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Write You - Think: Your Affiliate Program Fortune is in Your Pockets
Why not give the following quiz to your management staff. It will give you an idea of their understanding and application of some of the critical issues, concepts and techniques that have an impact on their performance and success as managers. If you feel your team could benefit from an in-depth custom in-house management training program, please give me a call. I will be happy to discuss a custom curriculum for your staff with you.Other quizzes are also available on the following topics: Customer Service, Relationships, Sales, Happiness, Success, MotivationSee the end of this quiz for the answers1. You should always praise in________________________________________________________2. Listening is the most important management skill: True/False.3. Most managers spend too little time planning. True/False.4. You should always discipline in___________________________
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History sec
Color is one of the most difficult parts of a design to show accurately to a client.Color perception can be affected by many factors, including:Human perception:The way each person sees color can vary, depending on the structure of the individual's eye. This is particularly true in the range of the color blue. Colorblindness is another factor in an individual's perception of color, which can be either very slight (and almost unnoticeable to an individual) or quite severe.Colors can also impact each other when placed side by side - either through reflection or as a visual illusion. To demonstrate this, hold a piece of bright-colored paper or object next to a white piece of paper near a sunny window. The white paper will take on some of the color, to become a pastel shade of the bright color. Home computer and printing technology:The average computer monitor will sh
You have a 9-5, which, with the commute and headaches, has turned into more like a 7:30-6:30. You maybe have kids, a spouse, a dog, a car to repair, and a leaky faucet. You have yard-work, housework, homework, and work-work.
However, you understand that people are making money online. You think that you could create a small fortune through affiliate programs, if only you could make it fit in your schedule. You understand some of the basic concepts of setting up a web site. You have an idea for a site focusing on something you know a lot about. You’re pretty familiar with making sure your META tags match page content, and you’ve learned about getting traffic to your site. You know that you can get traffic, because you have a unique perspective or approach to the topic of your site. You might also at some point think about selling some of your own products alongside the affiliate links you have (or would like to) set up.
So, where will you find the time to run a site, find affiliate programs, give your visitors great content to read, and begin to create your Internet fortune?
The answer is in your thinking. Your thinking has to help you realize that the fortune is not yet in your wallet. The fortune is, however, already in your pockets. I’ll say that again. The fortune is ALREADY sitting in your pockets.
How can your fortune be in your pockets? Your fortune is in the pockets of TIME you have. You have ten minutes here, and twenty minutes there. You have time while the pot is on the stove boiling water, and you have time while you’re waiting for your kids at their soccer practice.
You have pockets of time, and if you ever want to have more than just pockets of time, you must learn to use the pockets you do have more effectively, starting today.
(This has as much to do with planning your life as it does building a successful and income-producing web site. You can take this skill and apply it all over the place for anything you want to accomplish.)
So how can you use your pockets effectively?
#1. Decide
Make a decision that you are going to work on this project for at least 15 minutes each day, no matter what (you can take two days/week off). You can work more than that, but you must work at least 15 minutes every day on your site. Decide that you are going to make this site become reality within 6 months. (Be realistic with yourself. If you’re only working 15 minutes/day, 6 months is a realistic goal.)
#2. Take action in the right direction
Begin with the end in mind. You have heard this before, but maybe you’ve never applied it. I’m saying to you now that you should read this article, and then apply the principle. Begin with the end in mind. Take 15 minutes/day for the next 5 days. Get your plan on paper. Figure out what you want your site to look like. Look at the general layout. Keep it simple, so that you can design it, or explain to someone else how to design it. Lay out so that anyone can easily navigate to any page of the site from any other part of the site. Put it on paper first. Have friends (and even strangers if you like) review your site plan. Ask for their honest feedback. Don’t be offended if they tell you that you might try changing some things. Take what works and leave out what doesn’t. Decide on a color scheme. Color is very important in marketing products.
Here is the hazard of not beginning with the end in mind: You will spend hours of time working on completely unrelated projects, surfing the Internet, and reviewing affiliate programs which will not fit into the layout of your site. (Not having a layout for your site would be like climbing a ladder that you couldn’t see the top of, but you thought would lead somewhere good, only to realize once you reached the top that your ladder wasn’t even leaning against the right wall.) Start with the big picture of what you want your site to look like, and work from that plan.
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History sect
When one looks back on twenty years or more of their life there is no doubt they can point to at least one opportunity that if they had taken it they would be substantially better off financially today.I've known plently of "if only" moments. I can think back to when I was a teenager in school in the mid-80's. The stock market was going crazy and every one, even high school students such as myself were interested in stocks and what the market was doing. For those of you who never went through this craze watch the film Wall Street and it will give you an idea. During one of these discussion one of the computer nerds (computers like the apple IIE), starting sprouting on about a guy called Bill Gates who had just left apple to start his own company. My friend (Dwayne) said that he had done well at apple and was a code guru and that he would be a person to watch. He suggested that if this guy was start
So, where will you find the time to run a site, find affiliate programs, give your visitors great content to read, and begin to create your Internet fortune?
The answer is in your thinking. Your thinking has to help you realize that the fortune is not yet in your wallet. The fortune is, however, already in your pockets. I’ll say that again. The fortune is ALREADY sitting in your pockets.
How can your fortune be in your pockets? Your fortune is in the pockets of TIME you have. You have ten minutes here, and twenty minutes there. You have time while the pot is on the stove boiling water, and you have time while you’re waiting for your kids at their soccer practice.
You have pockets of time, and if you ever want to have more than just pockets of time, you must learn to use the pockets you do have more effectively, starting today.
(This has as much to do with planning your life as it does building a successful and income-producing web site. You can take this skill and apply it all over the place for anything you want to accomplish.)
So how can you use your pockets effectively?
#1. Decide
Make a decision that you are going to work on this project for at least 15 minutes each day, no matter what (you can take two days/week off). You can work more than that, but you must work at least 15 minutes every day on your site. Decide that you are going to make this site become reality within 6 months. (Be realistic with yourself. If you’re only working 15 minutes/day, 6 months is a realistic goal.)
#2. Take action in the right direction
Begin with the end in mind. You have heard this before, but maybe you’ve never applied it. I’m saying to you now that you should read this article, and then apply the principle. Begin with the end in mind. Take 15 minutes/day for the next 5 days. Get your plan on paper. Figure out what you want your site to look like. Look at the general layout. Keep it simple, so that you can design it, or explain to someone else how to design it. Lay out so that anyone can easily navigate to any page of the site from any other part of the site. Put it on paper first. Have friends (and even strangers if you like) review your site plan. Ask for their honest feedback. Don’t be offended if they tell you that you might try changing some things. Take what works and leave out what doesn’t. Decide on a color scheme. Color is very important in marketing products.
Here is the hazard of not beginning with the end in mind: You will spend hours of time working on completely unrelated projects, surfing the Internet, and reviewing affiliate programs which will not fit into the layout of your site. (Not having a layout for your site would be like climbing a ladder that you couldn’t see the top of, but you thought would lead somewhere good, only to realize once you reached the top that your ladder wasn’t even leaning against the right wall.) Start with the big picture of what you want your site to look like, and work from that plan.
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History sec
The idea of a resume is a, seemingly, simple one; we all understand the purpose. The problem doesn't appear until you actually start writing it. Then, the purpose seems to fade away in a series of clich?s and odd phrases. Few people can write a good resume. Most can craft a serviceable one and some... They cannot craft anything. For those unable to create anything remotely resembling a resume, the best hope for success is to use a resume writing service.A resume writing service can provide anything form helpful tips to actually forming your resume. They offer professional staff members, ones accustomed to catching the attention of employers. These men and women understand how difficult it is to stand out amongst the mass of applicants, so they help you create a resume that is the ideal showcase for your talents.Of course, there are two disadvantages to using resume writing services. One is obvious
So how can you use your pockets effectively?
#1. Decide
Make a decision that you are going to work on this project for at least 15 minutes each day, no matter what (you can take two days/week off). You can work more than that, but you must work at least 15 minutes every day on your site. Decide that you are going to make this site become reality within 6 months. (Be realistic with yourself. If you’re only working 15 minutes/day, 6 months is a realistic goal.)
#2. Take action in the right direction
Begin with the end in mind. You have heard this before, but maybe you’ve never applied it. I’m saying to you now that you should read this article, and then apply the principle. Begin with the end in mind. Take 15 minutes/day for the next 5 days. Get your plan on paper. Figure out what you want your site to look like. Look at the general layout. Keep it simple, so that you can design it, or explain to someone else how to design it. Lay out so that anyone can easily navigate to any page of the site from any other part of the site. Put it on paper first. Have friends (and even strangers if you like) review your site plan. Ask for their honest feedback. Don’t be offended if they tell you that you might try changing some things. Take what works and leave out what doesn’t. Decide on a color scheme. Color is very important in marketing products.
Here is the hazard of not beginning with the end in mind: You will spend hours of time working on completely unrelated projects, surfing the Internet, and reviewing affiliate programs which will not fit into the layout of your site. (Not having a layout for your site would be like climbing a ladder that you couldn’t see the top of, but you thought would lead somewhere good, only to realize once you reached the top that your ladder wasn’t even leaning against the right wall.) Start with the big picture of what you want your site to look like, and work from that plan.
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History sec
Your resume is your sales letter. It may not get you the job. But it must get you an interview. The resume should be written to arouse the interest of the employer so that you get your appointment for an interview. This is the primary purpose of a resume. Here are ten golden rules to follow in creating a very powerful resume.1. While writing a resume you should keep in mind that it is written with the purpose of getting a specific job. This will focus your resume on the requirements of the job and then match your experience and abilities to fulfill the requirements of the job.2. A powerful resume will be concise and to the point. Care must be taken not to include anything that comes to mind and it is not essential to include everything about you. It is not your autobiography. Every line, every word needs to be evaluated whether they are highly relevant to the job description. You onl
Here is the hazard of not beginning with the end in mind: You will spend hours of time working on completely unrelated projects, surfing the Internet, and reviewing affiliate programs which will not fit into the layout of your site. (Not having a layout for your site would be like climbing a ladder that you couldn’t see the top of, but you thought would lead somewhere good, only to realize once you reached the top that your ladder wasn’t even leaning against the right wall.) Start with the big picture of what you want your site to look like, and work from that plan.
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History sec
Last week I took our two boys on an all guy vacation to the Nickelodeon Family Suites Hotel in Orlando. It's the only one of it's kind in the world, with two separate mini-water parks on site, with a mall in the middle.We had a blast, and I may never be completely dry again!One of the features that really intrigued me was the 400 gallon bucket that was on top of one of the multiple water slides (picture a giant jungle gym with multiple water slides). Water poured into the bucket and each time it filled up, the bucket would dump 400 gallons of water down on the slides, soaking everyone, especially if you were right beneath.As a matter of fact, if you are right under it, you need to be sure that your bathing suit is securely attached to your body, or else you could lose it, as more than one person did.What does this have to do with private practice marketing?Well, this was not t
#3. 15 per day
Working on it 15 minutes/day, it probably will take 6 months to put together a quality site, so break down the larger project into 15 minute pieces. Work the plan and the design backwards. A good-sized site with lots of content could be about 100 pages. Let’s say you’re building a site about, oh, I don’t know… let’s say baseball bats. (It’s an example for purposes of this article.)
Your site might be broken up into 4 sections like:
History of Baseball bats
Types of baseball bats
The baseball bats of famous players
Reviews and places to buy baseball bats online
Each of these sections might have 22-25 pages each. So here’s how you break it down:
Month 1:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the History section
Month 2:
Every day, you’re going to create the content for 1 page in the Types section
…and so on.
At this point, all you have done is taken 15 minutes/day to write a short article about some aspect of the larger section. Anyone can find or make 15 minutes of time every day, if this is truly something that they want to do.
At the end of four months, writing 1 page/day, you will have written between 80-100 pages worth of content for your site.
Now you might be thinking that you don’t have 100 pages worth of content to write. That’s fine. Take the first two months, develop a 35-50 page site, and then spend 15 minutes/day researching, finding affiliate programs, and getting relevant links into your site. Just use your pockets of time effectively.
#4. Bring it all together
You’re now in month 5, and you’re realizing how valuable your pockets really are, because you’ve created a great site about baseball bats (or whatever you want to create a site about), and you’ve done it in the pockets of time you had. Now it’s time to take 15 minutes/day, and make sure everything is working right, that your pages are aesthetically pleasing, and that people can get around easily on your site. You will also be using these 15 minutes/day to find affiliate programs for your chosen topic, add the links to your site, make sure everything is running well, and then get your site up online.
#5. Continue the process
In month 6, getting traffic to your site will be where you spend your 15 minutes every day. (How to get links and what kinds of sites you trade links with will be reserved for another time, but continue the pocket principle.)
Use the pockets of time you have, and rather than watching someone else on TV build their dream, start building your own dream through online business. You can do it if you realize that you do have small pockets of time, and then use the time in your pockets. If you’re willing to do the work to make it happen, and are disciplined enough to build pages and write content no matter what, you will be successful. In short, you have got to start making your pockets more valuable.
Thank-you for spending the fortune of your last 10 minute pocket reading my article. I hope it helps you be more effective at Internet affiliate marketing, and that you can apply these ideas and the process elsewhere in your life.
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