Back To The Chase

I've been asked by several of you, so there must be more, What are you doing? I don't get it. I answered the e-mails, and I decided that posting it would be so much easier.

First, I totally understand. We all start at not even knowing what we don't know. I was in Honduras, with a team working with orphans on a farm. One day the person in charge looked me straight in the eye and said, "We don't know what we can do. You've got to show us." So at whatever level you are, review only increases our competency.

Blog is a combination of Web+Log=Blog. A blog is basically an Online Diary of what you are passionate about...your hobbies, politics, thoughts and feelings. What do you love to do? Regardless of the response, You'd do it anyway. What makes you tick? What excites you? What are you crazy about? Not you, you big stud. What dazzles you and causes you to be a better person?It's not just what you dream about. It's what causes you to put those dreams into action.
Let's raise the bar on blogging.

Now, let's say it's Gardening, or getting out of debt, or building a sustainable lifestyle, or living a green lifestyle. You blog about it. Your efforts- what works- what doesn't work. You want a home windmill for electricity so you review the ones out there. You find one, buy it and love it. So you slap a add on your blog. Someone else gives it a try, clicks on your add, buys it and you get up to 85% of the sale price. You've provided a product that you know will help somebody else. You love in it, but you don't house it, send it, or service it. That's Affiliate Marketing in a nutshell.

But Why would they pay you? You provide the platform on your blog -- the link from the seller to the customer, so you are paid what they would have paid in advertising. Now this is only one tool in the second level of blogging, and you don't have to do it. But why not? They say, and yea, who are they, I don't have the research here, but they say that for last year, 2008, the average blog earned $6,000. That's $6,000 more time for you to do what you love.

Now, I know that's really simplified. We will be developing a Whole View of Blogging as we go on. So you can get crazy creative and develop your blog into your own unique masterpiece. Stay Tuned!