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Why Change is the ONLY Thing Constant

Posted: 07 Apr 2014 07:05 AM PDT

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First it was Frienster, then MySpace, then Tagged/Hi5/etc.

First it was Altavista, then Ask, then Yahoo, etc.

First it was adsense arbitrage, free trial rebills, CPC to CPA arbitrage, mobile gaming, etc.

If you noticed, the only thing constant here in the past 3 sentences are the commas.

Internet is changing. All the time.

Why? Because people change. Companies start. Companies die. Ideas change.

Every time a new product or service and makes a killing, 30 clones and copycats will try to take your lunch. (*cough cough* Zynga… *cough cough* King.com)

Every time an affiliate blogs about his hot new campaign, 50 idiot affiliates will straight up rip his pages and try to milk that thing to death.

For every action, there’s a reaction. If you’re making money, someone wants some of that. Internet connection is cheap, and so is software. So why shouldn’t I try take your lunch? I can do it, and so can you.. and every other person on earth with 1/2 a brain.

Remember Microsoft? It was a $500 billion dollar company in early 2000′s. Who’s the king now? Not Microsoft.

How the tides have turned.

Change is the ONLY thing that is permanent.

Is this a new concept?

No way. Buddha taught this thousands of years ago:

Thus early Buddhism declares that in this world there is nothing that is fixed and permanent. Every thing is subject to change and alteration. “Decay is inherent in all component things,” declared the Buddha and his followers accepted that existence was a flux, and a continuous becoming.

According to the teachings of the Buddha, life is comparable to a river. It is a progressive moment, a successive series of different moments, joining together to give the impression of one continuous flow. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another, giving an outward impression that it is one continuous and unified movement, where as in reality it is not. The river of yesterday is not the same as the river of today. The river of this moment is not going to be the same as the river of the next moment. So does life. It changes continuously, becomes something or the other from moment to moment.

Take for example the life of an individual. It is a fallacy to believe that a person would remain the same person during his entire life time. He changes every moment. He actually lives and dies but for a moment, or lives and dies moment by moment, as each moment leads to the next. A person is what he is in the context of the time in which he exists. It is an illusion to believe that the person you have seen just now is the same as the person you are just now seeing or the person whom you are seeing now will be the same as the person you will see after a few moments.

So, are YOU changing or are you clinging onto the past?

Most super affiliates I know who are still successful have evolved. They own their own ad or CPA networks, they started a software as a service company (like my PAR Program), or they’ve moved onto creating their own brand / product / offer.

That means REAL responsibilities, not just brokering traffic. You gotta hire people, you gotta learn real marketing & sales, you gotta learn to negotiate, and yes, run a real company with real people.

If you have been doing affiliate marketing for a while now, congrats for sticking to it.

But the rules of the game always have and always will change.

There’s whole kinds of legal compliance you have to deal with, affiliate taxes, FTC regulations, etc etc

On top of that, mobile is taking over the world. Don’t believe me? Just go stand on the street and see what people are staring at.

If you’re a great marketer at your own “niche”, good for you.

But are you growing? It’s good to be a specialist but remember, you can’t have tunnel vision and expect to see the horizon. Especially if the horizon is constantly moving.

If you’re not optimizing for mobile (and trust me.. a shit ton of people are still too lazy about this, i have no idea why, slap yourself silly and invest in responsive design.

So why don’t people change?

For some, they might say fear. For some, its lazinesss.

But for some, it’s because self-control (to change) is tiring.

Whatever the case maybe, if you don’t change.. someone will change you for you. And you might not like that change.

Detroit used to be #1 auto manufacturer in the WORLD but where are they now? And what about the people that used to believe that they had a safe pension waiting for them at the end of the rainbow? What happened to them?

Whatever happened to CDs, laser discs, VHS, DVD, BluRay…? What happened to Blockbuster Video?

They didn’t change. So the change was forced upon them.

Fear, laziness, .. whatever the reason maybe, change WILL happen.

Only thing I know for certain is that the next 10 years will be NOTHING like the past 10 years, so i’m gonna get my shit together and create the future that I want .. the future that I see.

Yeah, i might be wrong. I might go the wrong way.

But at least I’ll be moving.

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Three Simple Ways to Encourage More Comments on Your Blog - DailyBlogTips

Three Simple Ways to Encourage More Comments on Your Blog - DailyBlogTips

Three Simple Ways to Encourage More Comments on Your Blog

Posted: 07 Apr 2014 05:23 AM PDT

Do you have post after post with zero comments … and perhaps a handful with one or two comments each?

If you've got subscribers and traffic, you might wonder what you're doing wrong. You know people are reading — but they're just not commenting.

One solution, of course, is to turn off comments. But many bloggers, especially in the early days, find that the comments they receive are a huge source of encouragement, motivation and ideas.

So here's what you can do to encourage more of your readers to leave a response to your post.

#1: Invite Comments with a Question

Not all readers will immediately think of leaving a comment. A great way to encourage them is by asking a question. This could be as simple as "What do you think?" or "Did I miss anything?" or it could be more specific.

Try to make the question (a) open-ended (rather than yes/no) and (b) easy to answer — something that readers can give their opinion on.

 #2: Make it Easy to Comment

Some blogs receive next to no comments because they've made the commenting process difficult and time-consuming. If readers have to fill in a CAPTCHA, register, or even use the Disqus system, they're less likely to leave a response.

Unless you've got a really strong reason to use a different commenting set up, go with your blog's default. (The WordPress commenting system is perfectly good as-is.) For more on this, see Diane Urban's post Why WordPress's Native Commenting System Beats Disqus or Livefyre.

#3: Use the CommentLuv Plugin

CommentLuv is a WordPress plugin (with free and premium versions) that automatically adds a link to a commenter's most recent blog post — assuming they fill in their URL when leaving a comment, of course.

It's a nice way to reward commenters, and to help your readers connect with one another, building up a real community around your blog. To find out more, take a look at Kristi Hines's post 5 Reasons I Still Use CommentLuv.

 

Which of these will you be trying out this week? Let us know … in the comments. :-)

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