Over the last couple years there are two things I've learned that really stick out for me. They are the two lessons that have really changed the way I look at designing and building sites. 1. The more specific you can be the better. 2. Physical products sell. All of my work in Squidoo really helped me learned these lessons ~ on a free platform where I didn't have anything to lose. I've taken the information I learned there and applied it to virtual real estate I own. (wordpress … [Read more...]
Commission Ritual ~ Your Best Bet For Micro Niche Sites
March 1, 2010 By 34 Comments
Last week I asked people what they wanted to learn next. I got a lot of responses for how to build micro niche sites. I'm always telling you to pick things to write about/do sites about that interest you. I'm going to have to take my own advice on this one. Here's my deal. I totally get micro niche sites, why they work, how they work, how to build them and all that, but they just aren't for me. I can't get past buying a new domain for every single keyword I want to target. It just doesn't … [Read more...]
But… How Do I Get Traffic?
February 19, 2010 By 26 Comments
Yesterday I asked what you all would like to learn about next on this blog. To my surprise I got a lot of ... How do I get traffic? Which surprised me a little lot since I just spent an entire month showing you different ways to get traffic. :) So there must be a piece that is missing. I'm not sure what it is, but I've got a couple ideas and I'm going to cover them in this post. (I had a post about getting traffic with video planned for today ~ but it's getting pushed to Monday). What's … [Read more...]
What’s Next for Us? Please Let Me Know!
February 18, 2010 By 53 Comments
Next week is the end of the month and my editorial calendar for this blog is well... not done much past Feb. :) So I'm asking you what you all want to learn next. There's been some requests for learning about building lists and creating reports. You want to go there or do you want to do something else? Other options are (but not limited to) monetizing a site building an authority site micro niche sites we could do more on keyword research we could do more on linking (but … [Read more...]
Jimmy D Brown is Retiring All His Products
February 16, 2010 By 14 Comments
Wow ~ that was a crazy email to get to today. I am an affiliate of Jimmy D. Brown. I am on week 43 of the 52 week Affiliatenaire course (and it's quite good) so it makes me really sad to see him take all his products off the shelf. He sent me an email as an affiliate and in it provided a prewritten email to use to send to my list or on my blog. Now normally I would never use one of these prewritten things ~ but as I read through it, it said exactly what I would have said if I'd written it … [Read more...]
Super Affiliate Handbook Review
February 9, 2010 By 18 Comments
Let me just start off by saying I didn't buy this ebook for many years. The title alone made me think it was going to be a hype filled book with nothing of substance. I mean really ~ super affililiate? Who really attains super affiliate status? Is there really such a thing? Well YES. There is, and Rosalind Gardner is one of them and has written this book to show how she did it. A super affiliate is a person who is the top earner for a company they promote. Rosalind carries that title … [Read more...]
What’s the 1 Thing I Can Do To Start Making Sales?
January 16, 2010 By 9 Comments
This is a question I get asked a lot. The problem with this question is this: there are many different answers because what 1 thing you could do is totally dependant on WHERE you are in your business. I have been waffling lately because quite frankly I don't think there is 1 thing you can do ~ I think all of this is so interconnected that the 1 thing you can do is put together a system and keep repeating the system. Let's look at it though. Where you are: You have no content and you're … [Read more...]
Having the Eyes of a Marketer
January 12, 2010 By 15 Comments
There comes a point in every marketers life where their point of view changes. They quit looking at the world and sales letters with the question "what can this product teach me", and they move to the question "what can this process teach me". It's a huge distinction, and when you get there it can be amazing! I rarely if ever buy products just because of the sales letter/sales process. I generally buy products now that I need to work the internet marketing strategy that I'm working, make it … [Read more...]
How to Stay Organized in Your Affiliate Marketing Business
December 11, 2009 By 28 Comments
photo credit: dhilgart I know I said we were going to cover installing wordpress today, but I really wanted to talk about how to stay organized in your business ~ well more than how to stay organized, I want to talk to you about creating a system of organization for yourself and your business. If there was one thing I could go back and do differently it would be this one element of my business. I did not even THINK about an orgnizational system until I was in the thick of things, couldn't … [Read more...]
Let’s Get to Know Each Other!
Social media gives me the opportunity to get to know you better, as well as giving me the opportunity to share more of me than just the "internet marketing" side. I share multiple facets of me, and my life on social media, so if you choose to connect with me don't expect it to be 100% internet marketing... because it's not. :)