You have probably seen the people talking about setting up a mailing list or an autoresponder system for your blog, right? In fact, the I’ve seen every established Internet marketer and blogger say they wish they had started collecting emails immediately when they started out. I mean, every. single. one.
So there must be something to that, right? If you’re offering an email subscription option to your blog via FeedBurner’s RSS to email option, your blog posts will be automatically send to your readers. This is great (I use it too). But what if you want to send special newsletters for your readers and not just the latest posts you put on your blog? Nope, sending the mails manually is not good, so you need a system for it.
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Jan 09, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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I published my blog stats and income report for the year 2009 the other day. I continued my web site traffic analysis based on traffic sources. I sorted my traffic based on three sources: Blog commenting traffic, social media and the search engines. The post lists my traffic sources and the differences on the quality of the traffic based on the referrer.
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2009 was a huge year for me. It was the year I started blogging for real, even that I had been blogging since late 2005. And more importantly, it was the year I started studying SEO, Internet business and affiliate marketing, concepts I had very little knowledge at the beginning of 2009.
I’m not doing Internet business, blogging or marketing, as a primary source of income, so all this is extra for me, which is great. For all this I own HUGE thanks to the 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, the book most are familiar by now.
On April 5th 2009 I placed on order at Amazon.com – DVDs and some books for my wife, H. For some odd reason, I don’t know how, the Amazon magnificent recommendation system showed me the 4HWW while I was placing the order.
I ordered the book, it arrived 2-3 weeks later (takes a while for packages to arrive from US to Finland), and I immediately started reading the book. So this was around beginning of May. In matter of days, I read the book and it changed my life, especially my “online life”.
The World of Warcraft-, EVE Online and XBOX 360 -playing gaming geek suddenly realized he could make some extra cash online. And that’s how I started. On 20th of May, Zemalf.com was born. And here’s how I did traffic- and money-wise.
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E-book, or eBook like I like to type it out, is a great way to publish easily shareable information. eBook is a book readable on personal computers or other devices like mobiles or E-book readers. Easiest way to create and publish an eBook is to convert a document into PDF-file, which can be read with variety of software and devices.
As anyone can write an eBook, it has become a popular method to self-publish a book. Getting a publishing deal for a book is hard, and getting a book printed, delivered and marketed is not only expensive but big effort too. Online, you can write a document, publish it in a downloadable format and you instantly become a published author!
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Jan 02, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Survey is a great way to get feedback and answers from people and here are the results from blogging survey I asked fellow bloggers to answer.
The people who responded this question were gathered from various blogging forums and via Twitter. The results might not be “statistically significant”, but that wasn’t the purpose here, as we do have the mother of all blogging surveys, state of the blogosphere giving detailed data about blogging right now.
The data does show what the 40+ bloggers who answered the survey think about various aspects of blogging, including why they blog, how they promote their blogs, what kind of promotions has worked and what hasn’t. And the advice given in the two open questions near the end gave some great advice for beginning bloggers.
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Dec 28, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Beyond Blogging consists of interviews, stories and case-studies of 15 A-list bloggers, revealing the strategies and work these people have put into their blogs, effectively making their blogging a solid foundation for profitable business.
I think it’s a great book with inspiring stories and the hard work these bloggers have put into their blogs shines through. The writers, Nathan Hangen and Mike Cliffe -Jones have done a great job on finding all the bloggers (each with their own story, each with their own unique abilities), picking their brains and putting it all into this book.
The book is available as both print version (paperback) and downloadable electronic book (eBook) that comes with an additional workbook. Here’s the full review…
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