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In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m very excited to chat with Glen Allsop of Viperchill.com as we get into crazy detail about exactly how he makes money online. If there is one session to take notes on, this is the one because Glen reveals a ton of information about his 5 step process for making money with affiliate and niche sites.
You can learn more about Glen by visiting his high ranking blog at Viperchill.com.
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I have some light reading for you today, because I’ve been really busy working on finishing up some housework this past weekend, and I’m not talking about dusting or vacuuming. I mean like – cabinetry, painting and putting up a new fence.
Don’t worry though, because on Wednesday, the 3rd Session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast goes live and it has some of the best “how to make money online” content I’ve heard in a while. Our special guest gets into extreme detail about what they do, so look out for that next.
To start off today’s light reading, I just wanted to confess something: I’m on a lot of email lists…and I love it. Over 20 to be exact.
You might think I’m crazy, but I purposely find the top internet marketers and immediately join their email lists, knowing that I’m going to be bombarded with emails and offers left and right.
Why?
Because each email is a free marketing lesson.
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First of all, thank you to those of you who commented on my July Income Report to enter the contest to win 1 of the 3 free lifetime copies of Instant Article Factory, given to me by Jonathan Leger himself. As I write this post, there are a whopping 269 total comments, most illustrating how they would use IAF and how much it would benefit what they do online. I really wish I had enough free copies to give to everyone, because everyone had wonderful things to say about what the software can do.
I’m happy to announce that the three winners are:
I have already contacted each of the winners via email.
Again, thank you all for your entries, and I feel really bad I can’t choose everyone.
If you didn’t win, but you still want a copy, Jonathan was nice enough to also offer a special “Pat Flynn Discount” (a deep 40% off) just for the SPI community. The offer expires at midnight tonight (Friday, August 6th), so you have until 11:59pm PST to grab the discount.
To get the discount, you must go through my affiliate link (yes, I do earn a commission from your purchase), because again it’s a special discount just for the SPI readers.
You can click here to watch the Instant Article Factory video and grab your copy today.
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Why Article Marketing?
As I mentioned in my July Report, article marketing has been my number one strategy to get my niche sites to quickly climb the search engine rankings. It works because you’re writing content relevant to your niche, posting it on a higher authority site and earning a backlink as a result. If you make sure to have your target keywords match the anchor text in your links that go back to your site, then it’s even more powerful.
In addition to that, people scour the article directories to grab content to use on their own sites. This may sound bad at first, but know that in order for people to use your written article, they must credit you as the author and provide a link back to your site.
As a result, you get even more backlinks to your niche site, and possibly some direct traffic from the article itself.
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Woohoo! It’s time for another monthly income report. I love writing these posts, not because I get to publish all of the details about my online income, but because I get to share exactly what I’ve been doing to earn that income – what I’ve learned, what I did well, what I didn’t do well, and where I’m headed. My goal here is not to boast about what I do – if you know anything about me you know that’s not what I’m about. This is about inspiration and education.
I’m here for you.
Let’s get right to it…
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In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m pleased to have the opportunity to interview Mark Mason from Masonworld.com. Mark is a good friend of mine who has a 60 hour per week corporate job and a family to support, yet he still makes a killing online as an internet marketer. He shares with us some of his tips and tricks for productivity and success, as well as the tools and resources he uses to make profitable and high ranking niche sites.
You can learn more about Mark and what he does on his blog at Masonworld.com, or from his successful iTunes podcast.
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Non-Google search engines are a beautiful thing – and no, I’m not talking about Yahoo or Bing.
I’m talking about other search engines that you can use to discover a ton of valuable information about the niche you’re in.
I guarantee that you’ve heard of these search engines before, although you probably never thought of them primarily as search engines:
- YouTube
- Twitter
- Facebook
- iTunes
Let’s go one-by-one through each to discover how we can utilize these search engines to enhance our own websites, blogs and brands.
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Over the past week, I’ve received at least 15 emails from SPI readers asking me whether or not the new Subscribers Magnet WordPress Plugin by MaxBlogPress (makers of the popular WordPress Plugin, Ninja Affiliate) would be something worth investing in. To be honest with you, I hadn’t even heard about the plugin until some of you emailed me about it.
I built my online businesses with WordPress sites and never once paid for a single plugin, so I was a bit skeptical because I only know a handful of plugins that are worth paying for, such as WP-Wishlist. With so many people wanting my opinion about it, I decided to see what the big deal was.
Before I go on, I just wanted to say this to you up front: I don’t normally do posts about products like this here on SPI. I usually only promote products that I’m hardcore familiar with (i.e. Market Samurai), but I did do my best to get as familiar with the plugin as possible so I could leave you an honest assessment. There was apparently a ton of buzz about this plugin (which I somehow missed until recently), so my goal here is to give all of you my first-hand, educated opinion about it so that you can make your own educated decision whether you like it or not.
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When I was in Architecture school at Berkeley (Go Bears!), my classmates and I suffered long, hard nights at the studio drawing massive plans, building detailed models and drinking lots and lots of caffeine.
Some of our semester long projects required over 60 hours of work per week, in addition to our actual class time for both Architecture and general education courses. It was nuts, and because we had segments of the semester long project due about every 2 weeks, I often found myself pulling all-nighters, crashing on a nearby couch, or in a sleeping bag under my desk.
Most of my classmates were right there with me, pencils in hand – however there were a few select students who just seemed to never be around until the last couple of days before each deadline.
My studio mates and I always thought, “There’s no way these people are going to finish in time. We’ve been here for almost 2 weeks straight, and they come in with 2 days left before the deadline with nothing.”
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This is something a little different…So far, I’ve published 20 monthly income reports, and 1 annual income report. However, I’ve never posted anything in detail about my expenses, until today.
I don’t know exactly why I have never included them in my reports. Maybe it’s because when I first started doing these reports there were virtually no expenses to take into account. That being said, I do know that many of you are curious to see what a typical month looks like, so here it is.
The following is my expense report for June of 2010.
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We all know that guest posting is one of the best ways to get highly targeted traffic to your website. Everyone makes it sound so easy too: write a killer post, deliver it to a fellow blogger in your niche, and then BAM…instant traffic, and some new subscribers to boot.
Although I wholeheartedly believe that guest posting is a tactic that delivers exactly the traffic that you need, and one that you should definitely attempt several times throughout the life of your growing site, the truth is that it’s not always as easy as it sounds.
Why?
Because the author of the blog you are targeting has the option to reject your guest post request. It could be for any number of reasons, many of which are beyond your control.
There is, however, a strategy that I’ve noticed being used on a number of blogs lately that is working wonders – driving large amount of traffic, earning tons of retweets and landing tons of new subscribers. It’s a strategy that I wish I knew when I was just starting out, and the best part is that it’s a post that you publish on your own blog, so there’s no need to worry about rejection.
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