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Affiliate Marketing 
Basic Affiliate Tools
One question that everyone always has is “how do I attract affiliates and get them to promote my products for me?”
If you have products then traffic from affiliates is some of the best traffic you can get.
As you’ve probably found out, it’s not easy getting good affiliates to promote for you because affiliates are all about making as much money as quickly and easily as possible.
Affiliates are busy, have lots of choices and, let me be honest with you, they are lazy; they don’t want to do a lot of work; this attitude, while understandable, makes them very picky.
What does that mean to you though?
It means a lot of things but one thing it means is that you need to do more work.
There are a lot of things you need to do but one of the best is to provide them with tools.
Let’s look at what those tools are…
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Tags: affiliate marketing
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Online Success 
Plan! Don't Leave Things to Chance.
Go to the Warrior Forum or other marketing forum and
you’ll see it.
Go to Facebook or Twitter and you’ll see it.
Heck, look at your hard disk and you’ll see it.
As an entrepreneur and small business owner you know what I’m talking about, it’s been the bane of most of us (believe me, including myself).
It wastes your hard-earned money, it’s distracts your focus, and, worst of all, it wastes the most precious resource, your time.
I’m talking about the non-stop buying of products.
There’s always the “Good Reason” but I’ll say it again, there is no one product or service that will make or break you.
But you can stop and you can start making proper, strategic investments that will help you in your business without distract you or suck up all your money.
Let look at how to do that…
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Tags: Entrepreneur, Strategic Goal, Strategic Investment, Strategic Plan, Strategic Thnking, Track Your Investments
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Online Success 
Don't Ignore Strategic Thinking
You may not have heard of strategic thinking or maybe you’ve heard of it but didn’t understand it so ignored it.
If you’re looking to build a successful business, online or offline, the chances of real success, more quickly are greatly increased with strategic thinking.
Well over 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher, lived and wrote his masterpiece on strategy The Art of War.
While it was specifically about strategy in war, it is very applicable to modern day business as evidenced by the over 1 million copies that have been sold; I’d bet that most of those by business owners or other business people. In it he explained about maintaining a position of advantage your rivals.
Generally, there’s a lack of understanding of what strategic thinking is and this, of course, leads to confusion.
Below we’ll look at what strategic thinking is, why you’d want to do it and how to do it.
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Tags: art of war, entrepreneurs, higher level strategies, michael gerber, rech schefren, strategic planning, strategic thinking, sun tzu, swot analysis
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Online Success 
It Isn't Hard to Build a Successful Business
As the year draws to a close I want to remind you to stop listening to all the negative people who tell you it’s hard to succeed.; they may be well meaning or are trying to “be realistic” but it’s just holding you back
It isn’t hard to succeed.
I also want to remind you that there is no “magic button” or “silver bullet” or “ninja trick” or whatever you want to call it.
There just isn’t.
There are only 3 things you need to guarantee your success, the 3 Pillars:
- Products: Good products and services that people want to buy
- Traffic: Enough of those people who know about your products and services and come to your Web site (or store location)
- Conversions: Be able to convince those people that your products and services are just what they need
That’s all.
Just apply the required time and effort, and maybe some money; they aren’t all that hard to do and are well within reach of virtually everyone.
But that’s not the full story…
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Tags: 3 Pillar of Success, Bill Glazer, conversions, Frank Kern, list building, online business success, products, stop information overload, take massive action, traffic
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Online Success Make next year your best year yet!
In this quick video doesn’t help you get in the right mindset then you need to rethink whether you belong in business.
It has a lot of good tips that if you follow will make next year your most successful one ever.
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Tags: business mindset, change of mindset, change your mindset, entrepreneur mindset, growth mindset, millionaire mindset, mindset for success, personal development, personal growth, personality growth, positive mindset
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Online Success 
A Formula for Success
If you are any type of marketer then you need to be creating marketing campaigns. In fact, basically all you are is campaign creators and implementers.
No matter what your situation is, all campaigns should focus on one, and only one, of the 3 C’s and every day you need to do something, anything, that is directed to one of the C’s.
The important parts of the above paragraph is to focus on ONLY ONE C and to make this part of your every day process.
I emphasize this because it’s easy to feel like you want all the C’s.
And, focusing on one C will ultimately help get more of the other 2 C’s, but any campaign will be more much more successful than if you try to get more of 2 or 3 of them.
The reason for this is the goals you have, strategies you use, the techniques you implement and, in fact, the specific tasks you perform are generally different for each one and sometimes they are even at odds with one another.
By that I mean that sometimes the things you do that gets you more of one C will get you less of another (at least in the short term).
So, find the single most important, immediate objective of a campaign and focus all your efforts towards it.
I bet you’re wondering what the 3 C’s are…
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Tags: branding strategy, customers, marketing campaign, marketing strategy, marketing target audience, new customers, website traffic
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Online Success 
Don't Commit Business Russian Roulette
You’ve probably heard about the concept of Ready, Fire, Aim that was first popularized by the book of the same name from Michael Masterson.
Some people think it’s junk but lots of people, including some very successful ones, talk about it and teach it.
The concepts talked about in the book are great…
The idea behind the catchy title is a powerful one to help you break through one of the biggest reasons for failure.
However, the problem is that most people don’t read the book or do they understand what’s really being said.
Lots of people, including some very successful ones, talk about it and teach it.
Essentially, they hear the title and basically stop there.
That’s a massive mistake and one that even many successful people have made.
Why?
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Tags: business failure reasons, business success factors, cause of business failure, failure in business, failure of small business, home business success, key factors for success in business, key to business success, strategies for business success, success of a business
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Other Stuff I’ve been getting a number of questions about the free Butterfly Marketing PLR Source Code release Mike Filsaime is currently doing, see http://dahsu.com/sE4dLFq.
Below are the reasons you would NOT want to get this.
To quickly refresh your memory, the Butterfly Marketing software is one that lots of very successful marketers, including Mike Filsaime, have used it to manage their product sales process and memberships.
Normally, it came with the $2,000 Butterfly Marketing course and you didn’t get PLR rights to it, Mike is now giving the source code with PLR rights to you for free.
Here is why you should NOT get it…
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Tags: Butterfly Marketing, Butterfly Marketing Source Code, membership sites, sales process, selling products
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Tips & Techniques Last year I wrote a blog post about how to get affiliates to promote your squeeze pages, Easy Way to Get Affiliates to Promote Your Squeeze Page — see http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/tips/affiliates-promote-squeeze-page.
It included the instructions and JavaScript code how to capture an affiliate ID and send it to your autoresponder account and store it there for later use during promotions.
It was a popular post and I received a lot of e-mail about it thanking me and asking questions.
Recently I was asked for some help by Fendi on how to make it work with a different format for the affiliate ID.
The way I had originally set it up the affiliate ID had to be in this format: http://YourDomain.com/?[YourCode]=[AffiliateID]
Some examples of the affiliate ID portion would be:
- aff_id=340987
- hop=theboss123 (ClickBank)
- InvitedBy=DavidHusnian
This worked great and covered a lot of ground but Fendi wanted to know if it could work with this format: http://YourDomain.com/?[AffiliateID].
It doesn’t but I’ve made some modifications so that now it does and this post explains those and gives you updated JavaScript source code and instructions.
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Tips & Techniques Last time we started looking at how to build a Web site – see http://dahsu.com/wM3WXG9 — including the main ways to get it built.
The last option we looked at was building the site yourself. We’re going to look at how to do that in more depth.
Before we get started let’s do a quick review…
To build a Web site you need to have a domain name (1&1) and a Web hosting account (Blue Host and HostGator links).
You also need software to be able to design and create the Web pages that are part of your Web site; I recommended KompoZer – it’s HTML editor freeware.
After you have that here is what you do…
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