After some chatter with some of the members from the Dot Com Lifestyle group I have decided to start a book club.
We’ll be talking about various business, internet marketing, and productivity books. The idea is to read one book per month. Sorry we can’t all be Tai Lopez and “read” one book per day.
We’ll be starting out with one of the first five books I suggested. We’ll put up additional books up for vote each month.
This new blog covers all the basics on how to get started quickly. You should be able to get a blog running in about 30 minutes or less and you can do it all yourself.
You don’t need any prior experience. The tutorial covers how to start a blog using WordPress and how to get started with your first blogpost.
Baker has been coming to the Dot Com Lifestyle meetups for years now. A prolific writer and author, he guides people into a deeper spiritual journey to help them succeed and overcome challenges.
We’ve had our 3rd or 4th Dot Com Coffee meetup now and the past two have been great. Of course I say so because we’ve been talking about my project. The project is the Papidaddy blog, feel free to visit that and learn more about it.
The first meetup 2 weekends ago we talked about how to setup a blog for monetization as is papidaddy.com. Charles Amit covered some of the notes. And I have a few more notes that members sent in but haven’t published yet. Will link those when ready.
This past Saturday we covered how to do a giveaway with Rafflecopter. That’s the tool I’m using to giveaway items and cash prizes to my readers. Here are a few pictures and I’ll add notes as soon as I have them or one of our members submits their notes.
Oh and by the way, in case you missed this during the meeting or you missed the meeting altogether, Rafflecopter has agreed to sponsor three readers of my blog (papidaddy.com) with a full year worth of Rafflecopter. Yes, that means Rafflecopter for free for a year!
Yeah, aren’t you glad you read this blog…?
Coffee Bean has many options
Donuts or Bagels
Always keeping up with the seasons
Great discounts (must have a good marketing team)
Great branding and offers.
Seasonal products. And the Pumpkin Latte is awesome.
This is a short video by John. I hope you join us next time for a Dot Com Lunch. Most Saturdays in Irvine at Pho Bac Co.
Address is: 4250 Barranca Parkway, Irvine.
Ultra Expensive Mic & Helmet Edition.
Dot Com Lifestyle Member Bob Buskirk (bobbuskirk.com) posted a review he did for the Aloft Hotel in Silicon Valley. Here’s an excerpt and a link to the full review.
Last month I had the chance to stay at an Aloft hotel. Aloft is Starwood’s boutique hotel chain. These hotels are actually pretty cool and offer a unique atmosphere. I actually first heard of them when they made a custom playlist for Spotify a year or so ago. Since then I’ve always wanted to check them out. I attended a press event for ThinkComputers and the company put us up at the Aloft Silicon Valley so I was pretty excited. (continue reading…)
We interviewed Josh from Clickbank. We asked him a simple question.
What is Clickbank?
We use Clickbank to promote information products, software, ebooks and other downloadable or virtual products. We use it to sell our own products and we use it to find products we want to promote as affiliates.
Vanesa Rey is awesome and runs VanesaRey.com – She won one of the free tickets to Affiliate Summit and she loved the event.
She also learned a lot and one of the things that she took away was how to join and create an affiliate program. This happened for Affiliate Summit West and she has now launched her affiliate program with some of the highest commissions paid in her niche.
It’s a blog about parenting and about blogging with the purpose of helping people and sharing my life.
But a requirement is for the blog to make money. I have setup some ground rules for the case study but a lot of it has to do with authority.
Just like you may be starting a blog, the Papidaddy project has no authority. Nobody knows “Papidaddy” and nobody has ever seen the blog so for all intents and purposes, I am a nobody.
I must build Authority from scratch for this project so a big part of that is showing you how to do so. One of the lessons I’ll be covering is the one in this video.
Catch these tips that teach you how to become an authority in *ANY* niche. This is how you become the “GO TO Expert” on any topic.
This is another reason to pursue the Dot Com Lifestyle. With the right approach, achieving the Dot Com Lifestyle is one way to be available for your kids (if you have any or plan on having any) all the time. You see, if you don’t raise your kids, chances are that TV will. And that outcome isn’t very promising.
Lionel Castro has been a member of our group for some time now. He’s like a ninja, he moves and exists quietly. Peacefully he enters and leaves the room, but when you least expect it, he is there. Boom. In your face.
Like who would have thought this quiet man was an inventor? Yeah, he invented the Genius Strap. Check it out after the video.
Neary Heng has been in our group for about a year and she’s really driven. She’s determined to make Internet Marketing her highway to retirement at an early age. Instead of having to wait until 65, she wants to retire earlier and not have to be concerned with the financial struggles that come with retirement. Watch her video and get it directly from her:
Dot Com Lifestyle Adventures 