When you first start your blog, you have so much to say that you
have no problem posting every day. After a while, you begin to
run out of ideas and you can’t seem to come up with fresh
content. Every blogger has this problem from time to time. So how
do you keep the blog going – keep it fresh and full of value?
Here are some ideas:

Do a top 10 list – “The top 10 mistakes people do when trying
_______ for the first time.” “The top 10 tips for ______.” Lists
tend to be easier to write and take less time to formulate. If
you can’t come up with 10, perhaps you can make it the top 3 or
top 5.

Interview an expert – Approach someone who is very knowledgeable
in your blog niche and you may find they’ll be happy to do an
interview, especially if they have a new product just launched
and would like the exposure. Put together some thoughtful
questions and ask them to write out their answers. The beauty of
this blog post is that aside from asking the questions, the
interviewee does all the work!

Answer a recurring question/problem – Go to the forums you
frequent in your niche and look for a recurring question that
people have. Doing a little research and coming up with answers
makes for an excellent blog post. You also can become the
expert.

Blog about other blog posts – Have you read a blog post recently
that caused you to stop and think, or offered up a huge
glittering gem of priceless information? Blog your opinions,
insights, and inspiration you’ve gotten from that person’s post.
Be sure to provide a link back so your readers can read the
original post.

Use the weather – Look around you at the season and tie it into
your niche. Does the hot weather inspire you to share a story on
your internet marketing blog about going fishing while your
internet marketing business is still making you money? Does the 4
feet of snow outside make you think about reading your favorite
books? If so, you can do a niche-related book review with your
Amazon or other affiliate links attached.

What’s up in your business world – Blog about what you’re working
on now. Using a personal tone, explain what your current project
is. Letting a few tidbits escape builds anticipation and helps
your readers feel like they’re now on the “inside”.

I can always find great content at Bryan Winters’

InfoGoRound.  I recommend his service totally. And,

he has a neat way to let you get your membership

FREE every month. Go check it out…

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Have a great Weekend!

Bob Kimball

Blogging is the latest, greatest thing that you hear about on
the internet. But does that automatically make it the right
thing for you or your business?

First, let’s look at what a blog is. A blog is simply a
special type of website. It has features that set it apart
from other websites such as: the content entries (posts) are
arranged in chronological order with the newest content at the
top; reader comments are usually an important part of a blog;
a subscription system called RSS is offered so readers know
when the blog has been updated; and the posts are arranged
into some type of archive system so readers can find
information easily.

The best way to find out if a blog is right for you or your
business is to look at the top 5 reasons to start a blog.

1. You don’t need any programming skills. Whether you use a
free blogging platform like Blogger.com or WordPress.com, or a
self-hosted blogging platform like WordPress.org or Typepad,
you can literally have a site up and running within minutes.
Simply select a theme and go.

2. You can add content easily and often. Adding content to a
blog is no more difficult that typing a Word document and
hitting save. In the case of a blog, though, when you hit
publish your information is immediately available to the whole
internet community.

3. Search engines love them! Search engines are ravenous for
up-to-date, useful content to meet the demand for information
on the internet. By their very nature, blogs provide fresh
content on a regular basis–usually daily.

4. They build communities. Blogs are meant to stimulate
conversation between the blog owner and the blog readers.
Through this interaction, they build communities and the blog
owner can learn valuable information for his business (if it’s
a business blog).

5. You can monetize them easily. Whether through Google
Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher, or affiliate links, monetizing a
blog is one of the easiest ways to begin making money online.

Those are the top 5 reasons to begin a blog. Blogs have other
advantages as well.

They are simple, flexible and focused. Because they are simple
to master, it makes it possible for more people to have an
online presence or even begin making money online. Because
they’re flexible, a blogger is able to design a site with the
look, feel, and features that he and his readers desire. And
finally, because blogs are focused on a specific niche or
topic, they are able to attract focused readers and buyers.

One good way to get a feel for blogging is to get a free blog
from Blogger.com or WordPress.com. Simply write and develop
your own blogging voice on whatever topic comes to mind. If
you want to make money with your blog, however, you should get
self-hosted blogging software, decide on a market niche, and
focus your content to match that audience.

Blogging is still one of the easiest ways to start an online
presence and also one of the easiest ways to make money
online.

Let’s talk about traffic to your site.

Without traffic, you lose.

Therefore, no matter what your business model is, traffic is the
major issue. In this article, we will talk about Google AdWords
pay per click (PPC) advertising which is a way
for you to get targeted traffic to your website. If you’re new, there
are traps.

The first tip has to do with doing your ad
campaign right. When you create a new “ad campaign”, it is better to
make a number of smaller ad groups within that campaign. One of
the big mistakes that you could make is creating a
single ad group and filling it up with hundreds if not thousands
of keywords. It’s better to come up with a few different
categories that describe your business and focus on creating
groups of very tight keywords for each group.

Second tip, learn how to write a killer Ad and get them to click on it.
With the limited number of characters allowed for the ad copy,
one of the best ways to come up with attention grabbing copy is to
learn from the classified ads in newspapers and magazines.
Browse through the classifieds and take note of any ad that really
grabs your attention and ask yourself “why” it works.
When you write ads that get more clicks, you grow your
click through ratio (CTR) and lower the minimum bid that
you pay for each click.

The third tip has to do with testing and tracking your ads.
Be sure to create lots of ads and rotate them evenly to test which
ones result in the best CTR. You will need to run the test so
that each ad gets at least 50 or so clicks. Otherwise, the test
will be invalid if you base your decision on just a few clicks.
When you first set up your campaign, be sure to select the
option to “rotate your ads evenly” because the default option is to
allow the system to automatically optimize showing your best ad
more often. In this case, you’ll not be able to run an
accurate split test.

It’s a steep learning curve for becoming proficient at Google
AdWords. If you don’t give up, however, and master the system,
you will be rewarded with targeted traffic to your webstite.

Hope this gives you a bit better understanding of a good

AdWords campaign..

Until next time, please comment…

Bob Kimball

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Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let’s start with a definition of exactly what “viral marketing” means.

According to the Wikipedia, “Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages.”

If you’ve ever had a hotmail, yahoo or G-mail account, you’ve participated in a viral marketing campaign every time you sent an email to someone – because the company inserted a small (and usually discreet advertisement) at the bottom of all of your outgoing emails – inviting the people you were communicating with to receive their own free email account.

So how can you put a viral marketing campaign together for your own business – and more importantly, do you even want to?

Let me answer that second question first, okay?  YES! You definitely want to take the time to brainstorm your own viral marketing campaign – even if you don’t someday want to be as big as hotmail, yahoo or Gmail.

Why?  Because according to a recent survey done by Forrester Research, people are almost 65% more likely to trust a review posted by a peer – or even a complete stranger – than they are to trust the marketing or sales information put out by the company.

Don’t believe me?  Check out Amazon.com and I-tunes.  Why is this the case?   Because as consumers we tend to think that the average “Joe Blow” has less of a personal agenda when posting his review about the latest “Dixie Chicks” album and so we give it more weight.

And, by the way, this is a normal reaction – it’s one that’s kind of hard-wired into all of us.  People have always shared the things they like – or hate – with their friends and family members.  Back in the 50′s and 60′s, our grandparents used to talk to their neighbors over the “back fence,” call each other on the phone or tell their friends during lunch.  The difference is, these days we use the Internet and cell phones.

What’s interesting though, is that with the popularity of the Internet, our trust – and believe in “social proof” – has become even stronger.

By creating your own viral marketing campaign, you’ll be doing more than getting the word out about your new affiliate product.  You’ll be gathering social proof – and that will help your sales to go through the roof.

So how do you set up your own viral marketing campaign?  The first thing to do is to get back to the basics.

Here’s the real “secret” to making a lot of money with affiliate products.  Have the right product, with the right message to the right people in the right time.

So start with your affiliate product.  Make sure that there’s a hungry audience for whatever you’re selling.

Then make sure that you’re sending out the right message – an in the right way.  If you’re marketing a product to teens, you’ll want to make sure that it’s something they want – and you’ll have to reach them where they’re hanging out.  That might be on MySpace, twitter or even Friendster.

What’s the right message?  Maybe it’s a special report.  But it could just as easily be a video.  Or an audio mp3 file.  Match your message to your audience.  And finally, make sure that you’re getting your message out at the right time – when your audience is ready to buy it.

Make your viral marketing campaign stand out from the crowd – because that’s how it’s going to get passed around and become viral.  By understanding the basics – who your audience is, what they want, how they want to get it and when they want it – all you have to do next is to create something that your audience loves – or hates – or finds interesting enough – to pass around to their friends.  And because your product comes with an implied endorsement – social proof – those people will pass it around to other people – and the buzz goes on…and on…and on…and you’ll start hearing the “ka-ching!” of your cash register going off a lot more often.

I came across a site that I thought I should tell you about. It doesn’t happen very much in this industry that a tool comes along that is so different and so cool that you just know that everyone and their sister will be using and joining this site.

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If you have a website, and you do not use this tool, people may not respond as good as they once did.

This tool is that revolutionary and so easy for the novice to use to drastically change the appearance of any website almost effortlessly and instantly.

Just imagine 500 visitors come to your site.

What used to happen with those visitors. How many people actually stuck on your site long enough to purchase?

Most people leave a webpage within the first 7 seconds. You have that long to grab their attention.

Thats why you see all these videos at the top of salesletters now a days. They want to grab your attention and make it easier to keep you there and move to their call of action.

Maybe they just want you to opt in to their newsletter. Maybe, they want you to buy their product.

It really does not matter, because if they have not grabbed your attention enough, it is likely you will click away from their site, never to return.

The same happens on your site.

What are you going to do about it?

Well that is what this email is about. There is something you can do about it, and the name pretty much says it all.

There are 4 different membership levels available for this, but I HIGHLY recommend the gold membership, as there is no limitations to what you can do with it.

You can build complete flash minisites complete with promo tools if you have an affiliate program. This site will likely be one of the biggest successes of 2008 and will have members flocking to if for years.

Don’t take my word for it.

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Enjoy!

Bob Kimball