Learn Blogging & Affiliate Marketing with Rosalind Gardner
Do you want to make money from your writing? Did you know that writers are making tens of thousands of dollars using their writing skills online… and those figures are verifiable on certain sites? Hmmm… THAT got your interest, didn't it?
Every business needs writers, and finding writing jobs online became easier when job boards created exclusively for writers were created, BUT… [Read more…]
I've always believed that following your passion is the best way to succeed in business.
There's no doubt in my mind that being passionate about what I do is the primary reason my online business has been so successful for almost 15 years. That's why I always recommend my students follow their passion as opposed to chasing the money.
Chasing the money works some of the time, but it usually fizzles out quickly and you are back where you started — looking for another venture. Moreover, there's very little personal reward in simply chasing dollars. It's boring and tedious following a formula or spending your time on a topic that does not interest you in the least.
Most, if not all, of my most respected Internet Marketing colleagues (other experts in the field) have also follow their passion.
One glowing example is Chris Carpenter, whom you may remember best as author of “Google Cash“, a best-selling guide on how to make money using pay-per-click marketing.
Chris and I agree that working to live is considerably more fun and rewarding than living to work. Chris, a die-hard surfer, lives on a beach in Mexico and when not there, he travels the world in search of great surf. He also cares a lot about the people with whom he does business – he wants them to succeed.
It's in that vein that Chris has created a new course called the Profit from Your Passion BluePrint.
One of the first things you'll notice on the homepage of the membership site is the comment, “If you have any questions, comments or concerns – please contact me directly at __________”… with Chris' email address filling in the blank.
I can't think of any coach in the IM community who lets members contact them directly via email (OK, except for me, maybe. LOL)
The course consists of the following:
The course is a well-structured step-by-step-by-step guide. Modules also include PDF downloads that you can print out.
The only downside (for some) may be the $147 price tag. Too, you'll have to wait for Modules 3 and beyond to be released. However, if you follow the course correctly, you'll be learning and building your business during that time.
The Profit from Your Passion BluePrint officially opens October 2nd, 2012 at noon Eastern time.
Right now, there is a video on the page in which Chris explains the four real reasons why most people fail to make any real money on the Internet. Watch it… I have no doubt that you'll be able to relate, if you've been working to make money online for any length of time!
If you purchase Profit from Your Passion BluePrint through my link, I'll give you 30 days free access to my Affiliate Blogger PRO academy.
To be sure you are ordering through my link, check to see that [affiliate = webjv] shows up at the bottom of Clickbank's secure payment form when you are ordering.
After you order, send me your Clickbank receipt number for the Profit from Your Passion Blueprint along with your name and email address through our Contact Page, and I'll set you up.
Enjoy the course!
Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
One of the hardest things when launching a new membership site is getting your visitors to register, not to mention convincing them to take out their credit card and pay a monthly subscription.
The best tactic to building a successful membership website that will generate you stable income for long period of time is by turning your visitors into free members.
Yes, you read that right… FREE.
So how can you make money if you are giving away free subscriptions?
Well, free members have a much higher chance of becoming paid members in the future than non-members. It's really up to you.
Give your free members valuable content, show interest in them, discover what type of content they want and give them the same type of support you give your paid members.
In time, they become more and more engaged with your site, and eventually, a large percentage will upgrade to paid members.
More Free Members Now = More Paid Members in the Future = More Revenues and Steady Income from Your Membership Site!
It all sounds great, but how can you convert more visitors to free members?
My team and I developed a special registration form called “Wishlist Registration Widget”. What's unique about this form is that it can be displayed on your membership site's sidebar and make the registration process faster and easier.
Wishlist Registration Widget unique features:
Setting up the widget on your blog is super simple as well!
Why You Should Get Wishlist Registration Widget
We are having great success with Wishlist Registration Widget, and that's why we decided to give you the chance to also benefit from it and get the chance to increase your membership site's revenues.
So basically you should get Wishlist Registration Widget because it will make you more money.
Wishlist Registration Widget Special Price
Ros asked us to give her readers a special discount, so you have the chance to get Wishlist Registration Widget at an exclusive price.
Wishlist Registration Widget is being sold over the Internet at the full price of $47, but as we promised Ros, you will get 25% off and get Wishlist Registration Widget for only $35!
All you need to do is insert the coupon code “rosalind” at the link below and get Wishlist Registration Widget at the special price now!
But that's not all…
If you buy Wishlist Registration Widget by June 24 at 12AM, you will get another SPECIAL BONUS! Click here to reveal the special bonus.
Based in the U.K., Skimlinks is a technology service that helps affiliates monetize their blog content by converting normal product links from over 15,500 merchants across 27 affiliate networks (including Amazon) into Skimlinks affiliate links so you can earn a commission every time a purchase is made.
BTW, there are currently 308 merchants listed under the book & magazines category at Skimlinks, including:
What is interesting is that they list the average commission rate through Amazon.com at 8%.
The setup is super simple.
You just add the javascipt code above the
Moreover, Skimlinks only works on natural links, so you don't have to worry about the Skimlinks' code overwriting existing affiliate links.
Too, you can choose to let the links work on a site-wide basis, or on selected pages only — it's up to you.
In addition to their basic links, they offer Skimwords, which recognizes product references in editorial and user-generated content, and automatically turns these into shopping links that can generate commissions.
Basic affiliate commissions are 75% of what the merchant pays Skimlinks.
More than 700,000 publishers are currently using the service on their websites.
And the service is getting even better. Skimlinks announced today that it had acquired content monetization firm Atma Links and will merge the Atma Links technology with its own affiliate marketing platform to offer its publishers and partners the first real-time in-text product identification and price comparison service.
Watch the video below for an overview of the service, then signup for Skimlinks!
Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
If you've been looking for a way to cut down on the amount of money you spend and make your savings account grow, then this eBook is one you must read!Even if your paycheck is small and your expenses are high, this in-depth eBook will teach you how to save thousands of dollars per year.
In this economy, everyone feels like they don't have enough money, but way too many bills.  Just look at the headlines. Unemployment rates are skyrocketing, fuel prices are about to go up…  People are looking for ways to save the money.
The trouble is, though, there's not a lot of ready information online that tells you how to save. You can find a tip here, a tip there, and old strategies like the envelope system.  But if those worked, you wouldn't still be searching the Internet.
It's almost impossible to find one resource that will give someone who wants to cut their spending and save money a detailed plan to do so.  For example, how can you save money and still eat out? Can you save money on health insurance — if so, how?   How can you afford a new car and still be able to stick money in the bank?
Well, there's good news.  Financial expert Brandon Lamb has written an eBook that answers all your questions and gives you a detailed plan to save money in every aspect of your life.
From car payments, to utilities, to groceries, and even down to health insurance and medical care, Brandon gives easy to use strategies that will have you putting more money in the bank than you ever thought possible.
The best part of this book is that it doesn't tell you to quit spending all together. Instead, it gives wise strategies and methods that you can use to spend more wisely.
This book has become a Bible for so many people, and it's not surprising. Other savings strategies you may have tried in the past never worked because the ideas were good in theory, but not in the long term.  Brandon's book will guide you through the next twenty years of your life and make you wonder why you hadn't been able to save money before.
If you want to save money and cut how much money you spend, Brandon's book “Slash Your Spending” is a must-read.
Thinking about setting up a membership site with aMember? Their software has support for numerous payment systems including:
Amember PRO also allows you to manage your users manually – without any 3rd party payment system.
It also supports integration with more than 50 third-party content management services and autoresponder services such as:
aMember is a good membership software solution if you plan to sell digital subscriptions and downloadable products such as ebooks.
If you've purchased digital products, you've no doubt seen the aMember software in use by other marketers. The interface looks like that shown in the screenshot below (trade out the lilac for a light grey).
I am NOT a geek, yet I found the installation easy. Product setup was a wee bit trickier, but still entirely manageable with a little bit of help from their technical support which offered timely responses.
The good news is that installation of the software is now free with the PRO version.
Go on, check out the demo and download the free trial of Amember PRO.
Cheers,
P.S. They also offer a 30-day no-hassle moneyback guarantee, so you have nothing to lose if you buy it and find it doesn't perfectly suit your needs.
The following article and video were submitted by Affiliate Blogger PRO member, Mark Washburn, who was keen to share what is undoubtedly the best solution to date for complete and easy WordPress backups (including blog, membership software, forum and more…) and WordPress blog cloning.
Read Mark's review of the WPTwin plugin and watch the video below to see how simple it is to use.
In theory, restoring a site from a back up shouldn't be too hard. You save the database and some primary folders that contain the theme and plugins, install WordPress again,and the rest should be easy…unless something goes wrong… and a few weeks ago, something went wrong for me.
I decided to move a fairly small WordPress site from one host to another. I followed the normal routine and then found, when I launched the site at the new location, things got really screwed up.
Somewhere along the way a forum lost all of it's content, many of the plugins didn't activate properly, and my theme got screwed up…so basically I found myself having to set the site up all over again. I was really disappointed.
Nevertheless, I kept thinking about the fact that so many other things are incredibly easy with WordPress, but backups continue to be kind of “primitive“. There are a handful of backup plugins that you can install and use but some haven't been updated in quite awhile and others end up being helpful but they aren't a complete solution.
A few days later I shared my frustration with a friend of mine and he told me about a new program called WPTwin that is designed to easily and quickly clone or replicate an entire WordPress site from top to bottom. I have to admit, he piqued my interest, but I didn't buy the software right away.
A few days later however, I went back into that WordPress site I had tried to relocate. I wasn't even close to getting everything back to it's original form. It was going to take at least a few hours, if not days of work and it made me sick to even think about all of that.
And then I remembered something one of my online mentors once told me. He said:
“You have to spend the majority of your time being focused and working on things that matter most, and if you're trying to make money online, you better be focused on generating great content, finding great affiliate offers or products, and building good incoming links for traffic…everything else is minor and usually a distraction!”
And he's right. You don't make a dime endlessly tweaking (i.e. fighting with code) to bring a theme to perfection, or while you're constantly researching that next great article that you can't seem to get written, or…doing the mundane work of backing up and hopefully restoring a website should the need arise.
With that said, backing up your work is critical, so you might say I finally saw the light of common sense, and bought WPTwin. If it had the potential to save me days of unnecessary work and helped me avoid future frustrations, it was worth my time to test it out!
After getting the program, I read through the instructions and found the replication process to be very simple.The program contains two php files. The first one is uploaded into the root folder of the WordPress site that you want to clone. Once uploaded, you simply access the url of the php file page and click one button. Usually within about 30 seconds (large sites may take longer and the system has been tested on sites as large as 4 gigs), you'll have a replication file that's available for downloading to your computer.
Using the example of moving a website from one host to another, you would simply set up a new WordPress install on the new hosting account. Upload the replication file along with another small php file which contains the deployment code into the root folder of the WordPress install. Then by simply visiting the url of this php file, entering the email that you provided when purchasing WPTwin, and clicking a final button to activate the process, within another 30 seconds or less you'll have a fully functioning, identical clone to your original site!
After testing the process on one of my sites, I continued to back up and test the deployment of a handful of my other WordPress based sites. Several of these included unique plugins such as the Wishlist Member membership plugin and the Simple Press forum plugin. And in every case the process worked flawlessly!
All content, comments, videos, pictures, settings, login information, and plugins (and their settings) are duplicated precisely. The only thing you'll likely want to change is in the general settings folder of WordPress where you can change the title of the new site.
The instructions that come with WPTwin are clear and easy to understand but you'll probably only need to read through them once. It also comes with video tutorials that cover every step in the implementation process should you ever need them. Customer support has been very good at responding to questions in a timely manner and according to them, several updates are planned in future releases, one of which includes a scheduling module to create automatic backups as often as you need them.
With all of my WordPress sites now backed up and secure I'm confident that I won't ever have to go through the recent turmoil of rebuilding a site from scratch again.
For well under $100 WPTwin has turned out to be one of the best investments I've made in software in several years. I simply can't recommend it highly enough. It finally brings the WordPress back up process up to speed and makes it so easy that anyone can do it without fear and frustration.