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According to the bestselling author Malcom Gladwell it takes about 10,000 hours doing something in order to become a master or expert at it. That equates to working on your craft 8 hours a day 365 days a year for about 3 and a half years. Three and a half years is not a long time but making that kind of time commitment is unrealistic to many of us. We have jobs, children and a host of many other obligations that keeps us from making that kind of commitment.

Even though you might not have that kind of time to commit to your craft, you can take as long as you need in order to limit the hours a day perfecting your craft…even if it takes 5 or 6 years, it will be well worth it. With that being said there are a number of things you can do that will get you closer to becoming an expert in your craft or business venture.

One of the first things you should do is commit to working on your craft EVERYDAY. You may not be able to put in 8 hours a day, but if you work on it everyday it will become engrained in your subconscious. This allows you to work more with your natural instincts with less effort. Try and get at least a half hour to 45 minutes everyday. You’ll be surprised at the progress you’ll make.

Schedule your work hours and stick to them. And when things come up (which they always do), make sure you re-schedule the work you were supposed to do to a later time in that day, in order to keep your schedule. Bottomline, just make sure you get in your work every single day.

The next thing I want to talk about will have a Vast affect on getting you to your goal of mastering your craft. I wnat to show you this strategy by using this story as an example of how it works. This story may seem like I’m getting away from the subject that we’re talking about, but the principals of the strategy can be used at perfecting your craft.

The Strategy That Turned a Failing Company Into a Dynasty

This story is about a steel corporation. The name of this corporation was Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The company was run by a man named Charles Schwab. Mr. Schwab wanted to know how he could run his business more efficiently and profitable.

Charles hired a consultant named Ivy Lee. He made a deal with the consultant that stipulated that if Ivy could make his company more profitable, he would pay him a hefty fee…but if he couldn’t, he wouldn’t pay him a red cent. to make a long story short, Ivy didn’t come back to Charles with balance sheets and data statistics like Charles thought he would. He came back with a simple plan that Charles thought any moron could have come up with. But he figured, I may as well try it…if it dosen’t work, I don’t have to pay him…I’m not out anything. This is the stategy Ivy came up with. He handed Mr. Schwab a blank piece of paper and instructed him to take 15 minutes and write down a list of jobs he needed to do or improve that would make his company run more profitable and effiencient. When Mr. Schwab finished he asked him a question. “If you could only get one of these tasks done today, which one would it be”? Mr Schwab went down the list and picked one. After that Ivy told him to do the same thing over and over until the list had nothing left on it. Mr. Schwab took another 20 minutes completing the instructions Ivy told him to do. Ivy then told him, “Starting tomorrow, make sure you don’t leave your office until you’ve completed every task on your list in the order that you have them”….”And make sure you do this complete process every night before you go to bed in order to have the task you need to complete the next day”. Needless to say Charles Schwab ended up paying Ivy Lee a pretty hansome fee…and was quoted as saying, “This was the greatest business advice anyone has ever givin me”.

Behtlehem Steel Corporation went on to become the second-largest steel producer and largest ship builder in America. And it was all because of what seemed like a simple to-do-list that Ivy Lee the consultant introduced to Charles Schawb.

You can apply this same strategy to master and become an expert in your craft. And if you don’t get through all the items on your list on a certain day, just carry them over to the next day. At the end of the year you’ll find that you’ve accomplished more by incorporatinnng this method than you could have using any other.

Moving on, I’d like to show you 4 ways to get you as near to mastering your craft as possible. The first way is…

Learn something new everyday

You should practice mastering the basics. The best way to do that is to break down the basics into smaller segments and master each segment one at a time. Before you know it, you’ll have mastered all the basics. Then you want to make sure you don’t go one day without learning something new about your craft. This way you’ll be learning your business from the ground up so to speak.

Take the example of how McDonalds train their managers. Sure they send them through their training. But when they start at a franchise, they don’t start as a manager…they start at the bottom (fries). Just like the way a CEO of a company starts his/her son at the bottom of the company before they put them in an executive position….this way they’ll know the business inside out.

In many cases, mastering a craft is an ongoing learning experience. So always keep yourself in an ongoing learning mindset. This is especially true in this age of modern technology.

10,000 Hours

As stated before, statistics show that it takes approximately 10,000 hours at working at something to become a master at it…which would take you about 3 and a half years if you worked on it 8 hours a day for 365 days.I’m sure you might be saying to yourself, “Man, thats a lot of days and hours”. But don’t look at it like that. Just like a house is built one brick at a time, that’s how you should look at building your business. Maybe it might take you longer than three and a half years to becoming a master at your craft. So what. If you have a legitimate business venture you should stay commited to it anyway. Before you know it, your business will become second nature to you because it will become ingrained in your subconscious…and you will be considered a master at your craft.

Be Patient

Nothing worth doing is easy, everything takes a proccess. If you want to master anything, you have to go through a process…which is a learning process. The legendary singer Diana Ross once said”If it were easy, anybody could do it”. Don’t think for once that famous musicians came out the womb playing their instuments. They had to learn the scales and practice before they mastered their instruments. When you see them in concert, you don’t see all the hours they had to practice to get as good as they are. Learning is a process and most people don’t want to take the time to go through this process. All of this takes Patience. They’ll be times when it seems like you aren’t making any progress, but you have to hang in there and keep working hard at it.

For example, as a youngster, I always dreamed of playing the piano. the problem was I didn’t have the patience. I wanted to be able to play like a seasoned musician. Every musician I asked “how did they learn to play”, told me the same thing. “I practiced and practiced and practiced…then one day I woke up and I could play”.

I didn’t understand then but I do now. Through all of that practice-sarting with the basics-all the pieces came together in their subconscious which lead to them becoming accomplished musicians. I’m sure there were times when they thought they weren’t getting anywhere while they practiced. but they kepted working hard at it and it eventually paid off.

So you have to be patient…It won’t come overnight. Remember a house is built one brick at a time. Eventually all the pieces will come together for you, and you’ll have mastered your craft.

Choose a MENTOR

There is no better way of becoming an expert faster than to get a good mentor. Studies show that a good mentor can lead to greater career success, including promotions, raises and increased opportunities.

Some of the benifits of getting a mentor are…

They can help you stay focused.

They give you support and encoragement.

They help you learn the direction you should be headed to achieve your goals.

They give you self-confidence.

They help you LEARN.

When choosing a mentor, you should ask yourself a few questions.

First, do you admire this persons for their achievements and experience?

Will you be able to work well with this person?

Can they guide you to your goals?

Do they love what they’re doing?

Do you have the same values?

Can they introduce you to important contacts?

Will they be honest with you on your progress?

These are important questions that you should have the answers to before you take on a mentor, because they will have questions you need to answer before they’ll take you under their wing. Questions like…

Can you take constuctive criticism?

What are your goals?

What do you need to learn to get you there?

Are you commited?

And sometimes, Do you bring any value to them?

Finding a good mentor is a sure fired way to achieving success than any other method. A good mentor will show you the best way to achieve someething… they’ll keep you from making costly mistakes that’ll slow you down or push you behind. But there’s one thing about finding a mentor…

Finding the right mentor is one thing….Asking them to be your mentor is another.

How to ask someone to be your Mentor

First of all, you can’t just walk up to someone or email them and ask them to be your mentor…especially if you’ve never formed a relationship with them. They might think you’re some kind of nut. I recommend you start out by getting to know the person through email, Chatbox, Instagram Facebook or whatever communication you use…be casual and friendly…but make sure you approach it as a business friendship and let the relationship Evolve.

Eventually let them know how much you admire their work. As time goes by in the relationship, ask them for some advice on something you’re doing. When you get to the point where you’ve formed a strong relationship ask them if they’d like to set up a scheduled meeting (by phone, email or in person) to talk about business.

If that goes well, you can introduce the possibility of setting recurring meetings…if you know them well you might be able to make a more afficial request. In that meeting ask them if they would mind becoming a mentor to you. Let them know the value they’ll get from you, whether that’s financially, business or both.

When you make your request, make sure you let your mantor know exactly what you’re looking for in the relationship. Let them know how often you want to communicate with them…whether it’s once a week or once a month. Clearly discribe the guidance you’re seeking and confirm your willingness to take advice they’re giving. No one wants to waste their time, so respect theirs.

Here’s an example of what you could say when you’ve already created a good relationship with your potential mentor.

“Hi Dave, I just want to tell you how I”ve enjoyed the many conversations we’ve had in the past. I respect you and the way you’ve grown your business. I value your expertise in the industry because you’ve givin me some great advice in the past. I’m beginning my own business and I know that there are a few areas that I need to get better at. In order to develope my business more effectively,I could use some mentoring(mainly in my writing skills).

I promise not to take much of your time…I just need to ahve your input once or twice a month in which I’ll gladly compensate you for (whatever is agreed to) your time. I guarantee this won’t be a waste of your time, because I do value your advice and will put whatever advice you give me into action.

Whether yoou agree or not to this mentor-mentee relationship, please call or email me to let me know. No hard feelings if you don’t… but if you do lets comunicate to discuss the details”.

Sincerly Yours.

Always be courteous no matter if they except your offer or not. Thank them and move on to your next potential mentor. And remember, just because they turned you down dosen’t mean you should stop communicating with them. There are a number of other ways they can still help you…and you help them as well.

Conclusion

Mastering your craft takes time, that’s why you need patience…but if you stay commited to working on it, you’ll master it sooner than you think. Remember, you walk a mile by taking one step at a time.

With that being said, always give GOD the glory in everything you do. Put HIM first and HE’LL direct your path.

In closing, remember to do the necessary things to protect you and your family until we get a vaccine to rid us of this terrble virus. May GOD see us through it. Until next time …Have a BLESSED DAY, and keep working hard.

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We’re sitting on the GREATEST opportunity to create wealth since the GREAT DEPRESSION!

We once lived in a normal world. Things were pretty much predictable. You probably went through the same daily routine 5 days a week. Wake up, get the kids ready for school, get ready for work and so-on. On special occasions, you made plans for the weekend or whatever your off-day was…and life was pretty much a scripted scenario that you played out on a daily basis.

Things have dramatically changed, as you may well know…due to the unforseen covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of jobs have been lost…the markets are taking a beating…people are losing their homes because they can’t pay their rents or mortgages. Everywhere you look, people are having to where masks and gloves to protect themselves from this dreaded virus. And it’s not justs limited to the United States, the whole world is being affected by it. These are truly the toughest times that I can ever remember in my lifetime and it doesn’t seem that it’s going to get better anytime soon.

With all this chaos surrounding us, there is a silver-lining to this cloud. Surprisingly, this is an era that presents the GREATEST oportunity to create wealth since the GREAT DEPRESSION. How so?

Lets go back and take a look at one of the most devastating times in this countries history…

The Great Depression

When you think of the great depression of 1929, you think of the millions of people suffering financially back then. Visions of soup lines come to mind. Thoughts of people living in shacks…people jumping out of buildings and off bridges because they lost everything are pictured.

But the story that’s rarely told is that not everyone suffered because of the depression. As a matter of fact, according to statistics, more millionaires were made because of this financial crisis than at anytime in the history of America.

This happened because contrary to popular belief, a great time to start a business is during an economic downturn. Start-up cost are lower…savvy investors can position themselves for when the ecomomic climate improves. Remember, if a business takes a nose-dive as long as it dosen’t go out of business, the only direction it can go is up. Legendary investor Warren Buffett said it best, “Be greedy when everybody is fearful and be fearful when everybody is greedy”.

Back then, people who stashed away some cash bought bankrupt businesses at bargain-basement prices. There also was a huge opportunity in Real Estate because values were down and visionary business people knew they would go up in the future.

The point I’m making is some people created an enormous amount of wealth because of what the Great Depression did to the economy. This leads me to why I’m writing this post. Because of what this terrible virus-covid-19-we are standing on…

The Greatest Opportunity to Create Wealth since the Great Depression.

Just like the great depression of 1929, millions of people are struggling financially like never before since then. People have lost their jobs…they can’t pay their rent because of the jobs lost…and things don’t look to be getting better any time soon…as we’re still averaging 100 thousand new cases everyday.

Lets look at some frightening facts:

Portfolios of baby boomers lost 30-40% of their values…with no recovery in site.

There’s a supply-chain crisis.

Oil prices crisis.

Labor market crisis.

A demand crisis.

A developing commerce crisis.

And a potential housing crisis.

But just like the past economic crisis like The Great Depression, there have always been good opportunities because of an economic downturn…for instance…

The Hyatt was formed in the recession of 1958.

Fedex came during the 1970s oil cisis.

HP was founded in the recession of 37-38.

Microsoft in the recession of 81-82.

What will be the next great business to come during todays economic downturn and will you be apart of it?

The thing you need to understand is wealth dosen’t just disappear or vanishes, it transfers or changes hands so to speak. The other side of every loser is a winner. And that transfer of wealth is happening right at this moment as I write this post. While there are businesses tanking because of this pandemic, others will flourish. If you position yourself to take advantage of the opportunities that’ll come because of the latest economic downturn…you’ll flourish also.

Before I get into the best business model you should use to take advantage of the opportunities created, understand that we are seeing HUGE changes in how people and businesses are doing business. And the LARGER the change, the GREATER the opportunity. The changes I’m taking about is…

The Emerging “Digital” Trends that’s About to EXPLODE.

Today we’re entering an era where everythng and everyone is shifting towards digital and this is a trend that will continue even after this pandemic is over.

Because of covid-19, people are shopping and doing business online more than anyother time in the history of the internet. The fact that so many people have to be quarantined, you have a large number of trends that are growing substantially. Things like…

Online education or courses.

Self-help tips.

Online fitness.

Hobbies learned online just to name a few.

Some of the search terms that have grown in recent months are…

Garden obstacle course for kids + 4,400%

How to cut your own hair + 400%

Good sleep tips + 7,580%

Yeastless bread recipes + 4,400%

And if you can believe it…

Indoor beekeeping + 4,087%

Of course, some of these searches may die-out when everthing returns to normal, but some of them may become life-long trends. Personally I don’t think things will ever be back to the normal way we used to do things. But I do feel that the digital era is the future. I just think that covid-19 accelerated the process.

Change makes people uncomfortable. Because of that, most people won’t take advantage of the opportunities that are presented to them. But the fact that you’re reading this post and probably others like it, means you’re not one of them.

How to Get Started

The first thing you should do isresearch and find out what’s trending. When you do this, you don’t have to limit yourself to one avenue. For instance, if you want to become an affiliate marketer, don’t just limit yourself to just Clickbank or Amazon. There are a host of affiliate programs that offer products and services you can make money from. Progams like CJ Affiliates, Sharesales, and Affiliaxe just to name a few.

You also don’t want to limit yourself to one niche. There are many opportunies cropping up due to the backlash of covid-19 and you should ride the wave of these new opportunities. I’m not saying you should take advantage of somones misfortune due to this pandemic. What I’m saying is, you have to think of this in terms of being a business…and the decisions you’ll make will be business decisions. People are going to get rich because of these new opportunities, why shouldn’t you be one of them. There’s nothing morally wrong with that. Always be in a mindset of helping others and make money while you’re doing it. There’s one more thing you should do that will take your business through the roof. After your business begins to take off, do what made average companies turn into GIANTS in todays ecomonic climate.

Be Like the HUB Economy Firms

Hub economy firms are a small number of digital superpowers that control access to billions of mobile customers that were converted by all kinds of products and services. These digital superpowers-Alibaba, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Baidue, and Alphabet/Google just to name a few-leveraged their LARGE network based strength to enter and win new nusinesses and markets.

For example…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezo left his job at the giant hedge fund D.E. Shaw and borrowed $250,000 from his parents to launch a new online bookstore which we all know as Amazon. From the very beginning he sought out to create a monopoly. His ultimate goal was to build a utility that would be essential to commerce not just an online bookstore or retailer. As you know, he succeeded in his goal. When you think of Amazon today, you don’t think of just books…you think of just about every product or service being sold on the internet.

You see, Jeff Bezo leveraged the massive network base he had (all the customers he gained through Amazon books)to succeed in his business objectives. But here’s the twist to his strategy. Jeff didn’t focus his explotation of the market on consumers…he focused it on the suppliers z9who were less visable to regulators). His fortune is roughly $190 Billion, making him one of if not the wealthest man in the world.

This is just one example of a HUB FIRM. It’s an example how you can take your business to new heights by following the same formula that these HUB FIRMS used.

Alibabais yet another example of a ompany leveraged vast number of users to large numbers of retailers.

When you get your business up and running and you’re succeeefullyearning $10-$20-$30 thousand a month, leverage your traffic to expand in new markets and businesses. You’l eventually have to hire people and delegate authority, but you’ll end up with an empire that will sustain you and your family for generations to come.

I end the post with the reminder to always protect yourself by wearing masks, using gloves and social distancing. We still have a long way to defeating this virus.

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The affiliate marketing industry has grown by leaps and bounds in the last ten years…due to the growth in the number of bloggers(publishers) in the industry… which is 12% since 2015.

Today affiliate marketing is an estimated $6.8 billion dollar industry and is expected to grow to $.2 billion by 2022.

And there are a number of reasons for this growth.

One reason is the growth of social media. Social media gives affiliate marketers more ways to promote products/services. About 45% of the world’s population uses social media with the average time spent on it being about 2 and a half hours a day.

When you think of the numbers associated with social media, you can see why this is a great way to promote your products/services. For instance, Facebook alone has 2.37 billion monthly active users from the ages of 13 to 65, and they use it on a daily basis.

And then you have Instagram with 1 billion active monthly users with 500 million using it daily.

You ad that with the likes of Twitter, Linkedin, Snapchat and the rest of the social media sites, you can see how social media is affecting the growth of the affiliate marketing industry.

One more reason for the growth in this industry is the growth in mobile phone use.

Today there are an estimated 5.11 billion unique moble phone users on the planet. And 63% of them use it to access the internet. Because of this, mobile devices are used for over 40% of online transactions and this number is continually growing.

Businesses are seeing the vast amount of opportunities to reach consumers.

Mobile data traffic was projected to increase seven-fold between 2017 and 2022.

It’s why marketers and advertisers are putting 51% of their marketing buget into mobile devices.

With that being said, lets get to what the title of this article is about…”Why the next 10 years will smash the last 10.

And the number on sole reason the last 10 years won’t compare to the next 10 is…

A. I. (artificial intelligence)

A. I. is swiftly disrupting every aspect of our daily lives…and the affiliate marketing industry is included.

An affiliate marketer has to do research on the products/services that they’re promoting and the targeted audiences they are trying to promote to. This takes time because your’re collecting and analyzing tons of data.

With A.I. the hours it takes to collect and analyze all the data you need in order to be successful will be a thing of the past. A. I. will not only be able to speed the process, but you’ll be able to automate it and get answers to very important questions in your marketing strategies…questions like: What steps should I make nest? or. What actions give me the best chance of success?

Affiliate marketers who don’t incorporate this technology in their marketing strategy will be at a large disadvantage.

One of the greatestes advantages of A.I. in your marketing strategy is it’s ability to digest large amounts of data an use that data topredict consumerd behavior at lightening speed.

For those of you who are not in the position to incorporate A.I. in your marketing strategy at this time, I’ll just say, get your affiliate marketing business going now so in the future you’ll be able to incorporate it in the future.

Other advantages of incorporating A.I. are removing the chances of errors, brings forth things you’ve might have overlooked because of the acuracy of the data, gives you the time to fous on other areas of your business due to the time saved in collecting and analyzing data and maeks a significant difference to the customer experience and ROI.

Here’s an example of the…

Speed of A.I.

Your typical marketing campaign that brings in thousands of sales is based on the research of hundreds even thousands of pre-sale activities such as customers clicking through various links. This can be a lot of time consuming data to sift through. A.I. can collect this unstrutured data and almost INSTANTANEOUSLY identify patterns that might take you weeks if you’re able to identify any at all, identify what market approach will most likely be successful, match people with the items they want and much more.

A.I. will determine when consumers should be contacted, what offer should they be contacted with andwhat preference of communication to them you should use.

Another area that A.I. will will disrupt is…

Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the best ways for you to form a relationship with your targeted audience. But do you know that A.I. will be able to even write your emails? Take a look at an email written for a newslettre called Tech Profits Daily 9/30/20. The technology used is called GPT-2

“A few years ago, the only AI programs we’d here anything about were the ones that were capable of teaching themselves languages with very little programming, but now this is not the case”.

Here’s another from the same site

“Today, AI programs which are called Deep Learning, can be used to create speech, reconize objects and other images, performs actions and even make decisions. the most interesting thing about Deep Learning is that it’s algorithims are able to understand and use the realtionships between words, objects, pictures, and actions for themselves and do it with very little help”.

And here’s one written about investing in the market…

“Analyst and investors were quick to note that Wall Street was on a different trajectory wensday after the first Presidential Debate. A decline in oil and gasoline prices is driving the economy and Wall Street higher, and the Federal Researve left interest rates unchanged for a 17th straight week”.

note: Taken from email newsletter Tech Profits Daily 9/30/20.

A.I. technology will make it possible to customize emails that are taylor-made for each of your individual subscibers.

Now before you think, “This is the end of affiliate marketing”…remember…even though machines will be smart and intelligent, humans made them. Sure some jobs may vanish, but you, the affiliate marketer won’t be affected by it because you’ll be the one using the tools and software for a better digital marketing campaign. So…

In Conclusion

A.I. will smash what the Affiliate Marketing Industry was the last ten years in the next ten years. So what does that mean…Money! Profits!

With the speed that will cut down the time of collecting and analyzing data…with the time you’ll have to concentrate on other aspects of your business…you’ll be able to get more done in less time which will translate to more profits.

As you may know by now-if you’ve been reading my blog- I’m a born again Christian. So today I’d like to end my post with a Prayer. I’d like you to pray this Prayer with me.

Loving Hevenly FATHER, I want to be successful in what I turn my hand to because I want to do everything as unto YOU. And so today, I come to lay the desires of my heart before YOU and ask that in YOUR GRACE, YOU will forward the plans I have for my life, in a way that pleases YOU.

Lead me LORD in a way of YOUR choosing, as I lay before YOU the hopes and dreams of my heart, which I would dearly love to fulfill. I surrender all these dreams to YOU, praying that YOU will guide me in the path that is best suited to carry out YOUR best work in me. I ask this in the name of THE LORD JESUS amen.

Until next time be safe and be blessed.

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So keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do-Deuteronomy 20:9

When you think of an affiliate marketing strategy, you’re basically talking about the overall game plan for touching base with your targeted audience and translating them into consumers of products or services your affiliate marketing business is promoting.

I’m going to talk about 2 affiliate marketing strategies you can use that should help boost your productivity. But before I do that, I want you to differentiate the difference between a marketing plan and a marketing strategy.

A marketing plan is an operational document that outlines the strategy that a company will implement to generate leads and sales. This plan is normally short-term because it basically gives the details of the specific types of marketing activities your company is going to take. These activities can change according to how successful your strategy is.

Marketing strategy, on the other hand is longer-term because it has things like company value propositions along with other key elements of a company’s brand, which normally goes on for the long haul. To put it in laymen’s terms, the marketing plan tells the marketing strategy the details of what the specific strategy is.

You should by all means create a marketing plan before you formulate your marketing strategy. But when you formulate your marketing strategy, you should make sure it is firmly rooted in your value proposition…which is what summarizes why why someone should buy from your company as opposed to your competition.

This article is going to dive into 2 creative marketing strategies that you may have heard of or maybe not. If you have just go over this post in order to reacquaint yourself with it. I you haven’t, I hope this article will be beneficial to you.

The first strategy I want to talk about is called…

Guerrilla Marketing

The term Guerrilla Marketing was first coined by a marketer by the name of Jay Conrad Livingston in a book he authored in 1984…called Guerrilla Marketing. If you get a chance purchase a copy of it…it’s very informative and detailed as to how this strategy works. A suggested read especially for beginners.

One of the great things about using this strategy is you don’t have to have a large sum of money in oder to implement this strategy. This is especially beneficial to anyone who is just starting out.

But what you do need when using this strategy is time, imagination and energy.

The term Guerrilla Marketing comes war-time term Guerrilla warfare. It was called that because it used unconventional strategies by armed civilians to achieve it’s wartime objectives. Strategies that your typical armed forces wouldn’t use. These strategies enabled them to catch their enemies off guard…which lead them to victory.

This is kind of how Guerrilla Marketing is used in your marketing strategy. Now I don’t want you to think of your targeted audience as the enemy…but you are competing with thousands of companies for the attention of that audience, so you sometimes have to use unconventional methods in order to gain that attention. When I say unconventional, I’m not talking about unethical. I’m talking about methods that traditional marketing don’t use.

This is the advantage of using Guerilla Marketing. It catches your audience off guard. You have to understand that people love to buy, but they hate to be sold too. When you come to them with a hard sales pitch, they automatically put up their defenses against that pitch.

When using the Guerrilla Marketing Strategy, you should be focusing on taking your consumer by surprise while at the same time creating a great impression that will lead to BUZZ about your product or service.

If you use this strategy the right way, your audience should encounter tis marketing tactic without even knowing it.

With that being said, here are a few examples of Guerilla Marketing you could use in your affiliate marketing business.

Use of social media: Most social media platforms are free to join. You can create an account for your product or service and leverage the social media’s built-in user database. With a little imagination and creativity you can talk a service or product that will have your audience salivating to come to the website your product is being sold.

Create an online contest: Who doesn’t like to win free stuff? You can drive a multitude amount of traffic by launching an online contests. You can offer one of your affiliate products as a prize while at the same time use it as a way to drive traffic and sales to other affiliate product and services.

Just make sure your contest is legit…NEVER SCAM anyone…make sure the winner gets exactly what’s promised and always announce the winner to show your participants know there was one.

Free webinars: A free webinar is a great way to connect with your audience, build a substantial list, and generate sales.

You don’t have to spend a fortune to create a webinar. Go online and do some research, you can find an inexpensive way to create one. Make sure that your webinar is going to give value to your listeners…and while giving it, you can subtley mention your product, service or website. Incorporate it in your message. Don’t think of this as being unethical…think of it as marketing… remember people don’t like to be sold but they love to buy.

Offline promotion: If you go to conventions and trade shows in your industry, you can take advantage of your attendance by passing out flyers or business cards. I’m sure you’ve seen many ads promoting inexpensive flyers and business cards that companies will make for you. Just Google inexpensive flyers or cards and you’ll find a host of companies you can use.

These are just 4 examples of a Guerrilla Marketing Strategy. You can find many more examples by doing a little research. But here’s the secret to using this marketing strategy…use as many of the methods you find as possible in order to open the eyes of your targeted audience.

The next strategy I want to talk about is really a sub-set of Guerrilla Marketing. This marketing is called…

Evangelism Marketing

Evangelism Marketing is basically an advanced form of word-of-mouth marketing. Sometimes this form of marketing is confused with affiliate marketing…but there are differences between the two.

With Affiliate Marketing the marketer is rewarded with incentives in the form of commissions. Where as in Evangelism Marketing, satisfied customers promote your product or service on the on the pure belief that you have the best product or service.

As you may have figured out, the term Evangelism Marketing comes from a religious sense. Just like belief in in the biblical sense…consumers are driven by the belief they have the product or service they preach to others.

The term is believe to come from the belief that Guy Kawasaki, the former chief evangelist of Apple Computer, is the father of Evangelism Marketing.

Every Brand wants an Evangelist (satisfied customer who tells others about your product or service) to market their products because it tells your audience that what you’re selling is good. It almost even serves as a testimonial

The big question is…how can I incorporate the Evangelism Marketing Strategy?

The best way to create an Evangelism Marketing Strategy is to first of all GIVE GEAT SERVICE. You can do that in a number of ways…but the first thing you should do is…

Create a mission statement: Define what your company’s purpose and mission is. For example, it could be to help small companies grow. Follow that by doing a SWOT(strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats) analysis. This will tell you where your company excels, what you need to work on to get better, what opportunities are out there that your company can take advantage of and who are your biggest competitors.

Make employees evangelist: If you have any employees, they can expand your company’s ideas naturally from the inside out.

Always under promise and over deliver: You always want satisfied customers. You can’t get that by over rating a product or service…you only disappoint them.

Reach out to your customers: Let your customers know you care by periodically leaving them messages. Get them to share their positive and negative experiences they’ve had with your product or service you’re promoting. Use social media and other channels to connect with them.

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Here are a few more strategies related to evangelism marketing. Look them up and learn more about them.

Viral Marketing: Which relies heavily on social media

Buzz Marketing: Is basically the same as viral marketing only it uses more people talking about the product or service as opposed to social media.

In the end Guerrilla Marketing and Evangelism Marketing is a great way to market and grow your affiliate marketing business.

Do your research and find as many Guerilla Marketing and Evangelism Marketing Strategies that fit your business objectives and USE THEM ALL.

Until next time…keep working hard, stay safe,and remember GOD loves you and is always with you.

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This will not be your traditional post when it comes to Affiliate Marketing Business. But it will probably be one of the most important ones you’ll ever read. If you take this message and put it ingrained in your heart, always remember it in tough times as well as good, you’ll be on the road to a very prosperous life.

In the title of this post it said The One Secret to Succeding, but what I’m about to tell you is not a secret at all. Millions of successful people have attest to this being the reason they were successful. But what I’m about to tell you will be in a different context than what even most successful people will say about it.

The secret that’s not a secret that I’m writing about is perseverance. Now before you stop reading and say to yourself, “I’ve heard this message a million times before, hear me out. In this post I’m going to give you the real truth about perseverance, the best way you can do it, and how you can guarantee success doing it this way.

The Only Way to Persevere

In your quest in creating a profitable Affiliate Marketing Business, you’re going to have your good productive days and your bad days where nothing seems to be going right. Your bad days may consist of things like the inability to come up with good content ideas, or whatever you’ve written just isn’t connecting or sounds right. It seems like you’re not getting anywhere because you don’t have any traffic to feel like you’re going in the right direction…and all your efforts seem in vain. This is the time you need to dig deep and persevere. And the best way to do that is by relying on JESUS CHRIST to help you.

In my July 16, 2020 post entitled “Maintaining Your Enthusiasm Through Difficult Times”, I made a statement that came from a great actor by the name of Denzel Washington. In a college commencement he stated if you want to succeed you must Put GOD First.

Here’s also a quote from actor comedian Steve Harvey, “If you’re able to accomplish your dreams, then your dreams are too small. Your dreams must be to the point where you know that only GOD can make them come true”.

I know I got a little off course with those quotes but I said them to show you how important putting GOD first in your business venture and that is especially true when it comes to persevering through tough times.

James 1:12 says “Blessed is the man who persevere under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that GOD has promised to who ever loves HIM.

You see, GOD wants to bless you…but you have to trust him and have unwavering faith and belief that HE will.

To make my point as far as perseverance and trust, here is the story of The Battle of Jericho.

In his quest to conquer Canaan, GOD told Joshua to March around the high walls of Jericho once everyday. At that time these walls were considered impossible to penetrate. This strategy must have seemed like a crazy way to conquer Canaan to his soldiers. I mean think about it. They must have said to themselves “This is suicide”. “Why don’t we sneek up on them at night?” But Joshua obeyed GOD and continued to March around the great walls every day. On the seventh day of them marching GOD told Joshua to have his army to let out the LOUD blowing of their horns. When they did that the walls of Jericho came crumbling down.

The point of this story is Joshua persevered and obeyed GOD. He would have marched around those walls a hundred times if GOD had told him to. But what if he had given up on the 5th or 6th day? His army probably would’ve gotten crushed.

And this is where many people fall short of seeing their dreams come true. The sad part about it is they never realize how close they were to actually being successful because they quit too soon.

Here’s what Hebrews 10:35-36 says “Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of GOD, you will receive what HE has promised”.

GOD is Always Working.

In John 5:17 JESUS says “My FATHER is always at his work to this day, and I too am working”.

Though it may sometimes seem that GOD doesn’t hear your prayers, HE does. And even though it seems like HE isn’t doing anything to bring you success…he is working in ways you can’t see. You have to understand that HIS ways are not like ours. HE could be working right in front of your face and you wouldn’t know it until the final results prevailed…and then you would realize why you were going through what you were going through and how it was best you went through it.

If you find yourself asking questions like…

“How much longer will I have to endure a lack of success for all my efforts”?

Or

“When will I see a !ight at the end of the tunnel”?

And

“How much longer will it take for to bless my business venture”?

Just KNOW realize how AWESOME and GREAT GOD is…and how HE can do ALL things. Maybe HE’S just preparing me to be able to handle success. Maybe HE’S waiting for me to get my priorities right and that starts with me putting HIM first and giving ALL THE GLORY to HIM. I don’t know…but I do know that JESUS CHRIST my LORD and SAVIOR can do ALL things and everything works for the good to those who love him…whether it’s in this life or the next.

The Bible says “Trust in the LORD with all of your heart,and do not lean to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge HIM and HE’LL make straight your path.

GODS PROMISES

Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed

Jeremiah 17:3 But blessed is the man who trust in the LORD whose confidence is in HIM

Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember the LORD your GOD, for it is HE who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms HIS covenant, which HE swore to your forefathers, as it is today

Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and HE will give you the desires of your heart

These are just a few of the many promises of GOD. Remember GOD is too HOLY to lie. If you put HIM first and foremost, you’ll have the most prosperous life personally and financially that you can ever imagine.

In Conclusion

A prager for perseverance from Sharon Mayers of crosswalk.com.

FATHER GOD. Sometimes I get so tired of trying. Tired of hanging on. Tired of believing in a miracle. I most Humbly ask you to fill me with yOUR power to persevere. I’ll take the next step and believe in your word and your will. I will hand in there and will not give up. I pray this in JESUS name amen.

Give your life to JESUS and watch all the miracles HE’S going to do in your life.

P.S. There are so many people who never see their dreams come true because they quit too soon. And they might have been on the threshold of success and didn’t know it.

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It could mean the difference between success and failure.

As you research to write a post on your blog or any copy for that matter, you want to find the keywords that will make you rank as high as possible in the search engines. But with Googles constant updates of their algorithms, you may find your site soaring high in the rankings one week and crashing to all-time lows the next.

Over the last decade these changes(updates) have accelerated and shows no signs of slowing down. For instance, in 2009 Google made 250-400 changes in their algorithms. By 2018 they made 3,234. Some of most of these changes were small, but a lot of them weren’t…and no telling how many are going to happen this year.

No matter how you look at it, you should care about Google updates to their algorithms because they could have a drastic change in your search engine rankings. First for those who don’t know…

What is Google Algorithms?

Google algorithms is a complex system used by Google to collect data from it’s search index that furnishes the best possible results for the user.

How Google does this is they use an algorithm called PageRank(PR). What PagRank does is they count the number and the quality of the links to a page to see an estimate of how important a website is. The theory to this is, the most important websites will likely get more links from other websites.

But today Google uses a number of algorithms. If fact, based on their patent filings of late,it is suspected that Google uses about 200+ other algorithms.

Bottom line, Google  algorithms determine how high you rank in the search engines and as you may know…the higher you rank, the more chances of success you have. That’s why when you do your keyword research it is so important that you understand how Google updates can affect your ability to generate traffic.

Why Does Google Constantly Update?

Googles main focus is to provide relevant information to it’s users…along with providing you a better experience when using it. They constantly update their algorithm to accomplish this. Some of these updates are new features, which is good for the user, but alot of the changes are focused on removing spam and other unethical practices that some unscrupulous content writers have been known to do. Such as cramming a bunch of good keywords in their content to try and rank higher in the search engines. You should incorporate good kewords in your content, but not at the cost of writing terrible copy that doesn’t make sense. Through Google updates they were able to determine who was doing this kind of thing and punish them for it.

3 Reasons You Should Keep Up on Google Updates.

1 They can affect your rankings. You can have a high ranking with tons of traffic today that can be completely wiped out tomorrow.

2 A drop in traffic translates to a drop in revenue.

3 Algorithm updates can be a good thing. You might find out, that if you align your site with Google goals , your traffic and rankings could shoot through the roof.

The Algorithm You’ll Most Likely Get Hit With.

Google has certain filters it uses to penalize websites. For instance, PANDA updates is a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poorly written content from ranking well…on the other hand, PENGUIN is a filter designed to penalize websites that have bad link building techniques.

If your site statistics show you have a sudden drop in traffic and ranking, you could be a victim of one of these updates.

The update you get hit by depends on what you’re doing on your site. Try to generate traffic the right way…don’t chest and try to do things the easy way…in the long run that kind of thinking never works.

But if you do think you’ve been penalized by one of Googles updates, it’ll more likely be Panda. Here are some of the things that’ll trigger Panda…

Lean Content: Try to provide explicit, specific answers to what your readers are looking for. Be specific in your writing, don’t generalize. For instance instead of saying something like a lot of money, say $3,500 dollars.

Poor-Quality Writing: content that is hard to read or even look at, won’t get ranked…period. This can include but not limited to grammer erros, poorly formatted text, distracting images that really doesn’t go wit the content and should be left out and designs that make the reader have to work too hard to find what they’re looking for.

Content That’s Untrustworthy or Unreliable: The two things that Google will absolutely not tolerate is…1 Trying to CON people. 2 Incompetence. You want to have integrity in any business you run. If longevity is what you want in your business, then you have to be honest. For one thing it’s wrong to try and con people but more importantly it’s against the law. When it comes to being competent , make sure you do the necessary research in order to make sure that your message is on point and true. You don’t want to get your readers in trouble by giving them facts that are wrong or not true.

Rewriting Text: This one’s a no-brainer. You should NEVER copy someones elses writing. Always be original. If you find an article that you’d like to write about, just read it a couple of times and write it in your own words.

Summary

Google has been known to update as much as 3,234 times in just one year. You’ll be smart to keep up with these updates(many times Google will announce when they’re going to make changes, but not before they’re ready to roll).

If you find a sudden drop in traffic and ranking, it could be caused by one of more of these updates.

Be smart and do things the right way. Don’t try and cheat the system… you’ll be glad in the long run and you might even benefit from the updates.

That’s it for now, until next-time all the success to you and stay safe.

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Covid-19 (coronavirus) has affected businesses all over the world, particularly here in the United States. Movie theatres, airlines, restaurants, special events and many more businesses are literally struggling to keep their doors open…with many of the smaller businesses shutting down for good. Don’t think that because the affiliate marketing is an online business venture, it’s immune to the struggles other businesses are going through. It’s not.

Unemployment is at an all-time high. You here about people getting their hours cut or being laid off altogether, which is causing them to cut back on their spending…only buying the bare essential things they need…which is justifiable.

Many experts believe things are going to get worse before they get better. For instance, the United States alone saw 76,600 new cases in just one day…July 17th according to the New Yourk Times.

All-in-all, it will cost the American economy roughly $7.9 trillion over the next decade.

Sadly to say, the consequences of covid-19 on the affiliate marketing industry cannot be prevented. As stated at the beginning of this writing…this industry was not immune to the struggles that other businesses are going through.

Some affiliate programs are delaying their commission payouts or cancelling them altogether, while others are cutting their commission payout rates. You’ll find that the ones that are cancelling their programs aren’t just closing down their programs, their links are still working, but what they’re doing is they’re just not paying for the sales. You end up getting a notification stating that they’re reducing the commission rate or cutting the commission to 0%.

Just take a look at one of the more reputable affiliate programs… Amazon Associates. They cut their commission rates on some of their product line by 50%…and on others by 2 to 5 percent. All because of the affect of covid-19.

You also have some affiliate marketing programs cancelling their commission rates simply because they can’t keep up on stocking their products. With so many people in quarantine, they’re shopping online at rates never seen before. This is causing some companies to not be able with the surge in inventory, so they’re just suspending the program till further notice.

Through it all, don’t fret, don’t panic and shut down your affiliate marketing business. Even worse, don’t put off starting one. There are still many opportunities to make money in this industry…despite the outbreak of this pandemic.

What You Can Do

You must first understand what’s going on in the industry. While creating organic traffic in one niche may decline, it will increase in others.

Do some research and find out what’s spiking and what’s not. For example, so many people are out of work or in quarantine an online money-making niche might do well. Look into work-at-home products.

And then there’s educational products. People in quarantine have a lot of time on their hands. They may need to reeducate themselves to keep up with future job demands. I think that educational products will do well right now.

People stuck at home want/need to communicate with others. Communication devices like Zoom, referral programs or hangout referral programs is a place you can look into.

Your targeted audience may be uncertain what the future may hold for them due to how the economy is going because of the virus. Remember how hard it was to find essential items like toilet paper and water? Well, emergency survival kits…with things like food and water, flashlights, and other emergency items would sell good.

The fact that so many people are trying to work remotely will spike up the demand for remote equipment. Home-based businesses will need office chairs, lamps, keyboards, laptops and a host of many other business equipment to run their start-up.

And then there’s entertainment. Being cramped in a house can become downright depressing. This is where the need for video games, TV streaming devices might do well.

In the end you’ll have to do your homework in order to find out what’s hot. You can start out by…

Finding Out WhaoutYour Audienced

If you can find out what people need right now in this crisis, you can be a big help to them. Now when I say this, I’m not talking about taking advantage of people in a crisis. We are all children of GOD and price gauging to make a huge profit is not only morally wrong but it’s one of the most UNGODLY things you could do. If you’re in that frame of mind, renew your thinking immediately…that’s not what I’m talking about. You want to be in the mind-set of helping your fellow man and woman. You should be in business to make a difference not to just make money. If you seriously try and help others get what they want and need, the money will come.

Here’s one other thing that will help you navigate your business through this crisis…

Make Use of Forums

In order to stay on top of what’s going on in the industry, join a good affiliate marketing forum. See what others are saying about the industry. You can learn from each other, by giving advice to one another. Remember what the BIBLE says, “It is better to give than receive”. So never look at it as helping the competition….when you give it comes back to you 10-fold.

Conclusion

First and foremost, keep yourself and your family safe in this pandemic. Don’t slack off. Make sure you sanitize your hands frequently, keep your hands out your face, where your mask over your mouth as well as your nose(I can’t tell you how many people I see with their mask covering their mouth but not their nose), and make sure you keep your social distance…so many people are not.

Let’s fight this thing together, not one race of people to another…but as the HUMAN RACE. And if you keep JESUS on the throne of your LIFE no matter what the circumstances, you’ve already won the battle.

Until my next post…have a BLESSED DAY.

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My name is melvin. I’m a born again Christian who loves to write. I’m middle age( don’t want to talk about my age lol) and I’m here because I want to make money online by blogging. But more than that, I want to help people like myself (especially beginners) do the same.

Today we live in a world filled with turmiol and I believe that the people who’ll come out on top from this mess, will be self-employed people who work remotely. I want to be someone who’ll help people learn to work remotely through their blogs…specifically through affiliate marketing.

Every business, no matter how large of small needs to implement SEO (search engine optimization) in their marketing strategy. In order to see why SEO is so important consider this, 81% of customers, 94% of b2b buyers will perform a search online before they make a purchase…and the higher you rank in the search engine, the more likely they’ll find you. This is where SEO comes into play.

Before I get more into detail about this subject, let’s talk about the differences between content marketing and SEO marketing.

Content marketing is focused using valuable and relevant content to drive profitable customers or clients to a specific action. Whereas SEO marketing refers to the technical process of increasing the quality of traffic and attracting maximum visitors to your website. Though they are slightly different they go hand-in-hand. You don’t want to use one without the other.

There’s also a number of advantages you gain by incorporating SEO in your marketing strategy. For one…

It helps your targeted audience find you. By using the same words they use when they search in the search engine…your content will likely come up before others.

You’ll generate more traffic by getting ranked higher in the search engine. The higher you rank, the more clicks and traffic you get.

Helps you stay ahead the the competition because by getting a larger percent of the traffic will mean your competitors will be getting less percentage.

Builds your brand because of all the traffic you’ll generate.

It’s very easy to measure because, unlike traditional marketing methods that have to measure results between ad campaigns and sales…through the use of software tools (most of them free), you can measure every metric (traffic, conversion, trends and much more) to see how you’re doing and where you need to improve.

Another advantage is it doesn’t require a lot of money because you don’t have to pay for things like space ads the way traditional marketing has to. In traditional marketing you have to figure out what channel your brand is going to appear. It could be a tv or radio station, pages in a newspaper or magazine. Then you have to consider the length of time your ad runs or how many issues in a magazine…which could we up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. But with SEO marketing you can appear in organic results free. The only thing you need to concentrate on is getting ranked as high as possible in the search engines. And these are only just a few of the many advantages of including SEO in your marketing strategy.

For those of you who are new to affiliate marketing, the question you may be asking yourself is…

What is SEO?

Wikipedia defines SEO(search engine optimization) as the process of growing the quality and quantity of website traffic by increasing the visibility of a webpage to users of a web search engine. In layman’s terms, it’s the process of increasing the quality and quantity of traffic by getting organic (unpaid traffic from search engine result page. Basically SEO refers to acquiring quality free traffic. So what’s the process?

There is no fixed set of techniques for SEO marketing because all businesses are not the same. But there are some basic fundamental principles you can follow.

SEO is about understanding what people in your targeted audience are searching for online. Your job is to find out the the words they’re using in their search, the answers they are looking for and the kind of content they want to consume.

The SEO Process

There are a number of tactics to use in your self marketing strategy. I’m going to give you 3 basic steps to take when you start. There are more steps but these three will get you started. The three steps are…

Research

Content Building

Analyzing and improving Your Performance

RESEARCH: When I say research, I’m basically referring to keyword research. Keyword research is when you identify a group of words or phrases that you plan to use in your content heading and body. This is a critical step because you want your words to resonate with your readers. You do that by using the same words they use in their search. And how do you find this information?

Through a few free online tools like..

Google Keyword Planner which shows you the volume each word or phrase has each month, the competition whether it’s high or low and a host of other good things.

LSI Graph gives you the top keyword phases that users are using. They also give you the top ten content headlines and articles used on your topic.

Answer the Public is another great keyword tool that shows you the questions that users are asking online on for a specific topic.

After you find the keyword and phrases you want to use, you want to find out what and how your competition is doing…by doing a thorough competitive analysis.

First you need to do a market research analysis. Start by looking at your product or service and evaluate which other companies are selling the product or service that would compete with yours. Try and pick 7 to 10 of them. Then you can use a wonderful tool called Ubersuggest. This site will allow you to find out your competitors top keywords, number of backlinks, where they came from and their top pages. Along with…

Average monthly search volume of the keyword

The position the URL is ranking in Google search.

The estimated competition in organic search.

This is some valuable information to have because you’ll see what’s working, what’s not, what angle you should take when writing your content, along with almost being able to read your prospects mind.

CONTENT BUILDING. As stated earlier, content marketing and seo marketing go hand in hand. You want people to see your message and the best way to accomplish that is by getting ranked as high as possible in the search engines. Creating high quality, high volume content related to your business…using the keywords and phrases you researched for WILL attract traffic.

note: Don’t bury your keywords and phrases in the body of your copy. Put them in your title and in the beginning of your content if possible. But NEVER, I mean NEVER stuff your content with keywords in order to get ranked. For one thing, search engines recognize this and will punish you for it. But you also want your content to sound natural. Stuffing keywords and phases will make your conversation sound fake.

Another part of content building is building backlinks. Building links is a sure fired way of getting traffic as well as getting ranked.

This process can sometimes be difficult. You can ask other writers for links, but they are just like most people in they want to know why should they and what’s in it for them.

There are a number of ways you can build links to your site, but before you should focus on quality links opposed to quantity. For example, it’s better to have 5 links that have hundreds of thousands followers each than 30 links with 50 to 70 followers. Finding good quality links will not only generate traffic to your site but will increase your credibility and trust as a business.

So, how do you build links?

Start out by making a list of your keywords and phrases. The use Google to find quality post related to those keywords. Try to find the ones you can guest blog on and the ask them for a backlink.

Hint: you stand a better chance at getting a backlink if you find someone who is linked to 3 or 4 of your competitors. If they link to them, there’s a good chance they’ll link to you.

And then there’s linking using Social Media.

Google has said that social media shares do not influence their search rankings. But even though that’s been said, social media still offers a great way to build links…the opportunities are just indirect.

Due to social medias massive popularity, which is in the billions, you’ll be able to increase your brand exposure, build relationships with influencers and increase rankings through the shear increase engagement.

You can guest list the same way you would for a blog. This strategy could even be more valuable than if you created a new post on your own site…if you get a backlink.

You’ll be leaving traffic in the billions of you don’t use social media.

The last thing I want to talk about is…

Analyzing and Improving Performance

Writing great content using specific keywords and backlinking is only half the battle.

When you create your content, you want see how your site is performing. There are a number of free tools you can use to keep up how your site is doing.

One free tool I recommend is called Google Analytics. This tool tracks everything from site traffic to browser distribution. Using this tool along with Data Box…which is a data dashboard that integrates with just about anything and will make your data analysis more manageable…will make analyzing your site much easier and you will see where you’re doing good and where you need to improve.

Buzzmo is another great tool that will show you what type of content performs best by domain, brands and backlinks, keyword influencers and competitor analysis.

Bottom Line

SEO improves your online visibility which brings more traffic…

SEO gives credibility to your business…

Good seo marketing has a great ROI…

Learning to master seo will enable you to master any business…

That it for today, I hope I’ve been helpful. Until next time…be safe, never give up and GOD BLESS.

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Quote: ” Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes-another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years that makes a success out of his life”. -Businessman Edward B Butler(1953-1928).

When you first start your Affiliate Marketing Business, the one thing you need and most of us have is enthusiasm. But when time goes by and things don’t quite go the way we expect,our enthusiasm begins to dwindle. When that happens you begin to slack off on running your business. You tend to put your business on the back- burner, lower it on the ladder of priorities…which translates to owning a mediocre business at best or no business at all.

Losing your enthusiasm in your start-up can make you grab on to the first shiny object being promoted on the internet. You could eventually find yourself in the ever revolving cycle of jumping into one business venture after another…never seeing any of them through.

There’s going to be risk in any business that you venture in ( though an affiliate marketing business is one of the less riskiest out there), you should expect difficult times to show up. Things never go as smoothly has you want. That’s just life. I personally can attest to this because I’m going through it right now.

Let’s put a visualized picture to this.

You’re excited because you’ve decided you’re going to make money as an Affiliate Marketer. You think to yourself…there’s no better way to make money than this business. All you have to do is create a blog, generate traffic and sell affiliate products or services to that traffic. Simple right? Wrong. Something unexpected happens. Nobody is reading your blog. You figure out, there’s much more to this thing than I thought. You have to learn one of the most important aspects of this business and that’s how to attract readers. To accomplish that you have to learn keyword research, SEO optimization, guest blogging and a host of other things.

Sounds a little overwhelming? It can be, but the only way you can overcome that feeling is maintaining your enthusiasm in what you’re doing…in our case Affiliate Marketing.

Maintaining that Enthusiasm in Difficult Times

We’ve just talked about what you should do- which is maintaining your enthusiasm throughout the running of your Affiliate Marketing Business- but to expand on that, you must maintain that enthusiasm on the same level you had when you first decided to start your Affiliate Marketing Business. It’s the kind of enthusiasm that carries you through every situation you find your business in. Good times, bad times, times of confusion, times of doubt and what ever rollercoaster emotion you find yourself in running your Affiliate Marketing Business.

So…the million-dollar question. What can you do to maintain the kind of enthusiasm that will get me through all the emotional ups and downs I’m bound to experience running my affiliate marketing business.

I’m going to recommend 6 things you could or better yet should do to maintain the level of enthusiasm that would make you successful.

The first recommendation I give you in my opinion is the most important. You may not believe the first one, but I can assure you it you follow it, it will be the best advice from all the other recommendations I give you. If you don’t believe this advice, I challenge you to stick with my blog and watch me serve as a testimonial to it. The first recommendation is quite simple…

Put GOD FIRST in EVERYTHING You DO.

GOD has made promises to those who believe in HIM and he never fails because he’ll never lie. When you find yourself in difficult place emotionally because your business isn’t going the way you’d like, put your trust in HIM and meditate on scriptures like..

Palms 37:4: “Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart”

Proverbs 16:3: “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed”

Deuteronomy 8:18: “But remember the LORD your GOD, for it is HE who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms HIS covenant,which HE sworn to your ancestors”.

Let HIS HOLY SPIRIT guide you in every decision you make. Pray for HIS guidance right before you start your day and you’ll see the difference. You can’t go wrong by applying this approach.

Never Dwell on the Negative

Stop thinking about your past mistakes. Focus on the positives in your life and business. Learn from your mistakes, don’t harp on them. Draw inspiration from the times you’ve succeeded. Make a list of the things you’re grateful for…like even having the ability to start your own Affiliate Marketing Business…or the fact that you woke up this morning (a lot of people didn’t), family, and good health.

For me, I focus on the unconditional love of JESUS CHRIST my LORD and SAVIOR, my wife and children, and the honor of being able to write this post.

Strive to make a Difference not a Living.

Make a difference in somebody’s life by helping them get what they want. JESUS says, “It is more blessed to give than receive”. Think back in your last when you did something good for someone. How did it make you feel? It probably made you feel great, in fact , it was probably one of the greatest feelings you’ve had in a long time. Giving and making a difference in someone’s life is the most rewarding feelings you can have …plus when you give, it comes back to 10-fold.

When you focus your Affiliate Marketing Business on making a difference, you won’t market products or services that only take people’s money because you’re seriously trying to help people. Acquiring long-term customers is the way to gain wealth. A happy customer will more likely turn into a long-term customer than an unhappy one.

Determine Your Destiny

With all the things going on in the world today, coronavirus, black lives matters and a host of other political shenanigans, it could be easy to have a very negative view of the world. But you have to think positive, no matter what. Always remember, GOD is in control, and HE’s going to see us through all of the turmoil. Be enthusiastic about your destiny… you’re going to be successful because you’ve got the the creator of all things in the universe on your side. That along should make you enthusiastic about your business. Here’s a quote from Henry Ford…

“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment, without it there are only excuses”.

Stop Listening to Naysayers.

Some of the most critical people in your life are most likely the ones who are not doing anything with theirs. They can come from anywhere, including family(which can be the worse). Don’t listen to them. Let their comments to in one ear out the other. You’re a winner…and you also have your Heavenly Father on yourside. The Bible says: “If GOD is with you, who can be against you”. Just keep smiling when you hear those negative remarks because you should know in time they’ll see your success and wonder how could they have been so wrong. This leads me to the complete opposite of what we just talked about…which is…

Surround Yourself with Enthusiastic People

If you don’t have enthusiastic people around you, find some. They don’t have to have a physical presence in your life. You can find in forums, Facebook groups, or you can form your own entrepreneur think group. You want people who have the same ambitions as you do. You can learn from each other…share ideas between each other, mentor each other. You may even be able to form a virtual company with them.

Conclusion

You can achieve anything you want, if you can maintain the same level of enthusiasm that you had when you first started your business, throughout your business journey. Hang on to this advice…put them in your heart and meditate on them …and remember to put GOD first on all that you do and whatcha how it turns out.

Tip: Use your goals as the seed that’s planted and your enthusiasm as the sun and rain that grows it.

For GOD says ” If you put one foot forward, I’ll do the rest”.

In the end, I pray that everyone stays safe throughout this terrible virus and may GOD wave HIS mighty hand to end it. Until next time, all the success to you and your Affiliate Marketing Business.

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