Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Down-To-Earth Advice For Bloggers and Internet Marketers

One of the things I enjoy the most about blogs, especially blogs that are run by one individual, is analyzing why the blog is successful.

What is the magic ingredient that makes this blog succeed, when so many others fail?

Based on my observations, here are some of the elements you can apply to make your blog something special. Note you don’t have to apply all these ingredients, one could be enough, though of course if you apply more than one you increase your chance of success.

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Update: We just switched on the $1 Trial for Become A Blogger Premium, so you can create your account right at this page -

www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

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Press play to begin watching the video (this video is taken from directly inside the Become A Blogger Premium course).

I’m giving you access to a special preview of one of the strategy video presentations I did for the Become A Blogger Premium course. Note this video I’m sharing with you today is hosted on Viddler, however the premium videos inside the members area are all hosted on Amazon S3 high speed servers.

This video is a particularly powerful one as it covers my concept of “Impact Marketing”.

Many bloggers struggle to build significant traffic and that’s usually because they lack any truly effective marketing techniques. There are many simple blog traffic building techniques that work, but they work slowly and don’t have a big impact. Impact Marketing is all about making a splash and attracting greater than average traffic back to your blog.

This video reveals some of the impact techniques I’ve used and seen others use to great effect online. Remember these techniques are more than just linkbait (although they make great linkbait too), this is about building long term traffic attracting assets that keep a stream of people come to your blog over time and a rush of people coming in the short term.

Do You Like To Know Why And Then See How?

This video is an example of the strategy focused videos in the Become A Blogger Premium program. About 25% of the videos are like these, with me presenting to you my strategies and techniques from a conceptual point of view.

The rest of the videos show you how to implement the ideas live, by taking you through each step to make the technique a reality. Gideon Shalwick teaches you all the how-to videos and does a darn good job at it too!

If you’re ready to take your blogging seriously, want a clear path to success, have some time over the coming months to focus on your blog and enjoy the teaching style Gideon and I use, then please don’t miss out on this run of our program.

The $1 Trial is now available, so you can get full access to our program for a full week trial before deciding whether the program is right for you. You can claim your $1 Trial here -

www.BecomeABlogger.com/SignUp/

(Trial offer expires on Tuesday February 9th at Midnight.)

The “X-Factor” is a term Gideon and I applied to blogging, where you use multimedia and/or social media to enhance your blog’s growth.

The idea is that “standard” blogging practices may not be enough to make your blog stand out, and since it’s so easy today to make use of multimedia and social media, why not leverage these technologies to increase your traffic and blog performance.

The latest X-Factor training video was just released for free on the Become A Blogger blog, which you can go and watch right now here -

X-Factor Video: How To Make Money With Online Webinars

This video shows how Gideon recently used Webinar software to create an entire product and generate over $13,000 from literally just a few hours work. Webinars are great teaching tools, which can be recorded and distributed on your blog.

If you don’t know what a Webinar is, have no idea what software you can use to make one and how they can be turned into a product creation tool to generate a nice income as Gideon did, go watch the two videos on the Become A Blogger blog and Gideon will reveal everything to you.

Make sure you leave a comment there too, as Gideon loves to get your feedback.

Gideon Shalwick and I are opening our very popular Become A Blogger Premium video training program this week.

We’ve had over 2,000 people take this course during the past year, so it is by far the most successful program I run in terms of raw number of people who have joined.

If you’ve not participated before, then as a special incentive for you to give it a go when we open it for the first time in 2010, we’re going to offer a $1 trial, but only if you join within the first six days.

The doors will open for the $1 trial this Thursday at 10AM Eastern US time and the offer will expire on Tuesday, February 9th at midnight.

If you’ve never heard of Become A Blogger Premium before I recommend you do two things first, which are completely free -

1. Check out the ten videos Gideon put together to teach you how to set up a blog. You can find these at www.becomeablogger.com
2. While you are there, opt-in to get your free copy of the Roadmap To Become A Blogger report.

The Roadmap Report is a very thorough document that takes you through two core areas -

1. It lays out my system for building a successful blog, which has now been tested, implemented and proven successful on blogs in all kinds of niches.
2. A full explanation and case study examples of Gideon’s X-Factor marketing techniques. The X-Factor techniques use a combination of social media and multimedia (things like video, audio, twitter, facebook, youtube, webinars, ustream, etc) to give your blog an extra boost.

We’re very proud of this report because it focuses on both the fundamentals of good blogging, but also teaches you how to leverage the current exciting online trends in social and multimedia, which can give your blog a real edge.

You can read Roadmap Report, or listen to it (we provide a free MP3 version too), by downloading your copy after opting in here -

www.becomeablogger.com/roadmap/

If you enjoy the report and like the style of teaching in the ten free videos, then you are a perfect candidate for the Premium version of our program. The training is all done in very clear and easy to follow video demonstrations, so you just have to repeat what we recommend you do.

If you don’t want the stress of figuring out how to build a successful blog, like your hand held throughout the process as we lay out a clear path to follow, and video is your preferred learning method, this is the course for you. There’s nothing else like it.

In the next couple of days I’ll publish some great videos from inside the premium program so you can sample our training, and then on Thursday the program opens.

In the meantime, make sure you study the Roadmap Report today or tomorrow.

This interview is a great story, which for many online entrepreneurs will seem very familiar – as it was for me.

Laura is young, but she’s not young in terms of how long she’s been running an online business. Like many people who got started online, her first “business” was freelance web design, however today she’s doing something a little more unique.

Laura has various products, but one area she specializes in is helping other people become famous in their niche using social media.

During this interview you will hear a great example of a podiatrist (foot doctor) who followed Laura’s advice and basically become that famous online foot doctor guy, leading to all kinds of cool things happening to him.

I recommend you listen to this story if you’re thinking of leaving your job so you can get a feel of how a person can progress from one business model to the next, all the while making money. You may not have your ideal business in mind yet, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start one. Like Laura, who just decided she couldn’t do the full time work thing, sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith and make a change.

How Exactly Does Laura Make People Famous?

During the second half of this interview Laura explains how exactly she became good at making people famous, including how she uses tools like Twitter to accomplish this. She believes in the power of personality, which is something she runs her business by, with most of her clients choosing to work with her because they like her. That might seem obvious, but there’s a powerful marketing lesson in there too, which Laura subtly explains.

On an interesting side note – one of Laura’s best friends was a star for a full season of the show “Heroes” and Laura ended up helping her develop an online presence. You can hear that story along with lots of other interesting insights, inside this great interview. Just click play above to begin listening.

Laura is about to open her Backstage Pass To Twitter program, and you can download her 7-page report –

Why Being an “Expert” is Making You Useless on Twitter
(Avoid These Five Well-Meaning Twitter Mistakes)

If you want to learn more about Laura check out LauraRoeder.com.