Professional blogging is the best way to make passive income.

Professional blogging is something that has caught on fire the last few years. Blogs haven’t been around long, but they seem to be becoming the main source of information on most any topic. Companies are even hiring professional bloggers. Is there a reason you can’t be a professional blogger?

There is more than one definition of professional blogger. Companies that hire someone to maintain their blogs are called professional bloggers. There are also net-workers of pro-bloggers who have set the pace for the rest of us. Then there is the other set of professional bloggers that create and maintain a blog to earn a part time or full time income from home. I know many fall into this category.

If you fall into the later of the categories like me then I would like to share a membership site with you that will take your blogging to the next level. It’s called, The Niche Blogger. They make it fun and easy and don’t assume you know anything about blogging and they don’t talk down to you like many of the gurus do. The owner of The Niche Blogger is Amy Bass. Her mission was to create the easiest method of professional blogging out there.

I decided to become a professional blogger, so I knew that I needed to learn from the very best. I had heard a lot of buzz about this membership site, and decided that the price was too low to pass up. When I got inside the site I was excited to see that the content is delivered in a way that makes things super-easy to follow. There are videos, screen shots, text, and interactions with other members on the forums. All of this made it such a great value. I never felt overwhelmed.

How much would it mean for you to change your family’s life by becoming a professional blogger? If you’re like me, then that is your main goal! I’m glad I decided to follow in Amy’s footsteps. You should consider downloading her free materials, and then sign up for the first month of membership. Once you’re inside, you’ll see you haven’t made a mistake.

Imagine — instead of having to drive to work every day you really can have blogs earning passive income for you. Just maintain them and add content every once in awhile for your profitable niches! This dream really can become a reality by becoming a professional blogger and learning from the material found in “The Niche Blogger.”

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Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q898 18.4-Inch Laptop (Fusion Finish in Omega Black)

Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700

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Just signed up for this one too.  Payout is $ 1.00 to your paypal account.  They send paid emails you can click too.  Just got done clicking the links in my email and earned $1.38.   It’s pretty easy to make some free money with this one and the payout is low so it’s obtainable.

It can be hard to figure out which niche is best to promote on a blog or website.  You can do it manually with the Google search engine comparing your competition ratios with key word phrases, exact matches etc etc.  There is an automated way to do this also.  It’s not free, but I wanted to pass it along to you in case you were interested.  The developer bundled many features into this software.  He has some free videos on the site too.  If nothing else you  can review the videos.

I was asked to join this also.  I didn’t have to pay anything to sign up so I will check it out.  I got $10 in my account to sign up.  I’ll see how it goes.  No payout until you reach $100, but if you have friends and they have friends maybe you can make some free money.  Would be nice to get an extra $100 for reading 1 email a week and clicking on the link in that email to verify you read and received it.

You can check it out here:

I was recently interviewed by the Owner and Founder of WAHMGuide.com. Read my interview here. 

As you all know that come to my blog and read it, I promote my business opportunity also. I have chosen at this time to do as much free advertising as possible. Ads are placed in social networking sites, Craigslist, and Free Classified Ad sections.

I know that branding yourself is a big plus. I have branded myself. It is one of the first things you should do. No matter what your up line tells you, you first have to sell yourself to get anyone to join with you.

I recently posted an ad on Craigslist. Anyone that posts on Craigslist knows you have an option at the end of your ad that you can request not to be contacted by someone else trying to promote their opportunity. I always take the option of not being contacted by someone trying to sell me their opportunity when I place an ad. My mindset at that time is to place my ad about my business and when someone looks at my ad they can choose whether they want more information or not. If they want some information they will contact me with their questions, concerns or to let me know they have ordered something from my business website to try and will let me know what they like about it after they start taking it.

With my last ad I placed on Craigslist I got a response with a name and phone number only. Since we work as a team with our down line my up line sponsor got on the phone with me to call this person and answer any questions they had. They weren’t home at that time so we left a message with our name and phone number and asked him to call back.

About 30 minuets later my up line was on the phone with me to let me know that she had this gentleman (we will call him Jeff) on the phone. She said Jeff is on the line with us and he wanted to let us know about what he does and how he can help us. Jeff then took over the conversation. He proceeded to tell us how he worked in public relations for years with big named companies and that we needed to brand ourselves and not promote our company. Promote yourself not the company, because there are only a few in the company making big money anyway and they really don’t care about you at all. If you were to leave tomorrow they would never contact you and ask you what they could do to get you to stay. They really only worry about their company profiles. That we should call corporate and ask them why they are doing press releases.

Come to find out what he was doing was trying to sell us his services to write us a press release. We listened to him, we were nice, cordial all the good things. When we started asking him questions to me he seemed to avoid questions and started repeating himself. He kept telling us he could write these in a night. He gets the information from a client, goes out to walk the dog and think, then comes back in writes the press release and forwards it on in one night all in the same day. I asked him to give me some references I could check out and look at some of his work. He finally gave me a website I could look at. He gave me another website to look at so I could see the finished product. My up line asked him if it would be possible to get him to write one and we could see if it really worked and if it did then send him the money and he flat out refused.

He kept telling us he could write us a press release it would be about us, our background, and our products. I said I understand that. He said press releases are the way to go. Advertising doesn’t work. I said when you write the press release do you then check with the company to make sure the wording is the way it should be and he said ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! He said he does not get into the legality of wording or anything like that. He doesn’t run it past a legal department. He only promotes the person, their background and their products. We let him know in our case when he promotes our products it in turn does promote our company and there are certain legalities we have to follow. He said not if you are promoting yourself and not your company.

He had no idea about our products, our company or anything about myself or my up line sponsor. He assumed we knew nothing and he kept on telling us our company did not care about us.

So I am just wondering, If Craigslist Ads don’t work then why did he read it and contact me? Seems like he might get some business himself off of Craigslist.

Moral of this story is:
Yes you do need to brand yourself. I would think everyone out there already knows this in some sort of way. You should always be thinking outside the box. You need to do what works best for you. You can let others know how you are doing things, but you should never tell someone else what they are doing is all wrong. What works for you might not work for someone else and what they are doing might not be the right thing for you. It is always good to get ideas from others.

If you want to do a press release that is a great thing, but you don’t have to pay someone $150 then go to the place they tell you to go and pay another $80 to get it posted. I think he was an affiliate of this place and was looking to make some commission off of us.

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