This is a video by Tyrone Shum a lifestyle entrepreneur at TyroneShum.com.

I really love how he enhances and expands his business by outsourcing. He is a go-to guy about outsourcing and using delegation as a business management tool.

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Sprout an idea

Identify what people are looking for. Ask yourself if you can provide solutions to their needs. If they are looking for free know-how, can you quench their thirst for knowledge? Align this need with your capability.

Build your site

Buy yourself a domain name and web hosting to host your site/blog. This is your real estate online. This is your domain. Design your site to appeal to your potential customers. Or, simply start with a clean theme and build on it.

Build your community/fan/loyal subscribers

Value your community. They are your business. Ask them for directions when you falter. Never shy from admitting mistakes – you will make a few, too. Be genuine and caring. Provide value to your loyal customers.

Build your brand

Be unique. Differentiate your site design, content/products and your personality. Shout out your USP for all who care to listen. Spread your message everywhere (eg. Blogs, forums, twitter, etc).

Sell your goods

Remember to sell your goods. That’s the reason you are in business in the first place.

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The diagram below is a result of ongoing research into why people go online and where and is a project called Rudd Finn Intent Index.

It basically classifies people’s reasons for going online into seven categories in descending percentage order:

1. Learn

2. Have Fun

3. Socialize

4.  Express yourself

5. Advocate

6. Do Business

7. Shop

According to Darren, you can also look at the results based upon gender and age. For example

• Men go online to do business, be informed of news and be entertained more than women
• Women are more likely to go online to socialize and express themselves than men)
• Youth go online more for socializing, advocating and self expression than seniors
• Both Youth and Seniors are going online to have fun

Other highly rated areas (80% of responses or more) included:

• Educate Self (96%)
• Connect with Others (92%)
• Research (89%)
• Share (86%)
• Be Entertained (82%)

Take some time to study this index, you may be able to pinpoint your next strategic move.  This could well answer the age old questions like:

Who is your target audience?

Where are they?

What do they expect?

How big/small is the market?

Go ahead and study now and improve your sales and readership!

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Today Daniel post a killer article for bloggers at his blog Daily Blog Tips 4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic Beyond 1,000 Daily Page Views. This is a post I’ve always needed!

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Daniel made his case so simple and yet so true. I’ll definitely take this as a guide and improve my blogging.

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If you have been actively blogging and reading blogs for some time there is one blogging trend that is hard to miss: successful bloggers all have buddies!

Darren Rowse teamed up with Chris Garret for their book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.

Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick are right now busy promoting their Become a Blogger program and one successful blogger promoting Become a Blogger is Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips.

Not surprisingly, when Daniel started his own membership site Online Profits Darren Rowse of ProBlogger and John Chow promoted the program on their blogs.

The power of collaboration in the blogging world cannot be underestimated.  Yes, we can all start our own blogs and run it too, but to be successful in blogging you cannot do it all alone.

Why successful bloggers have blogging buddies and so should you!

The Golden Rule:  Do unto others what you would like to be done to you.

Blogs by design and structure are built for collaboration and participation.  The comment function is where others can share their thoughts and ideas with the blogger.  How successful a blogger is, can be gauged by the number of comments in his blog or, put in another way, the participation of his community of readers in his blog.

Leverage each one’s readers to promote the other’s blogs.  When bloggers with fairly substantial following promote another blog or another blogger’s ebook for instance, it results in massive publicity and credibility for the latter blogger.  They share their traffic.

It’s really important to connect with another blogger in real life especially when you are starting out.  This keeps the “work” more real.  Talk over and discuss stuffs you face in your blogging business.  Be it lack of authenticity or how hard blogging really is!

Especially when you are starting out consider your visitors, however few they are, your buddies.  Ask them what they like and what they detest.  Know your target niche.  This will have significant positive impact on your blogging and guide your blogging in the right direction.

Get feedbacks and ask for criticism from other bloggers in your niche.  Although most of my ‘readers’ perspective’ is from my visitors who care enough to take the time to comment and tell me what is working for them or not and why, getting a blogging buddy to critique your writing and style of writing could do wonders.

Do not forget to promote and talk about your buddies blog or projects on your blog!  Be authentic and real when recommending your buddy’s work to your readers.  They will learn the truth in another second or two any way.

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The Power of Collaboration in today’s Blogging World – Part 1 – Reasons

The Power of Collaboration in today’s Blogging World – Part 1 -How

Who is your ideal blogging buddy? Do you have one?  And how did you buddied him/her?  Care to be mine?

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60% of Daily Blog Tips readers say they need a business partner for success.

However in the post Daniel went on to express his reservations as to why it may not be that clear cut for every blogger.

Bloggers are concerned about:

• losing control of their blogs/venture
• sharing the profits

And these above points are why exactly every blogger out there needs a sexy sleeping partner instead.

A sleeping partner as in a virtual assistant who work with you and for you, but do not share your profits or poke their nose into your business.

A virtual assistant like a transcriptionist do all the work that needs done for you WITHOUT profit-sharing! Ain’t that sexy!

Have you got a sleeping partner yet? Contact me now, its a date!

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Are you overwhelmed and confused with so many blogs about blogging doling out tips, tricks and advices for new bloggers and wannabe probloggers day in and day out?

It’s even more confusing and depressing when you fail, even after trying out their advices and tips on your blogs – whether you are trying to create digg-worthy posts, trying to involve your audience through polls, gifts for comments, free downloads for subscription, guest posting on a couple of blogs in your niche, submitting your blogs to blog directories, hosting blog carnivals, etc…well, you get the picture. Believe me it’s depressing, I have been there.

The Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film which tells the story of an English teacher (John Keating played by Robin Williams) at the prestigious Welton prep school, which is based on four principles – tradition, honor, discipline and excellence. Mr Keating inspires his students to change their lives of conformity. The movie is all about the awakening of the individual and that authority must always be just a guide in the process.

How To Break Free From The Bond Of Conformity And Be Different

Carpe diem (Latin for seize the day):

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”

On the first day of the English class Mr Keating imparts the importance of the present to his students. Think about men before us, men who lived and died. Their only legacy seems to be one advice – carpe diem. Make the most of your life today, for you and I are just foods for worms tomorrow, he says. Like it or not we all die. Our days are numbered.

If blogging is where your heart is, then make the most of your present in blogging. Don’t waste your time in reading and following what the authorities in blogging are saying or writing. The only thing you will gain by that exercise is mediocrity or at best the curse of being common, for hundreds of equally misguided bloggers like you will be learning from the same blogging authority and practicing the same blogging techniques. And, that brings us to our second point.

Find your own Voice:

“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!”

We must constantly look at things in a different way. Just when you think you know something, get something, deliberately try to see it in a different light. We must constantly try to improve and push the boundaries. Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way. Even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try! Now, when you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think.

The problem is, the moment you imitate someone else you just gave away your creative self to being a duplicate. Successful people do not become successful by conforming. They consciously try to be different. They rebel against the accepted social norms. They create their own paths to glory. They try new things or ways to achieve their goals. In short, they take creative and challenging approaches to their goals. They chose to take the unbeaten path.

You cannot be the successful Problogger or Copyblogger. You can only be the successful you. You have to find your own success.

Immerse yourself in what you do, to find your self:

Todd out of self-consciousness fails to complete a creative writing assignment and is taken through an uncharacteristic self-expression realizing the creative potential he truly possesses.

Mr Keating is aware that Todd has it in him a creative but timid mind. He is always shy and scared to express himself and be the ridicule of his classmates. So, he forced Todd to express himself and confirms what he always suspects, that Todd indeed has the potential but was always too shy and self-conscious to even try.

Have you locked yourself in your own mind’s closet, afraid people will not take your seriously enough or scared you might become a joke. Let go of this low self-esteem. Immerse yourself in your blogging. Blog, blog and blog more. You will eventually “get it”. Practice makes one perfect, right?

In conclusion, the common theme running through these points above is this – define your own individual success. In the blogging world (especially in the make money online world), success is more often than not , wrongly defined by how much money the blogger earns. Blogging is more, as Mr Keating said, like a powerful play and it will go on that you may contribute a verse.

What will your verse be?

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