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NEW!! And What We Have All Been Waiting For!

2011-02-21T06:00:00.000-08:00

SBI now has a monthly subscription option!

Woohoo! There are MANY folks that have been waiting for that....

So for all of you that have had a hard time saving up for the $299 yearly fee, you can now have your own SBI site for $29.99 a month.

It can be paying for itself in several months - mine took about 4 months till it was paying for itself and at about 7 months it is more than paying for itself in adsense alone...within a year it doubled and the next year it more than quadrupled.

And it can only go UP from there! :)

Go check it out HERE!

Whoa - How Time Flies By!

2010-12-21T10:09:00.000-08:00

Especially when you are having fun. :)

A few quick updates on my life...

School - things are going very well. For those of you that are new to my blog... I have been a homeschooling mom for many years and this year we are sending our kids to Christian School.... I absolutely love it!

My SBI Site - things are picking up. Am getting over a hundred unique visitors a day now and am adding content , although not nearly as much as I would like to.... maybe after the holidays.

Ebay and Amazon - I have been selling a lot of old Records lately and am thinking it is because of Christmas coming up. (I bought an old guy's collection and am selling them but you can ALWAYS pick them up at second hand stores for next to nothing and sell them)

So now you know why I have not been posting much of late!

For those of you that are building Squidoo Lenses - if you have not gotten the One Week Marketing - you are wasting time spinning your wheels!

Because of what I learned with the OWM - much of my traffic to my SBI site is coming from various Squidoo lenses.

On BAD thing that happened to me in the last few weeks was that
I had all my wordpress blogs locked up because of one blog I made that was
against their policies - or so they said - no warning... nothing... just locked
them all up.

Frustrating!!

To say the least, BUT THANKFULLY I was not depending on Wordpress Blogs for most of my income.

ULTIMATELY, you will want to build your own site instead of using places such as blogs and Squidoo... so that con not ever happen to you!

And when you do that , unless you have a handle on all the html stuff (and KUDOS to you if you do!!)... but most people don't.... and if you are one of those that don't have a handle on it all, then SBI is definitely the way to get your internet own real estate out there.

Top Ten Money Making Tools

2010-09-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of the top 10 Money Making Programs sold on the internet today.

(Or that is what I was told!)

I am simply listing them as a resource list in case someone is interested in checking any of them out. And no, I did NOT check them all out.

We are all responsible adults that can make our own decisions and while one program may work for one person an entirely different one will work for the next!

(Most of these programs will help you learn how to market Clickbank products)

But just to WARN you so you don't get fully ticked off... many of these programs are set up to where when you exit the page there is a counter-offer given - I VERY MUCH dislike those little boxes popping up so am warning you, PLUS giving the heads up that you can get some of them for a better price if you pretend to exit. :)

I STILL think SBI (Site Build It) is the absolute best for beginners - but not everyone is going to have the same opinion on that! :)

Okay here goes:

#1) AutoTraffic Avalanche

#2) Traffic Syphone

#3) AutoBlog Samauri

#4) ZeroCost Commissions

#5) Hyper Facebook Traffic System

#6) Blogging to the Bank

#7) Mobile Monopoly (tapping into the mobile market)

#8) 20 Minute Payday

#9) Zero Down Traffic Blueprint

#10) Backlink and SEO Software

Simple Steps to Making Money

2010-07-07T05:12:00.001-07:00

Some of you are asking,"Can you show me exactly the steps to make money on the internet...?"

And actually, yes, I can.

Will it make you money?

Only YOU can decide that!

You see, although I or anyone else, can show you EXACTLY what we do to make money with the internet , only YOUR determination and willingness to stay consistent will determine YOUR results.

So What's MY Secret?

Sorry, I don't have one. Unless you call 'not giving up' a secret ingredient! But I DO have a method.

First of all you need to understand that if you know NOTHING at all about affiliate marketing, then you NEED to get something like SBI ( SiteBuildIt) or OWM ( One Week Marketing) to help you with that.

Preferably SBI Click here to see SBI (SiteBuildIt as that is hands down, the BEST program I have come across yet for Beginners.

Most of what I learned came from SBI as I built my website. (click here to peek at my SBI site)

They have the best system I have EVER come across that will not only help you build your own website but you WILL know all about SEO when you are done. :)

My Methods

I am constantly adding pages top my SBI site, of course, as that is my main website at this point, but I also like to build smaller niche websites... in fact, these are becoming quite addicting to me.

The niche websites are smaller than my SBI site and much more tightly focused, so it only takes a few days to set one up and then I move on to another one.

I use a variety of methods to build the smaller sites - Squidoo, blogs, articles, etc...

What is a Niche Website?

A niche site is a blog, Squidoo lens, or what I prefer is a wordpress blog hosted on something like Hostgator that is ONLY about a specific thing.

For instance, building a site about Halloween Costumes may be one thing, but to build a niche site on a topic WITHIN the whole Halloween costumes arena is much more profitable.

There are HUNDREDS of niche sites you can build off that one topic. Like Superman costumes, Batman costumes, Tinkerbell costumes... you get the picture.

Why separate them out like that?

Simple. To please the search engines, and when you please them, they are much kinder, or is it 'more kind'... whatever... kinder sounds better. lol....but anyways, Google loves it when we are more SPECIFIC on what our site is actually about.

Someone is searching for a peacock costume and google is going..."let me see, here's one with a bazillion costumes, they probably have a peacock one, or no WAIT, here is one with ONLY peacock costumes...perfect... and there you are on page one."

Yeah, I know, that was a bit crude. But you get my point, right?

So a Few Simple Steps

1) Find a niche like that. I have done niche sites in anything from weight loss stuff, don't go there, it is a HARD niche, to solar stuff... hot topic with MANY niches....storage sheds, furniture, toys, home decor.... you name it, there is a niche site you can build with it. ;)

2) Don't know how to find the right keywords? Use a free tool like https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal ( use this every time I search for the right keywords to use on an article)

3) If you have never done anything like Hostgator with wordpress, then just use a free place like Squidoo , Webs.com, Weebly.com , or Blogger.com and start building pages.

4)Find Products to market in your niche. I use cj.com , shareasale.com and Clickbank the most when I am looking for products to promote on my website. Adsense is of course, always great to add for income as well.

5) I can not stress enough that if this is all somewhat new to you, save yourself a lot of sweat and failure and start with SBI first.

If you don't have the money for SBI, do what I did, sell stuff on Ebay or do odd jobs until you have enough saved up to purchase it.

I will NEVER regret doing that!

Until next time.... happy writing!

Affiliate Marketing is Not That Hard!

2010-05-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

I got an email from Jennifer with One Week Marketing today... if you are not AT LEAST receiving her emails, you are LOSING OUT!

She reminded us that Affiliate Marketing is really NOT hard... she went on to say that although it takes dedication and determination, it is not hard.

The steps that we take are really simple steps.

(she often adds free resources in her emails and this time was no exception...:)

While it may be a bit confusing when we are first looking at it, it is not hard to do... not NEAR as complicated as some folks make it out to be.

I realize that for many folks just starting out, it is a stretch to buy any kind of material to get started with... I was there not so long ago.

BUT Jennifer has so much she offers FOR FREE that it is silly NOT to at least sign up - Please DO IT TODAY if you have not done so already... CLICK HERE and get the first 18 pages of her book for FREE plus that will get you on her mailing list for future information...

Granted, you will NOT get all the stuff that we get as owners of her OWM plan, but hey, take advantage of what's free at least, ok?!

When you have some extra money, go ahead and get her BASIC OWM Plan - it's only $47!

If you have been doing affiliate marketing for awhile and are struggling... then don't wait.... go get it today.. Believe me, I know... my Clickbank checks doubled and tripled after using her methods.

Don't Forget the Power of Amazon

2009-09-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

I have been an avid Ebay seller for about 5 years now and it has helped us over many a hump financially.

If you need money NOW, it is one of the fastest ways to get some cash. Especially if you are packrat like I am and keep accumulating STUFF!

But recently I discovered how easy it is to sell on Amazon.

I have used their affiliate program for quite awhile but to be honest, it
is quite piddly money unless you a gazillion visitors to your site and even
then, there are other much better affiliate programs to promote, with higher
commissions.

However, if you sell your OWN stuff DIRECTLY on their website, you can make pretty decent money. Especially if you have things like:

music
books
games
videos

It does not cost to list, like Ebay does. They take a percentage out of your sales and plop the rest into your bank account.

Although I am an even bigger fan of building up an online web with things like Squidoo , blogs, and affiliate marketing programs.... I Just wanted to share about Amazon real quick for those of you that are needing a quick buck. :)

I picked up a book last week at a yard sale for 25 cents and sold it on Amazon a few days later for $10!

And now I need to get back to listing some stuff on there as I still have some old records to get listed ...

Happy marketing!

Ahhh...School Has Started!

2009-09-15T06:09:00.000-07:00

After homeschooling for many years, we are sending our youngest ones to a local Christian school this year.

And all of a sudden I have several hours a day, all to myself....

I absolutely am loving it!

My list of "To Do Stuff" is in front of me... :)

One of the very first things on my list (and I have started it already) is to do several new campaigns with the One Week Marketing Plan.

I keep a copy of that plan in front of me as I follow it for my new campaign.

For those of you that are brand new to OWM, it is simply a tool to help with ANYTHING you wish to promote and make sales from.

I have used the OWM method for my Ebay log furniture store, and now get oodles of traffic to Ebay through Squidoo and my blog because of it.

I have used it to promote my Emergency-Survival-Skills.com website (that I built using SBI)and get traffic to it every day from my OWM campaigns.

click here----->One Week Marketing <-------click here!

So anyways... that is what I am up these days.... along with all the usual "Mom" stuff, like in about half an hour I drive the kids to school.... come back home and get the laundry taken care of ... take another son to the airport (he leaves to visit his older brother in CA for a week).... make sure Dad knows he needs to meet Daughter No 1 to test drive a car at 3pm....

Isn't life good?! :-)

Enjoy your day!

A Plug for One Week Marketing!

2009-07-21T20:27:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since I have put in a plug for the One Week Marketing Plan as I have so busy with my SBI site and I also have a ton of other stuff going on this summer...like aquiring about 4000 old records that I am helping my daughter with as a business... =)

But anyways, I have campaigns running that I set up using the OWM and the beauty of that is that it is floating out there even though I don't do anything with them... making me sales here and there.

The other morning when I checked my Clickbank account, I had only two clickthroughs which is not good at all as far as numbers go but they both ended up as sales so it was REALLY good as far as numbers go - lol!

But the amazing thing was they both came from two very different products that I had created some Squidoo lenses and blogs on and then never did much with it as I just didn't have time to do research on it to write articles etc...

So the bottom line is that if you are doing affiliate marketing and not making ANY sales it may be because you don't have a clear action plan....

I can not stress it enough that you MUST have an action plan. The One Week Marketing has one of the best and easy to follow plans that I have seen yet and has helped many over the hump with the whole affiliate marketing thing - I know it did me!

GRAB YOUR COPY OF ONE WEEK MARKETING HERE and let your story be the next one!!

WooHoo - SBI is Paying for Itself!

2009-06-25T06:27:00.001-07:00

That is right, my SBI site is now paying for itself... It will do way more than that, of course, but I am tickled as I was giving it 5 months to start paying for itself and we are ahead of the game at this point. =)

Age of Site: 2 months and 3 days =)
Pages built: 48
Unique visitors: 50 - 80 a day

At this point I am averaging several bucks a day with adsense...and the cost of running an SBI site is less than a buck a day.

About 90% of my visitors are finding me thru google searches... for instance, if you google the phrase best survival knife and/or best survival knives, my site is on the first page at this point.

I had NO intention of writing anything much on that topic when I started the site but I noticed that I was getting traffic for that phrase so I went with it. =)

That is what will happen no matter what topic you go with - and I am assuming if you are doing affiliate marketing that your ultimate goal is to get an SBI site =)... If you have followed my writings at all you know by now that I do not usually push anything in the line of internet marketing but I just know that if you follow the steps that SiteBuildIt lays out for you, you will have a website to be proud of in six short months!

(If you are still uncertain how this all works click here to see a short overview on SBI for you...)

Well, I am off building more content to draw more traffic! Maybe in another month I will be up to several hundred a day or even a thousand...now THAT would be really cool! =)

OMG - I Have Been Too Busy to Post Here....

2009-06-18T21:46:00.001-07:00

With summer and kids, smores, and late nights, I have not been posting to my blogs as I should.

Whenever I have some free time I am trying to add pages to my SBI site. It is now some over two months old, (I started it in April of 2009) and am at about 46 pages with between 30 - 50 visitors every day and most of them are coming from google which is making me quite happy. =)

I know I need to keep at it for about 5 - 6 months before I start seeing a lot of results, and I have seen results already so it's hard to not get a little impatient but it seems these things just take time, the way of the tortoise, steady and sure!

If you have not done so, make sure you grab your free copy of the SBI Affiliate Masters Course found at the top of this blog.

Remember that the quicker you START your SBI site, the quicker you will be at the coveted 6 months stage in the building process!

This is just a short post to let you all know that I AM still alive and working on my site at http://www.emergency-survival-skills.com/ for those following my SBI progress... but I am also taking time off for the more important things in life, like campfires, smores, visiting friends and all the fun summer stuff....

Until next time,
Have a great summer! =)

Got a Check Today....

2009-05-22T20:18:00.000-07:00

I got my first affiliate check today thru my Survival Sites - it was for $45 which again is not much for some folks, but to me it is a sign that more is to follow. lol

I have been building my SBI site for a little over a month now and that more than pays for the first month so I figure I am on top of the game even this early IN the game. :)

I had a busy week so I need to go build a page tonight - just had to post that really quick for ya'll.

Been Looking at SBI??

2009-05-20T09:10:00.001-07:00

I have been meaning to put this link on here sooner but with all my spare time being invested into building more pages for my SBI site - I kept forgetting it...

I know there are a number of my readers looking into SBI and trying to see if it is a good fit for them, but just like all of us, you want to BE SURE before you invest that moolah!

I have done so much stuff online and to get everything SBI offers at $25 a
month is actually a steal!

BUT - you can take a peak at the actual Action Guide we SBIers use to build our websites and it will not only help you with your decision but will also help shorten your learning curve once you actually DO purchase it.
VISIT THE SBI ACTION GUIDE LINK HERE - Have fun with it!
And as always,
Have a great day!

Made my First Adsense Money Today on My SBI Site :)

2009-05-14T20:58:00.000-07:00

It's been about a month now and I have 26 pages built on my SBI site at http://www.emergency-survival-skills.com/ with an average of 20 - 35 visitors a day coming to it.

So I am adding adsense to some of the pages and some other affiliate links now... I try to add a page a day but some days, like today, I wasn't able to as I had too much other stuff going on... We are trying to get ready for a yard sale and it is pouring rain... :)

What I have been doing is building a page to add to the website and then I also submit the same page in article form to ezinearticles linking back to my site. It takes a few days for it to get accepted but eventually the articles will also draw trafic to the site.

I made my very first adsense money today - a total of .44 :)

That may not be much but hey, it is just the beginning and I know from my first experience with the SBI sites, that it takes a few months for it to really take off.... I only have adsense on a few pages so I need to go get it on more pages.

For those of you that are new to my blog -I have been working from home for several months now, and doing affiliate marketing, I finally started making money with it, after using the One Week Marketing , plan which focuses on using free methods... and yeah, I do brag on it a bit but then I DO have reason to, as that is what got me over the hump with all the online marketing stuff.... then I invested some of that profit into the SBI program which is like a business in a box. (and my ULTIMATE favorite but it does take a bit more of an investment, although $25 a month is really not that much!)

SBI will teach you how to not only build a website without having to know any html but is known to be one of the best methods of doing affiliate marketing or making money with adsense... I have a short review on it HERE as well.

I will keep you posted on my progress and in the meantime, as always,
Happy Marketing!

SBI update...

2009-05-09T07:53:00.000-07:00

Summer is here and boy, it is a busy time with teenagers and all... Plus my hubby's job is still on hold, as it has been all winter. With not much luck at finding anything around here.

Although we are so thankful for what my Internet Marketing brings in for us, it is not to the point where we can just depend on it, so I am doing part time work, which keeps me hopping for sure.

But with what I am doing now with affiliate marketing and my new SBI site, I can do all that in the wee hours of the morning or late at night, if I have to... so that is nice and because I am so helplessly addicted to the online stuff, I DO find other times to work at it as well. :)

So, for those of you that are following my progress with SBI, ( here is my site if you have not seen it yet... www.Emergency-Survival-Skills.com ) I am at about 20 pages now and am getting steady traffic from Google every day. I know from past experience that it will keep steadily building as I add new pages and new content. (my goal is to have over a hundred pages built by July... we shall see if I get there!)

As of this writing on the 9th of May, you will notice there are not a whole lot of adsense ads and affilaite links added to the site yet. There is a reason for that. SBI explains all that in their FREE AFFILIATE MASTERS COURSE... if you have not taken advantage of that, you are missing out!

Anyways, today is another very busy Staurday at my house so I will need to be off and running... I have done my two hours of 'work' today on the computer so I need to get my 'real work in real life' done too, now! :)

Until next time...
Happy Marketing!

Building a New SBI Site...

2009-04-26T06:49:00.000-07:00

Whew... I am well into building my new SBI site and am all pumped, full of ideas and not enough time to get it all done as fast as I would like to!

My very first SBI site that I had ever done was in one of the hardest niches on Planet Internet.... the work at home niche. DON'T put all your eggs in that basket, trust me! Although I do have this blog as my WAH Ramblings site, and I have a freeby website at http://www.montanamom5.com/ - other than that I put all my efforts into more profitable niches and topics than making money at home stuff.

So when I got discouraged with the WAH SBI site - and for those of you that are not familiar with SBI, it is the website in a box tool called SiteBuildIt! . Hundreds of work at home moms (and dads) are using it to build their own websites where they can earn a pretty good living with affiliate marketing and adsense.

But anyways, back to my ramblings, after I laid that first site down, I have gone the route of building blogs, Squidoo lenses and writing articles - all free methods to earn affiliate commissions online which is wonderful , especially if you use the OWM (One Week Marketing) guide to help you along. In fact, I didn't make any money till I started using that and following the simple steps outlined there....

I started making money and getting checks in the mail, so I decided to build another SBI site... Wow, all I can say, is WOW!

I had forgotten all the tools that are at my fingertips with it. The SBI system will do it all. It submits each page to various search engines immediately after it is built, it checks that all the links are working, but most importantly of all.... it will tell you as you build each page, whether or not it will please the Google Search Engine and spiders. That is HUGE!!

For any of you that have been following my blogs at all, you all know that I am not perfect. I have grammar errors, big time! And usually I think way faster than I can type, which makes for hard reading at times... so hey, if I can do this, ANYBODY can!!

What are you waiting for? :)

If this is all brand new to you - I would suggest to go build your first blog once. If you want to, send me a link to it, and I'll give you some hints or tips on what you can do with it. Or grab a simple tool or program to help you. There are a variety of them scattered throughout my blog here... and just get started!

Until next time...

Have fun!

Don't Know What to Write About??

2009-04-07T06:29:00.000-07:00

Every writer has those moments - the blank memory times .... and then we all have those moments as well, when the pens fly (or the fingers) and it seems the articles, or blog posts or whatever we are trying to write about just flows...

We all love those times and have learned - somewhat anyways - to live with the not so good moments when we seem to have to squeeze our brain to exude any kind of sentence.

I have an idea for you.... and this is especially for those of you that like to write about anything under the sun..... just for the kicks of writing. :) Yep, there are those of us that just love to write and just wish we had more ways to monetise what we just wrote - lol

What if I told you that there ARE ways to do exactly that?

Ever heard of google trends ??

It is an amazing tool - you will find the hottest trends on google searches from anything like " kal penn death " to "sat scores" and "blind pilot "...

There are folks that simply have websites with articles on all sorts of things and follow the google trends to learn what to write about then monetise with things like adsense, etc...

Here is what one writer shared about that. You can read it HERE...

I will keep you posted on what is happening with my writings on 'trendy material' :)

Ahhh... Home Again After Two Weeks Vacation!

2009-03-25T19:23:00.000-07:00

What a beautiful thing it is to go on a vacation but even more beautiful to come back home again!

We went from MT to MI to visit family - ran into blizzards both ways - got to see MT Rushmore with the kids - and had a wonderful time, blizzards and all!

I enjoyed the break from the computer as well. it is so important to get away from it all every so often. I seem to get the best ideas when I am away from it, like what to write articles on, what I could build Squidoo lenses on next and I am almost ready to tackle a new SBI site....

I did log onto the laptop every couple days and it was really fun to see commissions and sales even when I was not working. I tell you, the power of the internet and being able to harness that to funnel some money into our own bank accounts is exhilarating!

So, now I am trying to get back into a schedule with my kids and their homeschool, plus trying to find the time to put all the new ideas to work that I got while on vacation....

I have to admit - it IS good to be back in the swing again - but if you have not taken a break for awhile, maybe you need to step back, go take a few days off... who knows what killer ideas you may hatch while doing so.... :)

Sample of One Week Marketing Plan....

2009-02-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

Here's just a sample of what you're about to experience ..... with the One Week Marketing Plan...

The Steps to Starting a Successful Online Business with no money to invest - How to get on the ground and running with no money out of pocket. (Page 11)

One of the most closely-guarded secrets for gathering dynamite niche market intelligence - One of the simplest, most effective ways to gather niche market ideas, and it's been hiding right under your nose the whole time . . . (Page 27)

A virtually fool-proof method to Get Your Content Indexed Fast, often within just hours. While others are still waiting to get their sites picked up by the search engines, you're already off to the races, pulling in qualified traffic. (Page 30)

An absolutely CRUCIAL warning for those using Squidoo - Don't even think about making another lens until you read this! (Page 35)

What to do when your content disappears from Google . . . Been a victim of the "Google Sandbox?" Discover how to get your content back in the Index and back to making money for you. (Page 58)

The must-have tools to augment your online success - Because there's simply no reason to spend countless hours slaving over your content. Use these online tools to boost your productivity while slashing the time you spend working ... (Pages 61-64)

The 6 "Hot Spots" on a Squidoo lens - Discover how to make Google fall in love with your lens... The 6 step formula to send your lens on a one-way ticket up the rankings! (Page 23)

CAUTION - Why using social bookmarking services on your lens may actually cause more harm than good... Be sure to get the straight facts before you consider bookmarking your next lens. (Page 42)

A simple, no-nonsense way to ask Google what it thinks your webpage is about. In just a single minute, you'll be able to crack the "relevancy" code for good! (Page 44)

Conducting proper market research before ever touching a website! Beware - The Internet is chock-full of failed marketing attempts with the "best of intentions." Know for a fact that you're selling to a hungry crowd! (Page 47)

Leveraging your traffic's search patterns for smashmouth blog and article titles. How to use your current traffic to pinpoint ways to catch more of your market and stop them dead in their tracks! (Page 50)

Tired of watching your Ezine Articles fall from grace, never to return to ranking glory again? Discover how to keep them pinned up at the top of the search results, never failing to deliver you more traffic. (Page 54)

Gain immediate and lasting focus - How to tune out the "shiny things" onlinethat are robbing you of your productivity, and your profits. (Page 57)

How too MUCH content can work against you... Content may be king, but overkill will poison your marketing efforts! (A Conversation With Nick, Page 7)

And that's just a small sample of what's waiting for you inside. . . Jennifer aka PotPieGirl has carefully sculpted each section of the One Week Marketing course to short-cut your path to having a successful online business.

It doesn't matter if you barely know how to put up a website . . .Haven't been doing this "Internet Marketing" thing for long . . .. . . Don't know how to write a compelling story.

If you don't even know how to pick a good niche market . . .. . . Have driven every attempt to make money online straight into the ground.

The only thing that matters is that you have the desire to succeed and are ready to get started.

So, are you?

Grab YOUR copy of the One Week Marketing Plan HERE and get started TODAY!

The Affiliate Part is Easy - The MARKETING is Where We Get Hung up On

2009-02-12T07:03:00.001-08:00

Finding stuff to market online is easy... if only the marketing were as simple as finding the products!

Like for instance, I'll go browsing thru the Clickbank marketplace and find a variety of things that I would love to talk about and then I spend several hours trying to find the keywords needed to penetrate enough so that someone can find me on the vast land of the web...

Keyword research is the most important ingredient of Internet Marketing in my opinion.

Me favorite tool is still the keyword sandbox at www.seobook.com - it's free and fun to play in. And it is almost like digging for a treasure. As you dig deeper and deeper to get to a good long tailed keyword phrase, it is like gold when you find it. :)

Instance:

You are searching for keywords related to dancing and you find that there are 35,000 searches for salsa dancing versus tango dancing which has only 18,000... so you enter salsa dancing into the search box and now you have a whole string of related 'long tailed keyword phrases' specific to salsa dancing that you can use for weeks to write articles, blog posts, and build Squidoo lenses on.

(and Clickbank has a few really cool products to promote regarding dancing :)

But, yes, the marketing is where most people give up in any kind of work at home stuff - because no matter what you do - whether it is a home based business, network marketing, mlm, affiliate marketing.... whatever it is that we decide to get involved in to make some moolah from home - it is ALL about Marketing... and then more marketing...

That is why most successful internet marketers are involved with or use some sort of Internet Marketing program to help them with the marketing part.

I know I probably sound like a broken record but I am very much partial to the One Week Marketing Plan as that is what I finally ended up getting to help me get over the hump of the frustrating zeros in my Clickbank account.

That is where I learned how to put together a successful campaign where people actually FIND my stuff thru surfing the net without me having to PAY for advertising.

It is also where I learned how to search for the right keyword phrases.

I still have much to learn but at least I have DIRECTION now instead of

floundering all over the net!

Until next time - off to get more coffee!

Mtnmom5

Wait... Look at the Mouse...

2009-02-10T08:50:00.000-08:00

Now look at YOUR finger on the mouse.... ready to hit the back button... exit.... go back to where you were before you landed here...:)

Remember .... that is EXACTLY what YOUR readers are doing with YOUR articles, websites, blogs, whatever you are using to catch their attention.

If you can't get their attention with the first several phrases - and they hit the back button before they get past the first sentence - all the rest of the article was a waste of time.

And I don't know about you, but I HATE the thought of writing for nothing!

I am not one of those people that can sit down at any given time and rattle off an article in five minutes.

Nope, mine comes in spurts - and when I am in the 'mood' it all comes easy, but most other times it is work with a capital W.

And here is something else that is interesting....

95% of folks that are trying to make a go at making money ffrom home are trying to promote work at home stuff.... while at least 75% of the folks cruising the net are not even looking for work at home stuff....

I rarely set up campaigns on work at home things. There are waaay too many really cool products on Clickbank to promote that are loads easier and actually have pretty cool commissions to waste my time campaigning about working at home!

(most of my traffic to my work at home blogs and sites come from forums...because I am sadly addicted to work at home forums)

And I admit that I am hopelessly in love with and partial to the One Week Marketing Plan as when I found it I had been floundering around trying to write articles, set up Squidoo lenses , blogging , and although I was doing all the right things, nothing was happening....

All I was missing was a CLEAR plan of action to tie it all together and I found it with the OWMP.... Jennifer's program may not be your lifesaver, but if you are struggling and nothing is coming together for you here are a few tips....

1) you may be in the wrong niche

2) you may need a clear plan of action :)

Happy Marketing... I'll see you on the net. :)

So... What IS Affiliate Marketing and How Does it Work?

2009-01-26T22:48:00.000-08:00

(Yes, that is how I act when I log onto my computer and see $$ in my account....believe me, you will, too! :)

I have been getting quite a few questions lately on what affiliate marketing is all about , especially from young moms that are wanting to make some money from home and do not have a lot, is any, money to invest into a home business...

So, I will try to give a brief outline on the term " affiliate marketing"...

I am sure we have all been to Amazon websites.... Amazon is known as the King of Affiliates as that is what it is. A place where we can buy almost anything under the sun from a variety of vendors too long to list.

Here is how it works - Amazon is only a gateway to the product itself that many people use and when we purchase products from their sites , guess where it is shipped from... not Amazon!

Guess who makes the products - NOT Amazon!

Guess who handles the products - NOT Amazon!

So, who is actually marketing the products - Amazon!

Amazon makes a commission every time we make a purchase thru their sites... affiliate marketing at it's finest!

We can do the EXACT SAME thing. Use the exact same methods. And make money.

You can do it with blogs, with websites, hubpages, Squidoo lens, any place where you can send people to...

Find affiliate products to market through places like Commission Junction, Linkshare, Amazon itself!, Clickbank and place links on your sites that are provided for you by these places and you can do the exact same thing Amazon is doing...

"But I have no idea how to get started", you may be saying.... which is why I have posted several tools that I personally feel are great to help anyone get started with affiliate marketing... you will see them scattered throughout this site here if you browse around.

Some are more advances than others but they will all help you get started... you will never be as big as Amazon, but remember they started out at some point too. Everything has to start somewhere, before it will get anywhere!

And Then I Made a Clickbank Sale.....!

2009-01-22T20:33:00.000-08:00

... is your blog generating any money for you?

Do you have adsense on it?

Are you getting traffic to it?

The two biggest and most important things in getting your blog to make you some moolah is to have lots of traffic coming to it.

No traffic - no clicks - no money!

Simple and plain truth of blogging for money... you need traffic and more traffic and still more traffic coming to your sites every day... in order to make an income.

I know what it is like to write a blog post, ping it at pingoat.com and then run and check my adsense account or clickbank to see if there is any money there!

I had tried so hard to make money with blogs, Squidoo and writing articles and just was not seeing any money when I first came across the One Week Marketing plan... I was initially attracted to it as I was trying to master the whole Squidoo thing, but it had so much more than that for me.

I finally learned how to use the right keywords to optimize all my posts and sites for the search engines... I also learned how to link everything together to create a web effect on the internet and please the Big Google spiders!

But probably my very favorite part was the actual dialogue between Nick and Jennifer as she walked him thru setting up his very own campaign in a week. That was where I learned the most and the beauty of it that after you have that downloaded on your computer you can go back to it over and over. (I actually printed mine out as I use it every time I do a new campaign..)

That conversation alone was worth every penny I spent on the One Week Marketing plan!

And then when I made my first clickbank sale - I was ecstatic! (and hooked on internet marketing forever!)

Money Making Blogs - Blogging Tips

2009-01-10T20:20:00.000-08:00

Whew - our whole communication system was down for TWO whole days. We live in a remote area in NW Montana and because of some avalanche hitting a main tower - we lost everything, cell service, long distance, internet - talk about feeling cut off from the rest of civilization!

This is truly one of the most beautiful places to live for the most part, but when things like that happen, we are reminded of just how remote we really and how dependent we are on technology!

But I was also reminded how beautiful it is at a time like that to be in online marketing of some sort, whether that is with money making blogs, or with some other sort of work at home stuff as even though MY computer was not working - others were happily surfing the 'net.

And I got to do some things that I normally push aside, like baking apple pies and cleaning house!

The sad fact is that I would much rather be online than clean or cook - so I need to prioritize my life every so often and get things straight about how much time I get to spend online and actually it really helps to set a schedule of some sort - especially if you are doing more than one thing online.

For instance - here is what works for me at times if I can stick to it! I am a glutton for punishment with sticking too many 'irons in the fire' so to speak!

But here is a simple guideline that helps me stay on target on what I want to get accomplished per week and then you can break it down however you need to - with your schedule.

Money Making Blogs: Blog at least twice a week - (add a keyword rich post or article to each blog)

Free Advertising: Post a new ad every other day to each, like I use craigslist and freeads the most right now and with craigslist especially, it is best to add a few ads every other day.

Forum posting - my favorite so I do some of that almost every day....

But here is how it works if you break it down - have an hour set aside every day to work on your 'money making blogs' either by posting a new blog post or writing an article that links to your blog, or even building a new Squidoo lens that links to your blog...

Remember that the more content that is keyword focused and linking to each other - the better your campaign...

The same for the free advertising - post ads linking to your blogs.

Regardless what you do to promote your money making blogs - as long as you do something each day or at least a couple times a week, eventually you will generate more and more traffic. It takes time for it to build up but if you have a good niche, it will work.

I personally follow the One Week Marketing Plan a lot and use her techniques as Jennifer has so many tricks she has mastered with blogs and Squidoo.

Regardless which 'tool' you use, follow the tips and tricks they give you and do it consistently - and you will see results!

Here is another tool I came across recently and because it is under twenty bucks, it may be a great tool to add to the 'money making blogs arsenal' ! Click Here to get to more details on it.

How to Start a Blog and Get That Blog Making Money For You!

2009-01-07T08:23:00.000-08:00

"So how do I GET STARTED blogging for money?"

"Can you please tell me where to go... what to do... how to get started...."

I hear these questions all the time and because I am a niche blogger myself, I simply do not have the time to help everyone! (I make my money with affiliate marketing so I have to add posts to my blogs,too...:)

But maybe what I CAN do is set up a few short and simple steps here to help you get started blogging... believe me, once you get started, you will never stop learning.

The hardest part for many people is to simply to get started blogging. It was not that long ago that the mere thought of blogging gave me a headache, not to mention seo and keywords and all that stuff... I am not kidding!

So here is what I would advise you to do....

Step #1) Go to clickbank.com and register - it's free - once you have done that you are able to browse the marketplace and see what they offer as affiliate products to market. Most of the clickbank products are e-products so you want to be careful. If it looks cheesy to you, then stay away from it!

Step#2) Also go to a few other affiliate programs like linkshare.com, amazon.com, commission junction and regsiter with each one, it is free as well , do so and browse their categories.
(some of these require you to have some sort of website or blog set up already... just wait on those till later...)

Step#3) Now go to blogger.com or wordpress.com and set up a simple blog - let's say you are wanting to promote the program 'six pack abs' that you can find on clickbank - you will want to have your blog name something related to 'six pack abs' and you may have to play around with it till you find one that is available...

(use the keyword search tool at http://www.seobook.com/ - it's a free tool)

Then you start posting about six pack abs on your blog - linking back to the ad page with the link provided to you from clickbank - it is called a hoplink and should look something like http://xxxxx.truthaboutabs.hop.clickbank.net/ except the xxx's will be your own tracking link.

Remember - the more posts you have on your blog, the more exposure you get on google search - BUT be patient, it can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks for google searchers to find you....

Okay - in a nutshell - that is how to get started and I will post more soon.... :)

Free Keyword Search Tool - Helps Rank High in Google!

2009-01-04T13:34:00.000-08:00

A few tips and excerpts from PotPieGirl's Training with the One Week Marketing Plan... on how to use the free keyword search tool with seobook.com and Google search tools.

"Keyword research is one of the toughest things when learning all this internet marketing mumbo-jumbo, isn't it?

Seems everyone has a different keyword research technique - or free keyword search tool they use, and you're left wondering which way is up and maybe even MORE confused than ever.

Been there. Done that. =)

Do you need help?

First off, I am FAR from a keyword research genius, but I DO have a few tricks up my sleeve."

Jennifer goes on to explain how you can search out a specific keyword to see if you have a chance at ranking high on the search engines or if you are better off digging deeper in the 'keyword sandbox'.

Tip #1

You HAVE to have your keyword phrase IN your title.. Have to...have to...have to... did I say you MUST have your keyword phrase in your title!

Article title, blog title, Squidoo title, - it has to be in the title.

Tip #2

Have that EXACT keyword phrase within the first few sentences of your blog, or your Squidoo intro module.

Often Google will return those first few sentences as the description people see when they google your keyword phrase.

Tip #3

In the anchor text of links ON your blog or Squidoo lens - or in articles they need to be in the resource box.

An anchor link is simply a clickable link on your blog or Squidoo lens. Google puts weight on anchor text ON your page as well as the title and intro.

For instance if your keyword phrase is ' run a car on water', then that EXACT phrase needs to be in your title, intro and as anchor text somewhere on your page.

.... these are just a sampling of the tips and tricks you will learn from Potpiegirl and the One Week Marketing Plan as you continue your online marketing career whether it is affiliate marketing or with a home based business - she will help you learn how to EFFECTIVELY do your online marketing.

She uses the free keyword research tool available with seobook.com and I camp out in that place whenever I get a chance.

Keyword research is VITAL to your success with anything you do online. Without keywords you will have no traffic and without traffic there is no money!

How to Make Money Blogging About Things We Do Already!

2008-12-29T22:27:00.000-08:00

So... here we are with a blog all set up and no idea how to go about making money with a blog...

(First of all, there are many amazing and wonderful tools to help shorten the learning curve for you to get into profit more quickly with building a blog, and I have several of my personal favorites scattered around on my blog here.)

But is a few short words, making money with a blog is simply by looking at it as a 'showcase' or storefront in a way, as you know how in real life, outside the walls of the internet, if you want to buy shoes, you will go to a shoestore - or if you want pastries, you would hardly go into a pet shop...

Same way online... people are searching online for stuff, every seciond of every day.... if you are blogging about pets, then you will want the links on your site to go to pet items.

It would be silly to write an article about your Aunt Bonnies amazing pumpkin desert on your blog about pets - not only silly but actually the search engines will look at that and because nothing really matches up, they will pass over it whereas if everything is related to pets, and someone googles something like 'allergy pet skin care' and you have a blog post about something related to 'allergies and skin care' you just might get that traffic which can turn into a customer for you if your blog is related to what they are actually searching for.

I have seen blogs that have everything but the kitchen sink on them and then they wonder why they do not get traffic from the search engines!

Here is a simple tip that will get you more targeted traffic in a matter of days:

Write a post on your blog every day for a week - and keep it all very similar, and yet have it be fresh new content - for instance, let's use the pet care one since we seem to be on that subject!

One day, you write a blog post about 'pet skin care' - the next day it could be ' allergy free pet skin care' and the day following, you might do one that says ' sensitive pet skin care', etc, etc, and ping your blog each time you add a post.... if you have never pinged your blogs - go to pinggoat.com and follow the steps there - it is easy and free to register for it.

You should notice an increase in traffic very quickly with that one little trick... go one step further and write a brief article using the same keywords and link back to your blog with them - submit your articles to places like ideamarketers.com , goarticles.com and ezinearticles.com ...

Affiliate Marketing Blog - is it Worth it?

2008-12-17T21:33:00.000-08:00

Is it worth it to spend some time to learn a technique that could pay out for months and years down the road...

Is it worth the extra effort it takes for those of us that have never gone much farther than to send emails or chat on facebook to be stretched into setting up an affiliate marketing blog that has the possibility of creating a mini gold mine ( and for some, not so mini!)

Ask Amy Bass ...she will quickly tell you that it is worth it all!!

Or Jennifer Ledbetter (also known as potpiegirl) she is another one that has not only mastered the art of creating not only one affiliate marketing blog but many blogs , along with Squidoo sites .... and she now teaches others how to do the same as does Amy Bass as well...

Amy has a program designed for the beginner blogger and Jennifer's is more for the experienced blogger and Squidooer... but the beautiful thing is that they both focus on using free sites and tools to make money with affiliate marketing blogs.

Amy's story is beautiful in the fact that she got to help her 50 year old mother, who had never done more then send an email - get started with affiliate marketing blogging .... You can actually hear her Mom's own story HERE...

Creating an Affiliate Marketing Blog is not for everyone!

Who Affiliate Marketing and Blogging Is NOT For!

If you hate to learn or try new techniques...You don't need this!

If you are expecting to get rich overnight...Please save your money!

If you are lazy...This isn't for you!

The Niche Blogger Course is for the beginner, maybe a stay at home mom or an unemployed average Joe who is struggling to make ends meet.

The One Week Marketing Action Plan is perfect for those who have:

Tried some article marketing, or

Made some Squidoo lenses, and maybe

Learned a little about keywords, and probably have

Tried other free methods to make money online but can't seem to put it all together.

I know from personal, first-hand experience, that there is this place of complete frustration many of us come to when learning about affiliate marketing.

We are bombarded with information on SO many topics and methods to make money online. We try some of this and some of that, but nothing is "coming together".

Our eyes start to cross, our heads start to spin...and we feel like we are about to EXPLODE from frustration. We feel like we have run into a brick wall that there is NO WAY to get through.

It is at this exact point that you either get an effective and easy-to-follow action plan to create your very own affiliate marketing blog campaigns that work - or you quit....

How to Build a Blog...

2008-12-12T06:53:00.000-08:00

It's really quite simple to build a blog even if you have never blogged...

I remember not so long ago that the thought of building a blog was terrifyingly intimidating! But then so is anything new for me... I wish I could just learn it all and live happily ever after, but unfortunately with internet marketing, we will never be done learning!

And is it just me, or do new techniques and marketing tools pop up almost before we have the last 'new thing' mastered??

Almost like it is in steroid mode.

But anyways, back to blogging, for those of you that have never blogged, you simply go to blogger.com and set up a blog. You will need a gmail email address to do so as they are connected but that is also free and easy to do.

Then once you have it all set up, go in and play around! Write a bit about yourself in a blog post and see what it looks like, add some pictures... the really cool thing is that you can erase and change anything you want. So don't be afraid to play around in it.

Once you get familiar with the whole aspect of blogging, any training tools you get will make much more sense to you.

Happy Blogging!

Is Your Blog Making Money For You?

2008-12-12T04:32:00.000-08:00

Do you have a blog already? Or just learning to build a blog, perhaps...

Did you know that there are many, many moms that are getting paid to blog about what they love! It can be anything from babies and diapers to candies and chocolates..... or perhaps something more sophisticated like profesional blogging about being a lawyer or an herbalist.

Those are just some ideas out of the top of my head.... I personally write a lot about the subject of working at home as that is my passion and it does work the best of you can write about something you have experience in or can be passionate about.

Folks seem to pick up when we are just spouting about stuff we really have no idea on!

But I can write with authority on things like :

working leads.... making dials... network marketing... affiliate marketing.... selling on Ebay.... mlm..

Cause I have been there, done that!

And let me tell you, right off the bat - (just in case you are on here and you happen to understand that language as well..) that after spending years and thousands of dollars in network marketing, I have found my passion and that is in affiliate marketing.

Doesn't cost hardly anything to do it, and you can make pretty decent money at it... if you don't give up too quickly but we know all about being persistent and consistent , don't we, if we have been in network marketing long enough and/or have been to any personal development seminars...!

Don't get me wrong - network marketing works.... I don't doubt that for a minute... but it just didn't seem to work very well for me as I can't sell hot chocolate to an Eskimo in sub-zero weather!

So anyways, in a nutshell, affiliate marketing is like having a giant online consigment store where you can make commissions of anything you market - the trick is in getting people to your online storefront.

After using the One Week Marketing Plan, I finally have been able to get not only customers to my online storefront but also buyers, which we need if we want to stay in business, right?

If you are one of those people that has 'computer time' in the wee hours or late hours and are looking how to make money blogging, then this may be the right tool for you as well.

Get your blog making money for you and then after it is all set, find a new niche, build a blog on it - oh and I use Squidoo along with blogs but that is what PotPieGirl will cover in her stuff - she takes you through EXACTLY what she did to start making several hundred to several thousand a day with affiliate marketing.

Go grab your copy or at least download her first 18 pages for free to see if it is a fit for you... and