To emphasize my point about leaving your .blogspot domain, I’ll start off with a riddle:

A person is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape?

The answer is at the bottom of the post in-case you want to figure it out! However when you are on a .blogspot account for your blog, YOU ARE TRAPPED. The only thing you can do on the blog is write and make money off sponsored posts, however, I bet that you didn’t know that you cannot sell or transfer ownership to anyone else.

When you sign up for a blog, you check the “I agree to the Terms & Conditions”. Seeming as nobody bothers to read them, I’ll pick out the part that says you cannot sell your blog to other interested parties:

7. No Resale of the Service. Unless expressly authorized in writing by Google, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service.

What does this all mean? All the work that you do to build the blog with links, content and readership will either have to be transfered to another blog or not moved during the blog’s life on the internet.

So If you’re at all serious about starting a blog and want TOTAL control over how you want to run it (Perhaps selling it later in the road) - fess up $100 bucks for a domain name and 2 year hosting and see how far that gets you. If you write some good content, you’ll easily recoup those costs in advertising sales and sponsored posts.

Answer To The Riddle: Wait Until Night Falls

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Everyone has seen the promises about unfortold riches by using the new “Reverse Funnel System” (If Not, Look at the advertiser banner above this post). I have recently been questioning these methods that the people use in this program to make money and plan to review them.

Getting Started:

By visiting http://bradmakingmoney.com (Yes, I have a dedicated domain to this program..) you will be forwarded to a website called, “Thousand Dollar Profits” with a little 6 digit number that informs the website which “Seller” gets the credit. You get introduced to the reverse funnel system by the creator, Ty Coughlin and a small audio clip describing how it works. It just turns out that you have to insert your email address and name into the box to receive more information.

What You Get Inside The Email:

A link to confirm your email and the person who is selling the system to you. Although right after you insert your email, you get redirected to the next page which has tons of testimonials about REAL people and their stories. Skimming over a couple I see that they claim to have made $3 million dollars which I find a little hard to believe, but then again, this entire system is based on how well you can refer people to your link - so this could of happened!

Submitting Your Application:

If this looks like you might want to try this, click on the graphic that says “Submit Your Application”. You will then be taken to a page that states everything you will receive in the full program. They clearly state on the website, “You Profit - Or Pay Nothing” and even offers to pay you $150 if you do not achieve Ty’s goal. This guy must either lie a lot or have money bulging out of the bank account to offer such a weird deal. I was chatting to one of the owners of this website and they said that this application fee was to keep the “Free Riders” out of the program, so they can really see who is interested in this program.

Sneak Peak - After The $50 Fee:

Since I really want you to see what this program to do for you, I won’t go into detail about the four different ways this guy and system makes money. They offer large commission rates on everything that you sell which can only benefit you and your financial situation. I will say however that they do use VERY EFFECTIVE methods and have myself very interested.. Who wouldn’t want $1000 Cheques being delivered in the mail? (Woops )

After Thoughts:

This system looks flawless. If it claims to work how they set it out to be, I think everyone should invest the 20 minutes of their time and see how this program could change their lives. I’m certainly glad I did.

The title says it all. Since the release of WWSGD (What Would Seth Godin Do) Plugin, thats what every blog says. Even if the blogs do not use that plugin, it is still usually on the front page, or after every post. My question is: “How effective is asking your visitors to subscribe to your feed, if they like the content?”

If they arrived via Stumbleupon, chances are they will read your article and “Stumble” something right after, completely ignoring your request to subscribe.

If they arrived via Digg, the visitor will read the article, perhaps subscribe for a couple days, then disappear. The main reason why they subscribed however was to see more articles like the ones they saw on the website… More times than not, the content will just thin out. The person will unsubscribe, figuring out that the story that made it on the front page of Digg was a “One Hit Wonder”.

These cruel blogging facts may astonish you, I’m just the first person to actually write a post about it. So what’s the solution?? Modify the message to reflect something on your blog to make it stand out from the average,

“Your New Here, Perhaps you should subscribe to my RSS feed”