Affiliate Marketing Blogs Get a Redesign

There’s nothing like a new custom wordpress theme to shake things up and get you motivated! I’m crazy about having a custom theme for my established blogs, it’s the best way to show you mean business and stand out from the crowd. With that said, I noticed two of my favorite affiliate marketing blogs recently had their own blogs completed redesigned. Let’s take a look! JonathanVolk.com The new theme over at JonathanVolk.com has added a lot more...

Turn WordPress into Cash Generating Q&A Site

WP-Answers is a cool new plugin that will convert WordPress into a question and answers community like Yahoo Answers. People can register and ask questions and then other members can then answer these questions to gain points. The question asker can then choose the best answer which is promoted to the top and the answerer gets extra points. The plugin includes 6 premium themes that are fully widgetized and include a theme options panel. [ Theme...

How to Outsource Your Blog… Or Part of It

You don’t need to be a big-time blogger to need to outsource some aspect of your blog. A beginning blogger with a serious business plan might want to contract a designer to create a skin for their blog. A entrepreneurial blogger might want to outsource some writing, or have an agency provide social media strategy for the blog. There are plenty of reasons why you might outsource some aspect of your blogging. But once you’ve identified the need, how should you proceed? Don’t make your first step...

Listening to the Voice of the Audience

I was just reading Patti Stafford’s post on Staying Motivated when you are not seeing results and I had to chuckle to myself because I’ve just recently changed things up big time on my own blog. For seven years I’ve written about myself and my life through my blog. I started doing a photograph a day in 2005 and would post the photo and write something about it or about my family. I began to wonder why I wasn’t getting many comments. I figured...

A Four-Step Guide to Generating Sales Leads from Your Blog

Dean: Did you know you can use your blog to make money offline? Blogger: Offline? What is this “offline” you speak of? Dean: It’s the opposite of “online.” Blogger: (confused silence) Dean: You know. Offline. Not on the internet. The real world. Blogger: (shaking phone) Not only does this stupid phone drop my calls, now it’s translating them into crazy moon language. Okay, I jest. But to listen to some bloggers, you would think a blog’s only...

Product Launches, Blogging & Facebook Ads with Ian Fernando

I first met Ian Fernando a few years back on my way to Affiliate Summit West, we were actually on the same plane, but didn’t meet til we both landed in Las Vegas. We recognized each other from our blogs, and being fellow New Jersey boys, we shared a limo to the hotel. That was a few years back, and since then we are both doing pretty well in the affiliate marketing space, and Ian has also made quite a name for himself… and also on the dance floor!...

Staying Motivated When You Aren’t Seeing Results

Do you feel like you’ve been working your backside off getting your blog or website in front of the public and just not seeing the results you thought you would? Is it time to give up and throw in the towel? I wouldn’t go that far but it may be time to pull some new tricks out of an old hat. Take a look at what you’ve been doing. Is there anything you can improve? Do you post quality content? Is your blog or website one big ad campaign? Do you...

Why Link Exchanges Are Like Mosquitoes

A Guest post by Akila from The Road Forks Last week, I had a revelation when, after spending ten minutes fiddling around with a VPN in Podunkville, China, I opened my email and found four link exchange requests, including one asking to exchange links with “The Toad Forks” rather than our website, The Road Forks. As I slammed my laptop lid down, I realized that link exchanges are the mosquitoes of the blogging world. Imagine that all of us bloggers — interesting and interested people engaged in...

A Few Facts About SEO

The other day someone I know approached me about taking a look at a business website because they’d spent a fair amount of money with a search engine optimization company toward getting the kind of traffic they thought they deserved. The mission failed miserably. I’ve been working with SEO as a content writer for several years now but I’m no expert.  If I was though, one of the first things I would do when writing a top ten list about the...

Cup of Joe: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is or Shut Up!

On Monday, we posted a piece about Philadelphia’s new Business Privilege Tax. In short the city now wants to tax bloggers whether they are making an income with their blog or not. It appears to be another case of a misguided municipality looking to bring in new revenue streams. As expected, most bloggers are angered by this new tax. I don’t live in Philadelphia and I try my hardest to not complain about taxes. Therefore, I want to ask a much more...

When Failure is Not an Option

What makes a successful blogger successful? Is it the time they put into it? Or who they know and associate with? Or maybe they just have a lucky charm and the world falls into their lap? All of these may contribute to their success, but for this post let’s say they’ve taken failure out of the equation; it’s not an option for them. Does that sound strange or even hokey? It’s not as weird as you might think. Go back to childhood for a minute. Did...

How to Get More Done

The most common question I’m asked lately seems to be: “How do you get so many things done?” To be perfectly honest – it’s a question I would never have anticipated anyone would ever ask of me – as I’ve mentioned here before, before I got into blogging I used to be quite…. well…. lazy. But since getting into blogging and starting my own business I have turned that around – at least on a work front (Mrs ProBlogger would still like me to do the dishes a little more). Over the last 6 years there...