For a while I’ve let them sit around and do nothing ~ but then I realized I have to maximize the work I’ve already done. There’s gotta be a way to make money from these underperforming sites.

And there is!!

Start building a list!!

It doesn’t matter what your site is about ~ whether it’s baby related, recipe related ~ or even chainsaw sharpener related you can create a newsletter or some sort of autoresponder series for it.

Why bother with a list for niche sites?

When you set up a way for people to sign up to your list you create an instant raise for yourself. It is generally known that it takes at least 7 exposures to something before people will buy. If you create a way for people to hear from YOU those 7 times you are much more likely to make a sale.

It also provides you the opportunity to not only provide quality information to people, but to provide different products they may want or need. It’s much harder to do this from a website, but in a newsletter or autoresponder series you can easily weave in multiple related offers.

This is gonna take a lot of work!

Setting up an autoresponder doesn’t have to take a lot of work. You may have niche sites that are related to specific keywords, but they are all in the same “niche” you can get them all on the same list. Let’s say I have 3 niche sites that are based on specific keywords, but they are all related to babies I can use the same list for all three sites.

Personally I like to do newsletters for my autoresponder series. I can put a newsletter together quite quickly. I just have a few elements in each newsletter.

1. Personal words ~ something relevant from me ~ let’s people hear my “voice” and allows me to connect with the reader.

2. Sponsored ad ~ a text ad for an affiliate product (if your list gets really good you can sell this space too)

3. Featured article ~ an article (mine or someone else’s I have permission to use) related to the topic

4. Q & A ~ answer a question relevant to the niche which easily can lead to a recommendation for a product.

I set aside 1 day each week to work on my newsletters. Each one can take less than an hour and it works for me forever.

So it may be a little effort, but it’s an effort that is well worth doing. If you haven’t built your first list yet it can seem kind of overwhelming I know ~ here’s a free report that breaks list building down into understandable, actionable pieces. It’s what got me moving on the right track! Enjoy.

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How to Make Money from Those “Dud” Sites

Do you know why people offer free teleseminars?

It’s not out of the goodness of their hearts, that’s for sure!!Teleseminars can be a great tool to use to build your brand ~ become an expert on any given topic. They are also great for promoting a product you have, as well as building your list.

They are also a fantastic way to CREATE your first product.

It may seem scary to think about putting together a free teleseminar, but there are a ton of reasons you should, and tons of ways hosting a teleseminar can move you and your business to the next level.

I was looking around for information on how to jump into this arena, because I KNOW the value of them, and wanted to know the best way to go about setting it all up.

I happened to run across a special offer Bob the Teacher is running and wanted to share it with you as well, it’s what I’m going to be doing all day today ~ as soon as I finish this post!

Bob has an entire course on how to create teleseminars and use them to build your business. It’s called “Teleseminar Formula” It is 8 modules of information on every aspect of using teleseminars.

He is getting ready to launch a brand new version of this product and so for the next 48 hours he is giving away ~ YES ~ giving away access to his current program. I am taking advantage of it right now ~ and you should too!!

Here’s the link to get FREE access to Teleseminar Formula.

Here’s just SOME of what you can learn from Teleseminar Formula:

• Why teleseminars are the fastest, easiest way to product creation, affiliate profits, and stronger customer relationships

• 7 Ways To Use Teleseminars To Build Your List, Increase Your Profits, And Gain Momentum

• Teleseminar Tools And Resources (Both Free And Affordable)

• How To Record Your Teleseminar For Multiple Purposes

• How To Receive And Answer Questions During The Call

• Important Dos and Don’ts Of Live Teleseminars

• How To Handle What-If Scenarios Like A Pro

• How To Generate Immediate Response With Your Audience For Higher Profits

• How To Turn Your Teleseminar Into An Ebook
• How To Use Your Transcripts To Generate More Traffic
• How To Use Your Teleseminar To Deliver Content On Your Blog For Weeks
• How To Turn Your First Teleseminar Into A Profitable Series

You see what I mean ~ you can’t beat this. If you are thinking about using teleseminars in any way I highly suggest you take advantage of this offer for the next 48 hours.

If you love what he’s teaching, and what you’re learning you may decide to grab the next version of the training, but I’m sure you’ll be able to take what you learn here and run with it if you want!

If you do, please send me an invite to your first teleseminar ~ I might like to come!

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Using Teleseminars to Launch Your Business and Create Products

You can check out his articles at ezinearticles.com and if you want an easy way to write great articles I highly recommend you grab his article templates. He provides 26 article templates and all you have to do is plug in your information and go!

Anyway, I’ve been doing more work on my opt in pages and found this article recently and thought the points were so clear and easy to implement I wanted to share it with you.

List Building Mistake Number 3 - Failing to List the Benefits of Opting in on Your Opt-In Page
By Jeff Herring

When you are list building your opt-in page must have clear benefits listed for joining your list community. It has to pass the “who cares” test, because a person’s coming to this page and they’re considering trading their email address for something. So they’re thinking, “What’s in it for me?”

4 important questions you must answer

In all your marketing messages you want to meet these criteria, especially on something like this. You want to answer these four questions:

1. What is this and what is it about? - Are you being clear about what you are offering and clear about the benefits?

2. What’s in it for me? - People want to know what’s in it for them. They’re listening to, as you’ve heard me say before, radio station WIIFM - What’s In It For Me.

3. Do I trust this person? - How in the world can they decide if they trust somebody from looking at the opt-in page? Lots of different ways. Something as simple as on the bottom of mine where I have the copyright notice and contact information. That ups peoples’ trust.

4. Do I feel good about doing this? Is this a no-brainer?

So it’s: what is this about, what’s in it for me, do I trust this person, and do I feel good about doing this?

Those are taken care of many times in a list of benefits. What am I getting out of this? Why am I doing this? Maybe it’s just one of those benefits listed that tips the person over. That may be the thing that decides them to say, “Hey, I’m going to opt-in here.”

And now I would like to invite you to claim your FREE Instant Access to my List Building Instant Article Creation Template when you visit http://www.ListBuildingArticleTemplate.com

You’ll get get a “plug-n-play” Instant Article Creation Template - just plug in your info! And you’ll get a 13 minute instructional audio on how to create a list building article.

From Jeff Herring - The Article Marketing Guy and The Great Article Marketing Network.

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Easy Ways to Fix Your Opt In Page and Increase Your Opt in Rate

1. PLR. If you have plr for your niche sitting on your computer check it out. You don’t necessarily have to use the articles, but read the titles and get ideas for what you can write. If you don’t have plr on your computer go to a plr site and look at the titles of the articles. Choose one and write your own article.

2. Forums. One of my favorites, I peruse forums in my niche looking for an interesting question someone is asking or an interesting conversation and then I write my answer or my perspective on the discussion. This also works great at yahoo answers.

3. Google. If you have a general idea what you might want to write about Google it. See what Google gives you. You’ll see plenty of other posts about your topic you can get ideas, or create a list of great posts on the topic.

There you have it, 3 ways to break through blogger’s block and get your blog posts done.

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3 Ways to Beat Blogger’s Block in the Next 10 Minutes

I know some people have been a little upset about the recent changes at Squidoo. They are having a hard time figuring out exactly what to promote. So today I’m going to give you 5 niches you could easily promote on Squidoo, or even create small niche sites on for that matter,  to say thanks for being so awesome!!

I’ll give you the numbers and all that for why I picked it too. I hope by doing this regularly you will start to see the possibilities available to you! They are everywhere. You don’t need to dig into niches everyone else is already playing in!

If you choose to create a lens or do a little more digging in the niche and build a whole campaign I’d love to hear about it. So let’s get started.

Canon Powershot Battery Charger

Search volume: 27,100/month

Competition: Average front page PR = 1.5

Competition in Squidoo: 0

You can easily monetize a Squidoo lens via amazon or ebay on this topic. You could also use All Posters for your images which has an affiliate program as well.

Janome Serger ( A serger is a type of sewing machine ~ they run around 300 dollars each)

Search Volume: 6600

Google Competition: Average PR of first page: 2.6 (shooting for under 3)

Squidoo competition: 0 (other lenses about this in squidoo)

Best Wireless Keyboard (computers)

Search Volume: 9900

Google Competition: Average PR of First Page of search results: 2.1

Squidoo Competition: 2 other lenses

24″ Built-In Dishwasher (in stock at amazon retails from over $400 to $1000)

Search volume: 74,000 (PER MONTH) HELLLLOOO!!

Google Competition: Average PR of first page of SERPS: .7 (yes that’s POINT 7)

Squidoo competition: 0

Electric Burr Grinder (retail at amazon around $100)

Search volume: 14,800/month

Google Competition: Avg PR first page of SERPS: 1.6 (shooting for under 3)

Squidoo competition: 4 other lenses

So there you have 5 terrific niches you can get started with today!

If you love this stuff you might want to check out KeywordNicheFinders.com. We’ve done the research just like this, but taken it a step farther and provided content you can use for your sites as well as possible ways to monetize.   I highly recommend it if you are stuck for niche ideas.

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Well Researched Niche Ideas ~ Thank You Thursday!

Once you’ve bought a ton of products, spent a lot of money ~ you probably couldn’t afford, and you’re STILL not making any money online one of two things usually happens.

1. You quit.

2. You decide to create an internet marketing strategy that works.

If you’ve gotten to the point of possibility #2 this post is for you.

This post is a compilation of great posts from around the net. People I read and admire and people you can learn from. These posts will help you create not only a strategy to make money online, but a mindset to keep with it when things get tough. This mindset piece is the one people are most likely to blow off, but it’s the piece that will keep you going when things get tough. And things probably will get tough at some point. You will be faced with the desire to just throw in the towel and say forget it. It is the mindset and belief in yourself that will keep you in the game long enough to see success.

So let’s get right to it:

Success Factor #1:

Attitude ~ do you have a plan for your internet marketing career and will you be strong enough to follow it through?

* Here Craig Perrine talks about his own journey with both weight loss as well as making money online. For anyone who has ever tried to lose a few pounds the similarities between weight loss and internet marketing will be astounding.

http://craigperrine.com/are-you-really-following-the-internet-marketing-success-recipe/

* In this post Josh Spaulding talks about the success factor he finally found. Confidence. If someone as successful as Josh Spaulding is facing this kind of stuff there is something for everyone to learn there.

http://ez-onlinemoney.com/blog/internet-marketing/why-it-took-me-almost-3-years-to-really-succeed-online/

* I found this blog only recently, but I include it because Ian has hit the nail right on the head with this post. This one simple thing he talks about this is something that is completely within YOUR control and can change the level of your success in internet marketing exponentially.

http://karmicconsulting.net/crash-cash-creation-coaching-mini-morsels-of-marketing-magic/the-biggest-affiliate-marketing-secret-ever-steal-it-here/

Success Factor #2:

Getting started ~ Figuring out how to get started and within the budget you have available can be a really tough thing to do. But it can be done. Find a mentor ~ someone who you know, like and trust and follow them. Not only follow their blog, but follow their actions. Do what they do, follow their example. These posts will help you figure out how to get started.

* If you need to kick off your business for free there is no one better, hands down, that PotPieGirl to help you do it. She started with no money and has created an over 10K a month empire. It all started using a free little site called Squidoo. Here’s a great post on Squidoo resources.

http://www.potpiegirl.com/2009/02/great-squidoo-resources/

* Nicole Dean is a successful Internet marketer, as well as the affiliate manager for Jimmy Brown. She is a fantastic mentor and provides amazing podcasts from her blog. This podcast is with Danielle Miller. They talk about how to get focused in your business. It is well worth a listen.

http://nicoleonthenet.com/2009/online-success-danielle-miller/

* A huge issue for some people when they are beginning is finding a “niche” or something they want to build their business on. There are many different types of business you can do. You can create a business based on multiple niche sites, or you can create one big authority site. Either way you are going to need an idea, and content. This post shows you how to use plr to not only find content but niche ideas as well.

http://internetmarketingformommies.com/using-plr-to-find-a-niche-and-keywords/

Success Factor #3:

Getting Traffic ~ Traffic is the life blood of any internet marketer, whether you are recommending affiliate products or your own. If you can a get eyes on your page you can overcome a lot of other areas you might not be as strong in. However, if you have no traffic, you have no business, it’s a simple as that.

There are a million ways to get traffic, and you will learn about some of my favorite ways and some ways my favorite internet marketers are getting traffic to their sites in the following posts.

* In this post by Jimmy D. Brown you will find out how to create ezine articles that will have people not only reading your articles, and publishing them, but also clicking through and buying what you are offering.

http://www.jimmybrown.com/how-to-jumpstart-your-ezine-articles/

* This post is at the MaxBlogPress blog. This is a fine example of how it REALLY works in the real world. I grabbed some of their free plugins, which are awesome by the way, and from there I joined thier list, and now I look forward to all their emails. I found this post from an email they sent me, and as always the content was fantastic. They offer a free report on this post. It’s an interview with professional bloggers talking about how they get traffic. I’ve read a ton of these so called interviews, but I actually learned a TON from the sample they are offering for free. I also watched my email and as soon as the product went live I bought it.

You see how that worked? Besides perfectly? 1. They offered me something of great quality for free. 2. I joined their list becuase of the value offered. 3. They offered me more quality information via email. 4. They offered me an awesome free sample of an upcoming product. 5. I watched for the email to go buy the product and I did the day it launched.

That is a sales system that works!! Ok, that’s not what this whole post is about, but do grab the free report on how the pros get traffic, it’s chock full of ideas.

http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/214/bloggers-world-download

* This next one is one of my posts. I get so many questions about Twitter and if it really works, and whether it’s worth the time. I have to say it took me a while to get involved in social networking sites like Twitter, but I have to say I LOVE twitter now. I had to figure out exactly the best way to use twitter, to provide value to my followers and build trust. It also allows me to build a brand for myself, build on the know, like and trust factors, and now when I put out an affiliate link I have a lot of instant traffic.

Here’s the 7 questions beginners need to know the answers to, to make Twitter work for them.

http://www.affiliatemarketingwahm.com/7-questions-beginners-ask-about-making-twitter-work-for-them.html

* Viral marketing with video is one of the fastest and biggest ways to drive traffic to your site. This post outlines a fantastic plan of action to create a viral video campaign.

http://www.marketingbestpractices.com/Articles/viral-marketing.htm

When you are looking at starting your internet marketing business remember that it IS a business. It is something that will take time to learn and grow.

These 10 posts on the 3 success factors of internet marketing will hopefully help you get started on the right foot. They should also help you find some positive people in the industry that you can learn and grow with.

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3 Internet Marketing Success Factors

There’s a new product launching today called Micro Continuity ~ well it’s not actually new, it was launched once before and sold out in under 2 minutes. Amazing huh?

The product is done by one of my favorite internet marketers Russell Brunson. Russell has provided some excellent free videos. They explain everything about how micro continuity works. It’s a 51 minute video and well worth taking the time to watch.  Click here to watch Russells Free Video.

On top of that free video he has also had one of his successful students make a video about her process. She also created a 34 page blueprint of how she did it, every step of the way! You can watch Joy’s video and get her free report here.

Today is the big launch day for Micro Continuity. Whether you decide to buy it or not, Russell is giving away mp3 players with 6 hours of micro continuity content already pre loaded!! It’s going to be a great resource. You’ll have to get to the launch early to get one ~ Launch starts at 2pm EST. I’m going to be at least 15 minutes early to be there when it opens.

If you’ve ever wondered if YOU could create a membership site, let me assure you with the micro continuity system I think any beginner can create a membership site, with no fuss no muss. There’s no membership software, all you need is an autoresponder ~ so if you can write a blog post you can create a membership site with micro continuity.

Let me just say ~ with the free information Russell has provided thus far in the videos you have enough ground work to build it today ~ Wouldn’t it be cool to have your own site up and running and making money by Monday? It’s possible. Watch the videos and see.

And then go to the launch and get your FREE mp3 player filled with more information about building a micro continuity site.

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Does Micro Continuity Really Work for Beginners?

Yep, it’s time to start a blog. Here’s a quick video that will walk you through the steps of creating a blogger blog.

That video has covered the basics of creating, let’s talk about optimizing your blog and using it for links.

The video recommends that you make your blog specific to a campaign, however, for promoting squidoo lenses I actually like to create a general blog where I can simply post all of my new lenses instead of having to create a new blog for each campaign. Adding content over time allows your blog to gain a little authority which gives your links a little more authority as well.

I created a “how to” blog on blogger. Now no matter what the topic I can generally twist it into a “how to” something and write a post on my how to blog which leads them back to my lens for more information.

Go ahead and take a look at my how to blog.

Backlinks from Blogger

As you can see I have used keywords as the anchor text links to point people back to my lenses for the real information ~ these posts are just short snippets that will provide links back to my lens or “money page”.

You can also use the sidebar to create links back to your lenses or any site you have created on this topic.  You can see this in action on my how to blog in the sidebar under “how to sites I love”.

To create this area in your sidebar you can go to the customize link at the top of the page. It will open up an area where you can add “gadgets”.  You want to find the Link List gadget. There are a couple different link gadgets, you want the LINK LIST. This will allow you to put the url of the site you want to link to, as well as the keyword anchor text you want people to click on, the other linking gadgets will just give you a place for the url, you don’t want that. ?

Here’s the 4 basic steps:

1.    create blog either with keywords (if you’re doing one for each campaign) or a general topic (if you want to do one you can just keep adding to)

2.    Create short posts with a link back to your lens using keywords as the anchor text  of the link pointing to your lens.

3.    Add link list to create a “blogroll” in your sidebar pointing to your sites. This is another quality backlink to your site.

4.    if you’ve done one blog you can add to, make sure you come back and add short posts for each lens you finish ~ you can also add them each to the sidebar link list.

That’s it. 4 simple steps to create a blogger blog to use for building backlinks to your site.

You’re putting a lot of effort into writing articles, lenses and blog posts. Now you can make them even better by implementing the tips and strategies outlined in this report. They’ve made writing faster, easier and more fun for me.

If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment section ~ I’ll do my best to answer any questions you come up with.

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How to Promote Your Site with Blogger

It’s no secret that 95% of all bloggers out there make pennies
from affiliate marketing, while a select few who are privileged
enough to be in the “inner circle” make thousands of dollars
effortlessly.

They know how to properly manage, track, cloak and shorten their
affiliate link so that they can achieve most out of their
affiliate marketing.

By having stats in hand and with the ability to manage all of
their links from one central location, they get an unfair advantage
over every other bloggers out there.

That’s the kind of power the “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”
brings to you:

Here is what you can do using “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”:

1. Brand your blog domain while creating professional looking short
links.

For example you could create:

http://www.yourblog.com/go/CoolProduct
or
http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/CoolProduct
or
Whatever you like, the choice is yours.

It’s completely flexible and you can redirect them to any
affiliate link you want.

2. Manage all your affiliate links in one central place

You can group and manage all your affiliate links in one central
place. That means you’ll have a clear overview of which
affiliate program is doing good and which is not.

Also, if one affiliate program shuts down their door then you
can easily change the link with another affiliate program
anytime you like.

3. Track how many people are visiting your link and from where

From the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate back office you can see
exactly how many people have visited your link and also from
where they’re coming. No guess work for figuring out which of
your marketing effort is actually bringing you the result.

4. Cloak your link so nobody steals your commission

When you use affiliate link directly then there’s always a
possiblity that other can replace your affiliate information
with their own and earn commissions themselves instead of you.

By using this plugin, you can stop the commission thieves right
on and let no one steal your hard-earned commisions ever again.

And, I’ve saved the best part for the last.

5. The “Keyword to Ninja Link” feature

By using this plugin you can convert any keyword in your wordpres
blog to affiliate link which will passively earn you commission forever. The active
start to your passive blog commission begins here:

Grab Ninja Affiliate NOW!

The best time is now, so join now the “inner circle” of
5% select few smart bloggers who use “MaxBlogPress Ninja
Affiliate” to maximize their affiliate earning. You can just be
an average Joe blogger or a MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate blogger.
Stick to a wiser choice, and become a Ninja today!

Think wise!

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Cloak Your Links, Track Your Clicks and Be a Blogging Ninja!

Here’s the basics:

1. No Spam.

This is not different. You should be building quality lenses, with helpful information. Of course you can send people to affiliate products ~ when they add value to the reader.Here are Squidoo’s new Terms of Service in regard to spam.

2.  No more X rated lenses.

This may or may not affect you, but it’s new. Appears it was a pretty difficult decision for the Squidoo folks. If you have X rated lenses check this out so you know what to do with your content.

3. No Junk Topics.

This goes right along with what I’ve been saying about branching out and finding new and interesting niches.  Some of the “junk” topics included in Squidoo’s list are “lose belly fat”, “free movie downloads” “forex” “acai berry” “Hoodia”. Here’s the whole list of the topics they’ve put on notice and added to the “junk topics” list.

4. No overly promotional lenses.

This is the one I’m getting a lot of questions about. What about my affiliate lenses? What will happen now? Well, probably nothing. If you take a look at the new rules you will see it says overly promotional, not just promotional. If you’ve been building lenses the way I teach in Squidoo for Beginners, or the way One Week Marketing and LearnItStepbyStep teach, you should have no problems.

9 links to one place is more than enough in one lens ~ If you create a quality lens of 7 or 8 modules, that comes out to 1 link per module, and one link in your bio area. That is exactly what we teach, and should work out well for you.

Go back, check your lenses ~ count your links. If you’ve added links to the same product in every poll answer you may need to take some of those out.

You have plenty of time to go back and check your lenses and see if you need to fix them up. Here’s squidoo’s side of the story on promotional lenses, and how long you have to make the changes.

5. Don’t Steal Content.

This should be a no brainer, but sometimes, people think that because it’s online, they can just use it. This is NOT the case. You need permission or consent to use anything you find online from the original creator. There’s a serious crack down happening for plagerized content.

What should you do now?

The people who run Squidoo are pretty level headed people, they’re giving you some time to get your lenses in shape and in compliance with the new terms of service. These changes don’t go into effect until mid July. So you have over a month to get your lenses in order.

Here are 4 things you can do right now to make sure none of your lenses get locked.

If these changes make you feel like you just don’t want to work on Squidoo anymore, you can export your content and take it with you to somewhere else to use.

I have no idea why these changes would make you want to do that though. These changes will only make the site better, higher quality, and have more authority as being a quality place to get information.

I personally think these are all really great changes!

What do you think?

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Squidoo’s New Terms of Service ~ What Do They Mean For You?