Earning Money

If you remember my post about the importance to stay consistent, you’ll remember how I said that it was extremely important for you, as a blogger, to stay constant with your posting and to stay with a schedule. If you were going to post five posts a week, make sure you stayed constant with that. Well, the same goes with your forum. It is extremely important for you to stay consistent with your forum. You need to ensure that you are posting regularly on your forum. If you don’t, your community will die. Let me give you an example that might make this more clear for you and might motivate you to work harder and harder.

When starting a forum, we all have that dream of really getting it big. I know that’s how I am when ever I start a forum. However, we really don’t understand how difficult it is going to be to run that forum. Now, let me explain what I mean. We start the forum with the belief that people will flock to it and post and all of that. That’s not the case. When starting a forum, you must post on it constantly. That’s what I mean by consistency. No matter what you may believe, for your forum to be successful, you must post alongside everyone else. This is the key to really getting your forum up from the ground. Consistency.

There will come a time when you can step back and appreciate what is getting done. By getting a moderator or two, you will make it possible to continue the growth of your site without needing to constantly post. But, I will give you a piece of advice that comes from personal preference. If you are going to make a forum, post in that forum all the time. Never stop going to it and never stop posting on it. I’ve seen people that create massive forums and they stop posting on them. They just reap the monetary profits and that is all. To keep your forum a constantly growing forum, I recommend always posting new things and adding to the conversation.

Consistency is important for any type of site. But, it is especially important for your forum. I, myself, have gone lax with my forums from time to time and I have felt it terribly. Reviving a dying forum can be difficult and even harder than starting a new one. Don’t get your site to the point where you need to revive it. Always post on it and ensure that you are posting at least five new threads a day. By posting these new threads, you are offering people a lot of places to make conversation. Who knows? Maybe one of those new threads will become a very big discussion that will go on for five or ten pages. If you walk away from this blog with ONE thing, let it be this: Consistency is the most important thing about being an entrepreneur. Stay consistent with what you do and you will have success.

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I wanted to mention something about blogging that not everyone knows about. I remember when I first started blogging professionally, I hadn’t the faintest idea what a RSS Feed was. Whenever someone would talk about trying to increase their number of RSS subscribers, I’d drool and have no idea what they were saying. Alright, maybe I wouldn’t drool, but you get the picture. I was completely ignorant to what it meant. Because of this, I decided that it would be important for me to pass the information on to you. While it is relatively basic, I’ve learned that it is sometimes the most basic of things that makes the most difficult of things to understand.

RSS feed is a certain way of viewing a blog. It’s different than just typing the URL of the site in. What it does is basically shows you how many people are ‘guaranteed’ to read your blog everyday. Basically, if you were to sign up for a RSS feed, you are signing up because you are very interested in what they write and want to get updates on what they are saying. Is it a good method? Sure. It really can benefit people, both the reader and the author. The good thing about a RSS feed for some people, especially the author, is when you want to start doing reviews for ReviewMe, if they see that you have a high RSS feed, they’re more like to buy a review. It just works out that way.

Now…You may be wondering how you could even get people to sign up for your RSS feed. The simplest way is to just ask them. Just add in your text: If you liked this blog post, please consider signing up for my RSS feed by clicking here. Please click there and sign up for my RSS feed. I’d greatly appreciate it. Another way is to put the RSS button at the top of your site so that they can see it. It’s recommended that you only put it up once you have fifty people in your feed, but I am against that. I put it up and figure people will come in sooner or later. But really think about signing up for my feed. I appreciate it.

RSS feeds are very important. With Google’s recent acquisition of Feedburner (see here), there is more and more money to be made from having a higher and bigger RSS feed. Consider signing up for it as soon as possible and add it to your blog. You’ll be surprised in the amount of people you can get to sign up if you offer them content that they love. If you love my content, which I hope you do, consider signing up for my RSS feed. I guarantee that I’ll continue offering whatever information I can find for you that I learn. This is a learning process for us both. We can only hope that there is success for us all, you know?

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