I’m going to cover 3 critical mistakes to your online wealth creation. I’ll tell you right away that if you correct the first mistake, then the other 2 will take care of themselves. I’m going to discuss them all anyway so you can see the flow.
How do you know if you are making these mistakes?
CLUE: You have been busting your butt for months or years and still haven’t made any [real] money
Here’s what you are probably doing- not because you are stupid or lazy, but just because you didn’t know any better.
You are sending leads directly to an affiliate’s landing page and not your own page.
Take control of the list by building your own list. Never send TRAFFIC or LEADS to a site or lead capture page that you don’t control. Make your own capture page which creates a buffer between you and the ‘gurus’ site.
IF you just send traffic or leads directly to a guru’s site, you are now out of the picture and have no control over what happens to those leads. The guru has control over those leads and not YOU.
By building a ‘gatekeeper’ capture page to send them to, you then have control over emailing them for LIFE (or as long as they stay opted into your list) which allows you to maintain control of the list and the ability to communicate via emails, videos, blogs, phone, etc.
To get to the guru, you have a simple capture page set up that basically says, give me your name and email and I’ll let you thru to the affiliate/guru site. Do this using your own autoresponder, aka, AWEBER, or getresponse, etc. and then once a lead opts in, have it redirect them to the guru’s lead capture page.
So by not funneling the traffic and leads thru your own lead capture page first, you can’t follow up with emails to your leads – they don’t know who you are, your story, etc. Remember, people buy from those who they feel they know like and trust. By not being able to do this, YOU ARE SCREWING YOURSELF OVER!
So the proper steps to take are:
Once again the 3 mistakes are:
In case you haven’t heard about the latest Google Slap, you should know that it can wreak havoc on many Affiliate Marketing Review Sites.
Early reports have some very decent sites losing several page ranks while others have actually improved some.
The main idea behind it is to give more weight to quality sites and punish crappy ‘me too’ affiliate sites that are put together by people with little or no interest in offering anything of real value and just in it for a quick buck.
So this tip is only for those Affiliate Marketers who aren’t going to produce garbage sites, ok?
USE REDIRECTS FOR YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS
If you aren’t already doing this, here’s how simple it is to do. And for those of us who just got forgetful and/or lazy, now’s the time to go back and clean house. I know, I know, it will involve a lot of time consuming busy body work, but it’s something you should’ve been doing all along.
Here’s what you do in a nutshell:
1. Create a subdomain that makes sense to you for each affiliate link:
2. in your Cpanel, create the subdomain coolproduct for mydomain.com
3. go to manage redirection of subdomain ‘coolproduct’ and paste your affiliate link in there and SAVE
Make sure to change any preexisting hyperlinks in your blog or website from the old affiliate link to your new redirected subdomain address:
Example –
Now you know, future efforts should go smoother and quicker.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you know that Twitter is one of the fastest growing sites out here right now.
It’s also one of the hottest places to Make Money Online (MMO). Big marketers like John Chow, Ryan Wade and Jonathan Budd are making thousands of dollars with just a single tweet.
So how can those of us who have much smaller Twitter follower counts hope to cash in? There is hope for you!
Does $25, $50 or $100 for a Sponsored Tweet sound good to you? It IS possible to make an extra $50 or $100 per month from monetizing your Twitter account even if you have less than 5000 followers.
If you are like me, and consider yourself part of the New Rich – making money online, when and how and on your own terms, using leverage and residual strategies – then you will love this hot new twitter tool.
There’s plenty of ways to make money with your Twitter account. Affiliate product referrals, lead generation, and traffic generation are just a few. And now for something completely different. . .
There’s a new kid on the block, Ad.ly and it’s stealing Sponsored Tweets‘ thunder out from under them.
Don’t think you are spamming your Twitter followers. After all, if they are into making money online as you are, then you should understand that you are offering them value in the form of information and tools to help them reach their goals too.
Even if you don’t have 1000s of followers, if you have followers that actually READ your tweets and are interested in what you have to say, then you have the potential to make some big money with relatively small amount of Twitter followers. This is exciting news for those of us with a small number of followers.
Like with pre-launches, it’s best to get in earlier than later to maximize your earning potential. Catch the wave and then on to the next hot monetization thing coming down the pipeline.
Ad.ly has several cool features that make it enticing to use:
There’s really no reason not to sign up for Ad.ly. It’ll take less than 5 minutes to sign up right now. Who knows, it might put some ka-ching in your wallet! You can sign up here: Ad.ly.
THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU EARN IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE IN EXACT RATIO WITH:
No one is indispensable but some are VERY hard to replace. Ex: Michael Jackson.
YOU DON’T GET RICH BY DOING CERTAIN THINGS, YOU GET RICH BY DOING THINGS IN A CERTAIN WAY.
Here’s a link to a great video with personal development expert, Bob Proctor explaining this principle of the Law Of Compensation in more detail.
Trying to post on Craigslist is getting more and more difficult. As of November 25th, 2009, 2 of the most popular link shortening services, Bit.ly and tinyurl.com are now blacklisted. So I went out to find some new ones to see if I could find one that still works. . . and I did.
Backstory: URL shortening services were initially popular because web addresses started to get long and links would break when sent in an email. However, as microblogging services like Twitter have become popular, an increasing number of services and applications, including tracking & metrics, have been added to the basic URL shortening features.
Thanks to TopRankBlog.com for this table of the best URL Link Shortening Services!
Attitude = the composite of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
We tend to think in pictures which we internalize and add feelings to them which moves us to take action.
“A bad attitude doesn’t produce good results and a god attitude doesn’t produce bad results.”
Common denominator of success – doing things that failures don’t want to do.
The thing is, successful people don’t like doing these things either, which is why they turn them into HABITS.
[see Law of Cosmic Habit Force - Napoleon Hill >>> The Master Key to Riches]
Accumulation of great wealth calls for power.
Power comes from highly organized and intelligently directed Specialized Knowledge [such as a mastermind group].
This knowledge does NOT have to be possessed all by you.
All successful people get help. Through courses, books, online information, other people, mentors.
[Mentoring is the transferring of knowledge from one mind to another.]
When you have been putting in the hours and still haven’t experienced success online in the form of money coming in and a growing opt-in LIST, then you need to ask yourself if you’re truly being productive or just being busy.
Although this advice seems like common sense, there are just too many distractions and time wasters vying for your valuable time and attention.
You Must FOCUS your time on the things that are PROFITABLE.
For example, do not spend large amounts of time investing in learning a new skill that you can easily pay someone else a minimal fee to do for you.
If you do, you are being penny wise and pound foolish and I dare say may have control issues needing to be addressed.
An example of this would be spending time to learn graphic design and web design.
This is a very time consuming skill to learn.
There are plenty of skilled people available to supply you with what you need for a nominal fee.
Ask yourself, what is my time worth?
How many hours will I spend to learn this skill to the point of proficiency that can match the quality I would get from paying someone else to do it for me?
Here’s some examples of Money Making Activities:
In order to be successful, you must weed out all the distractions that suck your energy and your time.
You have to create an environment where you can hyper focus on all of hte things that matter the most and create the results you are after.
and now another episode of BLOG POSTING in bite sized chunks
“Blogging for Dollars” has such a cheesy tone, doesn’t it?
Still, lame catch phrases tend to pop into my head easily – like a bad commercial or annoying song like the Macarena.
Ok, on with the show.
(There are many ways to monetize a blog. Although these tips are given with the Home based business / internet marketing industry in mind, they can be applied universally)
The offer can be something simple like a PDF report related to your niche that you can create yourself , or use someone else’s (make sure you have permission to do so first). Other ideas are an audio interview, daily quotes or inspiration, or a video training series like the one I created on free SEO marketing tactics for local businesses.
WHY?
Your email LIST is where the ‘back end‘ monetization occurs. Readers get to know and trust you and see your offer(s) not as a sales pitch, but as a recommendation from a respected friend.
Final thought:
Pay attention to what other successful bloggers are doing: their layouts, their content, etc. And don’t forget to leave quality comments on their blogs too. It’s great for networking and getting linkbacks to your blog – which is good for traffic generation.
“BLOG POSTING in bite sized chunks.”
The addage, ‘how do you eat an elephant?’
Answer, ‘One bite at a time.
It’s very easy in this industry to get DISTRACTED and OVERLOADED.
Brain meltdowns are commonplace.
So in the nature of keeping things simple, today’s post covers one simple but VERY IMPORTANT tip for driving quality traffic to your blog or website.
LEAVE comments on other people’s blogs.
Specifically, those who are in your niche.
And not just the Biggest Bloggers – although you certainly don’t want to leave them out.
Blog on ‘Rising Stars’ blogs as you can ride alongsie their increasing popularity and exposure and help each other out.
When you comment on someone else’s blog post, there’s a place to put a backlink to your blog or website.
So keeping that in mind, don’t spam other blogs just to try to get traffic.
You won’t get any quality traffic and will appear as an idiot to others.
Write something that adds to the blog post, or address someone else’s well thought out comment.
If you can’t think of anything, a sincere compliment thanking for a great informative post is acceptable, but people are unlikely to click on your link.
This is a great way to make connections and network amongst your peers and shows you are serious about your business.
* Added benefit – helps you stay in the loop of your niche and see what the pros are blogging about and what they’re doing with their own sites.
This tactic of commenting on other’s blogs can also be applied to forums, facebook and twitter
REMEMBER,
Quality over Quantity in the end makes for better results and better use of your TIME.
Your Blog TAGLINE is essentially a short description or phrase next to the name of your blog that tells the reader what your blog is all about.
To illustrate:
Yourdomainname.com – After that comes a tagline or phrase that represents you and your blog.
Real Example:
TerrypCarter.com – An Experiment In Lifestyle Design |Perpetual Evolution | Unlimited Imagination
Ok, so mine is a work in progress and rather esoterically broad in description. That’s just me.
Here’s some questions to help you decide what a good Tag Line is for your blog:
Write down a few words, a quote, or sentence that articulates it.
Remember that your tagline does not need to specifically mention EVERYTHING you blog about.
It’s just the overall umbrella or flavor that your blog topics fall under.
Don’t say, JoeShmo.com Showing how to make money online thru seo, ppc, social media, and everything else under the sun.
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Be clear on who your target audience is.
*HINT*: People who are in the home based business industry.
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