Twitter is something that I was initially eager to avoid like the plague. I already spend a little too much time on Facebook – another social media outlet wasn’t going to help! However, a while back I signed up to Twitter with the intention of using it to boost exposure of my website – to market it to potential readers. I had no idea what I was doing really. I was getting some traffic from [...]

Niche websites are common practice of any internet marketer.  These websites are aimed at a target audience with a typically low set of target keywords.  The point of many niche websites is to earn money online.  This is done usually through affiliate marketing, or selling your own product.  Such methods are good ways to try and make money quickly. Initially I didn’t want to go down this route of making money online, however I have [...]

Pre-season games are common in the NHL to let players get warmed up and back into the swing of things after a few months off-season.  This year, the Boston Bruins feature a pre-season game with a difference.  Rather than taking on another NHL team, or a top team from one of the super leagues of Europe, they are taking on a select team of the Elite Ice Hockey League of the UK – at the [...]

Recently I wrote an article about how I make my readers feel valued.  In this post I wrote about methods I use to engage with my readers using some free methods.  These included blog commenting, twitter, guest posting and Skype.  Whilst making your readers feel welcome to your blog is very important, one point I didn’t touch upon is how accessible you are to your readers.  By accessible, I mean, are you easy to get [...]

Like many bloggers, I have enrolled myself in many free eCourses which are designed to help up and coming bloggers achieve greater things with their blogs.  Whilst many courses cover the important aspects of getting set up online and setting up your blog, there are few which focus on the mentality and personality traits which may be useful to any prospective blogger.  A course which I found covered these important aspects of blogging is Thomas [...]

I have been blogging for little over 2 months, and I have accumulated a serious amount of useful information.  I think this is something that happens to many bloggers, and is often a cause of so many failures.  It’s common that many people quit after not making any money, or getting any kind of regular visitors.  However, it is all to easy to learn so much and not know how to use it effectively.  The [...]