basis!

How would you feel to know there’s a special training for you which teleports you directly in the pro bloggers’ league and let you play the game on your level? I would like to introduce you to the secret weapon of wannabe pro bloggers…

WordPress Wizard 2.0 Until March 05, you can grab the entire package for only $67 [special discount] You might want to know that this pack comes loaded with up to 50 “on-screen” video tutorials you can download and watch on your computer, at anytime. You won’t find these on YouTube, Vimeo or any other free video sharing site out there. So stick with me for a minute and read what you’ll learn once you grab your video package.

here are the modules you’ll be getting – in easy-to-understand screen-capture VIDEO tutorial format

Module #1 – Internet Marketing Basics
Module #2 – Basic WordPress Tutorials
Module #3 – Advanced WordPress Tutorials
Module #4 – Making Money from Blogs
Module #5 – SEO and Link Building
Module #6 – RSS to Email Marketing

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Meet The Cheat Crazy Blogger -Part 2 Identity Theft

Before start reading this post just have a look at the Part No. 1 so that you can have some idea about this matter. In short, some crazy blogger lifted one of my post and over 40 plus posts from Leif’s blog and refused to remove these stolen posts from his blog when contacted to do so.

I tried unveiling this mystery man, from whois I got some details about  the owner of crazyblogger[dot]net blog, as per this whois data record the guy who own that blog is Ravi Kiran, I also got his phone number, I Immediately wrote to his web host to shutdown his website. I called up this guy but surprised to listen to what he told me over phone, I asked him whether he can wrote a mail about it so that I and share it with my readers, here is what he wrote me in email:

This is Ravi Kiran as per your suggestion I met my family advocate and explained about our telephonic discussion. He said he will put on enquire about what all had happened. As I have no internet facility to my pc I’ll be using cybercafés for my internet requirement. My advocate said he to put an enquiry on all the cybercafés where I use.

Actually it’s a case of identity theft; someone has registered that site in Ravi Kiran’s name as he told me over phone. This guy is now decided to take legal action against that culprit who used his credentials to get web space and created crazyblogger[dot]net.

UPDATE : eWebGuru Finally decided to Suspand his Account . CRAZYBLOGGER[dot]NET is a history now.

Thanks guys for your support.

Meet the Cheat Crazy Blogger -Part 1

The other morning I got this email from one of my blog reader Leif Cage stating that someone had stolen one of my blog posts. Well this is something you don’t want to read in the morning, but I know it happens, a bad start to the day.

Some grubby useless fellow always wants to make a living without dusting their butt; they want everything without doing anything. I asked this filthy guy to remove the post immediately from his blog but to my surprise till today I didn’t get any reply from him to my humble request and that very post is still his on his blog, maybe he want me to write this post about him so that he can gain some cheap popularity and backlink from my blog.

Leif Cage told me in another mail that the same guy has stolen more than 40 blog posts from his blog, I mean that ridiculous. It seems this shameful guy with malicious intent is running his blog only on stuff stolen from various resources. Please check up whether this dishonorable guy has lifted any of your post too.

Now as he refused to reply I am taking some serious steps against him.

AdSense Policy Violation

This guy is using Google AdSense on his blog, as per AdSense Program if someone involve in publishing of Hacking/cracking content on their sites or publish posts on which someone else has legal rights then it’s a straight violation of AdSense policy and their Google AdSense account could be cancelled. It is Google’s policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement.

Affiliate Network Violation

The same policy usually adopted by all leading affiliate networks, they don’t want their affiliate products to appear on a site which built entirely on infringe content material.

Contacting Web Host

This site is hosted on a Delhi based web hosting service provider eWebGuru.com . Here are the other whois details regarding ownership of that blog. This is the major rescue as it will not only save me from getting my original post removed from that blog rather it will shut down the entire site. No web Hosting service provider wants their user to earn bad name from them.

Original Post on my blog published on 24.05.2009

Stolen Copy on crazyblogger[dot]net published on 31.10.2009

UPDATE : His Web Host eWebGuru.net finally decided to Suspand his Account . CRAZYBLOGGER[dot]NET is a history now.

Thanks everyone  for your support.

Be a Part of Lets Win This Contest Together Season 4

The mother of all contests is back, Lets win this contest together is coming soon on this blog [near your heart]. Let’s make it bigger and better than ever.  This contest always proves to be fruitful to its prime sponsors and to each one who participated. Everyone associated with this contest gets something in return.

If you missed out to participate in its previous three seasons then it is a good opportunity for you to jump in this time around and be a part of this mega contest.

Here is what you can offer as prize to get associated with this cool contest.

1. Hard Cash { whoopee!!! people always love to win in Hard Cash ]
2. Premium Themes.
3. Premium Plugins.
4. Membership to Affiliate/PPC/Blogging Training programs.
5. Software Licenses.
6. Logo Design and Custom Blog Theme Design.
7. Free Ad or Review on your blog/site.
8. Or any other Valuable, precious possession of yours.

Please contact me with your offer as sponsors to this contest clearly mentioning the following details.

1. Product/Service offered
2. Price of Product/Service offered (in Dollars)

What you will get in Return

If you participate in this contest, as prize sponsor you can earn enough backlinks from peer niche sites to boost your Technorati, Alexa and blog PageRanking as I will ask contest participants to include your blog/site link while writing review about this contest on their blogs/sites.

Please use the following form for sponsoring this contest.

Hurry, send your offer before 28th Nov 2009.

Happy Birthday Shanker Bakshi dot Com

Shanker Bakshi dot Com turns a two years old mature guy today (Cheers!). It was an interesting, learning and very exciting journey. So far so good and I have enjoyed every bit of it thoroughly.  Off course during this period I made “Some” money (IF not BIG MONEY), learned so many new lessons about blogging, blog traffic, making money, how to establish a blog brand and many other techniques. Life is a journey in which you always keep on learning new things and experimenting with new ideas. There is still couple of things which I need to fix. This Blog’s PR is one of them.

I take this opportunity to thanks those that helped me to blog better. “Mostly Blog”ger don’t feel like sharing the source of their information and knowledge, bad thing, I think you must give credits to all those who lend a helping hand.

This is not the complete list but I would like to mention people who really help me out to get closer to my dreams.

John chow: We share talks over IM, he always be there to help me and guide me whenever I dice a question before him.  Much has been said about him on this blog. He is my mentor and will be a guru for eternity. Thank you John for what you did to make me who I am.

Abhinav Sonkar: Tell me one thing; do you like the design of this blog? Abhinav is the guy who made this blog look super cool, Isn’t it? I pointed him to one blog and ask him “hey abhi, can you make my blog look like that”. In an hour or so he came back to me with some codes and tweaks and made this blog look better than I could imagine. This passionate guitarist taught me how to install WordPress locally, How to integrate google Custom search in a blog theme and many other valuable implications. Thanks very much Abhinav for sharing your tech “GeekNess” on my blog. You are an amazing guy.

Yan Susanto: He is really a great guy, recommends that “Thau Shall Blog”, educate me on how to use social media sites to generate traffic, how to get backlinks and so many other important things about blogging. Recently we were discussing how to choose right keywords to target organic search engine traffic.

Marlene: The girl who inspired me to switch over my blog from shankerbakshi.blogspot.com to self hosted WordPress back in November 2007. Thanks Marlene for giving me the sheer beauty and wonderful blogging tool WordPress. Your command on blog designs is incredible. Thanks for being there all the time.

I should also mention here that Ajith Prasad of Dollar Shower has made a SEO study on this blog recently and suggested some fixes which also means that I need to make some changes in the blog theme very soon.

The above list is not complete; there are so many other people who help me in one or the other way during my blogging voyage in last couple of years.

Here are some big accomplishments during last year in images:

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Love you all.

So Many People With So Little to Say

I found this demotivating yet very interesting quote about blogging at despair.com. It’s a place where you can find so many other demotivating facts about life.

Do you think it’s true? Every person and their dogs have now started blogging. It’s very rare when I found some really fresh new content in blogsphere. Every other person is mentoring as how to blog.  I don’t know about you but I don’t see any harm in this situation. I love to see so many people with so little to say, I mean it. Well everyone has a mouth to shout at loud.

What is your take on this?

Do You Want to Become Rich Overnight?

Are you dreaming to make hell lot of money from the very first day of your blogging? Do you wish that you will start your blog on Sunday and by the weekend your PayPal account will be flooded with American dollars? Are you inspired by those “Become Rich Overnight” stories and wish to buy your first Mercedes Benz within the first fortnight of starting of your blog.

Well truly speaking you can dream of anything you wish but the hard reality is that it’s next to impossible to make all these dreams turn in reality possible as fast (I wish all good luck to you though). People spend years of hard work to earn their first penny from their online business.

Why most of the people fail at online business?

They dream of making quick money. They think it’s easy to start it all and make hand full of money without giving much pain to their butt, but the hard reality is that you have to work hard to establish your web presence first, you need to make yourself up and above of hundred and thousands of other newbie who will follow you and your recommendation.

-          I know it took me several months to sell my first affiliate product.

-          I remember it took me a year to sell my first private ad on this blog.

-          I remember it took me almost one year and nearly 400 articles base when someone included my review in testimonial with industries “A” Lister bloggers and internet marketers.

Nothing comes in life easy

You need to build a strong and deep foundation, like

It just like when you see a beautiful building you must realize the huge amount of hard work that has been gone into structuring its sturdy foundation.

-Extracted from my guest post at John Chow

Break-Even Point

You must have learned about this if you are a commerce graduate, break-even point is where total costs is equals to total sales revenue and the company neither makes a profit nor suffers a loss.

Some time it took a business owner several hard and tough months to reach to a breakeven point level, after that you can expect your profits. The same goes with blogging and online business. You need to put in extra efforts, your time and lot of energy to get yourself up to a level where you can demand money.

So in a nutshell I advise any newbie in the business or to someone who wish a start an online business

-          It’s very hard believe me ( forget about those overnight rich stories)

-          Do not expect any money in first few months

-          Vigorously work without making any money for several months or years for that matter.

-          Keep trying, there are no shortcuts to success.

-          I guarantee, you if you do not rest and keep on doing hard work one day you will get there

To your blogging success

Shanker Bakshi

Who Is Your Blogging Mentor?

I like john chow a lot, he inspire me to work harder and harder towards my goal, actually I started blogging in 2007 after reading some of his top posts, I consider him as my mentor. Besides he helps me a lot in my blogging and we regularly shares talk over IM chat.

Who is a mentor?

• Serve as a teacher or trusted counselor;
• A wise and trusted guide and advisor.

Do you try to copy your mentor?

You don’t always have to innovate; there is nothing wrong with copying. Usually I get this sort of comment that I try to imitate John, well if you watch this blog you will find it is very much similar to his blog design. I don’t think it something wrong that I am doing, it happens when you are a big fan of someone or you inspire with someone you try look and act like him or her.

Who is your Blog Mentor/Idol/Inspiration?

I would like to take this opportunity to ask you whom you like, who is your blogging mentor or whom you try to copy/imitate.

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“

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.

Download FREE report -The Blogging Wealth Gap

7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos

At present most difficult task you find in blogging is to send in lot of traffic toward your blog. There are many ways and technique that I discussed here on this blog from time to time to build up traffic and increase visitors to your blog. Today am sharing with you a new technique of using YouTube to get traffic. This is called YouTube Marketing. This techniques help us drive traffic from youtube to your blog.

Gideon Shalwick published one of his most powerful and practical training videos taken directly from inside the members-only area of Become a Blogger Premium 2.0. One of the most consistently effective techniques for driving traffic to a blog today is YouTube marketing.

In this video you will learn some of the “insider secrets” that Gideon has been using and teaching to our members on how to get the most out of YouTube. The video can be watched on our Become A Blogger blog here.

Join Become a Blogger Traning Program HERE

How to Become a Blogger?

Do you have a roadmap with you of your blogging journey? Do you exactly know where you are heading and what you will after a certain period of time? Okay let’s ask you this way, do you know how you could become a successful blogger, is there any way through which you can learn how far you are from your dream destination and how you can be there?

Lucky you, because now you can get answers of all these questions, Gideon and Yaro are back with their mastermind The Roadmap to Become a Blogger.

If you haven’t set up your blog yet, go to this site where Gideon Shalwick takes you through ten videos that show you how to set up an optimized WordPress blog

Become a Blogger -Videos

While you are there, make sure you opt-in for the ”Roadmap to Become a Blogger” report, which Gideon and Yaro Starak has created. It’s also free, but don’t let that fool you, it’s packed with great content starting with a guide to successful blogging based on blogging system. The second half of the Roadmap is particularly important as it takes you through a series of techniques we call the ”X-Factor”. X-Factor techniques combine multimedia with social media to help your blog stand out from the crowd.

It’s tough nowadays to build a blog that succeeds because you need to do more than the average person does. That’s why the X-Factor techniques are critical. Once you read the report you can ask yourself whether you are doing anything to give your blog an X-Factor. From the Roadmap report you will learn the two key concepts:

1. The step-by-step “formula” that Yaro Starak used to create his amazingly successful blog.
2. Thirteen X-Factor strategies that you can implement immediately to put your blog into super drive.

YOU CAN GRAB YOUR COPY OF THE REPORT HERE -Its FREE!!!

Learn How to Build a Better Blog in Just 31 Days?

They say it only takes five minutes to build a WordPress blog. It’s true, and with just clicking few button you can start your blog on so many free blog sites, yes its true you can start your own blog in just few minutes, and starts writing posts. But then these challenges come in your mind as how you can engage your readers, how to make it popular and how to establish your blog’s brand in blogsphere.

Well as I said you can build a blog in five minutes but how much time it will take to build a better blog. If you ask blogging guru Darren Rowse he will say in 31 days. You must have heard about his latest blogging training book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog“.

Darren needs no introduction; he is regarded in blogsphere as the “Godfather” of professional blogging. Darren runs several blogs and has created many in his long blogging career. In terms of fame, he’s most respected for his work teaching other people how to blog professionally from his Problogger.net blog. He’s got over 80,000 subscribers to his blog about blogging, the largest readership of any blog
in our industry. He’s a true pioneer and as anyone who has met the guy knows, he’s very humble and a ridiculously hard worker.

I’m following Problogger Darren Rowse’s blog Problogger.net since beginning of my blogging vogue and learned a lot from him. Lets se what you can learn from his latest book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” :-

1.       Intense Training – bloggers setting aside days, weekends or weeks to go through multiple tasks at once

2.       1 Task a Day – the way we designed it – one day at a time

3.       1 Task a Week – bloggers taking their time with the challenge and making the tasks week long tasks

4.       Monthly Cycle – bloggers using the tasks again and again each month as a monthly routine for their blogging.

5.       Occasional Inspirational Resource – bloggers dipping into 31 Days to build a better blog on a more occasional basis – using it on days when they have time or lack inspiration.

Grab your copy of 31 days to build a better blog now.

It’s an action-focused workbook to improve your blog through a 31-day “bootcamp” style training
regime.  It’s not about making money from blogging, the focus is a lesson a day and action activities to go along with each lesson, to make a dramatic improvement to your blog’s overall performance.

Grab your copy HERE.

Blogging as Moonlighting

What is Moonlighting?

One out of every seventeen Americans working on more than one job. That’s comes to 7 to 8 Millions Americans. Working on more than one job called moonlighting. This word moonlighting sound pretty interesting but it is a helplessness rather than a charm. Well who want to do a job and who want to do more then one job?

Why Moonlighting?

You can come to me with so many reasons for moonlighting but I know most of us do a second job simply to increase the skill to pay the bill and meet out the living expenses.

Blogging as Moonlighting

Well people do blogging and now there are so many ways through which they can monetize their blog. There are people earning hell lot of money through blogging and affiliate marketing. Well this seems to be a better option then doing a second job. More over if you do it properly and succeed in establishing a small business enterprise it can also help you quit your day job.

What you say?

Given an option what you would like to do. A second job or try to set up your very own small Internet business venture through blogging and internet marketing which can further help you out to quit your day job?

Look like blogging as moonlighting is a better option but if you are poor at time management it can also create problem succeeding in your FIRST job. Give your opinion in comment below.

Image by : Edwin and Sybylle

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