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I know the economy has seen better days, but it’s very counter-productive if you just sit around and wait for things to get better. It’s important to take action to better your circumstances because they’re not going to get better on their own.

Here’s something that will truly change your life for the better (I hope), no matter what circumstance you may be in right now, but you have to take action.

A good friend of mine, Shannon Jaklic, is holding a teleseminar that will teach you how him and his wife, Kim, made $109,000 within 9 and a half weeks building a profitable business on the internet – Even in this tough economy.

This is the real deal, folks!

I was talking with Shannon on Facebook the other day, and he was telling me how him and his wife have a passion for sharing what they’ve learned over the past 3 years with other people. They didn’t come from wealthy families – They earned every cent they made.

Shannon had been working his butt off in the construction business, making $50,000 a year. Yeah… that’s some nice money, but he was also working 70 hours a week.

The money wasn’t worth the sacrifice of never seeing his family. I can’t blame him one bit for wanting out of that mess. There are just some things money can’t buy.

Long story short… Shannon and Kim realized they wanted to move in a different direction and get Shannon out of the construction business so that he could have more time with his family.

9 and a half weeks later, Shannon was able to quit his job.

Shannon and Kim have over 3 years of experience in network marketing and direct sales and have used what they learned to build multiple, successful online businesses, bringing in up to $50,000 per month.

No lie…

But this is where it gets really cool.

The teleseminar that Shannon and Kim are holding on June 23rd at 9pm EST is an informational call for entrepreneurial minded people looking to start or restart a business in today’s economy.

Within their 3 years of experience, they’ve learned some key components that are necessary to succeed in any online business, and also what you must avoid if you don’t want to fail. They’ll be sharing this information on the call.

You don’t want to miss it!

This is REAL advice… from REAL people who have a passion for helping others in these tough times.

This is about using a proven model and applying it to whatever business you want to create your own success and your own recession-proof future.

Shannon and Kim didn’t have any experience or skills when they started 3 years ago. So, if you think this stuff will be too complicated or over your head… relax, because this is exactly for people like you.

All you have to do is register for the live call and then prepare to be blown away June 23rd when things get kicked off at 9pm EST.

If you’re at all skeptical about this stuff… then just leave right now. This isn’t for the doubters and naysayers.

This also isn’t for the pouters. I’m not here to feel sorry for you, I’m here to help you, and I hope I can do that by getting you to sign up for the call. What you’ll learn will change your life.

This is for people who are willing to do whatever it takes to turn their financial situation around and create a positive and bright future.

Register for the FREE call now!

Making positive steps towards a better tomorrow will set yourself in the right direction from here on out.

Why wait for the economy to get better?

Create a better future starting today and sign up for the free teleseminar.

I’ll see you on the call.

Creating a successful online business requires work, patience and positive thinking. You may even find yourself getting help from mentors that will guide you on the right path.

However, no matter how much help you receive, and no matter how much you learn, you can still fail. I’m not trying to scare you, but the statistics don’t lie. Most people never reach success because they end up giving up too early. They either underestimated the amount of work required, just got tired of it or got too far in over their heads. And then some quit due to financial restrictions.

This doesn’t have to be you. A recent article I wrote titled, Do You Have What it Takes to Succeed? will provide you with 6 tips to help you keep on track and not give up.

In case you’re in a hurry, here are the 6 tips to take to heart:

1. Plan

2. Stay Focused

3. Dedication

4. Buy a System that Works

5. Work Smarter, Not Harder

6. Review Your Progress From Time to Time

Points 2 and 3 I feel are the most important because this is where so many fail, and ultimately fail at reaching success working from home.

Do you have any tips to add that have helped you reach success? Share them below…

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned about the importance of having a mentor or group of mentors that can guide you on the path to online business success. One of my loyal blog readers, Dennis Edell, pointed out that all successful people (especially the top 1%) have a mentor. Well, I don’t know that I’d consider myself successful (financial wise), nor am I in the top 1%, but I do have a group of mentors that have helped me out tremendously in learning affiliate marketing.

The reason for this post is to introduce you to the group of mentors I’ve had the privilege of working with. What’s unique, I believe, is that they’ve been open to helping ANYONE who is either new to affiliate marketing, struggling to make money, or looking to take their online business to the next level. There’s not too many successful internet marketers that are willing to work one-on-one with people, as pointed out by Meka, another reader of this blog.

Of course, they can’t literally work one-on-one with every single person, but I think they got a pretty good setup in place. They have a membership site designed specifically for people who want to get into affiliate marketing by setting up niche blogs. This is certainly the starting point in which anyone who is serious should take in order to start earning some extra income online.

The membership site provides an outline and step-by-step action plan to follow, from planning, getting your website set up, marketing/advertising, optimizing and bringing in a residual and passive income month after month. The mentors who started this membership site all are regular people just like you and me who had a desire to be their own boss and work from home. They saw an opportunity and did everything they could to see their dreams become a reality. They call themselves the Affiliate Power Group.

The mentors have been successfully working from home with affiliate marketing full-time for a number of years and are now sharing their experience and knowledge with the rest of us. That’s my main goal and purpose of this blog. I just love helping people and giving back, and it’s obvious that they’re very willing to do the same.

The great thing about the Affiliate Power Group is that they have a built-in forum (just updated) where you can ask questions and get direct answers from the mentors as well as other members. This is where the one-on-one attention is created because you have direct access to each mentor at anytime. You can also email or message any of the members directly for specific questions if you prefer.

As I also mentioned in my previous post, being able to have direct communication with those who are successful in your field will give you the edge you need to become successful yourself. It helps you grow mentally and provides personal development needed to turn that “hobby” of a website into a real online business. I’m not saying you have to go spend $1,000 to form an LLC, but you have to realize that creating a successful online business takes a lot of hard work and persistence. If you treat it like a real business, it’ll reward you as such. That’s something that took me a long time to realize, which is why I’m still not where I want to be yet.

Affiliate Power Group is able to help anyone just starting out, struggling to make money or trying to take their affiliate marketing business to the next level.  You can give their affiliate marketing training a try for just $1. $1 will give you access to the entire membership site plus all the bonuses. This is a huge deal, and I know once you see the value you’ll receive, you’ll want to continue your membership.

The total cost of the membership is very undervalued. Although, I like to look at it as the mentors over-delivering, which is really what they do. Seriously, learn the business or take yours to the next level for just $1 today. You won’t be disappointed.

Writing articles is an art form. Developing content for the net takes time and practice. Writing effectively and getting your readers to respond is the first benefit in building traffic. This results in direct traffic as readers are inclined to click on your link(s) in the resource box of your article.

I suggest you take a moment to visit Patricia Makhulo’s Article Marketing Made Easy post which gives you many great pointers on getting your article noticed and read.

Article marketing has two main traffic benefits: direct traffic and search traffic. Both are important and should be utilized to their fullest potential. You want to get as much bang for your buck as possible, so there’s no point in wasting a good article by only getting half the potential traffic.

Article marketing is one of the best ways to create long-term, targeted traffic to your website. I’m going to explain both traffic benefits.

An article is made up of different elements that are essential to getting direct traffic. These elements include:

• Defining the product/service you need to promote – Most articles have the purpose of providing useful information in order to pre-sell a product or service.
• Using the “useful, but incomplete approach” – Provide useful information to your readers, but make sure it’s incomplete and that they could better use the information by visiting the link(s) in your resource box.
• Using a tips list or tutorial format when applicable – If your article can be broken down into a list format, then do it. This will direct your readers along towards realizing their need for your product/service.
• Expanding on your main points to build the content of the article – as I’m doing with these key elements, provide information that expands on the main points of the article.
• Providing a closing or “call to action,” usually in the resource box, also known as the “about the author” section – Most people fail to do this. The resource box is there for a reason. Tell your readers to visit your link(s) to make better use of what they read.
• Re-reading and proofreading the article to avoid errors – Don’t do this yourself as most people fail to catch their own mistakes. Have someone proofread your article for you so that it reads well and is error free. The best thing you can do when crafting an article is to write in a clear and concise manner. You need to convey your message to your readers so that they can understand it. Your article should read as though you were talking face to face with them.

If you focus on these key elements, your article stands a much better chance of receiving clickthroughs and your website getting targeted, direct traffic. Also keep Patricia’s models in mind as they work very well too.

The other main benefit involves getting natural search engine traffic from people searching for information. Aside from direct traffic, search traffic is just as good because it’s also highly targeted. Most searches performed in a search engine are for information. That’s why it’s so important that you provide useful information to your readers because there’s a better chance that they’ll convert to a customer.

There’s two elements that you need to be aware of when striving to get search traffic as a result of your articles. As people search for information, they enter keywords into the search box. The keywords they enter determine what results are displayed.

It is your job to find out what keywords those people are searching for. I recommend Google’s External Keyword Tool. Once you determine the keywords you’re going to focus on, the two elements soon come together. The first element is writing your article for specific keywords.

You need to determine what keyword phrase you need your article to rank for in search engines so that it is displayed when someone searches for that keyword phrase. This may sound complicated, but all you need to know here is that as long as you provide useful and unique content, your article will get noticed.

Websites are primarily ranked based on how many backlinks (links pointing to your site from other relevant sites) they have. The key here is containing the keywords you need your website to rank for within those backlinks. This you can completely control with the use of your article resource box.

The second element applies to your website. This involves the use of your article resource box. While the resource box can be used as your call to action as discussed earlier, it also has another use. As you need to get your article ranked high in search engines for a particular keyword phrase, you also need to get your website ranked high for keywords as well.

While developing your call to action phrase, create a link to the web page that you want to send your readers that contains your keywords you need your page to rank for in search engines. Every article you create will contain your resource box with your call to action and a backlink to your website. You see how your resource box serves two purposes in one?

If all of this sounds a bit confusing to you, then you should read some of my other posts on SEO:

Web Page Optimization

5 SEO Tasks You Should Do Every Day

I also recommend Suzanne Morrison’s 3 Steps to Search Engine Success.

Applying these methods to your article marketing efforts will ensure direct and long-term traffic for years to come. Both forms of traffic are equally important, so don’t ignore these methods. Article marketing, when done properly, will help you build your business and set it up for long lasting success. Remember, your website must have traffic, and article marketing can help you achieve it.

One way to make money online is through niche marketing. Niche marketing is simply finding a profitable market and narrowing in on a specific area (niche) within that market and making money from it. The way to do this is by setting up a website related to that niche, driving traffic to that site and selling products or services to create revenue from the site.

Another alternative if you don’t have any of your own products or services to provide is to sell products as an affiliate. This is called niche affiliate marketing. Both methods can be very profitable.

You can earn money with niche marketing through products/services, Google Adsense, Cost Per Action (CPA) campaigns, etc.

Niche marketing seems easy enough, but there are many variables involved, and a lot of research needs to be done before you decide to target a specific niche. There is a lot of information freely available to assist those looking to go into niche marketing and earning money as an affiliate. It will take some time to find and sift through the information that you find.

Another alternative is to find a group of mentors that are already successful with making money online with niche marketing. I’m blessed to have a group of mentors that I personally work with that have established reputable reputations online as being successful online business owners. They have helped me more than you could know.

Each one of my mentors work full-time on the internet and are skilled in the area of niche marketing. They know what it takes to succeed, and provide they’re support and guidance for others to follow in their footsteps. It’s truly been an honor working with them.

I tell you this because niche marketing or niche affiliate marketing is a great avenue for many people to get started online that want to earn extra money. The toughest part is not only finding and sifting through all of that information, but then knowing what to do with it and putting it into ACTION.

I’m pleased to announce that there is now a member’s only group available called the Niche Power Group that specializes in helping people earn money online with niche marketing. This group is composed of my personal mentors, and I would strongly recommend them to anyone that is serious about making money online.

If you’ve been wanting to make money online, but just don’t know where to start, niche marketing is by far the best way to go. This is how a lot of websites get started. People either find a need and provide a solution, find an area of interest, or find a profitable market and then put an action plan together to capitalize and make money.

I’ll leave you with this. You can either do all of the hard work yourself, which will take a lot of time and/or money, OR, you can have an experienced team of niche marketing experts take you by the hand and walk through the entire process. Plus, you’ll have the ability to ask any questions that you have and get answers and feedback from other members. The choice is yours.

Whichever you decide, not taking any action will ensure you fail. You MUST take action now!

Starting a work from home online business is tougher than you may think. It takes a lot of work to make it successful and is no different than any other type of business. Hard work, persistence and dedication is the key.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that success will happen overnight. There are too many people that are scammed into thinking that a work from home business will make you rich overnight without any effort. Don’t be naive in thinking this way.

Another problem is that there is too much hype when it comes to online businesses. Do your research, and don’t buy into the success of others. It takes a lot to be successful, regardless of what people tell you. The successful ones have labored many hours over their work from home business and have experienced the success and failures that are associated with it.

Do your part and learn as much as you can. Knowledge is your friend. Put what you learn into practice and build a solid foundation for your online business. You can never learn too much, and when it comes to running a successful online business, you will be grateful for every bit of information and advice you can get. Besides, the internet is changing, so there will always be new things to learn. You must be willing to change for the sake of your work from home business.

You must be patient with your online business. It’s often said that a business is a marathon, not a sprint. That couldn’t be more true. You must be diligent and continually work your online business every day. As time progresses, you will see results.

Don’t set unrealistic goals for yourself and your work from home business. Don’t expect to see results within a certain time frame. If you don’t get the results you were expecting, you could get frustrated and quit. You must allow time for your online business to grow. Keep in mind that success is equal to the amount of effort you put into your work from home business.

One of the smartest things I did was get a group of mentors that were willing to help me. Don’t be afraid to seek help and guidance with your work from home online business. The more help, the better. You need proper guidance and training.