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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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Brian Gardner recently released a new wordpress theme called Revolution, which looks really really promising.

The reason I’m writing about this, is because it’s not a free wordpress theme (and no, this is not a sponsored review).

Many of you reading my blog are bloggers and web designers, so look at it this way:

You create wordpress themes, people download your themes for free, and since you put your link in the footer, you get tons of incoming links (kinda), but you make no money. So, of course, many bloggers are offering people to sponsor their themes. Which helps those designers make some money. Some agree with this, some don’t. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Conversational Blogging, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Online Business, Wordpress 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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In the “blogging world“, when an authority blogger writes about your blog, or feels like linking to one of your post, it can bring a lot of traffic, and potentially make your feedburner chicklet go nuts.

Social networks like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and others, can definitely send massive traffic too. But from my experience, people coming from Problogger, LifeHack, ChrisG, Performancing, Successful-Blog and other well-known and established blogs are more inclined to click, read and subscribe to your rss feed. (like I said, that’s “my” experience) [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Conversational Blogging, Links, Networking, 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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You probably noticed that I rarely post product or blog reviews on my blog. I’m not a huge fan of ReviewMe, Sponsored Review, Pay Per Post and other similar services, they’re great, but not for me.

Reason is quite simple, I usually don’t read reviews posted on other blogs, so I don’t see why I should post any on here. I don’t feel it would be relevant, and I’m not sure it would be useful to my readers, unless some product or blog totally rocks.

I did write some reviews in the past, but quickly realized it wasn’t my thing. So I simply stopped. And I must say I’m happy I made that decision. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, News, Online Business, Optimization, Reviews, Services 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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