Lessons You can Learn from the Professionals

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In the previous article on Adsense, we discussed the pros and cons of using this to monetise your website/blogging efforts, especially with regard to the issue of when it should be introduced.  We still need to cover the technicalities of setting up Adsense, but before we do that, let’s look at what works and what does n’t from my own personal experience to date, and also, see if we can learn something from the professionals.

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Making Meaning - Case Study 1: Knowledge

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Part 1: The Making Money Online Hype
Part 2: Problogger, Making Money Online & The Hunger to Succeed
Part 3: The Importance of Making Meaning

Let us now continue our journey and see what it really means to add meaning to something.  I’m going to share with you in this post one of my favourite blog sites of all time, which exemplifies this principle and if you would take time to study this blogger’s format, and his message it will really change your own thinking.

At the end of the day, what it is all about is the VALUE you add as an individual, to the sum total of human knowledge, either by creating this with some original thought or sharing what you know with others.  True, we want to make money, but the meaning that Guy Kawasaki talks about, comes from that core, that essence of helping our fellow mankind to better themselves through knowledge.  It does n’t matter how you do it, but reach that inner core within your self and let it guide your efforts, and you will find the meaning and the purpose.  Enough of the preaching, so let’s begin.

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The Importance Of Making Meaning

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This is a follow up article on the Making Money Online Hype versus Reality series. In Part 1, we dispelled some of the myths about earning huge sums of money when you’re starting off, that you need to be realistic with your expectations. In Part 2, we gave real life examples of people who did make it big, and you can see the photo of Jeremy Schoemaker holding his Google adsense check of $132,994.97 which shows it can be done, and how you should persevere with your efforts to succeed in this game.

Now, in Part 3, I want to share a video from Stanford University with my readers, for anyone who is into making money, this is a must watch video because it teaches the importance of ‘Meaning’, and why you should focus on this rather than think about making money. I have found this video really inspirational and it is one of the reasons I decided on a new blueprint for this website to focus on the quality of content. Let’s take a closer look at why we should take heed of this message in our blogging journey.

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Let’s consider Adsense and the what, when and why you should, or indeed, why sometimes you should not use it until the time is right!!

Adsense - What is it?

Anyone involved in blogging or web site development will have heard of Adsense and it usually comes into play when you’ve got somewhere with your site and are looking for a means of monetising your efforts.  Adsense is an advertisement program run by Google, and website / blog owners can register for an account with Google to display text, image, and video on their websites.  When visitors to your sites click on these advertisements,  they generate revenue for you on a ‘per-click‘ or ‘per-impression‘ basis.  Lets look at this in more detail.

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There is a lot of hype about making money online, and we discussed this in the last article, but what is the Reality.  Well I’ve given you my own story so far, and it shows that there is no such thing as an overnight success, not in today’s saturated market place.  It probably was easier, in the early days, when no-one had heard about blogging, but now it’s a different ballgame.  But don’t be disheartened, and join me in finding out how we can use this knowledge to inspire us in our own endeavours.

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In this post I’m going to share with my readers my own experience so far with setting up this web/blog site and trying to Make Money Online, and some of the things I’ve learnt on the way, so hopefully you may avoid some of the pitfalls yourselves.  Join me as we look at Google’s phenomenal earnings, how easy it is to get drawn into the hype and why it’s important to set yourself reasonable expectations.

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This is a follow-up article from the last one on Making Money from Domain Names.  In the previous article we covered the interesting developments in the global internet market on the actual worth of Domain Names, that the market has grown big enough for people to actually consider looking at Domain Names as actual real tangible assets, much like property or real estate.

If you’re wondering about Domain Names, and have thought of a brilliant name that you’re just dying to get out there and register it before someone else claims it, then you can read the step by step guide in my article on How to Register your Website/Blog DNS Name and go to my preferred domain name registration service 123-Reg (my affiliate link) to do this.   What we’re going to consider now is, once you’ve got your Domain Name, something you can call an asset, what do you do with it, if you’re too busy with your day job and have already got 50 blogs running, ok maybe not 50, but 1 or 2.  And, more importantly, each of these blogs is taking up all the bandwidth of time available to you.

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Did you know that Domain Names are exchanging hands for millions of pounds, hard to believe is n’t it.  Let’s take a closer look at this internet phenomena.

In the previous article, we looked at how to set up your own domain name using the company 123-Reg.  Now I’m going to explain, why I think it’s important to have your own Domain Name and the reason for this article.  On Saturday last week, I came across a really catchy article as I was browsing the forums pages of my own web-hosting service provider WebHostingUk which I wanted to share with my readers.

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