Lots going on this week. There will be one more session of the business building series and it will be finished. Look for that mid week. Will be away for a few days after today due to a death in the family. Support and updates may be a bit delayed.

Now to what is hot.

Lucid SEO will be pulling the bonus sessions from their relaunch. The monthly plan makes it affordable and you can easily use this to gain more free traffic to your site.

Firepow has changed the way that niche blogging is done. It can save you a ton of time and has some features you won’t find anywhere else. Niche blogging can be extremely profitable and this will save you time.

Teleseminar Formula from Bob Jenkins is a great free book that will show you how to use the phone to create a product. This is not a cheap giveaway but has real value. If you haven’t grabbed it do it now. Don’t overlook his upgrade as that can really turbo boost your business.

Had a good post yesterday that included my turtles. Yep I have learned a lot from those three cute critters. You can too.

That is all for this week. Have a great weekend.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

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Well here in the US it is Independence Day. Hope if you are here that you are having a great holiday. If you are not I hope you are having a great Friday.

One of the things I look back on at a time like this is how nice it is to be independent from the JOB. One of the ways of creating that independence is building a business from home. Selling in various niches has had a lot to do with accomplishing that.

Using blogs as my primary site builder has allowed me to be in various markets and have them run almost on autopilot. Lets be clear there is effort involved in creating and maintaining these. But…

When I want off I take off. If my children or grand children have something I can attend. Until I left the plastics plant I never was able to get to my brother’s annual pig roast. Seems I was always scheduled for work. Well tomorrow there won’t be a week in review because I will be at…

My brother’s pig roast.

That brings us to the release this week of a new site to speed up the process of creating, improving and maintaining these types of sites – Firepow.

Now I have gotten a lot of questions about this product – many more than I usually get from a recommendation. I have even had people call me on the phone.

So to answer some of those I created a video so you can better understand if this is for you or not. (If you are niche marketing and use blogs the answer is YES

Take a few minutes to view it and leave your comments below.

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This will be a bit of break from the business building series but not really. Yes I know I am talking in circles.

Here’s the scoop.

If you are using a blog in a niche market you need to do all of the following.

• Create the blog with all the plugins so it is search engine friendly
• Add content continuously
• Promote the blog through bookmarking, trackbacks, RSS submissions
• Check your status in the serps for your keywords
• Keep track of where you are on each niche

Now that is a very basic list but that is something called work. Personally, I out source most of that except for the blog install. (I tend to be a bit fussy about those .

Then Firepow launched today and set the whole thing on its ear.

It will automatically install your blog with the plugins and turn them on. (Yes there are a few things you need to tweak afterwards but 98% of it is done automatically. They even give you a checklist of the things you need to do.)

Now as to content I have recommended Blog Desk for that but I had to go in and add my tags, change the title tags, etc before I would publish my blog. Firepow allows me to do all of that at once and set up my content to drip in at a rate I choose. There is even a tool to easily add H1 and H2 tags to your posts.

Once you have set up the bookmarks you can automate that from within the control panel. (I do like automation .While I am adding content I can search from within the control panel and find similar sites to trackback to on that specific topic.

After you install the blog and get content up there you can submit to 40 RSS directories with one click. (Saves at least an hour over manual submission or $60 if you are paying for it.)

There is a section to keep track of your notes so you can control everything from one place. Also do a check on your own ranking in the serps for your keywords and see the top 10 sites that you are competing against easily.

Now if this was all that Firepow did it would be worthwhile but there are 14 custom plugins that were developed just for this platform.

My favorite but far from the only one is the ability to add related videos to the bottom of your post from You Tube. If someone clicks them they open a new page on your site (not send them away to You Tube) so you still have a chance to get Adsense clicks or sell an affiliate product.

This platform does all the time consuming pain in the a## stuff for you so that you can spend more time doing the stuff that pays – Finding profitable niche products and content that pre-sells.

Check out Firepow – You will really love it.

I have added a video walk through of the tutorials at Firepow Review on my blog at WordPress Made Easy.

As always your comments and questions are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

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