7 Traits of Successful People
Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you’ve even read it. Published in 1989, this book still influences people all around the world, giving them valuable lessons in personal change. Even today, it holds some very powerful ideas which, when put to correct use, can help you accomplish your dreams.
It’s called The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People and it was written by Stephen R. Covey. If you’ve already read this book, then you know that I’m talking about a piece of sheer apocalyptic writing. If you haven’t, then I suggest you do. Either way, here follows my own interpretation; a paraphrased synopsis if you will, of what you can do to lead yourself to success.
Adding partners, not employees
In today’s world and with the rapid expansion of the Internet, small teams can easily find themselves overburdened with many projects while they’re not expecting them. That’s when they need more “man-power” to be able to handle the additional work.
Looking for an employee to add to a small team is not an easy thing to do. And when we speak for the first employee Read more…
Juggling many projects?
One thing is for sure. Getting into the internet marketing field also means getting excited about all the possibilities and opportunities that come along the way. Most of the time, we tend to take on too many projects simultaneously. This is almost fine, as long as the projects are short-term ones. The main problems arise when our projects are long-term and involve teams with many people.
For quite some time, I used to think that the way to go was many in-house projects with many other people. My aim was to get involved with several teams and help each one with its project management, promotion, monetization and branding. I thought that since my tasks were limited to team management and promotion, and since my involvement actively starts near the end of each project right before its release, it’s the best to take on as many as possible and hope one of them meets success. I thought I had all bases covered.
But I was wrong!
What I found out the hard way was Read more…
How often should I post?
One of the starting decisions you will have to make when starting your own website or blog, is the frequency of posting. It’s so important that I am devoting a whole article to it. :P
I don’t want to scare you, but it can be hard deciding on how often to post. Your long-term goal is to gain frequent and regular visitors, therefore posting should also be frequent and consistent.
Why do I need a blog?
Working with many people I often get the same question again and again.
Why do I need to have a blog? I am just a…
If I got asked this question four to five years ago my response would be very different. But nowadays, having a blog is a necessity no matter who you are or what’s your field.
Blogs help businesses
Up to now only large corporations had blogs, but today it seems everyone has one or has started one recently.
Why? It’s simple.
What is a CMS?
Nowadays, the amount of information shared over the Internet increases exponentially. This includes the information available that many organizations make known. A never-ending cycle, it implies that a source exposing more information makes the source more influential, resulting in even more information being exposed by other sources. In order for this information to be managed, several systems have been implemented to facilitate the creation and, most importantly, its organization. Therefore, any modern web site of dynamically managed content should implement a Content Management System (CMS).
The most popular CMS are:
- WordPress
- Joomla
- Drupal
Let’s take a look at them and see what each one has to offer.
Path to Choose
I’ve been trying to find a way to choose how this blog will evolve.
There are two approaches.
The first one would be to write articles about advanced users and create a “strong” appearance on the Internet Marketing industry. While this might be a good way to “kickstart” the blog and create a lot of “hype” I think that it would be much better if I could:
Start from scratch
Lay everything down from the beginning and guide the readers from step and day one. I am sure many friends will be disappointed, but the value that a “newbie” in Internet Marketing will get is more than I could hope for this blog.
Getting someone who has never heard of internet Marketing before and guide through through every step seems much more fulfilling to me. So if you’re reading this post and haven’t got a clue what Internet Marketing is and how people make a lot of money with their websites, just add the site to your RSS list or your bookmarks and start exploring this amazing field.
That’s it for now, good luck on this beginning to both of us! :)
Angel
Journey so Far
My journey in Internet Marketing started six years ago. It was a process that involved a lot of “playing” and much trial and error. After all, it’s the journey that counts, not the destination.
This mentality didn’t help in the beginning, but at least I’ve learned my lessons.
The journey itself might be a splendid thing, but without a goal, any journey is endless and ultimately pointless. To truly understand this notion, I had to spend 6 months on my computer trying to rank position 25 for a term searched over 24.000 times a day; only to realize that the market was crawling with webmasters and the money I was making from my own traffic wouldn’t ever be particularly good. Well that’s the problem with me: once I see competition, I’m all up in it – no hesitation. LESSON LEARNED.
Welcome Post
Hello and welcome to my new blog, Moneytized.com!
Thinking about it, this blog has been being developed for more than two years. It was always my intention to release a blog not only about SEO (search engine optimization), but about Internet Marketing in general, including guides for various fields of Internet Marketing, from campaign management to branding.
When I first started with Internet Marketing back in 2005, I was always keeping notes on special posts I’ve read, and making comments on everything. Watching this folder with data grow was the best thing I could imagine, but at the same time, the need to transform this data into information so that it can be shared with the rest of the world, became stronger.
This blog is created and will be used as a tool for me and friends to find all information needed much more easily. It will be my pleasure to see more people getting involved with this effort in terms of comments and corrections, and why not, even more.
