Do you have big dreams for the next year for your business and your finances? Every day can be a new day if you have a great attitude but a new year presents great opportunities for improved mindset. A new year feels like a fresh start with things like: health goals, money goals, and business plans. What’s your plan for the next year in terms of growth for your internet marketing business? Here are some suggestions and internet marketing resources.

Analyse

Analyse what you’ve done this past year. Analyse what you’ve done well and what hasn’t gone so well and learn from all of it. Ask yourself questions and carefully weigh the answers. What have you done right? What might you do differently? Every failure you endure can be a learning experience so look back and reflect and this can help you move forward. Don’t forget to analyse your website statistics and analyse your competition. These things can give you a good idea of where you might want to focus some energy in the coming year. Resources: Use free website analytic programs, such as Google Analytics. And, get a journal for writing and tracking your goals.

Improve

Self improvement is important. What should you do more of? Maybe it’s blogging, maybe it’s organisation. Maybe you need to make a financial investment to take your business to the next level. Maybe you want to overcome self-confidence issues and REALLY take the plunge with your business. Improving on your shortcomings is something you should continually work at. It won’t always bring results overnight but can start you on the right road toward success. Improve your knowledge and your skills, especially in SEO, copywriting, and marketing knowledge areas. Resources: Check out my free internet marketing bootcamp, for instance.

Learn

Learning is power. It’s a cliché but it’s true! The web provides endless education opportunities. Don’t believe everything you read but find mentors whom you trust and learn from them. Learn from your mistakes as well as your triumphs. Don’t hesitate to invest in an internet marketing education. You can even obtain a degree in internet marketing from accredited online schools if you wish. Or, join a mentoring group and learn all you can from those who have become successful and learned from their mistakes.

Lather, Rinse and Repeat

When you find great internet marketing resources and tools, use them to the max! Too often, people find a bit of success and become complacent. In terms of the world of internet marketing, it’s ever-evolving so something that works today might only work for a short amount of time. If you find a winning strategy, use it to the full potential!

Do Unto Others
Treat others how you want to be treated. It’s a simple philosophy in life and works great in terms of customer service. One thing many internet marketers are lacking is customer service skills. If you can give your customers a great experience in doing business with you, they’ll tell their friends and they’ll buy from you again in the future.

Pay it Forward

Has someone helped you learn internet marketing? Why not be an internet marketing resource to others as well? Do you believe in the laws of attraction? If you do, you’ll know that great things happen in the presence of kindness and generosity.

Go!

Don’t just sit there dreaming about success; make it happen! Only you have the power be successful and happy today, tomorrow, next year, and the year after.

If you’re trying to make money via blogging Google Adsense, other contextual ad programmes, Amazon, and / or via affiliate marketing programmes read on for tips that could help you increase your income substantially.

Contextual Advertising Earning Tips

Some people make great incomes from contextual advertising. Others have trouble hitting payout despite a lot of effort on their part.

When trying to earn money via Google Adsense, write your content and then review the ad results. Do the ads mesh well with the content? If not, you may consider adding additional keywords and phrases related to your niche. The idea is to present ads that are going to be interesting to the people who will read those posts and those posts are going to attract traffic based on keyword relevancy.

Many make the mistake of giving away too much info in blog posts when monetising with Google or other contextual advertising programmes. The idea is to pique interest and present related ads that will tempt the reader to click in order to learn more. Whet the appetite of your reader while still providing value.

There are some great internet marketing courses and ebooks related to maximising your Google Adsense earning efforts so don’t hesitate to get educated on content writing and blog monetisation secrets so that you can look forward to monthly Google payouts.

Amazon

Amazon sells a plethora of products. Whilst the commission rate structure is fairly low (starting at 4%), the more you sell, the higher that commission rate can climb. A great way to make money via Amazon is to utilise their widgets that contain photographs. The photographs can provide a great way to entice people to buy. It is true that a photo can be worth 1,000 words. Many who use photos rather than straight text links make more money.

Another great thing about Amazon is that not only can you benefit when people buy the product you’re advertising but you can also benefit when they hop from your site to the Amazon site and buy something else. Amazon uses cookies for their affiliate programme so you can get credit for a sale of something else. You don’t have to simply work on one product, you can do contextual advertising, place specifc widgets on your site, or even direct people to your own virtual store. And for some products, such as the Kindle, there can be residual incomes. Sell someone a Kindle and make commission every time they download an e-book!

Many tips and strategies for online marketing exist that can help you become a 6-figure blogger. Trial and error is how many of today’s top earners have found success but you may consider getting some mentoring and advice as well as learning affiliate marketing techniques that can help you boost earnings and create some passive income streams.

We’ve looked at 3 Reasons Affiliate Marketing is Popular and 3 Important Acronyms for Making Money so in keeping with our recent theme  three, let’s look at three ways you can make money from your blog.

One way to make money on the internet is to write content and use contextual advertising to monetise the site.  A blog is a great example of this. The premise of this is that you write useful content on a subject and your site is filled with advertisements that are related to that topic. If people interested in your topic read your content then there is a good chance they could be interested in something linked on the page. Clicking and / or buying something on that page could result in a commission payment, payable to you. Build sites and a solid internet marketing strategy and income streams could become passive.

Companies that you might be interested in looking at include:

Google Adsense

Google Adsense presents ads related to your content when you add a Google widget to your website.  You can add banners along the top of the site, the sidebars, or between articles or blog posts. Clicks can range from pocket change to dollars or pounds a click, depending on the cost of the keyword that’s being displayed to the advertiser and what the clicker does when they arrive on the advertiser’s site.

Contextual Ads

Text link companies, such as Kontera are another great option. They’re similar to Google except that you can install a widget that ads links to your body text. If a visitor hovers over a linked word in the text, a preview for an ad will be visible. When they click, you earn money based on that visit. Clicks can range from pocket change to dollars or pounds a click, depending on the cost of the keyword that’s being displayed to the advertiser and what the clicker does when they arrive on the advertiser’s site. Clicks can range from pocket change to dollars or pounds a click.

Amazon

By adding contextually related Amazon widgets to your content site, relevant products can be listed. If people click and buy anything on the Amazon site (even if it’s not the product you’d advertised), then you earn a commission. Amazon sells everything from downloadable books for the Kindle to large and expensive appliances. The commission may be low but it can become passive, particularly if you sell a Kindle because you can earn commission on not just the device but on every download the purchaser makes, for instance.

Monetising content is one of the many ways you can make money via the internet. Beyond contextual ads, you can also have specific products on the page as well. Some internet marketers do affiliate marketing, make money from ads, and even sell their own physical and information products online.

Subscribe and get spoon-fed internet marketing tips. Next week, you can read tips about how to up your earnings with the above 3 programmes. And…don’t forget to check out the free internet marketing boot camp in our sidebar.

Blogging can be an amazing way help you to make money on the net. It enables you to get messages out to potential customers, get messages out to existing customers, and does great things for the SEO (search engine optimisation) of your site. I’m not feeding you hype when I tell you that you should be blogging. Search engines love blogs so you’ll save loads on your advertising costs, too.

The articles bring people in and your articles, as well as banners in your sidebar, can sell to people that arrive on your site.
Setting up a WP Blog

Setting up a blog isn’t difficult. WordPress is really easy, really customisable, and works amazingly well for bringing you traffic. It has got to be the favourite blogging platform for the most successful online marketers. You can set it up on its own as the root of a domain or you can create a yourdomain.com/blog as well and add it to an existing site. If you’re with a webhost that offers cPanel hosting (most large webhosts do), you’ve already got the ability to add a free WordPress blog onto your existing website.

I would recommend that you host your blog with someone other than WordPress. For a small fee this way you have more control of your blog and cannot be shutdown anytime Worpress feels like it.

I used to use Go-Daddy but now use MyExpressSite.com. Very simple to use with great tutorials and excellent customer service. Give them a try here, check out all their features for 14 days for just $5.

Here are some non-technical overviews of how to set up WordPress blogs on their own as well as on your existing website. If you run into trouble, you’ll find loads of free online tutorials and your webhost probably has free support and can guide you through as well but it’s really quite easy.

In cPanel, there’s an icon called Fantastico or Fantastico DeLuxe. It’s a little happy face. By clicking on it, you can add all sorts of programs. Install WordPress from here. When you do, it’ll ask you where to do a new install and here’s where you can choose a URL such as yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/blog. (If you don’t already have a domain and webhosting, you’ll want to set those up first.)

You’ll go through self-guided boxes that ask you for information such as your username and password and then with the click of your mouse, your blog is created. After it’s installed, you can login at: yournewblog.com/wp-admin.

Here, you’ll use the credentials you’ve set up and then you can go ahead and start blogging. You’ll find many free templates and tools to customise your blog and once you start blogging, you’ll find you get more traffic than ever to your website. Blog with search engine optimisation in mind and that’ll bring you plenty of organic traffic.

It’s a good idea to learn all you can about optimising a blog as well as monetising it. There are some great tutorials and tips that can help you unleash the potential of blogging with your target audience. Subscribe to my newsletter (in the sidebar) to learn more.

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