Archive for April, 2007

Affiliate and Niche Site Ideas

April 26, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Working at Home, Business Advice, Blogging

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I have had quite a few questions from visitors on how to come up with ideas for niche sites, and what to sell. One idea is an affiliate site, where you sign up somewhere as an affiliate and make a site based on that product, using your affiliate links and lots of articles and keywords. Like some Free Diet sites out there, they are affiliate sites offering the product for sometimes less than the actual company by using discount codes and such. There are a ton of things you can be an ‘affiliate’ for, just do a search on something you like, if you love babies, find a big name baby store and search their site for anything that say ‘affiliate’, or sometimes even associate or partners, see what they require of you, some are different than others, always read the fine print!

Once you find a company …

Reviving Your Business

April 26, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Business Advice

Ok, we all know when our business is not going so well right? Be it a lack of visitors, lack of purchases, whatever, you will not need a littman stethoscope to figure it out, you need help! You can get the help from all sorts of places depending on your situation, try forums for instance, post your problems there and there are usually a good amount of people that will look at your site and tell you what you need to change, maybe it isn’t professional enough, maybe something is broken, you never know until you ask for help.

The great thing about the internet is even if your site is up for a year with NO success, it is not over, sometimes a revival is in order, simply a major redesign, investing some time and resources into marketing and things can turn around overnight. It is …

Tracking your income/expenses

April 25, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Money Matters

I just had to take a minute and rave about the new budgeting program I have been using. It is called MVelopes and is the only budgeting software I have found that works for me. It is ALOT different than other programs like Money or Quicken in that it does not specifically plan ahead. It just allocates. So far it has been super easy to use, and I think the fact that I do not have any actual ‘credit cards’ helped that, because tracking credit cards and payments can get confusing. What it does for me is lay out my checks, from all my accounts, say Joseph brings home a 400 dollar check, and I have 200 dollars in PayPal, then it puts 600 dollars in the ‘cash pool’ saying ok, you have 600 dollars to spend, what are you going to do with it?

Then you set up ‘virtual’ …

PPC Management Software

April 25, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: SEO and Marketing, Blogging

If you are running any pay per click campaigns on the major search engines to drive traffic to your site, you should check out this PPC Management Software, by acquisio. It helps to manage the campaigns in one place, be it Google, Yahoo, or MSN. To better analyze your results, track them, and make the changes needed to get better results. Don’t waste your money on any of those without really tracking the progress somehow be it with this program or another. Tracking is essential.

Carnival of Blogging Success

April 24, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Blogging

Submit your entry by this Sunday! This week is a free for all, just submit your article, WITH a link back to this site about successful blogging! I already have a ton of great entries, I will be posting this Monday! Thanks!