Blogs are certainly changing and morphing into more than just little niche sites built for the sole purpose of promoting that new clickbank product launch everyone was raving about 10 seconds ago.

Although there is still plenty of opportunity to make money online, with blogs like ViperChill,Copyblogger,Problogger,Friday Traffic Report and many others of that caliber going above and beyond the call of duty to bring quality content to their readers, little posts like: “12 Ways To Build A List Using A Paperclip and a Cork Screw just don’t cut it anymore.

That’s not to say that a valuable list of resources and tips are not useful, but humans being the fickle and habitual creatures they are want more opinionated content thanks to social media.

To me this just means that in order to truly capture the interest of a particular market and develop a strong following, you now almost definitely have to become a better blogger, reporter and all around better writer.

Fortunately with blogs like the ones mentioned above you can get an idea as to how to do this without losing track of what the purpose of your blog is.

While I like to source for content from a variety of sites in and out of the internet marketing space, the purpose of this blog is not to become the next Tech Crunch or Mashable and to be quite honest with you to even make an attempt to become like them would take away from the focus of what NonStopMarketer is about which is internet marketing.

However it’s become more important to inject your personal views and opinions in regards to the news happening in your industry if you truly want to connect with your audience.

One thing I’ve noticed for sure and I’m sure you have to and that is… you don’t see too many ‘make money online blogs’ anymore.

It seems as though the proliferation of these sites that at one point seemed to flood the internet marketing space have fizzled out due to what has become a more jaded audience thanks to the cycle of scams and crappy products that were getting launched every three seconds on clickbank and the millions of feeder sites that were created simply to get backlinks without offering any real value.

Then of course you have your ‘honest reviews’ which left a lot to be desired on the ‘honest’ part and scantily clad on the review end as well.

Yeah, it’s true, you can’t buy every product on the market and review it, but doggone it, buy it and get a refund if you have to, if you’re going to give an honest review then buy it and give an honest and objective review.

What’s more important… the commission or the following? Which one will pay more handsomely in the long run?

I’d rather forego the commission and build trust with my readers than burn them for a one shot deal that most likely will result in a refund anyway.

As I’ve learned from Jim Cockrum the author of Silent Sales Machines, the chances of creating a ‘real’ business online are slim to none if you don’t have an audience and this is what separates the big time bloggers from your typical ‘make money online’ marketers.

What do you think? Leave a comment…

Oh, The Trials and Tribulations…

At one point like a lot of people,  I used to struggle with trying to find content to deliver to my blog readers and email subscribers. It almost felt as if everything I wanted to say had already been said and any new idea I had was redundant.

Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever felt like you were just stuck mentally as if there was some kind of invisible barrier that kept you from coming up with new ideas that would be of interest to your readers and subscribers?

A Cup of Joe and NY1

Well this is where I was and it wasn’t until one day while sitting in my living room and watching the NY 1 news channel one morning while drinking a cup of coffee that I suddenly realized that I was making content generation a lot harder for myself than it needed to be.

In addition to that I also had another rather profound relevation that sparked a renewed sense of vigor for what I was doing and trying to accomplish online and I’ll tell you about that in a moment.

But first, let me tell you how NY1 helped me to overcome my struggle with coming up new content on a regular basis and pretty much at will.

Although NY1 is a news channel, it’s only recently that have they started to dispatch reporters to various locations to report live on breaking events. The primary way they have reported the news for a number of years was by gathering information from the major local papers like: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Daily News and Newsday.

“Anybody Could Do That!”

They did not do anything fancy. They simply had a newscaster sit at a desk and read various articles right out of the newspaper! How simple is that? “Anybody could do that”, I thought to myself and the funny thing is that many people in the New York Tri-State area absolutely love NY1.

Why?

Because it brings you the news in a no nonsense, straight to the point way without the fluff. No newscasters making stupid jokes, no waiting to find out what you want to know after the commercial break, none of that. Just the news, straight forward and to the point.

And This Relates To Internet Marketing How?

O.k. so how does the way NY1 reports the news help you?

Well for one, instead of busting your brain to come up with breaking news yourself why not do what they do and tap into the major players in your niche and simply report to your audience what they’re talking about.

No, you don’t have to be on location, or be the first one to break the story, all you have to do is bring that news to your audience and express yourself in your own words.

All you have to do is be… you.

Cool right?

It’s the “be you” part, that will help you to draw an audience that will look forward to your emails or blog posts despite the fact that they could easily read the story somewhere else and probably already have.

The Other Profound Revelation

So here’s the other revelation I had that I mentioned earlier.

Due to the fact that people by nature tend to be overly competitive and think from a position of lack, it’s very easy to think that in order to compete effectively for audience mindshare that you should not allow your readers or subscribers to be exposed to your competitors for fear that they might “jump ship” and unsubscribe from your list or stop reading your blog.

That’s about as ridiculous as thinking that if you are a soda drinker the moment you drink a bottle of water, you’ll never drink soda again.

When the fact is that you’ll continue to consume both depending on the situation and the circumstances.

It’s the same with email marketing and blogging.

If you happen to like a particular writers style you will not quickly abandon it because of something you read somewhere else would you?

If anything you’ll probably continue reading both and adding other content sources to your repertoire as you go along to get the information you need so that you can develop your own style.

The Main Thing

The main thing is to continue finding and posting the best content possible on a regular basis as this will help you to build a following that will come to rely on you for your contribution to their interests.

Pretty interesting stuff right? I tell you, after having that minor epiphany I couldn’t believe how unbelievably difficult I was making things for myself.

What do you think? Does what I shared with you make sense? Is there a suggestion you would like to make on the matter? Please leave your comment below and share your thoughts, experience and ideas…

Ever consider how many blogs there are on the internet? This is a simple trick you can make use of to get a glimpse. Head over to Google and type in the search box “diet blogs”, “make money blogs”, “internet marketing blogs”, etc.

Once you see the results depending on your browser look in the upper left or right hand part of the page and you will see something that looks like this: About 20,300,000 results.

So it stands to reason that if you are thinking about making a blog that attracts readers you have to go beyond the basics to make it stand out among the millions that are being created everyday.

But how do you develop a blog that is more noticeable over the rest of your competition? Even more so how can you achieve this in 10 days?

The first thing that you need to do is find a market that is desperately thirsting for specific information about something. Pay a visit to forums in that market to find out what sort of challenges persons are experiencing. What types of questions are they asking and how often are they asking them?

Visit other blogs that are ranking high in the search engines and have a peek at what they are writing about. Take special notice of the comments that individuals are making in response to the authors posts as this will give you additional insight as to what to create your blog about.

The next step is to start creating articles and posts that tackle the questions that your target market is asking. Create your articles in notepad or store them in microsoft word until you have around 20 of them.

Now you haven’t set up your blog yet, we are merely getting the subject material ready beforehand. Doing it like this will make building it as easy as copy and paste.

The next thing that will seriously take your blog to the next level is to create videos explaining the answers you presented in your articles. Now you will have articles and videos to provide as quality specific content that will add to the stickiness of your blog. Stickiness means that people will stick around longer when they visit your site.

To produce the videos you can use a free video application called Jing which is owned by Techsmith the makers of Camtasia Studio. Your videos will be limited to five minutes, but that is more than enough time to present a quick tip.

By creating your blog this way you will very easily be able to outshine 99% of the competition in your market and get high search rankings because you are delivering specific high quality content.

You will have to give consideration to keyword research to make sure that the individuals who are going to your blog are extremely qualified because this will help you when when the time comes to profit from your blog.

The key to monetizing your blog in a way that is profitable is to sell without selling. Creating a high quality blog like this can be accomplished with free website creation tools, but for the biggest impact and functionality using WordPress is very highly suggested.

With WordPress you can regularly drip feed new content to your readers and schedule your written content over days, weeks, and months to generate an almost hands-off income stream for yourself.

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