This is an excellent way to get FREE publicity and see how you stack up in business. If you want to take a 20-minute self-administered ‘Business Marketing Autopsy‘ Click on the hyperlink for a quick profit check-up.

That includes buying blogs.

Which means they are looking to BUY Blogs for cash! They will pay cash for new and established blogs. If you want to sell your blog << click on the hyperlink and leave a comment on the blog – their due diligence team will contact you.

Isn’t that cool? Cash for your blog!

Exponential Blogging 101

Click on the hyperlink-> To find out all about Exponential Blogging 101.

Default WordPress Message = Not Very Professional

I realise this is a pet peeve of mine, but then this next one pushes me over the edge… SET UP YOUR BLOG PROPERLY from the start!!!

Default WordPress Settings

If you don’t know the BASICS of blogging, then go ahead and make the investment in programs like Blogging To The Bank or my Internet Mastery Bundles and Memberships. You can’t afford to be blogging and not know the basic fundamentals, plus I am not the only one with this pet peeve.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Australian Blogs Wordle

And then this WORDLE – which compares

President Obama’s Inauguration Speech to Bush’s

If those two blog posts don’t convince you, then this isn’t for you. If you are even a little bit intrigued – attend the Investor Briefing – your head will be spinning with excitement. Want to know HOW to think like this? Check out this new updated site I just re-launched… Where you can Discover Your Own Exponential MasterMind Thinking!

That’s it for today… Well there is one more thing you can check out… I’m about to add a few bonuses to my Exponential Blogging 101 Audio Program and when you register now, you’ll automatically receive them when they are released…

For example:

My Personal Mastery Blog is http://www.MarcDussault.com/blog so that my primary site gets all the SEO benefit, as does my Mindset Of A Champion Blog http://www.MarcDussault.com/mindset/blog.

If I had created a URL http://www.MarcDussaultBlog.com, then it and only it would get the SEO traffic = self-defeating and not exponential at all.

Blog Branding: How Important is it?

That depends. It depends on why you are blogging in the first place. If it’s just a fun thing you’re doing, then it doesn’t much matter, but if it’s to make money or reinforce a service or product you’re selling then it is VERY IMPORTANT.

Without spending heaps, you can get really cool stuff done by professional web designers like KillerCovers.com.

I guess the only point I want to make today is that if you want to be taken seriously, you just have to LOOK the part.

The reason I say this is because without proper branding, you’re going to lose people ONCE they get to your blog – within seconds, people get a feel for it and either stay or click away.

You only have seconds to make that FIRST impression.

Make sure it’s a good one!

It might be just what you need to get the initial ’snowball of traffic’ to your blog. When you do give it a go, let us know how it went and I’ll blog about it here to give you additional exposure to keep the traffic snowball rolling down the mountain into an avalanche of traffic!

Click here to create your blog carnival!

It’s called Write Or Die and if you don’t reach your target, all your text is DELETED!

How’s that for an INCENTIVE?!?! Click on the hyperlink or here >> to get rid of your writer’s block! <<

Even though the title of the program is called Flipping Websites For Profit, the Wealth Without Worries Investor Briefing will explain that this concept works even better with blogs!

Registrations have already started and the seats are filling up fast – as you’ll see on the events page – this is NOT a salesfest event. It’s an Investor Briefing with LIMITED ADMISSION into the program. Go check it out now. Who knows, you might just be the next Virtual Real Estate Mogul!

How To Create A MasterMind Group

I’ve written a book How to Create a Fun, Effective and Powerful MasterMind Group to Catapult You To Exponential Success that you can purchase and at the same time get the exclusive 66-minute Exponential Mastermind Audio Interview and Word-For Word Transcript.

As a blogger, the MasterMind concept is crucial to make sure you never run out of new, relevant and interesting material.

A MasterMind Group is a handful of people who appreciate what you are blogging about and want to CONTRIBUTE to your cause, message and audience. They are like-minded people who are passionate, generous and insightful. They know what you’re into and give you content without reservation or hesitation.

Your MasterMind Group Members will find stuff you’d never find in a million years. They’ll make connections for you and your audience you otherwise would never consider. By tapping into their collective intelligence, you’ll instantly and continuously expand your circle of influence, awareness and understanding about your subject, cause, discipline.

You’ll become the center point of attention, the nucleus of knowledge – the preeminent source of information.

I have multiple blogs with dozens of contributors who give of themselves and share their ideas, thoughts, tips and tricks with me so that I can then share them with you.

So how do you get this MasterMind Group to form? Buy my book if you want to learn the step-by-step process, but the short and easy answer is – CREATE and GIVE as much VALUE as you can and the Law Of Reciprocity will kick in – it’s the human law of persuasion and influence as documented by Dr Robert Cialdini that will start to reward you.

Leaders amongst your blogging readership will emerge and start to give you stuff – stuff that will make people come to your blog and want to come back AND SUBSCRIBE!

Do your share – Australia was one of the leading participants last year!!

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie….!

12 Things About Professional Bloggers And Why You Want To Become One…

1. Professional bloggers make money blogging! If you’re not making money, you’re an amateur. There’s nothing wrong with that, but why not go ‘pro’ and cash in?
2. Professional bloggers develop content that people want to read – really, really bad! The more interesting, the better!
3. Professional bloggers work hard.  They are full-time (even if they have another job) and are seen as an authority expert in their niche. Nothing comes easy, but pros know to focus on what they love the most and know the best.
4. Professional bloggers have incredibly informative, easy to navigate, well designed blogs. KISS.
5. Professional bloggers have people talking about them all over the web.  They attract links like nobody else and rule the search engines for thousands of keyword phrases. Ka-Ching!
6. Professional bloggers are pro networkers.  Their friends and followers on social sites and microblogs like Twitter read like a who’s who of their market niche. Click on the hyperlink to follow my activities on Twitter and find out what Marc Dussault’s up to.
7. Professional bloggers get freebies to review from companies who want to get in front of their audience.  (This includes anything from toys to cars to gadgetry of all kinds.  Yes. Cars!)
8. Professional bloggers make anywhere from a few thousand per month to over $100,000.00 per month from advertising, affiliate sales, or their own products and/or services. If that doesn’t excite you to get on the ‘pro circuit’ I don’t know what will!
9. Professional bloggers are featured on network and cable news, in the biggest magazines on the planet, and on TV and radio interviews. They also stand on stage in front of hundreds and thousands of people…
10. Professional bloggers have their own books, products, and services they sell easily with the traffic and customers they attract through their blogs. Because people want to learn MORE, MORE, MORE!!!
11. Professional bloggers have no bosses! YEAH!!!
12. Professional bloggers work anywhere in the world they want – they are totally mobile and totally free to do anything they want to do at any time they want! That includes beach and pool side  (SPLASH!!!!)

Click on the URL to access the Exponential Blogging 101 Audio Program.

Within one hour, you’ll discover:

• The one thing that makes a blog different from a conventional website and why you MUST be blogging if you aren’t already.
• The top 3 reasons why search engines love blogs and what it means to your bank account
• How to get started blogging, or taking your blogging to the ‘next level’ where thousands of people subscribe or you start to generate cash from your readership.
• Special blogging tips for search engine optimisation that will increase FREE organic traffic by as much as 100% in less than 30 days.
• How to manage content and publishing – the pros and cons of different strategies including the pitfalls to avoid at any cost.
• How to gain link popularity ethically and exponentially.
• How to get noticed in the ocean of blogs that are out there – if you don’t do this, you’re putting in a LOT of effort for little or no result/reward – that’s no fun.

Sure serving ice cream to a crowd on the beach on a hot summer’s day is a GREAT business model, but if you don’t want to be stuck in an ice cream truck in 30 plus degree (100+ Farenheit) weather for 8 consecutive hours then you should really think about it.

Blogging is no different. You can choose to blog about ANYTHING you want – Imagine that?!?!

People WILL find you and seek you out -> IF you create value for them.

I recently got a few e-mails from a client who’s a golf fanatic – he’s constantly watching golf videos on YouTube, tracks Tiger Wood’s every move… If he created a blog on golf – he’d be LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT. He’d gather a following of like-minded addicts who love the game…

But he hasn’t yet tapped into his passion – pity because I don’t particularly like golf and the video links he sends me are AWESOME. If he posted them on a blog – he’d get FREE traffic doing what he loves, but more importantly…

Doing what he would be doing ANYWAY…

I’ll say that again – he will be doing this ANYWAY – why not blog about it and SHARE it with others?!?!

That’s my point – blog with passion and see what happens!

When you do launch your new and exciting blog, make sure you list it here to get INSTANT FREE BLOG TRAFFIC.