Monday, July 18, 2011

Are you a creative Blogger?

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This guest post is by Chris Kahler of bloggeritus.com.

It doesn’t take a genius to stroll around cyberspace and quickly find that the World Wide Web is littered with junk. There is a lot of “stuff” out there, most of which isn’t very good.

On the flip side, though, there are still many amazing gems hidden beneath the rubble. The magical ingredient that marks the divide is creativity. Creativity isn’t just part of a fairytale that only children believe in. It really exists, and is the one thing that will polish you into a masterful blogger.

The gems you will find online are from the few bloggers who have found their own creative abilities and applied them masterfully towards the many processes that grow a blog. They have their own special style that everyone instantly recognizes.

“Run of the mill” is a term used to describe work done by others who try to imitate someone else’s style—their work becomes obscure and much less effective.

Originality is not attempting to be different, but rather doing what you want to do the way you want to do it. Originality is only effective when approached with creativity.

A blog is created through many small steps, wouldn’t you agree? Depending on how you approach them, these steps can either produce “run of the mill” results and put your blog in the pile of rubble, or they can produce results of original creativity and polish your work to be one of the few gems to be found.

Blogging is a medium thriving on the expressions of originality. Those who can create their own unique style stand out.

You create your own style by being creative with your content and unique with your presentation. The creativity in your content will act as your originality, and over time your style will resonate with people.

For creating a unique style you must quit following trends, trying to fit in with specific groups, or attempting to fit a personality mold you weren’t made for; rather, embrace the idea of creative imagination and flow where you really want to be.

When you become creative with your ability to express your thoughts, your style will carve a path of its own.

As you practice being creative many drastic changes will occur in your life. Here are some of the more noticeable changes creativity can bring:

Creativity can reduce stress (if you learn to enjoy it).It helps to unlock hidden potential in your brain.Creativity helps rejuvenate your vigor.It boosts your motivation.It will help you build and maintain stronger focus on what you need to get done.

Another main benefit, which in my opinion is one of the best, is the fact that you will actually grow to enjoy the process of creating. There is a fine line between work and play that produces the most efficient results toward any goal.

Creators of great achievements walk along this line.

They understand the importance of focused objectives yet are able to have fun during the time they spend “at work” getting them accomplished.

As you learn to be more creative you will grow to enjoy creating just for the sake of it. Results are just results and shouldn’t be the focus of your efforts.

It helps to provide real value when your overall focus is applied in the right places. If you have a goal in mind that you want to reach, by all means remember it constantly.

However, when you find yourself in the trenches trying to make the life you want to happen a possibility, don’t work with possible results as your main focus for inner drive.

Disappointment sets in when you work for results. But even worse, your work will be totally misguided due to the lack of controlled focus for direction.

Now if you have a dream, which everyone should, do keep it in the forefront of your memory; when you visualize your expectant life and realize certain things must initially take place for you to get there, you will understand what’s next—you must create those “certain things” to help you move forward.

This is what visualizing is for—to help you prepare yourself for the skills you’ll need to gain and to give you a direction to begin creating that dream.

As you create your way through the smaller incremental steps giving you advancement towards the dream, make those individual processes your sole focus.

Being creative will help to create a since of pride in you, yet the process of creation will always leave you humbled. The result of this is the constant urge to continue.

When you learn to enjoy the creative process and feel a great deal of satisfaction from your creations, that’s the birth of passion.

Creative passion is one of the most powerful driving forces for producing effective, high quality content in record time.

Furthermore, you will also strive to exceed any current “limitations”—this is just how the creative process is!

Applying creativity towards any kind of work you do will allow you to spark a new connection with what you’re doing, and your progress will grow positively.

No matter what side project(s) you are involved with, such as a blog project, some form of art you want to try out, or any other kind of objective—if you search out a creative aspect in it, you will see things in an entirely new perspective.

Creativity gives you flexibility without expectation. This gives you a full enjoyment for what you do.

As a creative blogger:

Rather than creating blog posts just for the rewards of blogging, you will find yourself stretching your limits to create the best post you can, just for the challenge of creation.

Rather than focusing on distant realities in your mind you will develop solid concentration on tasks that are enjoyable.

You’ll also begin feeling passionate for these tasks.

Also, a lasting impression for seeking creativity is the new mannerism developed for modeling the success of others.

Rather than seeing limits that seem to impose themselves on you when considering yourself in comparison with a notable leader, you’ll just see the distance as mere obstacles that you will overcome in increments … creative increments, that is.

The only steps separating you from the most established professionals are the many smaller and focused processes of creation, which have given these professionals every asset, tool, and skill they use to travel the path of achievement.

To become a more creative blogger is a very wise thing to do. However, it takes time and effort to establish and build a mind that leans towards creative thinking.

Here are the things you must do in order to be more creative:

You must be more positive with your outlook on everything. For any situation, try to find the positive aspect or potential outcome. This is key for creative people.Stretch yourself past what you may perceive as limits. There is a simple mindset to consider for doing this effectively. You need to learn this mindset in order to expand your own abilities.Observe any professionals in your field or niche. Try to discern what makes their work different. Whatever it is that gives them a pizazz comes from creative thinking.Master the aspect of innovation. By learning how to take an idea and improve it you not only give yourself room to expand the originality of your own ideas but also can benefit from observing the professionals you admire.Practice the habit of writing every day. Writing a journal is one of the best ways to initiate a creative spark. A lot of ideas come to us every day, but only those who discipline themselves to organize their thoughts in ways that can be referenced are able to hold on to the good ones.Learn how to be flexible. Allow yourself to take on new ideas, allow yourself to question your inner beliefs, but don’t change who you are for anyone. Flexibility just opens you up to new channels of thought and is not meant to make you have a different belief system, only a more acceptable one for good ideas.Learn how to experiment. Experimenting is the essence of creativity. When you do something that’s different than everyone else, you will not know how the results will be. Learn to do this and improve from it.Learn to accept criticism and how to give criticism. Find positive results either from yourself or others who critically analyze what you do is a great way to make improvement.Above all, enjoy the process of providing quality content to the rest of humanity. You will grow as a passionate person and will establish a lasting legacy on this planet if you can do these steps.

As you can see, creative thinking isn’t something you can expect to master overnight. There is a lot of information pertaining to our imaginations, most of which we have yet to discover.

According to what I’ve gathered from modeling success and acquiring new skills is that those who balance their thinking by relying more heavily on creativity than average people tend to stand out as above average.

These people are the ones who establish influence, trust, and higher levels of success using originality and boldness—both directly gained through creative thinking.

Unfortunately space is limited here, I like to keep my posts from turning into small novels! However, comments are a great way of continuing this discussion.

In what ways do you think you are creative already? How are you working to improve your creativity?

Chris Kahler has recently discovered the definition of a creative personality. He has also discovered that there are a million things still left unsaid which you should know about. Maybe subscribing to his RSS feed is a good idea? He thinks so, oh and while you’re at it follow him on twitter as well.


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Laptops hang around.

There is always the need to throw the baby with the bathwater as regards technology. For example, now say reports, clock radios, sales are down, as people use their smartphones to enable them, and even MP3 player (so popular earlier) is now all but forgotten as the BlackBerry and iPhones sweep on the market.

However, there seems to be at least one bastion of world technology that appears stubborn, and this is the personal computer. Prosper Mobile Insights gathered some interesting statistics that all point to the fact the personal computer is so popular and firmly as the family dog. The recent numbers fielded by the company found that 56% of mobile customers continue to use their home computer with an Internet connection while holding and the mobile device.

It seems that one of the most difficult points is the nutritional value of the consumers of these mobile devices, but rather the cost of some of the projects of data involved. There are even reports that 4 G will see another spike in cost, at least temporarily. Still, it cannot be called into question the overall trend towards smartphone. Along with those people who turn away from things like traditional alarm clocks and GPS devices for smartphones, 44% of respondents reported use this in place of digital cameras. Still, at least for now laptops hanging around.

No latest news on Millennials — and that another research clearly highlights their shopping online more if there was a possibility within the limits of Facebook.  Almost 40% of this generation will use the said platform popular social media if offered more opportunities to shop and compare these figures with 26% of Gen Xers, and 16% of Boomers. The business needs to start. The move has been on for an hour now to THIS for some time now as it was a means to get the message about goods and services and the younger generation have something to say what they buy and how they buy. Here is another interesting statistic to examine. Forty-eight percent of this group saying they would prefer their favorite brands advertise on Facebook.

It seems that watching the trends developing continuously in the Internet is good, but having too much inventory at one of these when you're in the business must be dispassionate and careful approach. Remember that while mobile applications taking off and is social media the way younger people who want to shop, everyone seems to want to make sure you have a handy as Foundation home computer.


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Readings – the newsreader which also allows you to follow your favorite authors

The buzz is spreading fast enough for readings, an online "community" for those who want to keep up to date with the latest news about various subjects such as Business, entertainment, photography, technology and Social Media. What is unique about readings is that it also allows you to follow your favorite authors. With the kind of brings to mind the readability, with a new reading service that has been built around it. After a full review of the service, he began to realize what it is about feelings and I must say that I really like the service.

Let's take a look.

The first thing you'll need to do is find some publishers to register. This is done through each category and then pick your Favourite publications. You can also use the search feature to find publishers faster. Frankly, I was interested only for all publishers, so I had to force myself to choose my top 10 picks only.

Subscribe to Your Favorite Publishers in Readings.

Then you can find and follow authors who write for the various publications listed under publishers. This is done in the same format as the above, and includes a search bar. When you subscribe to an Author, you can see all the articles you have registered on the Web with the most recent tweets. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of my favorite authors here, so I just skip this section. Regardless, this is a really nice way for each author to get some free advertising and to increase their following.

Follow Authors on Readings.

After recording some publishers and your favorite authors since, it is time to read. The wonderful about reading is that this is very clean, but has many options to interact. For example, you can save items to read later, follow the author of an article that you really enjoy reading, or share on your favorite social site like Facebook, Twitter or Google +.

Along with saving items to read later readings, you can also use the bookmarklet to save articles from around the web. This is really a nice feature? I know I always read my articles later in the list, but never seem to get to read them. Adding them to my actual feed reader just seems more ideal, since it is using at least a few times a week, so I'm more likely to actually read the articles you save. Items that have been saved for later reading can be found under unread in the sidebar.

Use the Readings bookmarklet to save items to read later.

You can subscribe and follow your heart content without even signing for an account at readings, but you won't be able to save any of your settings or add any custom RSS feeds? Therefore, it is probably the best that you can create an account. You can connect to Facebook or to create a real account.

After you add custom RSS feeds, you can follow then as from authors and blogs. For example, 2 blogs I write for myself and readings that you added and then create a page author to me, well kinda – created by two different author pages for me even though my name is the same on each blog. Anyway, this is a great way to follow your favorite authors who do not have the privilege to read already on the system.

I love the Top Stories, because you can see the articles that downward trend now along with the top stories of the day, week and month.

Although you can click on each news source separately from the sidebar, you can also see at a glance from the news feed. Also gives you a glimpse of some of the stories of the vertex.

Readings News Feed and glimpse of Top Stories.

So with all these features and Nice clean environment, do you think is pretty good readings to replace the current feed reader? Currently I'm using Google Reader and I have here some years ago. Seems like every time I try a new reader, I end up always to return to Google Reader. In addition, now with the addition of Google +, just makes more sense to use Google Reader, since all the Google services are more tightly knit. I believe that we will try to read a few days, just to get a feel for it. If the sync with Google Reader.

What are your thoughts? What feed reader you use now is that you open by using a new reader?


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Why your Blog is not making money

This guest post is by Moon Hussain of Experiments In Passive Income.


This post comes from the bottom of my heart.  After coming in like a cowgirl blogging newbie and failing with making money online with my blog, I have figured out what lead to my blog bringing in $0.00 most months.  To think I came into the blogging world with a typical “make money online” blog and with the mindset that I’d blow everyone away with loads of affiliate income rolling in was foolish.


Pay close attention, because what I’m about to reveal here has the power to make you a full-time income.  The stuff we both have been dreaming about.  Make notes. I want you to walk away with a plan.


If you don’t think that’s such a bad thing, that’s probably because you are a new blogger, probably less than six months into blogging.  Let me tell you: after a year of providing good content and not making money, you will come to a stop.


Churning out quality content two to three times a week takes a lot of time.  After plugging away for over a year, I can tell you providing quality content is not enough!


It’s only one part of the equation.


If what you are reading right now is bringing you down or you think it’s “too much work”, then stop wasting your money on hosting fees and kill your blog now.  If you want to make money with your blog, it’s about to get good.


I hope you said business plan, I really do.  Instead of lecturing you on how bad you have been by not having a business plan, I’m going to show you with a real, live case study:  my own blog.


In the last year, I never had a business plan for my blog.  Not a written one, anyway.  Here was my thought process over the last year: “I’ll build niche sites, blog about my experiences, I’ll make money from these sites, people love to learn how to make money so they’ll absolutely, feverishly flock to my site!”


Forget an internet entrepreneur … I’d be an internet rockstar!


In my mind, this was the ideal plan that was supposed to take place:



Seem familiar?  Yeah?  In all honesty, you should be scared.


That was my business plan.  Officially one and a half years into blogging, I am in the process of formulating a much more concrete business plan.  And now I cry looking at my old “business plan”.


Blogging about a topic, however passionate you are about the subject, does not make a business.  It is a platform that can help spread your expertise.  You can use it to connect with your ideal customers.  Here are some key questions you need to ask yourself:

How can I take my blog from “just a blog” to a blog that generates me business?What do I know about my blog’s main topic? How can I showcase my expertise about this topic?Why are people reading my blog? (Is it entertainment, education, a particular solution they are looking for)?How can I take the answer from question #3 and answer it with my expertise (question #2)? (Result: a product or service you can serve your audience).

Before you jump the gun, before you can do much with any of the above, you need to figure out the missing pieces.


Let’s backtrack a bit and work through the process…


For me, it happens to be my email list.  I have a super-tiny email list.  My goal is to increase the number of people on my email list and to help them resolve something that I have experience with.


Sure, they say it’s not the amount of people on your email list but the type of people on your list (whether they convert or not) that matters. I agree. But no one can say that having a good number of quality people on your email list is a bad thing.


These people are the ones who want what you may have to offer.  Your work, your services, your expertise, your products!  I know this isn’t a new revelation but stick with me.  Trust me when I say this, I’m ahead of 90% of you…


In case you are one of those stubborn bloggers, read the next few lines carefully.


Name three big bloggers you know.  I pick Darren as one.  How about the other two big bloggers you have picked. Do they have an e-mail list?  You bet your inexperienced butt they do! An email list is how Darren launches super profitable ebooks and courses and leverages his traffic.


If you haven’t picked up on the importance of having your own email list, the rest of this post is useless.


We have backtracked one step. But we have more work to do.  If all of this seems overwhelming, grab a piece of paper and pencil.  I guarantee you will have a comprehensive plan before you leave this page!


The so-called “blogosphere” has evolved and people (smart ones, that is!) are no longer willing to give up their email addresses just because you asked.  No sir!  The only way you’re about to get those email addresses is if you have something people want.


For example, if by the end of this post I have helped you by constructing a cohesive business plan for your blog, you’ll want to read more of my content. Because I helped you. Because you liked what I had to say. Because you want more.


And if you haven’t noticed, it’s not just one guest post I’ll be publishing to build my email list.  You should be seeing me around.  In other words, after you create a free report, you need to find big hubs where your ideal customers are hanging out!


Create a list of five big sites and blogs where your readers are.  Expose yourself (*ahem* with your unique posts) multiple times.


I’m doing the exact same thing right now.  I am exposing my content to new readers who don’t know me.  If you have “kind of seen me around”, then the more I expose my work, the more chances I’ll have of getting your attention.


It’s how all of the big bloggers roll; you just weren’t paying attention or think that your blog will surely take off after one of your posts “go viral”.  Hah!


What I’m discussing with you took me a year to figure out.  Ignorance isn’t bliss, apparently.  Here I have my sexy, newly defined business plan:



You can bet my plan is even more specific than this.  It may seem exhausting but this is precisely what you need.  In fact, I have goals written down for how many people will join my list in June, July, and August, and how much money I expect to earn in each one of these months.  I’m also in the process of designing my survey and constructing my consultation reports.


Before you leave, answer the following questions and construct at least a rough diagram of your business plan:

Do you have an email list?Do you necessarily need to grow your email list? If so, how exactly will you do that?  How many guest posts?  Start writing down guest post ideas.What kind of service or product do you want to offer?  What would you be excited to provide people with?Survey your growing email list.Can you come up with a service, membership site, or ebook that you have experience with?

Write down your answers.  Get super specific.  No one else can do this for you.  If you don’t do this, your blog is dead.


After you write down your answers, you need to create and stick with a plan.  Remember, if you want to earn an income from your blog, you need to treat it like a business and must have some sort of business plan.


Would you rather create your own detailed business plan for your blog … or leave it to lady luck to make your content go viral?  (By the way, in case you didn’t know, viral traffic like Stumbleupon doesn’t convert and sucks.  Sure, it’ll make you feel cool for a day or two but that’s about it!)


I would love to hear your business plans in the comments section. Bring it!


Check out Moon Hussain’s blog, Experiments In Passive Income, where she discusses details about how to build your own income generating niche sites and blogs.  Download her free ebook, To the Moon & Back, in which she details all that she learned about niche sites over the course of a year.


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Sunday, July 17, 2011

China and Google: freedom of speech battle continues

With everything that happens in the world today, you may have forgotten another small battle in the ongoing battle between Google and China. Can you believe that a country that is expanding rapidly its economic power, you might want to save the same problem that repressive forces in places such as Egypt and Tunisia have passed into the hands of the new technologies of the Internet in General and social media specifically, appears to be a hell, China tend to maintains the old ways.

Consider a recent news that reports only hours after Google + (the latest social media by the giantess) introduced in that country, was banned and joined the ranks of Twitter and Facebook. China, long known as the enemies of freedom of speech and email surveillance and Internet police force and other tools made some big showdowns cryptic. There have been still fresh allegations this year that gmail was hacked into by the Chinese. While many people seem to be missing the point.

Information technology in all its forms is a new way of doing things, including professional and if each country hopes to remain successful in this new world, we need to embrace technology, as well as freedom of speech that is a necessary companion to it. It is repressive as Chinese guarantees failure.

There are other interesting news, when it comes to Internet marketing, because, although some of these statistics will surprise. A new survey found that while 41% of consumers own a smartphone, email is still the most common way that people get the message in respect of the sale when it comes to mobile applications. Exact target examined the results of nearly 1500 consumers and found that e-mail still trumping, text messaging and even Facebook posting. This is not the first time the latest Johnny-Come-Lately the scene has been put back in place of the good old traditional email marketing. The argument can be made for social media and the like as a more direct way for people to get in touch and even sharing information, but it seems that to get information about goods and services for sale are still in the field of other technologies such as e-mail.

The survey goes on to report that the new generation of smartphone user is becoming more and more comfortable making purchases with the device and a full 40% would give up their laptop, than turn their smartphone.


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How generates Compendium of Web to Post content and Community

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This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers.

You might have read my article about a business blogging platform called Compendium. Today, I wanted to share with you a fantastic Compendium tool called, Web to Post that allows customers or clients to tell stories about your products or services.

Web to Post turns your consumer’s advocacy into web content.

Of course, as Business Blog Writers, sometimes this writes us out of the picture, but at the same time, if we are used to supplement the Web to Post content, then we can also get a lot of content ideas from what customer or clients submit.

In addition to my blog writing business, I also have a Ragdoll cat blog and all images of Compendium’s Web to Post form come from that.

A Call to Action is put in the sidebar of the blog. The CTA usually says something like, “Share Your Story”.

This call to action can also be put on your Facebook fan page, in your newsletter, on your YouTube Channel or in an email to an existing database.

The customer sees the CTA and decides to submit a story. They click on the link and are taken to an online form that asks them things like their story title, the story, and their first and last name. They can also choose to upload a photo to include with their story. The forms are totally customizable to fit your campaign or story needs.

Once the stories are received, the administrator of the blog is sent an email letting him or her know there is content waiting in the system. The stories can be edited, approved or declined from there, just like internal blog posts on Compendium’s system. So in other words, the story isn’t instantly on your company website the second the customer or client hits “submit”. Rather, it has to go through an administrative layer for final approval. This is awesome, because it turns your advocates into your bloggers! [Share Your Story Submission on Dashboard.jpg]

Once the administrator has checked out the post and added a keyword rich title, then the admin approves it. At that point is the Compendium algorithm automatically categorizes or tags the story to the relevant, targeted keyword pages on your blog . The admin can also choose to promote it on your company’s social networks, like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Then, the viral effect kicks in. Each story is published on your company’s blog, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages.

The customer who submitted the story also gets an automatic email that says their story has been published on your company’s blog. Another link encourages them to share their featured story on their own social network profiles.

Lee Jorgenson, an Account Manager at Compendium recently pointed out that Sears Outlet has generated over 5,000 posts in just three months by gathering content from five different channels.

Sears Outlet sends a great transactional email after someone purchases from their website that invites customers to share their stories. This email is timely and helps harvest stories while they are fresh in the customer’s mind. The email has a link that drives the customer to a web to post form to submit their story. They also use the Web to Post forms to capture stories from blog and website visitors. They also have one embed on their Facebook fan page tab and collect stories from Facebook fans that way.

The process is simple: Content ? Exposure ? Referrals ? Sales

Another Compendium client, The College Network, was able to launch a contest asking nurses to share their stories. The prize? An iPad. They received nearly 100 user generated stories (that’s 100 free posts!). The stories got over 40 comments and over 1,500 Likes. They drove 3,500 unique visits to their story page and tracked an average of 35 additional Facebook fans per day from the campaign. It also increased their organic search traffic by 25%—all for the cost of an iPad.

As far as my site, Floppycats.com, is concerned, Web to Post has made my life incredibly easier. When I run a giveaway, I tell people that for an extra chance to win the prize, they can submit a photo of their cat as well as a description explaining why their cat needs to win the product.

This approach not only generates more activity on my site, but also creates more content for my blog. And readers love to see photos of their cats on my blog!

I also use Web to Post for Ragdoll breeders who want to advertise kittens for sale. It saves me the time involved in uploading them to the site, and entering all the information—and they’re hosted on Compendium’s server, not the one I am paying for.

I also use Web to Post to accept content from people who need to rehome their Ragdoll cats, and cat rescue groups that need to get the word out about cats available for adoption.

I give a lengthy explanation of what I want (this eliminates time-consuming emailing back and forth between the poster and me) and provide examples so readers know what information they need to submit.

So while Web to Post is great for sales and boosting social media buzz about your company, for the blogger who wants an active online community on their blog, Compendium’s Web to Post can also make your life a lot less busy. Just say “no” to too much right- and left-clicking!

If you don’t have Compendium, you can probably still put something like this together, but it would require more manpower and coordination to get it done.

Frankly, I don’t like to spend my time on the technicalities and would rather have it right from the get-go. Compendium’s business blogging platform simply takes care of the strategy, process and technology so your business can focus on the content and stories.

Jenny Dean is a 31-year-old-business owner and entrepreneur from Kansas City. Jenny is currently working on Business Blog Writers, a company that supplies blog content specifically for company’s blogs, Floppycats.com, an informational website about Ragdoll cats and Antioxidant-fruits.com, an informational website about the antioxidant powers of fruit. Follow Business Blog Writers on Twitter or on Facebook.


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