One Entrepreneur’s Journey to Selling a Website for $200,000

There are many success stories out there about people who have built websites and have sold them later for a large sum of money. I love these stories because each story is a little different, but the underlying themes are generally the same. This is a guest post by Patrick Meninga who recently...

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How to Start a Podcast – Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Starting a podcast has been one of the best decisions I have ever made for my brand. Ever.Since starting The Smart Passive Income Podcast in July of 2010:The show has surpassed 2,000,000 total downloads. (Sept. 24, 2012 – see graph)The podcast has become the #1 way people who read my blog found out...

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“I’m Fine, Thanks”

In January, my good friend Adam Baker from Man vs Debt asked me if I was interested in helping him out with a new project he was working on.In the online world, “project” could really mean anything – a new website, an info-product, a course, software, etc. – but this project was much different...

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Blogging News Stories as They Happen

Blogging news stories as they unfold is one of the mostexciting and controversial applications of technologythat bloggers have discovered. One thing that makes theblogosphere so active is the fact that it is possible toupdate a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogstends to be more current than the news in the paper, oron television. Unlike news delivered by these othermedia, news that appears on blogs does not have totravel through a series of editors and administratorsbefore it reaches the...

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Blogging Teens

Every day, blogs are created by people of all ages andfrom all walks of life, but when it comes to blogging,teen writers are truly on the cutting edge of themovement. Because today's teenagers are the firstgeneration of people to have grown up using theinternet at every stage of their development, manyadolescents have a seemingly innate sense of how to useweb technology to express their innermost thoughts andideas. Older writers often experience a kind of learningcurve when they begin to blog, but...

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Blogging News Stories as They Happen

Blogging news stories as they unfold is one of the mostexciting and controversial applications of technologythat bloggers have discovered. One thing that makes theblogosphere so active is the fact that it is possible toupdate a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogstends to be more current than the news in the paper, oron television. Unlike news delivered by these othermedia, news that appears on blogs does not have totravel through a series of editors and administratorsbefore it reaches the...

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If You are Already Blogging, Money May be Just a

Click AwayIf you already spend a fair amount of time blogging,money may come to you literally as soon as you ask forit. Once you have an established blog with a regularreadership, it is easy to turn a profit through advertising.By hosting sponsored links or banners, you can seeincome from your hobby almost overnight. Even if youdid not start your blog intending to turn a profit, makingsupplementary income from your blog may be easierthan you think. Of course, even for people who have spent months...

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Using Product Recommendations To Increase Your Bottom Line

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings and maintain the account that you have worked so hard for already. Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.One of the more important ways of increasing affiliate marketing bottom line and sale is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective...

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Here's Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved. What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch,...

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Choosing The Right Free Blogging Tools

There are many free blogging tools on the market, butloading up your blog with all of the free accessories thatyou can find isn't necessarily a good idea. While it maybe tempting to add a visitor counter, a flashybackground, an exciting new font, and a cluster ofquirky animated gifs to your blog, this kind of plan caneasily backfire. The key to getting the most from freeblog tools is being selective. It is a great idea to learn about all of the kinds of freeblogging tools that are available so that...

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To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join

Joining an established blogging site like live journal orblogger has plenty of advantages, especially for the blognovice. Sites that host a lot of different blogs often havevery useful tutorials about building and updating yourblog, and you are likely to encounter a very user-friendly software interface at an established bloggingsite. In addition, these sites provide a kind of instantcommunity of fellow bloggers who can provide advice,insight, and feedback. These established sites oftenkeep directories...

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