Sunday, February 5, 2012

Bloggers Billionaire Blogging Bonanza

Blogging Bonanza

I’m on a roll with my post titles here lately. The above titled caption is my latest in a string of unprecedented product releases to have you, ( one moment please, time for keyword insertion ) “Learn How To Make Money Blogging“.

I’m going over the figures of a future product launch and dang, these things is expensive to put together. What’s worse about the process is that my latest effort pretty much looks like the rest of them. Hey, it’s what works ….. or so they say. If you were to review, most of the products out there are at least worth their price. I go by this simple observation; the old E-Books and E-Products that I download for an Opt-in are pretty good.

I’m trying to set a price and I’m looking at the $17.00, the $27.00, the $47.00, the $97.00 and around and around I go; Man I’m dizzy. Where to go and what to do; so much competition, so many products ……… I was looking at a young man the other day that just sold his Internet start-up for $70 Million; said Facebook could never have been conceived by a 50-year-old. More dizziness.

How does one break through all this fog. The one youngster goes to millions and the other ( that would be me ) goes to the PayPal with $900.00. Now I’ve got someone who is telling me that the more they publicly speak the more traffic they have to work with. I’ve got to catch a break in this action or I’m going to lose my mind!

Ok …… let’s start over ……. new sheet of paper. First the competition: Total identified blogs: 162,322,223, New blogs in last 24 hours: 70,598, Blog posts indexed in last 24 hours: 1,001,227. This is going to be a piece of cake. I think I’ll just settle for a stiff drink!

It has come to my attention that the big guns, shy from the weak economy, all the new competition and new FTC rules, have been sitting it out on the sidelines. I saw where Jeff Walker had a major launch about 8 months ago, but no one else to speak of. Frank Kern, Mike Filsaime, John Reese, Alex Jeffreys, John Chow, Yaro Starak ………. the list goes on; all seem to be contemplating their next move from the comfort of their palatial palaces plundered from their past projects.

Sorry to the afore-mentioned chaps, I just couldn’t resist the roll of the words. I love to write.

My point is this, with all the competition that now exists, there is nothing to be offered that has not already been offered. What’s worse you can find what you need from a variety of solid sources for free. Blogging Programs, Traffic Programs, Affiliate Programs, Social Media Programs, Twitter Traffic, Twitter Subscribers, Facebook this and that ……. it’s all been covered.

I’m not so sure what the difference is that will make my future efforts stand out ……….. humm …….. maybe a catchie name, like …………………

Blogging Buddy

Blog Blueprint

Here we go again. Blogging Buddy! Really? I like Autoblogging 3.0, at least it has some sound of sanity. The actual program is titled “Blog Blueprint“. An autoblog program which is the brain child of Jason Potash & Jason Katzenback.

Blog Blueprint has a pretty decent Alexa ranking, driven by a relentless AdWords campaign I’ll bet. Well I don’t have to kick the product. But I sure as hell don’t have to give it the old two thumbs up either. I mean I can understand the desire for Internet Marketing Dollars. But Blogging Buddy?

Auto Blogging has been around since Blogging was thought of as a possible money-maker. I have several. I’ve never made a dime in 18 months off my auto-blogs. I just syndicate my content and watch the Alexa ranking sore. My first auto-blog now = 7,561,939 on the old Alexa scale.

My competition just sold out to some company for 700 million. They said they were at the “big warehouse” stage and that just was not for them. I may miss my mark here but I don’t think my first auto-blog is going to get it.

I do a little better with this Blog here at “Bloggers Market.com”. I actually work the thing. The set-it and forget-it thing just is not going to get it. Even if you made any money at all you still have to work it. New affiliate offers are not going to magically appear inside your auto-blog.

You have to work a Blog. The reason? There are so many out there who are willing to do the same thing; work it. Consider Jean Sarauer, see worked her Blog for about a year before it almost killed her from all the work it takes to keep a popular Blog going on your own. I don’t think she made too much money at Blogging either.

There is a happy balance here of course. There are few that find it, I’m afraid. Keep reading; keep trying; keep as positive attitude as possible. And bank any money you may make ……….. to hire a staff to run the thing! Now that’s an “Auto-Blog”. I believe that I can safely use Yaro Starak here as an example.

Australia’s Yaro Starak

Yaro Starak

When looking for this week’s subject, I wanted to focus on someone who is blogging in Australia. I Googled in Australia for a couple of hours before I came up on Yaro Starak. No, I’m not that out of touch; but I also wanted to focus on someone who has not really been in the public eye for so long, and Yaro Starak is one of the top Bloggers in the world.

I have a great following in Australia, so I wanted to give back, and write about one of their Bloggers …………………….. Ahhh, I get it, I may not be out of touch, but I am a bit slow. The reason I have a great following in Australia, is because of Yaro Starak!

Writing about Yaro is like writing about Mick Dundee! There is not a lot that I am going to be able to add here, especially when I don’t know Yaro personally, but it seems that everyone knows him. So off I go to compile from all the info from whatever sources I can find.

Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998, he currently runs the “Entrepreneurs-Journey.com“. Active since his university days, Yaro’s approach to his daily efforts revolve around the character traits and methods of those he has observed as opposed to any certain role model. His approach is one of enjoying what you have while you have it as it pertains to your growth in your online business. In other words, I think he enjoys the process of online commerce instead of the end result and encourages you to do the same! Consistency and persistence is also important to Yaro when it comes to business. He’s really big on getting out there and doing it, not just reading E-Books about how it is done …….. what’s the point otherwise?

Once your growth in blogging reaches a certain point and you are able to look beyond just the bills, especially if you want to move beyond the six figure level of income, you are going to have to get to know some folks. Quoting Yaro, “You can work quite hard, in particular online, and do quite well independently, but if you really want to grow you need points of leverage and most of them come from knowing people”.

Not wanting anyone to go away empty from this post, you can opt-in for a couple of Yaro’s E-Book’s for the beginner right on the homepage of his blog. You actually have several choices, but for the beginner, the two that I recommend are “Blog Profits Blueprint” and the other is “Roadmap to Become a Blogger”. I could go on about Yaro having all the tools of a ProBlogger and running down all the ins and outs of his blog, but the best way for you to understand who Yaro is to spend time with him over at his site.

One point of caution for the beginner blogger: as you take in all that Yaro has to offer, remember this; while you can eventually make the rent by managing your blog a couple of hours a day like he did, he personally no longer does this. If you were to pull back the curtain on Yaro’s operation, I am sure you will find a sophisticated operation with several people working with him. I count eight that were working with him on his “Blog Mastermind” program and that was three years ago.

Yaro has arrived at the point that we all aspire to, no matter what form our blog takes, we all want to be admired, we all want to prosper. However understand that it was through hard work, determination and imagination, perhaps a little luck thrown in that he has been able to accomplish this. It certainly helps that Yaro is in a class by himself. You can count the true “Superstar ProBloggers” on one hand. Yaro is one of these superstars!