Recommended Affiliate Programs: Bob Doyle's Wealth Beyond Reason and Six-Figure Income Streams

If any of you are familiar with the movie, The Secret, you probably remember seeing Bob Doyle in the movie. Well, Bob Doyle has a couple programs called Wealth Beyond Reason and Six-Figure Streams and he’s offering affiliate marketers the chance to make some money with these programs. I completely agree with Bob Doyle that it is so possible to create millions with an online business. Many people think that internet riches is just too good to be true, but I’ve read about and met people who are living this dream at this very moment! Although I’m not making millions right now, I’m pretty darned close to it! There are a couple reasons why I recommend signing up with Bob Doyle’s Wealth Beyond Reason and Six Figure Streams affiliate programs: 1. You make 30% on programs ranging from $11 to $997. Just imagine making one $997 sale a month! 2. You also make money when your sub-affiliates sell these programs. Not too many affiliate programs offer 2-tier commissions. You could literally make money from other people’s efforts! I am truly excited about the income potential of Bob Doyle’s programs. He’s incorporated the Law of Attraction in these programs which gets me even more excited! I haven’t done any active marketing since I signed up - only a banner at the top of my The Good Life blog - and I’ve already made a couple sales! Sign up for Bob Doyle’s affiliate program now! If you liked this post, please consider making a donation... Subscribe to this blog or join the Online Business Resources forum to discuss this post!

Website Template Downloads

I love building websites, but my skills are nowhere near the professional and savvy website designer’s skills. And with the growing number of blogs and websites under my belt, I know I need to start making things just a little bit easier on myself ;) The other day I was thinking that I wanted to give my main websites a makeover. I could hire someone to do the complete makeover for me, however, I still like to have some control over the process (I can be a control freak at times). It’s just that I want to have some fun too! What I really want is someone to do a website template and I’ll have control over everything else. Aha! I then found out about osCommerce Templates, a membership-based company that offers a wide variety of website templates for downloading. What I like about osCommerce Templates: Templates are available in a wide range of industries. I especially like the variety of fashion templates. You pay a flat rate of $89 for a three month membership and you have full access to all templates. That means you can download as many templates as you want for no extra charge. I’ve shopped around and found that other companies offer a flat rate to download just one template. My only suggestion to osCommerce is that they hurry and create more templates! I do want an art and photography website template, but it looks like there is just one available right now. For those of you who want to start an online business, but are on a budget, then I do recommend buying website template downloads. If you don’t have any coding experience, then you’ll probably want to hire someone to fill in all the blanks for you. Going this route would be less expensive than hiring a website design firm to do the complete website. If you liked this post, please consider making a donation or subscribe to receive updates... **Sponsored Review - Would you like to be reviewed on this blog? Contact me: maria [at] salondemaria.info

Seth Godin Interviews

For those of you Seth Godin fans, you are invited to listen in on an interview with him this coming Thursday, June 21. Andy Wibbels, blogger extraordinaire and author of many blogging books such as Business Blog Basics and Easy Bake Weblogs, will be talking with Seth Godin. Here’s the information for the call: Thursday, 21 at 2:00 pm EST To register, visit: http://www.andyinterviewsseth.com Also, Rich Sloan of Startup Nation (a fantastic resource for those of you who want to start your own online business) will be interviewing Seth Godin on Tuesday, June 26 at 1:00 pm EST. To register, visit: http://www.richinterviewsseth.com Even if you can't make the calls, make sure to register so that you can receive a recording of the interviews!

FreeIQ: A Great Place to Market Your Internet Business With Videos

FreeIQ - This is going to be the next big thing in online content and internet marketing! I just discovered FreeIQ and created an author page to start uploading videos. There is huge potential for affiliate marketers to make money with FreeIQ! Basically, if you refer people to the site and they buy products from the site, you make money! Add this as another revenue stream to your online business portfolio. Why I think FreeIQ is going to be big: People love watching videos - we've seen evidence in this from sites like YouTube and MySpace. People love sharing their own videos. People can start making money with affiliate programs without having to create a website or blog. All they have to do is direct people to FreeIQ which provides useful content as well as links to products that people can buy. Sign up for FreeIQ as an affiliate now before it explodes... Shawn Casey has provided FreeIQ training to get started. You can listen to him by clicking the video below... Get the Flash Player to see this player.

The ACN Business Opportunity

Normally I tend to shy away from multi-level business opportunities. I’ve attended dozens and dozens of meetings with Quixtar…then it was Avon… I’ve seen many people who made a great deal of money with these MLM businesses, but for some reason none of them really resonated with me. Not to mention the pressure I felt to attend meetings and get people to sign-up under me. Anyhow, my best friend has turned me onto a fairly new multi-level business opportunity. The company is called ACN and they are direct seller of telecommunication services. The company is endorsed by the big man on campus, Donald J. Trump, so I assume that ACN is a pretty legitimate business. Most of us who have been doing business online know that there’s a huge opportunity to make money with telecommunication products. Technology is bringing us closer and closer together. How many of you have used a cell phone? How about internet-based phone calls? Wireless internet? I assume if you have an internet business, you’re probably using one or all of these services to communicate with customers. Heck, who doesn’t use any of these services? It’s pretty exciting to see the earning potential with ACN. You can start marketing these products with your own website or blog. As with any business you start - whether it’s online or offline - you have to have a passion for it in order to be successful. What do you think? Do you think you can get excited about ACN? Check out the video about ACN below or visit my friend’s ACN website for more information or to buy products. If you are already an ACN rep and would like to share your story, leave a comment! Here's a follow-up post on the ACN opportunity... If you liked this post, please consider making a donation... Go to main page

Affiliate Project X Review

Affiliate Project X - A waste of time like many ebooks out there or an affiliate marketers dream come true? Read this before you waste your money… I’ve been an affiliate marketer for many years and have tried just about every technique out there to make money online. I’ve managed to make a pretty good income promoting products, but I want to reach "Super Affiliate" status. I want to make thousands of dollars a week instead of just a few hundred a week. I stumbled upon Affiliate Project X and at first I thought this was just going to be another one of those hyped up ebooks with all the fluff and recycled information that I have read over and over. However, my gut instinct told me that this was the ebook that was going to take me where I wanted to be in my internet business. I can’t quite explain what it was exactly that drove me to buy the product. Somehow I just had this feeling that this ebook was different from the rest. And you know what? Affiliate Project X is different from the rest in terms of guiding you step-by-step through many of the techniques used by many of the top internet marketing gurus. Affiliate Project X is a great book for those who are beginners in affiliate marketing because it explains in detail how to go about doing research in your niche market and how to find good keywords to target. A great deal of useful resources and tools are provided as well. For many people like me who have been in the internet marketing game for some time, there is some information that was pretty redundant. I already knew about Clickbank and know what affiliate marketing is. However, like I said before, it’s a great book if you’re just starting out because you learn all the basics plus many tricks of the trade that you don’t learn from other affiliate marketing ebooks. However, don’t think that just by reading this book you will instantly generate hundreds of dollars a day. Just like any method or technique, you have to take action. You’re given quite a few methods here to make money, but ultimately it’s up to you to set the ball in motion. Pick one or two methods outlined in Affiliate Project X, study and perfect them...then get started right away! (Just like I am right now!) See you at the bank! If you liked this post, please consider making a donation or subscribing to receive updates... Go to main page

Q&A With Chris Garrett Part 2

This is part 2 of the Q&A with Chris Garrett, founder of omiq, a company that provides consulting services for bloggers… If you missed yesterday's post, you can read Part 1 of the Q&A with Chris Garrett here.. During the second half of the Know More Media teleconference with Chris, we learned more blogging techniques (Again, the sentences in italics are my thoughts): Series Posts Series posts have a central theme and are spread out across a weeks time or however long you want the series to last. When I do an interview with someone, I usually do a series of posts to break up the interview into manageable reading. Sometimes people just don’t have the time to read a long interview in one sitting. Each post should have one point and only one point Write a good post with useful content for each entry - this will keep people coming back to your blog. If you have so-so posts, people will lose interest Don’t write your posts in advance - give people the opportunity to provide feedback and you can then use the feedback for ideas on future posts in the series. How can feeds add to productivity? Feeds are good in that you don’t have to do all kinds of searches on the internet, but at the same time bloggers tend to subscribe to too many feeds. There needs to be a balance between reading and writing. When you’re reading, you’re not writing! How can you make your blog stand out from the crowd? Find your own unique place in the world. Find a niche within your blog topic and become an expert within that niche. Get more blogging tips and advice at Chris Garrett’s blog. You may also want to read an interview with him over at Blogged Out. If you liked this post, please consider making a donation...or subscribe to this blog!

PayPerPost Gets $7M In Funding: What Does That Mean For the Future of Online Advertising?

PayPerPost is a company that I have been affiliated with since late last year and so far I've been pretty content with their offering. It was practically a dream come true when I discovered that companies are beginning to advertise on blogs and in turn, bloggers can make additional revenue with their blogs instead of relying on traditional banner ads or Google Adsense for blog monetization. Of course, there are pros and cons to blog advertising. It can be a good potential revenue stream for bloggers. For advertisers, blog advertising is an easy way to get more exposure to potential customers. On the other side of the coin, there are bloggers who create blogs but don’t add any value in their posts. Their blogs become full of noise - meaning, all they do is push other people’s products or services. Oh, but I digress… What I really want to share is that PayPerPost just received funding in the amount of $7M! Wow, that’s a big chunk of cheese ;) So, what does that mean for the future of online advertising/blog advertising? What will PayPerPost do with the money? It’s my hope that they can secure more advertisers so that “Posties” have more opportunities. Also, perhaps PPP will give more money back to bloggers. Personally, as an experienced blogger, $5 isn’t incentive enough to do a write-up. Just my two cents! Below is the PayPerPost press release: The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors. “PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.” Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system. “PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.” To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace. Go to main page

Q & A With Chris Garrett Part 1

Blogging is something I’m quite passionate about and I believe that a blog is a great tool for online business owners to take advantage of. It’s the best way to converse with your customers and get feedback about your business. Blogging is also a great way to market your business on the internet. I'm a firm believer that blogging can attract more customers to your business. Well, as some of you know, a couple of my blogs are part of the Know More Media network and today we had our weekly teleconference in which Chris Garrett, an expert blogger, was a guest speaker. Know More Media bloggers had some great questions for Chris and he had some great advice for us! I’ve jotted down some notes from the call. (The notes in italics are my thoughts I’ve added). Creating Loyal Readers (or Customers) * People want to know that there’s a real person to converse with - a blog is a great way for people to get to know you and understand why you do what you do. * Have a comment subscription plugin - have a way for people to keep up on a particular post or conversation * Give people a “tease” - give them a reason to comeback End your posts with a teaser such as “Tune in tomorrow for….” or “If you like this post, subscribe to this blog…” How to get people to visit your blog who read through RSS feeds This is something of great interest for those of us who depend on revenue through page views - especially publishers who use Adsense. * include related posts in your feeds - this is something I do quite often, especially over at CustomersAreAlways. At the end of each post, direct readers to past posts you’ve done on the topic. * Full vs. Partial Feeds - if you publish partial feeds, then readers have no choice but to visit your blog. However there are some pros and cons to partial feeds. For one, some readers are annoyed by partial feeds. It's a topic with much debate and Darren Rowse of Problogger talks in detail about this. Stay tuned tomorrow where I will continue the notes from the Q&A with Chris Garrett. We’ll learn how to create effective Series Posts and how feeds can add to or deter productivity. P.S. If you like this post, subscribe to this blog via feeds or enter your email address in the subscription box in the left hand column. Donations are also welcome!

Blogger vs Wordpress

Problem fixed! Thanks to Radio Gretchen, I was able to fix the issue I mentioned yesterday regarding viewing this blog with Yahoo! Internet Explorer. However, that means that backlinks will not be displayed here until I can contact Blogger and get this resolved somehow... The whole process of figuring out how to deal with this made me temporarily switch over this blog to Wordpress, so if you visited this site yesterday you were probably redirected over to that Wordpress blog. I went through the whole process of importing the files into Wordpress (thank Goodness it was just a click of the button!) and then trying to figure out all these different versions of Wordpress and their plugins. Yes, Wordpress is great for the beginner blogger - it’s easy to use and you don’t have to worry about HTML or coding, but if you’re a blogger like me who likes the flexibility of creating a more original design, then a free Wordpress account won’t cut it. At least with a free Blogger account you can mess with the HTML and all your code is on one page. With a free Wordpress account you’re pretty much stuck with the plugins that they give you. You can't go in and tweak the HTML unless you upgrade your account or get your own hosting - which is something I'm not quite ready for...for this blog anyway. So for now, I think I’ll stick with Blogger. (After 8+ long hours pulling my hair out!) After all, I am a Google shareholder and should support their products, eh? Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Internet Explorer Issues

It's come to my attention that if you view this blog in Internet Explorer, an error box shows up that says: "Stack overflow at line: 54" I'm working on this issue and am scouring the 'net trying to find a way to fix this. I currently use Mozilla Firefox as my browser, so I had no idea that this was going on. I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully I will have this fixed within the next couple days. If any of you are familiar with this type of error, I would appreciate any help that you can give me! Thank you! In the meantime, I do invite you to check out Mozilla Firefox to see if it may be a better option for you. Click the banner at the top left-hand sidebar...

For Blog Beginners: 5 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Blog

Are you just starting out on this blogging journey and looking for ways to get more visitors to your blog? I know that getting traffic to your blog is one of those things that we all want to do, so I thought I’d offer these five tips: 1. Submit your posts to social networking sites like Digg or Bizzbites. I read somewhere that you should submit every single post to Digg, but I don’t know if I would do that. Unless your post is bringing real value to a reader, I would be a bit choosy about what posts I submit. But then again, you never know what people will or won’t like. Your rant about President Bush’s latest speech may just become popular ;) 2. Visit other blogs and post comments. Blogging is a two-way conversation, so if you read someone’s article and have thoughts to share, then do so! When you make a comment, you also create a link to your own blog. A word of advice on making comments…Comments are not an open invitation to leave comment spam! Would you like it if someone came to your blog and left all that jibber jabber that doesn’t make sense? This is where the Golden Rule should be followed ;) 3. Join communities like MyBlogLog. When you join MyBlogLog, you list all your blogs under your profile. You also get to add their little widget that displays the pictures of all the people who visit your blog - that is, if they have a MBL account as well. Another community similar to MBL is BlogCatalog. It works relatively the same way. By the way, I invite you to visit the Online Business Resources community over at MyBlogLog! 4. Join blog carnivals. Blog carnivals are where you submit a blog post to a host who in turn links to your blog. Get more information at Blog Carnival. 5. Submit your blog to blog directories. The Online Marketing Blog has a very good list of RSS and blog directories. I have to remind myself sometimes that blogging is still a relatively new way of communicating or making money online and there are people out there who are looking for how to’s and information. One of my goals with this blog was to provide an array of information - for beginners and advanced bloggers or online entrepreneurs. What may be obvious to me isn’t so obvious to a beginner. If you have a question about blogging, you can either leave a comment below or email me at maria [at] salondemaria.info You may also want to read... Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools