A Little Personal History

With the recent slowdown in the computer industry, I decided that I wanted to begin a business of my own. I had heard that there were great opportunities for making money on the internet and that even teens make money online. I decided to develop my own website to try my hand at making quick money online.

I had developed complex web based systems in my role as CIO and Director of MIS and my experience was that all sorts of complicated programming and complex HTML was necessary to get a website up. I really didn’t want to work that hard. I asked someone who was an expert web developer and he suggested doing a WordPress blog. I tried this and even though I wasn’t sure I wanted to do a blog, I figured it wasn’t bad to start with.

I started developing the blog but I had no idea what to write about. I wanted to write about computers and be helpful to people with all levels of computer skills. I just guessed at what articles people might be interested in and threw together a few posts.

Needless to say, that although I thought that I had written some decent stuff, I didn’t get much traffic. Even after advertising, I only managed to get about 20 visitors a day. Additionally, I really had no idea how I would make any money from this. I basically had no idea what was involved in doing business on the web.

In the course of my floundering about, I came upon a site that recommended Sitesell. I reviewed the material and watched the videos of the different business models that they supported and I realized that I had found web nirvana.

Here was the program that not only provided tools to develop a website without requiring any technical knowledge and skills at all but had all the business bases covered. I discovered that what I wanted to be was what was called an infopreneur. They had a very enlightening video of someone who had had great success using SBI (Site Build It!) to develop an infopreneur site.

I had really wanted to have a type of business which would allow me to control my hours and engage in certain studies without being tied down to a very rigid schedule. In SBI I had found the answer. This would allow me to live the type of life that I had really wanted.

A big bonus of the system is that you can write about your passion, the thing that interests you the most, and make money doing it.

How Do They Do It?

The secret of making money online is that there really is no quick way to do it. Even though there are surely some that have succeeded in doing this, most of the people offering you quick money are just trying to take advantage of you to get a quick buck out of you.

Ken Evoy, the founder of SiteSell, spent a long time studying the Internet to figure out what really works. He came up with an entire philosophy of Internet based business development that supports all sorts of lifestyles and ways of making money. His system does not offer a quick trip to the pot of the gold at the end of the rainbow. However, he does offer a program that works after some serious effort for a very high percentage of people that use it and supply what he calls BAM, brains and motivation.

He came up with the concept of CTPM. Content -> Traffic -> Presell -> Monetize.

What people on the web are really looking for is content. Information is the lifeblood of the web. When a site can show someone interested in motorcycles the advantages and disadvantages of a particular bike, the finder will be very please and will become a fan of the site. When this happens many times to different people with different needs relating to motorcycles, traffic to the site builds up. Once visitors come they can be presold by overdelivering and providing them with excellent and useful information for free. When they have received value from you, they will trust you and will be ready to purchase items that you may offer. At this point you can monetize in many ways. You can provide links to vendors that offer related products and get a finders fee for sending the customer, you can put up related Google ads, you can offer services or hard goods and make money many other ways.

SBI follows this approach itself and overdelivers to those who use it. SBI provides:

• a total system for building a web based money making business
• tools to develop a full featured website which require practically no technical skills
• programs to supercharge the internet marketing of the website and provide SEO (search engine optimization) features so that the most effective website possible is generated
• tons of documentation about every aspect of the process including valuable eBooks that teach you how to write articles that presell, how to sell effectively and much more
• a 10 day step by step plan in either video or document format
• a vibrant and active user community forum that provides help and answers for any questions that you might have. You are never alone

All this empowers people to be able to live the type of life that they want to live.

SBI Really Works

Review these case studies to see the different types of
businesses that can be developed and find the one that appeals to you.

Here are some samples of successful SBI sites. Notice how a very large number of SBI sites rank in the top levels of the Internet.

SBI itself a successful company that breeds success for those that follow its program.

Try it for yourself. Select one of the valuable tools or eBooks chock full of valuable information that anyone who wants to succeed on the web must know.

Guaranteed and Worry Free Purchase

If you have any questions or concerns, you can speak directly to successful owners of SBI about any type of web site that you are interested in.

The purchase of SBI comes with a Money-back Satisfaction Guarantee. You can try SBI risk-free.

For those of you who might be interested in a highly profitable affiliate program, here is information on the SiteSell Five Pillar program.

People put things up on the web in order to publicize information for one reason or another. SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of doing things to make the search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo etc.) promote you since the way people find things on the web is via the search engines.

The 3 things that need to be done to get traffic to any site, including blogs, is to use popular keywords in the proper way, generate links to your sites and induce the search engine spiders to pay attention to your site. All of these things will cause the search engines to give your site a higher ranking.

SEO software can help in this process. My SEO Software article and my SEO Software review article describes this in detail.

SEO Blogging Software

What software or aids are available to get your blog up there?

General SEO software helps blogs. However, there are certain SEO books, utilities and programs created specifically for blogs. There are packages that will set up a blog for you to do the right things. The eBooks provide crucial information for getting the most from your blog. There are programs that take advantage of the trackback feature to gain valuable links to your blog while collecting useful posts from other blogs to let you easily generate new articles rapidly.

Jeff Johnson has released a package of free SEO blogging software that sets up a new Wordpress blog with various options and settings that can be done fairly easily manually but his package automates all the drudge work. It makes sure that the naming of the blog entries is search engine friendly (the blog name contains the keywords that the article is about) by setting the permalink format (the way your blog post’s URL is built) properly. So if your blog is about happy songs, the URL of your blog about the songs of the 80’s would look like www.happysongs.com/happy-songs-of -the-80s. It also provides you with useful plugins that are commonly used to improve blog SEO such as the AntiSocial plugin which promotes your blog in the social networking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon. It also fills in the ping list of servers to be notified when a new post is added. Andy Beard has reviewed the product and the Davinator has also reviewed this package.

The automatic features are very helpful and the package offers a large number of free videos that offer a wealth of data that can really help you to soup up your blogs SEO. It’s free so there is no downside in getting it and installing it on a new site.

Although this package is helpful in setting up your blog and will save you some time, in my opinion it’s better to understand the principles behind what he is doing and do them yourself. Josh Spaulding has an excellent eBook on this called The Ultimate Blogging Blueprint which is excellent for the beginner and has some great SEO tips for the more experienced bloggers.

Jack Humphries has released 2 powerful programs that solve 2 problems at once. The main problem that bloggers face is the need to produce quality content on a consistent basis. Creating fresh and interesting content is a challenge. Bloggers also need links to rate in the search engines.

Jack Humphries programs solve these problems in an elegant fashion. Both of them search blogs for articles related to keywords that you provide. They then allow you to easily integrate these articles into your blog and set up trackbacks for you so that if the blog that you referred to accepts your trackback you will get a link back to your site. Jack has provided informative videos that describe their operation in detail. Visit Trackboost and Utility Poster to see these programs in action.

In this blog we will present many useful and interesting tips, reviews, articles about hot topics and other items of general interest.

Tips

This is the first tips post and it contains information that you can use. In the tips category, you will find new ways to use your PC. Common computer problems and how to handle them will also be presented.

This category will be updated on an ongoing basis. New tips and fixes will be added all the time. Stay posted for the latest and greatest.

THE COMPUTER IS TELLING ME THAT DATA EXECUTION PREVENTION IS NOT ALLOWING ME TO RUN A PROGRAM FOR MY OWN PROTECTION.

I get an error that reads: ” To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program. Name: Windows Explorer Publisher: Microsoft Corporation” The only option is to Close the message.

Microsoft has built protection into your system so that viruses and such which might try to run in prohibited places in your computer should be prevented from doing so. The Data Execution Prevention system is in charge of this. However, sometimes it protects you against legitimate programs.

The first thing to do is to check for any viruses or spyware by using anti virus and anti spyware software. For more about this see Computer Internet Security

If this has been done and the problem persists, do the following to prevent the Data Execution Prevention from applying to this program:

Click start->Control Panel->System. Select the Advanced tab, (Performance) Settings, Data Execution Prevention tab. Select “Turn on DEP (Data Execution Protection) for all programs and services except those I select”. Click Add - and browse to the Windows Explorer exe and then Click OK.

Since you have set DEP to ignore the Windows Explorer, it won’t stop it anymore. Any other program that it stops is probably a virus or some other bad program.

CAN CHANGING OR ADDING MEMORY CAUSE A DISK CRASH?

A technician of a famous computer manufacturer told me that this could happen.

I don’t believe this to be true. Other experts that I consulted felt the same way.

USER PROFILE CANNOT BE LOADED

You turn on your computer and you get the message “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.”

The solution to this problem can be found at User Profile Error Fix

HOW DO I OPEN A CMK FILE?

You need the Card Shop Plus program. It is used to make greeting cards and the like.

In general if you want to know what program to use for a particular file extension xyz, search for file type where xyz is the 3 letter (or longer) file extension and you will find results that will tell you what kind of program to use.

HOW DO I CHANGE SCREEN RESOLUTION

My screen resolution is too low and I can’t fit very much on my screen. How do I change it?

Find a free area on your desktop and right click. Select properties and then settings. Slide the slider to a setting that you are comfortable with. Try it and if it looks good and you like it, leave it that way

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