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Tags: Business, News, Site Updates by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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There’s been a lot of talk about the new Radiohead album, “In Rainbows” on the net lately. The band decided it was time for a change, and decided to put the new album online, and let people pay whatever amount they want and download it or order discbox (40EUR). Awesome!

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Tags: Business, Internet, News, Ranting by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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There I was, surfing the net, reading a couple of posts on some blogs, and I found this post on Elizabeth-Rose that talks about selling text links on Ebay. What a cool idea!

Most bloggers/writers I know use Text Link Ads to sell text links and increase their income (maybe you do?), but the thing is, TLA takes a huge cut, so if you sell a link for $30, you usually end up getting just $15 (more or less).

Don’t get me wrong, I really like TLA, basically because the support is great and they are well-known and have a lot of sites/blogs in their marketplace, but still… what if I could get that whole $30 instead of just $15? [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Links, Money, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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There are a lot of things that differentiate successful people from unsuccessful people, and everyone has his/her own way of measuring success, since you can be really successful, say in your relationships, but really bad in business, it all depends on the goals and the contexts. But successful entrepreneurs usually have a couple of things in common.

They Are Networking Machines

This is something I learned when I was involved with a network marketing company (which didn’t last long). You have to get out there, and network with people. There this quote I really like, it may help you get what I mean:

[…] You cannot succeed by yourself. It´s hard to find a rich hermit […] Jim Rohn

Most entrepreneurs have a really close network of friends they can rely on when needed, and they’re always working on expanding that circle. The right friends do make a huge difference. The more like-minded people put together, the greater the results can be. [Read more →]

Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Online Business, Self-Improvement by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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I’ve been a member of the BlogCatalog community since April this year, and if you’ve been reading this blog for the past weeks/months, or if you’re a member of BlogCatalog, you probably already know how much I like BC, I’ve written about it many times, and I’m quite active on the discussion board.

Now it’s even better! Tony Berkman, who runs BlogCatalog contacted me a couple of days ago, and asked me if I’d be interested in joining the team, and work with BC. Of course, I accepted.

I’ll be working with a bunch of really cool folks! I’m so thrilled Tony asked me! [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Networking, News, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Hello guyz and galz, today I’m launching that new blog I’ve been talking about, and I have to say I’m quite happy, and as I’m writing this post I can almost feel the tension and pressure go away. :)

Here it is: Freelance Folder.

A blog for freelancers (any field), entrepreneurs, work-at-home people, small business owners. Right now, we have 6 writers, and of course always looking for new talents and people wanting to contribute to this new blog. [Read more →]

Tags: Business, Marketing, News, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Some of you already know I’m a guitar player, and I’ve been playing for 13 years now, and I’m now in the studio with my band recording an album that should see the day sometime this Fall. I learned so much playing in a rock band and with heavy acts, that it got me thinking about how can my experiences relate to my online business.

Playing guitar in a rock band and running an online business have quite a lot of similarities in fact. Let’s see:

The Right People

We all know how important it is to partner up with the right people, either in music or in business, it’s quite the same thing. When you spend most of your time with the same 3-4 people, working on songs, recording and rehearsing, you quickly realize how important it is you work with the right people. Or else the band will fail. Everyone has to be on the same page. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Fun, Life, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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The tools you use that help you run your business, or in my case my blogs, can easily become a pain if you don’t chose carefully which tools you use. And I’m experiencing just that. Not that I chose unreliable tools, but let’s just say they’re not all up to my standards.

Reliable And Unreliable Blogging Tools

Of course, using wordpress as my blogging platform was an excellent choice, and I wouldn’t start a blog on any platform other than wordpress. With the hundreds (or thousands) of plugins available and the awesome support from the wordpress community, to me, it’s a no-brainer. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Conversational Blogging, Networking, News, Online Business, Site Updates, Wordpress by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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No, not the girl, the website! You know that site that so many people seem to rely on? Yes that Alexa!

When you join services like Pay Per Post, ReviewMe or Sponsored Review, or even Text Link Ads, those companies will set a price for a review, which you can or cannot adjust manually depending on the service. Most “paid-to-blog” services will take into account 3 or 4 things when calculating the “suggested” price:

I’m really fine with 3 of those, the only one I have a problem with is Alexa. And it’s for one simple reason: Not every visitor has the alexa toolbar installed. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Money, Online Business, Ranting, Services by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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As many of you know I’m working on a new blog, and of course I would love to launch this new blog and already have hundreds or even thousands of RSS subscribers and steady traffic. Wouldn’t that be awesome? I know I’m a very positive and optimistic guy, and I’ve been thinking a lot about what to do with that new blog (since I’m on a budget) to make it a successful one.

It’s not starting it that’s difficult, it’s keeping that new blog afloat. You need a plan in order to succeed. The launch is one thing, but it is important to have content, and get rid of the bugs, but that is common sense anyway. What can you do or use to make your new blog a big success right from the start? Meaning there’s already many articles published, it receives good traffic, and rss numbers are increasing steadily. You know, when you feel like a blog has always been there? That’s what I’m aiming for. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Internet, Marketing, Networking, Online Business, Optimization, Services by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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