Learning from The Rich Dad

The Rich Dad is in town and he wants to show you how to become rich like him. Robert Kiyosaki (the Rich Dad) is so rich he didn’t even have to come himself. Instead, his Rich Dada “Education Team” did all the teaching in a free two hour selling training session. We showed up at the 12:30PM session because we knew it wouldn’t be as busy as the 6PM evening session. Richmond must have more retired people than I thought because the place was packed for an afternoon sessions. I’ve been to afternoon seminars for competing companies before and it was no where near this packed. Must be that Rich Dad branding (there’s a branding lesson you). As expected, the training session is one big sales pitch for a three-day workshop on real estate investing. I can see why Rich Dad would be putting these workshops on now. With the amount sub prime loan defaults, now is as good time for the smart investors to go in and pick up all broken pieces. The workshop cost $995 but if you sign up during the seminar, you can have it for only $495! Sounds like a good deal really. However, I still passed on it. The big thing I got out of the Rich Dad “training” session: You can make a lot of money putting on seminars! Free Gift - How To Find Great Investments As a thank you for sitting through a two hour sales pitches, everyone got a free Rich Dad audio CD on how to find great investments. They were lying on the table for anyone to grab so of course, I grabbed more than one. They told me one per person but then again, they also told me no pictures as well. If would like to grab my extra copy the Rich Dad’s audio CD so you can become rich, then reply to this post. I’ll pick a random winner Saturday. Good luck. This Post Was Brought To You By Have a Blog? Offer $20 BidVertiser Coupon of Free Clicks to your Readers - Simply signup as our referral and you will get a unique link which will give your visitors $20 in free clicks! And you will also get paid for it! Isn’t that a WOW?

Adii Premium News Theme Christmas Special

For those who don’t know who Adii is, he was the grand prize sponsor for my RSS competition against Shoemoney. The winner of the grand prize was Keith Dsouza of Techie Buzz and you can head on over there and check out the shiny new theme TB is now running. Adii normally charge $750 for a custom design theme but he also has some exclusive themes available at a much lower price point. One of them is the Premium News theme and Adii order this ReviewMe review to let you know that from now until midnight of December 26, the theme is available for 30% off. One of the Best News Theme I’ve Ever Seen From now until midnight December 26, you can pick up the Premium News Theme for only $70 (regular price $99.95) for a single-use license and $175 (regular $249.95) for a multi-use license. Some of the unique features of the Premium News Theme include: Integrated “Premium News Options” to change colour scheme, homepage layout etc. Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display and hide the posts Built-in Video Player to publish your YouTube videos Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide Pretty dropdown navigation Different homepage layouts and colour schemes to choose from Widget-ready sidebars The built-in video player is an extremely nice touch. Video blogging is going to get huge and having a theme ready to take advantage of it will mean more money down the line. Videos can be toggle on and off through the WordPress control panel. The theme front page serves as a portal for all the news story. It makes nice use of tabs and drop down menu to access sub categories. The inside page is a traditional two column layout. Customizable & For Ambitious Bloggers This is definitely a serious theme for the serious blogger looking to make money online. The theme looks extremely professional and is very easy to monetize with the buit-in banner management system. The theme has also been coded in such a way as to allow for easy customization and Adii has included a Theme Options tab to allow the user to make some choices from within his WP admin panel without changing any code. Some of the options include: 7 different colour schemes Control the layout of the homepage Control the amount of posts being displayed on the homepage Which categories to display in the highlighted areas of your homepage Integrate your Flickr & Feedburner accounts Banner Ad Management Future Modifications Adii is already working on two new modifications for the Premium News Theme (he posted about them here and here) and owners of the original version will be able to get these modifications for free if they pay an annual fee of $30 to $50. Updates to any of Adii’s themes are for free, but these are new modifications, which means you’ll receive a few more themes in the new year - all built on the original backend. $30 to $50 for another Adii theme is a very good price. If you’re looking to create a news type blog and don’t want to pay Adii $750 to custom design one for you, then his Premium New Theme is the next best thing. This Post Was Brought To You By TTZ Media - Make Money Online with John Chow’s Ad Network - Join Now! Make Money Online with Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses Get up to $250 or even FREE round-trip plane tickets by signing up for hot credit card offers and bank deals!

The Guest Blogger’s Guide To The Blogosphere

This post was guest blogged by Patrick Bisaillon of the gross revenue sharing blog, Piggy Bank Pie. If you have recently launched your own blog, on top of your ‘to do list’ should be ways to bring home quality traffic. There are many ways to increase valuable visitors to your site, and one that has been proven highly effective is being an active Guest Blogger. Stop Thinking For Yourself Have you ever thought about guest blogging? If you answered yes, then you may have written a few posts, but they ended up being so great that each time you thought “man, I don’t want to give this post away, I’m keeping it for my blog!” a common mistake, keep on reading. Unfortunately, great posts from unknown bloggers are usually wasted on low traffic sites. In addition, once they are published most of the time you cannot publish them elsewhere. If you just wrote a masterpiece and your blog gets 25 unique visitors a day, don’t you think it would be wise to publish that ‘award-winning’ post of yours on a blog that has hundreds if not thousands of daily readers? Take Your Time Never rush to write a guest post, it is too important. Dedicate a considerable amount of time, as this text is your keynote, showing what your blog is capable of to an audience full of potential RSS subscribers. Once you are satisfied with the result, try improving the quality by asking blogger friends you can trust to review and comment on your article. Adjust Your Focus Remember our primary goal here: bring home quality traffic. This step is as important as your strategy resides in moving readers from reading your guest post to reading your blog. Take the time to find the right place where you would like your post to be published. Once you have a blog on target, review guest posts that have been published in the last month. Now with that information in hand, start brainstorming on ideas that would make your work of art fit in that blogger’s ecosystem. However, you do want to distinguish yourself… that is why I say you need to take your time. Linking Modesty Don’t link to your blog unless you have valuable information you wish to point readers to. Remember that it is common practice for bloggers to introduce Guest Bloggers and link to their website in a paragraph right before your post’s introduction. At the bottom, sign your text and place a link to your homepage. Trust me; that is all you need. If the readers connect with your post and your writing style, they have everything they need to find your site. Most importantly, be respectful and do not throw in affiliate links. Be Professional The last thing you would want is a Pro-Blogger correcting typos and grammar errors in your post. This is the main reason why I recommend you ask some friends to review your text. It seems like a normal behavior to leave obvious mistakes in an article after hours of writing. At one point, your brain can no longer see the difference between Guest Bloggers and Ghost Busters. Friends reading your post will spot those mistakes at first read. Establish Contacts Alright, you have a great post, a blog on target, now you need to make contact. Firstly, well-known bloggers get dozens if not hundreds of emails a day, so you need to stand out from the crowd while staying away from spam-alike messages. Some bloggers prefer not to publicly display their email address. Instead, they use a form often available under their Contact page. If this is the case, present yourself nicely and briefly, ask the blogger if they accept guest posts and conclude by inviting them to pursue the discussion over email. Make sure to leave your blog’s URL. Important: Do not paste your post in the form, it would lose all formatting and may be cut by a maximum of characters allowed in the text area. If you have the blogger’s email, you can use a different strategy. Again, introduce yourself briefly and go straight to the point. Conclude with an invitation to visit your blog and paste your post in the email. You can read John’s take on this subject. Whether you are about to contact the blogger via a form or email, keep in mind that you never have a second chance to make a good impression. Review your message before you press Send. Secret Tip to Increase Your Readership Okay, let us recap the goal of guest posting: increasing your site’s readership. Say you submit an article that has tremendous success and the readers are going nuts digging your post and rushing over to your blog. You want to make sure your site is spick and span before they hit your home page. I cannot stress how important this is to attracting visitors. At this point, they have high expectations, so you need to deliver what they are looking for, i.e., similar quality content. Timing is important here; once your guest article is online, you have to make sure that your site has high quality material to satisfy new visitors. If you are familiar with affiliate marketing, think of it as your Conversion Rate (how many new visitors will turn into RSS Subscribers or regular readers.) Participate Once your guest post is online and readers have started commenting, don’t leave them alone, join the discussion. Comments allow readers to interact directly with bloggers, so be ready to come up with fast valuable opinions and also answers to readers’ questions. It is also an additional chance for you to bring home new readers. Remember, don’t be selfish and send those blockbuster posts out to established bloggers, chances are they will have a much better impact for your blog if they’re published to a large crowd of readers. Have you had any success posting as a Guest Blogger? Do you have other tips you wish to share? Let us continue this discussion over the comments. 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SOHO HO Christmas Networking Party

Last night, SOHO held their year end Christmas networking party at the Caprice night club in downtown Vancouver. The party is a good place to network with local business people from Vancouver and the lower mainland. The Caprice night club is also a great place to hold the event. It’s big enough to accommodate everyone but not so big that you’ll get lost in the crowd. For those who don’t know, SOHO stands for Small Office Home Office and SOHO.ca is a resource site for all SOHO users to generate leads and business contacts. While all that sound well and good, the only thing I know about SOHO is they put on a nice party. However, the amount of food was lacking and we ended up eating somewhere else after. Sarah did a great job at no limit poker until the end, when she went all in with an ace six and lost. Good thing it was only for play money. Unlike last month’s Mini Massive, the SOHO HO was packed to the limit. The general consensus was the party was a huge success and I look forward to more SOHO events in the future. This Post Was Brought To You By Have a Blog? Offer $20 BidVertiser Coupon of Free Clicks to your Readers - Simply signup as our referral and you will get a unique link which will give your visitors $20 in free clicks! And you will also get paid for it! Isn’t that a WOW?

John Chow Review Not Enough? How About Cow As Well?

“); //–> Gyutae Park of Winning the Web has upped the stakes in the $400 John Chow review contest. In addition to offering to buy the winner a review from me, Gyutae will also be buying one lucky commentator a $200 John Cow review. I guess if you can’t win a review by me, the next best thing is winning one from the cow. The John Cow review will go to a random commentator on all Winning the Web posts in December. However, the winner will be announced via RSS feed so it’s still important to subscribe. The winner then has 24 hours to claim the prize. Otherwise, a new winner will be chosen. I guess the more comments you have on Winning the Web, the better your chances of being selected for a moo review. I have to give Winning the Web credit. He’s came up with a very unique and effective way to increase both his RSS and comment count. This could be his break out moment. I’m going to go comment on his blog now. Full contest rules can be found on this post. This Post Was Brought To You By TTZ Media - Make Money Online with John Chow’s Ad Network - Join Now! Make Money Online with Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses Get up to $250 or even FREE round-trip plane tickets by signing up for hot credit card offers and bank deals!

The Winner of the Rich Dad CD

“); //–> Congrats goes out to Alan LeStourgeon of Affiliate Confession. He is the winner of How to Find Great Investments with the Rich Dad. I already sent Alan an email. He only needs to reply to it in order to claim his CD. Thanks to everyone for playing. We still have the TTZ Media contest going for the rest of this month. You can win one of two 22″ LG LCD monitors in that one. If you haven’t entered, then now is the time to do so. Once again, congrats to Alan and I’ll look around the house for something else to give away. This Post Was Brought To You By Have a Blog? Offer $20 BidVertiser Coupon of Free Clicks to your Readers - Simply signup as our referral and you will get a unique link which will give your visitors $20 in free clicks! And you will also get paid for it! Isn’t that a WOW?

Find a Job and Make Money with IPSOJOBS

Ipsojobs is a new job site from Spain that is trying expand their reach internationally. Their first step in that expansion process is to order a ReviewMe review from John Chow dot Com. Ipsojobs focuses on urgent employment. If you’re out of work and looking to get back on your feet fast, Ipsojobs can help. For employers, Ipsojobs offers a completely free way to post your job offers and find an employee fast. Online marketers will be interest in Ipsojobs because they can make money from it. More on that in a bit. What is Ipsojobs? When time is of the essence, Ipsojobs offers the swiftest and easiest means of finding employment or filling an urgent vacancy. Posting a job is very straight forward. All the information regarding the job is entered on one form. There is no need to register to the site in order to post or view a job offer. All you have to do is find the city that you want the job posted to and enter the job offer by clicking the Post your job offer link on the top left of the site. Because Ipsojobs is focused on urgent employment, offers are be posted for only 10 days. After that time, they are be deleted from the database. If you haven’t found anyone by then, you’re free to repost the job. Currently there are 2,426 active job offers worldwide, with the majority of them being in Spain. This isn’t surprising since Ipsojobs started in Spain. To help expand into North America and around the world, Ipsojobs has came up with a rather innovative revenue sharing plan. Make Money Online with Ipsojobs Ipsojobs offers you the opportunity to manage job postings in your city. As a City Manager, you’ll get 50% of the Google AdSense revenue from the advertising displayed in your city. You can request a city if it hasn’t been taken. The application ask for your Google AdSense publisher ID. 50% of AdSense ads displayed in your city will have your own AdSense code and the other 50% will go to Ipsojobs. This type of revenue sharing plans has been used successfully with forums but this is the first time I’ve seen a job site use it. You should set up a custom channel to track the ad performance. What Are The Duties of a City Manager? The City Manager has to keep the site clean from spam and inappropriate job postings. You will be given an online tool to check all the job postings and to filter out those job postings flagged as inappropriate. The more you promote your city, the more traffic it will receive, and consequently, the more you will earn from the Google ads. Ipsojobs estimate that the average time needed to manage a city is around 7 hours a week. This might be higher in the beginning because of promotional efforts. Ipsojobs has a blog post on how to promote your city. This review is the first of Ipsojobs’ promotion plans. Their continued promotional efforts will benefit all city managers. So far, the only US city that has been taken is New York City. The rest of the United State, all of Canada and most of Europe is up for grabs. If the idea of looking after a job board for 50% of the revenue sounds appealing to you, then better apply for your city now. You can apply for more than one city too. This Post Was Brought To You By TTZ Media - Make Money Online with John Chow’s Ad Network - Join Now! Make Money Online with Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses Get up to $250 or even FREE round-trip plane tickets by signing up for hot credit card offers and bank deals!

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