This book is gold. It took me over a month to finish reading the last book. I finished Speedwealth by T. Harv Eker in one day. The previous book was 176 pages and this one had 75 pages of content. But I just could not put it down.

The book states on the front cover “How To Make A Million In Your Own Business In 3 Years Or Less.” I believe that if you practice the principles set forth in this text, that it is possible. It will take commitment to the principles. But I believe it is doable.

T. Harv Eker, lays out some simple, no nonsense principles to learn and follow. They are the same principles that he has used over and over to earn him millions. He teaches that everything is learnable, including success and the ability to generate wealth. I am following his principles and suggest that you get a copy of this book and do the same.

T. Harv Eker wrote another book that I wrote about, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. This text is not required to understand Speedwealth. But it does work well in conjunction with it to give you a better overall understanding. Both books have made profound changes in my professional and personal lives. I have no reservations recommending that you read them both.

I just finished reading How to Buy & Sell a Business by Garrett Sutton, Esq. He is a corporate attorney that writes for the Rich Dad’s Advisors series of books.

If you plan on buying or selling a business, this book is a must read. It is clear, concise and setup logically to easily find the information you are looking for. You will find all of the procedures, pitfalls, and information you need whether you are approaching the endeavor as a buyer or a seller. The appendices have detailed checklists, sample letters, and useful websites.

In my opinion, this book should be viewed from the perspective of usage like a dictionary or encyclopedia. In other words, I wouldn’t recommend it for casual reading. But I would have it on the shelf for utilization as a quick reference.

If you are planning on buying or selling a business, buy a copy of this book first. A few dollars invested in your education beforehand can save you a fortune and a lot of heartache down the road.

I recently joined the Rich Life Club. The monthly subscription is $20 per month. I will admit that when I joined, I was skeptical about the membership returning $20 worth of value to me. Other sites have promised value and failed to deliver. I was pleasantly surprised by the Rich Life Club. The audio and video archives alone are worth the $20 per month. You will spend more than that on one audio book. Click the banner on the left and give it a try.

Customer service is a vital role to all businesses. Typically, the better your company performs excellent customer service the more revenue you earn. Our friends over at The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur have put together a list of 60 helpful customer service tips. No one expects you to learn them all in one day. So take it easy and start with the first one on the list. Practice the first one all day. Then the second on the next day, etc. Repetition and action will make these items second nature. Read the list and get started.

Up to now, we have covered the first four parts of this series: setting up your blog, customizing your blog, writing your blog, and monetizing your blog. Now we will cover part 5, the final piece of this series: generating traffic.

There are many ways to generate traffic to your blog. The first and foremost way is to send out an email to your friends, family, and colleagues. Ask them to subscribe and to please invite at least one other person that they think will benefit from the information that you post.

Another way is reciprocal support. Seek out and find blogs that can compliment the content that you produce. After finding the sites, ask the site owner to do a link exchange on their blogroll. Be selective. It is better to be listed on a few high quality sites than many low quality sites.

When you write a post about a particular product, service, or person, contact the appropriate representative and notify them of it. Invite the person or company to review your post and comment as they deem necessary. You will be surprised at how many people will visit your site and continue to read your posts, simply because you wrote about them, their product, or their service and you did so without provocation or anticipated compensation.

In part 2, I listed the All In One SEO Pack as a recommended plugin. After each post, fill this information out. Put the title of your post in the Title Box of the All In One SEO Pack. Then copy the first sentence or two of your post and paste it into the Description Box. And lastly, fill in the keywords in the Keyword Box. The keywords should be 4 or 5 words or phrases that you would search for if you were looking for the post you just wrote.

Create social networking profiles for your blog. Head over to MySpace and Facebbok and create profiles for your blog. Seek out and invite people, that may be interested in your content, to be your Friend from within each social network. Ensure that you place many links and references back to your blog. Remember, these particular profiles are to promote your blog, not you personally. And don’t forget to update your LinkedIn profile while you are at it. If you do not have one, create one and be sure to list your blog as one of your websites.

List your blog on Blog Top Sites, Delicious, Digg, Technorati, and Simply Headlines. This will put your blog into public lists and make it more accessible for others to find it. Another plugin from part 2 can help facilitate the increase of your rank on these sites, AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget. This allows your current readership to bookmark your site or just that post and save it to many different public bookmarking sites. The more your site is recommended, the more visible it becomes. The more visible it becomes, the more readers you acquire. The more readers your acquire, the more your site is recommended. You can see how this cycle grows.

Create a Feedburner account (if you did not create one in part 2), Widgetbox account, and a Conduit account. The first two will allow you to create widgets that you can place on your social networking sites, as part of your email signature, and allow others to add the widget to their site. The last one will allow you to create your own downloadable toolbar for Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Comment on other people’s blogs. Normally their commenting system will allow you to leave your name, email address (normally kept private), and website. This will allow people who read those blogs and pay attention to the comments, to find you and possibly become your reader as well. If you didn’t sign up and install the Intense Debate plugin in part 2, be sure to at least create an Intense Debate profile. It will allow you to login to many blogs (including this one) and leave your comments. Others can easily find your blogs, as well as other blogs you read and comment on.

And last, but not least, you can pay for it. You can pay for Google, MSN, or Yahoo advertisements. In addition, you can put an ad in your newspaper, have your blog listed in a trade magazine, pay other blogs to list your blog, pay highly read bloggers to review your site, or target specific readers with Simply Headlines (the same place that I recommend that you at least list your site with).

There is a veritable cornucopia of options for generating traffic for your blog, but these are the most common ones. If you have others ways and tactics, please share them with us. With that, this concludes our 5 part series on Get Started Blogging.