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Your Online Business Obstacles

May 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

You maybe thinking like this, “I’ve done all the tricks, but none of my online business is making progress. What did I done wrong?

Calm down a bit. Don’t blame yourself and then give it all up in your starting steps to success. Here I will expose three common obstacles that drag you away from your online business success.

1. Short Oriented.
Online business often promises to offer lots of money in fast time. Because of that, lots of people tempted to  be having short orientation. They think that they can have all the money from the internet within one or three weeks time. The consequence is people that have short orientation in online business can get frustrated when the success is not coming, and makes them giving up trying.

Starting an online business is like having a baby. It has to be nurtured and cared patiently, until it has the strength to stand up and run. That is why, it is important to have a long-term orientation on running online business. If you are patient, the success will come

2. Fail to Optimize
Online business always stands over continuously process. Some parts of the process are run by human, and others by technology. As the time going, technology is running faster and faster. This is when we need our consciousness to open our eyes and ears of what happen around us, new technology that can be used for our online business.

The easiest way is by using search engine for new information. By typing the right keyword in search engine, we can get useful information for our site. Example, if you join Adsense, you can search with keyword “adsense optimization”, I’m sure that if will get you many results that you can pick and apply it for your site.

The point is, never stop maintaining your online business, and try every single way that you think it can maximize your business.

3. Failed to Do Marketing Effectively
Jump to online business means that you are willing to learn about marketing. Because, your business successs or not depends on how huge you can sale your product.

The learning process of marketing does not have to be in formal education, but you can read books about marketing or learn from successful marketers. You can also join marketing forums, or attend marketing seminars. Learning about marketing makes you understand of how to market your product or service to the right people, on the right way, and at the right time.

Marketing is not just about ad. The point of marketing is how you make people know and aware about your product. Never hesitate to tell people about your product. Be sure that your product is priceless and needed by others

Getting More Traffic From Social Bookmarking

May 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

For new blogger like me, there is nothing curious us more than how to get more traffic to our blog. Sometimes I wonder how can other blog owners can have hundreds of visitors per day, and become so popular. We all want to be like them, aren’t we? Having a lot of traffic means that our blog will have higher rank, that also means easier for us to earn money from advertising programs, such as google adsense, and paid-to-review programs.

After doing some research on some popular and interesting blogs, I have found a common thing between them. That common thing is that most of the popular blogs always have links to Social Bookmarking sites, such as StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Technorati, digg, and others.

Being listed on social bookmarking sites makes your blog easier to be found by people, and will give you valuable backlinks as well. Try to implement this social bookmarking, and your blog traffic will slowly increase. So, what are you waiting for??? Get signed up now…

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Review: Paid To Write Programs

May 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

Monetizing your blog is not only via Google Adsense. If you are considering to build an online business from your blog, it is better to know things about what other monetizing programs you can join. One of the programs is Paid-to- Write.

If you like and good at writings (in English), one of the alternatives to do online business is paid-to-write program. As it’s called, you will be paid to write reviews, opinions or just by giving a link to a product on your posting or articles.

Here is some review of the paid-to-write programs that you can join. If you are interested, you can join them. Don’t worry, there are no referral links from me in this review.

Blogvertise
This company will pay you to create BUZZ. Your job is to mention about a product, a service, or a particular site in your blog so that your reader will know about that product or service. If you don’t have a Paypal account yet, you should sign up first, because Blogvertise pays each post that you make via Paypal account.

BloggerWave
Bloggerwave is one of the popular choice to earn money by creating your free blog and write your opinion about particular topic.

Blogitive
Blogitive gives you chance to write your own opinion about new products released by some company. You will be paid via Paypal on weekly basis for each article you made.

BlogToProfit
BlogtoProfit connects you and the advertisers who want to use your blog. In BlogToProfit, your job is to show off the ads in your articles. Because it blends with your writings, there are no limit for profit with this program

PayPerPost
PayPerPost will pay you everytime you write a review or opinion about a product.

Smorty
This program will pay you to write about a product, service, or particular site in your blog. Smorty pays its member weekly. You are free to write about the topic that you like. You can also post in some of your own blogs.

SponsoredReviews
SponsoredReviews is the advertising review service that gives you chance to become publisher and earn money by writing site reviews or SponsoredReviews client’s product. The advantage of SponsoredReviews from others is that you can choose your own bidding of you review commission. Moreover, SponsoredReviews also gives affiliate program so the more referral you get the more commission you earn.

These are the ones that I know, maybe you have other good programs that makes money please tell me so we can share.

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