For some, blogging about food isn’t just a way to share great recipes; it’s also about generating income from corporate advertisers and even local food businesses. A great food blog has the potential to turn a passion for food into a serious business venture.

Before rolling out your blog, it can be helpful to consider the positive attributes of other successful food blogs and to learn how you, too, can produce a blog that generates traffic and earns income.

Explain Your Niche

Even food blogs that tackle it all – recipes, cooking gear, restaurant reviews, ingredients – state their purpose for blogging somewhere – typically in an “about” section.… Continue reading »

If you are a business owner who is looking for a creative way to save money on marketing expenses, think about going the digital route and market your business with a blog. Blogging is an inexpensive way to relate information about your business and industry to people who might become potential customers.

While most businesses have a website to provide customers with information about their products and services, it is important to use other digital resources to drive traffic to your business website. In addition to saving money on paper-based marketing costs, some business owners can actually develop revenue with their blogs if they choose to sell advertising space to non-competing companies within their industry.… Continue reading »

You’ve got a topic, a reader base and a passion to write. That’s enough to start business blogging, right? Unfortunately, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to creating and maintaining a successful, quality blog. What’s more, if you’re doing things right, many of these behind-the-scenes tasks are things that your readers may never even notice. So what, exactly, are the unsung tasks of the business blogger – especially if your blog is actually a business? We’ve put together a rundown for you.

SEO

Search engine optimization, better known as the acronym SEO, is all about getting the word out, which in turn is one of a business blogger’s biggest hurdles.… Continue reading »

Online content monetization is the process of generating revenue from your online content. This online content may include text, images, music and video. We’ve all seen major book, newspaper, and magazine publishers moving their content online to reach more people and get more customers. Bloggers have the advantage that being online is their native territory, and they are comfortable there. What most bloggers need to get more comfortable with, though, is the idea that they can make money from the content they create, and how to create content with that in mind from the beginning.

Why do it? Well, first of all, making money is something we all need to do, and if you are already blogging, turning something you are already doing into a profitable venture does double-duty.… Continue reading »

Business is pretty competitive these days, whether you’re a professional speaker, a lawyer or a software company. What are you doing to get noticed by meeting planners, industry leaders and your prospects? Making tons of cold calls and spreading FAXes all over the world? Buying email lists to complete strangers? Puhleeze! The magic word is positioning. I consult 90% of the time and only speak 10% of the time for my bread and butter, so I have zero time to cold call and beg with meeting planners or worse, absolute strangers from a call sheet. I position myself as a subject-matter professional through articles and blog posts that I write to produce business opportunities coming at me, and so can you.… Continue reading »

Everyone sells. If you are into online business, you sell for money. If you attend an interview, you sell yourself to the board to get a job. If you are a proud parent, you sell your ideas to your children for emotional benefits.

Bloggers are no different.

Every person has some quality. Whether they be good or bad, the qualities a person has determines how good he is at what he does. When it comes to selling, a good salesman must possess certain qualities. These traits will help him sell very effectively in a short span of time.

Qualities of a Good Salesman
Quality #1: Self Esteem

A good salesman always believes that money is less important than their customer.… Continue reading »

We are approaching the end of 2011 and as we are getting ready to enter 2012, it’s probably the right time to start thinking about what you are going to do in 2012 with your personal and business life.

Looking back, Noobpreneur.com has done quite a lot throughout 2011.

To name a few, we have moved web servers a couple of times in our effort to give you the best browsing experience; we also partner with authors worldwide (mainly from the US and UK) to provide more diversity in our blog posts.

With regard to the latter, please allow me to highlight some of our finest business blog posts of 2011.… Continue reading »

Getting a popular blogger to mention your business is like getting a celebrity endorsement, and this applies even if the blogger is only popular within a very specific niche. But you may be wondering how you can get your foot in the door with a potential blog endorsement. How do you make busy bloggers pay attention to you or your business long enough to even consider promoting your products or services?

Web 2.0: It’s a Jungle Out There

As much as social media experts advise business owners to “be themselves” when they go online, especially within their social networks, the reality is that much of the activity- the vast majority of the followers, the likes, the tweets, the friends, and even the circles- is on autopilot.… Continue reading »

Your small business needs a blog to help you connect better with your customers and prospects while growing a community. Here are some steps to help you establish a small business blog.

1. Create your blog

There are a number of different free blogging platforms you can utilize to create your business blog. WordPress and Blogger are the most common.

Once you have signed up and created your business blog, the next step is to figure out where you want that blog to be located. The most common:

CompanyName.com/blog

Blog.CompanyName.com

CompanyNameblog.com

All are fine; it just depends on your preferences.… Continue reading »

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When trying to make money online you must take into consideration what the blog is about, and experiment with the many monetization tools for bloggers. The de-facto standard always seems to be using Google’s Adsense platform, but even with high
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volume and strong click through rates, you could still only earn pennies a day. Take for example if your subject was about online games, or free online games, it would take several thousand unique visitors per twenty-four hour period to make any decent money. Then the cost of bandwidth comes into play, and your cheap hosting provider may not allow unlimited bandwidth as they advertised previously.… Continue reading »

Page load time is now one of the factors considered by search engines to determine rankings. Of course, content should always be your number one priority; but page speed today plays a major role in search engine ranking.

There are many factors contributing to page speed, but there are some of the most important ones that, when followed, will reduce your business blog page load time significantly. Here are some tips to increase your blog’s page speed:

1. Cache your business blog pages

Some techie consider caching a waste of resource, but results prove that caching does reduce page load time (and reduce burden to your web hosting provider.) If you use CMS (content management system) like WordPress, a caching extension or plugin, such as WP Super Cache, is a must-have.… Continue reading »

I mentioned in my previous post that thanks to Google Panda update, small business websites offering quality content are now able to compete with the bigger sites. However, one thing that won’t change – the chances a small, seemingly insignificant business website rank better than sites that have been search engine optimized.

In business blogging, today is the best time for business bloggers to create great blog posts. Here’s why: Because content rocks! The more useful your blog posts, the better chances you will get links from other sites, including those that are authoritative ones.

Watch this video of Matt Cutts – THE Google Engineer (he’s like Alan Greenspan of the Fed – what he says can stir up opinions across the web) – explaining why search engine optimized page can still be beaten in Google search ranking by a less-optimized page:

To sum what he says: SEO is important, but it’s not everything.… Continue reading »

Being stuck is one of the major problems of an entrepreneur.

Working for 6 months on one project, trying to make the most of it, you at last find yourself with no new ideas at all.

All you can do is to continue doing what you have been doing so far – and this results into stagnation.

I’ve been there not once. And the best way for me to get inspired again is to ask my blog readers or followers.

The common tools to hear back from your readers or site users are: a poll, a quiz and a survey.

This post briefly looks at the differences between the three tools and the benefits of using them.… Continue reading »