Smart Passive Income #275 - Use the Force, Pat ...

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Today's (September 2010) guest post by James Tayo - his blog seems to be no more - provides hints on how to make people click on your links ...

It starts with a personal story - how English people cannot resist reading stories about the Royal family ... and immediately provides the big secret:

Use incomplete headlines

People are nosy, and will not be able to resist finding out what's behind that headline ... we simply want the complete story ... click ...

... James provides a link ... which does not exist anymore ... which is creating even more suspense ;)

Nevertheless, he names some of the headline examples from that non-existing page:

• "The Secret of Making People Like You" ... of course we like to uncover secrets ...
• "A Little Mistake That Cost a Farmer $3,000 a year" ... it seems that the combination little with a "high" sum creates the magic ... but don't we like to read about the mistakes of other people, too?
• "Why some People Almost Always Make Money in the Stock Market" ... again a secret to uncover combined with a sprinkle of jealousy ...

... and he wouldn't be a great marketer, wouldn't he finish with a call to action: Come up with a headline for this post using the described principles!

Smart Passive Income #236 - Case Studies are the Best

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In his guest post Chris Guthrie praises case studies as the perfect blog content:

• they are unique ... at least if you did not copy them ...
• simple to write ... ??? ...
• ... and provide that bit of personal information we grave to hear ...

Smart Passive Income #224 & #225 - Magic Bullet & 10 Secrets on Working at Home

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Another guest post, this time by Glen Allsopp. There is no other magic bullet, but YOU. Meaning, don't look out there for hidden secrets, just do it ...

... and Pat shares ten secrets on working from home:

• eat a good breakfast, ... because breakfast is king ...
• exercise regularly, ... yeah we know that one, and hardly follow it ...
• take breaks, ... see above ...
• don't check your email with your phone, ... agreed ...
• use natural sunlight and good lighting conditions, ... ok ...
• use good ventilation, ... don't wither in your own smell ;) ...
• get dressed ... we had that one recently ...
• get a good chair ... I guess that means working in your bed is out of the question ...
• enjoy what you are doing ... well, yes ...
• get enough sleep ... good night ...

Smart Passive Income #217 & #218 - Facebook & Benefits vs Features

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Pat praises Facebook ... nothing more to say there ...

Daniel Scocco explains why benefits sell and features don't ... because people do not care about the features of your product, they care about how your product helps them solve their problems ...

Smart Passive Income #215 & #216 - Video & Little Known Ways to Boost your Blog

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... a video about smart passive income that I am boycotting out of pure principle ... come on Pat, you don't post those because they are the best way of communicating your ideas, but because it helps your SEO ...

... and Kim Roach shares "little known ways" to boost your blog ...

She starts ... and we know that one already ... by sharing personal information: She just finished her Starbucks Doubleshot ... I wonder why there is no affiliate link to Starbucks ... just you know, I just finished my regular coffee. I guess I am not that fancy ...

Kim's tips:

• Convert individual posts of your blog into ebooks and post them on free ebook sites ... well, don't know about that ...
• Build a social community ... good one ... 
• Create content for other people membership sites or products ... referring back to your own blog ... which Kim calls that content integration marketing ... sneaky one ...
• Focus on newsletter subscribers instead of RSS feed subscribers ... and swap adds with other bloggers ... 
• Produce value content ... a really new one ...

Kim's blog is still alive and active ... the links of her guest post aren't ... could be the described concepts are not that valid any more ... after four years ...

Smart Passive Income #213 - Smart Active Income

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Maren Kate introduces in her guest post a new concept to Pat's blog:

Smart Active Income

Remember passive income is creating a product once, automating it's monetization process, and making money without further intervention (hence passive).

The general problem with active income is that there is only a limited amount of time where you can produce actively income ... In her concept, Maren overcomes that limitation by delegation. Once you reached your limit, delegate, outsource, and rise to success ...


Unfortunately Maren's blog seems dead ... Her last blog post was in September 2012 ... The front page shows error messages ... Individual articles are not accessible ...

Hopefully the reason is that Maren became so incredibly successful that just abandoned her blog for greater glory!

Smart Passive Income #198 - Guest post on Consistancy

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Another guest post, this time from the actor Michael-John Wolfe who became a blogger. He writes how acting is a kind of passive income, as you get payed in "residuals and royalties". That's also what is blog is called ... his guest entry contains a lot of personal information ... and stresses how important it is to be consistent as blogger. It seems he followed a similar approach Pat did. Posting monthly income reports ... which do not reach Pat's levels ... and he seemed to have stopped in 2010 ... so hopefully he is well ...

Smart Passive Income #193 & # 194 - Guest Post & Tips

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... a guest post from Jackie Beck, on what can go wrong, and what to do instead ...


... and Pat has another ten tips on how to improve your blog/site/business:

• Re-Evaluate your goals
• Check your homepage like you would visit it for the first time.
• Check for crawl errors in your logs or with Google's Webmaster Tools.
• Grade your website (using a tool which does not exist any more ;) )
• Ask questions.
• Shoot a video.
• Thank your customers/subscribers/readers.
• Test, test, test, ...
• Turn off distractions.
• Follow up with your audience (duplicate?)

Smart Passive Income #56 to #65 - Guest Posts - Honeymoon, Growing Lawn, Geek & Passion, Passive Income from Passive Income, Dreams, eHow & Referral Links, Master Strategy, more eHow, Real Estate, Content Sites

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It's February 2009 on Smart Passive Income, Pat is on his Honeymoon and wrote a guest post on another blog (which seems quite dead in 2013). Nevertheless writing guest posts on other blogs is a nice way to increase your own web traffic ...

In return a guest post appears on Pat's blog ... which is about "growing a new lawn" and does not really have to do anything with passive income ... I might be wrong ;)

Another guest post could be about passive income - again I might have interpreted that post the wrong way. It address being a geek and passion, and how talking about that can end up in passive income ... 

Yet another guest post explains on how you get even more passive income from your passive income ... namely decreasing your tax on your income and how increasing interest (which is again passive income) ...

... how to turn dreams into passive income ... actually more dreams than howto ...

... another article explains how you can earn money from an eHow article even if that very same article on eHow only makes a couple of cents. The idea here is that you put referral links to products into your article ...

... the strategy of another poster combining blogs, ebooks and informational products on personal finances seems not to have paid off ... the site is down ...

... same with the get organized with with eHow articles ...

... another idea is about passive income in the real-estate business by generating income through relationships. The site is up and running, last blog entry about a year ago ...

... and finally an entry about writing articles for content sites (like eHow) ...


In summery nine guest posts, four of the referred sites are still active!