Blogosphere?

According to Wikipedia, “Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network.”

Sounds kind of like a single collective mind. Kind of Borg’ish.

Wikipedia goes further to define a blog. “A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”

Wow. Think about it. “blog”, is it a noun or a verb? Yes!

OK, enough with the history and meaning of ‘blogging’.

As this collective mind of bloggers in this Blogosphere, it is our duty to help those morons. Those less fortunate than us. Those ‘blogging newbies’. Those less versed in the art of blogging. Those ….

Well, here is the answer. (wait, I don’t remember a question)

Anyway, there is this course. It is free to those who talk about it in the blogosphere. This guy. This self-proclaimed ‘blogging moron’, wants to know what we blogoshpereians think about the course.

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Increase Sales By Flying Under
Your Prospects’ “Radar Defenses”

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to do?

A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do
that every minute of the day. Do you even notice it anymore
or, like your prospects, have you subconsciously set up a
system of “radar defenses” against the daily bombardment of
marketing messages?

Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which
fight for your attention (and money) every day. Just the
basic list includes:

· Yellow page ads

· Newspaper and magazine ads

· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your
“snail mail” box

· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite songs

· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now

· Hundreds of storefronts, “mega” malls, and strip malls

· Highway billboards by the thousands

· Circulars hung on your doorknob

· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles

· Legitimate email messages

· Spam email or UCE (without permission commercial email)

Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with
marketing messages. Like trapped rats, people develop
defenses against this never-ending onslaught. They throw up
a wall or a “radar defense” that goes into action the minute
they smell a “pitch” or a sales job. Don’t blame them. We
all do it!

So how can you get around this psychological wall against
the constant sales and marketing messages? Well, the answer
does NOT lie in hitting people with more frequent and
obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky tactics. You might get
them to trust you for a minute, but it will backfire in the
long run.

You must do two things instead:

1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself and
your business as an expert.

2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing business
with you.

Doing these two things will get you past their defenses and
allow you the opportunity to persuade them to buy your
product.

So how do you accomplish these two “simple” things? What
will win someone’s attention, raise your credibility, and
lower their fear factor all at the same time? The one-word
answer really applies to most everyone.

Trust!

If a seller can get behind your defenses with information
which makes you trust them, then that credibility will carry
over into a sale much of the time.

How can you get this credibility?

Well, take this next fact as online marketing “gospel,” for
many people have proven its effectiveness.

Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives you
one of the most powerful opportunities available to tip the
buyer’s credibility scale in your favor.

How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take a
break from reading this and go check out a newspaper or
magazine for a minute.

Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most
people will choose the articles hands down. Why? Because
the articles don’t try to “sell” you anything. Instead, they
hand out useful information for educational or other
practical purposes.

Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can believe
and “trust” what appears in the standard “news” or
“information” format. In other words, if it appears in
print, then we can believe and trust the author.

So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your
advantage in selling your products and services!

Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and
confidence in people as reading one of your articles on a
subject that greatly interests them. It shows you know your
business. It also demonstrates you will do more than just
try to sell them something.

Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their
advertising “radar defenses.”

So remember these points when deciding whether or not to use
articles to promote your business:

1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the
minds of potential customers as reading an article you wrote
on a subject which specifically and intensely interests
them.

2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right or
wrong, we’ve all been trained to trust the “news.”

3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate you
from the competition, who bombard people with nothing but
sales messages.

4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles will
also help build and solidify your relationship with existing
customers so they give you repeat business.

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author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to
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Gobala Krishnan, blogging expert, reveals how to create beautiful niche websites, add high quality content and magically attract thousands of free visitors from Search Engines with very little effort - all with a free software called Wordpress.

This system is great for beginners because you can actually start from scratch.

This is a great product that actually shows you how to create a Wordpress niche website with no technical knowledge.

The system consists of 7 modules with some bonus products.

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The bonus consists of 4 other blog related products and software.

I like the 8 week no-questions-asked 100% money back guarantee.

Gobala wrote an article on the comparison between Blogger blogs and Wordpress blogs. You can read more about it here.

I am currently using one of his themes as well. It is called ‘Super Adsense Business Theme 2.1′.

You can find more info about this system here.

Lots of people don’t have the funding that others have to generate more traffic for their site. All you need is the proper attitude and a lot of willingness, and you don’t have to spend a dime.

You must also have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to get more traffic to your site.

1) Take advantage of online communities.
The great thing about online communities is that you can focus in on a certain environment that fits into what you are looking for. You can discuss lots of things about the environment that you represent. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

Building trust can also be achieved with online communities.

2) Newsletters.
You can provide people with interesting and entertaining articles and possibly a catalog of your products. If people like your newsletter they may tell other people. These other people will then go to your site and sign up.

3) Trading URLs with other sites.
No cost involved. You just need to contact other webmasters and mutually agree to show each other’s links. You are leveraging traffic from the other site. They go to the other site and possibly see your link and come to your site.

4) Article writing.
Compose an article related to the content of your web site. Maybe tips and guides. Use your experience on the subject to pique the interest of the reader. Composing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the needed mileage your traffic flow requires.

OK, you’ve written your informational article. Now what. Go to a site and post your article. Many sites offer no charge submission and posting of your articles. When others find interest in your articles they will probably want to find out where the article originated. Include a link and a brief overview of your company with the article and there’s a good chance that they will go to your site.

5) Write good content for your site.
Many of the search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that content should be done by a professional content writer. You should do your own but you have to make sure the content is both entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.

Typically, people use search engines to locate what they are searching for. Search engines use keywords to aid in displaying the search results. With the correct keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without paying.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and some time. Research all you can about the methods shown here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

Armand Morin has released his next Free training video.

This video shows you have create what I refer to as “Magic Products”. They are quick easy and you can certainly create a great business with them.

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Just look at the titles so far.

* Do You Have Magic Products? –> Newest

* You Have A Disease?

* eBook Creation Process

* An Obvious Truth

* Opt-In Pages

* Quick eBook Creation

* The Follow-Up Process

* Massive Traffic

* Three Membership Site Models

* Product Creation Video

* Two RentaCoder Secrets

* Linear Vs. Circular Strategy

* The Internet Marketing Model

* Internet Marketing Explained

These videos are well done. Clear. Easy to understand. A lot of good content.

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Blogging Wars - Wordpress Vs Blogger

There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I’m always asked the question “Is Wordpress better than Blogger?”. The answer, of course, is “Yes”. But to really understand why, it’s important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
Here’s the comparison scale:

1) Ease of Set-up And Use

Yes, it’s much easier to set-up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own Bloggger account. You can be done in 10 minutes flat. Once you’re set-up you can start posting immediately. If you want to add a designer’s touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free.
Installing Wordpress however can be a major headache if you don’t know what you’re doing. Since you’re going to host it on your own account, you’ll need to download the installation files, upload them to your server, set-up a database, and run the configuration script.

However, if you know which hosting account to get, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform.

2) Customization & Advanced Use

Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort your articles into different focuses, unless you know how to hack the platform. With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category differently on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a magazine-like portal.

Publishing with Blogger can be a pain in the ass. It can take forever to post articles, especially if you’re making changes to the entire website. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, although if you load your system with all kinds of bells and whistles it can be just as frustrating. With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like “Shout Boxes” that improve interaction on your site. You can also get pretty themes and nifty little tools that you can add to the core template files. However, that’s as far as you can go with Blogger.

With Wordpress however, the sky is the limit. As cliche as that may sound, not only can you get themes, additional “plugins” and advanced tools, you can also extend Wordpress to far beyond just a blogging platform.
The talk today is about using Wordpress as a complete, user-friendly Content Management System or CMS.

4) Copyrights and Ownership of Content

I started with Blogger and I won’t say that it’s bad. But after a while I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here’s why: Google Owns Your Content
Google has the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don’t like what you’re blogging about. You don’t have absolute control over your own blog. With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own account. You have full control over your content.

With the self-hosted version of Wordpress (not Wordpress.com), you’re free to write about anything you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to publish to your own domain, but they still own the database that holds your content! Don’t forget that!

5) Search Engine Optimization and Traffic

There’s this propaganda that since Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I won’t say that this is illogical, but from my experience, there’s no such favoritism.

I’ve heard as many stories of getting indexed fast and ranking high in search engines from both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come.

When you post in Blogger, you can only “ping” a limited amount of sites, whereas with Wordpress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic.
As a conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is only slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and building large amounts of traffic.

6) Money-Making Potential

There’s no doubt that it’s easier to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. In fact you can now apply for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising considering the fact that both are owned by the same company.

With Wordpress, it can get tricky. The default installation is not enough. You’ll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there’s even “Adsense revenue sharing” plugins around that allow you to share ad revenue with other contributors and writers for your blog.

When you start using Wordpress to build your Adsense websites, you’ll soon discover what I mean. It’s something you need to experience for yourself. I can tell you one thing though – when you go Wordpress, you don’t go back.

About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of Wordpress Adsense System, the unique beginner’s guide to building content-rich Adsense websites with Wordpress. You can download two free chapters of his book here.

James Grandstaff has released “Part 2″ of his “Downline Secrets.”

Before I begin, Let’s catch up a little first… Downline Secrets “Part 1″ came first.

Basically with Downline Secrets “Part 1″ you get free access to a recorded call between Mike Filsaime and James Grandstaff. Mike asks James questions about the success he had using InstantBuzz.com (a free advertising resource) to grow his downline.

You get access to the MP3 and PDF transcript of the call (which is nice because I don’t always like to sit in front of my PC to read or listen to content.)

During the call James reveals how he used his free Instant Buzz traffic along with his (now proven) 3 step strategy to explode his downline into the thousands on complete auto pilot.

The cool part is he did it while maintaining his full time job as a PC support technician in Michigan.

And from there you have the opportunity to buy the same software that James developed to grow his downline and use it to grow your downline in any program you happen to be involved in.

So all-in-all DownlineSecrets.com is a great site and offers a lot of great info for free on how to build your downline using the web.

What makes Downline Secrets “Part 2” so much better is that it takes over where Downline Secrets 1 left off.

What I mean is this…

With Downline Secrets 1 you were left to figure out all the technical stuff in order to duplicate James’ results for your MLM business. The software and detailed videos are fantastic but you still have to come up with the web copy, the hosting, the HTML page design and so on… The yucky stuff.

Let’s just say his target market is much smaller because if you don’t have the much needed technical skills or the money to hire those with the skills, you are pretty much out of luck and can’t fully benefit from the entire system he is teaching.

This time around you get access to a call between James Grandstaff and Chris Zavadowski who is also very successful in the MLM scene. He grills James for over an hour and gets all the must know secrets out of him.

The system James is offering this time is over the top! He covers all the technical stuff for us this time and everything is completely set-up. All the technical issues have been removed. This is great because more people can now truly benefit from his teachings and proven system.

Now, I want to let you in on something…

Once you register for the call below you will see an offer for James’ Elite upgrade membership. All I can say is ==> TAKE IT!

It’s only $47 bucks and for what you get it’s simply mind blowing!

In a nut shell… he’s offering you a professional designed lead capture page that gives away a customized version of his new manuscript called ‘How to Get Rich Building a LAZY Downline!’

This PDF is first customized with your affiliate links to several “generic” MLM training resources. As you give this thing away you will earn commissions from those you refer who upgrade in any of the programs.

And since they’re all MLM related, the conversion rates should be extremely high!

All you do is simply advertise the lead capture page via the special link you get and James’ software sends an email to your prospects (with a link to your customized PDF)

Everything is on auto-pilot!

Oh, and don’t worry, the traffic aspect is even handled for you. Be sure to check out the bonus that’s included

See, I told you this thing was awesome.

As you can see, I’m totally excited about this because it’s refreshing to see a great product come along that is truly capable of changing the lives of others.

So yes, Downline Secrets 2 gets my highest recommendation!

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