I just wanted to let everyone know that I finally wrote my 1st guest post.  I am pretty pumped.  I actually am going to be posting regular on the Community Blog Engage Blog. I worked it out with Brian to do the weekly word challenge posts which I like to do anyway.

I am pumped for a couple reasons.

1. I had a goal to do a guest post for some time. (Done)
2. I worked it out with Brian so this is now a habit
3. High traffic blog with links back to my blog
4. This is a fun contest which gives me a good topic to write about every week

I you haven’t entered this contest you should give it a try.   All you have to do is take the word of the week and write a blog post about it, comment the contest post and submit to blog engage.

They at the weekend you will get a mention in the next post.  If anyone has any question let me know.  Also guest posting on Blog Engage was a breaze I am finally glad I got my 1st guest post done look forward to doing more.

Part of my inspiration came from some recent guest post on David Risley Blog.  Have you heard of this site Daily Shot of Coffee?  Well Mike Crimmins is the owner/blogger here and a guest post by him inspired me to take action and finally do one,  thank you Mike.

Any one else out their do any guest posting?  Want to share the results it had on the traffic on your blog?

If you are serious about becoming an entrepreneur then starting a web small business might be the right move for you in 2010.  One of the best things about starting an online business  are the cost.  Really the largest cost is your time.  For less then $80 dollars (GoDaddy) you can get a year of hosting and a domain.  Then you will need some time of auto responder e-mail service (aweber) at about $19 a month or ($220 a year).  That’s about it so for $300 you can have everything you need to be up and running.

Now before you go think that spending $300 is going to make your the next dot com millionaire because it will not.  Thousands of people try and fail to launch online business.  What you need to know is the cost are cheap to get in but what makes the difference is you mind set.  You must have the right mindset, you must realize that you need to take action and be focus on running your website like a business.  You will need to be prepared to learn everything and if you can learn something you will need to find a way to get someone else to do it.  You will need the help of others.  You will not succeed if you try to operate in a silo.  Enlist others to help, help others and good things will happen to you.

ARE YOU STILL READING

Good, so if as an entrepreneur the 1st thing you need to do is think about what you website is going to be about.  What your target market, does anyone search for it online (this is key).  Do you know how to pick a SEO rich domain.  If your smart you should learn a little bit about this before you begin.

Web Home Business

Home web business have really taken off, entrepreneurs young and old are find new ways to make money online every day.  The funny part is it not really new ways it just new content with a different twist.  I all comes down to how does your company make money.  Do you have a product? Do you sell other peoples product?  What your offer.  How do you get traffic?  How many different streams of income does your website make?  What am I doing to generate revenue today?

10 Great Thing About Starting a Web Small Businesses

• Unlimited Potential
• Low Costs
• You Make the Calls
• They Scale
• You can do it from anywhere
• Others will help
• It will change you life
• You will make new friends
• Anyone can do it!
• Just Do it!

Ok I couldn’t think of number 10 but seriously if you ever wanted to start a business starting an online one might be the perfect fit for you.  If you serious and what some advice before you start check out this blog.  Check out some of the Entrepreneurs Blogs on my page and stories.

Sign up for Aweber and GoDaddy from my site and I will help you kick start you SEO for you new business.

Looking, to find the best Christmas gift for Mom this year.  Well you found it, buy one of these and make sure you load it up and test it before you give to to her.

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Hello,  everyone I am going to be playing around with some wordpress themes this weekend.  I am finally going to do a full redesign.  Sorry if anything is now working or formated correctly.  Hope to deciede on the best theme and move forward.  Will take some snaps and doc’s along the way.

Currently testing Frugal.  GoodNews and FlexSqueeze 2 think Flex Squeeze will be the winner.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Jared

Warning this is a old John Reese article that I read earlier in the year that I liked and thought I would share.  Did you know you use up to 26 articles a year from http://ezinearticles.com

You’re about to discover something that I honestly believe
can CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

This is a concept that drives my marketing. This concept
continues to make me a small fortune. Today I want
to share this concept with you.

“Crap can make you rich.”

Don’t laugh. Let me explain.

The beautiful thing about marketing online is that we can achieve
RESULTS for anything LIGHTNING FAST.

We can put up some Google AdWords, drive some traffic, and
starting getting results in a matter of MINUTES.

I can essentially write a sales letter, include an opt-in form,
and create a little infoproduct to sell, all in less than ONE HOUR
and have it getting results.

Okay, so the product may completely STINK. i.e. it’s CRAP.
The sales letter may be nothing but CRAP too. And even if
someone DOES order, they’ll be getting that product which
is CRAP and most likely will request a refund. Heck, after all,
I only spent an hour on the entire thing.

But none of that matters. The GOLD is not in the crap itself, the
gold is in the RESULTS.

Everything in marketing has a “Cause and Effect” — everything.

If you put up the WORST CRAP EVER right now on a web site,
something WILL happen. And those results are what eventually
drives a few hundred dollars a month in profit, and eventually
produces several thousand dollars a month, and can eventually
create a small fortune.

Okay, so maybe your conversion rate will initially be 1 out of 1,000.
That’s okay. With enough data that 1 out of 1,000 will become
a solid average and that site will CONSISTENTLY produce 1 sale
out of 1,000 visitors.

Hey, welcome to a CRAP conversion rate.

Hehe, but seriously…

The point is this. There is tremendous value in a 1 out of 1,000
visitor conversion rate — no matter what the price of the product
is. No matter what the offer is. Why? Because it’s GUARANTEED
that you can IMPROVE upon it. You can make it better. You
CAN get MORE people to buy.

All you have to do is improve your marketing. Test small changes.
Try a few little tweaks. Improve it little by little.

Get better and better RESULTS.

Here is something I want you to engrave deep into your brain…

You will NEVER, that’s right, NEVER, launch a site or any
marketing that will be even 10% of “perfect”. You’re never
going to launch a site that starts pulling a 10% conversion
ratio, let alone 100%.

(And before you email me and tell me that a site you
launched pulled a 10%+ conversion rate, I’m not talking about
the results of a strong endorsement someone did for you. I’m
talking about an AVERAGE conversion rate from ALL the
traffic sources you point at your site.)

So why are you spending SO MUCH TIME to get that latest
project launched? What the heck are you waiting for?

Know this… everyday that goes by without you launching
your latest project is a day that you could be using to
test and IMPROVE upon what that project produces.

Yes, that means make you more money.

Your project will never be perfect. You could have always made
it better. You could have always done this or done that.

WRITE THIS DOWN…

“The biggest piece of crap ever created and launched online
makes more money than an almost-perfect project that
was never launched.”

Is my point getting through to you?

The biggest mistake we entrepreneurs make is trying to
make our little projects PERFECT before we are willing
to launch them and see what they will do.

This can be the “kiss of death” for our businesses. Because
until we launch projects we don’t get any RESULTS.

What you need to realize is that RESULTS are the biggest
ASSET to your online business. Even the CRAPPY RESULTS.

Because the results are what tells us what is working and
what isn’t. And believe me, I’ve probably made MORE MONEY
from the results I discovered about things that weren’t working,
so don’t just think it’s all about what works.

So learn to produce projects on an ACCELERATED launch
schedule. Just get the sucker to the quickest version that
will allow you to launch it and start getting ANY results at
all. Then spend your time IMPROVING on the results.

Let’s face it. Many of our projects FLOP. It just happens.
People just won’t buy enough of something to make it profitable.
So we must move on and work on another project. Get it out there
and see if that one starts making money. Repeating the
process again and again.

But think about what I just said and realize something. If you
KNOW the reality that many of your projects will fail, why the
heck are you taking so long to find out?

It’s probably the same reason *I’ve* often delayed things… FEAR.

I’m AFRAID to see my “baby”, my special project, fail. But since
we’ve already come to realize that the reality of business is
that some projects WILL FAIL, we just need to GET OVER IT.

Put that CRAP together and launch it! Unpolished. Unperfected.
Ugly. Yes, I say let the crap fly! (no, not that crap.)

So get your projects launched absolutely, without a doubt, as
quickly as possible. Get SOME results. Any results. THEN
work on improving whatever those results are to increase
your profits.

If you are planning on doing JVs with people for your new
product, or rolling out an affiliate program for it, the
“JOHN REESE CRAP METHOD”
(as I will call it) still definitely works.

Here’s how you use it…

You put together your web site and product as quickly as
possible. Go jump on Google and buy some AdWords traffic
to point at the site. Start tracking the results — no matter
what they are. Make changes and TEST them. Continuously
work to improve the results of the site.

When you’re able to get the site to a satisfactory conversion
level, then and only then proceed with putting together JV
deals and really rolling out the product.

You know, the biggest kiss of death for an online marketer
can be to launch a product with JV partners WITHOUT having
first tested and improved a site’s conversion. Do you think
your JV partners are going to promote your next project
if the initial one completely FLOPS and doesn’t make them
any money? Absolutely not.

SO USE THE “JOHN REESE CRAP METHOD” AND PROFIT!

1. Create and launch crap.
2. Test that crap.
3. Improve that crap.
4. Make money with crap that eventually becomes non-crap.

Seriously. Don’t laugh. This process works. Again and again.
It has made me rich.

Learn it. Live it. Love it. Let crap make YOU rich.

—————————————–
John Reese is an Internet Marketing pioneer that has been actively marketing online since 1990. John has sold millions of dollars worth of products and services online and his network of Web Sites have received over 1.4 BILLION Web Site visitors since their inception. You can learn more about John, his home study courses, and subscribe to his free ezine by visiting:

http://www.marketingsecrets.com

(c)2003 MarketingSecrets.com. All rights reserved.

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Today I going to talk a little bit about one of the reason I haven’t been posting as much as I should.  I seem to be struggling with thinking everything I write must be perfect or provide a ton of value.  Why it would be nice it everything you wrote was perfect and had a lot of value I don’t think anyone can deliver 5 post a week like that.  So is it better to just write and see.

Why is it I struggle to just put up a quick post?

I don’t even know the answer to this I think part of the problem is I don’t post everyday or 5 times a week and when I get behind then I feel the need to post something with a lot of value and then I get even more behind.  I have to ask myself would I do better if I posted a little more blah blah blah.  I see this a lot on blogs and it keeps you writing and then helps keep thing flowing.

What do you think of Blah Blah Blah Post?

I actually think Blah Blah Blah post are ok as long as you not always doing it.  These blah blah post can sometime let you inside to the bloggers mind.  They can help you better get to understand someone and know them a little bit better it helps build a more personal relationship.

How important are Quality Blog Post?

Quality blog post are very important but one of the interesting things about this is you may never know that it is quality until you post it and see how it goes over.  If I look back at some of my more popular post I would have never guess that they would have been received as well as they were.  For example my post on outsourcing graphic design this was a quick post in response to a contest.  Which ended up ranking for some good keywords and received a ton of comments.  So you never know just cause you spend extra time and put you heart in to it doesn’t make it quality.  What the readers thinks and how they respond makes it quality.

What the moral of this blog post?

Just write the most important aspect of you blog is content, regular fresh unique content.  You will never know it is quality until you hit publish.  This post started as a blah blah blah post and I bet it will go over better then I intended.  What’s the lesson I am going to take from this.  Stop trying to write the perfect blog post.  Stop worrying about value if you get too far off topic I am sure my readers will let me know of just go away.  Just start typing and posting more and more frequent so I get in the habit of writing more.

Many of you that will read this all ready know this why because you found my blog via Blog Engage.  I been meaning to write a post just about Blog Engage for some time as a thank you Brian and to help spread the word about this great site.  So here it is.

What is Blog Engage?

This is right from The Registration page.

“Blog Engage allows you to submit your Blog Article(s) that will be placed in queue and promoted by our members to the front page. The ideal of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by “Engaging” with each others blogs. Interaction that builds up quality comments and interactive discussions.”

If you looking to improve your traffic via blog submission.  Then you need to blog publish to here.  This will help your blog search engine optimization.

Who’s the Man Behind Blog Engage?

Brian, is a young up and coming webmaster, business man, blogger, internet marketer.  What I can tell you about Brian is he is all over the place.  He runs Blog Engage and SEOMKT to name a few of his websites.  I am always amazed at much I see him doing.  He leaves comments everywhere, promotes like crazy both your and his stuff I really find it hard to believe that he is one person.  He tweets, votes, comments, writes blog post on many of his sites.  Really he is everywhere. 

Why  Should I use it?

I been using Blog engage since late July and I have found that a nice steady stream of traffic from there along some very active readers and commenter’s that has come from here.  Within 30 sec you can submit your blog posts, increase your traffic and start to build some new relationships.  You will find that many of the users of blog engage have some really great blogs.  Blogging is about building relationships.  You can find and build some great relationships at blog engage. 

In addition to reading some other peoples great blog posts you will find a forum and the Blog Engage Blog.  You can even guest post on the blog engage blog if you like.  Brian is currently pushing the Blog Engage contest and weekly word challenge where he list some words and you write a post about it and he gives you some link love back.  This is my entry for the this weeks word challenge figured I give it a try since the words were great.

If your looking for more traffic and to some like minded people than Blog Engage it the place to do this!

This just in Brian also recently added adsense revenue sharing so now you can also earn a little coin if you submit.  It only takes a few easy steps to enable it.  Just update you profile with your pub id.  Blog engage has grown and seems to continue to grow month after month.  Here what will happen if add submitting your blog post to blog engage.  You will see more quality traffic, you will get more comments, you will meet some new cool bloggers and you will make a little coin.

Take action today and everyday!

Ok, if you not using blog engage give it a try.  Register, update your profile and submit all you blog post for a month and see what happens.  Take an extra 30 sec of time and add this to your blog posting routine and see what happens.  Also spend some time to read and vote on some articles and see what happens.  Be sure to vote for this and all my articles.  This is a good habit that anyone can do and should do.

I am sure others that have used Blog Engage share the same thoughts as I do.  Please leave a quick comment if you use Blog Engage or found my site via Blog Engage.  Let Brian know just how great his site is and how much it has helped your blog.