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A couple weeks ago I wrote a post titled Getting Rid Of The Middleman, and promised I would write a follow-up post on that. So here it is, short, but to the point! ;)

The idea was to put links for sale on Ebay, and see if it would work. Well the truth is it didn’t work. I got around 75 visitors to each of my Ebay auction pages (I had 3 different auctions, and all averaging 75-80 visitors, 7 days auction), which is ok. Got 2 questions from potential buyers, but no sale. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Links, Marketing, Money, 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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I just read a post from Liz at Successful-Blog about a new service, called BuyBlogComments.com. At first I thought it was a joke, but unfortunately, this site is real…

Darren from Problogger also wrote a post about that. And judging from the response his post received, I guess many people are not so happy about that new service. I really do wonder how people can come up with such ideas… black-hat, spam, fake comments… what a business model!

*Please Note: I will not link to BuyBlogComments. If you want to visit this site please type the address in your browser. I’m sorry but I just won’t give that guy any Google juice. Thanks for your understanding.

So Who’s Behind This

The guy behind this brilliant (sarcasm here) new company called BuyBlogComments is Jon Warass (jonwaraas.com), he also runs BuzzBums (buzzbums.com) a community site. I had a BuzzBums badge in my sidebar, but needless to say that the first thing I did after reading those 2 posts by Liz and Darren, is I took that badge off my blog. Keep reading you’ll see why. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Marketing, News, Ranting 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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Today it’s rather easy to get blogs and sites to link to your own blog(s), but after taking a look at the latest trends in the blogosphere and collecting some data it got me wondering if some of those link building practices were actually any good. Some are awesome, and some and totally useless. Some have obvious benefits and add value, while others are simply annoying.

A post by Wendy Piersall (coolest eMom!) titled “Is The DoFollow Movement Getting Exploited” really got me wondering if link building was getting maybe a little too easy, especially after I checked my spam filter and found out I got around 5000 spam comments in less than 3 weeks (yes! 5 thousand!), and found out that some URLs in older comments were redirecting to questionable websites.

Feel free to add to the discussion, I welcome every comment, positive or negative! Let’s talk about it, I’d like to know what you think. [Read more →]

Tags: Articles, Blogging, Internet, Links, Marketing, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Some of you may already know I love to read and learn new things, and although I really love to read “real” books, I also enjoy ebooks, and lately 2 bloggers writers/authors/entrepreneurs I know and respect very much, published their own ebooks, and I thought it would be a good idea to talk a little about those ebooks, and share my thoughts, and also ask you guyz and galz what you think of them, if you read them, and if you haven’t yet, well lemme ask you why? :)

(* bonus question at the end of the post!) [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Books/Ebooks, Creativity, Marketing, Online Business, Reviews, Writing by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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If you run a blog or have some sort of free “informational product”, in a way, you’re working in sales. The job of a salesperson is to sell products and services and know what customers want, well, you’re selling your ideas, your thoughts and your knowledge (more than that actually)! Thing is, you’re selling those ideas and thoughts usually for $0. Which is fine, depending on what your goals are. Money comes second. You sell your ideas first and you’re rewarded by comments, e-mails, recognition, and exposure.

Beyond the ideas and the thoughts and the knowledge, what is it that you’re really selling? Benefits. You’re not even selling “features”, you’re selling “benefits”! People read your stuff only because it’s beneficial for them to read it. You provide them a solution, a point of view, and you help them get better (and they help you in return).

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Tags: Blogging, Business, Marketing, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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I’ve been experimenting with StumbleUpon for about 3 or 4 days, since Shane from Zoomstart wrote a post about that. Honeslty, the results so far are amazing. I’ve used stumbleupon in the past, from time to time, but didn’t see the real potential till i started really paying attention to my stats and actively use the service.

So there i was with my $50, not sure if i wanted to actually spend money on traffic, since i think traffic can be “acquired” using so many other methods. But it proved to be a really good way to get exposure. So I funded my stumbleupon account with 50 bucks, and opened the traffic gates. For $50USD you get 1000 hits ($0.05 a click) so i thought it was a fair price since it’s somewhat targeted traffic. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Marketing, Networking, Online Business, Reviews, Services by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Todays’ post is geared a little more towards “making money” (don’t worry i left out the John Chow Evilness!) but still has a good dose of “smart“, since this site is titled smartwealthyrich and not just rich.com (though i’d like to have a premium domain like that)! How cool is that? I can write about almost anything and still be on topic! Well it seems like everyone is writing about making money, so why not jump in?

Some will probably say that marketing online is difficult, and some will even say it’s cruel (yeah, i’ve heard that before), some will say it’s impossible to make any decent amount of money. In fact, it all depends on what techniques you use, and some works better than others. Here are some tips that can help pull really healthy profits (yep, more money!). [Read more →]

Tags: Business, Internet, MLM, Marketing, Money, Online Business, Optimization by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Recently i’ve been trying to find ways to meet new internet entrepreneurs, like-minded people and sites/blogs with similar topics as mine. I’ve joined MyBlogLog some time ago, and joined Blog Catalog just recently. Mybloglog has been awesome so far, i’ve met a lot of interesting people through there, and that’s what kick-started my blog 3 months ago.

For those of you not really familiar with MyBlogLog, check out Joshuas’ post over at Time For Blogging. Joshua wrote a really nice tutorial on how to get traffic from MyBlogLog.

Why should you care / or not?

I strongly believe that social (and even profesional) networking sites or community sites like mybloglog, blog catalog, linkedin, facebook and even myspace (though i hate myspace, i think it’s the worst site design ever, but they must be doing something good..) are excellent ways to get more exposure (and traffic) and find people to interact with, and maybe visit your site or blog. Gotta make damn sure you’re not spamming, by the way!

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Tags: Blogging, Internet, Links, Marketing, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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