I’m very guilty of not posting daily, or at least every 2-3 days.  Unfortunately life takes it toll – not that it’s not fun, but you get sick your significant other gets sick, the kids get sick, you’re busy with other things.  So what’s someone to do?

If you can’t blog daily or even every few days, what should you do?

1. HIRE someone to write for you.  Might be easier than it sounds, but it can be done.  Look for solid companies that write content, give them a dozen topics and have them write 5-10 300-500 word posts about those topics.  Then schedule the posts on your blog – space them 2-3 days apart and you’ll have more than enough content to fill a book (hint).
2. Article Directories.  That’s what I’m going to start using now.  There are a lot of great articles out there, and you can legally make use of the articles for your blog posts.  Pick some very good articles – yes, it will take time but you will be rewarded in the end.Many of the articles that I find can be expanded upon, so what I tend to do is look for solid articles and as I go through them I make my own points and notes and then work those ideas into a new post.  In some cases from one article, I can work out an addition 3-5 posts.
3. Guest writers.  If you’ve got a popular blog, you can always ask for guest writers.  That’s another great way to get differing perspectives onto your blog.  Put out the word, but don’t sit back and expect entries to come to you – you need to do some legwork.  Be sure to visit sites that you like, comment on the posts (good comments, offering some value – not “yes I agree” type posts.  As you’re name gets around people will be more willing to guest write for your blog.Remember guest posting takes time away from those writers to write for their own blog.  You need to give them a good reason to write for yours.
4. PLR E-books.  Break down the e-book into bite-sized chunks.  You will probably need to rewrite the content.
5. Visit http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/23/blogging-tips-hundreds-of-resources-for-finding-content-for-your-blog/ she’s got a GREAT post on resources for finding content for your blog.
6. Also consider the type of blog post you want to make - there are many types of blog posts: instructional, informational, reviews, lists, interviews, case studies, profiles, link posts, problem posts, contrasting opinions, rants, inspirational, research, collation posts, predition posts, critique posts, debates, hypothetical posts, satirical posts, memes and projects.  Whew.  Just what are these?  Well, I’d love to explain but then they’d require their own post (hint) but why not get it from the source?  It’s a rather old post but still relavent: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/29/20-types-of-blog-posts-battling-bloggers-block/ as you’ll see since comments are still being made on the post.

Do YOU have any other ideas for blog content?  Why not share them with the rest of our readers by making a comment on this post?  Please, no SPAM though – if you have a blog we do link back to it.

P.S. As I posted this, I forgot another way to find content for your blog posts – READERS COMMENTS!  Many times you can use a readers comment as a basis or starting point for your blog post.  DON’T understimate your readers, they may or may not have blogs of their own but everyone brings their own perspectives which can be quite unique.

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Submitting stories to article directories is a sure way to get noticed, and visitors to your site – especially if the topics you are writing on are “HOT” AND your writing is good.

Here is a list of the Top 10 Article Directories as based on Alexa and Google PR numbers:

1. http://ezinearticles.com – Alexa 214 – Google PR 6
2. http://articlesbase.com – Alexa 993 – Google PR 5
3. http://buzzle.com – Alexa 2,128 – Google PR 6
4. http://searchwarp.com – Alexa 7,379 – Google PR 4
5. http://goarticles.com – Alexa 16,589 – Google PR 6
6. http://articlealley.com – Alexa 16,655 – Google PR 5
7. http://articledashboard.com – Alexa 23,037 – Google PR 6
8. http://articlesnatch.com – Alexa 23,952 – Google PR 2
9. http://ideamarketers.com – Alexa 26,219 – Google PR 3
10. http://amazines.com – Alexa 28,429 – Google PR 4

There are of course dozens of other top article directory lists out there, along with hundreds of sites.  My favourites from this list are EzineArticles and GoArticles – I’ve used them for quite some time and am happy with the traffic they generate… now if I could only write an article per day ans submit them to the top article directories!

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This website reminds me of something that the Internet Marketing Center sells – it’s a monthly subscription where they interview successfull website owners and ask them how they got started and how their sites started making money.

When I first started with Internet Marketing, I subscribed to this site and learned a lot.

Now someone is doing something very similar but offering the advice for FREE.

Check out http://www.maxblogpress.com/maxblogger/ - You can now submit your blogging success stories and get FREE passive traffic, fame and popularity. Plus, advertise your name and get no-cost business exposure to a fresh audience…

Not a bad idea!

Here is the link to their first post – http://www.maxblogpress.com/maxblogger/26/product-directory-revenue/ - Chuck Frey talks about this website/blog The Mind Mapping Software Blog.

Enjoy!

Blogs are used for many purposes and one of those is to attract people to visit the site and to make purchases. If you are into online business, you should have set up a blog for your site. If you still hesitant about it, you are sure to be missing a lot of great things on your site. Buyers would always look at blogs before deciding to do the purchase. Some would even buy because they were moved by the great content of the blogs. Blog is really an important part in your business.

Every business site should have a regular update of the business so that visitors would not get bored with the contents. To make it really attractive for people, make sure that you make regular updates through your blogs. Provide rich contents about the business and about the products. This will improve your ranking on the search engines and will lead many potential clients into your site.

Maintaining blog on your site will keep your visitors to come back from time to time to know what new products or updates you have. Your blogs will do the work very well since it has the ability to attract more people easily. Your clients and visitors would know that you are active on the site and this is what they really want from any business site. Your search engine ranks will also get the top position if you are always making an update of it.

Blogs, as a way of interacting with your client, will also ensure that your clients and visitors are confident to do business with you. Through this, your clients would be able to participate in the interaction by allowing them to react and express their feelings as they leave comments on your site. Their confidence is developed when you give them the chance to be heard and the time to interact with you.

How you write your blogs will be your own way of individuality. There are different sites advertising similar products. But you can make your different through your own blogs. The content of your blogs will make you different from the others since it has its own way of attracting customers to come back every once in a while.

Now that you are aware of these things about blogs, why don’t you try writing and posting blogs on your own business site to earn more cash. When you already posted your blogs, you may also want to take the next step and that is to make your blog an extension of your website. It’s just like having a blog site linked to your main website.

After setting up your blog site, it’s time for you to provide rich content blogs where people can read good information about your site. Decide on which content is good to offer your products and keep your blogs informational so as your clients would not reject it. Make a good plan of your contents that would excite your customers and make them do some more clicks. Make your blog content rich and unique as possible by adding some interactions so people would have fun visiting your site.

Blogging is very important in every business site because it has its own way of attracting customers by giving your blog a voice to be heard and noticed. It depends on how you write your contents. But once you provided the customers with the right and attractive blogs, you would surely reap the success of getting more customers and make your site on the top rank.

Nick Makaryk is an Internet Publisher, Copywriter, and Founder Successful Blogging. Every day ordinary people are making exceptional incomes from blogging. Whether you desire to blog for fun or profit, I invite you to sign up for your FREE Blogging Secrets e-Course, for current reviews on prospering from blogging, videos and other blog resources visit http://blogblogging.org. Discover how to make blogs that are fun and profitable

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We all want to live life on our own terms and we’ve all heard the saying “time is money” – but when you think about it if time was money, you could use all the money you have to buy more time; but you can’t.  Right?

Here is an excellent post on http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/03/03/live-25-hours-a-day/ that’s called 25 Ways To Live 25 Hours A Day.  Though it’s long, it is well worth the read.

Once you’re an internet business and marketing millionaire (or even before then) – you’ll need to use this great advice.

Enjoy!

In these tough economic times, people are doing what they can to save money – from extreme frugality to common sense ones like not buying more than you need.  But did you know that there is such an easy way to save money.

Where I work we have a vending machine.  Pop is around $1.25 and chips are around $1.00 (for small bags).  I see one guy at the machine at least 3-5 times per day.  So on average he’s probably spending around $100.00 per month – not a huge amount, but nevertheless it is something.

For a time I would also visit the vending machine for the Minute Maid Tropical Oragnge drink.  It would cost me $1.25 each.  If I bought 12 over the course of a few weeks the total cost would be $15.00 – but if I went to the grocery store, and bought 12 and kept it in my office and dropped one in the fridge then I could save quite a bit.

A box of 12 will cost me around $6.00 when it’s on sale (not including deposit fees, which you get back if you KEEP YOUR CANS and take them to the bottle depot).  On sale, it’s usually $1.00 or $2.00 less.

So I started buying 12 cans instead and leaving it at work, or in the fridge.  for $15.00 I can get 2 cases instead of 1 and depending on the price as many as 3 boxes of 12 cans.

Am I being cheap?  Damn right!

Mo

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