This is something funny that happens over and over again.

People ask me basic questions like:

• What should I blog about?
• How do I do affiliate marketing?
• How do I sell a product or service?
• How do I get paid?
• What products do you sell?
• How much do you get paid?

On good days, I give them the secret answer.

On bad days:

one word.

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

It is frustrating to be asked the same questions over and over again.

Here’s the secret answer.

Would you like to know?

Read my blog.

Not just the last 2 posts, or even the last 5 posts.

If you want the inside scoop, there’s a whole treasure trove of info here.

More than 200 hundred hours have gone into this blog on topics from:

• blog design (ok, not that fantastic)
• planning topics
• selecting images and graphics
• optimal adsense placements
• affiliate marketing campaign planning

Almost all the information you need is here.

Want to see how much I’ve improved?

Look at the earliest post possible.

Then look at the most recent one.

Spot the differences?

Emulate them. (If you blatantly copy, it’s copyright violation).

Adapt them to your blog.

If you spend time reading all 120 posts that’ve gone up since mid July, you’ll have an idea how to progressively grow your own blog too.

Spend time studying.

Look at the different styles.

Besides looking at my blog, you might also like to visit:

• Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.Net
• Shoemoney (ye old earner of $132,000-ish in Sept 2005 from Google)
• Jason’s Off the Top of My Head entrepreneur blog (check out his Adsense Reinstatement Guide)
• Gobala Krishnan

If you somehow finish reading everything in there (I’d expect you’d taken 2 weeks to read every post).

You can move on to reading some forums like:

• DigitalPoint (Internet Marketing)
• DomainSocial (Domain valuation and auction)
• DigitalKeiretsu (Blogging and Affiliate Marketing)

And as you finish all that, you’ll no doubt become more familiar with some of the cutting edge Internet Marketing techniques.

Although I think for newbies the easier step would be to invest in a copy of:

• Secret Blog Weapon and
• Ultimate Affiliate Weapon

To get a grounding in blogging (specifically in SEO-optimized WordPress blogging and Affiliate Marketing).

If your budget allows, consider Affiliate Project X and Web Advertising Secrets (a real gem!) too.

What do you think?