I have approached a couple of people recently about getting started on Squidoo. Both of these people either have a need or desire to make some extra money so they can either quit their day job or earn money while they are unemployed. I am not totally shocked, but it almost always seems like the first thing out of their mouth is “What do I write about?”.

Of course, coming up with a subject when thinking of making money is difficult, especially when you are getting started. If this sounds like you, then stop thinking about making money and go start a Squid Who lens about yourself. Don’t worry about what everyone thinks, just start writing about your life. Where did you grow up? What’s your favorite restaurant? What do you do in your free time? Once you get started writing, you will be shocked about how fast the words flow out of your fingers, through the keyboard, and onto the screen.

I have three reasons for suggesting an about me lens to start. First of all, you are writing about something you know really well, yourself. Secondly, you will be getting a feel for how setting up a basic lens works. In order to publish your lens, you will need at least 4 modules with content in them, but this really isn’t difficult. Use a Amazon module to feature your favorite books or games, add a guestbook module, a text mod or two can contain your autobiography info, and a Twitter mod can be used to let people know where to find you on Twitter. My third reason for suggesting this is you will come up with at least three more subjects that you know a lot about; write these down while you are making  your lens so you don’t forget them. These ideas are what you are going to make a lens on next.

While you are working on this, don’t worry about making it pretty, just get the lens done as a start. Once you are done, hit the publish button and you now have your first lens published. It is truly that easy.

Now that you have published your first lens, feel free to take a peak around the Squidoo Answer Deck and find out all of the cool things you can do for your lens. Don’t get too caught up here though, you have many more Squidoo lenses to write and get published.

Learn more about lens creation with this free Squidoo guide.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by.

Originally posted 2009-06-08 06:33:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

If you are a small business or any business looking to set up a web presence for yourself, I would like to help. I am looking help small business owners that need help setting up a website for themselves, but they just don’t have the time to learn, energy or money to do it for themselves. I would also be willing to help out people that are familiar with setting up websites, but just don’t have the time to do it themselves. This would also be a great option for people looking to migrate from a free blogging platform to their own hosted website.

What am I charging for this service? Absolutely nothing. There is one catch though, you must sign up for your webhosting package through Mochahost. Here is what you get with your free setup:

1. Uploading and installing Wordpress onto your hosting package.
2. Uploading and installing any free theme that you prefer.
3. Uploading and installing plugins to make your website do what you would like it to do. If I can’t find an answer, I will see if I can find a work around to code it for you.
4. Installing a custom header with your logo. I am unable to design a logo for you myself, but I will put you in touch or find someone to create a logo for you. A custom logo is not included in the Wordpress setup and will be an extra charge. What I am able to do is take a current logo you have and make it into a header.
5. Add your content for you, for example information about your company, products, and services.

In order to take advantage of this, please take the following steps:

1. Sign up for any webhosting package with Mochahost.
2. Once you sign up with Mochahost, contact me through our form on our free wordpress setup page.
3. I will then contact you by email within 24 hours to get the ball rolling and any details needed.

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• Unlimited Bandwidth
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I hope my services and help can be of great help to you and your small business.

Originally posted 2009-06-06 13:13:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Within the past two months, I have really started pounding hard at some article marketing after reading the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint. After getting over my fear of writing about a subject that I’m not familiar with, I have to say that I have really enjoyed writing these articles. Getting over the research hump once I enter a niche is sometimes difficult for me, but once I do I have found that I am a lean mean article writing machine.

I’m not going to tell you my niches, but I do have to say that the two niches I have been working in so far have really helped me in my every day life. When I chose these niches, I knew one would benefit me, but the other one really surprised me once I started doing my research. Throughout the whole process in both niches I have learned tips to make me a better person and help out my husband as well, sometimes he knows I’m helping him and sometimes he doesn’t.

I just wanted to share the idea with you that while you are writing your articles for bum marketing you may learn something to help you out in your business or every day life and I think this is just a side benefit of affiliate marketing.

Originally posted 2009-09-02 21:47:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I love the quote that PotPieGirl promotes on the homepage of her blog:

“If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t, you can do for a lifetime what other CAN’T!”

I like this quote because it’s inspirational and makes it think of where I would like to take my making money online efforts.

Since I started this blog a week ago, I’ve been thinking what I would like to use as a quote for myself and my blog. I tried to think of inspiring things and such, but that’s just not me. I kept on coming back to a saying that my dad always said to me growing up. It’s not inspirational, but it’s to the point and I think it really fits the making money online scene.

“Wish in one hand and poop in the other; see which one fills up faster!”

That’s my quote and I’m sticking to it.

Here’s why I think it’s fitting. Many people that are trying to make money online start out trying to find the pie in the sky, get rich overnight solution. Well, I hate to tell you this, but a solution like this doesn’t exist. You can just keep wishing for a solution like this, but you’d be better off saving your money and playing the lottery; the odds are that much against you.

So, stop wishing and start doing; odds are that your poopless hand that you wished in will start to fill up.

What have you done today to fill your wishing hand?

Originally posted 2009-05-31 15:17:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

This blog is all about saving you money as you work towards making money online and that’s why I want to tell you about a special offer that’s coming up which as never been done before. Between June 1st and June 8th, you can get full access to WA for 7 days at a low price of $1. I so want to get salesy here and say “That’s right, $1 folks”, but I’ll resist. You see Wealthy Affiliate is one of only 3 investments that I’ve made in my affiliate marketing business which I have found value in.

It took me about 6 months of resiting before I signed up for Wealthy Affiliate and then I paid for it another couple of months before I really started visiting the site and forum regularly. Looking back, I have to wonder what the heck I was smoking because it’s the best money that I’ve ever spent. Other forums that I have belonged to were either too difficult to get an answer out of or they treated you like a total “noob” for asking such a silly question. This meant that I didn’t participate and wasted my money.

Just the other day I was in the forum talking about my fear of writing an Ezinearticle and someone popped in like a teacher giving me homework, expecting me to have an article submitted to Ezine the very next day. This hit just the right button for me because the “employee” in me is so used to having to answer to someone. I went right out, wrote that article and submitted it, no questions asked. Any other forum that I’ve been a member of would have either chastised me or ignored me.

So, more about this $1 trial. You get full access to all of the tools that are available to regular members which means the forum, link tracking tools, article spinner, keyword research, uploaded tutorials that other members have submitted, and Niche Q. Niche Q is actually the reason that I finally signed up, each month there is access to a fully researched niche with articles, emails, landing pages and more. I have been so busy with other things that I haven’t even had a chance to get into any of these niches yet. The research that goes into these niches is extremely thorough and you will have access one of your choice with your trial membership. The info you are given can be downloaded to your hard drive, so even if you choose to cancel before your 7 days is up, you will still have this valuable information which is definitely worth the $1 you’ll be spending on the trial. I have signed up for similar trials in the past for more than $1 and I didn’t even get access to the forums, so I felt like I couldn’t make an informed decision and I canceled.

If you think Wealthy Affiliate is a ripoff once you have tried it, then all you have to do is cancel. Feel free to come back and leave a comment here telling me how dumb I am as well. If you don’t want to miss June 1st for this $1 trial, then visit Wealthy Affiliate and sign up for the free report, I hope you will be happy that you did.

Originally posted 2009-05-25 13:34:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter