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Why should You Have a Website or Blog?

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Business owners, listen up! This post is for you. Today over on my Facebook page, I asked what you wanted me to post about today. One suggestion was “the importance of having a website”, and it stuck out like a sore thumb to me because not only is it something I know a great deal about, but it’s also something that I would spend a good majority of my time explaining to future potential clients when small businesses were my main focus for web design.

Just the other day, I was speaking with a potential client who was unsure about whether or not they needed a website. “We are already listed in the Yellow Pages” he proceeded to tell me.

Alright, stop right there. Rewind for a moment and let’s take that in again… You are in the Yellow Pages!? First of all, when was the last time you personally looked through a Yellow Pages book? Would you consider the Yellow Pages website something that you frequent often or consider your first choice for finding a business? If you do, I apologize but in 2013 the first thing people do is hop on their computer and Google whatever it is they are looking for… and they will usually be looking for your official website, not a random text listing on a page filled with hundreds of other similar businesses.

The same can be said about using a social networking site like Facebook as your official “website”. Facebook is not supposed to be used this way. It is a social networking site, and it is great to have your own company page to interact with your customers and keep your business fresh in their minds, but it is by no means a great place to call home. Why? Because Facebook is not personalized. It’s freebie website jam packed with other attention-grabbing details that have absolutely nothing to do with your business. Your own website should have your own logo in the top corner, not the Facebook logo. So while it is a great place to increase your customer base and share photos, deals, and extras, an official website with proper navigation and important information should still be the place that you direct these fans to so that they can actually see all aspects of your business.

Think of it this way: Your website is your business card. It is your brochure, your flyer, your billboard. It is the very first impression somebody gets to see of your company, which is also why it’s important to have a website that is nicely designed. A poorly designed website is just as bad as having no website at all. It is like you showed up for an important business meeting with potential customers in your pajamas.
Your website should be easy to navigate and provide a wonderful visitor experience. What attracts you to other websites? Think about these elements and try to replicate them in your own design and user experience. It should contain your contact information, clear and straight to the point information about your company and products/services, your location and/or a map to your location if you are a brick and mortar business, great imagery with nice photographs, and overall it should be a place that gives the visitor the impression that you are a professional business and care about how you portray yourself.

If you hand somebody a business card without a website URL on the front of it, your chances of actually having that person check you out are slim to none. Why? Because they physically can’t check you out. You can talk somebody’s ear off about your business and paint a picture in their minds about what you do, but do you think that they will remember your story three weeks from now when they find your card sitting on their table? Chances are the answer is no. They will grab your card, look for a website URL in hopes of having that memory refreshed and be disappointed to realize that there is none. Case in point: we get a lot of people dropping business cards and brochures off at our house because we live in a newer development. From paving companies to landscapers and everything in between. If I receive a business card from a landscaper that only contains their phone number and no website URL, into the trash that card goes. How is somebody supposed to check out your landscaping work and choose you if you have no portfolio or web gallery? For something as visual as landscaping, there is absolutely no excuse as to why you don’t have a website.
So let’s recap all of the reasons you need your own website:

To stand out among 100’s of other businesses
To show your professionalism
To separate yourself from text listings
To attract new customers through web searches
To brand yourself and not rely on freebie websites with their own branding
To show that you care about how you are portrayed
To paint a visual picture of your company

Finally, when creating your new website, I already mentioned how a great design is important, but something that is equally important is having your own custom URL and custom email addresses. This is just another way to (once again) portray your professionalism and show that you don’t need to rely on freebie websites like Gmail or Hotmail for email, or free website builders (i.e. yourcompanyname.freewebsite.com

Personally, I am hugely against businesses using freebie email accounts for the simple fact that it looks incredibly unprofessional. Your company is not affiliated with Gmail or Hotmail, so why lump yourself into that same category of people looking for a free email address? An info@sallyssalon.com email address looks far more appealing than sallyssalon@hotmail.com. Not only does it look better, but it gives you a little more credibility with customers/clients knowing that you’ve taken the time to set up proper email accounts. A domain name costs about $10 (or less) a year and can be set up in minutes. With your domain name you usually get free email addresses. Use them!

Hopefully I’ve given you some insight as to why having your own website for your business is super important. If you invest the time and a little money, I promise you it will pay off in the end. Good luck!

Blogger Money

Quit Your Job & Make More Money From Blogging

10:14 PM

You know everybody supposes we’re tricks, correct.

To a large portion of the world, blogging is a joke.

It isn’t a profession. It isn’t an approach to profit. It isn’t an apparatus for changing the world.

According to me, it is a leisure activity, redirection, craze that’ll go back and forth. Granted, you can begin a site, yet don’t depend on it to take you anyplace. That is simply senseless.

Have a go at telling your family, companions, or collaborators you need to stop your occupation and profit blogging. They’ll grin amiably and ask, “Does anyone truly profit from that?”

Yes, they need you to have dreams. Yes, they need you to pursue them. Yes, they need you to succeed.

Yet they likewise need you to be “reasonable.“

On the off chance that you truly need to enhance your life, you ought to get a progressed degree, compose a book, or even begin your business, not hang all your trusts and dreams on some moronic little blog. There’s no cash in it.

On the other, hand is there.

Now You Can Quit Your Job & Make Even More Money From Blogging

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Here’s the thing:

You’re Not a Fool. You Can Make Money from Blogging.

Thus, you need to bring home the bacon showing other individuals what you know.

Teachers do it. So do open speakers and top rated creators. The world of counseling is a $415 billion industry for goodness sake. And what are the experts up to?

Blogging is the same. It’s in any case old models with some rocket fuel tossed in, affability of online networking.

Truth be told, we should call that the first lesson:

1) You’re Not Just a Blogger

You’re a master, an educator, a coach, possibly an ambitious person. Your site is essentially a Launchpad for each one of those things.

Look around, and you’ll discover almost all “bloggers” who make a better than average salaries have books, courses, a side profession as a keynote speaker, or even programming. They profit by that means. Their web journal is simply the “freebie” they offer away to pull in clients or customers.

2) Don’t Sell Advertising

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Offering ads is alluring, on the grounds that its easy revenue, yet you can normally make 3-10x more cash utilizing the same “promotion space” to offer your items and administrations or even push a subsidiary item.

Pat Flynn, for instance, makes about $50,000 a month in commissions from pushing Bluehost.

We generally push our items, yet we’re additionally currently making member deals pipes for Leadpages and Stablehost, both of which offer robust commissions (and are extraordinary items as well!)

3) Build the Funnel in Reverse

We’ve all accomplished deals channels.

An organization lures you with a freebie, then they offer you something shabby however overwhelming, and afterward they steadily sweet talk you into purchasing more costly stuff. It’s an attempted and genuine promoting strategy, and you ought to completely construct a deals pipe for your website.

What you may not know is you ought to fabricate it in opposite.

A considerable measure of bloggers dispatch a modest digital book as their first item, and afterward they get baffled when they don’t profit. Here’s the reason: the genuine benefit is at the end of the channel, not the starting.

Offering eBooks is fine and dandy in the event that you have about six more costly items to offer your client a while later, however its absolute senseless on the off chance that you don’t. You’re much better off making and offering the extravagant item first and foremost, and afterward step by step make less expensive and less expensive items.

When you do have a few less extravagant items to offer, you can offer those to new individuals in the first place, protected in the learning that you have something more beneficial up your sleeve to offer them later.

4) There’s No Such Thing As a “Shabby” Market

“Anyhow Jon,” I can hear you spluttering. “I can’t offer a $10,000 item! My clients don’t have that much cash.”

My reaction: you’re 98% right. Unless you’re offering solely to multimillionaires, the larger part of your client base won’t have the capacity to bear the cost of premium items, yet what’s intriguing is it doesn’t make a difference. Intermittently, you can profit offering to the 2% than you can to the whole 98% joined together.

For example, our $10,000 item is a year-long drilling system for authors – a gathering that is not precisely known for their riches, however I generally fill each of the 10 spots inside minutes of opening the project. Here’s the reason: I tell 40,000 journalists about it. 2% of 40,000 are 800 individuals who may potentially purchase an item in that value range. By just tolerating 10, I’m making a circumstance of amazing lack.

You can do likewise thing, regardless of the fact that your rundown is much more diminutive. On the off chance that you have 100 supporters, chances are two of them may be ready to purchase premium items or administrations from you, and those two will frequently pay you more cash than the other 98 joined.

5) You Are the Bottleneck

Indeed, time is our most serious issue as bloggers. Not just are we anticipated that will distribute a consistent stream of substance on our online journals, yet we additionally need to manage specialized issues, read books and articles about our field, make new items to offer, response questions from readers… the rundown continues endlessly.

The further into it you go, the even more clear it turns into that you can’t do everything.

Thus, what’s the reply?

Whether you accept it or not, I discovered replies from contemplating assembling courses of action. In the event that one machine is working slower than others in a plant, it can actually cost the organization a huge number of dollars for every hour.

To verify it never happens, shrewd plant administrators are ready to use any measure of cash to wipe out bottlenecks.

They have a boundless plan, because the expense of taking out the bottleneck never verges on the expense of the bottleneck itself.

The same is valid for us, aside from the results are regularly distinctive. As opposed to purchasing another machine, for instance, we may buy another sort of programming that computerizes some of our business, or we may enlist a virtual partner or developer. It might be costly, yes, however its

advantageous on the off chance that it spares you enough time, on the grounds that then you can commit that time to higher quality exercises.

6) In the Beginning, Creating Content for Your Own Blog Is Silly

I attempted to sneak this one under lesson #8, yet I think it is essential enough to get its own particular number, regardless of the fact that it does get me named an apostate and blazed at the stake. Since here’s the arrangement:

At the outset, your site is similar to a void classroom. Remaining in front and giving an address is senseless, because beyond any doubt, it may make you feel paramount, yet there’s no one tuning in.

You’re in solitude, and you can think of the most brilliant, most captivating address ever, yet it won’t matter, because nobody else heard it.

When you first begin, composition content for your own particular online journal is one of the slightest proficient methods for building your group of onlookers.

You’re obviously better off serving a little time as a “visitor instructor” first. As such, compose visitor posts for another person’s crowd, awe the damnation out of them, and siphon off a part of their readership for yourself.

7) Don’t Waste Time on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and so forth.

Here’s an alternate stunner: you know your fantasy of developing a tremendous after on Facebook or Twitter and afterward utilizing it to advertise your online journal?

That being said, it’s a stupid thought. Out of all that we’ve tried, building our social networking records delivered the most reduced guest for every hour figure. At the end of the day, it perhaps the most exceedingly awful way you can invest your time.

Does that mean having supporters in those spots is futile?

No. Facebook is decent in light of the fact that you can promote to your devotees. Google+ can help support your web crawler rankings. Indeed with those profits however, it shouldn’t be close to the highest priority on your rundown for things to do.

As I would like to think, you shouldn’t ponder them at all until you hit 10,000 endorsers, and after that outsource the administration of them to another person. You can utilize your time all the more proficiently within different spots, for example,

8) Promote The Crap Out of Your Content

The issue is practically nobody pushes their substance enough. What’s more by “advancement,” I’m not looking at offering your posts on Twitter and Facebook. I’m discussing blogger outreach – the methodology of building associations with influencers and requesting that they impart your work.

At the very least, you ought to invest exactly to the extent that on effort as you do making your substance. Thus, in case you’re using 10 hours a week composing blog entries, you ought to be using 10 hours a week on effort as well.

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Can’t do that? At that point scale back the amount substance you’re making. Use five hours on composing blog entries and five hours on effort. You’ll improve results.

9) Start Selling from Day One

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To what extent would it be a good idea for you to hold up before you start offering? 1K or 10K of supporters!Or even more!

Nope. Begin offering from the very first moment. Here’s the reason:

One of the greatest variables influencing the pace of your development is who you can contract to help you. Since you’re the bottleneck, so you need to contract a virtual partner and somebody to handle the majority of the specialized points of interest when you perhaps can, yet obviously, that obliges cash.

Thus, you need to begin offering at a good pace.

Presently, an admonition: don’t transform your web journal into an enormous deals pitch. No one likes that. You ought to, and then again, be putting forth something your crowd needs and needs.

Don’t push them on it, yet do make it accessible, and do remind them every now and then that they can buy it.

10) Teach Others What You Learned

Presently, we go to the purpose behind this post.

Basic:

It’s my obligation. On the off chance that individuals are steadily going to appreciate blogging as a true blue plan of action, those of us who are effective need to talk up and offer what we’ve learned.

None of us works in a vacuum. The main way we can propel our field all in all is to overall impart what we’ve learned.

What’s more it is a field. There are a great many individuals around the globe bringing home the bacon from blogging. The issue is, there’s not a storehouse, a focal group where we can all discussion and gain from one another. Throughout the following few months, that is something we’re going to change.

Meanwhile, might you be able to help me out?

Offer this post. So it’ll get me movement, as well as so other individuals can see that you truly can acquire a true blue wage from blogging. Possibly perusing this will even help them do it.

Truth be told, isn’t that what we’re here to do? Are we supposed to help individuals?

At last, this is the thing that I love the most about blogging: each article we distribute, each course we make, each instructing call we do can transform someone’s life.

Possibly not generally in a huge manner, however we touch thousands upon a large number of individuals, and we make their lives simply a tiny bit better. We advise them, we move them, and we provide for them the guide for attaining their fantasies.

What’s more the best part?

We get paid for it. It’s our employment.

I simply wish more individuals knew it was a reasonable profession. We should change that, might we?

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Blog Tips

Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Revenue

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Blogs nowadays are becoming a real source of income for some people and most of them have quit their real job because the money they earn through blogging is quite good as well. If you are thinking about starting blogging, then you have to think of more ways to increase your blog revenue as much as possible. Here are some tips to keep your cash flowing with the use of your blog.

If you are about to start your own blog, make sure you enjoy what you’re doing and you know a lot about what you’re writing. If you write interesting things and articles on your blog, then your readers will surely visit it again and again to read and look at some of your work.

In order to earn traffic for your blog, you have to capture the people’s attention and gaining popularity could be the trick. Put up video son your site to give your readers more things to look at and to make your blog more appealing. Your blog should be interesting and it should have a range of items for your viewers to see. While it is important to put up videos on your blog, you should also not rely solely on it. Make sure you update your blog regularly to keep the traffic going and for the items on it to be fresh and new all the time.
If you can put up more links on your blog, the better. Although most people don’t click on those links, some people still do, and when you have a lot of them then you’ll earn more money in the long run. Putting up links is an effortless way to earn money, and you can make use of it to design your site as well.
As a blogger, it is important that you earn your readers trust. If you can manage to be honest and open all the time, it will be greatly appreciated. Then again if you do make any mistake, just move on and try to learn from it and avoid doing it again. That way, you’ll earn other people’s trust and they might lead more people to your blog.
Avoid posting incorrect information in your blog because doing so will just reflect on you and your site. Make sure you do a lot of research before you post anything on it.
Earn more money by posting paid-to-answer-surveys, click links or earn a commission by posting other people’s products. Just be creative and you’ll earn money without breaking a sweat.

Use your blog to earn more money easily, and you can also utilize that money to pay for all of your bills or expenses to keep your credit score in good shape and to keep your credit rating in check. Do some more research online and you’ll increase you blog earnings in no time.

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Blog Tips

How to get traffic to your blog

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So now are getting to the point of this article where I start sharing everything I have learned over the last couple years about blogging. So, if you are like most, you want to create a blog so that others can read what you have to say. Sadly, people will not find your blog (in the beginning anyway) unless you do a little legwork. These are some of the things I did to get traffic and some that I still do. The first thing I suggest doing is writing a few great articles about your topic and feature them in your sidebar. Then I would start working on generating traffic, because you not only want traffic, but you want returning traffic as well.

Guest Posting!!

I think this is one of the best ways to start getting some quick traffic. Almost every blog I know allows guest posts (even this one) – and almost every one of those does not discriminate. What I mean is that most bloggers (that I know anyway) will accept or reject a guest post based on it’s quality, not on whether they know the person or not. This provides a great opportunity for a newbie to write an article that could be seen by 20,000 readers. I don’t know of any other method that could bring traffic as quick. I must admit, I could still do more guest posting myself. I have been pleased with the results in the past. The key is to write a great article – don’t hold back your best stuff. I have seen people grow their blogs very quickly by giving some of their best articles away as guest posts. Also, only submit unpublished content as a guest post. If it has already been published, then the blog that is allowing you to guest post won’t get any search engine traffic for that article. But there are places to republish your articles you have already published – we will get to that in a minute…

Join Directories

If I were starting a blog today, one of the first things I would do is Google “whatever topic I want to blog about” + “directory” This should return a list of web directories about your topic. Getting added to these directories will only help. You may not get a lot of traffic from them, but ultimately they will help you get more traffic from the search engines. A few of the more valuable ones to get you started…

Blog Commenting

One of the absolute best ways for new blogs to get traffic is just to comment on other blogs. Commenting with a thoughtful and provocative response will often send a few visitors your way. The blogging community is generally a very social community and those who are active in the community often reap the rewards of it.

Forum Commenting

Becoming involved in forums related to your topic and having a link to your blog in the signature line can send a few visitors. Google “your topic” and “forums” and you are sure to find a few. Just don’t be annoying and go in just to promote yourself. People can see that from a mile away. The new age of the internet (aka Web 2.0) is very much a “give and you shall receive” environment. If you seek to give and be a benefit before seeking your own rewards, you will be much better off. Why not get started at the LondonClicks?

Linking to other blogs

I don’t know what it is, but everyone wants to know when someone is talking about them. So it is with blogs. When people link to my site, I get a notification and often go check out who linked to me and what the context was. I have had some good relationships form just from this.

Create Hubpages

InfoBarrel.com, Hubpages.com, and a handful of others are sites that allow you to build a simple page about a topic. You can do it very quick and the pages often rank well in the search engines. If you build a page that gets a little bit of traffic and have links coming back to your site, you will catch some of those visitors. If that weren’t good enough, many of them allow you to earn money from your articles as well.

Article submissions

Submit articles to article submission sites. These sites collect articles and most allow a bio-section that can include a link back to your blog. Here are a few that are worth looking into…

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How to Get More comments on Blogspot Blogs

11:25 PM

Comment on your blog posts plays a major role, as it helps in adding more value to your article, helps in evaluating the popularity of your blog and more important it shows the quality of your readers. More over for me, comments on a blog post works as a big motivation. If you are someone who is struggling with zero or very few comments on your blog, this post is for you. This post is specific for BlogSpot blog, as BlogSpot commenting form is different than standard comment form offered by WordPress.

I’m a firm believer of commenting is one free and effective marketing technique for a blogger, and that’s why I comment on daily basis. Though, when ever I land on a BlogSpot blog, I find it hard to comment due to many issues like sometime I need to login, sometime captcha is a big turn-off. Today, I will take some of the important tips which you can follow on your BlogSpot blog to improve the number of comments.

How to Get quality comments on your BlogSpot blog?

Quality of the article:

There are times when we are bound to comment because the content of the post is thought-provoking. Your content is the biggest trick to get meaningful comments and you can further improve it by asking a question at the end. This could be as simple as “How did you feel about this post” or asking more to the point question. For example, here in this post I ended up by asking “Share more tips which worked for you to get more comments on your BlogSpot blog”?

One thing which I hate about blogspot blog comment box is it’s not as friendly as wordpress comment form, where we can simply fill the form, comment and hit submit. Probably that’s why I could not reciprocate comment on blogspot blog.

Here are few things which you can do to increase your blogspot comments number and this will be more like boosting your blog authority.

Disqus

Disqus is my first choice and first thing I will say that you should implement in your blogspot blog, since it’s easy to comment on Disqus powered comment form. It’s social media integration will prompt users to add more comments and you will see more comments in your blogspot blog posts.

Discus integration is easy and you can get all the support from Disqus team to integrate it into your blog.

Intense debate

Intense debate is my second choice after Disqus, it also makes the commenting very easy and more over Easy comment addon, support it, so people using this add-on, will find it very easy to comment. See my previous post on Intense debate : WordPress style comment for blogspot blog

Read: How to integrate Intense debate to your BlogSpot Blog

I’m not saying to implement all of them above, but if you really want to see 2X more comment (Ignoring 0 ) , you should at least a commenting form like DISQUS which makes commenting easier for your readers.
I’m sure those who have read and know about why commenting is important for your blog, will love to comment on your blog after this.

Do let us know after making changes in your blogspot blog, and of course your experience , if this simple changes made your blog more comment friendly or not?