So you’ve decided to wade into the waters of video blogging.  You’ve created a video and edited if necessary.  How do you get it on to your blog?  You host it on a video site under your username.

• If this is all new to you check out the up and coming MomTV.  The site is easy and fun to use plus they are on Twitter and accessible if you have questions.
• NewBaby is a great place for expectant mothers and mothers of little ones.
• The site I started with is Blip.tv.  I like the clean look of their player and videos.
• The most well-known video site is YouTube.
• Vimeo is used by a lot of bloggers, but I found it slightly confusing.
• MotionBox is an option if you want to privately share video with family and friends around the world.

These are sites that I’m familiar with.  I’d be glad to be your friend if you’re on any of them.  I’m Jendisjournal on YouTube, Jendi on all the others. [Read more...]

Okay girls!  I rolled the ranomd.org dice and…

The winner is Jendi!

Congrats girl! Just email jamie (at) totally the bomb (dot) com and I will get you set up with your super swanky new linktrack account!

Want to make your username one of the most hated in the universe?  Follow these eight tips and in one week or less you will start receiving hate mail and be banned from at least 3 sites.

Be a Spammer!

There are multiple ways to accomplish this goal.  Take over someone’s e-mail address so they have to change a valuable address on many sites.  Leave totally irrelevant comments pushing a useless product.  Scrape blog content that the author spent hours on and repost all of it on a stupid site.  Make sure you have a web host that won’t reveal your identity and won’t help the original author.

DM often!

Send lots of Direct messages through Twitter.  If you want to be slightly irritating send autos that say “Hello.  Thanks for the follow.”  If you really want to get under their skin send a plug for your latest product.  Use your huge list of followers to plug your product, but never reply when they ask you a question or for a favor. [Read more...]

NOTE:  This finishes up a guest post series from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

The word “overhead” is not a favorite among those who run businesses of any kind.  Nobody likes the expenses of operating a business.  And nobody really talks about them much when it comes to promoting all of the “money-making” products and services online.

But, don’t kid yourself, there’s a lot of overhead.

That brings me to the fifth reason why I love affiliate marketing…

** You don’t need a big budget to make it work **

Do you have any idea how much money is spent running an internet business? There are monthly fees for…

• Autoresponders
• Hosting
• Management
• Advertising
• Scripts
• Much more

There are regular fees for…

• Licensing
• Outsourcing
• Support
• Customer Service
• Maintenance
• Development
• Recruting
• Much more

It’s not uncommon to spend tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dollars in operational costs — which is fine if you’ve been in business a while and are making the bucks. However, if you’re a newcomer, it can be taxing on your budget!

SIDEBAR:  I paid one girl over $30,000 last year just to oversee one small part of my business.    No one talks much about it, but there ARE a lot of expenses involved before you get to the  “bottom line” of profit.

BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need a big budget to make it work! You can simply use a variety of free and low-cost marketing methods to generate clicks to your affiliate link.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need a big budget to make it work.

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of Affiliate Payraise, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today.

NOTE:  This continues a guest post series from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

I’m sure by now you are well aware that there are those who have reported HUGE amounts of money being made with their online businesses.  What you may not be aware of is the amount of work involved in generating those “sales” (not always net profit, mind you … this isn’t “spendable”
income in a lot of cases.)

That brings me to the fourth reason why I love affiliate marketing…

** You don’t need to manage an entire business **

While it can be quite lucrative, running an entire business with employees, inventory, partners, vendors, and other associates can be a time-sucking, frustrating ordeal.

Imagine…

• Processing refunds
• Putting out fires when partners SPAM
• Managing day-to-day operations
• Overseeing projects you’ve outsourced
• Recruiting new affiliates
• Training everyone to help you
• Paying taxes
• Taking care of the paper trail
• Doing all of the “stuff” that business owners do.

Didn’t you want to start an internet business to make more time for important things in life?

Why not make a lot of money WITHOUT making a lot of extra work for yourself?!

It can be a lot of extra work and stress. BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to manage an entire business! You are simply responsible for promoting your affiliate link… someone else handles all the rest.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to manage an entire business.

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of Affiliate Payraise, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today.

Amy Clark, the woman behind Mom Advice, said this at Blissdom, “Don’t write for free if you don’t get benefits.” She was referring to writing guest posts for other sites or online magazines.  The benefits could be money or increased traffic.  If having your name and link on that site don’t benefit you don’t spend your valuable time writing for that site.

I’ve also heard from several women that charge to run giveaways.  You may have gotten a copy of the product to review, and that’s fine.  Hosting a giveaway is more time and effort.  You have to set it up, monitor it, figure out the winner, contact the winner, and contact the company. [Read more...]

NOTE:  This continues a guest post series from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Some people have the ability to persuade others and talk them into just about anything.  Especially when it comes to influencing their buying decisions.  They know how to push the right hot buttons, say things the right way and generally get consumers into an emotional frenzy to the
point they are ready to click an order button.

There are two key words in that paragraph that really need to stand out in your mind:  “some people”.

Not everyone has this ability.  In fact, only a few do.

That brings me to the third reason why I love affiliate marketing…

** You don’t need to write a world class salesletter**

Have you ever tried to write a salesletter? There’s a reason why professional copywriters charge up to $10,000  (and sometimes even more) for a SINGLE salesletter. It takes a lot of experience and skill to write a top-gun salesletter, which is why most people have a hard time convincing people to buy if they do create their own products and website.

They simply don’t have the right salesletter in place to make it all work. Without good copy, it really doesn’t matter how spectacular the offer is, you’re simply not going to get many sales.

SIDEBAR:  The average conversion rate of site visitors who become buyers is reportedly less than 2%.  That  means 98 out of every 100 do NOT buy.  That’s why  sales are so incredibly bad for a poor site … you *might* get 2 sales out of every 300-400 visitors.

BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to write a salesletter! You simply direct people to someone else’s high-octane salesletter for THEM to convert your leads into commissionable sales.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to write a world class salesletter.

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of Affiliate Payraise, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today.