In our last installment of affiliate marketing tips, I went over some general guidelines for picking a product. In this installment, I'm going to focus on Clickbank primarily because it is the most popular marketplace on the Internet and the one that most people use, at least at first until they discover there are better options. We'll get to them in later installments. Okay, so how do you go about picking a product at the Clickbank marketplace? After all, there are tens of thousands to choose from. And trust me on this...not all of them sell, let alone are any good. Unless you have a gener

My father in law has a great saying. "Patience is a virtue given by God and abused by man." I never really understood it until I saw the way some Internet marketers go about their business. It's no wonder so many people are failing at this business. Patience is a word that they seem to have no concept of. So, we're going to talk about patience in this article...for those who have the patience to read to the end. Let's take a typical example of what I'm talking about. This is probably the most common one that I can think of. I am sure this may have even applied to you at one point in time, i

We all talk about moving the free line with our marketing. Give away reports. Provide tons of content in our newsletters. Create hours of videos filled with content and let people watch them for a simple opt in...if that even. Give, give, give...and then give some more until it hurts. Hold on cowboy. There is only so much you can give before the well runs dry and there's just no more TO give. So how do we get around this problem? Well, logic dictates that there really is only ONE way. And this is why I tell people that you can't limit your niche to a sub niche so obscure that there's

In the last installment of home business foundation building, we went over our virtual real estate...where we were actually going to build our business. In this installment, we're going to go over our product or service. This is an area where many home business owners drop the ball simply because they are misinformed about what makes a really solid product or service foundation. We're going to cover some of the bad choices, or at the very least, not the most optimal, and then get into ones that will give you a better chance of having some real success. I think you will find this article quite

As I am writing this, it's Labor Day, which is one of those silly holidays that we have in the US. Anything to have an excuse to take a day off and sit around eating hot dogs and burgers and getting fat. So you're probably asking yourself, why am I working today, considering that I don't really work very many days during the month as it is? Well, there are several answers to that question. You might want to take one or more of them as a good reason why maybe YOU should get some work done today as well. That is of course unless you just want to sit around, eat and get fat. You may have not n

In the first installment of this series on affiliate marketing, I went over some of the biggest mistakes that affiliate marketers make. In this installment, we're going to start covering the actual process of affiliate marketing beginning with the actual product selection. This is where many affiliate marketers will drop the ball. There are a number of myths regarding product selection. I'm going to cover the most common and dangerous ones here. Trust me, these only scratch the surface but are important to know in order to avoid potential disaster. First off, contrary to popular belief,

I wanted to take a short break from my usual instructional type article to cover a subject that I feel is very important. This is one of the main reasons why many marketers and home business owners end up failing. I'm talking about absolutes and how they will absolutely kill you. Kind of a paradox there, isn't it. I've just stated an absolute myself. But it may just be the only one that makes sense. Okay, maybe it's time I explained. This article was inspired by a thread at one of the forums that I attend. I'm not going to go into too much detail on what the thread is about, but in a nutshe

The ninth part of the Bullet Proof Blogging series highlights the 21 key performance marketing networks currently available to Internet marketers and web based companies world wide. These have been given priority within this exclusive list in accordance to their clientel, customer support, ease to use their interface and performance from both a publishers and advertisers point of view. You may be thinking, well surely you haven't tested them all out? Well that would be true, however I have used and do use the majority through the company I work for and for my personal projects. So here you are

In the first installment of our series on email marketing, we questioned if email marketing was dead and pinpointed some of the mistakes that email marketers make. In this installment, we're going to start picking apart the email marketing process starting with the content itself. More specifically, we're going to focus on the subject of our emails. Our email subject is the very first thing that your prospect sees. So a bad subject can detonate your whole email marketing campaign right off the bad. Problem is, many email marketers don't know what a bad subject is. Many times, it's not what

Do you remember Dan Fogelberg's "Part Of The Plan" from back in the mid 70s? Wasn't that a great song? Anyway, article marketing, contrary to what a lot of people will teach you, should also be just part of the plan. By itself it's fine. However, if you want to get the most out of it, article marketing should be part of a combined effort in getting traffic to your site. This article is going to cover a general outline on just how to do this. I think you will find this interesting reading. Too many article marketers subscribe to the "Bum Marketing" school of thought. Now don't get me wrong,