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30 Days to Sizzling Author Website Traffic

    Being an author and marketing are often mutually exclusive activities. Not unusual. Authors are writers and that puts them in the creative camp.  Their heart is in weaving words to tell a story. To let the voices that inhabit their soul to speak through and enchant the page. To express themselves through the power of writing. The focus is internal. Marketing is focused on selling. Marketing is about using images and words to persuade people to buy. To craft a story, yes, but with the aim to spread the arc of influence.  Product, promotion, place and price are the domain… Read More »30 Days to Sizzling Author Website Traffic

    How I Can Improve My Affiliate Marketing Results

      Affiliate marketing turns out not to be the crock I thought it was. I guess that’s a typical response: when things don’t work out as expected we blame the thing that we can’t conquer. Ok. I am inclined to! Turns out, affiliate marketing is a viable business model and I have no doubt people are making reasonable money doing it. I’m not. For me, affiliate marketing has been a hit and miss affair. Mostly miss. Which is why I gave up on it. More than once. So the question is not “why?”, but “how can I do better?” Now most… Read More »How I Can Improve My Affiliate Marketing Results

      How I Do Affiliate Marketing

        There is a bucket load of advice around the web on how to do affiliate marketing. I found a lot of it contradictory and confusing. Affiliate marketing is not as easy as many would have you believe. There are a lot of steps involved and decisions along the way. Get them right and you’re on your way. Miss any or make a poor decision and you’re stuffed, or at least making it harder than it could be. I’ve played with affiliate marketing now for about four years. “Played” being the optimal word.   Market an Amazon Shop Firstly I set… Read More »How I Do Affiliate Marketing

        How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?

          Last week we talked about how to make money from a blog. I thought I’d cover off in a little more detail how those business models work. So, let’s look at affiliate marketing. In my other life I jointly owned a wholesale sporting goods company. We bought product from a supplier and sold it onto retailers. Effectively, we were the middleman. A broker. A wholesale agent. Affiliate marketing is the exact same business model, only online. More frequently the stock you buy and sell is digital products although it can be physical eg if you set up and Amazon store… Read More »How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?

          5 Ways To Make Money With A Blog

            Making money from your blog is not easy. It’s especially difficult if you just start out to blog to dump thoughts and ideas fro your brain with little focus on strategy, audience or purpose. And that’s how most blog’s start. The best success comes from having a purpose in mind when you start a blog (or turn one around). Here are a few models that people have implemented to make money. How much? Possibly more than they planned if executed well. 1. Affiliate Sales Perhaps the quickest and easiest way to make money when you know what you’re doing and… Read More »5 Ways To Make Money With A Blog

            Help With Blogging: Create a shortcut to a webpage

              Sometimes you want to quickly and easily create a shortcut on your desktop from your browser. For example, not sure about you but when I’m researching for an article or post I sometimes get disrupted or I don’t want to lose the site I’m looking at and want to be able to quickly refer back to it. In the past I’ve bookmarked a site, or sent the link to myself via email or put the link in a notepad file in the research folder for the project. Having a system when researching is efficient … and this post might become… Read More »Help With Blogging: Create a shortcut to a webpage