text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Self Employed Blog First Affiliate Sale from HubPages Posted: 29 Dec 2007 03:48 PM CST I have written articles promoting affiliate products on both Squidoo and Hu= bPages. Both receive traffic from the search engines - mainly Google - but= yesterday I received my first affiliate sale from HubPages. Ive always re= ad that there is money to be made from utilizing both services. They are b= oth very similar in what they offer, but from what Ive read, HubPages is a = little more generous when it comes to splitting the profits with its contri= butors. I also like utilizing their service because many times, I cant promote cert= ain products on my blogs since they are not on topic. I can write articles= using keywords on HubPages and eventually they will get indexed and hopefu= lly result in sales. The product in which I made the actual sale with I also promote on my other= blogs. I was basically testing out HubPages when I wrote up the quick art= icle. I added my affiliate link all throughout the text and included a You= Tube video featuring a sample of what it was about. It was all done fairly= quickly. It was much easier to write up the article since I have been wri= ting about the topic for some time. Im sure I can improve on my articles to get more sales but this is all stil= l a learning process. Now I see for myself that using these types of servi= ces really does work and I need to start utilizing them much more effective= ly. Consistent Clickbank Sales Posted: 10 Dec 2007 01:35 AM CST While I havent hit the jackpot it still feels good to log in to Clickbank a= nd see that I have made some sales from my blogging efforts.б=A0 So far I= have made sales every month since July.б=A0 I have purchased two new dom= ain names to fit in with my other blogs so I am hoping to have a nice littl= e network of blogs that are related. Im also trying to develop some landing pages for other affiliate products t= hat I will try to promote using article marketing.б=A0 I dont really have= the budget to dive into PPC advertising and I wouldnt want to really try u= ntil I can devote some time to studying more about it.б=A0 Its so easy to= lose a lot of money in PPC when you are At least with= article marketing it is all free and you can test out what converts well. I can recommend starting out with Clickbank products if youre trying to get= your feet wet in affiliate marketing.б=A0 The reason being that customer= s can download the products instantly and its relatively simple to write up= articles and link to landing pages you can create on Squidoo, Hub Pages, o= r your own sites.б=A0 Best of all, Clickbank pays out every two weeks. After making several sales it will definitely boost your confidence to keep= going and try new methods of marketing. Great Self-Employed Tax Resource Posted: 08 Dec 2007 06:03 PM CST I was stumbling through some Web sites and came across a great resource for= some of the most common self-employed questions. If youre new to self-emp= loyment or even been doing it for quite some time, you have probably run in= to some of the typical tax questions: How does the IRS define What can you deduct as a business expense? What are travel expenses? How does estimated tax work? The site below has a great archive of articles relating to the questions ab= ove and more. Check it out: Tax and Money Info for the Self-Employed Broad is Good, Niche is Better Posted: 05 Dec 2007 01:24 AM CST This is nothing new but Ill write it anyway. The more focused your site is= , the more likely you will make sales. I run a few blogs and my most popular one is pretty broad. I make an affil= iate sale every now and again. I make more money with PPC ads rather than = affiliate sales on that site. Then I decided to make another blog that was= more focused and still something I have interest in. Almost every post links to the affiliate product I am promoting.б=A0 Ther= e is only one PPC ad and I am thinking of removing it all together. The ni= che site has only been live since late October and Im already receiving tra= ffic and have made two affiliate sales from the product I am promoting. This could be pure luck or it may just be something I need to expand on. I= was actually quite surprised at how quickly my niche blog was indexed by G= oogle. I did all of the basics: Chose a domain with the keywords in it Posted every day (now I post a few times per week) Added a sitemap (Wordpress plugin), terms of use Added a xml sitemap for search engines (Wordpress plugin) Used StumbleUpon to get some traffic Added site to Google Webmasters tools The next steps are to do some article marketing and just promote as much as= I can. I think I will continue making targeted blogs for topics I am inte= rested and just one page landing pages for affiliate products that I feel w= ill convert into sales. So far I am making sales in: Clickbank Amazon WWB (Worldwide Brands) DoubleClick Performics Clickbank is the easiest for me to generate sales with while I am learning = the ropes.б=A0 Many of the products are a bit shady so I try to choose on= es that I would probably purchase myself.б=A0 It is definitely exhilarati= ng to see sales coming in. It shows me that Im at least on the right track= and most of the things I am learning are beginning to work. Interview with Blogger Mehdi of Posted: 12 Nov 2007 12:04 AM CST I am happy to post an interview I conducted with self-employed blogger Mehd= i of I came across Mehdis blog several months ago and was= fascinated with his story of quitting his full-time job to become a full-t= ime blogger. This interview has definitely motivated me to work harder on = my own web sites. I think you will enjoy it! 1. Could you provide some background information about your business and ho= w long you have been working for yourself? is a blog helping you build muscle & lose fat through stren= gth training. Ive been doing strength training for 10 years. I became famil= iar with the concept of blogging September 2006. My gave me the idea of making a website about strength t= raining in February 2007, went online 3 months later May 1s= t 2007. Prior to I had been selling stuff on eBay for about= 18 months. That was my first experience as self-employee. 2. What finally made you decide to leave your previous job? Lack of freedom. Not being rewarded for working hard. Not being able to tak= e your future into your own hands. Living the rat race. Watching myself ste= pping on the train every morning with hundreds of other people which face t= old you they didnt like their job. Money was always the thing that held me at my previous work. I earned well.= Not great, but well. One day I realized I was lowering myself by doing a j= ob I didnt like for the money solely. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can= buy shit we dont need. Quote from fight club I didnt understand until some= months ago. I quit my job 12 days after went online. I nev= er had 1 minute regret, even though Im living off my savings account. 3. Creating a successful blog can be difficult. What types of challenges do= you face as a blogger? My biggest challenge is productivity. Im a fast worker. I usually finished = a task in 30 mins for which my employer gave me 4 hours. So kept busy doing= useless stuff for 3h30. Im working on losing that habit. Building a reputation is the second most challenging for me. Getting new re= aders. I went from 0 to 1400 RSS readers during the last 6 months. Its not = bad, but its certainly not up to part to others like Leo Babauta who went t= o 20 000 RSS in one year. But I like challenges, Im very competitive. Its a question of imitating wha= t worked for others & putting it into practice. Like I said: productivity i= s my problem. 4. What is a typical work day like for you? I set 3 major tasks every day. Most of my time goes to writing content & re= plying to I also spend a lot of time studying things relat= ed to blogging, making money online, social media etc. 5. What do you do to prevent yourself from burning out? I dont believe in depressions & burn outs. Its like strength training & ove= rtraining. Yes you can overtrain, but most people are undertaining & not ov= ertraining. I work a lot, often 12h a day. Its not a life, its a temporary = sacrifice. I know where Im going to, I know what I want in life. Ill get th= ose things eventually, right now I continue to work hard. It will get much = easier a year from now. A lot of people think they work hard but they arent= . Even Im not working all that hard, because Im not that productive. 6. What do you love about working for yourself? Challenge: building a business from nothing. Freedom: I work when I want & how I want to. Brutal honesty: you dont work you get nothing, you work a lot youll get so= mewhere. 7. Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently when dec= iding to start your business? Many things. But I think its useless to look back. I look forward. I spend = a lot of time analyzing current trends, statistics, seeing what works & don= t work, then I adapt from there. I lost a lot of time before I started planning. All those p= lans were useless looking back. I dont say you dont need a plan, but I just= spend too much time doing it, and theres not much over of that plan right = now. For the rest: I did everything quite right, although it could have hap= pened faster. 8. What is one piece of advice you would pass on to someone who wants to wo= rk for themselves? To make sure thats what you really want. While I do enjoy what I do, its lo= ts of work. It will get easier with time, but right now its lots of work. I= m good at dealing with stress (worked in customer support for 5 years) and = I like to work hard. But you have to sacrifice a lot. And if you do nothing= , youll have nothing. So make sure you want to do this. Looking back, being an employee was much easier: you dont have to think thi= ngs over, somebody does that for you. You come home Friday evening, work is= done until Monday. Right now things are different. I often wake up in the = morning thinking at what I have to do. Sometimes I cant sleep at night beca= use ideas are coming up. Or Im with friends & Im thinking at my work. I alw= ays left my work at work as an employee, still need to learn that now that = Im self-employed. Another advice is to choose something you like to do rather than thinking a= t money solely. While Ill think you can start to enjoy something after a ti= me, youd better do your best to put any negativity out of your life as much= as possible. That includes negativity coming from works & business 9. What books would you consider must reads for anyone interested in becomi= ng self-employed? Law of success: 1000 pages will learn you the 15 law of success needed to = get successful in anything. Being successful is a question of attitude, fir= st thing you need to work on is yourself. The Rat Race: Id say the disadvantage of being self-employed is more respo= nsibility + more work, but for the rest it has only benefits. This book giv= es them all if you dont know them yet. 4 hour work week: read it not so long ago, great one on being self-employe= d & upping ones hour wage rather than working more. Eye opening book. Zen To Done: Leo Babautas book on productivity. Ive started to implement h= is tips. Its much easier than Getting Things Done which is an unnatural way= of working to me. 10. Is there anything you would like to add? (upcoming projects, goals, etc= .) To have balls. Lots of people said (& still say) that I was crazy to leave = my job which had a good salary & stability. I know what I want & I know tha= t what I did wasnt what I want. When you want something just go for it. Don= t ask yourself how youll get it. I had a vision of blogging will be like th= is & like that. 6 months later i dont think I have done anything the way I = thought I would. If you just keep working at it, youll get there. Persist. Thanks so much Mehdi for participating in this interview! -- You are subscribed to goods updates from "Self Employed Blog." 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They are both very similar in what the= y offer, but from what I’ve read, HubPages is a little more generous = when it comes to splitting the profits with it’s contributors. I also like utilizing their service because many times, I can’t pr= omote certain products on my blogs since they are not on topic. I can writ= e articles using keywords on HubPages and eventually they will get indexed = and hopefully result in sales. The product in which I made the actual sale with I also promote on my ot= her blogs. I was basically testing out HubPages when I wrote up the quick = article. I added my affiliate link all throughout the text and included a = YouTube video featuring a sample of what it was about. It was all done fai= rly quickly. It was much easier to write up the article since I have been = writing about the topic for some time. I’m sure I can improve on my articles to get more sales but this i= s all still a learning process. Now I see for myself that using these type= s of services really does work and I need to start utilizing them much more= effectively. Con= sistent Clickbank Sales Posted: 10 Dec 2007 01:35 AM CST While I haven’t hit the jackpot it still feels good to log in to C= lickbank and see that I have made some sales from my blogging efforts.б= =A0 So far I have made sales every month since July.б=A0 I have purchased= two new domain names to fit in with my other blogs so I am hoping to have = a nice little network of blogs that are related. I’m also trying to develop some landing pages for other affiliate = products that I will try to promote using article marketing.б=A0 I don’t= really have the budget to dive into PPC advertising and I wouldn’t w= ant to really try until I can devote some time to studying more about it.= б=A0 It’s so easy to lose a lot of money in PPC when you are inexpe= rienced.б=A0 At least with article marketing it is all free and you can t= est out what converts well. I can recommend starting out with Clickbank products if you’re try= ing to get your feet wet in affiliate marketing.б=A0 The reason being tha= t customers can download the products instantly and it’s relatively s= imple to = write up articles and link to landing pages you can create on Squidoo, = Hub Pages, or your own sites.б=A0 Best of all, Clickbank pays out every t= wo weeks. After making several sales it will definitely boost your confidence to k= eep going and try new methods of marketing. Gre= at Self-Employed Tax Resource Posted: 08 Dec 2007 06:03 PM CST I was stumbling through some Web sites and came across a great resource for= some of the most common self-employed questions. If you’re new to s= elf-employment or even been doing it for quite some time, you have probably= run into some of the typical tax questions: How does the IRS define What can you deduct as a business expense? What are travel expenses? How does estimated tax work? The site below has a great archive of articles relating to the questions= above and more. Check it out: Tax and Money Info for the Self-Employed Bro= ad is Good, Niche is Better Posted: 05 Dec 2007 01:24 AM CST = This is nothing new but I’ll write it anyway. The more focused yo= ur site is, the more likely you will make sales. I run a few blogs and my most popular one is pretty broad. I make an af= filiate sale every now and again. I make more money with PPC ads rather th= an affiliate sales on that site. Then I decided to make another blog that = was more focused and still something I have interest in. Almost every post links to the affiliate product I am promoting.б=A0 T= here is only one PPC ad and I am thinking of removing it all together. The= niche site has only been live since late October and I’m already rec= eiving traffic and have made two affiliate sales from the product I am prom= oting. This could be pure luck or it may just be something I need to expand on.= I was actually quite surprised at how quickly my niche blog was indexed b= y Google. I did all of the basics: Chose a domain with the keywords in it Posted every day (now I post a few times per week) Added a sitemap (Wordpress plugin), = terms of use Added a xml sitemap for search engines (Wordpress plugin) Used StumbleUpon to get some traffic Added site to Google Webmasters tools The next steps are to do some article marketing and just promote as much= as I can. I think I will continue making targeted blogs for topics I am i= nterested and just one page landing pages for affiliate products that I fee= l will convert into sales. So far I am making sales in: Clickbank Amazon WWB (Worldwide Brands) DoubleClick Performics Clickbank is the easiest for me to generate sales with while I am learni= ng the ropes.б=A0 Many of the products are a bit shady so I try to choose= ones that I would probably purchase myself.б=A0 It is definitely exhilar= ating to see sales coming in. It shows me that I’m at least on the r= ight track and most of the things I am learning are beginning to work. Int= erview with Blogger Mehdi of Posted: 12 Nov 2007 12:04 AM CST I am happy to post an interview I conducted with self-employed blogger M= ehdi of Stronglift= . I came across Mehdi’s blog several months ago and was fas= cinated with his story of quitting his full-time job to become a full-time = blogger. This interview has definitely motivated me to work harder on my o= wn web sites. I think you will enjoy it! 1. Could you provide some background information about your busi= ness and how long you have been working for yourself? is a blog helping you build muscle & lose fat through strength training. I= 217;ve been doing strength training for 10 years. I became familiar with th= e concept of blogging September 2006. My gave me the idea of making a website about strengt= h training in February 2007, went online 3 months later May= 1st 2007. Prior to I had been selling stuff on eBay for ab= out 18 months. That was my first experience as self-employee. 2. What finally made you decide to leave your previous job? Lack of freedom. Not being rewarded for working hard. Not being able to tak= e your future into your own hands. Living the rat race. Watching myself ste= pping on the train every morning with hundreds of other people which face t= old you they didn’t like their job. Money was always the thing that held me at my previous work. I earned we= ll. Not great, but well. One day I realized I was lowering myself by doing = a job I didn’t like for the money solely. has us chasing cars and clothes, working= jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need”. Quote fro= m fight club I didnt understand until some months ago. I quit my job 12 day= s after went online. I never had 1 minute regret, even thou= gh I’m living off my savings account. 3. Creating a successful blog can be difficult. What types of challenges do= you face as a blogger? My biggest challenge is productivity. I’m a fast worker. I usually fi= nished a task in 30 mins for which my employer gave me 4 hours. So kept bus= y doing useless stuff for 3h30. I’m working on losing that habit. Building a reputation is the second most challenging for me. Getting new= readers. I went from 0 to 1400 RSS readers during the last 6 months. It= 217;s not bad, but it’s certainly not up to part to others like Leo Babauta who went to 2= 0 000 RSS in one year. But I like challenges, I’m very competitive. It’s a question= of imitating what worked for others & putting it into practice. Like I= said: productivity is my problem. 4. What is a typical work day like for you? I set 3 major tasks every day. Most of my time goes to writing content &= ; replying to I also spend a lot of time studying things r= elated to blogging, making money online, social media etc. 5. What do you do to prevent yourself from burning out? I don’t believe in depressions & burn outs. It’s like stren= gth training & overtraining. Yes you can overtrain, but most people are= undertaining & not overtraining. I work a lot, often 12h a day. ItR= 17;s not a life, it’s a temporary sacrifice. I know where I’m g= oing to, I know what I want in life. I’ll get those things eventually= , right now I continue to work hard. It will get much easier a year from no= w. A lot of people think they work hard but they aren’t. Even I’= ;m not working all that hard, because I’m not that productive. 6. What do you love about working for yourself? Challenge: building a business from nothing. Freedom: I work when I want & how I want to. Brutal honesty: you don’t work you get nothing, you work a lot y= ou’ll get somewhere. 7. Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently when dec= iding to start your business? Many things. But I think it’s useless to look back. I look forward. I= spend a lot of time analyzing current trends, statistics, seeing what work= s & don’t work, then I adapt from there. I lost a lot of time before I started 221;. All those plans were useless looking back. I don’t say you don&= #8217;t need a plan, but I just spend too much time doing it, and thereR= 17;s not much over of that plan right now. For the rest: I did everything q= uite right, although it could have happened faster. 8. What is one piece of advice you would pass on to someone who wants to wo= rk for themselves? To make sure that’s what you really want. While I do enjoy what I do,= it’s lots of work. It will get easier with time, but right now it= 217;s lots of work. I’m good at dealing with stress (worked in custom= er support for 5 years) and I like to work hard. But you have to sacrifice = a lot. And if you do nothing, you’ll have nothing. So make sure you w= ant to do this. Looking back, being an employee was much easier: you don’t have to= think things over, somebody does that for you. You come home Friday evenin= g, work is done until Monday. Right now things are different. I often wake = up in the morning thinking at what I have to do. Sometimes I can’t sl= eep at night because ideas are coming up. Or I’m with friends & I= ’m thinking at my work. I always left my work at work as an employee,= still need to learn that now that I’m self-employed. Another advice is to choose something you like to do rather than thinkin= g at money solely. While I’ll think you can start to enjoy something = after a time, you’d better do your best to put any negativity out of = your life as much as possible. That includes negativity coming from works &= amp; business 9. What books would you consider “must reads” for anyone intere= sted in becoming self-employed? Law of success: 1000 pages will learn you the 15 law of success needed= to get successful in anything. Being successful is a question of attitude,= first thing you need to work on is yourself. The Rat Race: I’d say the disadvantage of being self-employed is= more responsibility + more work, but for the rest it has only benefits. Th= is book gives them all if you don’t know them yet. 4 hour work week: read it not so long ago, great one on being self-emp= loyed & upping one’s hour wage rather than working more. Eye open= ing book. Zen To Done: Leo Babauta’s book on productivity. I= ’ve started to implement his tips. It’s much easier than Gettin= g Things Done which is an unnatural way of working to me. 10. Is there anything you would like to add? (upcoming projects, goals, etc= .) To have balls. Lots of people said (& still say) that I was crazy to le= ave my job which had a good salary & stability. I know what I want &= ; I know that what I did wasn’t what I want. When you want something = just go for it. Don’t ask yourself how you’ll get it. I had a v= ision of blogging will be like this & like that. 6 months later i don&#= 8217;t think I have done anything the way I thought I would. If you just ke= ep working at it, you’ll get there. Persist. Thanks so much Mehdi for participating in this interview! You are subscribed to goods updat= es from Self Employed Blog To stop receiving these goodss, you may Purchase now.goods Deliv= ery powered by FeedBurner Inbox too full? Subscribe to the feed version of Self Employed Blog= in a feed reader. 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