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How to Start Affiliate Marketing
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Monday, September 9, 2013
Carolina Robin and Pajama Affiliates!
Greeting my fellow affiliate and internet marketers. Many know me as Carolina Robin. I haven't posted here in a long long time. Mostly because I have other ventures that I have created in the world of Internet Marketing. I have created my own product, Pajama Affiliates and also have a full blown website and very active forum in my niche of choice. Carolina Robin has been very busy!
I have now been at this for 4 years. In late 2011 my business was beginning to boom. I had my first ever 10.000 dollar month and it just kept going. Life was good. I was doing that on mostly Squidoo alone, though I had just gotten my site for women up and running. Then those zoo animals were let out of the gate, The Panda and The Penguin, and Squidoo took a hit and made some major changes.
My money dropped. I didn't let this get me discouraged as I have had some major setbacks before. My first site for women was hacked and it was rocking and rolling at the time. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as my new site, lovegirltalk, is by far superior.
I still use Squidoo and still consider it an excellent training ground and great for driving traffic, but mostly, my new content now goes to my sites and not Squidoo.
It's been a long road, but the money is coming in again and this time I expect to top that10,000 month! My product, Pajama Affiliates is still out there where I teach newbies how to get up and running in affiliate marketing. I am also working on updating it, as I have learned so much more since I created it.
Anyway, just dropping in here adding some fresh content and to let you know what I have been up to. To those reading this, don't give up. Look at obstacles and setbacks as an opportunity and just keep pushing forward. You can find my new blog at Pajama Affiliates or if you are a woman seeking dating or relationship advice, you can find me at lovegirltalk!
Adios for now,
Carolina Robin
I have now been at this for 4 years. In late 2011 my business was beginning to boom. I had my first ever 10.000 dollar month and it just kept going. Life was good. I was doing that on mostly Squidoo alone, though I had just gotten my site for women up and running. Then those zoo animals were let out of the gate, The Panda and The Penguin, and Squidoo took a hit and made some major changes.
My money dropped. I didn't let this get me discouraged as I have had some major setbacks before. My first site for women was hacked and it was rocking and rolling at the time. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as my new site, lovegirltalk, is by far superior.
I still use Squidoo and still consider it an excellent training ground and great for driving traffic, but mostly, my new content now goes to my sites and not Squidoo.
It's been a long road, but the money is coming in again and this time I expect to top that10,000 month! My product, Pajama Affiliates is still out there where I teach newbies how to get up and running in affiliate marketing. I am also working on updating it, as I have learned so much more since I created it.
Anyway, just dropping in here adding some fresh content and to let you know what I have been up to. To those reading this, don't give up. Look at obstacles and setbacks as an opportunity and just keep pushing forward. You can find my new blog at Pajama Affiliates or if you are a woman seeking dating or relationship advice, you can find me at lovegirltalk!
Adios for now,
Carolina Robin
Monday, September 17, 2012
Does Affiliate Marketing Work?
For those who have followed this blog since I began 3 years ago, I am here to tell you that yes, affiliate marketing works. What's even better is there really is no ceiling on what you can earn with affiliate marketing. Some say you need a blue print or a plan to follow. I am not so sure. Most of what I have created from my intuition has far exceeded any blue print that I have followed.
I have been told so many things about what will work and what won't work til it's mind boggling. There is always the next best thing to come along and tempt us. I have been told you must have a list. I have been told you must have a website. I have been told you can't make money on Squidoo. I have been told that to have anything, you must work hard. So many rules.
When I first started affiliate marketing, I believed all these things. The fact is, most of them just aren't true. What I am trying to say is to follow your own path and let go of what everyone else is doing. I had a little success in the beginning, but it wasn't until I let go of these beliefs of others that I truly began to see success.
It really is up to you and your degree of commitment and how willing you are to learn from yes, your mistakes. Last month my website was hacked and it is just gone! Strange thing happened, I focused on Squidoo as opposed to trying to figure out what I wanted to do about the site. First time ever, my income generated from Squidoo was right at 8 grand. Not bad for a site I was told would never make me any money huh?
I would say the biggest secret to my success has been to turn those obstacles in my life into opportunities. I am rebuilding my site and I see a much bigger picture with it this time around. I really can't wait!
If you stick this affiliate marketing thing out, be prepared, all the things you will learn, all the people that you meet and of course the money you can make will just blow you away! Yes affiliate marketing is for real and yes it works!
I have been told so many things about what will work and what won't work til it's mind boggling. There is always the next best thing to come along and tempt us. I have been told you must have a list. I have been told you must have a website. I have been told you can't make money on Squidoo. I have been told that to have anything, you must work hard. So many rules.
When I first started affiliate marketing, I believed all these things. The fact is, most of them just aren't true. What I am trying to say is to follow your own path and let go of what everyone else is doing. I had a little success in the beginning, but it wasn't until I let go of these beliefs of others that I truly began to see success.
It really is up to you and your degree of commitment and how willing you are to learn from yes, your mistakes. Last month my website was hacked and it is just gone! Strange thing happened, I focused on Squidoo as opposed to trying to figure out what I wanted to do about the site. First time ever, my income generated from Squidoo was right at 8 grand. Not bad for a site I was told would never make me any money huh?
I would say the biggest secret to my success has been to turn those obstacles in my life into opportunities. I am rebuilding my site and I see a much bigger picture with it this time around. I really can't wait!
If you stick this affiliate marketing thing out, be prepared, all the things you will learn, all the people that you meet and of course the money you can make will just blow you away! Yes affiliate marketing is for real and yes it works!
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Adding Clickbank Links In Squidoo
Affiliate Programs are Everywhere
When it comes to finding products to promote online, the sky is the
limit. These affiliate opportunities are everywhere. I see many here at
Squidoo that use Amazon, but Amazon is just one in probably a million
options. Now that I am a full time affiliate marketer, I find myself
checking almost all sites I visit for an affiliate program. It's usually
all the way at the bottom of a site where you will find a link that
says affiliates. I have registered with so many that I have forgotten
about a lot of them.
I have recently quit smoking and was googling electronic cigarettes the
other day. Practically all electronic cigarette companies have an
affiliate program. Best Buy
has an affiliate program, how cool is that. Dell you know the computer
people, well they have an affiliate program complete with banners and
tools.
When I search for affiliate programs, I simply google the product that I
want to promote with the word "affiliate" behind it and ta da, usually I
find what I am looking for.
Not all affiliate programs however are created equal. I usually check
them out before I join one. I search for reviews and take into
consideration how professional the site is or is not.
One of the first products I ever purchased and promoted was Pot Pie Girl's One Week Marketing which is why I am such a Squidoo Fan! It works. Another great guide that I am checking out is Squidoo Shortcuts, I have heard great reviews on this.
The Truth About Clickbank and Squidoo
Amazon is not the only way to earn money at Squidoo.
There are so
many digital marketplaces such as Commission Junction, Clickbank,
Payloads, E-Junkie to name just a few. Clickbank is my personal
favorite. There are endless possibilities. At Squidoo though, I have
heard many refer to these digital
marketplaces such as Clickbank as taboo. I think it's because many
spammers got a hold of
it and just used it all wrong trying to make a sale. That's a shame
because there is a lot of money to be made at these other market
places, including Clickbank.
I was talking with a fellow Squid the other day and his view was that
clickbank had low quality products and he wouldn't promote crap. This
really isn't true. There are some really good products on in the
marketplace. If I am going to promote a product from from this market
place, I purchase it and review it first. This way you can have
confidence in the products that you promote.
I make good money with multiple affiliate centers. My last paycheck just
from Clickbank was just short of 3 grand. I am not writing this to be
bragging, I am writing this to hopefully help others make more money by
offering quality content when it comes to promoting and reviewing these
digital products. If I can make 3 grand now in a two week period,
imagine what I will be making a year from now if I just keep doing what I
am doing.
Many give up when they don't see fast results. That I believe is the
reason most fail with these digital products. I have had one digital
product that I was promoting that did nothing for a year. One day I woke
up and it seems Google had just found it overnight. There are many
factors that play into this and the Google ranking games.
Domain age name, fresh quality content and keyword research and search
engine optimization all make a difference in how successful you will or
will not be. If you can learn to master these things, you will make
sales, that and a little patience.
How To Add Clickbank Links in Squidoo
There are numerous ways to add your affiliate links into a Squidoo Lens.
The first and easiest way is by adding the Big Arrow Module in the edit
mode. Then you simply copy and paste your link there, give the module a
title paste your link and you are done.
Another way is the link module. It works much the same way as the Big
Arrow. There is also a reorder option so that you can add more than one
link to more than one product. Creating a lens with no valuable content
and just links though won't work with Squidoo. They really do want some
valuable content. I usually write at least three original text modules
with topics that relate to the product and place the link last after my
text modules.
There is always the option of linking certain words in your text modules
to your hoplinks or other affiliate products with a simple html code.
Squidoo does not have a WYSIWYG editor in it's text modules but you can
use html instead, creating anchor text links. Simply Google "creating
anchor text links and you will find instructions. I can't post the code
here as Squidoo reads it and converts it to a link instead of the actual
code to use.
Remember this though. Huge caution here. Don't over stuff your links in
your lens. This is when it turns to spam. I never link the same product
more than 2 or 3 times in a lens. It only takes once to make a sale.
Linking to more than one product on a lens though is certainly an
option. Always read the terms of service before you create your lens to
avoid issues later on.
Below is a short Video with step by step instructions how to add clickbank automatically using Squiduitls.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Marketing Online to Your Local Market
I am an affiliate marketer and most of my money is earned on Squidoo. Lately Squidoo has been making some changes and at first it scared me. I had a lens locked and I thought oh my, what if they all were locked and I had to start over. Silly fear I know, but change happens. Then I realized something. I have the knowledge to go out and make money in so many other ways. The first way I am going to talk about it local marketing.
This weekend I decided I wanted a massage. I have never had a massage. I googled Massage, followed by the city I live in. Boy was I shocked that there were tons of businesses in the yellow pages and other directories, but very few had their own site up. I don't know about you, but I am more apt to buy when I can actually see where it is I am going, not to mention it's nice to know the prices in advance. There was hardly nothing there.
Then I thought, wow, I know how to build a one page site for these places and I know how to target keywords and I know about Search Engine Optimization. So why can't I go out and market this service to small businesses? Then I found a product by pot pie girl that teaches exactly how to do this. It's called Power 3 Marketing.
Once you learn about marketing online, there really are no limits to the streams of income you can create. I am also becoming a distributor for another product that is multi level marketing. Many do multi level marketing the traditional way, but sharing the opportunity in real life. Since I am now self trained in internet marketing I can share my opportunity via online and litereally reach thousand of potential customers all over the world.
The moral here is once you learn how to online market, there really are no limits as to the money you can make. You can have income streams everywhere.
My exciting journey started here with this one product and I will never ever have to work at a JOB again.
This weekend I decided I wanted a massage. I have never had a massage. I googled Massage, followed by the city I live in. Boy was I shocked that there were tons of businesses in the yellow pages and other directories, but very few had their own site up. I don't know about you, but I am more apt to buy when I can actually see where it is I am going, not to mention it's nice to know the prices in advance. There was hardly nothing there.
Then I thought, wow, I know how to build a one page site for these places and I know how to target keywords and I know about Search Engine Optimization. So why can't I go out and market this service to small businesses? Then I found a product by pot pie girl that teaches exactly how to do this. It's called Power 3 Marketing.
Once you learn about marketing online, there really are no limits to the streams of income you can create. I am also becoming a distributor for another product that is multi level marketing. Many do multi level marketing the traditional way, but sharing the opportunity in real life. Since I am now self trained in internet marketing I can share my opportunity via online and litereally reach thousand of potential customers all over the world.
The moral here is once you learn how to online market, there really are no limits as to the money you can make. You can have income streams everywhere.
My exciting journey started here with this one product and I will never ever have to work at a JOB again.
Monday, March 19, 2012
So Many Ways to Make Money Online
There are so many ways to make money online. No wonder the newbie internet marketer often just gives up, it's mind blowing. I know I myself got so overwhelmed when I began about 3 years ago. I fell for many many make money at home programs that just weren't really making me any money. What I am talking about is the standard hyped up programs that promise you riches almost over night. I didn't succeed with these programs though because I think I just didn't feel passionate about them. I lost a lot of money.
I do affiliate marketing, but my eyes lately are being opened to many new ways to make money online. Just a few weeks ago, I needed some fast cash that I could get my hands on pretty quick and didn't want to wait on my payouts on clickbank. On a whim, I posted a beta testing opportunity to teach others how to do what I do and work from home in your pajamas if you wish. Wow! I charged $97 bucks per person and sent out a lesson a day via email. I had 6 new students within 24 hours. That's almost $600, not bad.
This is now turning into another stream of income. I will run one more beta testing and put it all together in pdf or video format and market it. I will also make it available for affiliates once I tweak it out. If you are a newbie and would like to be my guinea pig for $97.00 great. You can send me a message.
The ways to make money online are unlimited. I know some who make money with Amazon alone. I know another that writes these short ebooks and published them on Amazon. I too have a few books on Amazon. My good friend has a book that he sells there for 99 cents a pop, yet makes about 3000 per month on this one little book.
I have another virtual friend who just writes articles and uses a spinner and submitter software. He does this for others and charges for the service. He has more than made up for the cost he spent on this software over and over again.
My next venture is something I found out about today. It's flipping websites. Very similiar to flipping houses, but so much easier. This is something you can do to earn good money in a little as 24 hours. I trust this as it is endorsed by Jenifer, the pot pie girl. You can check it out here.
Speaking of Pot Pie Girl, she is the one that got me into all of this. I bought her product after many failed attempts at making money. I implemented it and yes, I did begin to make money via Squidoo. Squidoo is still my favorite marketing platform, it is so easy. I did not get rich overnight and I am still not rich yet, but yes I am finally living comfortably.
Below is my recent earnings from Just One of my 27 squidoo lens. You can learn how to use Squidoo to make money here, but warning, it's addicting!
Yes it took me 3 years, but I am a huge procrastinator. With commitment and effort, I imagine you will get there much faster
I do affiliate marketing, but my eyes lately are being opened to many new ways to make money online. Just a few weeks ago, I needed some fast cash that I could get my hands on pretty quick and didn't want to wait on my payouts on clickbank. On a whim, I posted a beta testing opportunity to teach others how to do what I do and work from home in your pajamas if you wish. Wow! I charged $97 bucks per person and sent out a lesson a day via email. I had 6 new students within 24 hours. That's almost $600, not bad.
This is now turning into another stream of income. I will run one more beta testing and put it all together in pdf or video format and market it. I will also make it available for affiliates once I tweak it out. If you are a newbie and would like to be my guinea pig for $97.00 great. You can send me a message.
The ways to make money online are unlimited. I know some who make money with Amazon alone. I know another that writes these short ebooks and published them on Amazon. I too have a few books on Amazon. My good friend has a book that he sells there for 99 cents a pop, yet makes about 3000 per month on this one little book.
I have another virtual friend who just writes articles and uses a spinner and submitter software. He does this for others and charges for the service. He has more than made up for the cost he spent on this software over and over again.
My next venture is something I found out about today. It's flipping websites. Very similiar to flipping houses, but so much easier. This is something you can do to earn good money in a little as 24 hours. I trust this as it is endorsed by Jenifer, the pot pie girl. You can check it out here.
Speaking of Pot Pie Girl, she is the one that got me into all of this. I bought her product after many failed attempts at making money. I implemented it and yes, I did begin to make money via Squidoo. Squidoo is still my favorite marketing platform, it is so easy. I did not get rich overnight and I am still not rich yet, but yes I am finally living comfortably.
Below is my recent earnings from Just One of my 27 squidoo lens. You can learn how to use Squidoo to make money here, but warning, it's addicting!
Weekly Sales Snapshot
Daily Sales Snapshot
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Yes it took me 3 years, but I am a huge procrastinator. With commitment and effort, I imagine you will get there much faster
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Choosing a Domain Name
In choosing a domain name is a major consideration when doing business online, and it is often one of the first issues to be addressed. While a good domain name won't guarantee success, it can have a positive (or negative) impact on almost every aspect of online business. A "good" domain is one that is easy to remember and minimizes confusion. If you are acquiring a name that has the potential to cause confusion, it is generally recommended that you obtain the most logical variations This often includes non-hyphenated and hyphenated variations, along with words that are phonetically similar and common misspellings. I personally don't suggest the hyphenated ones as it's not something you could blurt out and someone would remember in conversation.
I use godaddy.com which has an affiliate program as well. I should be participating in it, but I haven't yet. For example if you purchase a domain name through my link, I would get paid. Hmmm, I need to add it I suppose. The dot com one is the best if you can get it. It runs between $9 and $15 per year, not bad. The dot us and others are an option and usually are about $5 per year. So that being said, you probably want to create an account at godaddy.
Here is one of my mistakes regarding Domain names that you can learn from. I let one expire once. I had a lot of articles forwarded to it and needless to say, I had to go into each one and edit it and resubmit. A lot of work on my part. I could have purchased it, but guess what? They now wanted $3 grand for it because I had built traffic to it. Ughhhh. If you plan on being famous one day, it's not a bad idea to purchase your name.com. Google evanmarkatz.com and see what comes up. I will be doing this soon and will probably have a blog or my site connected to it. Buying ans selling domain names by the way is yet another way to make money online. Some make a killing doing this.
Another reason why you need a domain name is you will be doing article marketing. The best article sites will now allow affiliate links. The solution is to forward your affiliate link to your domain name and then you can put that in the article and it will click straight to the sales page. Many bum marketers use this technique alone to do affiliate marketing. They just flood the web with articles that go straight to the affilate sales page. It's a pretty easy way to make money but not as effective if they have to go though a site or blog first.
The reason for this is that if it goes to say a Squidoo lens or blog, they get to read more of your material and it builds trust. They are more apt to purchase. The average reader does not purchase from the first click through. I made some money this way, but it wasn't very consistent. I had written about 100 articles linking straight to an affiliate sales page via an affiliate link. It is a good way to start out though. About six weeks ago, I forwarded the domain name from the product itself to my lens. The traffic soared and up it went in the search engines. More sales for me! Had I had to manually go in and change the links in the article to the lens it would have taken hours, maybe a day or so of tedious work. Because I had the domain name, it was a one stop. I hope that did not confuse you. I remember when I first started, for some reason domain names just boggled my mind.
When choosing a domain name, make it as simple and easy as possible. One that if you told someone, "hey you can find me at ___________.com, they would be apt to remember. Mimi Tanner who owns www.getyourexback.com is probably a millionaire.
I use godaddy.com which has an affiliate program as well. I should be participating in it, but I haven't yet. For example if you purchase a domain name through my link, I would get paid. Hmmm, I need to add it I suppose. The dot com one is the best if you can get it. It runs between $9 and $15 per year, not bad. The dot us and others are an option and usually are about $5 per year. So that being said, you probably want to create an account at godaddy.
Here is one of my mistakes regarding Domain names that you can learn from. I let one expire once. I had a lot of articles forwarded to it and needless to say, I had to go into each one and edit it and resubmit. A lot of work on my part. I could have purchased it, but guess what? They now wanted $3 grand for it because I had built traffic to it. Ughhhh. If you plan on being famous one day, it's not a bad idea to purchase your name.com. Google evanmarkatz.com and see what comes up. I will be doing this soon and will probably have a blog or my site connected to it. Buying ans selling domain names by the way is yet another way to make money online. Some make a killing doing this.
Another reason why you need a domain name is you will be doing article marketing. The best article sites will now allow affiliate links. The solution is to forward your affiliate link to your domain name and then you can put that in the article and it will click straight to the sales page. Many bum marketers use this technique alone to do affiliate marketing. They just flood the web with articles that go straight to the affilate sales page. It's a pretty easy way to make money but not as effective if they have to go though a site or blog first.
The reason for this is that if it goes to say a Squidoo lens or blog, they get to read more of your material and it builds trust. They are more apt to purchase. The average reader does not purchase from the first click through. I made some money this way, but it wasn't very consistent. I had written about 100 articles linking straight to an affiliate sales page via an affiliate link. It is a good way to start out though. About six weeks ago, I forwarded the domain name from the product itself to my lens. The traffic soared and up it went in the search engines. More sales for me! Had I had to manually go in and change the links in the article to the lens it would have taken hours, maybe a day or so of tedious work. Because I had the domain name, it was a one stop. I hope that did not confuse you. I remember when I first started, for some reason domain names just boggled my mind.
When choosing a domain name, make it as simple and easy as possible. One that if you told someone, "hey you can find me at ___________.com, they would be apt to remember. Mimi Tanner who owns www.getyourexback.com is probably a millionaire.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
My Little Squidoo Empire
started here. The rest is history. I am an affiliate marketer and this is where I got my big break, at Squidoo creating lens. My little Empire is little. It is not my sole source of income, but it pays all of my bills. I started with Pot Pie Girls plan, One Week Marketing. The idea is to create one lens per week for a year. That's 52 lens up and running on auto-pilot. Not bad. This is how you make money on Squidoo.
My little Empire though is only 26 lens. Most of them on relationships. The only thing I have done different than Pot Pie Girl really is I didn't just release my lens and let them be. I baby them. I watch them. I check their stats. I look for ways to improve them. My results are not bad, not bad at all. I have 4 of my lens connected to one clickbank account. The results for the last few weeks are below. Pot pie girl says you can make money on squidoo, I believe her now.
Week Ending Gross Sales
2012-01-25 (current week) $825.46
2012-01-18 $734.50
2012-01-11 $508.31
2012-01-04 $643.36
2011-12-28 $412.05
As you can see in 4 weeks they doubled. That is another blog post but it happened because of a coaching course I invested in here.
The fact of the matter is if you tweak your lens a few times a month and ping them, they will rise in the search engines. Check your stats and see what terms are being used to find your lens in the search engine. Incorporate these terms into your text module titles and content and reping. This doesn't take long at all, a few minutes which translates to dollars.
Below is a shot of my dashboard this morning of my top 4 lens which rank for #3, #4. #8 and #13 in relationships.
[Featured! Click for more info.] 4,971 week
236 today $2.44 01/10/2012
[Featured! Click for more info.] 9,991 week
414 today $2.82 12/28/2011
[Featured! Click for more info.] 2,235 week
88 today $0.00 01/13/2012
[Featured! Click for more info.] 1,026 week
46 today $0.00
That's a total of 18,223 visits for the week. Not bad. All of my lens have a rss feed from my blogs in them which also translates to about 7000 visits to my blogs also.
Lens and blogs all have affiliate links in them. The money Squidoo pays I donate to charity. Another important factor that you can play around is the products that you are promoting. All sales pages do not convert at the same rate. I added a high converting product to one lens and my income doubled that week.
Also my lens have attracted the attention of other marketers. I have been paid up to $150 bucks to create a lens for others. Another source of income.
I wanted to post this as some simply tell me that using Squidoo is not wise. Some have told me you can't make money with squidoo. While I do agree putting all your eggs in one basket isn't wise, it sure doesn't hurt me to have a few in Squidoo. The great thing about it is it is so easy to use. Even for the technically challenges if you just follow the step by step guide here.
My little Empire though is only 26 lens. Most of them on relationships. The only thing I have done different than Pot Pie Girl really is I didn't just release my lens and let them be. I baby them. I watch them. I check their stats. I look for ways to improve them. My results are not bad, not bad at all. I have 4 of my lens connected to one clickbank account. The results for the last few weeks are below. Pot pie girl says you can make money on squidoo, I believe her now.
Week Ending Gross Sales
2012-01-25 (current week) $825.46
2012-01-18 $734.50
2012-01-11 $508.31
2012-01-04 $643.36
2011-12-28 $412.05
As you can see in 4 weeks they doubled. That is another blog post but it happened because of a coaching course I invested in here.
The fact of the matter is if you tweak your lens a few times a month and ping them, they will rise in the search engines. Check your stats and see what terms are being used to find your lens in the search engine. Incorporate these terms into your text module titles and content and reping. This doesn't take long at all, a few minutes which translates to dollars.
Below is a shot of my dashboard this morning of my top 4 lens which rank for #3, #4. #8 and #13 in relationships.
[Featured! Click for more info.] 4,971 week
236 today $2.44 01/10/2012
[Featured! Click for more info.] 9,991 week
414 today $2.82 12/28/2011
[Featured! Click for more info.] 2,235 week
88 today $0.00 01/13/2012
[Featured! Click for more info.] 1,026 week
46 today $0.00
That's a total of 18,223 visits for the week. Not bad. All of my lens have a rss feed from my blogs in them which also translates to about 7000 visits to my blogs also.
Lens and blogs all have affiliate links in them. The money Squidoo pays I donate to charity. Another important factor that you can play around is the products that you are promoting. All sales pages do not convert at the same rate. I added a high converting product to one lens and my income doubled that week.
Also my lens have attracted the attention of other marketers. I have been paid up to $150 bucks to create a lens for others. Another source of income.
I wanted to post this as some simply tell me that using Squidoo is not wise. Some have told me you can't make money with squidoo. While I do agree putting all your eggs in one basket isn't wise, it sure doesn't hurt me to have a few in Squidoo. The great thing about it is it is so easy to use. Even for the technically challenges if you just follow the step by step guide here.
Monday, November 14, 2011
After 2 Years of Direct Article Marketing One Change....
that resulted in some pretty substantial increase in traffic and sales. Direct article marketing is when you write articles that don't really link to a website. They are linked to domain names that you have forwarded an affiliate link to. While direct article marketing can be effective, it does take lots and lots of articles to get income. The reason for this I think is because a person has to click on a link something like 7 times usually before they make a purchase.
The good thing about it is that sometimes if they click on your domain which is actually straight to a sales page, often there is some sort of opt in form. If they do opt in, if the vendor has a good email strategy, they will get reminded of this product more than once. The cookie is stored and eventually you do get credit for the sale. That being said, I have to mention it's a good idea to make sure the product you are promoting has a good campaign and a way to keep it fresh in your readers eyes.
Now back to this change I made. I have written hundreds of articles that are considered direct marketing. They are linked to domains that I forwarded affiliate links to. These domains by the way are not very expensive. Anywhere from 4 bucks to maybe 13 bucks. This weekend I took all affiliate links out of my domains that I have accumulated over the last few years and reforwarded them to my Squidoo Lens on the same topics.
The result? It was a landslide. All those articles that were once connecting to sales page link directly to my little mini site. My lens soared in visits, not to mention they are moving up in the search engines as well. My rss feeds from my blogs are also linked to my lens. My blogs as a result also got a lot more visits.
The reader also gets to be exposed to more of my work. This will only result in more followers for me and increased credibility and help build my reputation as an expert.
Direct article marketing worked for me in the beginning to generate immediate income. It is a great bum marketing method. Long term though, I have found that it's more beneficial to have the traffic go to my sites instead.
The income part, which most are curious about, well lets just say I earned enough over one weekend with that one little change to pay my electric bill, rent and groceries for a month. This journey into affiliate marketing for me started here, almost 3 years ago. I love Squidoo and it is an excellent tool in affiliate marketing.
The good thing about it is that sometimes if they click on your domain which is actually straight to a sales page, often there is some sort of opt in form. If they do opt in, if the vendor has a good email strategy, they will get reminded of this product more than once. The cookie is stored and eventually you do get credit for the sale. That being said, I have to mention it's a good idea to make sure the product you are promoting has a good campaign and a way to keep it fresh in your readers eyes.
Now back to this change I made. I have written hundreds of articles that are considered direct marketing. They are linked to domains that I forwarded affiliate links to. These domains by the way are not very expensive. Anywhere from 4 bucks to maybe 13 bucks. This weekend I took all affiliate links out of my domains that I have accumulated over the last few years and reforwarded them to my Squidoo Lens on the same topics.
The result? It was a landslide. All those articles that were once connecting to sales page link directly to my little mini site. My lens soared in visits, not to mention they are moving up in the search engines as well. My rss feeds from my blogs are also linked to my lens. My blogs as a result also got a lot more visits.
The reader also gets to be exposed to more of my work. This will only result in more followers for me and increased credibility and help build my reputation as an expert.
Direct article marketing worked for me in the beginning to generate immediate income. It is a great bum marketing method. Long term though, I have found that it's more beneficial to have the traffic go to my sites instead.
The income part, which most are curious about, well lets just say I earned enough over one weekend with that one little change to pay my electric bill, rent and groceries for a month. This journey into affiliate marketing for me started here, almost 3 years ago. I love Squidoo and it is an excellent tool in affiliate marketing.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
How I Created My First Ebook Free
I have come a long ways since I first started online marketing two years ago. I just finished my first ebook and had it up and selling in less than a day! That is pretty good for someone as technically challenged as me. I admit I spent $5.00 bucks on Fiverr for a cover design, but that was it.
You see I was clueless. I had a document written as a book in Open Office, which is free. I knew I could convert it from there to a pdf which is very very simple. It was the next step that I did not know where to start. I did a lot of online research, mainly on youtube and watched many tutorials. It started clicking in my head that creating this ebook and actually getting it up for sale was not as hard as I had thought it would be. It was simple actually.
Seems we fear the unknown until it grows in our heads into a huge unconquerable monster which is what creating an ebook had done in my head. Once I approached and faced this fear, I realized there was absolutely nothing my technically challenged ass could not do in the process of creating an ebook for free.
I went to webstarts to create my landing page and my download page. I found how to videos on youtube. The thing that was scaring me most was I could not for the life of me figure out how the book was going to download to the buyer automatically. I could not get my mind around this. Turns out, it's simple as pie.
So once you ebook is written in Open Office and converted with the touch of a button to a PDF file, you are ready to get started. Note here, if you are an article marketer and have a lot of articles out there, why not put some of them together and in order in Open Office a create you pdf document which can be an ebook.
To use webstarts as your landing and thank you/download page is simple. I started by watching this video.
You will need only two pages. One for your sales page/landing page and one for your thank you download page. Once you have your sales page up you then add a paypal button. This is very simple, you can find directions here. You will need a business or premier account from paypal to do this. Here is another video I found on how to have a pay now button in less than five minutes.
So you have a landing page with a paypal button. You have a download page where you actually have your pdf file attached for download. Paypal does the work of directing your visitors after purchase to the download page. So the process is visitor lands on the landing page, clicks the button, goes through paypal to make purchase, purchase is complete, then visitor is redirected to the download page where they now have access to the digital product.
The catch here is this. That download page needs to be hidden, otherwise anyone could land there and get your book without paying. This is simple in webstarts also. You go to the dashboard and unclick it's visability in the menu bar of the site.
I literally got my ebook up in less than 3 hours. Sure it needs tweaking and the landing page needs some work, but it made me enough money to pay my electric bill and buy groceries the first couple of days, so once I do get it tweaked, I can only imagine what it will do. You can view it here. The Charms of Southern Women.
If you are new to internet marketing, don't let all of this stuff scare you, it's simple. I started two years ago with this program and the rest is history. One Week Marketing.
You see I was clueless. I had a document written as a book in Open Office, which is free. I knew I could convert it from there to a pdf which is very very simple. It was the next step that I did not know where to start. I did a lot of online research, mainly on youtube and watched many tutorials. It started clicking in my head that creating this ebook and actually getting it up for sale was not as hard as I had thought it would be. It was simple actually.
Seems we fear the unknown until it grows in our heads into a huge unconquerable monster which is what creating an ebook had done in my head. Once I approached and faced this fear, I realized there was absolutely nothing my technically challenged ass could not do in the process of creating an ebook for free.
I went to webstarts to create my landing page and my download page. I found how to videos on youtube. The thing that was scaring me most was I could not for the life of me figure out how the book was going to download to the buyer automatically. I could not get my mind around this. Turns out, it's simple as pie.
So once you ebook is written in Open Office and converted with the touch of a button to a PDF file, you are ready to get started. Note here, if you are an article marketer and have a lot of articles out there, why not put some of them together and in order in Open Office a create you pdf document which can be an ebook.
To use webstarts as your landing and thank you/download page is simple. I started by watching this video.
You will need only two pages. One for your sales page/landing page and one for your thank you download page. Once you have your sales page up you then add a paypal button. This is very simple, you can find directions here. You will need a business or premier account from paypal to do this. Here is another video I found on how to have a pay now button in less than five minutes.
So you have a landing page with a paypal button. You have a download page where you actually have your pdf file attached for download. Paypal does the work of directing your visitors after purchase to the download page. So the process is visitor lands on the landing page, clicks the button, goes through paypal to make purchase, purchase is complete, then visitor is redirected to the download page where they now have access to the digital product.
The catch here is this. That download page needs to be hidden, otherwise anyone could land there and get your book without paying. This is simple in webstarts also. You go to the dashboard and unclick it's visability in the menu bar of the site.
I literally got my ebook up in less than 3 hours. Sure it needs tweaking and the landing page needs some work, but it made me enough money to pay my electric bill and buy groceries the first couple of days, so once I do get it tweaked, I can only imagine what it will do. You can view it here. The Charms of Southern Women.
If you are new to internet marketing, don't let all of this stuff scare you, it's simple. I started two years ago with this program and the rest is history. One Week Marketing.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Facebook Market - How it Strengthens My Business
I can't say enough about facebook and what it has done for me personally and for my business. I don't use it like most. I don't do paid advertising, I don't do fan pages or any of those things. First to understand how it benefits me, you need to know I am huge on the laws of attraction. I believe like attracts like.
I don't promote money making products by the way. I am into relationships and the dating niche. Pretty competitive. I started with a small group of friends. If you have read my blog, you know that I am not out to get rich quick and I take the slow boat instead. I still am hovering just under 600 friends, but these friends I find are like minded individuals. Somehow I have attracted them over the last year. My market is targeted so to speak and it is growing daily, slowly but surely.
Just today a facebook friend posted this "I have grown to love this book of faces. Last week, when I was feeling badly, I felt lifted by the support here. With the right intention, FB is a perfect place to bridge to humanity and to work together to elevate and enhearten consciousness. Out in the world, the unconscious media can muffle our message, but here, they can't stop the soulnami of goodness from inspiring humanity. Sacred purpose, everywhere...".
The above says it all for me. The people that have come into my life and my path are amazing. I have had complete strangers mail me offering support, seeking advice, and encouragement. It amazes me.
On my wall you will find all sorts of things. From gratitude, to struggles, to inspiring quotes and yes all my articles and Squidoo lens post there when I update or publish. People actually read them. I think they read them because they have learned to trust me.
Another amazing thing that has helped me so much in business is the groups I have been invited into. Motivational groups, intentions groups, dating groups, all sorts of groups that allow me to get my message out. I never spam. I contribute more to these communities in the form of posts and get to know the group members more than anything else. I build relationships and these relationships build my business for me.
Yes this is a slower way, but it works for me and I can sleep at night because I know what I am doing is right. I know I am giving back to these communities. I love facebook, that much is very very true. I love my facebook peeps and fans and I think they honestly feel this, therefore, they trust me. It's real.
So maybe I am not a technical guru on facebook and maybe I don't do all those marketing tricks, but facebook makes me about $700 dollars a month with just under 600 friends and all I do is have fun and post and interact. In honesty, I think facebook has enriched my life more than I could ever make in money.
I started all of this a little over two years ago with this little thing here. One week marketing. Today still it is still my main cash earner.
I don't promote money making products by the way. I am into relationships and the dating niche. Pretty competitive. I started with a small group of friends. If you have read my blog, you know that I am not out to get rich quick and I take the slow boat instead. I still am hovering just under 600 friends, but these friends I find are like minded individuals. Somehow I have attracted them over the last year. My market is targeted so to speak and it is growing daily, slowly but surely.
Just today a facebook friend posted this "I have grown to love this book of faces. Last week, when I was feeling badly, I felt lifted by the support here. With the right intention, FB is a perfect place to bridge to humanity and to work together to elevate and enhearten consciousness. Out in the world, the unconscious media can muffle our message, but here, they can't stop the soulnami of goodness from inspiring humanity. Sacred purpose, everywhere...".
The above says it all for me. The people that have come into my life and my path are amazing. I have had complete strangers mail me offering support, seeking advice, and encouragement. It amazes me.
On my wall you will find all sorts of things. From gratitude, to struggles, to inspiring quotes and yes all my articles and Squidoo lens post there when I update or publish. People actually read them. I think they read them because they have learned to trust me.
Another amazing thing that has helped me so much in business is the groups I have been invited into. Motivational groups, intentions groups, dating groups, all sorts of groups that allow me to get my message out. I never spam. I contribute more to these communities in the form of posts and get to know the group members more than anything else. I build relationships and these relationships build my business for me.
Yes this is a slower way, but it works for me and I can sleep at night because I know what I am doing is right. I know I am giving back to these communities. I love facebook, that much is very very true. I love my facebook peeps and fans and I think they honestly feel this, therefore, they trust me. It's real.
So maybe I am not a technical guru on facebook and maybe I don't do all those marketing tricks, but facebook makes me about $700 dollars a month with just under 600 friends and all I do is have fun and post and interact. In honesty, I think facebook has enriched my life more than I could ever make in money.
I started all of this a little over two years ago with this little thing here. One week marketing. Today still it is still my main cash earner.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Become an Expert in Your Niche
It happened to me by accident. Rather is wasn't in my plan. My plan was to be an affiliate marketer and make money selling the product of others. Had you told me 2 years ago that I would have been interviewed by David Shade, become friends and work with Nicole Gayle and have Evan Marc Katz as a guest poster on my forum, I would have never thought it. If you had told me that I would make money helping others find love and go through break ups and have my own site, I would never have believed it. Writing my own book? Me? Yet all of the above is happening and now I can imagine and believe that more is to come my way. Being a weekly co-host on a radio talk show, Getting man out of the cave? Me, nope never, but it's real and it's happening.
I started with blogs and Squidoo Lens. It all started when I purchase Pot Pie Girls One Week Marketing which I highly recommend for a newbie. Her plan was simple and I started blogging and low and behold, people started reading my blogs and lens and money started coming in. I little at first, but now I support myself on this plan alone, the becoming and expert and my own site I believe is going to be the icing and cherry on top.
I wrote a lot of articles as well. I have thousands out there and became an expert at that as well, but it's no longer my focus. It is a way to drive traffic, build credibility and a reputation. It's very important to provide useful information for your audience and build trust.
So will you see me on TV one day? I think you just might. It all started with a work at home forum that I joined and the rest just started spiraling. With a lot of hard work, dedication and never giving up.
I started with blogs and Squidoo Lens. It all started when I purchase Pot Pie Girls One Week Marketing which I highly recommend for a newbie. Her plan was simple and I started blogging and low and behold, people started reading my blogs and lens and money started coming in. I little at first, but now I support myself on this plan alone, the becoming and expert and my own site I believe is going to be the icing and cherry on top.
I wrote a lot of articles as well. I have thousands out there and became an expert at that as well, but it's no longer my focus. It is a way to drive traffic, build credibility and a reputation. It's very important to provide useful information for your audience and build trust.
So will you see me on TV one day? I think you just might. It all started with a work at home forum that I joined and the rest just started spiraling. With a lot of hard work, dedication and never giving up.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Entering a Competetive Niche in Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is not easy, and you won't get rich overnight, that's pretty much a fact. Some say steer clear of competitive niches, especially if you are new. This is a warning I did not listen too. It seems to be turning out well for me, but perhaps my approach was different. I focused on long term satisfaction and still do. I don't go for instant gratification. It's fleeting.
I choose the dating industry, by pure accident to be honest. I was searching online for a means to make money as I have stated in previous posts here; I hated my job. It just so happens I got dumped the day before I lost my job. So I was online looking for help with dealing with this and looking for a way to survive at the same time.
I found an ebook, get your ex back. I purchased it and read it, to later discover I could actually be an affiliate of this book. Great book by the way. I didn't get him back, but I did get my peace of mind back. Once I discovered this book, I searched for others with value. I purchased and read them all. I never promote something I don't believe in.
Then I landed on a forum for women. I went to the break up section. There were women posting everywhere about their heart break. They were all devastated, hurting and so sad. I created a thread there called No Contact Support and got them all together in one place. I led them through it. I healed in the process.
I discovered I was pretty smart when it came to men and I discovered I had forgotten more than a lot of those women knew. I started posting all over that forum. The owner offered me a non paying job as Moderator. I took it.
In the meantime I was still building my blogs, Squidoo Lens and writing article after article. Money was coming in, slowly but surely.
Funny thing happened on that forum. The ladies started emailing me privately. Some days I struggled to keep up. Fast forward 2 years and it's announced the forum is shutting down. Uh oh! Emails started pouring in again, asking me what were they going to do. It truly was a tight knit community, and it seems I had become the glue.
My door opened, I started my own forum, with help from a member of the Warrior Forum, God bless her. Week one I had over 100 members and it was still in beta testing, still is actually.
I also interacted on facebook a lot. My contacts started connecting together. On my facebook page I have women from the forum, followers from my blog, followers from my articles. I have a growing group there also. It's for Goddesses like myself. ;-)It just keeps growing.
I know I am rambling here, but the bottom line is if you are passionate about it, you can make it if you don't give up. Today you could be struggling, but keep pushing. Two years down the road you don't know what doors will open.
I like to think it's sort of like Karma. The hundreds, maybe thousands of women I have helped is all coming back to me now. If I had done it witout a heart, I think others would see through this and what I offer would hold little value.
Perhaps I should send a thank you to that man that dumped me.
It's all a journey and you won't reach your destination if you give up.
I choose the dating industry, by pure accident to be honest. I was searching online for a means to make money as I have stated in previous posts here; I hated my job. It just so happens I got dumped the day before I lost my job. So I was online looking for help with dealing with this and looking for a way to survive at the same time.
I found an ebook, get your ex back. I purchased it and read it, to later discover I could actually be an affiliate of this book. Great book by the way. I didn't get him back, but I did get my peace of mind back. Once I discovered this book, I searched for others with value. I purchased and read them all. I never promote something I don't believe in.
Then I landed on a forum for women. I went to the break up section. There were women posting everywhere about their heart break. They were all devastated, hurting and so sad. I created a thread there called No Contact Support and got them all together in one place. I led them through it. I healed in the process.
I discovered I was pretty smart when it came to men and I discovered I had forgotten more than a lot of those women knew. I started posting all over that forum. The owner offered me a non paying job as Moderator. I took it.
In the meantime I was still building my blogs, Squidoo Lens and writing article after article. Money was coming in, slowly but surely.
Funny thing happened on that forum. The ladies started emailing me privately. Some days I struggled to keep up. Fast forward 2 years and it's announced the forum is shutting down. Uh oh! Emails started pouring in again, asking me what were they going to do. It truly was a tight knit community, and it seems I had become the glue.
My door opened, I started my own forum, with help from a member of the Warrior Forum, God bless her. Week one I had over 100 members and it was still in beta testing, still is actually.
I also interacted on facebook a lot. My contacts started connecting together. On my facebook page I have women from the forum, followers from my blog, followers from my articles. I have a growing group there also. It's for Goddesses like myself. ;-)It just keeps growing.
I know I am rambling here, but the bottom line is if you are passionate about it, you can make it if you don't give up. Today you could be struggling, but keep pushing. Two years down the road you don't know what doors will open.
I like to think it's sort of like Karma. The hundreds, maybe thousands of women I have helped is all coming back to me now. If I had done it witout a heart, I think others would see through this and what I offer would hold little value.
Perhaps I should send a thank you to that man that dumped me.
It's all a journey and you won't reach your destination if you give up.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Do Article Spinners and Submitters Work
I promised to be back with a new post regarding the article spinner and article submitter that I had been using. My first step was to try it out via someone else. In other words I outsourced it to an individual who already had this software in place. I paid him 10 bucks to generate a new article and submit via his software.
My test site was a Squidoo lens I had just built. I did nothing to send backlinks to it I just left it up to the spinner and submitter. This was a month ago, perhaps a little more. My lens now has 58 unique backlinks. Not so bad for just one article and 10 bucks. I made that back with one sale.
So with evidence that it does do something apparently, I made the purchase. I bought magic article spinner and magic article submitter and went to work. I won't lie, it took me two days to figure out how to use it. Then again, consider the fact that I am technically challenged to a huge degree. I cringe thinking of learning a new software or stepping out of my comfort zone of ezine articles.
After the two days though and a lot of hair pulling, I figured it out. It now takes me about 30 minutes to rewrite one of my many already existing articles and submit it to hundreds of article directories. I am now getting traffic from places I have never even heard of and a lot of it is very targeted.
Moral of the story, now I incorporate the article spinner and submitter into my weekly things to do. My goal is to spin at least 5 articles a week and submit. Imagine continuing to do this and the impact it will have over time. It is just one of my many duties as an affiliate marketer going at this mostly solo.
My test site was a Squidoo lens I had just built. I did nothing to send backlinks to it I just left it up to the spinner and submitter. This was a month ago, perhaps a little more. My lens now has 58 unique backlinks. Not so bad for just one article and 10 bucks. I made that back with one sale.
So with evidence that it does do something apparently, I made the purchase. I bought magic article spinner and magic article submitter and went to work. I won't lie, it took me two days to figure out how to use it. Then again, consider the fact that I am technically challenged to a huge degree. I cringe thinking of learning a new software or stepping out of my comfort zone of ezine articles.
After the two days though and a lot of hair pulling, I figured it out. It now takes me about 30 minutes to rewrite one of my many already existing articles and submit it to hundreds of article directories. I am now getting traffic from places I have never even heard of and a lot of it is very targeted.
Moral of the story, now I incorporate the article spinner and submitter into my weekly things to do. My goal is to spin at least 5 articles a week and submit. Imagine continuing to do this and the impact it will have over time. It is just one of my many duties as an affiliate marketer going at this mostly solo.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Affiliate Marketing to the Next Level
This May marks two years I have been affiliate marketing . For those of you who have followed me, you know I am one of the slow boat to riches girl. I use all free methods for the most part and have spent less than $100 until recently. I have been making money and I do support myself with this. Some days are better than others.
I have primarily used article marketing to drive traffic and generate income. It works for me. The fact that I hate trying something new or having to learn to use a new software has greatly hindered my progress. I shiver at the thought.
I posted on a work at home forum asking for advice as to what would help me take this to the next level. I now make enough that I have a little extra to invest back into my business. I got a few suggestions, but nothing really stood out. One gentleman blatantly suggested I just try a few things out and see for myself. I thought well he might be onto something.
I purchase Article Dominance first. Very inexpensive, but to a Newbie at affiliate marketing, well it is priceless. I wish I would have bought this a long time ago. After I purchased it I have since received updates that are packed with new techniques on writing and getting your articles ranked. Well worth the small amount I paid for this.
If I were to review Article Dominance, I would say for the Newbie it is a must. Don't wait almost two years like I did. I have since changed my resource box and my click through rate has increased dramatically. This product paid for itself after editing an article that had been live for ages.
I have also recently purchased an article spinner and submitter. Shiver again. I have been struggling with this piece of software, but slowly am getting the hang of it. I am currently in test mode with it, but have already seen some results. This will be another topic. So far it looks like this will be another product that will aid me in getting to the next level. Stay tuned.
I have primarily used article marketing to drive traffic and generate income. It works for me. The fact that I hate trying something new or having to learn to use a new software has greatly hindered my progress. I shiver at the thought.
I posted on a work at home forum asking for advice as to what would help me take this to the next level. I now make enough that I have a little extra to invest back into my business. I got a few suggestions, but nothing really stood out. One gentleman blatantly suggested I just try a few things out and see for myself. I thought well he might be onto something.
I purchase Article Dominance first. Very inexpensive, but to a Newbie at affiliate marketing, well it is priceless. I wish I would have bought this a long time ago. After I purchased it I have since received updates that are packed with new techniques on writing and getting your articles ranked. Well worth the small amount I paid for this.
If I were to review Article Dominance, I would say for the Newbie it is a must. Don't wait almost two years like I did. I have since changed my resource box and my click through rate has increased dramatically. This product paid for itself after editing an article that had been live for ages.
I have also recently purchased an article spinner and submitter. Shiver again. I have been struggling with this piece of software, but slowly am getting the hang of it. I am currently in test mode with it, but have already seen some results. This will be another topic. So far it looks like this will be another product that will aid me in getting to the next level. Stay tuned.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Making Money With Direct Article Marketing
I recently ran a little test on my direct article marketing efforts. Direct article marketing is when I write an article, and direct it straight through to an affiliate link via a domain forwarding. I don't send it to a website, blog or lens.
I can track these sales via the hoplink clickbank code. I forwarded this clickbank link to a domain and use this domain exclusively in my direct article marketing efforts. I did this a month ago and have written 5 articles with this link in them. I am amazed really. In 30 days, I have made over $400 dollars just from those 5 articles. Not really bad, considering I can now write an article in less than 10 minutes.
If you are a newbie visiting my blog this may not make a lot of sense to you, but it is the easiest, least time consuming way to make money online. You will have to purchase a domain name, but you can purchase a dot us for under $4.00 per year. As you can see, I got that back 100 times over.
Now not all articles perform equally. It has taken me a while to get the hang of how to get a higher click through rate on my articles. It's been trail and error all the way. The great thing is those articles are out there forever making money for me. I never have to touch them again. I don't have to add content to a blog or website, I don't have to do anything else. Write the article and I am done.
Of course there is a little more to article writing than this, but it's the fastest, easiest way to start making money. Once you get the hang of it, you can zip out an article in less than 15 minutes and have it working for you.
As I have posted many times on this blog, I am a true bum marketer and rarely spend much money. Now though that I am making a steady income I am able to start investing, baby steps, into learning more. I promise never to suggest a product that I have not used and tested myself.
I recently invested under 20 bucks for a product that helped me. Article Dominance before I started this test and low and behold, learned a lot of new tricks with article marketing. If you are relatively new to affiliate marketing and use article marketing, this guide is a must. For more on article dominance, click here.
I can track these sales via the hoplink clickbank code. I forwarded this clickbank link to a domain and use this domain exclusively in my direct article marketing efforts. I did this a month ago and have written 5 articles with this link in them. I am amazed really. In 30 days, I have made over $400 dollars just from those 5 articles. Not really bad, considering I can now write an article in less than 10 minutes.
If you are a newbie visiting my blog this may not make a lot of sense to you, but it is the easiest, least time consuming way to make money online. You will have to purchase a domain name, but you can purchase a dot us for under $4.00 per year. As you can see, I got that back 100 times over.
Now not all articles perform equally. It has taken me a while to get the hang of how to get a higher click through rate on my articles. It's been trail and error all the way. The great thing is those articles are out there forever making money for me. I never have to touch them again. I don't have to add content to a blog or website, I don't have to do anything else. Write the article and I am done.
Of course there is a little more to article writing than this, but it's the fastest, easiest way to start making money. Once you get the hang of it, you can zip out an article in less than 15 minutes and have it working for you.
As I have posted many times on this blog, I am a true bum marketer and rarely spend much money. Now though that I am making a steady income I am able to start investing, baby steps, into learning more. I promise never to suggest a product that I have not used and tested myself.
I recently invested under 20 bucks for a product that helped me. Article Dominance before I started this test and low and behold, learned a lot of new tricks with article marketing. If you are relatively new to affiliate marketing and use article marketing, this guide is a must. For more on article dominance, click here.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
How I Make Money Without a Website
I am not going to lie to you, I did spend $3.99 for a domain name. I am not really even sure exactly what a domain name is, all I know is to put a link in an article, I have to have one. Direct affiliate links are not allowed on most article directories. I like Ezine Articles, in my opinion it is one of the best if not the best. Ezine does not allow direct affiliate links, so a domain name is the way around that. There are thousands of others out there though not as strict.
Step one in Bum Marketing is to sign up with ClickBank, which is a marketplace where thousands of digital products are available for you to sell for a profit. Sign up is easy and ClickBank is one of the most trusted and reliable affiliate sites out there with thousands and thousands of products to choose from.
Step two in Bum Marketing I searched ClickBank's marketplace for a product that I know something about such as dating or getting over a broken heart. You can find about anything under the sun there though. Even how to build a chicken coup. I push one little key and get a link that is unique to me. I can post this link anywhere on the web for the most part and anyone who clicks on it and buys, the profit goes straight to me.
Step three in Bum Marketing, I purchase a domain name similar to the product and what I am selling. I use GoDaddy, but there are thousands of places out there like this. I could use a.com domain, but that cost more, about 12 bucks so I opt for the.us and pay $3.99. I then forward the link to the domain name.
Step four in Bum Marketing, I write the article giving useful information that will benefit my reader like hopefully this article is doing for some newbie to affiliate marketing. I post my link, aka domain name at the end of the article and in the bio box. It takes about 48 hours but the article goes live on the web. Some articles do better than others, again I am not going to lie about that. The good news though is the article is there forever. It's residual income.
I rinse and repeat, thus creating multiple income streams for numerous products, again, some do better than others. It's trial and error, and you won't get rich overnight. It takes patience and it's easy to get side tracked once you start because you will realize there are so many ways to make money with affiliate marketing once you start understanding it.
I am writing this article in hopes on inspiring a newbie out there not to give up, I almost did. It does work, it is possible and don't let anyone tell you it isn't. I am living proof. My first sale was about $21 bucks, but I kept going. No I am not rich, YET. After a few sales I did invest more money later to help with my learning curve, less than $50 bucks for a guide written by the pot pie girl. Sounds crazy doesn't it, the pot pie girl. Best $50 bucks I ever spent but you don't have to spend a dime really to make money with affiliate marketing, a Bum could go to the library and do it.
Here is my domain name with my link and the $50 bucks I spent. www.oneweekmarketing.us
Step one in Bum Marketing is to sign up with ClickBank, which is a marketplace where thousands of digital products are available for you to sell for a profit. Sign up is easy and ClickBank is one of the most trusted and reliable affiliate sites out there with thousands and thousands of products to choose from.
Step two in Bum Marketing I searched ClickBank's marketplace for a product that I know something about such as dating or getting over a broken heart. You can find about anything under the sun there though. Even how to build a chicken coup. I push one little key and get a link that is unique to me. I can post this link anywhere on the web for the most part and anyone who clicks on it and buys, the profit goes straight to me.
Step three in Bum Marketing, I purchase a domain name similar to the product and what I am selling. I use GoDaddy, but there are thousands of places out there like this. I could use a.com domain, but that cost more, about 12 bucks so I opt for the.us and pay $3.99. I then forward the link to the domain name.
Step four in Bum Marketing, I write the article giving useful information that will benefit my reader like hopefully this article is doing for some newbie to affiliate marketing. I post my link, aka domain name at the end of the article and in the bio box. It takes about 48 hours but the article goes live on the web. Some articles do better than others, again I am not going to lie about that. The good news though is the article is there forever. It's residual income.
I rinse and repeat, thus creating multiple income streams for numerous products, again, some do better than others. It's trial and error, and you won't get rich overnight. It takes patience and it's easy to get side tracked once you start because you will realize there are so many ways to make money with affiliate marketing once you start understanding it.
I am writing this article in hopes on inspiring a newbie out there not to give up, I almost did. It does work, it is possible and don't let anyone tell you it isn't. I am living proof. My first sale was about $21 bucks, but I kept going. No I am not rich, YET. After a few sales I did invest more money later to help with my learning curve, less than $50 bucks for a guide written by the pot pie girl. Sounds crazy doesn't it, the pot pie girl. Best $50 bucks I ever spent but you don't have to spend a dime really to make money with affiliate marketing, a Bum could go to the library and do it.
Here is my domain name with my link and the $50 bucks I spent. www.oneweekmarketing.us
Sunday, November 14, 2010
My Core Belief About Affiliate Marketing
I use Core belief here because tonight I logged onto a work at home forum, it is my favorite one, I am on a few. I don't log onto them as much as I should. Every time I do I tell myself you should do this a couple times a week. I learn something new each time. Today I was reminded by a very respected member there in his post about Frank Kern's Core Influence series, or program or whatever it is. I watched a few of these videos and I had forgotten about them. I also realized what Frank Kern teaches I pretty much do. For the most part anyway.
The general message is you have to be able to understand their problems, feel them really so you can communicate through to their core personality. You have to get to know them I believe or communicate to them as if you know them and feel their pain or problem. So in essence if you feel their pain, you do understand and you sort of become an authority to you audience.
I don't underestimate the power of really getting to know my audience. I do this through Facebook and some forums related to my niche. I guess you could say I am building an online presence and credibility slowly but surely. If you remember, I am not in a huge hurry hear nor am I the most organized.
Bottom line, I choose a niche that I am absolutely passionate about. I know that I help other people and this and the passion means I enjoy what I do. Since I enjoy what I do, that core thing resonates through my writing. This is my core belief about affiliate marketing, you have to love what you do, be passionate, and the rest will follow.
I also have a few followers in the affiliate marketing niche. There are a few that follow this blog. The main purpose of this blog is Pot Pie Girls program. It's just a side thing from my niche and the reason is it worked for me. It opened the door and painted a picture for me. After my first week long project that I followed step by step, I started learning, a lot.
I really am pretty clueless about a lot of this stuff, but I believe in what I do, I like it and it works. It can be done. I may do things backwards, that is debateable for sure. If you read this blog I think you might see I have learned a lot from day one. At least I hope so. I am still very much a newbie.
Oh and I think in my last post I said I would update about my articles that I had screwed up links in, the domain was auctioned off because I wasn't paying attention. I fixed them. I was curios if those few articles out of the loop would make a difference. Turns out it did, not huge by any means, maybe an average of $80.00 per week, but hey, it's something.
Thanks to my friends on the work at home forums! I would not be here if not for you, really I wouldn't.
If you have made it this far I must add that core belief or feeling the pain or problem that you want to solve should transfer into your key word research. I have come up with many a good key words by putting myself into the shoes of another or remembering a time when I was in the exact same shoes. Use this core belief thing for key words, article titles, domain names etc....
The general message is you have to be able to understand their problems, feel them really so you can communicate through to their core personality. You have to get to know them I believe or communicate to them as if you know them and feel their pain or problem. So in essence if you feel their pain, you do understand and you sort of become an authority to you audience.
I don't underestimate the power of really getting to know my audience. I do this through Facebook and some forums related to my niche. I guess you could say I am building an online presence and credibility slowly but surely. If you remember, I am not in a huge hurry hear nor am I the most organized.
Bottom line, I choose a niche that I am absolutely passionate about. I know that I help other people and this and the passion means I enjoy what I do. Since I enjoy what I do, that core thing resonates through my writing. This is my core belief about affiliate marketing, you have to love what you do, be passionate, and the rest will follow.
I also have a few followers in the affiliate marketing niche. There are a few that follow this blog. The main purpose of this blog is Pot Pie Girls program. It's just a side thing from my niche and the reason is it worked for me. It opened the door and painted a picture for me. After my first week long project that I followed step by step, I started learning, a lot.
I really am pretty clueless about a lot of this stuff, but I believe in what I do, I like it and it works. It can be done. I may do things backwards, that is debateable for sure. If you read this blog I think you might see I have learned a lot from day one. At least I hope so. I am still very much a newbie.
Oh and I think in my last post I said I would update about my articles that I had screwed up links in, the domain was auctioned off because I wasn't paying attention. I fixed them. I was curios if those few articles out of the loop would make a difference. Turns out it did, not huge by any means, maybe an average of $80.00 per week, but hey, it's something.
Thanks to my friends on the work at home forums! I would not be here if not for you, really I wouldn't.
If you have made it this far I must add that core belief or feeling the pain or problem that you want to solve should transfer into your key word research. I have come up with many a good key words by putting myself into the shoes of another or remembering a time when I was in the exact same shoes. Use this core belief thing for key words, article titles, domain names etc....
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Even Clueless Affiliate Marketers Can Make Money
I should know, I am clueless. I just realized today that I did not own that domain on Godaddy. Silly me. I would never have learned this had I not let my domain expire. Went to renew a little late and seems it was auctioned off and for sale for about $5000.00. I don't understand all this, but I am sure I should. I start thinking selling domains? Can I do that? Probably, but that is an entire other project that I am not ready for.
Well now I remember that I had used that domain in maybe 15 articles on Ezine. Oh boy! Manual labor to fix that. I fixed it, seems those articles had been going to the site to buy my domain for about 10 days. I spent 15 minutes, resubmitted the articles, and tad da, after they were all corrected, I made $250 over the weekend while I was hanging out with my new boyfriend. I think that is kind of cool.
In the process I also discovered that I had made another error in about 7 more articles. I had put in the wrong domain. I was meaning to tell women how to get their boyfriends to marry them but the link I put in directed them to how to get the ex back. Ughhh. I did that today. I will update later when they are released again.
So what I am really talking about above is one of the 3 forms of article marketing. Direct Article Marketing that is. That is where you don't have your own landing page or squidoo lens or blog. You write the article, link it directly to the sales page which is your affiliate link. You say you can't put an affiliate link in some articles such as ezine, true yes.
That is where the domain thing comes in. I purchase domain names or registration or whatever it is. I put keyword research into this too, another subject. So many subjects. I can get a .us for $5.00 for a year. I forward the affiliate links straight to these domains, simple even for me. You can put domain names in your articles in most directories if not almost all.
I do other article marketing other than direct, but these do make money for me. This is so much fun learning too by the way. It's like going back to college but much more rewarding because what you build is really completely yours. It could be a reputation you build, a financial empire or a few bucks, but it's yours.
Well now I remember that I had used that domain in maybe 15 articles on Ezine. Oh boy! Manual labor to fix that. I fixed it, seems those articles had been going to the site to buy my domain for about 10 days. I spent 15 minutes, resubmitted the articles, and tad da, after they were all corrected, I made $250 over the weekend while I was hanging out with my new boyfriend. I think that is kind of cool.
In the process I also discovered that I had made another error in about 7 more articles. I had put in the wrong domain. I was meaning to tell women how to get their boyfriends to marry them but the link I put in directed them to how to get the ex back. Ughhh. I did that today. I will update later when they are released again.
So what I am really talking about above is one of the 3 forms of article marketing. Direct Article Marketing that is. That is where you don't have your own landing page or squidoo lens or blog. You write the article, link it directly to the sales page which is your affiliate link. You say you can't put an affiliate link in some articles such as ezine, true yes.
That is where the domain thing comes in. I purchase domain names or registration or whatever it is. I put keyword research into this too, another subject. So many subjects. I can get a .us for $5.00 for a year. I forward the affiliate links straight to these domains, simple even for me. You can put domain names in your articles in most directories if not almost all.
I do other article marketing other than direct, but these do make money for me. This is so much fun learning too by the way. It's like going back to college but much more rewarding because what you build is really completely yours. It could be a reputation you build, a financial empire or a few bucks, but it's yours.
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