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		<description><![CDATA[In Membership Sites: An Introduction, you were introduced to the concept of what a membership site is, how you can use them, and what kind of income they can generate. I also recommended one of the products that many people use to create membership sites, but I wanted to mention another product designed just for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <a href="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/making-money-online/intro-to-membership-sites/" class="liinternal">Membership Sites: An Introduction</a>, you were introduced to the concept of what a membership site is, how you can use them, and what kind of income they can generate. I also recommended one of the products that many people use to create membership sites, but I wanted to mention another product designed just for WordPress users. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://dazzd.com/wishlistmember" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WishList Member</a> and it&#8217;s a WordPress plugin that enables you to turn any WordPress site into a full-blown membership site. And like any other WordPress plugin, you just upload the plugin files, activate, set some options, and within a few minutes, you have a membership site up and running.</p>
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<p>This plugin comes with a reasonable one-time single site price ($97 at the time of this writing), but doesn&#8217;t skimp on features.  Here are a few:</p>
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<li>Unlimited membership levels so you can charge different prices for different levels of content.</li>
<li>Create free, trial, or paid membership options (or any combination of the three).</li>
<li>Let your members be sequentially upgraded from one level to the next automatically. This gives them the ability to go from Module 1 to Module 2 to Module 3, etc. And of course, you control which level of member gets to see what content.</li>
<li>Control the length of time for memberships</li>
<li>Let members receive material via RSS feeds, but prevent non-members from receiving the feeds.</li>
<li>Give sneak peaks at the paid material by showing non-members a portion of the content, with a &#8220;more&#8221; link that leads to protected content that only members can view.</li>
<li>Shopping cart integration ability</li>
<li>Autoresponder integration</li>
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<p>One of the best &#8220;features&#8221; of the <a href="http://dazzd.com/wishlistmember" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WishList Member</a> plugin is the extensive support video library that you have access to. There are currently over 30 videos that describe exactly how to handle any particular feature.  For instance, if you&#8217;re interested knowing how to use WishList to do an email broadcast, there&#8217;s a video for that. Want to integrate with PayPal or Clickbank? There are video for that. Wondering how to move membership levels? Yep, there&#8217;s a video for that. </p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m not a big fan of sitting through videos. I&#8217;d rather quickly scan through written documentation.  <a href="http://dazzd.com/wishlistmember" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WishList Member</a> comes with that as well with screenshot-by-screenshot guides.</p>
<p>If you love WordPress and want to offer a membership site, <a href="http://dazzd.com/wishlistmember" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WishList Member</a> plugin is an excellent way to make it happen.</p>
<p>A well-known pro blogger and friend, Chris Garrett (Chris co-authored <a href="http://dazzd.com/probloggerbook" class="liexternal">ProBlogger Book &#8211; Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income</a> with Darren Rowse), discusses WishList in particular, and running membership sites in general, in a two-part audio interview. Definitely worth a listen if you&#8217;re considering using <a href="http://dazzd.com/wishlistmember" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WishList Member</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/chrisinterview1" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Chris Garrett Audio Interview Part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://dazzd.com/chrisinterview2" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Chris Garrett Audio Interview Part 2</a></p>
<p><i>Disclosure: Affiliate links may be used within this post for products I recommend. They in no way affect my judgement of said products, nor do they affect the price of the product.</i></p>
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		<title>Marketing: Drawing Attention To Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in an online world that&#8217;s vastly different than it was just a few years ago. Social media allows us to experience so much. The streams of our networks flow past us and rain information and links upon us so fast that we can&#8217;t keep up.
On the one hand, this means we a have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We live in an online world that&#8217;s vastly different than it was just a few years ago. Social media allows us to experience so much. The streams of our networks flow past us and rain information and links upon us so fast that we can&#8217;t keep up.</p>
<p>On the one hand, this means we a have greater ability to get our messages (and links) in front of people but on the other hand, it means our messages and links are quickly lost in the stream and are just as quickly and easily forgotten.</p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s always been important to stand out if you want to have your message heard, but it&#8217;s even more vital now than ever before. So what can we do in this &#8220;new age&#8221; of social media to stand out from the crowd?</p></blockquote>
<p>I think we need to combine a bit of our new online tech with a bit of old offline marketing to make an impression.  Let me tell you a little story to illustrate.</p>
<p>The last conference I attended was large and tech-oriented. The vendor showroom was huge and packed with both vendors and attendees. Of course, as is always the case, each vendor had some sort of promotional product that they were giving away for free &#8211; hoping to make a lasting impression.  Promo products have been used for years as a way to stand out from the crowd, and keep a company and its products within a prospect&#8217;s memory far into the future.  I imagine the promotional products business will be secure for a long, long time, as this kind of item will always be a popular way of keeping a brand in front of customers long after the customer disappear&#8217;s from the brand&#8217;s office or venue booth.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to my story. There I was, in a swarm of people, wondering which booth I should check out next. As I walked by one vendor&#8217;s booth, I saw these little shrinkwrapped &#8220;things&#8221; shaped like tiny computers, all lined up on the booth&#8217;s countertop. Curiosity got me.  I touched one of the little things (which was about the size of my hand). It felt soft and squishy inside, but I still didn&#8217;t know what it was. Even though the booth rep was speaking with someone else, my curiosity was peaked enough to keep me waiting until I could get the rep&#8217;s attention.  </p>
<blockquote><p>That ability to hold my attention for a few minutes while a stream of activity was all around me is equivalent to being able to hold someone&#8217;s attention online today.</p></blockquote>
<p>Eventually, the rep focused on me and I was able to ask what the little doodads were.  He told me they were t-shirts. I was flabbergasted. How could a shirt fit inside that little squishy computer-shaped shrink-wrapped package? Well, the fact is they do, once all the air is squished out, and when he told me I could have one for free, I was ecstatic.</p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t go making fun of me for getting excited about such a goofy thing. Swag is loved by conference attendees everywhere, and the better the swag, the happier the attendee. In my mind, a t-shirt is the best swag ever, and to get one bundled in a little compressed, shaped format is just extra-special. Yeah, I know how silly that sounds, but hey, it&#8217;s not just me.  Those little t-shirt gizmos were the hit of that conference, and I&#8217;ll never forget that particular company booth.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to have your website stand out in the crowd? Use the same technique to make a lasting impression as the online stream washes over your network. Use an old form of marketing such as free promo products, shrink-wrap it into a cool memorable shape, and then give them to key people within your online network.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you are about to launch a new site, or want to hype your site&#8217;s latest feature, the first thing you&#8217;re going to do is let your network know about it.  You&#8217;ll tweet it.  You&#8217;ll set up a Facebook page for it.  You&#8217;ll do all the smart social media things you&#8217;ve been advised to do. But I think you should take the extra step of giving out some promo items to the people whose attention matters the most.  Those people may not actually be the A-list bloggers in your network. A-listers get inundated with swag all the time, so you sending them a cool tee probably won&#8217;t impress them much.  But if you send those same tees to the B-list bloggers in your network, you&#8217;ll be remembered. And talked about. And linked to. (Probably).</p>
<p>Ok, so where do you get such things? One company that makes these little shrink-wrapped items is <a href="http://teecompressed.com/" class="liexternal">TeeCompressed.com</a>. You can get a sample compressed t-shirt sent to you if you want to see one for yourself before investing in this kind of promotion. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve taken some photos of the sample I got from them, so you can at least get an idea of what they are like.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/compressedteefront.jpg" alt="" title="compressed tee front" width="550" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1626" /><br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/compressedteeback.jpg" alt="" title="compressed tee back" width="550" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1627" /></p>
<p>As you can see, this sample tee is compressed into the shape of a guitar (which is one of many different stock shapes you can choose from). It&#8217;s a 100% cotton shirt, screen printed with your logo/design, and then shrink-wrapped with a paper insert on top and bottom (again with your design).</p>
<p><img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/wrinkledteefront.jpg" alt="" title="wrinkled tee front" width="550" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1628" /><br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/wrinkledteeback.jpg" alt="" title="wrinkled tee back" width="550" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1629" /></p>
<p>That&#8217;s what the tee looks like once it&#8217;s decompressed. It&#8217;s more wrinkled than a shar-pei puppy, but that&#8217;s ok. Just wash the shirt, and the wrinkles all come out.</p>
<p>Now obviously, as with any promo product order, there&#8217;s a minimum number you have to purchase (144 in this case). So, unless you&#8217;ve got a big budget, you aren&#8217;t going to be using this method to stand out on a regular basis. You&#8217;ll want to reserve this kind of promotion for those times when it&#8217;s really, really important to make a big splash in the social media stream. But when it matters most, the last thing you want to do is get lost in the social stream.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time to go back to some old-school marketing. Compressed tees just might be what will make your site stand out in the flowing stream.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress premium themes have come a long way in the last few years. They started out by offering just a few special options or a new type of design not commonly used in free themes. But over the years, they&#8217;ve blossomed into offering strikingly beautiful, creative, and ingenious designs.  Below are my favorite sites [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress premium themes have come a long way in the last few years. They started out by offering just a few special options or a new type of design not commonly used in free themes. But over the years, they&#8217;ve blossomed into offering strikingly beautiful, creative, and ingenious designs.  Below are my favorite sites to browse when I&#8217;m kicking back on a rainy day, looking for inspiration or ideas for my &#8220;next big idea&#8221;. The people behind the designs deserve awards. Many of them are incredible.</p>
<h3>Themeforest</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/themeforest" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Themeforest</a> offers a dizzying array of themes to choose from, and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen one I didn&#8217;t like. This one might just be my favorite of them all.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/themeforest.png" alt="" title="themeforest" width="374" height="308" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1692" /></p>
<h3>iThemes</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/ithemes" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">iThemes</a> has some very nice themes, with two that are different, in that they have the ability to be extremely flexible (Flexx and Builder).<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ithemes-300x219.png" alt="" title="ithemes" width="300" height="219" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1688" /></p>
<h3>Woo Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/woo" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Woo Themes</a> are a favorite amongst many WordPress aficionados because it offers monthly membership to get new themes each month. You can still opt to just buy a theme without membership, however, and they are always giving free themes with each purchase, so good deals abound here.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/woo-300x187.png" alt="" title="woo" width="300" height="187" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1694" /></p>
<h3>Kadom</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/kadomthemes" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Kadom Themes</a> hit my radar because I was trying out one of their plugins. They don&#8217;t have a lot of themes, but the ones they have are crisp and clean.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/kadom.png" alt="" title="kadom" width="366" height="169" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1689" /></p>
<h3>Templatic</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/templatic" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Templatic</a> changed its name recently but that didn&#8217;t distract from the quality of the themes. I like the wide array of &#8220;types&#8221; of themes that will work for many niches and business models.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/templatic-300x227.png" alt="" title="templatic" width="300" height="227" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1691" /></p>
<h3>Elegant Themes</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/elegantthemes" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Elegant Themes</a> are not only outstanding, but the yearly price for complete access to all themes is ridiculously awesome.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/elegant-300x90.png" alt="" title="elegant" width="300" height="90" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1686" /></p>
<h3>Solostream</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/solostream" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">SoloStream</a> has a more &#8220;classic&#8221; array of theme choices than most, but sometimes classic is just what someone is searching for.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/solostream-300x68.png" alt="" title="solostream" width="300" height="68" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1690" /></p>
<h3>WPRemix</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/wpremix" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">WPRemix</a> is really just one premium theme, but it comes bundled with over 50 layouts to choose from, so it&#8217;s an interesting and useful package.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wpremix-300x89.png" alt="" title="wpremix" width="300" height="89" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1695" /></p>
<h3>Headway</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/headway" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Headway</a> is less of a theme and more of a framework. This is for the do-it-yourself&#8217;er or designer who wants to create their own designs, but with an awesome place to start, and options designed to make the process easy.<br />
<img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/headway-300x197.png" alt="" title="headway" width="300" height="197" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1687" /></p>
<h3>Thesis</h3>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/thesis" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Thesis</a>, like Headway, is a framework, that lets you create whatever design you want, while still starting from a powerful base. It also is designed to make the creation process easy, with options built in.<br />
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<p>Those are my favorites. If you&#8217;re looking for a special theme, or like me, just like to browse for inspiration on rainy days, these are great places to find extreme themes and incredible inspiration.</p>
<p><i>Disclosure: Affiliate links may be used within this post for products I recommend. They in no way affect my judgement of said products, nor do they affect the price of the product.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s ebusiness tips from &#8217;round the web center around the theme of creating one&#8217;s own success.  Whether that&#8217;s through education, karma, or following proven models, the end result is self-created success.
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Successful Entrepreneurs Surf the Internet
Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s ebusiness tips from &#8217;round the web center around the theme of creating one&#8217;s own success.  Whether that&#8217;s through education, karma, or following proven models, the end result is self-created success.</p>
<h3>Self-Educate</h3>
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<p><a href="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2010/01/successful-entrepreneurs-surf-internet.html" class="liexternal">Successful Entrepreneurs Surf the Internet</a></p>
<p><i>Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in traditional learning vehicles, like schools and textbooks. The Internet and its information tsunami have changed everything – it’s the problem with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate.</i></p>
<p>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<b>Follow</b> <a href="http://twitter.com/StartupPro" class="liexternal">Martin Zwilling</a></p>
<h3>Leadership or Luck or Karma</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/leadersluck.png" alt="" title="leadersluck" width="570" height="100" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2010/01/10/a-leaders-guide-to-making-luck-or-you-never-know-when-instant-karmas-gonna-get-you/" class="liexternal">A Leader’s Guide to Making Luck (or, You Never Know When Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You)</a></p>
<p><i>It&#8217;s funny &#8211; most &#8220;karma creators&#8221; I know often chalk up their resulting successes to luck &#8211; but these folks are out there creating their own luck, by their kind, generous, noble, courteous, respectful, and thoughtful actions. The more of those actions you take, the greater your chances for those &#8220;knock you off your feet&#8221; moments that can change your life, lead to greater success, or just make you feel good all over. And as a leader (and as a person for that matter), who wouldn&#8217;t want to &#8220;make&#8221; that kind of  luck?</i></p>
<p>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<b>Follow</b> <a href="http://twitter.com/starbucker" class="liexternal">Terry Starbucker</a></p>
<h3>AIDA</h3>
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<p><a href="How to Create Successful Product Websites that People Love" class="liinternal">How to Create Successful Product Websites that People Love</a></p>
<p><i>Follow the AIDA model. Get their Attention first with your landing page. The first image they see. Hold their Interest and lead them through your site so they don’t wander off and click away. Make them Desire to know more by teasing with your best bits. Get them to take Action by asking for the sale/share and making it easy for them to proceed.</i></p>
<p>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<b>Follow</b> <a href="http://twitter.com/doshdosh" class="liexternal">DoshDosh (Maki)</a></p>
<p><i>As always, if you’re looking for customized, personalized help to start and grow your own ebusiness, I’m available for hire as your <a href="http://www.ebuzzcoach.com/">eBusiness Coach and Consultant</a>.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting your blog listed in directories is one of those standard tasks that all bloggers should do in order to gain links and traffic to their blogs. Directories are easy to find and easy to submit to, so there&#8217;s no reason not to take advantage of listing your blog in many of them.  Not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting your blog listed in directories is one of those standard tasks that all bloggers should do in order to gain links and traffic to their blogs. Directories are easy to find and easy to submit to, so there&#8217;s no reason not to take advantage of listing your blog in many of them.  Not all directories have the same value, however. Some provide value to the blogger beyond the standard URL, Title, and Description. I was recently made aware of one such directory and wanted to share it with you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogirific.com/" class="liexternal">Blogirific Blog Directory</a> has a stated mission that differs from most.</p>
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A huge part of blogging is engaging with your readers/visitors. We at Blogirific.com want to be a facilitator in this. We aren&#8217;t interested in creating our own community, we want our visitors to engage with you, the blogger. Besides, once a community like Twitter, Squidoo or a site like BUMPzee.com gets too big, spammers tend to move in&#8230;and boy oh boy do they ever move in! Spammers won&#8217;t be a problem here at Blogirific as we have decided we want people to engage with you and other people on your blog(s) rather than here. Therefore, we have closed commenting, registering and other things that may keep traffic here and not on your blog.</p>
<p>To make sure Blogirific only lists great blogs, we intend to only &#8220;let in&#8221; original blogs. Not everyone will get in. If your blog gets accepted into Blogirific.com, you will be part of an exclusive club.
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<p>This goal of sending traffic and conversation back to your blog, rather than trying to keep it on their site is the first thing that gives Blogirific extra value. But it doesn&#8217;t end there.</p>
<p>Your profile page goes far beyond the URL/Title/Description of most directories.  Your page can include links to your social network profile pages, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Frienfeed, etc. </p>
<p>In addition, you can list 4 125&#215;125 banner ads to affiliate products &#8211; using YOUR affiliate code &#8211; and display Adsense ads, again using your Adsense ID. </p>
<p>In effect, your profile page is designed to engage visitors directly with YOU, and give you Adsense and affiliate revenue on top of that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had some conversations with Rick, one of the owners of Blogirific, and I can tell you that he&#8217;s a really nice guy who truly wants to help bloggers.  So instead of basing his revenue model on hoarding traffic so he can earn from the traffic, he prefers to turn the model around. Instead he charges a ridiculously low submission fee (how does lifetime inclusion for less than $5 sound?). In return, Blogirific works hard to direct the traffic and traffic revenue back to you! Wow. I love that revenue model!</p>
<p>Below is a screenshot of my profile page, but you can also just <a href="http://www.blogirific.com/blog/dazzlin-donna-1.html" class="liexternal">go see it for yourself</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/myblogirificpage.png" alt="" title="my blogirific page" width="550" height="703" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1643" /></p>
<p>Blogirific&#8217;s mission of directing traffic to you and making it, in effect, all about YOU rather than them, is one that impresses me more than I can describe. It&#8217;s not often I get so impressed by something that I take the time to really dig into it. Who has that kind of time these days, right? But this one was special enough to do just that. I spent time really digging into the site, and came away thinking that this was something I just had to tell you about. I hope you tell others about it as well. We need sites like this who are eager to give back to us, so let&#8217;s support them when we find them.</p>
<p>One other thing: This is also a great way to find other bloggers within and related to your niche. Interacting with these bloggers goes a long, long way in creating mutual and beneficial partnerships. So after you submit your site, be sure to spend time (I&#8217;d say at least once a week) looking for bloggers and discussions that you can interact and converse with. Each time you make the effort, the value to you adds up. Just sayin&#8217;. <img src='http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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You&#8217;ve taken the plunge, become a blogger, and you are sharing your knowledge.  In return, you are earning money from various sources such as Adsense, sponsored ads, and affiliate programs.  At some point, you get an email encouraging you to become a member of some [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>You&#8217;ve taken the plunge, become a blogger, and you are sharing your knowledge.  In return, you are earning money from various sources such as Adsense, sponsored ads, and affiliate programs.  At some point, you get an email encouraging you to become a member of some site (for a price), with the promise of getting exclusive content in return.  You stop to wonder&#8230;should I be offering premium membership to my visitors?</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer is&#8230;maybe.</p>
<p>Creating a membership site, or a membership area of your existing site, is certainly one way to monetize your work.  It can, in fact, be extremely lucrative.  Let&#8217;s look at a couple of possible scenarios.</p>
<ul>
<li>Members pay a low monthly fee of $10/month.  You have 200 members.  You make $2000/month.</li>
<li>Members pay a fairly high fee of $100/month.  You have 50 members.  You make $5000/month.</li>
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<p>Sounds good, doesn&#8217;t it?  So, wait &#8230; what exactly is a membership site again?  Essentially, a membership site is when people pay for exclusive or premium content that they can access in a password protected area on your site, usually on a monthly recurring basis (but not necessarily). Only members are allowed access to this content.  The content you offer is up to you.  It can be information-based (such as articles and ebooks) or service-based (such as tools, software, etc.).  Members may receive new, ongoing content on a regular basis as long as they continue to subscribe, or they may sign up for a fixed term that has a set ending date. Membership sites can take various forms, but the premise is generally similar &#8211; exclusive access to premium content for a recurring fee.</p>
<p>Of course, the catch is that you have to provide enough premium, quality content, month after month to keep members coming back for more.  That isn&#8217;t easy.  You can of course, make it a time-limited set of materials.  For example, you could run it for only 3 months, but then re-run that same 3-month material over and over again, for new members.  Old members drop out after their 3 months is up, but new members will theoretically replace them.  This would limit the amount of premium content you have to produce, and you could just recycle the content to new members every so often.</p>
<p>There are other ways you can manage a membership site as well.  For example, you could offer some content for free to registered members (who trade you their email address for your content), and then upsell them to the extra-special premium content later.</p>
<p>So what do you need to produce a successful membership site?  Well, it really boils down to 3 essential things:</p>
<ol>
<li>Premium content that people feel is worth paying for</li>
<li>Software technology to handle the technical aspects, including payments, logins, etc.</li>
<li>Members</li>
</ol>
<p>Only you know if you can produce premium content or not.  I&#8217;ll assume you can (or you can outsource the work).  The software to manage the membership site is readily available and can be purchased at various price points.  The last part is a little tougher &#8230; marketing the site so that you consistently obtain and retain members.  The unknown blogger will likely have a more difficult time obtaining members than a well-known blogger will.  You&#8217;ll need to factor in the time it will take to attract members to the site.  Later, we&#8217;ll discuss some ways to make that happen more quickly, but you may find that you already have access to a large number of potential members &#8211; those who subscribe to your RSS feed or newsletter.</p>
<p>If you want to create your own membership site, I&#8217;d suggest <a href="http://dazzd.com/amemberpro" class="liexternal">aMember Pro</a>, as it is the &#8220;big daddy&#8221; of membership scripts, and has pretty much every feature imaginable, plus a few kitchen sinks thrown in. <img src='http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Of course, all those features comes with a slightly steep price.</p>
<blockquote><p>If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, I highly recommend waiting until next week before making a decision, because I&#8217;ll be posting about a product that is designed just for you, and the price is considerably more affordable.</p></blockquote>
<p><i>Disclosure: Affiliate links may be used within this post for products I recommend. They in no way affect my judgement of said products, nor do they affect the price of the product.</i></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post on the topic of conversion optimization. Increasing conversions can significantly impact profits, which is why I recently released my Q&#038;A Affiliate Formula. So, when Kevin inquired about writing a guest post on the topic, I happily accepted, knowing how relevant it would be. We&#8217;ll be talking more about conversion [...]]]></description>
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<p>Every marketer that has a website has learned about bringing visitors to their site through SEO. He knows that a proper SEO campaign takes a lot of time and patience, but in the end, he&#8217;s rewarded with great rankings. Conversion optimization is also a patient task and is another never-ending process. But through constant testing, you&#8217;ll be able to dramatically improve your conversion rate.</p>
<p>If you offer a service of some sort this will more easily apply to you, but many of these techniques can be applied across the board no matter what kind of niche you are in. Conversion rate doesn&#8217;t only apply to selling a product or generating leads from a website. It can be applied to anything that you want a visitor to do when they get to your website/blog.</p>
<h3>Perceived Authority and Trust</h3>
<p>No one will use a service from someone they don&#8217;t trust. Building trust is crucial in getting a customer to complete a transaction. I&#8217;ve found (and many agree) that including customer testimonials, press mentions, secure website certificates, a physical address, and a picture, as well as maintaining a personal tone within your web content are all instant solidifiers in capturing the trust of an impatient web visitor. In order to complete the trust picture, you should make sure that you are keeping the search results clean with <a href="http://www.onlinerepmanagement.com" class="liexternal">online reputation management</a>.</p>
<h3>Speed of Service</h3>
<p>A potential customer doesn&#8217;t like wasting a lot of time, so don&#8217;t give them junk they don&#8217;t want or care about on a landing page. For example, when searching for [surety bonds], people want to get in and out as fast as possible so we keep a clean layout and short, concise content that gets to the point. If you run a fitness site, you may want to have a lengthy article that gets the reader emotional before deciding to buy your service/product. It all depends on your niche, so you&#8217;ll have to test to see which method works best. Either way, make sure to show your visitors what you want at the top of the site as you only have a few seconds to grab their attention to start them down the conversion process.</p>
<p>If you offer a service, be sure to have a fast follow-up. Through our bonding site and other experiences I&#8217;ve had, I&#8217;ve found that the more quickly we follow up with a web site contact, the more likely they are to turn into a completed transaction or customer. It&#8217;s important to immediately contact users whether through a live customer agent or even a simple email system to let them know that you received their info and will act on it shortly.</p>
<h3>Testing, Testing, Testing</h3>
<p>A major aspect of conversion rate optimization is testing. You need to find what works best and what just doesn&#8217;t make the cut. An easy way to do this is to use Google&#8217;s <a href="http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer" class="liexternal">website optimizer</a>. This allows you to send half of your traffic to one version of a page and the other half to a different version. Not sure if &#8216;<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=military+housing" class="liexternal">Military Housing</a>&#8216; converts better than &#8216;<a href="http://www.militaryhomes.com" class="liexternal">Military Homes</a>&#8216;? This will let you know. Then you can test it against a different phrase and keep the one that works the best. After repeating the test for a while, you will eventually find the phrase that always gives the best conversion.</p>
<p>Test form layouts, test different pictures, test everything. This is the biggest advice I would give people. You may not realize it, but a different picture or even a different background color can increase your conversion rate. With the proper dedication and a little time, you can turn visitors into customers.</p>
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<p>This guest post was written by Kevin Kaiser of <a href="http://www.suretybonds.com" class="liexternal">Surety Bond Co.</a>, a surety bonding agency.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;ve pulled together some of my own tips I&#8217;ve given &#8217;round the web that focus on gaining more exposure via search engines and social networks.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, I&#8217;ve pulled together some of my own tips I&#8217;ve given &#8217;round the web that focus on gaining more exposure via search engines and social networks.</p>
<h3>SEO 101</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.seo-scoop.com/2008/10/14/5-goals-search-optimized-page-seo-101/" class="liexternal">The 5 Goals Of A Search Optimized Page – SEO 101</a></p>
<p><i>The most common question I see on SEO forums, primarily from SEO newbies, is something along the lines of &#8220;How do I get my site to rank well?&#8221; You have 5 goals when optimizing any of your site’s web pages. Your goals are to: Help search engines find the page, index the page, understand the page, evaluate the page and rank the page. We cannot control the search engine algorithms, so we must do what we can to help those algorithms find, index, understand, and evaluate our pages. If we do that well, we stand a much better chance of helping search engines properly rank our pages.</i></p>
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<h3>Long-Term Content</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/making-money-online/site-promotion/site-traffic-strategies/create-at-least-one-resource-collection/" class="liinternal">Create At Least One Resource Collection</a></p>
<p><i>Even one highly successful post can consistently bring you a substantial amount of traffic. The key is to make sure you have at least one of those, and the best way I&#8217;ve found is to work hard at creating at least one resource collection. What is a resource collection? It is a collection of &#8220;things&#8221;, related to your niche, that others want. For example, let&#8217;s say your niche is horses. Your visitors are horse-lovers. What collection of things would a horse lover be interested in? A series of high-quality pictures of horses? A collection of videos of a particular race horse? The &#8220;family trees&#8221; of each of the Kentucky Derby winners from the last 20 years?</i></p>
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<h3>Exposure Expenses</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.wildfiremarketinggroup.com/thought-leader-thursday-donna-fontenot/" class="liexternal">Thought Leader Thursday – Donna Fontenot, DazzlinDonna.com</a></p>
<p><i>Sometimes, spending money is the only way to get real quality, but it should be spent only when necessary. When you do throw cash around, try to only use it on a product or service that has been recommended by someone you trust. Finally, after you spend the money, check the return on your investment. If it was worth it, and can be repeated, do it again and again &#8211; as long as it remains profitable. If it was a waste, drop it quickly and don&#8217;t throw more money down the drain. Count that as a mistake and a lesson learned.</i></p>
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<h3>Influence Buzz</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/exhale-creativity-inhale-buzz.html" class="liexternal">Exhale Creativity: Inhale Buzz</a></p>
<p><i>Two types of people will be involved in most creative buzz campaigns – the performers and the audience. In some cases, the performers are all bundled into one person (you). In most cases, the performers will be the buzz starters and influencers; usually bloggers. The audience consists of the people who will market your product or service for you by talking about it, sharing it, linking to it, and promoting it. Start with a focus on your audience. If you know who they are (as a group), you will find it easier to locate the performers and influencers that they connect with and listen to. Which bloggers have the most influence over your audience?</i></p>
<p><i>One note: Don&#8217;t concentrate solely on the top influencers. While it&#8217;s great to be able to snag a top blogger as a performer in your campaign, it can be difficult to compete for the attention of most of them. Any contact you have with them may go unnoticed. It&#8217;s often easier and more productive to recruit a larger number of second-tier influencers to participate in your buzz campaign than it is to attract the attention of the top-tier bloggers in your niche.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you are aware, I make my living online. A large portion of that income comes from sites I own which promote affiliate products that I believe are of value. Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen what works and what doesn&#8217;t when promoting affiliate products. In addition, I&#8217;ve paid attention when successful affiliate marketers (and non-affiliate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you are aware, I make my living online. A large portion of that income comes from sites I own which promote affiliate products that I believe are of value. Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen what works and what doesn&#8217;t when promoting affiliate products. In addition, I&#8217;ve paid attention when successful affiliate marketers (and non-affiliate marketers) shared their secrets.  On top of that, I&#8217;ve been coaching clients for the last couple of years, helping them bring their ideas to life on the web. My learning, my experience, and my teaching led me to realize that there was something missing from the product lineups I&#8217;ve come across.  I decided to fill that gap.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mybox.png" class="liimagelink"><img src="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mybox-150x150.png" alt="" title="q and a affiliate formula" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1597" /></a>I&#8217;ve put together the <a href="http://qaformula.com" class="liexternal">Q&amp;A Affiliate Formula</a>. The product consists of not just an ebook that describes the formula, but also a valid XHTML/CSS static website template (and a WordPress theme as well).  This way, you aren&#8217;t merely reading a formula, but have a template to use that makes it extremely easy to follow.  Speaking of easy&#8230;some people might look at it and say, &#8220;Wow, this is simple. Maybe too simple to pay for?&#8221; But of course, I disagree. <img src='http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   I believe the hard work I put into making it so simple is a large part of it&#8217;s actual value. And since I&#8217;m not charging a lot for it (just $27), I don&#8217;t feel bad about making it a paid product at all.</p>
<p>The gist of this product is a formula designed to increase conversion rates for people who are promoting affiliate products within their niche, combined with a template designed to use that formula. If you aren&#8217;t satisfied with the size of your monthly affiliate checks, the Q&amp;A Affiliate Formula was created for you.</p>
<p>If you want to get more details, just head on over to the <a href="http://qaformula.com" class="liexternal">Q&amp;A Affiliate Formula site</a>. You can also become an affiliate of the Q&amp;A Affiliate Formula from there as well.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Donna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate Datafeeds: An Introduction presented a basic overview of affiliate datafeeds, and how they can be useful in generating additional income for your ebusiness. That post listed one of the most well-known tools for processing datafeeds for static sites, but this post focuses on using a tool that lets you leverage many people&#8217;s favorite site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dazzlindonna.com/blog/making-money-online/affiliate-sales-making-money-online/affiliate-datafeeds-an-introduction/" class="liinternal">Affiliate Datafeeds: An Introduction</a> presented a basic overview of affiliate datafeeds, and how they can be useful in generating additional income for your ebusiness. That post listed one of the most well-known tools for processing datafeeds for static sites, but this post focuses on using a tool that lets you leverage many people&#8217;s favorite site tool, WordPress. &#8220;Everyone&#8221; uses WordPress, so being able to make use of datafeeds within WordPress is outstanding. There are actually several possible tools you could use, but the best that I&#8217;m aware of is <a href="http://dazzd.com/datafeedr" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Datafeedr</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://dazzd.com/datafeedr" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Datafeedr</a> lets you build an affilate store by selecting products from nearly 6,000 merchants. You define the product categories you&#8217;re interested in, and fill those categories with relevant products. You aren&#8217;t limited to using just one datafeed from one merchant. Instead, you can sign up with many merchants, from many different affiliate networks, and meld all their products together into one awesome, unified store.</p>
<p>There are other tools that make this multiple-merchant/multiple-network store possible, but Datafeedr goes a few steps further in making this a well-rounded system.</p>
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<li><a href="http://dazzd.com/datafeedr" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Datafeedr</a> integrates with WordPress, so your store will match your blog&#8217;s theme.</li>
<li>You don&#8217;t need to be a programmer, or hire one, to make use of datafeeds.</li>
<li>It supports many affiliate networks including CJ, Pepperjam, Regnow, Linkshare, Shareasale, Clickbank, and many more.</li>
<li>You can easily embed products right into your blog posts, in addition to having a dedicated section for your store.  This way, even when users aren&#8217;t viewing your store, they can still be introduced to the products within your blog posts.</li>
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<blockquote><p>One of the most interesting features is the Drip functionality, in which the system can automatically post products to your blog, as posts &#8211; and you control how often, and in what manner. This is really powerful, and can be great for filling in gaps in your posting schedule. Imagine this scenario. You post regularly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. You take Fridays off, so you can consistently have a 4-Day Work Week, with long weekends every week. You would love to be able to fill in the gaps and let people know about some of the products that they may be interested in, so you schedule Datafeedr to create a blog post every Friday that details one of the products from your store.  Think about that for a minute. Cool, huh?</p></blockquote>
<p>There are lots more great features, but I&#8217;ll just highlight a few of my favorites for you.</p>
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<li>No datafeed access fees</li>
<li>Keep 100% of your commissions</li>
<li>Manage your affiliate IDs in one place</li>
<li>Pick the products you want; pick the merchants you want</li>
<li>Include up to 100,000 products per store</li>
<li>Unbranded &#8211; No &#8216;Powered by &#8230;&#8217; text or link</li>
<li>Search engine friendly URL&#8217;s</li>
<li>Dynamic/custom product and category meta descriptions</li>
<li>Complete customization of every page of your store</li>
<li><b>Edit category and product titles and descriptions</b> (great for ensuring unique content)</li>
<li>Every store page can have HTML embedded anywhere on the page (more unique content)</li>
<li>Create new pages based on keywords</li>
<li>Tag products with multiple keywords (ie. featured, holiday special, etc&#8230;)</li>
<li>and on and on and on&#8230;</li>
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<p>This is the kind of product that I used to wish I could build, but just didn&#8217;t have the time it would have taken to create such an amazingly robust, do-it-all-and-more type of system.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with <a href="http://dazzd.com/datafeedr" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Datafeedr</a> is that it isn&#8217;t free, and you know how much I love free. But at $27/month, it is far cheaper than I would have charged if I&#8217;d built the system. Most of the affiliate products I refer pay me more than $27 in commission for each one sold. So just one conversion per month is all it takes to cover the cost, and well&#8230;frankly&#8230;it would be hard to imagine converting less than one per month with all this power under the hood.</p>
<p>For me, this is the perfect combination for a great site. You &#8211; using a great tool like WordPress &#8211; create an interesting site in your specialty niche. You blog. You interact with users. You supply free information to those users. In addition, you use another great tool like <a href="http://dazzd.com/datafeedr" rel="nofollow" class="liexternal">Datafeedr</a> to supplement all the free information you supply your readers with products that you&#8217;ve chosen that&#8217;s perfectly relevant to your audience, and your niche. Each of those components is key to success. You. Your unique take on things. Your supply of information, free to your users. Your ability to monetize by referring relevant products to people interested in the topic. The tools to allow you to add those products, easily, but still gives you the flexibility to make each one unique, and not just some cookie-cutter thin affiliate site. I&#8217;m not sure I could come up with a better system if I programmed it myself. </p>
<p><i>Disclosure: Affiliate links may be used within this post for products I recommend. They in no way affect my judgement of said products, nor do they affect the price of the product.</i></p>
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