Set It And Forget It Part Two – Friday Freebie

Last week I shared a short report with you on creating passive income from niche websites. In case you missed it, you can read the post and download the report here:

Creating Niche Websites For Passive Income

Today I have part two of the report for you. In it we’ll cover list building, monetization and building a sense of community around your niche site using comments and social media.

Set It and Forget It – Part 2 (PDF)

Enjoy!

P.S. As always you’re welcome to share this report with friends.

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Some Thoughts On Kindle Publishing

Fair warning … I’m writing today’s blog post more for myself than for you. Please excuse the indulgence, but hopefully you’ll be able to get something out of it as well.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on Kindle publishing over the past six months or so. I have owned a kindle for well over a year and love it. Being able to download a book on just about any topic is a dream come true for a bookworm like me.

I’ve enjoyed reading quite a few business books and short reports by my colleagues. The image on the right is the cover of a report I picked up just this morning by Denise Wakeman.

Each time I go through these reports and ebooks, I keep thinking that I really should get something up there as well. I have lots of content already written that I could easily turn into a report for Kindle.

…And I’m constantly telling you to repurpose everything you write. Yet, for some reason I haven’t taken my own advice when it comes to publishing on the kindle.

I honestly don’t know what my hangup is. But it’s time to step out of my comfort zone and commit to publishing my first book on Kindle. Consider this post my commitment to get that done before I head to NAMS in Atlanta on February 9th.

There are so any reasons to publish on the kindle platform. It’s an easy way to broaden our reach and further establishing ourselves as experts. Plus there’s the Amazon Author pages, something I took another look at today.

I’ve been following both Ellen Britt and Denise Wakeman on their respective blogs and both have a lot of information about self publishing in general and Kindle publishing in particular.

Today I took a look at their Amazon author pages and noticed something interesting …

You can pull both your twitter feed and your blog feed into your author page and thus share all that content with people browsing the Amazon Website.

As people come across your book and your author page, they may or may not end up buying one of your books or reports, but even if they don’t, they may end up reading your blog (and hopefully signing up for your list). The best part… once you have one book up on kindle and take a few minutes to set up your author page, there’s no extra work involved in capturing that extra traffic.

You can click on the respective images and take a look at the full author pages of Ellen and Denise.

So to recap, you can take existing content and repurpose it into a small ebook or short report to be published for Kindle.

Amazon will then take care of some of the marketing (by giving you exposure in their market place) as well as delivery and customer service.

You also get to syndicate your twitter and blog feeds on your author page.

And let’s not forget about the marketing you can do directly within your short report by encouraging readers to sign up for your list, read your blog, watch some bonus videos etc.

I think I’ve definitely talked myself into giving Kindle publishing a try and will report on the progress I’m making and what I’m learning right here. Stay tuned for more Kindle related news.

The Productivity Challenge Continues …

I love Monday mornings!

That wasn’t always the case, back in my office days, Monday was my least favorite day of the week. But since I started doing what I love and created a business around it, Mondays are my favorite. I get a chance to plan what I’ll get accomplished this week and start implementing all of the ideas I had over the weekend when things were too busy to get much work done.

With that said, it’s going to be another busy week. I’m pushing myself hard to get as much done as possible before heading to NAMS. Next week will likely be about getting ahead of things so I don’t have to work on “regular stuff” while I’m busy teaching, learning, implementing and connecting for a long weekend at NAMS 7 in Atlanta.

This week though will be all about writing great content. I took some time this weekend to revisit my goals for January and it occurred to me that writing 1 guest blog post a day Monday – Friday won’t quite add up to the 50 guest posts I want to get done this month (my math teacher would be so proud :) ) For now I’m going to step things up a bit this week and write at least 10 guest blog posts.

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Internet Marketing Challenge Week 2 Results

It’s Saturday morning and time for me to share the results of how I did with my to-do list for the week. Here we go:

Email my IM lists about Angela’s fantastic Gimp Training. – DONE

Write 3 to 4 articles – DONE

Submit them via “SubmitYourArticle.com“ – Got only one submitted :(

Repurpose them in to a short report for Freebie Friday – DONE

Submit this report and last week’s report via report sharing sites like Scribd – DONE

Write 5 guest blog posts – Wrote 4 … hoping to write the last one this morning.

Get those posts along with some of last week’s posts submitted – DONE

Write 3 blog posts for Affiliate Treasure Chest – DONE

Record 3 short audio tips on Cinch – DONE

Write 3 blog posts for the Daily Affiliate Tasks blog – DONE

Create a new DAT lesson. – DONE

Social Media: Five Tweets and Five Facebook posts or comments per day. – DONE

Get started on my NAMS presentation. – I’ve been thinking about it … does that count?

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Creating Niche Websites For Passive Income – Friday Freebie

I started working on a short report this week about niche websites that you can set up, promote and then just about forget about, yet they will continue to bring in passive income month after month.

Today I want to share the first part of this report with you. It covers choosing a niche, doing keyword research and using the results to map out a site structure, setting up the website using WordPress and finally some quick promotion tips.

Set It and Forget It (PDF)

Create A Passive Stream Of Income From A Simple Niche Website.

Keep an eye out next Friday for Part Two of the report …

Podcasting Made Easy With Cinch.fm

As part of our Internet Marketing Challenge to get lots of work done before heading to NAMS in a couple of weeks, Peggy Baron asked me:

Susanne, I know you just started using Cinch. Could you tell me more about it? I’d like to know how you decide what topics to talk about and record, and what you think the best ways are to have your recordings heard by the masses and maybe go viral?

I just started using Cinch.fm as a result of a comment by Connie Ragen Green here on this blog. She looked at my to-do list for week one of our challenge and suggested I include some sort of audio content to allow readers to hear my voice. One of her recommendations was to use Cinch.fm as an easy way to get started with a mini-podcast of sorts.
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Internet Marketing Challenge – Week Two

It’s Monday morning and time for another week of the Internet Marketing Challenge with Peggy from www.PeggyBaron.com to see how much we can get done before heading to Atlanta in February for NAMS 7.

Here’s my list of things I’d like to get done this week. It’ll be a bit of a challenge since this is another short work week for me. I’m most productive while my daughter is in school. Today is another day that they are off and we are still at the beach – heading back home in a few hours. The plan is to get a little bit of stuff done this morning and then get super-productive Tuesday – Thursday.
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Targeted Guest Blogging and A Challenge Update

It’s Friday and time for an update on how I did with the goals I set for myself on Monday. But first I want to answer the question Peggy Baron asked as part of our Cross Blog Conversation.

“Susanne, how do you target WHO you want to write guest posts for? What’s your criteria for deciding which blogs?”

Great question and like with so many things it depends. Sometimes I’ll write a guest blog post and ask I’m writing it,
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Make Your Own Graphics – Friday Freebie Report

Happy Friday the 13th. You’re not superstitious are you?

I have a special treat for you today. I recently came across an awesome video training about using GIMP to create graphics for your business by Angela Wills. I picked her brain this past week and the result is the report below. In it Angela shares some great advice on business graphics, effective logos and making your own button, banners and such for free using GIMP.

DIY Business Graphics (PDF)

Enjoy and as always, you’re welcome to share this report on Twitter, Facebook, send it to your list, blog about it etc.

P.S. Ready to take that same video course? Grab your copy for $17 with coupon code “susannerocks” at http://www.affiliatenichepacks.com/gimp

How To Ask For A Guest Post

As you can see if you’re following along  with my goals and the challenge to see how much we can get done over the next month, I’m focusing on writing a lot of guest blog posts this month. Often the biggest hurdle isn’t writing the content, but asking someone to publish it on their blog – especially when you’re first staring with this marketing strategy.

I’ll tell you a secret… I’m still a little intimidated about asking someone to post a guest blog post from me. I’m fine writing here (because I’ve done it for 2 years), but I’m still not really confident that what I have to share is “good enough” for other awesome blogs.

There are a couple of things I’m doing that will make it easier for me to approach blog owners about guest blog posts and also things that will make it more likely for me to get the “Yes”. I’ll share them with you here:
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