First up, let me clarify that I'm a HUGE Shane Carwin fan. The guy is a terrifying force in the Octagon. He's got his weak spots and limitations like any fighter, but I honestly believe he's the most potent offensive force in MMA today.
I am also a fan of the way he engages his fans online with his web site and twitter account. The guy has done a great job of marketing himself in many ways.
But let's cut the crap. Carwin is not doing himself any favors by pulling out of his UFC 125 fight against Roy Nelson. Unless his back is so severely injured that he has no choice but get the surgery he would be better off sucking it up, fighting hurt and getting the surgery after this fight if he still believes it to be necessary.
Why do I say this? Let me count the ways in the full entry.
UPDATE: From Shane-Carwin.com:
Update for my BE.com friends. I have been fighting injured for three years. I have done all of the things that "possibly could reduce the pain", in the end the problem continues to come back. I have spent a week getting treatments and the pain has been increasing. I really do not have a choice in the matter. Most managers need to milk all they can from fighters but mine is putting my interest ahead of what is best for him. That is actually a good thing.
I am getting a second opinion tonight but if he suggest surgery then I will be going that route. I have made up my mind that this is the likely outcome. With or without surgery I would face a 8-12 week recovery (no contact) time and not be ready for 125. My "options" are do surgery and repair it or spend 12 weeks recovering and apply a band aid and march on. I plan of fighting for a long time and while I may not be getting any younger I have certainly taken way less damage then anyone else in the UFC with as many fights as I have. Aside from Gonzaga breaking my nose I have not been hurt in any of my fights. So repairing my self so I can be at my best for the best part of my career is actually a really good idea.
To anyone questioning my ability to pass any test, I say bring it. I have and will always pass my test.
- Carwin himself says the surgery is optional.
That's not the kind of message to put out in a public forum. Dana White doesn't want to hear that. If Carwin needs to have the surgery, the thing to say is, "My fans know I wouldn't miss this fight if there were any other alternative, but I have to listen to the doctors and do what's best for my health." - Dana White and the UFC NEED Shane Carwin on this card.
UFC 125 is headlined by Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard. As talented as those two fighters are, they are not major PPV draws. It's a sad fact that lightweight fights don't sell as well as heavyweight fights and Frankie Edgar is not a star like B.J. Penn who can overcome that. Not to mention that many fans consider both Edgar and Maynard to be boring fighters to watch. Then there's the utter lack of personality or smack talk from either Edgar or Maynard. Not a recipe for a big New Year's card. Shane Carwin vs Roy Nelson was the perfect co-main. Heavyweight contenders with awesome KO highlight reels. Carwin fought in one of the biggest PPVs in UFC history at UFC 116 and Nelson was featured on the highest rated season of TUF ever. Plus both guys are willing to talk smack and promote themselves. - Shane is already likely on thin ice with the UFC.
Carwin got linked to a federal steroids prosecution after his UFC 116 fight. While Dana White didn't publicly pile on, that's not the kind of news he wants his fighters making. Not to mention the whole pre-UFC 116 controversy when Carwin and his manager Jason Genet told Bloody Elbow that they were limiting the amount of fight promotion Carwin would do for his title shot against Brock Lesnar to the bare minimum because they were not getting a % of the PPV money. They quickly retracted and attempted to burn our reporter when the UFC objected. Carwin's tweets last week about the UFC banning one of his sponsors couldn't have helped anything either. Things like that linger in the mind of Dana White. Ask Todd Duffee. - Shane Carwin is older and near the peak of his athletic years.
Does Carwin really have the time to take off for a risky back surgery? Back surgeries are high risk and low reward propositions for athletes. They often don't work at all. Ask Tito Ortiz. Carwin needs to be striking while the iron is hot and keeping himself in the good graces of the UFC and in the forefront of fans' minds. The UFC heavyweight division has seemingly passed him by in the blink of an eye. Young studs like Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos are going to be out ruling the world while Carwin is sitting on the side lines.
In sum, despite his public attacks on me and this site, I wish Shane Carwin the best and strongly urge him to get new management that has his best interests at heart.
UPDATE: Let me clarify, the decision to not fight is totally up to Shane and his doctors, family, coaches and management. I hope he made the decision that is best for his health. It's his dumbass decision to tweet that it was his OPTION to sit out the fight or not that I'm objecting to. If you have to drop out of a fight for health reasons, save the agonizing and second guessing for your private conversations with friends and family. Toe the company line on Twitter.
Few people are more highly regarded in the blogging-for-business world than Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net. He has essentially set the blueprint for how to turn a blog into a business, and is one of the go-to sources for tips on how to do as much. He had a chat with WebProNews at BlogWorld last week, after speaking in one of the more popular keynotes at the event.
Rowse discussed with us how people can get started blogging, and eventually turn their blogs into moneymakers. "You need a blog to start with, then really my first priority would be getting some useful content on there - some content that's actually going to solve some problems for people," he said. "So if you're blog's a how-to type blog, you want to start thinking 'what's a beginner in this topic need to know?' and start writing that type of content that you can be referring back to later, so that when you start promoting it, you've got content there that they'll find, that is engaging for them. So that is probably the first step, and then, it's about putting yourself out there, and trying to find some readers."
Have you been able to turn your blog into a business? Let us know.
If the how-to path is the one you're interested in traveling, I'd reccommend reading this article, discussing ways to create effective how-to articles, with tips provided by John Hewitt, who has written technical manuals for companies like IBM, Intuit, and Motorola.
Either way, "First you want to know who you want to attract, because it's kind of easy to get noticed on the Internet, but if you do it in the wrong way, you could actually 1. take yourself further away from your goals, but 2. find the wrong readers," noted Rowse. "You could get..readers from a place like Digg or StumbleUpon...some of these social bookmarking sites, but they may not actually be the type of person that you want to journey with for the whole long term. So define who you want to reach, and ask the question, 'where can I find them online?'"
"Answering that question, for me, on my photography site led me to Flickr. Flickr's a place where people have cameras, and not everyone takes great photos, so it was a place for me to develop a presence. For other blogs, it may lead you to Twitter or Facebook or another blog or a forum that is related to your particular niche."
Forums can actually be great for your brand (in some cases, maybe even more so than Facebook or Twitter). Forums are a good source of relevant discussion to your niche, provided you engage in the right places. They can help you establish yourself as an expert (not unlike Q&A sites), and they can be particularly good for building a search presence. Forum threads do really well in Google for certain queries, particularly when someone is looking for help with something.
"I think a lot of bloggers treat their blog as a hobby, and I mean, that certainly is the way I started out," Rowse told us. "I didn't realize you could make money from blogging when I started. But my wife kind of gave me an ultimatum after a while. I'd began to dream about my blog becoming a business, and certainly was moving in that direction...one day, she kind of said, 'you need to do it'. Then she gave me six months to get it done."
"Once I had that ultimatum, and that deadline in mind, it just switched in my mind and started making me thinking of it as a business now, and really that was the turning point for me, because I began to think more strategically about who was reading my blog, what they needed, and products that I could launch to them," he continued. "But also, I got on the phone for the fist time and started ringing advertisers to create a direct relationship with them."
Rowse recently discussed using temporary blogs as stepping stones for your broader goals:
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Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
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First up, let me clarify that I'm a HUGE Shane Carwin fan. The guy is a terrifying force in the Octagon. He's got his weak spots and limitations like any fighter, but I honestly believe he's the most potent offensive force in MMA today.
I am also a fan of the way he engages his fans online with his web site and twitter account. The guy has done a great job of marketing himself in many ways.
But let's cut the crap. Carwin is not doing himself any favors by pulling out of his UFC 125 fight against Roy Nelson. Unless his back is so severely injured that he has no choice but get the surgery he would be better off sucking it up, fighting hurt and getting the surgery after this fight if he still believes it to be necessary.
Why do I say this? Let me count the ways in the full entry.
UPDATE: From Shane-Carwin.com:
Update for my BE.com friends. I have been fighting injured for three years. I have done all of the things that "possibly could reduce the pain", in the end the problem continues to come back. I have spent a week getting treatments and the pain has been increasing. I really do not have a choice in the matter. Most managers need to milk all they can from fighters but mine is putting my interest ahead of what is best for him. That is actually a good thing.
I am getting a second opinion tonight but if he suggest surgery then I will be going that route. I have made up my mind that this is the likely outcome. With or without surgery I would face a 8-12 week recovery (no contact) time and not be ready for 125. My "options" are do surgery and repair it or spend 12 weeks recovering and apply a band aid and march on. I plan of fighting for a long time and while I may not be getting any younger I have certainly taken way less damage then anyone else in the UFC with as many fights as I have. Aside from Gonzaga breaking my nose I have not been hurt in any of my fights. So repairing my self so I can be at my best for the best part of my career is actually a really good idea.
To anyone questioning my ability to pass any test, I say bring it. I have and will always pass my test.
- Carwin himself says the surgery is optional.
That's not the kind of message to put out in a public forum. Dana White doesn't want to hear that. If Carwin needs to have the surgery, the thing to say is, "My fans know I wouldn't miss this fight if there were any other alternative, but I have to listen to the doctors and do what's best for my health." - Dana White and the UFC NEED Shane Carwin on this card.
UFC 125 is headlined by Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard. As talented as those two fighters are, they are not major PPV draws. It's a sad fact that lightweight fights don't sell as well as heavyweight fights and Frankie Edgar is not a star like B.J. Penn who can overcome that. Not to mention that many fans consider both Edgar and Maynard to be boring fighters to watch. Then there's the utter lack of personality or smack talk from either Edgar or Maynard. Not a recipe for a big New Year's card. Shane Carwin vs Roy Nelson was the perfect co-main. Heavyweight contenders with awesome KO highlight reels. Carwin fought in one of the biggest PPVs in UFC history at UFC 116 and Nelson was featured on the highest rated season of TUF ever. Plus both guys are willing to talk smack and promote themselves. - Shane is already likely on thin ice with the UFC.
Carwin got linked to a federal steroids prosecution after his UFC 116 fight. While Dana White didn't publicly pile on, that's not the kind of news he wants his fighters making. Not to mention the whole pre-UFC 116 controversy when Carwin and his manager Jason Genet told Bloody Elbow that they were limiting the amount of fight promotion Carwin would do for his title shot against Brock Lesnar to the bare minimum because they were not getting a % of the PPV money. They quickly retracted and attempted to burn our reporter when the UFC objected. Carwin's tweets last week about the UFC banning one of his sponsors couldn't have helped anything either. Things like that linger in the mind of Dana White. Ask Todd Duffee. - Shane Carwin is older and near the peak of his athletic years.
Does Carwin really have the time to take off for a risky back surgery? Back surgeries are high risk and low reward propositions for athletes. They often don't work at all. Ask Tito Ortiz. Carwin needs to be striking while the iron is hot and keeping himself in the good graces of the UFC and in the forefront of fans' minds. The UFC heavyweight division has seemingly passed him by in the blink of an eye. Young studs like Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos are going to be out ruling the world while Carwin is sitting on the side lines.
In sum, despite his public attacks on me and this site, I wish Shane Carwin the best and strongly urge him to get new management that has his best interests at heart.
UPDATE: Let me clarify, the decision to not fight is totally up to Shane and his doctors, family, coaches and management. I hope he made the decision that is best for his health. It's his dumbass decision to tweet that it was his OPTION to sit out the fight or not that I'm objecting to. If you have to drop out of a fight for health reasons, save the agonizing and second guessing for your private conversations with friends and family. Toe the company line on Twitter.
Few people are more highly regarded in the blogging-for-business world than Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net. He has essentially set the blueprint for how to turn a blog into a business, and is one of the go-to sources for tips on how to do as much. He had a chat with WebProNews at BlogWorld last week, after speaking in one of the more popular keynotes at the event.
Rowse discussed with us how people can get started blogging, and eventually turn their blogs into moneymakers. "You need a blog to start with, then really my first priority would be getting some useful content on there - some content that's actually going to solve some problems for people," he said. "So if you're blog's a how-to type blog, you want to start thinking 'what's a beginner in this topic need to know?' and start writing that type of content that you can be referring back to later, so that when you start promoting it, you've got content there that they'll find, that is engaging for them. So that is probably the first step, and then, it's about putting yourself out there, and trying to find some readers."
Have you been able to turn your blog into a business? Let us know.
If the how-to path is the one you're interested in traveling, I'd reccommend reading this article, discussing ways to create effective how-to articles, with tips provided by John Hewitt, who has written technical manuals for companies like IBM, Intuit, and Motorola.
Either way, "First you want to know who you want to attract, because it's kind of easy to get noticed on the Internet, but if you do it in the wrong way, you could actually 1. take yourself further away from your goals, but 2. find the wrong readers," noted Rowse. "You could get..readers from a place like Digg or StumbleUpon...some of these social bookmarking sites, but they may not actually be the type of person that you want to journey with for the whole long term. So define who you want to reach, and ask the question, 'where can I find them online?'"
"Answering that question, for me, on my photography site led me to Flickr. Flickr's a place where people have cameras, and not everyone takes great photos, so it was a place for me to develop a presence. For other blogs, it may lead you to Twitter or Facebook or another blog or a forum that is related to your particular niche."
Forums can actually be great for your brand (in some cases, maybe even more so than Facebook or Twitter). Forums are a good source of relevant discussion to your niche, provided you engage in the right places. They can help you establish yourself as an expert (not unlike Q&A sites), and they can be particularly good for building a search presence. Forum threads do really well in Google for certain queries, particularly when someone is looking for help with something.
"I think a lot of bloggers treat their blog as a hobby, and I mean, that certainly is the way I started out," Rowse told us. "I didn't realize you could make money from blogging when I started. But my wife kind of gave me an ultimatum after a while. I'd began to dream about my blog becoming a business, and certainly was moving in that direction...one day, she kind of said, 'you need to do it'. Then she gave me six months to get it done."
"Once I had that ultimatum, and that deadline in mind, it just switched in my mind and started making me thinking of it as a business now, and really that was the turning point for me, because I began to think more strategically about who was reading my blog, what they needed, and products that I could launch to them," he continued. "But also, I got on the phone for the fist time and started ringing advertisers to create a direct relationship with them."
Rowse recently discussed using temporary blogs as stepping stones for your broader goals:
eric seiger
Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
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Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
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First up, let me clarify that I'm a HUGE Shane Carwin fan. The guy is a terrifying force in the Octagon. He's got his weak spots and limitations like any fighter, but I honestly believe he's the most potent offensive force in MMA today.
I am also a fan of the way he engages his fans online with his web site and twitter account. The guy has done a great job of marketing himself in many ways.
But let's cut the crap. Carwin is not doing himself any favors by pulling out of his UFC 125 fight against Roy Nelson. Unless his back is so severely injured that he has no choice but get the surgery he would be better off sucking it up, fighting hurt and getting the surgery after this fight if he still believes it to be necessary.
Why do I say this? Let me count the ways in the full entry.
UPDATE: From Shane-Carwin.com:
Update for my BE.com friends. I have been fighting injured for three years. I have done all of the things that "possibly could reduce the pain", in the end the problem continues to come back. I have spent a week getting treatments and the pain has been increasing. I really do not have a choice in the matter. Most managers need to milk all they can from fighters but mine is putting my interest ahead of what is best for him. That is actually a good thing.
I am getting a second opinion tonight but if he suggest surgery then I will be going that route. I have made up my mind that this is the likely outcome. With or without surgery I would face a 8-12 week recovery (no contact) time and not be ready for 125. My "options" are do surgery and repair it or spend 12 weeks recovering and apply a band aid and march on. I plan of fighting for a long time and while I may not be getting any younger I have certainly taken way less damage then anyone else in the UFC with as many fights as I have. Aside from Gonzaga breaking my nose I have not been hurt in any of my fights. So repairing my self so I can be at my best for the best part of my career is actually a really good idea.
To anyone questioning my ability to pass any test, I say bring it. I have and will always pass my test.
- Carwin himself says the surgery is optional.
That's not the kind of message to put out in a public forum. Dana White doesn't want to hear that. If Carwin needs to have the surgery, the thing to say is, "My fans know I wouldn't miss this fight if there were any other alternative, but I have to listen to the doctors and do what's best for my health." - Dana White and the UFC NEED Shane Carwin on this card.
UFC 125 is headlined by Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard. As talented as those two fighters are, they are not major PPV draws. It's a sad fact that lightweight fights don't sell as well as heavyweight fights and Frankie Edgar is not a star like B.J. Penn who can overcome that. Not to mention that many fans consider both Edgar and Maynard to be boring fighters to watch. Then there's the utter lack of personality or smack talk from either Edgar or Maynard. Not a recipe for a big New Year's card. Shane Carwin vs Roy Nelson was the perfect co-main. Heavyweight contenders with awesome KO highlight reels. Carwin fought in one of the biggest PPVs in UFC history at UFC 116 and Nelson was featured on the highest rated season of TUF ever. Plus both guys are willing to talk smack and promote themselves. - Shane is already likely on thin ice with the UFC.
Carwin got linked to a federal steroids prosecution after his UFC 116 fight. While Dana White didn't publicly pile on, that's not the kind of news he wants his fighters making. Not to mention the whole pre-UFC 116 controversy when Carwin and his manager Jason Genet told Bloody Elbow that they were limiting the amount of fight promotion Carwin would do for his title shot against Brock Lesnar to the bare minimum because they were not getting a % of the PPV money. They quickly retracted and attempted to burn our reporter when the UFC objected. Carwin's tweets last week about the UFC banning one of his sponsors couldn't have helped anything either. Things like that linger in the mind of Dana White. Ask Todd Duffee. - Shane Carwin is older and near the peak of his athletic years.
Does Carwin really have the time to take off for a risky back surgery? Back surgeries are high risk and low reward propositions for athletes. They often don't work at all. Ask Tito Ortiz. Carwin needs to be striking while the iron is hot and keeping himself in the good graces of the UFC and in the forefront of fans' minds. The UFC heavyweight division has seemingly passed him by in the blink of an eye. Young studs like Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos are going to be out ruling the world while Carwin is sitting on the side lines.
In sum, despite his public attacks on me and this site, I wish Shane Carwin the best and strongly urge him to get new management that has his best interests at heart.
UPDATE: Let me clarify, the decision to not fight is totally up to Shane and his doctors, family, coaches and management. I hope he made the decision that is best for his health. It's his dumbass decision to tweet that it was his OPTION to sit out the fight or not that I'm objecting to. If you have to drop out of a fight for health reasons, save the agonizing and second guessing for your private conversations with friends and family. Toe the company line on Twitter.
Few people are more highly regarded in the blogging-for-business world than Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net. He has essentially set the blueprint for how to turn a blog into a business, and is one of the go-to sources for tips on how to do as much. He had a chat with WebProNews at BlogWorld last week, after speaking in one of the more popular keynotes at the event.
Rowse discussed with us how people can get started blogging, and eventually turn their blogs into moneymakers. "You need a blog to start with, then really my first priority would be getting some useful content on there - some content that's actually going to solve some problems for people," he said. "So if you're blog's a how-to type blog, you want to start thinking 'what's a beginner in this topic need to know?' and start writing that type of content that you can be referring back to later, so that when you start promoting it, you've got content there that they'll find, that is engaging for them. So that is probably the first step, and then, it's about putting yourself out there, and trying to find some readers."
Have you been able to turn your blog into a business? Let us know.
If the how-to path is the one you're interested in traveling, I'd reccommend reading this article, discussing ways to create effective how-to articles, with tips provided by John Hewitt, who has written technical manuals for companies like IBM, Intuit, and Motorola.
Either way, "First you want to know who you want to attract, because it's kind of easy to get noticed on the Internet, but if you do it in the wrong way, you could actually 1. take yourself further away from your goals, but 2. find the wrong readers," noted Rowse. "You could get..readers from a place like Digg or StumbleUpon...some of these social bookmarking sites, but they may not actually be the type of person that you want to journey with for the whole long term. So define who you want to reach, and ask the question, 'where can I find them online?'"
"Answering that question, for me, on my photography site led me to Flickr. Flickr's a place where people have cameras, and not everyone takes great photos, so it was a place for me to develop a presence. For other blogs, it may lead you to Twitter or Facebook or another blog or a forum that is related to your particular niche."
Forums can actually be great for your brand (in some cases, maybe even more so than Facebook or Twitter). Forums are a good source of relevant discussion to your niche, provided you engage in the right places. They can help you establish yourself as an expert (not unlike Q&A sites), and they can be particularly good for building a search presence. Forum threads do really well in Google for certain queries, particularly when someone is looking for help with something.
"I think a lot of bloggers treat their blog as a hobby, and I mean, that certainly is the way I started out," Rowse told us. "I didn't realize you could make money from blogging when I started. But my wife kind of gave me an ultimatum after a while. I'd began to dream about my blog becoming a business, and certainly was moving in that direction...one day, she kind of said, 'you need to do it'. Then she gave me six months to get it done."
"Once I had that ultimatum, and that deadline in mind, it just switched in my mind and started making me thinking of it as a business now, and really that was the turning point for me, because I began to think more strategically about who was reading my blog, what they needed, and products that I could launch to them," he continued. "But also, I got on the phone for the fist time and started ringing advertisers to create a direct relationship with them."
Rowse recently discussed using temporary blogs as stepping stones for your broader goals:
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Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
eric seiger
eric seiger
Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
eric seiger
Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
eric seiger
Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
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Even FOX <b>News</b> Not Hiring Christine O'Donnell
FOX News not doing something is always a banner news item. They also didn't burn down the Empire State building today or march naked through Times Square. Don't miss writing news copy about that! ...
Facebook Wins Another <b>News</b> Feed Patent
When Facebook originally filed for the patent in the fall of 2006, it was just a month before the company launched its news feed. It argued at the time that as more and more users joined the social network, the amount of information it ...
The Morning Line: There's <b>News</b> Beyond Zenyatta - NYTimes.com
Friday's horse racing roundup, including a look at the day's Breeders' Cup races.
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For some people the daily grind is a nightmare to be avoided at all costs. The relentless drag of routine, enforced close quarters with colleagues and putting a good portion of your destiny in the hands of a boss or supervisor can for some be a living hell.
Making money online offers the thrill of using your wits and ingenuity to earn your keep and also gives you flexibility and all the advantages of a home based or mobile mode of employment. If would terrify many but if it excites and interests you then you can get started today.
There are two questions to ask yourself as you set up to earn money online; how you can earn and how you would like to earn. The best plan is to start off fitting your knowledge and skills to the paying markets first and then start molding your own perfect job description when money is coming in. This not only cuts down on the stress of spending time without income but will allow you to get a good feel for how things are monetized or sold online before trying it yourself.
Consider what you know about and what you can do, make a list if that helps you. Let's say you know a lot about your hobby which is cooking and you are skilled in accounting which you've trained or worked in. Your first task will be to establish an income using what you already know.
The internet is full of sites which accept work of various kinds on a totally freelance basis with no pressure to do more than you want to and to earn perpetually for what you've done. You can make vector graphics for zazzle or café press, write articles for Associated Content, you can even compile books of poems, stories or photographs and sell them on lulu.com.
There are many sites online which function as marketplaces for freelance work such as Guru.com or ODesk. Freelancing is essentially a real job but it's one you can drop and pick up even on the basis of a day here and there if you get an unexpected bill. This facility is a great way to support and sustain your online earning dream. You're not overly likely to start earning a full living on your first day online so this is a good way to bridge those initial financial gaps.
To get started you want to find an established site that will allow you to earn money right away. After you get money coming in you can set up a site or blog and start adding an independent business element to the mix.
Taking the previous example of a skill set you could write ten articles on your hobby of cooking and ten on your knowledge base of accounting. You could learn your way around a free graphics program and make an "I love cooking" shirt design to put up on a site. You could link the shirt profile to the articles and vice versa, creating a flow between your content and more earning power. At this point you will have spent nothing and established a passive income stream. This won't be enough to constitute a wage until it's expanded and grown but it's a strong start.
To earn online you need to find and establish income streams, grow the content in those streams and then work hard churning out whatever content you're producing. The pivotal idea here is that you're creating items which can be sold indefinite numbers of times with no additional work from you. For example your lulu book can be sold endlessly, your articles can be read over and over again (earning you ad revenue) and unlimited numbers of people can buy a shirt with your design on it. You keep earning from these things for the foreseeable future. If one of your earning sites closed down you could take the content that was on it and upload it to a new site. This leads us onto another aspect of earning online, finding and vetting new sites to earn on.
The internet is teeming with scams, just like off line life. Navigating the scams and avoiding them is very easy and requires common sense and a suspicious attitude only. No genuine site would advertise itself with an offer of making you a millionaire for a one off fee. The mere idea is ridiculous and if you set out splashing money around on these kind of sites you just make others rich.
When looking around new sites you want to see that you can set up an account and try the system out for free. No sign up fee should be in place and certainly not a sign up fee that you have to cancel in thirty days if you want to avoid being charged something. Don't enter bank information unless the site is reputable and well established. Any site that is an honest business would not ask for your details unless it is strictly necessary. If the request for details seems unnecessary then it may well be a scam.
When you look at a new site consider what information you're being given. Is it clear and useful or is it a load of sales talk and a promise of wealth with no apparent foundation whatsoever? Does it have a picture of a fancy house and someone grinning next to a sports car? Use your common sense, deep down we all know these sites are scams but some people can't resist the chance that someone is going to pay them five hundred dollars an hour for typing up web content. Be smart and go on what you can see not what is being promised with no evidence you can actually earn. If you're having doubts then find an online scam forum and link to the site, posters will let you know if the site is genuine or not very quickly.
To be paid online you'll need a Pay Pal account. This is a way that sites can pay you your funds without needing to splash bank details back and forth. Helium for example pays into a Pay Pal account and from there you can dispense the funds to your bank. Pay Pal scams are rife and you need to carefully assess all incoming e-mail. This isn't as scary as it sounds, we've all had obviously fraudulent phone calls supposedly from our banks insisting that to avoid disaster we need to dispense our details over the phone. Pay Pal scams are just the internet version of financial scamming and if you can deal with one you can deal with the other.
When you receive e-mails from Pay Pal they will never ask you to enter any details in the mail. Any mails that ask you to do this are scams. Check the browser bar above the Pal Pal site each time you visit, is it the official address or does it look different? If it looks different you are looking at a page that has been made to look like the Pay Pal home page but in fact is a totally different site hosted elsewhere on the internet. The page has been made to collect your e-mail address and Pay Pal password. If you end up on a site like this do not enter your details and report the fake site to Pay Pal.
Pay Pal scams will evolve over time so it's a good idea to stay suspicious, keep checking the official site for ways to combat scamming and check forums to keep yourself up to speed. If you keep on top of it you will easily avoid scamming.
So let's recoup. So far you can find sites to work on and you've got started with entering content and established a bit of passive income. You also know how to grow these streams of income by plowing in the work. As you expand your volumes of online content you can expand the variety of things you are producing. You might start making video content and post to "how to" sites or upload photographs to pay to download sites. Once you've used your existing knowledge base to establish income you might decide you want to study Japanese language and culture and produce content about this topic which you can now do at your leisure while living off your passive income streams.
What you can do at this stage is add another level to your online earnings which will tie them all together, increase their profitability and also give scope for a business endeavor. You can invest in a simple website and link to all your online content and products for sale from this site. If you now promote this site you can advertise all your content at once.
In order to make the site appealing for visitors you can set up content on the pages and you could even set up a business to encourage visitors. For example you might offer a service writing Japanese dinner party recipes for people with special dietary requirements. If you are artistic you could offer nicely presented cards with the menu on them for customers to send to their dinner guests.
There are virtually no limits to what you can offer with your online business. If it ties in with your existing products as a running theme then great, if it doesn't then create content and products around that theme to see better results.
You can advertise your site with Google Adwords and target specifically the exact audience which you feel would enjoy your products, you can establish a blog online to attract a following and get feedback from them. As you did with your initial income stream building you will always improve and redirect to get the best results. If this goes well you could branch out into another site offering something new.
The scope of the internet for earning is vast. It can accommodate those wanting a little bit of extra cash on a flexible work schedule, those wanting to ditch the day job or those wanting a fully fledged career which is firmly within their control. From home you can work all day and night or not at all. You can keep shifting the direction of your work to match your interests and make sure that your working hours are fun and interesting and suit you down to the ground. You won't earn huge amounts of money if you never put any hard effort in but the effort you do put in will keep paying you again and again. In all likelihood once you get going work will never again be something you want to shy away from, it will be the most rewarding part of your life.
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