This is a guest post by Tom and I just wanted to apologize to him for taking so long to post this article!  Check out his website at the end of this post.

Fortunately or unfortunately, outsourcing continues to be a hot topic among many industries. While it helps some and hurts others, it’s hard to deny the business logic behind this strategy. And by costing them stable jobs and careers, it’s the bane of many blue-collar workers’ existences in certain developed nations. Meanwhile, it is building previously considered third world countries into economic
powerhouses.

As outsourcing begins to level the world’s economic playing field, it would behoove people in many sectors, industries, and economic classes to understand more about this process and its effects on people, companies and nations. The more you know about outsourcing, the more prepared you can be to deal with its effects or harness its power. And what better way than by reading a book? That being said, here are a few titles that might better help you understand outsourcing.

1. The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities (by Douglas Brown)

Published in 2005, this book has recently been revised and is broken down into three parts. Part one focuses on how to plan for and manage outsourcing, part two deals with finding an outsourcing career, and part three is a guide for outsourcing entrepreneurs.

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So, I finally finished my first eBook and it should be ready to distribute shortly to my e-mail subscribers for free. I wanted to keep you guys updated but it actually took me a little longer than I expected but at least you guys aren’t waiting for a whole year anymore!

I originally started this guide as a simple step-by-step for my team who were already somewhat familiar with Wordpress but I decided I would turn it into a full guide so anyone can do this with their Wordpress blogs.  The title of the eBook is “How to Write Posts to Get TONS of Search Engine Traffic in Wordpress” and although I’m a little iffy about the title and how long it is, I felt it was better than “How to Write Posts for Search Engines”.

And I wanted to thank Edie for looking it over and proofreading it for me.

This eBook guide is 17 pages and it includes information such as setting up your Wordpress to be SEO friendly with various customizations as well as the specific posting process I have been using for the last couple of years to get hundreds of thousands of unique visitors every month on a couple of my other blogs.

As you know, search engine traffic is best especially if you’re looking to get people to click on your ads or trying to potentially get them to purchase or sign up for something. Most of my traffic from my sites come from search engines.

Some of you guys may have been expecting another type of eBook like “how to make money doing X, Y and Z” but that will come with time. I figured I would dip my feet into the eBook waters first before I jump and do a cannonball. If this eBook gets positive reviews then this will be a stepping stone to a bunch of future eBooks to come.

And if it doesn’t get good reviews, well, that means I just have to work a little harder on the future ones.

Anyways, I’m sending out the link to the eBook later today as well as the passwords to my protected posts to all of my e-mail subscribers who are active. If you are not subscribed via e-mail or have not confirmed or activated your e-mail subscriptions then you will not receive this e-mail to the PDF.

Since I’m not signed up with Aweber or any other e-mail services just yet, I’m doing this all manually so please bear with me. And if you haven’t signed up to receive my RSS Feeds via e-mail, I would suggest doing that soon!

And to end this, I was too lazy to create an eBook cover because I wanted to get this information out to you guys sooner than later. I’ll eventually create one but until then, I hope you enjoy the info!

How To Convert Word Document To PDF – I just finished my first eBook/guide so I figured I would share how you convert Word docs to PDF format manually for free. Honestly, it’s quite easy and there’s no additional downloading required.

For the most part, I try to type out everything in Microsoft Word so I can see if there are mistakes that really stand out and easy to catch. Since I just finished my eBook (which will be distributed later this week), I figured I’d share with you guys on how to convert these Word documents to PDF format without going through any other website or downloading some program to do it for you.

Of course, I’m sure there’s easier ways of doing this but this is how I have been doing it.

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So, I recently purchased the OIO Publisher plugin for DatMoney and I honestly have no idea why I didn’t do it before. And before I go on, you guys can get the OIO Publisher coupon code and save up to $20 just by purchasing it through my referral link. But keep reading to find the details on that.

So, Why OIO Publisher?

Well, since I didn’t make a sale on DatMoney, I decided that I would step up my game to further my blog. And one of the first changes I decided to make was to purchase the OIO Publisher plugin to help me with selling private ads here. But this plugin goes way beyond just that.

After I purchased OIO Publisher and installed it, I was so impressed with all the features it brings that I had to post about it. And the most important part of it was the fact that it’s made for lazy people like me who has a hard time handling everything manually. Plus, it saves me a lot of time that I could be spending wisely on something more important.

This basically helps me save a lot of time because advertisers can purchase the spot, upload their own banner ad image and pay for it.  The only thing I really need to do is approve of it once I receive the e-mail stating an advertiser is interested in purchasing.

So, besides helping my laziness out saving me time, this also tracks the amount of clicks each banner is getting.  You can automatically report these stats to your advertiser so they can decide whether to renew or not or you can use these stats to get more advertisers.

Wait, there’s more… now tracking for payment, taxes and stats just got a lot easier because everything is automated and it keeps all the records that you need.

How Can OIO Publisher Help Me?

Besides the obvious in not needing to manually add banner ads and going through the hassle of all that stuff (plus everything I just mentioned), OIO Publisher plugin can actually help you get more advertisers. The thing I didn’t know about purchasing OIO Publisher is the fact that they have an entire marketplace for advertisers to search through to find blogs like yours.

So essence, you’re also getting exposure for your blog for future long-term advertisers. Did I mention that this is easy and for people who want to save time? I mean, what more can you want when it does the things you wanted it to plus they help you find advertisers?  It’s a win win if you ask me.

Save Up to $20 and Make Your Money Back!

The original price is $47 and even if you paid the full amount, it’s well worth it because you’d make that entire amount back quickly. The reason is they have an affiliate program which pays you 50% of the commission. So, make two sales and you get your money back instantly.

But since you guys are my loyal readers and subscribers, I decided that I would go above and beyond trying to help you guys out. First, if you sign up through my referral link and use the OIO Publisher coupon code TERRA-DATMONEY, you’ll knock off $10 from the purchase.

And I decided to give an additional $10 rebate from my own pockets (paid through Paypal) to you guys for purchasing it through my referral link. So, not only will you get this plugin for $27, you’ll only have to make one sale through their affiliate program to make your money back.

Please note: To get the additional $10 rebate, please e-mail me with your OIO Publisher username and Paypal e-mail address. These will be paid out within 14 days of the purchase.

So, what are you guys waiting for? I’m going to take my blog to the next level… now shouldn’t you?

So, I’m sure you guys should know what Twitter is by now. Well, I decided to start a brand new Twitter account strictly for DatMoney and I’m going to let you guys follow how to get more Twitter followers quickly with me.

I had my own account previously but I barely used it. Matter of fact, I’ve only been using it lately to enter random Twitter contests. I decided that I would start one to try to brand DatMoney a little more. Unfortunately for me, when I signed up for Twitter (again), the username “DatMoney” was taken by some random loser who wanted to sign up for it, leave 3-4 updates and never go back to it.

What a waste of branding for me!

Now I’m officially @DatMoneyDotCom for those of you guys that want to follow.

This is a test and since I just created this new account about 5-10 minutes ago, you guys will see I have absolutely no followers when this post becomes live. But that’s a good thing, I’m going to show you guys how to get more Twitter followers quickly and easily. I don’t know how quickly it will be but I’m guessing if these methods work, I should probably have a few hundred within the next week or so.

But just a heads up, there are a few techniques I will be trying out and supposedly all of them work just fine.

One of the methods I’m going to use is the basic promotion – letting people know the Twitter account for DatMoney actually exists, hold a contest, follow others, leave comments, etc. But since you guys already know that basic stuff, I won’t get into that unless someone requests that I do. (A lot of people still have no idea what Twitter is and how it can benefit them in a lot of different ways).

Now the other method I will be trying is somewhat automated and a lot of people may consider it unethical. But I’m the type to test things out just to see how it works. Although, I probably won’t do it for the long run.

Again, I’ll be doing it just for testing purposes to see how it works and if it actually does. There are various Twitter tools that can help in the process as well. But in the meantime, I’ll just sum it up and write a more detailed post sometime in the future when and if I see a large increase in followers.

The quick summary would be:

1. Sign up for Twitter
2. Sign up for the free Twitter tools (I’ll post the details later)
3. Do a search on Twitter for your targeted audience (for instance, make money online)
4. Let the Twitter tools get the followers for you

That sounds pretty easy, right? I’m sure a lot of you guys already know this method, if not, you can follow me @DatMoneyDotCom and see if this works and if it does, you can do the very same thing!

More to come on how to get more Twitter followers… stay tuned!