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We all work on lots of pages and offers. I have a spreadsheet which keeps all of this toegether. I have a spreadsheet and one of the tabs of this spreasheet is “Links to Build”. Often we get excited about the next shiny thing and the pages and reviews that we were promoting before just get left by the wayside. I can tell you this is a really big deal.

I went through all of my blogs to look at what reviews that I have as well as other landing pages and I found about 40 different offers that I have not bothered building at all. This is not Amazon book reviews or anything but instead are higher paying affiliate links to CJ, Linkshare, Clickbank, and Health Buy (Joe Bucks).

Having links in one place was very useful to me. When I get itching to build some content and write some articles I would be looking through the computer or blogs for the link I wanted to promote and often this would take longer than the actual writing of the article. Not Good.

You can just put the links to your money pages either in a spreadsheet or in just a text document with the link text that you would like to use as one string. You know how to set this up <a href=”http://pagename”>link text</a>. Once you have this you can drop it into a page easily without having to format

One of the terrible ways in which I make myself crazy is by scrambling around all day and then in the end only seeing a few things done in the day that make the difference.

In order to change things up and become more profitable I have made a few changes lately that have made me more productive and working a lot better.

I talked about this in my last post but wanted to find a way to get myself productive and lately have been very singleminded about getting things to work better. To this end I have decided only to look at work as those critical pieces that will make a difference to my business. So what are the keys to my business?

Creating content
Creating backlinks to my content
Site Building

Everything else, and I really mean everything else is not really working but is instead not critical business stuff but is just secondary. Now we all know that we have to keep up to speed with our industry, research new topics, read news. But lets look at those critical three parts of building your income online. Read the rest of this entry »

Headline says a lot but it is in fact true. We all know how hard it is to build an online business. All the big hitters and gurus make is sound like it is really easy to make money appear out of thin air but we all know that his is not true.

So how would you be able to change you business overnight?

If I look at my day and what I actually achieve there is only one thing that really matters. Building backlinks to my content and building the content itself.

I have run across a couple of principles that are easy but true and that you can implement in your day planning or week planning and will give you more control.

The first principle is the 80/20 rule. We all know this rule but never really take advantage of it. Here is how you can take advantage of this right now. 80% of your income will come from only 20% of your content, pages, and sadly, your time. This means that all of that surfing for ideas. researching and everything else that is not building your personal inventory of links and content is wasted time. I spend a lot of time split testing, blog theme tweaking, and pissing around and I have to say that all of this time is completely wasted. Read the rest of this entry »

This is an important bit of info and a caution that you may not be doing what you should be doing to try and “convince” your buyers to buy.

Do you know anything about the Know, Like and Trust method of getting closer to your clients and ultimately selling them?

We are always told that hate best way to get people to buy is to talk about them. This may often be true but in this day of text, podcast, and video marketing you have an opportunity to get everyone to see you as the source of the best information

Start a Relationship

Well there are three steps in your relationship with your buyers. The first step is to let them know you. You have to open up and let the people know that you are just like them, you came from the same humble beginnings and the show them snippets of what you did to become more successful. Whether you are in the fitness niche with the weight loss or muscle gain or the internet marketing niche coming from nothing and eventually striking it rich you are the same as them before and at the place that your buyer wants to be now. Read the rest of this entry »

Not sure exactly what to call this post but Jeff Johnson is a guy that I have been following for a couple of years. Who is Jeff Johnson? Apparently the Internet Marketing gurus SEO guru (the concept makes me nervous, but that is just me). And guys like Frank Kern, Eban Pagan, and John Reese have all used Jeff for their sites over the years and I have watched (by email and forums) as he has created a couple of products for free and also of course a home study course for SEO for marketers. I am on a couple of different mailing lists and have run across Jeffs stuff a lot.

In between product launches though I tend to sometimes find little nuggets of stuff coming from Jeff Johnson and today I found a new one.

Most people like using Wordpress for the leverage that it can give you in the search angines. One of the great things with Wordpress is that you can make sitewide changes really easily by just using easy to use plugins and today I use All-in-one SEO to optimize all of my pages on all of my sites.

Anyway, getting back to what Jeff designed here. There is a new plugin that Jeff has had designed that leverages some of the plugins that you already use or can use in Wordpress and this new SEO plugin will optimize setting for some of your existing plugins. You can get the plugin here, and once you confirm your account and get the free plugin you install and run the wizrd and it will optimize your plugins and install of wordpress.

I have this plugin running on three of my best performing blogs that get a total of about 2000 visitors a day and will report back as to the difference in traffic that I get.

I am always seeing on forums where people are looking for a free script to use for an autoresponder. If you are looking for a free autoresponder you are definitly not alone.

A few years back I was trying to do everything myself. I had my sites hosted for free on IIS and Apache at home and I used a free script for an autoresponder. Everything seemed to be working quite well but one of the many problems that I was running into was a crapload of work to try to understand the script, trying to make autporesponder messages work, testing messages and of course learning the copywriting that would get my messages read and sell the products that I was promoting.

In the end I realized that the two parts that were really taking up the most time in my business were the autoresponder learning curve and figuring out how to port scripts to my Windows install of apache and IIS.

I gave it up.

When I started telling my wife about wanting to get hosting and that is would cost us $10 per month and all the work I was doing getting my basement “free hosting” to work she thought I was crazy and we moved onto a real hosting company first I tried Your Site and then when I hit limitations I moved to 1 and 1 Internet to host my sites. I can now install wordpress, forums, subdomains, and I know that I have great uptime and linux server guys committed to keeping my sites as optimized as possible.

A few months later I used the same argument, or my wife used the same argument to me, that I should move to a proper paid autoresponder instead of a free autoresponder. In researching I found that the two most popular autoresponder systems were Aweber and Get Response. I opted for Get Response.

So what did I get with a paid autoresponder that I did not get with a free service? I didn’t have to deal with message formatting, I had guaranteed deliverability, I stopped needing to manually unsubscribe people, and best of all I now have a dozen autoresponders and all I need to do is decide what I want to send out and everything is taken care of by the pros that know how to make the service work. All for under $20 per month, that is not much of an investment considering how much you get.

I have been struggling a bit with keyword research for my different niches and letely have been using Google Adwords Keyword Search to find new keywords and then doing a search of the keyword phrase in ” ” in Google to see how much competiton that I have and I use the SEO book Firefox extension to get the relative strength of each of those sites.

Well this is a bit too manual for my taste and I am always looking at a way to automate any of my processes so that I am spending more time creating content and less time working on keyword research, lets face it most people, especially me will spend way more time looking for keywords and niches than creating content and I consider myself really good when creating a lot of content.

Micro Niche Finder vs Market Samurai

In looking for more tools I ran across Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder. Market Samurai seems to me anyway to be more focussed on finding Google Adwords keywords and Micros Niche Finder is more focussed on finding keywords and phrases for articles and affiliate blogs or landing pages. I know this is not fair at all becasue they both do the same thing just in different ways. Also Market Samurai costs $149 and Micro Niche Finder is only $97. I know that cost should not matter as both products will make you many more times their investment cost if you are to use them but I am again very cheap.

So I decided to buy Micro Niche Finder. Micros Niche Finder is an app that you buy and sits on your computer. The basic way that you will use Micro Niche Finder is to type in a keyword and then you will get results from Google on related keywords and phrases and can drill down right in the interface without andy manual processes, you can get the following for any and all of these keywords: Read the rest of this entry »

A few months ago I was talking to my family about my internet marketing business and when they found out what I make they wanted me to set them up a site… Not so easy I told them, what I have learned has taken year but there is so much that I have wasted in time but fortunately not money.

So how much does it cost to start an internet business from your basement. Well let’s look at what I think that you need. I thin k that these are real costs. Real to me and therefore realistic for anyone starting out.

Computer – Almost any computer will do. I have a three year old computer and all I wish I had more of was screen real estate. I look longingly at 30 inch LCD monitors but realistically the 17 inch monitor works fine. Read the rest of this entry »

As a tech guy the term fanboy get bandied around quite a bit. Microsoft Fanboy, Apple Fanboy, heck there are even fanboys for individual kinds of video cards.

Well I may be a Chris Rempel fanboy….

Chris Rempel is a guy whos stuff I ran into a little while ago. Chris calls himself the Lazy Marketer and I think that he really isn’t but his processes are made to cut through all of the crap that we keep ourselves busy with and instead make sure that what we do is focussed on money making pursuits in affiliate marketing.

I have seen all of the product launches in internet marketing over the last 5 years or so and early on I was really sad that I could not buy them. Traffic Secrets, Butterfly Marketing, the Jeff Johnson stuff. But what I found after a while was that all of these $1000+ or even $2995 programs where mostly about the hype and tried to offer everything at the same time probably giving those poor buyers nothing but confusion and a lack of direction and a mad spouse.

Well that is another reason that I am liking Chris’s stuff All of the reports are only 12-30 pages and cost 10 to 20 bucks. I am really cheap and will read all of the free content on the internet but there is something speciual about buying a short, concise report that will teach you one thing well and give you an action plan so that you can start to make money right away.

I don’t know if I have done a very good job of selling you on the Chris Rempel Lazy Marketer system but if you want to see his nice short salespages these are the programs that I have bought so far.

Confessions of a lazy super affiliate

Confessions of a lazy super affiliate was actually a long read. This ebook was actually 62 pages and covers everything that is Chris’s lazy affiliate system. It was a long read and covered the following:

• Part 1: How to Identify and Tap Into Massive, Existing Demand
• Part 2: The Real Difference Between Making Pocket Change – or a Fortune
• Part 3: Instant, Free Traffic Has Never Been Easier…
• Part 4: The Honest Truth About SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Part 5: Drastically Increase Affiliate Income By Creating Your Own Products
• Part 6: Duplication Strategies For Multiplying Revenues Easily
• Conclusion: My Final Rant
• Resources: Tools of the Trade (Not the Usual Crap)

The chapter titles are really intriguing and the book itself was a long read for me as it deals with using a very step by step process for building many affiliate businesses. I took a couple of days to really get though this book and implemented it immediately.

The Conduit Method

I covered this in an earlier post when there was a great Webinar that I attended but the Conduit Method was able to work for me right away. I was lucky with the one of the first five products that I marketed and made about $1000 in the first three months of this year from just one review formatted correctly with some great backlinks. All covered in detail in the Conduit Method.

Here is what the Conduit Method book covers in only 13 pages:

Introduction – Why “Conventional” Affiliate Marketing is Hard
Part 1 – The Conduit Method – Explained
Part 2 – The Conduit Method – Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Part 3 – The Conduit Method – How To Get Started NOW
Part 4 – Some Technical Considerations & Suggestions

The book costed me $14.95 and even as cheap as I am I found the book great. I always feel nervous about short books but really I could put out a book full of crap and make is over a couple hundred pages and still not cover anything well. Chris has a whole system in 13 pages that you can read and understand in an hour and create a site based on this new knowledge within a night.

Fantastic stuff that Chris offers.

So after reading this post I hope you can see now why I am a Chris Rempel fanboy.

Have you seen the Shamwow guy? His name is Vince and he is the actual owner of the product not just the TV face for it. I found a Youtube video of the commercial in case you have no idea of what Shamwow is.

OK, so you have probably seen the commercial but to know a bit about Vince I also found an interview that he did with CNBC a while back.

I really hated Sham Wow guy the first couple times that I saw the commercial, he seems to be a huckster and really aggresive in selling his product. Now that I have watched the commercial lots of times and had my daughter like it a lot I now have a different view of the whole phenomenon.

People hate to be sold and always have their guard up to a sales pitch, at least I tend to be that way. I think that Vince brings this to another level. We all know what a commercial is supposed to do, sell us it’s product, and instead of working on a buyers emotions Vince is really coming right out and selling hard, and aggressivly, selling benefits and features at the same time and this has apparently been very popular.

Another effective tool that Vince uses is the lower quality video and talking to the camera man, fast, and again showing the features like he is selling steak knives in the 80s.

Take a look at the video again and see what you think as a salesperson and marketer and not a buyer. It is really great