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If you are not promoting your blog offline, you are wasting a huge opportunity to grow your blog.  Each day you are with people that you have a personal connection with.  These offline relationships are very powerful.  Therefore, you need to tell people about your blog.  One of the best ways to tell people about your blog is by handing them a business card featuring your blog.  Today, I found an offer for free online business cards.

Clicking the link above will get you 250 free online business cards.  Think about this, if only half of those people visit your blog that is 125 new visitors to your blog.  This is an excellent, but overlooked way to do blog promotion.

Why don’t people focus more on offline blog promotion?  I believe that the biggest thing that keeps people from promoting their blogs to friends, family and acquaintances is shyness.  Bloggers are more comfortable promoting themselves in the secluded online world.  There is a distance that you can maintain in the online world that is non-threatening.  Bloggers are embarrassed to tell others that they have a blog.  You need to get over that right now.

Don’t miss this opportunity to get your 250 free online business cards.  Start marketing your blog offline today.

Here is a quick video that I created at Animoto.

Yesterday I went to Borders Bookstore and picked up a coins magazine.  I couldn’t believe how interesting it was.  I love going into bookstores and reading through magazines, but few interested me as much as this one.  It was also very helpful in finding niches for build a niche stores.  One article lead me to create this cool page on my US Coins Store website - Indian Head Gold Coins.

I find that magazines are one of the best things for brainstorming niches.  The advertisements in the magazines show you immediately that there is a market for the products that are being advertised.  Advertising in magazines is very expensive and if the advertiser can make enough from its magazine advertisement, you know that people are buying the product.

Therefore, if you are having trouble finding niches to write about on your blog, check out your local bookstore’s magazine section.  You might find an awesome niche about 20 Saint Gaudens Gold coins.

Yesterday eBay announced that it was leaving Commission Junction.  Most people around the net were discussing this move generally.  However, for me, I was concerned how this news would affect the Build A Niche Store software.

In my last post, I mentioned that I was just about to start a new online income stream using the Build a Niche Store software.  BANS is a great software script that allows you to quickly set up websites that promote ebay products.  The BANS software allow you to constantly pull in ebay auctions to your website so that you can get people to come to your site then purchase ebay products and you make an affiliate commission.

All weekend I was trying to buy BANS.   Unfortunately, the BANS site was offline all weekend due to a server attack.  I woke up on Monday already to buy the BANS software download and then I read about ebay leaving the Commission Junction affiliate network.  I don’t know how this is going to affect BANS.  I bet that the BANS software will be quickly updated to make it compatible with ebay new in-house affiliate program, but I am still concerned.  I sent an email to the Build a Niche Store Company yesterday, but so far I have not heard back.

Despite this ebay news, I think that I will still buy the BANS software on faith that it will work with the new ebay affiliate program.  But, I wanted you guys to no about this issues.

What is the Key To Making Money Online?

As most of you know, I have been focused on learning how to make money online.  I have been creating Squidoo lenses where I have been promoting affiliate products.  I have been creating niche WordPress sites focused on very narrow niches and keywords.  I have been creating niche Blogger blogs.  And, I am about to purchase the Build a Niche Store software so that I can more easily sell ebay products.

This might sound simple, but it is something we all have to learn.  You have to create websites and create content on the web in order to make money online.  The biggest mistake that I tend to make is not creating enough content.

As stated in Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come.”  Well, I am not sure that it is that easy, but I promise you that if you don’t build it, they will not come and you will not make any money online.

Most of the Internet marketers and bloggers that I have met who are making money online have many sources or streams of income.  It is imperative that you start creating you multiple streams of income.

Why not just stick to one website?

If you are already meeting your financial goals with one website, then go for it.  Stick with that one site.  However, most of us are finding it pretty difficult to make money from just one website.  Especially in the how to blog or how to make money online niche.  So, go out there and create new websites.

Each new income stream that I try to produce I learn something new.  I have a very specific focused strategy with Squidoo.  And, I can tell you that I am now making some pretty decent money with Squidoo.  I am also learning how to make made for adsense blogs.  But, what I am learning is that I am not going to be able to retire off of one website.  I am going to have to build a ton of them.

So what different ways are you trying to make money online?

Tools that I have reviewed:

• Secret Income Streams
• Micro Niche Finder
• Viral Mini Sites