When I first started investigating on how I can make money blogging, I was shoved in 20 different directions. After weeding through the garbage, I have compiled a list of what I feel are some of the best resources on the subject. After just two weeks of promoting and working these new blogs, most […]

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Darren at Pro Blogger posted this a while back. I didn’t stumble upon it until I was doing some more researching on Blogging Experiment.Ben was using a scoring method in order to make sure he did enough daily to promote his blog. I started thinking about that as a very effective way to market a […]

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This is something.
I used to sit around trying to think of ways to use my music and band promotional skills to make money in other ways. I wish I would have thought of this about 4 years ago when my band was one of the top users of Myspace.
Needless to say, the article brings up […]

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I spent the better part of the last decade in the music industry honing my marketing skills and when I switched over to web marketing, I wondered how many of my skills would transfer over. I was happy to see that promoting a blog is really no different than promoting an independent band. It takes […]

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I understand the whole point of a content based website is to generate ad revenue. I understand that, really, I do. I put ads on my website dreaming of beach houses and cars galore. I target market my blogs. I work to build a readership and hope they like to hear what I have to […]

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I know this has been debated before and I am sure it will be debated again. I have decided to switch from Blogger to Wordpress and I immediately thought of everything I had read from practically every single blogger:
Wordpress will smoke Blogger.
I agree. I love the features of Wordpress, I love the how easily it […]

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The value of music is a complicated issue. Different music has a different personal value to people, and even then, different values at different points in a persons life. The personal value of a song varies. To a songwriter, a song’s value is not exclusively a paycheck. To perform in front of an audience, to have your song felt and understood, is often something less tangible than money.

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I spent the better part of the last month evaluating my finances and future goals of my ‘cyber‘ business. I ran some simple tests with this blog over the past two months, to see if a blog could actually create revenue. Just by posting ‘relevant’ content to current events I was able to generate a […]

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Devin Hester, will you go to prom with me?
It is amazing that this humble, soft-spoken, and polite athlete has the world at his disposal.
This man single handedly saved the Bears season, my appetite, and probably saved some poor kid from a burning building. All while running backwards. I think. I wasn’t entirely sure. I […]

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He would never hurt anyone.
These are the words spoken by a true mother.
The whole Stacy Peterson disappearance hits pretty close to home for me. It happened in my beloved town. She is not much younger than me, so I have friends who know her or know of her. In addition, one of my close personal […]

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