this week's topics include »
- Fast-Track Affiliate Marketing BootCamp
- 5 Ways a Blog Can Help You Market Your Business
- Thought for the Day – Opportunity
Fast-Track Affiliate Marketing BootCamp
If you're facing the challenge of getting and keeping your online business on track, you might want to signup for James Martell's Affiliate Marketing Boot Camp.
You can find the details here...
Who is James Martell? He is a well-respected, successful affiliate marketer who knows a thing or two about making money with affiliate programs. He has been doing it since 1999.
In his popular training guide, Affiliate Marketers Handbook, James teaches you the same 8-step process he used to build his profitable online affiliate businesses. The 387-page manual, plus video tutorials, is the most comprehensive affiliate marketers course of its kind I've seen.
If you enjoy the hands-on, do-it-yourself approach to building an online business, you'll probably love this training program.
Learn more about the Affiliate Marketers Handbook...
As good as this guide is, some of us don't have the time to actually sit down and read it. Besides, you learn better by hands-on experience.
So James put together an online interactive fast-track boot camp.
The 8-week series walks you through the exact process you need to build quality affiliate websites that rank highly in the search engines and get the clicks that put money in your pockets.
Topics covered include…
- how to make money with affiliate programs
- how to develop and launch a profitable affiliate website
- how to optimize your site for the search engines
- how to select the most profitable keywords
- how to write interesting and compelling content for your site
- how to promote your affiliate sites
- and much, much more
There are eight evening sessions, all from the comfort of your own home. Each session covers the 8-steps from the Affiliate Marketers Handbook.
This boot camp is all about helping you get results. You will even have the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A period each week.
Everything you need to know to build a successful affiliate business will be covered in these sessions. Before it's over, you'll know all of the shortcuts to get you there faster.
Online classes begin September 7th.
You can get more information or signup here…
One more thing… if you are one of the next 10 registrants, there's a substantial discount for you.
5 Ways a Blog Can Help You Market Your Business
by Michael Murry
Want to advertise online without spending a fortune? Get a blog.
If you're an Internet marketer…
- a blog helps your site to rank higher in the search engines; and
- a blog expands your customer base.
Blogs are often called social marketing tools, because they let you interact with your readers via comments and permalinks (see the glossary below.)
What is a blog? Here are two examples…
Let''s look at five ways a blog helps you to market your business.
One: A blog helps your site to rank higher in the search engines.
In 2003, when Google bought Pyra Labs, the company which developed Blogger, the reaction was... Huh? At the time, blogs were seen by most as online journals, primarily maintained by the demented and teenage girls.
How times change. In 2006, companies small and large are using blogs to promote their businesses. This is because Google and the other search engines love blogs because of their constantly updated content.
Blog often, and you'll get more visitors and a good search engine ranking.
Two: A blog expands your customer base – you'll reach people you could reach in no other way.
A blog helps you to reach people you can reach in no other way because your frequent updates mean that you'll automatically get niche visitors – those people who have no clue about you or the product that you're selling, but who happened to type in a search engine query that mentioned words you used in a single post.
Those niche visitors can become buyers, and this means that you don't need to struggle to get top listings in any search engine. Write (or link to) quality content, and your visitors will find you.
Three: A blog helps your site to differentiate itself.
A blog is a form of stealth marketing. Therefore a blog doesn't need to be about the products you're selling. A blog can be about any topic that you're passionate about. Blog about your passion, and mention, in passing, the products you're selling. You can also link to them, but don't bother selling heavily — that's not what a blog is about.
Four: Like a diamond, a blog is forever.
Although the most visited blogs update often – some of them several times a day – that doesn't mean that you have post more often than you can fit into your schedule. Your permalinks (see glossary) mean that since your blog items are standalone pages, they're indexed by search engines in the same way that any HTML or other page is indexed. Your blog items/pages will continue to bring traffic even if you don't update very often.
Five: A blog attracts new opportunities.
A blog makes your business visible. Your stealth marketing efforts will attract the attention of people who may become joint venture partners, or who will have other opportunities for you.
The time and energy that you invest in your blog can bring results beyond your wildest expectations. Create a blog – it's your hardest-working, and most cost-effective online marketing option.
GLOSSARY
Blog = Web log
Permalink = permanent link, an URL for a single blog post
Comment = blogs have a comments section, where readers can interact with the blogger and others.
Thought for the day – Opportunity
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Until next time...
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