Thursday, September 11, 2014

Email Marketing Services: Which one to choose

Why creating Email list is so important

You must collect your blog’s visitors Email somehow to create an email list.One way to create email list is to simply request visitor to enter email for stay updated with what is going on my blog. But most of the people don’t like to enter email without any benefit. They need something as output.Second way is to provide some material for free like “Download Our Free eBook”. On click demand for email address and send the link of free material on email. This is smart way that I use to create email list.       There are many options available in the market. Everyone have different perspective. Most of the people use AWeber email marketing services. AWeber provides good services and many customized services like Email Newsletter are available. It is paid but it is totally affordable.Feedburner is second best option, it is totally free and you can customize it according to your requirement. I use FreedBurner for www.stayrocks.com .

Which blogging platform to choose

Blogging platforms: There are many platforms available for the blogging. Wordpress is one the most popular platform. Most of the people like to create a blog on Wordpress platform.
Google’s blogger is also a very good platform which is owned by Google.
Firstly I will discuss Pros and Cons of the Wordpress and Blogger both.
Pros of Wordpress
1.    It is free of cost.
2.    Very large community is behind it. Themes and plug-in repository is very large and nearly every plug-in is available to fulfil your requirement.
3.    It is highly customizable. If you have technical knowledge then you can change it completely according to your requirement otherwise you can hire developers who are easily available.
4.    Its user interface is very good as compare to other platforms.

Cons of word press
1.   One of the major concerns about the Wordpress is its security. You have to update it on regular basis to keep it secure from vulnerability. If you are dependent upon other to keep Wordpress secure, then it becomes very difficult to handle it.

2.   To have total control over Wordpress you have to purchase web hosting and custom domain so you have to pay for it. Even you just want a simple personal website where you just want to share your life experience you have to pay lot. Blogger wins here. 

Pros of Blogger
1.  It is owned by Google and it is hosted on Google’s servers which are very fast.
2.   As it is hosted on Google’s server it is very secure because Google care about security. You don’t have to worry about security.
3.  To create a blog you have to just Google account .Then Visit www.blogger.com and you can easily setup your blog.
4.  It is free of cost.
5.   Google services like Google+ can be integrated very easily.
Cons of Blogger
1.  It has limited Gadgets which are not sufficient for a large websites.
2.  User interface customization is limited as compare to Wordpress.
3.  Very small numbers of developers have knowledge of Blogger so many time it becomes difficult to setup the blog.
Which one to choose: I have worked on both Wordpress and Blogger. One thing that I hate about Wordpress is that its security concern. In every month I had to take back up of the database and updated it. After updating, many times its plug-in stop working and I had to work hard to fix them.
Secondly I hosted my website www.stayrocks.com on Wordpress platform on Godaddy web hosting and in starting I paid nearly 150$ per year for web hosting plus custom domains. Many times it became difficult for me as I was not having job that time. After investing both time and money it became difficult for me be motivated and carry on.
One thing I noted that I just wanted to post simple tutorials. No registration and login required. Then I searched for better option then I came to know Blogger. Which is totally free and Now I have to just invest my time and only 10$ per year for my custom domain.

So I recommend Blogger when you want a simple website where you want to share your knowledge.If you want a more solid website where you want to store user’s information then Wordpress is the best choice.

Social Media Marketing How to


1.  Create a page of your blog on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.
2.  Create a widget on your blog website for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter where people can easily like or follow your blog.
3.   Create or Join Groups which are related to your blog and start post your blog post links there.

4.  On your blog under every post give a Facebook like button, share button, Google+ share button and many more whatever social media site you like so that people can like and share you blog post on their profiles. This will lead to huge traffic on your blog.  

5 Mistakes made by Bloggers and Quick Remedies

By reading above paragraphs about blogging I can feel a fire inside you, which is convincing you to start blogging today. That is good but you will have to keep this fire always there inside you. 90% of the bloggers are not able to maintain this fire.
Reasons are very common like these:
1.   You get bored after posting some blog posts.
2.   You are tracking number of visitors, very few visitors is discouraging you. You are thinking that your posts are not effective. But reason is not this, as we all know everything takes times.
3.  You are focusing more on Social Media for example Facebook likes, Google plus and Twitter’s followers.
4.  You are not able to gather content for posting which is keeping you away from posting new blog posts.
5.  You put some advertising banners, Affiliates programs and you are expecting to generate revenue from first day.
        

Quick Remedies
1.  Keep patience, as we all know everything’s takes times and your blog will also take some time to grow. So stay focused.
2.  Quality over quantity, on whatever topic you are writing try to write it from heart that will introduce effectiveness into your writing that will hold readers.
3.   Effectiveness of title is also important. Meaningless title can ruin the effectiveness of content. Try to keep your title like these “10 ways to improve your personality or 7 ways to keep your girlfriend happy and so on”.
4.  Proper images with blog post make it more meaningful and expressive. But try to avoid overuse also.

5.  Marketing is integral part of any business so after making your blog content effective give some to on social media marketing.

4 reasons why I love blogging and want you to do the same

To enhance writing skills:  During Blogging I try to write my best .It helps me to improve vocabulary and enhance my ability to express things in different ways. You also must give a try to do the same.

To keep my technical skills updated: I try to put everything online whatever I am learning daily. Dedication towards blogging makes me learn different technologies. “Android and Node.js” are two technologies which are very interesting and keep me do innovative things.
I know you also have good skill in any field then what are you waiting for?

To generate passive income :  With Job I am not able to run my family life  properly so honestly speaking my primary motive is to generate  passive income which can help me to enjoy my life.
May be you are looking for the same as most of the people do to make life happy and playful.
To establish online business: Android applications and eBooks are main source of income. By creating android application I can establish myself as developer and by writing and selling eBooks will be increase revenue.
So try to find at what you are good at and utilize your talent up to maximum.

To generate passive income and establishing online Business will work only when my blog is useful and helpful for the users, so my main aim will be to make my blog the best that i am trying to do and want you do the same