Starting An Online Business From Scratch

Google Adwords Keyword Tool

People who are starting a blog, looking to increase the traffic or subscribers to their blogs or looking for affiliate marketing opportunities hear a lot about SEO, keywords and backlinks. We are told that Google likes pages that are unique, relevant and optimized for keyword phrases that people are searching for.

Sounds pretty simple, huh?

I just read a post by Jonathan Leger entitled “Google Link Analysis 101” where he shows a quick method to see how many searches are being done for a keyword phrase using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and then do a quick competition analysis with the Yahoo Site Explorer.

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Black Ink Project Beginnings

I have been associated with Jeremy Palmer’s Black Ink Project affiliate marketing training since mid-April of this year when he announced that he was going to open his training up to 2000 students. Having read his High Performance Affiliate Marketing ebook, I couldn’t wait for the sessions to begin.

All I can say is what has happened since then has changed completely how I do business online.

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In part one, I gave you my background and discussed the various influences so far on my internet marketing career.

We’ll continue today with an update on where I am now and finish with where I want to be in the next year.

Fast Forward To Now

I am thrilled to report that I am finally starting to see regular, if not life-changing, results from my efforts. I can’t tell you how satisfying it has been for me to analyze where a campaign was, make changes to it and see real results.

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I was contacted last week by Mark Hansen, owner of thenichestorebuilder.com site to do a review of an ebook written by one of his subscribers Steve Lindhorst. The ebook is called “The Niche Book-The Complete GuideTo Making Money In Niche Markets.”

In a nutshell, I found the book had something for both the newbie and the seasoned veteran. You can read the short but complete review here.

Human beings are an interesting lot. The things that motivate us can be as specific as a savings account with $100,00.00 in it or as general as a pat on the back. We each have our own definitions of success and failure and nobody can dictate these to us. The only thing that seems to be universal is that we each need to feel like we matter and that we’re making progress towards our goals. Otherwise, we stagnate and risk falling prey to any number of vices that hopelessness can breed.

I’m writing today to give you a report on where I’ve come from, where I’m at and where I want to be. Let’s back up a bit to tell you where I’m coming from.

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How many times when you’re reviewing affiliate products or making changes to your BANS store do you ask yourself “What would I do in this situation?.” It’s human nature to use our own experiences to predict what will be successful and what won’t. Unfortunately, using ourselves as yardsticks may be an incredibly limiting mistake.

Let’s take a look at three people and see who has the best chance of success.

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I found a post from Jonathan Leger titled “The Advantages Of Internet Marketing” that I need to share with you today. With all the dismal talk about the world economy, one can’t help but ask themselves “Can I weather these economic times?” Jonathan makes an excellent case for the affirmative here.

Let me summarize the reasons he believes internet marketing is a great profession to be at exactly these times.

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For every one of us who is trying to build a business we often get caught up in a whirlwind of tasks that seems to have no end or beginning. We know we need to produce content, build backlinks, evaluate affiliate products and butter bread all in the same workday. What we lose is a macro view of our progress in each of these areas. We’re too often content to think as long as we take some action in any area of our business that we’re doing good.

Never is this more true than with social media. We open account after account because we’ve heard or read that they can help us rank or build our email list or increase our contact list of influential people. While this can all be true, in order for us to be effective in any marketing or social endeavor, we need to have a framework to keep the activity in perspective.

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Not too long ago the advice to anybody wanting to get into internet marketing or any online business was to start blogging. This would both get your content out there for the search engines and it would allow your domain to start aging. Both good things.

OK. So now your blog has been up for over six months. Are you getting the response you thought you would? Have you attracted the right kind of readers/subscribers? Is your blog making you any money every month?

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In this post on Timothy Ferriss’ blog titled “How To Never Forget Anything Again”, written by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, the author talks about how our minds are not really very good at remembering a lot of things. His focus is on finding a system to help us retain this information by setting up a system. This system must cover different aspects of our lives and be easy enough to become a daily habit. After all, any tool we don’t like using we won’t. That’s just human nature.

Here are the applications the author recommends and their uses:

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