How Do I Earn Online? - Eid Mubarak!

 AskHassam 008: How Do I Earn Online?

Today's question is one of the most common questions that I get which is 'How do I earn with BloggingeHow' to be specific. What income streams I find lucrative and what could you use for your blogs too.

I loved shooting out this episode of AskHassam with my new comfy yellow couch. So without any further due, get some popcorn and enjoy the episode :)

Also, a very happy Eid Mubarak to all of my Muslim brothers and sisters! May Allah Almighty accept the Hajj of anyone among your family or friends who spent these days just for the sake of Allah Almighty.

On this account of Eid ul Adha 2015, I've started a free 75$ giveaway that you guys can take part in and win 75$ InshaAllah. That is like a little gift from me for BloggingeHow family.

Enjoy the episode guys and keep me in your prayers. :)

How To Submit Your Questions?


If you want your question to be featured on next AskHassam episode, use this link below to send me your questions via email (using the contact form on the page)


Watch The Episode - How Do I Earn Online?





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Featureso Thursday, 24 September 2015
How To Add Elegant Music Player To Blogger In 3 Minutes [VIDEO]

How To Add Elegant Music Player To Blogger In 3 Minutes [VIDEO]

Couple of years ago, I posted Add Music To Blogger Blog (blogspot) that was a very simple way to add music to blogger blogs. With a simple embed tags, you could have added a link to the audio file that you want it to get played.

Though, as with the time, we have many more interesting options and very simple to implement music player widgets that you can add to blogger blogs with few clicks.

As shown in the video tutorials below, you  can see how we can utilize cincopa. There are tons and tons of templates for music players available that you can choose from.

All of this is totally free.

What you can do with this Music player widget for Blogger (Blogspot)?


1- Simply upload your own music files
2- Upload multiple music files to make a playlists (optional)
3- Simple code to install it to your blogger blogs.

 Step #1 Go to Cincopa Music Player Widget Gallery


It would ask you to signup. It's a one time process. Simply do that to get access to the next step. There are many other options out there to add music to blogger blogspot blogs, though this one is pretty powerful. As it allows you to upload your music files to its server and makes a playlist for this if you want.

You don't first have to host your music to some other place and then add link to the music player, like in our last example.

Step #2 Choose your theme


There are many music player widget themes to choose from. Once you've selected your desired template, simple hit 'Use This Skin' and then hit >> 'Use These Settings'

Step #3 Now it would ask you to make an account.


Hit Signup via Facebook or another social profiles that you want to speed up the process.

Once that's done,

Step #4 Upload Media and Switch Toggles


This is the step we were waiting for. You can now upload your desired audio play back that you want to be played once your blog loads. Once that's done, hit 'Galleries' >> Settings >> And switch the toggles such  as 'Auto Play' etc.

upload your own music file cincopa

(This is all demonstrated in the video tutorial)

changing toggles cincopa

Step #5 Implement the Code


Once every thing is finalized, you're just left with installing the code. Follow the Video tutorial for that. You just have to add an HTML/JavaScript gadget in the sidebar or where ever you want the music player widget to appear on your blogspot blog.

Hope this was helpful. Watch the video tutorial attached to get the entire screen cast and step by step instruction to do it in under 3 minutes.

Watch Video Tutorial




Featureso Monday, 21 September 2015
75$ Instant Cash + TShirt [Eid ul Adha GIVEAWAY]

 75$ Instant Cash + TShirt [Birthday GIVEAWAY]

As-Salaam-Alaikum BloggingeHow family! I hope you guys are doing great. As I promised, we're here once again with an exciting giveaway. This time it's Eid ul Adha giveaway. Eid ul Adha is a celebration for all muslims and is among the 2 Eid's that muslims celebrate.

This giveaway starts around Eid ul Adha and the winners will be announced around my birthday i.e on 26th October InshaAllah.

This time, our participants would be having more time to enroll and compete for the first position as many of you regretted that you found out very late about the giveaway and didn't had a chance due to late entries.

I hope this giveaway would give more opportunity to my brothers and sisters in BloggingeHow family.

In the last giveaway that ran on 6th September, we received tons of cute comments, that were totally flattering. Our last time winner was Michelle Li.

Below is how you can participate and win 75$ quick bonus cash and BloggingeHow's customized 'Chasing Da Dreams' TShirt

Complete the entries below using the widget. The more entries you'll have, the higher your chances are to win.

How The Winners Will Be Selected?


I'll choose 2 winner this time InshaAllah based on the number of entries. The one with highest entries will be rewarded with 75$ cash (Either via Paypal or any other medium suitable)! So make sure you try to get as many entries as you can using the widget below.

Money Prize?

  •  Award to Winner: 75$ (First Place)
  • BloggingeHow's 'Chasing Da Dreams' custom TShirt - Local Shipping in Pakistan only :)

Prize money would be transferred to winner's Paypal accounts/or via another medium suitable.  Though if one of our readers is from Pakistan and doesn't have a Paypal account, we could transfer the prize money to their respective bank accounts.

I want you to win!



If you don't have Paypal Account?


If you don't have a Paypal account and you're from Pakistan, we can transfer the money prize to your bank accounts directly or via another medium suitable. (Bank transfer, Easy Paisa, Western Union etc)

What is Required from You?


1. Comment Below and let me Know these 3 things in the order:
  • How did you find this Giveaway (via social media or you're a follower of Bloggingehow)
  • Why You Want To Win? How Would You Spend the Gift?
2. To have better chances to win the Giveaway, you have to get multiple entries via Widget below. Come back daily and earn more points.


When Will The Winner Be Announced? 


I'll announce the winner on 26th October InshaAllah!

Enter In The Giveaway Using The Widget Below:



75$ Instant Cash + TShirt Giveaway!


Now you may like to watch our last time giveaway winner: Michelle Li, Winner of our Last month's Giveaway

Featureso Sunday, 20 September 2015
How I Multiplied 250$ Into 11,000$ In 1.5 Years! Power Of Investing In a Blog

How I Multiplied 250$ Into 11,000$ In 1.5 Years!

Note: This is the post that I shared a while back, though I believe it's quite motivating for our brothers and sisters that they should take their blogs seriously. Never hesitate to invest in it as investment done right can yield great results.

Blogging can be extremely lucrative when done consistently while providing quality to the readers and meeting the demand of your target audience.

This is a short motivational video for all of my fellows out there who are into blogging or are willing to and making up their minds to start up.

I started actively investing back into BloggingeHow roughly year and a half ago when I first signed up for AWeber and you should too.Read this post: 6 Reasons to Get Started With Aweber - You'd Be Foolish Otherwise.



AWeber, is the leading email marketing tool out there which helps you create your email list. With such great tools available, we just need to make our minds and gather our motivation to get started.

Though, not doubt it was a tough decision for me to start paying 19$ to AWeber every single month, and I had to shutdown my account once as I wasn't able to pay the recurring payments xD.

Though later, I came back with a bang and never looked back Alhumdulilah.

Email marketing is crucial when it comes to strengthen your roots online. With a strong email list with targeted audience, you rarely feel threatened by Google algorithm updates that could knock you down the furthest end of Google pagination.


2 Key Investments - Still Proud


Right from the start, I took BloggingeHow as a brand and a business in it's own sense. This helped me gather my energy and resources to invest back into it for long term gains. I had about 250$ (25000 Rs/- ) which I saved for 4-5 years span.

Spending it on a blog, with no returns promised wasn't an easy job I would say. Though, I strongly believe that hardwork and prayers pay off.

This is a little post for my fellow bloggers out there who remain hesitant on investing into their blogs, may that be in the form of a premium paid domain name, a hosting plan, an email marketing tool, a CDN (Content delivery network) service etc.

It can be anything that could help you make your blog a better place.

My 2 most valuable investments on BloggingeHow were to get help of my co-authors to create high quality content for the blog, as time is money. The more frequently could one publish content that their audience would be looking for, the faster you could expect to reach your goals.

Secondly it was signing up with AWeber as I mentioned before.

I hope that encourages my brothers and sisters out there to look forward to their blogs as an online business no matter what niche you're in. It's all about the mentality.

Stay blessed and remain thirsty to achieve your dreams.

SEE ALSO: How to Migrate from Feedburner to Aweber Seamlessly

Featureso Thursday, 17 September 2015
35 Great Looking Website Header Designs

35 Great Looking Website Header Designs

Note: This post was published quite a while back. Many of these websites don't have the same designs as shown, though a lot of them have even better designs. Enjoy! :)

 Yesterday i shared 30 Top Blog Footer Designs and indeed they were inspiring. Many of them were out of the box designs. So today we will be talking a look at best blog header designs.

Headers are even more important for the overall blog's repo and it really plays the main role in building a brand. People often keep the blog designs in mind. Header is the area that gets most of the impressions. So lets take a look at the best of the header designs out there.

35 Best Blog Header Designs


1-Freepeople

35 Best Blog Header Designs

 2-Blogwhatdesign


35 Best Blog Header Designs

3-Dizzain

35 Best Blog Header Designs


4-Madpotato

35 Best Blog Header Designs

5-Backstreetmania

35 Best Blog Header Designs


6-Interag

35 Best Blog Header Designs

7-Designbstudios

35 Best Blog Header Designs

8-Carrienewcomer

35 Best Blog Header Designs

9-Juxtinteractive

 35 Best Blog Header Designs

10-Der-vigilant

35 Best Blog Header Designs

11-Juxtinteractive

35 Best Blog Header Designs

12-Bienbienbien

35 Best Blog Header Designs

13-Kit10designs

35 Best Blog Header Designs

14-Qwertcity

35 Best Blog Header Designs


15-Baliwthemovie

35 Best Blog Header Designs

16-Fluidbook

35 Best Blog Header Designs

17-Ellislab

35 Best Blog Header Designs


18-Designyoutrust

35 Best Blog Header Designs

19-Cottonseedoiltour

35 Best Blog Header Designs

20-Happycog

35 Best Blog Header Designs

21-Okb



22-Artskills

35 Best Blog Header Designs


23-Spunkunited

35 Best Blog Header Designs
  

24-Tatteredfly

35 Best Blog Header Designs
 

25-Cowandmonkey

35 Best Blog Header Designs


26-Hrasti

35 Best Blog Header Designs


27-Sachagrei

35 Best Blog Header Designs



28-Malir-gruner

35 Best Blog Header Designs


29-Swiths

35 Best Blog Header Designs

30-Thehorizontalway

35 Best Blog Header Designs


31-Nuance

35 Best Blog Header Designs


32-Meomi

35 Best Blog Header Designs


33-Intrustdomainsstore

35 Best Blog Header Designs


34-Visitcascadia

35 Best Blog Header Designs



35-Jrvelasco

35 Best Blog Header Designs


 Thats all! Hope you liked the top blog header list. Personally i cant choose any one of them to be my favorite. What about you? Could you choose any one of them as your favorite header design?

You may also like to have a look at:

Featureso Sunday, 13 September 2015
*BOOM* [SURPRISE Mail] BloggingeHow's First Ever Apparel - Chasing The Dreams

bloggingehow chasing the dream tshirtWell well well! I was off to gym and got a call from home that we had something awesome waiting for me that came by via mail. I was so excited that I cut short my workout session and came back home.

Here we have the first ever BloggingeHow apparel (T-Shirt) which I believe represents the entire journey of mine and resonates the mantra of the people who see success in no matter what they do!



Below is a short video that I shot the moment I stepped into the home. Currently this shirt isn't launched yet and I look forward to launch it in in near future InshaAllah.

Though if you're looking forward to pre-order this, you can drop your email and name on BloggingeHow Apparel page and I'll notify you when this gets live!

This is NOT just a Shirt! It's what we are and sums up my 4 years of blogging.

The Ideology


Once you leave your email for notification on this page, you'll be taken to the 'thank you' page where I go through the design aspect of this shirt and what made me come up with this design.

Since I started my online journey, I had my ups and downs. In my downs, I learned to NEVER GIVE UP, and there always comes a bright fresh shiny day after every night.

And trust me, good days always come! You just have to be strong and stay committed to your dreams. This skin/tshirt represents the true BloggingeHow Ideology.

An Ideology of a winning mind! It's not that you always win, BUT if the mind says you can, YOU WILL!

It's not just about blogging, it's about winning at everything you do in life. If you're a student, you chase your goal is to study in your dream university. If you're a bodybuilder, your goal is to bring forward the best you can in terms of physique. If you're entrepreneur, you look forward to build up your own empire from scratch.

NO MATTER what you do, it's about 'chasing da dreams' every single morning when you wake up.

This shirt will be a source of motivation and a reminder every single moment of your day, that you're working to chase your dreams.

Decide For Your Self


So it's up to you to  choose from. Are you a WINNER or a QUITER? Because, winners NEVER quit, and quitters NEVER win! 

Stay blessed guys. And make sure you give me your emails and names via this page so that I can let you know when this gets launched InshaAllah!

BloggingeHow wouldn't have been hear because of you guys and I can't say it enough!

Thank you for everything!



Featureso Saturday, 12 September 2015
How To Use Periscope To Market Your Business?

 AskHassam 007: How To Use Periscope To Market Your Business?

Periscope is a live streaming application for Android and iPhone currently. The platform is gaining massive attention as it got bought by Twitter recently. There are millions of people already on Periscope that you need to tap for your business or blog.

With all of these amazing platforms out there, we can hardly complain Google not sending us  enough traffic.Once we start utilizing these tools specially live streaming platforms, it's only the matter of time we could see a massive growth in our business or a standalone blog.

People like Chris Record have grown so fast in few months over this platforms and this is what makes me excited about it.

As you guys know, I do daily periscopes at 6pm (Pakistan Standard Time which is +5GMT). If you're not yet part of the tribe, you can follow me on periscope at @hassamahmadawan.

In this AskHassam episode, we look into couple of great strategies you can use to drive more business towards your blog or a website. How periscope is useful for someone who's looking to build an audience.

This time, as you guys have noticed, I decided to upload this episode on both, YouTube and Facebook as many of you can't watch these episodes as YouTube is banned in couple of countries.

So instead, we'll try to be on the both platforms InshaAllah.

Watch Episode:


AskHassam 007: How To Use Periscope To Market Your Business?
Who doesn't love periscope? :) May be it's competitors. These are those practical tips to harness the power of Periscope, which is a live streaming app for Android and iPhone. I'm loving it so far as we do daily scopes (more detail here: http://goo.gl/MO9qMS) P.S As many of you were not able to watch AskHassam episodes on YouTube, i'll be hopefully uploading them here on Facebook too InshaAllah.
Posted by BloggingeHow on Wednesday, September 9, 2015


Material Discussed In The Episode:


Hope this episode was helpful to you! You can leave out your questions to get featured on the show by going to:

AskHassam Videocast

Featureso Wednesday, 9 September 2015
What Does a Professional Blog Look Like?

AskHassam 006: What Does a Professional Blog Look Like?

It is like a very common question/request that I get to review the blogs and websites of our brothers and sisters. It is natural that you would want to know if you're on the right path and not de tracked. When I get to see these new blogs, most of them have similar issues and this made me record this AskHassam episode where I look forward to discuss 7 key aspects of a blog design and whether you're doing it the right way or not.

Watch AskHassam Episode




Resources Discussed In The Episode


Hope this episode was helpful :) Would love to see a goal set around your blog.

Featureso Monday, 7 September 2015
4.5 Blogging Mistakes That Would Hit You Back Hard - And Solutions

Blogging can be tough if there is not enough passion behind it as it requires consistent output from you as a blogger day in day out. Along the way, we all learn from our mistakes and become better at what we do.

With in this post, I've decided to lay down some of the most common blogging mistakes that I probably did along the way and many beginners do, which you can avoid.

Hope the post helps you out. I would be looking forward to your comments on the blogging mistakes you made so that it would help others to tackle with similar situations.

blogging mistakes bloggingehow


My Mistake #1 Switching Niche


One of the biggest mistakes I made probably 2 years back was I switched over BloggingeHow's niches and it was a horrible decision. That is most likely, THE mistake I would like to undo if I would be having a time machine xD

My Terrible Decision....


With still fairly young into blogging, I wasn't seeing the results I wanted with BloggingeHow. Audience was growing, but I guess there was some part of me that wanted to be rich fast. lol

I guess every body has some kind of thirst to see their blogs start making some amount. Not that I ever kept dreaming of making millions overnight, I knew it would take time and I was totally prepared for it, still I wanted to see my Google AdSense start rolling as I used to read in the AdSense success stories.

Lovely isn't it. 

So, finally realising that my niche isn't a lovely garden for making big on Google AdSense, I made the biggest mistake . I switched my niche!

Horrible. Foolish to think of it now, I ran after mere AdSense pennies which I wished would be better off with other niches that I switched over.

Guess what, I made a timely decision and switched back. Deleted every single post that I wrote in the alien niche and become settled there after.

Solution


 Solution is simple. NEVER switch niches after your domain is setup in search engines radar. Specially if you already have well performing content and high placed keywords in a certain industry.

Switching over would only drop your current image in the eyes of search engines. Every single niche in the world has a lot of prospects and by only taking smart steps, one can make his/her position firm.

Every niche is profitable.


My Mistake #2 Being Lazy on Blog Comments


 I my self published tons of posts on how important replying to blog comments is. And the best part is, I've seen both sides of the story.

Long time back, I published: 5 Effective Ways To Deal With Negative Comments On Blog and 7 Funny Types Of Blog Commentators- Do You Know Them?

 Blogging is all about socializing with your audience after serving them the content they ask for. Each comment that goes un served create doubts in the persons mind who spends few minutes of his life to make your blog a better place.

Personally I get lazy sometimes or either I'd be involved with other projects that I would skip a certain comment either on the blog or social platforms.

As an Internet user we all know how rude it feels when some moderator would not reply to a thoughtful comment that you might have written after a deep thought process.

It happens and I still remember once commenting on an iPhone tutorials blog where I visited to learn more about customization options available with rooted/jailbreaked iPhones.

I never got a reply as there were hundreds of unserved comments already. It felt bad. Real bad.

Such experience give me more strength to reply back to my loyal readers who are either to learn more about blogging or are just leaving a valuable comment.

They mean a lot to me.

 Solution


 Don't be rude. Take out time and reply to comments. Period!

My Mistake #3 Compromising On Posting Frequently


 For the first 2 years into blogging, I used to be dead sure that I schedule a post for a particular day before hand. There was a day where I had about 13 scheduled posts.

That day is a lesson for me now too! And for all of my brothers/sisters who are into blogging.

Compromising on your blog's posting frequency can be a call to a dead blog in the near future. Even if you think you would make a come back and regain the audience, it's hard to make considerable progress if you're not frequent on posting quality stuff.

It's just like working out in a gym for 1 day and resting for next 7. You might think of your self as the gym guy, though apparently you would be as skinny as a 9 year old.

Your efforts would be of no use as consistency is key in every aspect of life. No matter it's college life, your job or a mere fitness plan to loose that jelly like gut fat.

 By products of Inconsistent Posting Schedule?


You might be wondering why your blog's traffic never grow when you tend to post every now and then. That 'every now and then' is the answer it's self. With out having a fix plan, whether it's a weekly posting schedule or 7 times a week, sticking to it is the key.

My Mistake #4 Pretending to be all Corporate


 Ever went across those webmaster or Bloggers that pretend to be some guy from corporate sh*t?

I hate 'making out situations' and pretending to be a company rather than when you're a single person behind a web property.

There is nothing bad about being a single working force behind a blog. There are tons of successful Bloggers out there that have built their brands around their names and people know them as authority as to what they do.

They don't pretend to be somebody they are not.

Solution


Just be who you're and let people like you for that. Have confidence in your self and people would come by.

My Mistake #4.5 Relying on Google!


For an intelligent web master, relying solely on Google is not a wise decision to make. And yet again, I made that mistake for a long time and realized it pretty late into the journey. I guess I knew what I as heading towards and made the decision pretty late to building my own following in the shape of Email subscribers.

You would have read tons of resources by now online that would tell you the importance of building an email list.

That's about it. It is to the core of blogging and I feel now that I missed a lot. I would even go as far as by saying that I waster 2 straight years into blogging.

With me starting off in 2009, email marketing and building relationship with email list wasn't really talked about much. Gurus who are playing in millions now, kept that close to them selves I guess.

If you're not building an email list side by side on your blog, you'll find it pretty soon how costly it would be.

Solution


Build it as fast as you can. Build it to a point where Google is no more a threat to you. We all know how Google manipulates with it's search algorithms that can be sometimes costly to you if you're the one who's been following every single guidelines like religiously.

It just doesn't work that way and you're bound to get hit by these crazy Google updates in your career. Not that I've been through it, its a sad story that is heard all around.

I have few posts for you to read out when it comes to building an email list.



My Wishes


I hope that the post helped you out finding some of the key areas where you need to be very diligent. It's better to learn from other's mistakes before experiencing them your self.

Wishing you a very happy blogging. Looking forward to hearing some of the mistakes you did in your blogging journey so that we can all learn from each other's experiences.

Till next time,
Peace.

More Blogging mistakes to read:

Featureso Sunday, 6 September 2015
How Did BloggingeHow Got BuySellAds Approval? - Mystery Solved

AskHassam 005: How Did BloggingeHow Got BuySellAds Approval? - Mystery Solved

So often it is that I get asked about BuySellAds and how one can get approved by it. At BloggingeHow, we published tons of posts before regarding tips to get approved by BuySellAds including what actually help BeH to get into the popular marketplace.

Many inquire the minimum number of pageviews that are required to get approved by BuySellAds. Generally the platform have a minimum of 100k pageviews per month criteria but the question lies in many of other blogs with pretty less traffic being part of BSA.

I've talked about  BloggingeHow's traffic when it got approved and again mention that in the video. I try to be as transparent as I can with what I share at the blog and hopefully would help you brothers and sisters out.

Even though BSA have mentioned few tips on this issue as shown in the image below. Though I believe that it's not that clear. There are tons of variables involved apart from traffic too.

buysellads requirement

 The biggest contender is the niche your blog is in. I've seen blogs in some niches with over 100k pageviews with only 40-50$ monthly sales! So BSA makes sure that it accepts blogs who are actually in demand.

My recommendation:


I would recommend you to visit BSA marketplace and first study the blogs that are in your niche. See the blogs with least amount of traffic and study their blogs. Also notice, the amount of ads being sold by the blogs with in your niche. If the demand is low with advertisers, that could cause a disapproval.

Previous Episode AskHassam 004: What To Blog About? Choosing Profitable Niche.

Watch AskHassam 005




Resources Talked About



Your Questions?


Are you still confused? Do let me know in the comments below. Would love to further help you out. I hope everyone of us who works hard gets approved! InshaAllah.

Featureso Friday, 4 September 2015
How To Create a HD Mockup Of Your Blog


Creating high quality HD mockup design of your blog is quite addicting. I recently got to find this amazing online tool that lets you do so. Few weeks back, I shared quite a few high quality mockups for BloggingeHow on Facebook page..

Adversity is your ally! He�s the one who will make you push boundaries and recreate yourself every single time. Don�t be...
Posted by BloggingeHow on Friday, August 14, 2015

With Mockerie.io, you just have to type in your website/blog's url and it would open up the blog in an iframe with the a custom design.

If your blog is mobile responsive, it would then be making the most out of these mockup designs.

Lets see how you can utilize mockerie for your blog.

Step #1 Enter your URL and Email


Go to Mockerie.io where you have to enter your email and url as shown in the image below.

mockerie.io home page
 mockerie.io register

Step #2 Let it Load, Choose Template of Choice



Once you're into the dashboard, it would show up multiple new templates. These folks keep adding tons of new templates every few days. Simply choose a template of your choice and let it load. Once done, simply download it as an image.



It's all done! See, how easy it was to create your own mockup design with out any image editing skills required.

That was awesome!

Where To Use These Mockups?


You, as a blogger can use these mockups to boast about your blog design that you might have changed or improved on social media. As a photographer, you can show up your portfolio with these mockup designs.

Also if you have a template selling website, you could elegantly show up template designs. There are tons of applications depending up on the niche.

Hope this post helps many of you out.

You can now read:

Featureso Thursday, 3 September 2015