Make Money Online and Start a Blog with a Teenage Dad

This is a FREE  Step by step Coaching tutorial which also includes videos on how you can start your own blog right now and make money from it. What you’ll also discover and find out here are what most so-called “internet gurus” will teach you from a $97 ebook..

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Starting a blog has become one of the most popular way to make money  for people who wants to build a solid long term income. I strongly believe that everyone needs a blog and everyone simply have to take advantage of the opportunity on what blogging can give to an individual.

Blogging is a business and business is an investment.

if you want to make money blogging, You have to keep in mind that blogging is not a “get-rich-quick scheme.” blogging for all I know is a long term investment. you will not make

The 5th step of the coaching series – “Start a blog and make money” a video is available for you to watch below.

After you had successfully installed WordPress blogging platform on your domain, now is the time to install a good looking theme. and we are going to need an FTP software for this.

there are lots of good FTP softwares around but I personally use Core FTP Lite. it’s a free software available for download so there’s no need to worry…

you can download it here: http://www.coreftp.com/download/coreftplite.exe or just simply search on google for the keyword “core ftp”.

FTP softwares btw are softwares used to upload files from your computer to your desktop or vice-versa, download files from your website to your computer.

anyways, after you had successfully downloaded the file, install it on your computer and you’re good to go. ;)

Open up the file and

This is the 4th step on the coaching lessons on how to start a blog and make money series.

after Changing the nameservers at godaddy.com it’s now time to install wordpress software on your domain. to do this, we must Login to your Cpanel account.

1. to access your cpanel account just login to “http://www.example.com/cpanel”
2. then enter your username and password. (it was sent to your email)

after logging in, scroll down to the “Fantastico icon” and click it.

After that, just tick on the box that says “wordpress”

Then you’ll see this screen where you need to enter the details of your blog and create a username and password etc. (Blogs are best set up on the homepage of your domain so leave the ‘directory’ blank):

then click on

I was very excited to get my first ever professionally built logo for this blog. in fact, very excited that I already installed it even if it’s not “fully-finished” yet. When you look above the site, you’ll see my new logo and notice that it has a somewhat “blur” / pixilated image. That’s because I personally edited it cause I can’t wait plus I want to try out my photoshop skills. =D

here’s my old logo btw:

Before coming up with the main concept there were three different concepts for my new logo and here they are:

after 3 days of deciding I decided to stick with this:

I like the fact that the logo looks kind of like my favorite candy. it looks very tasty! :D

now, I’m just sitting back and waiting for the final touches for my new

this is the 3rd step on our video series on how to start a blog and make money.

Where to find the nameservers

after buying a hosting plan on hostgator, they will automatically send you an email confirming they had received the order and will automatically send you the following important information about your hosting account:

• your Cpanel login name
• your Cpanel password
• the Nameservers. (it usually looks like this: ns1.hostgator.com.blablabla.2010) =D

after you had received those information, it’s time to log-in your account at godaddy’s website. after doing so, just Follow the rest of the instructions on the video below:

“How to change the nameservers on godaddy”

after you had changed the name server, take note that you’ll have to wait for about 20-40 minutes for the changes to take effect. and about an hour or two for your domain to be fully propagated.

that’s it for today’s “start a blog and make

this is the second step on our coaching videos on how to start a blog and make money. The first coaching video I thought you how to register a domain name. if haven’t Read / watch / Don’t know how to do it yet, I’d recommend watching / reading it first before continuing through the rest of this tutorial. The Video about hosting your domain is below. but first let’s discuss a little introduction about the topic.

like buying a domain, you should also consider the “quality service” a hosting provider gives. before buying one ask your self these question.

How’s is their support? do they have a “instant live chat” or are they even available by phone whenever I have technical or billing issues?

Are their feedbacks good? are they for real? do they deliver their service as promised?

I’m telling you these because I myself had a “problem”  with