My 4 Favorite Bloggers and Webmaster's.

My 4 fav's ...sounds like a cell phone commercial doesn't it ;) I love the following blogger's and webmaster's (and yes there is a difference, albeit a small one) for the following reason's:

1. They are incredibly fun to read and watch. Entertaining and knowledgeable, you can't beat that combo.

2. They update regularly and keep their content fresh and not simply re-hashed.

3. They take the time to answer emails and/or comments. Something, sadly I wasn't doing originally.

4. They know what they are talking about. They don't just talk the talk like so many do. They talk the talk but more importantly the walk the walk.

5th and final point. They ALL genuinely care in helping you succeed with your online goals.

And if you pay very, very close attention to each of them you will build a wealth of knowledge fast, efficiently and you will be armed for success. If you don't succeed and you have these guys guiding you...all I can say is "WAKE UP!

Alright so here we go. Oh by the way. So it doesn't look like I am placing these folks in any particular order I am going to list them alphabetically. Lol. So there Wayne John...you don't get number 1....and don't give me the "number 1" as you read this either ;) P.S. Links to each individuals blog/site will be listed at the end of the post :)

Frank Kern

Personally the man has great products. He is very entertaining and he knows his stuff. Both on and offline. His info is a little pricey but well worth it if you can afford it. If you can't afford to purchase his product at least take a look at his video's for hidden tricks and tips.

Howie Schwartz

Not traditionally a blogger but he stresses the importance of why you should start. The man. Howie Schwartz in my humble opinion is the GOD of internet marketing. He offers so much it is quite sickening. In a damn good way however. You see the "Guru's" give you a great sales page, well written to grab your attention, get you excited and you buy the product and sadly, most of the time you find the information is not nearly as informative as the sales page.

Howie breaks all the rules. He is a very visual person, as am I, so the information he sends is done via video, you can get it in PDF relax ;). One video lesson I received I swear he did it via a cellphone. I don't know for certain, but it just show's he is not all about flash. He is about results. Pure and simple.

I cannot recommend enough how much you need to pay attention to this man. Howie and his team work tirelessly, all 85 of them to bring you the best and hottest info. If you aren't on his subscriber list then get on it NOW!

Kristi

A great blog and an even greater community. She will write a great article or put picture's of her puppies up or some other personal touch. It keeps you going back. She offer's a wide variety of topics. Too many to list, but whatever it is you are looking for the chances are very good you will find it. A word of caution before going to Kristi's blog. It is addictive.

Friendly, fun and loads of useful content. Make sure you subscribe to her feed...you don't want to miss Fetching Friday ;)

Awww darn, now you are wondering what Fetching Friday's is aren't you?

Last and definitely least....oopps I mean last but certainly not least. Wayne John.....seems Hollywood is dyslexic lol.

Seriously Wayne John is another of my personal fav's. It is chalk filled with information and tests that he has run on his site's to help his reader's.

A mention on his character is this: Not many people will say they only made $100 bucks in a month, everyone, well almost everyone always inflates the numbers. Not this cat!

He is always on the up and up. He, like Kristi also has a very friendly community within his blog.

A huge amount of information is to be found. Pay close attention to what you read, if Wane John doesn't recommend it, don't buy it.

Okay, hopefully I have helped you realize that we all need mentors. If you don't have any, you just found 4 of the Best.

Get over there and check out their sites.

Frank Kern

Howie Schwartz

Kristi

Wayne John

Best

Garret

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Ask a Saint

Just a fun joke I wanted to share. Thanks to Funny Buburuza for sharing this ;)

Marriage In Heaven

On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident. The a couple found themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St.Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they began to wonder?.Could they possibly get married in Heaven?

When St. Peter arrived they asked him if they could get married in heaven. St. Peter said, ?I don?t know, this is the first time anyone has asked, let me go find out, and he left.

The couple sat and waited for an answer?. for a couple of months. While they waited, they discussed the pros and cons. If they were allowed to get married in Heaven, should they go ahead with it, what with the eternal aspect of it all? ?What if it doesn?t work out? Are we stuck in Heaven together forever??

Another month passed. St. Peter finally returned, looking somewhat bedraggled. ?Yes, ?he informed the couple, ?You can get married in Heaven.?

?Great!? said the couple. ?But we were just wondering; what if things don?t workout? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven??

St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed his clipboard on the ground. ?What?s wrong?? asked the frightened couple.

?OH, COME ON!!!? St. Peter shouted. ?It took me 3 months to find a priest up here! Do you have ANY idea how long it?ll take to find a lawyer?

Facebook Buzz Facebook Update - Important News

If you use Facebook this may interest you. If you use Facebook for Marketing online then this had better excite you.

Facebook has finally caught up to the likes of MySpace. So what is the Buzz all about?

As of Saturday June 13, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. EDT, Facebook's millions of users will finally be able to claim a name to use as part of their profile page's web address - as in http://facebook.com/insert name here.

This is incredibly exciting and important news for marketer's as now we can use this as a great branding tool.

Keep in mind however that Fan pages for businesses, brands and celebrities will be able to adopt such names, too, but they needed to have been on Facebook by May 31, with at least 1,000 fans at that time.

This will be based on a First come - First serve basis. According to Facebook official's, so if your name is Garret Belisle ;) it might be a good idea to stake one out early.

Facebook has implemented a great rule to avoid "squatting" on any popular names, only users who joined Facebook before 3 p.m. Tuesday will be able to sign up for usernames on Saturday. Everyone else has to wait until June 28.

So like I said this is a huge branding opportunity and a great way to get yourself known and not to mention with a link to Facebook it offer's some potential search love.

Make sure you get it done ASAP.

See Facebook for further details.

If I build it will anyone show up?

Not if you use those tools ;)

The age old question. For some reason, every summer season it seems, there is a HUGE spike in blog's and website's being designed and popping up all over the internet. People are naturally hoping to get away from the 9 - 5 grind and lifestyle.

It's actually quite amazing when you look at statistics. The statistics so of March 31, 2009 for internet user's is a staggering 1,596,270,108 according to Internet World Stats and there are over 186,727,854 websites as of the Internet in December 2008 with 31.5 million websites added during 2008.

The numbers seem to be almost unbelievable but they are in fact very real. It is also the main reason people build sites and blogs. Everyone is hoping to get a piece of the internet pie. There are however huge learning curves to overcome.

As I have mentioned before you need a niche, you need articles, you need traffic etc, etc.

All of a sudden people realize that although blogging is great fun, if you are going to make it a business you must treat it like one. I really hate it when I see sites that are purely M.F.A.'s. (Made for ASdsense) they offer no value and they show that the blogger is not serious at all.

Back in the good old days of internet marketing and blogging (2004-2005) you really could build a few blogs and ramp them up with ads and make some decent money. The game my friends has changed.

A very guarded secret I have online is that I have several blogs and websites. Sure they can be challenging at times to maintain, sure it takes time to do everything involved to get traffic and yes they are a thorn in my side at times. But I love the challenge.

I find in forums and message boards quite often that people don't realize the one simple trick to success online is to have a lot of sites and maintain them, the logic being is that if just one blog is making you $50 - $100 a month (which is the average earning for most blogs) then make that blog well rounded and then every month create two more. Take it slow and do all of the steps properly and after roughly 8 or 10 months you now have at least 20 blogs pulling in a very conservative $75 bucks. Not much each but times it by 20 and you are making an extra $1500 bucks per month. Keep in mind this is just an example to illustrate my point. There is no limit and how much you make is entirely up to you!

Always think outside the main stream. Believe me when I tell you that the Big Guru's, the ones trying to sell you something ALL have several blogs and websites. It is all mathematics. The more you diversify and expand the more money you can and will make.

Building a website should always be clean and not jumbled. I could show you some ugly blogs that I used to have when I first started out....Oh Boy...flashy, music, colors galore and I had a "huge" fan base. ME.

With the internet always changing there are always things to learn and watch out for. So the next time you hear about "The Next Internet Craze" wait and research it before you spend your hard earned money. Check out forums, ask people you trust for their opinion's and then decide. The Buy Now sales page is just that a Sales Page. Always remember when someone says they only have "X" amount left that they are selling a digital product, unless it is C.D.'s. They may say they only have so many left but how is that possible? Are they going to wipe it off their hard drive?

If they say they are taking it offline then you might want to consider buying it because when someone is upfront and honest that way, it's more than likely worth much more than the purchase price.

So, when you build a website or blog (and I highly recommend you do) just make sure to build it clean, easy to navigate and above all else content worthy.

If you can afford it get a press release for about 80 bucks and then you have a much better chance of repeat visitors. A well crafted PR release can hit Google News in a matter of hours. I personally know of someone who did this and wasn't ready for the traffic. He received so much that his server went down, so that is also something you need to be aware of, your bandwidth.

We'll cover that another time.

Best

Garret