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Well my trip yesterday went very well and thankfully, since I was flying, uneventful. :)  I flew to Kansas City to pick up my 5 year old granddaughter.  We are having so much fun.  Did I mention I absolutely love having an online business?

Well, while I was flying I was working on my blog.  I came back with so many ideas.   Over the next several weeks I’ll be sharing them with you right here.

Since Iwas up for 20 hours yesterday, with 4 hours of sleep, this is going to be a very short entry.

Stop back tomarrow for a regular post.

Are you an Internet Marketer?  Did you know that Blogging is one of the newest Internet Marketing tools?  Let’s look into why you should have a blog.

A blog, short for Web Log, started back in the late 90’s.  What started as a comment on an existing webpage has turned into a way for individuals to write about what is on their mind.  It could be a personal blog that no one other than yourself sees, kinda like a journal or diary.  Or it can be a place to vent or just talk about topics that are of interest to you.

As Blogging becomes more and more popular, it has become one more way to monetize an Internet Marketing Business.  So why should you be blogging?  Here are my thoughts, see if you agree.

1.  Blogging is easy.  If you have a computer and an internet connection ( and who doesn’t these days?), then you too can have a blog. 

2.  Blogging can be free to do.  You can start a blog for free, without owning a domain name or having a website, but if you are serious about marketing you will want a paid blog.  Mainly because on free blogs your content may not be your own.  If you inadvertently breach the terms of use, your blog could be taken down without any notice and all your hard work would be gone.

So what do you talk about?  Just talk about your ideas or if you want to use it as a marketing tool, talk about new products you’ve tried and your experience with them.  Did you like them?  Why?

3.  Which brings us to our third reason.  Blogging is real.  People like to buy things, they don’t want to be sold to.  Think about it.  Everyday we are bombarded with advertising.  Commercials, touting that their product is the best.

The difference with a blog is that it’s like talking to a friend.  Telling them your first hand experience with a product, why you liked it.  What you hated about it.  Would you use it again?  You’re just giving your opinion.  It’s real!!

4.  So if you are real, then it stands to reason that you will become believable.  Which will give credibility to your posts.  As your credibility builds, your readers will come to rely on your information.  As word spreads of your expertise, you may even become the go to expert in your field. 

5.  Which builds readership.  As your readership grows, so grows your market.  Let’s face it, unless you are a big time name, no one is reading your blog except your mother, (or in my case my husband and 2 grown children). 

So tomarrow we will expand on how you can use a blog to build your market, and get more readers.

I was home from my JOB yesterday and thought it would be a great day to work on my blogs and website.  I got up early, turned on my computer, logged in and ….. nothing.  No internet service.  WHAT!!  Everything was fine before I went to bed.  What could have possibly happened while I was sleeping?

I checked all my cables and wires, well those looked okay, (that is not my strong suit.  I leave the technical stuff to my husband and son).  :)  But I was on my own yesterday.  They were both at work.  So I called my service providers tech support.   I should have known something was up when I was on hold for 15 minutes without even talking to a tech.

When Megan finally got on the line, she had me check all my cables again, unplug the DSL line and replug it.  Nothing.  She checked my line from her end and said my line was working.  Nope, still nothing.

“Let me check one more thing” , she said.  I’m back on hold.  When she came back on the phone, she had good news and bad news.  “The good news?  It’s not your line or your computer.”  Okay.  The bad news?  “There is a service outage in Pennsylvania of about 20,000 people, you’re one of them.”

GREAT!!  Needless to say, the outage lasted all day.  So my big plans of great online productivity went down the drain, right along with the rain that the storms of the night before had brought. 

So I did what any red blooded woman would do in that instance.  No I didn’t go shopping, no car. :(   I cleaned my house instead. 

So now with a sparkling clean house and a brand new day, I am back to work and back online.  Maybe I need to look into a back up for my internet service? 

Sorry, this had nothing to do with Affiliate Marketing, so to speak.  I just needed to vent.   Which just proves that sometimes the best laid plans go awry through no fault of your own.