Practical Blogging Tips

Practical Blogging Tips - 3 Quick Strategies to Get More Traffic to Your Blog Now (Right Now)
By Jeff Herring

So you have a blog. Good for you!

Now, do you know how to get traffic to your blog right away? That's the next big challenge, right? Well here are three tips you can use right away to bring on more traffic right now, and consistently over time too.

3 Blog Traffic Strategies

Blog Traffic Strategy #1 - Invite prospects - I know that sounds so simple. And since it is so simple, I wonder why more people to not do it?

I think too many folks believe the movie quote "If you build it they will come."

Great line in "Field of Dreams." Horrible traffic strategy.

Here's a partial list of how to invite people to visit your blog:

Your email list - Each time your create a new post, send an email to your list announcing the new post with a link back to your blog. The members of your list community will love it because you are inviting them to get good info and hammering them with just another "buy now offer."

Social Marketing - Use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others to invite people back to your blog. Use an interesting quote from your blog post and include a link to be able to read the rest. Think of your Social Marketing platforms as "Social Marketing SignPosts" directing prospects to your blog.

Your email signature - In your email account, set it up so part of the automatic signature is an invitation back to your blog.

Blog Traffic Strategy #2 - Social Marketing Sidebar - You can include samples of your Social Marketing sites on the sidebar of your blog. This gets traffic going back and forth between your blog and your Social Marketing sites. This strategy also serves to make your blog a destination site in your niche as readers can come to your blog and then get to your other sites as well.

Blog Traffic Strategy #3 - Regular Features - One of the best ways I know to get quick and consistent traffic to your blog is to have a regular weekly feature. You can have an article of the week, a video of the week, etc. There is something about a regular feature that is attractive to a new prospect. I think it communicates stability and that you are going to be around for a long time. Learn more information about Blogging click here.

Earn Money Through Internet

Career-Based Internet Income Opportunities

By William Bud Gragg Jr

If you're considering starting a business or a new job, be sure to explore career-based Internet income opportunities. Many people think of Internet opportunities as part-time gigs. To be sure, there are plenty of those. But many people are turning their skills into career-based opportunities online and enjoying personal freedom and financial reward as a result.

Technical Services Online

Among the fastest growing career-based opportunities is for those who provide a specific technical service online. Two examples jump to mind.

Software developers or software trouble-shooters have a skill that easily becomes an income opportunity. More and more firms are outsourcing these skilled positions, bringing together virtual teams as needed.

Computer repair and maintenance have gone virtual as well. Software now lets the computer expert take your machine over, scan it for bugs and debug it, all without ever seeing you. This is an entrepreneurial career-based income opportunity, and it is a growing field.

Online Sales

There's an old saying among savvy business leaders, "Nothing happens until somebody sells something." A quick online search will lead you to numerous income opportunities in insurance and financial services.

People who can sell often don't realize this is a marketable skill. Not everyone can do it. If you can, if you have the discipline to follow all leads provided to you, provide excellent information, close the deal and follow up, you've got an Internet opportunity with any number of firms.

Building an Online Business

There are literally thousands of Internet entrepreneurs who have turned their good ideas into career opportunities online. From buying and selling goods that you mark up, to networking marketing opportunities to affiliate marketing, these Internet opportunities abound.

Things to Remember

So why isn't everyone developing their own career on the Internet? Simple: this isn't for everyone.

First, any Internet opportunity requires work. Many mistake online work as synonymous with "easy." It's not. Success at any job requires effort, excellence, and consistency. Don't think your Internet career exempts you from this.

Second, not everyone has the discipline to build an Internet opportunity into a viable business. Often, this means starting a second workday when your first one ends, until your Internet business provides enough income. And you can't be on some days and off others. You're building a customer base with your income opportunity, and you must provide excellent service to keep them coming back.

Finally, making the most of your Internet career requires understanding what makes a Web business work. And this changes as the Web evolves. Imagine trying to grow your income on the Internet today without using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. And a few years ago, these wouldn't have been on the radar screen.

If you are the "no new tricks for old dogs" type, generating a healthy income on the Internet probably won't be for you.

So let's summarize. If you've got a technical skill that would be of use to a company's IT department, you've also got a potential career on the Internet. Can you sell? Are you jazzed by the entrepreneur's challenges? Income opportunities await you online.

Just be sure to weight the risks, play to your strengths and be ready to work to turn your Internet income opportunities into a career, specially in Pakistan you can get Latest jobs through Pakistan Job Ads site.

Animal Show In India

If You Think Only Models Can Walk The Ramp, You Are Mistaken. You must have heard of fashion designers, fashion weeks and most certainly fashion shows. If you think only models can walk the ramp, you are mistaken. This year once again, continuing its tradition, The Bombay Veterinary College at Parel held a fashion show, no not the normal one, but a ‘Pet fashion show’.

A large number of dogs from numerous breeds participated in the show. There were twin pugs, Labradors, a Neapolitan Mastiff, a Miniature Pinscher, a Great Dane, an Irish setter and many more, all of which were spotlessly clean and well groomed. These dogs walked in with their owners, ‘fashionably late’. Instead of bothering about the fashion show the bigger dogs were busy ‘socializing’ with each other with loud barks and the tiny ones socialized with soft grunts.

Since it wasn’t a competition, at the end of the day everyone emerged a winner. The incessant applauses and words of encouragement made each dog and owner feel special. Needless to say, the fashion show was a big hit this year and the organisers promised an even bigger and better one. This post is taken from  Indian Pakistani Men Magazine.