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Making No Money? This Could Be Why!

May 26, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

Not making much money online? Want to know why?

The reason is simple it’s because you’re lazy and running your blog like a hobby you’re sorta into. Imagine if you ran a business with the dedication you currently put towards your blog? Chances are it would fail to be profitable as well. Sound familiar?

I have a newsflash for myself and everyone. Blogging is citizen journalism. Whatever niche you’re in you’re competing with journalists. People who are really into the topic and gain satisfaction in releasing the latest and greatest news from the industry or writing in depth pieces on topics of interest to that niche. That’s where the money is at in blogging; being at the forefront of journalism online in your niche.

Why do you think so many Make Money Online blogs go nowhere?

A) because the author doesn’t make any money themselves

B) The author gets his / her “stories” from other larger popular blogs and regurgitates them

C) The author is quasi committed to the blog; the occasional update coming at varied times and nothing really written in an authoritative manner. (Do you write in that manner when you don’t know what you’re talking about?)

Next let’s talk about Social Media. I’m sick of hearing about how it improves traffic / this / that. Yeah it does to some extent but it’s ultimately just an ego booster. So many people so happy with Stumble Upon traffic or something similar. I’d go as far as to say I’ve never EVER had a conversion from Stumble Upon. Twitter has brought in some decent visitors but if you factor in the time I’ve spent on twitter the conversion rates would be one heck of a good laugh if that had been the intended purpose. I use twitter because I like it; if you’re going to signup only to drive traffic to your blog / site. Better ways to use your time.

Look at your activities online; are you working or just doing your “thing”. What’s “Your Thing” you may ask? Well for some it’s checking sports, stats from websites that have made no sales, scrolling through forum posts to find?? what is that we’re looking to find?, reading bloggeries and following the links from one site to another, starting an idea getting a roadblock or seeing something else that looks good and then going after that abandoning the first plan, find something else repeat.

I’d go as …

Wealth Takes Work - Poverty Takes Nothing

May 15, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

You have to accept in life that not everything is easy. You have to accept in life that if you take the path of least resistance you’ll end up in the largest pool at the end with the least options. You have to realize and accept in life that anything worth doing takes effort.

It’s sad that so many people take the “effort” to go to work everyday but don’t go that extra 2% and make a lunch or cook a dinner. I mean if you buy a coffee or two a day, buy lunch out ~5-8$+ and then when you get home have nothing in the fridge because you were too lazy the night before so tonight you’re lazy and order in or go do pickup. Does this sound familiar?

I think many people go through phases in their life; one phase is that of the beaten down path to nowhere of least resistance. It’s so easy all you have to do is NOTHING and go for the ride. The sad part is this easy do nothing ride always has an abrupt ending usually saddling the voyager with financial stress, problems or even ruin.

Life is about being better everyday; it’s about putting your energy into productive things that make you money and having the mindset of preserving the funds you receive for your energy. Why waste your energy all day at work just to throw the output around like it’s abundant? We’re a society living with unlimited wants and scarce resources. Read that again if you hasn’t sunk in because it’s true.

Energy via physical or mental labor is all we really have on this planet to earn for us until we’ve gotten to a position where you hire others inputs or your own outputs have amounted to such a substantial sum of money that it will work for itself and you.

It’s been a while since I was studying Economics but I do remember that Labor + Capital are the only real inputs we have control over in our lives to create outputs. It’s funny how we can be too lazy to cook dinner yet immediately forget that the $ we spent on takeout was earned earlier that day via physical or mental labor that predominantly is not of our choosing. You can like your job but if you made substantial income or had enough capital chances are you would spend your …

Selling Your House? Have a Garage Sale

May 10, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

Was driving home from morning coffee run and saw garage sales everywhere as it’s that time of year. Then I saw a garage sale in front of a house for sale.

If you’re selling your home you should consider having a garage sale as it brings more people to your home and makes them aware that it’s for sale. You only need to make 1 sale when it comes to selling your home so why can’t it be from the garage sale? Also if you’re smart you probably are selling it privately so advertisement where you turn a profit probably isn’t a bad idea.

That’s it really the thought came to me and I figured I should pass it on before it’s gone forever.

Time Keeps on Ticking - Into the Future

May 1, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Time Management

Wow,

What happened to the last week? In my defense I was on a business trip for most of it and had no clue of my login as I am always on desktops back home. That being said I have a good number of posts ready for the next few days which should not only be informative but also fun.

In my Twitter Journey’s I came across a post about OCD being an Online Marketer’s Worst Threat.

Yes you will notice that I was the first commenter as I was wasting time in my hotel room when I saw it. Ask yourself a few honest questions:

- How much time do you spend checking your stats?

- How much time do you waste oscillating between ideas?

- How much of the time are you too lazy to work yet not to lazy to just click around?

Water, Energy, Everything will always follow the path of least resistance if you don’t direct it somewhere else. It’s natural so don’t feel bad if you’re caught in the rut. The secret is to realize when you’re doing things that aren’t beneficial. That being said time keeps ticking so the sooner you realize you have pointless time wasting habits the sooner you can right them.

To fix this I recommend you make 1-3 goals a day depending on your time online. 1-3 doesn’t sound like a lot but honestly how many days have gone by where you’ve been online all day but you really didn’t get anything done? I’ll admit it’s happened to me numerous times; more times then I’d like to admit.

Secret is to have a plan and work the plan. Before you even TURN YOUR PC ON for the morning. Know exactly what you want to do. Do them and when they are done THEN go into your cycle because your useless cycle should be eating up leisure time; not work time. That being said just checking your stats is a pretty lame way to spend your leisure time isn’t it? Especially if you have a loved one in the house who would like to spend time with you.

If you want to eat a whale you must do it one bite at a time; same goes for building a business online, at home or anywhere. Plan and work your plan.

That’s my rant but think about it… The more you know about your tendencies both productive and destructive …