A lot of people have been asking how they can create an ebook cover likes the ones below. While you can purchase software to do this, the easiest way is to hire an ebook cover designer – which you can do for under $10!

f you have ever been looking to create your own ebook then you would have also searched for some creative ebook covers which you could use as inspiration for your design – whether you are designing it or getting someone else too.

I have compiled a list of 30 Creative Ebook Covers

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I know that there is a lot of controversy on the Alexa Rank and how accurate it is or isn’t, and while I do have a toolbar that let’s me see the Alexa ranking of the websites that I visit -but I always take the ratings with a pinch of salt. While I love to see my blogs Alexa ratings constantly improving, I definitely do not lose any sleep over it as there are a lot of flaws to their system.

That being said, you can definitely learn a lot about your visitors from Alexa, and I believe that these statistics will help you target your blog posts towards the demographic of readers that your blog attracts.

The statistics that I am talking about are in the Demographic Tab of your Alexa site information page:

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I just wanted to send out a quick notice to all my readers, letting them know of something that I have been brewing up through my email list.

Having just come off the back of a $750 blog sale, I am ready to kick it up a notch and I am wanting a limited number of you to come on the journey with me.

What I am proposing is a Blog Flipping Challenge, where we  will each create and work on our own blogs to flip but will also work together sharing our knowledge and expertise to benefit the group as a whole. I already have 7 people who are interested in being a part of the challenge and I am looking for maybe 3 or 4 more – and that is it (so be quick if you are interested).

Here is a few excerpts of the email I send to those interested, that will fill you in on what I’m looking at launching:

Blog Flip Challenge Vision:
To see a small selection of bloggers working on their own individual blogs but helping each other to achieve long term success – resulting in a
successful blog sale (or the decision to keep the blog to further develop).

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If you would like this to be your blog next week then visit our “Free Blog Review” page and put your entry in!

This weeks Stand Out Blog is:

Blogussion.com

If you have been around blog about blogging niche for any time you are sure to have heard about Blogussion. Alex and Seth have just done some tweaking to their design and when I saw their entry I was excited to see what input I could offer.

So let’s kick things off with the design and aesthetics, as this is the area they have most recently changed, and pull the design apart and see what they are doing well and maybe just a couple of little things that could be tweaked.

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I am constantly browsing the blogosphere, seeing my regular blog reads and seeing a lot of new blogs. The problem that I run into with the majority of these blogs is that they are average.

Now don’t get me wrong, most of them have great content and there is nothing technically wrong – they just don’t grab my attention. So what is it that makes people stop and take notice of your blog? What will be the thing that takes your blog to the next level?

I have found 7 things that will help you take your blog from ordinary to a blog that stands out and grabs your attention by the collar.

So read on and I encourage you to take just one of these ideas and start to implement it into your blog – and just watch and see how it changes the way people see your blog. read this entry »