Kick Butt Business Idea #11

How To Position Yourself NOW To Cash In On the Next Big Internet Gold Rush.

There is a brand new money making opportunity developing on the internet as a write this article. It's an opportunity that a few smart, tech savvy people have been secretly using for at least the past 7 years but for most internet users it is still a mystery.

I first hear about this opportunity just a few months ago. And truthfully, at first glace it sounded like some sort of stupid techie buzz word that geeks like to throw around to show people how smart they are.

That's where I was wrong.

You see, this opportunity is not really about a new technology at all. Rather, it is a faster, simpler and easier way for people to find the exact information they are looking for on the internet. I'm talking about Blogs.

In the very near future Blogs will take over the internet and become as commonplace and widely used as search engines are today. And people that understand and start creating Blogs now will be the ones that cash in on the coming Gold Rush as the masses of internet users begin to use them on a regular basis.

What Exactly is a Blog?

Blog stands for Web Log. (weB LOG - get it?) It is basically a journal that other internet users can read on the web.

Generally, postings on a blog are arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions displayed first.

The activity of updating a blog is called "blogging" and someone who maintains a blog is known as a "blogger."

Blogs are usually tightly focused on a very specific topic. And that is what makes them so user friendly to internet users: Instead of searching through page after page of search engine listings looking for information on a specific topic, users can check a few blogs for the updated information about their desired topics.

Here are a few examples of blogs:

http://sweetestsuggies07·blogspot·com/ Blog about Sugar Gliders (a marsupial some people keep as pets)

http://www·profitwithgoogle·com/blogs/10/ Blog about Google Adwords.

http://thyroidhost·blogspot·com/ Blog about Thyroid Disease

http://gamesformoney·blogspot·com/ Blog about Gambling

http://vinodiversity·blogspot·com/ Blog about Australian Wines

http://www·textually·org/ringtonia/ Blog about Mobile Phone Ringtones

http://www·boxerdognews.blogspot·com/ Blog about Boxer Dogs.

And there are hundreds more at: http://www·blogwise·com/

Let me demonstrate by showing you a particularly profitable blog and dissect what this blogger is doing to earn $4583.33 a month.

Go to http://www·mobiletracker·net/

This is a Blog about Mobile Phones. It is maintained by 19 year-old blogger Jon Gales and was featured in the October, 2004 issue of Business 2.0. MobileTracker is basically a compendium of news and reviews about cell phones.

Jon posts 4 or 5 items to the blog in the course of a day while relaxing on his parent's living room couch with his laptop. One why Jon earns income is from the Google Adsense ads that are displayed right after each post. The ads look something like this:

When one of Jon's blog readers clicks on one of the ads Jon earns a small commission on the click. (Note: Google keeps the actual amount earned a secret but generally it is in the "cents" per click range. )

That doesn't sound like much but since Jon has over 200,000 unique visitors to his blog a month, these cents add up fast.

Jon also has other revenue sources on the site:

On the home page and news page there is a banner that leads to www·dataviz·com, a mobile phone company. You can bet that Jon is getting paid for displaying that banner.

In some of the posts there is an affiliate link to the product being discussed. For example, in a post about the new Audiovox 5600 smartphone, a message is included at the top of the post that reads:

Update: You can purchase the Audiovox SMT5600 at Amazon·com for -$25 after rebates. That's right, you get $25 back!

That message is linked to Amazon.com via an affiliate url. So Jon earns money anytime someone purchases the product.

There are also links to other sites on the right hand side of every page. I can't be sure but those are probably paid links. (ie: the website pays Jon to include the link)

Ok, so that is how Jon is making money from his Mobile Tracker site. And according to the Business 2.0 article he is pulling in $55,000 a year working just 3 hours a day.

The point is, if a 19 year-old teenage blogger from Tampa, Florida can make $55,000 a year parked on his parents couch - probably while watching TV :) -- then you can too!

It took Jon a year and a half to build up the traffic to his site. So it does take some work. But, with the exploding popularity of Blogs you should be able to drive traffic to a blog faster then ever.

Anyone can earn money by using the exact technique that Jon has discovered:

. Pick a niche topic that is very popular.
. Set up a blog to contain your daily posts.
. Post four or five short news articles to your blog every day.
. Display Google Adsense ads on the articles and link to relevant affiliate products.
. Lather, rinse, repeat!

This is what you should do now...

1. Go to www.Blogger.com and set up a free Blog account. Follow the onscreen instructions and set up a sample Blog. At this point it doesn't matter what the topic is - just pick a topic you are interested in and start posting so you can learn the process.

2. Sign up for a free Google Adsense Account at: www·google·com/adsense/

3. Stay tuned to future updates of Kick Butt Business Ideas. I am going to be sharing with my subscribers the secrets I have uncovered about this exciting new opportunity.

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