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The Cheapest Online Business Investment is Software

By Randy R on September 11, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

The Cheapest Online Business Investment is Software

If you’ve decided to take on the world of running an online business then you’ve probably already ran into some of the early costs such as domains and hosting. You may have also spent some money on some learning materials which is fine if you need some guidance on what to do, although you can find most information by reading blogs thoroughly. As you get your first website live and you add some content onto the website you’ll want to begin getting traffic and earning money.

The problem is that the money isn’t going to just roll in and you need to invest time and money into your online business. Now you have two options when you need to get traffic to your website. You can do it yourself and invest in software to assist you or you can hire people to do it for you. Now if you’re completely clueless then you probably shouldn’t be attempting to run an online business. The problem when you hire people is that they will do the bare minimum and never talk to you again unless you place more money into their pockets. Now you can’t really blame them for doing this, but it’s not going to help you make money.

When you’re just starting out in the online business world you want to do everything for as cheap as possible. The cheapest online business investment you can make is buying the tools that will assist you making money from the beginning. There is no point wasting time doing things manually if you’re committed to running your online business. You will need to invest maybe $500 initially into your online business software and then you’ll be well on your way.

This isn’t a guaranteed method to making money with your business, your product and other things will reflect your success as well. When you get the tools you need though you’ll be lining yourself up for success. Even if it isn’t with your first website, you might choose a new niche to test out and it might work. The good thing about the online tools you’ll be buying is they can be used with all of your websites.

You’ll first want to purchase an online directory submitter, article directory submitter and social bookmarking submitter. These will make these processes automated rather then being done manually and can shave off hours of work every single day. You should also invest in a keyword tool so that you can properly analyze keywords for your website which reflects how well you’ll do. Keywords are very important to gaining the right targeted traffic so the investment is worth it.

Once your business starts making money then you can look at investing some of your profits into more tools for your business. There are plenty of awesome tools out there that automate processes online for your business and using them can save you lots of time and increase your potential reach. Don’t jump into an online business expecting to spend nothing and turn it into $500 a week, unless you plan on offering a service to other webmasters. If you want to be the webmaster though then expect to have some money that you can afford to invest into your online business initially for software.

How to Retain Your Blog Readership

By Randy R on May 20, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How to Retain Your Blog Readership

There are countless articles published on the internet talking about how you can build traffic to your blog and there seems to be an unlimited amount of resources to building your traffic. The only problem is that most of the traffic generation techniques that are being taught don’t send return visitors. I simply mean that you may get traffic by completing certain things like article marketing, social bookmarking and link building but the traffic typically won’t sustain and everyday you’ll need to regain the traffic. The point of blogging is to have a solid readership that comes back to your blog on a daily basis, and this is when you can start making good money with your blog so you need to do your best at retaining visitors. There are some great methods at retaining your visitors and building a readership and I’m going to briefly talk about some of these methods with you right now.

Unique Themes

You should make sure that your blog uses a unique theme, simply because too many people use the free blog themes and they don’t stand out anymore. If you use a unique theme that is attractive you can build your blogs branding while also gaining a solid readership. People are also more inclined to read blogs that are designed nicely according to surveys recently conducted. You can buy a coded WordPress theme for under $200 nowadays on many webmaster forums so the investment isn’t going to make you reach too deeply into your pockets.

Great Content

An attractive theme isn’t going to be the only thing you need in order to stand out from the rest of the blogging world and you’re going to need to put a lot of effort into your content as well. Writing blog posts is an ongoing process that you need to do everyday, but you need to make sure that you do in fact post daily so that when you begin to grow a readership they have content to read that is fresh. The search engines also love content so the more you post on your blog with useful content the more search engine placements you’ll begin ranking for.

RSS Feed Subscriber

You need to make sure you utilize the RSS feed subscriber which allows your readers to read your blog from a number of different blog readers on the internet. The more RSS feed subscribers you have the better because this means that people want to keep your blog nearby so they can continue reading it. You should have a widget in your header or sidebar that allows all of your readers to join your RSS feed and there is also a plug-in that you should use. The plug-in will post a short line at the bottom of each of your blog posts automatically that asks the reader to join your RSS feed and gives them the link to join. This is a great way at reminding people about your RSS feed and can result in more readership.

As you can tell there are quite a few methods that you can use to make your readership stick around and keep coming back to your blog. You should also keep reading the internet for other great sources because there are more ways to retain your blog readership other then the ones I listed above. You should also be trying to make your blog more enjoyable for the readers because after all the success of your blog depends solely on the readers.

All-about-blogging

By Randy R on July 1, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

All about blogging

Blogging can bring in a lot of money in your pockets. But many people don’t succeed in this, since they are impatient. You should be having the patience in you – to wait and see the results. Money may not be coming the very first month of your blogging. Depending on your skills, it will take some time. First of all, you should make a plan of what you are going to achieve. Your target should be something achievable. Its good to dream big, but don’t target big – start targeting things that you would be easily achieving.

You can start with one blog, and then go on increasing the count when you get used to it. Your first blog should be easy for you to update many times a day. And for updating a blog many times a day, you should be an expert in that field. Think a bit – you will be surely an expert in something. Some people blog – even about blogging. That’s because they are experts in blogging. Just like that, there will be some topic about which you would be easily making a lot of posts each day.

As mentioned above it’s important to select a niche about which you would be able to publish many posts per day. After you find such a niche, create a blog about it and start blogging. If you don’t have any funds with you to register and host a domain name, then you can go with a free sub domain under wordpress or blogspot. After a month, you should be with at least 50 posts. But this is not at all mandatory. It’s up to you, to decide the number of posts. But if you are gonna start it the best way, then go for – 50 articles per month. The more, the better. By this time, your site will be indexed in Google. You can promote the site using your own tricks and methods. And once, you have posts in your blog, you can start bringing traffic to it. I hope you know how to do that.

Once you get traffic in your first blog, you can slowly go on increasing the number of blogs that you update daily. The new blogs that you create will also be getting traffic, if you put a link to those blogs from your first blog. And if you are thinking of making some money out of these blogs, then you can start selling ad space, banners and links on your blog. A blog with traffic can make a lot of money. So, that’s it about blogging, if you are serious about making money online through blogging, then go for it.

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