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How To Post Blog Content On A Regular Basis

I am sure you’ve noticed that this blog has tended to go through some periods of high activity (I’m blogging a lot – often daily) and then periods of almost complete silence – which isn’t a good thing.
That’s what got me to thinking about how to post blog content on a regular basis and I [...]

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Become A Better Marketer in 60 Seconds A Day

I woke up this morning to a nice little surprise… my picture, tip and most importantly link were at the top of a post on The Toilet Entrepreneur blog. If you are not familiar with Mike Michalowicz, he is a serial entrepreneur and author of the book The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (available on Amazon.com, and [...]

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Is It Time To Create Your First Own Product?

I just got back from an extended vacation with my family. It’s so nice to step back and recharge every once in a while.
Thanks to my affiliate and other online income both my husband and I were able to take a week off and rent a beautiful house right on the beach. We flew in [...]

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How Do I Backup My Computer and Other Online Business Saftey Advice

My online business almost suffered a major setback this past week. If you follow me on twitter ( http://twitter.com/susannemyers ) you know I’m working on another short report and I also tend to write a lot of my blog posts, articles etc in Word and save them on my main laptop. It’s a little over [...]

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Do You Know Your Target Market?

Since we’re mostly talking about niche marketing this week, you my be wondering what your target market has to do with this… it’s simple. It is the various prospects and customers you are ideally trying to reach in your particular Niche.
When I first started out in affiliate marketing, I wanted to reach out to everyone [...]

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Lessons Learned from My Favorite Super Bowl Ad

Did you watch the Super Bowl on Sunday… to be honest, I mostly just watched the ads and was busy writing a short report on finding a hot niche during the actual game time (more on that report in a day or two). There was one ad that really stood out for me, and that [...]

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Going From Feeling Inspired To Taking Action – Reflections On NAMS 3

I made it back from NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing Systems) in Atlanta yesterday. As usual I learned a lot and after spending some time playing with my daughter and resting, I’m ready to take action. It’s THE most important step any time you go to a conference, take a class or buy a course. I’ll [...]

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Building A Relationship With Your Readers Will Increase Affiliate Commissions

How would you like to make more sales and thus more (and even higher) affiliate commissions? Yep…thought so. Me too. That’s why I thought I’d share one of my best strategies with you today. It is building TRUST and we earn that trust by building a relationship with our readers.
T = Tell
Tell your readers about [...]

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Turning Downtime Into Productive Time

I spent some time today driving up to Asheville NC, for the TypeAMom Conference.
The drive ended up being quite productive and resulted in me sitting here in my hotel room writing this. (yes, I just took that picture).
Before I left, I grabbed the mp3 version of John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2 and was listening to [...]

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Getting Unstuck and Taking Action

I’m sure you’ve noticed that it got a little quiet around here after the first flurry of posts.To be honest, I haven’t done much of anything the past few days.
First there was labor day weekend which I enjoyed just hanging out with my family.
Then, starting Tuesday I noticed that I really didn’t feel like booting [...]

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