Being in the business of blogging for a few years now, one might already tend to think having all the skills and knowledge required to run an online business successfully. However, truth is, of course, that there's always something better and there's always information that is useful out there. And you can learn a lot from other professionals or experts in the industry who are also slugging it out in the real world of Internet marketing, making a good living or making a killing off of the Net.

In a way that's what we do here on Performancing. In our aim to help fellow bloggers achieve their goals in blogging, we share our stories and insights. So we help bloggers succeed by sharing our collective intelligence.

But we're always on the lookout for other good resources out there, both free and otherwise. One such resource is Internet Marketing Ninjas, which is a collection of videos from various experts in the field of online marketing. These include search engine optimization, social media marketing, link building, authority building, networking, website monetization, affiliate programs, and the like.

The site also includes various topics that will help publishers develop good content, and the various means to distribute these, as well as other issues like legal and copyright matters.

The video contributions are either direct presentations or interviews from the various internet marketing pros, some of which are familiar to us here in the Performancing community and the blogging community in general, such as Aaron Wall, ShoeMoney and Neil Patel.

These are all viewable directly on the Internet Marketing Ninjas site (assuming your browser has a working Flash plugin, which is to say perhaps 90+% of users). And because it's Flash, viewers need not worry about downloading the video file and finding the right codec or application to view, aside from the Flash plugin.

A drawback, though, is that Internet Marketing Ninjas is not a free resource. One has to pay a $2,995 annual subscription/membership fee to gain access to the full video content, and also the website content. So it's not a one-time purchase, but a subscription. This means throughout the year you will have access to videos, and that Internet Marketing Ninjas can still add new videos and resources. To me it's like joining into a club or a professional guild, where members can discuss the industry, exchange ideas about their respective trades, and help each other out.

Still, people interested in joining up can watch sample videos of each contributor, which shows a short introduction of how their respective presentations and interviews are. Also, the $2,995 annual fee is perhaps a small price to pay if you are able to enhance your earnings from the lessons learned from the videos and site content. That equates to just about $250 per month. Or, the $2,995 is perhaps just a fraction of what one usually earns from his/her Internet marketing activities, which is not a far cry from what good blogs and networks of blogs earn these days.

Also, one big bonus is the inclusion of the Private Ninja SEO Toolbox for free! I think even this toolbox alone is worth the subscription fee, considering the high a price of SEO consultations and software these days. The toolbox includes applications like analytics tools, page optimization tools, backlink checkers, outgoing/inbound links checkers, keyword density reports, and the like. One great tool I find interesting is the Page Interlinker, which will automatically inter-link all your site pages by keyword, just like how info pages are hyperlinked on WikiPedia.

Would I recommend joining Internet Marketing Ninjas? If you're starting out and you need a one-stop resource for running your online business, and if you have the funds, then go for it. If you're already an established Internet marketeer, then this could be a good refresher resource (and the price is probably just a drop in the ocean for you). Again, as previously mentioned, even the SEO toolbox alone is worth the annual subscription fee.

It's probably not for everyone, but if you're serious with improving your online earnings, then such good resources of information and tips would be a big boost to your business. Check out the samples and the topics first, and see if the wide array of topics discussed is of interest to you.

This is a sponsored review, written upon the request of Internet Marketing Ninjas.

If you've never heard of Facebook, it's time to get your head out of the sand. Facebook is a networking site that has over 24 million active viewers. That's 24 million people who go on that site a day. That's 24 million people you could be offering your product or service too.

If you have joined, great. I hope you're not one of those people who have the fun wall, and other unprofessional things. If you are, you might want to think about having a personal account and having a business account. I know that Facebook frowns on this, but really you need to make sure you stay professional. Do you really want your potential employer to see you drunk with a cigarette at the latest club? Or even worse a picture of you doing drugs? You may cringe, but people are doing this on Facebook everyday, and using their real names.

Potential employers and clients, ones who are savvy, do punch in your name on Google or Facebook to see what they find. Wouldn't you rather have your business profile show up?

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Have you ever had one of your ideas 'stolen' and used by someone else soon after you shared them in a public setting? If yes, you'll know the frustration and anger that accompanies such a case. It could have been when you were in school and someone else stood up and took the credit for your work, or in a professional setting where a colleague took your idea and ran with it (and thus took the credit).

It's always about 'the credit', isn't it?

Experience tells us to keep our best ideas to ourselves - why give away the store when you can profit from it in the future, right?

The only problem with this approach - the hoarding approach - is that we don't always have the time to work on all of our ideas. And that means that for every project that we work on, 20+ others go undone, because of a lack of time. So at this point, we're at a cross-roads - you don't want to share freely because those are your ideas but you also don't have the time to work on them.

I don't believe in giving it all away for free - sure, to some it may sound noble but in terms of value you know that your ideas are worth something, and in most cases, worth more than the goodwill that will be generated from giving them away for free.

An acceptable alternative may be to develop your ideas and then distribute them, for a price. For example, think of Private Label Rights (PLR) products. In theory, PLR products are components of a ready-made business that you can take, personalise and get started with almost immediately (a good example of this would be the PLR articles provided by PLRPro).

Depending on the time available to you, you could develop your ideas to the point of a short 10-page report ($7 value or even free), into a 50-100 page ebook ($19-$49 or again free), into full-fledged running blog (which you can then sell to make a nice profit) or anywhere in between.

Let's say that I want to get into the self-help niche but don't have time for it. So what do I do?

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