Outsourcing is rather the in-thing in the online marketing scene nowadays... If you are still new to this outsourcing term, it bascially means hiring someone else to do part of your daily online marketing chores, while you concentrate on what you do best... Photo Courtesy of Scott Ingram Photography For example, you can be good at creating Small Reports but in order to profit from your info-products, you need to promote and marketthem, therefore to maximize your time and efforts,you can outsource your marketing to other people or normally known as Virtual Assistants to help you in areas like:... Hire someone in your relative time zone... The cool thing is that if you re a night owl, you can find a time zone where that s someone else s work day... Grab a 50% discount on pay The great thing about Canada when I started there with Lisa (Marlon Sanders Handy Virtual Assistant) was I got a 50% discount due to the exchange rate... As long as you have a profitable sales process, don t be scared to hire someone part time... Let them grow in the position If you see potential, talent or abilities they aren t using, pay for them to get a little training and see if that talent will blossom... … View Post »

I would like to share with you an article from Marlon Sanders, which canhelp you to get agood reference to help you get your online business fundamentals sorted well and along with your daily online marketing activities like:... A lot of people get so caught up in researching this new method or exploring this or that new system, they lose sight of the fundamentals of this business... To help you identify your unique Sticking Point or points, I ve assembled a tidy little list for you... Here s a list of 16 Stick Points along with references to my different products where you can get more help if that s your Sticking point... How are you at creating screen capture videos and uploading them to video sites?... How are you at creating a report to offer in exchange for a name and email to get people on your list?... How are you at finding forums and blogs you can buy banner ads or text links on to offer your freebie ?... Can you open a PSD (Photoshop file) a designer gives you and change the text or make minor modifications?... … View Post »

Rob Benwell has just released his third version of Blogging To The Bank and are you thinking whether to get it?... If you are, this post can help you to make a better decision... Basically the gem of wisdom that thisthree versions are teaching you and me is how to set up a money making niche (of your choice) blog with a step-by-step blueprint with contents like: Blogging To The Bank Version 1.0 (included in the bonuses with version 3.0): The 7 Step Blueprint like:... Researching the selecting a market using ClickBank Creating your blogs using Google s very own Blogger Creating and placing banner and Google Adsense ads on your blogs Getting content by writing article yourself or for a small fee Blogging SEO tips by optimizing your targeted keywords for the MSN search Engine Flooding your blog with targeted traffic from Article Marketing, Press Releases, Forums, Comment Posting and Voodoo Blogging (a black hat method) Creatingyour bloggingnetwork by interlinking all your blogs... with a number of areas to test and track like your blog template, Google Adsense, linking, Banner Ads and Blog Copy... The 5 Blogging Commandments, which you can use and apply, if you want to make good money online as a Blogger Targeting your affiliate market in Google Search Engine Creating your very own Blog using WordPress and how to setup with the necessary configurations needed to make your blogging an ease Content is still part and parcel but with a new recommended software (what is it?... and Paid Reviews How To UseGuest Bloggers to your advantage Selling your blogs in a professional manner and on a regular basis How to get your blogs indexed in the big three search engines in 24 to 48 hours How to get thousands of free links back to your blog The very interesting Theme Sponsor trick (my personal favorite section, which I intend to try)... Many of the newer contents can be easily obtained from your personal trial and errors or you can have get it for free from subscribing to the blogs of other successful marketers... … View Post »

If you have not noticed, I have just changed the title of this book from Make Money Online With Affilicore to Blogging With Affilicore , added a Contact Me section and changed the content of the About Affilicore page... Reason being that, I am just half-way to the book, but it already gave me a lot of insights on the future directions of this blog... If you set it right in the first place, you will be able to blog better and you can be blogging your way to a six figure income... My posts do not actually help you to make money (yet) but rather its more to my personal insights to understand how other marketers are practicing their affiliate marketing and online marketing... Frankly speaking, my online income has not even reached a stage whereby I can proudly declare on the post like John Chow s... You can look through all your posts and understand from your readers point of view... The other way round is that, you can also change the content of your posts to suit the title of your blog... … View Post »

But rather, are you keeping yourself updated with all the latest releases of online marketing resources?... Amazingly as well, the original site is not even on the main page... Taking its place on the main list is the review sites from Blogger.com , Squidoo , Blogsome , WordPress , Hubpages and many more... The owners are definitely the happiest , which is a good thing as they have spent lots of efforts on creating programs to benefit marketers like you and me... The owners are definitely the happiest (I do not mean to repeat this statement), which is a bad thing as there are times whereby you do see products created with the same content you may find in other better product (which is cheaper)... But I know of a good solution to this issue, which is also very common, is that of email marketing - or promoting your affiliate products through emails to your mailing list... You can also build up a better relationship with your subscribers in the long run with email marketing... … View Post »

My last post: My Journey To Getting Affilicore Into The Ad Age Power 150 has actually taken me 1.5 days just to be able to post it online... The issue here is that, there are some words (which I do not know which are the words) contained within the post that WordPress is sensitive and deemed unfit to be posted... Therefore the auto-save mode is jammed up and preventing you from posting... I have to save my original copy and post into the visual editor paragraph by paragraph, wait for the auto-save mode or else there s some words within the paragraph that s too sensitive to WordPress which will prevent me from saving and posting!... If time equates to money, and with such issues affecting you, do you think your affiliate marketing business could be affected if you are running it in full force?... This case is still not resolved as yet as of for me even with some of the advice provided online... http://tamaspiros.co.uk/2007/11/28/wordpress-error-404-postphp-was-not-found-on-this-server/ (the solution provided is to create another .htaccess... file with additional code so as to override the security of WordPress) http://www.homewithandrew.com/index.php/wordpress-21-403-forbidden-error-aka-its-driving-me-mad-error/ (this guy is apparently having the same issue as me)... … View Post »

My last post: My Journey To Getting Affilicore Into The Ad Age Power 150 has actually taken me 1.5 days just to be able to post it online... The issue here is that, there are some words (which I do not know which are the words) contained within the post that WordPress is sensitive and deemed unfit to be posted... Therefore the auto-save mode is jammed up and preventing you from posting... I have to save my original copy and post into the visual editor paragraph by paragraph, wait for the auto-save mode or else there s some words within the paragraph that s too sensitive to WordPress which will prevent me from saving and posting!... If time equates to money, and with such issues affecting you, do you think your affiliate marketing business could be affected if you are running it in full force?... This case is still not resolved as yet as of for me even with some of the advice provided online... http://tamaspiros.co.uk/2007/11/28/wordpress-error-404-postphp-was-not-found-on-this-server/ (the solution provided is to create another .htaccess... file with additional code so as to override the security of WordPress) http://www.homewithandrew.com/index.php/wordpress-21-403-forbidden-error-aka-its-driving-me-mad-error/ (this guy is apparently having the same issue as me)... … View Post »

Better known as The Ad Age Power 150 and it s a ranking site for the top English-language media and marketing blogs in the world, created by a marketing executive and blogger, Todd Andrlik ... … View Post »

I attended a short inspirational talk by a entrepreneur running a successful business in the area of personal development, who is also beginning to make his mark in the online marketing arena... Simply by changing the way you present your information to others in any of your online materials to help them perceive that your products or services are always a solution in any adversity... A simple illustration could be like this, which is shared by this entrepreneur: If your area of business is selling an educational package of how to make money by becoming an investor in stocks and shares, and in your website, your email promotions and your education materials are just on:... Picking good stocks Know when the price of the stock is going down Know when to let go of the stock and then make a fortune... all in a short time frame But in reality, the actual current stock market trend is like this: Stock Market Is Going Down Do you think you, as a consumer, will have the confidence of setting aside money now to go for this educational package?... Since the stock market trend is going downhill, and people are losing confidence... Instead of promoting the principles of buying and selling stocks in a short term, he explains why he simply loves the declining market and why you and me should get into his courses soon to hitch a ride to making even more money in the long term... For those who are contemplating to join in the course now, are actually more eager to get in as soon as possible to learn how to seize the current market trend... … View Post »