Look I am going to be flat out honest here I am sending you to a sales page.  I was checking out David Risley Sales Page for the Blog Master Club and he has a 7 minute video of him going though various weeks over the last 6 years showing his real income.   David’s been a 100k blogger for the last 6 years and here is his proof pretty cool.  Not some photoshoped commission check or pay pal screen shot.

If you a fan of income reports this is not one your going to want to miss.  Really shows you the power of a motivated individual and what can be done with a small web business.  You get to see him going through his quick books and if you look you can see each year how much he made broking down in to different segments  If this doesn’t motivate you to want to work harder then I don’t know what will.

To get to the sales page you need to click on this link and then in the top left click join.

Look for this video in the sales copy and watch it! Screen shot of income report video from sales David’s Sales Page below.

You don’t need to opt-in to view this but if you haven’t opt-in and downloaded .  David Free Six Figure Blogger Blue Print then you should.  This is the best free e-book I have every read and I have read hundreds of them.  This one I have read and listened too at least 5 times yes along with his download is an mp3 so you get both for free.  Lots of good advice and you catch something different each time I had 3-4 pages of notes with actions when I 1st read it.

About 6 months ago when I read my 1st real book on Advertising and Marketing.  It talked about one of the best images you can use for your advertising is children.  I don’t know what do you think.  Are you more likely to buy?  I going to try a little experiment with my kids details below.

Top Secret Fun Kids Food Recipes

To help teach myself how to build an online product I thought it would be fun to make a product with my kids.  To start with I am  going to be releasing my 1st E-Book with the help of my Kid’s. Fun Kids Foods  will be the topic.  We will share our favorite.

TOP SECRET Fun Kids Food Recipes

The cost of the e-book will be 10 dollars to start and then we see what happens.  The book will consist of my kids favorite Sunday Morning Recipes.  A lot of the times on Sunday morning me and the kids make something fun for Breakfast.  For now this will be my simple Sales page.

I will work on turning this in to my 1st real sales copy.over next weekend.  Better my kids start writing and coming up with ideas.

I will also split all process 1/3 for them, 1/3 for me and 1/3 will be donated to Haiti for the month of  February.  Part of the goal of this is to teach them and myself a little bit now about internet marketing and help raise some money our family.  We heading to Disney in 3 months and a little pocket change would be nice for the kids and Dad.

PS. Anybody that blogs about this e-book post and links back here I will give you a copy free!

DADS – Your kids will love this I enjoy cooking with my kids and I can’t cook trust me everything in this book is low mess, simple to make and very delicious!!!.

In this post I going to talk a little bit about your overall plan for you blog and making money.  So the question is do you have a blog strategy and if so what is it and what does it include.  Now isn’t that an interesting question.  Here are a couple more you should ask yourself. 

Do you a blog strategy?
Do you follow it?
Do you review it?
Do you like to here about other  peoples strategies?
Do you like to experiment with new ones?

I started written this and it got a little long so I going to break it up in at least 2 parts.  So far this is what I plan to cover but I might think of other things to add as there really is just so much to think about.

Part One

• Posting
• Commenting
• Affiliate Marketing
  

Part Two

• Learning/Reading
• SEO and Keyword Research
• Entering and Running Contest
• Connecting with people
• Helping Outs

Since the earlier in the year I been trying and figure out a 10 hour work week.  I figure most part time bloggers would only have about that much time so I want to figure out a plan of action for myself that I could share about managing a blog business on 10 hours a week.

Right now I will say I am well over that amount of time but I enjoy doing what I am doing.  As for as my blog strategy mine is try everything that I see others doing that seems to work as long as it fits my style and personality.  When I try something that has positive results I repeat that action.  Lets explain how that works.  So I read a lot of blogs and listen to others that share there success stories.  If I see something that I am not doing and it seems interesting and looks like it would with help with getting me to reach or accomplish a goal then I am up to give it a try.  Right now here are a few things that I do and I plan to keep doing that seem to having positive affects on my blog.

This is what makes up my blog strategy

Posting: I have a goal to post at least 3 times a week.  I would like to do more but I must do 3.  If you are not posting regularly then you need to end of story.  In addition to posting to my blog.  When I do post I also include the following activities as part of my posting routine this ensure my post is broadcasted outside of my blog to help drive more traffic.  I Tweet my post with su.pr link so I can track it and also su.pr which is also part of stumbleupon.   I also then submit to blog engage and stumble  I recently have seen a nice jump in traffic from doing this.

In addition to the extra 2 steps about I have my blog feeding friendfeed which also feeds facebook.  The day I post I usually have a nice amount of traffic from the fresh content and these activities.  I then on the days I don’t post make sure to do commenting or some bookmarking and tweets to some of my older content or more popular content to help keep the traffic flowing.

Commenting: I make it a habit to commenting  on other sites.  I have a list in my RSS that I make sure to cover at least once a week.  Again I would love to do this more then once a week and generally do but I am sure to plan an hour or two of focus time toward this each week. 

I also make sure to comment right away on any new commenter I see day one not sure how long I will be able to keep this up as my comments are really growing fast but I will try to do my best.  Here is how this works.  So if someone comments on my blog and the name is new I am sure to check out there link and see if I can leave a message or some comments somewhere as a way of saying thanks.  Plus this helps me identify and understand the type of people that are coming to and reading my site.  I made some really good connections doing this.  I am really believe that this process really helps with repeat comment from people.  It starts the relationship.  I addition to all this I pretty much find myself commenting whenever I have free time or just a few minutes.  Leaving meaningful comments has a lot of power!

In addition to posting on other blogs you need to make sure to reply to comments on my own blog.  I make it a point to at least reply once or twice on each post.  I not the best about this and could probably do a better job but I think it also can really get a conversation going in the comments that will encourage other comments.  Plus it looks good when the owner is in the mix.

Affiliate Marketing: One of the easiest things to do on line if find affiliate products and market and promote them.  In minutes you can be doing this on click bank or any other product that has an affiliate program.  I also recommend if your not using gocodes yet try it on wordpress as you can change the affiliate url to something more friendly.  You can also track clicks on the links.  Now you might not make any money but affiliate marketing is a key part of your business.  You need to understand it so you can be sure to be including just the right about of mix of marketing and blogging.  You can try different banners of products that you like or think fit your site.  I have found that one of the more clicked ads or the text link ones that you put within a post.  I think people trust links more than ads.  My approach here is keep add it and keep trying till I find something that works.  I make sure to throw an affiliate post in every 5 post.  I will end this section with a quote David Risley which really makes sense. 

”SOLID BLOGGING + COMPETENT MARKETING = LOTSA MONEY” David Risley from 6 Figure Blogger Blue Print.

In conclusion you can see that fitting all this in to 10 hours might be a challenge and this is only part 1.  I am up for it and I would love to here your thoughts and suggestions.  I know I am missing things but writing this down and sharing should only help get all this out of my head and reviewed by others for feedback.

My goal is to get to a 10 hour work week until I can do this full time.  Can you fit all this in to 10 hours a week?

I let you know when I figure that one out.

I am also missing product development, e-mail marketing and a bunch of other stuff.  I need to work more on those but don’t have the time right now but they are all part of the plan.

I just finished listening to an audio interview of Michel Fortin from the program I am currently working, Mike Filsaime’s “Butterfly Marketing”. I was really inspired from this and he recommend a book which everyone one should read. “The Psychology of Persuasion” I haven’t read this yet but will.

After doing some Google searches I came across a free audio interview so I figured I would post it for others to check out!

Robert Cialdini is the president of Influence At Work and the author of, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion.

If you’re in sales or marketing you can’t afford to pass up this show. Listen to Dr. Cialdini talk about the six major forms of influence and how they apply to every day situations.

You finally realize that you need a good opt-in list. After reading countless articles and sought expert advices and have read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists you finally decide to have one of your own. Then it happens, you think you have known everything there is to know about opt-in lists and have followed their advices to the T and you still weren’t able to make a profit.

In fact, you may be losing money. You maybe hiring writers to help you out, or there are some expenses incurred, even if you have a big list, but only a very small percentage actually buys from you, your still losing profit. You’ll realize that after a few months when you see your statistics and sales figures. 

So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? The most common mistake is that you dived straight right in. You chose a topic where you think could be quite popular and would earn you money. This just not the case. Just because you wrote people from the list doesn’t mean they are going to buy instantly.

Here I will offer more advice, for those who have started an opt-in list and have failed, you can rejuvenate your failed venture. For those who are starting, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list.

1) Get your customers to trust you and your products first. Just launching your opt-in list would not make you an expert and a believable seller. Put many articles first before you start an opt-in list. Write about the topic you know and have started and used for your site. Try to put forums first to gain knowledge about your customers about their wants and needs and target those wants and needs. 

Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advices and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you already, you will be able to start your own opt-in list. You can build a base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what you’re business is all about.

The certain truth is, the money will only come in when the consumers and subscribers believe and trust in you. They want a product or service that could be a good exchange for their money. People are not going to buy something out of your recommendation if they don’t know you.

2) Find a product or service that people want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about well, you can carry it on forward. Invest your time, effort and money that you could sell as well as the buyers or subscribers of your opt-in list can use. 

While it is true that it is best to sell something that you have interest in, there are not many people who have the same interest as you if you decide to sell something that is not entirely popular or profitable. Do your research well and you would see the profits come in. Also provide your subscribers with promotional material that they could actually use and spread around. 

3) Make friends with other opt-in list users. This is basically beneficial especially if it is someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list. These are people that have the experience in this venture and experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you in the internet to use, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you trust.

Experienced opt-in list users will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concept can still be very helpful. There are many things to avoid and these people will be able to tell you which ones. 

Building a profitable opt-in list don’t just happen overnight. There are many preparations and effort to do. Opt-in lists are built from scratch, as your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Keep it organized and manageable. Get or hire help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.

In ecology, a niche refers to the place or position occupied by an organism or a population within an ecological community called the ecosystem.  It is the term which defines the role the organism or the population plays in the general scheme of things.  The niche an organism or a population holds is the one responsible for dictating the ability of the species to survive.  It is the one which spells whether an organism or a population will perish or thrive.

In marketing, a niche refers to a service or a product that occupies a special area of demand.  It is that small corner in the market that accounts for a certain kind of specialty concerning an unmet customer need.  To be able to attract a strong, solid market, the choice of a niche product should ultimately complement the website one owns.  It is through this scheme that he is able to generate a specific market for the niche product he is trying to sell.

Niches are involved in niche marketing, the process of finding market segments that are small but potentially profitable nonetheless.  To maintain a profitable quantity of sales, this marketing strategy relies on increasing the loyalty of customers so that their corporate objectives will be met or surpassed.  Illustrative of this is the fact that the quality of the product or service sold will generate customer satisfaction and, consequently, customer loyalty.  The result is profitability garnered through a solid market base that trusts in the ability of the product or service to really deliver.

One of the great things about niche marketing is that it encourages those who indulge in it to be unique and one-of-a-kind.  Here one is not forced into the lion’s den and made to compete against established marketers.  He is made to occupy a strong and secure position that ultimately wins him a real place in the market.  Niche marketing differs from other online marketing strategies because this particular quality allows it to operate almost autonomously and without having to contend with corporate sharks that tear each other to pieces.

One of the most important things that should be thought over by those involved in this type of business is the niche business that is going to be involved in the process.  It is important to consider the type of business that one is going to work on to be able to ensure himself of the success that he hopes to have.  It is also important for him to know everything about the niche business at hand.  Learning the tricks of the trade in is one of the things that one could do to make a niche business prosper tremendously.

Being able to reach the niche market is another consideration to make.  In doing so, one should know the exact phrases that people are searching for.  The use of tools can help a lot in knowing the type of keywords that should be used to make the business profitable. Targeting the right keywords does a lot in making this type of business soar.

Those who engage in niche marketing know that determining the potential of a niche before doing everything else is a must if one wants to save all the time and effort that might be wasted if he plunges into everything head on.  Building a niche marketing site that proves to be profitable should be done after an unsatisfied customer demand is identified, and marketing the site appropriately by reaching out to customers the best possible way is what niche marketers should consider if they want their business to reach skyrocketing success.

Is niche marketing needed in a world teeming with a hundred like systems designed for people to make money online?  Those who know how the system works will answer in the affirmative, because niche marketing is the only system capable of filling up a gaping hole in the market by catering to the unsatisfied needs of customers – needs that are usually not given notice by those in the big league.  Though niche marketing, one is able to gain a foothold in the market by being a needle in a haystack.  Small and inconspicuous it may be, but its ability to sting someone so madly once it is found will render him more than surprised.