One question I always hear from people is how they can start a business online and generating income by selling a product, especially by getting a work that is highly creative.

Today, I want to talk about something that I hope can help you grow as a entrepreneur online.

First and foremost, one of the first things people comes to mind to starting a work online is to create quite a bit of content like books, but they fail to make any money from it. Some have a good level of skill, but they don’t have any potential clients and don’t have enough knowledges to get people to start paying them.

The first advice I want to give to people want to work online is to stop thinking on absolutely want to get money and think instead of delivering value. Many of you don’t know that creating a good work or building a skill provides no value to anyone. In this way  you don’t generate income. Sharing your creations or skills with others, instead, provides value, and there are a chance or potential to generate income from your work.

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If you’ve created a book, a mini guide, how many people are downloading it each day? If it’s only put within your website, there’s no income potential because no value is being delivered.

In my experience, a great way that makes it easier for people to receive the value of your work is to share it with them for free. This minimizes the risk to fail and show people the real value. Also, In this way you can start sharing your value immediately.

For instance, if you want to start generating income through a mentoring program, focus on sharing a little book for free, first. Invite as people as possible to download your book. Ask for referrals. This a method where you can share a lot of value in a fairly short period of time in a easy and quick way.

Not consider those client that aren’t right for you. Once you establish which client work better, you should have no problem to get a few sales.

This is a strategy that work well. By giving free stuff to potential customers, you make more easy for people to accept and enjoy the value you want to share with them. They probably will become paid clients if you give something of value to them.

Also, is a basic approach for increase the visibility of your product. For instance, you can also ask them for feedback and encourage them to share what you’ve built. If you make a good job, where people will get some value from it, they’ll probably help you for free and pass it on.

For example, if you are a marketer, and you launch a program on how to make money online, you could share a free downloadable book. Once you start getting more qualified free referrals than you can handle, you can start charging a fair price for your work. Today it’s a fairly common practice.

For instance, you can use this approach for sell video games. You could give away free downloadable game demos and share them to many people’s as possible. Usually, a certain percentage return to buy the full version. To reduce their risk even further, and to give additional guarantee to move for downloadable software, you can also offer an 60-day money-back guarantee on every purchase.

If you noticed that people not download your free work, and if referrals are not forthcoming, it may be that people don’t like your work. This means you need to work again, or find a more specific audience.

Even though you may have some doubts initially, working for free can be a very good use of your time. I’ve noticed it work repeatedly across a variety of different fields. It’s no cure for a lack of talent, but it certainly gives people a fair shot at building an income stream centered around their passions.

So in a nutshell:

• Share content for free, in order to expand your knowledge.
• If you give a downloadable stuff, make sure your readers know that they are getting value.

Unfortunately when you start working, whether paid or unpaid, you’ll more than likely learn some lessons the hard way. But if you follow this advice, hopefully you’ll come out with some good experiences, some contacts, and a great portfolio.

This is the second part of my recent article titled “How to launch an ebook“. As I’ve mentioned, this month I intend to launch my first book “How to make money online” for newbie people.

Before the book hits the site, I reccomend  to join to my newsletter on the left sidebar, because I’ve still not decided the pre launch date, so I can send you a free copy directly on your email box.

The following techniques are ways that you can use to promote your free book:

1. First and foremost create your own wbsite - There are a lot of choice between free website providers where you can register and start your free website. The best thing is that many of them offers templates and page builders to help you to create the best website for your book. It really quickly and easy to promoting your book with this service.

Note: Be careful some of free providers penalize spammers by discontinue your service.

2. Share your book on website - There are a lot of website that allows to add your book. These sites give you all necessary to add the title of your book, a brief description. Some of them allows to rate the ebook or leave comment.

3. Request book reviews. The Web is full of book review bloggers, that want to provide your book attention it deserves. Before to send out the queries, you need to evaluate your introductory email, or your response rate can be low. Here, some brief advices:

• Take a few moments to have some basic information about your reviewer’s website and check if he make book reviews about your subject.
• When you send a query, tell  your reviewer that you’ve been reading their material, also a little praise can go be accepted.

4. Build a newsletter - Is the better way to reach thousand of people at once. The most important thing is to know how to write an email newsletter. First and foremost, define your goal for the Newsletter, in this case getting most downloaded book as possible, as make sure to provide value to visitors in some way. For example by writing what they will learn with the book.

5. Set up a signature line - Short but efficace, add a title of the book, a brief description and where it can be downloaded.

6. Find list of group - Find a group relating the subject of your book. For instance: Let’s say you’ve written a book about “Make money online”. You can also create your own Facebook group, as I made recently, then increase the number of members, and when you reached hundred of members, you can send them a message where you say that you have launched your free book.

What is a persuasion? Is generally a strategy to convince someone to do something or that others find beneficial to agree with or you make them an offer they can’t refuse.  In particular, persuasive writing involves convincing the reader to perform an action, such as sale, lead, and so on.

According to Wikipedia:

Persuasive writing, also known as an argument, is used to convince the reader of a writer’s argument(s) relating to a debatable issue. Persuasive writing involves convincing the reader to perform an action, or it may simply consist of an argument(s) convincing the reader of the writer’s point of view. Persuasive writers employ many techniques to improve their argument and show support for their claim. Another definition is “an essay that offers and supports an opinion”.

You can apply a few techniques that can make your article more persuasive. Despite this list is in no way complete, these strategies are a lot used by affiliate marketers because they work.

Social Proof

According to Wikipedia the definition of Social Proof is:

Social proof, also known as informational social influence, is a psychological phenomenon that occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behavior.

Making the assumption that surrounding people possess more knowledge about the situation, they will deem the behavior of others as appropriate or better informed.

In a nutshell, Social proof is one of the most powerful strategy to apply in your blog, that helps you sell more products or services for growing a successful business. The classic examples of social proof are:

• Product testimonials  - Testimonials are absolutely essential to encourage an impulse sale.
• Banners - The banners place at the top of website are much more attractive, especially in the eyes of those in the know.

Solving Customers Problem

Once you identified the problem, then help to resolve it. Be clear about your solution, if you’re credibly giving a solution, then you’ve demonstrated to have understood his problem because you’ve enough experience at eliminating it. If you can’t put your finger on your customer’s problem, you won’t solve it. This is a extremely persuasion technique.

Pronosticate

Another persuasion strategy is to providing your readers an previsione of future events. This part has need to build credibility. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, customers don’t seem fully convinced about what you are writing.

Storytelling Approach

If you need people to be receptive to your line or convince your reader to do something, tell a story allows you to persuade well. In my view, is one of better persuasive writing strategy. I reccomend to use this strategy togheter other I’ve listed previously.

Repetition

Talking to people and repeat often what you’re saying can be both good and critical. It depend by structured your message, then be careful.

Be Rational

Getting the reader to agree with something that most people would have hard time disagreeing with.

Comparision

You can casually integrate elements like metafors, similes, and so on. This persuasive writing work well. You can comparing your offers with something reader already accept as true. For instance you can compare the features of your product with a similar product, but not compare with the price of another product.

Attention And Distraction

Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Of course, prior to the development of these technologies, we faced a similar challenge of attention - but day dreaming is far hard to detect than someone posting comments on Facebook or Twitter.

Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction.

You may not agree with their core argument - that we need to choreograph technologies that are under the control of learners (such as back channels) in a manner similar to how we organize more traditional classroom components - but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable.

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Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve.

The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while… but their current stance is not tenable.

Laptops and wireless devices are increasingly present in academic settings. Rather than assuming that their presence “takes away” from an established order of attention, we are seeking to understand how they reconfigure that order in ways that might allow for new methods of engagement. In practice, with the introduction of networked technologies into the traditional academic setting, the attention of individual audience members is redirected from a single stream of speech to the presence of other audience members interacting with a global network of ideas.

Failing New Grading Approaches

This confuses me. Basically, a prof doesn’t have the funds available to hire teaching assistants to help with grading, so he adopts a peer-review model: learners grade each other. In this instance, the union representing teaching assistants disapproved, filed a challenge, and the prof has now been ordered to discontinue the practice. I guess they now return to the previous method:

“Before Prof. Joordens introduced his peer-marking system, all the assignments in the class were written on multiple choice sheets and marked by a machine.”

Students are the real losers in this process.

Language And Connectedness

Not only are we socially connected in our learning, but the concepts that form our understanding of a subject also reveal network attributes. Understanding is a certain constellation (pattern) of connections between concepts.

At a more basic level, think of an alphabet - the richness of language is derived from a small number of distinct letter/characters. Variations and different connections form words.

Connections create words, language, and conceptual understanding, all formed by social connectedness and continually adaptations fostered by feedback and interactions.

Opera Unite

Periodically, new software appears that has the feeling of a game changer. I had this feeling when I first tried Yahoo Pipes (even though the service still remains somewhat obscure) and Wolfram Alpha.

Today, I installed Opera Unite and had was left with a sense of “wow, this could change how I interact and share information with others”.

Whenever a system is created - school models, corporations, or browsers - ideologies of the age are embedded. As a result, when circumstances change, future generations struggle to overcome this ideological legacy.

Kuhn’s notion of ordinary and extraordinary science partly reflects this struggle, but focuses on mindsets within a discipline rather than the system that is created to perpetuate those mindsets.

Occasionally, a glimpse of “something different” emerges. But, if it’s too different from the current model, it likely fades quickly.

Most innovation in browsers - including Google Chrome - is tweaking an existing model. The ideological pull of “what a browser is” and “how we interact with each other and with information” places blinders on the innovation process.

Opera Unite is an experiment in rethinking the notion of a browser entirely. Opera Unite is described as “a web server on the web browser”. I’m sure we’ll hear of many technical limitations to the approach (including security concerns).

What I’m most interested in, however, is that Opera offers a different way to think about online activities - it calls into question the ideologies embedded in browsers developed decades ago.

Article written by George Siemens for elearnspace

Source: Jun 26th, 2009 George Siemens newsletter eLearning Resources and News.

About The Author

George Siemens is a theorist on learning in a digitally-based society. He is the author of the article Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age and the book Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of the impact of the changed context and characteristics of knowledge.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org

Back in 2006 when I started The3dtechnologies I had not thought of becoming anything such as a professional blogger. I wasn’t thinking about it… but there were already many bloggers making money from these new technology.

Two years after the idea of making money from my blog, possibly even work at home, became a reality. Google Adsense is become one of the most popular ways to monetize from a blog, and thanks to programs like this, for people is become easier to generate a steady income, and eventually blogging went mainstream.

Today, the number of those have a blog is big in comparison to the number of those have a common jobs. There are thousands of professional bloggers make money from their blog. Here I’ve put a list of the top 10 bloggers by monthly income:

1. JohnChow $32,529.40
2. Shoemoney $10,000.00
3. Entrepreneurs-Journey $6,549.52
4. BloggingExperiment $5,021.00
5. GatherSuccess $4.080.42
6. ZacJohnson $2,969.56
7. MixedMarketArts $2,749.17
8. AffiliateConfession 2,602.64
9. ShaMoneyMaker $2,100.00
10. TylerCruz $1,746.14

When I started my blog, my purpose was never to make money as a blogger. I just a few years later, as my traffic is increased and strengthed the visibility of my webpage in search engines, I’ve throught I’d would have had some opportunity to pursue this business.

Today my blog has allowed me to be independents and pay all that I need to be free from my old job.

Needless to say, I am extremely happy by what blogging has done for my life, so I decided that as a blogger is to share my knowledge with other people and teach how realize what I made thanks to blogging. Here, are some of the resources my friend Yaro offer me and that helped me to start my business.

So You Want To Become a Blogger – Here’s a Roadmap

If you want to create your own blog, one thing I recommend you to do absolutely is watch the free video training site Gideon Shalwick and Yaro launched for beginner bloggers called “Become A Blogger”. This ten free videos help you to setting up an optimized WordPress blog from scratch.

In the same page of the Become A Blogger site, you can also download the free report - The Roadmap to Become A Blogger - which is a great guide that help you to build a successful blog.

The Best Way to Grow Blog Traffic

Yaro Starak has been talked in his blog of a method he calls “Impact Marketing Techniques”. The techniques have allowed him to create traffic and his six figure income blog.  What he recommends as one of his best impact marketing techniques is releasing a free report.

How Get Traffic From YouTube Videos

While “Become A Blogger Premium 2.0” open today, Gideon Shalwick has launched another powerful X-Factor video that show the caliber of videos that members receive, this time focusing on the more practical training style from Gideon. If you want to know more about how to get traffic to your blog using YouTube videos, this example will be pretty useful for you.

Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 Is Live!……But Only Five Days

Today, June 29th, for a limited time(five days only), Gideon and Yaro just reopened the doors to their Become A Blogger Premium 2.0, the latest updated version of their video training program for bloggers.

While the first edition of Become a blogger was been a success with over 1,000 students registered, Yaro and Gideon are ready to begin training the next group of student. With the new updating, the full course includes over 60 videos with discussion on each video, a private forum for members only, plus all the additional resources like live group coaching calls twice a month with Yaro and Gideon, master the mindset audio series and more.

Inside Become A Blogger Premium, you’ll discover:

• Clever tricks for getting top search engine results for your blof posts…. 
• Exactly how to get images onto your blog in the right format, size and shape…
• Easy-to-follow instructions for getting streaming audio onto your blog…
• “Hold-you-by-the-hand” tutorials for producing professional quality videos and getting them onto your blog quick and easy, without any hassle…
• Powerful content creation techniques for attracting hordes of daily new traffic to your blog…
• Simple methods for driving multiple streams of highly qualified traffic to your blog…
• Step-by-step instructions for making a consistent income from your blog using all the latest social media strategies…
• And Much MUCH more…

Yaro and Gideon are masters at simplifying complicated “geek talk” and they been in the blogging game for quite a while now, so I’m sure you can learn a few things from them. For instance, Yaro, makes as much as $70,000 per month from his blogging ventures.

Join to Become A Blogger Premium 2.0

Price

The six month course will cost $47 per month, and considering the amount of video and information, this is an great price and I highly recommend it.

Reccomend: This program is for beginners who want taking their blogging efforts to the next level and to learn any step by step process on how to become a successful bloggers.

Remember: Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 close 5 july…….In alternative, you can start with Blogmastermind program.

How To Work At Home, And Make $5000 Per Month

I know a lot of people that would leave their annoying job and start a own business online, with hope to do a 5-figure income from their WordPress blogs, as Yaro Starak do.

That’s the purpose of Blogmastermind. Developed by Yaro Starak, Blogmastermind is a mentoring program that allows anyone to learn how to start an own business online and learn how to make 5000 dollars a month by doing something you love.

Join to Blogmastermind

Through Yaro’s advices, has never been so easy to start a business from scratch, without need to spend a dime, or even writing skills. Before say you the two main features of the mastermind course, let’s look at:

• The Goal - Make money by working as little as 2 hours a day.
• The problem - Initially, it take a bit of your time. Also, work on a regular basis is crucial to your success.
• The Current Landing Page - www.blogmastermind.com
• Option 1 (”Easy Monthly Payment”): Your initial charge will be $97. You will then be charged $97/month for 5 months after your initial charge has been made. You will have immediate access to the member resources and online community and receive one lesson per week until you graduate in six months.
• Option 2 (”Blog Mastermind Premier Membership”): Pay $497 upfront and get access to ALL the course materials right away. You get instant downloads for all the lessons, the member resources and access to the online community.

1 - Organic traffic is not the only way to sell your products - Organic traffic is a great way to start becoming more visible, but not converting. 

Of course, you could think to use your blog as the landing page platform but if you’re interested in actually selling your products, you’ll need to design another way to drive your traffic to your sales landing page.

2 - Build your readership - I’ve been working 2 and a half years but, apart of hard work (and a bit of luck) there are many ways you can use to grow readership to a blog.

To summarised some of the many methods I’ve cited in my old articles on how to find readers for your blog page, viral content, networking, advertising and social media are a great place to start.

Here’s Your Chance To Make $5000 Per Month

Do you have a blog that is new or sitting there for years? Willing to work hard? Prepared to put a little of your own money in the game for Blogmastermind? Then, follow your click to Blogmastermind Landing Page for all the details.