January 7, 2015

setting goals and taking action

A New Year for Setting Goals and Taking Action It’s another What’s Up Wednesday. Today, I reveal what I have been doing since the start of the new year – setting goals and taking action. By the way, have a happy and prosperous new year! I’ve been involved with too much mind exercise by over-thinking

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January 2, 2015

seven effective life habits

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People In today’s Feature Friday, I am talking about a system that I had discovered over 10 years ago. It has helped me and still applies today. I refer to it as seven effective life habits and it is based on Stephen Covey’s, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” (affiliate

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December 31, 2014

pick the right domain name

Choosing the Right Domain Name In today’s Tools of the Trade Tuesday, I talk about an often missed topic of discussion that directly relates to websites and blogs – getting the right domain name. In the past the main focus was always on two things; picking out the domain name based on your top or

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December 30, 2014

email list refocus

My Email List It’s another Marketing Monday and I’ve been going crazy. Because it is near the end of the year, I am scrambling to get things done in all areas! Everything from health care insurance issues, swapping out clothes driers, to getting tax information together and submitted to the accountant. And that’s just for

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December 26, 2014

using web analytics

Know Your Visitors For today’s belated Traffic Tactics Thursday, I discuss the importance of why you should know your traffic using web analytics. Who are your visitors? Who is coming to your site, where are they coming from and how are they getting there? What articles are they reading, or what links are they clicking?

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December 23, 2014

why buy a premium wordpress theme

Premium Theme vs. Free Theme Today’s Tools of the Trade Tuesday, I cover reasons why buy a premium WordPress theme has advantages over free themes. Since starting with my first website online in the summer of 2009, I’ve used a number of themes for my various websites and blogs. I’ve seen the good, the bad,

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December 23, 2014

evergreen niche markets for affiliates

Why Evergreen Niche Markets? In today’s Marketing Monday, I cover evergreen niche markets for affiliates and why they’re important to consider as an affiliate. Too many times I’ve seen advice that basically tells new affiliate marketers to do whatever they like to do best. Even though there’s some merit to that advice, it definitely shouldn’t

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December 19, 2014

keeping yourself motivated

Staying Motivated Well surprise! Again for this Feature Friday, I’m the guest author. Today I look at keeping yourself motivated. It’s not always easy to do. Just like what’s happening with Feature Friday. Not that I haven’t tried to get more guest authors. When I first decided to do this, I invited a few other

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December 17, 2014

affiliate marketing scams

Online Scams In today’s What’s Up Wednesday, I talk about an issue that can cause you a lot of heartache along with a loss of money and time; online and affiliate marketing scams. Yes, they’re out there and exist in every online market. Some do it to make a quick buck, others are even more

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December 16, 2014

phases of blog growth

Phases of Blog Growth For this Tool’s of the Trade Tuesday, I talk about a powerful tool that every affiliate marketer should have… a blog (or website). A website or blog helps you to establish authority and serves as a home base others can find. But it is more than that, phases of blog growth

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December 2, 2014

wordpress plugins for affiliate marketing

WordPress Plugins for Affiliate Marketing In today’s Tools of the Trade Tuesday, I cover WordPress plugins for affiliate marketing sites. Plugins that will help to give you an edge over the competition (unless they read this, too). Not only that, but most of these plugins listed are free as well! WordPress is the most popular

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December 1, 2014

top affiliate marketing niches

Top Niche Markets for Affiliates In today’s Marketing Monday, I list top affiliate marketing niches with a brief description for each one I mention below. The top niche markets are the same for product creators as well as affiliate marketers. They’re approach will be the same. However, niche marketing allows affiliates to make more money

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