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- Aug 26th, 2007
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The FREE (& limited until I cough up more $$) results are in:
Here is what the world searched on this past week that resulted in a clickthrough to this here ol’ Blog.
Google Search: how to earn thru blog
Google Search: online business highest demand
Google Search: wahm blog sites
Google Search: where are my internet visitors coming from?
Google Search: get started affiliate
Google Search: how to get a nite job
Google Search: ponn sabra contact
Google Search: affiliate marketing atoz
Google Search: my baby is constantly sucking
Google Search: how to get started online
Google Search: andrea yager is a guru (hehehe… someone is messing with me and my Sunday Stats! I am intrigued.. do more!!)
Google Search: the next internet millionaire lesson learned
Google Search: andrea yager
Google Search: jaime luchuck
Google Search: affiliate marketing atoz
Google Search: google know visitors
Google Search: writing the best copy
Google Search: ponn
Google Search: rights marketing
Google Search: launch my own online tv show
Google Search: andrea yager getting started
Google Search: resale rights marketing
Google Search: is $600 a week a lot? (It’s a good start
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Google Search: ultram demand (OH MY WORD!!)
Google Search: how to steal affiliate link (read through, but the comments for a great answer)
Google Search: heather dueease
Google Search: next internet millionaire forum (hey.. I’ll give you the link if you go in there and tell them the show is nothing without me – deal?)
Google Search: “millionaire audition questions”
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- Aug 24th, 2007
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Did you ever notice how when you do things accidently, it is a lot easier to accomplish, than doing so on purpose? I know I was not the ‘inspiration’, yet I linked to Joanna, reminding her of what she calls thematic link posting, which inspired Liz to issue a challenge to weave blogs together with a theme.
Wow. The whole world is out there for my picking, and now I dont know where to go.
I am going to tell you something shocking, and hard to believe.
There are people, in their mid-youth (as in not our grandparents), who dont own computers, and may even be scared of them. That means they only rely on their friends, family, neighbors, and random outings for experiences and life content. That is so 1860’s! I shudder at the thought!
I am rapidly yanked out of my blog vortex and brought back to reality with the slamming of the door. It is my daughters last day of ‘day camp’ and I am invited to watch her perform. All the mommies are sitting against the wall of a cramped building lobby and watching our girls doing a few silly skits and I cant help but think.. this was all these girls have been talking about, thinking about, and working towards for the last 2 days straight. How small can someones’ life be?
Is this new blog environment I am spending so much time in… the one that has me itching for her show to end,
social or anti social? I use to crave leaving the computer for a few hours at the park with the children. That was before WE met!
You (and there are many of YOU), have replaced my need to yap about the best sippy cups, which park do we prefer, and whats for dinner.
Yet you dont know who I am.
I think I have become a blog addict. I say I havent watched TV in a year, but that doesnt mean all my time is well spent!
So as I am in the middle of the ‘bigness’ of it all – I am simultaneously smiling at my baby, watching him crawl around and making sure nothing enters his mouth, so I am constantly reminded of the ’smallness’ of it all.
Perhaps the smallness of it all is what I share with YOU, but the bigness is the smile my baby reserves JUST FOR ME.
I surf around some and realize that there really are no rules..
and realize that the lines are blurred for largesse and smallesse – see I can even make up my own words -
I witness a sampling:
the smallness of a diary of a childs health / eating habits
the middle size countdown for a pregnancy
the bigger and put to better use education blog
the eggs over easy too much information our paths would never cross if it werent for the web Blog
The commercial size (and shameless plug for my twin brothers) USA TV Character Road trip blog
The largness of a conversation blog (every post on this site is a conversation)
The colossal (pun intended) get everyone involved and make a difference blog
And How Opportunity Works is what has me up at 5:50 AM while my baby is ASLEEP, working to meet Liz’s deadline.
I am not certain I succeeded at what was being asked, but at least I got no sleep, will be further behind on paying projects, and will scream at my kids all day tomorrow.
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- Aug 22nd, 2007
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Generalization coming up! I have heard multiple times from many individuals that ADD (attention deficit disorder) is required to acheive (online) success.. this is how it goes down:
ADD stimulates creativity. Creativity stimulates product creation/development. Product creation/development generates $$$.
As I have said, if you are looking to earn big money in the Internet Marketing field, you NEED to create. Unless you are a premier affiliate marketer, niche marketer, coach, etc., (and even so), this is a field which requires creation. I believe it is one of the single greatest reasons people have a hard time making a buck despite their efforts.
They dont GET THAT.
You NEED TO Create.
There is however a little discrepancy in this logic however, since you ADD’ers are all over the place, and product development clearly requires focus and determination.
Maybe that just answered it?
Determination and Will should be able to overcome almost any obstacle, including the all too often and way over diagnosed ADD. I am still undecided about myself – perhaps I am just a creative, but very busy mom. Although not sure that excuse works for why I have 13 browser windows open at any given time.
The first featured Internet Coach on the reality show of The Next Internet Millionaire was Mark Joyner, aka the ‘Godfather of Internet Marketing’ and creator of simpleology.
(as an aside.. maybe you are wondering why I, first runner up, major upset, big disappointment, admit to watching the show, and by mentioning it, I am even promoting it. Yes, welcome to the world of a GROWN UP
. I was actually surprised to feel ‘missed’ and the gaping hole where I should have been. I did not expect it. I dont think it is mutually exclusive to say I see where I could have added value and been an asset, and that I dont think I deserve it more than the others, (hmm well maybe). To the producers.. I would eventually appreciate a follow up email why I was 1st runner up. )
How was that for shifting focus?
Simpleology is known as ‘The Simple Science of Getting What you Want’. If I learned one RELEVANT thing from the first episode of the show it the rule of straight lines. You draw one dot on the left side of a page, and a right dot on the right side of the page. Then discuss your daily activities (unclear if they mean in general or when you start work), and see how far you veer off from creating a straight line from one dot to the other.
All I have to say is one thing. OY VEY!!
This is ME:
My ‘law of straight lines’ resembles one of my childrens’ connect the dots worksheet!
As I write this blog, I have a guy in the other room building a piece of furniture I bought, a friend over helping to organize the stuff going in it, writing a post concurrantly in 2 other blogs, writing a salesletter for a product I created, checking out the website who hired me for consultation, composing a list of requirements to another blogger who will be helping me tweak the other 2 blogs mentioned, checking out the emails for my part-time job, running a load of laundry and defrosting food for later, composing an update for my outsourcer for a new website, etc.. The baby is absent from this list, when he is usually a primary role, since this is my one morning a week that my Mom is watching him.
Please respond with ONE way that you have worked to maintain better focus, and have less jags in that straight line. I will collect the list and make a post with your website included!
Let me start:
One way to stay focused:
1. Deadlines are very helpful, so I pretend I am my own ‘boss’ and that I have to meet my deadline. I dont like to disappoint anyone, including myself!
That may not be a good one, but hey.. this is why I turn to you..
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- Aug 19th, 2007
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I had so much fun checking out the terms people searched in order to land on this here ol blog, that I would like to make it a weekly tradition.
Here are many of this weeks Google Searches (I will only get all of them when I either upgrade to MyBLogLog Pro or start Google Analytics):
The information in (parenthesis) are my own comments and not part of the search term:
Google Search: online nite time jobs (job suggestions for other WAHM’s.)
Google Search: good imer (’nuff said – I am pretty proud of this one!)
Google Search: how i started an online business (thats another great one!)
Google Search: how to charge for internet marketing consulting pricing hourly pay (I had this same question and now some sucker is going to be getting way less than he deserves if he copies my fee)
Google Search: andrea yager + warcraft (hahahaha – that was inspired from the last time I wrote a post like this)
Google Search: joel comm tv show (first runner up)
Google Search: niche marketing how to get started (check out that consulting tab again..)
Google Search: resell rights 101 (hey – I have a free video tutorial on this.. want it? I have yet to market it)
Google Search: a to z of affiliate marketing (good job Google)
Google Search: millionaire audition questions (first runner up remember)
Google Search: alisande chan (next internet millionaire contestant – getting a bit repetitive here arent I?)
Google Search: next internet millionaire seo 101 (that’s cool!)
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- Aug 17th, 2007
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Last night I had the pleasure of meeting with fellow NIM ‘loser’ (as if baby), Gail Greenberg. Yes, here in Jerusalem, Israel.
I had a post ‘in waiting’ for the right moment and good ol’ Gail has inspired me to share part of it now.
Gail and I discussed how we are each working on putting ourselves out there. You cant believe the stuff this girl has up her sleeve. I am talking serious internet SUCCESS! As internet marketers, we can see potential online $$ value in every idea/business/concept, etc..
So Gail wants to know… why am I so embarrased to charge what I am worth??
I hide behind potential partnerships – Any time someone mentions some interesting niche topic, I never tire of thinking of potential partnerships and money to be made. I figure people are not interested in paying and here is a chance to get 50% of a business instead of a small sum consulting. Yet, since they have no idea what they are receiving, and yes – dont pay for it! – they dont value what I suggest and shrug it off..
If I charged them what the information is worth, perhaps they would take me more seriously?
This is a big ‘woman’ problem (sorry for generalizing). How often have you given free advice, done a friend a favor, and not received pay for it. How often have you been EXPECTED to (I almost lost a friend over this, when she expected me to offer to work for her for free, and ironically I would have (but shouldnt have) but didnt want to impose my service on her in case she was not interested!)
Charlie Cook (yes a MAN!), in his Marketing for Success Blog, nails it with Why Women Dont Make What they Should. Basically, women feel guilty asking for pay, and see themselves as problem solvers.
Gail really gave me a pick me up. She is more determined than I am for me to recognize my worth, my mad marketing skills, how ridiculously valuable they are to most businesses who cant translate their offline/online businesses into the success, and how much people were really taken with me. True her experience was with the voting for The Next Internet Millionaire Reality Show (for which I was first runner up).
Yes, she insisted that people really respond to me, and will really respond to me. I caved and said ‘aww shucks’ (more! more! more!)
So this is how I am feeling now ..
Thanks Gail… right back at ya!
Other women entreupreuners…
Are YOU Getting what you are worth?? What advice would you offer?
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- Aug 14th, 2007
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What is an affiliate thief? Well it could be you and me.
2 categories:
1) Clickbank Thief. Deserves its own category. Most affiliate programs DO NOT allow you to purchase and earn for yourself a commission, or rather, spare yourself at least 50% of the expense. Clickbank does. If you notice affiliate marketers pining for your purchase with their amazing bonus offers, it is in large part due to this.
2 caveats:
a) In order to receive the money from clickbank which you accrue while buying items with your own affiliate link, you need to have made sales through several money mediums, 2 types of credit card, + paypal, so unless you are actually also selling to the public at large, you will have a hard time getting hold of your money… ( I speak from experience People!)
b) When it comes to Internet Marketing, once you are clued in enough to realize you can legally do this, it is usually since you have purchased so many IM products and still not found success or that which you find worthy of devoting enough time. Honestly, there should be some allowances for those people who are really interested in testing out a new product, but keep saying NO MORE BUYING, but cant help it every time a product launch is froth with irresistable copy, and underneath is really a sub par product, that you somehow already own something similar in your OWN NAME in a jumbled up collection of products you bought resell rights for!
2) Human Nature.
People do NOT like to see others succeed. I dont know why. If you knew that an item would cost the EXACT same if you were to click on their link and help them earn a few bucks, or if you were to clear your cookies, or open up another browser and NOT buy it through their link.. then WHY oh WHY would you NOT help the individual who sent you there? I find myself guilty of this if it’s a fellow IM’er who I know and I dont want them to know that I am yet again purchasing more products.
Human Nature is a funny thing. When I was auditioning for the NEXT Internet Millionaire Reality Show, I asked people in the Stomper forum (during my trial membership) to vote for me. One woman wrote.. I gave you a 9, since I wanted to reserve the right to give someone else a 10. Lady you can give us all 10’s, I mean GEE WHIZ… some people… none of those videos deserved even a 9 !!
Sorry for that little tangent…
I recently read a report that recommended using http://www.pinurl.com to mask your affiliate links and allow your link to be cookied and avoid people working HARD (yes, some people spend time on stealing your commissions, with NO benefit to them whatsoever).. You just paste the affiliate link and they supply you with a nice truncated code that is indiscernable.
For example. Lets say I wanted you to sign up to Clickbank, so you could sell the items from their marketplace and make tons and tons of money , but instead of mentioning the word Clickbank, I would refer to it as ‘a treasure trove of available affiliate products with skyrocketed commissions that will result in easy no brainer residual income for you’ (good copy on the fly eh? ). YOu may be intrigued to click. So which link would get you more:
http://pinurl.com/27i (What pinurl provided for me)
or
http://theresults.aff20.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOG (the actual affiliate link)
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http://andreayager.com/recommends/clickbank.html (this is a very popular way to indirectly bring visitors to a site via an affiliate link)
or lets be honest… after seeing one of the last two choices, would you just click http://www.clickbank.com and cut out (at not cost to you) the affiliate marketer?
Are you an affiliate thief?
~~ andrea
P.S. I have been testing out different solutions to combat affiliate thief’s. The first Affiliate Cloner is really easy to use and creates really short and sweet links.
The second, Affiliate Link Cloaker is like the Ferrari Enzo of tools to fight the affiliate theif’s. I have been using it for nearly 1 year. It’s really good at creating professional links that don’t look like affiliate links. Go beat up the affiliate thief today and make them cry rivers and earn more cash!
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- Aug 9th, 2007
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As a professional blog imitator, I cant help but notice all the stuff happening on the side columns on many blogs. In my spare seconds, I check out these sidebar features to decide what I NEED to add to my site.
My coolest find? Ironically the one I rejected for a long time. I just didnt see the need to have a few faces of my recent visitors. Well dont judge a book by it’s cover!!
Check out the far right column of this blog – MyBlogLog. It may just appear to you as a list of people who have come round this blog, (all those links go to people whose faces I have seen visiting my site.. this is my thanks back!) but it turns out… it is SO much more. This baby is so neat, I feel like a voyeur on my own site! Once you add the code to your site, they offer crazy stats on your site. I realize Google Analytics probably offers what they offer + more, but it cannot be as simple and easy to understand. Even from Google.
With the stats, I can tell which links were clicked on, and how many times. I can tell which pages were viewed. I can also tell on which sites people clicked to find me, and what time of the day. EVERYDAY.
Here is just a handful of searches on Google that resulted in a click to my site. This means I either showed up in the top 10 (or very near it!) for that keyword:
Google Search: how to email course
Google Search: sales page copywriter
Google Search: rich schefren negative
Google Search: adwords still good ?
Google Search: some easy online steps to make gold in wow (World of Warcraft?? How did that happen!)
Google Search: andrea yager
Google Search: the attention age doctrine part ii
Google Search: next internet millionaire trailer
Google Search: mailing marketing glossary 1
Google Search: adwords salary
Google Search: next internet millionaire reality show videosThis information may not excite you, but with the correct blog and a nice amount of traffic. it could be very powerful.
Since I started writing this post, I realized that feedburner also started offering these stats for free. I just turned them on, so I cant speak for them yet.
What cool sidebar features have you discovered, benefited from, recommend highly, or advise to avoid?
~~andrea
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- Aug 6th, 2007
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Fortunately and Unfortunately I need your help. The last few days my blog had some server issues and now that I am able to post, my baby decided to sleep 8 hours in a row last night (yah!), leaving me on the verge of a breast infection today (blah!). I am in pain, and waiting for the tylenol to do what it can. The added bonus – my car has no a/c and I live in the Middle East and I was out all day in 100F, so I am just barely alive. Can you help me finish my thoughts today (or buy me a new car !)?
Over dinner a few nights ago, there was a conversation between myself and Others who DONT get ‘the whole web thing’.
They agreed that when starting any new business venture, online or offline, solid good advice is to look around at others in your field, either in your ‘niche’ or just generally successful, and imitate them.
This is not to suggest common practice where I live – that you open a ‘felafel store’ next door to another ‘felafel store’ since they appear to be raking it in.
However, if you visualize the internet as it is.. the biggest strip mall EVER.. (you know what I mean by strip right?? I am out of the USA so long I just want to make sure this is the proper term! ).. that means we may all be opening up stores right ‘next to each other’ but the ENTIRE WORLD is our potential customer. That leaves plenty to go around, and room for very healthy competition!
The conversation continued…
Fine!! Agreed. Free Market Economy. Enough to go around. Snoop on your competitors, interview their friends and friends of their friends and milk them for details, do what you have to, but…
Why link to someone who is your competitor??
(Disclaimer – I cant shine the shoes of those ’supposed competitors’ but a healthy self esteem cant hurt, eh?)
Reebok and Nike / Pepsi and Coke / Walmart and K-Mart – competitors for generations. Can you picture them helping the other out? That may have saved them a lot of Advertising money!
Naturally a Blog, with nothing to sell, except the persona behind it, cannot exist in a vacuum.
Are we reaching who we want/need to by reaching out to each other?
To be perfectly honest, I could be completely off here. As cathartic and enjoyable as I find blogging, it was (is?) intended to be another piece in the puzzle towards helping me reach my online goal$$. I am currently not in a position, with a young family, to be writing only for pleasure (of course it helps that it offers me pleasure). Are you?
How do YOU explain this unique online relationship?
P.S – as I was searching for my last link love…. check out this post (will open new window). How ironic to stumble across Garry’s post as I was writing mine..and frankly alittleLOT terrifying.
~~andrea
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- Jul 31st, 2007
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First an apology to my huge list of readers . I mentioned a part II to my previous post, and it just is NOT happening … YET. It is summer, people are everywhere, it’s hot, and my brain is a little fried.
Just throwing out a question to You – curious what you think…
How much of a product of the WEB 2.0 environment are YOU??
I have made some videos and anticipate immersing myself more into this newest trend. If you told me 2 years ago, that I would be making these videos and subjecting myself to public opinion, ridicule, etc.. there is NO WAY I would believe you.
I dont think anyone understands where all those videos from YouTube came from?? Who ARE those people who uploaded clip after clip and what were they thinking?? How did they know?
Sure I head over to YouTube when I am in the mood for some nostalgia or to check out a favorite scene from an old sitcom/movie.. but when you come across something like this, you have to wonder:
WHO created WHO??
and how about this – would these prisoners in the Phillipines have done this (this is one of many videos) if there was NO audience??:
I am compelled to ask..
What came first?
The BLOG or The BLOGGER?
Blogging has given me, amongst countless others, the chance to re-develop writing skills shelved since College, create online conversations with colleagues, earn a little money (if you will it..), and again.. put myself OUT THERE.. an additional contribution towards our ‘audition’ to the world..
since isnt that what it has all become about??
WEB 2.0 = ONLINE AUDITIONING.
Trying to get discovered in some way.. from Google, other bloggers, future clients, future advertisers.
Can you be a shy blogger who sits in the corner with your nose in a book, doesnt make friends easily, even if you are a Geek, and understand computers, and be successful?
hmm – a little all over the place today!
You were saying??
~~ andrea
this was contributed by Andrea. She has been created by her blog. Or perhaps she created her Blog. Either way, leave the poor confused girl a comment and let her know what you think??
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