Comments on: Time Management + Your New Blog = Help!?!

By: david fitzgerald

david fitzgerald — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:58:29 +0000

Understanding the functionality and postetial uses of blogs is a big challenge for the self learner. My searches over 18 months have not yeilded good practical sdudy guides despite several purchases. As for plugins , widgets, tags and pings, SEO and linkbait – enough said!!
The standard advice to outsource to RAC or E-lance is terriffic – provided you know what to specify in the design brief. We’re on phase 6 of development for precicesly that reason and have just gone live after 10 months of work (I,m afraid the site does not look that spectacular at a glance).
So if you guy’s have something useful to release which provides information on setting up and running/organising a WP blog I will certainly but it.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:12:57 +0000

I do all my own blog building. I don’t have the capital to have someone else do it. I am ot at the stage of making enough money to have someone do it for me.

Although I do have a good knowledge of how to do it. And in the future when I have others build them for me I will know if they’re done right.

By: Jack Quinnett

Jack Quinnett — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:11:37 +0000

1) Yes I have a blog, but have not done much with it.
2) Maybe a book would help
3) I want to be the person getting paid $999 to set up the blog!

By: Jim Conrad

Jim Conrad — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:43:33 +0000

YES, I’ve doped out a few things I have yet to see anyone address (yet are surprisingly basic things!):

I see frequent reference to “hosted blog(s),” “hosting for your blog,” etc. Does this mean that only hosted blogs (as distinguished from free) are suitable for monetization?

If so, for what reason(s)?

Isn’t the point of blogs to escape the expense of conventional, hosted websites (& benefit from the user-friendly simplicity)?

Does magnitude of subscription to your RSS feed “count” in AdSense’s eyes where your traffic is concerned? Or does RSS, by delivering your post, actually “discourage” visiting your site (making RSS counterproductive where valuable page visits/traffic concerned)?

I see use of autoresponder opt-ins (AWeber) on WordPress blogs; any way to use one-off survey forms from 3rd-party developers on a free WP blog?

Have been assured virtually everything on WP blog can be stripped off, incl timestamps, but haven’t found this to be true. Again, is this a function only of hosted blogs?

Etc; THANKS for everything – you guys rule!

By: J Arthur Davis

J Arthur Davis — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:07:39 +0000

I have a blog. (www.artreproservices.com/blog)The problem I find is not having enough time to keep it up to date. I have several 100 pieces of content for it and would like to find some automated way to add content on a regular basis, then come back and add some personal information when I get a chance.

Blogs are easy to setup, but keeping them current is a real time consuming task.

By: Bob Marconi

Bob Marconi — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:44:35 +0000

Here are my answers:

* Do you have a blog yet? Yes, but I only know the basics of set up.

* Do you think an ebook about how to set up your blog in just a few minutes would be helpful to you? Yes but help from someone ‘live’ would be more helpful!

* Or would you rather just find someone who can put the blog up for you? Well, this could work, if you knew who to trust!

Thanks,
Bob

By: ken

ken — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:35:25 +0000

i’d love to find someone to install plugins, make sure they work, also someone that could do maintenance on the site on a regular basis. a go-to blog tech person.

By: Parvaid

Parvaid — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:52:04 +0000

Mark,

Hi!

We have several (WordPress) blogs, and they’re easy enough to set up.

What takes the time is installing and configuring the plug-ins that we like to use, and then, of course, finding the time to post to these various blogs amongst all of the other business activities that we undertake.

What would be good would be info on how to monetise blogs without using AdSense.

Thanks,

Mark.

By: Juliet Johnson

Juliet Johnson — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:39:45 +0000

YES! What I want is a template – i can change the colors, add in photos and videos and then all I have to do is write. Quite happy to write all the content… but the links, the autoresponders, the click/link/back/tags whatever… I’m struggling mightily. I can’t do KickStartCart, I’m lost with Clickbank, aWeber feels like a foreign language and…Paypal? Well it was fine for eBay!

NO MORE BOOKS, videos, teleseminars, just do it for me. If those other tools were gonna work for me, I’d be doing it already. Some people just aren’t wired for technology.

By: Vic

Vic — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:08:22 +0000

Mark, I’ve no blog yet but will launch one soon (B2C).

Your e-books on this subject are great, I’ve read them twice already. It’s very easy now, thank you.

Using your advice I’m sure I can put up an optimized blog within an hour or so. In my opinion there is no need to have programmer to put up a blog and besides, it takes more time to explain preferences and get them to understand it’s not about looks but about conversion.

However, I’ve another question on blogs. I’ve original, fresh content I like to publish on other blogs to get more traffic to my squeeze pages.

I would love to get your insights and advice on how to get bloggers to post my stuff for free on their blogs.