I always love to feature successful entrepreneurs on youngprepro due to the great wealth of knowledge I and you do gain from them. Today’s interview is with a super-dynamic entrepreneur who runs many websites and has success with them, Martin Njounkwe. Read this interview carefully because there is a lot to learn from it.

1. Hi Martins, this is really a great opportunity to interview you and
it is always a pleasure to interview successful entrepreneurs like
you. Can you pls introduce yourself to my readers?

Thanks for having me here today, it’s really an honor. I am Martin an 18yr old undergrad in the UK. I am the founder of SuivreApps and Iphone Dev Company and MyEntredex the entrepreneurs online Rolodex. You can find out about more of my upcoming projects here

2. I have been hearing of this Fiverr thing for sometimes now, can you
pls explain to us how everything works?

Fiverr is basically an online market place for goods and services traded at the fixed price of 5$ hence the name.
As a starter, it’s quite easy to sign up and start selling in under 5 mins but there are little bits and tricks which if learnt will turn the users fiverr experience into a good one. For example tricks on how to increase traffic to your gigs in order to generate more orders, how to optimize your gig title and much more .

3. Why do you prefer fiverr and why do you think it is a good system
for making money online?

Why I prefer Fiverr ? Simple. Buyers look for me and not the other way round!

4. A lot of system have come and go, what do you think is the future of fiverr?

I think with proper management as it is being managed currently, Fiverr has got a great future. Plus this opens lots of opportunities to the public for example its makes outsourcing your marketing, seo , article a lot more easier.

5. You said you’ve been making money online from fiverr? Can you pls
explain how you do this?

Without going into too much details as it will render the information in my ebook obsolete as well as antagonise does who have already purchased it (I say thank you all).
Look at it this way, one gig on fiverr is being paid at 5$ lets say worst case scenario you get 1 order daily in a month thats 30 orders which brings you 150$ gross monthly. Now imagine if you can increase these orders daily to average 5-10 daily what does it gets you at the end of the month ? around a lot right ?
So basically thats what I teach in my ebook.

6. One thing I am concerned with about making money online is the
consistency of your income (and I am sure many of my readers do too),
what do you think about consistency of income from fiverr?

The good thing about Fiverr is that those who visit the site come looking for a solution ie they come to buy gigs. This means that you have a steady stream of traffic daily of people interested in what you have to offer.
As with every online money-making method there is bound to be some inconsistencies but in the long run it averages to a fixed amount which you can plan on achieving.

7. You also have a database that features a lot of great
entrepreneurs? Can you tell us more about it and why you created it?

The MyEntredex idea came to my mind when I realized networking was key to anybody’s success, I was therefore keen on finding “new” people to learn about, talk to, and who could in turn broaden what I already know. That’s when I realized, “what if you could have a large database featuring different entrepreneurs’ profiles under set categories, this way it will be a lot easier for others to meet, learn and leverage themselves with the help of others.
For example a programmer could be looking for another person who does the same thing as himself in order to help each other probably start a project etc. The possibilities are endless. That’s why on every profile we try to provide every public information available about this person which can help others get in touch with them.
Currently we are looking for partners to expand on this idea as well as a social network aggregator to include on each profile hence making it more current.

8. What is the biggest challenge entrepreneurs face and what is your
advice for them?

I think there are various challenges people face as an entrepreneur and I believe that some are down to your mindset. So I’ll say the biggest challenge I will say is to “take action”. Personally I think this is the reason why many marketers keep on making money because people refuse to take action. Yeah you might have the resources and all the like but the important thing is to get yourself out take action and never despair. One book which I will highly recommend EVERYONE to have a read at is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, I think every entrepreneur should read this book before any other book.

9. When was your happiest moment as an entrepreneur?

I have had various moments which I was proud of myself for example getting my first product out which is an ebook on “how to make money on fiverr” as well as every milestone which I hit with my app dev team for my iphone app. I believe these are the moments which help you keep on keeping on.

10. When was your worst moment as an entrepreneur and how did you come over it?

My worst moment as an entrepreneur was when my first hiring failed me along the way. It was this apple iphone developer whom I had hired, the project was going on quite well till one day I got up and received an email saying he couldn’t continue and gave no reason and switching developers in between a project can be a very costly and timely process. So I had to suck it up and continue with the project with another developer.

11. Do you have any resource on how to make more money on fiverr?

Last month saw the release of my first product which is an ebook which details you on how to make money on fiverr. It teaches you what to do and what not to do and how to go about doing it in order to optimize the results you get. Plus I have got a newsletter which I constantly broadcast new tips and tricks. All these you can find it on the website : www.howtomakemoneyonfiverr.com

12. As a successful entrepreneur, what advise will you give to other
entrepreneurs, especially those just coming up?

Firstly I will advice them to stop reading this interview and go and take action on whatever idea they’ve got. Whether its to write a blog post, update your sales page, contact someone for help; go now and DO IT!
And another thing I learned along the way is money buys money in every case. For example to set yourself up as a blogger there are various expenses you have got to incur which without you wouldn’t be able to do what you do. So always bear that in mind and try not to focus on the little picture but on the larger outcome.

13. My readers want to know more about you and they will be happy to
learn from you, feel free to tell us about your websites.

I run a couple of websites with the widely known one being MyEntredex.com but you can learn more about the rest here

MARTIN: Once more I will like to thank you Oni for having me here today, and hopefully in the nearest future I will be able to provide a post here on your blog which might help your readers comprehend more about Fiverr.

ONIBALUSI: Great Martin, it is really great to have you featured here and I am sure my readers have a lot to learn from you. You can visit Martin’s websites at MyEntreDex and How to Make Money On Fiverr.

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This is a guest post by Alan Matter from Work From Home Blog. If you want to write for youngprepro, feel free to submit your guest post

This question gets asked all the time by two main groups of people. The first group belongs to the 95 percent of Internet Marketers who failed to make any money online in their start-up business. The second group comprises of people who only worked in the brick and mortar business and never quite understood what it takes to make money on the Internet.

The Best Proof That People Are Making Money on the Internet

If you head over to Flippa, which is the #1 Marketplace for buying and selling websites, you will see so many sales and purchases taking place with buzz and excitement that would you have thought people actually used money for these transactions. Well, they do, and just a couple of weeks ago on Aug 16, 2010, over $1 million worth of web property changed hands, and there were 3,000 bids that took place.

The Most Important Tip in Making Money on the Internet

Most people believe doing business in a very saturated niche market is bad and impossible to make money online, so they avoid it like the bubonic plague. The truth of the matter is that these marketers are missing out on so many business opportunities and probably belong to the 95 percent of failures I just talked about.

To become a successful online marketer, you just need to think outside the box and capitalize on the market saturation and the throngs of people anxiously waiting to spend money – if they like your product or service.  A good example to show how this is done is this. Targeting a niche like “weight loss” and trying to rank for a competitive search term like “How to lose weight” gets you 77 million results if you do a search in Google. However, if you’re smart enough to target a specific demographic like “How to lose weight for women over 40”, this gets you only 8 million results.

Essentially, this is the one tip that most online marketers fail to realize – you can sell any product even if people are already buying if you know what you are doing.  All that you have to do is remember your competition, package it a lot different from others and make you and your product stand out from the crowd. Job done!

Just What Do People Do To Make Money Online?

Blogging

If you own a blog and have learned some blog monetization techniques, you will know that it can earn you some money. How much depends on a few factors, like the topic of your blog, how much web traffic it gets and how competitive your keywords are. To be successful as a blogger, you would need to write interesting content that is both useful and captivating and answer the “what’s in it for me” question, and you will get visitors flocking to your blog like bees to honey.

But, who would have thought a blog could become someone’s business?  I certainly don’t think John Chow himself did when he first started his blog as a personal blog just for fun. He probably never thought it could today command a $40,000 a month income and amass a 110,000 readership. Or, that people actually pay him $500 to write a paid article on his blog.

While John Chow is probably not the average blogger most of us are categorized under, it does prove that blogging can offer a potential source of income if this is your area of interest.

Affiliate Marketing

The easiest way to understand how affiliate marketing works is that it is a method of making money online where you promote someone else’s business product or service. There are many different ways you can do these promotions, but essentially it involves earning a commission when someone clicks on a link and gets directed to the affiliate manager’s website and buys the product.

There are thousands of affiliate products and programs all over the internet for anyone to start promoting and making money on the internet. It all comes down to finding the right product or program for your chosen market and knowing how to market it effectively.

Google Adsense

This is probably one of the easiest methods of making money on the Internet for the smaller sites. All that is required is to display banner or text ads from Google’s top money making advertising program, Adwords, and share revenue with Google when people click any of these ads.

Final Thoughts

The Internet has definitely opened up new doors of business opportunities to millions of people who have been affected by the economic recession one way or another. Many have actually found it a blessing in disguise when they were forced into a work from home Internet business, survived it and now earns an online income at home.  Whether one makes money online or not depends entirely on them, their commitment and self-belief and how badly they want to succeed in their business.

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t’s amazing sometimes to look back to see what you’ve done, what you’ve learned and whom you’ve helped. I have a great blog post idea I have been working on for sometimes now and due to me wanting it to be my best I haven’t been able to complete it, I was also finding it difficult to write this morning when I got this idea, “why not share what you’ve learned within your months of blogging?“ Great! Isn’t it?

Youngprepro is only 4 months but I have been blogging for 8 months now, most of my blogging experience was from building youngprepro but the first blog I had also helped. I have learned a lot within this short period of time, but this post will be talking about the 8 most important lessons I learned in my 8 months of blogging.

1. Success Does not Come Overnight

Ever before I knew what blogging was, I was a very fast person and I believe everything I do must be fast. In my family I was the one who had the fastest education, I get results fast in everything I do so I thought this must also apply online and I should start making money blogging from my first week, how I was wrong!

I blogged for months without anything, no results, no recognition, nothing whatsoever. I started marketing my blog using some unethical methods such as forum spamming (I didn’t know then it was spamming). After facing a lot of problems without results and after seeing how things began to turn around slowly I slowly began to know that there is nothing called overnight success, success only comes after you’ve worked hard and also waited patiently.

I always feel discouraged but I somehow wrote one great article which eventually got one backlink from a then popular site – in my eyes (newbies see sites that are not popular as something which is popular, they mostly judge using Alexa Rank).

I faced the truth, and I began to realize the importance of patience. I started cultivating that habit, and I also began to work hard in order to make things work out faster, and now, I am happy I did.

2. Reputation Matters

Even if it is small, having a reputation for yourself is really very important to your blogging success.

When I started my first blog, I had made a lot of friends, I was known by some bloggers around me and this made everything easier for me when I launched youngprepro. Anytime I send a guest post to my blogging buddies, before I know it the guest post would have been live.

Another thing I discovered from making my first sale online is that it is not how many people you have but how many people trusts you.

How you see yourself is important but how people see you is more important. If you are seeing yourself as someone who knows what he is saying and someone who is being respected but others are seeing you otherwise, then I am afraid, you are in a dangerous pit.

Even though reputation matters, it can also destroy you. I launched my first ebook to build my list and unknown to me it was full of errors (i wrote it in 3 hours) and it was not properly designed, 100?s of my readers downloaded it without notifying me of the error, I later got to know by a close friend.

3. Content is King

You surely will have been told otherwise. It doesn’t matter how many thousands of visitors digg or other social bookmarking sites sent you because of the casual article you wrote, it doesn’t matter how many visitors one guest post sent you which made you think marketing is king, I am talking from personal experience, content is king!

One of my most popular posts was what I never promoted, not even in a single place. I didn’t send this post to my list, I didn’t promote it on any social bookmarking site but I was amazed at the number of visitors this post sent me. After getting results from this post I knew the importance of writing great content.

Before publishing this post, most of my posts do have 100-150 views but this particular post exceeded 1,000 views (what I didn’t promote).

Truly, marketing is important, because this my post I am talking about wouldn’t have done well if I hadn’t built a community that could give it a push around my blog ~ Nevertheless, content is king!

I have always observed my most successful posts, they are the ones with lots of comments, lots of retweets and they are the ones that bring about so much traffic that shakes my blog. It is also these type of content that bring about me being interviewed and listed here and there.

I do take a close look at things around me (even though I do pretend not to) and most interview request and features I got was as a result of me writing great content, not because of the ranks my blog has (far from it!).

Focus all your efforts on writing great content, treat it as if it is the difference between your blog succeeding and failing and you will be so amazed at the results you will get.

4. Marketing is Important

I am always happy because God made me realize this earlier. It was very early in my blogging career that I discovered the power of guest posting, I was amazed at how I started getting traffic from little efforts of guest posting.

It doesn’t matter how great your content is, if it is not being read it has no life of its own.

If you are a new blogger, my advice for you will be to focus 50% of your efforts on content while you focus the other %50 percent on marketing, if you begin to get more traction or you are getting over 100 unique visitors a day you can then focus 80% of your efforts on content and 20% on marketing.

You would not get any result if you write your best content without you having an audience, having traffic is important, having a community is important and only marketing can determine how successful your blog will be – It doesn’t matter how great your content is, it still need a little bit of marketing to succeed.

The best of the best content on the web are the ones that cannot be found, not because they don’t exist but because the writers haven’t realized the truth behind blogs succeeding and many of them give up too early believing it is impossible for them to make it blogging.

I will list (list, not explain) 5 ways you can market your blog for top profit, these are what I use and they are very effective.

1. Guest Blogging

2. SEO

3. Blog Commenting

4. Forum Marketing

5. Blogging Communities

You will notice I don’t use #3,4 and 5 again but they are what helped when I just started blogging, it will not hurt if you give them a trial.

5. There is NEVER Too Much Knowledge

You will always feel like you know something everyday and this is one major reason why so many people have failed, because of their ego.

It doesn’t matter what I know, and it doesn’t matter how successful I become, I will always listen to those ahead of me and below me.

Reading top blogs in your niche doesn’t hurt, learning from upcoming bloggers who know their stuff isn’t bad either. I have learned a lot in my short-term blogging and most of what I learned is as a result of me willing to learn. I wrote a great guest post from the bottom of my heart which I submitted to one blogger, he returned the post to me telling me it was full of errors and that he can’t just read it (let alone edit it), I was so disappointed and my ego jumped in telling me to send it to another blogger, the good spirit in me replied, that why can’t I try to edit it and see if he is right or I am wrong. I listened to the good spirit in me and I re-read the post, you can’t believe I was telling myself I wasn’t the one who wrote that post (whereas I was), it was full of grammatical errors I didn’t discover. That was how I learned the importance of proofreading each and every one of my posts, before publishing it on my blog or sending it to another blogger.

Listen to those around you, keep your ears out from something new. There is always something new to learn, you can’t just know everything.

6. You Have to Pay a Price

While I don’t love talking about the price I paid (that is one of the 48 laws of power), it is no secret we all have to pay a price.

I still spend an average of 10 hours a day on the computer and I have written over 220 guest posts this year, I also have to write for my blog and get the word out there about me.

There is no shortcut to success, there is no how you can avoid it, you have to pay a price. It does not matter which price you will pay, it might be financially or with your time, you just have to pay a price.

Wonders won’t just happen and you can’t just see people promoting your blog, you have to do all these by yourself, you have to come up with content ideas, you have to make sure you have the right headlines, you have to make sure your hardwork is not a waste, those are all the price you have to pay – there is no way you can escape it, not one!

7. SEO Matters

I get almost 2,000 visitors from search engines every month, won’t it be foolish to come and tell you this method is useless? Minus 2,000 visitors from my monthly traffic and you will know a large portion of it is gone.

I didn’t attend any SEO course, I didn’t outsource my SEO, I did everything by myself. You will notice some of my rankings have dropped (like for the keyword “young entrepreneur blog“), this isn’t because of any other thing but because I have relaxed in optimizing my blog for search engines.

Search engine traffic contribute a large percentage to the traffic of most successful blogs and it is one of the best traffic sources because of the type of visitors it sends (they are more targeted because they came through a keyword).

While there are many articles on SEO out there, including some which I have written, one of the best ones I would recommend you should read is Glen’s article on wordpress seo.

Here are some basic SEO tips you should implement on your blog to get more traffic (even than I am getting) from the search engines:

1. On page SEO – Optimize your blog for search engines by making sure you have your keyword in your meta title, your url, your meta description and your meta keywords. Also make sure you have a search engine compliant theme and that you have a clean code.

2. Keyword Density – Make sure you make effective use of your keywords in your blog posts and titles, this can also have a huge impact on your rankings.

3. Linking Structure – Make sure you work hard on building backlinks to your blog, this is the major key to search engine rankings. I was able to get a pagerank 4 for my first blog in less than 4 months and I was also able to get Google sitelinks and ranking for some top keywords for youngprepro in only 3 months, there is no other secret to this than quality backlinks, from my guest posting efforts.

Implement the above three tips and read Glen’s article on SEO, you will be amazed at how much traffic you can get from search engines.

8. Network

The golden ingredient to blogging success. It was through networking that I knew the power of guest posting.

I have gained a lot through networking and one great person I have learned a lot from (that really impacted my blogging life) was Hesham Zebida from Famous Bloggers, I knew him in my early days of blogging and I have learned a lot from him through knowing him. He made me know why it is dangerous to write your blog posts in all caps (as I used to do before) and he also let me know how powerful guest posting is. I have learned a lot about blogging from him than from any other person.

I have also been able to network with a lot of great people all over the web and one of them is you, who help make sure my posts go viral.

Networking is a golden ingredient to blogging success and it is very dangerous for you to neglect this great key. Network with other bloggers, network with top bloggers, network with medium bloggers, network with upcoming bloggers, network with me, network with others – we all are going to enjoy ourselves and the power of two or more should never be underestimated.

Over To You!

What has been your major challenge when blogging? For how long have you been blogging? What lessons have you learned? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!

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One question I am asked regularly by people who are amazed by my rate of success online is “Who is my teacher?“, “Which online course/training did I join?” e.t.c. and I have always replied them with “none!“.

…It used to be none, but it is no longer none.

If you do read blogs, especially in the make money online and blogging niche, you will have heard the words “mini site“, “niche site“, “niche marketing” etc. several times. I have heard these words several times and I know how profitable niche marketing is (at least Glen makes tens of thousands of dollars from it monthly) but I have always thought and believed I just couldn’t make this work for me, this is so difficult, I can’t write any content outside of blogging, I don’t have enough time e.t.c and every other silly excuse every other person will give.

But…something happened!

I have been a long-term reader of Corbett Bar’s Think Traffic and I am a huge believer in Him. If you still can’t get my point or you don’t know who Corbett is then you can read his July traffic report to see how much traffic he got to his blog in July (his blog is only 4 months).

It was only on the 10th of this month (August 2010) that Corbett announced on his blog that He will be releasing his affiliate marketing for beginners online course, being a huge believer of his work I knew that was my opportunity. I decided to sign up for his course (@ $77) and I am now happy I did.

The Course Helped Me Overcome My Fears

If you know me very well you will know I am no beginner to affiliate marketing or making money online and when it comes to SEO I will say I am better than average.

Getting backlinks or traffic to my niche site isn’t my problem, what was my problem was the concept on its own, I needed to see someone who has gone through all the process and I could ask anytime I need help and I am also confused by the process of finding a profitable niche etc but when I got into Corbett’s membership site I was amazed at how simple everything was, it was as if I was learning abc – the guy is a good teacher!.

How Would You Benefit?

Just take a look at all the posts on this blog and you will discover I hardly review or tell you to buy anything except I find it to be of great value. Corbett’s training program has been of great value and here are what you will learn from his system.

1. How to Choose a Niche

2. How to Know if Your Chosen Niche is profitable

3. How to Find Top and Low Competitive keywords in Your Niche

4. How to Get Your Niche Site Ranked and Indexed

5. How to Choose Top and Highly Converting Products to Promote

And many More…

Here is a screenshot of the course content, I mean what the course covers (taken directly from the membership site).

Another great news is that there is a big community over there and you surely will see some of your major concerns addressed.

What Else is Better Than Examples?

What even made Corbett’s course great was how he used about two example sites of his own making hundreds of dollars monthly. If you’re confused then there is no excuse because seeing how everything looks from his own sites is enough for you to be successful with yours.

No More Excuse!

Blogging is not the only way to make money online and in fact, you don’t need to have a blog to make money online. Affiliate marketing is one of the best and easiest ways to make money online and this course simplifies it, it is dirty cheap at the cost of $77 for the course only and at $97 for the deluxe package.

The best option for you is to get started and begin to make money online, you will come back to thank me for this!

Get Started!

You can get started by clicking on the link below, it is an affiliate link but you should trust me, I will only recommend what I think is of benefit to you.

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED MAKING MONEY ONLINE FROM AFFILIATE MARKETING NOW!

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I have been blogging for sometimes now and I must tell you the journey has really been interesting. Even though I said the blogging journey is really interesting I have come across some new bloggers who feel disappointed because they think only successful bloggers can be successful.

This happens most in the case of product launches, you will see some new bloggers launch one product or the other and then contact the A-list bloggers to help them promote it, the answer they get is “no!” and they feel discouraged and enraged, they begin to think these top bloggers have an inner circle and they only help those in their inner circle, in other words, they are not ready to help others.

Even though I am not yet an A-list blogger, I know I will still be one and when I become one I will also react as all these A-list bloggers react. Why? Keep reading to get the answer.

It is More Than Affiliate Sales

You might be thinking you have a good product, with a robust affiliate programme paying high commissions so why shouldn’t these top bloggers help you out?

Life isn’t like that and any help you receive has a reason, the reason can either be direct or indirect.

Lets take this as an example, I built a powerful blog in 3 years, I had a mailing list of subscribers in the tens of thousands and I have a lot of influence in the blogging world, then suddenly a new blogger who has less than 100 subscribers came out with a product, and asked me to promote it, do you think I will? Absolutely not.

What matters most to this bloggers is “What is in it for Them!“. What do you have for them? What will be their gain if they promote for you. You should not fail to remember that they have thousands of readers who also have their own products and that there are various affiliate networks they can easily go to and select a product they want to promote so the benefit they want is not an affiliate commission, they want something more than that.

What Then Do They Want?

They want mutual relationships! They want cross-promotion! Some of these top bloggers know the key to a successful product launches and they know what it is to have support from influencers and people of power.

If they promote your product to their audience in the tens of thousands and you promote yours to your own tens or hundreds, do you think they will gain? They won’t! And that is the logic behind everything.

Lets take Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse for example, Yaro has a list of over 90,000 subscribers, Darren has a list of over 150,000. You will notice both of them will benefit if they co-promote their products and Yaro’s 90,000 subscribers is of great value to Darren’s product launch while Darren’s 150,000 subscribers is also of great importance to Yaro’s product launch.

The major reason they cross promote is because of the future benefit, nothing more! Darren knows he will launch a product someday and he will need the help of Yaro and vice-versa.

Funny Enough!

This is so funny but it is the truth. That major truth is that you as a blogger with a few hundreds or tens of subscribers are a follower of either Yaro or Darren (or even both) and they don’t even have to network with you before you promote, once you see the top people doing it you will follow.

If Darren decides to cross-promote Yaro’s product, Darren has enough influence to bring about a viral effect and the same applies to Yaro also but if you do so there will hardly be any viral effect.

So What Do You Do?

Good! Now that you know the concept behind everything, the next thing is to know what to do.

Join Their Ranks

The best way to get the attention from these top bloggers anytime you need their help is to join their ranks. Absolutely, that is the best and sure-fire way to get your desired attention.

You might be saying it is not possible to join their ranks, but believe me, it is!

Another great thing is that these top bloggers are human and they also take some things into consideration. They know not all fingers are equal – and this makes everything easy.

If you find it difficult to build 150,000 subscribers in order to get attention from Darren Rowse, build 50,000!

You don’t necessarily need to be the same in size with the top bloggers but you can work on building a great amount of influence that they can’t but notice you.

How Do You Join The Rank of Successful Bloggers?

There are several ways to join the ranks of the successful bloggers and I will be listing some of them below.

1. Have Your U.S.P – Unique Selling Proposition

What is a U.S.P? According to the Google Dictionary, a U.S.P is “the one thing that makes a product different than any other. It’s the one reason marketers think consumers will buy the product even though it may seem no different from many others just like it.”.

It can also be called a winning difference. Things like these can look minor or unimportant but having a unique selling proposition will help you in so many ways, one of which is that it will help you grow your blog twice as faster.

Take a look at your blog right now, what is it that makes it different from every other blogs? If you can’t see anything here then try to work on it but if you can, it is your unique selling proposition.

2. Always Give Your Best

Everyday it is being said, “give value, give value” but I must tell you giving value is an understatement. No matter what type of post you write, it will still be of value to somebody but when we say give your best, it means you won’t just come up with any blog posts or crap content but you will give the best you can.

It is very easy to come up with blog post in minutes but it is very difficult to come up with great blog posts in minutes.

The power of your content should never be underestimated and it can make the difference between your blog’s success and failure. I have seen a five months old blog get over 30,000 visitors monthly and over 10,000 subscribers (in 5 months) but one thing I discovered these blogs have in common is that they give their best.

There are many rules that comes with giving your best and some of these rules will make sure you NEVER finish a quality post in 1 hour, no matter how short it is or how fast you are.

Many bloggers have really great blog post ideas and they are so creative in putting it down but one thing that makes it difficult for them to get to the league of the successful bloggers is their not giving enough time to posts.

Your best content won’t just go viral because it is your best but it will depend on a lot of other great factors, some of which are beyond your control – but effectively utilizing the ones within your control is enough to make it go viral.

One great element that will determine how successful and viral your blog post will be is the post title, many people just write posts without giving their titles a second thought.

Another thing that will determine how viral your blog post will be is your english. Many bloggers write without proofreading and they have forgotten what impact this could make on their blog.

It is true quality matters, but how you present it matters most. Imagine writing a great post and you have a media reporter as your reader, it will be very difficult for that reporter to take your news to the media due to the typographical errors in it.

Give your best and your best only!

3. Be Result Driven

Don’t be effort driven. Many bloggers (mostly the unsuccessful ones) are effort driven, they are the ones who will be telling you they did this and that yet they can’t see the results.

The truth is, it is not what you do that matters but what you get from it. If you are guest posting on other blogs then make sure you get your best from it, if you are optimizing your links for the search engines then don’t begin to shout about the number of links you have gotten or the efforts you have put in but the results you are getting.

Successful bloggers are result driven and that is one of the great things that makes them successful, anytime they do something they always analyze to see what results it brings and if they are not seeing anything then they stop and focus elsewhere but if they see results they double their efforts. Why do you think Darren Rowse posts everyday? Isn’t it because it brings more traffic?

It is true there are a lot of promotional campaigns but you shouldn’t just say you are doing this and that because others are, try to analyze to see what is working – focus on results and not efforts.

4. Move With Them

Another great way to get into the league of successful bloggers is by moving with them (or working with them!).

Try to get on the radar of successful bloggers in your industry, visit their blogs regularly, leave thoughtful comments, be there when they need your help and also ask them when you need help (not the kind of help where you tell them to promote your products ).

If you know you are really  serious about getting on their radar then take your journey to the next level by guest posting on their blogs.

Writing for a popular blog makes you even closer to the owner and if you could do this consistently you could build your audience and also get into their ranks.

Over To You!

Do you think this concept is wrong? Are successful bloggers wicked or they are doing what is right? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.

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If you read my latest post on why many will never make money blogging you will notice I said I will be interviewing a super affiliate blogger called Tran Tinh.

Tinh was able to get almost 5000 visitors to his one month old blog and he also makes over $2000 consistently from affiliate marketing, only from one blog – Read this interview carefull, there is a lot to learn from it!

This interview is here and it will be teaching you the following:

1. How to get tons of traffic to your new blog.

2. How to make thousands of dollars in affiliate sales.

3. How to get the best from your blog and many more…

INTERVIEW START!

1. Great Tinh, many of my readers would know you but for those who
don’t, can you pls introduce yourself?

I am Tran Van Tinh but you guys should call me “Tinh”. I am a disabled blogger who is married with a son. I have started blogging and making money online for about 7 years now.

2. Why did you start blogging?

Let me go directly into the question:

- I thought that blogging was the best way that could help improve my English especially my writing skills.

- I would love to make more friends from internet and the best way was to use blog as a tool to do so. At the time of my first blogging works started, there was no Facebook or social networks…

- I wanted to generate some money to cover my study and shared workload with my family. You know that I had to study in University with my own generated money from internet for about 3 years of 4. But, this was not what I intended to go for when I started blogging but it came naturally J

3. When trying to make money online, do you think blogging is the way to go?

Blogging is not the only way that you can make money online. There are a lot of bloggers who rarely blog but they can still make a lot of money. They have their own expertise in terms of designing, SEO, marketing and they provide either offline or online services.

However, I do not have any special expertise then I chose blogging to both learning more knowledge and making money online at the same time. With that said, I feel confident in SEO and marketing now and blogging is my own way. You can choose whatever ways you would like to go with based on your experiences and expertise. You should do a self-assessment to have right decision.

4. You recently started a new blog (azblogtips) and you were able to
get almost 5000 visitors its first month, how did you do this?

It is hard to say in a short paragraph but in general, I can share several tutorials that I have applied when starting AZBlogTips.com as below:

- Have your blog well-designed or hire a designer to do it for you and you have more time for optimize contents and traffic.

- Submit to Google and other major search engines, this is very important as I have seen that over 80% traffic are from SEs like Google. You can use IBP software to boost this process.

- Install some plugins that ease your blogging work: You can search around this blog or Google to get the right ones such as All in One SEO Pack, XML Sitemap Generator, SEO friendly image, SEO booster pro (paid version or free are okie).

- Submit your blog to directory sites. There are a lot of directory sites out there that I can not say it here. However, you must submit your blog to Technorati. Why I say MUST? If your new blog is approved and has some authority there, your ranking and traffic is boosted soon. My new blog now has authority score of 437 which is higher than many other established sites.

- Blog commenting: Many of bloggers are lazy and think that they can create compelling contents and the traffic will automatically come. No, it is not like that. You need to interact with your friends, building up relationships….and the best way is to commenting on other blogs of your niches.

- Guest blogging: You hear a lot about this but few of them have done this way. If you think you do not need to do this, you have made a big mistake! Search around here to get more ideas o how to guest blog…I have done several and it helped my new blog very much in terms of traffic and ranking too. See it here.

- There are many more but I can not share all to keep my interview as short as it should be. The more details will be shared in next posts either here or on my blog J

5. Building your first blog from ground to where it was, was it easy?

Before answering the question, I just want to remind those who has new blog like me “Be patient and consistent in your blogging journey as success will never come fast”. It was indeed challenging.

In the blogosphere, no traffic, no ranking means nothing! Your voice will not fairly heard and you can not sell advertisements either. I mean nothing! So, you need to be patient and consistent in your long-term strategy. I have been very patient when I started my new blog too.

Another thing is “belief”, you should keep it and never lose it. Without belief, you will go nowhere!

6. Would you say your knowledge when building eblogtip contributed to
your success?

Frankly, yes but not all. I have used some techniques which have been applied to bring my ex-blog to high level and sold it out. These lessons learnt have been deployed for AZBlogTips with some improvement and it worked at least now.

7. You make over $2000 monthly from affiliate marketing, how are you
able to do this?

There are many things you have to do to reach that milestone o even pass it in the future. Affiliate marketing is not like what you have done with PPC or CPC, it needs a special skills to convince your readers to buy through your affiliate links.

There are some ways that needs to be considered:

- Review on the product that you want to promote

- Utilize your social networking sites such as twitter or facebook

- Rotate banner, use coupon, list builder or even offer free support when your readers use your affiliate links to buy services or product. I will share my 11 secrets that help me earn over $1,500/3 months from CJ on Aug. 26 GMT+7 on my blog as promised.

- Use plugin to support like Ninja affiliate, MaxBlogPress Banner Ads, GoCode

- …..

No one can tell you that you can make this amount by these techniques as there are some other supporting factors that affect your revenue such as traffic (targeted), your time investment, your niche….If you follow all of them and try to do it in the most innovative way with some patience, you can pass my milestone soon.

8. Do you think a lot of traffic is instrumental to making money
online from affiliate marketing?

Traffic matters not only for PPC or CPC but also matters for affiliate marketing. However, as I have mentioned above, traffic matters but it is not all you need. You need 100 targeted & quality traffic rather than 1,000 untargeted traffic. Targeted traffic really matters for affiliate marketing.

But, it is not all you need! You should follow all guides above with a consistent strategy, I am sure your conversion rate will be higher. If your adsense earning is lower than $100/month. One sale from affiliate marketing can be higher than that J

9. How do you know if a product is great for you to promote it?

There are many factors to decide which is a great or bad product. You should consider your niche, your audience habit (maybe using poll on your sidebar like problogger.net) and analyse your Google analytics traffic data to choose the most appropriate products to promote.

There are many ways to know how and why my readers will likely buy this but not that. Your data says it all. If your readers are medium size with low-budget, you should focus on the promotional campaigns or provide coupons to encourage them to proceed to checkout page.

No all hot products can easily be sold! Another note to you that keeping a close eye to your readers’ comments as you can find out what your readers need to provide relevant products with high possibility of conversion. I have done this successfully!

10. You are a very dedicated blogger, are you born this way or you
cultivated the habit?

No, I was born in a poor countryside of Vietnam where there is not internet and computer. I have just seen the computer and internet in 1999 when I was 2^nd year student. My life has been changed since then J

11. Do you believe everybody can make money online?

Yes, I do believe that you guys can make money online.

12. What was your biggest challenge with making money online?

Belief is the biggest challenge when making money online. Many bloggers quit before getting success. They are not patient enough and afraid of failure. That is why I would advise that all bloggers much have strong belief that they can make it!

13. Many of my readers are beginners who have not started, what will
be your advice to them when trying to make money online?

My advice are almost mentioned in above answers and you should read carefully to get all points in order to make money online with your blog J

Another advice is that you should make a list of several websites for regular reading such as this blog, famousbloggers.net, azblogtips.com, technshare.com, shoutmeloud.com….to get more advice from experts and experienced bloggers too.

14. How do you get most of your blog traffic?

I have earned most of traffic from these sources: SEO, blog commenting, guest blogging, interacting with friends on different forums like WebmasterWorld, DP Forums and social networking sites and bookmarking sites.

Submission to directory sites can also bring some proportion of my traffic so far.

15. My readers will love to learn from you, can you tell them about
your sites and products?

I have several sites and AZBlogTips.com is the only one that I write by myself. The other sites and forums are users-generated sites that monetize with adsense. I do apologize for not sharing those sites now to avoid fraudulent clicks from my competitors. That does not mean I don’t trust you but it is because Google can ban my adsense account anytime with strange activities. I hope you understand my situation.

There are a lot of products I have promoted and made a lot of sales and leads like Magic Members, Jumpline, HostGator, JustHost, Thesis, HeadWay Themes, BlueHost…you can see more at my deals or hosting page.

My last advice is: Don’t stick to one product/service, you should explore more to provide your readers more options for choice.

Thanks for reading my interview and happy to hear from you all!

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You can visit Tinh’s blog where he shares with you how he makes $2000 in affiliate sales monthly at http://www.azblogtips.com

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This is a guest post by Abhishek Saini from seekersfind.com, someone who knows his stuff when it comes to SEO. If you want to get your work in front of youngprepro’s readers, feel free to submit your guest post

Last when I guest post here, I got an email to share my SEO basics on youngprepro.com and I am glad to do it as it is a lovely place to share. Good Work Onibalusi!

Before getting into blogging business I did seo two month course and also participated in two SEO project which gives me a lot practical help. But here I am not going to share complete SEO guide as it is not that important for a blogger. As a blogger I am going to share basic SEO tips that every blogger must follow.

I am just going to teach you SEO basics every blogger must follow but before that it is very important and recommended to make catchy headlines of your article including your targeted keyword in it. Before moving forward you must read how to write catchy headline that works.

So here are the SEO basics that every blogger must follow:

1.Keyword Research

Every blogger must research the keyword which he is targeting to know if it is regularly searched by people or not.Using google keyword tool is best and free to tell how many monthly searches the targeted keyword or phrase has. Along with it also tell competition, estimated Avg, CPC and lot more.

Here I will teach you how to use google keyword tool.

a. Type the keyword or phrase that comes to your mind, like in my mind the keyword comes is “Basic SEO tips for blogger“. Then click on search button to get more details about the keyword. Here you will also see advanced options, after clicking on this you will clearly see the United States Search which means it is currently showing US search which you can change.

b. Currently it is showing you the broad result which means the targeted keyword + any other word with its searches but by clicking on exact it will show you the exact searches the keyword or phrases has.

c. So it is showing you the exact local and global monthly searches done by the people. You can also get lots of information from here like estimated Avg. CPC, ad share, search share and lot more. This you will find by clicking on relevance and choose what information you want about that keyword or phrases.

What I Do With It?

I typed “Basic SEO tips for blogger” and found two keywords which I like “SEO tips” and “SEO basics“. SEO tips has lot more searches as compared to SEO basics but the competition of SEO basics is less as compared to SEO tips. After thinking a lot I decided to go with “SEO Basics”. It is included in my catchy heading as you can see.

2.Writing SEO Friendly Content

Every blogger must try to write SEO friendly content. It is a very important thing that you must do. If you want google to rank you higher in search engines then you must do it.

Here are the tips to write SEO friendly content.

a. Repeat Targeted Keyword Again And Again: The keyword I am targeting i.e. SEO basics you might notice it everywhere in the post repeated several times. It increases the google value to get high ranks. The tips to repeat is don’t use “It“, instead of “It” use the complete keyword. For example, above I may write “here are the tips to do it” but instead I wrote “here are the SEO basics that every blogger must follow”, I use it completely to repeat my lovely keyword.

b. Make Link Of Same Page: Google loves to have backlinks but I noticed blogger doesn’t make backlinks separately for the article so it is good to make the backlink of the same page of your targeted keyword. This is what I did here if you noticed.

3.Including Targeted Keyword In The Anchor Text Links And Meta Tag

Having correct keyword and using them in heading, anchor text links and meta tag is utmost important to do. If the competition of the keyword is very small then surely this three things will give you top rankings in the Google search engine. Your anchor text and meta tag should not be your title actually it should be your targeted keyword.

4. Naming Of Photo’s

The photos you put in between must have a name and again the name of photo’s should be your lovely keyword about which you are providing information to your reader. Always change the blog photo’s name and also use original photos not copy cat. Google also shows images if it searched online and the competition in it is very less.

5. Description of the Article

After entering the title there is a description box and it is very important to fill it, you must include your targeted keyword in it. Google reads descriptions and from there it comes to know the article. And also, you need to describe your article in less than 160 words. Here is how to write a meta description if you have problems in writing it:

“Here SEO basics that every blogger must follow is discussed. All the SEO tips provided here is practical and it works.”

6. Using Tags

The tags you use increases the number of words of the same article. Now you have the chance to get a higher rank in google for two pages for a one page article.You must have at least one tag and it should be related to your article. The tag I used here is “SEO tips for every blogger”, it gives me a chance also to get higher rank for “SEO tips” keyword.

Above are the top 6 SEO basics that every blogger must follow and they are also used in this article. It’s not important to read this post but to do it practically. The more action you are not taking the more rankings in google you are loosing.

“Warning: All The Above SEO Tips Work If You Have Something To Help People.Google Loves You If People Loves You”.

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Sometimes, you could keep on wondering why so many bloggers are poor even when they have a huge audience under their control, they have thousands of monthly readers, thousands of feed subscribers, a high level of blogging influence and all what it takes for a blogger to succeed but still they find it difficult to make money online.

A lot of problems has to do with the foundation and this one is no exception. If you think you will make money blogging then I have come to change your mind, you will hardly make money blogging.

Get me right, your blog can be an instrument to your success but if you begin to focus on your blog only without turning it into a business then you will bite your fingers at last.

At one point or the other, you should be able to have plans on monetizing your blog and making sure you get the best from it, just blogging and writing articles or maybe displaying some few ads won’t take you anywhere, there are several other ways to make money from your blog.

Your Blog is a Business

If you ever start a blog with the hope of making money online and you never see your blog as a business then you are mistaken, you are definitely on the wrong path and if you don’t correct your paths you might regret it later on.

It is good to provide value, it is good to help people but it is very dangerous to keep yourself as a slave of your wrong mentality.

If all you do is create a lot of products, books and everything only to be giving it out for free, you must be very careful because there are several things wrong with it. Some of the things wrong are:

1. You’re Corrupting Yourself: If you are releasing products after products and due to what you call the love of your audience or the love of your readers, you should be very careful and you should observe yourself because you are corrupting yourself and you are instilling an unprofitable habit into yourself because if care is not taken, you will grow up having the mentality that your readers should get everything for free since they are your readers – if this affects you than it should, you will most probably not launch your own product again in the name of helping your readers.

Another great way you are corrupting yourself is that you are in the midst of riches and you are living in poverty, there are many opportunities for you to monetize all around you but you keep postponing everything in the name of helping your readers.

2. You’re Corrupting Your Readers: The first point is still okay and can easily be corrected because it has to do with you, the other one is even worse because it has to do with a lot of people and many of them have different impressions thereby making it difficult for you to control them.

If you begin to give your readers all you have for free, it is true they will develop a kind of respect for you and even spread the word but the end result is that they will become used to the free things you use to give them thereby making it difficult for you to make sales with your own product.

You might be wondering how this can be after all you have done to help them but the truth remains, people are different and they can always change. If you do your best to help your readers as much as you can, for free, when you begin to monetize your blog a lot of them will come up with different impressions and a large percentage of them will end up leaving and hating you, believing you have been corrupted – due to you wanting to make money from your efforts.

Building the Foundation of a Solid Blog

The last thing I hate (even though I sometimes do ) is to write an article and put my readers in a confused state.

I know some of the tips above do not apply to up and coming bloggers. If you think you can just come up with a new blog and begin to launch products after products then you might find it difficult building a reputation and making enough money.

There are several factors to be considered when trying to turn your blog into a business and one of those factors is to develop your blog into a solid one.

When does your blog become a solid one?

Your blog is not a solid one until you have some things in place, here are some things to consider before saying you have a solid blog that can later be turned into a business.

1. You have a decent sized audience – this consists of your daily and monthly readers.

2. You have a decent sized subscribers – Many people leave this out of the equation and this explains the reason why many of them fail to get tangible results from their blogs.

It might be true that you have a lot of daily and monthly visitors but in terms of buying(I mean traffic that converts into sales) traffic their value can be equal to none since many of them won’t see your main offer, i.e. your product pitch. For example, if you have a popular post that draws in a lot of search engine traffic, that post is not your sales page and it is in no means informing people about your business, if this type of post constitutes the large percentage of your blog traffic then you can’t say you have quality traffic because your traffic is restricted and many of your visitors won’t visit more than one page, which is a page that can’t contribute to your earnings.

The advantage of having blog subscribers is that your blog subscribers have the potential of seeing each and every one of your blog posts, including the one you just published. If they don’t see it, then they can’t buy.

3. You have a great brand – if you have heard about successful product launches, either by a blogger or internet marketer, it is not because they get a lot of traffic but because they have a great brand and influence. It is your brand that can make things easily go viral.

If you have a great brand for your blog, launching products and making money from your blog will not be difficult because there will be a lot of propagators who will easily carry the message around.

If you launch a product, you will be amazed to see many other bloggers blogging about it thereby leading to more sales. That is the effect of a great brand.

How do you Build the Foundation of a Solid Blog?

Now that you know what it means to have a solid blog I will be giving some insights into building the foundation of a solid blog.

1. Your Content is Your Foundation

You must be mistaken if you think I will come here with some unethical marketing tips.

For ages now, content has been the king, and not I, not any blogger, would be able to dethrone it.

You might not be looking forward to hear this, and I am not even planning to satisfy your hearing but to tell you the absolute truth. Content is king!

One thing I will advise you not to do is to rely on others to tell you your content is great. If you write great content, you will have that inner conviction in yourself that your content is truly great but if you are waiting for others to begin to tell you that your content is great, you will hear what you want to hear.

If truly content is king, the question now lies here. Why is it that many people write great content yet they have no traffic to their blog? Why is it that many people write high quality posts yet nobody knows their blog?

There are several factors that determines whether your content is great and I must tell you that it is not only the letters of your content that determines this. Many people write great content that only those who could read it to the end will know it is great (which many of their readers won’t even bother to do).

Your content starts from your headline, you must be able to write killer headlines that brings results. One of the difficult things you will ever do is finding the right headlines for your post and there are many tutorials on the web that tells you how to do that, including this one on how to write headlines on youngprepro.

Many people are able to scale through the first step, they are able to come up with great headlines but still their posts does not go viral but they even end up having a higher bounce rate. Why? Their introduction sucks!

One basic truth is that your headline is a promise and your introduction must be able to fulfil this promise. Your introduction should be able to pin your readers down and give them solid reasons to continue reading.

There are several ways to come up with a killer introduction and one of those ways is to start with a story. People love stories and making effective use of this will help you gain their attention through the rest of your post.

Another sure-fire way to gain your reader’s attention throughout your post is by starting with a controversial introduction. People are with different opinions and if you could start with something different from theirs they will be ready to fight you back thereby making sure they read every piece of word you wrote, before you know it, you have made them a fan and they will also help in spreading your post they once hated.

Another great way to write better introductions for your blog posts is by starting with some great facts and figures. For example, staring a post with an introduction like, “Do you know that out of every 100 blogs 99 fail” will help you captivate your reader’s attention and immerse them into the spirit of your post.

It does not matter how you want to start, what matters most is that you should make sure your readers read every word of your post because this is where the real value lies.

After you have made sure your headline and introduction is okay, the next thing to do is to make sure your post fulfils its promise. If you tell them you want to explain how an apple is being formed don’t try to explain how an orange is formed, that will only piss them off.

It Does not Take Only the Foundation to Build up a House

It is true content is king and it is the foundation of any successful blog (planning to turn business) but you must not fail to realize that the foundation is not enough to build a house, there are many other factors involve.

When talking about what makes a solid blog earlier, I listed three things and they are (i) Traffic (ii) Subscribers (iii) and a Brand. But we should try to know that content enough is not able to get this for a blog, it also need assistance, assistance from the great marketing.

How to Market The H*ck out of Your Blog

Since we know the importance of marketing in building a solid blog or in building a great business out of your blog, how do you market your blog? There are several ways to market your blog but I will be talking about 3 ways that works wonders and that I have gotten the best from, in the order they have worked for me – if you want more, get my free traffic ebook.

1. Guest Posting: One of the best and most effective ways to get the best from your blog is by marketing it. Even though I do say I have written over 200 guest posts this year, I can’t boast in the numbers because I didn’t get my best from it. In this short message I will try to give you my best advice on maximizing the results of your guest posts.

One of my lessons from writing a lot of guest posts is that concentration matters. Since one of the most important elements of a solid blog is its subscribers, it is very important to focus your guest post efforts on building your subscriber base. If you want to dedicated a page to your subscribers, do it! If you want to link directly to your feed in your guest posts, do it!

2. Blog Commenting: This traffic generating technique is widely used yet still effective. It is very important to do your best to spread your brand through blog commenting. Some things you might want to consider when trying to promote your blog through blog commenting is:

i. Be professional – make sure your avatar, name and everything is professional.

ii. contribute – you don’t need to comment on blogs for its sake or solely because of the traffic you will gain from it but make sure every comment you make on blogs adds value to both the author of the post and the readers.

iii. Help out – If you see somebody asking a question you have an answer to, feel free to help out and give you answer.

3. SEO: I get a lot of my traffic from search engines so I never underestimate their potentials. It is very important not to neglect this very important aspect of SEO, it might be work initially but the result is worth it. This blog is only 3 months and I get almost 2,000 visitors from search engines every month.

If I should talk about traffic alone in this post then it will be times 2 of what it already is (presently over 2200 words). My advice for you is to get my ultimate guide on traffic.

How do you Really Make Money

Now to the point, all the above was just me trying to prove to you why blogging alone cannot make you money. The question that arises now is, how do you truly make money? This question has a simple answer, “turn your blog into a business!“. Since you have already built a solid blog, turning it into a business shouldn’t be a problem.

Turning Your Blog into a Business

There are several ways to turn your blog into a business and I will be giving some practical advice on how to turn your blog into a business below.

1. Offer Services on Your Blog: One great way to make money from your blog is by offering some kind of services on your blog. It might range from you running a coaching service, helping people setup their blogs, giving people advice on how to improve their businesses or anything you deem fit as long as it relates to your niche. There are people willing to pay, only if you could let them know you have what they want!

2. Start Your Product: Another great way to monetize your blog is by starting your own product. There are many factors to be considered when starting your own product but it is always advisable to make sure your buyers get the best, you wouldn’t just want to give them any tips that they would otherwise find on your blog.

There are many products you can start, it can range from a membership site to a paid ebook, it can be a software or any other product you deem fit for your niche.

3. Affiliate Marketing: I can’t say this better than my friend Tran Tinh from AZblogtips.com who makes over $2000 every month from only one blog with less than 7,000 monthly visitors, I have scheduled an interview with him and that will be live soon. You can also subscribe to his blog cos he knows what he is saying.

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