Hey, YOU!
You’re here because you want to make money, right?
Well, stop wishing and start doing something about it!

Read this blog.  In fact, read all that you want.  The truth of the matter is that you’ll never earn a single penny if you don’t do anything about it.

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Here’s the good news: You can succeed if you really want to. If you really really want to, you too can be a successful blogger but it won’t be easy. You’ll have to posses certain qualities in order win at this game, and I’m going to show you how to do it.

Build Relationships

If you’re a blogger, chances are you know of other blogs in your niche. You have your favorite blogs and know who your favorite bloggers are. You know what they write about, you know what you like and you know what you don’t like.  If you’re a good blogger and want to be successful, you need to build a relationship with these bloggers.  Send them an email and introduce yourself.  Participate in discussions with them on blogger forums.  Kiss up a little bit.  Swallow your pride if you have to.  These bloggers are people just like you and welcome communication with fans and people from that admire their work.  Get to a point where you feel comfortable with your writing and then ask them to do a guest post.  Keep in touch with them and maybe they’ll share the love with you. A guest post is a great way to build an audience and in the long run, your relationship with the bigger bloggers will only serve to strengthen your blog.

Don’t be Stuck Up

As a newbie blogger, you are already fighting an uphill battle. There are countless other bloggers just like you, likely talking about the very same things. If you come off as a stuck up blogger right from the start, then chances are your readership will flatline in no time and you might as well pack up quit blogging. Nobody wants to read from a newbie blogger who sounds stuck up and has no credibility to back their words. If you are going to be controversial and challenge your readers, you need to first prove yourself by providing real content and value to your readers. They are the ones to whom you need to cater. You need to have a helpful attitude, treat your readers like you really want them to be there, and make sure to cater your posts to your audience based on post comments and feedback they provide you. Keep your ears up and listen to what your audience has to say…without an audience you will be failing fast!

Stick to it!

Finally, the last thing you can do (and in my opinion, probably the most important) is to keep blogging. Even if your blog starts off slow. Even if you haven’t been able to meet a lot of other bloggers. Even if you get criticism from your readers. Keep doing it. This is the reasons why so many blogs just die. The author will get tired of writing and will stop at some point. When they get back to it they’ll notice that their audience has dwindled and their influence has gone down the drain. They’ll then notice that getting back into the swing of things will be more difficult than they expected so they’ll just give up. If you really want to make in blogging, then you’ll never give up. Don’t quit typing. Set a schedule and stick to it. Make yourself goals; be it a number of posts per week or a number of of people to contact. Keep your list of goals visible and handy, and keep yourself accountable.

This article was meant to give you a scare and a jolt. I wanted to write an article that would make you to realize that blogging is getting to be big business. There are millions of ad dollars to be made every year and you should realize right now, that blogging is a business. You have to have a certain entrepreneurial spirit, competitive drive, and “stick-to-it-iveness” in order to grab a piece of the advertising dollar pie. Do you have what it takes? Will your blog be around in a year? If you build it, they will come. But if you build it right, so will the advertisers.

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I’ve been feeling more and more entrepreneurial lately, and with that feeling of excitement and exploration normally comes some sort of opportunity. Reading the local newspaper last week my wife saw that our city was holding a “startup weekend” and encouraged me to join. So, without skipping a beat I ran upstairs and signed up for the Startup event.

“What is Startup Weekend you ask? Startup Weekend is a intense 54 hour event bringing together brilliant tech minds (developers, designers, marketers, ect.) together to create a company from concept to launch!”

So, this weekend will be VERY exciting and very busy. There’s an online community that is abuzz with ideas and chatter about what we will be founding and building this weekend. Anything is possible; there will be 99 others with me with skill sets ranging from programmers to legal aid, cooks to user experience, we will all be working hard to create a stellar idea and launch it by Sunday night.

I’m in one of the bigger groups, the user experience group. Together with about 20 others, we will come up with a solid design concept, user interaction components, usability innovations and anything else that we can imagine to make our idea pop.

Past Startup Weekends have started the following companies:

• Skribit: “Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.”
• VoSnap.com: “It’s group voting…in a snap! Ask questions and get answers fast using text messages and emails. With vosnap, it’s decided.”
• Favoreats.com: “Favoreats is a great way to share local food recommendations with your friends. Simply put, it helps you find the best dish in town.”
• TipDish.com: “TipDish is a social media directory and wire service that is designed to connect influencers. With this service, leaders in social media including bloggers, podcasters and videocasters (Dishers) receive the latest news, information, products and info from companies, organizations, PR and Marketing Professionals (Tippers).”
• ScrollTalk: “Scrolltalk is a new take on chat. We like to think of it as Interest Messaging. It cuts through the noise of regular chat rooms and allows you to engage in relevant conversations. Your conversations are ever evolving, and move in a direction that suits you.”

And more! I’m excited to be part of this event and am looking forward to starting something up from scratch. I hope that the 99 others will be at their most creative this weekend! I’ll tell you all more about it…on Monday!

Have a great weekend, I know I will!

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Before I tell you how much I made this month, let me first give you a bit of background. Last year I managed to earn approximately $400 total online by promoting a health-related affiliate product. That website is still ranking reasonably well on Google, has great potential to rank in the top 10, but has not been converting any sales in the last 3 months as I have not had any time to work on it. Reworking that site will be priority number one for me in February as that site brings in commissions ranging from $20 to over $100 when sales are made. I believe that this product is capable of helping make even more money this year and I’m looking forward to working with a friend and talented writer to help turn that site from a dud to a stud.

This website is continuing to grow; comparatively speaking this site is still very small. Averaging only 50 or so visits per day and 34 RSS readers, I would like to double or triple those numbers in February and I’m cooking up some strategies and more guest posts to help me achieve that goal.

This is how things turned out in January:

In January, I earned $212 online. This is a combined income consisting of a paid review and private ad sales on this website and my recently built “made for eBay” sites. The eBay websites can be optimized further by applying a few more SEO techniques and I think that the numbers in February will be even better. In addition, I am planning another 3 or 4 “made for eBay” sites in February so that alone should help bump up my monthly income.

As you can see, I also had some expenses. The advertisement expenses were to promote the site in addition to my search engine marketing scheme that I’m working on. The search marketing campaign is still on going and I’m tweaking it with my friend and business partner so that we can figure out what works and what doesn’t really work. So far we’re down a few bucks but we’re on the rebound. In addition, I purchased the phpBay Pro API that lets me get eBay auctions on hand-made sites, not just Wordpress sites. The API is pretty good, but after working with both I prefer the flexibility and options of the Wordpress plugin. It’s definitely worth my while and as you can see I’ve already made my money back on that investment.

So, this is where we stand. January has been a decent month with $212 revenue. I expect that February will be an even stronger month and look forward to reporting what happens in the month to come!

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Let’s face it. Change is a part of life. You do things differently today than you did months ago. Chances are that you made some new year’s resolution that required some change on your part. Unfortunately, change is not always easy. I’ll go as far as to say that change is hard! Nobody likes to change…we have so much momentum going in our current direction that in order for us to stop, analyze or realize that something needs correction and then to apply the necessary change takes a whole lot of time and effort from us.The thing that even trumps effort is the fact that change is hard. Creating new habits, inventing new processes, embracing our creativity and all the other things that comes with change is not easy for most people. Below I outline the top 5 things that make change difficult. Learn these things and be aware of them so that next time change is necessitated on your part, you’ll recognize these items and be better prepared to make a successful transition!

1. Change is difficult. Any kind of change is difficult because you have to start doing things differently. It means letting go of your old way of doing things; a new way of life, so to speak. If change is to be successful, you must persevere and agree to do things differently for a certain time period. Commitment to change is key to success.
2. You may be happy with the way things are. The “status-quo” is a comfortable place. You know how things work, you know why things exist and you know how to get things done. The thing is that if you wish to make things better, easier, more efficient, and more streamlined then you need to let go of the way things “used to be”. One of the hardest aspects of change for me is learning (or figuring out) how to do things better. This usually means doing things differently and this process is normally confusing and uncomfortable.
3. You many not be ready for change. Some people or websites are too quick on the trigger and make changes before the blog or business site is ready for change. I’ve made that mistake in the past. That is, shortly after creating a website that was on its way to making me a little money I decided to completely redesign the site. After the redesign, visitors were not clicking through nor making purchases and my online income suffered. The site wasn’t ready for change and by me forcing a new design, things turned sour.
4. You may not understand what needs to be changed. Everything has a learning curve, even blogging. To be successful, I believe that you should use the “review and revise” method so that you’re always looking back and changing the bad for good. This can be a web design or a process that you do on a daily basis. The hard part is recognizing what is bad and what is good. Understanding the difference is hard and adds a degree of difficulty to change.
5. You may be threatened by change. When people give you suggestions or critiques, or when you realize that some kind of change is necessary, one of your first reactions will be to either be defensive or to be intimidated by change. This is because you may not have been aware that such a change was necessary or because you may not even have known that anything was wrong in the first place. Don’t be threatened by comments or critiques, but rather, look at them as a chance to make your site just that much better!

Aside from the fact that change is hard, change is a powerful and positive force in everything we do. When we do things differently, we realize that there are different options in the things we do and therefore figure out a way to make our lives easier or better. I encourage you, in your blog, business or personal life, to find something to change and just do it. Do you normally wake up at 8 in the morning to get to work by 8:30? Then change and start waking up at 7. See what kind of a difference an extra hour can make in your day. Do you spell check your blog posts? Start checking them to see what kind of a difference that makes to your readers. Do you want to do better in your business life? Then go to the book store and take a look at the new books out there and buy one or find a friend so that you bounce ideas off of each other. Like the old “Nike” ad said, “just do it!” You’ll be better for it!

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What is TylerCruz.com?

TylerCruz.com is a blog about making online by an Internet Entrepreneur.  Tyler Cruz, the man behind the curtain, is a “web publisher and entrepreneur” who makes a living by writing on his blog, building websites, and selling advertising on his blogs.  Pretty straight forward and upfront.  In addition to making websites and selling advertisements, Tyler has been mastering the art of making money anyway he can, including by brokering website sales and earning up to $23,000 per sale!Take a look at some of Tyler’s articles to get a feel for his work:

Perseverance Pays Off

Doing the Right Thing Pays Off

How I Plan to Increase My Blog Revenue

Tyler Cruz’s $300 RSS Contest

$150 46-Hour Week Challenge Results

Slick, Real Slick

Tyler’s website stands out from the crowd the second the page loads up.  Welcomed by a well designed, pleasing, easy to use, fun theme, this blog seems to hit all the right notes from the get-go.  This website, designed by Reality Hosting is very user-friendly and, I think, does a nice job of capturing the essence of the blogger and the website with the logo design.  This website makes me want to read more about posts and makes me wish I had a cool design like that too!On the Up and Up

Like this blog, Tyler’s readership numbers are up, RSS subscribers are up, and income is up.  Unlike this blog, Tyler’s website is actually making him money! J  His main poker website nets him a cool 6 large on a monthly basis, but his blog has started making him over $1,000 per month.  I think that every blogger has something to learn.  Even blogstar John Chow learns something new once in a while, I bet.  With all the “make money online” blogs out there, it is refreshing to find a blogger who tells it how it is, owns up to challenges and makes good on promises.  I see that this blog will be around for a while and look forward to reading it for a long time to come.

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Out of the laundry list of metrics from the Daily Blog Tips post, I have selected 5 that I think are important to this blog at this stage in the game.  This blog is only 2 months old and it has already seen an increasing number of visitors on a daily basis, but I know the numbers could be much better.  That’s why I selected these 5 metrics for 2008.

Daily Visits

Currently this blog averages 32 unique visitors per day, up from 18 on its first month.  I know that the quality of my blog posts are good, so I need to work on marketing the site and meeting other bloggers to help me raise the number of unique visitors to this site.  I don’t think it would be all that difficult or unlikely to hope for a 10x increase in visitors, so by the end of 2008, I would like to see at least 320 unique daily visitors to this blog.

RSS Subscribers

Another metric dealing with the visibility of this site, I want to keep raising the number of readers that subscribe to my RSS feed.  I feel that an RSS readership can help to spread the word about my site in addition to adding another income stream for when this site starts receiving more visitors.  Currently, I have exactly 9 RSS readers.  This number has fluctuated to 15 in recent weeks and I think it will continue to rise as the site gains momentum.   By the end of 2008, I want this site to have no less than 200 RSS subscribers.  If you’re not yet an RSS subscriber, sign up today!

Weekly Posts

As a measure of my stamina as a blogger, I will keep track of the number of posts I do per week.  I currently do not keep track of this stat but think that I write 4 or 5 times per week.  I think this is a good number but would like to average 6 posts per week for 2008.  This may be in the form of multiple posts per day, one post per day, or a combination thereof.  With 6 posts per week and 52 weeks in a year, that means at least 312 posts next year.

Alexa Rank

Alexa measures the popularity of a given site but you can only see detailed stats for a site if it is one of the top 100,000 sites.  Currently, LearnHow2Earn.com is sitting at 881,320 and at the end of 2008 I would like to see this site in the top 100,000, according to Alexa’s rank.  With a rank better than 100,000, this site will be in good enough shape to start bringing in some money through affiliate offers and advertising sales.

Monthly Revenues

As of today, December 19, 2007, this website has not made me any money yet. Although I have a few ads running on the sidebar, these are affiliate ads that I put there to see if people clicked on them.  Given that I have received a few clicks from those ads, I have not made any sales yet.  If I am able to reach my goals of 320 unique visitors and 200 RSS readers by the end of 2008, I don’t think it would be unreasonable to expect this blog to sell advertising spots, “pay per post” type reviews, and affiliate products.  With 320 unique daily readers (up to 520 if you factor in the RSS subscribers), there is no reason why I should not make money with the site and I think that I can position myself nicely to make at least $1000 a month from this website.

There you have it, my goals for 2008.  I have made a list, printed it out several copies and hung them around places where I will see them on a daily basis.  I enjoy sharing my ideas and experiences with my readers, appreciate all of the comments that I have received and look forward to meeting more people in the year to come.  Thanks to all who have come to this site, those who have subscribed to the RSS feed, and those who have linked to my posts.  I wish you all a great end of the year, safe travels, good holidays, and a successful 2008!

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In this commencement speach given to students at Stanford, he talks about 3 things only. There are a couple of funny remarks but his encouragement to the Stanford grads was to live the dream and make things happen. I like it and found it worthy of sharing it with you.

For you IE folks, there seems to be a problem with display the videos so here is the direct link.

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In doing your project, don’t wait for others; go after them and make sure it gets done.

“This rule is about perseverance as well. Don’t be passive, don’t just react, and don’t assume.

Decide and act. Make sure everybody is on the same page and moving out with you. Ask for help if you need it. Understand what it will take to keep the project moving.

Follow-up is essential and will help ensure success of the project. When done, be sure to share the credit.”

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