Feedburner and chicklet

FeedburnerFeedBurner really makes me and my readers life easier to. It help me feed my post to readers into their feed aggregator, so they could read my blog post without entering my blog site. Most importantly it’s included all the tools that are required as a blogger master. For instance in the feed stats section, i can view how many, how and from where people subscribe my feed.

Feedburner also feature life ‘Live Hits’ which is handy to know where your viewer coming from.On my side bar (scroll down). You can see my feed link a.k.a chicklets. These chicklet are generated by feedburner. So if my reader have a google aggregator, they would click on the ‘Add to Google’ chicklet. Same goes to Yahoo, MSN, My OAL etc. Oh, if you see below my chicklets, there’s an email subscriptions, guess what, it’s from Feed Burner to. How cool is that.. I won’t go into details about ‘How To’s’ FeedBurner, just go to FeedBurner and register. The setup is flawless, no html knowledge required, step by step instruction are given. But if you stuck or need more customization on your blog just ask me in the comment section.

Another alternative, well…. if you think it’s to hassle to know about your reader, but still want the chicklet in your blog, go to IfeedReader. No registration required. Just plain feed without visitor stat. And go here if you want email subscription alternate.

Tips Create Your Own Information Product

If you have been dabbling with internet marketing for some time now,by now selling thing online might trigger your mind to be the easiest way to make money. This can vary from eBooks, special reports or articles which you could offer for a price.

Creating information products is quite easy, at least in theory. All you need are two things:

1. Information
2. Writing skills

Everybody knows that Information is the hottest resource in the World Wide Web. This is why the Internet is called the information superhighway. If you’d be able to create the right kind of information, you will never run out of potential customers. This is true if you manage to find a hungry market where the demand for such information would be immense.

Creating an eBook is very similar to writing a special report. Usually a good eBook has. Anything shorter would be considered as a special report. Here are some Tips you could take to come up with an information product of this type:

  1. Select a topic from the niche you have previously chosen. This topic must perpendicular to a particular aspect of the niche, something that people would want to know about. For instance, in our running example of dog grooming, supposing you choose the niche of shih tzu dog grooming, a good topic to write about is “how to select perfect grooming kits for your shih tzu.”
  2. Carefully prepare an outline for your work. It must be as organized as possible. Start with the most basic concepts, and steadily proceed to the more advanced ones.
  3. Do research! This is very important. If you’re offering something in exchange for your prospective customers’ hard-earned money, you should give them something valuable. A well-researched work is what they deserve.
  4. Fill up your outline with the necessary information. If you have a great outline, this shouldn’t be a problem. All you have to do is to write about what you have researched and include them in the specific portions allotted by the said outline.
  5. This is very important: avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism could ruin you. You need to learn how to respect intellectual property rights when you’re doing business online. There are no ifs and buts about it. You need to come up with an original work to sell.
  6. Once you have finished the draft of your eBook or special report, have it proofread for errors. Make corresponding corrections.
  7. Once you have your error-free manuscript, you would need to come up a eCover with attractive and mind-grabbing design for your work. People always say that no one should judge a book by its cover. This is rarely practiced however. Many books, and many eBooks, are sold on the basis of their covers alone. Invest on a good eCover to boost your sales.
  8. Then you would have to convert your work into .pdf format. Being in .pdf format would allow more people to read your eBook, as a variety of computer platforms recognize this file type.

Once you have completed these steps, you will own an information product that is ready to be sold!

But what if you are lack of writing skills, or you simply don’t have the time to write? Does this mean that you can’t come up with your own information product? Most definitely not, of course, as there are many ways to avoid the obstacle . For starters, you could always try outsourcing, or contracting the services of an outside party to help you prepare the information products you have in mind. Another option is to make good use of private label rights, better known as PLR in the industry today. Products sold with PLR would allow the purchaser to alter their contents and even name themselves as the author of the works.

Eventually there is no excuse why you couldn’t come up with your own information product. If the internet promises to be your ride to a good life, then an information product, quite surely, is your ticket to hop aboard that freight train.

Build Your Own Digital Store

Your product are useless if you don’t have the right place where you could sell them, right? Think of the internet as one big marketplace. Naturally, to be able to sell your wares in a venue like this, you will need a store… a digital store. This digital store are likely to be your website.

Usually a website that sells information products does not have to be complicated. In fact, the simpler it is, the better it would be. Designing your website would depend on what products you’re selling, and how many products you’re actually offering.

You can have one host page for one product . This page is called a sales page, or a sales copy. A sales page is where you could try to persuade your visitors to buy your products. This can be done in a variety of ways. Usually, internet marketers hire a copywriter to prepare a sales page for their goods. However, copywriters don’t come cheap. Most of them charge thousands of dollars per sales page. Some even charge a percentage of the sales you’ll be able to generate, as their fee. If the copywriter is good, trust that whatever he will make the best out of your product, for your online business.

The most question that needs to be asked, really, is if you have the goods to procure the services of one?

Even if you don’t have such allotted resources for such, you could still prepare your own sales copy. Simply keep in mind the following guidelines:

  • Your sales page should start with an attractive grabbing headline. If you’re selling an eBook about dog grooming for example, you could emphasize on the best benefit that your readers would be able to derive from the same. Here is an illustrative headline: “Finally, An Ebook That Reveals Easy And Comprehensive Steps In Keeping Your Canine Companion Squeaky Clean!” Remember, a headline should be able to grab your visitors’ attention to compel them to read the rest of what you have to say. Always be guided by this rule.
  • After your salutations (“Dear Sir/Ma’am;” “Dear Internet Friend;” Dear Valued Customer;” etc.), you should first introduce who you are and what your business is about. This would make your readers know that they are dealing with a credible expert in the field. Also, this would diminish the anonymity that sometimes makes them hesitant to trust you with their hard-earned money.
  • Establish the necessity for the product you’re about to offer. Discuss the market and why there is a need for your goods. This can be done by enumerating some problems with the way things are. With our running example of dog grooming, you could create a semblance of necessity for your eBook if you would discuss the rather unpleasant smell that unclean pups would leave in the house, or the fur that comes off their bodies because of their lack of grooming, etc.
  • Introduce your product. Include the specifications for the same.
  • Enumerate ALL the benefits that could be derived from the use of your product.

Lastly, create a sense of urgency. Many internet marketers label this as a “call to action.” This is where you would be able to get them off their seats, in a manner of speaking, and punch their credit card details to order your product. This is the most important component of your sales page.
A sales page can easily become the entirety of your website by itself. Simply add a payment button that would lead your would-be customers to the payment processing page. This is dependent on the merchant account you will procure. PayPal, 2checkout, and ClickBank are the most popular payment processors for online businesses.

You might offering multiple products for sale, you would need a sales page for each of them. Your landing page (the page that would load up when the visitor would type in your URL) should contain links to each of your product’s sales page.

5 Ways To Prepare Your Own Ebooks And Special Reports Without knowing how!

Many online marketers today make a living by selling their own products. As you know the most popular digital products to sell are eBooks and special reports. These file are written to give valuable information. Indeed, information is what fuels the internet. It’s not called the information superhighway for nothing, after all. People log online to search for information. If you found the information they need, then they will come to you. And if this information have the imformation they seeking, you could sell the same and make money. And since words are the root of communication in the World Wide Web, information is often conveyed in written form, i.e. the aforementioned eBooks and special reports.

You see, preparing written works is not easy. For starters, not everyone could write. And those who can often don’t have the time .

Fortunately, there are ways you could take which would allow you to prepare your own eBook or special report without the hard and tedios work. Let’s take a look at 5 of these options.

  1. Search some articles and compile them in a single volume. This would be the easiest way to prepare your own ebook or report . These articles can be PLR works which grant you the right to alter them and use their content anyway you please. Or they may be articles written by other people, which you have compiled from renowned websites like www.ezinearticles.com or www.goarticles.com . If you choose the latter set, just make sure that you respect the terms and conditions of their usage, primary of which is the inclusion of the original author’s resource box. You can’t just bundle up articles left and right, however. Make sure that one article would organically and logically flow to the next. You can ensure this by studying the articles you want to include.
  2. Conduct an interview with an expert and record the the conversations. Then, hire someone from www.rentacoder.com , www.elance.com or www.guru.com to transcribe the conversation you had with the said expert. You’d be amazed how quickly you could jack up 50 to 200 pages worth of essential reading material using this method.
  3. Buy an existing eBook or special report that comes with private label rights. This way you caould modified the contents of the same, and even name yourself as the author of the work. You could add some materials as you feel are necessary, or better yet, you could combine two, three, or even ten of these PLR eBooks or special reports to come up with an encyclopedic tome of information worthy of some notice.
  4. Hire a ghostwriter to prepare an eBook or a special report for you. There are many, many freelance writers looking for work at the websites we have mentioned in no. 2. It’s just a matter of selecting the best writer for the job at a price that will not be too daunting to your budget. Expect to pay $200 to $1,000 for a 50 page eBook, however.
  5. Now here’s a novel approach. Join an internet marketing forum, and ask a query. A great example would be “How Could You Profit From The Internet With A $0 Budget.” For certain, you’ll get some amazingly enlightening replies. Collect and Compile these replies until you’ll have enough materials to come up with an eBook or a special report. Ask the posters’ permission to avoid any copyright issues. Chances are, they’ll agree, provided that a link to their respective websites would be included in your work.

Lack of writing prowess, or the time to write at that, is never a bar for the production of your own digital products. All you need is a little imagination, and hopefully, the suggestions above have stirred up some concepts in your mind.

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From blogger to wordpress

Yep, everybody know wordpress is so much better for creating blog website. Users has the power to customized thier wordpress/blog looks. Not to say Blogspot users can’t. But with all the plugin’s and thousand of tempelates, who can’t resist wordpress.

So i’m taking this chance to change my blogger blog to wordpress. Lucky for me, i don’t have to download any wordpress script. My web host already has Wordpress pre install. i’ve just change the theme and addon some usefull plugins. So there’s you have it my own wordpress blog.

Btw: If some of you are new in these, go to Wordpess site for documentation and tutorials for furture instruction how to install.