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Writing content for a ‘money making’ blog requires a very different and strategic approach. In this article I’ll give you the top 5 mistakes bloggers make and how you should avoid them. It can be very easy as a blogger (wanting to make money) to be self-absorbed in the mindset of how can this blog [...]

Making money by blogging online has become very popular… But, only a handful of these bloggers actually make any money! Some bloggers don’t want to make money and blog just to express themselves. But, other bloggers create their blogs with the purpose of making money from it. They usually start very enthusiastically and blog daily. [...]

Finding out which keyword phrases people are using to find information about your niche, is another important step in providing the right offer to the right people. The easiest way to do this, is to start with Google.com and the Wonder Wheel. This tool will provide a very clear indication of the most commonly searched [...]

Understanding the demographics of your market is absolutely imperative. It allows you to tailor your website exactly to the needs of your customer. A website targeted at men aged 35 to 45 will look very different to a website targeted to teenagers. You can get free demographic information on your niche, or a competitors website, [...]

If you have been following along with my training, you should have a list of at least 5 different niches, that have the potential to make you some great money. The problem now becomes… Which niche should you start with? A common newbie mistake is to try and build them all. This usually ends up [...]

You need to go where the money is… Competitors are a GOOD thing because they could be joint venture partners in the future. Stay away from markets with no competition. Golf is a highly competitive market like weight loss… But, new golf information and diet books come out regularly and they still sell. A passionate [...]

Research is the most important part of this whole process. The right research will improve your chances of success drastically. Most people don’t spend nearly enough time doing the research. This mistake usually results in hours, days, weeks and months being wasted in building their online business, only to find out that people won’t pay [...]

These 2 mistakes cost me 3 years of income… Which I conservatively estimated to be about $246,000… ouch! Mistake #1 – Not Focusing on 1 Strategy Mistake #2 – Listening To More Than 1 Expert I started my “make money on the internet” adventure back in 2006 after listening to a couple excitedly tell their [...]

Want to know how you can password protect a WordPress page or post? Watch this quick video tutorial to see how…  

Do you ever wonder how some people can afford to spend multiple weeks or even months out of the year traipsing around exotic locations while still managing to effectively run hugely successful businesses? It doesn’t seem quite fair, does it? You spend hours upon hours trying to improve your business and increase revenue, and you [...]

A landing page is also known as a squeeze or optin page. It’s function is to offer a free report, video, audio or something similar in exchange for the visitors name and email address. This is the most important page of your website because it allows you to build a list of subscribers that are [...]

Are you wanting to buy a domain name? In the video below I show you where to get the best deal at Namecheap and how you should buy your domain. Maybe you don’t know what a domain is… well it is the inmyhomeoffice.com part of the url http://www.inmyhomeoffice.com/

It would be a waste of your valuable time to build a blog and then find you can’t make any money from it. As I’ve explained before it can be easy to rank high in the search engines and get free organic traffic with the right keyword phrase choice. For example building a blog around the keyword phrase “model railroading” would be very hard to rank for but “model railroading for beginners” would be fairly easily.

Wordpress themes are what transform your blog into a professional looking website. There are thousands of free Wordpress themes which are guaranteed to fit the needs of your blog. Having the sidebar on the left or right or both sides are something that you will need to decide, but there is a free theme to fit most needs.

Buying the correct hosting is imperative to make your “making money on the internet” life a whole lot easier. We recommend Hostgator for 3 reasons: Excellent support – When your website goes down you want to be able to contact your website hosting company and get it fixed quickly. Cpanel – is a very handy [...]

Changing the look and feel of your blog can have a dramatic effect on your results. In the past blogs consisted of a header, sidebar and content area. Today blog themes can be easily manipulated to produce optin pages, sales pages (which are skinny or wide) and so much more. I used to spend days [...]

The best looking website, with the best conversion rate, will fail dismally without targeted traffic. It’s a fact! Traffic is the lifeblood of your website… without it you will make no money! This is something I struggled with in the beginning. I was always tweaking my site to make it look better, make it convert [...]

It’s no secret that in a matter of minutes you can have a professional looking website. If it is configured properly, it will gradually attract an audience of people searching for the information you provide. And, by attracting an audience to your website, there will be a portion of those readers that will pay for [...]

Why is it so common that a hyped sales page says you can make thousands of dollars quickly, but this is almost never the case? It may be affiliate marketing, selling advertising space on your site or selling your own product, it always is so much harder than what the sales page said. Find a [...]