Why blog?

A blog is short for “web log”, a log about your doings, but placed on the web for the world to see. But, does the world care? Hopefully, if your blog is well written and interesting, perhaps so. Then as people continue to visit, you create a following and maybe even make some money.
When you blog things, hopefully you are blogging about a topic that people care to read; if not, you’ll have a lonely time. Most people who blog, are “writers” with a story to tell. The great thing about blogging is that you don’t have to be a “writer” but you still need to have a story to tell. Today I’ll speak about “telling” your story.
So first, like anything, you should have a purpose for your blog; what will you blog about? Each of my blogs has a purpose. For instance, my blog about Twin Ports Buzz is about things happening around the Twin Ports; usually things that I find interesting myself. If I happen to get a readership, so be it. If not, I’m still having fun and get “practice” writing short posts. Later, who knows, I’ll take these posts and create a Kindle book or some other product. I also use the blog to promote other businesses. Usually when I visit a place that I’ve gotten good service, I “brag” about it and then link to the business and then tell the business about it.
Choose any topic under the sun, or use your blog to keep friends, family and even your business clients up to date on what’s going on.
Ter
Terrific. Energizing. Results!

13 "LUCKY" Ways to Make Money Blogging

There are “ways” to make money blogging, but you need to know the “how”. The MASTER Blog Class covers that. Some things can be “automatic” and make money on your blog when people visit. Other times, your blog leads the way to making money elsewhere.
Make money blogging:
1.       Use AdSense and make money every time people click on ads at your blog
2.       Create and display banner ads from other sites on your blog
3.       Display affiliate links and make money every time someone clicks and buys a product
4.       Sell your own books and products on your blog
5.       Sell Amazon products on your blog
6.       Create an email list and use email campaigns to sell your products
7.       Link to your other sites, your eBay, Amazon,  and Etsy stores
8.       Turn your blog into a website
9.       Turn your blog into a book, ebook,
10.   Sell your blog on Amazon
11.   Link to your website and make sales at your website
12.   Create a community and bring that community to your website to increase sales
13.   Build credibility and make money as a speaker, consultant, and author

10 Reasons Why a Blog Will Help You and Your Business

A Business Blog Can Help You (5 of the top 10):
1.    Target Potential Clients

2.    Boost Website Traffic

3.    Establish Yourself As An Expert and Brand Your Business

4.    Help Create and Grow a Community
5.    Attract an Audience; Connect, Person-to-Person ... the rest of the list (6 - 10) is at: www.terscott.com/bloggingisgood. For today I just wanted you to know that the list exists and that I will give more specifics to each in future posts on this blog.

Best Blogging! Ter

Add your copyright and business information at the bottom of your blog

Add your copyright and business information at the bottom of your blog in blogger by scrolling to the bottom of the blog when you are on the “design” page and click on edit. This opens the “Configure Attribution” box. Type in your information, click on SAVE, and you are done; it’s there.
HINT: When placing the © symbol in the “Attribution” at the bottom of your blogger page, when you open the configure attribution box and typing the left parentheses, the little letter “c” followed again by the right parentheses, you’ll get exactly that. However, if you want the nifty © symbol, open a Word document, type the exact same thing, and the symbol is created. Now just copy and paste this into the configure attribution box, click save and view. How cool is that!
You’ll see an example at the bottom of my newest blog: MARKETING No Cost/Low Cost. Visit: http://marketingnocostlowcost.blogspot.com/
Ter

Dan Poynter, and Bob Bly- two greats that will help your write

During my blog class, a few of my students told me that they were writers and were working on a book. I immediately offered them two of the best resources I could offer. The first is Dan Poynter: http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/para/  He is the guru of such. Also, another would be http://www.bly.com/ a website that shares so much to the writer.

Both of these people have helped me with their works, so please when you purchase any of their materials or email them, tell them Ter Scott sent you!

Make it a great day! Ter
Congratulations to all who attended the first MASTER Blog Class held in Duluth Minnesota. We had over 300% more attendance than expected and the questions were great. The class was supposed to be mostly about blogging but we touched on websites, marketing, and more.

For those who attended the class, they get all of the goodies mentioned at www.terscott.com/blogclass by registering and using the code given at the class (at the bottom of the "for your notes" sheet). If you attended and have not registered to get your free pdf version of the booklet we used in class, do so as soon as you can. I will not automatically send it to the email you stated on the attendance sheet because with the email "rules", it's important that I have a "double opt in" request. All others finding this blog, can get everything at $29; $19 dollars if they get there soon.

A modified version of this MASTER Blog Class will be presented in the future at a major cities across the US. For details, go to www.terscott.com/events.

I invite everyone's questions and comments via this blog at no cost of course. Just let me know your questions and I will offer my answer here, so we can help everyone who visits.

Make it a great day!
Ter

My First Blog Class in Duluth Minnesota


I'm very excited to present this informative class to those who want to publish their thoughts with others. It's called:
Create a blog in Five Minutes; Make Money Forever
Thursday January 12th, 2012 $19
Bricks to Clicks Marketing Consultant ™and Internet Product Broker Ter Scott, maintains almost 100 blogs; with some having a following from all over the world. After just 60 minutes, you’ll know everything it takes to create a blog using Blogger to promote your business or hobby and then earn income by using all the latest methods and techniques- including the new Google+. Take just 5 minutes daily to maintain your blog for a fun way to share your thoughts and ideas… and make money! Read How to Get Famous Using Amazon Kindle FREE at: www.terscott.com/kindlemania    
I hope you'll return to this blog often and leave your comments and questions so I can help you and others!
Make it a great day! Ter Scott!