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When you’re getting ready to start your own blog, there are a lot of questions to answer and plans to be made. One of the most important decisions you’ll make is which blogging site to use for your blog. Everyone has his or her favorite, so you’ll hear a different opinion from everyone you meet.

Mine is WordPress, like the blog you see here.

But you need to find the blogging site that will work best for you and best suit your needs. Let’s look at some of the most popular blogging sites available today and check out their pros and cons.

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If you own a blog for your business, one of the best ways you can monetize it, or boost revenue, is to use PLR content. You can find many types of PLR material being offered, and some of it’s perfect for use on your blog.

Almost any topic you can think of has some type of PLR content already made for inclusion on your blog. There are several ways that you can go about using the PLR content, but the one way NOT to use it is to stick it up on your blog just as you receive it.

You’ll need to make certain adjustments, or even rip it all apart and put it back together again. Does that sound too complicated?  Well, truthfully, it isn’t hard to do at all, and you’ll probably be surprised at how quickly it can be done.

You can purchase PLR articles and use them for content, after an initial amount of rewriting is done. Some people only change about 30% of the content, while I prefer to use the PLR content as more of a research tool.

Rewriting the articles doesn’t take very long, and they can be a great catalyst to break you out of writer’s block very quickly. After you have changed the articles, you can do one of several things:

1.) You can set them up to auto post to your blog, giving you extra content on a regular basis

2.) You can create a free report to give away as a subscriber freebie

3.) You can add a few more finishing touches to create a product for sale from your blog. By adding a few graphics and fleshing out the content you can have a new product up and running fairly quickly. Throw in a professional eBook cover and offer resale rights, and your product could fly off the digital bookshelf at a surprising rate!

Something that’s particularly hot in the IM industry now is video. By creating videos using the PLR content you buy, you can either put it on your site as a paid member’s only section, or offer the PLR rights to the videos.

If you’re a bit unsure about the video, then you can also recreate the PLR content as audio content. Creating PLR content for download into the iPod and personal MP3 players is a great way to get people to your blog, and you can also make it available as paid content.

People are already accustomed to paying for audio downloads, so they should have no qualms paying for yours. Using PLR content on your blog is a great way to not only attract visitors, but to feed the loyal visitors that you already have.

You can make PLR work for you, and boost your blog’s income. It’s all in using the PLR that’s readily available, and putting your own touches on it to make it unique. You can find Private Label Rights articles, report, and autoresponders for all kinds of niche markets on PLRMiniMart.com at about $1 a page.

Two things you’ll want to check out:

1.) Lewis (my business partner from BuildMyLens.com) and I launched a tips blog for social marketing on Hub Pages: http://www.hubpagespro.com/blog/.

2.) I’m really excited about this: http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=245958

Nobody else is doing this that I know of. It’s a self promoting, affiliate marketing, AdSense revenue wielding thingymajigger. Everyone will want one. Few will be fortunate to get it. Well in this case, only ONE marketer will get it. lol But few for future ones.

Thoughts? Opinions? Gripes? Compliments? Spill it….

Tiff