THOUGHT OF THE DAY-30th June 2013

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” – Albert Einstein

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Blog to do Business

Part one: Blog to do business with companies selling physical or digital products

What’s a blog?

Primarily a blog is a website on which articles are constantly posted to be consumed by web visitors. With time it also became a means to earn money from the internet.

How to create a profitable or successful blog

A business blog can be created free at Blogger or WordPress. It can be made successful with:

a) The look
The blogging programs offer various templates and features. The templates propose colours to suit individual layouts and the layouts let you select the templates which best satisfy your needs.

b) The content
To blog for business you need traffic (visitors, readers) to your site. Choose a good company to promote and keep adding posts about new products they offer, and redirect visitors to the company’s Website through your affiliate pay code promotion link. Once that person visits the site, you make money.

So, post content on the companies you want to promote and which are going to pay you to place their links on your blog. The more content you have on your blog, the more successful it will be as they have more chances of catching the eye of someone searching for a related topic on the search engines which will also index and rank your blog in a way that will assure it success.

c) Consider your audience
Make your blog posts relevant to your readers’ needs. This will get them to click on your affiliate pay code promotion links.

d) Make your blog interactive
Do this with video or audio clips. If you place some movie video trailers on your blog, write a call-to-action, like, "Click here to check it out at … “ (Add the company’s website with your affiliate pay code promotion link embedded in it).

Also include a comments or a feedbacks section. This will allow visitors leave you their impressions or reactions.

e) Make your articles light and short             
Make your blog posts short, simple and interesting. There is no sure way to scare off readers than lengthy boring articles.
 

f) Be social
Comment on other blogs and invite other bloggers to do the same on yours. This will help provide content and links to other blogs which will help your search engine status. It will also help build up your popularity with other bloggers.

g) Update your blog posts often

Keep your blog updated at least three times a week. Respond to your visitors’ posts. That’s where the interaction will come from.

h) The Ads
You can earn money on the internet advertising on your blogs. But don’t overlade your blog with ads as that will surely drive off visitors. So strike a good balance between ads and content.

Although there are many affiliate network companies, choosing just PayDotCom, ClickBank, Commission Junction, and LinkShare will give you access to over 30,000 companies whose ad links you can place on your blog.

i) Research the companies you want to work with

After choosing the company you want to work with, do a little research on it by visiting their Websites. Look for some good selling points, special offers, bonuses, guarantees, coupons, sales points, testimonials, etc. and take down notes to use in your posts.

j) Services provided by the companies
The affiliate network companies take care of all the administrative aspects of your pay, tracking, and the companies you work with. You can login at will to check on your current earnings, select the companies you would like to promote, contact any of them, and get the affiliate pay code promotion links to post to your blog(s).

Most affiliate companies are totally free to join. They will assign you a special "AFFILIATE PAY CODE PROMOTION LINK" to promote on your blog. The link will track all of your earnings coming from visitors clicking them on your blog.

k) How do you earn?
You get money online with these companies in three ways: a commission on what your links bring in, the leads of prospective buyers from your blog, and for click on their links on your Website.

- Commissions
Affiliate companies may be willing to pay you 70% commission of a sale from your blog. With digital products you sometimes make more money than the seller just for posting their affiliate pay code promotion links to your blog.

- Leads
If someone visits a company’s Website you are marketing on your blog, and signs up for a newsletter, or free trial, etc., that is a lead and you get paid for it. This may range from $1.00 up to $10.00 and this, without the person purchasing anything. This is a great money maker since people love free information and free trials.

- Clicks
Google Adsense, BidVertiser and other companies listed promoted by affiliate companies will pay you when someone simply clicks on their contextual ads placed on your blog. This does not need sign ups, purchases, etc. You get .05 cents to $.80 cents per click.

l) When do you get paid by the affiliate administrators?
That depends on each account, and varies from twice a month on the 1^st and 15^th, to once a month. Payment is effected with mailed check, direct deposit, or PayPal.

Aren’t you now tempted to create a blog to do business with companies selling physical or digital products?

THOUGHT OF THE DAY - 29th June 2013

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. " -Wayne Dyer

Thirty-five Things You Can Get or Do Blogging - Part three

Today I conclude the preliminary parts of this discussion with the last eleven points which will touch on remaking one’s life, trading “job” (just over broke) for “yob” (your own business), saving, investing, buying a house or land, overcoming frustration at seeing others get ahead faster than oneself, avoiding being stuck in a dead-end job, avoiding being passed over for wage increases or promotions, having job security, avoiding embarrassment about one’s job, avoiding worry about the future in general, satisfying your desire to do better, about what steps to take, and mastering computers or other technology.

25. Blog to remake your life

I’ve already talked about some highly successful bloggers today who remade their lives through blogging. Yes, if you stick with it, a blog can help you earn money from the internet.

26. Blog to trade being “job” (just over broke) for “yob” (your own business)

Yes, many workers are assailed by financial difficulties from all corners. One of the surest way to overcome this is to get money online as a self-employed blogger.

27. Blog to save, invest, buy a house or land

A blog which is a good money maker can help satisfy your immediate needs and leave you enough to put aside or into a business or even invest in a house or a land which appreciates.

28. Blog to overcome your frustration at seeing others get ahead faster than you do

Except if you weren’t ambitious then wouldn’t you care about others succeeding in life while you lagged behind. Tired of that frustration? Then blog to make money on the internet.

29.Blog to avoid being stuck in a dead-end job

Is your job taking you nowhere? A blog will open new horizons for you. What is more interesting, these new possibilities will enable you gain money online.

30. Blog to avoid being passed over for wage increases or promotions

You can witness strange things at your job since an employee never controls their circumstances. But a blogger earning money on the internet is not subject to anyone‘s whims.

31. Blog to have job security

The days of lifetime employment are gone. No longer do people expect to remain at their posts until retirement. Although a blog is not eternal, at least there’s no boss to fire you here.

32. Blog to avoid your embarrassment about talking about your job

There’s nothing as unsettling as revealing a job one is not proud of doing. Which blogger gaining money on the internet cannot make some noise about the job they are doing?  

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33. Blog to avoid your worry about the future in general

Not knowing what the future portends keeps many workers worried about losing their livelihood. Although not an insurance, a blog can keep you covered in these troubled times.

34. Blog to satisfy your desire to do better, what steps to take

The only constant in life is change. And every human being has the power of choice. So if you wish to do better, take steps towards success, then choosing a blog may be your best bet.

35. Blog to master know-how about computers or other technology coming into our lives

A blogger’s work is done mainly on the computer. They make use of technology as HTML, traffic exchanges, auto responders, list builders, etc. Blog to know these things before the rest.

Now that we have come to the end of the thirty-five things people can accomplish while blogging, can you think of others? Kindly leave your comments.

As from tomorrow, watch out for the full details on each of the ideas discussed these past three days. I will begin with: 1. Blog to do business.

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY - 28th June 2013

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. " -Wayne Dyer

Thirty-five Things You Can Get or Do Blogging - Part two

Continuing yesterday’s introduction to the topic, let’s consider twelve other issues such as worries about retirement, unemployment or underemployment, insufficient income, worries about paychecks and the economy, coming out of indebtedness, restoring self-esteem, contributing to the community, getting tax deductions, making household savings, selling out your blog, and having an Internet home business.

13. Blog to lose your worries in retirement or about going on retirement

In recent surveys more than 25% of workers and retirees say they have less than $1,000 saved for their "golden years". A money-making blog can help beat this worrisome situation.

14. Blog to quit unemployment or underemployment

I know some highly successful bloggers today who embraced blogging when laid off and others who did so because their jobs were not bringing them any satisfaction at all.

15. Blog to add to your insufficient income

A money-making blog can bring in supplementary income to help the money-strapped person make ends meet. Nothing more than Adsense (a contextual ad) can be a money maker.

16. Blog to lose your worries about your paycheck

Living from paycheck to paycheck and even the inability to do so can be a source of great worry to workers. The solution to stop the fretting can be a blog to gain money online.

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17. Blog to lose your worries about the economy

The present economic doldrums is causing concern among many workers who dread an uncertain future. Blogging, as a means to make money on the internet, can solve the worries.

18. Blog to wipe out your debt

Debts overwhelm workers from all sorts of sources: bank loans, credit cards, etc. To come out of the cul-de-sac, one just needs to find out how to win money on the internet with a blog.

19. Blog to restore your self-esteem

Dead-end jobs and lack of money have made many workers lose their self-esteem. What many don’t realize is that there is a way to win money on the internet: running a blog.

20. Blog to contribute to your community

Our communities need all the help they can get to remain livable, crime-free and humane. This calls for money. Who best to supply it than someone who can easily gain money online?

21. Blog to benefit from large tax deductions

Home businesses are eligible for tax breaks. A blog, being a home business, is no exception. To avoid crippling and rising taxes, the choice therefore is clear.

 

22. Blog to make household savings 

A blogger works mainly at home. Hence they avoid commuting expenses, expensive office clothes, eating out at break, etc. All these translate into household savings for the blogger. 

23. Blog to have a business you can sell out profitably tomorrow

Cases abound of big companies like google offering huge amounts to buyout a highly successful blog. If this appears attractive to you, then come on and let’s start blogging.

24. Blog to have an Internet home business

The blog has the double advantage of being an online business one can conveniently run from home and earn money from the internet.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-27th June 2013

"My greatest achievement was getting my family involved in my business" ― Warren Buffett

Thirty-five Things You Can Get or Do Blogging

In this three-part article, I am going to look at thirty-five actions you can accomplish if you blog. I will just touch on the titles and a hint of what I may cover in each:

Part one

This part covers the areas of business, writing, teaching, meeting people and making friends, satisfying needs, achieving financial success, traveling around the world, working at one’s own pace, having flexible working hours, having more fun for oneself, spending more time with the family, and allying talents and hobbies.

1. Blog to do business
 

On a blog one can do affiliate marketing which allows a blog owner to offer their visitors physical and digital products from well-established companies.

2. Blog to exercise your writing talents 

It is a fact that the more you write the better writer you become. And a blogger must post at least once daily to their blogs. So you see the cause and effect relationship?

3. Blog to teach 

Visitors come to a blog to learn something. The blogger therefore becomes a teacher and his blog a virtual classroom. That’s why there are as many blog topics out there as tastes.

4. Blog to meet people online and make friends

By answering their comments or sending them newsletters a blogger interacts with their visitors. Some of these people end up becoming online friends and real-life ones too.

5. Blog to satisfy people’s needs 

People come to blogs to satisfy essentially the desire for information and the convenience of shopping online. The blogger satisfies both through his postings and offers.

6. Blog to achieve financial success 

Recognizing blog visitors as potential customers and clients, many bloggers  have monetized their sites and this has brought them financial success.

7. Blog to travel around the world

A popular blog is visited by people from all corners of the earth. Their interaction with the blogger can lead to lasting relationships which has enabled successful ones to travel widely.

8. Blog to work at your own pace

Do you want to work as fast and as slow you want?  This is only practicable with a home business like a blog where there is no boss looking over your shoulder.

9. Blog to have flexible working hours

Do you want to start work when you want, take a break when you feel like it and call it a day when you wish? This is also only possible with your own special home business: a blog.

10. Blog to have more time for yourself 

Anybody who wants more time for themselves must embrace a home business. A blog is so much fun that it doesn’t even feel like work, giving you the feeling of not being occupied.

11. Blog to spend more time with your family 

Home is where the family is. And your blog business is at home. Forcibly you can spend more time with your spouse and kids and pets.

12. Blog to ally talents and hobbies

I have already covered this in the blog post “Exercise Your Talents and Hobbies Blogging”. Check it here: http://it-is-easy-to-make-money-at-home.blogspot.com/2013/06/exercise-your-talents-and-hobbies.html

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-26th June 2013

YOU CANNOT SCORE A GOAL
     SITTING ON THE BENCH.
YOU HAVE TO GET IN THE GAME!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-25th June 2013

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU WANT TO GO TO, ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

--The Cheshire Cat in 'Alice In Wonderland'

Why do people blog?

People blog for many reasons. In my articles “Fourteen Reasons why you should Engage in an Internet Business” and “Exercise your Talents and Hobbies Blogging,” most of the factors I listed could also be true for why people blog. But personally three of the professions I exercise brought me to blogging. These are writing, teaching and doing business.

Doing business

This is probably the main reason why I adopted blogging. Last year (2012), I began looking for an opportunity to do something other than teaching. So I cast around for ways to revive my business which was in a coma since when I lost everything in the wake of my country’s socio-economic crisis some years ago. In a google search, I fell on a company which promised to train people to create a free blog and monetize it. I was far from looking for something like a blog to open the door to a solid financial future. But three perceptions about the offer hooked me. The first was learning that one could use a blog to do business online and earn well too.

Writing

The second was the opportunity to offer my writing to a large audience and in a publisher-friendly environment.

In fact, I had learned to write stories and articles for children, adolescents, teenagers and adults from prestigious institutes. I have had stories and articles published in newspapers and magazines and online journals. But I found the rate of acceptance too slow. The situation was worse with book-length works. So when blogs beckoned to let me publish easily, naturally I jumped at the idea. (Publishing acts like a catalyst making one produce more. And the more one writes the more proficient one becomes. And here was the opportunity!)

Teaching

Maybe the reasons above could have been enough to let me embrace blogging but the possibility to let me continue my passion for teaching reinforced the attraction to blogs. Which good blog article does not teach the blog visitors something? And what bigger satisfaction does a teacher receive than that of having added to the knowledge base of a person? Therefore the fact that I could continue adding to people’s information store made blogging hold my attention.

No doubt, with these three factors I knew that I had found my new love.

Curious to know other people’s motivation for blogging, I found the following in addition to the three discussed above:

1. To meet people online and make friends

2. To satisfy people’s needs

3. To achieve financial success

4. To travel around the world

5. To work at one’s own pace / To have flexible working hours / To have more time for

    oneself

6. To spend more time with the family

7. To ally talents and hobbies

8. To lose one’s worries in retirement or about going on retirement

9. To quit unemployment or underemployment

10. To add to one’s insufficient income / To lose one’s worries about one’s paycheck

11. To lose one’s worries about the economy

12. To wipe out one’s debt

13. To look for self-esteem

14. To contribute to one’s community

15. To benefit from large tax deductions

16. To make household savings

17. To have a business one can sell out profitably tomorrow

18. To have an Internet home business

19. To remake one’s life

20. To trade being “job” (just over broke) for “yob” (your own business).

And you, why do you blog or would want to? Let the world hear your great story right here. Thanks.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-24th June 2013

Dear valued visitor,

Beginning from today, after each blog post I’ll be giving you a thought for the day. Today’s thought for the day is a poem:

THE GUY IN THE MIRROR

When you get what you want in your struggle for self

And the world makes you king for a day,

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself

And see what the guy has to say.

For it isn’t your mother, your father or wife

Whose judgement on you must pass.

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest.

For he’s with you clean to the end;

And you’ve passed your most dangerous

and difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend. 

You may be like Jack Homer and chisel a plum

And think you are a wonderful guy,

But the guy in the glass says you are a bum

If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

You may fool the whole world—

down the pathway of years

And get pats on the back as you pass;

But the final reward will be heartaches and tears

IF YOU’VE CHEATED THE GUY IN THE GLASS.

                                - Anonymous 

Seven Easy Steps to Plan Articles that Attract Readers

Do you want to write an article that attract people and which they will read avidly and come back for more?

If yes, then take the following steps in planning your articles.

Step 1: Look for ideas

Ideas are everywhere. But not all ideas are good to be used for writing articles. Good article ideas can be got from online articles and forums; blog posts; post and article comments; newspaper articles and editorials; Internet news; TV news, commentaries, and interviews. These are the places where people often express their most pressing preoccupations. But don’t forget to google the topic too. The search results will return many possibilities.

Step 2: Test your idea

Ask yourself: do I feel excited about this topic? If the idea makes you feel like pounding the keyboard right now, chances are that other people would be passionate about it too. Besides, the enthusiasm will fuel your impetus to see you through writing the article.

Step 3: Look for an eye-catching title

If you are reading this article, chances are that the title attracted you. So your next step in writing a good article is to give it an attractive title. However, if you don’t have one, start with a tentative title and choose a definitive one later. What is paramount is that your article title should catch a browser’s eye and let them know what the article is about.

Concerning this article, the words which give the title punch are “easy” and “attract”. Who doesn’t want to do something easy? And who wants to write an article to which nobody will give their so much as just a check?

Step 4: Zero in on the idea

An article on article writing for example is a big subject. It is however too large to write convincingly about and make it interest people. You must therefore focus on one small aspect of it by asking: What in particular do I want to say about article writing that can be conveniently handled in 500-750 words? 

This article for example is about article writing. But I zeroed in on how to plan it.

Step 5: Choose a slant

A slant is the writer’s particular way of handling a narrowly focused topic. For an article on planning an article, my slant is on making a good plan for it. Another may be on how to research the article, yet another on how to write the plan or outline, etc.

Step 6: Shape your ideas

You must work your idea into an article’s three constitutive parts of beginning, middle or body and ending or conclusion. This is called an outline.

- Beginning: It should have a “hook” to grab the reader’s attention and also give an idea of what the article is about. My hook for this article is the first sentence. Who doesn’t want to write an article that attracts people? Which writer doesn’t crave avid readers? Who wants to write a one-time-magic article?

- Middle: This is where you develop your article idea, by presenting facts and giving examples. It is advisable to lay out these facts and examples with subtitles. This makes the article easy to digest. 

- End: It ties up the article, summarizing the ideas developed in the beginning and, (but) especially) in the middle. The end could also offer some concluding thoughts.

Step 7: Add to your article plan

You can do this by researching the ideas. Google is great for that. One may also consult books, encyclopaedias, and experts.

Now that you know the elements which constitute the plan of an article, why don’t you adopt it so that your articles will attract a large following of readers?

Do you want to learn to write stories articles for children, teenagers and adults? Then check the Institute of Children’s Literature (http://theinstituteinc.com/index.htm) and The Long Ridge Writers’ Group (http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/), both of which trained me to write.    

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Exercise Your Talents and Hobbies Blogging

Are you a writer and a businessperson and do you love to travel? Or, are you interested in associating writing, doing business, travelling, and others?

Then blogging is for you.

Now, how can blogging enable one to combine one's talents and hobbies?

Writing

Blogging is primarily posting articles on a particular subject online. It is your ability to write well, regularly and on a wide gamut of the same subject that will make people keen on coming back to visit your blog. So if you want to blog and you can write, you have a head start. But if such is not the case, you can learn to acquire strong writing skills.

Sharing ideas
Blogging began when people shared their thoughts online with family members from whom they were separated. As people love to read personal experiences, those writings soon gained notoriety. You as a blogger must also have or cultivate the gift of sharing interesting and important ideas with people online. If you are genuine and sincere, you will soon have a large following.

Doing business
As many people began to follow blogs, it soon dawned on bloggers and companies that they could sell on the net. Thus, making money on the internet came into being. If you have the faculty to sell, an online store in this era of home shopping is your best bet to earn money.

Satisfying needs
Blog articles quench the thirst for reading. Being free and online-and hence can be consulted right in the comfort of one's home-contributed immensely to the popularity of blogs. Besides, the democratisation and diversification of the offer (the writings were no longer from a small group of journalists and writers but from many people) made it more appealing.

Marketing products and services online allowed people to buy and pay online and also have the products delivered to their homes. This suits the modern shopper with lesser and lesser time on their hands.
A blogger helps the exploding retiree population and the mounting unemployed to survive the difficult times. No longer do a shrunk income and the disappeared one deprive one of some essential stuff. Blogs offer freebies, from free product samples, free magazines and ebooks, free money from the government, clicking sites to get paid, taking surveys at home, to reading emails for cash.

Meeting people online and in person and making friends
What will a blog be if people don't visit it and especially if they don't engage with the blogger? Just an anonymous journal online. Fortunately many means are at the disposal of the blogger to help him reach out to people and they to stick with him.

If a blogger blogs well, consistently and keenly promotes their blogs, they will soon see traffic (visitors). Some of them will become avid readers, subscribers or followers of the blog. Since they will be commenting on the blog posts, the blogger will have to answer their queries, etc. Soon a certain camaraderie results and some of the visitors invariably become friends.

One other powerful means to socialize is through the social media. Some of them are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. To link up with members of these sites whose profiles interest the blogger, the latter sends the former friend requests. Once confirmed or accepted, a link is created. Through the exchange of messages, true friendship soon results.

Since online offers help people to find what they need just at a mouse click away, they become the bloggers' regular customers. Online selling through blogs is akin to the day of the individual storeowner who knew each customer and fraternized with them. The advantage of online selling is that the blogger can have business dealings with the buyers while being on friendly terms with them. And like in the olden days, this connection overrides business and becomes personal.

Travelling
Successful bloggers earn a lot online and often live the kind of lifestyle only very few people dream about. This includes spending more time with the family, dedicating time to learning or to a hobby, going on a vacation as much as they want or simply travelling around the world most of the year. Their business being online, bloggers have the time to go around; they can also manage it from anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection.

A blogger often does not travel to faraway places as a tourist. The friends from all walks of life and all corners of the earth they have made online eagerly welcome them at the airport like old friends and make them feel quickly at home.

So if you love to write, share ideas, do business, satisfy needs, meet people and make friends, and are an avid traveller, then blog to put these talents and hobbies into practice.

To have a blog (on free or paid platforms), for resources to drive traffic to them (web directories, search engines, social networking sites, advertising media) and to get links to well-established online advertisers to make money on the internet (affiliate network marketing companies selling physical and digital products online, taking surveys at home, get paid to read emails, web hosting, conceptual ads, getting free stuff and others), please visit http://it-is-easy-to-make-money-at-home.blogspot.com.

Do you wish to improve your writing skills? I strongly recommend the Institute of Children's Literature and the Long Ridge Writers' Group in Connecticut which trained me. Check my writing website http://akolipenoukou.voila.net.

Are you looking to join Social media sites? Check my blog for links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and others.

Are you going to travel? Then you need to book a hotel room online. Hotels Combined and Worldwide Hotel Bookings are two sites on my blog which will enable you do that by comparing offers from innumerable hotels and almost any country in the world.

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Découvrez les plus belles villas de stars (Partie II)

Découvrez les plus belles villas de stars (Partie II)

What does a blog mean to you?

Last year August, I was for the umpteenth time looking for a meaning to my dreary life.

I have had a university education; I have been working for sometime (of course, the pay was terrible and in Africa of all places!); I had learnt to write and had published a few pieces at home and in America; I had dabbled a bit in commerce; I had read and practised the secret visualization techniques; short, I had tried things which get people out of the rut. But my life seemed to be glued down there in the ‘gutter’.

The internet which had made the likes of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame and ordinary marketers rich seemed to be my last hope. But search after search I had done on google had not returned the alibaba cave. I had almost given up entirely when, touching the bottom of despair, I did an ultimate search and chanced upon a firm’s ad to help people build blogs from which they could make money.

I was familiar with other websites but not blogs. I had built websites for my company and for myself but the idea that I could have a website to make money other than for advertising was completely new to me.

I saw this as an answer to my visualization to get rich. The idea of creating and running a blog as explained by the site I had chanced upon appealed greatly to me.

Doing business was a passion for me. Writing also. But both were proving trying. I didn’t have capital to order goods to sell (the African business mentality unfortunately is dominated by buy-and-sell). Efforts to get suppliers to send me goods on cash against documents (CAD) basis had proved futile. Suppliers find it difficult to count on complete strangers with whom they had never done business, and in Africa of all places where many unscrupulous people had swindled unsuspecting exporters. Besides, stiff competition from well-established writers made getting published in well-paying magazines seem like reaching for a distant star.

But here was someone telling me that I could create a blog free, get affiliate marketing companies to allow me to sell their physical and digital products on the site just for asking! Besides, using useful articles on the site could bring the visitors who may eventually become buyers. I no longer needed to satisfy anybody’s editorial whims to get published.

Wow!

At that moment a blog meant the medium which would allow me to exercise my passion for business and writing on my own terms and live well too.

A blog could mean a different thing/different things to other people. What is/are yours?      

Profile suspension on google+

Towards the end of last year, I think in October, my google+ profile was suspended and so I couldn’t get access to my blogger blog.

This lasted until about two weeks ago (a suspension of several months!) when I managed to submit an appeal and won. It was then I knew that I had been suspended because google thought my name ‘Akoli’ wasn’t real.

Before that I had been guessing what I had done wrong and kept on modifying my profile (as that was what google had asked for to get my profile back) without any success. It came to a time I even abandoned my blog.

But until a few weeks ago and on inspiration, I decided to search on google how to get my suspension lifted. Then I got this link:

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=name_appeal&rd=1

on the site: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/NJprdTrqdaI, submitted my appeal and received a message confirming that my profile was in conformity with google’s community rules, which means that it was in no way breaking those rules. But the harm had been done with blog with months of unnecessary suspension. Read http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/NJprdTrqdaI, to see other people’s harrowing experiences.

So, is your profile suspended? Check the form here: http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=name_appeal&rd=1

Have you also gone through this crazy experience? Why don’t you tell your story right here on this blog?