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Focus on Your Objective (Niche)

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As I was just updating one of my several Squidoo Lenses, I was thinking what all I should be adding some content to, and I got lost trying to remember all I have going.

If you’re just getting started, I think the best advice that I could give someone is this. Don’t try to get too much going at one time. That was my biggest mistake.

Every thing I saw that looked potentially promising, I would try to get into. Well, at least if it didn’t cost anything, or at least too much.

If I was starting new today, I would find a niche that I was interested in, and ideally knowledgeable on, and start from there, staying focused on that one niche/campaign.

You can always get into as many areas as you want, there’s just no need to rush things. If you have shared hosting, there’s nearly no limit to how many sites that you can have going.

Quality is much, much more important than quantity, and my bottom line proves it. I’ve finally realized that I have much more going than I need, but I have stopped adding to my list, and I’m now trying to update sites that have been setting nearly unattended.

Get an idea and focus on it until you get a good, hopefully profitable campaign going before moving to the next.

In a nutshell, I would start a blog, even using Blogger.com for a free option, add (and link) a few Squidoo Lenses to that niche (blog) topic/niche, maybe even a Hubpage or 3, and write several quality EzineArticles with appropriate links to the money site.

ClickBank has many good products to promote, but don’t limit yourself either. There’s usually many, many, many marketers promoting the top CB performers, so sign up with several affiliate networks also. There’s several affiliate networks listed in the sidebar on this site, and they’re free to join. Spend some time looking through the merchants that are offered via the networks that would fit in with your niche.

Even if you are promoting a single, ‘main’ product, there’s also usually many others that will fit in nicely with your campaign.

Making money online isn’t easy, and it requires a lot of work.

It’s easy to set up a quick blog, Lens or other sites. That was probably why I tried to do too many things at one time instead of focusing my efforts. It is, however, more difficult adding quality content often and having a site that will keep the viewers interested.

Wealthy Affiliate – Possibly the ONLY Help You’ll Ever Need to Make Money Online

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If you’ve read many of the post on this site, you’ll see that anything I recommend, I do so from experience. I actually use the product or service, that includes actually spending my money.

For affiliate marketing training, I recommended Affiliate Classroom here before. I’m not saying now that I don’t think that AC does have a lot to offer, but I have found something much, much better. However, if you’re a complete beginner, or still fairly new and unexperienced, I’m sure Affiliate Classroom can offer you very much in your affiliate learning. I just know that the Wealthy Affiliate site would be a site that you’d want to stay with as long as you’re an affiliate.

After a couple of months or so with Affiliate Classroom, I personally thought maybe my time and money could be better spent elsewhere. Although I’ve not fell for a lot of the scams, I have spent quite a bit I wish I hadn’t. Affiliate Classroom wasn’t a big regret.

The owner of AC has a couple of other sites, AffSphere.com and PPCclassroom.com, that I’m still a member of. AffSphere.com is an article directory and it’s totally free. It’s a very good site also. PPCclassroom.com is a paid site for PPC training, obviously. I’ve learned a massive amount at PPCclassroom.com, and I’m sure I haven’t touched the surface yet. There’s also a very good user forum.

After becoming a paid member at WealthyAffiliate.com a few short hours ago, and having a look around the site, including the forum, and reading the huge amount of testimonials, I think I can honestly say that WA will be my only paid training/support/mentoring type membership from here on out. That includes PPC (Pay Per Click training and support.

Does that mean that I’ll go to WA and keep a blind eye to everything else ? Of course not. My theory is still that there’s plenty of information available for free on the Internet to get started in Affiliate Marketing, BUT, if you want to cut down on the headaches and get to making money in the shortest time possible, go to where the most knowledge and experience is…in one place.

I’ve known of the Wealthy Affiliate site since probably shortly after they came online. I considered joining several times, but finally took the leap of faith today, and I’m already glad I did. I look at it this way; if you’re serious about making money online, you can get hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per month from WA in the form of training material, videos, tools, recommendations, mentoring, whatever you could possibly want or need. Their SIte Rubix Website building software alone is a huge value, especially if you know nothing about building a Website. Of course you don’t HAVE TO have a website to make money online, but any marketer worth their weight will tell you it’s just about necessary…at least it’s easier and opens up more possibilities.

Sorry for the long post, but I really feel good about WA. I guess I’m really excited because after nearly a year of marketing online, I’ve finally started making some steady money. I’m currently laid off from my regular ‘day job’, and my goal is to not have to go back when I’m called…usually around the first of April. :) I think with the resources available at the Wealthy Affiliate site I can push forward enough to start making a full-time living from the Internet.

If you want to give WA a try, you can sign up for a month, grap anything and everything you can in the form of information and software tools, and then cancel…no questions asked. I doubt you will though, from all the testimonials, even those from people making hundreds of dollars a day, talk about staying on to be Wealthy Affiliate members for life.

I think that’s the ultimate recommendation.

Article Marketing on Steroids – AffSphere.com

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Recently I’ve gotten into article marketing. Actually I should say that I’m just getting into article marketing. I’ve yet to publish many articles, but I do realize the power in it, and I do plan to continue submitting articles to the directories.

In reality I’ll be submitting primarily to only one directory now. In case you haven’t heard of ‘AffSphere.com’, you’ve got to check these guys out. You talk about a fantastic idea, here is a good idea made great.

Probably most have heard of ‘eZinearticles.com’ and some of the other many article directories around the web. I think we’d all agree it’s a great way to get backlinks, and also just a good way to have your work read and generate traffic (traffic=$$$).

AffSphere has taken it to another level though. Most directories won’t allow affiliate links in your articles…AffSphere encouages it!! AffSphere is the brainchild of Anik Singal, the brilliant mind behind AffiliateClassroom.com, an outstanding resource and training site for the aspiring affiliate marketer that I’ve mentioned here before. I’m a member and I can honestly say that there’s a ton of information there. Much of it downloadable in the form of ebooks, audios and videos, tutorials and guides.

Not only does AffSphere encourage affiliate links, they have devised a fantastic setup for the affiliate/writer to earn some very good commissions. Through the marvel of viral article marketing, it’s possible to get untold numbers of signups in your downline. Although it could take a little while to get a good commission coming regularly, if you only write articles occasionally, you could also put out a good article or two, have it downloaded to several sites, and have it take off for you.

If you’re interested at all in writing articles, take a look at AffSphere.com. There’s nothing else that comes close to it as far as rewarding the article writers.

I doubt that many of us would want to sit and write articles all day, but even if you can write one a day, in a few months time there’s no telling how many backinks and sales commissions you could earn. I truly believe this may be one of the best, easiest, and least expensive (it’s free!!) methods to earn an online income.

I won’t try and explain the 8 methods of earning at AffSphere, just go here and watch the video that explains it in detail. Then signup, it’s free so there’s obviously nothing to lose and untold rewards to gain!!

Good Luck.