About 4 years ago I thought that I spend too much time blogging. Well last time I blogged here was over a year ago. And if you are about to ask what about twitter? I would say that as of 2 years ago I stopped calling Twitter a micro blog, instead I call it what it is (a status update service).
And I have been tweeting. And foursquaring and socializing and coding and….. You bane it
I have been busy doing many things, but the most important thing is what I used to call project W. 17 months after I first announced this project we finally opened the doors enabling beta testers to get early invites at the project’s beta site.
Worrds.com is project w. And any one can sign up right now for a beta invite at Worrds and we will send you an invite as soon as we can.
I have a couple of posts coming up then I will try my best to blog here from time to time, but I will (for sure) be blogging at Wordds.
It’s good to be back

Many people around the world know about the become a blogger (BAB) program. Many people joined it’s first launch, and many people are joining the second launch.

Please note: The Become a Blogger program offers a 60 day money back guarantee, therefor the winner of the first option will be picked after I confirm that they stayed with the program for more than 60 days. Other wise, I would be stupid to put this contest up!!

I am way too excited over this, it’s been almost 3 months I haven’t blogged here and the blog was down for some technical errors since we have moved it to it’s new home on the new dedicated server… But who cares? Right?

Well, I am back with a new attitude towards this blog, you may notice some changes here (Like the design and so on) but the main change is in the way I write and communicate with everyone.

Also, the office is gone, we may get a new one again by the winter time, but for now, I am blogging on the road (through my G1 phone), at the coffee shop (Gotta love net-books in Starbucks) and even from my bed!

I got involved in 3 big projects through the 3 months non-active here, 2 of them are done and the third one is going extremely strong, I am even more excited about the last project, that I can not wait (as I should) to share it with you, however I will only share hints until the project is ready to go into the lights, so for the next 15 days I’ll refer to it with the codename: Project W.

The first hint about Project W is that it has something to do with Blogger.com or WordPress.com but much much bigger than both combined!

Also, for those of you wondering about the school at ‘Wahol’ it is my absolute pleasure to announce that we have completed the beta period (Although it took us 2 extra weeks than what we have scheduled earlier) but it was a 100% success, well we only had 79 of the 100 initial members that actually completed the course all the way to the end.

The doors will be open again within the next 4 weeks, so just keep an eye out and you will get more details before you know it

Also, starting tomorrow, I will start a 2 weeks series of a (While I was gone) articles that I have wrote within the last 3 months and saved for later viewing, it’s mainly of what’s going on Online and some videos as well (About 20 short and sweet articles all together) and I hope you will like it.

To make sure you will not miss any update, just signup to get this blog by email (Link on top right corner) or get the RSS feed (We have a whole new server along with the power of feedburner) so please do signup for it (Like also on top right corner).

The one thing that I have to say, is how much I have missed everyone, although I have been very active on Facebook and Twitter, but I have missed you guys the most

Until next time (Hopefully in less than 3 months!)

Cheers!

Remember about a year ago when we had an open call for bloggers?

I am taking a different approach this time than the last time we did this.

Anyone can apply and everyone will get paid.

The Details:

We are opening the doors one more time for guest bloggers, the rules has been changed since the last time we did this, this time it’s better for you, the blogger.

We came up with 2 different programs to make it easy.

Blogger Plus

&

Premium VIP Blogger

The first program (Blogger Plus) will have the opportunity to blog directly into GuruOfSales under any of the available categories.

The second program (Premium VIP Blogger) will have the opportunity to blog in our newest project (To be announced in April 09) directly, get paid more per post, instant update without edits or reviewing, receive a special VIP package delivered to your location that will include free goodies made just for you.

To qualify for our paid guest blogger programs, you must meet the following requirements:

For Blogger Plus:

1. You must be 18 years of age or older.

2. You must have access to a reliable computer and the Internet.

3. You must be fluent in English.

4. You must be able to write for English speaking audience. Non-English blogs will not be accepted.

5. You must be passionate about the topic you choose. Please no “diary/journal” blogs!

6. Prior Blogging and online publishing experience is VERY helpful!

7. Knowledge of common social networking sites (e.g. Twitter, facebook and YouTube) is a big plus.

For Premium VIP Blogger:

1. Meet all the requirements for Blogger Plus program.

2. Meet the numbers according to the table below.

What you will get as our new guest blogger:

For Blogger Plus you will get:

1. A new blog hosted on GuruOfSales.com for free. Choose your name, category & topic!

2. Guaranteed $ cash per thousand unique visitors according to the table below.

3. The more traffic you get the more money you get paid!

4. As a guest blogger, you set your own hours and can work from anywhere you choose!

5. Access to the Forums for help, support, and interaction with other professional blog writers.

For Premium VIP Blogger:

1. Your own Name.com URL hosted on our newest project (Available in April 2009).

2. All of your blog posts from “Blogger Plus” will be imported into your new account.

3. Free advertising on us to your posts.

4. You will receive the VIP welcome package that will include some of the followings:

a. Your own business cards.

b. Some post cards to promote you.

c. A T-shirt.

d. A free subscription to a magazine of your choice (U.S. & Canada only)

e. Our trade shows application to represent us for free.

f. More cool stuff.

How it works?

The table below should explain:

To qualify for Premium VIP Blogger there is one rule:

Get over 5000 readers per any of your articles in less than 30 days.

Your upgrade to Premium VIP Blogger is permanent, meaning, if you write one article and you get 5000+ readers within the first 30 days from your article’s publishing date, you will be upgraded to Premium VIP Blogger instantly and forever, even if you’re next articles get less readers per month.

For example:

a. You qualify and agree on our terms.

b. You start blogging with us in the Blogger Plus program.

c. We monitor every article your write separately.

d. You get 1200 unique readers to a single article within the first 30 days of publishing your article.

e. We pay you $10 per that article.

f. If your article gets 3200 readers within the first 30 days, we’ll pay you $30.

OR

a. You qualify for Premium VIP Blogger upgrade.

b. We monitor every article you write.

c. You get 3200 unique readers per single article within 30 days of publishing it.

d. We pay you ($50 X 3)= $150.

e. If any of your articles gets 5000+ unique readers, we’ll pay you the regular per 1000 unique plus a bonus $250.

f. You get 5001 unique readers per article in less than 30 days, you will get ($50 X 5) + $250= $500.

g. You will keep getting paid after the first 30 days if your Premium VIP Blogger article gets more than 1000 unique readers within the next 30 days.

There will be a lot more benefits to come in the near future.

Apply today, it’s free to join!

How to apply?

Go to our contact form here, make sure to include the following:

• Your full name
  
• Your valid email
  
• In the subject, please type: Blogger Job
  
• In the message box include: Your age, Your blog’s URL (If any), your past experience (It’s a plus!), and your social networking URL (Twitter, StumbleUpon, facebook, etc.) the more social profiles you have the better.
  
• Also include in the message box: Where did you hear about this Job?
  

We will contact you within 7 days.

Still reading? What are you waiting for? Go apply now, it’s free!

Have pre-applying questions? Comment your question below.

Note: This job opening became available thank to the success we had at Wahol.com

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This is just a quick post to review a great application (in my opinion) to blog from.

The phone is none other than the true iPhone killer, the T-Mobile G1 powered by Google’s Android (do you recall when I mentioned that we may get a free Google OS by 2010? Well, it’s getting closer!).

This app has all the basic options that any WordPress blogger may need, whether you host your own wordpress or you have a wordpress.com however, it,s only the basic options you will get, for example, you can add tags, categories, links from within your post, bold or italic for formatting and also included is to upload pictures.
It does need a lot more options, for example, a spll chck! Or at least more formatting options. But for now, it’s a great tool to have on hand.

Ofcourse I have just used it to write this post, now I’ve got some emails to take care of.

P.S. for iPhone owners, you can get the app made by wordpress from iphone.wordpress.org

I know you’re busy, so I’ll let you in on what’s happening…
 
I just heard from Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak that they are closing their doors to their popular Become A Blogger Premium course.

 
See here for more details: Go here.
 
So far, over 850 people have signed up and the course has already had some raving reviews. For example, here’s what Christine, one of the members, said recently:
 
“Honestly Gideon your videos are great!
 
Now that I’m looking at doing business on the internet and watched a few videos from others who claim to be gurus; theirs are really awful, too fast to see what they’re doing and not explaining things in a logical sequence as if done on the fly.
 
Your teaching skills and videos are in a class of their own. Keep up the good work!”
 
So, obviously, people are loving the course so far.
 
But now, Yaro and Gideon want to close the whole thing down since it’s becoming a bit too popular.
 
They said they want to focus their energies on their members, and frankly, getting too many of them could spread their attention too thin.
 
So, I thought I’d better let you know about this if you still wanted to get in before they shut the doors indefinitely.
 
Here’s the scoop:
 
- What: Become A Blogger Premium is closing doors
 
- When: Friday, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:59pm USA EST
 
If you don’t want to miss out on this, make sure you head on over to the following page before it’s too late:
 
http://www.becomeablogger.com/

I hope you can still get in!

PS: Make sure you have a look at the bonuses, they are worth more than the whole membership itself!

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Almost 3 months ago I posted a message on every online profile that I have, stating that I will not shave my head nor my facial hair until the day before my Birthday on April 25th.
Without going into further details, I decided to change that statement.
And to help me make my decision, I created a poll to share with all of my friends and contacts, because I believe that sharing is giving.

Using polls will help you decide and make a lot of decisions no matter what you’re asking. In the example below I put almost every possible option a man could have for shaving. And I put a deadline for voting at 2 PM EST today, and I will obey the majority of votes that I will get by 2 PM.
 


 

Twtpoll.com is a new startup application from a new startup company called Twtapps. The company has a lot of cool applications to share with or without your Twitter account.

The way it works is very simple: Create the question, create the options, and submit. Then share the link on your Facebook profile or on your Twitter page.
You will have the option to embed the question or the results in your website or blog. That’s all.

Create your question at Twtpoll.com and share it with your friends

Another thing I should mention is “WpPolls” which is a WordPress free plugin to create polls on your WP blog. Easy to install and easy to use.

Bottom line is that you will get an answer or make your decision if you only ask and share. I would love to participate in your questions, so go ahead, create a poll anywhere and share it with us, send it to me on twitter, facebook or comment below and I will participate

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Are you an authority?
A question I get often in results of the amount of reviews in many formats I have shared in the past.
But..

Are you authentic?
After writing about how I feel towards “advertising only” blogs here, I think it’s time to ask the next question:

How can you become a reliable authority blogger?
Well, the answer is very simple: You build your reputation online by time. But it’s hard work:
Research, read, get involved in forums and groups, comment on other blogs with your opinions, join social networking sites and socialize with people around the globe, go to trade shows or join webinars, join twitter and stumble upon (but don’t spam others with unwanted junk!), visit digg or mixx and learn as much as you can before writing on any subject.
Do videos or audio and post them along your blog posts, then ofcourse write, write and write more.
I know it takes time, but before you know it, you will have 100′s of readers to your blog, 100′s of youtube subscribers and maybe 1000′s of Twitter followers!
These I call my “quality and loyal” readers or subscribers that I would share any knowledge with them (like my free online training program on www.WAHOL.com) and will always love to interact with them on a personal level

And before you know it, you become an authority. Thanks to all the research, hard work and long reading hours, people will stop by you for reliable information. And to me, that means a lot.
Other wise, what’s the benifit of being a blogger?! Right?
Please let me know if you think that you are an authentic blogger and please share your blog’s link on the comments area of this post.
And don’t forget to keep updated for free through the RSS feed!

I made this point very clear over at the online training program at WAHOL!
I made it clear on this blog many times before!
John Chow made it clear on the interview we did before (Watch it here)
In over 200 blogs that I get their RSS feeds on my Google reader, there is an average of 7 out of 10 bloggers that is pushing their business or affiliate programs or whatever they want to advertise!
7 out of 10!!
That is a lot.
As a web surfer and a blog reader, when I get the feeling of “You have to buy this product” on any blog, I automatically unsubscribe from it’s feeds and I may never go back to read it. Why? Because if I “NEED” something, I’ll just go to amazon.com or eBay.com or I’ll do my own mini research using search engines to find out what it is that other people are saying about this product or service. The people that actually bought it before and wrote a review about it (On the shopping site, not on their blogs), and I just naturally compare and decide to buy it or not.
In all of my seminars, I encourage everyone to get social, join facebook or twitter, to socialize, not to blast your business and product. My advice is normally this:
Be nice, become friends or re-connect with old friends, once in a while mention your service or products and the money will come later. It normally comes later (and lots of it) only by sending out good Karma.

What goes around, comes around!

That is very true, when looking at blogs or newsletters with literary tons of affiliate banners or “Pay Now” buttons, I just get sick and surf away immediately.

Check out this blog’s posts, only every once in a while I include any affiliate link to make commission or to sell something, instead, I concentrate on sharing knowledge and spreading the word about the good stuff that we can all share. Yet again, I am still making some cash to live on, (let me rephrase that), I am making great living from this blog thanks to other people and companies that ask me to advertise here (On the side!) without having to do anything more than what I love doing (Blogging).

Another example is the famous iJustine she started her online life casting just because she have a passion for it, now, YouTube pays her a share of their advertising revenue as a way of saying thank you for bringing more people to us, even on her blog at TastyBlogSnack.com she offers to connect with here on any of her online profiles “THEN” there is a small PayPal donation button “After” everything else, on her Twitter account she has her bio as: ” I am the Internet!” plain and simple.

I am not saying don’t promote your business, I am saying promote it in places where promotions belongs to, go write a feedback on amazon or write a review (or even a giude) on eBay, go to the company’s blog (like at Dell) and write about it and incude your affiliate link or go to another company blog (Like at ThinkGeek) and comment on posts there with what you honestly think of their products and again include your affiliate link in the comment.

But, when it comes to your own blog, do it to share your knowladge, I know that if we all do that, the world will become a much better place to be at.

Did anyone that follows me on Twitter take a look at my bio there? It’s says: “Bio: Be You, Be cool, Be nice” That is all I do

There is a lot more I can ramble about about this topic, but that’s another story! Get the “FREE” RSS to keep updated

And before you go chopping your laptop because of all the advertising on it, just comment below and answer this question: Why do you “Really” blog?

Simply put, it’s the eBay of jobs!
Being a computer geek/blogger I got many jobs from elance.com in my early days (not that early though).
Elance.com allows people worldwide to buy or sell their services and products, or even talents!

Here is how it works:

You subscribe to elance, a small monthly fee will be charged, you view jobs posted under your expertise, you bid a reasonable price for the job and the job’s poster might choose you based on experience (and of course your low bid), then you communicate with them, finish the job and get paid. That is it.
For example: I subscribed to elance in the beginning as a web developer, Then I was able to view and choose between 250-500 jobs posted at that time, choose a programming job that I thought fits my skills, the lowest bid was $150 for the entire job, I bid $145 and was awarded the job, talked to the job’s poster, she explained in more details what she needed, took me about 40 minutes to finish what she needed then submit it, she was happy with what I’ve done and paid me instantly using PayPal.
In this example, it took me less than an hour from start until I got paid, between searching, bidding and working on the job. Some jobs take a bit longer depending on the bidding ending date, or how big the job is.

As a freelance writer, I found it better for me to get a copyright (or ghost) writing jobs better than programming or web developing.
However, elance offers way much more variety of jobs, to name a few: Programming & web developing, Sales and marketing, graphic designing, writing and translation, finance and management, even legal advice is offered there as a job category.

At the time of writing this article here are some facts you may need to know:

• In the last 30 days there were 20,180 jobs posted.
• There are 134,658 experts on elance.
• The amount paid and work done since 2005 is of a value of $139,020,239

That means, that no matter what you do, there is a job related to you that you might want to grab the extra cash from.

In time you will build your reputation and gain trust all over the site, and job posters will preffer hiring you even if your not bidding or ask for a higher prices on their posted jobs.

Is it worth to subscribe?

Simply: Yes. My own average jobs is worth $250 per article. average writing jobs today is 7000+ taking only 2 jobs a day will equal $500 (a day!), with a commitment to do it for 30 days (considering being lucky finding 2 jobs a day and being awarded the jobs) that would be $15000 per month, the subscription as of today is $30 a month. So, I think it is worth it.

Of course elance offers a lot of advice from bidding to accepting the jobs, and it’s all available for free as soon as you log in (The Elance University!).

Did I mention that basic posting of a job is for free!

Learn more about elance here.

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