You think you want to try blogging as a way to make money, but aren’t sure what the first step is? Lucky you found this post!
The absolute first step in starting a blog is to pick your niche. Before keyword research, before getting a domain name, before picking a blogging platform, before anything [...]

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How many times have you heard that good grammar and spelling are essential to success online? Well, it’s true, your spelling and grammar should be reasonably good to make money blogging. But you can profit from other people’s bad spelling and grammar.
This idea isn’t new, but it’s worth talking about because it shows [...]

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A while back I wrote a post about the various paid to read programs, and someone asked how much you really could make with them. I promised a case study, and that’s in progress, but in the meantime I thought I’d give you a step by step guide to making your first $30 at Inbox [...]

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Some major and minor site updates.
Categories
I finally took the plunge and reworked my categories to be more manageable. One goal was to have a smaller category list for the sidebar. Another was to limit posts to being in only one category, for search engine optimization purposes. So I’ll put posts in the [...]

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Entertainment 4 Less (E4L) is an MLM in the prelaunch phase.
A pretty common tactic in a prelaunch phase is to offer heavily discounted memberships. E4L took this tactic to the extreme, offering free lifetime memberships. The reason an MLM company does this is to build a large base of members. It’d be [...]

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