Create a Blog: The first thing you can do to begin your start-up journey is to have a blog. Although having a website is better than having a blog, you can have a blog until you want to have a website. Today, anyone can build a blog easily with the help of Blogger.com or WordPress.com. However, you will want to go with WordPress.com as it offers greater flexibility and more exposure to your blog. If you’re not familiar with how to create a blog using WordPress.com, let’s discuss this in our next post.

Create a PayPal Account: If you want to work with overseas clients, you need to create a PayPal account as most of your potential clients use PayPal to make online payments. For domestic clients, you just need to have a bank account in any leading bank in your country. Usually, they wire the money directly to your account or send pay check to your address. If you have never heard about PayPal, we will help you to create a PayPal account in our next post.

Promote Yourself: If you happen to have a social web presence, you need to exploit it to promote your blog. By web presence, we mean social networking websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You don’t need to spend an eternity promoting your blog to get more attention from the prospective clients. Just stick to a time limit and be regular. We will take up this aspect in detail on our next post.

Write Guest Blog: Guest blogging is another way to promote your blog in a smart fashion. Guest blogging offers your talent a direct exposure to a potential audience that can contact you for their future assignments. There are a lot of guest blogging opportunities for you. A large number of blogs allow you to write a guest post for them. However, you need to be selective about them. To begin with, just write one post per week to manage your time towards other start-up priorities. Similarly, choose to write for a blog that offers you some exposure. There’s no point writing for a blog that doesn’t have many visitors to it. More tips on this on our next post.

Join A Forum: In the age of social web, most people might discount the abilities of forum participation to create opportunities for you; however, joining a forum still helps you to learn and earn at the same time. Participating regularly on a forum makes you a popular name and helps you build some trust amongst the users and potential clients as well. We’ll let you know more about this on our next post.

Being a momtreprenuer requires relentless time management skills and a dedicated plan that helps you balance your family with work life. Everything takes a while to getting used to. Just stick to your plan patiently and you can earn money and satisfaction down the line.

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However, you can’t really write off the benefits of Article Marketing completely as many online marketers still rely on article marketing to drive classified traffic to their websites. Since Google changes its algorithm of weighing the links you generate from various campaigns, it’s extremely vital that you evaluate your online marketing strategies and streamline it from time to time. One of our previous posts offers 5 tips on how you can get more from your Article Marketing drive. Take a look and it may be useful for you.

Guest blogging still remains a potential method of generating valuable back links for your website or blog. Two years ago, I did my very first guest post for Malcom, a very talented copywriter and owner of Gill Media based in Canada. Guest blogging was probably wasn’t as widespread then as it is today.

How to Determine Which Blogs to Guest Blog for?
Although guest blogging is a potential tool to achieve Google-friendly inbound links to your website and establish your authority as a niche blogger, it is not as easy as it sounds. I mean if you want to reap the benefits of guest blogging, you should be targeting popular blogs instead of just any blog out there.

You can do a search on your niche and find out at least 50 best blog sites that have people (read potential traffic) frequenting them every once in a while. Make sure you want to guest blog for those blogs that have a decent traffic coming to it and have a reasonable page rank. You can make a list of blogs you want to request for guest blogging. This is because you want to improve your odds of getting a “yes” from most of them. Given that popular blogs receive more requests than they can handle, you should go that extra mile to improve your chances of being accepted for guest blogging.

Here are a couple of tips that might help your cause:

Proofread to Perfection:
Popular bloggers know the importance of being perfect and hence, they make sure there are no issues with the post prior to publishing. If you want to make the first impression and improve your chances of being well received, make sure you proof read your posts for typos, grammar, syntax, facts and flow of writing. You may have to do little extra effort, but it’s well worth it.

SEO Optimized Posts:
Popular bloggers don’t have the time to optimize your posts – so it leaves you with an opportunity to impress them by doing it at your end and saving them the pains. Use the keywords at proper places and make your posts SEO-friendly. Well-optimized posts bring as many benefits to their blogs as to your website.

SEO Optimized Images:
It’s a no-brainer that posts with relevant and innovative images attract more eyeballs. It is important to consider adding some images to your posts before you send them to the bloggers. Moreover, try optimizing the images with keywords to improve their SEO value and you are more likely to elicit an entrancing response from the bloggers. But, make sure your images are not copyrighted as it might create unwanted issues for your blogger. Worse, you might lose your credibility in stead of gaining it.

Right Format:
Popular bloggers are rather busy writing stuff and hard-pressed for time. Do them a favor by sending your guest posts in a format that help them to post quickly. You may ask them about the proper formatting of your text that might help them to post your blog entries without much hassle. For instance, you can format the headings and sub-headings using proper HTML tags. The bloggers will know that you care about their time and it will improve your chances of being well-received.

What more can you do to boost your chances of being published in your attempt to guest blogging? Any ideas?