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		<title>Blogging and Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you earn lots of money from your blog, John Chow (who does earns loads of money off his blog) posted two articles describing how he setup the legal structure in order to minimize taxes from his earnings.
The posts are:
My Blog Business Structure and Blog Income &#38; Taxes &#8211; Taking The Money Out.
He describes the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you earn lots of money from your blog, John Chow (who does earns loads of money off his blog) posted two articles describing how he setup the legal structure in order to minimize taxes from his earnings.</p>
<p>The posts are:<br />
<a title="Permanent Link to My Blog Business Structure" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.johnchow.com/my-blog-business-structure/">My Blog Business Structure</a> and <a href="http://www.johnchow.com/blog-income-taxes-taking-the-money-out/">Blog Income &amp; Taxes &#8211; Taking The Money Out</a>.</p>
<p>He describes the differences in tax rates, dividends and what is possible to do on corporate money.<!-- technorati tags begin -->
<p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/money" rel="tag">money</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/%20taxes" rel="tag"> taxes</a></p>
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		<title>A series of posts on starting dropshipping ecommerce site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like the blog of Nevill Medhora.  Here a guy writing openly about his small business and financial situation. I&#8217;m following his blog for about two months now and find it interesting, both in style and in content.Lately Nevell has posted a 6-part series on his e-commerce business, House of Rave. He shares his story of how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the blog of <a href="http://www.nevblog.com" target="_blank" title="Neville Medhora">Nevill Medhora.</a>  Here a guy writing openly about his small business and financial situation. I&#8217;m following his blog for about two months now and find it interesting, both in style and in content.Lately Nevell has posted a 6-part series on his e-commerce business, House of Rave. He shares his story of how he started it and what you should consider as you prepare to open an e-commerce site yourself, specifically if you to set up a dropshipping business. He lists the pros and cons of such a business model and gives thought on the trends in this market.An interesting read. Start with post number 1: <a href="http://www.nevblog.com/2007/12/house-of-rave-com-story-part-1.html" target="_blank">House Of Rave .com Story Part 1</a>.</p>
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		<title>My 3 blogging lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote previously about the beginnings of my first successful successful website and, since blogging has been so far very successful for me I though I could write a few blogging tips.  So, without further due&#8230;
1. Write about a niche that you have real interest in.  I write about parapsychology and healing because I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote previously about the beginnings of my <a href="http://www.smallbusinesslessons.com/successes/20/beginnings-of-my-first-successful-website/">first successful successful website</a> and, since blogging has been so far very successful for me I though I could write a few blogging tips.  So, without further due&#8230;</p>
<p>1. <strong>Write about a niche that you have real interest in.</strong>  I write about parapsychology and healing because I am interested in this. This will (almost) ensure you&#8217;ll have the strength to continue when the initial steam is released. Also, that way you&#8217;ll learn more about your topic, meet (even if online) new people in your group and might become a central part of your niche.  I&#8217;ve had all these benefits.</p>
<p>2.  <strong>Investing in good posts pays off (often).</strong> There were some posts that I really invested in (in writing time). Some of them got very popular and are now the pillar posts of my site, driving most of the traffic from the search engines.</p>
<p>3.  <strong>Persistence wins</strong>. Only persistent bloggers make it big (or at least bigger than other). It takes time to be good in SEO, to write better, to bring readers etc. In order to stay persistent, see tip #1 here. Too many bloggers (including myself) have lost interest in their blogs just after a few posts.</p>
<p>These are only 3  tips. More lessons will come later.</p>
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		<title>Problogger&#8217;s giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problogger (Darren Rowse) is running a huge giveaway with a list of prizes going at about $54,000. I thought I&#8217;d go for that competition (or rather a giveaway), too.  You should see it as well.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net">Problogger</a> (Darren Rowse) is running a <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/10/02/54000-worth-of-prizes-on-offer-in-the-problogger-birthday-bash-competitions/">huge giveaway</a> with a list of prizes going at about $54,000. I thought I&#8217;d go for that competition (or rather a giveaway), too.  You should see it as well.</p>
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		<title>Beginnings of my first successful website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m starting a series of articles related to my largest success to date, the Parapsychology articles and blog also known as Mind-Energy.net. I’ve started the site in October 2005, I’m very proud of what it’s become now and I have big plans for it yet. It is my successful venture from a commercial standpoint, earning [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m starting a series of articles related to my largest success to date, the <a href="http://www.mind-energy.net">Parapsychology articles and blog</a> also known as <a href="http://www.mind-energy.net">Mind-Energy.net</a>. I’ve started the site in October 2005, I’m very proud of what it’s become now and I have big plans for it yet. It is my successful venture from a commercial standpoint, earning me <strong>hundreds of dollars</strong> each month now. The earnings allow me to invest the money into better hosting. better software, better design and otherwise stimulate me to continue to work on it and make it better.</p>
<p>First, a little about the site and why I’ve started it. In 2004-2005 I was interested in healing, mainly energy healing, chakras, laying of hands type healing etc. I’ve taken several courses from a healer woman on some of these matters and was very enthusiastic about all these subjects. Since I couldn’t find good resources on some of these topics and I thought I had something to share from my experience, I’ve decided to open a blog on this topic. I’ve called it ‘Parapsychology articles and blog’, but I include subjects like parapsychological research (telekinesis, telepathy etc) to energy healing and tutorials on that, through psychic mediumship and interviews in the middle.</p>
<p><strong>Blogging software</strong></p>
<p>After research different software options for blogging available at that time, I’ve decided to use <a href="http://www.s9y.org">Serendipity</a>. Serendipity is a great blogging platform, in many ways superior to Wordpress with a good helping community around it and active development. It’s also easily customizable and has a good admin options and interface. I strongly suggest, if you start a new blog, to take a look at this excellent platform. It has great SEO features to give you good results in search engines.</p>
<p><strong>Design</strong></p>
<p>I did the design of the blog myself, based on the default template. I replaced color palette and played a lot with what content I wanted on the sidebars. This is an important issue. I was also constantly modifying and improving the design based on the knowledge I gained from reading other websites, devotes to blogging, web design and search engine optimization (SEO).</p>
<p><strong>Content</strong></p>
<p>I’ve started the site without having a concrete plan of where I wanted to go with it. I started with posting references to some resources I found on the web and considered interesting. After a month I decided to create original content based on my understanding and thoughts on <a href="http://www.mind-energy.net/archives/18-Universal-Mind-article-part-1.html">Universal Mind</a>. I wrote it as a two-part series. My first moderately successful article (in viewing terms) was <a href="http://www.mind-energy.net/archives/22-A-boy-in-Nepal-has-been-meditating-for-6-months.html">A boy in Nepal has been meditating for 6 months</a> which started a series of several article following the news on the “wonder” boy from Nepal. Since it was a bizarre but newsworthy topic, I started to get visits from the search engines, looking for information about the boy. I was later having much more popular articles but this was one where I started to be found well on google and got some attention from other bloggers. I will about these cases separately as there are more things to learn from them.</p>
<p><strong>Monetization</strong></p>
<p>My only source of monetization in the beginning were the Adsense ads. I was not very experienced in optimizing them at that time, so first months were slow. In November and December of 2005 I was only earning $6/month. But persistance pays. In November and December of 2006 I cashed in $250/month on average. I will write more about this in the future.</p>
<p>I’ve had (and still have) many adventures with this site and I guess that with more knowledge and abilities I could do more with it, yet I’m still very proud of it and the story is not over. I’m still growing, both in readership, in revenue and in the amount of good people I “meet”.</p>
<p>Also important, it is an amazing learning experience.</p>
<p>Thoughts aside,<br />
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		<title>Interview with me about my blogging monetization success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul from Inspired Blogger has interviewed me about my blogging income from my Parapsychology blog. This is the first time I&#8217;ve been on this side of the interview fence. I&#8217;ve interviewed several people for my site and it was interesting to be on the other side for once. Go and read it.
I&#8217;ll be writing more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul from <a href="http://www.inspiredblogger.com/" target="_blank">Inspired Blogger</a> has <a href="http://www.inspiredblogger.com/index.php/2007/09/09/successful-blog-report-interview-with-jacob-of-mind-energynet/" title="Interview about blog monetization">interviewed me about my blogging income</a> from my <a href="http://www.mind-energy.net" title="Parapsychology articles">Parapsychology blog</a>. This is the first time I&#8217;ve been on this side of the interview fence. I&#8217;ve interviewed several people for my site and it was interesting to be on the other side for once. Go and read it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be writing more about my Parapsychology blog story later. It&#8217;s my most successful venture to date.</p>
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