Bankruptcy to Millionaire

Welcome to the newly redesigned B2M. New Theme. New Logo. I think it’s a much more dynamic and flexible theme. Let me know what you think…

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photo by Mike Lane

With just a few weeks till the new year comes the barrage of New Years Resolutions. This is quite honestly so tiresome and annoying, because frankly have you ever, or known anyone to EVER keep a NYR past the 6 month? In fact–if you made one–do you remember what your NYR even was?

Chances are probably not. Why?

Because they’re so easily broken. They are so cliched and unimportant to us anymore. And the fact is:

If we need to do something. Change something. Get something done. Why are we putting it off until the new year?

I know plenty of things that I need to improve within myself… and I am starting TODAY. Not in three weeks. Not on the 1st… TODAY.

I suggest that you decide TODAY that you are going to change. Don’t wait until the New Year…

- Tevin

P.S. I hope you like the new layout design. I finally found a theme I think I can fall in love with. Enjoy everybody.

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(I need your help! Read on and give suggestions…)

I keep blogging at B2M with one fundamental problem. It doesn’t stand out from the crowd. It’s not quite unique enough.
How does one get noticed? I like to think I have a unique premise… but I’m not executing it well.

I need to do some deep thinking on what I can do to help propel this blog to give it some worthwhileness. Does it need a new look (*probably*)? Does it need better content (*definitely*)? Do I need ads or guest posts? Video posts?

These are things I think about when trying to grow my blog. This blog is a huge learning experience for me. I’ve never done any sort of blogging before (and am a new member of the blog-o-sphere as a reader too). So I’m just kind of learning as I go. I would love your input! I take constructive criticism VERY WELL. I’d love to hear what you think:

What do you love about B2M? What do you hate? What are your suggestions? What do you do with your site(s) to help you be unique–to stand out from the crowd? If this were your blog, what would you do with it? I welcome criticism.

I also urge you to think this way. What are you doing to be unique? Are you? Are you standing out from the crowd? If not, why not? Start thinking. Together we’ll prosper.

On a side note: One reason this blogs content is somewhat lacking in depth, is there seem to be so many things on my plate at one time. My *fairly* in depth affiliate marketing test (which I’ll give a full progress report on this weekend). My full time job. A side web deb project. AND working at Red Robin as a house magician. Couple that with giving enough of my new girlfriend, and spending time with my family and friends. I’m now realizing that I need much better time management. With that, I bid you adieu have a great weekend.

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Yesterday I spent the entire day sick. So I spent most of the day on my laptop. Things I learned for 12 straight hours in front of a screen:

1. There are far too many “make money online” blogs.
2. There is too much good information to learn online
3. There is probably more bad stuff you’ll have to unlearn
4. I truly don’t know what I don’t know. The more I learn. The less I know it seems.
5. MSN Live Messanger eats many hours of would-be productivity.
6. Affiliate programs are not “easy”
7. Johncow.com is all but pointless.
8. BankruptcytoMillionaire.com needs work.
9. Publicity is key to growing your blog.
10. Money CAN be made online (but you’re probably gonna have to figure out how to do it yourself).
11. RSS Feeds can become cumbersome.
12. I waste too much time. And need to learn much better time magagment skills.

12.5 Everybody loves lists.

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I’ve finally figured out the secret as to why this blog isn’t sky rocketing with popularity, fame and fortune… And why yours isn’t either.

First off, happy Monday and Happy December to everyone. The countdown has finally begun.

Why I’m an Ass… 

I’ve been studying endlessly (it seems) as to what makes a good blog, and what makes a blog good.

Sometimes it would seem the answer would be obvious… but it never seems to be. But ultimately, it comes down to being interesting and entertaining.

Thus I have found the errs in my ways. So far this blog has been filled with self-indulgent jackassery.

I’ve fallen into a pattern of writing for the “hell of it”. Not really concentrating on providing valuable, pertinent, and interesting content. This is where I went terribly wrong…

Today this changes.

I had to do some thinking about why I have this blog. What is it’s purpose? And quite quickly it occurred to me, it’s about doing what it takes to become a millionaire. It’s about helping inspire, motivate, and educate others on how to know they can become a millionaire as well.

So here what I’ve learned this weekend to help both you, and me succeed when we’re blogging:

Being a copywriter, I know that the Headline is THE MOST important copy of the entire sales letter. There are products that have made and lost fortunes based on solely their headlines. The headline in advertising must force the reader to read the article.

This same technique MUST be applied to your blog posts. I have forever just picked a few words that came to the top of my head for the title of each of my blog posts.

THIS IS WRONG! 

More thought, and technique should be put into the headline than the rest of the post! Because if you can’t get someone interested with the Entry Title, YOU HAVE NO WAY IN HELL OF GETTING THEM TO READ THE POST!

This seems SO obvious. Yet, I have forgotten to put this much effort into my titles, and from the dozens of different posts I read on a daily basis, others seem to forget this very important point as well.

Your titles should invoke emotion from the reader. They should feel STRONGLY about it. It should make them ecstatic, pissed, curious, enamored, sad, excited. They should feel  a strong emotion from reading your title, otherwise you’re never going to get the chance for them to read the important information contained in your post.

• “I’m giving away $100 cash in the next 10 minutes” -excited
• “12 died in a tragic bullet train accident” - sad
• “George Bush, impeached!” - ecstatic/pissed (depending on whose side you’re on )
• “Do you know the 3 things, you can avoid, but you’re doing that are preventing you from making $10,000 next month?” - curious

Those are just a couple headlines that came to me off the top of my head that would evoke an explicit emotion. And more importantly would probably force the readers to read on for more information.

Next time you’re reading an interesting blog post, take a look at the headline. Is that what drew you in? What was it that attracted you to the article?

When you’re reading the newspaper, what draws you into the story you’re reading? The headline (and maybe the picture, but that’s a whole ‘nother entry).

Think about it…

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