In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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You are the most powerful force called in your business and are you really equipped to make a huge success of it? Many business owners like you sometimes fail to use effective means to increase their sales and make money. Your business is there to make money, you have to guide it towards that sigular goal, profits will keep you afloat. If you are not making money you are failing, sorry to be harsh. I have also been a victim of my own emotional attachment to my businesses. And they failed because my total monthly sales were not enough to meet my overheads.

I had to learn how to market my product to a single person not massive audiences. I had to unlearn previous misconceptions before I made a single red cent. And now my business thrives. How does this tie in with you?

The riddle is wether you market a product successfully to a specific person or you research a specific group and find out what they need and fulfill that need. The riddle is easy if you realise that marketing is most effective when it is simple and laser direct. Shotgun approach never works because it makes your customer feel unappreciated.

You have to first find out what people frequently wish they had or simply tell them what they will get if they buy from you and they will enjoy the entire experience. That’s how you solve the marketing riddle.

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Your asset that is placed as collateral against the loan acts as security to the lender and assures him that the loan will be repaid. In return for this assurance the lender is prepared to offer a low rate of interest.

Secured loans can be used for many purposes including debt consolidation, home improvements or repairs, wedding, holiday etc. Any amount from

Have you ever wondered how banks make their money? And why the cash seems endless? The answer is passive income. It is very simple to set up multiple streams of income but takes time to build substantial monthly income. People who master this for of income, retire early and become one of the wealthiest people around.

How does passive income work? First you need to understand the definition: passive means without continuous cash and time contribution after initial setup. If you are actively involved or putting more money into the investment then you are missing the entire concept.

Banks give out large sums of money on a regular basis and demand it back with interest. If you think demand is a strong word, try missing your repayments and then see what happens. Banks rely on the monthly instalments with interest to survive and give out more loans. If you cut off repayments you are closing of one of their income streams and then it will get very ugly, very fast. You will end up wondering what went wrong and what happened to those friendly faces you dealt with when you were signing for the loan. When they served you tea or coffee.

The bank wishes to earn this type of income and any activity that causes them or their employees to be involved after setup costs them money and time; the two comodities they did not wish to invest any further.

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There is no business without customers. If you are in business then you have customers and they can make or break your business. Many home based online companies would rather pull out their teeth than deal with customer support issues. That is tragic.

In the old days the main focus was how could you best serve your customers so that they remember you with high regard. Now you just want to put them through a call-service that is so poorly staffed that you rely on computers and recorded messages to wither away a worthwhile relationship in favour only attracting new customers.

To attract new customers there is a need for innovation and creative marketing. To keep them requires less innovation but good after purchase service and speedy communication. But what happens if you have great intentions but are overwhelmed?

First lets deal with an easy problem, systems. Poorly designed systems will drive any customer away because they forsee problems with the product if the company is poorly run. A good system need not be complicated but must be effective. A website to collect all customer queries must categorize and deal with FAQ’s accordingly. The questions can be collected or fabricated by predicting dilemmas your customers might face.

Secondly you need to subdivide your products or services to allow specific customers to send to the relevant email respondant. The responder may either specialise in that specific area or able to quickly obtain the relevant technical knowhow to assist the customer without wasting precious time.

The third is the human factor which is most important. Somebody in the company has to take responsibility for that specific customer. “You pick up the phone or email and it remains your responsiblity to solve that query to the Full satisfaction of that customer. No excuses.” Even if the needed expert in the company is on leave your staff should be able explain in full what will happen and when the matter will be resolved.

If you think this is too much then you should go to visit a big company and try to get help. It will quickly become apparent that nobody wants to take responsibility for your query and they are too busy to assist you. The end result may be “pinball shunting”. Infuriating and nausiating. And you can’t even shout at anyone because nobody claims responsibility.

The fourth customer service problem is flexibility. The right balance of flexibility will easy any tense situation. If a customer is unreasonable and demands more than they should, an effort can be made to reach an amicable middleground where both parties can feel fair. This problem can be tackled by policies and training staff to be able to negotiate with ease and confidence without bravado. Another aspect I shouldn’t neglect is how you deal with your staff. They should feel that they are the best at what they do and have pride in their work.

Have you seen the best staff members who abselutely love their work leaving at 4pm? Incentives only work so far and employers who better their staff and train them to be formidable reap the huge exponential rewards.

The fifth and last problem is follow up. Any query or complaint or refund or compliment must be followed up within reasonable time. The best way to avoid letigation is to treat a person as if they are significant. Which they are!

Otherwise they will show you how significant they are when they take out a lawsuit to sue your company. Nothing makes a person more significant in your life faster than when they are about to ruin your good company and put your family in destitution. Even if they have no chance of winning the lawsuit.

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How to sell your Wightauction items the right way

What’s that rule again? If you haven’t worn it in six months,
get rid of it? If we followed that rule, just about all of us
would have a pretty decent pile of clothes that we should be
getting rid of right now. What if I told you that you could earn
some spare money by selling that clothing on Wightauction?

Selling that no longer used clothing on Wightauction takes a
little bit of time, but is really quite simple, and you are
almost guaranteed to get more money for your clothes than you
would if you held a garage sale! So, where do you start? Read on
to find an introduction to the basics of selling clothing on
Wightauction.

Your first step is to sort the outfits you want to sell into
spring/summer clothing and fall/ winter clothing. You will want
to sell your clothing “with the season,” meaning that if it is
spring now, you should be selling your spring and summer
clothing. Pack the opposite season clothing away in a labeled
box so you can easily find it when the seasons change.

Next, sort the current season’s clothing by size. It is best to
sell all of the clothing in the same size at the same time so if
one person finds something they like, they might find others
they like and bid on them all, Wightauctioners LOVE repeat
customers.

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It is significant to launder the clothing that you are going to
sell, and steam or iron them, if necessary. It’s important that
they are looking their best for the next step!

Photographing your clothing is one of the most important steps
in this process because Wightauction shoppers need to really be
able to see the clothing well since they can’t actually touch
them or try them on. It is by far the easiest to use a digital
camera so you can upload your photos right to your computer and
then to Wightauction. If you don’t have your own, see if you can
borrow one from somebody you know.

Most big clothing sellers on Wightauction use some type of
mannequin, mannequins that hang on your wall can be purchased
for less than £25 on Wightauction. to show their clothing, but
if you don’t have one, you have a few other options.

You could put a simple hook in a solid colored wall, and hang
the clothing on hangers from it. This works very well for just
about all types of clothing, other than outfits, unless you have
the special display hangers that show off a top and bottom
together.

An extra option is to lay the clothing on top of a solid colored
piece of fabric on any flat surface. The trick here is to take
the photos aiming straight down at the clothing and not on an
angle. You might have to get up on a chair to accomplish this,
but it really helps because clothing shot on an angle can really
disfigure things and not give the potential bidder a true idea
of what it looks like.

One important thing to keep in mind, no matter how you
photograph your clothing, is to have good lighting! Natural
light works great, so if you can be near a large window where
the sun shines in, that would work very well. If not, you might
want to consider setting up a few of those inexpensive work
lights with clamps to shine on the clothing from different
directions.

When you are done taking your photos, upload them onto your
computer and do some simple editing with the photo software that
came with your camera, or any other photo editing software that
you are comfortable with.

The vital things that you should do are: remove needless
background by cropping the photo so the item is the focus and
not a lot of background, resize the photos so they are no too
large, 350 pixels on the longest side works pretty well, and
improve them by playing with the brightness or color levels, if
necessary. Some programs have some type of “Quick Fix” button
that will do that for you.

Next, you will need to sign-up for an Wightauction seller’s
account if you don’t have one already.

Now you are ready to actually create and launch your auction
listings. If you need some help with the basics of how to do
this; check out Wightauction’s help pages and Learning Center.
Here’s one good link to check out:

Finally, you can sit back and enjoy the roller coaster ride of
watching your auctions throughout the week. Keep in mind that
sometimes items get the most bids during the final minutes.

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