Yaro Starak’s Membership Site Mastermind Course NOW OPEN!

The coaching course by Yaro Starak that will teach you how to launch and make money on membership sites is now open for new students. It’s a short open though, only from Tuesday October 27th 9am EST to Friday October 30th at midnight EST. Yaro also put up some extra bonuses if you join the … Read more →

Thesis 1.6 Has Arrived – SEO Optimized WordPress Theme

I’m using the Thesis theme for my WordPress blogs since August 31st on TechPatio.com and since the beginning of ApplePatio.com too. It’s a great search engine optimized theme with lots of features. Some of the major changes in 1.6 compared to 1.5 are: Design and color options built-in to the theme settings. Automatic dropdown navigation … Read more →

How Daniel Scocco Launched A $10,000 A Month Membership Site

Yaro Starak’s Membership Site Mastermind program opens on Tuesday October 27th. This is the final post in my “warm up series” to that program. If you haven’t read the other posts yet, here they are: Learn How To Launch & Make An Income From Membership Sites How To Find Out What Your Members Want Before … Read more →

Why “Comment Reply Notification” Is A Must Have Plugin For Your Blog – Otherwise…

… you could be missing out on some sweet commenting action! Allow me to explain: When it comes to WordPress, there’s usually three kinds of bloggers (more or less): Those with a pretty standard WordPress installation and no “subscribe to comments”-plugin whatsoever. Those with some 3rd party comment-system like Disqus or similar, that handles it … Read more →

Membership Site: How Yaro Made $211,969 While Traveling Around The World

Disclaimer: This is not a “get rich quick”-scheme on how you can make $211,969. This is a video on how Yaro Starak managed to earn $211,969 while traveling around the world. It’s an inspiring video to watch even if you don’t want to spend the full 14 minutes watching it, at least check out the … Read more →

Woopra – Live Visitor Statistics For Your Blog

Woopra is an innovative live tracking and analytics software for your website or blog. It provides detailed analytics data just like the free Google Analytics does, but Woopra does it live – which can be very interesting to look at it. Up until recently, Woopra was in closed beta so you would need to apply … Read more →

15 Minutes Of Fame & How To Instantly Boost Visitors To Your Blog

That title caught your attention, huh? How to instantly boost visitors to your blog! Now that would be something… before I tell you the secret, first have a look at this pageviews graph screenshot within my WordPress dashboard. I took this screenshot right before midnight, so the day was almost over – I’m sure you … Read more →

Membership Site: How To Find Out What Your Members Want Before You Launch

Last week I blogged about the free Membership Site Masterplan report you could download and read before the Membership Site Mastermind program re-opens for new studens October 27th, the last time in 2009. Today I’d like to direct your attention to a short video by Yaro Starak where he explains how to use a simple … Read more →

Learn How To Launch & Make An Income From Membership Sites

Yaro Starak, my favorite Internet Guru and the guy behind membership sites such as Become A Blogger, Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind, is soon re-opening the doors for the last time in 2009 to his Membership Site Mastermind program. The last time Membership Site Mastermind took in new students was in May 2009, so … Read more →

WordPress Plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do (WWSGD) – “If You’re New Here…”

I’ve received quite a few questions already from my great techpatio.com readers, asking me how I get that message to appear at the bottom of my posts that (per default) says: “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”. I changed mine a bit, so that it … Read more →

The Importance Of Keywords In Your Domain Name For SEO?

I often wonder exactly how important it is to have keywords in your domain name, so I would like to hear your thoughts on this. But first, let’s break down what we’re dealing with here, cause mostly you hear about keywords in the URL. An URL usually consists of two things, the domain name and … Read more →

FeedBurner Changes Redirect Method to ‘301’ – Better SEO For Your Blog

I was going to create a post on how you could get better Search Engine Optimization for your blog using FeedBurner links, especially if you have a habit of commenting on blogs with CommentLuv that pulls your FeedBurner RSS feed to get your latest blog post(s), but FeedBurner made a change that would render my … Read more →

September 2009: Blog Summary & Income Report (My Third Month Of Blogging)

I’m three months into my “blogging life” and my 3rd month has been my best month so far, when looking at visits and pageviews. I’ve also decided to start a new blog, which I call ApplePatio. Yes, you guessed it, it’s about Apple and it’s still within my ‘Patio theme (branding FTW, right?). Read more … Read more →

Top 5 Ways To Make Money On The Internet

If you’ve been reading TechPatio for a while then you probably know that I like the “Top 5’s” from HowStuffWorks, the latest one is a top 5 on ways to make money on the Internet. In this post I’d just like to mention the 5 ways HowStuffWorks claims are the “top 5” ways to make … Read more →