Well, in the earlier post I told you that I went from just 6 subscribers to 200+ in 50 days of blogging. And I pretty much gave you out some my METYHODOLOGY. But for the part II of this, you’ll get some serious juice.

Creating a unique blog brand

Blogs telling you how to blog had come to be somewhat of a cliche these days. So I created my own brand of a blog that said more than “creating money online through your blog”. I wanted to do something that people will instantly remember and something would probably make a statement, hopefully with an exclamation mark at the end.

One question - did you see MindBlogger 50 days before this day? Maybe 6 of you have. Since, I only had 6 subscribers to this blog, 50 days before this day. I had 20 unique visitors per day, an average of 0.65 comments per post and a lot of frustration building at my own pace. The reason why I hit so low key was because I had certain things going on in December 2007 and January 2008, that completely forced me to ignore my blog. So, when it was all over, I was left with this blog with 6 subscribers.

It seemed like the right time to give up.

When I visit a new blog, there are a number of things that convinces me to subscribe to it. Off the top of my head, subscriber count, author’s best posts and the comments count. That doesn’t mean if the subscriber count and the comment count is low, I won’t subscribe to it. But rather, especially the comments count assures me that,

• People are genuinely interested in your blog.
• The author encourages and discussion and is willing to get involved with the readers
• The blog is something worth reading and subscribing to.

Are the commentators so important to the growth of your blog? In my opinion, and as an obvious fact, absolutely yes.

When you take a folded newspaper, what do you see first, even before unfolding? Everything that is visible even before the newspaper is unfolded is called “above the fold”. As for the whole purpose of it, something above the fold in the newspaper is to persuade the frequent browser to buy the paper. How many times have you bought the newspaper just looking at the headline? I have to admit. Above the fold marketing, if exploited right, can be really powerful for newspapers and blogs alike. Newspapers, virtually run on above the fold advertising.

So how can we apply the same thing to a blog?

Have you heard of Entrecard? It’s supposed to be your e-business card and as they say, business card 2.0! From the looks of it, one of the most powerful and promising blogger networks emerging - and the best thing is, the business cards they have is not at all capable of being stacked into painful business card organizers!

What is Entrecard?

Entrecard is an exchange network for 125×125 ads. Through this program, you can advertise in other blogs, that you only dreamed was possible. To buy the ad-space, you can use the new non-official currency of the blogosphere - Entrecard credits!