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		<title>WordPress Payment Plugin – Easy and Secure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Case Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just bought a WordPress payment plugin for - PayPal, - E-Junkie and - Clickbank payments. It&#8217;s called the WordPress Profit System and boy, DO I LIKE IT! I&#8217;ve uploaded and activated this WordPress payment plugin, set my account info and quickly added a product with PayPal payment. I then bought it myself and it [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/09/wordpress-payment-plugin/">WordPress Payment Plugin &#8211; Easy and Secure</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve just bought a <strong>WordPress payment plugin</strong> for</p>
<p><strong>- PayPal</strong>,<br />
<strong>- E-Junkie</strong> and<br />
<strong>- Clickbank</strong><br />
payments.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called the WordPress Profit System and boy, DO I LIKE IT!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded and activated this WordPress payment plugin, set my account info and quickly added a product with PayPal payment.</p>
<p>I then bought it myself and it worked superbly!</p>
<p>Want to see how it works?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2004/06/typical-bloggers-day/">Check it out!</a></p>
<p>Using this WordPress payment plugin is a snap and as easy as creating posts. And besides that, this plugin works in a secure way and your download links are protected!</p>
<p>I know lots of people using WordPress are having problems setting up a secure payment processor. If that&#8217;s you, pay attention, because here&#8217;s the solution for that problem.</p>
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<p>I think anyone can do this, but just to be sure, here&#8217;s a rundown.</p>
<p>Installation:</p>
<ul>
<li>Upload and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Fill in the standard settings</li>
<li>Add a (hard to guess) download directory to the wp-content folder</li>
</ul>
<p>Then this WordPress payment plugin is ready to work for you.<br />
(There was a little flaw in unpacking the zip file, because it contained an identically named sub folder in the main folder. You have to get rid of one of them if that&#8217;s still the case when you download the product.)</p>
<p>Next, you&#8217;ll need to fill in your account info, like</p>
<ul>
<li>your PayPal email address and an authorisation code and/or Clickbank ID and secret code and/or E-Junkie Client ID</li>
<li>your support info</li>
<li>your download expiration time</li>
<li>some random keys to encrypt your download page and link</li>
<li>upload the provided .htaccess file to your download directory for extra security (I had to strip the rewrite url to index.php only)</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>Next, you want to fill in product details.</p>
<p>Before doing that, you have to create a thank-you and download page once-only.<br />
You can use WordPress to do that or create a simple HTML page.<br />
Samples of download and thank-you pages are provided in the package and the source shows the many variables that you can use inside these pages. Just copy and paste the source into your WordPress pages.</p>
<p>Then you&#8217;ll add the product specifications into the plugin, like</p>
<ul>
<li>product ID, description, price</li>
<li>the selected payment processor (PayPal, Clickbank or even an affiliate program)</li>
<li>the names of your sales page, download page and thank you page (just the names, no URL&#8217;s to store)</li>
<li>the name of the download file</li>
<li>email message to be send to your customers</li>
</ul>
<p>Of course, for every product you want to sell, you&#8217;ll have to create a sales page and include the generated code for the payment button.</p>
<p>Watch the <a href="http://talkbiz.com/wpprofits/">easy to follow overview video here</a>.</p>
<p>Since I bought this WordPress payment plugin only yesterday, I didn&#8217;t have time to fully test it, but the first results are very promising, so there&#8217;s hardly any risk involved.</p>
<p>Also, this payment processor was suggested to me by Paul Myers and that&#8217;s one of the most reliable persons on the Web. Can&#8217;t go wrong with Paul.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s also the reason why I introduce this great plugin to you so fast. Don&#8217;t know how long this one will be for sale, so you&#8217;d better check it out fast. This is no marketing trick, as I don&#8217;t earn a penny promoting this great solution.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://talkbiz.com/wpprofits/">the page</a> and there&#8217;s a good video on it to explain quickly how this payment plugin works.</p>
<p>If you need an excellent and easy to use WordPress payment plugin, get your copy right now. <strong>The price is ridiculous low</strong>.</p>
<p>Then post your comments below.<br />
Do you use a wordpress payment plugin?</p>
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		<title>Google Checker: Outstanding Webmasters Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Case Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I call it the Google checker. Officially called &#8220;Google Webmasters&#8221;, also referred to as &#8220;Google Webmasters Tool&#8221; or even &#8220;Google Webmaster Central&#8221;. Whatever you call it, Google checker is an essential webmasters tool that also serves as a search engine optimizer. For the most important amongst all search engines: Google. If you&#8217;re not familiar with [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/08/google-checker-webmasters-tool/">Google Checker: Outstanding Webmasters Tool</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I call it the <strong>Google checker</strong>.</p>
<p>Officially called &#8220;Google Webmasters&#8221;, also referred to as &#8220;Google Webmasters Tool&#8221; or even &#8220;Google Webmaster Central&#8221;. </p>
<p>Whatever you call it, Google checker is an essential webmasters tool that also serves as a search engine optimizer. For the most important amongst all search engines: Google.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Google checker, you absolutely have to use this online application to drastically improve your website.</p>
<p>Here are the basics of this wonderful webmasters tool.</p>
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<p>If you already have a Google account or use Gmail you just need to sign in and go to <a href="http://webmasters.google.com">webmasters.google.com</a>. Otherwise you have to register there first.</p>
<p>Then you can add your website(s) to the dashboard for inclusion.<br />
Each added website needs to be authenticated (which is just to prevent identity theft, etc). You can do this by either inserting a line of code into your home page HTML or by uploading a unique file (generated by Google checker; just copy and paste) onto your website (using FTP). Either way is quick and easy.</p>
<p>Next, uploading an XML sitemap of your website to the Google checker is an outstanding idea. If you don&#8217;t know how to do this, use Google again to search for &#8216;google xml sitemap creation&#8217;. There are plenty of sites that can create such maps.<br />
After you&#8217;re done, upload the map to your site as a page, but with an extension .xml instead of .html. Submit that URL to the Google checker.</p>
<p>Google thus knows the location of your web pages which helps indexing them.<br />
Now that you&#8217;re doing this anyway, take some time to also create an HTML sitemap as well (again, use Google to find such a service), upload it as a (normal HTML) page and link to it from your homepage. This helps the other search engines, that don&#8217;t use the XML format, index your pages.</p>
<p>After you&#8217;ve done this, Google needs some time (give them two weeks, but you can check frequently) to crawl your website and gather data about it.<br />
When that&#8217;s done, you&#8217;ll have tons of information from the most important search engine at your fingertips! </p>
<p>Some of the more important figures that you can find in the Google checker:</p>
<p>Site Configuration.<br />
It&#8217;s very important to use the right settings for your site. You can manage a lot in here and it&#8217;s wise to spend some time figuring out how you want your site to be indexed.</p>
<p>Search Queries<br />
This area of the dashboard reveals some of your main keywords for which Google is displaying your website to searchers. Ideally, you want to ensure that the keywords that you originally chose for your website feature in this list. If not, back to the SEO grindstone&#8230;</p>
<p>Crawl Errors<br />
Crawl errors won&#8217;t do your site any good for search engine optimization, so you better make sure to clear this area up as soon as possible. If there are any crawl errors on your site, find out where they are, and adjust those links. If they&#8217;re coming from other sites, use 301 redirects.</p>
<p>Links to Your Site<br />
This section contains an overview of internal and external links that Google has detected. Coming from Google itself, this is important information. Despite the fact, that it sometimes seems fairly inconsistent, Google usually seems to update these figures at least once a month. Your goal should be to try to grow this figure every month.</p>
<p>At the left side navigation bar, Google checker lists lots of other options, including diagnostics and crawl stats. Take some time to learn what these statistic mean.<br />
There&#8217;s no better way to view your site than through the eyes of Google webmasters tool!</p>
<p>So, do you use this Google checker?<br />
Post your comments below</p>
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		<title>10 Twitter Tips For More Twitter Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Case Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people ask me about Twitter tips to become more successful on Twitter. They read reports from other marketeers who say they are highly successful on Twitter and they want to know how that can be achieved. To be honest, let me first say, that I don&#8217;t use Twitter that much and certainly not as [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/08/twitter-tips/">10 Twitter Tips For More Twitter Success</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people ask me about <strong>Twitter tips</strong> to become more successful on Twitter.</p>
<p>They read reports from other marketeers who say they are highly successful on Twitter and they want to know how that can be achieved.</p>
<p>To be honest, let me first say, that I don&#8217;t use Twitter that much and certainly not as a marketing tool. </p>
<p>But it has been most helpful for me to directly contact my peers and get questions answered in return for my answers to their questions. Some of these concerned Joint Venture invitations, which increased my sales drastically.</p>
<p>For me, that&#8217;s the most important benefit of using Twitter. Whereas many use Twitter to send out one-way (sales) messages, I use this social networking site for the most part as a communication device.</p>
<p>To help you be more successful on the site, I give you 10 short Twitter tips to be successful.</p>
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<ol>
<li>Be Yourself<br />
Don&#8217;t try to be someone else or to imitate someone. You followers will immediately recognize you as as being fake. You&#8217;ll rather want your true personality to appear. </li>
<li>Tweet Value<br />
Make sure that everything you tweet is highly valuable for your followers. You should always try to either inform, entertain or educate your followers. Those are the best ways to add value to your tweets.</li>
<li>Tweet Frequently<br />
This will allow you to be seen and it will also keep you in the forefront of people&#8217;s minds. Don&#8217;t tweet all day, instead tweet a couple of valuable messages shortly after each other.</li>
<li>Communicate with Your Followers<br />
Don&#8217;t just talk at your followers. They&#8217;ll recognize that immediately. Instead discuss or give answers. Remember the WIIFM?</li>
<li>Therefore: Do NOT Sell<br />
This will only turn your followers off. If one of them only tries to sell me, I usually unfollow.<br />
Provide value instead and then occasionally include a link to a page on your site where they can get more info. That&#8217;s where you can sell to them.</li>
<li>Know Your Audience<br />
Take some time to get to know your followers. Visit their sites or follow their links. Thus you&#8217;ll find out what they want and you may be able to help them achieve that. BIG plus!</li>
<li>Increase Your Followers<br />
More followers means expanding your network and greater chances to be successful. Invite your readers to follow you on Twitter, like I do at the bottom of this post.</li>
<li>Be Nice<br />
You don&#8217;t want to offend anyone with your Tweets. Don&#8217;t write anything you wouldn&#8217;t want your mother or your grandmother to read. </li>
<li>Don&#8217;t Complain<br />
Always stay on the positive side tol keep you and your online business in a positive light.</li>
<li>
Don&#8217;t SPAM<br />
Never SPAM on Twitter. There&#8217;s no better way te become unpopular and get kicked off of the site than sending Spam. And it certainly won&#8217;t make you any money.</li>
</ol>
<p>There you have your Twitter tips. Make sure you always follow them and you&#8217;ll see the results.</p>
<p>As an extra bonus, here&#8217;s my most important Twitter tip:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">PLAN your time on Twitter to avoid spending too much time there. It can be very tempting to stay on Twitter all day, answering all kind of nice communications, but I guess you also have work to do. Schedule an hour a day to communicate and then close the site or software program you&#8217;re using.</p>
<p>As you may have learned from this article, I build my follower list slowly.<br />
However, if you want to explode your followers base, increase their responsiveness and achieve top SEO rankings using Twitter, then check out this great <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=111" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> resource. </p>
<p>After you&#8217;ve done that, post your comments below.<br />
What are your Twitter tips?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article marketing is one of the simplest and most effortless ways of generating both traffic and backlinks to a site. That&#8217;s probably why so many beginning internet marketers start out using article marketing. And since everyone and her dog is using this traffic generation strategy, you can easily be inclined to disregard article marketing as [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/08/article-marketing-quiz/">Article Marketing &#8211; Can You Pass This Quiz?</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Article marketing</strong> is one of the simplest and most effortless ways of generating both traffic and backlinks to a site.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s probably why so many beginning internet marketers start out using article marketing.</p>
<p>And since everyone and her dog is using this traffic generation strategy, you can easily be inclined to disregard article marketing as completely outdated and totally over-saturated.</p>
<p>Leading to the conclusion, that article marketing no longer works.</p>
<p>Big mistake!<br />
It only means is that you need to step up our game.</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;ve ever done article marketing before, you already know that the most crucial element of your article is your author resource box &#8211; apart from the headline that is -. </p>
<p>Now, let&#8217;s try to boost your article marketing campaigns.<br />
Fire up your neurons, cause I want to take you through a fast three question multiple choice test about integrating massively powerful resource boxes into them.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span class="bold-text">1. What&#8217;s the most important element you must consider when writing your resource box?</span></p>
<p>a) Your readers are too busy to read them<br />
b) No one is interested in reading resource boxes<br />
c) Nobody cares about you or your business.</p>
<p>The correct answer here is c, nobody cares about you or your business.</p>
<p>Although this may sound harsh, it&#8217;s very true.<br />
The only thing other people are interested in is&#8230; WIIFM or &#8220;What&#8217;s In It For Me?&#8221; and nothing else. Therefore, you should always talk about the interests of your visitors during a conversation instead of talking about yourself.</p>
<p>Since your article is nothing else but a conversation, so this also applies to resource boxes.</p>
<p>Be assured that while reading your article, your reader doesn&#8217;t care about you at that time. The only reason she clicked your promising article headline in the first place was, she thought that in some way your valuable content might be able to improve HER life.</p>
<p>Do you recognize article resource boxes that kind of look like this:</p>
<p style="padding-left:15px;">&#8220;Lucky Luke manages to stay fit and for the last 5 years he helps others to do the same, and he has a website at&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Who cares? The resource box isn&#8217;t the place to focus on your life!</p>
<p>While writing your resource box, you MUST put yourself in the mind of your readers. Only if you promise them something to improves their life, they may click on your bio box. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span class="bold-text">2. What should your resource box be centered around?</span></p>
<p>a) Benefits to the reader<br />
b) Your credibility<br />
c) The problems your readers face.</p>
<p>Of course the correct answer here is a: benefits to the reader.</p>
<p>Your readers are looking for a solution to their problems. Therefore, make it VERY clear HOW they will benefit from clicking your resource box link.</p>
<p>Take a look at the two following examples:</p>
<p style="padding-left:15px;">&#8220;For more dog training advice, click here.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left:15px;">&#8220;Discover how to educate your dog to know and obey the words &#8220;sit&#8221; and &#8220;stay&#8221; in three days&#8221;</p>
<p>Based on the benefits these boxes promise, which one would YOU click on?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span class="bold-text">3. You should always _________ your resource box with your article.</span></p>
<p>a) Separate<br />
b) Blend<br />
c) Mix</p>
<p>The correct answer here is b.<br />
Adding a resource box to your articles that blend in very well will boost your click-through rates, while a disjointed resource box will decrease CTR.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So&#8230; how did you do on this quiz?</p>
<p>The take away from this article should be that:<br />
- nobody cares about you or your business,<br />
- you should definitely focus on your reader&#8217;s benefits and<br />
- to blend your resource box in with your article.</p>
<p>Very simple tips to execute, so apply them in your next article marketing campaigns and watch your resource box CTR&#8217;s skyrocket!</p>
<p>For more detailed information on article marketing, check out <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=110">Article Marketing Domination</a> from my friend Josh Spaulding right now.</p>
<p>Then, post your comments below.<br />
Do you stand out using article marketing?</p>
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		<title>77 Ways To Make Money Online – $100+ A Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Case Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You undoubtedly know these “make money online” ads promising to learn you how to make thousands of dollars a minute, working from the comfort of your own home in your pyjama, right? You see these ads so preposterously often that they may even start to make you doubt whether it really IS possible to make [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/08/77-ways-make-money-online/">77 Ways To Make Money Online &#8211; $100+ A Day</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You undoubtedly know these “<a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/">make money online</a>” ads promising to learn you how to make thousands of dollars a minute, working from the comfort of your own home in your pyjama, right?</p>
<p>You see these ads so preposterously often that they may even start to make you doubt whether it <strong>really IS possible to make money online</strong>.</p>
<p>The question is how do they do that? You may not even make a thousand dollars a month, let alone per minute!</p>
<p>Well, the answer to this question may very well be: they don’t! That claim may be a a shade exaggerated. Bad luck!</p>
<p>But…</p>
<p>working from your own home there are certainly ways you can make an extra $100 a day. Which makes a nice $2,000 a month.</p>
<p>Even more is possible, but let’s not magnify the claims here, ok?</p>
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<p>There are many ways to make at least $100 dollars a day. In fact, I’ve just finished reading a great report sharing 77 different ways you can create a nice online income.</p>
<p>It’s written by my friend Dennis Becker, who is known on the Net as a down to earth guy. Which he actually is, as I will show below!</p>
<p>Now, 77 are a lot of ways to make money online. You probably won’t like them all, but there should be at least 10 that you definitely can do.</p>
<p>Some of them require more work than others, but remember that you can mix and match. If you’re only able to get 2 of them going, then your monthly income will grow to a nice $4,000!<br />
Most important thing is to have fun doing whatever you enjoy.</p>
<p>For each of the 77 ways to make money online, Dennis lists an overview and then fleshes them out a bit so you can start right away using some of them. He even tries to give you an estimate of how much you can expect to make for each plan.</p>
<p>As Dennis also explains, you need 4 things in order to reach your goals.</p>
<ol>
<li style="list-style: none">.</li>
<li>First you need the goal, showing that you’re really interested in making money online or at least an extra $100 a day.</li>
<li>Then you need a plan. Included in the report are 77 concise mini plans, just enough to give you an idea so that you can decide if they’re for you or not.</li>
<li>Next, you need knowledge. A lot of of the plans are pretty easy, but some of them require special skills, like for example Photoshop or HTML skills, or the ability to install a WordPress blog. All these skills can be learned, but that’s NOT covered inside the report.</li>
<li>The most important part: you need to take action. There’s no way you’re going to make money online without performing consistent tasks to do whatever it takes to get there. Yes, that means… Work!</li>
</ol>
<p>If you are really serious about making money online you should get this report. There’s no limit to what you can earn using these plans, but let’s be conservative: a nice extra monthly income is absolutely achievable.</p>
<p>Get your own copy of this excellent <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=109" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:16px;">make money online</span></a> report.</p>
<p>And don’t forget to post your comments below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing is a form of passive business, generating a passive income. It&#8217;s one of the simplest ways to enter the vast community that wants to make money online. And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m publishing this passive business article today. Written by guest posters Lena Morrish and Dima Nikolayenko who are experts in setting up such [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/07/passive-business/">Choosing Affiliate Programs for Passive Business</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing is a form of passive business, generating a passive income.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one of the simplest ways to enter the vast community that wants to <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/">make money online</a>.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m publishing this passive business article today. Written by guest posters Lena Morrish and Dima Nikolayenko who are experts in setting up such businesses.</p>
<p>Therefore you should read this carefully.<br />
Here goes.</p>
<h2>Passive Business Affiliate Programs</h2>
<p>When it comes to making passive income on the Internet, there are several different options out there that you can get into and make money with.</p>
<p>One of the biggest industries is that of affiliate marketing, as it can be easy to get into and be profitable.</p>
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<p>For those that decide to get into the passive business of affiliate marketing, it is important that you know what exactly you are promoting and what you are going to make from it.<br />
This will help you to decide which opportunities you want to get involved with.</p>
<p>Keep in mind which industries interest you or what your niche is, as you do not want to promote health items if everything else you promote is about technology.</p>
<p>You need to know what type of commission you will make from a product sale.  These can vary widely from 8 to 75% of the value of the sale that is made. </p>
<p>Don’t forget that the company who makes the product is also promoting it, and that a lot of people will go directly to the manufacturer to purchase.  </p>
<p>Another factor is to know what the pay structure is like.<br />
Will you only make money on sales you make personally, or will you also make money on your referrals?  You can promote your affiliate opportunity and sign other people up under your name.  </p>
<p>Ideally you want to make something on their sales as well too, as they are likely going to be looking for you to help them to become successful.  You deserve to be paid for your time and training that you give them.</p>
<p>Make sure to check out the reputation of the affiliates that you decide to become an affiliate for.<br />
Does this program have a good reputation for a quality product and good customer service?<br />
If it something that you can feel comfortable promoting to other people?<br />
Do they stand behind their product if there is an issue with it?</p>
<p>You can find affiliate programs in many different industries, and for many different products.  If the one you found does not look too genuine, move on to the next one.<br />
You should have no issue finding something that will work out for you.</p>
<p>Watch for programs that do not pay a decent amount of compensation.  Chances are a program that only pays out 5% is not likely worth the time it takes to determine if it is worthwhile.<br />
It is recommended that you look for programs that payout at least 30%.</p>
<p>You also want to see if the program requires you to meet a minimum quota or a sales target.  Depending on where you are at with your platform for promoting your affiliates, you likely will want to avoid those.  Even those that are having great success may choose to pass them by as well.</p>
<p>When it comes to affiliate marketing, there is a great potential for passive income once you are set up.<br />
Not only can you make money off your own personal sales, but you can earn money off those that you get to enroll in the affiliate program as well.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
Lena Morrish and Dima Nikolayenko operate a business called Bridge to Success Co.  Their goal is to help you have a successful <a href="http://internetbusinessbts.com/how-affiliate-marketing-can-earn-you-passive-income/">passive income business</a> on the Internet, so make sure to visit their site and learn best practices for building a <a href="http://internetbusinessbts.com/affiliate-marketing.html">home based affiliate business</a> from what they have to say.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Case again.<br />
Don&#8217;t forget to read &#8220;<a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/06/affiliate-marketing-programs/">How to Find the Perfect Affiliate Marketing Programs</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>What do you think? What&#8217;s your passive business?<br />
Post your comments below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands and thousands of Internet marketers are making the same mistake, over and over again. I see it committed daily. It’s not the product that causes this problem. Oh no, most of them promote a rather good product. And their credibility isn’t the problem neither. Most of these Internet marketers have all the validation factors [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/07/internet-marketers/">What Keeps Most Internet Marketers Poor</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thousands and thousands of Internet marketers are making the same mistake, over and over again.</p>
<p>I see it committed daily. It’s not the product that causes this problem. Oh no, most of them promote a rather good product.</p>
<p>And their credibility isn’t the problem neither. Most of these Internet marketers have all the validation factors needed to seal the deal on a sale.</p>
<p>No, their main problem is…</p>
<p>…that they operate in a jam-pawncked market and that they’re fenced in by thousands of other Internet marketers who offer the exact same services or the exact same products.</p>
<div style="text-align: center; padding-bottom:15px;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/4064290870_ce8ac5b572.jpg" width="450" height="337" title="Internet marketers fenced!" alt="Internet marketers fenced!" /><br />
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<p>And not only that, they also offer them in the exact same way!</p>
<p>Put differently, their selling communications scream “Me Too!”</p>
<p>That’s not the right way to sell on the Internet.You just have to stand out in order to make sales online (as well as offline for that mattter!).<br />
One way or another, you must separate yourself from the flocks of other marketeers who are trying to go after your clients to get money that should be yours. Looking around at what other Internet marketers are doing, and then do exactly the same thing is the precise way you won’t stand out.</p>
<p>In marketing there’s a saying that applies equally well online: rather than to be better, it’s better to be first. If you aren’t established as the dominate source for a product or service you’re selling on the Internet, it will be exceedingly tough for you to actually attract your buyers’ attention.</p>
<p>So if you want to learn anything from this article it should be this: if you’re not first in your category, create a new category to be first in.<br />
Amelia Erhardt wasn’t the first person to fly across the Atlantic. However, she was the first woman who accomplished this.</p>
<p>Try to create a category that you can be first in and supply to the market segment that best lines up with that category.</p>
<p>Personalizing your communications is a second way to really jump out.<br />
If I were trying to get your attention in a crowd of people for example, I would cry out your name. It’s easier to get your visitor’s attention if you go more vertical in a market. For instance, you could<br />
target golfers on the West Coast instead of targeting golfers only.</p>
<p>Or instead of targeting golfers on the West Coast, you could target golfers in the state of California who earn over $100,000 a year.<br />
This will enable you to really perfect your marketing message into this very particular group of people, and more easily capture their attention, which will in turn close more sales.</p>
<p>Finally, once the sales start rolling in it’s of the utmost importance to set up backend products in order to get the money really rolling. First time buyers are your best customers and the real money is made at the backend.<br />
If you’re not familiar with that phenomena, or want to make more backend profits from your existing customers check out <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=107">Backend Power</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile let me know your opinion.<br />
Post your comments below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I give you a sale letter sample that can help you get started selling your own products. Because you need an effective sales letter if you want to sell. As obvious as that may sound, lots of people don&#8217;t know how to do that. Like Dave Prentice who writes to me: Hey Case, I&#8217;m [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/07/sale-letter-sample-sells/">Easy Sale Letter Sample That Sells</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I give you a <strong>sale letter sample</strong> that can help you get started selling your own products.</p>
<p>Because you need an effective sales letter if you want to sell.</p>
<p>As obvious as that may sound, lots of people don&#8217;t know how to do that.</p>
<p>Like Dave Prentice who writes to me:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hey Case,<br />
I&#8217;m looking for help to get my internet business off the ground.</p></blockquote>
<p>and then he explains what he&#8217;s up to.</p>
<p>I think Dave may have a good product that he wants to promote at alphawavemeditation.com. But it lacks a good sales message.</p>
<p>Writing a great sale letter isn&#8217;t that easy. You&#8217;ll need an expert to do this and believe me, they&#8217;re expensive because it&#8217;s a tough job.</p>
<p>Still, you can start out writing by using this easy sale letter sample that gets you on your way.</p>
<p>To write great sales letters, first thing you need is a formula and the most popular one probably is AIDA.<br />
Which stands for
<ul>
<li><strong>A</strong>ttention,</li>
<li><strong>I</strong>nterest,</li>
<li><strong>D</strong>esire and</li>
<li><strong>A</strong>ction.</li>
</ul>
<p>The AIDA formula works and that&#8217;s why it is so popular. Therefore you should consider using it too, but there are other effective formula&#8217;s that you can find on the net. I&#8217;ll give you some great resources below.</p>
<p>Here are the most important parts of the AIDA formula that we&#8217;ll use in our sale letter sample.</p>
<p><strong>Headline</strong><br />
The headline is used to grab the readers&#8217; attention. It will determine whether your visitors begin reading your sales copy or not. Therefore you should make your headline as good as it can be.</p>
<p>That quite often leads to &#8216;hype&#8217; headlines like &#8220;With this product you can sell pizza recipes to Italian mama&#8217;s&#8221; or &#8220;With this product you can sell fridges to Eskimo&#8217;s&#8221;.</p>
<p>I personally hate that kind of headlines. Instead, I use the main benefit of the product I&#8217;m selling. If you can, make a bold claim, but you always have to back that up in your sale copy!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I always start writing a sale letter sample by creating a list of benefits. You should do the same and your headline will be your biggest benefit and speaks directly to the person who you want to buy from you. Always remember that.</p>
<p>Most people mix up benefits and features. Features describe what product looks like (things you can touch or see), benefits are how users can profit from those features (feelings).<br />
There&#8217;s no one who can explain this better than Paul Myers. Just read &#8220;<a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2009/03/need-to-know/">Do You Know What You Need To Know?</a>&#8221; and do yourself a big favor and <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=67">sign up for his newsletter</a>.</p>
<p>Test different headlines to <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/03/sale-conversion-rates/">increase sale conversion rates using split testing</a>.  </p>
<p><strong>Subheading</strong><br />
The next part in this sale letter sample is a subheading, backing up the headline. The subheading should target your audience and either introduce something that compliments the headline or  expand on the headline. As with the headline, it should speak directly to your potential customers.</p>
<p><strong>Body sale letter</strong><br />
The next part you need to include is the body of the letter. This is where you need to get the reader&#8217;s interest, make them want what you&#8217;re selling (desire), and make them think to buy it (take action). </p>
<p>In general, you first describe the problem (that you&#8217;re product is going to solve) and then come with the solution. Follow up with a benefit laden bullet list.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s often a good idea to tell a story in the body of the sales letter too, for example when describing the problem. It makes readers recognize and relate to that problem and it will awake a strong desire to have  that problem solved.</p>
<p><strong><br />
Closing: Call to Action</strong><br />
The last part of this sale letter sample is the closing.<br />
The main objective here is to get the reader to take action and buy what you&#8217;re selling.<br />
Actually ask them to buy what you&#8217;re selling. Usually a closing will also include soothing any fears a reader might have about buying from you, like adding a strong guarantee. This will help the reader to take action as well. The closing always includes a signature and a couple postscripts.</p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s in short your easy sale letter sample that you can use when starting out.<br />
Remember, there&#8217;s much more to writing great sales letters than just this basic information.</p>
<p>There are tons of resources that can help you write a great sale letter and here are a few (to avoid info overload) for you to check out:<br />
<a href="http://www.michelfortin.com/">Michel Fortin</a> Huge resource!<br />
<a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=61">The Copywriter&#8217;s Toolkit</a> (I use this one frequently with great success, hence I became an affiliate!)<br />
<a href="http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com">The Gary Halbert Letter</a> Another huge resource!<br />
<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/">Copyblogger</a> Very interesting content.<br />
<a href="http://bencivengabullets.com/">Marketing Bullets</a> by another great copywriter Gary Bencivenga.</p>
<p>What do you think.<br />
Is this sale letter sample helpful?<br />
Write your comments below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing can bring in a nice monthly income without spending a lot of money or time in your business. The main advantage of affiliate marketing is that you don&#8217;t need to create or own a product. All you do is promote someone else&#8217;s products or services. Of course many people know this already, but [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/06/affiliate-marketing-programs/">How to Find the Perfect Affiliate Marketing Programs</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing can bring in a nice monthly income without spending a lot of money or time in your business. </p>
<p>The main advantage of affiliate marketing is that you don&#8217;t need to create or own a product.</p>
<p>All you do is promote someone else&#8217;s products or services.</p>
<p>Of course many people know this already, but the question I get frequently is:<br clear="all" /></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;How can I find the perfect affiliate marketing program?&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how you can do that.</p>
<p>The first question you have to ask yourself is: &#8220;do I need the money right away or do I want to build a solid monthly income&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you really need the money, then there&#8217;s no better way than to browse through the <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/03/affiliate-directory-rapbank/">RapBank</a> affiliate products.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a directory with affiliate programs that will pay you right away, directly into your PayPal account!<br />
At RapBank, select a product that closely relates to your site and put an occasional link to these programs in your text where appropriate.</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re going for the long term, then you have 4 different ways to find the perfect affiliate marketing program.</p>
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<p>Affiliate Directories.<br />
Here you can find the perfect affiliate marketing program, cause these directories act like review sites. They accept applications from merchants selling products using affiliate programs.  These applications are reviewed and only the best are listed. Usually about half of the total applications they receive are rejected.</p>
<p>Or they rank all programs in order of quality. </p>
<p>Thus you can rest assured that the sites that are listed (or are on top of the rankings) are all sites that will make you money.<br />
That&#8217;s a great way to select your perfect programs.</li>
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<p>Affiliate networks.<br />
Another excellent way to find the perfect affiliate marketing program.<br />
They basically are the contact between merchants and you. Affiliate networks list thousands of affiliate marketing programs that you can search for and thus find the right program easily. </p>
<p>Sometimes there are fees included to use these sites but they often are more than worth it. Commission Junction is one of the most popular affiliate networks. </li>
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<p>Individual sites.<br />
Tons of sites that sell anything have an affiliate program that you can check out. Taking this route will take more time and you absolutely have to do your own research, running a chance to  possibly make a mistake.</p>
<p>The main advantage here however is that you usually can get a much better deal. A lot of of the less popular affiliate programs typically offer the best deals. </li>
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Use software<br />
Yes, there&#8217;s software available to solve this problem.<br />
It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/af/cl.php?id=106">Affiliate Elite</a> (affiliate link!) and that&#8217;s a killer piece of software for finding top affiliate programs (as well as finding other affiliates).<br />
Check it out.</li>
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<p>You can use any of these ways to find great affiliate marketing programs. You can use 1 or all 4 of them. It&#8217;s totally up to you. Just do what&#8217;s best for you and make sure you find the perfect affiliate program for you.</p>
<p>One last word of advice!<br />
If you are promoting affiliate marketing programs, then why not pick the ones that pay a recurring commission? It requires the same effort to endorse recurring commission programs, but they deliver income month after month.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://lifetimecommissions.com/">LifeTimeCommissions</a> to see some great recurring affiliate marketing programs.<br />
That&#8217;s a site created by one of the best affiliate marketers around, Aussie Allan Gardyne. If you have questions about affiliate marketing programs, his website <a href="http://www.associateprograms.com/">AssociatePrograms</a> is one of the best resources to go to.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think.<br />
Post your comments below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here’s the second part of easy ways to make money on your blog. In this section you may find some interesting ways to make money that you haven’t thought about yet. Check them out! If you missed the first part, then head over to Top 10 Easy Ways to Make Money on Your [...]<p><a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/06/make-money-blogging-2/">Top 10 Easy Ways to Make Money on Your Blog &#8211; Part 2</a> is a post from <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com">Affordable Internet Marketing</a>, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by <a href="http://www.casestevens.com/">Case Stevens</a>.<br/><br/></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As promised, here’s the second part of easy ways to make money on your blog.</p>
<p>In this section you may find some interesting ways to make money that you haven’t thought about yet.<br />
Check them out!</p>
<p>If you missed the first part, then head over to <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2010/06/top-10-ways-make-money-blog/">Top 10 Easy Ways to Make Money on Your Blog</a> – Part 1.<br />
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<p><span class="bold-text">Review Blog Posts</span><br />
This will require you to review others websites on your blog. You can get paid a lot. Like selling blog links, you must have a high PR. You can earn $10 per review you make on your blog.<br />
Here are a few top services to consider: ReviewMe, PayU2Blog, SponsoredReviews, PayPerPost and Smorty.
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<p><span class="bold-text">Purchase and Install Datafeedr WordPress Plugin</span><br />
This excellent script will enable you to add thousands of products with a simple click. The script incorporates them on your blog just like in a store and does all the dirty work for you! All you have to do is kick back, relax, and watch the money pile up.
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<p><span class="bold-text">Guest Posting</span><br />
Search for other related blogs and exchange links. You need to contact the blog administrator and suggest how to write an article for them that is relevant to their site. In your article, refer to a related posting on your blog by linking to it.</p>
<p>Try to apply this technique with a number of related blogs and the major search engines will surely appreciate your site and drive more traffic to it. Get your affiliate offer ready at the top of your sidebar. When the new visitors come to your blog, they can see it right away.
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<p><span class="bold-text">Sell Banner Ads</span><br />
That is another easy way to create income from your blog. First, you can advertise on your blog that you are selling advertising space at your blog. Put up the rate card for each kinds of banner. You could charge the highest rate at the top of your homepage, and less expensive for other locations on your blog like lower part of your blog or the sidebar.</p>
<p>Second way to make money by selling advertising is to join the advertising network like Adbrite and Doubleclick. This way you can let the advertising network to get more customers for you. And you can focus your time and energy to create more valuable content to your readers so that more visitors come to your blog. Gradually, you can charge more on your advertising space as you have more readerships.
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<p><span class="bold-text">Build Your List</span><br />
This is the ideal way to earn money from your blog on a long-term basis as it will maintain a substantial amount of income in the long run. You have to create a capture page on your blog that is readily seen by readers.</p>
<p>You have to attract readers to sign up by offering a free report in your niche market as an incentive. Then you gather the names and emails of interested readers and make a list. This way you can establish a good relationship with your readers and sell them a product at a later date.</p>
<p>These methods are simple to adopt and there are more ways to make money with blogs. The opportunities are truly growing as blogging has become an excellent way of making money online.</p>
<p>The best way to create huge income continuously through your blog is by building a huge list. It has been proven again and again by the successful internet marketers.</p>
<p>They all say that the money is in the list… and the relationship you have built with that list. Probably you have heard that many times already.</p>
<p>Stop using those hard long and expensive methods to build your list slowly. You can quickly get to your goal by using the smart list building technique. Start doing that today and use the smart list building technique to create your list quickly.</p>
<p>By applying the new and easy technique, you can get that goal faster than the old and expensive methods. Check out this unique list building method now: <a href="http://wealthsecretsgroup.com/hugelistbuilding/">Huge List Building Method</a>.
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<p>Author Resource:<br />
Frank Lee is the founder of Breakthrough <a href="http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/">internet marketing</a>.com who helps people like you work smarter, earn faster, and live better using unique <a href="http://BreakthroughInternetMarketing.com" target="_blank">Internet Marketing Systems</a>.</p>
<p>——<br />
So there you have it: top 10 easy ways to make money on your blog!<br />
Which of these methods have you applied already?<br />
Which ones work best, which ones need some support?<br />
Post your comments or questions below.<br />
Frank may chime in and give you valuable answers.</p>
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