Stop worrying about what others think of your writing

Your high school teacher is not reading your articles and grading them as they are published. Push aside any criticism that you have experienced in the past and just write something. Start with writing about a subject you are extremely knowledgeable on. Don’t say I don’t know about anything, there is some hobby that you have or had in the past which you can write about. Did you play hockey growing up? Write about your favorite hockey stick. Were you in debate? Write something about debating. What movie did you go and see on Saturday night? Write a movie review. No matter what you think, there is something we are all an expert on and that is ourselves.

Get off of the computer, especially the internet

Getting off the of the computer and writing the old fashioned way has really helped me spit out content for my articles along with clearing my mind to make my writing better. Over the past few days I have spit out almost 10 pages of written content to use in future articles. The internet is a distraction, getting off the computer and putting pen to paper will help your ideas flow much better. You will also forget about keyword optimizing, SEO, and all of that other jazz. To make this really work you need to grab your notebook and move to a different room. I prefer to go outside and get out of the house but where you go is totally up to you.

Buy your articles

Buying your content is always and option if you have some money to invest, but the reality is, most of us don’t have any extra money which is why you are affiliate marketing in the first place. You should still learn about article writing because you need to know if what you paid for is really worth your money. I recommend at least writing 5 articles on your own before doing this, just so you know what it is like.

Have a support system

A support system to get you through your writer’s block is essential. If you’re like me, you’re spouse doesn’t know what the heck you do with all of your time online and trying to explain it to them is like trying to explain how an A-Bomb works. Hopefully, they at least support your efforts and see what could become of what you are doing. You still probably want a support system of peers where you can go and ask questions and get answers quickly without the whole scientific explanation. I have found this place at Wealthy Affiliate.

I hope you have found this post helpful in pushing through your own fears of writing. If you have any tips you’d like to add, please comment below. I read about what other people are doing.

Originally posted 2009-06-11 07:33:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Of course, coming up with a subject when thinking of making money is difficult, especially when you are getting started. If this sounds like you, then stop thinking about making money and go start a Squid Who lens about yourself. Don’t worry about what everyone thinks, just start writing about your life. Where did you grow up? What’s your favorite restaurant? What do you do in your free time? Once you get started writing, you will be shocked about how fast the words flow out of your fingers, through the keyboard, and onto the screen.

I have three reasons for suggesting an about me lens to start. First of all, you are writing about something you know really well, yourself. Secondly, you will be getting a feel for how setting up a basic lens works. In order to publish your lens, you will need at least 4 modules with content in them, but this really isn’t difficult. Use a Amazon module to feature your favorite books or games, add a guestbook module, a text mod or two can contain your autobiography info, and a Twitter mod can be used to let people know where to find you on Twitter. My third reason for suggesting this is you will come up with at least three more subjects that you know a lot about; write these down while you are making  your lens so you don’t forget them. These ideas are what you are going to make a lens on next.

While you are working on this, don’t worry about making it pretty, just get the lens done as a start. Once you are done, hit the publish button and you now have your first lens published. It is truly that easy.

Now that you have published your first lens, feel free to take a peak around the Squidoo Answer Deck and find out all of the cool things you can do for your lens. Don’t get too caught up here though, you have many more Squidoo lenses to write and get published.

Learn more about lens creation with this free Squidoo guide.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by.

Originally posted 2009-06-08 06:33:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2009-06-06 13:13:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I’m not going to tell you my niches, but I do have to say that the two niches I have been working in so far have really helped me in my every day life. When I chose these niches, I knew one would benefit me, but the other one really surprised me once I started doing my research. Throughout the whole process in both niches I have learned tips to make me a better person and help out my husband as well, sometimes he knows I’m helping him and sometimes he doesn’t.

I just wanted to share the idea with you that while you are writing your articles for bum marketing you may learn something to help you out in your business or every day life and I think this is just a side benefit of affiliate marketing.

Originally posted 2009-09-02 21:47:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I love the quote that PotPieGirl promotes on the homepage of her blog:

“If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t, you can do for a lifetime what other CAN’T!”

I like this quote because it’s inspirational and makes it think of where I would like to take my making money online efforts.

Since I started this blog a week ago, I’ve been thinking what I would like to use as a quote for myself and my blog. I tried to think of inspiring things and such, but that’s just not me. I kept on coming back to a saying that my dad always said to me growing up. It’s not inspirational, but it’s to the point and I think it really fits the making money online scene.

“Wish in one hand and poop in the other; see which one fills up faster!”

That’s my quote and I’m sticking to it.

Here’s why I think it’s fitting. Many people that are trying to make money online start out trying to find the pie in the sky, get rich overnight solution. Well, I hate to tell you this, but a solution like this doesn’t exist. You can just keep wishing for a solution like this, but you’d be better off saving your money and playing the lottery; the odds are that much against you.

So, stop wishing and start doing; odds are that your poopless hand that you wished in will start to fill up.

What have you done today to fill your wishing hand?

Originally posted 2009-05-31 15:17:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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It took me about 6 months of resiting before I signed up for Wealthy Affiliate and then I paid for it another couple of months before I really started visiting the site and forum regularly. Looking back, I have to wonder what the heck I was smoking because it’s the best money that I’ve ever spent. Other forums that I have belonged to were either too difficult to get an answer out of or they treated you like a total “noob” for asking such a silly question. This meant that I didn’t participate and wasted my money.

Just the other day I was in the forum talking about my fear of writing an Ezinearticle and someone popped in like a teacher giving me homework, expecting me to have an article submitted to Ezine the very next day. This hit just the right button for me because the “employee” in me is so used to having to answer to someone. I went right out, wrote that article and submitted it, no questions asked. Any other forum that I’ve been a member of would have either chastised me or ignored me.

So, more about this $1 trial. You get full access to all of the tools that are available to regular members which means the forum, link tracking tools, article spinner, keyword research, uploaded tutorials that other members have submitted, and Niche Q. Niche Q is actually the reason that I finally signed up, each month there is access to a fully researched niche with articles, emails, landing pages and more. I have been so busy with other things that I haven’t even had a chance to get into any of these niches yet. The research that goes into these niches is extremely thorough and you will have access one of your choice with your trial membership. The info you are given can be downloaded to your hard drive, so even if you choose to cancel before your 7 days is up, you will still have this valuable information which is definitely worth the $1 you’ll be spending on the trial. I have signed up for similar trials in the past for more than $1 and I didn’t even get access to the forums, so I felt like I couldn’t make an informed decision and I canceled.

If you think Wealthy Affiliate is a ripoff once you have tried it, then all you have to do is cancel. Feel free to come back and leave a comment here telling me how dumb I am as well. If you don’t want to miss June 1st for this $1 trial, then visit Wealthy Affiliate and sign up for the free report, I hope you will be happy that you did.

Originally posted 2009-05-25 13:34:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I often wonder what would have happened if I had just stuck with things 8 years ago and stayed the course, but dwelling on the past will not get me to where I want to be in the future and I hope you are starting to think the same way.

Since 2001, I have strayed along the way with many “get rich quick” schemes and sites, but it seemed that I just never got the hint, “nothing worth doing comes easy or cheap”. If you take anything away from this site, I hope you learn this lesson because it will save you a lot of money.

I am just a normal person like you and I do not make enough online to call affiliate marketing my career yet, but I am finally serious about putting the time and effort in to make this work. I hope you’ll join me and learn something along the way.

Originally posted 2009-05-25 06:14:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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In case you are skeptical, I will not be charging anything for the setup services, as long as you sign up through one of the links offered on the page and then let me know that you did this through my contact form. I will make money as a commission from your monthly hosting fees, but I will never ask you for anything to set your site up.

As of today I have added Wealthy Affiliate as an option for my services. In case you didn’t know, WA offers hosting with their monthly fee and if you are a member, to not take advantage of the hosting services offered is just crazy since you are paying for it.

That’s all I have for now, I’ve been pretty busy working on a couple of projects, but I will make sure to post when I think of some other worthwhile subjects.

Until later,

Originally posted 2009-08-22 12:28:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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The last time I posted the IM world was buzzing with eBay confirming that we would no longer be able to post eBay affiliate links on sites not owned by us. This news was announced in May, but I think many of us were taking a “wait and see” approach to see if Squidoo, Blogger, Hubpages, and other similar sites would be included. Unfortunately, this was confirmed and many of us were left scrambling to get our eBay RSS feeds and links changed on many Lenses, Hubs, and blogs.

I had been trying to work out a way to use Wordpress and some plugins to offer feeds from a site that I owned to use on my Squidoo lenses. I found a way that worked in theory, but I found myself editing the feed.php file as well as adding many other things to the core code of Wordpress. I don’t mind doing this, but remembering what I added manually to the code is always a project for me when it comes to upgrading and then things tend to break which isn’t good.

In the end, the idea is working and I am using some of these feeds from a site that I own to power the RSS feeds offered on Squidoo, but everytime I pull from eBay to my Wordpress site it is counting as a click which I’m sure eBay won’t be happy with. What I really need is to develop a plugin to do this or suck it up and buy PHPBay, but both of these are out of the question right now as my time and funds are limited. I will be adding something like this to my list of future projects though because it would be a great learning experience for me.

After I realized what was happening with the feeds I was using, I finally just went back to basics and started using the eBay Squidoo module that is offered for lenses. It’s not the best way to go as far as my affiliate revenue goes, but I’ll just have to build more similar lenses to make up for the difference. Besides, using my method will also cause more problems in the near future with a bloated database forming as well as a huge cache that I’ll have set up a cron job to empty automatically. My method would have also possibly caused some server overload if I had continued to use it for every lens that I had built.

In the end the best way for me to change all of my eBay links on Squidoo was to just get back to basics and use the Squidoo eBay module provided. Not that I worry a ton about lensrank, but my lenses will benefit from using the Squidoo eBay module because the clickouts and purchases will be registered through Squidoo and my lensrank on these lenses should get a boost over time. This is probably my way of putting a positive spin on something that could be a negative which my friends tell me is one of my best qualities.

Did you use a different method for your lenses and sites? If you feel comfortable enough, please share it here.

Originally posted 2009-08-05 11:28:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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As you know, I have been selling on eBay since 2004. Over the years they have made many changes forcing sellers to change their business model, websites, listing template, about me pages, and many other things. Every time a change was announced I went to the Powersellers forum to see if I could find information to lead me in the right direction. All I ever found in that forum was a bunch of people complaining about the change and how it was going to kill their business. Reading information like this is like a cancer for someone just starting out online and even for someone with a lot of experience. Many times reading all of these negative posts would make me anxious and I wouldn’t do anything but the bare minimum to run my business for days or even weeks. I’m sure you can imagine how this affected me.

Even if you don’t sell physical products, you can experience this anxiety. Recently, there was the recent Squidoo announcement and now this week there was an announcement at EPN. If you use direct eBay RSS feeds on your lenses linking directly to eBay, you will no longer be able to use this method of monetization on your lenses. This is a huge blow for me because the lenses where I link directly to eBay have been my main source of affiliate income recently.

As far as I can tell, you will still be able to use the eBay module on Squidoo to link to eBay because EPN has considered them a social networking model and not a revenue sharing module. You will still lose about half of your earnings because you will have to share them with Squidoo, but it’s better than losing a whole revenue source.

I am currently working on another option for those looking to build their own site, but still have eBay RSS feeds available on their Squidoo lenses. It will take a little front end setup, but you will be on your way to building your own website where you will own your own content.  I will be posting more on this method later this week once I am sure any bugs are worked out.

Meanwhile, I’d like to advise you not to freak out and keep working on your campaigns or making changes to keep you in compliance with all of the changes we’ve had to keep up with on Squidoo and other sites recently. Stay away from forum posts where there is a lot of negative energy because you will catch this bad energy. If you feel yourself getting anxious, just go do something else for the time being to get your mind off of things then come back to the computer once your mind has cleared.

I’d like to wish all of you a successful week.

Originally posted 2009-07-19 11:59:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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