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Reputation Management Consorte Marketing

In this poor economy, many people are getting laid off and looking to themselves to find ways to generate an income. One way of doing this is to think about the things you know and enjoy, and find a way to make money doing it. Basically, turn a hobby into a business.
That's what I did with my magazine back issues website. I enjoy reading and subscribe to a few different magazines. I always hated throwing them away when I was done reading them. Magazine subscriptions are expensive. Reading a magazine once and throwing it away when I was done seemed like such a waste. Sometimes I saved them, but after a while you get a pretty big pile of old magazines. I never looked at them either. What I did was build a website and sell them. Luckily I work as a programmer, so I had the know how to do it. I just had to learn a little HTML, CSS and search engine optimization (SEO). Now I have a whole world of people that buy my magazines when I'm done reading them. Nice green way to recycle magazines and make a little extra money doing it. Not much, but it helps. The generated income from turning my hobby into a business should increase as my inventory increases too. I still have to store quite a few magazines, but now they have a purpose.
Starting your own little business is tough though. For a business to survive, it needs customers. You need to advertise your business, so that people will find you. You also need to strive to make sure you and your business have a good reputation. Nobody is going to buy a product from a company with bad reviews. In this day and age of the internet, Twitter and Facebook it's not hard to find reviews on a company or information on the person/people running a company. If you have bad reviews or negative information floating around about you in cyberspace, you could lose customers.
There is a reputation management company that might be able to help. Consorte Marketing will research you and your business's online reputation. They will give you a report of all the information out there about you and where it is located. They will also give you a strategy for repairing your reputation. Some of the information out there is permanent, but some can be removed. They might be able to help persuade an unsatisfied customer to change a bad review to positive, or come up with a way to push a negative article from page 1 on Google to lower level pages.
If you run a business and are worried about negative information surfacing, Consorte Marketing would be worth a look. Consorte Marketing's reputation management tweets can be followed on Twitter.

Blogsvertise 10 Paid Blogging Tips Make Money

I've mentioned Blogsvertise before, but feel the need to mention it again. I've been getting quite a few tasks the past 6 months, about 4 - 5 per month. If you've never tried paid blogging, that doesn't sound like a lot though. Paid blogging is easy, but it's hard to get tasks. Signing up at a paid blogging site doesn't mean you are suddenly going to make tons of money blogging. You have to have a good, established blog with regular, recent posts. I have 6 blogs, 1 which I have totally neglected and will get to someday. The 5 I do keep up with, I try to post on each one at least once per week. Sometimes it's more like once every couple months, but they are blogs I've had for a while. This blog was started 5 years ago. The most recent blog, my healthy living naturally blog, was started over a year ago. Life and work make it hard to fit in blogging, but if you start a blog and make an effort to keep it active, over time, it will pay off.
My soap opera blog is my best performer. That one and my recipes blog are the ones I have the easiest time figuring out what to write. I also really enjoy soap operas for some unknown reason.
My tech-tips blog also does well. I have one post that get almost 1000 hits per month. It was a useful tip that helped me out and has been helping out lots of others.

A few tips if you want to blog and/or make money blogging:

1. Post regularly - content is key
2. Write about something you enjoy, even if you think no one would be interested. Someone out there somewhere probably also enjoys it.
3. "How to posts" are a good bet.
4. Get post ideas from magazines, what's trending on Twitter or Google searches, your daily life, etc.
5. Sign up with Blogsvertise and whatever paid blogging service you can find. Although, I've joined all of the paid blogging sites I have found and Blogsvertise is the only one still giving me tasks. Smorty gave me quite a few when I first joined, but that was years ago. They don't really seem to be active anymore.
6. Add Google Adsense to your blog.
7. Sign up with Amazon.com's affiliate program
, LinkShare and CommissionJunction. I haven't had much luck with LinkShare.com or CommissionJunction, but I haven't put much effort into it either. I have had a few small payments from Amazon. There is also ClickBank, but I haven't done anything with them in a few years after they had a change of terms.
8. List your blog with with all of the major search engines, minor ones if you want to.
9. After you write a post, advertise it. Link to the post from your Twitter/Facebook/Google+ account. Use pingomatic, digg, delicious, etc.
10. Use the Google Keywords Tool to find keywords with low competition, but a lot of monthly searches.
BONUS. Be patient.

Making money from a blog takes a lot of time. I wish I had been more diligent about posting more frequently, but I am glad I have been able to post as much as I have over the years. The more I post, the more I see my effort paying off, so maybe by the time I am ready to retire I will be generating a full time income. That's my plan anyways. Although the way things are going this past year, I think I'm going to have to step that plan up.


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