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Make Money Blogging: Is Your Relationship a Help or a Hindrance to Your Blogging Success?
Personal I’m a huge fan of Dave Ramsey. For those who don’t know, Dave is a talk show host who preaches debt freedom. One of his favorite sayings is, “Debt is dumb.” Why am I talking about Dave Ramsey and debt freedom on a blog about blogging? Well I assume that most who visit blogs like BloggingTips do so to learn how to make money online – or make more money online. One day while listening to Dave’s show, a caller asked him what his ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions
Making Money I thought I’d round out the week here by going back through the series of posts I’ve written on my foray into affiliate marketing and answer some of the questions many have sent in about article marketing. As I wrote in yesterday’s post, Article Marketing: The Plan I Use to Bring in $100-$200/Day, “. . . if you’re a regular reader of my posts you know that I’m an avid article marketer. . .” Some of the questions I answered in the ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: The Plan I Use to Bring in $100-$200/Day
Making Money Last week here, I wrote about my foray into affiliate marketing. And if you’re a regular reader of my posts you know that I’m an avid article marketer – it’s how I promote my ebooks, as well as my affiliate product. I only have one at the moment, but have several more lined up to promote as soon as I can catch my breath. I received quite a few emails asking me which article directories I use. I answered in the comment section of one ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: How to Write Traffic-Generating Articles to Promote Affiliate Products
Writing All last week, I blogged about affiliate marketing. In last Wednesday’s post entitled How ArticleMarketer.com Has Almost Doubled My Affiliate Marketing Sales, I promised to give some tips on how to write effective articles to promote your affiliate product(s). So, here goes. 4 Tips for Writing Articles That Actually Sell Affiliate Products Affiliate Article Marketing Tip #1: Actually, writing effective articles starts before you ever put ...
Continue readingHow ArticleMarketer.com Has Almost Doubled My Affiliate Marketing Sales
Promote your blog In yesterday’s post, I talked about how much I was loving ArticleMarketer.com, the article submission site. I’ve always been an avid article marketer, but never signed up with an article submission service because I was always pleased with the results I garnered by submitting manually. But as I’ve gotten busier and busier since I started SEO writing in late 2007, I simply don’t have the time to devote to manual submission like I used to. ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: Is it Worth It to Submit to Thousands of Directories in One Click
Promote your blog If you’re a regular reader of my posts here on BloggingTips, then you know that I recently started to get into affiliate marketing. My promotional method of choice is article marketing. I’ve been doing this for years – with great success – for my own products. An Overview of ArticleMarketer.com A couple of weeks ago, for the first time, I signed up with an article distribution service, ArticleMarketer.com. And I have to say, I love it. ...
Continue readingHow to Use Blogs to Increase Your Online Income
Making Money In spite of the fact that I have my own blog and blog for clients, there are very few blogs that I read on a regular basis. As a busy freelance writer, I simply don’t have the time. When I visit some blogs and they have a long list of “favorited” blogs, I think to myself, “How in the world can they keep up with all those blogs?” Even trying to keep up with a few is time-consuming for me. So, what does all this have to do with using ...
Continue readingNewbie Affiliates: How to Choose Affiliate Products to Market
Making Money As I talked about in Monday’s post here, I just started to market my first affiliate product. Well, I’ve tried others passively, but this is the first time I’ve hunkered down and really put time into marketing a product. With the others, I just stuck a link on my site. Not surprisingly, I made little to no money with this “marketing strategy.” I kind of fell into promoting my current product. Now that I’ve experienced great ...
Continue readingHow to Overcome Buyer Skepticism When Selling Affiliate Products and Services Online
Making Money In yesterday’s post, I discussed how I recently started to promote an affiliate product, and how skeptical some buyers were when purchasing online. For those of us who spend a great deal of time online, buying goods and services over the internet is old hat. But, we are a tiny minority. Many consumers – especially those who don’t use the computer a lot – are extremely skeptical about making purchases online. Following are three tips for ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing or Free Classifieds: Which Works Better to Promote Affiliate Products?
Making Money I write and promote my own ebooks to make passive income online. Recently, I started to promote an affiliate product to add to this income stream. It’s a product unrelated to freelance writing, which is my primary niche. And, this has proven to be eye opening on many levels when it comes to online marketing. How Effective Is Article Marketing When Promoting Affiliate Products? The only thing I’ve done to promote my affiliate product is to ...
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