One of the perks of being a member of the MyBlogLog Advisory Group was getting a schwag bag in the mail yesterday.
My daughter Bianca was pretty excited about it:
Opening the box revealed Continue reading
Internet bandwidth can be a scarce commodity in the midst of a product launch, so “hotlinking” or having someone post one of your images, audio or video from their website, blog or forum can reduce your total available Internet bandwidth. Here are a couple of fixes for this issue.
Solution 1: Write to them
You could locate an email address or look up their domain whois information and contact them directly to remove the link to the file on your webhost. If they’re linking to copyrighted content, you might get your legal department to send them the appropriate legal response.
This generally takes some time.
Solution 2: Remove/Delete the file
If you remove the file from your server, the file they’re linking to will show up as a broken link (generally a “404 Error – File Not Found”). This means you’ll Continue reading
A reader asks: “I am spending a couple of hours every day reading lots of websites, forums, blogs, and I am getting confused by all the information…how do you do it?
I’ve been at this for about 6 months and I’ve only earned about $86.73.
From the looks of things, I am gonna have to work 24-7 to make a decent living from this. What am I missing out on?
Here is a list of ebooks and blogs, forums and other sites I’ve been reading
[list of 50+ websites follows]
HELP!!!
-Angelo”
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My answer:
First off, I think you’re Continue reading
Internet Marketing like biotechnology, finance and engineering ranks as one of the most intellectual property-intensive industries to be in. With that in mind, shouldn’t you be striving to develop as much IP (intellectual property) as possible?
Newer marketers may know, but fail to incorporate the concept that information is the true currency of the Internet.
It could be something as simple as knowing the URL for an open source software, or something more complex like the techniques of breaking into elite Internet Marketing inner circles. If you don’t know where and what and how to do something that will help you achieve your goal, you will be severely limited in your marketing, and by extension your income generation ability.
As a newer marketer, your core focus areas should be:
Specifically Information Marketers should focus on:
A maxim I’ve heard recently is that “it’s never Continue reading
Intelligent, well-educated people typically have the biggest disadvantages when it comes to starting up online.
Among the most common reasons:
It’s this mental barrier/s which keep many from generating a decent income online.
Let’s look at a couple of the reasons.
“I don’t know enough“: There’s a state of mind referred to as “learned helplessness”.
You naturally will not know “everything” about debt consolidation or hair loss or cellphone ringtones starting out, but there’s nothing to stop you from doing something about it.
As an Internet entrepeneur, you simply cannot expect your business to be handed to you in an ebook or a business-in-a-box, not if you’re planning to create a long term, sustainable business.
There is some “brain grease” involved in all of this.
Squeezing a little time out of your day, maybe an hour before bed or when you wake, moves your business ahead by 30 to 60 hours a month, if you’re already holding down one or two jobs.
It feels that the “I don’t know” is code for “I don’t want to put in any effort and yet see my paypal account magically fill up”.
Maybe in an alternate dimension, but not this one.
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“I may not succeed“: That’s part of the “entrepreneur equation”.
You could fail, and there’s a great chance of that too.
On the other hand, there’s the opportunity to succeed spectacularly too.
A lot of it depends on your own effort.
For more information on this, refer to the point above.
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“I have no idea how to begin“: Although this sounds similar to “I don’t know enough” and might have a faint smattering of learned helplessness, knowing where to begin is a matter of being able to put the pieces together.
You might already know about list building, traffic generation, monetization, but unless you have a macro perspective of how the pieces fit together, you could be at a loss of “how to begin”.
The great thing about business is that Continue reading
Starting this week, I’m kicking off a series of answers to readers questions which will appear every Monday (hence…the “Monday Question”).
Here’s this weeks question: “I’m a new Internet Marketer, which Internet Marketing product do you suggest I start promoting as an affiliate”
My answer: You should pick the area in which you have the greatest affinity.
Note that the most successful Internet Marketers will brand themself in a specific manner, with one identity, for example, you might have:
You hardly come across someone who brands themself as a adsense/PPC/eBay/super affiliate/seo/product creator for a reason. You lose credibility because most will not believe you can master so many specializations just a couple of months into the industry.
You might have a few Continue reading