The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

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In the past few weeks, I have started using header image in my blog post. I love photography and love to share my point of view about a photo. I love to take a photo and modify in my ways and show the best part of the image. I was reading the above blog for some time. It’s not much different than other blogs who wants to make good money off their blog. However, this blog stands out from other by showing you who he is and what he loves to do.

I have no excuse not to introduce his blog to my readers.

Popularity: 28% [?]

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Just few days ago, I post “Who is reading your blog? Why do you care“? It’s a great finding who exactly was reading your blog. The post was inspired by one of my blogging friend at BloggingMix. It’s about why you need to network with non-Probloggers.

I took it further. I want to communicate non-blogger.

In the past few weeks, I have closely watched my visitors and track down where they came from. My finding was not a surprise. I can pretty much claim that 80% of my readers are from search engine and almost 100% of them are no bloggers. They find the page, read it and left. In my early blogging days, I post a lot of stuff related to GPS, IE bugs, and many other non-entrepreneur related posts on the blog. This blog was a mixed blog on everything I see, I heard, I like and I think. It’s not much about blogging and being an Internet Entrepreneur.

What’s wrong with that?

Popularity: 25% [?]

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Oh! Sexy Pink! I can’t really resist the eyes with the pink heart looking straight at me. It turns me on. Oops! It turns my business revenue up! Have you got my attention?

This is another example of using blog post header image to demonstrate the power of image. Picture speaks for itself. I have used this image on my fashion jewelry blog. I meant to spice up my sales a little before the Valentine’s Day.

The question is “Does sexy image drive your business revenue forward?”

Popularity: 34% [?]

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Have you read my previous post about using blog post header image? Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images.

Do you like my blog post header images? I have put together two photo collections that show you my header images in one place. I like to use header images in my blog posts. It gives my readers a sense of my photography taste and the topic about my post. I believe that a great photo will speak for itself.

Blog Post Header Images - Collection 2

Blog Post Header Images - collection 1

I have been asked by few readers with the following questions.

Do you sell the photos you used on you blog?
How do you choose the photos?
How do you know what to do to modify your image?

I will answer all questions one by one. First of all, using blog post image is a fun but time consuming task. My resources for my photos are either from the creative common licensed photos on Flickr.com and the photos I took in the past. Here are my answers to the readers.

Popularity: 45% [?]

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Profashion Jewelry is proud to announce few of the very fine design and high quality yellow CZ silver pendants on their blog at Fashion Jewelry Blog.

Ever since I started the new fashion jewelry online store. I have became a fashion jewelry lover as always. It’s too bad that I can’t wear fashion jewelry as a mature man. All of the fashion jewelry were hand picked by me, while I was traveling in China looking for my treasure to sell online.

I have picked those wonderful yellow CZ pendants for the Valentine’s Day gift choice. It’s Valentine’s Day, you can get the fine fashion jewelry while they are still available for purchase. It’s worth to mention that the size of those fashion jewelry silver pendant are larger than you will expect. For those who don’t know how I started this online fashion jewelry store, I took all product photos professionally with my own table top studio. You can read more about that at DIY - TableTop Photo Studio for you online store or eBay auction

Popularity: 21% [?]

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Do you have e-commerce online stores? Do you sell goods for profit? How do you market your site in your niche? Do communicate your customers without interact with them on the phone or face to face?

If you are running e-commerce online store and are having some troubles to reach your customers, you need a blog to rescue your online store. Personally, I am a believer about marketing and branding. I am also a believer of my e-commerce golden rule. I believe that spending time marketing is somehow more important than spending time make perfect products. You can read my golden rule at How to succeed in the e-commerce world? Follow the 30/70 golden rule. You can also join my discussion about your thoughts on that.

What can a blog do for your e-commerce online store?

Popularity: 32% [?]

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It’s funny that I was reading John Chow’s make money online blog on Google Reader. I saw a post that caught my attention. I click on the post title. It leads me to a 404 error page. I guess John Chow just accidentally post it and remove it from the site for some reasons.

What is this post all about?

Popularity: 20% [?]

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This post title was once on my blog tagline for just two days. I started this blog few years ago in 2003, after I got my own domain name back. I was never doing very well with my blog. It was all about my life, my IT experience, my tips and tricks about the computer programs, web development, the foods I ate and the travel photos I took.

Ever since I worked so hard as a chief architect at my ex-company, I did not update this blog until early May 2007. At that moment, the blogging was already booming. Especially for people who wants to make money off their blog. I was also one of them. However, I was not really impressed by the outcome of my blog. I made only few bulks in three months.

I need to thank many of you!

Popularity: 20% [?]