7 Easy-to-Miss Tax Deductions for Bloggers
If you’re in the United States, it is officially tax season. With barely two week weeks left to file your return (or file an extension) a lot of freelancers are scrambling to find some last minute deductions that they can claim to reduce their burden. If you’re a blogger, or Read more…
nextMEDIA: How to Make Money and Do It Right
If you want to read more on the sessions that happened at nextMEDIA, check out BrandingDavid.com, where there is a full index of the posts surrounding the event. Marina Mann is an independent digital Marketing consultant specializing in e-Commerce and building online businesses. Marina has 11 years experience producing and Read more…
The “King Of The Hill” Approach To Maintaining Authority
One strategy (intentional or not) that I’ve noticed coming out of established and powerful blogs is to speak dismissively and/or condescendingly about posts on lesser blogs. Take this recent post from The Truth About Cars where the author takes a two pronged approach. He ridicules the content of the post Read more…
Making Money Online BWE Panel Notes
BloggingBasics101 attended the recently concluded BlogWorldExpo which featured a panel on Making Money Online With A Blog. The post describes some of the advice given by Brian Clark, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Shoemaker, Zac Johnson, and John Chow. One tidbit of information that I thought was interesting: Each of the men Read more…
5 Ways To Make Money Without Ads
When you ask someone how they plan to monetize something, generally the answer has something to do with advertising. However, there are plenty of ways to make an income without ever placing an ad on your blog. This post will highlight at least 5 of those methods. 1. Make Yourself Read more…
The Weekly Buzz: 100th Hive Member, Writer’s Block, and Money Makers
The Hive, a Performancing project, was created to provide a community for those looking to increase the performance of their blog and network with the pro’s. Well, the professionals are buzzing around, and even I am learning stuff from the other members. The Hive still continues to grow, and there Read more…
Alexa Rankings Go Through Major Shift
Anyone else notice that Alexa rankings shifted around BIG TIME? I did. And you know what? I think the new algorithm they are using does a much better job of capturing actual traffic volume across niches. Whereas in the past Alexa has been heavily weighted towards Tech and Internet niches Read more…
Make Money from Free Content
You might have seen on my blog I give away a free ebook. A few people have asked me lately why I continue to give away free information when I could be selling it. The fact is without free information nobody would know me to buy paid information. We have Read more…
