Is A Blog A Good Idea?
You know that old moan, “If only I’d known then what I know now!” Well that pretty much sums up what this site is about.
The fact is that I absolutely KNOW – for certain – that new arrivals to the internet marketing idea or premise are being ripped off with every passing minute and as I type these words.
It’s a fact that will never change. The ‘Make Money Online By Blogging’ marketers are, like some drooling and rabid pack of carnivores, simply sitting there waiting to pounce on the weakest in the herd – which in this case is the newer arrival to the ‘make money online’ theory.
OR, to be clearer, ME (as I once was) and YOU (possibly now).
But, as in the real world, there are different levels of predators and hangers on, it’s a kind of Food Chain:
The Lions: the so called ‘gurus’ with subscriber lists of hundreds of thousands who work in tandem with each other to promote each others products or memberships via smooth marketing campaigns which GUARANTEE them multi-million paydays even if only one in a thousand of us buy or opt in to their clever copywriting hard sells.
The Jackals: The Guru wannabees looking to emulate the big boys but not quite having the skillset or contacts to do it so successfully (yet). But they sucker in enough of us, year in and year out, to make it worth their while.
The Rodents: Nibbling around the edges offering tired old content and plagiarized versions of past ideas but packaging them nicely to convince us that, as it glitters, it must be gold.
The Roaches: The Get Rich Quick scammers whose only paydays come through ongoing lies and deceit. Programs that don’t work and a plethora of worthless e-books.
Do I sound a trifle bitter? Well of course I bloody am! Maybe my bitterness is because I wasn’t clued up or smart enough to have become one of those leonine gurus from day one! Instead every one of those buggers on that food chain has had a serious bite, nibble or suck on my bank account over the years!
And, of course, this spiel (i.e pitch) I’m giving you right now is recognized as being the ‘Guru Bashing Spiel’ so what’s a guy, like me ( or you), to do? As far as you’re concerned the chances are that I’m yet another in a l-o-n-g line of scam merchants promising you the moon and hiding behind fake outrage to convince you that I’m genuine and to send me your money!
Well, after a couple of false starts I calmed down a bit, got my thinking hat on and reckoned that this Blogwam.com site was the way forward, and also a way to convince others of the fact that my offer to help was/is genuine:
Free basic content on the basics of blog building and the basics of internet marketing for new arrivals letting them decide which area they want to concentrate on but getting them started on the right foot when they enter the arena.
Free Contributor status to the site so they can post their ideas and questions. Lots of commentary ( everyone’s invited – except spammers of course, which is why all posts here are moderated before they appear!)
Lots of free resources and links to places you need to visit and information that ‘the others’ charge for.
The opportunity to communicate with good folk at a similar, or higher, level of expertise to yourself.
AND a way for me to slag off ( = attack) or moan about anyone or anything I care to.
Take on board the information, freely available here, and you will be in the top 5% of bloggers immediately. Seriously! New blogs come online every day, the vast majority of which will never be seen by anyone other than the blogger, his or her self, and their family and friends. When was the last time YOU bought something from a family member!
Talking of purchases: YES! If I advertise something that I like ( and personally use) and you decide to buy it via my link I WILL make a few bucks/euros/quid/dinar. I don’t intend to hide that fact. The point is that to be a seriously successful blogger ( and by succesful I mean ‘money making’) you need buy nothing.
The fact is that there are some plugins/applications etc. that you might choose to buy to raise your game. I’ll be talking about those as we go.
I’ll also, no doubt more often, be reviewing products that are a total waste of your money and mine, which will be fun as I do so enjoy poking fun at the time-wasters.
It will take me a while to get all the cool input in here ( I’m importing from my other sites and doing research on your behalf right now) so please be patient ( and excuse my filling empty space with images that amuse me in the meantime) BUT when I’ve got it all set up nicely then later arrivals, but not you, may have to pay for the privilege of an insight into our combined knowledge and interaction via a small membership fee!
And THAT is when I might make some money from residual monthly membership payments on this lovely site. I’ll worry about that later in 2009.
By that stage you’ll be pretty ’switched on’ yourself and who knows where that might lead? You might even be running this site, one like it, or something far, far better in a niche market that you feel particularly at home with! Beer maybe…
The point is we all have to start somewhere when looking to make some money on the net. There’s a lot of crap out there as well as stuff that’s OK but is massively overpriced. If you trawl the internet you can find out most of what you need to know for free – I know that now. The point is you need to know where to look and I intend to help you out on that front as best I can.
So that, initially, is what I want Blogwam.com to offer in a fun and irreverent way and at the same time to get feedback from other bloggers and marketers to improve my own skillset.
It’s an ongoing learning curve ( make no mistake) with no real shortcuts, no matter what some may tell you! But, by the same token, you can learn how to make money online a lot faster when you know the right places to go ( I intend pointing you to a few), the right people to focus on and those that you need to avoid like the bloody plague!
Hope that all makes sense and that you’ll join me on the journey.
