What a Bla.st!

That’s right, a Bla.st! That´s actually the URL of a new site run by Tim Bromhead from New Zealand, Just for the record, the “.st” thing stands for São Tomé & Principe, a small island located in the Gulf of Guinea, if you want, you can register a creative .st domain here, just as Tim did. Anyway, the purpose of this post is to introduce you this clever idea called bla.st!, it is a free visual card directory, where you can add your own card to the site for free, or if you prefer a better position you can pay as little as $0.02 per day. One of the best things of this site is that your card can be online from 1 day up to 10 years!. As I said, payment is optional. Each time you click a card, it will take you to the website or blog that owns that card. Here is a screenshot to show you how it works.

You can add as many cards as you want but hurry up, who know for how long this offer will be available. go for it! and make it a Bla.st!

How Good was The YouTube Deal?

We all got surprised when Google announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion. Without a doubt it was a great deal for the founders of the popular video exchange site and for the investors. When this happened, we knew that the founders would take to their pockets a great part of the money and that the other part would be for the investment firm, Sequoia Capital.

Google recently published in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission the numbers of the deal with Youtube, which are quite enviable. Here is a summary of what Google delivered .

YouTube ´s CEO and Co founder Chad Hurley received : $345 million

Co Founder Steven Chen received : $326 million

Co Founder: Jawed Karim received : $64 million

While Sequoia Capital received of the deal: $442 million

Apparently the idea was quite profitable for the founders and for Sequoia; we´ll have to wait to see if the deal was good enough for Google too. If I was one of the founders I would have preferred to be be paid: half in cash and the other half in Google stocks which with a little bit of luck and if the company continues growing as it has, my money would increase in some years maybe to a billion or more. What would you do?

Sell Websites and Blogs!

Besides AdSense and Web Design there are other ways to make real money from the Internet. There are other options you may want to consider, you don´t have to spend a lot of money but you do have to spend time if you want to earn some bucks. In this post I want to show you that it is easy to build websites and blogs for sale, just build them and promote them a little bit until they´ve a descent traffic and build a strong brand for each one of them. This is a very good business opportunity, so let me show you how do it.

The sale of websites and blogs is a very good way to generate income on the Internet, there are people that create, and manage sites to sell them in a future for a very good amount of money, but how do they do it? Well here are the steps you have to follow.

First of all, do research. Find what topics are the best and what kind of websites and blogs are going to be more popular. Try this tools: Technorati and Google Trends. Avoid saturated marketplaces.

Buy a solid domain for your new site or blog, remember that a great name can make the difference between success and failure, simple and direct names are the best ones. If the name you want is not available as a .com, try a .net or a try to use “-“ between words.

Once you have the topic and the domain, start designing the new website or blog, if you don´t know about web design hire a freelance designer, you can find them here, here and here.

Start building your new site. Write and add high quality content. Articles or posts, for a new websites you can start with 100 high targeted articles and for a new blog 50 posts will make the trick. If you are not a good writer you can hire one in the sites I gave you before.

Start building links for your website or blog, remember that backlinks are valuable and can help you to increase your SE rank.

Now its time to monetize your site. Use AdSense, advertising or any other affiliate program.

After that , just start generating income from your new site or blog The more income you have the more valuable your site will be. Focus on traffic.

Now after some months, your site is generating a good stream of money , it is time to sell it. Remember that you can have to sell it for at least 5x income. You can add a post or an article offering your site , remember to include the prize and the contact information . post in other blogs and forums to offer your site, or you can try this website where you can sell your site or blog: Dealasite.com , WebSiteBroker.com and Time2Sell.com .

The 5 Main Ingredients of a Great Leader

In this post I want to give you the main ingredients or attributes a good leader must have. A great leader is someone who has made a difference in the lives of millions.

Whether it’s a leadership of millions, thousands, hundreds, or just a few dozen, there are certain attributes of a leader that shine through. Though some may assume that great leaders are born and not made, we all know that’s not true. With the right motives, training, hard work and persistence you too can be a great leader. It doesn’t matter if your desire is to be the leader of a large company or your own small business the attributes are the same. Here is what I´m talking about.

Desire – First and foremost is your desire to lead, your desire to succeed, to be great. Leadership takes a great deal of work. The prime motivator is usually passion, this is something that will take you higher in your life. Passion to be the best , the fastest, passion to be the biggest, do you get what I´m trying to say? Ask yourself, what is the most important thing for you or for your team. Then guide them to creating even more motivation. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing great is ever achieved without passion.”

Vision – “It takes a man of vision to write on water” that´s what Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown prince of Dubai says; and he´s right, with vision you can do achieve whatever you want. Know how you’ll get from Point A to Point B. You can’t make a plan without a detailed vision of what you hope to achieve.

Creativity – This is where your plan starts. You have the vision of what you want to achieve, now you set it out step by step. You know where you want to end up, but you need the road map to get there, the plan to get you and your workers, family or parishioners to the ultimate goal. This is where you ask your people the challenging questions and get them running with the ideas you’ve generated and inspire them to be creative as well.

Expertise – Naturally, the more expert you are concerning your company, or business, the better. Experience is not necessarily a lot of knowledge and information, you have to know what to do with that knowledge and how to do it. You must hone your information gathering abilities. Knowledge is power. It’s also essential that your people recognize and respect your expertise and trust your abilities to lead them. Let your group see you as the expert, and know they can trust you to guide them to success.

Respect – Not less important than the other attributes is the respect. Respect for others is essential in a great leader. You should compliment others when they show progress. Always praise in public and condemn in private. This shows respect for your workers, family and parishioners as fellow human beings. As the leader of any group, it’s your responsibility to help them sort out their conflicts. Remember, their problems are your problems. Acknowledge their strengths and their weaknesses. On the positive side, you should also help them celebrate their achievements and accomplishments. And you should listen to their ideas and suggestions.

Now you know what it takes to become a great leader, ask yourself if you have all these attributes, if you don´t, work hard until you achieve it.

Creative and Simple Advices for Your Money Making Adventure

Now, this is what I call creative thinking. In this post I want to show you some rules or advices, whatever you want to call them, that I found a long time ago (well not too long), in fact from my own point of view , these simple but effective rules are the base for any blogging empire. I´m talking about 9 simple rules, created for the 9rules Network of blogs run by Paul Scrivens, these guidelines are great for all those bloggers that want to have a successful blogging experience. Ok, here they are, the perfect rules for blogging (or for everything):

1. Love what you do

2. Never stop learning

3. Form works with function, not against it

4. Simple can be beautiful

5. Work hard, play hard

6. You get what you pay for

7. When others talk, listen

8. Always improve

9. Respect your inspiration

This network of blogs brings together some of the best blogs of the Web. With content from all around the world. you can find information about anything you want in their blogs. Some things I really like about this network or about their blogs is the design and the quality of the content.

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10 Famous Quotes About Success

It is time to write about something we are all looking for. Many people pass their lives looking for it but very few can achieve it, why is that? Because it is one of the greatest goods in the world, it cannot be bought, it is necessary to always look for it, and to fight to obtain it. I´m talking about success. To be successful in life not only means to have a lot of money, being successful is being happy. To succeed is to achieve all our dreams, therefore bloggers, no matter what, never stop dreaming and always look for success in everything you do, because success is waiting for those who want it the most. Let´s take a look to our list of famous quotes about success.

1. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

2. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brink

3. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

4. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

5. “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent

6. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” – Demosthenes

7. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

8. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.” – Havelock Ellisn

10. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

Get Fit as a Blogger

Blogging is a mind demanding job, but, what about our physical aptitudes? We know that path to success requires above ideas, money, and creativity: health. Blogger Lounge personal nutritionist gives us some advice to keep moving on the track of success, trying to keep the balance on the hours we spent writing and researching for our blogs and taking care of health issues. First of all:

Because physical activity is very important for cardiovascular health and preventing obesity: run, walk (if it is in treadmill, an inclination of 4% is very recommended), or get on the bicycle or cross trainer, for about 30 minutes, for the less, 3 days per weekend.

Never skip a meal. Try to make 3 of them: breakfast, lunch and dinner. It has been related that fasting increases the possibility of increasing fat tissue deposits in the abdominal zone, increasing as well the risk of suffering diabetes mellitus type 2, and other chronic-diseases as hypertension.

Determine the hours for you meals.

Remember that quality and quantity are the keys for a good nourishment . Try not to eat fast food items, as there are great fast recipes that you can prepare in less than 20 minutes for example: salads, sandwiches, rice soups, grilled chicken. If you are in a hurry and you cannot manage to prepare something, choose the healthier prepared food in the supermarket: food with more than 5 grams of fats per portion are high in it, watch out for the food that is low in sugar or has “no” sugar, some of them have fructose which is not the best option, nowadays, sucralose is the best one. Industrialized food and some light items are high in sodium- as it potentializes taste- that is why is not highly recommended.

Choose cereals that are high fiber. Oatmeal, without cooking is a very healthy cereal, as it prevents cardiovascular diseases, and retards hunger, so it you have it for breakfast- among fruit, milk, vegetables and a meat item- you will have lunch until the hour you have scheduled for you.

Choose pro biotic milky products. If you are more than 30 years old milk with 2% of fat is a good option.

Try to eat fish 3 days per weekend. Salmon is a great option as it has healthy fatty acids.

Include fruits and vegetables in every meal. You can eat them raw in salads, or cooked with little butter, or olive oil.

If you are craving, while writing, prefer eating fruit or vegetables; cucumber is a great option, as one portion is like 2 cups.Chewing gum is not recommended to “fade” hunger, it will cause you a blotted feeling and “tummy” pain.

Drink daily 2 liters of water.

Remember that diets are individualized. These are general tips for you to feel great! Keep on blogging!

One more time, thanks a lot Anne! LY

How to Analyze Your Competition

The following post is a compilation of techniques used to analyze other blogs or websites. This simple but effective strategies will help you understand and analyze other successful blogs. A successful business needs a great strategy, one of the best is to simply study how others are achieving success and how they are earning money.

When you analyze a competitors blog, you need to make sure you’re prepared to do the job correctly. Competitors blogs, if analyzed properly, can give you all sorts of information that you can use to increase the traffic, popularity and income of your own blog. You can use them to analyze your own market. If a blog gets a lot of hits it has to be doing something right. Check out where it is ranked, what key words it uses, how it is formatted, and what you can do to exemplify the good and filter out the bad.

Identifying the Leaders

This is the first thing you have to do. You need to start off by identifying the major players, a good place to do this is Technorati. Look for popular blogs. Also use this examination as an attempt to identify the niche markets that the major players have not identified and exploited. If you can find new niches you’re basically set as far as traffic goes.

Try to identify all places that the big guys hang out and start hanging out there. It’s all about who you know in this business so bigger is better. You might not be ready to play with the big guys, but the only way to get there is to sit down and give it a shot.

Analyze the Leaders

The next step is to study the top 10 competitors of your blog very closely. There is a lot that can be learned by looking at other blogs and analyzing them. These are the things that you should look for.

Check what kind of information they offer and how often they post new things.

Think about the look, feel and functionality of the blog, check the design.

See what advertising campaigns and offers they’re running.

Look at their strengths and weaknesses, from the reader´s point of view, check the comments.

Look at their strengths and vulnerabilities

Now, summarize the information you’ve found into a few sentences for each competitor, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each one. Try to write down your own strategy. With this research, you can create a marketing plan. Be sure to include how you intend to deal with competition, and what steps you think you’ll need to take for your blog to come out on top. Keep in mind that any subject can change over time, so be sure you keep up with the latest news.

How to Earn $100 per Day With AdSense

Making $100 per day with AdSense is not so difficult. Many bloggers and webmasters are making even more than that, believe me, much more. Reaching this amount each day may sound you almost impossible, but it is not, in fact many successful bloggers claim that they reached the $100 per day barrier just after 3 month of using AdSense (this is not a rule) on their blogs.

Now, if you want to earn $100 per day, this means that you´ll be making about $3,000, which is a very healthy income. This is supposing that your blog makes you this amount each day, what I´m trying to say is that your earning may vary. In this post I want to explain you two different scenarios about how to make $100 per day with this program.

Scenario 1

Of course you need high quality content, for a blog let´s say you need about 100 posts about a good topic, look for some good keywords to use in your posts. Now, I said 100 posts because your blog needs a base for your readership, your visitors need something to read obviously. In this scenario we are going to suppose that your website or blog displays normal price keywords with an average of $0.10 per click, there are many paying this amount.

Update frequently. Write at least 4 or 5 posts per week. Your readers expect that you update your blog with new things each day. If you are going to write just 5 posts per week try to leave 1 or to for the weekend because many people read blogs during the weekends so you should give them something to read. The same thing if you have a normal site, try updating it frequently, add new articles each week.

Traffic. That´s right, this is maybe the most important ingredient in the list, because you need readers and visitors to click your AdSense ads. If you have a 3% CTR which is ok, you´ll need about 33,333 page impressions. A lot? It is, but if most readers view 3 pages per visit this means you have to receive 11,100 unique visitors daily.

Clicks. If you want to make $100 bucks a day you´d have to average 1000 clicks daily for a blog or site using $0.10 keywords, or 2000 clicks if you are using $0.05 keywords.

Don’t forget positioning, blending and optimization. Promote your blog or website. Let´s take a look to another scenario.

Scenario 2

Your blog must have more than 100 high quality posts (or articles if you own a normal site). Why? The same reason as in the first scenario, your readers need something to read. This time try to find some high paying keywords, this time let´s assume you are using keywords paying an average of $0.50 per click. You still have to update your blog constantly, remember 4 or 5 posts per week, more would be better.

Traffic. With the same CTR, 3% , you need 6,666 page impressions generated by 2,200 unique visitors each day.

Clicks. Your blog or site needs an average of 200 clicks per day. Nice, right?

Remember that you have to focus on traffic, content and optimization. Promote your blog, take care of your readers, write good content and always implement new optimization techniques for your AdSense ads.

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