My 5 Minutes Blogging Recap

I just want to write a quick recap about what I have done in the past month. This short post also testing my writing speed in English. That's why this post titled my 5 minutes blogging recap. Ok, let's go on then… what it is 2 minutes already?

As you know that, I didn't do my monthly blogging recap on February since my full time job made my stressed in and out. Actually, I don't have any blogging activities to be recapped because I only have 3 posts on February and my blog statistic is horrible. My blog almost sank in to the sea of blogosphere and no one noticed it including me. However, thanks to my fellow blogger shkhanal, that make me realized that there is always someone who will be noticed what you do and don't do. Even if your blog is just starting and you feel like a foolish newbie. After all, blogging is about getting feedback from others, especially from another blogger.

Oh my God, it only 30 seconds left…

Okay, here is my promise to myself, that I am not going to abandon my blog again for such a long period and I will find the way to put my blogging goal as one of my highest priority. I hope that this blog will run in the same way as I have planned before. I'll do my best.

Every feedback is valuable for me, so don't be shy to write a comment, suggestion or criticism. Thanks.

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I Learned From the Best, I Learned From You; February 2010

This post (I learn from the best, I learn from you) is part of my appreciation for most of the blogger that I have followed. Although I am not Blogging for a while, it doesn't mean that I unplugged my internet. I always reading their update, since I am subscribing to their Rss feed. And here are 19 posts which I find useful and inspiring, I hope it will do to you too.

1. 3 Less-Known Ways to Find Guest Posting Opportunities

2. Don't Let Your Ignorance Stop You

3. How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps

4. How I Leaped from Pagerank 0 to 4 in 21 Days Without any Connections

5. Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb

6. 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang

7. 3 Unusual Blogging Tips

8. How To Know When You've Burned Out

9. 5 Simple Ways to Find Your Passion and Take Your Blog from Zero to Hero

10. The Law of Attraction Explained

11. 40 Chinese Proverbs for Entrepreneurship

12. 25 Great Blogger Widgets

13. This You????: Yet Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter [WARNING]

14. 5 Internet Marketing Strategies That Don't Work

15. Your First 30 Days of Blogging

16. Are You Making These Business Mistakes?

17. I wish My Competitors Well And You Should Too

18. Interview: Mark Bao, 11 Companies and 2 Foundations by Age 17

19. Why I dumped 51,963 Twitter Users Overnight


 

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Free eBook Review; Make Money Blogging

Every blogger master always recommended on their blogging tips to give away freebies for all the readers. The most common freebies that usually distributed free by most of blogger and internet marketer is ebook. By giving away free ebook, you will gain more exposure and as well as promotion for your blog and/or product.

I am trying to review every free ebook that I can find on the blogosphere. I will review them one by one, from the design through their contents. Of course, with my own style of review but I promise it will be an honest review.

In this first ebook review post, I reviewed Daniel Scocco's Make Money Blogging ebook. As you know, Daniel Scocco is one of the successful blogger. In one of his famous blog (dailyblogtips.com), he gives away free ebook for his newsletter subscribers.

In this book, Daniel sharing his knowledge about how to make money from blog. What I like about this ebook is, He described it in clear writing skill that easy to understand for newbie blogger, like me. He uses plain English, which is not confusing to understand.

The content. Daniel wrote the subject of this ebook in systematic order. He explains how to make money blogging from the scratch, from choosing the blog platform, throughout the stage of making money. The idea flowing from one chapter to another in a good transition, it makes me read the whole ebook continuously, without stopping by. I find enjoyable reading it, because of it, I understand now, making money from blog need time and hard effort.

However, there is one element of an ebook, which this ebook doesn't have, which is, Table of Content. I don't know why Daniel didn't put it. Can you explain it Daniel?

The design. I think the design of this ebook is too simple. The images are common (you can find this kind of images in istockphoto.com), although they are eye catching but they are not unique. Moreover, I think that the page margin of this ebook is too small, too much white space on the left side. I guess, it will be nice if the white space filled with wonderful background image (like a twitter background, maybe).

Conclusion; as free ebook, the making money blogging is good. I give it 4 points in the scale of five, for the writing and the subject. However, for the design, I give it 2 points in the scale of five.

If you have read the ebook, you may agree or disagree with my review. I love to have your comments. For those, who are not reading this book yet, you can download the book of "Make Money Blogging" in dailyblogtips.com.

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Don’t Ignore Your Reader, It Will Hurt Your Blog

I am not blogging for almost a month right now. Although I have some reasons for doing it, but the reason is just a reason, no more different from excuse. I do owe an apologize for you who come to my blog regularly. I am ignoring you for such a long time without any reply to your comments and without visiting back to your blog.

Now, I am still trying to figure it out the way to come back to my blogging activities as I have planned before. I guess, I have to find a way to manage my time. My time management is suck and my energy is in low level.

Why am I telling you this?

I just want to share with you, all newbie blogger, about confidentiality. What the hell confidentiality has to do with ignoring the readers? Yes, it has. From what I have been through, all the ignorance was coming from my lack of confident. I was not confident enough to make a conversation with other bloggers, even with newbie bloggers like me. I don't know why, but this lack of confident attitude make me feel small. I thought that my blog is small and no one actually read my posts. In the end, that negative attitude drained my energy, I didn't have enough fuel to blog anymore...

Now, I am charging myself, although is not fully charged yet. I have a couple posts idea on my head and ready to take a roll. Just wait and see, I hope you will enjoy reading it and useful for you.

For you, my fellow newbie blogger, I have a few tips if you have the same experience as I do:

1. Be confident. You should not think that you just newbie blogger and your blog is still new. You should respect yourself; no one will respect you if you don't respect yourself. Blogging is all about having community that support and respect each other. There is always somebody, who will give you feedback, no matter whom you are, even if you are a newbie.

2. Engage with your readers. If your blog still, it is obvious that the number of readers who commented, still small. Even if you only have one commenter, you must reply to his/her comment immediately. By doing it, you doing the sense of community and start building a foundation of large community building. Engage with your reader, no matter how small it is, having their feedback is a fuel, which can charged your blogging energy.

3. Know your limitation. I have a suggestion for your blogging goal; don't set it too low or too high. You have to know your strength, weakness and limitation first, before you make blogging plan. If you think you only can manage to publish once a week, just be it, don't push yourself too hard. Just plan it as you wish, stick to it and be consistent. Don't do like I did before.

That's all, folks. I hope you enjoy my brand new post in my new blogging episode. Just remember: "Ignoring your reader will hurt your blog".

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uSamp; The Market Research Company That You Can Rely On

Let's say that you have established your business, and now you are seeking for a new business opportunity outside your country. What should you do? Firstly, just as you did when you started your business, you must do a market research. You must have valid market data, before you decide to start you business. That is why you must hire trusted market research firm to have solid market data. Finding one is a little bit hard; you have to be careful choosing the research firm, you must choose the one that has wide range of panel data. If the firm has wide variety of panelist, you can be sure that you will get valid and solid market data for the result. You do not have to take the survey for yourself, because you can rely on them and let them do the mess for you.

Hiring a market research firm, surely, will cost you a lot of money. Nevertheless, if you have tight starting budget, maybe you should consider hiring an online research firm. They will conduct an online survey on the specific target panelist, which you choose. I know finding one trusted and reliable online research firm is another tough job, although is not hard either. However, I have found one reliable online research firm which has a huge, wide range and hard to find panelist member. This firm has specific target panelist which will resulted valid market data for your new business.

They called themselves uSamp, a new emergence online research firm, which has a huge panelist member across country and continent. They categorize their panelist into almost any criteria and they can conduct market research in any business segment: Asian market research, b2b market research, automotive market research etc. Therefore, you can have solid market data, based on specific target market that you want to pursued for your new business opportunity.

Note: This information above is not only for offline business owner, but also for online business owner who has huge list of newsletter members. You can join the uSamp partnership program. By becomes their partner, you can conduct uSamp online survey to your member in your own site. The interesting part of it, you are not the only one to receive some money, but also your site member for doing the survey. Your member will receive variety of benefits, from online gift certificate to Paypal cash credit. This will catch your site member to take uSamp's online survey. It is a mutual benefit for you and your site member, and in the end, you will have a loyal member because of this.

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7 Tips to Promote Your Blog In The Early Stage

As a newbie blogger, one thing that I have to do is promoting the blog. A new blog has to be notice first before it can attract visitors. When your blog become well recognize, traffics will come in steady number.

Blog promoting is a process of recognizing throughout the internet's web. Moreover, it has to do in the right way, not in the tricky and hacky kind of way, to avoid your blog being banned by the Search Engine.

These are the steps that you need to do to promote your blog in the early stage:

1. Submit it to Search Engine. Although Search Engine has spider web robot that crawled your new blog and indexed it to their web server, but it would be better if you submit your blog's URL to them. 
There are so many Search Engine around the net but the major Search Engine always been the best source for leading visitor to your blog. And these are a few source link for submitting your blog URL to the search engine:
- Google ;http:/google.com/addurl  
- Yahoo ;http:/siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit  
- MSN ;http:/search.masn.com/docs/submit  
I am not going to explain step by step guide how to submit your URL in detail, you can follow the instruction on each Search Engine's site.

2. submit it to ODP Dmoz. ODP (Open Directory Project) Dmoz is still the largest Search Engine directory. It has wide range of category on it server and it indexed the URL of sites and blogs manually by thousand of its project editor volunteers. That is why being indexes in it is a little bit hard but once your submission approved, another Search engine will crawled your site/blog also, because ODP Dmoz directory is Search Engine Directory, which use by many Search Engine as their data source.

3. Submit it to Blog Directory. You can promoted your blog by submitted it to blog directories, sometime it helps you for recognizing your blog to the internet audience, even the blog directory member is another blogger. If your blog has well recognized by the blog directory's member, your blog will be a star and it will have massive traffic from it. 
These are few list of blog directory or you can say Blog Community Directory:Technorati, Blog Pulse, Blog Digger, My Bloglog, Digg and the list will go up, but I intend to write the complete list on my upcoming Link post.

4. Ping your blog. Ping is a process that tells the RSS Search engine that you have updated your blog. You can use Ping service for ping your blog into many Blog Directory.

5. Blogwalking. Blogwalking is an ultimate trick for promoting your new blog. Visiting another blogs and left your mark in each one of it is a way to make you and your blog being recognize. Although is not going to get your blog huge traffics all of the sudden but it at lease it will make your blog being noticed by other bloggers and their readers. If you do it consistently, I am sure, in the end, you will get good amount of traffic.

6. Link exchange. Making reciprocal link with other blogs, it's a sure way to make your blog get a wider exposure. When your blog's links appeared on many blogs, the change to be notice is a lot better. By doing the link exchange, you also make a spider web of community around your blog.

7. Buy ad place. This is last tips but also the least, because I only suggested it for you whose having enough budget for promotion.

I admitted the above tips may not complete and detail, but those are the steps that I use to promote my blog. Maybe you have other tips promoting your blog, please do not hesitant to add on comment section.

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Make Money Blogging with Blogadvertisingstore.com

Paid review is one of the money blogging methods that almost every newbie blogger loves the most. Its simplicity is the reason why this method being the popular among newbie. All the blogger has to do is just write a post review about the advertiser site or product and put a link or links inside the post, which sometime the advertiser specifies the targeted link.

There are many paid to review agency around the net, some of them reliable and trusted and some of them are scam. Choosing the right agency is the first task you should do before you decided to make money from this kind of money blogging method. Just look someone else blog post, how they reviewed the agency; positive, negative or remarkable. If most of the blogger said that the agency is good, you should sign up the site, but if it's not, don't even try to write their address on your browser.

I have joined many blog advertising agency, and make a decent income from them. Most of the agency that I've joined, have been around in the internet business for years. However, I also joined the new rising agency such as blogadvertisingstore.com. What I like about this one is their unique opportunities offering system. Not as another paid to review agencies, which offer their opportunities by biding, blogadvertisingstore.com, has sorted the opportunities by matching the blog category and its statistic with the advertiser desire. So, blogger who is seeking for the opportunities just have to reserve the opportunity they like and leave the opportunity they don't like. Their site navigation also easy to understand, you don't have to be confusing if you want to search the opportunity or add your blog their system. Moreover, their support team also reliable, you can contact them if you need any help regarding to their services, they will reply the question as soon as possible. Nevertheless, there is something that I don't like from them, is the way they hold $100 of your earning as a threshold of the payment. Well, overall this site is good and reliable and you can start your paid to blog journey from here. Happy Blogging.

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