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Make Sure You Upgrade Your Feed Link

May 4, 2009 By Melvin

It has not been new to everyone that Feedburner has been acquired by Google. Because of it we have to upgrade basically everything and migrate and lose some subscribers in the process. Anyway this is just a very short reminder to everyone to please update your feedburner url. That is because the current url of [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Preachings Tagged With: feedburner, rss feeds

5 Things I Wish They Had Taught In School

April 7, 2009 By Melvin

(This is a guest post from Buzz Marketer, speaker and entrepreneur Dean Hunt) When I think of all the pointless crap I was taught in school, it seems such a waste. The REAL life skills are not taught in schools, simply because the vast majority of people (including teachers) don’t know about them. So here [...]

Filed Under: Guest Post, Preachings, Top Posts Tagged With: real life, school life, school sucks

Paid Promotion Is The Key

March 17, 2009 By Melvin

A lot of bloggers in the industry mostly talk about getting traffic flowing into blogs by doing the traditional things. Blog commenting, forum and article marketing, social media, even offline interaction. These free ways, while it has been used a lot and is certainly a great way to target visitors to your site, it’s not [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Internet Marketing, Preachings Tagged With: blog promotion, blog traffic, paid advertising

When Your Blog Runs Out Of Great Content

March 10, 2009 By Melvin

A lot of blogs start out well. They post superb content, have nice interactions between visitors and simply they just provide good value. Results? They get the initial boost, the traction, the followers/subscribers. Then fast-foward, the blog has now posting “not so-good” content, articles that obviously are just rehashed articles seen on forums. Don’t be [...]

Filed Under: Blogging Experience, Blogging Tips, Preachings Tagged With: blog content, good content, great content

How To Get Sponsors For Your Contest

February 15, 2009 By Melvin

“How do I get sponsors for my blog contest?” There were about 4-5 people who ask those types of questions to me via the contact form. I believe getting contest sponsors is something that has been talked about a lot but I just felt I would add something so that more people can understand more [...]

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How to Make Money Outside Internet Marketing

February 8, 2009 By Melvin

Although the title looks like that one you have been seeing in email spams and “get-rich quick sales pages, it’s actually not. A lot of people jumping into internet marketing always have this question “How do I start? I dont know anything about internet marketing?” The answer is always read, try to learn, test, then [...]