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Bitcoin Adoption and Usage in Nigeria Getting Momentum

Over the past few months, Bitcoin adoption in Nigeria has increased dramatically. Not only does the African country top Google Trends charts for Bitcoin-related searches, but wallet downloads and trading volumes are also growing exponentially.

As the virtual currency continues to gain ground, we asked our Nigerian customers: how do you view Bitcoin and what do you do with it?

Below are the results in an infographic on how often they use their Bitcoin wallets, if they use it more as a payments system or an investment tool, whether they trust it or not and what they think the Bitcoin price will be over time.

Imagine, between last year and now, we’ve seen bitcoin rises about 200% and analyst forecast that before the year runs out, 1 bitcoin may be worth $10,000.

Those are the infographics of the massive popularity of Bitcoin and its usage in Africa, Nigeria in particular courtesy of www.luno.com.

You can forgive yourself for not investing earlier in Bitcoin but you may not forgive yourself if you don't invest now in Bitcoin or at least the alternative like Swisscoin now that it's still very affordable.

How Hackers Cash Out Thousands of Bitcoins Received in Ransomware Attacks

Digital currencies have emerged as a favourite tool for hackers and cyber criminals, as digital currency transactions are nearly anonymous, allowing cyber criminals to use it in underground markets for illegal trading, and to receive thousands of dollars in ransomware attacks—WannaCry, Petya, LeakerLocker, Locky and Cerber to name a few.

Also, every other day we hear about some incidents of hacking of crypto currency exchange or digital wallets, in which hackers stole millions of dollars in Bitcoin or Ethereum.

The latest back-to-back series of thefts of Ethereum—one of the most popular and increasingly valuable cryptocurrencies—in which around half a billion dollars in total were stolen is the recent example of how much hackers are after crypto currencies.

It's obvious that after ripping off hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrencies from exchanges, wallets and ransomware victims, cyber criminals would not hold them in just digital form—the next step is to cash them out into real-world money.

But how do they cash out without getting caught by law enforcement?

If you are unaware, there are some crypto currency exchanges involved in money laundering, who are illegally-operating to help hackers and cyber criminals easily cash out their digital currencies without identifying them, i.e. anonymously.

According to a recent research paper presented by three Google researchers, more than 95% of all Bitcoin payments collected from ransomware victims have been cashed out via a Russian cryptocurrency exchange, called BTC-e, since 2014.

Interestingly, just two days before Google presentation, one of the founders of BTC-e exchange, Alexander Vinnik, was arrested by Greek police on charges of laundering over $4 Billion in Bitcoin for culprits.

“We undercover the cast-out points, tracking how the money exits the Bitcoin network, enabling the authorities to pick up the money trail using conventional financial tracing means.

the trio researchers, Luca Invernizzi, Kylie McRoberts and Elie Bursztein said.

Key Points — Tracking Ransomware Payments

The researchers followed the step-by-step money trail and got a look at the evolving ecosystem of ransomware families, which already helped make cyber-thieves at least $25 Million in the last two years.

Most Damaging Ransomware Families: According to the research, two families of ransomware strain helped hackers made most of the money — Locky and Cerber — while other variants are also starting to emerge.
Criminals looted In Millions: Locky has been the overall biggest earner for hackers at $7.8 Million and was the first ransomware infection to earn above $1 million a month to date, while Cerber has made $6.9 million to date with consistently making more than $200,000 a month.
Victim's Favorite Places to Buy Bitcoins m: Obviously, victims also need BTC to pay out criminals, and most victims choose LocalBitcoins, Bithumb, and CoinBase to buy BTC, where 90% victims pay in a single transaction.
How Criminals Cash Out Cryptocurrency: According to the research, more than 95% of all Bitcoin payments for ransomware were cashed out via BTC-e, a service operational since 2011.
Criminals Renting Out Botnets: Cybercriminal gangs behind Dridex, Locky and Cerber have taken Necurs botnet—army of compromised machines—on rent to distribute their ransomware infections on a massive scale.

Google conducted the research in collaboration with the researchers from New York University, University of California San Diego and blockchain analyst firm Chainalysis.

When talking about BTC-e, the cryptocurrency exchange is believed to have been involved in cashing out Bitcoins stolen from the once-very popular Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which was shut down in 2014 following a massive series of mysterious robberies.

How To Get Loan Up To N100,000 From Etisalat

Etisalat Nigeria, Now 9Mobile has Introduced a new loan package called
KwikCash to assist subscribers who are in need of money to finance certain projects or meet their needs and pay back in return.

The Etisalat KwikCash is an innovative solution to meet the loan needs of Etisalat Subscribers. It is a mobile loan solution, that allow you to access loans of up to N100,000 just by dialing *561# with your Etisalat line and get credited in minutes.

HOW TO GET LOAN VIA KwikCash

First, dial *561#
Next, follow the USSD menu to ‘’Request Loan’’
Then select preferred loan offer
Now select bank and enter your 10-digit NUBAN
Finally, confirm repayment amount and accept terms and conditions.

HOW TO PAY BACK

To pay back the loan you collected from Etisalat (9Mobile) follow below steps:

Dial *561
Follow the USSD menu to ‘’Pay Loan’’
Select preferred payment option
Follow the instructions accordingly
Repayment is immediately processed

AM I ELIGIBLE FOR THIS LOAN?

Yes. All Etisalat subscribers are eligible to borrow so long you have etisalat sim.

12 proven ways to make money in any niche

There are a few very important things that you must always consider in regards to online money making. Below is a list of the most common monetization methods, along with some important things to consider for your blog.

In my opinion, Google Adsense or advertising sales and affiliate marketing should be used as primary monetization methods. Email marketing and guest posting are two monetization methods that you can, and really should almost always use as a secondary monetization method.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of proven ways to make money from your sites, however, it may help you get starting. Also, all these methods work in almost any niche so if you don’t have to wonder if they may work for you or not, It will.

Affiliate Programs (Revenue Share)

For those who still don’t know how affiliate program work, in a nutshell, you place a link on your site promoting a product. If somebody clicks through your link you get a % share of the sale cost. You don’t have to support the product, or deal with the tax, have a merchant account or any of the million and one issues which come with owning your own product.

Different affiliate tracking systems use different methods to track the sale, these can be: IP, Username, Referral address, Cookie, Flash cookie. I prefer programs that use long-lasting cookies (30 days or more) as most of the buyers don’t purchase the next moment they see an offer.

How To Find Affiliate Programs

Firstly if you are a member of an affiliate marketplace like Clickbank then go and have a look there, you never know there might be something. However don’t stop at that, have a look around for possibly better programs. Spend some time looking, don’t just jump at the first product you see within the niche you are interested in.
Google : Do a search based on your niche. If it’s a popular one with affiliate marketers you can bet the SERPs will be filled with affiliate sales pages. Go through the pages and see what products they are promoting.

Remember however these people are your competition, the fact you have just found them in Google shows other people can do and you will have to beat them, either with better SEO, backlinks, pay per view (PPV), pay per click (PPC) or long tail keywords.

You will, however, find many programs that are not part of any affiliate directories. When you are starting out you may be one of many people who has applied for the program, most will never make a single sale and so you will be ignored by the product owner or affiliate manager at first.

Don’t take this to heart, once you start making some actual decent sales number they will take notice. Once you make them a decent number of sales you may contact them for exclusive discount coupons or better affiliate payouts.

Recommended affiliate programs

Amazon Associates
Hosting Affiliates Programs (BlueHost, HostGator), WordPress themes (MyThemeShop, ElegantThemes)

2. CPA - Cost Per Action Programs

Here you don’t get a fee for the sale itself rather you get a few from some ‘action’, this could be a simple as referring the person to a site or having them submit a valid email address.

Now the lines have been blurred a lot because many programs list themselves as CPA but the action is a sale, but in these cases it’s not a revenue share as such because you can often make more money than the initial sale.

That may sound odd, how can a program payout $100 on a $37 sale? Well put simply for them the $37 is just the tip of the iceberg, they will be extracting money from the client for a long time to come.

Sounds dodgy, but it’s very common. You will find most mobile phone or subscription TV packages work this way.

Ever wonder why the mobile phone sales agent wants you to buy a particular phone? Well there is probably a nice big CPA payout on that phone, while the first month contract price on the phone may be only $50 the cost of the contract over its lifetime, plus the revenue from calls, is worth $1000′s and thus they can afford to pay out more than $50 upfront to you for referring the sale to them.

How to find CPA networks

You can look for CPA offers at OfferVault, but remember many networks are not included.
One thing that’s important is using network that pays out, sticking with some of the long term names in the industry is a safer option:

There are hundreds more. If you get stuck trying to join these networks because you don’t have any traffic to your website yet just tell them you will be using ‘social traffic and media buy’, that is Facebooks, Twitter etc along with Pay Per View or other advertising.

These forms of traffic don’t have any websites associated with them so you should pass that hurdle. If they call you and ask for more information tell them you don’t want to share your traffic source at the moment but you are doing XXX leads a day with another network and looking to expand.

Unless you know what you are doing I recommend you do not mix advertising and affiliate programs on one site, many people do run AdSense on their affiliate sites in the belief they will make more money. There are two types of advertising systems, ones where you get paid if a person clicks (CPC) on the advert and others where you get paid for each impression (CPM) of the advert.

3. Google Adsense

The placement of your Google Adsense units/ads is very important when it comes to both conversions and also ranking if you’re doing any SEO.

I find out that, in most cases, blending the ad in with the site (using the theme’s link color for the title, the theme’s background color for the background/border and the theme’s font color for the description) results in the highest conversion.

In practice, I see the best conversions with large rectangle units (336×280) and large, horizontal “leaderboards” (728×90) with horizontal banners (468×60) coming in a close third place. I USUALLY end up using two banners in the content (one directly below the post title and one below the post) and one large rectangle (in the sidebar).

That’s because the large rectangles are bad news in Google these days when used directly below the post title. They want to see a lot of content “above the fold” (the part of the site that is seen without having to scroll down) and a large rectangle so high up pushes your content down.

Keep in mind that Google Adsense is not going to make you reach, unless you have large figures of traffic and content but is a sure and proven way to make money. Other contextual advertising networks I recommend:

Media.net(I may give these guys a go as they contacted me with a personalized offer. I will keep you posted on how it goes).
Adsterra.com
AdRecover.com – Monetize your ad blocked traffic.

4. Sell advertising

I have sites that make more money from direct advertising than anything else and I don’t reach out to ANYONE to provoke the offers! All I do is set up a very basic Advertising page that briefly outlines the type of advertising that is available (banner ads, links etc.) and the traffic potential.

From there, my sites that get any kind of decent exposure (especially in Google) receive advertising inquiries naturally. There are a great deal of big, medium and small companies out there that are regularly on the lookout for sites to advertise on.

Depending on your community’s popularity, some advertisers are willing to pay no less than $3,000 per year.This method It has resulted in thousands and thousands of dollars for me over the years and it’s something that requires little time or effort, yet many people do not do it.

If you want don’t want how much you should charge check the BuySellAds marketplace. There you can get a pretty good idea on how much a forum with similar traffic than yours is making.

Now that you have a pretty good idea on the advertising prices you should ask you may signup an account with them or simply sell advertising on your own.

Just create an Advertise with us page and let your members know they can purchase an add on your site. On that page, you should show some traffic stats, tell the visitor what kind of ads are available and you CAN show pricing, although I like to simply give them an email address to send all advertising queries to.

You can use one of the following WordPress plugins to sell advertising on your blog:

OioPublisher($47)
WpAdCenter($29)
Ultimate Ads Manager(Free or $9 monthly for premium)

5. Publish advertorials/guest posts

After Google updates, most of the webmasters were looking to different ways to advertise their websites and moved away from all kind of backlinks spamming to guest posting There are a few very important things that you must always consider in regards to online money making.

As this advertising method became very popular bloggers started to ask money in exchange for publishing content and most of the contributors have nothing against paying from $50 to $300 for each guest post article they want to publish.

Keep in mind that Google forbids asking for money in exchange for placing guest posts but you can charge for your time spent to polish and publish the articles. Also if you clearly label them as advertorials and you no-follow the links you are 100% safe.

So, if your blog has some authority in your niche you can accept paid guest post articles and increase your revenue in an easy and profitable way.

6. Email Marketing

You can collect opt-ins via Popups (offering something of value for free… like a short report) on almost any site! You can then mail that list weekly, sending them to a new post that you’ve published on the site.

Then every so often sends out a promo for a good affiliate offer, or a product that you create yourself. Although popups are frowned upon by some, they work.

As long as you don’t do anything ridiculous, like preventing the user from closing it or showing it every 10 seconds, they will not cause any major issues and will only earn you more money. If you sell any products, whether digital or physical, you should definitely be asking every one of them to opt-inupdates for and announcements immediately after payment.

A customer list is the most profitable type of list! You can always put an opt-in form on your actual landing page as well, but whether or not this is a good idea depends on several different factors and usually comes down to testing.

If you’re dealing with an AdSense site, see what your AdSense profit is after 5,000 or so visitors without it, then see what it is after the same number of visitors with it. Then come up with a reasonable amount of profit you think the list will result in over the next several months and decide for yourself whether you think it’s more profitable with it or without it.

Some niches are better for this than others, as some tight niches just aren’t good candidates for email marketing in general (more on that in a minute) but if you’re targeting a niche that is good for email marketing, setting up a squeeze page giving away something of value.

NEVER hurts and usually results in some steady opt-ins on a regular basis.

7. Lead Brokerage

It’s a pretty popular technique these days, especially with local small businesses. You find a local realtor (for example), you build a site targeting “CITY realtor” and get traffic coming to it. Then you charge that realtor “$XXX” for each lead that converts.

On this type of site, the primary concern is obviously the lead. So, just like with affiliate marketing, you want to be sure to add a good call to action and add it in multiple spots throughout the site! On the homepage, you want a big telephone number (if you’re having them contact him/her directly) and/or a contact form in a VERY prominent spot on the site.

You don’t want to rely on the visitor to find your contact link, go to the contact page and then contact you/him/her that way. You want to make it very clear that you want that person to contact you and that “THIS” is how to do it.

8. Website Flipping

Here you main goal is to sell the website, you want to build it up and get some PR on it then sell it. Generally speaking, unless a site is for sale because the owner simply does not want to maintain it anymore you have to wonder why any site that makes money is for sale.

If you site is making money, and you have no reason for it to stop doing so, generally account the time you spend with maintenance and promotions in you are better off keeping it.

However, you should take Sometimes for a website to succeed it needs a ton of money or people with more connections or knowledge than you.

Keep in mind that there are niches where millions of dollars are spent monthly on advertising. You may see what sites are sold for on Flippa.com.

Don’t forget to take all your necessary precautions to not get scammed including doing due diligence on the buyer and use an escrow system for the transaction.

9. Create your own product / course

If you are just starting out this is probably the hardest thing to do, because you not only need to know how to be an affiliate but also a product owner. You need to be able to sell the idea to the affiliates in the first place, this having the skills of being an affiliate marketer in the first place will really set you ahead of the pack when it comes to selling your own product.

Create an online course

Find out exactly what those visitors want and create a course from there. The truth is that your first course may not be that “awesome” — but that’s okay. People like buying online courses, even when they can find the same information for free.

People like “convenience.” Online courses are focused on a specific subject or topic. They’re organized and ready to be put into action.

10. Offer your services (Writing, Consulting, etc.)

If you have a blog or website and you’re quite an authority in your niche or at least you prove to your visitors that you know what you’re doing and you’re a hard working person you’ll get projects from visitors that don’t have the time nor knowledge to do the things you’re doing.

There are plenty services you can offer and get paid as a freelancer.

Writing articles or books
Offer consultations via email, phone or skype
Do SEO, Blog installation, Social Media Marketing etc (Even if you’re not a GURU if you read our blog you will know more than average people know about these things)

Just prove them you’re the right person to do them.

11. Sell subscriptions to premium content

If you have a pretty solid readership base or you’re into not so competitive niches like internet marketing for instance you may create and sell access to premium posts on your blog.

If you are into financial / business niches you may sell your premium posts/reports for much more.

12. Ask for donations

It is not necessary to have thousands of visitors daily. If you have a strong, engaged readership base or a community that appreciate what are you doing then you may ask for donations.

This will not make you insanely rich but will help you pay for hosting, have a decent coffee and a snack and maybe save some money for future developments. People appreciate when receive to create it so most of them will be happy to help you.

All you have to do is to create quality content (video tutorials, step by step guides) in your niche showing them you’re passionate about it.time value for nothing and they understand that someone spent I see numerous blogs nowadays where the readers the costs of the hosting and maintenance and also bring some coffees for the admins.

If your website can not be monetized otherwise or you don’t want to place ads or post promotional content you should definitely ask for donations/support community.
Hope it helps?

How to make $1000 in a week without any prior knowledge or experience

Let me tell you this; making $1,000 online in a week is a piece of cake. There’s a business model online that’s so simple, so straightforward, and so lucrative it should be banned.

You don’t need to stock inventory. You don’t need to ship anything. You can work from literally anywhere in the world with access to the Internet.

You don’t even have to use your own money to pay for the goods. Do you want to know what it is? It’s called drop-shipping.

Before you say oh, that. Let’s look at how you can start and scale a drop-shipping business. Step by step.

All you need are hot products and an effective marketing/advertising campaign to be successful here.

But Gabriel, how am I supposed to find products?

It's simple. Where should you look to find the hottest products in the world? The largest online retailer in the world or course, Amazon.

Just run a quick Google search for

Most popular Gadgets on Amazon. Most popular fitness items on Amazon Most popular pet products on Amazon Most popular *whatever you want to sell* on Amazon.

You will get back a lot of results. Focus on the ones created within the last 18–24 months. Once you have a list of 20 or so products, there are four things you need to do.

Go here and open a new store. It’s free for 14 days, and I guarantee you will make plenty of sales using this trial.
Go here, create an account and add the plugin to your store. You can do this from the back-end of your store.
Set up your payment processor (Stripe/Paypal).
Go to AliExpress, open a new account, and import your desired products to your store (using the plugin).

Ok Gabriel, my store is ready for business.

Now how do I market this thing? You need to get about $100 for advertising. This shouldn’t be hard, go to your attic right now and grab that old vintage ukulele.

Sell it for $100 on eBay or Craigslist and you’re good to go. Once you have your $100, split it in half. Now set up a Facebook page for your store and run/test ads until you find a winner. Set the budget to $10 a day.

Don't overthink it. You have the hottest products in the world. They will sell. With your other $50, go find large Instagram pages.

At least 50,000 followers and 1–3% engagement (Calculate engagement using likes. Add up the number of likes for their last 10 posts.

Divide that number by 10 to get average likes. Once you get average likes, divide that by the total number of followers.

That's the average engagement.) Shoot them an email or DM and ask them if they're willing to promote your product.

For 50,000 you shouldn't pay more than $15. For 100,000 you shouldn’t pay more than $20-$25 and for 200,000 you shouldn’t pay more than $30-$50.

Negotiate.

Here's a secret. If you are selling goods for pugs, don't advertise on pet pages. Don't even advertise in dog pages if you can help it. Advertise on pages especially dedicated to pugs.

Once you turn a profit, expand to broader pages.

With $50 you should get 2 or 3 shout-outs.

You will sell a lot by the end of the week.

Now keep reinvesting your profit. Be smart.

One day you might be selling your store for millions.

Don't forget to share with friends!

How much a blogger with millions followers make

There are different bloggers from different niches and they all make different income even if they all have the same amount of traffic/followers.

The business capabilities of a blogger determines how successful or how rich he will be but all in all, the niche market where they all operate will determine how well paid they will be. Bloggers with very high traffic in the count of millions make between $5k - $100k per month and that's very huge.

Bloggers in the following niche market are well paid if they have that huge followership.

Business marketing / Personal finance niche
Healthcare and health insurance
Technology and Development
SEO and content marketing

While bloggers in the following niche earn lesser than those in the above niche even if they have the same amount of traffic

Gossips and entertainment niche
Cooking and restaurants
Downloads and media pirates

That said, each niche determines how much people are willing to pay for such services.

It depends on your target audience and type of posts.

You should first work on improving your organic traffic with some linkbuilding and guest posting. Try figuring out and finding some websites and blogs where your audience is likely to hang out and try to get a link to your blog posted there.

At the same time, you should promote your social media and try to grow your audience by engaging them on Facebook, Instagram, or whichever your audience is most likely to use. The groups of people active on Pinterest vs Linkedin are very different, for example.

You can also do paid campaigns on social media, with specific targeting. This could potentially show you that your target group isn’t quite what you planned to be.

AdWords could also make sense, but can be rather pricey, depending on the competition in your category. Are people more likely to search for the kind of content you’re posting on Google or pick it up casually from social media?

Other ad netwooks, like Taboola, can work well, too. It’s the kind that shows up on many websited under their posts as “Suggestsions from the web” or “Trending now” or something along those lines. Those ads can be quite edgy, though, so your audience may be among the people that see through that and just skip the whole thing.

Hope that gives you a few ideas :)

Best of luck!

Best way to promote a blog

There is hardly anything more difficult than promoting a new blog .

First because no-one knows about it, hence word-of-mouth will only bring you so far, second because it is empty, so even potentially interested readers won’t get all they need, and third because Google did not have a chance to properly index your content.

Those are the reasons why a major key to blogging success is patience. Like with all content marketing efforts, you need to count a minimum of 6 months to one year to start seeing results.

That being said, there are a few things you should do to boost your results:

Write quality content

It most certainly sounds obvious but it isn’t. You must understand what your potential audience is looking for, what they need to learn, what they want to read, before you could write good content. A good article answers a specific question, solves a specific problem. Start with finding the problem, then provide the solution.

Distribute your content

Regardless how great your content is, no one will find it if you don’t distribute it.
Use your newsletter, Social Media, network, curation platforms, etc. to make sure everyone knows about it.
However, don’t believe quantity outcome quality - from Google’s perspective, bouncing rate is an important element of your indexing. In other words, better have 10 readers who spend 5 minutes reading you article than 100 visitors who stay less than 5 seconds on your page.

Talk to Google

Make use of Google Search Console, build a sitemap, build RSS feeds, use analytics, use rich snippets, etc.
All these steps make it easier for Google to understand your content and therefore index it and drive traffic to it.

I hope this helps?

7 common mistakes to avoid when starting a blog

What’s your intention of blogging? To make money or just as an online diary?

If you choose the former, my advice is:

Get a self-hosted WordPress (a.k.a. WordPress[dot]org), instead of a free Blogger or WordPress.com blog

.Invest in your blog to see great returns.
It’s easier to have a niche or two, rather than write about anything. Once you’ve grown, you can always expand to more niches. Try to keep them related though.
You have to promote your blog posts; otherwise, no one will know you.
Learn SEO from experts like Neil Patel, Brian from Backlinko, amongst others.
Blog consistently. For instance, if you choose to post twice a week, stick to it.
Blogging is a long-term effort.

Difference between a blogger and a freelance writer

A blogger is someone who writes for their own blog or contributes to one. A blogger doesn’t have to have their own blogging space to be considered a blogger, though many do.

Early on, bloggers are on the hook for the upkeep of their website, generating most if not all of the content (photo, copy, etc.) and building a following (sharing, SEO, ads, etc.) Bloggers choose what to talk about, when to talk about it and when to release it. Except if they are acting as a Guest Blogger.

A freelance writer pitches their pieces to editors of blogging sites, newspapers, etc. Freelance writers can also be tapped by Editors to write on a specific topic.

Freelance writers contribute to an already existing platform and are usually only on the hook for the copy. Their writing will likely be submitted to an editor for review, images are chosen by the editor along with the release date. The heavy lifting outside of the writing is handled by the team the freelance writer is contributing to. Depending on their popularity freelance writers are often pitching or being pitched by several periodicals at a time. Some of your favorite websites leverage the work of freelance writers.

Someone, like me, can be both a blogger and a freelance writer.

Both freelance writers and bloggers can be paid or unpaid contributors. When the freelancer is pitching or being pitched payment terms are discussed up front. Some periodicals pay per word while others have a flat rate.

While blogging platforms may be monetized guest bloggers often do so as for exposure and cross-pollination instead of payment.

How to grow the audience of your website

One of the best tips for growing audience on the blog or website is being active.
By saying this I mean few things:

Post regularly- people like to know that they can read regularly something new on your blog. It keep your blog alive.
Use social media - find places where your target audience is active, set up a fanpage, g+ profile. instagram, snapchat or twitter account. But choose wisely and be there where your audience already is.
Share your posts - on social media. Use your fanpage and personal profile. Share posts on groups for bloggers or thematic groups (check terms of group to ensure that you’re allowed to post links to your own blog).
CTA - at the end of your blog posts put some call to action and encourage people to sharing your posts.
Implement social buttons - it makes sharing so much easier and people just like to use them. Use on of available plugins, it’s quite easy.
Engage - engage online conversations relevant to your blog posts on the internet. Share your knowledge, make people like you, and share links to your articles.
Say thank you! - react to every single share of your content on the internet. Like, comment, say thank you, engage conversations. It’s so easy and let your readers know that you are grateful, care about them and their opinions.
Cooperate - cooperate with other bloggers and experts. Find influencers in your niche, talk to them, engage them, collaborate. This way you can reach their audience and let them reach yours. Win-win!

10 challenges of writing a Linkedin profile

Challenges are relative to the person creating their own Linkedin profile.

It may depend on several factors

You need to have a high level of literacy. Any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors that you make will work against you.
You need to have good strategic thinking skills. We all likely have a long list of jobs, skills and/or accomplishments that we could post. But should we? Your Linkedin profile has to be consistent with your purpose of creating it in the first place. Sometimes, less is more.
You need to get comfortable with promoting yourself. As a business would when marketing itself, your Linkedin profile is marketing you. You have to make sure it is written to present you in the best possible light.
It’s no longer a matter of sharing what you have done in the past, it’s a matter of promoting what you can do in the future. You need to craft your content so that it comes across as a solution to somebody else’s problem.
You need to get comfortable with writing about yourself in the 3rd person vs 1st person ‘I’ statements .
If you are searching for work, your Linkedin profile has to be consistent with your resume. Your Linkedin profile allows you to expand upon some of the claims that you have made on your resume and provide examples of your work.
You need to fill out all of the areas in your profile. This not only means filling in dates and titles, it means providing content that once again, shows you in a good light.
You need to actively build your network of connections. Consider 500 connections as a minimum. It may be the first thing that many people look at. If your connections number is low, some may wonder if it’s worthwhile connecting to you.
Linkedin is one of many social media venues. You need to ensure that your digital footprint is consistent with the professional image that you want to portray.
You should consider your Linkedin profile as being iterative. It needs to be tweaked and adapted on an ongoing basis.
If you are using it for job searching, you may want to keep a file of different content e.g. jobs and duties that you have had in the past and then change your Linkedin profile whenever you are applying for a job.

From my perspective, there are at least two categories of connections on Linkedin. There are those that take a lackadaisical approach to connecting and those that take it very seriously.

Linkedin is merely a tool for you to use to promote yourself. At present, it is likely the best one for achieving results.

How to increase your website traffic from 0 to 100,000 in the shortest time

Someone asked me this and I started laughing at him, I told him that it could be possible by the use of Google adwords, Facebook advertisement and Forums but he said he needed organic traffic not paid traffic.

So I think this answer is the best answer for his question and also the most easiest way to increase your website' traffic and it's extremely easy.

Go on some Torrent Website and download all the TV Series you can find. Focus on what just came out.
Upload them to your Website or use some third party hosting service that lets you embed videos.
Start a Reddit profile and promote the links on it.
Start a Youtube profile with 30 second clips of the series and link to your website.
Start 30 Instagram fan page style profiles with links to your websites and use some automation tool to target the hashtags related to the series you have uploaded.

Trending now!!

You should be able to reach 100.000 views before the copyright guys come knocking at your door.

If you get lucky you might even get a house like this:

A wife like this:

Here you are striking a crazy pose next to your hot wheels:

And guess what? You will even get 10-20 years of time to think about how to get even more traffic faster.

Adsense Tips And Tricks 2017

The Google AdSense solution is used by millions of web masters around the world. Some of them have great success and good income, while others get only a few dollars.

Here we will share some basic tips which are known to help increase the revenue generated through Google AdSense.

First, you should choose the advertisement block format which best suits your web site visual style. The experience shows that the 336x280 Large Rectangle, the 300x250 Medium Rectangle, and the 160x600 Wide Skyscraper are the most effective shapes. Still, you should mind the visual appearance of your web pages when you insert the AdSense code. If you have a little space for ads, the best solution will be the link unit format.

Additionally, you should pick the most suitable color palette for your ads block. If you have a light background on your web site, it is better to use a similar light palette for the AdSense box. The contrast choice for an ads box palette is good only for web sites with dark background. Still, it is better to pick a color which already exists in your web site.

It is better to create an ads unit which includes both text and images. In this way both will be displayed and this will increase the chance to get a click on an advertisement by a web site visitor.

Next, you should consider the location of the ads on your web pages.

Probably the best position of the advertisements is in the top / header of your site. However, this can break the consistency of your content, so you should be careful using such a solution. Other good locations are just below the navigation bar, above the footer and in the left menu area. You should always put yourself in the visitors' shoes and look to the web site from their point of view. If the ads block makes you feel uncomfortable while browsing the web site, you should consider a different position or formatting.

Additionally, you should define the number of the advertisement units per page. There are some restrictions about it. You are allowed to have up to three advertisement units per page (in addition to three link units and three referral units). If you have a web site with a lot of content, which requires the visitors to scroll down the pages or you manage a forum or a blog, it is wise to put more AdSense blocks.

However, always make sure that the main unit which will generate the major part of the revenue is loaded first in the web site source code. In case you wonder, if you place more than 3 ads units on a page only the first 3 will appear.

Detailed instructions on how to improve the efficiency of your AdSense blocks can be found in the Google AdSense resources section:

https://www.google.com/adsense/adsense-resources
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How To Start Making Money From Social Media with Famebit

By Harsh Agrawal
Update: Famebit is now acquired by Google. This gives you more reason to join it ASAP!

Do you want to make money from your Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Vine or even your Tumblr account?

What I’m sharing here today can provide you with a great revenue stream.

And… no, you don’t need to have a blog to get started with this.

It’s all about sponsored posts…

Sponsored posts are nothing new & is a common term in the field of online advertising.

Here at Doneve, we get offers starting from $1000 for a sponsored post.

Now, one can get a sponsored post for their social media channels. All you need is an active profile on any of the above mentioned social media networks and more than 5000 followers. I believe Twitter & YouTube would be the r to get started with this.

The new monetization technique which I’m sharing with you today is called “Social Media Monetization“.

The network is called Famebit.

What is Famebit & how you can make money from it?

Famebit is a platform which connects social media influencers with brands. The cool thing is that you don’t have to be the most popular person in the world to be a “social media influencer”. I will explain more about it later, but for now, let me explain what Famebit is & how it works.

Famebit helps you to get sponsorship for your social media channels & through this sponsorship, you can earn handsome amounts of money.

As a brand, finding influencers to talk about your product on various social networking sites is the definition of viral marketing and can prove to be very valuable.

This a self-serving marketplace & it is easy to get started.

Famebit was initially started focusing on YouTubers & now it supports more social networking sites. You only need 1,000 followers on any of the accepted networks to connect and start sending proposals.

The very first thing you should do after signing up for Famebit is update your profile. Write a compelling bio & link all your social networking profiles which have a minimum of 5000 followers.

Here is a video that shows how to utilize the Famebit public profile feature:

Subscribe on Youtube

Here is how you make money from Famebit:

Once you have created an account on Famebit (free registration), you can access their marketplace instantly. Here you can browse the brands who are looking for influencers to talk about & promote their product. You will find products related to almost all popular niches such as technology, gadgets, beauty, fashion, pets & many others.

You can sort the offers based on targeted social networks, niches & pricing. You can click on “details” to see more about the sponsorship & from here you can contact the brand with your idea of promoting them.

Click on “Send Proposal” & share your ideas with the brand on what you would be doing.

I will share some smart tips on sending Famebit proposals in upcoming posts, but for now here is just a sample rough proposal which I created for Fiverr.

Note: This is just a rough draft I created for this article. I would suggest you use something more creative & data driven in your proposal.

It’s a good idea to include your past work so brands know what to expect. Include some data based details to get a higher chance of acceptance.

This is how the brand will see your proposal.

You can send the proposal to any number of companies. I would recommend you use a template for sending out proposals, but also be sure to make it personal.

Study the brand and come up with a unique idea.

Here’s the process:

Once your proposal is accepted, work on the promotion plan & share the draft with the company using the Famebit dashboard.

Once that is accepted, you can go live with it.

Things to note:

Once you submit the content on your channel, the company who sponsored your content becomes the copyright owner. They can reuse it for their other media campaigns.

For a first timer, it’s a good idea to read the terms and conditions of Famebit.

Famebit charges 10% of the sponsored fees for providing this platform.

Payment is made via PayPal or paper check.

Create account on Famebit

You can also download the official Famebit iOS app from the App Store.

Tip: On Famebit, you can also receive physical products to try & review. So at times, it’s OK to keep your proposal price low as you will get to review the product for free.

Overall, Famebit is one of those monetization techniques which is not limited to bloggers.

Anyone who is active on social media platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter (and a few more) can earn a decent income out of it. In particular, a YouTuber can earn anywhere between $10 and $20,000.

For YouTubers, I recommend using this 3rd party tool call TubeBuddy to grow their channel fast.
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Have you tried Famebit? Share your experience in the comments below.

Know anyone that would like to make money by using their social media account? Let them know by sharing this article on Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus.

Why You Will Never Make Money Blogging (And How To Change That)

By Harsh Agrawal

Let me start you off with this simple truth:

You will never make money as a blogger if you continue to do the wrong things.

Albert Einstein’s great quip sums this up – “It is sheer insanity to do something over and over again and expect a different result.

”Many new bloggers are lost in thoughts of being able to travel the world and spend time in expensive hotels eating the best meals. While this is a possible feat to achieve, it sure takes a lot of guts and time in getting to this place of tremendous achievement.

Daniel Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) confirmed that, “While blogs can do many awesome things, making lots of money isn’t one of them.”

He was right, if you ask me.

Your blog isn’t a money printing machine; rather, it’s a tool used for reaching the world with your valuable products/services… and possibly making money in the process.

Of course, it takes a lot of work. You must be willing to go through the process patiently, and if you do, success will surely come.

I love Whitney Young Jr.’s great quote, “It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared for it.”

The latter part of the quote paints a typical blogging situation- someone who has a chance at becoming one of the most respected people in the annals of the world, but loses out by reasons of unpreparedness.

In this post, I will reveal to you the reasons why you will never make money blogging in 2017. Aside from that, I’ll also show you how you can reverse this and build a money-making blog right now.

Are we still together?

Let’s dive in!

Why You Will Never Make Money Blogging This Year (And How To Reverse It)

1. You don’t have a concrete business model.

Now, before I explain what a business model is and how to set up one for your business, let me quickly tell you why the lack of one is ruining your blogging business.

When you don’t have a system or a plan that encourages or pushes you to take the necessary actions in your business, you risk losing your enthusiasm and passion which will eventually result in the death of your blog.

So what is a business model?

The term “business model” can be defined in so many ways…

For the sake of this tutorial, I will describe a business model simply as a plan or design for the successful operation of a business, the intended customer base, the identified revenue sources, products, and sources of financing.

Similarly, Wikipedia defined it as: “an abstract representation of a business, be it conceptual, textual, and/or graphical, of all core interrelated architectural, co-operational, and financial arrangements designed and developed by an organization presently and in the future, as well as all core products and/or services the organization offers, or will offer, based on these arrangements that are needed to achieve its strategic goals and objectives.”

One of the mistakes often made by bloggers is in thinking that a business model is all about saying: “I want to make money.”

Honestly, if you put the “making money” thing as the primary reason for starting your business, you’re already doomed.

Money shouldn’t be your focus when starting out online as a blogger. The focus should be on creating systems; that includes creating significant and valuable content that takes a reader from where they are to where they ought to be.

Distilling it down, a good business model will let you:

Identify who your target audience is.

Identify revenue sources.

Figure out how to serve your customers. (With text, videos, audios, infographics, etc.?)

Identify products to create that will further educate your audience on what you currently teach them via your blog posts. (Example: You can create and sell an eBook.)

Identify where will you get funds and how will you continue to invest in your business to stay relevant in the marketplace.

Find the best promotional strategies to get your business out there.

These are just some of the things to consider when creating a plan/model for your business.

This is a very important step when starting out as a blogger.

You must give it maximum attention.

Like I mentioned, you will never make a single dime blogging if you concern yourself too much about making money .

Making money from blogging does not come overnight. I’ve been in the internet marketing and blogging niche longer than most of you, and I’ve never seen anyone that launched one day and started seeing money roll in the next day.

It doesn’t happen.

Forget all those adverts hovering over the web about how Jack made $$$$$$ within 48 hours of launching his business. If it actually worked that way, everyone would be doing it.

Here’s what you need to remember:

If you want to make real money in the real world, you need to solve real problems.

If you’re serious about making money, learn to shift focus on wanting to be a quick and overnight success to providing a lot of value to your readers

Value is what sells you and your products, and it is what ultimately helps you to achieve your money-making goals.

According to Copyblogger, “If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.”

3. You are not asking the right questions.

I constantly get readers of ShoutMeLoud asking me:

How do I make money blogging?
How can I get traffic to my blog?
How can I build influence and get blog engagements?

While all these questions are great, there’s always something wrong with the phrasing.

Example:

Don’t ask: “How can I get traffic?”

Ask: “Is my blog capable of getting traffic?”

A lot of the time, people come into the online space to build blogs, publish some crappy content, and splash ads all over the place expecting to make lots of money.

Well, it doesn’t work like that!

You have got to push yourself really far by asking the right questions and doing the right things if you want to attract the right people in order to maybe make money blogging.

For instance, if your article headline is not engaging and compelling enough, it won’t attract visitors to stop over and read the article. The same thing applies to your content; if it sucks, no one will want to engage with your blog.

You have to give people a good reason to leave your competitor’s site and read yours.

How do you do that?

It’s mostly about creating informative and entertaining content that readers will find hard to ignore.

Don’t do what everyone else is doing. Write in your own unique voice, and soon, people will start noticing your unique and outstanding approach.

That’s when they will fall in love with you and make your blog their new dwelling place.

How To Make Your Blog A Success

If you take the time to really read through this post, you will definitely go from making nothing to making a substantial income as a blogger.

Many people are already doing it, and there’s no reason you can’t be doing it too.

You just need to make sure you’re doing the right things.

Don’t fall into the “make money online” trap. Nothing can replace hard work and dedication.

When people can see that you care about what you do, they’ll learn to respect and trust you as an authority in your niche.

When that happens, the money will start rolling in.
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What are some common blogging mistakes you often see in the blogging world? Which one of these mistakes are you guilty of? Let me hear your thoughts in the comments below!

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