40 Blog Setup Tips
June 26, 2008 by Jon
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Daniel Scocco wrote a great post titled Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips over at the DailyBlogTips site. While the post is nearly a year old (which can be an eternity when it comes to blogging), most of the tips are still valid and practical. If you’re setting up a new blog, or just want to improve your existing one, then it’s a worthwhile read.
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Memorial Day
May 25, 2008 by Jon
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Tomorrow is Memorial Day here in the United States. It’s a day to honor our nation’s fallen soldiers… those brave men and women who died in service to their nation.
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Site Move Complete
May 19, 2008 by Jon
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I just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know the site move has been completed. The domain name has been transferred from GoDaddy to NameCheap, and I’ve successfully moved web hosting providers.
I do need to apologize, because during the transfer to the new web host, I lost a couple of the comments that you left on some of the posts. Actually they’re not lost… if I log into the “Comments” section of the WP admin interface, I can see them, but they don’t show up under the posts. Very strange…
Aside from that hiccup, we’re back in business and I appreciate your patience along the way. 
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Update on Site Move & Domain Transfer
May 14, 2008 by Jon
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Quick update on my site move and domain transfer…
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Bad Advice is Bad Advice
May 14, 2008 by Jon
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If you’re into affiliate or internet marketing, you know there’s a ton of bloggers out there ready to give you advice, and a lot of it is good… but a lot of it is crap. What’s the worst piece of advice I read everywhere?
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Status Update - Site Move & Domain Transfer
May 10, 2008 by Jon
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What happens when you transfer your domain to a new registrar at the same time that you’re moving to a new web host? Nothing, which is the problem.
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How to Find a Niche
April 28, 2008 by Jon
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Travis Sago (http://www.bummarketingmethod.com/) wrote an excellent how-to guide for finding a profitable niche. You can view the PDF here: Bum Marketing Mindset.
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Copywriter Secret Trick
April 24, 2008 by Jon
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CopyBlogger recently published “How to Be a Copywriting Genius“. If you write content for your web site, this is a must read.
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Tagging Links for Google Analytics
April 13, 2008 by Jon
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If you use Google Analytics to track the stats of your web site, you should know that there is an advanced feature called "tagging" that can help you track in-bound links to your site. These are tags you add to the end of your link that get passed on to the Google Analytics tracking code you place within your site’s HTML. These tags then provide that info to Google Analytics so that it shows up in your report. Google even has a handy URL builder to assist you in creating the tagged links.
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Affiliate Marketing is a Business
February 18, 2008 by Jon
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When people are first starting out with affiliate marketing, one of the most important lessons they need to learn is that this is a business. Now some people get that sooner than others. Myself? It took me awhile to figure that out, but it was important that I did.
Here’s why…
- You need to make more than you spend. Just about every new business loses money at first, but eventually, it needs to start earning a profit or it won’t be sustainable. That’s why keeping track of your business earnings and expenses is so important.Fortunately, it’s easier than ever to keep tabs on everything. Both Intuit and Microsoft have free versions of their accounting software available for download. While these free versions don’t have all the bells and whistles, they’re far superior to spreadsheets.
You can download either Intuit QuickBooks Simple Start or Microsoft Accounting Express and start getting a handle on your business finances.
- Time is money… and neither one grows on trees. If you treat affiliate marketing like a hobby, then you’ll spend a lot of time on marketing forums. You’ll constantly be looking for the “next new thing.” You’ll be the guy or gal who buys the next great e-book from that so-called “guru” who made $100,000 last month (hey…. here’s a little secret they don’t want you to know… that “guru” made their money selling e-books to folks like you).However if you treat affiliate marketing like a business, then your time–and how you spend it–becomes more important than ever. As a business owner, learning new techniques and networking with others on forums is important, but it takes on a different perspective. As a business owner, you realize that the most important way you can spend your time is working on ways to improve your business and your profits.
Suddenly, spending 4 hours tweaking the color scheme of your new site just doesn’t cut it anymore. You realize the colors are good enough, and instead work on ways to promote your site more effectively.
Suddenly, as a business owner, wasting your time learning a new technique for success isn’t as enticing, as you realize the potential with the method you’re already using, but also realize you haven’t put in enough time or effort to see it pay off yet. So instead of bouncing around from method to method, you stick with what you’re doing through fruition.
Suddenly, paying somebody to do some of the grunt work on your campaigns starts to make a lot of sense, and you start to outsource some of those tasks (keeping point #1 in mind of course) so your time is freed up for more important things.
Can you see where this is going? Every business owner and every business is run in different ways, but the fact that you treat your affiliate marketing like a business is the key to proper time management so you can take things to the next level.
There’s probably a lot more that could be written about this subject, and why treating your affiliate marketing as a business is a good thing, but I’ll just stop here and ask for your thoughts. Why do you think it’s important to run your affiliate marketing as a business?
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