Matt Wolfe, a very helpful internet marketer has created a comprehensive set of video tutorials.

It is a series of video tutorials that teach you how to set up a Wordpress Blog, how to get traffic to the blog, and how to make money with the blog!

The videos are so easy to follow as Matt explains in a “look over his shoulder” way.

I have been using them since I started creating my blog.

Since then Matt has added more and more videos, and I have to say I go back to them frequently when I am doing something new with my blog or working on getting more traffic.

The Wordpress Classroom

I heard that only a limited number of spots are going to be given out in the classroom.

Matt Wolfe, the teacher, tries to help the students on a one-on-one basis whenever they need help which is very powerful, so I think he is limiting it to 200 spots or something like that.

I can thoroughly recommend this as someone who uses this Wordpress Classroom.

The following is a list of available videos:

The Setup – Start Here

1. Why Use Wordpress?
2. Purchasing a Domain
3. Purchasing Hosting
4. Linking Domain to Host
5. Installing Wordpress (With Fantastico)
5. Installing Wordpress (Manually)Optional
6. Installing a Free Theme
7. Wordpress Dashboard Tour

Getting it All Dialed in

8.Adding Your E-mail to your Domain
9. Editing Permalinks for SEO
10. Installing Akismet Anti-Spam
11. Installing Google Analytics (Wordpress Plugin)
11. Installing Google Analytics (Manually)Optional
12. Installing All-in-One SEO
13. Creating a Google Sitemap
14. Threaded Comments
15. Setting Up Automatic Backups

Adding Some Cool Features

16. How to Add RSS with Feedburner
17. Create About Me Page
18. Adding Comments to the About Page
19. Add a Contact Form to your Blog
20. Add an Avatar Next to Blog Comments
21. How to Cut Off a Post and Give a “Read More” Link
22. Add an Opt-in Box to your Sidebar
23. Linking to External Pages in your Menu
24. Using the Top Commentators Widget
25. Installing the Twitter Widget
26. Installing the Skype Widget

Blog Content

27. How to Find Pictures for your Blog
28. Adding a Picture to your Post
29. Adding Video to your Posts
30. Installing a Custom Theme
31. Creating Your Own Themes With Artisteer

Let’s Get Some Traffic

32. General Traffic Generation Overview
33. Using our Traffic Tool
34. Using Twitter to Generate Traffic (Guest Video)
35. Sending Wordpress Posts to Twitter
36. Commenting on Other Blogs
37. Commenting in Forums
38. Using Comment Kahuna
39. Angela’s Backlinks
40. Pinging Your Blog

Time to Make Some Money

41. Make Money Promoting The Wordpress Classroom
42. Installing Google Adsense
43. Promote Products From Amazon
44. Promote Your Hosting Company
45. Using Clickbank
46. Using Commission Juntion
47. Hiding Affiliate Links

Advanced Techniques

48. Outsourcing Blog Content
49. Scheduling Your Posts
50. Tweaking Text and Link Colors
51. Creating a Video Tutorial
52. Selling Your Blog For Profit

Quite comprehensive as you can see and just about covers all you need to know about setting up and running a Wordpress blog. I only recommend things that I have used and like and this one I recommend!

You can check it out here:

The Wordpress Classroom

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This is a post made by Martin Avis of www.kickstartdaily.com which is one of the better, FREE honest newsletters out there .
This post makes a lot of sense to me to I thought I would put it up here

“There was a thread on the Warrior Forum recently where a guy was
selling his process for making money online. It cost $7. I was
amazed at the number of people who demanded proof before they
would consider ‘investing’ such a huge sum.

There were many nasty comments – coming pretty close to calling
the guy a fraud. Yet the people baying for blood hadn’t bought
his product. They didn’t know if be was a fraud or a saint, but
because he dared to offer them a money making strategy – and
wanted their money (a whole $7) in return – their daggers were in
his back. And his front.

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Well, life likes to throw a few curve balls now and again.

Last week I was ill (my wife brought home a virus and very kindly passed it on to me) so not a lot was done that week.

This week, raring to go again, I have come to a temporary halt again (disconnected).
We are having optic cables put into all the apartments in this building.

I can’t complain about that really as I am aware that we are very lucky here with regards to fast internet connections.
At the moment we pay for 28mbps, which is just a distant dream for many people, although we only get 11mbps due to old telephone cables.

What is the point of all this you may ask?

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Last week I watched a video by successful internet marketer, Lee McIntyre.

For those that don’t know him he is someone who has come quickly from nowhere to great success in a very short time ($100,000+ per month).

Needless to say, when he speaks I listen.

The title of the video was “How To Make Your First $1000 Even if You Have No List or Products”.

What made this video interesting was that at first Lee gave the standard (good) advice, which is that if you want to build a sustainable business and make serious money you need to create and sell your own products.

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Alex Jeffreys third module centered around this question and why you should have a blog.

For the people that don’t know the word “blog” comes from the word weblog – as simple as that.

A blog is basically an online diary that is available on the web. Updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who has a blog is a “blogger.”

Blogs are usually updated daily using various software programs that allows people run their blog and update with very little, if any, technical knowledge.

Having got that out of the way we come to the “why”.

Blogging can be a great way to promote or market yourself, your business, product and service .

If you wish to become an internet marketer a blog is essential as blogging not only maintains your focus, it also makes you accountable to people and gives you instant feedback from the market.

Your first post will give you instant momentum in that market.

What shall I blog about?

Blog about yourself, your plans, what you are doing now, give value advice and tips, talk about your online community, build your readership – and of course, build your list!

Always provide value. This way you can get feedback, and eventually, funnel traffic to your products.

Another piece of sound advice was to make a good effort with the “About” page by telling your readers about yourself, maybe adding a photo – in fact show the readers that there is a real human being behind all this.

I hope you find this helpful.

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