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Three Ways That Political Campaigning Taught Me To Be A Better Blogger

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by Phil Van Treuren @KillerCampaigns

I was a professional political consultant for several years, but had never run for office myself until this year. I was successful in winning a city council seat in Amherst, Ohio, and discovered that being a candidate is much harder than being a campaign manager.

Surprisingly, there were a few things that I learned on the campaign trail that actually helped me become a better blogger. At their core, blogging and campaigning are both about defining your target audience and effectively communicating your message to them. Here are three successful methods that I used as a political candidate that I’ve also used to improve my blogging.

1. Take time to lay the groundwork, and work incrementally

In order to put together a successful political campaign, there are many things that need to be done to lay the groundwork for victory on election night. Building potential donor and volunteer lists, studying voter results from past election cycles, and formulating your campaign message are only a few of the tasks that should be complete before you announce your candidacy.

Laying the groundwork for a successful blog is every bit as important. Researching your niche, writing anchor articles, choosing the proper site layout and studying other similar blogs can help make eventual success much more likely.

Additionally, don’t think that success as a blogger will come overnight . . . or even after several months. Instead, take on blogging incrementally, much as I did with campaigning. I set myself small goals, such as knocking on every door in a given precinct or filling out a certain number of personal cards each night.

You can set similar incremental benchmarks for your blog when it comes to posting, visitors and subscribers.

2. Make sure your presentation reflects your professionalism

You might be a trustworthy, well-educated authority in your field, but people aren’t going to know that unless you present yourself to them in a way that reflects your professionalism. This goes for running for office and blogging, too.

On the campaign trail, I made sure that I was prepared with professionally printed campaign materials that explained my qualifications for office, and educated myself on the issues so that I could intelligently answer any questions the voters might have for me.

Similarly, you have to keep in mind that as a blogger, you’ll only get one chance to make a first impression with a new visitor. Make sure that your blog projects an accurate image of how seriously you take it. It doesn’t take much technical expertise anymore to put together a sharp-looking blog, and new readers are much more likely to bookmark for a return trip if they are impressed with your presentation.

3. Don’t stray from your message

A campaign without a well-focused message is often unable to gain traction with voters, just as a blog without a well-focused message won’t get many subscribers or repeat visitors.

While it’s your prerogative to focus on whatever you want in your posts, you’ll find a much more receptive and interactive audience if you limit yourself to a specific niche. No one likes to read a blog about nothing. By focusing on a topic that you are passionate and educated about, you’ll quickly build an audience that appreciates your authenticity.

Don’t be afraid to stray from your blog’s main focus and have some fun every now and then, but always keep in mind what your audience wants to learn about. The same can be said for campaigning, as well!

Phil Van Treuren blogs about political campaign advice on Killer Campaigning.

15 Tips to Unclog Your Blog : Breaking Blogger’s Block

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Edward Khoo is a full time blogger from Malaysia. You can follow him on twitter at @squall768

The phenomenon of blogs has caught on, in case you hadn’t noticed. In just a few years, bloggers went from the unknown, unread, poor cousins of mainstream media to a powerful force that help shape everything from political policies to better eating habits.

However, keeping your blog fresh takes dedication, drive and hard work. It’s something you should do regularly and think about often as you drive around town. Here are some tips to keep you motivated, writing and posting. After all, your blog is important. It’s your little piece of the W3 landscape so take ownership and use it to spread your message.

1. Create a blog on a topic about which you have a passion or genuine interest.
It’s much easier writing about topics that actually interest you. So, if you’re interested in politics on a global scale, create a political blog that covers topics of interest to like-minded readers.

Writing about a topic that interests you is not a work. It feeds your natural, innate curiosity. You learn more as you teach others what you’ve learned.

2. Set aside a time each day to write your posts.
Schedule an hour a day (or more if you really want the world to read what you have to say) and stick to the schedule. Instead of turning on the TV after dinner, write a 500-word post for tomorrow.

If you opt to write when the spirit moves you, it may never move you and you may never post. There are thousands of dusty old blogs out there with posts that are five years old. Nobody is going to read that.

3. Visit blogs on the same topic as your blog.
You can’t copyright an idea. You can’t own an idea. So, visit blogs that cover topics similar to your own.

Now, you can’t (and shouldn’t) rip off content from other bloggers. That’s just bad form. But you will find topics you hadn’t thought of. Spin these articles to make them your own. Rewrite them from a different point of view. Reference other blogs and even link to them when the topic is related.

Blogging is a big part of web connectivity. Use it to discover people who share your interests, whatever they may be.

4. Take your blog seriously.
Think of it as a job – one wherein you’re the boss. No editor. You’re the editor. Post at least twice a week. Three times weekly is even better and daily is the best. Visitors to your blog will stop coming by if they see the same content each time they visit.

This ties back to point number one. If you have an interest or expertise about which you’re passionate, posting daily won’t be a chore. It’ll be fun. As you learn more about your topic, you’ll enjoy spreading the news.

5. Google the topic of your blog.
There are always new trends, new opinions, new concepts and new ideas available on the W3. Google keywords related to the topicality of your blog for new ideas and new topics about which to write.

6. Provide helpful information.
Even though it’s your blog – your digital real estate, your blog isn’t about you. It’s about your readers. Provide helpful information in your posts and you’ll soon start to build a following.

7. Keep your gadgets and widgets fresh.
There will be days when you just don’t have time to write a lengthy post on your passion for ceramics. However, you can post tips daily in your widget column. (See the miniblog on top of Adesblog? That’s what I am talking about!) Update these posts with quick tips. They’re only a few words and the tips you provide in your widget column will keep readers coming back. Read more »

Ad-Networks and Transparency

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This is a guest-post from Olesya Zinovieva, you can follow her on Twitter at @olesya_zinovief

Main advantage of Online Advertising before traditional media is its ability to measure the users’ response and provide transparent reports for both advertisers and publishers. Having technology as the strongest benefit of online media ad networks often fails to deliver accurate reports due to discrepancy issues in ad measuring and tracking.

To solve this problem in 2003 a global consortium of leading bodies within the advertising agency, advertiser, media and research disciplines started the process of development of both the US and Global Guidelines. These guidelines were created to address long-standing marketer and agency concerns about the need for a standardized method of measuring Interactive advertising and a certification of those counts. Headed by IAB, other industry groups like AAAA, the ANA, the ARF, MRC, and others have all played an integral role in creation, adoption and further implementation of these Guidelines, which are constantly being updated along the technology progress and online media growth.

“All of the guidelines offer a detailed definition for counting an online ad impression, the primary currency of the Interactive medium, which is a critical component in establishing consistent and accurate online advertising measurements across publishers and ad serving technologies in the US and around the world. The guidelines address long-standing marketer and agency concerns about the need for a standardized method of measuring Interactive advertising. By simplifying the buying and selling process for advertisers, marketers and publishers, these guidelines are intended to hasten the growth of Internet advertising spending.” (www.iab.net).

With the growth of number of ad networks today it has become a necessity be certified compliant with the guidelines in serving and measuring ads. Other essential requirements may also include disaster recovery system, behavioral/activity-based filtering and the reporting of the time at which data is considered final, as well as publisher support system. Standardizing ad serving and ad tracking systems indeed makes it easier for advertisers, agencies and publishers to provide transparency to the performance of their campaigns, which in its turn hastens their selling process as well as the growth of Internet advertising spending as a whole.

Which ad-networks are compliant with IAB guidelines?

Here are some of them: 24/7 Real Media, AOL, Atlas Media Console, Burst Media’s AdConductor, CNET Networks, DoubleClick, Eyeblaster, Forbes.com, Google, Mediaplex, Microsoft, Turner Digital Media Technologies, Walt Disney Internet Group, Yahoo!, OpenX x, etc.

How about Asian Ad-Networks?

Being one of the biggest ad networks in Asia, Innity is preparing for the BPA Worldwide ad server system certification. BPA Worldwide’s ad serving system complies with all Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) guidelines and provides additional systems verification that goes above and beyond the IAB requirements.

Most of ad-networks mentioned above operate worldwide but they do not fully cover Asia, which actually comprises the biggest Internet population of the world and yet has a huge potential as at present it includes only 18.5% of the total Asia population. According to Internet World Stats out of 6.8 billion world population 1.7 billion are already Internet users, which indicates 362.3 % growth from 2000 to 2009.

At the same time out of 3.8 billion of ASIA population 704.2 million people are already Internet users and it shows 516.1 % Internet usage growth over the same period. Though number of ad networks in Asia is still much lower than in the US or Europe it is growing rapidly and there is a strong demand for accuracy and transparency of ad serving and counting mechanisms. Besides promoting credibility of the ad serving and tracking system within the market, third party certification also gives a greater confidence to advertiser and publisher clients in the reporting data provided by ad networks.

Get More Subscribers for Your Blog and for Your Ego

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This is a guest post by Alex Atti of www.blogarish.com

After spending some time working on his website, every blogger will eventually realize that the success of a blog cannot be measured in daily visitors, but in subscribers; not in casual readers, but in readers that are willing to be notified whenever an interesting article is published.

In order to be clearly understood, please let me detail this a little more. Let’s say you are lucky enough to get one of your articles submitted and driven to the front page of Digg.com. You get a massive amount of traffic in a short period of time and, if you are lucky (or cautious) enough and your server does not crash, you will have thousands of page views by the end of the day. But this magical period will soon pass and you will suddenly realize that the most valuable Digg users that have visited your blog are those who are willing to read more of your articles. Those who subscribed.

But the first time visitors do not usually turn into subscribers, unless your blog creates a really good first impression. Here are a few tips you may want to consider if you are willing to get more subscribers to your blog.

1. Write good content.

Of course, this is the first and most important rule you have to follow in order to make people subscribe to your blog. Even if you are lucky enough to make a few visitors subscribe, they will soon remove your blog from their feed reader if your articles are not appreciated. I’m sure that, by now, you are totally aware of the fact that you have to do your best when writing a post. Stick to this rule and you will soon be satisfied with the results.

2. Make it visible.

When landing on a website for the first time, almost no one will be willing to search for the place where the new visitors can subscribe. Make sure that the link to your RSS feed can be easily seen by everyone who visits your blog. In order to do this, you can use a nice, attracting picture, instead of just using the boring “Subscribe in a reader” model. Another good idea to drive attention towards your feed is to add a polite reminder at the end of every post.

3. Ask your readers to subscribe.

As I’ve just said, you have to make your readers aware of the fact that they can easily subscribe to your feed. Don’t just think that if you have put a nice image that’s linking to your RSS feed in the corner of your blog, the visitors will start subscribing. You have to make them feel like they are really wanted and really important for you. Explain to your readers that their subscriptions represent an important part of your blog and of your work and this is how they can help your blog. This way, any subscriber will feel like he is a mini-contributor to the success of your blog.

4. Offer privileges to subscribers only.

Everyone likes getting free stuff, that is for sure. So why wouldn’t you offer this privilege to your subscribers? The most common prizes for subscribers are eBooks or newsletters. You can try writing a nice eBook based on the topic of your blog and just give it for free to everyone who chooses to stay in touch with your blog. Don’t forget to add links to your blog in the eBook, so that your readers will know where to come back to.

5. Offer email subscription.

There are some blog readers out there that, for certain reasons, have not installed a feed reader on their computers. Some of them are not yet familiar with the concept of “feed reader”, some of them do not have the right to install certain programs on their work or school computers. No matter what the reason may be, you can help them by allowing email subscription. Actually, about 10% of the subscriptions of a regular blog are through email.

6. Offer full RSS feed.

You may think that if you offer your subscribers just the first paragraph of your post, they will become curious and visit your blog. Well, while this is the correct thinking in some situations, many of your subscribers will choose to unsubscribe from your blog, just because of this choice of yours. Therefore, make sure you offer your subscribers full RSS feed.

Maybe most of your subscribers will not get you any material benefit, because they will not visit your blog so often, but they are certainly as important as your regular readers. Make sure you treat them properly and offer them all the privileges they deserve.

How To Start Selling Private Advertisements

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This is a guest-post by Rajaie AlKorani of www.rajaietalks.com. In this post Rajaie discusses how to get private advertisements to your newly launched blog.

Unless your blog brings in thousands of visitors its first day of launching, you’re going to have a pretty tough time attracting new advertisers and filling all those ad spots on your blog. And having eight of them (i.e 125×125 buttons) with “Advertise Here” in bold definitely will not make your life any easier.

To start pumping in the money, you need to provide your sponsors with reasons as to why they should pick your blog from the millions of others. No, they don’t care about your mission or about helping pay your bills. The only thing on their mind is getting the best bang for their buck, and if you can’t help with that, than you’re out of luck.

What if your blog has been bringing in some impressive results for a while which happen to be sky high, and yet the image ads are still empty?

That’s it! When advertisers see all those empty spots, their brains will automatically tell them that - something is wrong with your site! What can you do to get out of this everlasting cycle?

1 - Testimonials
Ask your existing customers for a testimonial. To make your testimonials more credible; include person’s name, the name of the company he/she works for, and the position he/she holds at the company. Also provide a link to their company website and if possible get a picture of them. I’d say that this is the best way to boost your chance of selling anything since it’s real proof given by other people.

2 - Hold A Contest
Everybody likes free stuff, so hold a contest where readers can win free ad spots, this will help fill up the empty spaces. And hopefully they will turn into regular advertisers.

3 - Do A Banner Exchange
Do a banner exchange with someone in your niche, you link to their blog and they link to yours. It is a win-win situation if both of you have empty slots available.

4 - Become An Affiliate
Most websites that sell products have an affiliate program where you earn a percentage of every sale you make. Usually they will provide you with the banners so you’ll have nothing to worry about. So instead of having 8 buttons with “advertise here” word on them, display affiliate banners and make some money at the same time.

5 - Start Exploring
If you have the idea that your sponsors are going to search for you, then think again. It’s your job to hunt down potential sponsors, not theirs. Special promotions and discounts are always welcome ;-)

6 - Be A Nice Guy
Why not just email a friend telling him that you’ve added his site to your “blogroll” or that you’ve given him a free ad spot for the month. This usually pays off in the long run where it helps develop a relationship between you and him.

7 - Don’t Be Irrational
If you just started your blog a couple of days ago, then asking for $500 a paid review isn’t very reasonable. If you want to be taken seriously, then present yourself seriously!

I believe that those are the best ways to start selling private advertisements on your blog. What are some ways you used to sell private advertisements when you first started your blog?

What’s Your Little Something?

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Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

One thing is certain: the Web is literally filled with information. You can find anything from downright foolish advice to gems and, due to the huge volume of information which is always just one click away, Internet users who are interested in becoming online entrepreneurs end up thinking that simply copying a certain method is all there is to it.

Is That Really Enough?

The most important disadvantage which comes as a result of such an approach is the fact that, when you are copying someone, you are unfortunately always one step behind and, naturally, the person who has actually come up with a certain approach will always have an edge.

Let’s assume that you notice a certain product (let’s also assume that a certain event has made it temporarily popular) which is being heavily promoted by affiliates and decide to finally jump in. The problem is that, once you finally decide to jump on board, the niche you are trying to approach is most likely over-saturated and, as if that were not enough, the project you were thinking about promoting has most likely lost quite a bit of momentum.

The same way, if you take any business model and try to copy everything, the market will most likely not react in what one would call a positive manner, and that brings us to the following question:

What Makes You Special?

I have previously explained why copying everything someone else has done is not exactly worthwhile, but that doesn’t mean that you need to reinvent the wheel. There’s nothing wrong with a little inspiration from an existing business model as long as you make it yours, as long as you add your personal touch in a way which makes the product in question stand out.

If there is a certain business model you think would work well as far as you are concerned, you always have to ask yourself how you can improve it, how you can turn it into something special or, if you will, how you can add your very own “signature”.

What’s Your Signature?

How are you able to prove value through each and every project you launch? What exactly are you able to come up with which makes you stand out? You can approach the market with something new or you can improve upon an existing business model, the choice is yours and only yours to make but, all in all, you need to understand that having that little something is definitely a must if you are serious about making it in the long run.

Al in all, you need to be confident in yourself and in your ability to provide value through each and every project. Never limit yourself to simply copying something another person has done, as I am convinced that you have far more potential than that. What about you? What’s that little something you have which makes you special, what are you approaching the Web with?

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson

Sacrifices - Necessary or Useless?

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Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

As I have mentioned last week, having the right priorities in life is definitely a must and family should always come first. I have also explained that a lot of folks choose to simply hide behind all sorts of foolish excuses and try to find all sorts of explanations for the fact that they are unable to find time for their beloved ones.

“But I want to be successful as an online entrepreneur”, you may think. Go for it! “But I will have to make sacrifices, right?” Yes, that is also true. Do you see a contradiction between my “family comes first” statement and the fact that I encourage you to maximize results as online entrepreneurs, even if sacrifices will need to be made? Well, guess what: there is none! And that, my friend, brings us to the following question:

Are All Sacrifices Worth It?

It’s all a matter of seeing things in perspective. There are sacrifices which need to be made and sacrifices which are simply not worth it. So you want to be successful as an online entrepreneur? That’s great and yes, you will have to make more than a few sacrifices.

But, and here’s where it can get tricky: the ability to identify sacrifices which are worth it and stay away from those which are not can make the difference between being an individual who is successful as both a person and an online entrepreneur and being an individual who is successful as an online entrepreneur, yet feels miserable as a person.

What Can Money Buy?

The approach I personally recommend is asking yourself the above question. Can money buy a TV, for example? Definitely, so that sacrificing the time you spend in front of the tube can and will prove to be worth it down the road. The same thing goes for all sorts of other things which may seem important, yet pale compared to the things which actually count as far as the big picture is concerned.

On the other hand, can money buy back the time you could have spent with your beloved ones? I don’t think so! There are sacrifices you can afford to make but anything which has to do with family is not one of them.

The Big Picture

Are you starting to see the big picture? Are you starting to think about the things in your life which actually count? In that case, I am pleased to let you know that you are on the right track and that you have finally understood which sacrifices are worth it and, most importantly, that only being successful as an online entrepreneur is not enough.

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson

Business Priorities vs. Priorities in Life

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Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

A lot of online entrepreneurs who are just starting out get carried away, they end up only seeing one side of life and becoming blind to everything else. You can hear them go on and on about what they want to accomplish as online entrepreneurs, about how much they want to earn per month, per week, per minute and per second.

Becoming Wealthy - Your Only Goal in Life?

And you know what? If you are actually willing to work towards achieving such goals, you will most likely succeed at a certain point. One word of advice though: be careful what you wish for. More than a few online entrepreneurs let money get the best of them and become nothing more than slaves without even realizing it.

Any successful online entrepreneur can confirm: working for money shouldn’t be your most important goal, letting it work for you is what counts. In the end, again: if you work towards achieving your goals, dreams can come true but, down the road, they can also turn into nightmares.

Money as Your Top Priority – You Can’t Be Serious!

Even if you don’t come from a rich family, you can eventually become a millionaire if you do your job right. So what? Do you have any idea how many millionaires out there would trade everything they have in exchange for having a happy family, in exchange for being surrounded by people who love them for who they are and not for what they have?

Take it from a person who has been “around the block” for quite a while: friends come and go, that’s how things work in this world. Personally, I am at a point where I am more than secure financially. But I’ll tell you this much: without my family, everything would be in vain.

Family Comes First - Everything Else Is Just a Bonus

Don’t let yourself become blinded by greed. There are things money can never buy and it’s exactly those things which make life special in the first place. You can be successful as an online entrepreneur without being a notorious workaholic who thinks that he or she only represents a walking paycheck for the family.

That, my friend, is a foolish excuse and nothing more. From now, every time you use “I’m sacrificing the time spent with my family for their sake, so that I make more money and secure a better life for them” as an excuse, why not stop for a moment and think if you aren’t actually hiding behind it out of selfishness?

Do you want to secure a better life for your family? Spend time with them, stop acting like a walking paycheck because, in the end, it’s you they need, not those extra profits you could earn by making such a foolish sacrifice. You can be successful as an online entrepreneur without making sacrifices you will end up regretting down the road. Never lose track of what counts, never lose track of the things which actually make a difference in life. Everything else is just a bonus.

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson

7 Reasons Why Readers Won’t Stick Around

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Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

Do you think that generating traffic is all it takes? You couldn’t be more wrong, convincing visitors to drop by again is simply a must if you are serious about making it in the long run.

Most people seem to have thought of everything, yet have forgotten to try their best in order to convert visitors into loyal readers. If you do your job right as far as website promotion is concerned then yes, you will get people to visit your website, but what happens after that? You may not know it, but most of your potential readers may choose not to stick around, and here’s why:

1) You Make Promises Through Your Title and Don’t Deliver

Yes, a catchy title can “convince” others to check your article out but if you fail to deliver afterwards, you can rest assured that the reader in question will be quite disappointed. Actually, that person leaves and never looks back in most cases, so that it should come as no surprise that readers are not exactly tempted to stick around under such circumstances.

2) You Are Too Aggressive

Sure, you don’t have to lie to readers and tell them that they are perfect but that doesn’t mean that you should start insulting them. You can definitely tell a person that there are certain areas where improvements are in order in a more delicate manner, being too aggressive is not an option.

3) You See Writing as a Chore

If you are not passionate about a certain topic, your readers will definitely pick up on that and the results won’t exactly be worth bragging about. Don’t see writing as a chore and, instead, make sure that your content reflects just how passionate you are about a certain topic.

4) You Assume That Everyone Is an Expert

Just because you are extremely knowledgeable as far as the topic you’re writing about is concerned, it doesn’t mean that each and every one of your readers is. Don’t be afraid to explain certain terms when you think that it is necessary, as a good writer needs to be able to cater to the needs of beginners as well. Otherwise, readers who are not yet experts will leave and that is definitely not an option.

5) You Explain When It Isn’t Necessary

While assuming that each and every reader is an expert is not the way to go, explaining the obvious is not necessary because, if you have such an approach, your entire article will end up being filled with all sorts of explanations and your readers will end up being distracted from what is truly important.

6) You Go Off-Topic Way Too Often

While there is nothing wrong with the occasional off-topic remark, you have to be able to determine when enough is enough. After all, the last thing you need is readers leaving as a result of the fact that you are not able to focus on the topic you are writing about and insist on useless information way too much.

7) You Don’t Remind Them

If you want readers to stick around, why not remind them to subscribe to your newsletter or RSS feed at the end of the article? If you are writing an article series, why not remind them to drop by for the next article? Something as simple as reminding your visitors to stick around can and will make a difference, so why not act accordingly?

If at least one of these reasons sounds familiar, I’m sure you know what you have to do. Identifying what you did wrong is an important first step, but taking things to the next level by acting accordingly is simply a must.

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson

Stop Thinking Like an Employee, Will You?

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Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

As far as more than a few people are concerned, escaping from that 9-5 job they hate so much and earning a living online is something they’ve been dreaming about for longer than they’d care to remember. Well, guess what? That dream can become reality, but:

Your Current Attitude Has Got To Go!

A person who has been an employee for a long time or, in other words, someone who has gotten used to the concept of selling time, inevitably has some flaws which need to be corrected and that person’s attitude is the first thing which needs to change.

If you want to be your own boss, you have to stop thinking like an employee, you have to drop your current attitude. Are you serious about becoming a successful online entrepreneur? Well, in that case, you first have to understand that:

You’re No Longer Selling Your Time

Most folks who have just started out as online entrepreneurs see everything from the “one man show” perspective: I have to do this, I have to do that, I have to worry about this and I have to worry about that. As strange as the thought may initially sound, you actually don’t.

Assuming that you have some kind of a budget (it doesn’t have to be an extremely impressive one ,since the Web makes starting out far easier compared to offline alternatives), you can actually afford to:

Be Selective and Start Delegating

You may be extremely knowledgeable as far as topic x is concerned and, as a result, interested in starting a website about it. But, in order to establish an online presence, you obviously need a website. Does this mean that you should start spending countless hours in order to learn how to design and code? Of course not!

Delegate, let professionals do their job. They will do it faster, they will do it better and, most importantly, they will make it possible for you to concentrate on other tasks. That, my friend, is what being an online entrepreneur is all about. You’re no longer selling your time, so that, as I’m sure you have understood by now, the “one man show” way of thinking has got to go.

What about You?

How do things stand as far as you are concerned? Have you managed to “take care” of the flaws which came as a natural result of being an employee? It’s nothing to be ashamed of, since, let’s face it, something you do for a long time is bound to influence you in one way or another.

While having the flaws I have referred to is perfectly natural, doing something about them is definitely a must if you are serious about being successful on the long run as an online entrepreneur. It’s about time to stop thinking like an employee and start thinking like an entrepreneur, it’s about time to finally understand that you are no longer selling your time and act accordingly. Are you ready for this important step?

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson