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What’s Keeping You From Making More Money Online?

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I got an email from Missy who owns G34media, a small network of 4 blogs and she asks:

Hi—Andrew:

I found your blog through a post on “How to Make Money Online” over at ABW.

This post caught my attention, as im suppose to be working right now, and instead im at your blog procrastinating.

I would say i have a —fear of success— not failure. It is the classic “middle class syndrome”.

My modus operandi is that i tend to take on too much, right now im managing 4 blogs. Plus i get paid to write on another.

Sometimes i want to chuck some of the blogs, and just concentrate on one, but then i feel like im giving away future income.

What thoughts have you on my blog network?Should i concentrate on one or two blogs and sell the others, or just keep them, and write when i can.

Would love feedback from you.

Missy.

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I’m not sure if Missy expected that it’d become a full-fledged post, but I think many internet marketers are in a similar situation.

Here’s my take:

Procrastination is something that happens if we don’t have a clear goal/outcome in mind, and may not have a game plan in hand.

If you don’t have visibility of what you are going to achieve (like getting into your car and not having a destination in mind), it’ll be natural that you might wander around aimlessly (eg. spend endless hours in forums, reading blogs, filing a twitter every 5 mins) – yes, you’re right, you are a digital slacker.

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Just think back for a moment about why you got into internet marketing?

To spend more time with the family? To generate multiple time what you’re earning now? To achieve financial freedom?

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$4,995 Prize In The Affiliate Version Of The Fast and the Furious

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One of the little-known events at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas next week is that there’ll be a competition with a first prize worth $4,995 being given out. I am pretty surprised that as of the last update, there’s only 4 (yes, FOUR) participants in the running for this prize.

If a 20% (1 in 5) chance of winning a $5,000 prize (and an opportunity to contribute to a worthwhile cause) doesn’t excite you, I’m not sure what will…

Enter the Great Affiliate Road Rally, where you get to race against other Affiliate Summit West attendees for a chance to win a booth at the Affiliate Summit East tradeshow/seminar Aug 10-12 in Boston, MA.

Yes, the prize is transferable, and I’ve got word from Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins that a second and a third prize might be added too.

It’s a “bring your own car” (BYOC) competition, so you can pick up a remote controlled car at Target, Wal Mart or order it from an online retailers like Amazon or a RC specialist.

The event will be held indoors, so only electric cars will be allowed and it’ll be conducted in the same room as the keynote address (seating capacity of about 1,000…!), so you can expect a pretty big room.

To separate this from being a pure drag race, Shawn says he will fiendishly set up obstacles along the race route, so it’s not just a matter of getting a F1 car or a Nissan Skyline and hitting the throttle as hard as you can.

I’ve noticed that Affiliate Summit founders Missy Ward and Shawn Collins have gone all out to raise funds for a selected charity at every event and this Affiliate Summit is no different.

The beneficiary is the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. Great Affiliate Road Rally participants can make a minimum donation of $100 at the Affiliate Summit link to Starlight to secure your entry.

I have my pit team already putting one of my cars through its paces…

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Pit mechanics Bianca Wee putting the car through its final paces

So my team and I will Continue reading →

Friday Podcast: A Wide Open Market For Software Affiliates – Revenuewire’s Geordie Carswell

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revenuewire geordie carswellPromoting software as an affiliate marketer can be very lucrative, as Revenuewire CEO Geordie Carswell (right) explained during our Friday Podcast discussion.

With some affiliates racking up between 800 and 1,000 sales a day and with payouts of about $25 per license, that adds up to about close to a cool $1 million in gross commissions each month.

And the good news is that the software market still has a lot of room for growth.

During our discussion, Geordie went into detail about:

  • How to evaluate software products to promote
  • Create an effective marketing campaign that will maximize your profits
  • Promoting digital products using PPC (pay per click traffic) vs SEO (search engine optimization)
  • PPC tactics that the affiliate big dogs use that you may not be aware of yet
  • Comparing the Google Search network vs the Content network

Geordie is one of the most savvy PPC marketers I have come across and it was great to get the PPC tips from him and a wealth of information about getting started as a software promoting affiliate.

Check out the Friday podcast below:

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Note: Revenuewire will hold it’s official launch at Affiliate Summit West in Vegas next week. Geordie and Revenuewire team members will be at the booth in the tradeshow hall.

Also check out:

–> Revenuewire

–> The Revenuewire PPC Blog

Dealing With Internet Marketing “Failure”

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I’ve discovered that one of the biggest obstacles and causes of procrastination, especially when it comes to new and experienced internet marketers starting a new project is fear.

What type of fear?

Besides your every day “I don’t know how to do the technical aspect” (solution: go hire a programmer), or “I don’t have money” (solution: find a partner who will put in the funding, while you put in the sweat equity, or do a cash advance/take a payday loan) , the biggest fear is the fear of failure.

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I think this goes beyond internet marketing and into the realm of entrepreneurship.

As a business owner, you need to realize that you are responsible for your businesses success or failure.

If you continue to see the cup as “half empty” rather than “half full”, or better yet, as a glass that will be filled with water soon, your mindset will influence how confident you are, and the actions you take.

If you want to look at a picture of confidence, go read my buddy Amit Mehta’s SuperAffiliateMindset blog.

One of the secrets to success I got access to during my days as a business newspaper report is Continue reading →

Friday Podcast: Social Networks Part 2 – Facebook Marketing – Tips And Strategies

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In this next installment of the Friday Podcast, Jason Bailey AKA Chickenhole discusses marketing strategies on the Facebook social network.

Among our discussion topics:

  • How to get your marketing efforts started on Facebook
  • How to effectively use Facebook Social Ads
  • Facebook Social Ads marketing and pricing strategies
  • Using Facebook’s ‘Walled Garden’ architecture to your advantage
  • The future of Facebook and search engines

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, to find out more, listen to the podcast below.

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***The best part has to be to monster 45-minute final segment of the interview which I’ll be releasing on Monday.

Stay tuned.

Friday Podcast: Application Development Tips From Mark Wielgus – 45n5.com

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mark wielgusMark Wielgus, or just “Mark” from 45n5.com (right) is one of those marketers whom you sit up and take notice of.

I found his site when he first launched his eBay-Amazon-Youtube mashup script, which lets you build an affiliate site easily. Mark has already done the API (application programming interface) work for you, so you can skip around the techie aspects and get round to the business of generating affiliate commissions.

He followed that up with his 19pages.com application, which lets you build a niche site easily, and the best thing about it doesn’t require a MySQL connection, so you can transport it from one webhosting account to another easily. If you’re into site development/site flipping, it can be a handy tool to add value to a site (and increase it’s monetization and asking price too).

He’s since gone on to launch his Top100 “make money online” blog rankings (he developed the code) and it’s generated a fair amount of buzz in the internet marketing blogosphere.

So naturally I had to have him on the Friday Podcast to pick his brains about developing software applications to boost your internet marketing efforts and to directly monetize.

We talked about the building blocks of application development, as well as monetizing your application once it’s good to go.

You can hear our thorough discussion (weighing in at more than an hour long) and hear about his latest project ShowYourAdHere.com in the latest edition of the Friday Podcast accessible below:

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Incidentially, Mark is also Blog Captain for the upcoming Affiliate Summit and you can hear about the blog room facilities too.