I’ve been continuing my blogging and have recently begun to dip my toes into new waters. It has been fun, but it has also been an incredible learning experience.  Not only have I learned how to add a forum to my website, but I have also learned how to use a web survey tool to do online surveys! This can be incredibly helpful to know what it is that your readers need from you. You can take surveys about what your readers what to know and then you can help them out by writing more relevant content for your website.

The best website survey tool that I have found is at PollDaddy. It is just so darn flexible and easy to use! If you are into blogging or if you have your own website for a business, then you should probably take a little time to learn how to use online surveys to your benefit.

In addition to adding online surveys, you will also need to be using an autoresponder so that you can communicate with your readers through an email list. This can make things incredibly easy and you can automate the process to send out emails any time you like. I’m learning more and more every day and I hope to be able to continue sharing these lessons with you.

I have been on a crazy journey lately of reading motivational/entrepreneurial books. What started off all this insanity is the book that you see to the left here. The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.

If you have not read this book, then I suggest that you immediately stop reading this and log onto Amazon to buy it. I have finished it, but I am now reading it a second time through because I am so overwhelmed.

I have the book on my Kindle, but I am about to purchase a hard cover version so that my husband can read it, too. No way am I giving up the Kindle!

Anyway, if you are one of those people who has way more intelligence than they are being paid for and does not want to settle for a few years of retirement way down the road, then get this book.

I’ve also been listening to some great podcasts lately, such as the Smart Passive Income  podcast and Internet Business Mastery. If you are interesting in making the most of your time and your business, then I recommend that you get this book right now and start listening to these podcasts. My motivation (and productivity) levels have gone through the roof!

What are you reading and listening to right now?

I am making a conscious effort to begin posting more to this blog. Actually, not only to this blog, but to all the blogs that I own. I came to the realization that one of my blogs which is really taking off with the page views and Adsense earnings is the one with the most posts and the one that gets updated more often. I decided to take this knowledge and try to make the rest of my blogs big earners, too.

I’m putting into practice all the wonderful things that I learned in The Niche Blogger course and adding in a few tricks of my own. I think that by posting on a more regular basis, I will be able to gain more recognition from the big G and be able to boost my ratings. I would love to be able to move further and further into my niche blogs and writing for myself and further away from day in day out article writing.

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If you’ve been reading along, you’ll know that I had my first attempt at flipping a blog. First of all, let me say that Flippa made the process really simple.

Did it sell?

No.

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Since I’ve been blogging for a year now, I decided that it’s time that I learn a little about flipping a website.  My mindset is this: if it sells, great – if not, it’s a learning process and I will learn what I can do better next time.

I have decided to use flippa.com to sell my site. It costs $19 to list your site and their step by step process is actually quite easy.  I also had the advantage of a tutorial on blog flipping from The Niche Blogger.  This was extremely helpful in me getting the blog ready to flip.

As far as what happens when the blog sells, we’ll see.  The tutorial shows me how to transfer it myself, but if I can sell it at the BIN price, I want to outsource someone to move it for me.

Click here to see the site listing on flippa!

Women blog for a lot of different reasons – to make money, to fill the time, to teach others, to have a creative outlet or even for the perks.

Wait. What’s this about perks?

Are you a lady blogger who likes freebies?  Do I have news for you!

There was a great article over at Problogger a couple of days ago by a lady named Krizia.  The article was about how hard it is now to get samples from companies whose products she wants to review on her beauty blog.  Since the recession, apparently companies are wanting more and more blog reviews and are being much pickier about who they will send samples to.

Fortunatly, I don’t have this problem. Why? Because I belong to the One to One network.

The One to One Network is a network of women bloggers who get the word out on new music, books, etc, in exchange for a review copy of the product.

From the website:

One2One Network is made up of a wide array of women from 21 to 70+ years young in various life stages, from first-time mommies to seasoned moms and from career newbies to budding entrepreneurs. The common bond between us all is that we love to discover new products and we love to communicate!

It doesn’t matter if it’s online, on the phone or good ‘ol face-to-face, One2One Network Members interact with many different people in our daily lives.

As women, we appreciate the ability to share our opinions about the products and services we believe in, whether it’s with our friends, co-workers or with companies directly.

When it comes to marketing to women as a consumer group, we hold the opinions of people who share our lifestyles and interests in very high regard.

Recommendations shared via word of mouth are some of the most powerful and effective forms of marketing.

Plus, we’re the tastemakers and ‘real-life’ product testers who are usually the ‘go-to’ people in our peer groups for all things new, improved and let’s face it, probably on sale.

I’ve been with One to One for a while now and I have really enjoyed my experience.  Not too long ago, I received a book in the mail to read and write a review on.  In exchange for the book, I had agreed to post reviews at 3 different online retailers.  I was also put into a drawing for some amazon gift cards.  It’s a win/win situation.

Do all the reviews have to be positive? No.  They are looking for honest reviews from women who can say what they really think.  The book that I read was good, but not great.  And that’s how I wrote my review.

If this seems like something you would be interested in or you are already a part of the women blog network, leave me a comment and let me know.  You can get to the One to One website by clicking here.

I thought that you guys might be wondering how my niche blogging is going along, so I decided to write a Niche Blogger Review to show you how that’s been going for me this year. I bought Amy Bass’s The Niche Blogger in January of this year and began to learn about building my own niche blogs using wordpress.

When I started I knew nothing about SEO or how to get a website ranked, much less how to make money with it.  Amy’s step by step method’s made the learning process a breeze so I upgraded to a lifetime membership 2 months into the program.  (You can be a regular member for just $19.95 a month.)

I learned about becomming an affiliate and getting my niche blogs ranked so that I could get free search engine traffic.  Amy taught me how to promote my website and even make money while I was doing promotion.  I’ve loved every minute  of it.

I still do freelance writing, but niche blogging is where my heart is.  I haven’t completed all of the months yet, because Amy is still adding new material and I like to replicate what has been making me money so far.  Soon, however, I am going to read the month on blog flipping and attempt to flip my first blog.

What about the numbers?

These are my niche blogging earnings since January of 2009.  Keep in mind that I do this on a very part time basis, although I am planning to go full time in the new year.

Affiliate Sales (amazon, clickbank, ebay, etc.): $760.64

Google Adsense: $297.99

Total: $1058.63

What would you do with an extra $1000? I spent some of mine putting it back into my business – I have an aweber account that I pay monthly and I have spent a little money on domain names.  I did not include my earnings from eHow or Suite101 since I am mainly using them to supplement my freelance writing money. I plan to scale this business way up and earn a full time income using the techniques that I learned at The Niche Blogger next year.

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Hello all. I have been busy writing my little fingers off here lately and there are several new things that I would like to share with you.  As you may know, I have a whole network of blogs now and I’m always looking for new ways to monetize them.  For a while, I ran Kontera on a couple of these sites.  Kontera shows ads as text links inside your blog posts.

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Hi there people.

I’m a little stunned right now because my husband just spotted a huge snake right outside our front door on the porch.  He nearly stepped on it when he was taking out the trash.  Fortunately, it’s only a grass snake, but startling none the less.

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I’m still working hard towards my $1500 goal and I’ve realized a couple of things.

1. I love researching and setting up niche blogs.  I enjoy it much more than actual article writing and it has a longer and higher income potential.

2. I still enjoy article writing, but I hope to suppliment my full time income with more niche blogging than flat fee article writing.

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