Take Advantage Of Your Entrepreneurial ADD to Create New Streams Of Income in 2012

This is a guest post by Susanne Myers. I’d known of Susanne since I started online in 2007 and I finally got to meet  her in August at NAMS. Upon introduction, I think I threw her for a loop when I said, “Thank you for using one of my EzineArticles on your HillbillyHousewife website! It got me a ton of optins!”

You see, even though Susanne is known for her affiliate marketing expertise and I’m a PLR writer and marketer, we’d done business together previously via our niche sites.

 

Take Advantage Of Your Entrepreneurial ADD to Create New Streams Of Income in 2012
By Susanne Myers

I’ve talked to a lot of online entrepreneurs over the years and I’ve noticed that there’s one thing that all of us have in common. We are all a little ADD. And that’s a good thing. Sure, we have to force ourselves not to run after each “shiny new object” and set aside the never ending stream of new ideas. But when we consciously tap into our need to work on something new and build a new stream of income, it can pay off big.

What Am I Talking About?

I’ve spend some time during the first few days of the new year setting some goals for myself and my online business (you can read about them on my blog at AffiliateTreasureChest). One thing I’m focusing on this year is building several new small streams of income. They are little niche sites that can be built and set into motion in just a few days.

Here’s the basic step-by-step plan:

1)   Find a Hot and Profitable Niche.

2)   Set up a WordPress site adding some unique content as well as slightly rewritten PLR along with a few reprint articles from article directories.

I recommend doing a little keyword research and optimizing your content for the search engines.

3)   Set up an optin list for this new site and load up a few autoresponder messages that promote a handful of good affiliate products.

4)   Promote those same affiliate products within the content of your blog.

5)   Set up social media accounts for your site.

6)   Write a few articles and guest blog posts and submit them.

7)   Do whatever else you find effective to market your site and drive traffic.

Then sit back and wait. Add the occasional new blog post, spend a little time socializing on your social media accounts and write the occasional article or guest post here and there. That’s it.

Get It Started – Then Outsource The Rest

Of course one little niche site won’t do the trick. It may pay your phone bill, but it isn’t what I would call an online business. What does make it worthwhile is the fact that this system is very scalable.

Your main job is to come up with more niche site ideas. Ideally you want to focus on related niches that make it easy to cross promote. For example… if you have a low carb diet niche site, your next project could focus on walking workouts. From there you could go into other weight loss niches, various health topics etc.

Sooner or later though, you’ll get to the point where you can’t handle it all on your own anymore. You get tired of setting up new sites and there’s just no way to keep up with the marketing and adding new content here and there.

That’s when it’s time to start thinking about outsourcing some of this. Hire a VA to help you add content, do some social bookmarking, post on your social media sites etc. Buy some more PLR for your niches and have someone tweak it and add it for you.

Where you take it from here is up to you. You can continue to grow your little niche site empire and turn it into several large networks of related sites. Or just sit back, maintain and enjoy a few hundred or thousand dollars in affiliate income.

One of the beauties of this system is that you will get to a point where the niche sites have gained enough momentum of their own that you don’t have to go back and add new content or drive more traffic on a regular basis. I have sites I haven’t touched in years that still generate income. Occasionally I’ll go back and improve on some of that Virtual Real Estate, but that’s entirely optional.

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If you’d like to see what Susanne does on a daily basis to grow these Affiliate Niche sites, I invite you to join her at Daily Affiliate Tasks. Each week she shares a short instructional report and a weekly task list with you. Spend about 30 minutes a day completing these tasks and watch your niche sites grow.

 

Internet Marketing Deadlines, and a Challenge

Sometimes you have deadlines because you’re a service provider and you’ve made promises to your clients about when you will complete their projects. Those are HAVE TO deadlines.

We’ve had those throughout life:

• give mommy some quiet time until the big hand is on the one (or was that just me?)
• complete that homework assignment by tomorrow
• pay the rent by the end of each month

Then there are the self-imposed deadlines, the WANT TO. This is where I love to operate, and honestly it’s crucial that I do because I work online full-time and if I don’t get things done, I don’t make any money. But I find the WANT TO deadlines challenging and fun. That’s why I work for myself!

So in the spirit of these self-imposed deadlines and as a friendly competition, Susanne Myers, and I are going to see just how much we can get done before NAMS7, which is February 10-12th. I think this makes a nice deadline. It’s one month from now, plus we can start the conference feeling like we’ve accomplished things and we’re on fire. When you feel accomplished, excited, and confident at an affiliate marketing conference it tends to rub off on other people.

How great it that? Getting other people jazzed about their businesses and helping new marketers see the possibilities!

 Susanne asked me what I hope to accomplish before NAMS7 and what I’ll be working on this week…

Well there are 5 areas I want to work on. I’m looking at them as 5 different businesses in that they’re all separate sites, but they all tie together under my big umbrella and there are specific things I want to get done before the big deadline:

• AllstarPLR – 3 new packs, update the blog on that site, send helpful free info to that list, help affiliates.
• EasyArticleStarters – finish the mega-pack that’s halfway through, flesh out the details of the upsell and get that in place, load up some more affiliate tools.
• PeggyBaron.com blog (that’s right here) – 7 blog posts
• CoachPLR – work with my 3 clients and add a waiting list form to the sales page.
• Professional PLR Provider – Simply plan out what’s next now that I’ve done a year’s worth of newsletters.

Maybe that doesn’t sound too exciting to you, but these 5 areas bring me income.

2 more things that don’t fit in those categories but are on my plate before the trip to Atlanta:

• Launch a new product with Alan Petersen
• Write a chapter to be included in Connie Ragen Green’s next physical book.

This week’s agenda:

I plan to work with my coaching clients, write 1 blog post, get a PLR pack ready to sell and notify that list, write 3 more sections of the EasyArticleStarters mega-pack and work out the details of that upsell, and outline my chapter for Connie’s book. Of course I’ll also be blog commenting, marketing, tweeting, answering email questions, learning, building relationships, and not playing too much Spider Solitaire.

This little challenge has got me uber motivated! Let’s see if I can go go go! And not get shown up by Susanne. And not get unfocused and off-course.

Now I encourage you to jump over to Susanne’s blog and see what she has planned to get done before NAMS. Holey moley!
Here’s my question to Susanne:

“Susanne, how do you target WHO you want to write guest posts for? What’s your criteria for deciding which blogs?”

Signing off and getting busy.
What do you want to accomplish this week? Join us in the comment section!

photo credit: HikingArtist.com

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Not Another Boring 2012 Goals Post, Plus a Prize

Dear Reader,

I could bore the heck out of you by writing about MY goals and plans for 2012, but I won’t.

What’s that? Do I hear a sigh of relief?

What I’m going to do instead is tell you my catch phrase for my online businesses for the year. My phrase for 2011 was “Go Bold” and I think I did a pretty good job of accomplishing that… if I may be so bold as to say. It was a good year.

THIS year, my phrase, my theme, is “Be Helpful”.

Being helpful to others helps them get ahead and find success, which is so rewarding for me!

With that in mind, I’d love to get your feedback and find out what you need help with. What’s holding you back? What information do you need? What tools? What types of Done For You products or shortcuts are you looking for? What’s your next step? What are your frustrations?

See, I’m hoping your answers will give me further direction so I can create products (free and paid) that will help you. Or do you need mentoring or a mastermind group or accountability partner?

• Let me know in the comment section below!

I will be doing a random drawing from the people who comment and the one lucky winner will get a copy of Danny Iny’s book, Engagement From Scratch! This is an amazing book that I had the pleasure of reviewing in part before it was published. He recently sent me an extra copy so I could give it away to someone who might benefit from it. Danny, from firepolemarketing is a great guy and he did a heck of a job with this book.

 

What’s On Your Internet Marketing 2012 Calendar?

Here’s something fun for 2012 - having your own calendar made. My partner at MyNichePLR, Pat Graham, and Mandy Allen have started a new business called Calendars For Marketers and I had them make me one.

You can see my very own 2012 internet marketing calendar here.

I think it’s a good way of letting people know some of my websites and products.
Now I’m hoping you can help me brainstorm what to do with the calendar.

I have the Word doc so I can add any info I want to the days. It could be instruction or informative… “January is plan your business month” or “May is marketing month, work on a different marketing approach each week” or ???

I could also add inspiring quotes on the 1st Monday of each month or ask them to take some sort of action every week.

• What info would you put in the days (keeping in mind this calendar is not for me personally, but to give away as something useful to my customers,clients,online friends)?

• What else could I, should I, do with it?

 

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