When does Zero become Millions

I've only been writing in my blogs for about a month or so. How fast do I expect to make real money from blogging? I guess not right now, I read John Chows archives a lot and it seems like it took him almost 8 months before he started to see any real money from it. I'm not a fool I don't expect to make a living blogging, but I do expect to make a something come out of blogging. At first John Chow's site was just like mine, talk about what he knows ( which was mainly about tech industry) and mostly about his personal life issues. I guess in a way my blog is just the same as that, a place where I can freely express my ideas and sometimes rambling about nothing which I hope some people might find interesting to read. Next month I was thinking about writing an article about my work life. I think people might actually be interested to see what the night club industry is like through the eyes of someone that works in it 24/7. I'll post pictures of what attracts guys to the clubs, and of course use the sex appeal card to draw in more readers we'll have to see if it works at all.

On a side note now that I blog more I feel as though I'm actually practising my writing skills, and that isn't at all a bad thing either.

Updates

My site has been up for a month now and I wanted to give everyone updates on all the resources I've been using to gain readers and also stats on google adsense.

Update Myspace- my experiment of trying to add people from myspace to refer to my blogsite has not yet taken off. Myspace has really locked down on their adding policies it's quite time consuming to add person by person unlike before. I also get a lot of spam myspacers but they aren't the type that will direct into your blogsite. This month I'm thinking about using a add bot for myspace not sure if it's legal or not but the program adds people from myspace for you.

Facebook continually is good but I feel as though it's just most of my friends reading up on what I'm doing but still it generates a good amount of unique visitors. My good friend Success2Success has has brought 7 readers to my site. You can always count on his site being the most well written and informative site about investing in real estate and being a entrepreneur.

here is what my Adsense and Analytics look like for my first month.

Adsense

Page Impressions
613

Clicks
18

Earnings
$2.95

Google/Analytics


299 Visits

93 Absolute Unique Visitors

488 Pageviews

1.63 Average Pageviews

00:03:07 Time on Site

73.24% Bounce Rate

29.10% New Visits

I'm far from making a living blogging and I realize since the start I've slacked off a bit but who knows this is a new venture it takes time and I won't give up on it just yet. For next month I'm going to write a article a day or at least 5 articles a week. Also add more people to myspace for my blog site. Also I'm going to join MyBlogLog.com which is a resource for bloggers.

How to Attain Greatness

How does one go from selling one product to selling millions of products? How does one go from one reader to millions of readers? There must be a tipping point to this if you want to follow the book it's fine but here is another theory. Let me tell you about the 100th Monkey effect, and how it can help you attain greatness.

The story goes that in 1952 Japanese Scientist were studying the macaques(type of monkey) on the island of Koshima. The scientist were observing the monkeys eating habits, which consisted of the monkeys picking up sweat potato's from the beach and eating them. The monkeys would pick the sweat potato from the root, and eat the clean half tossing out the dirty root half. This you can imagine was a waste of the potato and also more time consuming because the monkeys had to search and pick more to fill up their bellies. One day while observing the macaques a research noticed that one sole monkey began to wash the potato in the a near by stream. The researchers were puzzled maybe the monkey saw the researchers do it to their food. The monkey after washing the potato in the stream ate the whole potato because it was clean from root to tip. The monkey could for the first time eat the whole potato instead of having to discard the dirty portion. One would think this was a break through and monkeys would embrace this everywhere, but this is where it gets interesting.

At first the sole monkey who discovered the washing technique of the potato was ostracized by the older monkeys. He was no longer able to be in the group, the older monkeys would hit him if he tried to rejoin the group. But the sole monkey still washed his potato in the stream, he ate more and had more time for other things. Slowly the younger monkeys started to imitate the sole monkey and they began to eat more in less time as well. It still wasn't done by all monkeys, until one day the researchers noticed that when the 100th monkey decided to wash the potato that it became wide spread. Hence the 100th Monkey effect, the number 100 seems to be the key for your product, your daily viewers, whatever it maybe to take off into greatness. For my blog to truly become great and become widespread I'd have to have 100 daily viewers a day. That should be my goal and that's the key for my blog to take off.

How to add more readers

so in the last two days I've started a myspace account using 02millions. I noticed how many viewers I've got from facebook and it's about 8 new viewers putting a myspace account might be a good idea. I just wanted to experiment to see if I can add about 1000 random people betweene the age of 25-35 how many would actually bounce to my site and read my blogs. I think myspace is a great resource because they have so many registered users you can add and blast a bullentin too. So far I've been only able to add about 6 people, Myspace has really locked down on the random adding process. So I'm going to add about 10-20 people a day using myspace, in a month I should have about 300 extra people on my Myspace account. I will document to see how many of those people translate into readers to my blog.

April 7th will be one month into my 2 year experiment, I'm excited to give you guys a glimps of what has transpired during this month, and give you guys a projection of the following month.

Increase Readers With Entrecard?

I read recently online about Entrecard so I went to their website. They have a cool little video about how Entrecard can help you increase readers by putting their Ad card on your website. The idea is this, they give online credits to you when people read or click their Ad box on your website or another person website. You get online credits to put your ads on other peoples website which doesn't cost anything. Instead of paying someone money to advertise now you can put your widget(they like to call it) on their site or other Entrecard holders websites from the credits you've collected. Easy concept, I guess but but how is the navigation? Since I believe I have the intelligence of a caveman when it comes to online navigation I'll put it to the test to see if it's caveman prove. So signing up wasn't so hard it's just the normal name, email, etc. Once your verified your email with them, you can now log in and create your Entrecard. They give you an option or take one of their generic cards, which I did. You type what you want on your card, watch the box on the right it only allows you to type so much to fit on the card. You can also download a picture that makes it unique for you card, here's where my first problem comes in. The picture has to be 125x125, I'm not good with photoshop, so for me it's a hassle I hope they could get a system where you load the picture they frame it to the size for you (Caveman Note: blogspot needs to do the same thing make it easy like myspace or facebook for pictures). So I went with the generic picture, then it's just copy the code and paste onto your blog (Caveman Note: to paste a code on your blog, go to layout , add element choose html, then paste)

The one thing I can't figure out is how to get the credits or ad your widget on another persons page yet. That to me is still a mystery, I'll give it another shot today and see if I can figure out the specifics of Entrecard. I checked through Google Analytics I get one or two hits from the website so it's definitely worth the time to get to Entrecard more. I've also had five people drop their card on my Entrecard site but I don't know how I'm suppose to approve it yet or even if that's what I'm suppose to do. Anyone have any suggestions or more info on the site leave a comment to fill us in.

Google AdSense

I got my confirmation through email that I was approved for Google AdSense, I was happy to say the least it took longer then other people around 5 days to approve me. It might be because I have a Yahoo email and not a Gmail registered, or possibility because they are swamp. I was excited to put my ads up right way. They send you a email with links you can click to ask questions, video tutorials, slides. But like I said I'm not the most tech savvy guy in the world. I watched the tutorials about 3 times couldn't figure it out. Tried to apply my own brain power to it didn't work. Finally I did it the old fashion way I called my friend and mentor in this blogging thing Mitch he tried to explain to me what was the problem and help me figure it out. But after 10 minutes of that I couldn't do it as well. When I tried to post the HTML it would give me code instead of the actual Ads from Google. I gave up and was feeling quite the duffus seeing how everyone can get their ads up and I couldn't. But when I logged into it today the code became ads I guess the web crawler bot came and viewed my blogs. Even though they aren't the ones I want I need to learn how to change that next time. here are the simple steps to getting y our ads up.

1. After signing up for blogspot at the end of your process it will ask you if you want to sign up for AdSense click yes. Fill out the appropriate info and they will send you a email.
2. when you verification email comes click the link and it will approve you in a few days mine took 5 days.
3. After you received your approval mail click the AdSense link which takes you to your account, go through and customize a ad. It will give you a choice on color and size. at the end they will give you a code. take your mouse highlight the code right click and copy the code.
4. log into blogspot again hit customize. Then hit layout. Hit add element. a window will pop up hit either html or AdSense. now paste the code in the HTML and in a day you should have your adds.

this blog is all confusing I"m going to have to structure it bit in a day or so.

Mitch Matsuno and John Chow

Ok so this is the second attempt on posting and figuring out what blogspot.com is. My previous post in the middle of posting shut itself down that's the one thing I hate about Vista on my new computer.

I was introduced to blogging by my good friend Mitch Matsuno you can find him under success2success when I figure out how to link his name to the site I will do so. He sent me a email about JohnChow.com awhile go. Mitch is usually really good about always finding new and creative ways to make money so I take his words and recommendations seriously. But honestly the email about John Chow was buried in the massive amount of emails I get everyday because I was busy with work and having my fiancee here. It wasn't until my trip up to SF to visit Mitch and my fiancees family that Mitch explained to me what JohnChow.com was then I remembered reading an article in Entrepreneur magazine about him, he was the guy who made money blogging online and teaching others how to do it as well. John Chow now is making 27 thousand dollars a month blogging, and his motto is everyone can do it too with a little work of course.

So here I am blogging, trying to see if me an average guy who doesn't know much about design or the Internet can make money blogging. I feel like if I can do it then anyone can because I am the true newbie part of the computer illiterate. This is an experiment for 2 years to see if I can catch enough interest with this website to make a buck. I will give every single detail to how I did it. Actually if I don't make money at least you can always point to my site and say well that's where he messed up or that's why he couldn't do it. So with this I start my experiment wish me luck.