Here is another helpful tool you can add to your blog. When you add this tool, someone can subscribe to your blog via email and will get an email of your latest post everytime you publish it. Here is what the tool would look like if you add it to your blog.
Check out Feedburner for more information.
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If you are looking for a great social bookmarking tool for Blogger, i couldn’t think of a better tool than the one I’m recomending you to use. It’s called AddThis! AddThis! is the #1 bookmarking service in the world serving over 20 billion times per month.
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Get this cool widget for your website or blog that gives you live traffic feed or a live traffic map of visitors to your site. Here are some examples of the widgets.
Live Traffic Feeds
Live Traffic Map
It takes only 3 simple steps to add the widget to your website or blog.
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Here is a very helpful video I got from shoemoney.com. It’s from a conference that Direct Marketers Association held about blogging for money. Watch the video and find out how much Shoemoney made just from accepting ads in 2008.
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Name: Dennis Fong
Age: 30
Company: Raptr, founder
What He Did: A gaming guru, Fong has quickly become a legend in the multibillion-dollar industry for creating instant messaging and social networking tools designed for online gamers. An early development called X-fire was acquired by Viacom for $102 million. Continuing his gaming prowess, in 2007 Fong started Raptr, an application designed to keep track of users’ personal online gaming histories (no matter the platform) and top scores, and even offers tips and suggestions for other games. Call it an interactive leader board for those online gamers.
Where He’s Headed: He’s poised to launch additional Internet-based gaming systems.
Never Lose Sight of Your Passion: Fong still plays in competitions, just to keep his skills sharp. And maybe just to keep an eye on the competition.
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Company: The Rich Jerk
Revenue: $13 million
What He Did: The Rich Jerk is an online multi-millionaire that has taken the internet community by storm. His latest ebook has broken many sales records, and he’s developed a cult-like following. No doubt you have seen many of his websites and advertisements on the internet (without knowing it), and likely purchased as a result of them. He is frequently referred to as “Da Man” by his few friends and family, that is the few who still talk to him. You see, the Jerk is an acquired taste, and he doesn’t like people very much. But he’s okay with that, because most of them just ask for money anyway. The Jerk also prefers to keep his identity concealed, because he enjoys his anonymity, and prefers not to be bothered by people begging for money. Therefore he doesn’t do newspaper, radio or television interviews, so don’t ask. The Rich Jerk considers himself much too important to do such things. About the only thing the Rich Jerk can do for you (besides berate you), is help you make a lot of money online, as long as you keep your mouth shut, hand over 10 bucks for his ebook, and have an IQ somewhere above Moron Level.
The goal of this book: To deliver his best cash generating methods to making money on the internet.
Learn the secrets that made The Rich Jerk millions off the internet.
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Name: Blake Ross and David Hyatt
Age: 23
Company: Mozilla, co-founders
Revenue: $120 million
What They Did: With the belief that the Internet should be a public forum that is ever-evolving and accessible to all, Ross and Hyatt were determined to build an open-source engine that encourages public collaboration. And they did. In 1998, they founded The Mozilla Organization, and their Firefox Web browser resulted from their open-source desires, using a collaborative effort of volunteers worldwide and staff, to “make the Internet a better place for everyone”
Where They’re Headed: Both still work on developing other platforms to help make it easier to utilize the Internet.
Fight for the Cause: In July 2003, Ross and Hyatt established the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit providing assistance to innovators whose mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the internet.
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Name: Chad Hurley
Age: 31
Company: YouTube, co-founder
Revenue: $300 million, 2007
What He Did: A former employee of PayPal, Hurley saved his bonus from the sale and used it to finance YouTube. One of the first to show up on the social networking scene, YouTube introduced video sharing to the mass audience of the online world and revolutionized the way people can see- and be seen by…the world. Fans can watch and post self-produced (by themselves and others) streaming videos on YouTube. People can see firsthand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. A tribute to the power of viral marketing, YouTube is the Internet’s answer to instant gratification. Thanks to the inclusion of video capabilities on nearly every cell phone, PDA or computer, everyone can be (willing or not) an instantaneous star.
Where He’s Headed: Hurley and his co-founders sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, but he remains CEO.
Enjoy What You Do: After a dinner party, Hurley and his co-founders devised the idea for the video-sharing site when they couldn’t e-mail video from the dinner because the file was too large.
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jakerosarioIf blogs reshaped the face of the Internet, consider Mena Trott as the poster child of the World Wide Web. Once a casual blogger, she never envisioned parlaying her knack for writing funny little stories into the $90 million blogosphere powerhouse that is Six Apart. Mena and husband Ben Trott were victims of the Internet slowdown in 2001. Out of their high-tech jobs, the San Francisco-based couple had some savings in the bank and decided to launch their own venture. “We thought if we did well we might make a couple of thousand dollars a month, but we thought we’d have to get jobs again at some point. It was the time for us to do something that we liked,” she says.
Mena’s blog, dollarshort, was quickly gaining recognition and the 22 year old wanted to capitalize on its popularity. The duo formed a company, called Six Apart, converted the spare bedroom in their apartment and got to work. They developed an open-source, server-based Web log publishing platform, Movable Type, designed for techies and sophisticated Web users. But the Trotts realized that, as blogging became mainstream, there was a need for a more user-friendly version. In 2003, they created TypePad for people who “just wanted to blog” and not fuss with anything more technical. Essentially, it allowed everyday users to go to the TypePad site, plug in a few required pieces of information and start blogging for money for a nominal fee. There was no coding needed, no big downloads to install…just log in and blog. TypePad gave a blog voice to a whole new audience. Moms, college kids, wannabe writers and everyone in between had access to well-designed, easy-to-read blog templates that they could use to create their own. In preparing to launch TypePad, the Trotts accepted funding to help the business grow, officially hired their first employee and moved out of the spare bedroom and into an office. In 2004, Six Apart embarked on a huge expansion with the development of Movable Type 3.0, intended for use by large corporations. Once established, Six Apart built a framework for advertising, driven by the millions of users frequenting the site. This subsequent innovations and acquisitions, Six Apart was able to acquire other blog companies, solidifying the company as a leading provider of blog platforms. Meet more of The Next Generation @ success
BEN AND MENA TROTT:
Turning Your Passion into a Career
Persevere. It gets dark sometimes and you might not have much of a life with 100-hour workweeks. Be committed to building a business and helping others succeed, and don’t be ashamed of trying to start blogging for money.
Make it interesting. Create a product or technology that you actually use so you can talk about it. “I was able to give concrete examples of why my blogging has really changed my life,” Mena says.
Don’t think you have all the answers. There’s no way you know as much as people with much more experience. Young people have great instincts and talent, but there’s always room to learn.
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