As I found new information so I had new material to share. It was fun and exciting as I overcame new daily challenges. Now if you are thinking of going into the self improvement niche, I have something to share with you, but more of that in a moment.

Thinking about what you want to blog about can be a biggy. Do I have enough knowledge about this subject? Are there people interested in this to make my blog popular, so to make it worth my while? What benefit will I give to my readers? Will I continue to enjoy blogging about this? These are some of the questions that were running through my mind at the time. Perhaps these are some of your thoughts at the moment? If yes I have some great ideas to help you with.

I have come to realise how vast the self improvement industry is and the huge need there is out there…

Take for instance the searches made on Google for depression and anxiety. See for your self;

Go to: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type into the search box ”anxiety”. There are over 2 million searches made on Google alone. In this financial unstable time, there is a huge need for help in this area.

Do you think your blog could be popular if you could help people in this area? Perhaps you may have suffered from anxiety at some point in your life and can empathise with others.  What did you do to get over this? Could you write about this? Do you think that you could monetize your blog in this area? Sure you could, there is a huge demand for these types of products!

Or have you or are you trying to quit smoking? Have you ever suffered from low self esteem? As you can see the list just goes on. There is little wonder that this subject of “self improvement” is a multi billion dollar industry and could be well worth your while.

To make it even easier for you to get your own quality products to promote on your blog, my partner has just released a Self Improvement- Private Label Products site;  PLR-Self Improvement.com. With these newly released information products; you can sell, break them down into lots of smaller blog posts, use them as articles to publish and brand yourself on other sites. In fact you could do basically do what you want with it.

For anyone starting out in the self Improvement niche this is a great opportunity to get for yourself further ideas and materials to blog and promote. Just click this link and you will be taken straight there: http://plr-selfimprovement.com/

To your continued success.

**Christina Saunders**

Just like getting your domain name and blog title right , fore thought needs to be given on your blog subject or niche???

The BIG question is: What are you interested in? What is your passion? Setting up your own blog should be seen as a long term project, with long term commitment for it to be effective. Good content has to be continuously added, to bring your readers back for more. This takes dedication on your part, so share what you are passionate about. This makes it fun, as you share what you love.  Doing this brings vibrancy and enthusiasm to your blog… Because you love what you write about, you have much to share. No writers block in this area!!!

It is normally best to keep your blog to a specific subject or focused niche. 

Finding the right niche within your passion is also key. Do a Google search for a “free key word tool”. Type in your niche name and see how many searches per month are made for this term. This will give you an idea on how popular that is. Most tools will also give other suggested phrases to think about to use as your base.

By making your blog focused on a certain niche helps the search engines source relevant content for it’s users who are looking for information. If you can give them what they are looking for, the search engines will match you up and bring visitors to your website. The more visitors the more successful your blog will become…

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When talking about self discovery, what I mean is discovering, understanding, then learning to tune into your inner workings of how your subconscious and your conscious work in unison. Once understood, you can learn to work with this relationship to become a better thought provoking writer. A thought leader in your blogging niche.

All successful writers operate in more than a mental capacity, they have learnt to operate in a larger arena that many have not yet learnt to use. By digging deep within them selves, they unearth missing clues, conundrums, ideas, insights which have gone on to inspire their readers. Using certain techniques, these writers have become the thought leaders of their time.

They operate in more than a conscious level, they have learnt to mine all their past and present experiences- their collective whole. They do this by engaging their subconscious mind, which works 24 hours and seven days a week to source information, analyze, make sense of it all, to then come up with answers to previous questions put to it.

It is important to understand how the brain operates so you can capitalise on this wondrous creation. When you walk into a room all your senses are on full alert, eyes, ears, our sense of smell and feel. The eyes for one, take a complete picture of it, just as a camera would. All this detailed information would just boggle your conscious brain, so this information goes into your subconscious for sorting and storage.

All the important aspects relevant to you at that moment are given up to your conscious and those are what you are made aware of, the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures that your subconscious knows are placed high on your priority list. This conscious side processes this information which then directs your thoughts, decisions and emotions. It is so busy with running your life that not much attention is directed to what else your subconscious has to offer.

The consequence of this is, most of this logged material gets buried or made redundant as new stuff becomes available. The good news is most of this is retrievable and accessed to add richer colour to your writing that you never knew was there. There are techniques you can learn that will help you get access and tap into this wealth of knowledge and experience.

The subconscious is more than just a storage facility, it is also a dynamic and powerful processor for creative and innovative thinking. This is where your genius lies, by simply learning to tune into your still small voice, amongst all the chatter, is the path called self discovery. By doing this, a new dimension to your blog writing will emerge, by producing richer, more interesting content. The great thing is any one can get access to it, if that is what they really want.

If you need motivation to any writing, blog included, here is something that can work for you.

Nothing going right and you still need to write that article or blog post? There is a huge mountain of work you still need to do and you can’t seem to focus. No worries, I am here to show you a short cut that gets you going using The Power Of Choice, simply by choosing a positive attitude. This one decision that gets to make the difference between success and mediocrity or failure. Allow me to show you how to focus and you will see that article writing can be fun and rewarding, by just implementing a simple shift to your mind set.

If you have got to here, means that you have taken the first step to implementing the correct frame of mind, by wanting a positive writing attitude. You control what mood you want, by deciding on it and then taking the necessary action. It is as simple as that! It is a choice we make. Making this decision opens doors to new exciting, creative possibilities. To help you get there, here are 5 tips to work for you.

1. Think of some reward that you can reward yourself, for when you are finished?

Desire and a strong emotional surge are life’s strongest forces, getting you to take action to start! Once started it is easier to keep the ball rolling. Think up some reward that you will be rewarded with, when you have finished this scoop. What is in it for you that could bring you satisfaction of having finished it. It could be pride, self satisfaction / affirmation, taking one more step to reaching your goal or it could be just allowing yourself the pleasure of some small treat like a cup of milk chocolate or coffee?

2. Decide now that this is a opportunity to shine, have fun and it will be an enjoyable time.

Your writing attitude can never be one of have to!!! Always DECIDE that this is an opportunity now, to be taken, made the most of and enjoyed this very moment. By choosing opportunities and possibilities opens up new horizons and achievements for you. This is where fresh insights, ideas, inspiration are forged, molded and cast, so be open to receive them. Then act on what you get.

3. Determine that this piece is going to be great.

You go where you set your sights, your goals or intentions. Have a clear vision and see success and open doors ahead of you. Writing is your voice, so use it to make your message bold and strong. Always be aware of the choices you make and what attitude you decide on, because this will be reflected in the fragrance your piece that makes it stand apart.

4. The power of your intentions.

Make the whole exercise ahead of you a time to help and share with others. An opportunity to change peoples lives, to empower, motivate, educate, inform and create interest in new exciting concepts, strategies or opportunities. You have much to give, so get down and share those extraordinary pieces of wisdom trapped inside of you. Make a difference in yours and your readers lives by deciding to do just that. By making it a joyful experience, brings with it enthusiasm that inspires and motivates.

5. Visualise yourself having finished this article.

Once you have decided to do this and what it is you want as your reward, then focus, high light these anticipated pleasures and outcomes. Visualise yourself having finished this article and then bask in the delight and emotion of the moment. Start writing while holding onto the emotion of having received your rewards. This will drive you on to completion without any distractions.

By putting a reward system or anticipated treat in place and then looking forward to this pleasure, will surely cure any bad karma you may have had to writing this article. Doing this will bring focus and desire to finish what you start. Another by product to having a positive attitude brings with it an energy that is picked up to be enjoyed by your reader.

**Rod Saunders**

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1. Think about what people who visit your blog want. Ask yourself, what problems are they experiencing that I can help with. When I started what did I learn to helped me to get to where I am now? These are ideas that can be formulated into something of benefit that you should be inspired to write about.

2. What have I recently learnt that was informative helpful, inspiring, humorous, or entertaining? Work this into your blog giving your unique flavour. As You grow share those benefits, solutions, ideas or even “struggles” to show that you to are human.

3. Sign up with www.Stumbleupon.com and get their weekly review of the most popular sites. Find sites relevant to your blog for ideas, tips or strategies.

4. Google trends is another site worth visiting to see what’s hot. Write about something of interest that you have found then point your readers in that direction. Out ward links from your blog are also good as it shows your readers that you care about them by offering something of quality. They will come back for more as regulars.

5. Write down a list of ten questions relating to your niche that your readers could be asking. Just do a google search ” intelligent questions on …….” you will be amazed at what questions get asked. This is a great way to jump in to give your input.

6. Use a good key word tool that gives alternate keywords and phrases. This I find is great inspiration for my heading. Once the heading is decided, just write down every thing you know  without really thinking. You can always come back to proof read it.

7. What up and coming important event is due? This can be the foundation to your blog ideas. Easter for example or the next big game. What plans, views or interests can you write about?

Inspiration for writing a blog is easy if you think about these 7 blogging tips and ideas.

**Christina Saunders**

• a. Be prepared to Learn, Work Hard by Taking Action through implementing what you learn.
• b.  Invest Time and Money in Yourself and Business, make mistakes, then learn some more as you find out what does not work for your blog… 
• c. Requires persistence, desire, faith and belief in yourself to succeed.  
• d. Blogging for money takes you on a sharp learning curve, embrace this as you’re enriched by becoming a more competent, confident you.
• e. The great thing about this all is that the skills needed to make money can be learnt, and all the information to making money “Internet marketing” is available here on the Internet mostly for free.

So What Do You Need To Make Money?

1.You need your own blog website  preferably with your own domain name and hosting account.

2. You need to post quality content using optimized keywords in a niche where people buy in.

3. Need products, services or expertise to sell.

4. Need to know marketing which includes copy writing skills.

5. Learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO)  to drive traffic to your blog.

6. You need to list build targeted names and e-mail address’s of prospects interested in your niche or product.

7. Need to automate your communication with this list building to build trust and confidence.

8. Need to listen and be sensitive to your readers (prospects) needs, desires or problems.

9. Find a solution and offer help in the best way possible. Customer is King and always right !!!

10. Always be on the look out for fresh ideas, products, affiliates to JV with, and information to add to your blog.

Search other sites in your niche to see what is successful for them and how they make money by blogging. No need to reinvent the wheel, just improve what you got. By mastering this blog making money top 10 list you can go anywhere in the world and do it, even on a sunny beach of your favourite destination.

Good luck,

PS. Grab your free copy of “Your Newbies Guide To Blogging” e-book.

**Christina Saunders**

It has to be a passion on your part because in order to make it a money maker it needs persistence, enthusiasm and dedication. There are exceptions to this, if you’re a well known celebrity for instance. Other than that it may take time and a lot of work to become known and followed.                                                

So here are my 5 blog beginners guide money making tips:

1. To successfully monetize your blog you have to make it a living personality that grows, communicates and interacts with your visitors. Make it a one stop resource centre that supplies as many benefits as possible. Always be on the lookout for new ideas, entertainment, information or resources for your prospects. Frequent forums within your blogosphere to find out what people want in order to know what to provide.

2. Find affiliates within your niche that you can partner with by promoting their products. For every sale made coming from you earns a commission. Two well known sites that offer digital products such as information eBooks and computer soft ware are: Clickbank at www.clickbank.com,  and  www.paydotcom.com.

3. Put Google adsence on your blog. All it is, is a code that you sign up for from Google to add in your WordPress wigget area. This scans your blog for appropriate  products related to your blog content to promote. Every click earns you a commission.

4. Sign up with www.Amazon.com or www.Ebay.comto promote their physical products as a partner, for a small commission of course. Amazon has a number of promotions to choose from that you can add to your blog, all very easy to set up. With Ebay choose a product, write a review and promote that affiliate link.

5. Create your own product such as an ebook, using PLR products, audio Mp3 file or instructional video. Sign up with Paypal for example, set up a payment button to install on your site to take any payments for you.

Most of these affiliate sites have training videos helping you set up. If you get stuck do a web search, there is stacks of free training, especially on Youtube for you. Other wise leave a comment below and tell me what is on your mind. If I can be of help I’ll do what I can in helping you make money on your blog.

**Christina Saunders**

1. Adapting my best blog post into +- 300 word articles.

2. Publishing these articles on ezine directories that have Twitter feed.

3. Actively building a Twitter following.

More on each of these:

1. Publishing articles in a popular Ezine such as www.ezinearticles.com is a great way to exponentially explode your exposure and expertise to people interested in your topic. Why? Because they are searching for information in that category. A targeted prospect interested in your topic… Search engines such as Google have much regard for articles published here. One article of mine has being read by over 750 viewers since December and is still working for me.

2. Publishing these articles on ezine directories that have Twitter feed. Some ezines, (in the author tools section) manages your Twitter details in order to broadcast to your followers your newly published article details. Of course when they read it, in the resource box you lace it with a compelling offer to visit your blogs squeeze page for your news letter.

3. Actively building a Twitter following. On Twitter you can find an enormous amount of interested people in your niche or passion topic. These again are a targeted audience that you want frequenting your blog… so go out and follow them. What normally happens they reciprocate back. A great force to use.

These three elements, blogs, articles and Twitter are what I am concentrating on now that gets me my blog traffic.

**Christina Saunders**

With an information overload, so much to learn and so little time available that I thought why not give you a step by step amateur’s guide to walk you through it all. For a website used by business’s, bloggers, collectors, support groups and numerous other people that show case’s their special interests and ideas. Your Newbies A to Z Guide to building your own website.

1. Get your Domain Name or URL

Your first step to your own unique site. This is the name that you choose to be registered, given to your site. Think of a short catchy name that will be relevant, will be easily spelt and remembered. Now you need to go to a registrar site such as www.Godaddy.com and check to see if that name is available.

They offer a free search on that name and give a list of all other possible variations to choose from. Go for a .com or something like .co.uk type name. These are always the best. You don’t want your prospects going to the wrong web address by going to .com when your site is called .org for instance  This name now needs to be registered to you and an annual fee paid for the right to use it. This is just the front end of your website.

2. Choose a Web Host to become a Home for Your Website.

Web Hosts are companies that have computers connected to the Internet on a continuous base’s. They offer various services such as a WordPress account, email address and Cpanel area to upload your web page’s, manage them from. This is where your website becomes visible to the world and anyone can come and view your information on offer.

The Web host that I recommend and use, is Hostgator.com.  Go there and sign up for an account to house your website/s. You can host as many domain names at no extra cost. This means all your different niches and campaigns can be managed through one account for not a cent extra. Have access to free website tools such as Fantastico and WordPress to build your site and have a cpanel to manage your websites with:  Hostgator.com

3. Transfer Your Domain Name From the Registrar Godaddy to Your Hosting Site i.e. Hostgator.

4. Decide on What Kind of Website You Want…

As a beginner your next step now is to build your website. You can go for the easy WordPress blog style website such as this one or you have other options like using your own creation of your design, to choosing templates from www.freewebtemplates.com or www.templatemonster.com and building on that. I have not used these sites so don’t know what they are like?. Depending on the choice of method in building your site, different courses will follow.

A.  WordPress Blog. Inside Hostgator/your website Cpanel or “control panel” go to Fantastico and choose WordPress. You can follow video tutorials in setting up your site from there.

B. Template Style Sites. Down load the template of your choice to your computer. You now need a HTML web editor to edit with. Dreamweaver is a program editor that you can buy or you can use a free one called NVU. A quick search found this site http://www.net2.com/nvu/ offering a free down load. This editor is what you will use to design and update your website with.

5. Hostgator now offers you a Free Web Disc Account.

The Web Disk allows you to easily drag and drop files to your hosting account from your computer. You can create a Web Disk log-in and access your Web Disk from there. Once your Web Disk is configured, you can then drag and drop files to it just like they are part of your home computer. You can also navigate through the files in your hosting account just as you do the files on your local computer.

To help you set up your own website and learn more advanced web design methods, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months newbie membership club membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.      

If you are any thing like me there is so much to learn you will get stuck in, to never look back at your business growth. Newbie Membership Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.