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- Aug 19th, 2007
- 29 Comments
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I had so much fun checking out the terms people searched in order to land on this here ol blog, that I would like to make it a weekly tradition.
Here are many of this weeks Google Searches (I will only get all of them when I either upgrade to MyBLogLog Pro or start Google Analytics):
The information in (parenthesis) are my own comments and not part of the search term:
Google Search: online nite time jobs (job suggestions for other WAHM’s.)
Google Search: good imer (’nuff said – I am pretty proud of this one!)
Google Search: how i started an online business (thats another great one!)
Google Search: how to charge for internet marketing consulting pricing hourly pay (I had this same question and now some sucker is going to be getting way less than he deserves if he copies my fee)
Google Search: andrea yager + warcraft (hahahaha – that was inspired from the last time I wrote a post like this)
Google Search: joel comm tv show (first runner up)
Google Search: niche marketing how to get started (check out that consulting tab again..)
Google Search: resell rights 101 (hey – I have a free video tutorial on this.. want it? I have yet to market it)
Google Search: a to z of affiliate marketing (good job Google)
Google Search: millionaire audition questions (first runner up remember)
Google Search: alisande chan (next internet millionaire contestant – getting a bit repetitive here arent I?)
Google Search: next internet millionaire seo 101 (that’s cool!)
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- Aug 17th, 2007
- 53 Comments
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Last night I had the pleasure of meeting with fellow NIM ‘loser’ (as if baby), Gail Greenberg. Yes, here in Jerusalem, Israel.
I had a post ‘in waiting’ for the right moment and good ol’ Gail has inspired me to share part of it now.
Gail and I discussed how we are each working on putting ourselves out there. You cant believe the stuff this girl has up her sleeve. I am talking serious internet SUCCESS! As internet marketers, we can see potential online $$ value in every idea/business/concept, etc..
So Gail wants to know… why am I so embarrased to charge what I am worth??
I hide behind potential partnerships – Any time someone mentions some interesting niche topic, I never tire of thinking of potential partnerships and money to be made. I figure people are not interested in paying and here is a chance to get 50% of a business instead of a small sum consulting. Yet, since they have no idea what they are receiving, and yes – dont pay for it! – they dont value what I suggest and shrug it off..
If I charged them what the information is worth, perhaps they would take me more seriously?
This is a big ‘woman’ problem (sorry for generalizing). How often have you given free advice, done a friend a favor, and not received pay for it. How often have you been EXPECTED to (I almost lost a friend over this, when she expected me to offer to work for her for free, and ironically I would have (but shouldnt have) but didnt want to impose my service on her in case she was not interested!)
Charlie Cook (yes a MAN!), in his Marketing for Success Blog, nails it with Why Women Dont Make What they Should. Basically, women feel guilty asking for pay, and see themselves as problem solvers.
Gail really gave me a pick me up. She is more determined than I am for me to recognize my worth, my mad marketing skills, how ridiculously valuable they are to most businesses who cant translate their offline/online businesses into the success, and how much people were really taken with me. True her experience was with the voting for The Next Internet Millionaire Reality Show (for which I was first runner up).
Yes, she insisted that people really respond to me, and will really respond to me. I caved and said ‘aww shucks’ (more! more! more!)
So this is how I am feeling now
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Thanks Gail… right back at ya!
Other women entreupreuners…
Are YOU Getting what you are worth?? What advice would you offer?
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- Aug 14th, 2007
- 1,260 Comments
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What is an affiliate thief? Well it could be you and me.
2 categories:
1) Clickbank Thief. Deserves its own category. Most affiliate programs DO NOT allow you to purchase and earn for yourself a commission, or rather, spare yourself at least 50% of the expense. Clickbank does. If you notice affiliate marketers pining for your purchase with their amazing bonus offers, it is in large part due to this.
2 caveats:
a) In order to receive the money from clickbank which you accrue while buying items with your own affiliate link, you need to have made sales through several money mediums, 2 types of credit card, + paypal, so unless you are actually also selling to the public at large, you will have a hard time getting hold of your money… ( I speak from experience People!)
b) When it comes to Internet Marketing, once you are clued in enough to realize you can legally do this, it is usually since you have purchased so many IM products and still not found success or that which you find worthy of devoting enough time. Honestly, there should be some allowances for those people who are really interested in testing out a new product, but keep saying NO MORE BUYING, but cant help it every time a product launch is froth with irresistable copy, and underneath is really a sub par product, that you somehow already own something similar in your OWN NAME in a jumbled up collection of products you bought resell rights for!
2) Human Nature.
People do NOT like to see others succeed. I dont know why. If you knew that an item would cost the EXACT same if you were to click on their link and help them earn a few bucks, or if you were to clear your cookies, or open up another browser and NOT buy it through their link.. then WHY oh WHY would you NOT help the individual who sent you there? I find myself guilty of this if it’s a fellow IM’er who I know and I dont want them to know that I am yet again purchasing more products.
Human Nature is a funny thing. When I was auditioning for the NEXT Internet Millionaire Reality Show, I asked people in the Stomper forum (during my trial membership) to vote for me. One woman wrote.. I gave you a 9, since I wanted to reserve the right to give someone else a 10. Lady you can give us all 10′s, I mean GEE WHIZ… some people… none of those videos deserved even a 9
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Sorry for that little tangent…
I recently read a report that recommended using http://www.pinurl.com to mask your affiliate links and allow your link to be cookied and avoid people working HARD (yes, some people spend time on stealing your commissions, with NO benefit to them whatsoever).. You just paste the affiliate link and they supply you with a nice truncated code that is indiscernable.
For example. Lets say I wanted you to sign up to Clickbank, so you could sell the items from their marketplace and make tons and tons of money , but instead of mentioning the word Clickbank, I would refer to it as ‘a treasure trove of available affiliate products with skyrocketed commissions that will result in easy no brainer residual income for you’ (good copy on the fly eh? ). YOu may be intrigued to click. So which link would get you more:
http://pinurl.com/27i (What pinurl provided for me)
or
http://theresults.aff20.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOG (the actual affiliate link)
or
http://getstartedtodayonline.dreamhosters.com/recommends/clickbank.html (this is a very popular way to indirectly bring visitors to a site via an affiliate link)
or lets be honest… after seeing one of the last two choices, would you just click http://www.clickbank.com and cut out (at not cost to you) the affiliate marketer?
Are you an affiliate thief?
~~ andrea
P.S. I have been testing out different solutions to combat affiliate thief’s. The first Affiliate Cloner is really easy to use and creates really short and sweet links.
The second, Affiliate Link Cloaker is like the Ferrari Enzo of tools to fight the affiliate theif’s. I have been using it for nearly 1 year. It’s really good at creating professional links that don’t look like affiliate links. Go beat up the affiliate thief today and make them cry rivers and earn more cash!
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- Aug 9th, 2007
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As a professional blog imitator, I cant help but notice all the stuff happening on the side columns on many blogs. In my spare seconds, I check out these sidebar features to decide what I NEED to add to my site.
My coolest find? Ironically the one I rejected for a long time. I just didnt see the need to have a few faces of my recent visitors. Well dont judge a book by it’s cover!!
Check out the far right column of this blog – MyBlogLog. It may just appear to you as a list of people who have come round this blog, (all those links go to people whose faces I have seen visiting my site.. this is my thanks back!) but it turns out… it is SO much more. This baby is so neat, I feel like a voyeur on my own site! Once you add the code to your site, they offer crazy stats on your site. I realize Google Analytics probably offers what they offer + more, but it cannot be as simple and easy to understand. Even from Google.
With the stats, I can tell which links were clicked on, and how many times. I can tell which pages were viewed. I can also tell on which sites people clicked to find me, and what time of the day. EVERYDAY.
Here is just a handful of searches on Google that resulted in a click to my site. This means I either showed up in the top 10 (or very near it!) for that keyword:
Google Search: how to email course
Google Search: sales page copywriter
Google Search: rich schefren negative
Google Search: adwords still good ?
Google Search: some easy online steps to make gold in wow (World of Warcraft?? How did that happen!)
Google Search: andrea yager
Google Search: the attention age doctrine part ii
Google Search: next internet millionaire trailer
Google Search: mailing marketing glossary 1
Google Search: adwords salary
Google Search: next internet millionaire reality show videosThis information may not excite you, but with the correct blog and a nice amount of traffic. it could be very powerful.
Since I started writing this post, I realized that feedburner also started offering these stats for free. I just turned them on, so I cant speak for them yet.
What cool sidebar features have you discovered, benefited from, recommend highly, or advise to avoid?
~~andrea
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- Aug 6th, 2007
- 21 Comments
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Fortunately and Unfortunately I need your help. The last few days my blog had some server issues and now that I am able to post, my baby decided to sleep 8 hours in a row last night (yah!), leaving me on the verge of a breast infection today (blah!). I am in pain, and waiting for the tylenol to do what it can. The added bonus – my car has no a/c and I live in the Middle East and I was out all day in 100F, so I am just barely alive. Can you help me finish my thoughts today (or buy me a new car !)?
Over dinner a few nights ago, there was a conversation between myself and Others who DONT get ‘the whole web thing’.
They agreed that when starting any new business venture, online or offline, solid good advice is to look around at others in your field, either in your ‘niche’ or just generally successful, and imitate them.
This is not to suggest common practice where I live – that you open a ‘felafel store’ next door to another ‘felafel store’ since they appear to be raking it in.
However, if you visualize the internet as it is.. the biggest strip mall EVER.. (you know what I mean by strip right?? I am out of the USA so long I just want to make sure this is the proper term! ).. that means we may all be opening up stores right ‘next to each other’ but the ENTIRE WORLD is our potential customer. That leaves plenty to go around, and room for very healthy competition!
The conversation continued…
Fine!! Agreed. Free Market Economy. Enough to go around. Snoop on your competitors, interview their friends and friends of their friends and milk them for details, do what you have to, but…
Why link to someone who is your competitor??
(Disclaimer – I cant shine the shoes of those ‘supposed competitors’ but a healthy self esteem cant hurt, eh?)
Reebok and Nike / Pepsi and Coke / Walmart and K-Mart – competitors for generations. Can you picture them helping the other out? That may have saved them a lot of Advertising money!
Naturally a Blog, with nothing to sell, except the persona behind it, cannot exist in a vacuum.
Are we reaching who we want/need to by reaching out to each other?
To be perfectly honest, I could be completely off here. As cathartic and enjoyable as I find blogging, it was (is?) intended to be another piece in the puzzle towards helping me reach my online goal$$. I am currently not in a position, with a young family, to be writing only for pleasure (of course it helps that it offers me pleasure). Are you?
How do YOU explain this unique online relationship?
P.S – as I was searching for my last link love…. check out this post (will open new window). How ironic to stumble across Garry’s post as I was writing mine..and frankly alittleLOT terrifying.
~~andrea
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