Virtual Earner

Okay, so you have a blog and you want it to be popular!  Of course, who wouldn’t want their site to be more popular?  Well, there are things you can do to bring on more popularity.

One thing that I really believe in is to build a community type site.  Make everybody feel like they’re part of the community, encourage them to join in, and talk back to them when you can!

What do I mean by that?  Well when people participate on your blog by leaving comments, respond to them!  Engage them in conversation.  Don’t just ignore them.  Some people feel that they write a blog post, and they’re done.  They’ve done their job.  Now other people can come and leave comments, but the job of the blog author is finished.  Well, I don’t see it that way.  The more you respond to your commenters, the more they feel like they’re part of the site.  Engage them, challenge them, when you do this.  They’ll come back for more.

Take a look at the graphic above.  This is a screen capture from the control panel of one of my other blogs. Over on the right side, where you see the little gray area with the number inside that shows how many comments were left on each particular post.  So if you notice the post at the top got 54 comments, followed by 29, followed by 6, by 33, 29, 103, 28 and again in 28.  What is that 6 doing in there? It’s been a long time since I’ve only had six comments on any post.  So, how did this happen?

Well, on a particular day that this post went public, I was really busy and I was unable to respond to the comments.  As you can see that man little interest from my readers.

So, do you want people to participate on your blog?  Leave comments?  Keep coming back to check what’s new?  Well, you need to engage your readers than!  Respond to their comments, let them know what you think!

I know people who have blogs, and a lot of them complain to me that nobody participates on their blog.  Nobody comments.  It just seems dead.  Well, at times I left comments on their blogs, and there was no response.  I kept going back to see if they responded to what I said, but nothing.  So, after a while, I just quit going there at all.  So in my eyes, their blog did die, at least for me it did.

The graphic above tells the whole story.  If you engage your readers, they’ll be back for more.  If you start getting a few more comments like that, more readers will join in.  It’s a never ending circle.  The participation on your site just keeps growing.

Don’t let your site die!  Engage your readers.

Last week, I announced that I have a new book on the market, 49 Ways to make a living in the Philippines.  It’s a book with a bunch of ideas on how you can earn a living while living here in the Philippines.  Of course, many of these ideas can be used no matter where in the world you choose to live, but since the topic of living in the Philippines is kind of my specialty, I wrote the book with that audience in mind.

Today, I am happy to announce that I was recently interviewed by Tom Nixon, and he has published the first part of the interview on his SmallPress Blog today.  To read the interview, just head over to Tom’s blog.  Tom is a long time reader of this blog, and some of my other sites.  He is an expert (I say that, he might try to shy away from it!) on Self-Publishing, and also in the area of Online Learning and Education.

Thank you, Tom, for featuring my book and my story on your site!  I appreciate it highly.

Today, I am ready to make the big announcement!  You can now get my brand new book, which is entitled “49 Ways to earn a living in the Philippines.” (order here)

Basically, the book goes through 49 (actually 50 ways, because I have a Bonus Idea) Ways that you can live in the Philippines and earn your living while you are living here.  I have been living here since May 2000, and when I came here I did have a bunch of money, but I went through it too fast!  By 2002, I had only two choices:

1. Go Home
2. Figure out how to make money here

I chose to go with number 2, because I didn’t want to leave.  Sadly, few people (expats who move here) are ever able to figure out how to earn money here.  Most expats will tell you that “you can’t make money in the Philippines, it’s impossible.”  Well, I am living proof that they are wrong! In my book, I want show you how to make money here too!

The ideas that I present are real-life ideas that work!  Most of the things that I discuss are things that I have actually done to make money, and because of that I know for sure that they work.

I know of people who have come to live in the Philippines and after a few years they had to go home, because they ran out of money.  Don’t let that happen to you!  Why leave a lifestyle that you love, just because you don’t have money?  Making money is actually pretty easy, if you just know how to do it.  I didn’t know how in 2001 and before.  But, in 2002, I started learning how to make money, because I had to!  Let me show you how to do it too.

Let me be clear, I am not going to tell you that you can get rich quickly or easily.  I am going to say, though, that you can earn a good income if you are willing to work at it.  I don’t slave away, I generally just work a few hours per day, and I am living good.  How good is my life?  Well, I make a lot more money here in the Philippines than I ever made in the USA, I can tell you that.

If you read my sites, you already know that I make 100% of my income online through my various websites.  However, I know that some people are not comfortable on the computer.  That’s why I have ideas in the book not only for Online businesses, but also for Offline and for Hybrid ideas that mix online and offline strategies into a single business.  So, whether you want to earn your living at the computer like me, or you don’t want to even touch a computer, there are ideas for you!

I offer my book in two formats:  paper and digital.  If you order the digital version, you can download it immediately after payment.  If you order the paper version, I will ship it directly to your mailing address.

Guess what?  I also have a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee!  If you don’t think that the book is what you were expecting, you get the full purchase price back upon return of the book!  No fuss, no muss, no questions asked!  So, what do you have to lose?

Order Bob’s New Book TODAY!