Get Free Roadmap to Become A Blogger Now
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Hi All,
Did you watch the free Become a Blogger videos? If not, hop down to my last post and watch them: Become a Blogger Free Videos.
A-list blogger Yaro Starak and my blogging mentor just sent me a
note about a powerful report he released that caused an upheaval in the blogosphere (cost = zero)…
If you are interested in starting your own blog and becoming a successful blogger, this may be just the information you’ve been looking for.
Check it out: The roadmap report has now been downloaded
over 20,000 times!
That’s got to tell you something about the quality of the report. I mean, heck, 20,000 downloads? That’s enough people to start a small city!
I’ve also read the report twice and it is fantastic! Like the Blog Profits Blueprint, the Roadmap to Become a Blogger will teach you a lot of things you’ve never heard of before.
The report reveals a step-by-step guide that takes you from absolute beginner to blogging pro in 5 easy milestones.
Once you have your blog all set up, you’ll also learn some extremely powerful “X-Factor” strategies for driving truckloads of traffic to your blog using a range of multi-media tools and the latest social media tactics. This information is for beginning and more advanced bloggers. If you want to take your blog to the next level, the “X-Factor” strategies are just what you need.
And of course, you know what that means right?
The more traffic you get, the more readers you will have and the more bucks you can make online!
But you should really check it out for yourself and see why so many other people around the world are raving about this report…
Here is the page again:
To your blogging success!
Sherri
PS: Oh, and Gideon tells me that he’s also programmed in a powerful 7-part mini course (at zero cost) that accompanies the Roadmap Report…and he says that people have been lapping it up!
Better check it out here now:
Gideon and Yaro Went Overboard – Audio Version of Roadmap
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008I hope you read through my last post about The Roadmap to Become a Blogger. If not, you don’t have to read it at all, you can listen to the audio version, or, as I like to do, listen to the audio version while reading along with the text version.
The report has been downloaded nearly 7,000 times in less than two days. That’s amazing!
Talk about over-delivering…but Yaro Starak is famous for over-delivering on everything he does. I’ve been working with him for a year now, and I’m always delighted with how much I get for ridiculously low sums of money – like very reasonable prices and FREE!
Yaro gives so much away for free that he is forgoing becoming a millionaire because of it. I’m sure you’ve heard of all the great marketing gurus like Mike Filsaime and Mike Rasmussan. First off, they aren’t bloggers and don’t get blogging. So if you want to be a blogger and you buy their stuff, it won’t help you and it will cost you a small fortune.
Second, Yaro’s courses and reports are easily worth more than the other two guys’ products combined, and he charges way less than they’re worth, unless he’s giving them away free, like now. Yaro’s material is worth as much as Stompernet, but his prices are affordable to we the regular people who don’t have even $100 to spend on mentoring per month. IF you can get in, and it’s a big if, Stompernet runs about $900/mo. And while they’re terrific and give a lot away too, they aren’t bloggers either, though a few staff members blog.
Think about what you’re getting for the money you spend. How much stuff do you have sitting on your home office shelves gathering dust that didn’t really help your business? If you want to start blogging and might eventually want to turn it into a business, you need a blogging mentor, not an internet marketing mentor, and Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick are the best guys out there.
You can follow this link to both the text and audio versions of The Roadmap to Become a Blogger and get them for free at the same time. If you’ve already downloaded the text version, you can just download the audio version.
Put it on your iPod and take it with you! You’re going to love it,
Sherri
New Become a Blogger Free Report
Monday, December 1st, 2008My mentor, Yaro Starak, and his colleague, Gideon Shalwick, just released their new free report, The Roadmap to Become a Blogger. You can download it at that link.
If you found the Blog Profits Blueprint too confusing for someone just starting out, The Roadmap to Become a Blogger is for you. Experienced bloggers can also learn a tip or two from reading it. The report discusses:
- 5 major milestones you MUST reach if you want to be a successful blogger
- 13 essential strategies that will put your blog on steroids
You also get access to free video tutorials about the basics of blogging and setting up your own blog using WordPress software. These videos teach you the basics of WordPress, plug-ins, private hosting of your blog, what FTP is and how to use it, and much, much more.
Making A Living
This isn’t a rehash of the Blog Profits Blueprint. It’s brand new and contains material you need today that will make your blog successful. Much has changed since Yaro started blogging in 2004. Read, digest and implement this information and you’ll have the tools it takes to make a living blogging.
If you don’t want to earn a full-time living blogging, it’s still a great way to bring in some extra money to pay off debt or put into savings. It’s a great way to have a stream of income not related to your day job. In this extremely rough world recessionary economy, we all need to be thinking in terms of multiple income streams to guard against economic trouble should one of those massive job lay-offs hit us squarely in the wallet. Those who thrive in bad economic times often have at least one side business they can ramp up to provide a good income should their jobs disappear.
Successful blogging is a much easier part-time endeavor than throwing boxes at UPS or delivering pizzas, and you can make just as much or more money doing it in less time each week from home. In just 1-2 hours a day, 5 days a week you can ramp your income up easily by $1000/month. For sitting in your house typing for an hour or two, that’s a big chunk of change.
The biggest advantage to blogging is you’re not trading your time for a set amount of money. You put in regular work, but over time your blog will earn money all by itself because it’s available around the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. People get online on Christmas day, even if just for a little while. Often, they’ll spend some money they got for Christmas online at your blog if you’re writing about and selling what they want to buy. After you have been blogging for awhile, you will have enough content to sell advertising on your blog and earn a completely passive income stream. Who doesn’t want to get paid while they sleep?
My mentor, Yaro, makes anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000 per month and he travels all over the world at his leisure. The business of blogging can be done anywhere there is an internet connection for his notebook computer. He writes offline sometimes using a word processing program, like MS Word, and uploads articles later when he has an internet connection.
You can blog sitting in your Lay-z-boy recliner while watching TV. You can even blog about WHAT you are watching on TV!
The Roadmap to Become a Blogger has stories of other people who are making as much money as they want to make from their blogs. Yaro even has a student who became and remains a multimillionaire from blogging after studying his techniques.
I’m still ramping up my blogging business. I have too many blogs to keep current every week, so I’m looking into selling some of them. I make a nice sum of extra money each month from blogging or from activities related to blogging. I am now a WordPress consultant and I also build a couple of WordPress blogs or websites for other people each month. My blogging and related monthly income averages $900 right now. I’m working on getting more advertising and more passive income to increase that amount. A part-time blogging business segues nicely with my tutoring job as well.
What If You Don’t Have Anything To Write About
You do something for a living so you are an expert at it and you can write about it. If you have hobbies, you can write about them as well.
If you can write a reasonable 8th grade essay and don’t dread writing, you have the most basic skill it takes to blog. Following this roadmap will give you the rest of the skills you’ll need to become a successful blogger. And don’t forget, writing gets easier as you practice. Not every post you write needs to be an “A” paper either. Your readers are not one of your school teachers. It’s up to you how you run your blog because you’re the boss.
Please give The Roadmap to Become a Blogger a shot. It’s free, so you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.
Sherri Joubert
Successful Blogger
Mango Orange iThemes for WordPress
Saturday, August 30th, 2008I have tried a lot of free WordPress themes. I am pretty happy with the theme on this site. It is called “News Blue” if you are curious. I like this theme for this blog. But finding good free themes can be a chore, especially when you want something simple yet elegant in one color that has plenty of arrangement options, like two-columns or three-columns, and the ability to decide where each column goes without having to mess with the code.
The main reason for such a spartan theme is to make the focus of the blog the content by not cluttering up the blog with a bunch of theme elements. You may not want to go the route of using the default, Kubrick WordPress theme that all WordPress blogs start with because that one is too plain and screams “I did not take the time to pick a theme yet”. You can change the header color and the header text color easily with Kubrick, but the sidebar is fixed on the right unless you know your way around php and css.
There are sets of two-column and three-column “Mac” themes by Mango Orange that are really clean and easy to use. The two-column themes, or i2Themes, have a main column for posts and a sidebar. You can choose either a left or right sidebar. The three-column themes, or i3Themes, allow you to choose both sidebars on the left, one on the left and one on the right, or both on the right.
The colors for both the two-column and three-column themes are classic (medium blue), grassy green, midnight blue, ruby red, and snazzy pink. I would like for them to come out with a white on black and a black on white with gray-scale. I’m not sure what I would use them for, but I think they would be fantastic for a black-and-white photography site or something.
I currently have four i3Themes in use: classic blue, grassy green, midnight blue and snazzy pink. I went with the right sidebars on all but one. The blog with the midnight blue theme has a left and right sidebar with blog posts in the middle.
The themes are Apple Mac-like in look. The header is clean, the text is easy to read, changing the header text is easy, you can decide where you want each column, and the page bar at the top of the first post on the page is really well organized. Parent pages only show up on the main page bar. Once you click on a page other than the home page, you can see all child pages of that parent page across the top under the main page bar. If you put a pages widget in one of your sidebars, the parent pages are bulleted with orange dots and the child pages are indented and bulleted with theme color dots.
These themes are just plain clean, easy and elegant with lots of choices to customize them as you want without digging into any code. You can view samples and download these themes from Mango Orange. I hope you’ll check these out and perhaps give one of them a go when you need a simple theme with lots of pizazz.
Pages Fixed!
Friday, July 11th, 2008Ok, that wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be.
Once I upgraded all the plugins the page content came back. Since the home page still worked, it had to be a problem with the page.php file. I went through the tags and found I was missing one “end div” tag right before the template called the sidebars. I put the tag in and it was fixed!!!
Yeah! I don’t have to change WP templates!
Sidebars in pages are broken
Friday, July 11th, 2008I’m writing a quick note to tell you that all my pages except the blog (home) page are broken. The sidebars don’t show up, but the page content does. It seems to have happened with the most recent WordPress upgrade. It could be that a plugin isn’t working with the theme after the upgrade, or the theme itself might not be compatible with the newest version.
I’ve turned off all the plugins, then reactivated the vital ones and that didn’t fix it. Updating the plugins seemed to help. At least the page content is visible and formatted properly again. I’ll keep working on the sidebar problem…
If I can’t get it fixed in the next couple of weeks, I’ll have to switch themes permanently. I really hate to do that. I like News Blue, but I have to have a theme that works more than I need to like it. Function before appearance…
If you’ve had a similar experience with the most recent upgrade of WordPress and were able to fix it, please let me know what you did.
Thanks,
Sherri
Useful WordPress Plugins, Part I
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Most of us who blog seriously use WordPress software, own our URLs and pay for private hosting. It’s the most secure and flexible solution for a blog. WordPress has its limits, however, and lots of developers solve this problem by creating a plugin to perform a specific function, like allowing people to subscribe to comments.
In this article I review the following plugins I’ve recently found at MaxBlogPress.com:
- Different Posts Per Page
- MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
- BlogRush Click Maximizer
- MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
These plugins require free registration and a password to download them. You will also see some one-time offers when you register your first plugin. Since blogging is a business for me, I find the offers, in the form of an upsell, very interesting. The marketing techniques that go along with the plugin registrations are a lesson to behold. Some may find the offers a bother, but as students of internet business and marketing, as well as business owners and operators, I think we should all study the process when we sign up to download one of these plugins.
You will only see the one-time offers once when you register your first plugin, no matter which one it is. If you don’t take advantage of the offer or offers then, you won’t see them again when you register any subsequent plugins. These are truly one-time offers!
How to Install These Plugins
There is a little different procedure for installing and implementing these plugins than the ones you get from WordPress.org. Here’s how to do it:
- Download the plugin, unzip it and upload it to your server into the wp-content/plugins folder using your FTP program
- In the WordPress administration panel, click on plugins, locate the plugin and activate it
- Click on settings in the admin panel (options in older versions of WordPress)
- Click on the newly activated plugin and register it (enter your name and email address)
- Once registered, set the plugin’s options and save them
- If the plugin is a widget, go to design and add the widget to the sidebar or where ever you want it to display on your blog
- You’re done!
Different Posts Per Page
One thing I find cumbersome about WordPress is you can set the number of posts per page, but it’s static across all your pages, categories and archives. If you set 5 posts per page, you’ll have 5 posts on your main or home blog page, 5 listed per page for each category and 5 per archive page (usually archives are stored by month and year).
What if you want 3 posts on your home page but 10 listed on each category page and maybe 30 on each archive page? You can’t do it without a plugin. The plugin that does this easily and seamlessly is Different Posts per Page. You can download it at the following link:
This plugin lets you put different numbers of posts on each page, including each category page. It’s amazing to have total control over this function. It gives you the flexibility to easily display each part of your blog the way you want it displayed.
If you click around to the different pages on this blog you’ll see I have 3 posts on the home page, up to 20 on each category page, up to 20 on each archive page, and 5 posts will be displayed through my RSS feed.
You can set a different number of pages for each category. This is handy for grouping notes together or perhaps keeping all posts together that form a course of study. I plan to use that benefit on my Thirty Day Challenge blog.
The training category on that blog needs to be split up into years (2007 & 2008), and all notes from training for each year need to stay together in ascending chronological order. Yes, you read that right. You can set the order on each page to ascending or descending. Blogs default to descending order only, which makes sense on the home page, but not on pages where a topic starts at the bottom and ends at the top of the page. When you want to organize a category from day 1 to day 30, you want the page to start at day 1, and this plugin allows you to sort posts in ascending order!
I absolutely love this plugin and all the flexibility it gives me.
MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
If your blog is an ecommerce blog, you can join the affiliate program and display the DealDotCom deal of the day using this widget.
What is DealDotCom? I’m glad you asked. DealDotCom is a sales website that sells only one, single product each day for a very low price, a real steal of a deal. A product is available for one day and the price is usually insanely low compared to its regular price. There is a limited amount of the product for sale each day, and it’s available until midnight or until it sells out. Once it sells out there won’t be any more available.
The DealDotCom commission structure is generous. Affiliates earn 35% on direct sales from their widgets and 15% on the second tier. That means if someone goes to the DealDotCom site and joins the affiliate program through your widget, you earn 15% on the sales through their widget. You also earn a commission if a buyer buys anything again in the future from DealDotCom, no matter how they return to the site.
Here’s the link to the MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget:
MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
I have this widget installed on this blog in the sidebar and on a couple of my other blogs as well. The thing I like about the MaxBlogPress widget over the DealDotCom widget is you can adjust the width it displays in pixels. The other widget isn’t adjustable, hung over the edges of my sidebars and was kind of tacky-looking compared to my blog themes.
If you want to offer useful software, ebooks and training courses for insanely low prices to your readers, this widget is the one to have.
BlogRush Click Maximizer
If you’re a member of BlogRush you know that sometimes the post titles that show up in the widget are way off-topic to the category your widget is supposed to contain. As bloggers we also maintain the right to publish an off-topic post we want our regular readers to see. We may not want that post syndicated all over the blogosphere, however.
To make sure only your best posts are syndicated through BlogRush, BlogRush Click Maximizer is the tool to use. When you write a post you have the option of including that post in your BlogRush feed and you can change the post title to something short and catchy so it will fit in the widget. Here is the download link:
The widget is located on the write page in the WordPress administration panel and you set it when you compose or edit a post. If you don’t tick the “include this post in BlogRush feed” box, it won’t be syndicated. Since you have to turn it on, you control which posts are syndicated. The rest aren’t syndicated.
BlogRush has an automatic filter you can set on your account page, but the filter has to be specific enough to not filter out too many of your posts. You run the risk of syndicating something you don’t want on the widget or filtering out something you do want on the widget. I don’t like hit-and-miss when it comes to building traffic to my blogs and this plugin lets me make sure I only put highly targeted posts out on the blogosphere.
If you’re a member of BlogRush, this plugin is necessary to increase traffic through the widget to your blog.
MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
Ordinarily I hate popups, all popups. But there are a few places where they are beneficial to the reader. They can be used to remind a visitor to register for an event, direct them to special offers, highlight an update, subscribe to your RSS feed or a newsletter or join an email list. Popups are also useful when they are specific to a particular page or post, so you’re not seeing random ads popping up all over the place.
This widget allows you to customize popups for your site. The annoyance factor is easily eliminated by only allowing the popup to appear to any visitor on a single visit and then they will never see that popup again. If they’re interested in what was offered in the popup and you want it available, they will be more willing to look around your site to find the update or subscribe button or email signup box. But they don’t have to see a popup ever time they visit your site.
Honestly, if I saw a popup every time I visited a site, I would hit the unsubscribe button so fast it would make your head spin. This plugin allows you to use popups without the annoyance of popups.
I’m not currently using this plugin, but I have some ideas and future plans where it might be useful to something specific. If used wisely, I believe this plugin can be used to the benefit of your readers and you. You can download it here:
MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
I’ll be writing about some more useful plugins in future posts. I hope you’ll give these a try. I find the first three very handy. When I try the unblockable popup plugin I’ll post an update about it.
Here are the plugin links again:
- Different Posts Per Page
- MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
- BlogRush Click Maximizer
- MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
When you get to the download page, you can go ahead and download all the plugins at once or you can download them as you need them. You will see the one-time offers when you register your first plugin only. After that you will never see those one-time offers again. The marketing strategy is really interesting and I hope you’ll study it closely and go through the whole process to see how it’s done. It may be something you want to use in the future when you launch a product of your own.
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