In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These …

It’s always challenging trying to come up with something someone hasn’t written about already. There are dozens of ways to get traffic to your site. I will cover some of the more obvious ways in another post in this series but today I’m going to be covering some less known and in some cases controversial traffic tactics.
First of all, there is no free traffic. You will always pay something whether it is time or money but there are definitely things you can do to leverage both.  Lets look at five …

Browsing online forums I am continually reminded that there are many people who believe the internet is the be-all-end-all medium for their business.
That may be the case for them. I suspect that kind of thinking is also at least partially responsible for the large numbers of people not making any money online either.
Sometimes you have to suck it up and get away from the computer. Get outside and promote yourself and your products.
This can be uncomfortable. I remember my first attempts at selling and marketing my own products over the …

I am going to be honest, pay per click advertising(PPC) can be downright frustrating. It seems like most times I use PPC I end up getting killed. The reason I am thinking this way at the moment because this was a particularly expensive week for me using PPC to no avail.
The late Gary Halbert, copywriter and direct marketing maven was once quoted as saying something to the effect of “whatever business you think you are in you’re wrong. You are in the business of arithmetic.” And of course, after thinking …