If I had to write a list of the smartest and most strategic business moves I have made I would have to put joining Mom Masterminds at the top of the list. I have been a member for several years now and that one decision has skyrocketed by business and helped me to meet many new and amazing women Internet Marketers.
Basically Mom Masterminds is a private mentoring and networking forum. You join and you have access to the discussion forum and all of the special resources in the learning center. What can you find in the learning center? Lots of business products you would otherwise have to pay for, audio recordings about every business topic under the sun, and printable workbooks. Topics covered are blogging, affiliate marketing, doing joint ventures, outsourcing, podcasting, setting up a help desk, and so much more. There are even 2 exclusive Mom Masterminds blog themes that members can use and they are pretty darn awesome!
I often download the audio lessons to my iPod and listen to them while on the road or traveling with a pen and paper in hand. I come home with a hundred new ideas all ready to implement. I also try and visit the forum every day to see what is going on. It is a very high traffic forum and people are always asking good questions.
Have you ever been to a business forum where you ask a question and people don’t answer…perhaps because they are trying to keep the knowledge to themselves? I know I have. Well, there is none of that at Mom Masterminds. Everybody comes together and really helps each other…even if they are in competing businesses. Those moms who might otherwise view each other as competition instead join together to work on projects and use the influence of two or more to reach new heights. There is no backstabbing…just generosity and helpfulness.
A membership right now costs $39.97 a month but here is the thing…you only have to pay that for 18 months and then you are a lifetime member and never again have to pay the membership fee…an awesome deal if I do say so myself. I know most members would tell you they would stick around even if they had to pay forever! But here is the thing…that lifetime program is going bye-bye. Starting August 1st the price will drop to $24.97 but there is no opportunity to be a lifetime member.
So if you are serious about making money on the Internet and you are in it for the long term…you should join now and take advantage of this opportunity to get in and work towards your lifetime membership before it is gone. All members who join before August 1st are eligible. Also, after August 1st some of the more premium resources will be retired and they will start removing new additions after only 30 days to make make the membership even more exclusive. Get in now!
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This is day 5 of the Become a Better Blogger Challenge. The mission for today is this:
Day 5. Highlight your most popular posts. Linking to your blog’s most popular posts in a prominent location is essential practice, because it gives new visitors a place to go. They don’t have time to search around for good content: the want to see the best you have to offer, straight away. Linking to popular posts can help ensure that the links and comments keep coming, even after the post is several months old.
Woot! This is another one I already have done…I guess I was a pretty darn good blogger already eh? When I had my blog re-designed about 3 or 4 months ago I asked the designer to widgetize the blog so that I could add new header categories with ease. One of the things I wanted the most was a “Greatest Hits” section. So you will find on my Naturemoms blog a header called Greatest Hits and under it are my most popular blog posts.
Why exactly is this important? Well, I chose those particular posts because they draw in the most traffic, the most searches, and the most money. And they are really kind of the best of the best as far as good and useful content goes. When new visitors come to my blog I want them to be able to look at that Greatest Hits list and see other blog posts that they are sure to love. The more they see and like the more likely they will become an RSS or email subscriber and regular reader.
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One of my biggest “secrets” for blogging success involves carnivals and tours. Specifically I am talking about blog carnivals and blog tours and I as a blogger I don’t ignore either of these two important avenues for traffic generation and/or income.
The benefit of Blog Carnivals are really not touted enough in my opinion. They do many things for my blog…they increase traffic, they increase my technorati ranking and link popularity, and they increase my income. Blogcarnival.com is the main hub where you can find carnivals to join. Basically a carnival host sets up a carnival for a certain niche…let’s say green widgets. Then everyone who blogs about green widgets can submit their post to the carnival host for consideration. The carnival host chooses some or all of the submitted posts and creates a special article on their blog that links to all the submissions one by one. Readers that are interested in the subject of green widgets visit all the blogs that appear to have interesting green widget information…increasing your traffic.
If you join carnivals on a regular basis then you are constantly getting new links to your blog. Even if you submit to the green widget carnival every time they have a new edition (let’s say every two weeks) you still might be getting new links as many carnivals rotate hosts to spread the link love. Links to your blog increases your link popularity and potentially your search engine ranking. It also helps you to rank better with Technorati and that is good news becuase many blog ad networks and pay per post networks require a good tehnorati ranking to participate in their programs. Your technorati ranking can be directly impacting your ability to make money with your blog.
Blog Tours can be very similar to a carnival. Sometimes they are just an organized group of bloggers that all post about a certain topic and link out to each other. I have participated in a few of those and I really like them. However, the type of blog tour that I was referring to above are organized groups that attract bloggers to review products. The blogger signs ups to participate in blog tours. Large companies and book publishers contact the tour organization to help them spread the word about their new product or book. The organization then solicits bloggers within their network to review these items and write reviews for their blogs. The bloggers that get accepted then get the review products via mail and they write their reviews according to the tour schedule.
The benefit to the blogger is free product, links from the tour organizer, and sometime compensation as well. I did a dozen or so blog tours last year and for half of them the biggest perk was free product but for others I got paid anywhere from $20-50 per tour with Amazon gift certificates and I got the free product. Last year I reviewed books, software, and food for the most part. Not long ago I got a free educational computer program for my son and then I got paid to write about how he liked it. Pretty cool.
So if you want to get more out of blogging don’t forget to join the tour and go to the carnival.
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