If you want to be successful with your online business, you must be able to adapt. If you are not able to adapt, your business will die. I can understand the fear that many people go through when things change because I have been there.

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

Happy 4th of July to all of my US readers. This is just a fun post about internet marketing ADD that I promised a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy.

1. You own 50 domains that you have purchased on a whim. Only 6 of them are being used for anything.

2.  Your hard drive is littered with software that you just had to have because someone told you that it was needed.

3. You have 10 charges from “CLKBANK” on your credit card every month from all of the new latest and greatest making money online programs from the month.

4. Google sends you a thank you card every month for spending so much money with them.

5. You have 10 article drafts started, but you just can’t figure out how to finish them.

6. You have 10 Squidoo lenses in Work In Process because they were great ideas at the time, but you haven’t finished them. I am so guilty of this.

7. You’ve signed up for so many social bookmarking sites, you can’t remember the passwords.

If this sounds like you, decide what you are really going to focus on and just do it.

Once again, please have a safe 4th of July. While you’re spending time with friends and family, think like a marketer and you will more than likely have a great idea for the next niche you’d like to work on.

Originally posted 2009-07-03 18:21:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

First of all, I should probably start with a disclaimer that Internet Marketing ADD (I may refer to this as IMADD for short sometimes) is not a real medical disorder, but it is a term that I thought up a couple of days ago to describe what many people go through when they start affiliate marketing. IMADD often occurs after you have been working on a project for a while with no results, instead of trying to figure out why you are not getting results, you decide that there has to be an easier way to get to your goal and you start searching for a pie in the sky again.

The other night I found myself having an occurance of IMADD when I found myself researching a PPC technique that I had learned about on Wealthy Affiliate. When I really started working at WA I had decided that I cannot afford PPC at this point in time so I was going to work on some article and bum marketing to get some cash flow going. This weekend I found myself in a little dip because some of the Squidoo lenses that I had built were not indexed yet and I found myself looking for a way to make money faster. I spent a lot of valuable time that I could have used writing articles or building lenses and in the end I only landed up with two small PPC campaigns out of 5 hours of time.

I’m still a little slow at article writing, but I could have written at least 3 original articles during this period of time and had a good start on a new lens expanding on my current series. At the end of the day when I was wondering where my time went I realized that I had suffered from another bout of IMADD and vowed that I would be getting back on track this week.

The only real cure for IMADD is success, but realizing the symptoms when they start will save you a lot of money in the long run. I was lucky this time because the report I was reading was already part of my Wealthy Affiliate membership fee so I didn’t spend anything extra learning about this particular PPC method.

My next post will be a list of all of the symptoms that pop up when I see internet marketing ADD start, but I’d like to hear about your struggles and successes with overcoming IMADD.

Originally posted 2009-06-24 06:46:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter