Starting An Online Business From Scratch

Blog Commenting Is About Reach

With as much as we have on us to build a successful online business, the last thing we need to be doing is wasting time.  Time is money.  One of the places we need to make sure we’re being effective in is link building through blog commenting.  Leaving comments on blogs that don’t allow us to engage their readers is a waste of time.  Oh sure, you’ll still probably get the link but what you really want is to join a community.

Toward this end, here are my 7 tips for successful blog commenting.

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But I Know The Mission Of My Website

Do you? I had an interesting revelation this morning.  I just finished Darren Rowse’s Problogger book and I was going back to a site of mine to update the About page.  I scanned the text I had entered almost two years ago and realized something. It did not communicate to my visitors what the site was about really. Oh sure, it gave them a general idea what to expect on the site but it didn’t address the most important question- what can I do for you and why would you come here to learn it?

Of course, I started into editing mode immediately and set to fix that major oversight.  No problem, right?  Just be specific about what the site can do for them and you’re done, right?  After numerous attempts to edit this page to better reflect the site’s goals and mission, I fell on revelation number two.

I didn’t know exactly what the site was about!
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We Need To Save Our Ideas

All of us are constantly looking for ways to streamline our businesses and become more productive. One of the ways we do this is to consolidate our planning and doing processes.  We’re being told all the time to keep a small notebook with us so we can write down ideas that come to us.  Whether they’re for articles or products or ways to expand our reach, we’re told to get as much down as we can as quickly as we can so the details don’t slip away from us.  We all know how frustrating it can be to look at our chicken scratch note and not be able to figure out what the hell we were thinking.  We could end up like Jerry in the Seinfeld episode where he writes down a joke idea half asleep and then spends the entire episode trying to get it deciphered only to find out it was crap to begin with.

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The Holidays Are Upon Us

Hi!  Just a quick note to tell you about the holiday sale going on over at SpeedPPC. For a limited time you can snag SpeedPPC for 50% off its original price.

SpeedPPC is the premier Pay Per Click suite of marketing tools that will help you get a leg up on your competitiion this holiday season.  This is a powerful system which I have used and endorse.

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We All Do It

We’ve all got friends that we “know” have it made.  They’ve been working in the same field they graduated college with a degree in for years.  We’re “sure” they have their retirements almost set and their investments all in a row.  When they retire, they’re going to travel the world and move from one beautiful place to another until they’re too old to travel.  Then, they’ll just stay in whatever country they find themselves in, right?

Is this reality?  My point here is what if it is?  What difference should that make to us.  Other than using this fiction we create to make ourselves feel inferior or lesser in some way how does this help us?

It doesn’t.

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