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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes One of the biggest “benchmark” figures that most people quote when trying to make a full time living from home is $4000 per month. Roughly one thousand dollars per month. Most people seem to think, especially those JUST getting started, that this sort of consistently earned income would give them the comfort to quit their day job and commit to creating an online blogging empire of their very own. I’m going to give you the absolute EASIEST way to do it, and while it does take a little bit of work to get started, it’s pretty simple to support (and scale UP) once you have. Filed Under: Sell More Stuff From Your Blog (and start right now) The best way to begin? Unless you have a hardcore “passion” for something you really want to offer, service wise, yourself….affiliate marketing is the best place to begin. But listen up: You’ve got to be smart, and you’ve got to be savvy, and you have to go the OPPOSITE... 

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Who else is thinking about starting a corporate blog? If you are anything like many of my high falutin friends in big business or professional services like law or medicine, the thought of starting a blog to attract clients, patients or customers seems a little bit silly, doesn’t it? If you said YES to that, the chances are you are not too plugged in to the content creation (and distribution) revolution that’s taking place online right now…and the bad news is that it will most likely leave you far behind, and fast! Why do I say this? I think you probably already know, but many of the younger, more aggressive professionals are coming straight to the market with a firmer grip on technology as a driver for their business building efforts, and many of the “old boys club” are simply suffering as a consequence. With this in mind, let’s look at 2 simple ways that a corporate blog can build BACK your brand and even more importantly,... 

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes What is RSS? (Really Simple Syndication) RSS enables people to have the latest information delivered directly to them. This avoids having to visit sites every day looking for updates and instead allows you to see when websites have added new content that you are interested in! You can get the latest news, articles, photos, and videos all in one place and as soon as they are made available (published). RSS feeds were designed to be read by computers instead of people. So how do people read RSS feeds? By using an RSS reader. Have you ever come upon a small orange icon labeled RSS or XML? Have you tried clicking on one and ended up on a page filled with unreadable text? Well, that means you need an RSS reader! An RSS reader allows people to easily read any updates from a website that offers RSS feeds. What this means is that with your RSS reader you can subscribe to your favorite feeds and receive updates into your feed without having to visit any websites! There... 

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes You can easily build RSS feeds if you know how. RSS is a method that you can use to syndicate or distribute your content. So for example if you have a web site with useful content it is a way of distributing those links to your content that will allow others access to it. People with RSS readers can easily read your content without actually visiting your web site. The way this works is that they subscribe to your RSS feed using the RSS reader and they view the content directly from the RSS reader. If you know html you can easily make a rss file. Basically a rss file consists of items. So for example if your web page has a list of web sites that you recommend then these would be listed in your RSS feed by title, description and link. So all your web sites would be described in tags in the categories listed above. In addition to this you also need to add the standard header and footer tags for a RSS feed. Once you are done creating your RSS feed you need... 

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Most of the people who use Internet services agree – when there is a new technology out there it should be implemented on websites – and this is why you should use RSS feeds for your site. The most important reason to use RSS feeds is to keep visitors to your site abreast of any changes that may have taken place on your page. If you have the type of site that will be changing frequently, such as a news site or blog (or any sort of personal diary type site), an RSS feed can help keep people in the loop about what is going on with your page. RSS, really simple syndication, is the perfect way to get new information out to your website’s visitors while allowing them the most convenient way possible to read your content. When a site implements RSS, it is said to be “syndicated”, and that is a good thing. Visitors to your site will know right away that with the click of a button, they can subscribe to the content on your site and...