As you may know I’m taking part in Aaron abbers fulltilt blogging mentoring program, maybe some of have decided to do the same? Be nice to know if any of you are following along with Aaron and his mentoring program.

So I figured I give an update of what has been covered so far.

As a recap for those of you who have missed it, when go to his home page you’ll see a subscription box that offers you an e-book how to retire on two hundred visitors a day I’m not sure if you are aware of this but this is what is known as the magic number in the make money blogging world there’s been alot of talk about the 200 hundered visitors a day idea but I havent seen it really laid out in detail about how to do it until I grabbed this e-book. It’s free and all you have to do is subscribe to his mailing list to recieve it.

Don’t worry Aaron is’nt one of those idiots that entices you to sign up then bombards you with crap offers.

Once you sign up for his mentoring program he’ll send you a link to a webinar every monday evening, the usual time is 7 pm and there he reveals some very good blogging techniques to help you make money. Again I’ve paid for other mentoring programs and despite the fact that this is free it is definately one of the Best mentoring programs ive been part of.

Week ones content went like this:

How to Set Up, Start and Run an Online Business Capable of Earning You $100,000.00 per year or
more.
• Experience in Each Facet of the Business
• Limited but Necessary Technical Information
• Over $1,000.00 in Resources

My Commitment to You:
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something Illegal or Immoral
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something You Have Not Been Trained to Do

You’re given very easy to do and easy to follow instructions so it is perfect for those of you just getting started in your blogging business

An overview of Online Business
• How to Generate Subscribers
• Understand Comment Marketing
• How to Create an eBook

An Overview of Online Business
How an online business makes money , Basic Parts of an Online Business
1. Traffic Generation
2. Lead Capture
3. Sales Message
4. Customer Follow-Up.

Then you’re shown how to get you’re own affiliate id for his affiliate program.

“I Do Things Differently When an affiliate sends me a visitor, I do my best to capture that visitor as a lead
and…I add your affiliate ID to the subscription.”

In other words what he is going to show how to do is what is known as lead blogging and I know for a fact that no other blogger is actually doing this or showing you how to do this with make money with blogs this way.

A big problem you will have with Getting RSS and newsletter subscribers is that many of your newsletter subscribers don’t confirm their subscription which leads to problems.

Aaron gives away an excellent script that you can put to use immediately to ensure that your subscribers are confirming their subscription so you can make sure you message is reaching everyone on your list.

Put this strategy to work and you’ll increase not only the number of subscribers but the number of confirmed subscribers as well!

As part of the blog mentoring program you’re given RSS tip and tricks an e-book thay shows you how to use a plug-in to: use your RSS feed to to make money blogging it allows you to promote your own product or an affilite product and all of things mentioned below.

Because I am part of the mentoring program I am allowed to give this RSS tips and tricks e-book away to you.

Some Ways to Use Your Improved RSS Feed
In addition to using Better Feed to offer your subscribers a free download, here are some other ways you can use it:
• Provide a password for a protected post on your blog
• Provide access to a free seminar only for subscribers
• Ask subscribers to participate in a survey
• Ask for help for a particular promotion without making your
request public on your blog
• Create an “affiliates only” feed so non-affiliates can’t “listen in.”
• Offer a daily download with a different link each day to increase
daily readership
• Offer a daily tip only to your RSS readers
• Create a cartoon or video that can only be viewed by subscribers
• Allow premium content for paying subscribers
• Offer ads in the RSS feed that don’t appear on your site
• Create a list of affiliate links at the base of your feed (or, if you’re
slick, in the midst of your articles)
• Add Google Adsense ads to your feed

Week 3 of the mentoring program also covered The infrastructure of your blogging business.

The infrastructure segment shows you:

That you You need:
• Products to sell
• A Way to Take Money
• A Working Sales Process
• Ways to Collect Leads
• Sources of Traffic

as well as the right way to choose a niche market which covers

• how to find JV partners in your blog niche market.
• Doing keyword research to find these partners and what problems those in your niche are trying to solves.

Both of these are very key and important factors that will determine your success or failure as a blogger. All of the webinars also come with MP3 files and PDF’s for you to refer to later.

Again as I mentioned it’s all free and as you follow along you’ll be gaining subscribers and given the opportunity to make money blogging with Aarons mentoring program

Week 4 begins tomorrow and I’ll be back with a recap of that for you.

Every blog needs massive RSS subscribers and Feedapalooza is going to help you do this. I’m a week late to this party on Feedapalooza it’s an RSS appreciation week that runs until the 15th of May. Feedapalooza is being hosted by Aaron Abber from Fulltiltblogging.com

Feedapalooza is different from most other RSS appreciation days in that it is actually run on a wordpress blog.

When you sign up you’re given log in information which allows you to create a post.

• describing yourself,
• blog
• and allowing you to add links back to your blog and asking thise who visit your feedapalooza post to sign up for your RSS feed, and or newsletter.

So this awesome service lets you do a bunch of things

firstly it is a promotional item for your RSS feed but it also gets you baclinks to your blog or website.

But thats not all.

One of the more popular ways to gain more RSS subscribers is by offering an incentive to your blog visitors to subscribe to your newsletter. That could be by giving away an e-book, software, Wordpress blog theme, or what ever it is you wanto use to entice visitors to Subscribe to your RSS feed or newsletter.

Feedapalooza allows you to do all this when you write your RSS feed post.

Here’s how it works:

You sign up to be a FeedaPALOOZA sponsor and create a sponsor page. Your sponsor page describes your blog and offers some free gift for signing up for either your RSS feed or email list.

Between May 1st and May 15th dozens of bloggers–even some of the top name bloggers–will tell their readers about FeedaPALOOZA. Those readers will visit this site and be prompted to visit your sponsor page. If they like what you have to offer, they’ll sign up to your RSS feed or email list.

Because there will be tens of thousands of people visiting, it’s likely you will receive hundreds (if not thousands) of new RSS or email subscribers by May 15th.

Ok so what if you don’t have anything to offer as a give away, EASY, just include a bunch of your more popular posts. Maybe you have wriiten a series of posts, include links to them. The opportunites are really endless.

go sign up for feedapalooza and get yourself some more RSS subscribers.

I have a question for you my current feed readers and for my future feed readers.

Do you prefer a full or partial feed for this blog.?

The reason I ask is because I want to be able to give you more of what you want and if that’s a full RSS feed then that’s what you’ll get, or do you even care. I personally dont care I subscribe to few blogs that dont use full feeds and it doesnt bother me in the least. I read the caption and or first few lines they have as their feed and if I want to continue reading I will click through.

Secondly I am having all sorts of problems with getting a full feed from Feed Burner. I have the full text feed plug-in and it doesn’t seem to have any effect. So anyone with a fix please do lend a helping hand because I could use it. I’m not sure if it is because I am redirecting my feed from this blog to feed burner or if its the more tag thing, which isn’t being handled by the full text feed plug-in, or if it is my feed settings on feed burner.

there has in the past been some debate over the full or partial feed topic. here’s some links for you to read and make your decision.

Problogger: Full or partial feed debate

I ultimately blog because I want to communicate something and I want people to read my content. As a result I think full feeds are great as they put all my content into anyone’s hands who wants itI’m sick and tired of finding others publishing my feeds in full - quite often with no attribution to me as an author and quite often with no link back. Partial feeds solve this problem - at least ‘partially’

Scobleizer : Blog herald doesnt understand why full text feeds work

So, let’s get to it: what are my views?

1) That I won’t subscribe to any feed that isn’t full text. Well, except for my brother’s blog.
2) That treating RSS readers well will get you more Web browser readers.
3) That full-text sites will be more profitable because of this than partial-text sites.

Feed burner blog: Ricks rumination full feeds

First of all, I think the primary justification often given for partial feeds - that it will drive higher clickthroughs back to the publisher’s site - is off-base. As people subscribe to feeds, they subscribe to more feeds. And that means they’re consuming more content, which means that each click out of the feed reader is taking the reader away from more content. In other words, feed reading is consumption-oriented, not transactionally focused. We’ve seen no evidence that excerpts on their own drive higher clickthroughs.

SO should I figure out how to get you a full feed or just leave it as is, partial feed?