Over the last five weeks I spent a considerable amount time reading this e-book off and on. Not only just reading but internalizing some of the key concepts that Erica emphasizes. .

The internet is filled with all kinds of free and paid e-books on blogging. While they do all have their place, its always a treat to see the work of a blogger who walks the talk.

Erica has hit a home run with her Blog Success Manifesto. The content, layout, structure, flow and above all her intent for writing this book is simply noble. It’s written by a blogger for a blogger and as a blogger. Very Methodical, to the point & precise. Most importantly the tips are highly actionable.

Here are some highlights of the e-book.

• Specificity is the key to success. Don’t be vague with your content.
• Make your key goals interesting. Your goals will draw likeminded readers more to your blog.
• Use blogging as a tool will enable you to accomplish any big goal you have in your life.
• Your ideal audience isn’t likely to the same audience commenting on your blog
• Survey’s are the key to the successful evolution of a blog. Periodically ask your readers what topics they want you to listen
• You just cannot make everyone of your visitors happy.
• Your about page will set you apart from the rest. Don’t be intimidated to write about yourself. Paint a larger picture of yourself.

In addition Erica provides many technical tips on Permalinks, Design, photo placement, Feedburner integration, plugins, stock photos, Content creation tactics, Content Consistency & SEO etc.

It amazing how much Erica has covered in just 62 pages. Both experts and novice will find this e-book immensly valuable.

Finally I want to leave you with this thought. If MrFire. Joe Vitale with all his 25+ years of marketing experience can take advice from Erica and change his blog then we all have something to learn here. Don’t you agree?

Go download a free copy of the Blog Success Manifesto @ www.Erica.biz/manifesto

In this post I will go over an important principle which will define a constructive guide line as well as a frame work of operation for your online business.

We will use the most popular principle from Italian Economist and Industrialist  Vilfredo Pareto to define a set of guide lines and rules of operation that will minize the loss and maximize the profits in a very less time.

Pareto’s Principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

In this case of setting up a profitable online business,  making  money   is the  effect  and the causes are the activities you do in order to achieve this  ultimate goal of making money using the internet.

Now lets break down the set of activities involved in your making money online venture..

Running an online business  without following pareto’s principle,  will involve the following 3 major activities mentioned below in respective order………..

When Cherif called me up and told me he was in town, I asked him to come over. I quickly setup my Flip and we started rolling.

It was already 11PM in the night and Cherif had to take a flight early morning, I wish we had more time. We were just getting warmed up.

There will be more pre-launch videos coming up with the speakers prior to the live summit happening on August 14th,15th & 16th in Santa Clara, CA so stay tuned.

Yes we do and I will get to that in a minute…

Most recently I was attending The Continuity Summit, when one of my past “King of Blogging workshop” attendees Vickie Frenackie asked me why I am not teaching in person anymore?.

My rational had been; do we really need one more seminar, aren’t there plenty? there is no dearth of boot-camps, workshops & tele-seminars these days. A ton of information can also be found in public domain also. If someone has the desire to learn they could practically learn anything and everything.

Yet, I see a big disconnect. Through my entrepreneurial journey I have come to realize that hard work, focus and persistence are as important as knowledge, tools and techniques.

There are a certain elements which make or break you on the internet. Everything you do on internet has to have a deep rooted strategy in place. When you couple your strategy with passion, dedication & persistence you will practically create success for yourself, and that too on demand.

After a great amount of deliberation I announced this idea of an intense blogging workshop to my list. A workshop based on my core indigenous blogging system “Time, Thoughts & Traffic”. The idea behind this formula is very simple. If you take time to cultivate your thoughts, translate them into content( in other words blogging) you can attract and lot of traffic. The premise here being Traffic is Money.

I received about 11 responses and many expressed their interest to join me in person to learn my cutting edge systems.

While I did register a domain to launch this workshop with great fanfare, I decided otherwise and here is why

If I would ever to write a headline for this event I would write something along these lines


“Underground non-English skilled blogger methodically and systematically unleashes the art of making money online, leveraging the power of Blogs”

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Ever since I have become a blogger, I have gotten really good at writing sales letters. The publish feature in blogs practically pushed me to cultivate a habit of sitting down and finishing sales letter in one session i,e….. four hours or less.

These days I write sales letters in my blogs and then move them to my HTML editor to be placed on the sales page.

Just my way of doing..:)- You bet I will be explaining this in the workshop.

There is a specific reason why I have named it “Blogging Intensive”. It conveys no dream, no aspirations and no pleasure but WORK, and that too work that is Intense. I know not many will be impressed with a pitch of this sort because they are looking for quick solutions in life.

This is my way to discourage people who are just there for some quick gratification.

If you are a sincere individual willing to work hard, don’t worry. I will teach you several short cuts. For now remember anything and everything is outsource-able.

Blogging Intensive is a two day intense workshop to train both newbie’s and pros to not only make money online but build a true sustainable business. It’s purely content rich with one single goal on how to accelerate ones success online. This will include trick, tips, strategies, experiences, stories everything and anything.

…The whole enchilada.

Here are a few reasons why this event is going to be a life changing one. For the very first time I will be revealing some of my best business building & online money making strategies.

Like a typical blogging seminar this workshop will also have all the basics such as..

Finding niches, steps to installing wordpress, configuring autoresponders, capturing visitors information, writing reviews to promote affiliate products. Podcasts, Videos, Audio, Content creation techniques, configuring google analytics, Mybloglog tracking, installing plugins, configuring widgets.

As I mentioned earlier.. all of the above information can be found in public domain and its pretty much blogging 101. Certainly the workshop is not about these basics. (No worries, If you are new to blogging we will cover the basics too.)

A quickly glimpse of all my systems that I plan to focus upon at the workshop. This is the real meat..

Blogging & Publication System

• How To Analyze, Decide & Develop Various Market Segments To Play In For Initial Success. PAIN or PLEASURE Strategy?
• How To Determine What The Market Place Wants? and How To Align It With Your Core Strengths & Skills?
• How To Develop Overnight Expertise And Position Yourself As An Expert In Any Field
• How To Overtake Markets with Unfair Competitve Edge: How To effectively Use SWOT methodology to dominate?
• How To Convert your blog into a Full Functioning Publishing Business
• How To Compliment Your Publishing Business With Training Business?
• How To Effectively Use Licensing To Spread Your Name and Brand in Rapid Time?
• My Absolute Three Methods For Generating Insane Traffic To Any Website
• How To Develop Co-Marketing Programs and Create The Right JV Relationships: Revenues, Brand or List level Partnerships?
• Insider Secrets To Pricing, Promotions and Placements
• Seminars, Workshops, group mentoring, 1:1 mentorings from your blog
• Selling To Corporations, Foundations and Associations

Content Creation System

• How To create 20 posts a day for your blog. Practically in your dead time.(What is dead time blogging?)
• How To Write 400 word articles in 10 minutes or less and make your ghost writer write them in 5 minutes.
• How To create content time lines to overcome writers block.
• List and Modifier magic
• Ghost writers or Ghosts? How to spot, engage and profit from others work?
• Of nothing else, how PLR content could be your best bet? How you can create a six figure income with PLR Content

Search Engine Dominance System

• Back Link exercises that really work
• Art of getting back-links from comments
• How to build your very own powerful link network
• How to turn your wordpress blog into a powerful Organic Traffic sucking engine
• The super secret to offline SEO success

Not only that I will also share my “Cash Creation System” and “Business Growth System” with you

Some of the highlights in these systems include..

• How to outsource effectively and get a life?
• The India, Vietnam, Philippines options and more
• When to outsource and when to in source
• CPA Marketing: Creating Cash and Building Your Brand Via Your Blog
• My $1k~$10k a month advance formula for creating sustained cash Instantly from your blog.

I can keep going on and on, but you get the idea..

None of my past workshop attendees have heard these techniques before. Not even my $997 “King of Blogging Workshop” participants. Most of these techniques are brand new that I have tested and developed in the recent past.

The live event will be held in San Jose/Santa Clara area. I will finalize the location after I see there is enough interest in what I am offering.

The tentative dates are July 18th & July 19th, 2009, enough time for you to make the flight and hotel arrangements.

I initially thought of offering this event to about 10 people by pricing it high, but the more I think about it now, I realize every one of my subscribers should get their hands on this information. Doctors, real estate investors, stay home moms, plumbers, attorneys, carpenters you name them. No matter who you are and what you profession is, This workshop will benefit you.

In the past I have done expensive workshops, but with this one I want to reach out to as many people as possible. So after pondering on this for sometime, and given that there are other expenses (hotel stay and travel) I have decided to price this event at $97.

But there is a catch..

At $97 this is a steal. In terms of cost its 10 times lower than my other workshops and the value is 10 times higher.

Trust me at this price I am just covering my expenses.

Again please don’t sign up just because its cheap. I will make you accountable for every dime you spend with me. Please make sure that you are driven and you are coming to learn and take action.

I am sincere in what I do and I expect the same from everyone whom I work with.

Now that we have about 6 weeks left. I want to make sure that I fill all the 50 seats and start on other logistics. So I need to induce some urgency here..

The first 1-10 people who register for this event will get the lowest price of $97. The next 10 people (11-20) will get it for $147. The next 10 people (21-30) will can register for $197.

The price will keep increasing till it hits $297, that’s when we fill the entire room.

So if you are a decisive and action oriented individual..you can get in for $97 right now.

I want you to take action now and register to the event. If you have any questions or concerns you can post in the comments section here or email me.

If you procrastinate a little bit.. the chances are you will be sorry. You may still end up coming to the event by paying a higher amount which when compared to $997 is not bad, but still is high.

So be prudent with your thinking and act Swift and Thrifty.

I have a simple refund policy. Come to the event with an open mind. By the end of the day one if you feel that the information was not up to the mark or I under delivered on my promise. Just let me know in confidence.. and I will return every dime you paid. No questions asked, No counter objections.

Without any more delays please register your seat. You can do so by clicking on the button below.

On this video I share a Poem. Well technically its not a poem.. but it sounds somewhat like one.

Becuase this video is FREE, doesn’t mean that its of low value. This video was created for my “King Of Blogging Workshop” attendees who paid $997 to be a part of that workshop.

This is good stuff. Real good. The duration is about 24 minutes. But your time investment will be well worth it.

Planning to have the “Blogging Intensive” in July third week. Shall announce the dates shortly. If you are coming( and you should as this could change you life for good) please let me know. Send me an email or post a line in the comment section.

As usual, I look forward to your comments, suggestions and inspiration.

P:S I know the background music is little annoying. Sorry about that..The video is already mixed. I will find the original recording and see if I can remove it..

Since then a lot has changed in the course. This ground breaking course has produced more successful stories than anything that I know off. I still have my 2005 edition in my closet and even today I refer to it once in a while.

The “Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet” is a product that practically is everything you’d Expect From A Beginner’s Guide To Starting An Online Business with over 1,250 pages of detailed, moneymaking strategies and techniques have been carefully laid out in bite-sized, easy to grab-and-apply sections, making it dead-easy to determine what you need, apply it to your business, and move onto the NEXT step.

The “Insider Secrets” system carefully guides you through all the critical steps:

1. Helping you decide what you should sell…
2. Easily get a sales website live…
3. Attract your first visitor…
4. And take your first credit card payment!
5. Ramp up sales & traffic quickly!
6. Automate your business to be “hands free”

Here is a small sample of what you will find within this amazing Course…

How to use powerful automated research tools to quickly multiply your hobbies and interests into HUNDREDS of potential business ideas!

The simple “measuring stick” that will instantly tell you if your product idea has REAL income potential… before you spend a penny developing it!

The SEVEN best ways to make money from a website — add each one to your website like building blocks and watch your income explode!

How to get paid BIG commissions by recommending other people’s products on your website!

How you can quickly become a “Super Affiliate” and earn a full-time, six-figure income — without EVER selling a product of your own!

Plugging NEW Revenue Streams into Your Website to Incrementally Build Your Online Income by $1,500 to $8,000+ Per Month!

Secrets for Squeezing WAY MORE Sales and Profits Out Of Your Existing Traffic, Subscribers, Products, and Website!

And a ton more…

Some Additional Benefits of the Course…

1. Because it is now online you’ll receive real time updates with the latest and greatest online marketing strategies
2. Streaming videos for ease of learning
3. Downloadable content for your iPod, iPhone or other mobile device
4. The Master Blueprint for Launching and Expanding Your Internet Business! Is shipped to you free of charge!
5. “Our Foolproof, Procrastination Busting, Goal Setting DVD and Workbook… Also Shipped Free of charge!”
6. A Private 30-Minute Phone Consultation With One of their Personal eBiz Trainers…(this was certainly not there in 2005)

Within minutes of receiving an order, they’ll send out a secret username and password for immediate access to all of their proven strategies through the private website.

There is no shipping cost

Access to the Course is granted for one year. The Course comes with a 90 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee

I give Insider Secrets VERSION 2009 a perfect 10 out of 10 without hesitation.

If you want to make money online I highly recommend you get access to this tremendous online business building product now.

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PCN in short, is a tight group of web business owners who primarily believe in content as a medium for generating traffic and sales on their website.

As a member of the club you will receive highly focused articles that will perform will for the “Long Tail Traffic”.

In the past, people have asked me how is this different than all those zillion PLR sites that pop up every day on the internet. Aren’t PLR sites useless given google is penalizing duplicate
content?

First off all Power Content Network is based on extensive keyword research. There is a system or a method behind it. What it means to you is when you take the content and put it on your site or blog,
you will attract a serious chunk of long tail traffic.

Now, to avoid duplicate content problem, the number of people who can participate in PCN is restricted to a few.

Limited access will restrict duplication.

I wanted to send this email and see if this is something that interests you if it does?, please email me back becuase I really want to know your interest.

Based on my own success(whatever small it is) with long tail I have got some terrific traffic hence I am confident that any blogger or website owner will immensely benefit from this service.

If you are interested in well researched search patterns and putting bait to get the right traffic to your site, you may consider this option.

There is nothing to buy yet, the service is scheduled to open on Ocotober 2, 2008

Before I go too far excited about this, I want to know if you are interested in this. Let me know your thoughts.

1. Work with a Company

If you work with an established SEO company then you get more than just original content. You also get efficient keyword optimization help that will increase your search engine rankings. Some of these companies offer a ranking guarantee and charge just a little bit more money than an online writer would charge for the article itself.

2. Specify What Kind of Content You Need

It pays to be specific. If you hire an online writer to fill pages with no specific directions, then don’t expect a lot of groundbreaking content. Specify what subjects you want to hear about and what subjects you want to avoid. Specify if you want unique articles rather than rewrites. (Though there may be a difference in price) You can even suggest links of other websites that the writer could get ideas from.

3. Plan To Boost Sales Or Hold Strategic Traffic

There’s no use in hiring an online writer unless you have a central purpose in mind. Are the articles that you buy intended to boost sales or hold steady traffic? Would your web viewers have an interest in related topics or just keyword articles? Would opening blog comments further increase customer interest? Professional writers may charge rates up to 5 cents a word or more, so make sure that you consider the business side of this feature. Some writers will work for much less, though the quality of work will usually match the price. A professional website should always feature the best original content available, whether the author is the company owner or a hired help.

Why?

Google has made some changes to its algorithm to crawl and index content by rating its uniqueness. The process is otherwise known as content scoring.

What it means is Google would like to see unique content on any given site only once. This is bad news for those marketers who are solely dependent on submitting articles to generate traffic.
By submitting articles to article directories you are effectively diluting the uniqueness of your content, while the content may be of immense value to the readers for Google its relevancy is lost if its repeating hundreds of times across the web.
The Solution…
Well to avoid that you can pretty much create unique content pieces and start submitting one article at a time to one website. If you are writing one article per web site you should only maximize the opportunity by submitting your article to websites that have the maximum traffic. .
If you look around the only web sites that have maximum traffic today are social media sites. For example hub pages.com, youtube.com, myspace.com, squidoo.com, delicious.com, and stumbleupon.com all these websites and a few more similar sites are getting a lot of visibility and traffic.
By placing quality content across these sites you can quickly get traffic and over a period of time can improve your own ranking across search engines.
I would highly suggest that you also pursue article directories. Article directories   can provide you back links fairly quickly.
While the internet marketing is divided on the existence of content score, duplicate content etc, I suggest that you pursue article directories in a big way, despite of the fact that unique content always wins.

So you have an option either to go and write minimal content and maximize its distribution by submitting it across some common article directories or write lot of good content and submit that to high traffic generating websites strategically.

The choice is yours! Either way success will be yours!