Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Top Misc Content on Internet

Top Misc Content on Internet


Secangkir Kopi di Pagi Hari dan Segudang Ide

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Berbicara mengenai internet, banyak sekali hal yang bisa anda dapatkan lewat teknologi ini, mulai dari informasi yang cepat dan akurat juga additional income yang sangat-sangat menggiurkan dan kebanyakan ditawarkan dalam bentuk Dollar. Wow… tentu saja hal ini bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa anda lewatkan.

Memang banyak sekali fakta tentang internet yang mungkin telah anda ketahui ataupun anda tidak ketahui, termasuk, taukah anda bahwa salah satu Dewa Olimpia, yaitu Hermes adalah penemu internet? Tentu saja anda tidak tahu kalau anda tidak membaca Percy Jackson karya Rick Riordan. Yes, it is a joke and it is not true. Tapi itu bukan intinya, kecuali anda penggemar dan pencinta cerita fantasi dan terobsesi dengan Greek Mytology, owwww… yeah that’s me. Dengan kata lain, kalau anda menjadi saya, mungkin anda akan menganggap fakta itu menarik tapi jika anda bukan saya, maka fakta jenis itu, well mungkin masih menarik tapi tentu saja tidak semenarik saya menanggapinya.

Mungkin anda mulai berfikir? What my point is… well, there is no point at all actually kecuali fakta bahwa saya baru saja menonton dua film romantis twice in a row pada jam 2 pagi dini hari karena saya baru saja meneguk dua gelas cappuccino (what???!!! they are soooo good so one cup is not enough ^_^), dan sekarang sudah jam 5 lewat dua menit dan saya masih juga belum jatuh tertidur, dan jam 9 pagi saya harus sudah siap untuk acara makan-makan seorang teman, jadi agak tidak etis kalau saya jatuh tertidur dan meminta maaf atas ketidakhadiran saya hanya karena saya minum dua gelas cappuccino malam sebelumnya. Jadi saya memutuskan, dari pada saya jatuh tertidur dan tidak menghadiri acaranya, lebih baik saya membuat satu gelas lagi cappuccino sambil menulis tulisan ini dan berharap semoga jam 9 pagi datang lebih cepat.

Kembali membahas mengenai internet. Sekitar dua tahun yang lalu, saya menemukan sebuah selebaran di tempelkan di dinding lowongan kerja kampus saya. Well, sebagai seorang mahasiswi yang masih sibuk bekerja dengan skripsi, tentu saja mulai mengintip dinding lowongan pekerjaan sudah menjadi suatu keharusan walaupun belum menjadi kewajiban, karena skripsi adalah kewajibannya saat itu. Jadi disanalah, dicari writer untuk menulis paid review untuk website atau blog. Jujur, saya gak tau apa itu paid review, yang saya tau hanya dicari seorang penulis dan saya pikir, well saya bisa nulis. Tanpa ragu-ragu sayapun menelpon nomer telpon yang tertera, dan dua minggu kemudian, I got my first job. Dan petualangan saya sebagai seorang web content writer pun dimulai. Awalnya, memang agak susah karena banyak sekali hal-hal yang tidak saya ketahui, contohnya apa itu reverse mortgage atau pay day loan. Tapi sekarang, dengan dua tahun pengalaman, saya bahkan bisa menyebutkan tipe-tipe diabetes mellitus lengkap dengan penjelasan tentang symptoms dan treatment yang tepat atau dimana anda harus mencari informasi tentang the best online store for gourmet pop corn? hahaha… anda pikir mungkin saya bercanda, well, I’m not. Memang beberapa tulisan yang saya buat memang informative tapi tidak sedikit juga yang bullshit. Makanya, web content writer kebanyakan lebih prefer disebut sebagai ghost writer karena somehow pekerjaan jenis ini memang memalukan tapi, no offense, bisa mendatangkan banyak income.

That is why, dengan dua tahun pengalaman dan asam garam bekerja di beberapa perusahaan sekaligus dan pernah menjadi asisten admin untuk beberapa waktu, saya pikir cukup buat saya menulis untuk orang, bagaimana kalau orang menulis untuk saya. Wow, gaya sekali bahasa saya ya? Seorang teman yang dulu pernah bekerja di tempat yang sama dengan saya, yang kemudian saya tahu bahwa dia juga senior saya di kampus (mengingat walau bekerja di satu perusahaan, semua komunikasi dilakukan secara online), dan kami pun memutuskan untuk memulai sendiri bisnis web content writer ini. Beberapa nama sempat menjadi references, dan akhirnya dipilihlah Gudang Content. Beberapa dari anda bertanya-tanya, mengapa Gudang Content. Well, entahlah nama itu muncul begitu saja di pikiran saya dan rekan kerja saya menyetujuinya begitu saja, dan ketika mengecek di gmail nama itupun masih tersedia. So, why not? Kalau anda berfikir saya tipe orang yang percaya mengenai nama hoki, hari keberuntungan atau warna yang tidak boleh saya pakai di hari Senin atau sejenis itu, well anda salah. Mungkin anda mendapati saya fantasi story freak dan terobsesi dengan greek mytology dan pencita penulis Inggris dan menulis tentang Dark Humor dan Harry Potter untuk skripsinya dan masih banyak lagi hal aneh tentang saya, tapi saya bukan tipe Feng-shui atau membaca ramalan bintang setiap saat (walau faktanya saya juga follower @ZodiacFact di Twitter, hanya untuk sekedar have fun). Jadi walau nama Gudang content dipilih tidak berdasarkan jumlah huruf hoki atau entah bagaimana G adalah jenis huruf keberuntungan, tapi saya percaya dengan kerja keras, Gudang content bisa menjadi Gudang segala sesuatu yang anda cari, mulai dari Gudang untuk tulisan-tulisan informatif untuk blog anda sampai Gudang solusi bagi anda yang mencari professional content writer seperti saya (hehe promosi).

So, intinya saya mulai membuka mata bahwa menjadi web content writer mungkin adalah salah satu kesempatan saya untuk mulai melihat dunia. Dimulai dari dunia maya dulu, baru kemudian mungkin dunia yang sesungguhnya, dunia menulis yang sesungguhnya. Karena walau bagaimanapun membosankannya menulis tentang Online Casino setiap hari, saya tetap menikmati pekerjaan ini dan semoga akan selalu begitu, mengingat Gudang Content baru saja dibentuk dan saya tidak boleh jatuh tertidur karena bosan saat menjalankan project ini.

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Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:54 AM PDT

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What does the Future Hold for Advertising?

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT

The moment you start to think about advertisements, your mind flashes pictures about your favorite brands. That is the impact of advertisements in our life. We are constantly bombarded with ads every hour of the day. In spite of ads being hilarious, emotional, irritating or sad, we still want them so as to know about new products.

12 Ways to Turn Your Old, Dusty Blog Archive into Cold, Hard Cash

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:49 AM PDT

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Have you ever looked back through your old blog posts and thought, “Why did I give away all of this brilliant writing for free?”

Well, here’s some good news: Unless your blog topic is last night’s baseball scores or this week’s hurricane, there’s income potential in those old posts yet.

Loads of it.

If your posts have evergreen, highly useful information, they can be turned into paid products.

With a little effort you can recombine, reuse, repackage, and repurpose that old material into new forms.

And people will pay money for them.

Yes, I know. It’s illogical — why don’t they just go back through and read your blog for free?

Most readers simply don’t.

Happily, some people would prefer to shell out their hard-earned cash for a handier, fancier, or better-organized slice of your content delivered in a different format.

So, don’t disappoint them …

12 simple ways you can earn from that dusty archive

  1. eBook. Once you’ve accumulated 50-100 posts or so, you have plenty of material you can repackage into an eBook. Probably two-thirds of my first ebook was adapted from my first 75 blog posts. You can slice and dice your stack of posts different ways, too, using the same post in more than one eBook. Create a “20 Best Blog Posts” eBook, for instance, a “Best of the Mailbag” for the reader questions you answered, or several short eBooks on a few of your most popular topics.
  2. Teleclass. Print out a few blog posts and read them on a phone call, riff on them a little bit, take some questions from the audience, and you’ve got a teleclass. Charge a fee, or make the class free to draw a bigger crowd. Then, sell other products to your teleclass audience live, and sell the recording of the class on your website. You can also use the recording as a freebie incentive to help stimulate sales of higher-ticket products.
  3. Webinar. Add some eye-catching PowerPoint slides to that teleclass, and now it’s a full-fledged Webinar — and worth more money — while still basically just recycling your blog posts. Don’t forget to make limited-time product or service offers during the broadcast to rake in additional sales. Don’t have another product? Presell the next Webinar you plan to do off another set of your old blog posts.
  4. Paid speaking engagement. Perform that Webinar before a live, in-person audience instead of broadcasting it over the Interwebs, and you’ve got another revenue source. Start doing free talks, get some experience, and then see if you can find paid work. This recently happened to a friend of mine — he gave a live talk that essentially recycled a few of his recent blog posts, and was immediately told by a professional speaker present that he could command $5,000-$8,000 an appearance if he wanted to hit the pro-speaking circuit. Ka-ching!
  5. One-on-one mentoring. Some people read your blog, but they just don’t get it. They can’t apply the knowledge you’re sharing to their own lives. They need personalized help implementing your teachings. String your blog posts together into a course, spend a few hours talking through your materials with them on the phone, customize your advice to fit their circumstances, and charge a premium for granting one person your undivided attention.
  6. Group coaching. Instead of spending a few hours on one person, take the same information from those blog posts you use in individual mentoring and teach them to a group of 10 or 12 at a time. You can charge a more affordable rate, but your hourly rate goes up because you have more participants on the consulting calls. Group coaching is popular because it’s a way to get personal access to an expert without paying the individual-coaching rate. I recently introduced this and immediately sold out four times as many slots as I usually sold for personal mentoring in a month. Tape these sessions and you’ve also got a set of recordings you could edit down and sell at a package price.
  7. PDF report. Boil down the gist of the blog posts you used to create your presentation into a report that sums up your key points and you can charge more, both live and when you sell recordings later. The report can also be used on its own as a freebie to drive signups to your email list. And once you build a list, you can sell stuff. The report is a major money-enabler.
  8. Go back and link old blog posts to new offers. Once you’ve created those new eBooks or Webinars, you can turn old blog posts into perpetual sales-referral machines by going back and adding links to your new products. Prioritize your most popular older posts for link-i-fying, then try to go through your whole blogroll as time allows.
  9. Charge micropayments. Think you’ve got some great older posts? Go back and place them behind a micropayment paywall, where readers can see the top free, but then have to pay $.99 to read the full post. There are a growing number of providers that can help you automate this process, including well-known names such as PayPal Micropay and Payments.Amazon, as well as many startup services. Watch out as many charge steep fees — one of the cheapest at the moment is CashSender.
  10. Repost in your membership community. If you reorganize your blog posts under theme topics, you can present them as courses inside a paid membership group. The more content you have in your community, the easier it is to attract and keep those paying members, who’ll appreciate the convenience of not having to hunt through your blog for information piecemeal.
  11. Audition piece to get paying gigs. If you’re interested in adding some blogging-for-hire to your resume, you can position your blog as one big “clip” to entice paying clients. Add a “hire me” tab to your blog, make sure your site has a clean, uncluttered design and your posts stick to your niche topic. (That one you wrote about the funny pig video on YouTube? Delete it.) Then target some company blogs in your subject area and start inquiring whether they need a paid blogger.
  12. Rewrite and resell. Once you’ve written about a topic on your own blog, it’s usually not much work to rewrite it for a paying market. Throw a piece of breaking news into the mix that adds a new spin to your original post, go back to your notes for a few new quotes or additional points, find a new related link or two, give it all a light rewrite and presto — a whole new post you could sell to other blogs. Don’t be an article spinner and have some robot replace all your adjectives with hilariously inappropriate ones and call it a rewrite — write a completely new post on your topic. It usually takes me maybe 15 or 20 minutes.

Do you have cash sitting in your archives?

Remember that brand-new readers find your blog all the time — and they’ve never seen your older stuff.

Many of your current subscribers haven't read all your posts, either, unless you've got a 100 percent click-through rate ;)

So, do your readers (and yourself) a favor and scoop up your best older posts and turn them into a new, paid product.

How have you turned your “old” blog posts into income? Leave a comment below and tell us your technique.

About the Author: Carol Tice keeps finding new uses for the posts on her Make a Living Writing blog. She answers freelance writers’ questions Wednesdays at noon PST on her podcast, The Freelance Writer’s Free-for-All.

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How To Keep Kevin Costner From Ruining Your Blog and Business

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 07:22 AM PDT

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In the Internet Marketing for Smart People radio show finale to season one, Brian refers to “Kevin Costner Syndrome”, a condition that affects a number of bloggers, marketers, and entrepreneurs.

If you saw Costner’s 1989 blockbuster "Field of Dreams," you remember the line from the film:

If you build it, they will come.

It was heartwarming and inspirational in the movie. It can destroy you as an online marketer.

You’ve been told that if you start blogging and “join the conversation,” your appreciative audience will be magically drawn to you.

Some people blogging for business are still waiting for "them" to come.

Silly people. Good thing we'd never fall for that … We know better. Right?

Eh … maybe not.

Many of us who read Copyblogger are chasing dreams of our own right now. We're building it because we believe they will come.

We just know they'll come. Tired as we are, we don't understand why our dreams aren't getting the attention they deserve.

If this sounds like you, it's possible that you have Kevin Costner Syndrome (KCS), too.

KCS eats your dreams for breakfast

Entrepreneurs are easily enchanted by the "Field of Dreams" story.

We love the idea that our dreams are premonitions of unstoppable events.

Resistance loves that we love that idea, too.

On its own, KCS can be an incredible asset for an entrepreneur. It can give us the faith we need to pull through the darkest days of our journey. However, it also makes us vulnerable to misleading direction.

Planting voices that masquerade as our own is resistance's specialty, so how do you know whether your calling is pure?

Easy. Just answer this simple question:

What is your ball field?

In other words, what’s the grand attraction that will draw those appreciative crowds?

Was your answer printed books, e-books, recorded audio, recorded video, websites, consulting packages, a service, or some other thing you can hold in your hand?

If so, it can only mean one thing: you've been had.

Instead of building the best ball field you could, you spent too much time getting the best deal on screws for the bleachers and controversy-free chalk for the lines.

You were so focused on painting the concession stand (twice, because you didn't like the color the first time) that you forgot to order the lights. You needed the light, so you put out some floor lamps and had friends hold up flashlights for as long as their arms could handle.

You've been so busy focusing on the logistics, you missed the message.

Save your dream from Costner's death grip

Don't let KCS ruin your life.

Every legendary entrepreneur has a few busted ball fields in his or her history, and they went on to do amazing things.

You can too, if you properly manage your condition.

KCS is easily managed by understanding two critical truths:

  1. Your ball field is not your various products
  2. Your ball field is your core message

Things like books or consulting hours are nothing more than media for your message, often referred to as your Unique Selling Proposition. It's the positioning statement that transmits the emotional content required to draw them to your product or service.

The message doesn't tell your story — it's the takeaway you build your story around. If you've been building your ball field with a message that's about people giving you money, you're not going to be as intriguing as a would-be competitor who's been building her customer-focused USP.

Your message is the driving force behind the vehicles you select (like websites, books, consulting packages, and so on). Without it, you're lacking a magnet for the masses. Polish it to address a proven need and you're ripe for a home run.

But what if your core message is still unclear to you?

Consider flipping it…

If you build them, it will come

Instead of continuing to throw products down an empty hall, consider taking a break for a moment … just sit back and listen.

Focus on the people you want to work with and observe them in action. Learn what they care about and what makes them tick.

When you're building relationships, you find out what your friends and associates want and need. They tell you. You just need to listen and be ready to make yourself useful.

Don't stop writing just because you haven't nailed your USP yet. Fine-tune it while you're making things and making friends.

Try on a message or two and see how they fit.

You'll know when it's right — your legions of customers will tell you.

Just be patient. Be observant. And whatever you do, don't stop believin' …

About the Author: Jessica Commins is a project manager for game-changers and a connoisseur of iced tea. Following her on Twitter might be the easiest thing you do all day.


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