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Best Youtube Video Editing Software?

Jay — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:29:43 +0000

Best Youtube Video Editing Software? - As I continue on my slow and steady pace of creating Youtube videos to gain subscribers, views and make money (none of which I have done yet), I have finally narrowed down the video camera I’ll be using temporarily as well as the video editing software.

It has taken me quite a while because I had so many ideas and also I didn’t want to shell out a lot of money if I’m not going to fully invest my precious time into, you know?

Which Camera Did I Choose?

Honestly, I didn’t choose a video camera just yet but rather I’ll just continue using my current Flip Mino as a starter. I’m a completely noob when it comes to Youtube, video editing, etc so I figured I’d learn the ropes as I go because I’m a hands on type of person. I didn’t want to just go out and buy an expensive HD video camera if I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do as my main focus for the Youtube channel.

Here were my thoughts and ideas…

Ideas for Youtube Channel

I was putting a lot of thought into this and the end conclusion was the fact that I wanted to do something that’s comedic. A lot of you guys know me as a business type online entrepreneur but if you knew me in person you would think I’m a goofy guy that likes to make people laugh. I’m sure you guys would have no clue that I’m an online entrepreneur either.

I figured I would just stay with something I enjoy and that will not only keep my viewers entertained, but me as well. I’m actually going into this project expecting NOT to make any money because that’s not the point for me. I just want to do something I enjoy and share it with others who have the same taste of comedy.

Here are some of my ideas that I came up with:

Social Experiments With A Twist – I have been doing my own social experiments for years and I find it intriguing. Though, my social experiments aren’t usually stuff that crosses the line. Well, maybe sometimes. But I was thinking about things that I would find funny but weird.

For instance, take your stereotypical looking thug that you would expect to listen to rap or hiphop listen to his headphones walking down the street singing a Prince song or something. You just wouldn’t expect that because of how society is.

Skits and Parodies – I always wanted to do funny skits but coming up with the material is harder than it looks. I’ve always been like an improv person but its different if you’re trying to do skits specifically for Youtube.

Parodies are always funny as well but you have to keep up with the latest trends AND come up with the material easy and quick.

My Life – Hey, believe it or not but a lot of people can get hundreds of thousands or millions or views just on their everyday life. Of course, I would just put the funny moments and add my own twist to it.

So, those are my generic ideas. I don’t think it’s that big of a problem coming up with the material, it’s all the details you have to worry about such as filming the right things, editing… speaking of editing…

The Youtube Video Editing Software I’m Using

Editing videos is the key and if you don’t have someone to do it for you, it might be a problem. I did a little research and ended up choosing Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 as my video editing software I’ll be using. Of course, it’s definitely harder than I expected it would be but I’m sure I’ll learn it in no time.

I think it just reminds me of a Photoshop type program. I mean, you can use regular Paint or whatever default photo editing that comes with your computer but Photoshop is the more advanced stuff. This is definitely going to be a challenge but if you put your mind to it and work hard, the results will show itself in due time.

Anyways, that’s an update of my Youtube project/experiment and I know I haven’t been updating DatMoney very often but big chances may happen soon.

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Which HD Video Camera Should I Get For Youtube?

Jay — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:48:05 +0000

Which HD Video Camera Should I Get For Youtube? – So, as some of you guys know, I’ve been considering starting a Youtube channel for quite sometime now. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do just yet but I want it to be related to comedy (or some weird variation of it). Of course, since I’m looking to make my own videos, I’m going to need a good video camera to do so. Which one would you recommend?

Why Am I Starting a Youtube Channel?

There are quite a few reasons why I want to start a Youtube channel but the main reason is because it’s something I always wanted to do. But here’s some more details on why.

It’s On My Bucket List - Well, maybe not exactly on my “bucket list” but rather something I want to do in life so I can cross off the list of things I have done. My list is so random but it includes anything from the small things in life (like Jet-skiing, riding a motorcycle or playing a poker tournament in Las Vegas) to medium things such as making Youtube videos.

Just making Youtube videos isn’t the only thing, my goal before I cross it off my list is to make at least one video and have it viewed over a million times.

If I get good at it, I’m hoping I get lots of videos viewed millions of times.

Getting My Name Out There And Making People Laugh – I don’t really need to get my name out there and I’m actually not trying to brand myself but ever since I was a kid, I’ve been able to make people laugh and it’s definitely a good feeling. I’m just hoping I can do the same with whatever I end up putting up on Youtube.

Make Money – People you guys judge me and think I’m going to make videos with the intent of only making money online, well, I am… but the money may not only go to me. I was actually considering on donating a share of my profits from whatever I make from Youtube videos to charities. I guess I just need to get to that point of making money before anything.

Um, I Want To… – I created an account years ago but I never really knew what I wanted to do, if anything. Again, I’m not even sure what I’m going to do because I’m my own worst critic. I mean, I used to make music and most of them were never released because I was so picky and just didn’t like it.

What Video Camera Do I Currently Have?

Currently, the only things that I have to videotape are the Flip Mino as well as my cell phone. Both are very convenient, easy to use as well as easy access for uploading it onto the computer but either is that great in quality.

I have been using the Flip Mino to record a lot of things and some videos have came out great. Plus, it comes with its own video editing program. But if I’m going to make a Youtube channel then I’m thinking on upgrading to something a little better. Which leads to my question…

Which HD Video Camera Should I Get For Youtube?

I did some research and found a few different ones that seem pretty good but I just wanted to ask you guys to see if you have any good camcorders or know of anything.

I know I have been busy and you have been seeing less blog posts on here but I have priorities. Making Youtube videos isn’t really one of them but since I record a lot of my daily activities when I go out anyways, I figured I would just try to invest in a new camera eventually.

I’m sure some of you guys are experts at Youtube, definitely more than me (as far as making videos and stuff) so I’d like some feedback.

Any advice, opinions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

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Someone’s Stealing YOUR Top Commentator’s Link!

Jay — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:15:55 +0000

You know how I know someone’s stealing your Top Commentator’s link? I constantly catch people doing it on my blog and then I do some research to backup up my theory with hard evidence. Well, it seems people have found a loophole to the Top Commentator’s Wordpress plugin and they simply benefit from it. Of course, when someone benefits from it another person gets their benefit taken away from them. Let’s work on getting this problem fixed.

How To Steal Someone’s Top Commentator’s Link

This information is only for educational use to build awareness and not intended on promoting hijacking of links.

For the record, I think this is unethical and a very cheap way of stealing someone elses’ work of commenting with their thoughts. But to do it, essentially you would find a name on someone’s “Top Commentator” list and simply comment using the same exact name and just enter in your website information.

Of course, that same person will probably be back to comment again but say it took them 20 comments to make it on the list, all the hijacker has to do is comment once and then they’ll be on the list in no time. Now all the hijacker has to do is just make a new comment after the original commentator makes another one.

Example of A Top Commentator Hijacker (With Proof!)

I’ve seen this done before, by accident and on purpose. You can hijack by accident if someone comments with their generic name. For instance, if I commented with “Jason” or “Jay”, I’m sure I’m not the only ones with that name that could possibly have commented. Though, some people obviously steal and hijack on purpose.

Here’s an example:

As you can see from the screenshot above, it doesn’t look like anything special, right? But why would someone try to rank in search engines for “how to articles” that leads to a health blog? Luckily, I spotted that from a mile away because the person who comments regularly on this blog with the anchor text “how to articles” comes from firehow.com. That would make more sense too… “how to articles” leading to a “how to” website.

Check out the screenshot of the real commentator with that anchor text above:

More Evidence This Person Hijacked Intentionally

So, I actually did some research because this type of thing kind of pisses me off. I mean, someone is taking the easy route and intentionally hurting other people’s hard work.

There’s this website called backtype.com and which you can look up where people are commenting and which website they are linking to. Of course, I checked them out there and it looks like they have been hijacking for quite sometime.

You can check out some of the comments, anchor texts they’ve been stealing and which blogs they have been commenting on here.

Let’s go over a few examples on other sites that support top commentators in which this person has been stealing from.

On Cashtactics, this person managed to comment as “Laptop Carrying Case” which looks like it belongs to Mezzi.com.

On Uberaffiliate, this person managed to comment as “Net Age Web Design” which looks like it belongs to netage.co.za/.

On Feedflare, this person managed to comment as “CB Predator” which looks like it belongs to cbpredatorreview.com/.

On Entrepreneurs-Journey, this person managed to comment as “Nicole Price” which looks like it belongs to Greatpriceshare.com.

On Jonathanvolk, this person managed to comment as “AffiliatePaying” which looks like it belongs to affiliatepaying.com/.

On Tylercruz, this person managed to comment as “SEO Tricks” and I would link to the original commentator but I couldn’t find it.

But you guys get the point, right?

How We Can Work Together To Stop This

I have to give some credit to this person (and any other people who hijack) because they found this loophole and they actually do take time to comment. Unfortunately, what they’re doing is still unethical.

So, what can we do to stop this?

Well, there’s only so much one person can do… but if we worked together then there will be a bigger impact. I already e-mailed this person informing them that I think it’s unethical what they are doing but never received a response. I mean, why would I? But here’s a few things we can do:

Remove Their Link – By simply deleting their comment is a great start so you’re not supporting their unethical link.

Blacklist Their Site On Top Commentator’s Plugin – All you have to do is add their URL to the Top Commentator’s “Filter URLs.” In case you don’t know how to do it, all you have to do is go to plugins – “edit” top commentators – and enter the website in the “filter_urls” section. Here is a screenshot below:

Spread The Word - Spreading the word simply helps fight against spammers and people who basically steal. Write a post about it, inform the blog owner’s that your link is being stolen, etc.

Fix The Loophole In The Plugin? – I personally don’t know how to fix it and have yet to contact the person who created the plugin but I’m not exactly sure if there’s a way to fix the problem. If there is, feel free to help out!

I’m sure there is a lot more we can do to work together to fight against thieves and if you can think of any, feel free to add it my list.

Conclusion

Again, I’m just speaking out on what I think is fair and obviously when people do this, it is equivalent to stealing. Don’t get me wrong, they are all legit comments and that’s probably why no one has really noticed but I’m just supporting the cause to help out.

If you had this done to you and have proof, let me know and I’ll add you to this post and give you a backlink to your website. Of course, please show detailed proof because I’m sure there are some people who will want to try to get a cheap backlink from me.

Hey, I’m just saying… it has happened before!

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10 Books About Outsourcing You Should Read

Jay — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:25:29 +0000

This is a guest post by Tom and I just wanted to apologize to him for taking so long to post this article! Check out his website at the end of this post.

Fortunately or unfortunately, outsourcing continues to be a hot topic among many industries. While it helps some and hurts others, it’s hard to deny the business logic behind this strategy. And by costing them stable jobs and careers, it’s the bane of many blue-collar workers’ existences in certain developed nations. Meanwhile, it is building previously considered third world countries into economic
powerhouses.

As outsourcing begins to level the world’s economic playing field, it would behoove people in many sectors, industries, and economic classes to understand more about this process and its effects on people, companies and nations. The more you know about outsourcing, the more prepared you can be to deal with its effects or harness its power. And what better way than by reading a book? That being said, here are a few titles that might better help you understand outsourcing.

1. The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities (by Douglas Brown)

Published in 2005, this book has recently been revised and is broken down into three parts. Part one focuses on how to plan for and manage outsourcing, part two deals with finding an outsourcing career, and part three is a guide for outsourcing entrepreneurs.

2. What’s
This India Business?: Offshoring, Outsourcing and the Global Services Revolution(by Paul Davies)

India has been a hotbed for outsourcing activity during the last decade. If you’re interested in learning more about how this country has succeeded in building itself into a massive outsourcing provider as well as how you may be able to take advantage of this revolution, this could be the book for you.

3. The IT
Outsourcing Guide (by Rob Aalders)

Understanding why you want to outsource, as well as how you plan to execute your outsourcing initiatives is often critical in the success of your overall outsourcing plan. The IT Outsourcing Guide can help guide you through topics such as IT outsourcing decisions, criteria, management principles, and a number of other
aspects of your outsourcing needs.

4. The Outsourcing Handbook: How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process (by Mark J Power, Kevin C. Desouza, Carlo Bonifazi, and Mark J. Power)

This handbook could be the perfect way for you to familiarize yourself with how to implement your outsourcing. From traps to watch out for, to vendor assessment and managing your outsourcing relationship, this book covers a variety of outsourcing subject matter.

5. The
Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide to Outsourcing (by Linda R. Dominguez)

Sometimes it’s nice to have a step-by-step guide to make your outsourcing efforts a little less complicated. Broken into three parts, “The Fundamentals”, “Benefits and Barriers”, and “Commitment to Succeed”, Linda Dominguez’s step-by-step guide could be a critical resource in your outsourcing education.

6. Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives (by Maurice F. Greaver)

It’s hard to deny that a structured approach to outsourcing is appealing. When you are rolling the dice and taking a chance with outsourcing, a little structure can be reassuring. In Maurice Greaver’s book, you’ll find plenty of information to help you plan, analyze, and manage your outsourcing processes.

7. Offshore Outsourcing: Business Models, ROI and Best Practices (by Marcia Robinson and Ravi Kalakota)

If you’re outsourcing, you’ll probably want to know how to structure your change and what your ROI will be. In their book, Marcia Robinson and Ravi Kalakota cover topics like why you should outsource, best practices, and how to create and execute your strategy.

8. Outsourcing for Dummies (by Ed Ashley)

Okay, so you’re no dummy. That’s all right. It doesn’t mean that you still can’t learn something from this book. The “For Dummies” series wouldn’t still be around if they weren’t doing someone some good. From understanding the costs of outsourcing to preparing your team, there is plenty here to help you with your outsourcing needs.

9. The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity (by Robert E. Kennedy
and Ajay Sharma)

Most of us are aware of the services shift, but do we truly understand how to seize the opportunity that lies before us? To realize your outsourcing opportunities and make them real, The Services Shift might be the book to set you on your way.

10. The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring (by Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, and Leslie P. Willcocks)

The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring, reviews a number of topics including sourcing models, strategies for growth, and the IT outsourcing lifecycle, among others. The book combines these informational chapters with relevant case studies.

Tom writes and designs for a UK based company offering HP LaserJet 1000 toner, inks and refills. You can read more of his writing about the arts and design on their blog.

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DatMoney Weekly Updates: Where Have You Been Man?!

Jay — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:21:16 +0000

I haven’t really had a “weekly” update for about two months now so it seems as though it is long overdo. I have a few things that I wanted to go over on these DatMoney weekly updates and definitely wanted to address the lack of posts this month.

I usually post my weekly updates on a Friday or the weekend but I didn’t want to wait to give you guys updates. So, let’s get started with the boring stuff, shall we?

Where Have I Been? - In the month of April, I have only posted three times (if you include this post) which is pretty bad. That’s basically like one post per week and that shows that I’m slacking… well, my on the lines that I’ve been busy.

Lately, I’ve been setting priorities and the big thing was to finish my taxes (which I did the day before the deadline) and I decided that I would do it by myself this year online. I’ll write a post on the details later because it was definitely a good learning experience… and a headache at the same time.

On top of that, I’ve just been busy and I’m trying to catch up on everything. It’s tough especially since I have a full-time job on top of everything I do online but please bear with me. I mean, I have post topics and drafts but I just haven’t had a chance to finish them.

Server Crashed/Sites Were Temporarily Unavailable – Most of you guys probably didn’t even notice it but there were two, maybe three times in which my server crashed for about like 10-15 minutes in the last week or two and it was due to high CPU load. Since one of my sites got into Google News I’ve been getting good traffic on top of my traffic from all my other sites. This has been affecting my CPU load on my dedicated server and I think I fixed it.

I’m new to all this technical stuff with hosting servers and stuff but high graphics + TONS of traffic = bad for CPU load. I actually found out that one of my sites was taking up a majority of my CPU usage and I’m not even doing much to that site now. I recently did quite a few things such as installing a cache plugin, configured some MySQL stuff as well as cut down on high graphics on my sites.

Since my last crash, I have gotten even MORE traffic and everything seems to be just fine now.

Catching Up On E-mails – If you recently sent me an e-mail and haven’t gotten a response, it’s either because I’ve been busy and I just haven’t gotten a chance to reply or I just completely overlooked your e-mail from the many I get daily.

I check my e-mails everyday on my cell phone but sometimes I don’t get a chance to reply and occasionally I just forget. I’ll try to get caught up with replies by this week. If you sent an e-mail and don’t get a response by the end of this week, feel free to send a follow-up. Thanks!

Finally Upgraded Sites to WP 2.9.2. – I’ve been procrastinating a little bit but I think I upgraded most of my sites to the newest Wordpress. The strange thing is one of my sites is doing something funky when I post and it’s annoying the hell out of me and I don’t know how to fix it.

If anyone wants to help, the problem is:

I usually type and post under the “HTML” field but when I change to the “Visual” tab and back to the “HTML” tab, everything gets jumbled together with the coding in one big paragraph. Before it never did this and it doesn’t do it on any other site of mine so I don’t know what’s wrong. If you guys know how to fix it, please let me know. And if you need more details, just ask and I’ll tell you everything.

Thanks.

eBook and Password Protected Posts Update – Since I’m sending everything out manually and I’m behind in my work, you guys haven’t received it since March 31st. For some odd reason, some people who were on the mailing list contacted me and told me they never received it, which is weird. I’ll try to send out the next batch by the end of this week.

If you subscribed before April 1st and still haven’t received anything, shoot me an e-mail and I’ll get it to you ASAP.

Getting Rid Of Some Ads – I recently took down two ads on my blog because I decided that this blog isn’t really going to be a big money maker anyways so why try to annoy the hell out of you guys with them. Yes, this blog has the potential of making good money but it’s not really intended for that. I’m here to share my experience of being an internet entrepreneur and hopefully help you guys out.

If I can make some money to help pay for hosting costs (dedicated servers are expensive!) or for experience (selling an eBook and learning the entire process) then that would be great.

I mean, I don’t write many paid posts and compared to other blogs in the same niche, I think I have a lot less ads. Also, ask anyone who has chatted with me online, you know I’m always around to help out when I can.. and I don’t charge a dime for any of it.

Upcoming Posts – I have a few posts coming up, I just need to finish them. Some of the posts will include updates on my Google News site, how I made $500 in one day from that site, sharing my experience on doing taxes myself especially with all this internet entrepreneur stuff giving me headaches, as well as trying to benefit your hosting server from crashing and avoid getting penalized by your shared hosting company.

That’s it for now! Sorry to bore you guys on Boston Marathon Monday!

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Google News Site: Traffic Update

Jay — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:50:57 +0000

As you guys know from my last post How to Get Listed in Google News, one of my sites was accepted into Google News and the very next day that our articles was actually indexed, our traffic spiked instantly. Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to go back down as long as we continue posting.

Before I continue, if there are any authors who are interested in joining our team then feel free to drop me a note. We do have Adsense revenue sharing which appears on your individual posts. Though, to be fair to our current team members, you would have to post 10 posts before you are able to add your Adsense information.

Our site was running for a little over a month before we were accepted into Google News. We were building links and our traffic was steady but not extremely impressive. I think we eventually starting averaging around 100 visitors daily with a mix coming from search engines and other websites. The day after our site got indexed in Google News and our posts started showing up our traffic spiked to around 3,200.

Was this a fluke? I wouldn’t say it’s a fluke because if we post consistently like we should be doing then I would say the traffic should continue to climb.

The interesting part of all of this is every post that I manage to write gets instant traffic. And when I say “instant”, I mean we would probably get at least 100 visits to that one post within a couple of minutes, if not more.

Of course, it depends on the topic and if its actually appealing to readers and if its being searched for.

I know a few thousand unique visitors isn’t much to brag about but that number was based on the first day which I think is a very good stepping stone. It’s definitely far from the 50k daily but small steps will eventually get you where you want to be.

Anyways, that was just a simple update in case you guys were interested.

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How To Get Listed In Google News

Jay — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:35:03 +0000

How To Get Listed In Google News – If you guys have been following this blog for at least the last month or so, then you would have read my post How I Plan On Getting Accepted Into Google News. Well, it is official, one of my sites got accepted! (Not DatMoney)

It was a little bit of a relief but this morning I received an e-mail from “The Google Team” that started off like:

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your note.

Great news! This message is to confirm that we’ve reviewed and added your site to Google News. The inclusion of your articles should be processed within the next few days. Please retain this message and refer to it should you have any issues with your site in Google News.

Of course, the rest of the e-mail went into technical stuff that I need to do to make sure my articles are getting picked up.

So, what did I do to get accepted into Google News? Well, if you didn’t read my previous post that I linked to above, here’s a quick overview on what I did.

Quick Outline On How To Get Into Google News

- Created a professional looking news site
- Created an “About” page showing a list of writers
- Created a “Contact” page
- Created a “Privacy Policy” page
- Recruited a team that would post articles
- Posted at least three times a day
- Submitted to Google News to inclusion

Although, there are more details than that, this is just a quick outline on what I did. Eventually I’ll end up writing an eBook or some sort of case study going into every detail/step-by-step once I’m getting the traffic and revenue from Google News.

It’s funny because I know a few people who have their sites included in Google News and they have told me nothing but good news from it. Recently I had a discussion with a buddy of mine who probably just got his site included into Google News a month or so ago and he said he has been receiving around 50,000 unique visitors on a daily basis ever since.

How I Plan On Quadrupling My Adsense Income

Based on my stats on how to make $100/day from Adsense this should at least quadruple my earnings on that site alone.

Here’s how I estimated… first, I took an estimated 50k unique visitors on a daily basis (based on a friends similar site) and say three percent of those people click on Adsense ads. That would mean 1,500 have clicked on the Adsense on the site.

Now each click can vary, as we all know, but I’ll just take an estimate on the clicks that made me $100/day. The last time I went over that amount was on Sunday (I didn’t check yesterday’s stats) and it was around 400 clicks.

Now if I divide 1500 (estimated clicks per 50k visitors) by 400, I’ll get 3.75. If I multiply 3.75 by 100, I’ll get 375 which could potentially be my daily Adsense revenue. And if you multiply that amount by 30 days in a month, that would equal $11,250!

I know this is all estimates but you can always set your goal you should be hitting. On top of that, I’m not even including any other streams of revenue such as CPM ads, affiliate links or whatever else.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I won’t be making over five figures monthly just off that one site but not only can I hope, I can actually work to hit that goal similar to getting the site included into Google News.

But I’ll keep you guys updated and if it becomes successful, then you’ll probably see a case study/eBook in the near future!

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My First eBook Done And Ready To Be Sent Out

Jay — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:43:55 +0000

So, I finally finished my first eBook and it should be ready to distribute shortly to my e-mail subscribers for free. I wanted to keep you guys updated but it actually took me a little longer than I expected but at least you guys aren’t waiting for a whole year anymore!

I originally started this guide as a simple step-by-step for my team who were already somewhat familiar with Wordpress but I decided I would turn it into a full guide so anyone can do this with their Wordpress blogs. The title of the eBook is “How to Write Posts to Get TONS of Search Engine Traffic in Wordpress” and although I’m a little iffy about the title and how long it is, I felt it was better than “How to Write Posts for Search Engines”.

And I wanted to thank Edie for looking it over and proofreading it for me.

This eBook guide is 17 pages and it includes information such as setting up your Wordpress to be SEO friendly with various customizations as well as the specific posting process I have been using for the last couple of years to get hundreds of thousands of unique visitors every month on a couple of my other blogs.

As you know, search engine traffic is best especially if you’re looking to get people to click on your ads or trying to potentially get them to purchase or sign up for something. Most of my traffic from my sites come from search engines.

Some of you guys may have been expecting another type of eBook like “how to make money doing X, Y and Z” but that will come with time. I figured I would dip my feet into the eBook waters first before I jump and do a cannonball. If this eBook gets positive reviews then this will be a stepping stone to a bunch of future eBooks to come.

And if it doesn’t get good reviews, well, that means I just have to work a little harder on the future ones.

Anyways, I’m sending out the link to the eBook later today as well as the passwords to my protected posts to all of my e-mail subscribers who are active. If you are not subscribed via e-mail or have not confirmed or activated your e-mail subscriptions then you will not receive this e-mail to the PDF.

Since I’m not signed up with Aweber or any other e-mail services just yet, I’m doing this all manually so please bear with me. And if you haven’t signed up to receive my RSS Feeds via e-mail, I would suggest doing that soon!

And to end this, I was too lazy to create an eBook cover because I wanted to get this information out to you guys sooner than later. I’ll eventually create one but until then, I hope you enjoy the info!

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How To Convert Word Document To PDF

Jay — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:55:36 +0000

How To Convert Word Document To PDF – I just finished my first eBook/guide so I figured I would share how you convert Word docs to PDF format manually for free. Honestly, it’s quite easy and there’s no additional downloading required.

For the most part, I try to type out everything in Microsoft Word so I can see if there are mistakes that really stand out and easy to catch. Since I just finished my eBook (which will be distributed later this week), I figured I’d share with you guys on how to convert these Word documents to PDF format without going through any other website or downloading some program to do it for you.

Of course, I’m sure there’s easier ways of doing this but this is how I have been doing it.

In your Word document, click on “file” and “print”. Simply change the printer name to “Adobe PDF” or “Adobe Distiller”. Next you want to check the box “Print to file” and then press enter.

It should look like this:

When you press enter, it should prompt you to name your file and then save it.

Next you want to open either “Adobe Distiller” or Adobe Acrobat”. One or the other should be already installed on your PC if you’re using Windows. If not, I believe you can download that for free on the Adobe website.

Once you have the program open, simply click “file” and “open” then look for the file you just saved. It should look like “myfile.prn”. Once you open it, it’ll convert to a PDF file for you and all you have to do is save it.

Now wasn’t that as easy as pie? I’m sure there are easier ways of doing this like a simple click of a button but the way I do it is pretty easy as well.

Hope that helped! And yes, the eBook/guide will be sent out this week!

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eBooks and Guides Coming Soon!

Jay — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:21:07 +0000

I know what most of you guys are thinking, “man, you said your eBooks was going to come out last year!” And although I don’t want to say I was lying, I simply was caught up doing so much and simply neglected it for quite sometime. But I put my foot down because enough is enough.

I recently read Jason’s (a.k.a. The University Kid) WSO ( Warrior Special Offer) report and it definitely gave me motivation to get cracking on these eBooks and guides. Not because of the “how to make your first $1,000 from WSO” but just because I was supposed to get some of my eBooks out last summer.

For the record, I stole that WSO… but shhh… don’t tell him! And that’s the reason why I didn’t link to it for you guys to download. Top secret stuff!

I actually had a quick posting guide that I wrote to help people write posts in Wordpress directed for SEO purposes. I just wrote it up because I work with others and I figured it would be helpful especially for those aiming to write posts for search engine traffic as well as for brand new bloggers that aren’t fully familiar with Wordpress completely.

It was nothing spectacular and it was only like five pages long but I wasn’t even planning on turning it into a guide. But since I wanted to get started, I figured I would just convert it into a PDF document just to see how it would look and send it to a few of my team members to look at.

For the most part, it looked somewhat professional and surprisingly it was extremely easy to convert to PDF format. And since I got a few suggestions, feedback and questions, I’m thinking about tweaking it even more and add to it so it’s that much more helpful.

I’m starting out slow with smaller guides and eventually working my way up to eBooks and possible case studies. So, once I finish tweaking these current guides that I’m working on and trying to overcome being my own worst critic, I’ll get those out those out to my e-mail subscribers.

And if you have subscribed recently in anticipation for the password to the protected posts, those will be coming soon as well!