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Affiliate Marketing Success Series: Why You Need an Online Home Base

why you need an online home base

Way back in the olden days, you know, a few years ago, you could be a successful affiliate marketer just running ads. You could buy some google ads, and send people directly to the product page and they would buy. While that strategy has some huge flaws it worked. Today that is no longer the … Continue reading

The Google + Experiment

The Google plus experiment

So I’m running a little experiment this week. I was going to keep it a secret and just tell you the results, but I thought it might be even more fun if I had a few readers who were willing to play with me, and then we could compare our results. A little background. 1. … Continue reading

Blog Workshop: How to Keep Blogging When Life Gets In The Way

#blogworkshop how to keep blogging even when life gets in the way.

As a blogger you’re going to run into times when life just gets in the way of your blog. However, there are ways to handle it so your blog doesn’t suffer, and your business continues to flourish. Today’s #blogworkshop is all about tips to keep you blogging even when life gets in the way.   … Continue reading

Building a Content Creation and Curation Plan That Works

content and curation plan

I don’t like being stifled by a schedule. And I’ve come to know it’s important to have a plan. There’s a fine line between being stifled by a schedule and creating a plan that works for you. Having a plan is crucial because it can take all the “thinking” out of your day. There have … Continue reading

3 Tips to Create Profitable Product Reviews

3 tips to create profitable product reviews

Welcome back to another episode of the Affiliate Marketing Success series! Today we’re talking about product reviews. Whether you’ve got a regular array of products you normally promote, or you’re an amazon affiliate promoting a lot of different things these tips will help you take your product reviews to the next level. 3 Tips to … Continue reading

Social Media Editorial Calendar and Automatic Sharing: CoSchedule Review

coschedule review

For the longest time I’ve had this BIG problem with my blog… the archives. Today I’m writing my 361st post on this blog… and only heaven knows how many posts I’ve written on other blogs over the course of my blogging career. I’ve got some really really good stuff… in the archives. The problem is, … Continue reading

Blogger’s Workshop: Simple Social SEO

blog workshop: simple social seo

I used to be the SEO Queen. I spent hours and hours creating backlinks, jumping through hoops trying to make friends with Google so they’d send me some traffic. And then the animals came… Panda, Penguin… and who remembers who else and everything changed. It’s absolutely Google’s right to make changes to their algorithm. It’s … Continue reading

Cookie Cutters Are For Cookies. Your Blog Is Not a Cookie.

When you make a decision to start blogging, and jump off the deep end and create an income online it can be scary. Scratch that. It IS scary. There’s a whole new language to learn. There’s tons of technical stuff you’ve got to figure out… and then a bunch of different social media platforms?! Yes… … Continue reading