Archive for Affiliate Marketing
Are You Setting Yourself Up To Succeed –- Or Just Hoping?
Posted by: | CommentsThis is a serious question and one I have to ask. It’s also one that you need to understand if you are going to become an online success story. Let me explain.
Often I hear from people who are just about to join my Niche Blitzkrieg course or have just joined it and they’ll say something like “Well, I hope this makes me money!” or “I hope this works.”
I’ll be honest I simply cringe anytime someone says one of those, or similar phrases to me. The reason that phrase bothers me is because that’s the exact opposite of my mindset when I came into the whole Internet making money thing we’re doing here.
My mindset coming in was “I’m going to put all of my free time into this and make it happen. I’m not going to fail and I am going to quit my job.” This is the mindset of champions, those who will succeed and those who have the best chance at success.
I absolutely hate the word “hope” and that’s because I believe we can control much of our own success. Aside from hope the next thing that will absolutely cause complete failure is just not trying. It’s pretty obvious but if you’re not going to do anything you’re not going to make money and even “hope” can’t help you there.
You need to come in with a clear mind and understanding that there is a lot of money to be made online. With so much money out in the Internet world, there is no reason for you to not make money online. That last statement is especially true if you come in and just tell yourself you’re going to make money and you’re going to do this online thing and make I happen.
I know this post isn’t long but I wanted to share this wisdom with you today. I share this because I feel like people sometimes assume making money online is luck and as you can probably tell I don’t believe luck has anything to do with it.
Let me know what you think below!
Does Mobile Traffic Matter?
Posted by: | CommentsOver the last few years the sales of mobile devices have skyrocketed including Ipads, tablets, Iphones and Smart phones. These devices allow users to search the Internet and visit your sites. So does mobile traffic like this matter?
Let me show you how to check the mobile stats for a particular keyword.
Watch my video below:
So do this in your Niche and see how much potential mobile traffic is out there in your market. If there are enough mobile monthly searches for any of your keywords make sure you install the Word Press plugin called WordPress Mobile Pack. Just do a search on this in the “Add New” section of your plugin menu and click install and then follow the directions of the plugin.
Thoughts? Comments? Already using mobile searched keywords? And on a side question – how big do you think the mobile industry will become. You already know my thoughts.
Avoiding Scams and Pitfalls (Great Book)
Posted by: | CommentsI haven't been reading as much as I'd like in recent days. But, one book I decided to read about a month ago was a book called Robbing You With a Keyboard Instead of a Gun.
You can find it at Amazon here <======Not an affiliate link.
This book was great because I learned numerous places where people are ripping other people off online. Some of these scams are so detailed and so outrageous it's almost hard to believe.
It was written by a guy named Lynn Edgington who actively pursues and goes after cyber criminals. He is one of the most honorable men I've come across.
I know many of you have already found your way into legit programs online through me including my Niche Blitzkrieg Money Making Course but if you haven't you need to go grab a copy of the book above and see the scams that many other people will try to snare you with.
If you are already in my courses consider Robbing You With a Gun Instead of a Keyboard anyway because you'll be helping out a good group of people that are trying to help us all avoid the crazy online scams that exist.
After you read it be sure to let me know what you think.
Hold The Perfection Please……
Posted by: | CommentsI often sit and think and try to remember everything I did when I first started in the business of making money online. I always fall back to one of the keys to the success I've had and that is not trying to make sure everything is perfect before I go after it. Yes, you read that right I try to make sure it's NOT perfect.
One of the hardest things to grasp when you're building your first website or just trying to make money online is that things do not need to be perfect for you to make money. In fact, sometimes you don't even have to be really good at it to make money – it just happens.
I want to share my thoughts on this and I really believe this will help many people. Striving for perfection during the learning phase can lead to discouragement. Let me give you an example. Imagine you're a carpenter and you just started learning how to build a cabinet with a blue print. Do you really think your cabinet will be better than the person who studied for years and has already built things for several years? Probably not. You'll then look over at the guy next to you who been doing it for so long and go “My cabinet looks horrible compared to his! No way is this thing going to sell!”
You know what, you might be right. But, I'd be willing to bet you can still make money with it. The fortunate thing about a website is that once it's built you're not trying to sell the website itself you're simply promoting products on that site which is much simpler. But, that site isn't going to be as well optimized and as good looking as someone that has been in the biz for 5 years.
Along with discouragement comes another issue for those who seek to hit perfection immediately out of the gates. That other is is procrastination. The longer it takes you to get your site out and start link building for it, the more likely you are to keep waiting or even give up. I've always believed that you should get it out there and then tweak after it's out. You have to remember you're not trying to launch an Ipad here that needs to be perfect when it comes out. Wait, you mean even the Ipad wasn't perfect at launch time? Therein lies my point whether we agree with it or not even large companies launch things without them being perfect at first. Because…
A). They'll make a lot of money with it right away.
B). They can tweak it and try to perfect it later. Hopefully.
So even if your site isn't perfect at first chances are you're going to be able to make money with it sooner than later. After you get the site out you can go back and test, tweak, move things around, add more pages/posts or do really whatever you want to it. Plus, by getting it out there and working on it you'll be less likely to be discouraged and less likely to procrastinate or give up.
The mental game of making money online is often harder than the actual process of making money online. We want everything perfect and we want steady money rolling in almost immediately and those are 2 things that seldom happen overnight.
So my advice is skip the perfection and get the site out asap. As time goes by and the more practice you put into this, the more more money you'll make and the easier this all becomes.
