Top 5 Major Mistakes of Newbie Internet Marketers

Biggest Mistakes of Newbie Internet Marketers

A newbie Internet marketer without question, typically will make the following two mistakes automatically: 1) Not choosing a niche market to stick with it and 2) Not using keyword research as a general guide to construct their articles (or build their blog/website) and effectively use keyword phrases in the title and throughout the article...

Above and beyond losing focus or not concentrating ones efforts on a niche market which one is familiar with or where one can quickly gain a certain level of "expert" knowledge in order to write a substantial number of problem solving articles, a newbie affiliate marketer will also make the following major mistakes...

1. Following the latest greatest shiny object

Affiliate marketing is a business where you can make money, but beware that you will have to work for it...No matter how many people try to sell you a "magic button" or promise you that they "will do all of the work for you", I implore you to think about it logically...If it were truly a "magic button" that would make you rich beyond your wildest dreams overnight, would they share it with you???...Instead of following the herds of wishful thinkers that want easy money with no work, I advise you to use your head and save your money for investing in your business after you actually have a business to invest in...FREE and effective tips and tricks of the internet marketing trade can be found at Pat Flynn, Erica Stone and Ana Hoffman's websites...

2. Not knowing what's in your contract/affiliate agreement to make more money with Internet marketing

Newbie affiliate marketers tend to make fatal business decisions which limit/restrict their potential income streams...Rumor has it that "cloaking" your affiliate links will decrease your commissions/sales earned through both Amazon and ClickBank...There are many different opinions and recommendations on the subject...I think it is better to be safe than sorry, so avoid cloaking your affiliate links for those two affiliate programs and be sure to read the "fine print" for any other affiliate programs to make sure you are not in violation...I for one originally liked the idea of using Bitly to track clicks/traffic sources, but have since decided to discontinue using Bitly altogether...Also be aware that certain data from Amazon cannot be published on your site without using their Product Advertising API...A violation/breach of contract could be detrimental to your online internet marketing business...Also, AdSense Ads have restrictions on how many per page and placement within the page so beware of this too...

3. Not being organized in your approach to grow your online business

• You must have a plan...
• You must have a focus/niche market...
• You must test and track your marketing efforts to see what is working...
• You must capture and grow your list of like minded people that are interested in what you have to share so that you have the option of marketing your latest beneficial offer/product to them in the future...

 4. Mis-educating yourself about how to make extra money online and grow your business

   The best free resources for coming up to speed, in content creation, traffic generation and making sales, that I recommend are from the folks that i mentioned above...You can read their blogs and subscribe/opt-in to their email subscription lists so that you can receive their latest and greatest FREE tips, tricks and recommendations...While the best motivational book that I have read is "The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime"...




 5. Inaction or not enough of the right kind of action

   First of all if you do nothing, you will get nothing...Therefore you must take action...But what should you do and when???...Or how should you spend your time???...Having been at this for a while now, the word on the street is that you should spend most of your time promoting your website, your affiliate offer, your product or your brand...Say for instance that you decide to write an eBook (this is your digital product), you should take no more than two weeks to complete it and have it ready to market and sell for profits...After your product is completed, then the majority of your time and effort should be spent marketing your product...At the top of your sales funnel is where you should plan and execute a killer landing page, where you include a heart wrenching title that crystallizes the benefit that your product exudes in solving the problem of your potential buyer...A properly designed, well-written landing page with the best possible layout is critical to converting your traffic from visitors to buyers...So you will have to dedicate some time and effort in implementing a high-conversion landing page to make more money through product sales...





After your product is complete and your landing page is complete, you should spend 20% of your time on product development/refinement, 20% of your time on motivational education and 60% of your time promoting your product/offer...

Get started today on growing your online business by taking action...JUST DO IT!!!...

Have you have found this article about the biggest blunders or major mistakes that newbie internet marketers make to be beneficial???...


WAHM Shelley... :)

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6 Great Making Money Tools for WE 11/18/2011

Make More Money Online With These Business Building Tools!!!

WAHM Shelley is my name and making money is my game!!!...How do you like that rap???...Yeah, I know it's kinda corny...Well anyway, on to this week's finds...They include a new MLM opportunity for cellphones, two FREE automaters to leverage your time, an invaluable FREE eBook, FREE social media training and last but not least a revenue sharing website which you will absolutely love...

1) - Listwire FREE autoresponder - If you don't know by now, automating email communication with your contacts is essential to leverage your time so that you can spend more time on tasks that require your attention for quality control...Once you establish the best content for your correspondence based on keyword research, you will use your high-powered copywriting skills to educate your target audience and move them further along in your cash flow funnel so that they will convert easily when you present them with a problem solving opportunity/product...Cha-ching!!!



2) - FREE Twitter Tool: SocialOomph  - Boost your productivity by scheduling tasks on Twitter such as thanking followers that follow you and keeping an eye on your Twitter statistics...

3) - FREE eBook: Google Switch  - A 136 page eBook where David Schwind and Jim Yaghi first fill you in on their background, including their struggles to make money through internet marketing all the way to their "Ah-Ha" moments where everything started clicking for them...They detail eight FREE traffic generation methods and then give you blueprints for you to apply to your social media campaigns, SEO, etc...

4) - FREE Facebook Marketing Training  - Let The Facebook Marketing Queen show you how in six months she built her business to 6-figures...With over 800,000,000 active users on Facebook, you need to tap into this social media network to grow your business...Learn how to make money with Facebook today!!!...

5) - Sign up for a FREE Wizzley account  to profit from this revenue sharing website...Simply use keyword research to write high-quality unique articles which inspire readers so that you can make money online... Article marketing at its finest... Wizzley loads fast and your articles pubished there may even rank high through Google Search, because from what I understand Wizzley is a highly SEO optimized site that is super easy to use...Sign up today to make extra money now and build a residual passive income for your future...

6) - Cash Texts is in its infancy stage...But just so you will know, it is an MLM opportunity that will allow you to make money with your cellphone...Don't delay, be the first one amongst your friends to get signed up so that you can make money from them receiving text messages too!!!

That'll do ya for this week...Please be sure to check back next week for some great FREE business building tools...Hey why don't you leave a comment below to let me know if you find these posts beneficial to your online business for making more money online...

Quick Steps to Make Money Online

How to Make Money Online

Follow these steps to make money online:

1.  Gmail, Facebook and Twitter accounts are essential to your online business...You will use them to promote your articles/blogs...First you will need a Gmail account and then you will use that account to signup for both Facebook and Twitter...Choose usernames for all three accounts according to the niche market that you will be working with...In other words, you will need to start thinking about your business in terms of the customers that you are trying to help and/or what their problem is...Always use the best keywords or keyword phrases that represent your target audience...
   
    e.g. FREEdesktopbackgrounds4u@gmail.com being sure to include the best keywords for your niche

    e.g. healthadvice4u as a Facebook or Twitter user ID again being sure to include the best keywords for your niche

2.  Sign up for bitly service...You will shorten your URLs here and it will track them for you to let you know when someone clicks through one of them...Then you will use the shortened URLs for tweeting and adding URLs from Amazon Associates to your Best-Reviewer "top lists" for instance...

3.  Get your FREE MYCPS ebook to guide you on how to put your content and blog/website together...

4.  Get your Amazon Associates affiliate ID so that you can monetize your website/blog, plus your Wizzley and Best-Reviewer articles...

5.  Use this FREE Character count tool to check the number of words or characters that are in your articles...

6.  Go to Blogger to set up two to three FREE blogs (or as many blogs as you like) for posting articles and placing ads and affiliate links on for monetization...You will use one of these blogs to do exercises in article writing, according to James' method....Although I used the term "exercises" this is a REAL blog and this method will automatically generate traffic to your blog...Come up with a catchy name that will be a catch-all because you will be writing about a variety of topics (including sports, beauty, technology, computers, art and humanities)... Try to quickly write 20 articles only about 500 characters each (NOT WORDS)...Look at this blog, because I use James' method to populate it...The other 1-2 blogs will be about niche markets (e.g. flower arranging, basket weaving, making money on eBay, etc.)...So be sure to include as many keywords as you can in your blog name...

7.  Get a Wizzley account..Signup for this account to start writing articles...Simply go from the settings tab in your account page to apply for your revenue generating affiliations to start making money with your articles...The revenue generating affiliations and tools include:

•  Amazon Associates ID
•  AllPosters Website ID
•  Zazzle Associate ID
•  Google AdSense ID
•  Google AdSense Channel
•  Google Analytics

      Step-by-step guides are included for each of the above, right in the revenue section on your settings tab which is accessed from "My account" in the navigation bar at the top of the page...

8.  Get an InfoLinks account by applying once you have about 20 or so articles on one of your blogs/websites...You will need this account to monetize your blogs and possibly revenue sharing websites...

9.  Get a FREE Best-Reviewer membership  once you have your Google Adsense ID...You will then write "top lists" like the "The top 3 things you need when you get a new cat", "The top 5 places to get a cheesesteak sub/hoagie in Philadelphia" or "The top 20 baby boy names for 2011"...you will add links in your "top lists" to Amazon products from your Amazon Associates account or to your blogs as appropriate...In addition you can write a short article about a salary like "How much money does Martha Stewart make?" or "How much money does Bill Gates make?" or "How much money does Warren Buffet make?", etc...See a sample article here...

10. Signup for a FREE Squidoo account...Squidoo is a nice revenue sharing website where you can post articles while adding content from Amazon and eBay for monetization (no affiliate ids required, i think)...You will add links from your "lenses" to your blogs as appropriate...You can also add a RSS feed from your "top lists" on Best-Reviewer and your blogs...

11. Signup for YouSayToo to automatically bring traffic to your blogs, once the links are set up from YouSayToo to your blogs/websites...This is where most of my traffic comes from daily...You will add links (RSS feeds) from your blogs for backlinks...It automatically pulls content from your blog after you intall a little HTML code on your blog/website...

12. Get NetBlaze which is a proven system to drive FREE traffic to your blog/website...

13. Signup for a FREE Clickbank ID...On Clickbank you will find a ton of digital products to promote by placing banners all around on your blog/website and possibly some revenue sharing websites as well...

Use the above steps to jumpstart your online business by posting high-quality unique articles on your blog/website as well as the revenue sharing websites that I have listed above...Start making money online today and building a residual passive income for tomorrow by following these steps...

Top 8 FREE Business Building Resources for Your Blog WE 11/11/11 !!!

Make More Money online for FREE !!!

This week's resources/tools/websites which you can use to build your business are really wonderful...They include a few revenue sharing websites, a couple of FREE tools that you can use while you're drafting up your killer articles or posts, for your new online internet marketing business, a banging membership site that you will find to be invaluable for building your online marketing business and a tool that will help you track your social media marketing efforts...All in all, I am hoping that not only will this weekly update of FREEBIE must-haves will not only help you not only make more money online, but also help you to build a true residual passive income online...

The first three finds for this week are terrific for developing your content in your article marketing empire... Numbers 4, 5 and 8 are some of the best revenue sharing websites around...So, without further ado here's the "Top 8 List" for this week...


1) Before you begin writing your article or posts or even before you begin a new niche marketing venture, you must know what the keywords are that will pay you more money or convert your traffic from browsers to customers...That's where The Keyword Academy comes in...Even though the membership is reasonably priced, they offer you a FREE 30-Day trial of their system...They truly are teaching people how to make money online...The Keyword Academy provides a checklist for your first 100 hours of work with their blueprint system... The "First 100 HOurs" is what you will use to succeed at selecting keywords and building websites for your targeted niche...Their goal is to help as many people as they can to earn $1000 per month...Will you be next???...

2) The Google AdWords Tool is FREE to use, but you will need to sign up for a FREE account...The Keyword Academy  will teach you how to use this tool to select the keywords and keyword phrases that will help you make more money online...

3) FREE Word and Character Counter:  Just copy and paste your draft post or article into this tool from notepad and click either the "calculate words" or "calculate characters" button to find out if you have reached your goal...FYI, it is typically recommended to have your article lengths be at least 400-500 words long...

4) Best-Reviewer.com is one of the coolest AdSense revenue sharing websites around...James Colin has come up with a true gem with this one...You simply come up with your top ten (or so) list of things that you want to talk about and write a quick article about it...It is genius because from what I understand Google and perhaps the other search engines LOVE "Top Lists"...So you can expect a lot of traffic coming to Best-Reviewer.com for no other reason than this...So you just have to be crafty in selecting your topic or niche that you want to talk about and then be even more selective in choosing the right keywords and keyword phrases to get noticed by the search engines, to get more traffic and hence earn more money through ads on your "Top List"... So now just spring back up to the number one resource for this week for more on choosing the best keywords...

5) YouSayToo is really the best thing that's happened to my blogs this week, because just as they say it has increased traffic to my blogs...You consolidate your blogs there and you get more exposure and more money through revenue sharing from AdSense and Amazon Associates to boot...The best part for me is that I didn't have to go there and come up with new original content for YouSayToo, they just automatically feed directly from my blogs all the new posts as soon as they are published...Isn't that cool?...

6) Get your FREE Amazon Associates affiliate account here...Not only can you earn money through revenue sharing sites like InfoBarrel and YouSayToo, but you can build out your own stores and pick and choose to sell anything from the vast selection of products that are available on Amazon.com including: books, DVDs, toys, electronics, kitchen tools, food and spices, jewelry and much, much more...

7) Bitly is a great little tool that you will use for Twitter or anywhere that you like, and the basic account is FREE to use...It's easy to use too...You just sign up for your FREE account and then paste your long URLs into the box that says "Shorten your links and share from here" and then click the "Shorten" button...And then not only will your URL be shortened, but it will also be logged into your history link list where it will be tracked so that you will know exactly how many times it was clicked...It's convenient to use this tool to shorten your URL for the Twitter service because they only allow 140 characters...

8) Squidoo...need I say more...Well, I actually did already and if you missed it go here...


And that's a wrap for this week's Top 8 Business Building FREEBIES...Come back next week for another list of the top business building freebies...Have fun and make more money online with Shelley!!!

Squidoo Review...My new love !!!

Squidoo the "popular publishing platform and community" totally rocks !!!

Newbie that I am to internet marketing, I am going through all the bumps and bruises of starting a new online business...But with Squidoo, a revenue sharing website, I feel as though I have dug up pure gold...Yippee!!!...I'm the first to admit that I'm a lover not a fighter, but what's not to love about Squidoo...

Here are my Top 10 Facts and Figures About Squidoo for you to gnaw on:

1. They've been live on the internet since 2006...
2. As of October 2010 one million people visit Squidoo every day...
3. It's FREE to join Squidoo...No experience or website is required...
4. Not only can you get targeted traffic to your blog/website/offer...you can make extra money online with them too...
5. You can earn extra money from Amazon and eBay directly from your lenses (webpages) that you post there...
6. Many lensmasters (article contributors) earn more than $10,000 per year from creating great lenses...
7. You can choose to have your earnings paid to you in cash or donated to charity...
8. Squidoo has given over $500,000 for charities worldwide...
9. You can choose to be paid cash via paypal when your balance in your account reaches $1, $5, $10, $15, $20 or $50...Now, that's convenient to not have to wait for a particular day of the month...
10. You have creative freedom to write about any variety of topics like your favorite recipes, your favorite restaurants, your best vacation, your new car, how to commute from Montclair, NJ to Manhattan, how to install wordpress on your blog, your favorite authors/books, the best way to skin a fish, why your cat loves to take bath, your most memorable teacher, Mrs McDaniel that dressed like she just stepped out of time capsule from the early 70s, your list of Top 10 Pinky and the Brain episodes...you name it!!!...I think you get the picture (just don't make your content spammy)...

Squidoo is definitely my find of the week...No experience is necessary to make money with Squidoo and you don't even have to have a blog/website of your own... Do me a favor and visit my first ever lens here...And if you are interested in joining the Squidoo community click here!!!...And if you already are a member of Squidoo please make a comment and "Like" my lens while you are there...While you're here let us know if you've ever used Squidoo and what results you've gotten in the comments below...