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If you’ve been to the grocery store recently, it is no doubt that you have noticed the cost of groceries rising. In terms of your budget, you can either cut expenses or increase your income. This particular downturn in the economy has been around for quite a while. What can you do when you’ve already cut your budget to the bone and beyond?

Basically you need to create new income right now. A 2010 survey by the Conference Research Group revealed that as many as 55 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with their current jobs. You could go out and get another job you hate and try to weave your life around that or you could create something with what you already have to bring in additional money while keeping your sanity. If you’re going to expend the effort, you might as well create something that you love, right? Obviously, we can’t just print money like the government does, so what can you do? You have expertise and interests that are your gifts to mankind. It is your duty to share those gifts with your fellow man! You will be amazed at what happens and how enriched your life becomes when you share your gifts.

1. Start your own blog about your passion. Starting a blog about your passion is very easy to do. There are many resources out on the internet including a FREE 7-Day eCourse on this very website. If you are passionate about a subject, chances are you know a great deal about it. Because you know a great deal about it, you won’t be struggling to find content to write for your blog and the time you invest will be pleasurable. This is an activity that can be performed any where you have an internet connection. When you use Google Adsense and visitors to your blog click on your links, you make money! Just concentrate on providing great value to your readers and the money will come.

2. Teach a class about your passion. Sharing your information and expertise about your topic is great and it’s even better when you meet other people with similar interests. The best way to do this is to teach a class about your topic. You will not only meet folks with similar interests but you will meet those who are looking for solutions to problems that are related to your topic. Take the time to speak with your new students and find out about them. Find out why they attending your class and ask them how you can be of assistance to them. Provided that you are not selling anything at your initial class, you will find many restaurants with meeting rooms who are willing to provide you with meeting space free of charge.

3. Offer services that surround your passion. Once you have had the opportunity to mingle with your students, you will have a good idea of what their needs are surrounding your passion. You can then either create services to solve their problems or find someone who already provides that service and you can negotiate a deal to be paid for putting their service in front of your students. When the students pay for the service, you get paid. You’ve saved the service provider money on advertising and you’ve helped to solve your students problems. By doing this, you have created value for all the people involved including yourself!

4. Sell products affiliated with your passion. You can also either create products that your readers and students want or you can find them and make them aware of the products. Once again, you will want to create an affiliate relationship with the vendor prior to introducing the product to your reader/student so that you can be paid when they purchase the product.

5. Write an e-book pertaining to your passion. Because you are so passionate about your topic and you have created hungry readers with your blog, you can easily write an electronic book or e-book to further education your audience on your topic of choice. Once the eBook is written, you can sell it on your blog for another influx of money. You might even consider creating a workbook that could be used as a complementary part of your classes.

Hopefully, this gets your creative juices flowing about how to begin to create avenues of income surrounding your passion. Creating value for your readers is your number one priority! As the old adage says, build it and they will come. You can be paid handsomely for solving problems for other people. The first step begins with your 7-Day eCourse. It’s free so sign up today!

We’ve all heard of blogs. There are free blogs. There are paid blogs. Blogs have been around for about 10 years. How are blogs judged? Are they judged by the number of unique visitors, amount of income they generate, amount of time a reader spends on the site, value they provide to readers? Are there different features that need to be included to achieve a given goal? What is it that makes a blog great? I’ve combined a list of basic elements that will launch your blog above the rest.

1. Create value for your reader! Your reader is usually looking for something in particular when they click upon your site. Determine what they are looking for by posting articles and watching to see what that does to your traffic and providing more if the traffic increases significantly. Provide the reader the ability to leave comments as they can provide valuable insight in this manner.

2. Use keywords to attract readers. Using Google Adwords, you can determine valuable keywords to include in your articles to drive traffic to your site.

3. Provide resources to your readers. What a valuable resource is to your reader will vary depending upon the niche chosen. Typically checklists, templates, diagrams, how to series are great resources.

4. Keep the blog active by posting articles every 2-3 days at a minimum. Blogging is not a set it and forget it method of making money. A lot of blogs are literal electronic ghost towns. It is very apparent to the reader when the date is not on the article and the information is outdated or they visit several times and nothing has changed in the last week or so. I’ve been guilty of this myself; however, a good way to work around this is to write several articles at once and schedule them to be released during your busy periods so that the site is still fresh and alive even though you may be basking on the beach in Maui.

5. Give something to your reader and provide an opt-in box. Provide the reader with valuable content and ask them to provide their name and e-mail so that you can open the communication channel to include e-mail as well as online communication.

6. Use Google Adsense. Google Adsense is a great way to earn a few pennies here and there to offset the cost of hosting. While you cannot click on your own Adsense ads, you can give others some “Google Love” by clicking on their ads. It only takes a moment and it helps the other guy out.

7. Use video. This is where blogs beat books hands down. Use video on your blog to further establish a connection with your reader. Video is a great way to convey your personality to your reader and I’ve seen statistics saying that it boosts readership by over 300%!

8. Know what sizes and colors to use when placing ads on your blog. In this particular case, size, placement and color do matter! Humans are sensitized to know what is an ad and typically will not click on it unless they are looking for that particular item. Ads within the body of the post should be 336×280 or 300×250 for best results. Ads at the bottom of the post should be 468×60 or 234×60 for best results. The leaderboard display panel which places advertising unit above your posts is best at 728×90 pixels. Colors of ads should blend into your theme, have no border (color FFFFFF) and the link needs to be blue because most humans are trained to believe that all links are blue.

9. Know who your competition is and what their keywords are. Use Google search to find some of your keywords. The blogs that show up in the top 5 results are your competition. Use SpyFu to determine not only what their keywords are but also for which AdWords they are currently paying. It’s a great tool!

10. Personalize the reader experience. Make the reader’s experience fun and valuable and you will create a great following. Create a contest to add some excitement. Recommend resources they may not be aware of. When writing speak to your reader as you would a friend at the coffee shop to create a closer connection. If you’re having fun chances are your readers are enjoying their experience as well!