The 4 Key Thoughts I’m Finding Useful In Building My Business

November 17, 2009

Recently I was reading Escape 101, an ebook about location independent living and how to take a sabbatical. The first half of the book is dedicated to getting in the right state of mind and there are 4 steps to achieving this.
It struck me that these 4 steps could serve us well in our affiliate [...]

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Week 8

November 9, 2009

This weeks tasklist

Upload my 6 Part Mini-Course lessons that I’ve been recording this week. They all seem to be too big even when they’re compressed! It’s driving me nuts!
2 blog comments and 2 forum posts
5 new articles for my site
1 Ezine article
3 articles into AMA

Here’s my traffic snapshot for this month. A weird spike on [...]

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Staying Motivated & Focused In The Face Of An Indifferent, Absurd World

October 31, 2009

Last week I felt overwhelmed by the amount of tasks that I could be doing. But as the saying goes, I have only one pair of hands and I can only focus on one thing at a time.
The problem with that is your subconscious mind is constantly analysing the opportunity cost of spending time on [...]

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Week 6 – More Content, Adgroup Creation, More Link Building

October 22, 2009

This weeks tasklist

Change the Guitar Superstar banner on GreenGuitarGuy.com to a Jamorama banner
Consider adding GreenGuitarGuy to paid directories as recommended on SEOmoz
Start considering PPC AdGroups. I’m not going to do any PPC at the moment but I can start putting AdGroups together for future use.
Think of a good video to create as link bait. [...]

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Week 5 – Begin Article Marketing

October 19, 2009

This weeks tasklist

Submit 2 articles into Article Marketing Automation
Submit GreenGuitarGuy.com to 100 directories.
Submit an article to 100 article directories
Write a review of Learn & Master Guitar
Think of a bonus I can give away to people who click and buy using my affiliate link.
Set up keithdouglas.co.uk blog

This week I’ve used HumanRewriter.com to spin 2 articles so [...]

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Week 4 – More content creation

October 19, 2009

This weeks tasklist

More content creation for GreenGuitarGuy.com!
Purchase a camera with a decent microphone to create guitar lessons for my mini course. I’ve ordered a Zoom Q3 but it’s coming from the US so it might not be here for a few weeks. I’ve found that it’s going to be essential to a learn guitar site [...]

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Month 1 Income

October 19, 2009

Total Earnings from GreenGuitarGuy.com = $0
I don’t expect any affiliate income for a couple of months at least. This is because my site will be nowhere in Google – it’s a competitive niche.

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Week 3 – Solidifying The Site

October 19, 2009

This weeks tasklist

Write 10 articles. These will mainly be lessons. I downloaded a nice little piece of software called QwikChord what let’s me create and save guitar chord diagrams that I can use in lessons. For this site GreenGuitarGuy.com I’ll be creating the content myself rather outsourcing it. This is because I have specialist knowledge [...]

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Week 2 – Brainstorm Content

October 19, 2009

This weeks tasklist

Decide what types of guitarists to target with GreenGuitarGuy.com. Will it be heavy metal guys, folk guys, country guys?
Start reviewing online products like Jamorama and Learn & Master Guitar.
Brainstorm article titles and make them attractive. For example “The Lazy Guitarists Way To Change Chords Properly” and “The 8 Guitar Chords Every Beginner Needs [...]

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Week 1 – Overall Strategy & Choosing Niche No.1

October 18, 2009

My overall strategy is to have 4 websites providing high value to subscribers and readers and selling affiliate products to my customers. I’ll also be developing this blog.
How to choose your niche market
First step in affiliate marketing is to choose the niche (or topic) for your first website.
There are many ways to do this and [...]

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