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Try to Build Up Income Streams while Still Working

It is very tempting to embrace a money making idea, quit your job, throw everything into it and try to make a fortune. However a word of caution, this is seldom successful!

The Million NZ Dollar recommendation is to first dip your toes in the water, splash about a little, then slowly move your foot in, then your leg, rest of your body and finally become fully immersed.

Set yourself small but easily achievable incremental targets each month, and then do whatever you have to do to achieve them. (Legally of course!)

My previous post about exponential growth is available here.

It is easy to expect too much to soon, however you will only disappoint yourself if you take this approach. So see how you go for a couple of months, then set up your future targets from there. Remember if you set unachievable goals, you are asking for failure. Be realistic, achieve reachable targets, and enjoy the feeling that success brings.

If you cannot make a bit of money on the side, the chances are that even if you devote 5 times as much time to it, you are still going to struggle. For myself I will not quit my job until I can almost earn close to the same amount of money from my online endeavours that I earn at my Day job.

If I look at my exponential budgets and graphs, retirement is however now less than 32 Months away, and we all know how time flys.....

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Using Google Analytics to track and Analyze your Blogsite

I have recently started using Google Analytics and I have to say that in line with most of Googles products it appears to work well, and has an in depth amount of information that you can drill down into.

Google's service was modeled upon Urchin Software Corporation's analytics system, Urchin on Demand (Google acquired Urchin Software Corp. in April 2005). Google still sells the standalone installable Urchin software through a network of value-added resellers.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics

Setting up Google Analytics is a simple enough process, you need to go to www.google.com/analytics and enter the normal information. (email, website etc). Once this is done you will be provided with a small amount of code that you need to place on your site.

It can take a day or so before Google Analytics starts processing the data from your site, however the information that it provides is both clear and meaningful.

Many ad filtering programs and extensions (such as adblock block the Urchin JavaScript. This prevents some traffic and users from being tracked, and leads to holes in the statistical data. Also, privacy networks like tor will mask the users actual location and prevent accurate geographical data.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics

Here is an example of the type of graphs that are shown when looking at your sites statistics. This has only been running for a day and half so the data is a little scarce however it is certainly easy to interpret. I will certainly be using Google Analytics from now on, another valuable Web Bloggers Tool



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50 Day Summary of the Million Dollar Experiment Down Under

For the last 50 days, we have been attempting various different methods in our quest to make One Million NZ Dollars. We are aiming to identify the best ways, so that these can be concentrated on in the future.

From the below the only source that could be termed Passive Income is the Google AdSense earnings, as these are not directly related to work that we have done.

The most enjoyable so far would have to be the Beer Tasting, which although not strictly an online activity came about from an Online Survey, so we have counted it.

The worst earner so far as you can see from the below, was the online Sports betting that we trialled, this is one way to get rid of cash in a hurry!

Source	Value (US$)
GoogleAdsense Total	$ 5.12
Money4Blogs Total	$ 20.00
Blogsvertise Total	$ 15.00
Blogitive Total	$ 20.00
MYLOT Total	$ 2.26
Sports Gambling Total	-$ 6.87
Beer tasting Total	$ 20.40
Grand Total	$ 75.91

This converts to $111-64 NZ Dollars, which is a good start however looking at the size of the mountain that we are trying to climb, we still have an extremely long way to go!

By linking to other blogs and in turn getting links back our technorati ranking had climbed to around the 175000 mark last time I looked, thankyou for everyone that has helped out by linking to this site. Remember if you would like to swap links please leave a comment with your site details and we can do a reciprical link. I am especially keen on linking with other money maker sites so that my Like Minded Blogs, can be built up as a resource.

Sitemeter - Part of the Bloggers Toolkit

Sitemeter is an add in for your blog that enables you to keep an eye on your visitors, your referrals, and provides a good overview of the traffic ins and outs of your blog site.

To install sitemeter on your site, it is just a matter of going to the site, filling out the simple registration and then installing a little code onto your blog, that will send the visitor information to sitemeter.

For an example of the kind of information that sitemeter provides you are welcome to view my sites stats by clicking here. You will see that it is possible to drill down to the individual details of a visitor as well as run reports showing daily, weekly and monthly trends.

The location maps are another interesting feature, where you can see a graphical representation of the locations where the visitors to your site have originated from.

Sitemeter.. another tool in the Web Bloggers Toolkit.


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The Google Home Page - Your Home away from Home

Welcome to the first of our Web Bloggers Toolkit Series, we take a look at a simple yet useful tool from Google, the Google home page.

The Google personalized homepage is a useful tool because you can place all your links in one place as well as receive feeds from websites, blogs etc, all onto the one page. Then where ever you are in the world you simple sign in to www.google.com/ig and all your info is there.



You can add a task manager to the Google Home Page by using a 3rd party add in such as Remember the Milk. This can be a handy feature especially if you move around different machines a lot.

Once you have logged into your customized home page (you will need a gmail account for this) it is very simple to add new content, or move your existing content around via drag and drop.

It is possible, that simply by adding your own blogs to this homepage, it will ensure that googles spiders will revisit the site on a regular basis, which may help with search engine information.

Over the next few weeks we will be looking at several more web tools, that can be a useful part of every Bloggers Toolkit, including Pay-pal, the google toolbar, feed burner, Technorati and more.

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Help! What to do when you get Bloggers Block

Sometimes it is hard to think of a new fresh article to write, bearing this in mind, there are several ways to approach this problem, some more successful than others.
One technique that may help is to save plenty of short drafts in your blog, when you are in a creative mood. That way when it comes time to write an article you can pick up on one of these and carry on from there.

Often the hardest part of writing an article is thinking of a topic, once the topic is settled on it will flow fairly easily from there.

Other ideas include...

• Pick a topic that may be unrelated to your Blog but try and relate it to your blog in some way.
• Choose a meme, visit other blogs and get ideas
• Do a review of a site
• Research some kind of new technology or Internet craze
• Report on something that you have heard or read in the news
• Visit other blogs and see what they are up to.
• Go to ezine articles have a look at the area that relates to your blog and try and get some ideas. Worst case scenario, use one of their articles, as long as you link it back to them that's cool to do!

There are plenty of ideas out there, it is just a matter of deciding on one, let your fingers do the talking and before you know it an article will be written.

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