The Agile Marketer

Google Cash Detective 2 - A Review

2009-07-10T20:17:00.009-05:00

Every once in a while I receive an offer that I'm so sure is going to work that I jump in immediately to get in early and test the waters. Recently, I did just that with Chris Carpenter's 'Google Cash Detective 2'.I really should back up a bit before talking about my results. For some reason Google Adwords and I don't get along. I'm not sure why but for whatever reason I've spent way more than

You Know the Economy is Bad When...

2009-04-13T22:00:00.007-05:00

Yes, I am alive and kicking. These have been some of the strangest times for any profession including Internet Marketers. Back in January when I was finishing up Step 7 of building an affiliate site I took a step back. It wasn't because I didn't want to keep writing - but, that I started to notice something unusual about the lists of core marketers that I follow closely.When opening my personal

IM101 Step 7: Using Blogger to Build Your Affiliate Site

2009-01-11T11:36:00.007-06:00

I've talked about Blogger many times before on The Agile Marketer. It is, in my mind, the easiest way to get a site online that can generate revenue for you quickly. With built-in RSS feeds, Adsense and the ability to customize using Javascript or HTML additions you can actually build a fully functional website.However, your goal is not to get too wrapped up in site design - remember, the key

IM101 Step 6: Tuning Your Affiliate Product Keywords

2008-11-17T22:52:00.008-06:00

Finding the best keywords for your affiliate site is not too difficult but essential to learn how to make money online. The key is finding the right terms that will have the highest density on your page with hopefully the additional benefit of a low competition in the search engines. This also works for your own product or informational sites as well.Since I had picked a dieting product this is

Your Best Weapon to Make Money Online During These Times

2008-11-16T20:04:00.008-06:00

Writing. Ah, that word that makes me cringe in an avoidance panic! Yet, I know I have to get back to it again and again. Writing is something that I just can't seem to do naturally yet it is such an integral part of my online work.If you're new or haven't noticed, I haven't posted my next marketing steps in quite a while. Why? Well, there are many reasons but the main one was all about writing -

What is the Best Method to Make Some Money Online?

2008-10-20T21:50:00.008-05:00

Recently, I was scanning around Yahoo Answers and found this particular question. Since I spent the time answering it for that person I thought it might be useful for any of the Agile Marketer readers. Enjoy!---------------------------------This is a difficult question to answer because most of your answers are going to be pitches for products or services that claim to make you money.I'll say

IM101 Step 5: Focusing on Keywords

2008-09-03T20:37:00.004-05:00

One of the very first mistakes I made when building my first marketing site was not paying attention to the main keyword search terms I was trying to focus on. At that time I didn't understand how keyword density worked nor did I get the benefits of keyword rich backlinks to my site. So, to help you with this I'm going to take a very specific example from Clickbank and build out a low cost, ebook

IM101 Step 4: Finding Your First Product to Market

2008-08-19T20:48:00.008-05:00

I've spent some time in my earlier tutorials discussing how to make money online by pre-marketing your website. Now that you understand the basics let's get started building something easily and quickly.There's probably no easier way to start than to market an existing electronic product. I prefer starting with Clickbank only because the products are affiliate ready - that is, they are structured

IM101 Step 3: Ten Easy Power Methods to Promote Your Site Early

2008-06-18T22:06:00.003-05:00

Someone recently asked me why you would ever want to promote a site before finishing it? If you happened to read my article Get Listed in the Search Engines Early you would have some of that answer. However, would I promote a site before it is started? No, I wouldn't - but I would as soon as I had the very basic structure and content ready.One thing to remember is that promotion does not have to

IM101 Step 2: Establish Your Differentiating Email IDs

2008-06-11T21:07:00.006-05:00

Ok, it's summer and you've just setup your business to make money online as a Sole Proprietor or LLC called Howe Productions (since your name is Sarah Howe - note: that I just made this up - any relation is purely coincidental.). You're really excited to get started with the two ideas that you've finally decided are worth pursuing with a passion to earn some online income. You've created your

IM101 Step 1: Start Internet Marketing with EPIC Steps

2008-06-09T21:47:00.010-05:00

I've spent most of the spring working on providing you the free advice necessary to get started online. You'll be seeing a combination of blog entries, articles and emails (for those who have subscribed) that tell you exactly step by step what you need when promoting and monetizing your online business.My goal is not to provide all of the deep details of each step - you can learn these from any

Finally - Replace the Blog Title with Post Title in Blogger

2008-05-18T20:52:00.004-05:00

They finally did it! Blogger now has the 'pageName' tag that allows you to add the post title as the page title instead of the blog title: post title. This has been a bane with Blogger for quite a long time.Just add this code after the Blogger [head] tag (note: gt and lt signs are replaced with [])[b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/][b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl']

Internet Marketing 101: Business Before Web

2008-04-27T15:47:00.007-05:00

I wanted to start this essay on the positive benefits of defining your business first before building any online sites, blogs or special projects. (Note: this article is primarily focused of those living in the US - but, you may find some benefits in other countries as well).What many people tend to forget is that there is a significant tax incentive in this country if you define your online work

Passions to Profits - New Free Ebook

2008-03-08T13:49:00.007-06:00

Just wanted to let you know I just finished up my new free ebook called:Passions to Profits: Using Your Own Interests and Skills to Make Money OnlineThis ebook is focused primarily at newbies who are looking for ways to generate ideas to make money online. I think most people struggle with this issue of where to start.What was most interesting about writing this ebook was the free tools I was

Internet Marketing 101: Website Hosting

2008-02-26T21:40:00.008-06:00

This is a first in a series of Internet Marketing entries that, I hope, help you with your online businesses to make better choices. I plan to write more of these over time to eventually end up in an internet marketing how-to section of this site.Ok class, here it is up front - I've got to tell you that I hate website hosting and hosting centers. Frankly it has been the bain of my online

Top 10 Mistakes of Internet Marketing

2008-02-24T16:57:00.007-06:00

Many of us have tried to learn how to make money online using all kinds of inputs: ebooks, forums, videos, audios, trial and error, etc. If you're like me you find yourself constantly second guessing or just being frustrated when you see an Internet Marketing guru use a new bag of tricks to make yet another five million dollars in days.Recently I polled a list of internet marketers on what they

Are You Ready to Make Money Online in 2008?

2008-01-20T23:10:00.000-06:00

You were probably wondering what happen to me over the last month. As with the usual holiday craziness, part of my problem was dealing with the death of my father two months ago. Trying to keep the family going, manage my business dealings, (lose weight, ha!), and all of the other tasks were really quite daunting.However, over the last two weeks I made my New Year's resolutions to get my

Use the 80-20 Rule to Make Money Online

2007-12-13T20:55:00.000-06:00

I don't know how many of you have worked in a Fortune 50 company before. But, if you have you know how much large companies focus on squeezing the greatest benefit from every dollar spent.This type of value can come in many ways - reduced expenses, more sales, faster delivery, etc. Any way you look at it, large corporations understand the need to keep the financial statement friendly to their

Top Internet Sites by Time Spent Online

2007-12-02T20:48:00.000-06:00

Recently, I stumbled onto a page by a site analytics firm that measures how long users spend on a site rather than pure hits. They wanted to understand which sites generate long sessions with users. When you look at their results you see some pretty interesting patterns - all which revolve around content.Before you look at this list take a moment to think of the sites where you spend the most

Tracking Heat Maps

2007-11-27T21:33:00.000-06:00

As you probably noted in my last entries, my focus lately has been on high volume keyword phrases. The more I have worked with this concept the more I want to research it. As with any site optimizing its performance should always be on your checklist. Part of optimizing my high volume sites to make money online was to take a look at how people were navigating around them. What were they seeing

The Big Leap - Waiting for the Improbable Event

2007-10-17T16:30:00.000-05:00

Sometimes just building your online business is not enough to make the next leap. Can you be prepared for improbable events to make money online? This is a question I asked myself after reading a recent book (which I won't name right now until I am done).I think that many of us start building online businesses the way you would build any regular business - by starting out slowly and growing it

Tuning Your SEO For the Mythical Google Sandbox

2007-09-11T21:12:00.000-05:00

Time to clean out your online garage this fall? If you're like me you haven't spent the time to go back and clean up old site pages, links and broken, worn out HTML. What a surprise it was when I went back to some of my old posts on this site and other sites only to find a batch of bad links that had either expired or moved. Once I noticed that, I then started thinking about re-examining my

The Online Money Making Secret You Shouldn't Know - Part 3

2007-09-02T22:14:00.001-05:00

After getting back from a long vacation in the desert Southwest I was startled to find that my high volume search keyword site had shown some significant growth in the last 2 months (if you haven't read Part 1 you can find it here, or Part 2 which can be found here).If you remember I mentioned that having a site devoted to a keyword phrase that has extremely high monthly search volume can be a

The Online Money Making Secret You Shouldn't Know - Part 2

2007-08-12T16:26:00.000-05:00

So, continuing from yesterday (if you haven't read Part 1 you can find it here) I mentioned that having a site devoted to a keyword phrase that has extremely high monthly search volume can be a great way to start your online marketing strategy. If you can grab only a slight percentage of that volume you can see some quick income - maybe not the millions you read about all the time, but, at least

The Online Money Making Secret You Shouldn't Know - Part 1

2007-08-11T17:35:00.000-05:00

When I scan internet marketing forums from time to time I always see a post from someone new to online work lamenting that they have created a fantastic new site with some early promotion but have yet to see a single penny of Adsense or affiliate revenue. I see the cries like "I've spent all of this time learning, building and promoting but I'm not making any money online! Help!"Those of us who