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Easy Affiliate Marketing Howto

by macewan on May 3, 2008

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Learning Howto Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re thinking about the benefits of working from home. You want to set your own hours, work at your own pace, take time off when needed, and enjoy being your own boss. It’s an attractive thought, is it not?

How about setting up your own web-based business? Have you checked into it? Bet it seemed like a great big tech-based hassle. Web design, product selection… You have to learn how to advertise and sell AND ship the products — it’s got to be a big pain to maintain a web-based home business, right?

Not if you consider affiliate marketing. It’s a home-based business opportunity you can maintain and manage.

The website you will need can be easily constructed via the many site building programs which walk you through building your site from the very beginning. Then you will have the support you need to bring you up to speed when it comes to formatting links and adding other information to your site.

Once you build a functional website, you find the companies who will pay you to link to them. It’s not as hard as it sounds. They’re out there. You’ve heard of Amazon, right? Most major websites have affiliate programs and you can get paid by linking to them. Once you join, it’s just a quick bit of work to create the link and then you’re on the way to making money online.


But if you really want to cash in, you don’t want a website consisting of just a page with a list of links on it. This may earn you a buck or two, but when most web surfers stumble upon these kinds of pages after a Google search, they tend to get frustrated and leave. The best route for a successful affiliate marketing venture is to provide interesting web content on your site that relates to the company to which you are an affiliate.

But wait! I’m not a writer, you say. While content may be king on the internet, there are many companies who will provide the text you need to succeed. Interesting articles are available at a very reasonable price.

And because of that content, your website will be found on Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and other internet searches. You will weave links throughout your information and those links will give you a real cash flow.

Affiliate marketing? Is it for you? While there is risk with every business venture, perhaps you really were meant to work for yourself, from home…

Consider the idea of combining a cool website design with quality content, offering a mix of interesting links leading to affiliate companies. Give it a try. It might be just the job you’ve been waiting for all these years.

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Overwhelmed

by macewan on March 4, 2008

Today I find myself 5 domains short of 100. Yup, that’s right 90freaking5 domains. The last 5 were won at auction - my first endeavor in the fine art of finger crossing and wishful thinking. Luckily the price was right or the sun spots love me. All this excitement has let to a self imposed acquisition moratorium through March which hopefully will allow time to complete a few of the projects I’m working on each day. Honestly, I really am too skinny to be stretched this thinly.

I was telling breezie of forumfinder.net this afternoon about PredictAd code being added to the posties.us project she heads up. Looks like membership is waaay up this week closing in at 60 posties total. By the way, if you need a project manager Breezie should top your list. This is a purpose driven forum for posties by posties. With less than $30 in 3 weeks this community is showing 21,806 page views. Not too shabby. My mystery buddy bombmaster2 joined shortly after the sites inception followed by JaneyBell of Toddler Reality Show and JaneyBell.net. Her next project is the kickass CarolinaHockey.tv site!

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Website traffic update for macewan.org

by macewan on February 12, 2008

Yes, I’m staring at the clock ticking down to 12am. This is way past my usual bedtime, but I just got an unusual offer. One that really can’t be ignored. OK, back to the macewan.org traffic update. Below you’ll find a graphic demonstating the upward trend over the last month or so. And while I do not rely on this site to generate my online income it’s contribution is certainly welcomed none the less. Keep in mind there isn’t an advertising campaign running that’s responsible for this good fortune. So we’ll have to place blame on the likes of the star shaped brownie stairing at me. The one sitting on the growing list, currently over 85, of sites I’m managing at the time.

macewan.org website traffic graphic for Feb. 12, 2008

So bare with me through the next few days as I unfold several additions to the family of online properties joining macewan media. From colorful insights into Microsoft secret thoughts, FTC Chairwoman odd celebration, Google’s unfair attack on Izea members to Ubuntu Linux tutorials and videos (plug Ubuntube.net). Seriously, check out these videos on UbunTube. Microsoft’s Vista user interafce would best be discribed as pathetic in comparison. We’ve seen not only their one window trick at a fraction of the hardware requirements you find the other worldly app interaction seen by Sun’s Java Looking Glass - oh yeah, minus the resource intense Java. Be sure to check out BlogsPageRank.com for a no nonsense Page Rank update on your site.

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Can you make money blogging?

by macewan on December 13, 2007

Folks love reading how much money certain Pro Bloggers are making each month. Take John Chow for example his JohnChow.com has been monetized since September of 2006. The following month, October, he reported $352.94 earned. Jump forward a couple months to see November 2006 earning at $2,139.93. Twelve months have passed since that report and John Chow is reporting November 2007 income from his blog at $27,420.83. That is not a misprint. Twenty seven thousand four hundred twenty dollars and eighty three cents.

This boys and girls is one hell of an inspiration to those of us that have decided to monetize our blogs. The first month I made the decision to ‘monetize’ I brought in something in the neighborhood of $650 for July 2007 and two months later I earned $2,800 for the month of September 2007. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I also work full-time during the day so these numbers represent my efforts in the evenings with zero real knowledge of what the hell I was doing.

My goal was to see if it was possible and I showed everyone most importantly to myself that yes it was possible. OK, let’s move forward. On December 1st the announcement was made that the 90 day count down to me going pro had started. However, there are plenty of monthly income reports out there showing that money to be earned by monetizing your blog. My 90 day count down is slightly different from others in that I’m involved in seriously intense professional monetization training. My earnings will not be broadcast. My blathering posting has noticeably slowed during this training period. I will not be able to share everything taught but I can direct you to folks that provide training. So we see it is possible to make money blogging. But blogging is not the only way. On Feb. 16th 2008 I turn four oh. Join me on my journey to “retiring at 40“.

GAME ON!

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How macewan monetizes with BANS

by macewan on December 8, 2007

I know folks are wondering how exactly macewan makes money online. Well, during the 90 day countdown to going pro I’ll share some of the methods used to generate income. Some methods can not be shared due to contractual obligations, but some can be. I’m fairly hesitant to share too much information because this could be viewed as bragging. It is not bragging. It is shock on my part mixed with excitement. Last hour I made $170. This does not include advertising on this or other sites. You can tell I’m not some slick marketing guy and I do not consider myself to be terribly smart. These are methods used to create wealth. This is one.

While there may be several methods enabling the implementation of auto-generating stores I choose BANS for 14 of my first stores. And that boys and girls is one of the methods available to create revenue flow. Hit on something that works and WORKIT! If you know a geek buy him this gift. It’s less than $100 for the software and it can be used on as many sites as you can dream up.

If possible through technical know how with time permitting scale your projects to multiply the income. One store brings in $12 a day? Well what is $12 times the 14 current stores up and running? Um, just under $170 a day. Every day of the year. Wash, rinse repeat.

When you here “eBay” and “money” in the same sentence your probably think of becoming an eBay seller.

You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin.

There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.

This “other way” opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only
possible but also super easy. This tool is called “Build A Niche Store“.

Now if you don’t know – an affiliate program enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer.

You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a read about the eBay.com affiliate program here.

What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.

Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.

You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funneling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.

Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…

If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.

At this point you might be thinking - well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay’s top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right – 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!

Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.

The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called “Build A Niche Store” and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay.

Here are a couple of examples, one targeting Race Cars and the other Golf Equipment:

Race Car eBay Affiliate Website

Golf eBay Affiliate Website

As you can see, these are professional looking websites that contain all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.

These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice.

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.

It really is a brilliant concept and I’ve been hearing great things about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime access to when you purchase the product.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.

Think about how many niches eBay caters to!

How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!

This product gets my full recommendation – check it out today…

Click Here To Read More About Build A Niche Store

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How To Avoid Spam With Akismet

by macewan on December 6, 2007

This Tutorial is Part of Atomic Blogging ( A Step By Step Guide to Blogging )

Akismet

What you see above are the number of Spam messages I get so far on my blog! It’s HUGE! Arent they ignoring? To avoid and prevent all this spam you must use Akismet - A Free Plugin to avoid spam for your blog.

Before I start, Akismet is a free open source spam program online to help fight spam for wordpress owners.

Just follow the following steps to get started to prevent Spam on your blog.
[click to continue...]

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Going Pro as in MacEwan Diversified Media Holdings

by macewan on December 2, 2007

December 1st begins the official count down to going pro. Numbers don’t lie. One year ago Text-Link-Ads offer $50 to place 4 words on my blog. My first impression was that of humor. How cute that 4 words equals $50 dollars. So it began I published their 4 words and they gave me $50. Bitten by the bug.Fast forward to the end of June 2007 to my three month experiment. The first month of the Three Month Experiment I didn’t take it too seriously. Work and health stresses kept me focused away until the end of the month showed $650 earned. The second month of the Three Month Experiment I didn’t even start until midway through the month still I totaled $850 for August. Effort appeared to equal payoff.ppp-earnings.png September was a different story. I started the third month of the Three Month Experiment with a mind set to maximize my goal. The effort payed off with triple the previous months earnings coming in at $2,800. A full $2,500 coming from one source alone. The decision was then made to monetize with more effort and share how you can do the same.

The majority of my earnings during the Three Month Experiment came from PayPerPost, an Izea company, but this is only during my initial switch to warrior status. Seriously though, putting all your eggs in one basket is like gambling. Better to spend the time and spread the revenue streams across differing content offerings. Currently I am in the staging time preparing and learning. This is a no nonsense put up or shut up even with real consequences. Just as I gave myself three months to determine if it were possible to make a sustained $2,000 a month ($2,800 was what it came in at) I am working on a three month count down to March 1st. By that time all 25 sites should be in full swing.

Go to lesson one > How macewan monetizes with BANS

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