This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Cherran asks:

As a person working online, after the initial revenue goals are achieved, I’m getting a feeling that I’m little bit straying away from the normal world. Even for a small business owner with half of our income, he would need to interact with people face to face everyday.

I’m getting a feeling that we may live in a safe cocoon, far away from the reality.

Have you ever felt this way? If so how do you deal with it? Joining some organizations, working from coffee shops these are some of things came to my mind.

When you work full time on the Internet you’ll definitely be having fewer face to face interactions, especially if compared with someone who works inside a large company. Certainly this is not a positive thing, as human beings are social by nature. But, it is not necessarily a bad thing either.

It can be a negative thing if you are a person who needs or likes to be interacting with other people all the time. There are people out there who simply would go nuts if they had to work all day alone inside a home office.

However, there are many people who don’t mind it, and in this case the lack of social interactions you get from working online is not a big problem. This is especially true if you consider the advantages that such a lifestyle has: the possibility to spend more time with your family, the flexibility regarding your schedule, the time you save because you don’t need to commute, the possibility to live and work from anywhere around the world and so on.

I belong to the second camp, which means that I don’t mind the lack of face to face interactions while I work. It is important to balance things out though. For instance, every week day I get out to practice at least one hour of physical activity, and during the weekends I also go out my friends.

The things you mentioned can also help. For example, there are many people who like to work from coffee shops. Some even rent a shared office space so that they get to interact with other people.

What do you guys think? Do you believe that working online isolates you from the world? Is this necessarily a bad thing?

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Original Post: Does Working Online Isolate You from the World?

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Apple has launched the new iPod nano with Multi-Touch. iPod nano has been completely redesigned with Multi-Touch using the same technology that powers iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and is now half the size and even easier to play.

The 1.5-inch color display with 240-by-240 pixel resolution is stunning. Its now got a built-in clip makes it easy to move to the music.

Why does it remind me of the iPod shuffle ad when it got smaller long ago.

1. Apple iPod Shuffle Gets Cheaper, 2GB Storage
2. Apple iPod Nano : Smaller Designs with Songs & Color Albums
3. Play Games, Movies, Music on New iPod Touch
4. Excercise with the Nike+iPod Nano Sport Kit
5. Now iPod Shuffle is World�s Smallest Music Player

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Bio: Eugene Aronsky is an SEO specialist with NetLZ, an SEO services firm in New Jersey.

There are always many criticisms on how one should write a blog for a certain website. Most will probably go to the length of sacrificing their keyword focus just to have a cute, clever and genuinely interesting blog. Even though it is important that we need to keep our blog as clever as possible so as not to bore the reader, we should not forget the opportunity it presents to have your blog raise its commercial value. Here is an approach that you can use to be able to produce a nice and “kick ass” article but the keywords are perfectly in sync.

First thing you need to know is try to put some links of affiliate products on your blog. For example you have a website that talks about tanning. During summer, you know that a lot of people are looking for ways on how to achieve that tanned look either by going to the beach to soak under the sun or by artificial tanning in a tanning booth. Well, you can write about the different methods of tanning in your blog and to keep it interesting you could link it to some well known tanning spots such as an amusement park. Then you can include different artificial tanning merchandise which will be the focused of your affiliate links. Not only did you maintain your article interesting but the keywords are also emphasized by your affiliated links.

Another method is what SEO experts call editorial calendar. The concept is to look for a seasonal topic and focus your content on that. You can prepare in advance because this topics can be prepared months ahead of time thus giving you perfect lead time to make a keyword focused article. You can also put some affiliated links on it if you want. And don’t forget, these seasonal articles come one after the other so you can interlink each articles by using anchor tags or ads for additional traffic surge.

Bio: Eugene Aronsky is an SEO specialist with NetLZ, an SEO services firm in New Jersey.

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Despite popularizing the art of reblogging (or at least convincing WordPress, Typepad and LiveJournal of its worth), crediting the original author has (more or less) been an ugly affair on Tumblr.

Instead of ignoring the problem (something a few other platforms do) Tumblr has decided to skip the “requotes” and credit the original author instead.

Starting today, reblogging will no longer insert attribution into the content/caption of the post except to quote content added by the parent post.

This means we’re no longer cluttering up post content with reblog attribution. But where did it go? The Dashboard already attributes reblogs’ parent blogs, and now it automatically attributes the source blog clearly and consistently[.] (Tumblr Staff Blog)

Another benefit of Tumblr’s new approach to reblogging is that sites outside of Tumblr (or at least those credited within a post) receive proper attribution and attention minus the reblog distractions.

Tumblr’s approach is similar in many ways to Twitter’s native retweet, who made a similar move in November of 2009.

Unlike the twitterverse however, Tumblr’s new approach is receiving praise from the community (minus a few disgruntaled souls of course), and it will be interesting to see if other platforms copy Tumblr’s new approach to reblogging in the not so distant future.

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Back when I was at the university (around 2002) I went to live in an apartment with three other students. I didn’t know them prior to moving there, but quickly we became good friends. Then one day I was leaving the building to walk to the university and I noticed one of my friends leaving the garage with a BMW Z3 M. Not familiar? At the time it was one of the best BMWs around, with almost 300hp. Below is a picture.

Needless to say I was shocked when I saw the scene. I approached him and said something like “What the heck dude! You never told me you had a Z3 M!”.

Right after that I obviously questioned him regarding how he managed to buy one, since he apparently was just a student. He told me that he made money buying and selling stuff on a site called eBay. I was surprised, but that was it. I guess at the time all I cared about was partying and having fun (I was 19 after all), so I didn’t pay too much attention to my friend’s entrepreneurial endeavors.

Looking back I wish I had acted differently. That is, I wish I had gone to my friend and said something like “OK, you obviously have something working for you here. You figured something out that other people haven’t, with amazing results. I want that too. Would you be so kind to teach me?”

I am sure my friend would’ve been flattered with such an attitude from my part, and that he would’ve done his best to teach me all he knew about the eBay stuff he was working on. I am also sure I would be making 7 figures annually by now if I had started doing online marketing back in 2002….

Why I am telling you this story? To illustrate the point that learning directly from other people who already achieved what you want to achieve is one of the best ways to succeed, and yet few of us do it.

And here is the interesting part: I don’t think that convincing people to mentor you is that hard. You just need to show you REALLY want it, and that you are willing to do what it takes. The easiest way to do this is probably to find someone in your own city or country, and try to build a relationship. You could start it over the web, but sooner or later you would need to take it to a personal level. Invite the person for a beer, ask if you can pay him a visit some day to see his office and the behind the scenes of his websites and so on. You get the idea.

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