Money with Blogs Posts
327 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How do you create a national social media brand and non-profit digital agency? Listen to Kyle Lacy tell his story to find out.
Kyle was named Young Alumni of the Year from Anderson University, Forty-under-40 by the IBJ and Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Tech Point. He's also the author of Twitter Marketing for Dummies and Branding Yourself.
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RoundPeg
MindFrame
Lorraine Ball
Smaller Indiana
Pat Coyle
Douglas Karr
Wiley Publishing
Erik Deckers
Brand...
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408 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Add the following functionality to your WordPress blog by coping and pasting any of the snippets directly in to your Themes function.php file.
Add Browser Type to Body Class
Helpful for creating browser specific styling.
function browser_body_class($classes) {
// A little Browser detection shall we?
$browser = $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' ];
// Mac, PC ...or Linux
if ( preg_match( "/Mac/", $browser ) ){
$classes[] = 'mac';
} elseif ( preg_match( "/Windows/", $browse...
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411 days ago
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Muhammad Yasin and I talk about some great online business models.
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Rock Melt (incorrectly called Rocket Melt during the show!)
Angry Birds
Dino Dash
CraftSquach
Moki.TV
Learnable.com
Flippa.com
Evernote
Raidious.com
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438 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
I wanted to share some changes I'll be making to 8IFY over the next few weeks. I've been absolutely ecstatic with the traffic, the response and the outreach of the 8iFY readers and listeners - however, I need to make some changes to the 8iFY format in order to maintain my sanity, which is fragile at times :).
Each weekend I spend 10 hours coming up with 5 blog posts covering ways to generate money online using technology. Then, on Sunday I would record and produce the 8iFY podcast, ta...
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444 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Building a blogging platform is incredibly easy thanks to WordPress 3.0's Multi-Site feature. I'm using this feature to power my corporate podcasting platform (work in progress).
I wanted to be able to offer my clients a bunch of unique themes to choose from, but wasn't happy with any of the "free" themes available in the WordPress Theme Directory. After digging around I stumbled on Elegant Themes, a subscription based model for 55+ amazing looking WordPress themes.
For $39 a year, y...
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457 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Here are 10 of my favorite business books I read in 2010.
Flash Foresight by Daniel Burrus and John Mann
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
Multipliers by Greg McKeown and Liz Wiseman
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The Referral Engine by John Jantsch
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The Risk Takers by Don Martin and Renee Martin
Buy the B...
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465 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
eBooks might seem passé, but I assure you they are a great way to get more sign ups for your mailing list, to drive traffic to affiliate links or drive more people to your website.
I used my eBook Whore IT Up, as a freebie if people signup for the 8iFY Mailing list. While this book isn't long (only 30 pages or so), it took me about 120 hours to write, edit, design and bundle. Since I value my time at $200 an hour, Whore IT Up ultimately cost me around $24,000 to produce, and while it h...
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466 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
![Make money online with a targeted Marketplace [wordpress]](http://8ify.com/wp-content/themes/8ify3/timthumb.php?src=http://8ify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/marketplace-forms.png&w=100&h=100&zc=1&cropfrom=)
In my never ending quest to generate cash from this blog, I decided to build a marketplace where individuals and companies could actively promote their goods and services for a small fee. So far the results are looking very promising. In addition to allowing people to place ads in the marketplace, I also will give away free ads to help promote friends, or in exchange for discounted or free products. I also include a free spot in the marketplace for all of the 8IFY Podcast sponsors.
Here are t...
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473 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
MarsEdit is an amazing Mac App that takes your WordPress writing and publishing, out of the browser. It also works with Tumblr, Hosted Wordpress.com and a bunch of other publishing platforms.
Why would you want to write posts outside of WordPress' interface? Well here are just a few of the reasons I use it exclusively:
Copy and Paste Images directly in to posts and the images are automatically uploaded.
This is great for taking partial screenshots using the Command + Shift + 4 techn...
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481 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Today's interview is with WordPress aficionado Dre Armeda. Dre is the founder of Sucuri, a website security monitoring service and CubicTwo an enterprise WordPress development shop in San Diego. You can find him on Linked, Twitter and his personal blog at Dre.im.
Dre also co-found WPVibe a resource blog for everything WordPress. Dre is a proud WordPress contributor and is coordinating efforts for the first ever WordCamp San Diego, coming summer of 2011.
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499 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
What's an Evil Automated Zombie Blog? Glad you asked! It's when you leverage RSS feeds to automatically create blog posts from other blogs and news sources. These sites are good for generating traffic from Google, and can run without you every having to create a single real blog post. After a short period of time, your blog will amass a large number of posts around a given topic; the very thing Google bots like to gobble up.
WARNING: These types of mindless zombie websites are considered evil...
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501 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
When people see that a blog post has a lot of comments, they naturally assume that the post is valuable - regardless of it's true value. If a blog post has 0 comments, then what does that say? It might be pretty obvious that comments are a great way to help your readers become more engaged with your blog, but what might not be as obvious is how to make that happen. In this post I will share some of the tactics I am employing in hopes to increase 8ify.com's comments; I hope that you will c...
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506 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Do you know how to design a WordPress Themes, or know someone that does? This technique is a great way to generate anywhere between $500 and $4,500 a pop without having to deal with too much client BS.
There are a lot of businesses that use WordPress for their corporate sites. Most of them either are using a premium wordpress theme, or a custom built one. These businesses are ripe for the picking, and can be easily sold if presented with a design before they have to buy.
Step 1. Find a...
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513 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
MailChimp is by far my favorite email management platform. Not only are they funny, their interface is super clean, super friendly, and best of all THEY OFFER FREE email marketing for a list of up-to 1,000 members and 6,000 emails a month. So quit wasting time and signup for a free account - so we can get along with this tutorial.
Create a MailChimp "Sign-up for my newsletter" Widget
1. Sign up and Login to the Dashboard.
2. Click the "Lists" tab, and then click the "create new list" bu...
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516 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Many people think that because WordPress is released under the GPL License, that you can't make money from WordPress Plugins - this is actually not true at all. The only limitation you have with WordPress Plugins is that you can't distribute WordPress with your plugin, which you would never actually do anyways. So you're free to create a plugin under any Software License you wish, pretty cool huh? Now, for the record, you're plugin isn't allowed to be submitted to WordPress' plugin directory...
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