Saturday, September 6, 2008

QUIET! Artist At Work-Part 1

Copyright © David Barker
http://www.DavesAffiliateMarketing.com/blog

Tap tap tap tapping..." I've got to finish this article soon surely." tap tap tapping......." It would be much easier to concentrate if my family were not watching some stupid T.V. show." tap...tap...tapping "How can I be expected to work with that stupid show on?" ...tap..." That does it, I've had enough!" I got up from my desk, flung open the study door I yelled "QUIET!!! I AM AN ARTIST and I am working on my masterpiece 'Internet Affiliate Marketing Programs For Beginners.'" Actually I said that in my dreams. What I really said was "Please watch your show on the T.V. in the other room." They replied in the affirmative and I got the peace I required to create my epic.

You have chosen the affiliate program that is just right for you and your next move is to promote it and earn those commissions that will set you financially free. The problem is most of the trustworthy advice you read from reputable forums advise that you must write and distribute articles.

"Hhhmmm....This is starting to feel a bit like school! I hated school," you mutter to yourself. "I hated writing essays and I thought that when I left school that would be the end of them. Can't I just type my website address on a few thousand other websites and build my backlinks that way?"

Well, yes you can if you choose to do so. The problem is these strategies are not as effective as they may seem unless you know what you are doing. The following are examples:-

Commenting on blogs to create backlinks.

You may have seen affiliate training eBooks enthusiastically proclaiming that you can create hundreds of backlinks by entering comments on other people's blog articles. If you do a set number every day without fail, your inbound links will build up without fail. Merchants will usually try to make all marketing strategies sound easy so that you will pay for their program ahead of all others.

The fact is that a lot of blog owners have not disabled the "Nofollow Attribute" on their blog. This means that you can leave comments on all of their blog articles every day if you wish, with links going back to your website and the search engines will not notice the link. Your results for all that effort is ZERO!

The "Nofollow Attribute" is a response to "comment spam." That is the practice of unscrupulous internet marketers visiting as many blogs as they could each day leaving comments such as "What a great post Tom!" or "Wow, what a great post Dick!" or if they were of the younger generation, then perhaps "What a cool post Harry!"

Hopefully they got the correct name of the blog owner because most people object to being called Tom, Dick or Harry if that is not their name. Especially the many female internet marketers out there. However there is no indication that they had actually read the articles that they commented on. Blog owners usually hate this sort of comment and many of them warn their readers that such comments will not be published and deleted. No backlink given. Those sort of comments do slip through the editing process sometimes.

If you are going to comment on blogs then I suggest the following:-

1. Don't be a comment spammer as described above. Always read the article and comment only if you have something useful to say.

2. Pick only blogs that follow the same or similar theme as your niche business area.

3. Once you have picked out those blogs as per the second step then weed out those that have not disabled the "Nofollow Attribute."

Following these steps will be more time consuming but your reputation will not be damaged and you will get to know the short list of blogs and the style of the writers. This will speed up your efficiency. It is also a great opportunity to get to know the blog owners and this could lead to joint venture or other business arrangements.

To be continued with discussions on submitting to directories, commenting on forums and writing articles.

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Comments:

Hi Davo!

I love your style - you really add the human touch. It's great to be able to smile and laugh while reading very useful information at the same time - and this is very good information! Thanks for the advice.
Ros

# posted by  Ros Bott : September 16, 2008 2:34 AM

 

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Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success
Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
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Before you can have a successful home based business, you must first possess 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

 ===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why MUST you have a successful home business? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box (laptop computer) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in a home based business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to have a successful home based business or make your living from home, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money working from home. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money working from home. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money with your own home based business.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" (a simple way to make money from home) is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. In fact, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is that home based business success is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. It's like having children... You're never really ready, but when it happens you adapt and grow. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure with having your own home based business is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit Site is a great example of this: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-22171

You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to creating a successful home based business today!

About the Author:

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