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How to overcome writer’s block
I personally, sometimes, find it difficult to just START writing. Other times, ideas and what to actually write just come to me and my fingers simply cannot keep up with my thoughts. But writing simply doesn’t come naturally to me. I do have to work hard at it and, like many others, I suffer from the ‘staring into a blank piece of paper’ syndrome: the anxiety of the writer’s block.
How to stay focused when working from home
Twenty-nine years ago, I started my full-time career. I was studying for a Computer Science degree and I got bored! I dropped out. I decided to leave. I wanted to earn some money. I gave up the degree course. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I just knew I didn’t want to go to college anymore. I visited the job centre for a few days. There was a job in the banking area of London. Right in the city of London. The job was for a Pensions Clerk.
Design a workable structure for your day
Following on from my recent post regarding the focus needed to work from home, once you understand what makes you tick and what your preferences are, you can design a workable structure for your day. The way you organise your day may be dictated by commitments relating to children or other responsibilities, so start with considerations like the school run, and build your day around them.
While working from home make the most of your time
Time management is one of the buzzwords of recent times and there is an infinite amount of information out there, in books, on the net, and in training courses. But it’s very simple – when you think about it, you can’t manage time at all. What you can do is manage yourself and prioritise the demands on your time. There’s a famous story about this. The details vary depending where you read it, but the basic principle is the same.
What can you do about Procrastination?
This is the big one for homeworkers, isn’t it? I think we all procrastinate to some extent. You put off something which you know you’ve got to do at some point, and which actually you could do straightaway. You put off to try and make more pleasant, but often end up making yourself feel stressed and guilty instead. There are many ways you can procrastinate and some of them masquerade as being helpful.
How good is your guarantee?
I only buy products and resources on-line when a guarantee of a refund is offered. If there is no refund guarantee in place, I don’t buy. Why? Because anyone can sell on-line. Anyone can create a product, build a sales page, start promoting, start selling and that product could be rubbish.
Do you know what you are Recommending?
It’s no secret I make money by recommending and selling other peoples products as an affiliate. I try to be as open as possible about that fact and I actually have an “Affiliate Disclosure” page. But I do have one strict rule. I only recommend products I have tried out and gained something from, myself. Not too long ago I received an email from someone who invited me to partake in a joint venture for a product that was converting at 12.5%.
The Dreaded Sales Phone Call
My mobile phone rang at 5pm last night. I looked at the number and didn’t recognise it but still answered it. “Hi it’s XXXX on behalf of Mike Filsaime. It’s your lucky day” “Why is it my lucky day?” “Well, Mike Filsaime wants to work with you” “Am I supposed to be impressed with that? Who the heck is Mike Filsaime? Never heard of him. Is he a spiritual leader?” Of course, I’ve heard of Mike but I’ve been on the end of these types of phone calls before, so I thought I would play with the guy.
Eliminate the Fear
What’s the biggest thing holding you back from taking your blogging business to the next level of success? In most cases, it’s not money. You don’t need much money to do this. In most cases, it’s not time. Everyone has the same amount of time in the day. If you have a couple of hours a day to invest in your business, you can do this (stop watching too much TV or whatever else you do with your time).
Want to do something different?
I know you may not want to hear this but it’s very close to another year finishing and it’s nearly 2010! What did you achieve in 2009? Everything you wanted to? Will 2010 be any different for you? Now is a great time to start reflecting on 2009 and then invest some time on your plans for 2010. What are you going to achieve in 2010?
How is blogging good for a business?
There’s a shop, which has opened recently, very near to where I live. I pass it every day during my walks and not once have I seen a customer in there. Not once! The shop in question is a clothes hire shop. You can hire ball-gowns, dinner suits, kilts, wedding dresses…that sort of thing. I think they are in the wrong location but they need to start marketing and I think blogging would be a great way to start. They have a website. The domain name is underneath the shop front logo.
Web site optimization – how NOT to do it
Thanks to the massive amount of traffic pushed through search engines every day, competitive and forward thinking webmasters are doing all they can to push their websites to the top of the ranks. SEO (search engine optimization) has been a major part of internet marketing for the better part of a decade, but only recently has it truly come into its own as a true online industry. SEOs (search engine optimizers) have started offering their professional services, both as planners and technical employees, and some webmasters are seeing great results.
How to Guest Blog
Wondering what a guest blog is? In simple terms, a guest blog is when you write a blog post and post it on someone else’s blog. Doing this has its advantages like increasing traffic and blog promotion. Personally, the thing I like about guest blogging is that it shows how bloggers nowadays are willing to help each other out. Indeed, no man is an island, even in the blogging world. Remember the blogs you publish as guest posts have to be unique and not published elsewhere.
How to use anchor text to your advantage
Search engine optimization is built on hundreds of different variables, controls, and factors. From keyword optimization to image tags, there are hundreds of different parts of your website’s design, both on-page and off-page, that help the major search engines decide where it ranks. Thankfully, a lot of these factors are controllable, either directly through web coding or more indirectly through link manipulation and controlled link building.
How to make a blog stand out with brilliant blog posts
One of the hardest parts of blogging is creating great content that gets picked up by fellow bloggers, social networks, and aggregation services. The blogging world is overflowing with bloggers, but despite this concentration there’s still a massive shortage of quality blog content. Making a blog isn’t just about churning out post after post, and while there are thousands of people that can tell you how to make a blog, very few can guide you through creating brilliant posts and high quality content.
Tips for Making Google Crawl Your Blog More Often
There are literally thousands upon thousands of blogs on the internet. There are blogs about every niche imaginable. As such, there is a great deal of competition out there. Bloggers all have a variety of techniques they use to obtain traffic. However, most people agree that nothing beats organic, natural, search engine traffic. Blogs and web pages are picked up regularly by Google and ranked in order of relevance. Google crawls some blogs more quickly than others, depending on relevance, backlinks, etc. The pages that are indexed quickly referred to as “authority” pages. If you want your blog to be indexed quickly, you need to increase its relevancy and value.
What is the most common 4-letter word used by Bloggers?
Want to know what the most common 4-letter word that individuals say when they buy some sort of ‘making money on-line’ product? No, it’s not a swear word. It begins with ‘H’.
Sometimes You Have To Blow Your Own Trumpet
Firstly what is the meaning of ‘blow your own trumpet’? Answer: To act in a boastful, self-promoting manner. Don’t you think “blowing your own trumpet” and boasting about yourself, is a bit tricky? Do you find it hard to do? If you do, you are not alone. The vast majority of us do.
What is your plan B?
Before becoming a full-time blogger, I worked for large corporate companies for 30 years. I’ve worked through the good economic times and the bad economic times and over the years many of my friends have been made redundant. There is no easy way to tell someone they are redundant but there are better ways than others.
How To Build a List That Actually Opens Your Emails
If you’ve been marketing for long and hard enough, you are probably aware of the fact that money is in the list.
Increase the Traffic to Your Blog Using These 5 Ways
Many bloggers think they can make a blog and traffic will come instantly. They don’t realize it takes a lot of effort to get traffic.
Your Squeeze Page Could Be More Effective – Here’s How
A squeeze page is a one-page website that is specifically designed to entice people to give you their email address in return for a free gift or “give away” product.
How to Make Money with E-books
One of first products I created to sell on-line was a ‘Management’ e-book. I had 30 years experience of being a Manager and managing people so I thought that would be an easy and good start. Thee years later, it still sells today. “Create once, sell many times” is a motto I like!
Seven of the Best Methods for List Building
A list of contacts is one of the most important things a blogger can have. If you’re serious about making money online, you need to learn how to build a list the right way.
Fear of blog writing or is it shyness?
I’ve been thinking about the obstacles people have when it comes to blog writing and starting to blog for the first time. So many people come to me asking about the benefits of blogging, and how it can enhance their life-style (working from home, for instance), income and generate sales leads.
Is Mastering Public Speaking Good for Bloggers?
Mastering Public Speaking is a huge skill for most successful businesspeople. The ability to articulate ideas clearly and in an engaging way is fundamental for politicians, company directors and sales people.
Master This Technique and Get More Blog Readers
Want more blog readers? Then let me take you back to your childhood… Can you remember when you were a kid, and you used to like having stories read to you?

The Power of Blogging and Politics
Blogging may seem like a harmless pastime for most people, but it actually wields a great deal of power and influence when it is in the hands of a savvy author.
Working From Home: The Pros and Cons
For many people making the jump to working from home for the first time, there are a number of things to consider before taking the plunge. I thought I’d draft some of these down in the hope that sharing my own experiences may be useful for the new blog businessperson…
Basic Blogging Guide - A Way To Get Started Blogging
When blogs first came out, they were typically used by people for updating their family and friends about various aspects of the blogger's lives. While some people still use blogs for that purpose, a lot of people have found a way to make good money through blogs.

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How to Use the Wordpress Admin Page - Posts - Wordpress Design
Blogging is all the rage for businesses today. With more than 115 million blogs, individuals and businesses are jumping on the bandwagon in droves. This article deals with what a "blog post" is and how to create a post using the WordPress blogging platform. If you're new to blogging, posts are the entries that bloggers usually (but not always) display on their home page.
How to make a blog stand out with brilliant blog posts
One of the hardest parts of blogging is creating great content that gets picked up by fellow bloggers, social networks, and aggregation services. The blogging world is overflowing with bloggers, but despite this concentration there’s still a massive shortage of quality blog content. Making a blog isn’t just about churning out post after post, and while there are thousands of people that can tell you how to make a blog, very few can guide you through creating brilliant posts and high quality content.
4 great blogging tips to build online profile
There's more to successful blogging than simply sharing, relaxing and understanding (see part 1 of our blogging tips guide). Here are 4 more important tips guaranteed to help you build your online audience.
Earn More Money For Your Internet Marketing Business with Blogging
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Which to Choose: Blogger or WordPress?
Blogging has become a very popular method for sharing knowledge, discuss viewpoints, personalize your business and increase the opportunity for inbound links and traffic. Given the increasing popularity of blogging today, it has become imperative that you choose the perfect medium for posting your blogs. Blogger and WordPress are two leading blogging platforms that have gained in popularity over the years.
How Does Blogging Drive Traffic?
Given the present age when dependence on the internet to market your business is very high, it is obvious that newer options of internet marketing will be sought. One of the easiest yet versatile ways in which you can garner more traffic to your website is blogging. Most of us have experienced the power of blogging in one way or the other but not all of us are really aware of the ways in which blogging ensures such traffic generation. Following are some of the ways that you can use while blogging to increase traffic to your website:
How to Make a Six Figure Income Blogging
Blogging for most people is a fun hobby, but blogging for some people is a way of life–how they make their living. When people realize they can make money blogging, they often hear of how people earn more than enough to live, and start to wonder how to make a six figure income blogging. While it is possible, it is not something everyone can do. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Are you ready? Here’s what you need to do to earn a six figure income from blogging.

Four Key Advantages To Guest Blogging
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Learn Blogging From Others!
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Top 5 Best Free Blogging Sites
Blogging is by far the most popular form of web presence today. An issue many new bloggers face is choosing the right platform to meet their needs. This article will detail the five most popular free blogging sites and give insight into what is good and bad about them to hopefully empower those with information to help choose a free blogging site.
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