So You Want to Earn Some Cash with Content Publishing

On June 21, 2010, In Cool Biz, Publishing, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

You have probably read all over the internet about how easy it is to make money with something called “content publishing”. Well, it’s true; you can make some decent money online with content publishing. There are however, a couple of things you need to know before you’ll be able to generate any significant money from Google’s Adsense or any of the lesser known context advertising systems like Adbright or even Yahoo.

First on this list is “original content”. Do not fall into the trap of obtaining private label content for use on your context advertising site and using it without truly making it your own. This cannot be stressed enough. In order to get the biggest benefit from your private label purchases, you must re-write the content to make it unique. The search engines love unique content and it makes absolutely no sense to purchase the right to re-write the content, making it your very own, and then not exercise that right. There are so many people who buy private label rights and then do nothing with them. One of your objectives must be to make your content stand out from the crowd. This can be done in a number of ways. The addition of some great related images can draw readers in. If the article is short an general make it longer and more specific. If it is long and complicated break it down for the average reader. The search engines will reward you with a higher ranking when your content is original and new. This will translate into more visitors and more clicks on your ad links.

That brings us to another issue that you must not forget about: traffic generation. You could have the best looking site on the world wide web, but if you get zero traffic you will not make any money from it. Like it or not, traffic generation is something that you must work at to be successful in content publishing. Sure, at some point you should be able to count on getting regular traffic from the search engines, but how long will that take? In the beginning, you will need to drive any traffic that you get to your site. Traffic doesn’t just magically appear. It takes some hard work, but in the end the payoff can be significant.

Traffic generation can be accomplished in two ways, free traffic or paid traffic. Free traffic generation methods include link exchanges with similar sites, signature lines in emails or forum posts, free classified ad sites and many more. Paid traffic includes sites where a specific amount of website visitors can be purchased. Be very cautious about using paid traffic sites as these sites may send traffic that is un-targeted and therefore potentially unresponsive. It’s obvious that the kind of visitor you want is someone who is interested in the content on your site. Although this is obvious, it needs to be stressed. Random web surfers who land on your site are very unlikely to spend much time reading your content or clicking the ads. The kind of visitor you want is someone who is actively looking for the kind of content you have published. These visitors are very likely to click on relevant ads and that is one of your main objectives as a content publisher.

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Plan For Success: Pre-Planning Affiliate Strategies

On June 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, By 5¢

How often have you come across a marketing campaign that strikes you as ill-conceived, slightly out of the times, and generally unimportant in the current climate of marketing and consumer spending. They’re everywhere — unlikely intentionally, but they’re certainly a part of our lives. And while these marketing plans much produce some returns — they’d certainly be canceled or at least modified should they not — they don’t truly connect with us like they could.

Part of this is the massive change in marketing that’s going on currently. With the new methods of communication and message spreading made possible by the social web, companies are desperate to hop aboard the train and get their wares out their and in the open. Twitter, Facebook and other sexy companies are taking up the main view in many marketers’ radars, and entire divisions of companies are being created to decide exactly how to make the most of these innovative new social tools.

The thing is, they’re often poorly planned out. Especially amongst affiliate marketers, the propensity for completely inane and improper social media use is sky-high, and considered a common sense part of our marketing efforts. While it undoubtedly brings around results, much like the relatively poor TV ads of yesteryear, those results are hard to measure in a relative field. How much did your social media campaign really cost you? Not just in terms of cost, since the barrier to enter social media realms is very low, but in terms of the time cost and effort expenditure.

For affiliate marketers, we need to pre-plan our strategies and work around relative results, not just results alone. Opportunity cost should be a huge concern for affiliate marketers, especially if you’re paying other people to work for you. Which metrics bring in the most value and stomp on all the others? Those are the metrics that should be focused on, not those that have the most sex appeal and the greatest amount of attention in the public world.

After all, it’s about sales, isn’t it? We’re all out there trying to boost sales, fight off a lack of spending in a recession, and find the best niches to maximize profits in. But when these diversions and distractions get in the way of finding the most profitable marketing metrics, it’s important to take a step back and take stock of what is and isn’t working. Forcing yourself into a medium that doesn’t sell isn’t the way forward. Finding the most profitable medium, be it SEO, PPC, or social media marketing (or any other) is where the money is.

In order to see truly remarkable affiliate sales results, you need to plan your marketing campaigns to make use of not just the most current and valuable marketing tools, but those that produce highly valuable results. Twitter and Facebook will come and go. What won’t come and go is the customer base that supports you, evangelizes you and keeps on talking.

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Maximizing The Success Of Your Website

On May 17, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

Do you have a website and you’re upset that you aren’t getting
much traffic to it? You’re not alone. Most websites that get
started often fail within the first six months to a year. The
problem doesn’t have to do with the content, most of the time,
the problem has to do with your marketing efforts. How are you
marketing your website? If you’re like most people you tell all
your friends and family and even your coworkers, you spam all the
social networking sites, or maybe you make up signs and post them
around town. Whatever you do, if you’re not seeing traffic,
you’re not doing the right thing. How do you find out what to do
to drive that traffic you’re looking for? You only have to look
to the experts. But expert advice is expensive, isn’t it? Maybe
not.

Meet Tellman Knudson. Tellman used a system called ETS, or Easy
Traffic Steps, to create and maintain a steady flow of traffic to
his site. He also made 2.5 million dollars last year doing this
very thing, and he also created a client base of three hundred
thousand dedicated customers. Now, reading this, most people
would assume that this ETS system is complicated and it only
takes someone who knows the ins and outs of internet marketing to
do well. That’s just not the case, however. In fact, Tellman
stresses that anyone can succeed with ETS, as long as they follow
the system.

ETS is a system comprised of twenty powerful steps that are
guaranteed to drive traffic to your site. You’ll learn how to
maintain that traffic as well. If there’s a stream of traffic,
ETS will teach you how to get in front of that traffic. You’ll
also learn the mistakes most beginning internet marketers make
and how to avoid making those mistakes. All of this can be yours
and you’ll be making money like you never dreamed possible, while
your website is enjoying the traffic it deserves. Don’t let all
that hard work go unnoticed. The ETS system will show you what to
do and how to do it so that you never have to waste your time
with marketing gimmicks that don’t work.

The ETS system is easy to follow. It’s so easy anyone can do it.
Just look up all the ETS testimonials from people who have used
this system to maximize their traffic. People are making money
like never before and they’re using a system that actually works.
Many claim to have the answers but only ETS can guarantee to
bring you the traffic you need.

If you’ve ever tried another marketing system, you know how many
false promises there are out there. This isn’t one of them. This
system is easy to follow, it’s a proven system and everyone who
has a website should follow the Easy Traffic Steps system. For
more information on this great system, go to
www.EasyTrafficSteps.com and see why so many webmasters are
choosing ETS for their marketing efforts.

To learn more about getting traffic to your website, check out
the free Traffic Turbo report.

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The Shortcut to Top Quality Content Development

On May 13, 2010, In Cool Biz, Publishing, Recommendations, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

Developing content has always been a slow laborious process. It is not the writing that takes time, it’s doing the research. With so much material now available at the touch of a button, the writer is swamped with search results. Wading through innumerable pages to find what you need and then organizing it in a usable manner takes hours. In fact, most of the time spent on content creation goes into the research.

It seemed that there was no way to escape this manual search for the huge amount of information that the internet presents. At least until now. Instant Article Wizard is a program that automates all this and does, in a few minutes, what previously took hours. This surprisingly inexpensive and easy to use program provides the content developer with all the material he or she needs to produce high quality content in next to no time. All the writer has to do is enter the article keywords and then with a few mouse clicks the program will locate the material that is needed, organize it into the opening paragraphs, the sub topics and the conclusion. All this material is then transferred to the word processor where the writer can make whatever changes and edits are needed to produce a complete high quality ready to use article.

Click Here To Download Your Free Content Development Report

Instant Article Wizard will change the way website owners and content developers work. By freeing them of the drudgery of the research, it will allow for both a greater focus on the quality of the work as well as reducing the production time. The improved quality means that websites using this content will attract more viewers. And the time saving will allow website owners to devote more time to other aspects of their business and for writers who sell their articles to increase their output and income many times over. That’s a winning situation for everyone.

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Power Yoga For Modern Living

On May 12, 2010, In Natural Health, Recommendations, Yoga and Martial Arts, By 5¢

This power yoga routine is excellent for a total body warm up before you begin your exercise program and, in fact, is a very good workout in itself. It stretches your muscles and works your breathing, as well as strengthens your arms, back, chest and legs.

It is important to breathe fully and to do each part of the exercise slowly. Do not hurry through this and concentrate on your breathing throughout.

You start in a standing position with your arms hanging at your side. Slowly breathe in deeply while you look to the ceiling and raise your arms overhead. Try to touch the sky.

Slowly bend forward, breathing out, and touch your hands to the floor. Keep your legs as straight as possible but it is important that you stretch down as much as possible. In the beginning, you will probably have to bend your legs. Your head is close to your body and you want to look between your legs. If you are limber, place your palms flat on the floor.

Breathe in and, holding the same position, lift your head and look forward.

Breathe out and walk your feet backward as you get into a pushup position. When you become efficient at this routine, you can jump back into position if you like.

Breathing in, lower your belly close to the floor, at the same time shift your feet so the top of your feet are flat on the floor and stretch your upper body upward. You stretch your neck muscles as well by looking up at the ceiling.

Breathe out and move your body so that the bottom of your feet are now flat on the floor and your butt is as high in the air as possible. Look between your legs. You are in an inverted V position.

Breathe in and walk your feet forward until you are back into the position where you are touching the floor with your head close to your body and you are looking forward.

Breathe out and lower your head so you are now looking between your legs again.

Breathe in and slowly stretch up, standing and reaching for the sky, looking at the ceiling.

Now breathe out and return to your starting position, hands at your side. You have just completed one set.

Your goal is to work up to five sets eventually.

Remember to concentrate on your breathing. When you breathe in, do it slowly and take in as much breath as possible. When you breathe out, exhale all your breath and try to touch your back with your belly button.

Do these before exercising or do them first thing in the morning to get your body ready to face the day.

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Foma Publishing, LLC – 8350 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

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Social Marketing Part 2

On May 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢
Leveraging Social Marketing For SEO

Social Bookmarking and Social Marketing Are Essential

Social media marketing is proving to be an effective marketing strategy for Internet businesses. It is closely tied with search engine optimization because of its effect on search engine results. While there is often a discussion about whether SEO or social marketing is more important, there is finally a concurrence on the fact that both are necessary for a website to be effective. Websites cannot do without search engine optimization. At the same time, social marketing sites are also becoming an essential marketing tool for the success of a website. In fact, there’s a healthy overlap in the way both work, when used together. Social book marking is very popularly used and every time a marketer’s website or blog are book marked, an inbound link is made. Through these social bookmarking sites, users can rate or vote for the content, further enhancing its popularity and link building along with traffic – both indirect and direct.

Combining Social Marketing With SEO

Effective search engine optimization is a must for all website owners. While many online marketers do try to follow various SEO strategies, some outsource the job. SEO mainly involves the usage of the right keywords at the right locations along with appropriate links so that the website is optimized to the search engines that spider it. This involves researching and identifying the right keywords. But the big task that online marketers face is using social marketing to achieve SEO effectively. Though this seems like a challenge, it is becoming necessary to be proficient at both. And it is not as difficult as it appears. For example, every time a blog or web page is book marked through social bookmarking tools by the website owner, it means more search engine optimization, traffic generation and more links. If a visitor votes on the content, blog or articles on a website, they provide the SEO and linking advantage.

How Social Media Affects SEO There are three major ways in which social media can have a bearing on search engine optimization. These are: Links: when the social media marketing campaign is well designed and successful, it means a lot of high quality incoming links to the website. As far as search engine rankings go, inbound links play an important role. So it is obvious that social media marketing definitely improves search engine rankings. What makes these links special is that they are neither purchased nor forced – they all happen as a natural and voluntary process. Quality inbound links also occur when the marketer creates a profile on social networking sites. Reputation: the most popular social media sites are ranked high by the search engines. This must however be carefully managed as the marketer must take care to ensure that there are positive bookmarks for his products or business on social bookmarking sites like Digg, etc. Then it is easy to rank high in the search engine listings. But if there is something negative that people are talking about, the same thing could turn into bad publicity. It is up to the marketer to manage this in a way that there’s only good publicity.

Page Rank On Social Marketing Websites

Social media marketing sites are all part of the Web 2.0 platform and search engines are quite partial to these sites. So if the marketer gets a good page ranking on these sites, a good search engine ranking follows naturally. Social sites are excellent for high ranking even with a few links. For online business that are about to launch their websites, rather than wait for the search engines to index and rank them, they go ahead and upload a marketing video clip on YouTube or make a profile on sites like MySpace or Facebook and begin the link building process. This not only helps in huge traffic generation benefits but also gets the message out to large numbers of potential customers at minimal cost.

All online marketers today must get accustomed to using social bookmarking websites. While discovering different ways to leverage these sites, it is also important to be familiar with the rules on each site. Spamming is taken very seriously on these sites where the content is user controlled. The main thing is to post quality content and be active on these sites to get the full advantage.



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Social Marketing Part 1

On May 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢
Social Marketing – A Win Win Win Situation

Why Social Marketing?

At the rate at which the world wide web is changing, it is not surprising that internet marketers are going ‘social’ and recognizing the value of social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Going by the statistics on the amounts of unimaginable traffic these sites are experiencing, what Internet marketer wouldn’t want a huge share of it? In order to be in the race, these social media sites are very important and must be leveraged in a way that makes sense to the specific online business. These sites not only play a vital role in search engine optimization but also for high search engine rankings and therefore, traffic.

How The Concept Works

One marketer talks about how his site turned up in the first page of Google’s search results for a particular key phrase even though the key phrase was not one of his targeted keywords. What had actually happened was one of his site’s visitors book marked that page on his site on Digg, which is a social bookmarking site. As a result of this, his website saw a massive rush of traffic. While this didn’t make a big difference in the sense of marketing, he soon realized how it made a difference to his search engine rankings – which means people do come to his website simply because his site still ranks at first place for that key phrase. So the moral of the story is, social media sites play a crucial role in search engine rankings and are not to be ignored.

Happily, social bookmarking brings direct traffic from websites that are ranked among the top five for traffic. Almost all Internet users would have had a brush with social media by signing up with say, MySpace or Facebook. But it is not enough to create a profile and let it collect dust. It can be an effective means to build an entire business successfully by leveraging these sites by going about it in a planned and strategic manner, as many well-written social bookmarking guides will tell you.

Social Media Tactics That Work

It is not hard to become involved with social bookmark sites. There are easy to install and use bookmark tools, which allow the user to add the bookmark button to their pages and content. When these pages and content are visited by traffic, they are book marked and links are built. Most Internet marketers use the simple tactic of joining all these social media sites as they are all free to sign up with – which means they sign up with MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Squidoo and the rest of it which are all part of the Web 2.0 platform. For the Internet marketer who wants to try social media marketing there are different methods depending on the kind of products and services offered and what outcome is expected. Here’s a quick overview of the ones that are the most popular vis-à-vis goals:

  • Social bookmarking sites: like Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us where members can rate content
  • Video sharing sites: the highest traffic numbers are at YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc. these sites allow uploading and sharing of one’s own videos as well as others’.
  • Business networking sites: like Ryze, LinkedIn that allow a free personal web page as well as extra facilities with upgrade to paid memberships.
  • Photo sharing sites: the most popular ones are Flickr, Webshots, Shutterfly which have huge member lists
  • Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace etc are good networking tools with plenty of groups within formed by like-minded people.

Social media marketing helps to form good relationships that in turn convert to business and referrals for the online marketer in addition to massive traffic generation. Granted that they do take a regular investment of time, but the benefits are of a long-term nature. The best benefit is building links, which is what keeps an online business flourishing. Posting good content on the sites suggested above has millions of viewers who in turn bookmark and share the information, thereby increasing the number of links to the site.

Social bookmarking works for any size of business through a few simple strategies. The main thing to be cautious about is following the rules at these websites in order to be successful.

To Be Continued…
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Viral Marketing – Where Free Is Priceless

On May 9, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

The healthiest online business is the ones that use viral marketing techniques. And certainly health is wealth in this instance. This simple yet effective method is amazing in terms of:

* Traffic generation
* Brand building
* Link building
* List building
* Profits

And it all happens at practically no investment. How can any Internet market not cash in on viral marketing? It is not as if viral marketing is a new phenomenon. It is as old as time itself – and just as important.

There are plenty of viral marketing techniques that can be harnessed to your advantage, and with the advent of Web 2.0, it has become even more easy – and fun – to make use of these techniques. What can be nicer than creating a powerful message – and then sitting back and letting others do the work for you? All you need is a memorable message that is exciting enough to have the immediate urge to tell everyone.

Lets look at some viral marketing techniques that are doing the rounds very successfully:

* Ebooks and reports are among the ideal viral marketing tools. It costs almost nothing to create an ebook. You can either offer it for free in various ways or sell it. You can let your recipients rebrand it and sell it as their own. You can offer resale rights. The main thing here is to ensure that you provide a link to you on each page so that all those who receive it in the chain can come back to visit your website.
* Free optin ezines are used as a viral marketing technique to build targeted lists which is a must for any online marketing business. By creating a useful ezine that’s either html, email, web or blog based, it caters to the hungry information seekers on the internet who can then sign up to continue receiving it and also tell others about it.
* Offering viral articles for reprint is another effective viral marketing tool. The beauty of this is in its simplicity through a well-written article, optimized for search, with the author’s resource box that provides a link and a call to action. This can also be reprinted for free, so long as it is reproduced in its entirety – resource box and all. As the article makes the rounds on the article directories and gets posted on various related websites, the traffic pours in through the link in it.

Today, Social marketing sites and blogs are a gold mine for generating targeted traffic. As part of the Web 2.0 platform, they allow the Internet marketer to effectively use viral marketing techniques in an interactive way with his prospective customers.

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Yoga: The Breath Of Life

On April 29, 2010, In Natural Health, Recommendations, Yoga and Martial Arts, By 5¢

Yoga is a 6000-year-old form of exercise which not only disciplines the body but conditions
the mind as well.

While the various “asanas” or exercises are the basic building blocks of the practice of yoga, breath is the very essence of it. Some go so far as to say, “If you can breathe, you can do yoga.” One of the main reasons for this is that one of the main goals of yoga is to teach you to still and quiet your mind through the use of your breath.

By practicing yoga on a regular basis, you get to know your breath intimately. Not only will you learn about proper breathing, which will soothe and relax you, but you will learn to bring your postures to life through the use of your breath.

As human beings, our minds tend to wander into thoughts of the past and the future. However, our bodies exist only in the present. By practicing yoga, you will learn through your breath how to draw your mind back to your body and abandon all of your worries.

One of the refreshing aspects about yoga is that, even if only for a minute, you are able to focus and concentrate on the present, you will be letting go of the cares and concerns that can bring tension and disease to your body.

By practicing yoga, you will learn conscious breathing during yoga poses which will keep your mind alert and ever aware of your practice. You will learn how to draw your mind to the present moment – allowing you to leave off all other thoughts.

While there are a number of breathing exercises associated with yoga which will teach you how to release tension and balance your mind, as a start, try the following exercise.

1. Lie or sit comfortably and become aware of your normal state of breathing.

2. Continue by being aware of your breath but make your inhalations and your exhalations 4 counts each for several rounds. Try to breathe through your nose if possible to enhance the relaxation benefits.

3. Now, increase your inhalation and exhalations to 5 counts each.

4. Next, increase your inhalations and exhalations to 6 counts each. This time try to become aware of your body making sure you are not tensed. If you notice tension anywhere relax that area.

5. Continue increasing your inhalations and exhalations all the way up to 9 counts. If you feel that this is causing you any stress, drop the count back down to a number that is comfortable for you.

6. Keep bringing your mind back to your body to check to see if there is any tension anywhere. If there is, try to relax that part of your body. Another trick is to “breath in” to your problem areas and “drive out” the tension through your exhale using visualization.

7. Whatever your final number of breaths is, continue breathing with long breaths for several rounds, then drop the counting and breathe naturally for 10 rounds.

What you should discover from this exercise, as well as with many of yoga’s other breathing exercises, is the ability to relax your thoughts and to still your mind so that you are present in your body. In time, you will eventually gain mastery over your breath so that you will be able to call on your breath to still your mind in times of stress and tension.

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How To Use ClickBank Effectively – Video Series

On April 29, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Publishing, Recommendations, By 5¢

When I first got started trying to make money online it didn’t take long to discover ClickBank. I bought my first Internet Marketing eBooks through CB and soon was introduced to the amazing world of AFFILIATE MARKETING. This is not a new concept by any means but through the internet it has taken off over the last several years like wild fire. Companies like Amazon literally exploded overnight through their adoption of Affiliate Marketing. At the same time Amazon has created a way for millions of people to earn from home selling other peoples products as well as their own.

The biggest set back for most is knowing how and where to get started. So, to help you avoid the long and windy journey of trying to figure out what to do on your own like I did…  I have published these simple instructional videos on how to use ClickBank effectively for you. Check them out below and leave a comment if you have any questions or feedback. Please note these are large files so they may take a while to load. Be patient they are worth your time if you are planning to use ClickBank to earn money online. (And you should if you’re not already!)

Enjoy learning and growing your online income!

Sincerely,
Keith “Nickel” Langevin

ClickBank Video #1 – Getting Started
ClickBank Video #2 – Moving Forward
ClickBank Video #3&4 – More Promo Techniques and Wrapping it up

P.S. To learn more about making money online, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, and other interests of mine, browse more articles here at my blog and please leave a comment or two.

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