Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Fast Company:

Outside the local train station, the Maplewood Civic Association maintains a bulletin board plastered with news of jazz festivals and yoga classes for this small, affluent New Jersey town. One day last winter, an unassuming new flyer appeared, nestled between ones hawking a fish tank and a drum set, titled, “Introducing the Local.” The flyer describes the Local as “a community Web site by you and for these communities, mentored by The New York Times.”

Why is a media titan like The New York Times Co. — already stretched thin by the challenges of a faltering business model — dabbling in community news, traditionally the bottom of the journalistic food chain? Call it the Google Effect. The search giant’s model, described by author John Battelle as “a billion dollars, one nickel at a time,” is a perfect description of how media companies hope to take tiny sources of local revenue and roll them up into big money.

Hyperlocal sites — covering cities, towns, or just a neighborhood — can deliver precision-targeted advertising to local and global businesses. As the once-exponential growth rate for most Internet advertising in the United States grinds to a halt, the online local-advertising market is projected to grow 5.4% in 2009 to $13.3 billion, according to media research firm Borrell Associates.

As it happens, one of the architects of Google’s success, former head of advertising Tim Armstrong, founded a community-news site called Patch that intends to collect those nickels. Armstrong, in his new role as the CEO of AOL, acquired Patch in one of his first moves. And where, of all places, has Patch set up shop? Maplewood.

Continue Reading: “Tap The $100 Billion Potential Of Hyperlocal News?”

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From Business Opportunities Weblog.

My friend Markus Allen has a new blog. I love Markus’ honesty among online marketers. He’s a regular guy slugging it out like the rest of us and he’s been honest as to why he’s doing this. He wants more financial breathing room. As the online stat junkie par excellance, he’s known for quite some time that he SHOULD be doing better with article marketing than he presently is.

He knows he “SHOULD” be able to create a stream of relatively passive income from articles generating adsense clicks and affiliate commissions. But to date that hadn’t happened for him. His latest project to make that happen is documented on this new blog. Now I’ll warn you up front, this is an affiliate link in case you want to purchase anything Markus sells. But you can read all his articles without buying anything. Here’s the link: Article Marketing Secrets

Now Markus’ goals are ambitious. He wants to generate $5,000 per month from Article Marketing. Hey, I’d love an extra $5,000 per month I didn’t have to claw and scrape for all the time – wouldn’t you?

But I also love it when someone works to document what they’re working on in this manner so I can SEE what’s going on. I’m sure they won’t tell me ALL their secrets (maybe Markus will) but I’ve learned to read between the lines.

So I look forward to following this with great interest!

Here are the topics Markus has posted to date:

Day #1:
Article Marketing Domination
How to make $5,000 a month writing articles.

Day #2:
Article Marketing Handbook
Secrets revealed on how to make more money with content marketing.

Day #3:
Article Marketing Strategies
Inside secret strategies of a professional content publisher.

Day #4:
Article Marketing Course
Article promotion the fast & easy way.

Day #5:
How to Make Money with AdSense
Tweak AdSense for higher profits.

Day #6:
Internet Marketing Article Directory
The best place to submit an article.

Day #7:
Article Marketing Trends
How to use trends data to find what to write about.

Day #8:
Keyword Marketing Research
Does this Keyword Bible deliver the goods?

Day #9:
Niche Finder
How to find the best niche markets.

Day #10:
Link Juice
The best way to go about getting page juice.

Day #11:
SEO Link Building
How to link build the fast and easy way.

Day #12:
Affiliate Marketing Disclosure
Bank more money being honest about your affiliate links.

Day #13:
Online Business Building -
Weekly talkcast reveals how to build your business.

Day #14:
Article Marketing System
Introducing a nifty checklist to make your content marketing pay off.

Day #15:
Link Building Forum
My secrets to create valuable backlinks from your favorite forum.

Day #16:
Article Marketing Benefits
3 reasons to be excited about publishing your articles on the Internet.

Day #17:
Auto Content Generator -
How to put your article marketing on auto pilot.

I love to write as I have the time, so this interests me because I too would like to have extra income coming in without extra additional work. I personally found his post on auto content generation very helpful. While we all love to write if we’re into blogging, legitimately syndicating content from other writers can help you build a niche blog more easily to be sure!

Again, here’s the link: Article Marketing Secrets

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