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With your own Amazon Store you can sell products from Amazon's site. All of your favorite products you can just add them to your store. It's very simple and convenient. It is limitless to what you want to sell. You just add the products that you want to sell to your store. You can have it where it matches your blog or website. It's very easy to setup. You don't have to worry about coming up with things to sell. Just add your favorite products from Amazon to your store. That's it. Incorporate your store into your website or blog.
If you are looking to sell digital products. Getting your own digital store is easy with Cb Proads. You can have an affiliate store front, niche store front or a Wordpress plugin for main and niche store fronts. It's easy to get started too. You don't have to know a bunch of technical stuff either. Clickbank has lots of products to choose from. These store fronts make it easy for you to sell products in your niche. You also can incorporate these store fronts into your website or blog.
You can have your own e-commerce site with Triple Clicks. This is a great way to get your products out to the people. You will have hundreds of SFI affiliates working for you. This is free and it's easy to start selling quickly. Just upload your products and that's it. Even if you don't have your own website. You will be provided with your own T-Connect website with everything that you need to start selling your products. It's way too easy for you not to get started. So, if you have been wanting to sell online this is a great way to do it.
Shopify makes it easy for you to get your store up and running. You can customize your store having complete control over your domain name and it's layout. There's no need to know css or html. There are 100 designs and templates that you can use. You get notified by email when you have made a sale. So, you won't miss out on any orders. Shipping is made easy and you can provide tracking for their orders. You can have unlimited bandwidth and products. Gift cards and discount cards. You can have all the features that you want and many, many more.
You can start selling online in a matter of minutes with Jimdo. Anyone can build a store easily and quickly. Just add your products and connect your paypal account to immediately start processing orders. You don't have to know any css or html. You can get started super easy. Are you in a hurry to start selling online? Then you won't start any quicker then with Jimdo. Need a blog? You can have that too. You can edit your website with the Jimdo app. Their free iOs and Android app make it easy for you to edit your website on the go.
As you can see it's very easy to start selling online by having your own online store. Any of these can be used to sell online. You can find which one is the right fit for you and that is not hard. You may want to use more than one if you have more than one website or blog. Haven't started your online store yet? Now you can!
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An About Me Page People like to know a little about the person who's blog they are reading. Somethings that you can include in your about me page is how you started blogging. Just tell a little bit about yourself. You don't have to tell your life-story (if you are a private person) but what your blog is about and why you started blogging. Your skills and what it is that you do.
Contact Page This is where people will contact you. You can have a contact form or an email address or both. You can include your social media accounts. Your phone number if you like. Just various ways that people can get in contact with you. This is important because you may receive offers from companies. Sometimes, things happen and we don't always see them. For instance, something might not be working properly on your blog and someone might want to let you know. People have questions that they might want to ask you. This is very important to have.
Search Box This is a very important feature to have. Why? Because people will want to search for particular articles on your blog. It makes it so much easier to find them. I have seen several bloggers who did not have a search box and I wasn't able to look for a particular article. I had to go through their categories. Which was very time consuming. Everyone will not do this. If they can't find what they are looking for they will search for it somewhere else. A search box is a must have.
Subscription Box This is a box where people can subscribe to your mailing list. This way people won't miss out on your blog posts and you can keep in contact with your subscribers. If you have anything that they might be interested in you can send them an email. This is how you grow a list. This way you can keep in touch with your subscribers.
At least 10 Blog Posts
Before you start promoting you should have at least 10 blog posts. I have seen bloggers promoting their blogs with only 1 written blog post. This is not a good idea at all. I know you want to get your blog out to the masses but 1 blog post. Come on, you have to give your readers more than that. After they read that 1 blog post what are they supposed to do? You have to have more content than that. If they like what they read they will want more. It's like you are teasing them. Do you like to be teased? I know you don't. Please make sure you have content for them to read.
I know that you are excited when you start blogging but you still are representing yourself. Make sure that you have these 5 fundamentals in place before you start promoting your blog. You don't want people to think that you haven't thought this through. More importantly, you want your readers to be happy and give them a good experience when they come to visit your blog. Make things easy for them. This is your home and your visitors are your guests. I know sometimes we can get caught up in our excitement and we are told the sooner we start promoting the better. If you forget something do not worry you can always go back and add it.
I can tell you from visiting lots of blogs that these 5 things do make a difference. You will get traffic to your blog and get your audience. It does take time but just throwing together your blog is not going to make it happen any faster. Take your time and put things together nicely.
Have you ran into blogs missing these 5 fundamentals? How did you feel about it? Let me know in your comments below.
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Blogger is not a website builder. Many people lump it in the same category as a website builder but it is not. Blogger only allows you to blog its services do not include building a website. Also, it only has a free option. It does not include any paid option. I think the reason it is because both Blogger and website builders allow you to use their services for free. However, with website builders they offer a free and a paid option. If you decide to upgrade to the paid option you will have the free website removed from your website and you can utilize more featured options. So, if you are tight on money you can start for free and upgrade later on. This way you can still get your website or blog up and running.
With a website builder everything is hosted. You do not have to go anywhere else to be hosted because they host your blog or website. Everything is all-in-one. This is good for people who don't have a lot of time to spend on getting a blog or website up and running. Everything is right there at your fingertips. They also have drag and drop features that make it easy for you to design your website or blog even if that is not your forte. They also have lots of different templates that you can use. You can really make it your own and not have to worry about your blog or website looking the same as everyone else's. Social media buttons are included in some of the templates but if not you can always add them yourself. It might differ for different kinds of website builders. Just check and see.
What I like about website builders is you can learn as you go. Maybe, in the beginning you might not know a whole lot about html but you can still build your website or blog. The drag and drop features make it so easy for you to do so. Maybe you do know how to work with html but just don't have the time as I mentioned before. Website builders can help you get up and running quickly, efficiently and professionally. Sometimes, I even get carried away with the different addons and plugins to use (in a good way of course). Because, they really do have lots of features that you can add to your website or blogs. They are always coming out with new and better ways for you to help make your blog or website better.
Website builders are just like anything else. Some are good and some are not so good. I recommend you use the ones where you can grow. Even, if you don't know any html in the beginning you will probably learn some because it is essential to know some when you are blogging or building a website. Bottom line you need to learn html. It just makes it a whole lot easier for you online when you know some html. I wouldn't recommend the ones that don't give you a lot of freedom when it comes to getting under the hood. In this blog post,"What Kind Of Blogging Platform Should I Use?" I mentioned some of the good ones and the not so good ones. I hope that it will be helpful in your search to find a website builder that is right for you. You can have a professional looking blog or website using a website builder.
Are you thinking about using a website builder? Why or why not? Are you already using a website builder? How do you like it? Let me know in the comments below.
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This wasn't the first time this had happened to me but I didn't take any action. Reluctantly, I did end up using another picture but as I said before I really like to use the same picture because then people know it's me. This time I really didn't want to give up. I wanted to find out what was causing this problem. I did some research online and I was able to find Zamzar.com. It is really an easy site to use. It was a life-saver for me. You can convert your gif images to jpg images in 4 easy steps. Also, you can convert other files such as: jpeg, bmp,png and many more. Plus, you don't have to download anything.
Below is a screen shot of the site
Step 1. Select files or url to convert. Step 2.Choose the format to convert Step 3. Enter your email to receive the converted files Step 4. Convert by clicking you agree to their terms
Here is my image I converted
Nice, huh! I thought that you might find this as helpful as I did. It's fast, easy and free! Try this out and let me know how you like it! |
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I have learned a lot in 2014. I am learning how to work with Canva more. The image in this blog post was made with it. I want to get better with using it. Who would of thought I would designing images? I still have a long way but at least I have started. I can only get better. Yeah, I'm bragging a little bit. Don't spoil my joy. (LOL) However, I still have a lot to conquer. So many things that I want to learn to do. I am still learning, because it never stops. Don't worry, whatever I learn I will be sharing it with you. In fact, I just learned something new. Look for it in an up and coming blog post.
I'm not making a new year's resolution because I carry the same mentality that I had last year and the year after that. I already know what I have to do and what I want to do. I just check what I have already achieved off the list as I go. Just in case you're wondering. It's all good. I have so much to do. My plate is so full it's not even funny. That's why I haven't been writing in my blog as of late but I will be getting back on track. I just want to apologize if you have been reading my blog and expecting a new blog post. I hope that you went and read some of my older blog posts if you are a newcomer to my blog.
I am really looking forward to this new year. Hopefully, it will be better than the last. Not that 2014 was bad for me, because it wasn't. I just want to accomplish more of my goals so that I can check more off of that list. I can honestly say that I have been more positive lately. Which is something that I am still working on. I go and re-read my favorite self-improvement book that I keep as a reference. It has been so helpful to me. Self-improvement is something that I work on everyday. It is an essential part of my life.
I really want to make this blog better. I had asked this question before but I didn't get a lot of answers. Can you do me a favor and go and take this survey by answering this question for me? Is this blog helpful? It will be a great help for me to provide content that you would like to read. Thanks in advance! I really appreciate it.
What will you miss about 2014? With the upcoming new year. What goals would you like to achieve? What are somethings that you didn't get to achieve in the past year and would like to? Do you think that your blog became better or worse? I would love to know what you think in the comments below.
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Gift cards are the answer for these problems. You get them a gift card and let them go and buy what they like. This cuts down on you being upset about spending so much time shopping and it cuts down on them being disappointed. Even though we know that you should be grateful that someone took the time to think about you. It's the thought that counts. Even if you have to give it away because it didn't fit or you just flat out didn't like it.
What if you are busy and don't really have to time to shop? Who really loves last minute shopping? No one, but sometimes life gets busy and before you know it ; the event is here. Ever, been invited to a wedding and scrambled to find a gift? It's nothing like intending to buy a gift for someone but you didn't have time to get it. That's when gift cards come in handy. Also, gift cards are simple. If you have kids you are giving gifts to. It can cut down on the drama of someone liking their gift more than the other. Keep things equal. Just give gift cards.
As bloggers it's nice to use gift cards to reward your readers. You can use gift cards to reward people who comment the most or who participate in your community by helping others out by answering questions. This is only if you have a community on your blog. Don't worry if you don't. You can host a giveaway on your blog and give out gift cards. You can have contests on your blog and reward people who share your blog or a particular blog post the most. I know some bloggers have written ebooks or other products it's a great way to reward readers for helping you get the word out.
What kind of gift cards should you give?
If you don't know the person personally. It's best not to give gifts to restaurants or places that sell food. Some people have allergies to different foods. Also, people have diet restrictions. For religious reasons, they may not eat a certain kind of food. Also, for health reasons they may not be eating certain foods. Lastly, they could be vegans or vegetarians. If your blog is catered to a certain audience. Such as a mom blog then gift cards for Toys'rus a kids clothing store would be appropriate. However, just stick with a gift card from a store where they can purchase something that they can use.
Gift cards can fit anywhere
You can give a gift card anywhere. You don't have to worry about carrying a bunch of stuff around. Once you give someone a gift card you don't have to worry about them leaving it. Because it can fit in their purse or wallet. You can send it in the mail and it won't cost you a fortune to send it. They are so much easier! Gosh, it makes giving gifts a cinch! It truly is no worry shopping. Now, that's the kind of shopping I like to do!
Where To Buy These Discount Gift Cards?
It shouldn't cost you a fortune to buy these gift cards and it won't. You can get them from GiftcardRescue. They have excellent prices. Plus, they have a wide selection. Whatever, you choose there is one for you. You can also sell a gift card or even exchange one. As much as we try to avoid it sometimes we still get a gift card that we just can't use. If that happens to you, you can sell it or exchange it. To sell or exchange a gift card you must check the balance. You can do that at Giftcardbalancenow.com. Buy your gift cards at GiftcardRescue now.
No matter what the occasion is Gift cards make the perfect gifts. I just love getting gift cards. Don't you? What kind of gift card would you like to get? What merchandise store would you be happy about getting a gift card from?
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Before joining any kind of business you can do an online search about it. Collaborate with people who are already working in it. If and when you decide to join read all of the fine print. Make sure that you will be able to put in the proper time. This is something that you will be investing your money in so you must make sure that you have the time and make the effort when you make the commitment to join. If you can't promise yourself that you will do these things then, it's in your best interest not to join any kind of business. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't never decide to join. It just means that it is not a good time for you right now.
Why would someone say a business is a scam when it is clearly not? Because they didn't do the above. As we all know people think it is easier to do business on the internet( I blame the false advertising that is being done on a consistent basis). If you are a newbie then it is easy for you to fall into these cracks. Why? Because, naturally people are looking for something that is easier. So, when they think that they have found it they mistakenly believe that easy means less work or basically no work. That is simply not true. There is no business that you will join and not do absolutely nothing. So, if you are one of those people, please stop believing those blatant lies. I'm telling you right now they are not true and they will never be true.
When a business is a scam it will not stay in business for long because the people who join it will not make any money. This is a clear indicator that a business is a scam. Also, a business that is a scam usually, has no way for you to contact them. They aren't interested in you being successful either. Why would they? They can't have you making money, because if they did it wouldn't be a scam. If it is a scam NO ONE will make money and people will not stay in the business. They will lose money not make money. That is the whole object of a scam.
You do not want to accuse a legitimate business of being a scam. For one, it will make you look bad. You are stating something that is not true. People will do their research. When they find out it's not a scam and that you purposely said it was that doesn't make you look good in the eyes of people. Many times when someone says something is a scam it is because they themselves didn't do something that they were supposed to do so, they try and discredit the business. If you are claiming scam after scam and these business are not scams people will start to look at you and rightfully, so. You are making yourself look unreliable. If you ever do find a business that you like it will be hard for people to trust you (I know I wouldn't join a business with someone who is always claiming that they got scammed).
If you did not do well in a business just say you didn't do well. Maybe, it wasn't for you. That happens sometimes. We join something find out it wasn't the right fit for us. What do you do? You move on and find something that is. You don't go hollering scam just so you can get attention and people will feel sorry for you. If you think that. Trust me, they won't. It will be completely the opposite. You will be someone that people will not want to be bothered with. If you are trying to do business with people you can't afford to be that type of person. You will need to be someone that people trust. Not someone that looks petty and a whiner in the eyes of people.
When you falsely accuse a business it prevents people who would like to join that business from doing so. It's nothing like not joining something because you took someone's word on it and it wasn't true. They will be mad at you and they will have a good reason to be. It's not something that you want to make a habit out of. Becoming unlikeable online is not something that you want to do. Especially, if you are trying to make money online.
However, if you really do believe that a business is a scam you should go to the right sources. Which is to report to the BBB and Ripoffreport websites. This way it can be dealt with in a civilized manner and you won't look like some crazy person screaming scam all over the internet. Unfortunately, these things can and do happen sometimes. Before you do make sure that it is a scam. You don't want to accuse a legitimate business of being a scam. It's not fair to people who would like to join the business. |
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Huge Following
1. They already have a huge following. I know many bloggers follow them because they want to get a piece of the pie. However, the problem with that is everyone else is to. What I mean by that is everyone wants to get seen by them. You are competing with a lot of people and the odds are not in your favor. You might be able to steal some of their followers but the chances are very slim.
Develop Your Own Voice
2. You want to develop your own unique voice. As much as you admire them it's important for you to be you. You don't want to copy every single thing they are doing. Because then your blog won't have unique qualities. People read your blog because they want to hear from you and they like what you are saying. It's nothing more disappointing then finding out that you are copying someone else's blogging style. It's being fake, phony and unprofessional.
Missing Out On Meeting Other Bloggers
3. You won't get a chance to meet other bloggers on your level. It's nice to talk with bloggers who are working to attain the same goals as you are and at the same moment you are. They can relate to what you are going through. Plus, you can meet new bloggers. They may not be famous yet but just like you they could be the next up and coming bloggers. Plus, it's nice to have a variety of blogs to read.
They Don't Have Time For You
4. Because they are so busy with their blogs they might not have time for you. They already have hectic schedules themselves. It's not that they don't want to but they have lots of things to do. If you really want them to have time for you, you might have to join them when they are doing free webinars and some charge for blogging courses. However, this will only be a good option for you if you have the money to do so.
They Don't Know Everything
5. This is not meant to be an insult. No one knows everything. Not me, you, or anyone for that matter. There are things that you may have learned through your blogging journey. Something that you learned to do or not to do. People want to hear about it. Don't ever assume that you don't know anything. Everyone knows something. It's through our experiences that we learn what to do and what we should do or even what we like to do. Yes, you can learn something from them but they could also learn something from you too.
How Do You Feel About This?
It's nothing wrong with learning from these types of bloggers but it's best to meet all kinds of bloggers on different levels. There are so many great bloggers that haven't been discovered yet. How will we find them if we only focus on the popular ones? Have you ever not commented on a blog because they didn't have a lot of comments? You can tell the truth ( I won't judge you). I like variety in my life. I always have. The blogosphere has not changed that. What do you think? Do you only follow big-time bloggers?
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Blogging has become a voice for so many people. It has become a platform to help people with so many things. Businesses use it to get to know their customers and help their productivity. No matter what you love to do blogging is a way for you to share it with the world. You can use it to help, inspire and support people. People love reading blogs! Share what you know and what you love. Start a community on your blog or grow your existing one. Your blog is your home online. It is said that many people are natural born writers. Blogging makes that a reality for so many people. Many people who blog are now authors of their very own books.
I believe blogging is even better than writing articles online. Your blog is your hub. It's a place where people can come and read all of your articles in one place. I'm not saying that you shouldn't write at article directories or other writing platforms. However, I think it's best to have a place of your own. Where people know that they can find you. This place is your own personal blog. Your blog is your home and your blog url is your home's address. If people like what you are writing they will naturally want to find you. Having a link to your blog is very important if you do write at other places.
Blogging helps people solve their problems. When people are looking for information on a particular problem they might be having usually there is someone who has wrote a blog post about it. I have found so much helpful information just by reading blogs. I have found online tools and how to use them. How to use keywords and hashtags. I'm still learning and I have found everything that I have read useful. The instructions are so clear that I can just put them into practice. That's another reason I love blogging so much. You can take people step by step. Through pictures and videos.
Blogging even helps relieve stress. Sometimes you just have to get things off your chest. Things might not be going good. You can write about it on your blog. People will read it. They can encourage you to keep going and offer solutions. Blogging is therapeutic. It really calms you down. Just writing about your goals, dreams and aspirations helps you feel better. You can go back and read them yourself and other people can read them too. Inspiring yourself and others at the same time. We all need motivation sometimes blogging is a great way to get it.
Blogging even helps you come up with ideas. How many times have you come up with ideas just by blogging? Whether it is a blog post or images for your blog post. Blogging helps get those creative juices rolling. You can come up with some pretty sweet ideas. There are so many things that you can do with your blog. The possibilities are endless. You can do as much or as little as you want.
Without blogging you wouldn't have met the people you know online. You wouldn't have known they even existed. Through blogging you have been able to make connections you probably never ever dreamed of making. It has allowed you to do so many things and connect with so many people. Through blogging you have learned, taught, shared, supported and helped. Do you really think that something that has been so helpful for so many people is going anywhere soon? I don't think so. Blogging is so much fun and people love doing it way too much.
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