Aack! Missing Sunday once again!? I can explain. Sunday, I was a day late because of “Jimvesting’s Fight to End Poverty” contest that I am going to be running this month sponsored by Motive Interactive. However, over the past two days I was out-of-state at a conference in Washington D.C. But enough excuses, I am getting back into action this week… and going way way back to LAST week to run down some of the best posts for the week ending January 31, 2008:
- Tips From a Network Marketer – Are You an Effective or Defective List-Builder?
- Blogsessive – Use the AIDA Model to Sell Your Blog Posts
- SEO Revolution – Directory Update
- Winning The Web – How to Create Information Products that Sell
- Enkay Blog – Hiatus Vs. Selling Your Blog
We had some cool stuff come out this week, and one of my favorites was about selling your blog from Tips From a Network Marketer… who I believe is a first-timer here. Blogsessive talks about really structuring blog posts so that they SELL to the consumer. SEO Revolution put together quite the list of blog directories that is useful for anyone looking to boost Google rankings. Winning The Web talks about making info products that sell like hotcakes on the online market. Finally, Enkay get’s back to blogging… talking about taking a “hiatus” or cutting loose altogether.
Stock Market Update
Last week on the markets wasn’t much different from the general trend we have gotten used to seeing. Another period of “no news is good news” as more and more economic indicators came out negatively. One interesting tidbit was that 4th Quarter 2008 GDP for the United States fell off 3.8%, which was much better then the consensus 5.4% to the downside that was predicted. Other than GDP, the rest of the news was largely bad and didn’t help as the market fell considerably on the week.
We started out the new week to the upside, rallying 1.78% on the Dow Jones for no apparent reason. There is a lot of unease about the latest Barack Obama stimulus plan. After the nation rallied behind a president 
who promised to fuel our economy with massive spending plans in places like road infrastructure, electric grid reform and transportation efficiencies… we haven’t seen much more than bloated stimulus packages that target all the wrong areas (or so we think) and are being held very unpopular in legislature.
Blogosphere Update
Have you noticed pages loading faster around here? Well I made one of the craziest mistakes ever, and fixing it has jump-started my blogs speediness. The old Revver WordPress plugin that I had installed (and never used, because it is terrible) was really causing major slowdowns on my blog. This alone added around 5 seconds to the load time of the blog… which is a major no-no. After disabling and removing the plugin… it was still loading up with the website even though there was no visible code in the WordPress files. SO, I ended up manually going into my server and deleting the files… and now, problem fixed! 
My good friend Ben Patton from Big Ben Patton has gotten back to blogging after an extended hiatus from the sport. Hop on over to his blog if you can, and show him some support! Make sure to check out “Jimvesting’s Fight to End Poverty” contest that I am going to be running this month sponsored by Motive Interactive. It’s going to be a very exciting competition, and I have decided to donate everything to Covenant House for solving the problem of poverty in America. If you are an affiliate looking to win some big prizes and feel good doing it… this is your win-win situation!
Interested in the stock market? Check out the exclusive offer that I have made for a package from a partner company of mine that has released an extensive report for the best stocks of 2009. This week, I am going to be looking to post about starting your own business. Additionally, I am going to hope to discuss my method for scoring top-placements in Google keyword SERPs. Finally, on Friday I have the exclusive report going out to everyone that has fulfilled the requirements as stipulated.
-Jimvesting
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Thanks for the link love… I certainly appreciate it.
It is good to see that others have lives who are just as crazy as mine.
Thanx 4 the wonderful posts…
good 2 see dat even bloggers thought dat thy hve lives…
Thanks for the love Jim it is most appreciated.
Thanks Jim, I just realized that I did not visit Enkay since long. Good you reminded!
Some really cool blogs you got there in the mid-week link love. I really liked what Enkay had to say. About the stock markets we need to wait some time before we see some return on investments.
Like Ben, I too am revamping my blog after about 3 months of not doing much with it.
I am running a competition to win a Flip Mino HD. Really easy to enter and I am posting twice per day now, which is fun
Its great to see that you fixed the load time, who would of thought that it was because of a plugin, that you werent even using
Hi Jim,
Great info from Jen. I am too have a business but never dare to show too much of my business in my blog, now I will follow some of the tips from Jen.
Thanks Jen for your info. I had an error in your site when I tried to leave you a comment, dont know what happened.
Thanks jim for the link love. I absolutely love reading the content that you provide for your readers.
Good Link Love Jim. I wonder how you find these posts? do you spend a lot of time in searching for good posts.?
I like when people spent time on such link love. Thanks
If you remove all the plugins from your blog, you will notice that your blog load times would be only mere seconds
When I started bloggin-ads, I had like 20 plugins, but lowered it to about 11. It really helps!
-Mike
It is really nice for you to have the blog updated to save the time to be more productive and busy.I see live a speedy life and quite satisfied with it.That’ great!It is very kind of you to introduce BigBenPatton !Going to check it out.
Hey dude,
Very informative post.Focusing only on your blog. Participate in the blogsphere visit other blogs and comment. It will help build your following. Once your blog is up and running, you can link it to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles.
Wow! this idea will be famous that link love & blogsphere. I think this is real time to do it and you can it.