Retweet – What does it mean and how important is it!

A Retweet allows Twitter users to share their favourite tweets with their own followers. So if someone has 10,000 followers and they like one of your tweets and they retweet it, then it will go out to all of their followers, good eh! It is done by copying and pasting the original tweet and sending it out. It’s usual to put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Here’s an...

How to really monetise your blog

In my previous blog “6 steps closer to monetising your blog” I said that you need: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Today I am going to tell you about the next 6 items you need: 1. Products that sell well. 2. A great mailing list. 3. An easy to use e-mail marketing system. 4. To be seen on the first page of Google. 5....

Selling to the taxi driver!

You know, one of the easiest things to do on the internet is to assume that people are not being honest and that they are only talking to you because they have something to sell. Who do you think is to blame for that? We are of-course! Have you noticed on the social networks how many people make a connection and then immediately try to sell you something. I am the first one to admit that that was my tactic when I...

6 steps closer to monetising your blog!

I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging. Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme. But it’s not impossible. To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Why patience you say? If you do everything right. Join blogging forums, create...

Confessions of a Blogger.

At last my official blog website is actually finished. My intention of blogging for a living has become a reality. Ok, what next? My lovely grand daughters - all wrapped up! The first thing I need to do is to go back over the archives and delete all my earlier muses. In the early days, as is usual for blog virgins, my impression of a blog was something that no sane person would ever read or be interested in. So my...

That call to action – your life’s blood!

You can have the best looking website in the world, the best products ever invented, the most eye catching advertisements and a service second to none but if you don’t tell your customers how to buy from you then all your hard work is wasted! If you want the reader to buy your product or take you up on your service, then tell him so, tell him what to do to pay now! Unless you enjoy entertaining your...