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PostHeaderIcon How to Build a Successful Blog Business

Developing and running a successful blog business can be a monumental challenge. It’s hard work, just like anything else, and you’ll likely stumble your way through more than a few mistakes along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had something to guide your way?

Well, you do. Collis Ta’eed is the guy behind Envato and he’s sharing everything you need to know in his new book, How to Build a Successful Blog Business. Available now through Rockable Press, this 330-page book serves as the subject of today’s review.

Blogging for Profit

There is a distinct difference between hobby bloggers and those who want to develop their blogs into real businesses. This book is clearly targeted at the latter group.

It has already received considerably positive feedback from such big names in the industry as Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse. For example, Chris Garrett is saying that you “need to get this now” if you’re “serious about blogging as a real business.”

You also have to recognize that Collis Ta’eed comes from a place of significant authority. He has developed several blogs that not only generate considerable traffic, but impressive revenue too.

A Comprehensive Guide to Blogging Business

You may have already had the opportunity to read Make Money Online by me and John Chow, but that book focused mostly on how you would develop a blog where you are the main contributor.

With How to Build a Successful Blog Business, the material covers just about every aspect of running a blog as a business. This 330-page book includes sections on brand creation, staffing, business structure, content planning, monetization, and long term strategies.

Perhaps of even greater interest are the three case studies that close the book. In these chapters, Collis describes exactly how he built and developed FreelanceSwitch, Psdtuts+, and AppStorm.

Writing Style, Comprehension, and Accessibility

It’s going to take you some time to get through the over 300 pages of content, but the information is all presented in a clear, systematic, and easy-to-understand manner. Consider this snippet from the first chapter.

Opportunities in blogging also arise from the many niches and topics that are still wide open. If you walk into any bookstore and look through the myriad magazines that line the racks, you’ll find there are audiences interested in reading about everything from sewing to tattoos, boating to cooking, movies to shopping. Can you name the blog to read on tattoos? How about a great blog about boating? Think you can find one?

The style is not unlike the “blogging voice” that you find on many of Collin’s sites around the net. It’s casual, but informative. You will find, though, that many of the pages are very text-heavy.

As a freelance writer myself, I was particularly interested in the FreelanceSwitch case study. Most of it was text, but Collis did include several screenshots (e.g., Google Analytics) and charts (e.g., revenue over time) to help illustrate his points.

Blogging as a business can be daunting and intimidating for many, but How to Build a Successful Blog Business outlines everything you need to know in a way that is easy not only to digest, but also to implement in your own endeavors.

Buy the E-Book or the Paperback

Anyone who is seriously considering a career not “just” as a blogger, but as the owner and manager of a blog business should buy this book. You’ll learn about hiring freelancers, setting up your accounting, developing traffic, increasing your income and so much more.

If you want instant access to the material, you can buy the e-book version for $39. This comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If you prefer the dead tree edition, the $47 paperback is printed and shipped through Lulu.com.

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PostHeaderIcon Living The Dot Com Waterfront Lifestyle

Yes, the rumors were true. I have moved away from West Vancouver and relocated to our friendly neighbor to the south. Many will question why I would leave the number 4 city in the world for the number 4 city in the USA. I might get into that in a future post but for now, it’s enough to say that I can live the Dot Com Lifestyle anywhere in the world.

I haven’t settle into the new place yet. There’s still a lot to do and stuff to move before I can hold the Dot Com house warming party. For now, I’ll give you a few teaser pics of my new waterfront crib.

BTW – I’ll be back in Vancouver this weekend so it looks like last week’s Dot Com Pho won’t my be last after all. I hope to see you at Happy Pho this Saturday!

Bellevue Home

Bellevue Home

Bellevue Home

Bellevue Home

Sally is liking her new tree house but she’s scare to climb up the ladder.



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PostHeaderIcon You’re Really Missing Out – Aweber Email RSS Subscriptions

Jonathan Volk wrote a guest blog post on this blog call You’re Missing Out – Email RSS Subscriptions. In it, he explained why you’re missing out if you don’t offer the RSS to Email option found in Feedburner. Most bloggers just turn on the RSS option and don’t do anything with the Email. I happen to be one of those bloggers who leave the Feedburner Email option off and I can tell you that I am not missing out on anything. In fact, I would say you’re missing out by using it and not the solution I use.

A Better Solution – Aweber Blog Broadcast

The main problem with the Feedburner RSS to Email option is that it only sends RSS updates to your subscribers. It cannot send them anything else. The entire point of getting a reader’s email is so you can send him/her whatever you want. Fortunately, Aweber offers a much better solution than Feedburner.

By using the Aweber Blog Broadcast feature (one of the many features Aweber offers), you can offer the same service as Feedburner’s RSS to Email and be able to send subscribers additional content that is outside of your blog posts. Aweber Blog Broadcast takes the contents of your RSS feed and turns it into a ready to send newsletter. You can set when the broadcast goes out – by certain days of the week or by number of posts.

Aweber

Instead of offering your readers the option to subscribe to your blog via RSS or Feedburner RSS to Email, you replace the Feedbruner RSS to Email with Aweber Blog Broadcast. The net effect will still be the same. A reader subbing to email by Feedburner or Aweber will both get RSS updates from your blog. The big difference is Aweber is a complete email marketing solution allowing you to email additional contents/offers to your subscribers.

When readers subscribe to Feedburner RSS to Email, they get added to the Feedburner counter. When readers sign up to Aweber Blog Broadcast, they get added to the Feedburner counter as well, so you don’t have to worry about not having all your subscribers counted. If social proof is important to you, this is a great feature.

Here is a screen cast on how to set up an Aweber Blog Broadcast.

The only downside to the Aweber solution is it cost money while Feedburner is free. However, given all the advantages Aweber offers over the Feedburner solution, it’s money well spent. Aweber offers a $1 trial. Try Aweber for the first month for only $1. The trial account is the same as a normal account. You can set up unlimited list and unlimited auto responders. If after a month, you find that the solution is not for you, send Aweber an email and they won’t charge next month. They’ll even give you your $1 back! It’s 100% risk free and one of the reasons I recommend them so much.

With the Blog Broadcast feature of Aweber, you can offer your readers the option of subscribing to your RSS by Email and you’ll also be building your mailing list. And we all know, the money is in the list!

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PostHeaderIcon You’re Missing Out – Email RSS Subscriptions

What would you say your main goal of blogging is?

Is it to make money, to get an audience, to share your thoughts, etc? Interesting enough, nearly all of those goals center around 1 key factor. Visitors.

One of the main ways that people get visitors and keep them coming back is through use of an RSS feed. All major blogging platforms have an RSS feed – and many use a service such as feedburner.com to even further enhance that feed.

When people are subscribed to your RSS feed, you instantly can deliver your content to them and they’ll most likely come back to your website over and over. So no matter what your goal, RSS subscribers is one of the ways to get that goal.

I have been blogging for 3.5 years now and there is one REALLY simple thing that people don’t do that makes them miss out on a bunch of RSS subscriptions.

In fact, 75% of the time, I go to a new blog that has great posts… I go to subscribe to their RSS and I end up not subscribing because… they don’t have email subscriptions enabled.

Email subscriptions is a REALLY simple and commonly used feature in feedburner that is not enabled by default.

The thing to remember is that quite a few people still do not have an RSS reader… but [nearly] everyone has email.

Check out the small difference that having the email subscription enabled does.

By enabling subscriptions via email, you open yourself up to a whole new group of “non-techy” people.

To Enable RSS Via Email:

Enabling RSS via email is really simple. First you have to set yourself up with a feedburner (now owned by Google) account. Once you have that setup, click the publicize link, and then click on the email subscription link. Then click enable.

Doing so will now enable your readers to subscribe to your posts by having them delivered to their email.

Part of getting exposure comes down to making every option available for your visitors to become RSS subscribers and repeat visitors. This is a very commonly overlooked option that has resulted in a nice increase in subscribers for my blog about making money online.

This is a guest post written by Jonathan Volk. Jonathan blogs about how to make money online and has a free affiliate marketing guide where he shows you the techniques he has used to generate over $5,000,000 in affiliate commissions! He also has a great Facebook Ads Guide that I reviewed.



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PostHeaderIcon 12 Powerful Ways to Make Money Online

The internet has created lots of opportunities for people ever since its inception, one of these great opportunities is the ability to make money online at the comfort of one’s home. Have you ever thought of a world where all you need to do is sleep and play and still be making money? That is what the internet brought about (I no longer see browsing the internet and creating income streams as work, I see it as play).

Even though there are several ways you can make money online you should not fail to realize that there are still some scams online. This post will be talking about 12 legitimate ways to make money online.

1. Blogging

Nowadays, almost everybody is a blogger because they have discovered the true potential behind it. Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online because it can also lead to many other streams of income, for example, you can use blogging to influence your product creation, you can use blogging to get freelancing opportunities, you can use blogging to gain more affiliate sales and many other things like that.

There are several ways to make money online from blogging but one of the best ways is to focus on building a community first which you can later monetize.

When trying to make money blogging, traffic is money because it is traffic that will lead to ad clicks, affiliate sales, and many other online money making opportunities.

2. Advertisement

This is another great way for you to make money online. There are various types of advertisement and you don’t need a website to make money from all of them. There are several types of advertisements, some of which are:

  1. Contextual Advertisement: This type of advertisement is the one that is tailored towards a specific type of visitor. There are several methods used to display these types of ads and one major factor used is the most common keywords on the page. A great example of a contextual advertisement system is Google Adsense.
  2. In-Text Ads: This is another type of ad that you can use to monetize your blog. It works best if you are not focusing on building a strong community and you hope to get most of your traffic from search engines. A great example is Kontera Ads.
  3. Banner Ads: This is another great type of ad used on most blogs (including on this blog). The amount you will make strongly depends on your traffic and your niche. There are several ways to get advertisers for your site if you rely on this method of advertising and one great way is to make use of third-party advertisers like Buysellads.com.

You will notice I said you don’t have to have a website to make money from advertisements, yes! I didn’t swallow my words. One great way to make money online from advertisements without having a website is by writing for revenue sharing sites like shoutmeloud.com. You will be able to fill in your Adsense details and anytime your ads get clicked you will notice increased earnings in your Adsense account.

3. Freelancing

Freelancing is one of the best and most effective ways to make money online. We all have one skill or the other and these skills of ours can be further used to help us add money to our pockets while working at the comfort of our home.

There are several ways to make money online from freelancing, you can decide to look out for companies looking for people to help them do some jobs or make use of third party sites like eLance.com.

If you would love to freelance and you don’t think you have any skills that is needed you can work on developing some skills, it can be learning HTML or any coding language, and it can be learning how to write articles in various niches. There are several sites you can make use of when trying to get freelancing opportunities and some of the most popular ones are Elance.com and ODesk.com

4. Affiliate Marketing

Another great way to make money online is by making use of affiliate marketing. I recently wrote a guest post here outlining some steps to affiliate marketing success and I will be summarizing my points below:

  1. Choose a profitable niche
  2. Find a primary keyword – there will be several profitable keywords but find a primary keyword that relates to the major objective of your affiliate site, this keyword will be used to register your domain name.
  3. Find a product to promote – you can visit clickbank (the largest affiliate network) to find a product to promote.
  4. Register a keyword-rich domain name – this will make it easier for you to rank for your primary keyword.
  5. Write a killer product review – the review should be useful but shouldn’t give too much detail to the extent of making your visitor feel that there is no more need to buy your affiliate product.
  6. Build backlinks – this is where the traffic comes; building backlinks is the secret to ranking in the search engines.
  7. Rinse and repeat – you can then repeat the above steps to make more money from affiliate marketing.

You don’t necessarily need to practice unethical marketing to make money online from affiliate marketing and the above are steps you can follow.

5. Consulting Services

Another great way to make money online is by offering consulting services online. You surely went to school or are an expert at something and you can leverage this skill of yours to make money online.

If you are a doctor then you can create a website that will be focusing on helping people live a healthy live, on this website you can be laying emphasis on your consulting service and you will be able to get more response and make more money online.

When trying to get more consulting gigs it is very important to build your online profile and credibility because the more trusted and respected you are the easier it is for you to get more customers.

6. Product Creation

Another great way to make money online is by creating products to sell online. If you are a banker, you can create an eBook that gives more information on how to be a successful banker or how to overcome some of the major problems bankers face.

If you are a software developer you can also take a look at the community around you and see what major problem people face the most, try to create a product to help them solve this major problem.

There are several steps to take before creating a product and I will be listing the three most important steps below:

  1. Market Research – Try to research effectively before creating your product, don’t just create a product because you think it will be good but research effectively and make sure there is a true need for your product.
  2. Payment Options – Try to research how you will get paid for your product, creating a quality product is not enough, you should also make sure you wouldn’t have any problems getting paid or delivering products. Some payment providers might not deliver a product to buyers until they know if the transaction is genuine, this type of check might lead to more problems on the side of your customers if they don’t get what they paid for immediately so you might as well research effectively before using a payment solution. It is also very important to make sure you have several payment options because this will also increase the number of sales you will make.
  3. Promotion – It does not end in you researching and having a good payment provider, one of the most important steps you must take is to make sure you have a good promotion campaign because it is people who will buy your product.

7. Creating a Book and selling it Online

One great and underutilized way to make more money online is by creating a book (in hardcover) and then selling it online.

Depending on your area of expertise you can create a hardcover book and then sell it using websites like Amazon and Ebay.

When trying to create products like this it is very important for you to spend enough time researching the search trend for your product, try to make sure your product has a name that is regularly searched in Google, Amazon ranks easily in Google so if you research effectively you won’t having problems selling your product because your product page on Amazon will dominate the first page on Google with little efforts from you.

8. Online Auction

You can also make money online by listing products on auction sites. If you have some products you no longer use you can make money from disposing those products. Some of these products might be old books, computers, mobile phones, and many other items. All you need to do is list them on auction websites like Amazon or Ebay.

9. Website Flipping

Website flipping is a really great way you can make money online, if you are very knowledgeable about the subject of your choice and you have good knowledge of SEO then you can develop a website in less than a year and sell it for tens of thousands of dollars. There are a lot of factors that comes in place when trying to sell your websites for profit, but if you want to know more about the subject you can read this comprehensive guide on website flipping by Glen Allsopp from Viperchill.

There are several factors that comes in place when trying to sell websites for profit, one of the most important factors to consider is how you will be monetizing and promoting the site because when you want to sell a website you will be paid based on how much you earn from the website monthly.

There are many places to sell your website but one major place to use is Flippa, this site is the leading website flipping site and is trusted by lots of people worldwide.

It is very important to install a solid stats tracking tool (preferably Google Analytics) on your website from day one because this can also impact the amount you will be paid for your website as most buyers take look at your website stats before buying.

10. Content Sites

Another way to make money online is by writing for content sites like Associated Content and Infobarrel, you will be paid according to the views your article gets.

Many of these sites are trusted by the search engines and it is very easy for them to rank for keywords. When trying to write for content sharing sites, the first and most important step you should take is to look for low competition and high traffic keywords, once you get these keywords you can begin to write articles about them and then work on building backlinks to your articles. With time, your articles will begin to rank more in the search engines and it will lead to more earnings for you.

Many revenue sharing websites will pay you $1 for 1000 views on your articles but you might want to check to see if this is the case with them before getting started with them.

11. Online Surveys

Another great way to make money online is by participating in online surveys. There are many companies spending millions of dollars employing various people to test and give their opinions on their products, these companies now discovered that a cheaper and better alternative will be to make use of the internet and allow various people from the world to give their opinion.

When trying to make money online using paid surveys, it is very important to give your genuine opinion only because this will also help these companies.

There are a lot of scam companies in the online survey business so it is very important to research effectively before joining an online survey site.

12. Membership Sites and Paid Forums

Making use of membership sites and paid forums is another great way to make money online. One great advantage of this type of income opportunity is that the income you will make will be recurring thereby making it easier and worthwhile for you. There are several factors to consider when trying making money online from membership sites and paid forums and some of them will be listed below:

  1. Is the income justifiable? – You wouldn’t want to charge $100 monthly for a site without updating it regularly.
  2. How often will it be upgraded – this is another great factor to consider when trying to get the best from your membership site. Your customers want continued value and they see no reason in paying when the site is not upgraded.
  3. Security – You should also make sure you test your site for security issues so that others won’t go and access your product for free.

If you could take the right steps, membership sites and paid forums are one of the best ways to make money online because they bring about recurring income, so you don’t need to keep launching and promoting to sustain your income.

Conclusion

There are several ways to make money online and the above are 12 powerful and genuine ways to make money online, most of these methods don’t need you to spend anything to make money online.

Which is your favorite method to make money online from the above? Which other methods do you want to add to the list? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!

Onibalusi Bamidele is a young entrepreneur living the internet lifestyle, you can subscribe to his blog to get more great tips on making money online.



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PostHeaderIcon How To Make Money with Facebook Ads

My good friend Ian Fernando (you can see him and I launching rockets at Shoemoney here) has opened the virtual doors to his new Infinite FB online course. The course focuses on Facebook Ads and how you can become a strong marketer by simply advertising your business or affiliate offers on Facebook.

Ian has been making money with Facebook Ads since it open, and along with Volk, Shoe and DK, the person I turn to when I need help with any Facebook stuff.

The past couple days Ian has been giving great strategies on Facebook advertising. Today, he has a simple video talking about the main benefits of Facebook and what you will receive within Infinite FB and what to expect. The best part is he gives you a quick sneak peak at the backend of Infinite FB. Almost like a tease, but it does look sexy.

Facebook advertising is gaining in popularity and after watching Ian’s video series, you can tell he knows what he is talking about. Enjoy!

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PostHeaderIcon New Poll Question – Do You Use Video On Your Blog?

Do you use videos on your blog? If so, then add yourself to the poll. If not, then add yourself to the poll as well. I’m interested to know how much of my readership is taken advantage of video blogging. I use video a lot in my blog. From the weekly Dot Com Pho episodes to videoing the crazy fun at the various trade shows, video can get you message across far more effectively than plain text. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much is a video worth?

If you are running videos on your blog, I’ll be interested in knowing what video blogging gears you’re running. Please let me know in the comments. I use a Canon SD980 digital camera and a Canon HFS100 AVCHD camcorder for my video work. iMovie 09 does all the processing, including uploading to YouTube.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.



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PostHeaderIcon 17 Signs Why You Need a Break From Blogging

Blogging is one heck of an enjoying activity. Whether it be on a personal level or from a business standpoint (I’d like to call it “entrepreneurship” because its cooler), blogging can make yourself get tied in it. Most people eventually marry it (look at Mr.Rowse) while some are currently on an “MU” situation.

The main problem with blogging I believe is that once you enjoy it, it can become your whole world. Aside from that, it can burn you out, it can make you stop watching South Park, it can give you appetite problems, makes you intoxicated with caffeine, and a whole lot more, you name ‘em!

But how do I know I need to stop and take a rest in it once in a while? Well fear no more! I compiled a definitive guide on 17 signs on why you must need to take a break from blogging. Some of them do have a comprehensive (ehem) explanation, most of them do not have Here it goes:

  1. You can’t spell cheezburger cheeseburger properly? – Blogging is cool, it can be improve the heck out of your grammar but it does have a lot of freedom that sometimes it makes you susceptible to commit stupidly wrong spellings! Come on! Even before we reach 15, we should have been able to spell all words correctly.
  2. You printed out your own copy of the blogging dictionary – in these modern days, we started having all sorts of dictionary for various topics like dictionary for idioms, medical dictionary, taboo terms dictionary, but heck blogging dictionary? geez!
  3. You’re constantly looking for the keys S, E, O in your piano.
  4. You’re with your friend talking and sharing great stories with each other. You started scratching your head though because you couldn’t find a digg, likethis or retweet button.
  5. You’re hands are trembling – on a serious note, since blogging is all about typing, you may want to take proper care of your hands. Make sure you give them proper rests and not overstress your fingers that much. I usually get the flak ( or praise depending on who u are) of masturbating too much just because my hands are trembling so bad when taking pictures. You may not want to experience that experience from me.
  6. You’re neighbor thinks you’re insane because you’re talking alone – this oftentimes happen when you don’t type but use one of those speech to text software that sounds like dragon or you interview someone over at Skype. Either way its a clear indication to stop or at least speak in a more lighter voice.
  7. You use the target =”_blank” in your application form. After filling up the character reference, you remembered that you need that detail to open in a new window so it can be more convenient to the HR to scan it.
  8. You get into the zoo and you’re frustrated to see that graywolf, web guerilla and randfish exhibits are closed.
  9. Your mother/father leaves you a note on 30 things to get done over the course of a month. You feel pissed off because you’re tired of numbered list.
  10. You’re watching a baseball game and you saw an advertisement from a sponsor. Immediately you wondered whether the link is nofollow or not.
  11. You think Shoemoney is the son of Mr.Clean.
  12. You received a mail from someone you don’t know and you immediately trash it. You thought it was spam.
  13. You setup a blog for your daughter or you encourage your friends to start a make money online blog. – Geez! I’m guilty with this. But then when you start talking about blogging outside your own blogging, that’s a good indication that a break is imminent
  14. Someone whom you give a gift way back gave you a gift in your birthday. You didn’t accept it because you realized Google frowns at reciprocal linking.
  15. While attending the customary Sunday mass, you were listening to the sermon and thought it was a good article with good keyword density. Aside from that, you were sure that it will rank high in search engines. tsk.tsk..
  16. You’re obsessively and compulsively thinking of this guy and that guy.
  17. You laugh at anything included in this list.

There ya go. If you’re doing any of those 17 things I listed, then you’re in serious trouble. From a personal experience yes I do most of this, if not all and that’s attributed to my pure adoration with blogging. Obviously the rule “anything excessive is bad” applies.

On a more serious note (I used that phrase again!), everyone should have a fair break on doing blogging. I know guys like Darren Rowse and Melvin Dichoso (who the f is the latter one?) spend like 8+ hours a day blogging but do take note that they are doing blogging as a living. If it doesn’t work out for them then they’re poor so their challenge is to make it work.

Most people who work at home (aka online entrepreneurs) do use a blog as a communication medium. That being said, blogging is just a tool. Yes, just a tool that is used to leverage an audience and eventually make them buy your sh*t. And if we spend more time on things that have a lesser importance, we get burned out quickly and we do not maximize our productivity by spending time on the more important part.

Also it can have a bad impact on the other things. For example if you’re a parent, or maybe a busy stupid student. Its always good to ask questions like “Am I neglecting something that’s more important?” “What are the cons of me doing this a lot?” Re-evaluating simple things will help you to have much clearer perspective on whether it’s harming you more than benefiting you.

As I end this article, I don’t really have the magic bullet on how to spend time properly or how much to spend time. These are all things that you should be aware with. If you feel you’re overspending and you need that break, don’t hesitate, take it! Whaddaya think?

Melvin Dichoso is an internet marketer and blogger who is that damn good. He blogs at MelvinBlog Dot Com where he shares his two cents on the industry. Don’t forget to become a fan of his blog in Facebook.



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PostHeaderIcon How to Be a Celebrity in the 21st Century

Johnchow.com teaches others about blogging and making money, which begs the question, “Why do I care about being a celebrity?” Reason is because celebrities make more money than anyone and blogging and other online tools help make this possible.

Celebrities like Shakira, Tiger Woods and Julia Roberts are all A-list mainstream celebrities who earn hundreds of millions of dollars from being the best in their industry and from endorsing other companies who want to associate their brands with them. So is it possible for the ordinary, everyday person to reach this type of celebrity stardom? Probably not.

What certainly is possible though is for you to be seen as a celebrity within a small niche and have a loyal following. You may not make as much money as the A-list celebs but you can certainly make a few million if you’re really savvy. The goal here is to be top of mind for everyone interested in your particular niche. You want to be the best source of information for the goals your readers are trying to achieve. If this means giving away some valuable information on a blog or other type of social media site, give it away. Think of it as a necessary marketing expense to create more exposure around your brand.

In addition to being a great source of information to people that follow you, the other part to being a 21st century celebrity is accessibility and being approachable to your most loyal fans. Top social networks give you the ability to join fan pages to get updates or follow tweets from leaders in your industry 24 hours a day 7 days a week. With this much exposure people feel as if they have a personal relationship with the people they follow, although they have never met. This bond that social media has created is what allows ordinary individuals to be rockstars even in the tinniest of niches whose followers could be spread across the world.

People that come to mind that are masters of their niches are:

  • Keith Ferrazzi, teaches people how to build strong relationships
  • Peter Shankman, social media and publicity guru
  • Gary Vaynerchuk, wine guy, mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs and future Jets owner.

and of course John Chow who teaches people how to make money online. Perhaps you haven’t heard of some of these names and the reason is because these are very defined niches. Every niche from cooking to pet trainers has its own celebrities and if you share quality content and are accessible to people that want to follow your work you can also be a 21st Century Celebrity.

For more business ideas see Adrian’s free ebook “Sharing Business Ideas”.



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PostHeaderIcon Dot Com Pho – Farewell Vancouver Edition

Today was my last Dot Com Pho in Vancouver and everyone came out to see me off and wish me luck. We took up two tables at Happy Pho on Main and King Edward. Even Sally Chow made it out to the final Pho. Well, it’s not really the final Pho. I’m sure Dot Com Pho will continue in Vancouver without me and I’ll be back at least once a month to see how everyone is doing.

For this farewell Vancouver edition, we have how the new generation kids give you the finger, reminisce over old kids’ shows and how they would be considered sex offenders today, sing the Sesame Street jingle and learn about Josh Rimer’s famous brother who dances around in spandex tights!



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