4 months down, 8 to go. How is your business going? Yes, time does seem to fly and with the nice weather starting in the northern hemisphere it is time to see where you are at before the summer time distractions start.

If you are struggling now may be the time to get some help. I strongly recommend you check out Doug Champigny’s Power Start Marketing course. 4 intense weeks can get you on track to the business you have wanted. Get in today and you can start on Monday and be set up and running by June 1st.

Now there are lots of things going on in the background here so I would strongly recommend you keep on eye on your email. Have something very interesting coming down the pike but only for those that actually pay attention and take action.

Now off to the blogs.

WordPress Made Easy

• Custom Blog Themes made easily
• WordPress 3.0 quickly approaching
• 5 Ways To Protect Your WordPress Blog

The PLR Secrets

• SEO, PLR and Niche Affiliate Packs

What’s Hot

Affiliate Silver Bullet – Brand new turn key program from the crew at Clickbank Pirate. A great way to set up some automated income and build your list at the same time. At the least you should check out the replay of the webinar they held right before this launched.

Powerstart Marketing 2010 – Your chance to get into one of the best ways I have found to get your business up and running quickly. New class starts this Monday so get in right now.

SEO Affiliate Niche Pack – Brand new niche pack from Suzanne Myers to help you get a new niche set up quickly. Research done for you giving you a quick start on entering a new niche. Check the other packages she has available as I have bought and used some to save me time.

Saturday Seven – This week a MRR product that has giveaway rights – Internet Marketing A – Z. As always just $7 but only through Monday night. A great starter product that could be used as a gift for list building and offer resell rights on the back end.

Conferences Today

Affiliate Funnel has Soren Jordansen (one of the Clickbank Pirates) today at noon. You can join Affiliate Funnel for free and get access right away.

Get Referrals Fast is holding our first conference for upgraded members today at 2pm. The topic is “Free Master Class EXPOSES *Hush Hush* JV Giveaway Secrets.” Grab your membership in Get Referrals Fast and upgrade to get access.

That is all for this week so pay attention to your email this week because those that read and take action have some neat content coming.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, Affiliate Silver Bullet, Doug Champigny, get referrals fast, niche marketing, powerstart marketing 2010, Soren Jordansen, suzanne myers

Been a bit slow with blog posting this week but will get back to normal as some things have been happening around the house.

Got tied up with completing the Keyword Research Product and doing the traffic call for purchasers of Clickbank Pirate. I did schedule the Blog Talk Radio Show for Wednesday at 7pm edt but working on the topic so more details will be coming shortly.

Now to the blogs.

WordPress Made Easy

• Asking Your Reader

The PLR Secrets

• Grab some free PLR books today

Mike And Steve Talk

• Keyword Research Product Completed
• Almost finished so last chance

What’s Hot

Keyword Research Call – Steve and I covered a lot in this call and you can now get the full 63 minute call, the complete transcript, the slides and the resource guide.

Guru Ambush – If you have not grabbed a copy of this free ebook from Guido Nussbaum you need to get it today. 72 pages of step by step plans showing how Guido built a six figure business in a year.

Saturday Seven Special – This week it is 7 reports with squeeze pages to help your list building and resell rights to the package. List building is something you can never do enough of to grow your business.

Other Notes

If you get to this before noon today I will be doing the Affiliate Funnel seminar this week on tracking your list building process. The seminar is open to all Affiliate Funnel members and you can join for free. There will not be a replay because I will be taking this call and adding it as a bonus for those that upgrade in Tracking Your Way To Profits.

Thats all for this week.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, Guru Ambush, keyword research, tracking, tracking your way to profits

The 65th anniversary of D Day today. School is out here and the rain just hasn’t stopped all week. That is good though because it has allowed me to get things done. Working on 4 must do items a day has been working and things are getting finished.

WordPress will be launching 2.8 this Wednesday and just finished the re-do of WordPress Made Easy product to re-launch then. Two other products almost ready. Look for it to be a busy summer.

In August Nicole Dean will take the reins here for a week as guest author. She is calling it her Rock Star Blog Summer Tour. So each week I will be adding a new section – Where’s Nicole?

This week she was at Frugal WAHM Talk Radio. Keep up to date with her tour and you may win some prizes.

Now to my blogs what a segue.

WordPress Made Easy

• WordPress 2.8 – Editing sidebar widgets
• Keeping plugins up to date
• End of the month when was the last time you backed up your blog?

Three Turtle Marketing

• Getting no where fast
• Twitter Time Saver – The Turtles Said I Could

Whats New

New PLR 2 pack – Doug Champigny released a social marketing PLR Pack that includes Building Your Business With Social Networking! with squeeze page and blog theme and MySpace Profit Strategies! with sales letter, download page and 5 articles. A great deal at just $17.

Twitter Time Saver – Easily become an authority figure to your Twitter followers in 30 minutes or less a day. Works on any niche.

Call with Doug Champigny on Twitter Marketing – Last Thursday night it was my pleasure to interview Doug Champigny to discuss using Twitter for marketing. He addressed my two concerns getting targeted followers and keeping your time spent effective so you get a ROI on it. Listen to it before I take it down.

Upcoming

If you are here before noon on Saturday stop by the Affiliate Funnel Seminar. I will be speaking on “Leverage is the key to your business” free to all Affiliate Funnel members. You can join Affiliate Funnel for free, login and grab the conference information on the lessons page.

Will be re-launching WordPress Made Easy on Wednesday in conjunction with the release of WordPress 2.8.

Thats all for this week.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, leverage, social networking, twitter time saver

Today I will be doing the Saturday seminar at Affiliate Funnel. It is open to all members of Affiliate Funnel and you can join for free. Just login and click on lessons to find the conference room link.

The topic will be Repurposing – Create your own Energizer Bunny

Nothing on the blogs this week as I have been working on clearing up a few projects loose ends and creating my own Energizer Bunny to drive traffic to my new product Blogging For Seniors.

Whats New

Affiliatenaire from Jimmy D Brown has re-opened for a short time. Jimmy will give you a lesson a week that you can complete in 1-3 hours to build an affiliate business.

Blog install special – One of those projects is setting up the proper systems to install custom WordPress blogs for people. I have always done some of this but have never pushed it as a service. Once these spots in the beta test are filled the 33%discount will end. Only 3 spots left at the time of writing this.

Niche Empire – Great new membership site that supplies 2 plr products a month along with everything you need to get started with them including some good training at a very small investment.

Saturday Freebies – Gifts for you no opt in needed

3 Keys To Big Affiliate Checks

Twitter and WordPress

Why Johnny Can’t Sell

Thats all for this week. A bit shorter than usual but will be back to normal next week.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, affiliatenaire, Niche Empire, WordPress Install

Last night in the Affiliate Funnel seminar to help members get started we were discussing setting up your system and monetizing it.

One of the big stumbling blocks for people is the actual creation of the download page to deliver the gift you offered for signing up whether you are trying to use a giveaway or driving traffic to a squeeze page.

Explain about adding in some integrated marketing where your add a bonus to your download page like below and often times people are totally befuddled.

Adding these types of ads to your download page are very profitable as you can start earning commissions from your subscribers while you are going through the acquisition process and offer a valuable service to them at the same time.

Now Jeff Dedrick has made it point and click simple with his new launch Instant Bonus Pages.

You can log in, upload your gift, then follow the point and click system to create an instant download page that you can add a bonus to with no HTML, no need to upload it through FTP and you don’t even need to host it.

If this has been a stumbling block for you Jeff has just blown it away.

In just 5 minutes you will be able to…

* Design and build live, professional looking, profit pulling bonus pages even if you don’t know a lick of code or how to build web pages.

* Generate EASY affiliate cash when people click on your bonus offers and purchase — plus track your clicks and sales with our stealth reporting system.

* Explode your back end profits like the pros with this powerful but simple to use point and click technology!

There’s no other profit generating program like it online…

and it’s all yours…

For *FREE*!

Check it out today.

Instant Bonus Pages

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, download pages, FTP, HTML, Instant Bonus Pages, integrated marketing, jeff dedrick

Well I survived Thanksgiving and the over eating that went with it but it was worth it. We had a few for dinner and still surviving on left overs for another day or two. The good part is it is always a lot of fun to get the family together.

The bad part is my content generation is down. The turtles did not get any lessons this week but don’t worry they will be back. Even the WordPress blog suffered through the holidays but I did get a couple posts up this week. Time to get back to normal at least until the next holiday which is only a few weeks away.

WordPress Made Easy

• Is your blog a community?
• WordPress 2.6.5 released
• Plugins – Which ones do you need?

The other thing that hurt content production this week was the release of a new product to help you take advantage of giveaways. It will walk you through all the technical sides of creating the pages to participate.

Easy Giveaway Plan

There is also still time to take advantage of a gift from a good friend and former podcast partner Erik Stafford, The Faster Webmaster. To help you succeed he has put together 12 teleseminars with work books on how to build your business. I am happy to be able to offer you free access to it.

Eriks 12 Days Of Christmas

If you are looking for Master Resell Rights products Doug Champigny released a great package earlier this week of 6 products at less than $5 each. These include the sales letters, products and are easy to get set up quickly if you are looking for a way to generate some extra Christmas cash.

Master Resell Rights Blowout

Speaking of Doug Champigny he will be launching his how to course on using PLR Videos this coming week. I attended the original teleseminar and the information is kick butt. He is adding a transcript and a video walk through of the techniques discussed. Keep your eye open for more on this coming later in the week.

Now looking at giveaways (please read some of the many posts below on how to get the most out of them without getting overwhelmed) there are two currently running that I like and more coming.

IM DreamTeam – ends tomorrow so if you have not visited it you should do it now.

Santas Big Giveaway – will be running all month

You can find products that can help you generate income through the first quarter of next year if you check these out carefully.

The last item this week is kind of the exception to the rule. I almost never promote traffic exchanges directly especially new ones. I use programs like Affiliate Funnel to do that on the back end of my marketing funnel but…

There is always an exception. Traffic Witch is that because of the owner, Guido Nussbaum and the amazing results I have received. See Guido does not come from the usual group of traffic exchange owners and this has been promoted outside of the normal group. Quite a few marketers have promoted this that are outside the normal clique so the membership has a lot of new eyeballs that are using traffic exchanges for the first time.

That is why the results have been amazing for me. This can be an excellent resource for building your list. If you are not familiar with using traffic exchanges then check out Affiliate Funnel for some great lessons on using them and other free and low cost resources. Then go join Traffic Witch and apply the lessons.

That is all for this week and have a great weekend.

Your questions and comments are always welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, Doug Champigny, easy giveaway plan, giveaways, IM Dream Team, Master Resell Rights Blowout, Santas Big Giveaway, Traffic Witch

Yesterday was the end of another four year cycle here in the US. We have a new President elect and the process to transfer power will begin immediately.

If you use traffic exchanges for lead generation you can still vote. Affiliate Funnel has just relaunched their traffic ranker. Before I get into the power of this ranker to help you let me explain a few things.

I have been using traffic exchanges for a few years to generate subscribers consistently. If you are looking for new subscribers that have an interest in business building this can be an extremely targeted market place despite what you may hear from some.

See the general demographic of a traffic exchange user is someone looking to generate traffic for free or a low cost for their new make money from home business. Understanding this is the key to using these resources effectively.

They have bought into the dream of various programs that if you just send traffic you can get rich quickly. Now the fact that it does not quite work that way is to your advantage if you can supply them with help for what they want to accomplish.

These people have already raised their hands and said I am interested in having a work at home business or at the least making a few bucks extra each month. Target them properly and you can do well with generating subscribers.

Here is where Affiliate Funnel will help you.

• The ranker gives you a listing of the exchanges that are working best for 1000′s of users because they can vote for them
• They give you actual stats on what is working with the various exchanges
• It allows you to build downlines in the various traffic exchanges
• Most importantly it allows you to promote YOUR money making programs to your referrals not the owners
• Training conferences 3x a week

So you can get training for yourself and offer training to others while getting access to some of the best stats on what is working in the traffic exchanges, use then to build your subscriber base and grow your business effectively.

Check out Affiliate Funneltoday.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

P.S. There are only a few packages of The PLR Gold Videos available at the low launch price. Make sure you grab yours before the price goes up.

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, make money, PLR Gold Videos, traffic exchanges

Two things and neither have to do with US politics. Tomorrow is election day and if you are in the US make sure you exercise your privilege. Now to the news.

The first is from Bob The Teacher.

He is hosting a teleseminar tomorrow. He wants to help you grow your business through free reports.

Bob’s actually giving tickets away for free to his subscribers and customers (and their friends), as a special Thank you gift.

With all these huge mega-launches, it’s pretty cool to see him do this.

Election Day Blowout

But there’s something else you should know about what Bob’s doing.

(I know about this because Bob keeps me in the loop…)

In addition to learning from him tomorrow for free, he’s going to be knocking off up to 74% of the price on his internet marketing products.

So if you have a specific area you need help with (like list building, traffic, social networking, etc.), you can get one of Bob’s training courses at least half off.

Anyway, hope this helps you get a momentum boost in your business! Get your free ticket here:

Election Day Blowout

If you can’t be there live for his teleseminar – sign up anyway. He’s giving away the recordings AND the transcripts as an additional thank you gift for his subscribers!

Now to the second voting item

Affiliate Funnel has just updated their Traffic Ranker. If you are using traffic exchanges this will give you access to stats and the opinions of thousands of surfers. You get to vote for the exchanges that work for you.

No more opinion or an agenda you will see the actual stats they are getting plus the rankings are created by the surfers not just one person’s opinion.

Check out Affiliate Funnel and all of the tools to help you. If you are using traffic exchanges this is a must for your business.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, bob jenkins, Election Day Blowout, free report, traffic exchanges, vote

Well another week is past and it has been busy.

Lets take care of the important stuff first. Maddie’s blog has been updated with her pictures from her first trip to the beach. Family always needs to come first. Isn’t that why we do what we do?

Today Soren Jordansen and I will be doing a seminar on “Using Web 2.0″ at Affiliate Funnel seminar at noon. If you are a member login and get the conference room link. If your not check it out – it’s free.

Tweet My Blog launched this week. It is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to combine the power of your blog with the power of Twitter. You can see my feed on the sidebar here and as soon as I post this it will post on Twitter automatically too. If you are not using Twitter you should be.

I am sure that you got bombarded by Traffic Secrets 2.0 this week. If you are looking to take advantage of the buzz you may want to check out Rob Toth’s Buy Now Wizard close out sale. Not only does it improve your conversions but… if you look closely, one of the 4 products included in this “Final Sale” of his is the “How Can I Get Visitors To My Website: Traffic Generation Techniques Explained” course. And he is offering Master Resell rights for it.

You can have your own product and a way to improve your conversions at the same time.

Finally WordPress released a new version – 2.6 this week. It has some great new features and there are a couple posts over at WordPress Made Easy that explain more.

Hope you are having a great weekend and as always your comments and questions are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

Technorati Tags: affiliate Funnel, buy now wizard, tweet my blog, web 2.0, wordpress upgrade

Now that we have covered the first steps and you have an offer that you are going to track it is now time to get traffic. Not doing those steps first is one of the biggest mistakes I see people make. They work on traffic without a good offer and system built first.

Now there are numerous ways to get traffic. That means this will be a series of posts and not just one. Even with that there are so many different ways even though they fall into 3 categories.

Today I will discuss traffic exchanges. Now this is really only a good method for getting visitors if you are in the make money on line niche. If you are looking to sell pet products, cell phones, etc. this is not a good source for you.

Now traffic exchanges are a co-op of sorts. You look at my pages – I look at yours.

The key to using traffic exchanges is to target the market and make an irresistible offer. Your target market is people looking to sell to other marketers. If you have a way to get more traffic for less effort that would be something of interest to most users.

Now the other thing is to understand the media here. The average exchange is only going to show your page for 10-15 seconds. If you have this long page it may not even load in time before the person is ready to click next.

You also need to have your whole offer show in the frame or be above the fold.

Above the fold means that your whole page and offer shows in the browser without you having to scroll. The mindset while surfing a traffic exchange is to generate as many page views for them selves as possible.

Nobody goes into a traffic exchange saying “Gee I want to go sign up for 10 lists today and buy 3 products.” They are saying “I need traffic for my site so I am going to surf as many sites in as short a time period as I possibly can.”

Because of this attitude you need to have a quick loading page, catch their attention with the headline and have a strong call to action.

Finally, because people deal with people not programs you want to be sure that you are branding your self on every page. Personalizing the page with your name and picture is extremely valuable and…

The more you do it the more credibility you build up. Understand that if someone sees your face every time they surf they start to see you as an expert. After all if you are constantly showing all the time what do you know that they don’t?

Now let’s look at an actual page that has done very well and see why it works. Check out this page Anyone Can Blog and we will discuss how and why it works.

Headline – Do you think that resonates with someone that has been spending hours each day surfing traffic exchanges? Will that catch your attention?

Pictures/Branding – Paul and I have branded our image on the traffic exchanges for years. We also add credibility by adding how long we have been online. Might someone that is still using these sources know something that can help you?

Bullets – Here you make the promise and get the saliva running.

Call to action – Finally tell them exactly what to do. Don’t vacillate on this. We use “Enter your name and primary email address to receive your free lessons”. No doubt there on what we are asking.

Now the final step in using these resources effectively. Be in as many as you can 24/7. There is a huge power in someone seeing you EVERY time they surf. Don’t spread your self too thin. You are better to be in 3 or 4 24/7 than in 20 for half an hour a day.

You also want to use the big exchanges primarily. There is nothing wrong with using some of the newer smaller exchanges but…

The one’s that you are in 24/7 should be

• delivering 100 – 150 page views a day
• adding lots of new members each and every week
• have an active membership so that you are receiving more than 40% unique visitors

Test the smaller and newer ones but put your major effort and money into the ones that meet this criteria.

Some of the ones that I like and use regularly are in no particular order -

• I Love Hits
• Dragon Surf
• Traffic Splash
• Swat Traffic
• Advertising Know How

There are many more that are good that is just a short list. I really recommend you check out Jon Olson’s Hit Exchange News and the Affiliate Funnel Traffic Ranker for more choices.

Finally if you decide that you want to use traffic exchanges I strongly recommend that you join Affiliate Funnel. They have some great training to help you get started.

Remember that this is only one source of traffic and that it is specifically targeted to the make money crowd. Tomorrow we will discuss another free traffic source that is in the same marketplace – safe lists. Don’t worry we will be getting into other areas of traffic for other niches.

As always your comments and questions are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

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