When you are doing seriously as a business, there are lot of opportunities for a blog to grow depending on the market, the demand and the competition. Until 1 or 2 years back, there are not much risk factors in this blogging market but today the rate of new blogs and volume of content generated every day leads to bring a lot of changes in the blogging market.

Basically, the blogging market is so dynamic that the strategies that you employ today may not work out tomorrow at-most cases. You have to go along with the market, with web 2.0 capabilities and social network influence there are lot of changes in the blogging market that directly or indirectly affects your business.

#1 – SEO, Literally The Major Risk Factor.

The very first and major risk factor is SEO.

As the industry explodes every day with lot of content and tonnes of web sites, it is a tough process for search engines to identify the best results to make its users happy. The end result, search engines especially Google employed lot of changes in the name of quality improvement. This directly affected lot of web sites, hope you all know about the periodic Google Panda updates.

Most of the blogs are affected by this and many lost their business. With so many rumors and recovery steps, many bloggers are still cracking their head for recovery. Most are helpless because there are no control over search engines by bloggers, you have to go by what happens to your blog. Even many of the famous blogs faced traffic drop and that’s really a bad business situation.

My point here is: you don’t have great control over SEO because search engines are the major source of traffic for a blog. Without search engine traffic, your blog is almost dead and “leads to no business”.

If your SEO strategy doesn’t work, you will loose your blog in a day or two – hence blogging is a Risky business.

#2 – Blogging is a Slow Process.

It’s a well known fact blogging is a slow process, few of the reasons being:

• you have to generate lot of interesting content
• you have to really help your readers every time
• you have to target your audience every time
• you have to build loyal readers to your blog
• you have to build an information rich blog
• you have to create a blog brand
• you have to integrate social network tools
• you have to be active in social network tools
• you have to market your blog to great extent
• you have to drive a lot of blog traffic
• you have to experiment with SEO
• you have to experiment a lot with monetization
• you have to wait for income
• you have to wait for results
• you have to be patience
• finally, you have to really work a lot !

These are the quick list of reasons which proves blogging is a slow process that i could think instantly – if i sit down and think, i can tell you 100 more reasons.

Unless, you have employees or assistants to handle all these task you could not do all these single handed. Hence blogging is a Risky business.

#3 – There are Technical Mess up’s.

With tools like WordPress, blogging is simpler. Even a non-technical person can operate a blog, however there are situations where you need technical skills. Say, if your blog is hacked or crashed because of configurations/some coding errors, you will be end up into trouble.

Definitely, you have to be dependent on other people. It’s part of business but some times you may really be in trouble (when you are owning a grown up blog). Unless you properly manage and have resources to handle technical aspects of your blog, you could not survey in this business.

Simply, If you are not prepared for technical mess up’s you are in big trouble.

You may loose your blog in minutes but “you built that blog for years” think how risky blogging is !

Hence blogging is a Risky business.

#4 – No Work No Results.

Blogging is a push model business…

That means, when you work you get results and when you don’t work you won’t get results. You might have heard that “blog earns even while you sleep” but that’s not always true. You have to do lot of background work so that it earns in autopilot for a while and goes back to idle mode…hence have to be active every day in the business and push your blog with new strategies every time.

Sometimes, what works today may not work tomorrow and it varies from market-to-market. Hence you should be ready to experiment stuff’s and you have to find out the right tool’s to make it work.

One good example is “building a product around your blog”, the result varies from market-to-market and heavily dependent on the market demand – basically, you should be ready to work a lot based on market conditions – otherwise, no positive results. Hence blogging is a Risky business.

#5 – Blogging Requires Dedication.

Finally, blogging requires dedication and if you are “blogging as business” you have to consider that as a real business. Most of the people don’t feel it like a real business because they may be having an alternative source of income in life. In either cases, you have to work with dedication and you should consistently work to grow your blog by adding new useful blog posts every day or more frequently.

I would say, this is a personal issue and depends on the blogger, the risk varies. If you don’t work with dedication, blogging is a Risky business for you.

Conclusion.

These are the 5 major reasons which proves that blogging is a risky business that i could think out. Even with all these risk factors at place, you can still run a profitable blogging business by:

• Playing SEO wisely by helping readers and driving a lot of alternate traffic sources
• Investing lot of time+money to make the blogging process faster/rapid
• Preparing for all technical mess up’s in advance
• Doing smart work every day for blog growth, having a plan (long term, short term both)
• Pushing your blog with dedication from all aspects…

Now decide yourself, whether blogging is a suitable business model for you or not…

If you are ready to dive deeper go back to your blogging business – otherwise, quit now itself and save your valuable time !

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The following are some great ways to make sure you stay on top of the game when it comes to paying your bills:

Buy Only What You Need

One of the best ways to be able to stay on top of your bills is to minimize how many you have, and only buy things that you need; if you are limiting your spending you should always have enough money to pay your bills on or before time. If you are buying anything using your credit card, this can be crucial, as being late on your payments can often mean having to pay a significantly larger amount of money in the long run.

Confused and reading his bills....

Direct Debit Avoid Late Fees

You can arrange for most bills to come straight out of your bank account, so providing you can keep enough money in the bank you won’t need to worry about remembering when they are due. You can even have them set to come out the day before they are due, helping you avoid unnecessary late fees.

If you are a procrastinator, have a look on this guide to bill payment.

Put Money Aside

If you have a particularly good month financially or happen to have some sort of unexpected windfall, make sure you put some money aside for taking care of the bills. If you can afford it, getting ahead on your bill payments can save you loads of money on interest and give you a bit of extra breathing room before your next payment is due.

It might not be as fun as spending money on yourself, But getting ahead on bills can make life much easier in the long run, and may save you from having to get one those last minute cash loans.

Pay An Extra 10%

Each time you get a bill, add an extra 10% to what you owe and pay the increased amount. This will put you in credit and mean that your next bill is lower due to the amount already paid. You probably won’t notice the additional 10% too much, and if you have a slow month money wise, you will find the smaller bill payments far easier to handle.

Keep The Change Always

If you don’t have one already, get yourself a piggy bank, and every time you come home, put any loose change you have into it to go towards upcoming bill payments. Chances are you won’t notice the money being gone, and it’s amazing how quickly it can add up, sometimes even covering entire bills.

Prepare Monthly Budget

It is a good financial practice to prepare a monthly budget listing all your expenses and all your income. This helps to explore exactly how much you need to pay your bills, you can also calculate how much percentage of your income goes to bills.

By understanding the relation between your expenses and income, you can well plan your spending’s and not only bills you can find out new ways to reduce your expenses.

Learn how to create a budget ?

Cut-down Unnecessary Bills

This happens most of time, you may subscribe to a monthly service but actually you may not use it fully. In that case, you can consider to drop those subscription’s so that you can quickly cut-down unnecessary bills and that saves a little money. Spend few time to revise such monthly subscriptions.

Downgrade Your Plans Based on Requirements

You can always downgrade a service plan based on your actual requirement or usage. For example, Internet service providers in most of countries are charging based on bandwidth/speed usage, in that case you can downgrade your plan (if you don’t really need such high bandwidth connections) and reduce your monthly bill instantly. Similarly, you can downgrade your cable plan, mobile plans or track your usage and be self controlled.

Do Extra Work To Pay Bills

You can also try out a part-time job based on your interests. One quick idea, you can start a blog and work for it part-time. All you need to create a valuable blog by sharing your own experience or knowledge on a particular topic. Slowly your blog grows and brings in new income into your life that you can use to pay bills.

On a serious note, you can turn your blog into a million dollar business too. Have a look on this article on, steps for making money from Internet using blogs which guides you through the process in simple non-technical words. You can also work extra hours in your day job, if they are pay more.

Conclusion.

No matter what approach you take, budgeting to pay bills in advance is a smart move and mostly just requires taking your finances a little more seriously. If you find you just can’t do it and that you have to get payday loans every month to survive, you may be living above your means and may simply need to alter your lifestyle a little to get on top of things.

Here is a short video on bill payment tips by Alan Akina (speaking about using reminder services)…

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But in the name of SEO and backlinks, many people are teaching wrong things about article directories.

Keep in mind that article directories are not just link building tools.

Advantages of submitting Articles to multiple Directories.

With recent search engine trends especially Google had taken lot of steps to improve their search results and filtered out lot of junk article directories in the market. The reason being, most of the articles submitted to article directories are less quality and made for backlinks. Hence the slap for poor content (learn why you need to create better content for business).

However, great contents from article directories are still appreciated by search engines and they are still sending real traffic to such better contents.

What i am saying is: article directory submission still adds value and your content should add value to the readers.

Open to More Traffic Sources.

• Your article when submitted to every article directory, you are opening a traffic gate to your site.
• When you submit to multiple article directories, you are opening the gates for multiple sources of traffic.
• The end result, your web site traffic increases.
• The more you submit to multiple directories, you get more traffic.

Quick Brand Exposure.

• Apart from traffic, you get exposure to your brand online.
• Especially for your new business, you can quickly spread words about your product/services through out the Internet.
• The end result, you can quickly build an online presence, say when someone searches about your brand online (on Google) they will see lot of information listed about your business.

It Adds SEO Value.

• When you submit original articles, it definitely adds SEO value.
• Added note, you simply forget search engines and make your article useful to the reader.
• Address a problem and discuss the solution in your article, this helps the reader and also your article gets valued by search engines especially Google.
• More quality article adds great SEO value.

How To Automatically Submit Articles ?

As i mentioned earlier, there are lot of article directories in the market and it is really a painful task to manually submit your article to each of them. Hence you should need a tool like Magic Submitter. This tool helps you to quickly register with multiple article directories and to submit your article with a single click, resulting in painless instant submission. You can also pick the list of directories you want to submit so that you can take control of this tool.

Lets see how you can automatically submit articles using Magic Submitter.

Step #1 – Register with Multiple Article Directories (Automatically).

• The first step (one-time step) is to register with multiple article directories, all you have to fill your profile and command the tool to register. The tool automatically registers with its list of hundreds of directories and shows the result.

Step #2 – Setup Your Article For Submission.

• The second step is to feed your article. Once you are complete with your article, you have to just paste into the tool. You can fill the article title, body, tags and the author bio – and finally, click the submit button. The tool also selects the appropriate categories for your article.

Step #3 – Submit Articles (Immediate/Scheduling).

• Once submitted, the tool automatically logs into each article directory and posts your article to it. It also keeps all the links that you have added in your article and finally, shows the submission result. You can also schedule the submission process by selecting the days of submission (like Monday, Tuesday) and time of submission so that the tool automatically posts the articles according to your schedule.

Watch the below demo, which shows how Magic Submitter helps to automatically submit your content to article directories, bookmarking sites…

Note only articles, it can automatically send links to bookmarking sites as well as you can submit videos to most of the famous online content sites without hassles.

Conclusion.

Article directories are valuable Internet marketing tool (only with valuable content) that you should not avoid utilizing it. See the below checklist for creating valuable content, follow it while writing your articles…

Checklist for Creating Valuable Content

However, you should do article submission wisely:

• Don’t use them to spam with junk and useless articles for the sake of backlinks.
• Forget search engines and SEO, use article directories for creating brand exposure.
• Always submit original and useful articles (which helps the reader) to directories.
• Use right tools to make the submission process painless and comfort.
• Grab your copy of magic submitter tool (it also performs social bookmarking, article spinning, video submission etc).

Article marketing is a slow process and it takes time to see the actual results, be patience. Keep in mind, you have to submit original and useful articles (for readers) which really brings you the expected results and grows your online business site to great heights.

Good luck.

what if you don;t have any programming skills ?

Is it still possible to develop an Android App without programming skills ?

The answer is simple: Yes. You can develop an App without touching any code.

If only programmers can release an Android App definitely the Android market will be filled with Junk Apps.

I mean, not all programmers know the marketing stuff and they may not know really the business steps. In fact, many of the programmers don’t do business and they don’t want to do that. So don’t think you are not capable here, in fact you are more intelligent that you are going to utilize them to make your App.

• You are already prepared well, you have a great App idea that works and also, you made a plan – you know well about the purpose of your new App – you know the functionality or the features of your new App. That’s great, right ?

All you have to “find a developer” and “feed your inputs” to develop your App.

Hire An Android App Developer.

There are lot of freelancing web sites available in the market and you can find lot of Android developers. My personal recommendation is Odesk.com – it has lot of great features and communication tools so that you can hire developers free of cost + you can monitor them deeply. All you have to follow the below simple steps:

• Prepare a job title and description – write down what you are expecting from the developer and a short note about your App.
• Post a job opening on Odesk, wait for a while – You will be flooded with developer requests.
• Fix an interview with them – Ask for sample works and also, see their portfolio (esp. how they are rated by others employers).
• Shortlist the applications and hire the developer you feel good, capable.
• Send your plan, App features and functionality (that you prepared earlier) to the developer.
• Contact/ping him periodically and get the status until your Android App is Ready.

Most of the development jobs are hourly based (pay-per-hour) and you can pay your developer periodically based on the development progress. Once your App is ready, get all the source code and the compiled apk files. In between, you can hire another graphics designer and make a logo/icon for your App – this image can be shown in the App store. You can also send that icon to your developer so that they can show it in your App. This is basically to brand your App with an unique icon/logo.

Do It Yourself.

You can also learn Android App Programming, if you are really interested to crack your head. Install Android SDK, IDE for Android, ADT Plugin and understand the fundamentals of Android to begin. Try out simple programs and slowly move into complex things. If you have little programming skills you can try out – otherwise, leave it…you can always hire a developer.

Next Step: Testing Your Android App using real/virtual devices.

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You see, the link sharing market has been dominated by a few very popular sites, but that all started changing not too long ago.  Digg, Yahoo Buzz and Mixx were a few of the most popular, but over that last 24 months they have either lost the majority of their user base or just vanished altogether.  But these site’s loss has been the gain of sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit and especially Pinterest.

Pinterest

So how do you know if marketing on Pinterest is right for your online business?

• First, take a look at the demographics of Pinterest, one of its most compelling aspects.
• While traditional Social Link Sharing sites are dominated by Men, Pinterest is the complete opposite, Pinterest skews largely female in its user base, making it a great way to reach young women online.
• Most link sharing websites, like Reddit, are saturated by content around technology, while on the flip side Pinterest is more about sharing content about food and design.
• So if you have an interior design business in San Diego then Pinterest is great, but if you have faucet aerator website it’s probably not.

So if you think Pinterest might be for you, here’s how you can use it to grow your business:

1.  Develop Your Pinterest Presence:  Sign up for Pinterest and spend an hour or so every day on Pinterest, submit your favorite content from around the web.  The more content you submit, the more repins and followers you’ll get.
2. Pinterest is all about the visuals:  You want content that has great images.  Because Pinterest users see the visuals first then you want content that has very compelling images that will get users to click.  Along these lines, remember that clear and descriptive images do… the WORST.  Users are far more likely to click on images that they can’t quite make out, but if you can’t get to that, then go for something that is compelling, like crazy cool designs, delicious food, or cute puppies.
3. Post Your Content:  Develop content on your own blog for the purpose of pinning on Pinterest.  Pinterest users especially like how-to articles and recipes.  Short of that you can do things like a before and after or pictures of something cool you put together.  Just keep in mind that Pinterest will show only one image from the page you reference, so make sure there’s something worth showing that will pique people’s interest.
4. Comments Count:  You will be asked to place a comment or short description with every Pin, so it needs to be interesting.  People love short and funny comments, for instance, if it’s a picture of a cake then you may want to say something like, “I just gained five pounds looking at it.”  Great comments will not only get people to click on it, but will also get your followers and repins.
5. Walk through the Pinterest Help page to understand the basics and advance features of Pinterest.

If you can devote a small amount of time to participating on Pinterest and follow this simple advice then you will be able to increase visitors to your site and gain exposure for your business on the fastest growing Social Media site on the Internet (TechCrunch shows Pinterests 10 million hits).

Few more tips on Pinterest marketing:

• Marketing Your Business With Pinterest – What? How? Why?
• 56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest
• Should My Business Start Using Pinterest?
• The secret to Pinterest’s Success

Watch this guide to Pinterest for marketing your web sites

Another video on Pinterest Marketing…

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Why To Use YouTube ?

Statistic says that YouTube is the most viewed web site in this world. It has millions of videos, every day millions of visitors viewing them millions of times. See the below data:

YouTube has approx. 800,000,000 users (about the same as Facebook) who watch approx. 3,000,000,000 hours of video a month.

Video uploads: One hour of video every second. 9 months every two hours. A decade every day. A century every 10 days.

Watch the below which tells these data about YouTube:

Also, have a look on Video Traffic Academy a step-by-step course or guide on using YouTube to drive sales. Don’t miss it.

3 Types of YouTube Videos That Drive Sales.

Now coming back to our topic, here are 3 different types of YouTube videos that helps to drive sales to your business. It is not like, you just shoot/create a video and link to your product. Instead, you must understand the audience, their needs and show them your product as a solution. That’s the best approach of selling products via YouTube.

#1 – Product Review Videos.

Product review video converts the best for any business. All you have to state the problem and review the features of product as a solution. Show the positives as well as the negative sides of the product, this actually builds the viewer trust and finally, they will take the product recommended by you. Basically, help the viewer always.

#2 – Sale Offer Videos.

Offers and promotions converts the best every day especially on seasons/holidays. Tell how the buyer benefits from your offer and how much money they save or what are all the bonus you give along with the purchase. Be honest and tell the truth especially don’t have any hidden rules, state the offer clearly to the viewer in your promotional video.

#3 – Advertising Videos.

Third type is the advertising video that converts always. All you have to create or depict a situation and fit your product as a solution. Either you shoot a real video or just create an animation, narrate a situation and fit the product as a solution – this attracts the viewer to buy the product.

These are the 3 different of videos that has the power to drive sales.

• If you are promoting your own products then create advertising videos, sale offer videos and link to your sale page.
• At the same time, if you are promoting affiliate products create review videos and link to your affiliate promotional page that converts best.

Various components of YouTube Success

Avoid Video Mistakes.

Mistakes are common and when you make your first video you may do these mistakes, just be aware of them now so that you can avoid it at your first attempt itself:

Low Quality Videos.

Use the right tools to create your Video. If you are capturing your PC window (say, software product promotion) then you can go for HD video recording – use tools like Camstudio, Abode, bandicam etc. to capture yourself and hire a video editor to make it interactive.

Similarly, if you are shooting real videos better hire a video production company so that you can make professional ad videos. Don’t hesitate to spend money, it pays you back a lot in future.

Over Hype Videos.

Keep in mind that you should not over-promote the product. This may lead to misconceptions about your product and people may not buy from you because they will loose their Trust. So don’t create over hype videos instead Tell the Reality and Show the Truth wisely.

• Even if you are hiding any information then do it positively and state the reason why you hiding it – this builds more Trust.

Conclusion.

YouTube is one of the best business tool and it all depends on how well you are utilizing for your business. Videos are the drive for viral marketing that spreads faster over web and your product gets maximum exposure in a short period of time.

To help you further, i have collected few more articles on bringing sales with YouTube:

• Discover How To Use YouTube To Drive Sales, Leads and Traffic
• Top 3 Ways YouTube Can Drive Traffic
• 45 Ways To Promote Your YouTube Video
• How To Use YouTube To Drive Business

Thanks.

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How you can make money now ?

As I mentioned earlier, the WordPress plugin is listed in the Clickbank market and you can pick your hop links to promote this WordPress plugin.

• Presently, I am sharing 50% commission and the cost of this plugin is $47.
• You get nearly $21.24 per sale (based on Clickbank’s commission policy). If you drive just 10 sales you can make $212.4 and if you drive 100 sales you get $2,124 which will be a decent income for you.

You can sign up below to become an affiliate now….

Avg $ per sale = $21.24

Avg $ per 100 sales = $2, 124

Avg $ per 1000 sales = $21, 240

All you have to sign up to above form by simply filling your name, email so that I can provide you more information/updates about this offer periodically.

• There are lot of cool banners available, you can pick them and promote from your own blogs.
• You can write a review about AffiLinker same like my review here and publish/share it with your readers to drive sales.

AffiLinker Affiliate WordPress Plugin

What is AffiLinker ?

The purpose of this WordPress plugin is to monetize a WordPress blog to great extent by converting the given keywords into affiliate links.

It is not just an affiliate link plugin, it has lot more innovative features: to create colorful interactive affiliate links which makes the blog visitors to click every affiliate link, advance link placement options and to show affiliate link cloud in the blog sidebar/footer etc.

There are lot more features that you can find out here. Further, I have created a video which shows the demo of the WordPress plugin, watch it and understand its functionality.

You can find more information from the AffiLinker Affiliates Page.

This is a mutually benefiting strategy so that you can also earn good money by promoting AffiLinker WordPress plugin.

Don’t miss it.

I have classified this step into two parts: first, list down the features and second, sketch the Interfaces or the App design.

You have to be clear with the purpose of your App and what your App will do for the user because this leads to perfect planning.

Android Interface

List Down the Features of Your Android App.

Once you are clear with the purpose of your App, you can easily list down its features. Just try to answer the below questions, it will be enough.

• What is the purpose of your Android App ?
• What are the problems you are trying to solve with your App ?
• Who are all the target audience and what kind of audience they are ?
• List the steps/flow on how the user will use your Android App.
• What are all the inputs required to your App ?
• What are all the outputs from your App ?
• What are all the external communications/dependencies of your App ?

The answers to the above questions are the list of features/functionality of your Android App. If you are getting even more questions, ask yourself and try to answer them.

We are preparing this list so that you can easily develop the App yourself or give them as input to the developer.

Sketch the App Interface (or GUI).

Straight to the point, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of your Android App must be user-friendly, it should look elegant. That’s it. You can simply make a rough sketch of the interface using any image editors or doc editors.

There is a free tool DroidDraw.org specially developed for UI design, you can also give a try. If you are not a tech user then simply use any drawing tool that you are comfortable.

Make a rough sketch of the inputs and output, that doesn’t needs to be complete, at least for the developer should understand your expectations.

You can also look into some free Apps available in the market to understand how their interfaces are made, this gives more better idea for your App.

Classify Free, Premium Features.

If you are planning to release a free App then this step is not required. If you want to release a premium version of your App (paid App) then you can classify the features that are free-to-access and the features that are paid-to-access. When you think this now itself, you can guide the developer accordingly so that you don’t get into mess while monetizing your Android App later.

Hope you are clear with the planning steps, collect as much as data you can in this step which definitely helps you and the developer to build a successful Android App.

Next step: Android App Without Programming Skills

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There are lot of free WordPress plugins available in the wp directory and you can use them to increase blog traffic as well as blog income.

However, the greatest disadvantage of free plugins is that most of them are not seriously built and many are years old without any updates.

That’s one of the biggest problem with free plugins, now there comes the premium WordPress plugins to overcome such problems. With premium WordPress plugins, you get access to the latest working copy compatible with latest WordPress versions and completely owned by its makers. Further, you get personal support for any plugin related issues because you are paying to take their service.

With all these thoughts in mind, i have compiled a short list of WordPress plugins that helps you to quickly increase blog income.

#1 – AffiLinker WordPress Plugin.

A simple to use WordPress plugin built specially for bloggers and affiliate marketers. If you are promoting affiliate products on your WordPress blog then you must own this plugin. It has the capability to convert any given keyword into an affiliate link throughout the blog (on posts, pages as well as on comment section). That means you can instantly monetize your blog with affiliate links and interestingly, there are lot of options available to take control of the link placement.

• You can restrict certain key blog posts from adding affiliate links, you can also specific the blog post length to restrict the affiliate link placement and limit the number of affiliate links per page.
• With AffiLinker, you can configure the style of every affiliate link by changing its color, background color, font style, font size so that your visitor will love-to-click every affiliate link.
• There is a built-in link tracker which collects stats on unique number of clicks, total clicks received by every affiliate link and also, the best performing blog posts/pages. With all these data, you can add/remove affiliate links, configure keywords, customize the link style to increase your blog income every day.

A must have WordPress plugin, get your copy of AffiLinker here.

See the AffiLinker WordPress Plugin demo…

#2 – EasyAzon WordPress Plugin.

Being an Amazon affiliate, you can earn a lot of money by promoting products from Amazon.com. You can find lot of high quality products on almost any market or niche, that’s the greatest advantage of Amazon. If you are not monetizing your blog with Amazon, you are missing something.

First, join Amazon associates as an affiliate and start promoting their products related to your blog. The biggest problem being an Amazon affiliate is that you need a working WordPress plugin. There are lot of free plugins available however, most of them won’t work with your version of WordPress blog because of the changes coming with Amazon APIs.

However, when you are using a premium WordPress plugin like EasyAzon, you can forget such problems and focus towards monetizing your blog. EasyAzon helps to quickly search and add affiliate links, add widgets from Amazon without much cracking your head.

#3 – Keyword Winner WordPress Plugin.

One of the important aspect of blogging is Keyword Selection.

• Not only for the home page, for each and every blog post you have to find the right keyword that solves your purpose.
• When you just pick a keyword, you may end up with high competition and for sure, your article won’t rank well in search engines because of too many results appearing for that keyword.
• At the same time, if you are able to find keywords which are profitable as well as less competition you can easily rank your articles on search engines.

With Keyword Winner WordPress plugin, you can simply optimize your blog post titles with less competitive keywords so that your article ranks higher on search engines (esp. with Google). Hence you can drive lot of blog traffic which leads to increased blog income. You can also read my Keyword Winner Plugin review before getting your own copy.

#4 – Wpsubscribers Plugin.

“Money is in the list”, this is what most of the bloggers and successful Internet marketers are saying every day. Because when you own a huge list of subscribers, you can ping them any time with information as well as promotions. Email lists are never destroyable and even when your blog looses all its traffic from search engines, you can still bring traffic by sending an update to your email list. Basically, building an email list is a fool-proof model.

With Wpsubscriber plugin, you can show opt-in popups and it drastically increases the subscriber count by almost 300% which directly increases your blog income. If you are looking for long term profits from your blog then grab a copy of Wpsubcribers here.

Conclusion.

All these are must have WordPress plugins and i don’t see a reason not to use them in your blog. A little investment that you do today on your blog definitely pays you back with more income.

Apart from using these plugins, you must always work to build a successful blog (understand the Elements of constant blog growth and learn the Long term methods to get more blog traffic) so that your blog grows faster and makes you money for the long term.

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When i say, online shopping the first websites that come to my mind are Amazon, eBay – this is because of first reason “i Trust them” and second reason, “i will find everything i need”.

In this article, i will take your through the basic factors that helps to build Trust between the visitors and your eCommerce website from the day one.

Integrate Trusted Payment Services.

The most important thing for an eCommerce website is to integrate a Trusted payment service. There are lot of services which offers Credit Card Processing for Small Business and after integration you must show a Trusty logo on every page. This actually gives a feel to the visitors that you have partnered with trusted payment gateways and people don’t hesitate to open their wallet. Even you never open your wallet on untrusted websites, right ? and also, i never give my credit card details to unknown payment gateways.

As a recommendation, you can also simply integrate the trusted Bluepay payment processing service with your eCommerce website.

Setup 24×7 Customer Support.

Since eCommerce websites are highly coupled with people and products, there will be always issues and debates. Hence people do expect customer service support and when you provide support through different means say: customer support via e-mail, phone, live chat you can easily gain the Trust of visitors.

Most of the people looks for customer support availability before buying and you should not lose the buyers because of not having customer support service.

Having customer support for 24×7 around the clock builds even more Trust especially if you are targeting International markets.

Have Unique Logo and Slogan.

People identifies the brands through Logo’s and slogan’s. Having an unique logo and a slogan for your eCommerce website makes the visitors to feel your brand. Not only for an eCommerce website, it is required for every site that wants to build a brand.

Make sure that your logo resembles your business or the market. For example, if your eCommerce website is around smartphones, you can have smartphone related illustrations in the logo. And also, make the slogan to describe your business in 2-3 words that builds Trust on your site even on the first look.

Even i am having a slogan for this blog like “anatomy of online business” that every visitor remembers every after leaving this blog.

Learn more on website logo, slogan and branding.

Make a Clear Site Design.

One of the best thing i love about Amazon is their site design especially how the products are categorized and the navigation. You can quickly find a product that you think and that’s the reason they are the eCommerce leaders.

Having a simple and easy to navigate website really satisfies the visitors and they will love to browse your catalog every time they visit. You have to consider the website loading time also because that plays a major role in SEO and also, your website responds to users quickly.

Statistic says, website loading time affects the behavior of buyers.

Show Detailed Product Description.

Product description is one of the important parameter that drives the sale, in fact people do expect more information about a product before buying. If you are giving one-line description about the products, no one will buy from your eCommerce website. You have to provide detailed information as much as possible.

Not only text, images and videos are highly recommended because that helps the users to visualize the product before buying. When they are able to fully visualize the product definitely they will buy from your site and they will trust your site too because you are open with details.

Understand more on Creating quality sales page to increase sale and profits.

Compile Real Customer Reviews.

Apart from product description, customer reviews plays a major role in building trust.

When you see a product page without customer reviews, you will feel lonely on that page.

At the same time, if people are discussing about the product then it gives a feel that many are using the product and that builds the trust to buy it.

Hence promote customer reviews, ask every buyer to write a review or to give feedback about the product.

Ask for Feedback’s.

Apart from product reviews, you must ask every buyer the feedback about the buying process. This helps to understand how the buyers are feeling about your eCommerce site as well as they will come back again to your site with Trust, if they are really satisfied with your process.

Always keep the buying process simple.

Build Social Relation with Customers.

The last tip, utilize social media tools and create a strong social media presence with your customers. Give them updates about your business as well as offers/discounts and keep on reminding them that you are active in the market. This helps to build Trust with your customers for the long term and to quickly bring them back to your site.

To conclude, the success of every eCommerce business stands on Trust and how far you are “satisfying the customers“. Follow all these tips you can easily build trust with your every day visitors, make them to buy and turn them into repeat customers !

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