Learning Seo Can Make You 100K This Year

Open Your Ears

One thing I have done since the first time I discovered that its possible to make money online, is to educate myself on the whole concept of marketing. Ironically the marketing that has taken me to the next level has been the passion I have for seo. I don’t consider myself an expert in seo, I’m just a guy who have been around Google for over 10 years now and know how things work.

I say the only experts in seo are the ones who work for Google when it comes to the department that handle all the search criteria. These are the people who are experts because they know what all it takes to achieve higher rankings without having  to quest. You see I’m not guessing when it comes to seo because I have ranked thousands of keywords, but it just that I don’t know everything because I’m not the person who work for them so I ‘m just going to teach the things that I know that works.

So once you sit down and get the right seo training, then you will be able to not only make money for yourself but also be able to gain thousands or even millions by using that talent to help others..

Setup a Biz 

So I started the Coleman Marketing Group LLC because I wanted a business where I can help other people rank when it comes to seo. My job is to go out and find individuals, small businesses or organization and help them dominate their market by helping them rank for targeted keywords.

I’m able to do this because I made a commitment to learn seo to help myself and plus help businesses grow to the massive. The question comes down to how can you do something like this and start making a easy 10k to 15k a month by implementing the same things I’m about to teach you.

Now you will want to offer seo consulting and seo services if you want to be able to make money with those who want to learn and those who just need someone to do the work. So the next thing you need to come up with is the price you want to charge for your services.

If you want to get to that 100k then you will need to get to work quickly by setting up your goals. One thing you will need to do is maybe charge about $1200 for seo services and maybe $300 to $500 for seo consulting. These are some great competitive prices if you want to compete in the seo market.

Finding Clients

You can’t make any money without having clients, so here is a couple of things you can do to get people to buy into your services. First you can put on free workshops at the local library like what I do, and visit local businesses and had out a flyer explaining that you will be having a free 1hrmarketing workshop.

Here is when your able to educate them on the power of seo and the reason why they should entertain implementing it on their site. Next you can call up every real estate business in town and let them know you perform seo and see if they will be interested in seo help.

Look..these are just the tip of the iceberg of things you can do to bring in clients, but to break things down you will need to get clients to sign on. Your will need to get 50 different businesses to come to your free workshop every month and be able to turn at least 10 of them into clients.

Now if all ten 10 clients come on as wanting seo services..then you can be averaging around $10,000 a month with ease. So if you multiply that by 12 months out of the years, then you set yourself up as having a very profitable businesses. Now remember this is not a fact..this is just a simple strategy you can use if you want to learn how to make more money.


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Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging

I was a little surprised this morning when, after I’d given a talk on business blogging, a seminar attendee asked if I’d seen the Newsweek article this week on why it’s impossible to make money with blogs.

“Guess I’ll give it all back, then,” was my off-the-cuff answer.

But out of curiosity, I picked the mag up on the way back to my room. If you haven’t seen it, Daniel Lyons, a talented blogger known for two years as “Fake Steve Jobs,” has an editorial that explains why none of us can make money blogging.

Big traffic, no money

Fake Steve Jobs’ best month came with a traffic spike. His actual identity was revealed in the New York Times, sending more than a half-million people to his site in a single day.

His payout? For that half-million-visitor day, about a hundred dollars in AdSense earnings. For the entire month, he made $1,039.81.

Not quite what he was hoping for when he became a celebrity blogger and earned an impressive amount of attention and notoriety.

So if Fake Steve Jobs can’t monetize a blog, the rest of us are doomed, right? He worked hard, he created quality content, he had a terrific angle that went nicely viral. He was at the pinnacle, and he’s broke. So we will be too.

It must be true, he said it in Newsweek.

I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.

The expert weighs in

The article then tapped another source for a little expert credibility, Paul Verna, an analyst with eMarketer.

Verna’s take was that the real issue was “the lack of a clear business model that can generate substantial revenues.”

Verna’s on the right track, but we’re still a long way from the core problem.

If your business model is “I want to make money on the Internet,” you’re not going to get very far. The Internet is profoundly indifferent to your desire to make money with it.

Please notice that this does not mean that “there is no possible viable business model for any blog, other than a few fortunate exceptions that prove the rule,” which was the conclusion Lyons reached.

It just means that Fake Steve Jobs didn’t come up with a working business model, so he didn’t make any money.

Blogs are not television

I’ll confess, I have no idea how to monetize Fake Steve Jobs. His readers aren’t coming to his site to solve any kind of real-world problem, other than “how can I kill 10 minutes before my boss gets back from lunch?”

Television networks produce entertainment. They either make money from advertising or, for premium cable channels, from subscriptions.

If you want to watch Lost, you have to watch ads. Tivo dented that model considerably, but it still works well enough for now.

Advertising can work on some content web sites, but it usually works best when the reader is coming to the site to figure out a solution to a problem. If an ad presents a relevant solution to that problem, the ad can be effective.

For a complex bunch of reasons, advertising isn’t especially effective on most blogs. Unless there’s a terrific message-to-market match, ads on blogs tend to underperform wildly.

If you want to make money in the real world, solve real problems

Too bad Lyons wasn’t a Copyblogger reader. He might have seen Brian’s post about the smartest monetization strategies for blogs and content sites, and why advertising is no longer on that list.

It’s not about trends in advertising or trends in the blogosphere. It’s about returning to a fundamental marketing truth.

If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.

People do want entertainment and relief from boredom, but selling pure entertainment online is tricky. Right now the expectation on the web is that entertainment is free. You’ll have to get creative to escape that context, the same way musicians had to get creative to make a living when free music sharing became the norm.

It’s time for online business to grow up

For a long time, we believed that “online was different,” and that we didn’t need to accept any of the normal rules of business. We’d put something on the web and Magic Internet Dust would come along and make up for our total absence of business knowledge.

“Leap, and the net will appear,” was the mantra.

That sort of worked for awhile, but it doesn’t work now. If you don’t have a solid understanding of who your market is, how they’ll find you, and what problems you solve for them, it’s now “Leap, and the floor will appear.”

So focus on what does work now, and has always worked.

Provide value. Solve actual problems. Uncover what’s bugging people and fix it for them.

The real Steve Jobs sells beautiful, easy-to-use, loveable tools that make his customers’ lives better. If Fake Steve Jobs wanted to make money, he would have had to do some work to figure out how he could do the same.

About the Author: Sonia Simone is Senior Editor of Copyblogger and the founder of Remarkable Communication.

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How To Blog: A Beginner's Blog

How To Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide

How to blog is something that a lot of us old hands take for granted, but for the beginner starting a blog can seem like a daunting tangle of questions and issues to be resolved. In this guide, I have gathered all of the essential resources you'll need to start a blog. Here's how:

Photo credit: Konstantinos Kottinis

Gathering a number of resources from both MasterNewMedia and other useful websites, I have tried to answer here the common questions about starting a blog that most new bloggers have.

While it would be impossible to cover everything, you should find here all of the basics, and more, on how to create a blog that is properly niche-targeted and that can be read by someone other than your best friends.

In short, a simple primer on "how to blog", that will take you from choosing your subject and blog platform, through to making your blog text stand out and grab the attention of your readers.

I answer the following questions:

• What is a blog?
• Why should I create a blog?
• Which online blogging platform should I use?
• Can I publish from a desktop application?
• What should I write about?
• How can I make my blog content stand out?
• Where can I find free or cheap images to use in my blog?
• Where can I find more online blogging resources

So dip in, take what you need, and get yourself on the road to being an independent online publisher and starting a blog.

There's never been a better time to get started.

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