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Blog Mania Do your friends and coworkers turn to you for fashion advice? Are you a bonafide guru when it comes to the hottest designers and trends? Or, maybe youíre a would-be political punditóthe next Walter Cronkite? You could simply have a riveting way of capturing the world around you. Whatever your talent, rant or position, you can share your inner most thoughts in a place called the blogosphere    all you need is an Internet connection.  To the uninitiated, a blog is a personal website that is updated frequently by the author and typically consists of commentary and favorite links, as well as photos, or anything else really. There are essentially two rules for blogging:  1.) Update your site at least every 48 hours and  2.) Make the content somewhat compelling. It seems like everyone has a blog nowadays; even William Shatner and Mariah Carey have one. I mean, everyoneís story is unique, right? And since you donít need to know HTML, FTP...

Blah, Blah, Blog People tell you that you talk too much.  You like to share your opinion about anything and everything.  You enjoy debates, discussions, politics, and any other means by which you can get your word out there.  So, you discovered blogging where you can opine about anything that comes to mind, and people can choose to either read it or not.  Did you know, though, that your thoughts, opinions, and what some might refer to as blab can actually make you money online?  Blogging can actually be used as a form of advertisement, or it can showcase other items in ads within your site, and both are opportunities to make money. If you are already blogging because you enjoy sharing your opinion or sounding off to the public in regards to political or social issues, you should seek out opportunities to get paid to do so.  There are several different sites that will pay posters to either opine on a public forum, inviting responses from intere...

Blogging: Let's Brainstorm for Content In "1 - Blogging: Let's Get You Started" we ended with the subject of content. Fresh topics are important to keep your blog readership interested, and now we're going to discuss just how you can do that. What are you going to write about? It should be a topic that you're passionate about or are at the very least interested in. If you've chosen blogging as your new career, then you don't want to torture yourself by writing about something that you have zero interest in, otherwise you might as well return to that mundane job you just quit! Feelings and emotions show through your writing, so your readers will notice any indifference you may have toward a certain topic that you find boring. Don't forget the advice about writing with a personality. Forced writing will not establish you in the world of blogging at all. Once you've chosen your main theme -- or if it has chosen you, then ...

Blogging: Let's Get You Started! So what is blogging really all about? First off, let me tell you that it's a lucrative business to blog and that blogs are easy to set up and manage. Imagine getting paid to write about subjects that interest you, whenever you want, wherever you are! The flexibility involved allows you to maintain your blog at your own pace, and with Internet cafe's easily accessible all over the globe, even your vacation won't get in the way of your blogging... Or should I say: even your blogging won't get in the way of your vacation? In this article, let's take a look at the profitability of a blog and set up one of our own, free of charge! Interested? Read on! First, you need to get yourself a blog. There are several options ñ host a blog on your own domain or get a free one. For starters, letís talk about the free blogs. You can obtain one at http://www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) http://www.wordpress.com. WordP...

Social Bookmarking' As An Aggressive and Acceptable Blog Marketing Tactic Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular.  They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite's list of your browser. This is particularly useful when your browser based bookmarks have become unwieldy. It's also help since you can access your bookmarks from any computer where you have an internet connection. I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites from a number of sources. You can find it here: http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html Once you have bookmarked them, you can view them, sort them by category/keyword as well as see links from others that have been categorized like yours. You also establish RSS feeds for each category (tag) that you 'subscribe' to. This alerts you to new links in your areas of inte...