In my last post, I encouraged you to write down 10 passions, interests, skills that you have.  If you haven’t done that yet, do it now, before proceeding.

Let’s set the stage.

I have chosen the topic of ‘babysitting’ as the passion/skill/strength that I want to build a blog about.

What should I write about?

I can think of a number of things off the top of my head…

• Babysitting rates
• How to find a good babysitter
• Babysitting safety skills
• Etc.

Unearthing your passions…

Part of finding your blogging voice is unearthing your passions, hobbies, skill and likes. 

Right now, let’s go through an exercise of jotting down 10 items that fit the above - you can do more later, but let’s get 10 down for now so we have something to work with.  Go ahead and do that now before you continue.

This is a sample list that I came up with:

1. Babysitting
2. Repairing Bicycles
3. Riding Horses
4. Singing in the Choir
5. Programming Computers
6. Baking

Some people are naturally expressive; freely expressing their thoughts vocally or on paper seems to be as easy as breathing…

…and then there are the rest of us who get tongued tied just thinking of speaking or writing about a topic.  Believe me, this is extremely common.

Podcasting is all the rage - it’s everywhere.  More and more website owners are lending their voices to this very significant internet multimedia medium.  There are many rewards, financial included, for those who learn how to effectively use podcasting - podcasting is easy to do and can be done for little cost or even FREE.

But let’s stop here and first define the term.

What is podcasting?

First, let’s start with the "wikipedia" definition:

Question:

I’m really interested in getting started with Internet Marketing, but I don’t know where to start.  It’s so frustrating, because I’m on dozens of mailing lists and each ‘expert’ is promoting something that is going to be ‘the’ solution - I don’t know which way to turn and I don’t want to waste my money.  Please help me sort this out a bit.

Answer:

Internet Marketing is a big topic, because there are so many potential ways to make money on the internet - this is a good thing.  However, I can identify with your sense of frustration of knowing where to start.

Welcome back to Part 2 of Internet Marketing Maps. Below is a graphic depiction of an Internet Marketing Map which gives me an instant view of exactly what to create and how all the pieces fit together.  This is the actual one that I used for my site.  And, believe me, this is not a very complicated campaign compared to some I’ve seen. You can click on map shown to get a full size version (pdf format).

Let’s talk a little more about each of the components shown.

I recently bought Michael Cheney’s 11 Days to List Profits list building course - a really excellent course on the nuts and bolts of quality list building. Michael produced over 40 video lessons on everything he knows about list building and I recommend it highly.

As I heard him speak through the material, I took notes, trying to internalize all that he had to teach on the topic of list building. One of the things that struck me is how intricate a seemingly ’simple’, quality marketing plan can actually be. There are articles, mini-courses, squeeze pages, autoresonders, website hosting, special reports, etc. to glue together in one integrated whole. There is a lot to it.

You’ve been hearing the buzz about blogs for some time now. It’s on the news, it’s all over the internet. If you’ve never tried to your hand a blogging before, I’m going to help you out. I just so happens that there is a FREE blogging hosting and software site called Blogger.com. You’ll be blogging inside of 15 minutes, I promise. Okay, let’s get started.  

Step 1 Open up an internet browser and navigate to http://blogger.com/. The screen below will appear.

Step 2 Click on the Orange Arrow that says "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW".  

Last time we looked at HTML Anchors.  In this lesson we will discuss Images. Pictures create a mood, a feeling on a website — their proper use can be very powerful. How do I put an image on my website page? First, let’s talk about the HTML code need to place an image on a website page.  Here it is:

 "IMG" is the image tag.  It’s a stand-alone tag, meaning it doesn’t require and ending tag, like some other tags. 

Last time we looked at HTML Tables.  In this lesson we will discuss HTML Anchors. What is an HTML Anchor? The HTML Anchor, quite simply, is you create a link on your blog or website. The HTML Anchor uses the A Tag: So let’s give you an example and then we’ll talk more about it.

HTML Anchor Code

HTML Archor Browser Results