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Well, I just joined BlogRush (still in Beta at the time of this post)… The more observant among you may have noticed their widget on the right side of my theme. The idea is that by my RSS titles getting displayed on the other blogs that are in the BlogRush network, I will get a traffic increase… I will have to wait and see how this goes
I just had to sign up for this one, David Airey is running a competition with a grand total of $4000 worth in prizes, in order to celebrate the first year of his blog. Of course, he is not providing all the prizes himself, but has managed to get an impressive bunch of sponsors together. The prizes include:
In addition to the big three, there are also a ton of other, separate prizes to win:
A number of people have decided to offer blog reviews, Including:
There is a whole lot of other stuff to win, including consultations, books and advertisitng, even membership to Andy Beard’s soon to be released site. So, if you are reading this, don’t enter the competition, I want all the loot for myself.
Technorati Tags: competition, logos, web design, wordpress, andy beard
In the interests of growing my Internet Marketing Empire, I am always on the look out for new tools. Digerati Marketing announce last month that they will be launching a set of Elite Seo Tools, which I think will come in usefull, although their hat colour seems a bit murky (for those of you that don’t catch the reference, read up a bit about SEO).
Technorati Tags: seo, black hat, Digerati Marketing
Like with most things, in order to make money, we first need to get our minds working correctly.
One model that I find very useful when trying to understand human behaviour (including my own) is Attribution Theory. The theoretical framework for this theory was developed by Weiner in the early 80s. To grossly oversimplify the theory and framework (those of you that would like to go more indepth on this can find a wealth of articles with a simple Google search), the Attribution Theory states that our actions and results are determined by the explanations that we attach to the events in our lives.
Any result that we get, whether good or bad, we can attribute either to internal or external factors.
Internal Factors , as their name implies are factors that are inherent to who we are, they include such things as our abilities, moods, personality and the amount of effort expanded. A lot of those can be under our control.
External Factors include such things as the difficulty of the task, luck and so on. They tend to be not under our control.
Research has shown that people who tend to attribute failure or success to things that are under their control (e.g. the amount of effort expanded) tend to become more successful in their tasks, while those that attribute events to things outside their control (e.g. luck, inherent ability, etc) tend not to do so well, possibly because they do not see a way to improve.
In terms of making money (which is the point of this site), this can also be seen. When a project fails to preform to your expectations, you can blame it on factors outside your control (the market, bad luck, the fact that you are “just no good at this”) , which, while it will make you feel a bit better about yourself, will also mean that you will remain stuck.
You can also chose to learn from the experience and accept the things you have done worng (I should have done more research, I should have invested more time…). By this, I do not mean wallowing in self pity, or deciding that you are worthless, just acknowledging what happened and doing things differently.
Interestingly enough, attributing success to internal factors beyond your control (ability, intelligence, etc…) can also have a positive impact on future performance (if you decide that the reason you succeeded at something is your own brilliance, you would tend to work harder next time, in order to preserve your self-opinion)…
Some people are afraid that they will get arrogant if they chose to believe that their successes stem from their inherent greatness. for some people this could be a problem, but the vast majority of us need every boost to our self-esteem that we can get.
Technorati Tags: Attribution Theory, psychology, motivation
As the more perceptive of my readers may have noticed, I have changed themes again. This is the first step in my effort to get this site off the ground gain, I realise that I have been seriously neglecting it these last couple of months. From now on, I will stick to a blogging schedule of a minimum of three posts a week, including at least one ‘flagship’ post.
If you do see me slacking, feel free to add a comment about that, I would really appreciate it 