Now let’s look at other organizations you, your business and, of course, your community can benefit from by your involvement, but not in that order.

Service Clubs: There are three major service clubs that come to mind, and I’m sure you are familiar with them to some degree already: Rotary International, Kiwanis International and Lions International.

However, don’t just run off and join largest club in your area just because it’s one that gets most media coverage. As a matter of fact, you shouldn’t be joining a service club at all for sole purposes of promoting your business. You should be joining because it is right thing to do. The benefits, and there will be benefits, will come indirectly.

Each of above mentioned organizations have a main charity or area of interest as a national or worldwide project. Lions International for example is recognized worldwide for their service to blind and visually impaired. Kiwanis’ motto is "Serving Children of World", and Rotary has had as a long-term goal of worldwide eradication of polio. Of course, all these organizations are many years old and have branched out into a number of other humanitarian efforts as well. Beyond national organization’s each local club usually has their own projects and objectives.

Fraternal Organizations: Now that you have joined Chamber of Commerce and are looking at service clubs, you may also want to consider Fraternal Organizations. The first three that come to mind are: The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Moose International and Fraternal Order of Eagles. Like service clubs, all three of these organizations are national or international with local clubs. However, also like service clubs, there may me others or an independent fraternal organization in your area that is more suited for you and your interests.

Sounds too good to be true, right? There must be a catch!

You're absolutely right, there is a catch! No one is going to just hand you a fully functional blog that's all set up and ready to make money--for free.

No way! You're going to have to pay for it! But we'll get to cost later on.

Right now, we want to explain to you what a blog is and why you should have one yourself:

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write content on an ongoing basis. As you add content to your blog, new posts are automatically positioned on top of previous posts, so your visitors can see "what's new." Then they can comment on it or link to it or e-mail you if they choose to do so.

A blog can be a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts.

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

A blog is often a combination of what's happening in someone's personal and business life and what is happening on web--a kind of high-tech, hybrid diary/guide site--and there are seemingly as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

Although, you've probably only recently started hearing about blogs, individuals actually maintained blogs long before term was coined or became popular--but trend gained momentum with introduction of automated published systems, most notably Google's Blogger at blogger.com.

Thousands of individuals use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate publishing process.

Blogs are also called web logs or weblogs. However, name "blog" is less confusing, because "web log" can also mean a server's log files.

So, how does having a blog benefit you?

After copywriting, single most important element to owning an Internet business, without a doubt, is ability to generate targeted traffic.

That's because, after copywriting, single most important ingredient of any commercial website is.... a hungry audience with money to spend.