Getting Started with Social Networking

In today's economy many of us are looking for ways to make more money. There are many get rich quick scams out there that promise to make you rich with only working for 15 minutes a week! My favorite ads show images Obama giving you a stimulus check or lowering your interest rates and "How I made $12,00 by placing ads on Google!" It all makes me laugh! NEVER give your credit card info to any of these places!

Yesterday I asked you to write a list of topics that you are passionate about. I also asked you to pop those ideas into a search engine and see how many pages came up. Hopefully you listed the number of pages shown next to each topic. Any topic that has less than 5,000 or 10,000 pages put a line through it, these will probably not be useful for making any kind of money. Keep the ideas written down but lets look at the ones that have 50,000 plus pages listed. Your chances are a lot better with these!

Time to start writing blogs, right? WRONG! O.K. Maybe not wrong, but I would like to suggest something else before you ever start writing. First off a name. A name you ask? Yes, choose a name for your blogging profile. Your username should be 15 characters or less and should describe your topic. Next you need to check to see if the username you chose is available. Available where, you might ask? Well, check blogspot.com, wordpress.com or where ever you choose to host your blog.

Don't register your blog yet! Check your username at social media spots like MySpaace, FaceBook and Twitter too! Believe me, it looks a lot better if you have the same username in multiple spots, it is called branding and it helps! Be sure to check with gmail.com and or other free e-mail sites. I like gmail.com for my web mail because it is linked to other Google programs and it just makes it all a lot easier. Once you have a username that is available at all the spots go ahead and register all all of the sites. Just an FYI- you should write down all of the usernam/passwords on a piece of paper so that you do not forget them! Do not sign up for adsense just yet. We'll get to that in just a minute.

Now, is it time to start writing? NO! Now what? Well, you now have multiple sites that you just registerd for. You should go ahead and try to fill out all of the profile information on all of the sites. If you are web savy and or graphicly inclined go ahead and set up all your sites to have the same theme. Most of the sites allow you to use your own CSS and if not they at least have the ability to modify what they have on their site. Be sure to use the same profile image on all of your accounts. This helps to build your "brand" and will help out in the long run.

Alright, now write seven articles with about 400 words in each article in your Word Processor program and save them. Yes, you are using one of your topics that you are passionate about. Once you have seven articles, write seven more and save them as well. Be sure to have an image in mind for each article. After you have 14 articles post them to your blog. On blogspot and wordpress you can schedule your atrticles. Schedule the first seven articles as being posted last week. Post the next seven articles to come out over the next seven days. When you are done it should look like you started last week and you have the next week scheduled to go.

Making Money is Hard Work!

Last week we talked about making realistic goals for making money. Once again I want to stress that if you want to make a lot of money very fast without spending any this advice will not help you! Making money is hard work. Think of it like making minimum wage at your first job. You had to make the minimum for a while before you could make more. Walk before you run, well maybe crawl before you can walk.

There are many sites out there that offer the end-all be-all success in a box program. Well, selling that information for $97 or $149 or even more did make those people rich. They got rich from working hard and finding out what people want. People want to get rich quick even though everyone knows that the "results may vary" statement should read "results are not typical, the typical result is to quit well before you ever make a dime!"

Alright, back to step one and setting up goals. So, you have set your realistic goal and broken it down into how much you need to make a day for that goal to be made. Keep this in mind, the first month you will more than likely not make any money at all. So, do not get discouraged remember you are trying to build a long term wealth building program even if your goal is to make an extra $25 a week. $25 a week equals $1300 a year. That does not seem like much but that is a realistic goal!

The next important thing to know is that no matter what, the best way to make money with adsense is to blog. Many of the $97 programs out there are nothing more than a list of topics for you to blog about. What these people do not tell you is that unless you are passionate about what you are blogging about you are likely to never make a dime! Blogging is about passion. It does not matter what you blog about as long as you are passionate. Somewhere out there someone is buying adwords about what you are blogging about!

I guess we should back up just a bit and explain adwords and adsense. Adwords is a Google advertising system where people bid on keywords so that when the keyword is used their ad will show up. Adsense is a Google advertising system where they place ads on your site relative to the keywords you use on your blog or website. The easiest way to understand would be to go to Google and read about it there.

O.K. Back to step two. You don't need to be worrying with adsense just yet anyway! The first part of step two is figuring out what you are passionate about. So, until tomorrow, think about all the things that you are passionate about and write them down. Make a huge list, make a small list, just make a list. After you have a list, type the idea into Google or another search engine. See how many pages come up. Tomorrow we will discuss the results.