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Making money blogging is not all about advertising or affiliate marketing. If you can sell your own product or have the resell rights of an existing product, you start making much more money.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Feb 13, 2008 in Blog | 6 comments
I am very pleased to inform you that i have just launched Search For Blogging Forum. You can check and register the forum at www.searchforblogging.com/forum
The idea came from Yagiz Nizipli whom i introduced you with this post in Jan 2008: New Kid On the Search For Blogging. Yagiz did a great job and installed the forum to my blog successfully.
Search For Blogging Forum is aimed at those interested in Blogging, Small Business Blogging, and Making Money by Blogging. The forum will let us go into detail about the blog posts published at www.searchforblogging.com. Also it will provide you an opportunity to introduce your business and blog to Search For Blogging community.
I will add new sections to the forum regularly. Knowledge grows when it is shared. I will be grateful if you contribute to this forum and direct your questions to me.
I hope this forum will add significant value to your blogging. Enjoy it!
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Nov 29, 2007 in Blog | 5 comments
A new free report has been released today. It is called the The Attention Age Doctrine and it’s by Rich Schefren.
Rich teaches about successful business with his coaching program. I found his report on Web 2.0 Marketing quite informative. It is good food for thought indeed. I am quite motivated on blogging after reading the report.
What is Web 2.0?
The report gives us the essentials of Web 2.0 Marketing. Have you ever wondered what Web 2.0 is ? Let’s have a look at what Wiki says for it:
“Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.”
I guess it is more clear now. Web 2.0 is all the great tools we have online now to communicate and collaborate with people; like Facebook, Digg, Stumble Upon, and blogs and blogging platforms of course!

What it in it for me?
The report talks about the importance of social communities and how businesses have to deal with them in a better way to be successful in the new Web 2.0 era.
Report also mentions that people are changing their attitude towards who they trust. The number one trusted source now is people just like you. This can be a trusted blogger in our case.
As bloggers, we all should aim to be viewed as a “trusted friend” by our readers, which is why this report and Web 2.0 Marketing is important for us.
Rich says that if you can establish your blog as a leader or even just build a small readership, you will have lots of options for making money. Cool!
Download the Report
I strongly suggest you to download the report. It will take a few minutes of you, yet you will feel yourself happy after reading it as a blogger. You may realize that why you need to be on top of Web 2.0 as soon as possible. Also you will learn the tactics and strategies on how you can do this.
Click here to download the report: Web 2.0 Marketing
I certainly agree with what Rich says. We all should learn how to survive in Web 2.0 world. This is essential for ultimate success in making money blogging.
What do you think? Knowledge grows when it is shared. I will be pleased to receive your comments after reading the report.
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