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Hello to all!

Okay, you are going to start a blog that hopefully is going to make you some money. What do you want your blog to look like? You want all the bells and whistles first-up? Of course. Everyone does, so if mine is very plain then I won't be able to compete with the big boys.

Not necessarily so. Again, most anyone who has wanted to make some money has had to start at the bottom. That's the whole thing in a nutshell. In my opinion, get the blog up and running before you do anything at all. After all, if you have good content and, even better, something to interest people in buying, hopefully related to your content, and, above all, your blog is easy to move around, that should be all you need for a start.

   Many people decide to set up their blog as though it is going to be perfect, and have everything on it. this often gives a 'busy'appearance and potential readers shy away before they read the first page. Grabbing people by the eyeballs can be hard to do, but you will get their attention if you give them what they want to read. Get them first, by using a knack with words.

All these people who encourage you to spend a fortune 'buying' likes and views are not doing you any good, if you have nothing to keep them. On one of my blogs I simply let it do its own thing. The only thing I did was to feed it content almost every day. I simply like connecting with people and it amazed me. It went from 0 to 350 and still growing in less than 3 months. I do very little with it. Occasionally I throw something out of the box on there, which has nothing to do with its main topic. So anyone can do it. The off-the-map topic proves that I am human, and not a bot or someone who is just interested in money.

I really don't think you should go for the jugular at the first. I know, you have to grab your potential sale as soon as they appear on your page. But if they are only browsing, then they will probably run if it looks too obvious what you are after. You have about seven seconds to get their attention, so make sure your first sentence of the content is compelling. If it is, most readers will follow along to the second one to make sure it is interesting. Don't drag it out, get to your speil soon enough, but make it part of the content. Use your second paragraph to grab by starting to sell there. Make the first sentence intriguing  but honest.. Personally, I don't see what you can get out of  running another product down blatantly, but some sellers do.

My idea of that is it is not playing by the rules. If you think your product is better, then show them by good content that does not simply repeat how bad you think your opposition is. There are rules against this, after all, and it can backfire badly if your client has bought the opposition's first.