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Mother’s Day is just around the corner. That means many sons and daughters will purchase cards for mom and grandma and send them as a token of their affection. Many of these cards are uniquely crafted and have the potential to bring a smile to the face of the recipient. In addition to the joy it brings moms and grandmas it also brings joy to the various retail stores across the fruited plain as well. This is because no matter what a store may primarily sell, the addition of Mother’s Day related cards, toys, stuffed animals and candy to the shelves will provide a major cash windfall. Yes, holiday shopping has its benefits and that is why stores will add holiday themed items to the shelves all year around and cover pretty much every holiday season. If you are using affiliate marketing as a plan to boost income to your site you would be WELL ADVISED to follow the lead of the brick and mortar stores as well.

Adding affiliate marketing ads to your website is a solid way of earning income. If the affiliate banners tie in to the theme of your site you can potentially earn significant income from conversions. While it is clearly a good idea to tie in your affiliate marketing to the theme of your website, it would also be a very wise idea to add holiday themed affiliate marketing banners to your site as well. That is, affiliate marketing banners for Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day could lead to significant boosts in income when those holidays role around. Now, this does not mean that you should eliminate your traditional affiliate marketing banners. Instead, include holiday themed products during as well as they can yield HUGE revenues on a heavily trafficked site. Hey, the retail stores have been successful doing this for decades. Why would internet affiliate marketing sites not win out with this strategy as well?

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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As with any other business venture, success is often reliant on a level of expertise. Of course, this can create a problem for those who lack said expertise. After all, if you are a novice on the subject of affiliate marketing how can expertise be applied? The answer is simple: don’t worry about expertise because you don’t need it! Instead, you let other people do it for you. Then again, why would anyone help you out with your affiliate marketing program? Well, they don’t do it for fun. It’s their job! Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a professional affiliate marketing management service and it can provide a ton of help to those whose affiliate programs are not maximizing their potential.

A professional affiliate marketing management service can provide a great deal of logistical support to an affiliate sponsored website. Such a service can help in management and marketing decisions, traffic generation, writing website copy, etc.

These are all hallmarks of a successful affiliate marketing campaign and if any of these facets are not properly executed then the ability to earn income in an affiliate marketing venture could be negatively affected. So, if you are having trouble in these areas it would make great sense to hire a professional team that knows how to do it.

Yes, there are fees associated with hiring such a service but since the goal of the service is to boost your affiliate income then such a service really does pay for itself. So, if you feel your affiliate revenue is not where it should be see how the experts can help. It would be well worth it in the end.

Until next time, great success in all you do!

-Craig 

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment, as your participation is always welcome.

As many Internet marketers and online business people struggle to find a niche that is perfect for them, most of them ignore what is right in front of their noses every single day. All you have to do is go to Yahoo, MSN or your nightly news and read the headlines and there is your niche!

It sounds simple, but timing is everything. You have to be right on top of the news break and take action right away. I read an article on a recent event that took place that one person took advantage of and it paid off.

If you recall, a certain political leader from the state of New York was caught in a scandal that involved a call girl and this person was one of the first to get articles, a website with affiliate links, pictures and info out on this call girl and boy did she reap the rewards. She said her normal website traffic is around 25,000 hits a day and it went up to 1.5 million within hours of getting listed in Google and that she made about 8-9 months income in one day. Wow!

So, now the question is, is it right to make money off of someone else’s misfortune? I say no, but in this certain situation I think it was done correctly. The subject of the website was directed towards the call girl, who chose this profession, therefore this was not an attack on her unlike directing toward the ill fated ex-Gov who was caught cheating, letting his family and all of the people of New York state down and is now out of a job. Celebrity gossip is is a huge field, but be careful how far you take it.

So the next time you see some breaking news coming on the nightly news, get off your duff and take advantage of it and make some money. Thanks for stopping and will see you next time.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you find this post helpful in your quest to make money online. As always, feel free to ask a question or leave a comment. as your participation is always welcome.

Today we are starting a new feature called “Best of the Rest From the Past Week” and is obviously a round up of the best posts from the net on ways to help you make money online with your Internet business.

1. SEO Themes - Does Your Template Help or Hurt Your SEO - Mark over at 45n5.com talks to us on how your blog theme may actually hurt your SEO.
2. I Found A Sales Page That I Actually LIKE - Straight-shooter Caroline Middlebrook writes about an oddity for her.
3. Behind The Scenes Look At Affiliate Companies - Jeremy Schoemaker’s quick post gives us something to look forward to in the near future.
4. What You Don’t Publish, Defines Your Site - The Man, Maki, over at DoshDosh talks about how less may be the best.
5. Every Small Business Should Use This Marketing Method - Yaro at Entrepreneur’s Journey tells us of a form of marketing that you may not have thought of.

I hope you enjoy these posts as much as I did, not only for the content, but for the value that they give you to help improve your Internet business.

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Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that this post will improve your online business. Also, check out my new 22 page FREE report entitled “10 Top blogging Questions People Are Still Looking For The Real Answer To” and can be received by subscribing to my blog in the form on the right.

Today I want to have a little fun. I know a lot of us have dreams and probably have nightmares too, of being a Super Affiliate. A Super Affiliate is a person that accounts for a majority of an affiliate programs sales. He is the guy that can sell ice to an Eskimo in the dead of winter, he is the guy that we all want to be.

So the question I ask today is, “How do you know when you are a Super Affiliate?” Well, I can only imagine what it would be like, but I visited some Super Affiliates websites to get a clue as how you might know when you have reached that level. Here is what I found.

1. You can post a copy of your affiliate programs check and not be ashamed.
2. Posting how you made $30,000 last month and not worry about someone stealing your secret.
3. Your FeedBurner counter has five digits!
4. You have to hire a Personal Assistant to help you with e-mail, comments and little stuff like that.
5. Your personal training school classes are booked for the rest of the year.
6. You post a copy of next months affiliate check and it has doubled!
7. Half of your blogs posts are about attending this and that affiliate convention and everyone knew YOU!
8. You get tons of gear from your affiliate program managers every week.

Well I hope you enjoyed that and I hope I didn’t offend any Super Affiliates as it is all in fun and most of all I can’t wait to accomplish what they have. It is also a tribute to them also, as most of these Super Affiliates could be quiet as a mouse and not tell a soul about their how they earned their well deserved fortune.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoy today’s topic and feel free to make a comment or ask a question, as reader participation is highly recommended.

While we have mainly concentrated on how to make money online using your blog and Internet marketing, there are other concrete, stable ways to make money online. I would like to hit on a few of those today.

Robert  G. Allen made “multiple streams of income” famous, and these alternate ways to make money online will help you achieve multiple streams and bringing you a continuous flow of money.
Stream #1: eBay - The ultimate in making money on the Internet. eBay has been around for a long time and many a person is making a living off of eBay. If you can put up with the fees and rules of eBay then you can do well there.

Stream #2 : Information products - Information products, like e-books, special reports, CD’s and DVD’s, are fairly easy to do yourself and that means that all of the profits go to YOU! The big thing is to be an expert or become one and write about so that it may help other people solve a problem.

Stream #3: Freelance Work - Do you like to write or build websites? Then why not go to websites like Elance that co-ordinates freelancers with people who need their services. The competition is stiff at times but good work will reward you with a lot of contracts.

Stream #4: Affiliate Selling - Selling affiliate products is probably the easiest thing to do on the Internet. With the use of e-mails and forums, you really don’t need a website to do this. A big plus is that almost every company has a affiliate program, so you are sure to find something in your niche to sell.

Stream #5:  Buy and Sell Domain Names - This is the first income stream I ventured into many years ago. It is also my favorite. Not only can you buy and sell domain names, but kick it up a notch and buy old underused websites, fix them up and flip them for a profit. Both of these can turn you a profit in a very short time, if done right. Check out places like Sitepoint Marketplace and get a sense of what is happening in this area of Internet business.

This is only a few of many things you can do make money online, just look around and you can find tons more.

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Many Blessings,

-Craig

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Hi All,

Welcome back for part 4 and the finale of “Building Your Internet Business”, a series of posts that will help you build up your Internet business into a successful, money making machine.

Up till now we have been building our list of prospective buyers by giving away free advice or reports that they may be interested in. Now we will look at another way to build up your list.

PPC or Pay-Per-Click advertising is a very effective way to send traffic to your landing page so people can join your mailing list. PPC also brings in another factor that you may not be used to and that is that you have to pay for this service. 

PPC is basically where you pay Google or Yahoo to put your ads out in front of thousands of people and if they are interested then they will click on your ad. Your ad can cost a few cents to over $5-$10 PER click. Some of the big Internet marketing gurus have budgets of $10,000 or more a month to spend on PPC.

There are three major places that you can use PPC, with Google leading the others two fold in results and users. They are:

Google AdWords

Yahoo Search Marketing

MSN adCenter

Each of these programs has detail instructions that are beyond the scope of this series. Also, you may want to visit Googlelady  as she has tons of information on Google and PPC and making money online in general.

Now that you have PPC down and tons more of people being added to your list, let’s look at another way to generate income from your list using affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is where you send an email, list a banner or ad that directs your reader to a company’s widget or website and they pay you a percentage for selling that widget(s) for them. Affiliate marketing is a great and cheap way to make money online and becomes easier once you use your list to help you.

Here is a list of some companies that have hundreds of affiliate programs for you to use. These are much easier to use than signing up for each individual program and they help you track your results also.

Commission Junction

Linkshare

Shareasale

Rocket Profit

NeverBlueAds

These are just a few of them and others are easy to find by doing a quick search.

I hope that you have enjoyed this series, and I hope that has been helpful to you in your effort to help you make money online and grow your Internet business. Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question, your input is greatly appreciated.

-Craig

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Hi All,

Just want to make a quick post.  I’ve been very busy the last few weeks creating some video products which I think are very useful tools to help you grow.  If your new to blogging or somewhat of a veteran and want to learn some “not so published” tips and strategies, these videos will definitely open up some doors.  Hope to have them ready soon.  You’ll be the first to know.

If you are into PPC marketing you need to check out “Derek Beau’s PPC Campaign Builder” if you haven’t heard about it yet.  Derek is a whiz with Affiliate Marketing and PPC, and he has created this tool to accomplish a multitude of tasks in developing a successful PPC campaign.  It truly is an awesome tool to use.

I’ve been following his blog now for the past couple of months and I have to tell you he is one heck of writer, an expert in coding and programming, and is an absolute “no holding back” teacher.  He has also gone out of his way to answer my emails.  I sure wish more people were like him.  The Internet world would be a much better place.  Derek has enlightened and inspired me to give it all I got.  Not only that, but he’s like 21 years old.  What a future ahead of him!  Get over there and check him out!

Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to him or her!

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Until next time!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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There are literally hundreds of ways to make money on the internet, but I want to cover some popular additional sources that many people use to make money on the internet.  Possibly a few of these sources you may have overlooked and can put them to use in your Internet Business.

First, let me briefly go over what I consider the three major categories to making money on the Internet.

1. Information Product Creation - creating your own products or services to sell online.
2.  Affiliate Marketing - selling other peoples products or services to make money.
3. Online Advertising - placing ads on your website to generate income.

Using any of these three categories can generate income.  By far, the most profitable is to create and sell your own products and services.  Sure you can make a lot of money with affiliate marketing, but it takes months to get an affiliate income going.  You can create a product, draft a sales letter, add a payment service, and get it live in as little as 24 to 48 hours to be conservative.  Usually with 24 hours you can be up and running, and start making money.

Online advertising can bring in some revenue each month, but I don’t consider it to be the foundation to your Internet business wealth.  Online advertising would be sources like Google Adsense, Adbrite, or any of the many advertising programs available to leverage your website.

With that said, let’s take a look at some very popular additional sources you can also use to make money on the Internet.

1. Adbrite - This is where you seel space on your site for text ads.
2. Adsense - Google Adsense displays relevant ads basing those ads in relation to your site’s content.
3. Amazon Affiliate Program - By using the Amazon icon, you can sell anything you can find on Amazon.
4. CafePress - If you provide a design they will put it on T-shirts, mugs, stickers, pins, posters, ect.  Refer people to join and earn 15% commission.
5. Clickbank - One of the largest affiliate programs to join.  Earn a commission by selling other people’s digital and e-book products.  Commissions vary depending on the advertiser and product.  There is a one time $49.00 account activation fee.
6. Commission Junction - A huge network of advertisers and publishers.  Hundreds of brand name companies you can partner with.
7. Elance - You can provide or search for freelance opportunities relating to Web design, programming, writing, business consulting, and more.
8. Ebay & Ebay Stores - Sell products on Ebay or through their stores.
9. Feedburner - By adding ads to your RSS feed you can get paid per impression.  Although I use feedburner I haven’t tried adding ads yet.
10. LinkShare - Very similar to Commission Junction.  They are also associated with hundreds of companies.
11. Overstock.com - Also similar to Amazon.  You can join as an affiliate and receive up to 8% commission on all products, and 3% commisssion on auction products.
12. Pay Per Post - Get paid to write about products on your blog.  Since you are placing these review posts, I would suggest writing about products that you trust and can really be of benefit to others.
13. RentaCoder - Similar to Elance, but specializes  in software coding.  If your a software coder looking for freelance work, look no more.
14. Shareasale - This is another site that is similar to Commission Junction and Linkshare.

I thought I would list these sources in that you might be able to use them in your Internet business.  Possibly a few of them you may have never thought of.  That is my goal here.  To get you thinking of additional sources you can implement in your money making strategies.  Maybe from this list a light will turn on, and you are able to come up with a few other sources on your own.

If you do, why don’t you leave us a comment and we’ll see how big a list we can all develop.  I started with 14, let see how many others we can come up with.  Make a brief comment, then list a source and the URL.

Can we break a hundred?

Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to him or her!

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Please feel free to leave a comment and I will try and answer as soon as I can.  Comments are also for you to socialize with other readers, offer tips and helpful advice to each other.  They are available for your benefit.  For more in-depth answers to questions and consulting that is far too valuable to address on a community blog, they can be addressed to me and answered through my Email Mentor Program.

Until next time!

-Craig

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