Hello and welcome to issue 17 of the jumbo 60 minute affiliate newsletter

It’s great to have you visit.  I hope you enjoy reading my newsletter as much as I enjoy sharing it with you. 

Gosh, I’ve woken up today to the news of two icons passing away.

Farrah Fawcett – wow, at 62 years of age we’ve lost her to cancer.  Boy did I love Charlies Angels when I was a teenager.  So much so that I decided that I wanted to become a private investigator.  My dad even had cards printed out in my name saying I was a PI.  What a rather silly thought really.  I mean in every episode they avoid death by their hair bangs but it’s funny what impresses on us.  They were beautiful, glamorous, men adored them – sounded good to me at that stage LOL.

The saddest thing about Farraw is the fact that she felt so unattractive in herself that she succumbed to so much plastic surgery.  Why?  She was stunningly beautiful as she was.  Take a peak at Christie Brinkley in her 50s and she pretty much looks naturally just like she did in Lampoon Vacation movies.  I’m also a massive fan of Ryan O’neil’s after falling in love with him watching Love Story many many years ago….and I only read yesterday that after nearly 30 years on and off Farrah finally agreed to marry him – however didn’t get the chance.

And the next icon – Michael Jackson….Wow, on the eve of his massive world tour and come back and at only 50 years of age.  Gosh there are more images there of me singing in front of the mirror, holding up a hairbrush as a microphone, singing to Can’t Stop Till You Get Enough.  Another one who felt so unnattractive that he had so much plastic surgery that he was completely unrecognisable and lost his facial features completely.  Thriller in my eyes will always go down as the best album in music history.  If only he had thought that he was good enough just the way that he was without having to succumb to plastic surgery also.  Very sad.  One wonders what will happen to his three children now…..gosh you can just imagine all the skeletons coming out of the closet now….

Anyway for what it’s worth they were both legends in their own time in their own way and both had an affect on me as I’m sure millions of others…they will be missed…i send prayers out to their friends and loved ones.

Now back to the nuts and bolts….

I’ve had an incredible four weeks off at home.  Wow, it was one of the smartest yet most impulsive decisions I’ve ever made.  I needed it, my soul needed it, my family needed it.  I listened to some not so crazy voices in my head and followed through with what they suggested and I’m very glad that I did.  I’ve not achieved nearly as much as I hoped I would have with the tasks that I’d assigned myself but this was my time to be kind to myself and manage just as much as I could and that’s fine with me.

I’ll miss my family when I go back to my “day job” and hopefully they’ll miss me.  I’ll have the opportunity to catch up again with many dear friends who I’ve had half of my life and I’m looking forward to that.

It’s also been a time for me to reassess life in general, the plans we make, the expectations we place on ourselves, goals, you name it….and whats important in life – and by that I mean my life in general.

For me it’s ultimately quality of life first and then financial security.  And 2010 is when I hope to put that all into practice, I’ll keep you posted.

I had quite a disagreement via email this past week with a program owner that I actively promote not in the IM niche.  initially when I started promoting the program it linked to the course directly that I was promoting however in the past year he changed it so that it now linked to a free membership site.  After two weeks of emails asking him to find out what my link would be to the course page and being told many many times by him that it was a html issue and it it was completely up to figure it out – I gave up.  Firstly, I don’t know what he is using to create his affiliate links so I can’t afford to take a stab in the dark and make one up and HOPE that my sale gets tracked.  Secondly, I am HIS affiliate and it is HIS job as the program owner to find that out for me. Instead of complaining how he outsources all this stuff he should say I’ll shoot a quick email through and find out for you and then he could share the whole information with everyone.  I’m far from impressed to say the least and am very disappointed in this kind of behaviour.

The Squidoo Slap – affecting affiliate marketers world wide

I sent a brief email out about this….Squidoo as is its right has changed its policy which is affecting affiliate marketers worldwide.  I guess we can thank spammers primarily for that.  Unfortunately once something is found to be successful people take advantage and then make it difficult for everyone.

But there’s a lesson to be learnt here.

Ultimately when you are relying on driving traffic or making sales from sites that you have no control over your earning potential is always greatly at risk.  For long term financial security it is always better to be prepared to take a bit of a longer road but more secure road by building your own websites than relying primarily on advertising on sites that you have no control over.

Will other sites follow suit?  Who knows…just be wary.

HINT:  If you have squidoo lenses I’d recommend that you go in and save your content from each one in case they get locked – you won’t get a second chance. once that happens the content and all your hard work is lost forever. 

Also, if you have a lot of ezine articles linking to squidoo lenses you may want to look at adding your content elsewhere so that if your lenses do get locked your resource boxes won’t go to a dead link.

Food for thought at any rate.

Are You Losing Worldwide Customers?

This is something that I came to the realisation recently.  Most internet marketers target english speakers but how many people are we missing out worldwide.

I recently had one of my web pages translated into spanish as the affiliate program that I’m promoting is targeting spanish speakers as well.  It will be interesting to see how that goes….but a very clever tactic on the part of the webmaster.

As a product owner, how many customers are we losing because we are only focusing on english speakers?

Gosh, maybe hundreds of thousands, millions….

Check out this link – google translate….you can have pages and even documents translated from english to other languages and vice versa….

Something else that was interesting was that by using google content network and paying very low bids for spanish keywords I was able to get 150 visitors a day to the spanish landing page for $10…..not bad if I say so myself.

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Article Marketing

Writing articles to promote your online business is a great marketing technique. It is s free and can be very effective. However, the majority of Internet Marketers don’t use their articles to the fullest extent. Here are 3 more marketing tactics you can use with every single article you write.

Obviously your #1 use for an article is to post it online and get people to view that article. This should always be your first priority. And every article you write should include keywords so that the article will rank well with the search engines. However, there are a few other things you can accomplish with every article you write. You can get a lot more content on the Internet from every single article you write.

The first method you should use to get the most out of your article marketing is to make a video based on the article. All you have to do is show one scene while you read the article. A basic video with you simply reading the article will get views and will successfully market your business.

Another way to get the most out of your article marketing is to build social networking pages around each article. Plug the article into a social networking page and then spend a few minutes building around that article. Within less than a half hour, you will have a social networking page up and running. This will be yet another way for you to market your business online.

Finally, to get the most out of your article marketing you can also turn every article you write into a blog post. You should have a blog in every niche that your business deals in. In fact, you might want to have a few blogs for each niche depending on how big the niche is. Then when you write an article, post it as a blog post as well. Just make sure you change the title and you change some other words and sentences in the blog post. This will make it slightly unique.

There you have 3 additional  marketing techniques to help you get the most out of article marketing. You should make a video, a social networking page, and a blog entry based on every article you write. Then with less than an hour additional time invested, you will have 3 times the amount of content on the Internet. This will result in more publicity for your online business.

How Many Articles Do You Have In Ezine Articles?

If you’re like me and if you’ve been reading my newsletters and products I believe definitely in the beauty of article marketing for sure.  It’s just one part of my pie.

How many awesome PLR articles do you have saved on your PC right now that you’re not doing anything with though you know that you should?  If you’re like me probably thousands right. 

EzineArticles ranks super high in the search engines if you know what you’re doing….but do you know what can actually rank even higher??

VIDEOS!  Do a search for the most competitive terms and you’ll always find videos on the first page.

But most people don’t have time to do videos, right?  Especially after all the time taken with writing articles, am I right?  And outsourcing videos can cost a small fortune.

But what if you could turn your already published articles into videos in a couple of minutes…that would be pretty cool, right?

But video articles are known for looking pretty boring….they lack life, a voice, credibility.

I’ve started using an awesome application tool that actually turns my articles into a video BUT also has a range of voices reading my article outloud, with just a few mouse clicks.

Click here to look at some samples from Article Video Robot (but keep reading to get a special deal arranged by me).

How professional do they look?  Not only is there soothing music in the background, there are nice background templates and colours, your website link is shown throughout and at the end, and people can hear your articles rather than just read them.

Below is a video about article video robot that explains things in more detail but if you’re interested in the free trial and 25 percent discount then click on one of the links on this page only:

I’ve contacted the software owner and he’s allowed me to offer a free trial.  You can convert your articles, or even plr articles if you want (they don’t have to be live online) for free and if you like it (I have to confess it’s quite addictive) then I’ve also arranged for you to save 25 percent on the price of Article Video Robot in the future.  Use the coupon ColleenSpecial and make sure the price updates and you’ll only pay a fraction of the full price.

Click Here To Start Your Free Article Video Robot Trial

How To Boost Your Business With Twitter

There are an endless amount of free online marketing opportunities for your business. One of the best ways is using a social networking site called Twitter. Here are 5 tips that will help boost your business with Twitter.

It is really easy to sign-up for Twitter. All you do is go to Twitter.com and then follow the directions. Once you are signed up then you can begin to tweet. A tweet is a short message (140 characters or less) that you type in a little box and then anyone who is following you will see it. You can tweet about anything that is on your mind. But you would want to make sure you always keep in mind the following 5 tips for how to boost your business with Twitter.

The first tip is to make sure you fill out all the information in your profile. This will help people get to know about you and/or your business. It is especially important that you put a link to your site in your profile.

The second tip to boost your business with Twitter is to put a unique background on your account. This will help you stand out from the rest of the crowd on Twitter. It will also help your overall brand, especially if you have a background that is your logo or something else that is associated with your brand.

Another great tip is to put your logo in the picture on your profile. If you are a sole proprietor then you might consider putting a picture of yourself on your Twitter page. Whichever fits your overall brand better is what you should use.

To boost your business with Twitter you also want to put your Twitter ID on your business cards, email signature, and any other place where people can see it. This will help people find you and it will help start a dialogue between you and potential customers.

Finally, the last of the 5 tips to boost your business with Twitter is to give value through your tweets. Do not just make little tweets about your business. Actually give helpful advice. Try to answer everyone who tweets at you. And do not ever get too SPAMMY with your tweets. In fact, never try to directly sell anything at anytime.

There you have 5 tips for how to boost your business with Twitter. If you follow these 5 tips then you will help your business simply by joining and then using Twitter.

If you’d like to follow me on twitter click here!

Canned Genius Release

Canned Genius has recently been released….it contains an interview with myself, Andrew Hansen, Tristan Bull, Bryan Zimmermann, Bill Starrett and many more.  If you’d like to find out what’s included then click here.  There may be a coaching offer included that may be too good to resist, so if that interests you then check it out.

Well, that’s it from me this month.  I hope you’ve enjoyed this issue.  If you have any questions, comments please leave them below.  Also, if you like it then please share it with your friends.

I wish you a great July 2009.

Warmly

Colleen

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3 Top Tips For Article Marketers….

Article marketing is one of the most used forms of marketing on the
Internet. In fact, just about every Internet Marketer uses articles
in some way or another. However, if you don’t write articles the
right way then they won’t give you any real results. Here are 3
tips for writing a great article.

1.  Follow a Formula

If you remember back to your schools day, you probably learned to
write essays and term papers a certain way. You were taught to
follow a basic formula because that’s what worked. And following a
basic formula for writing articles is what works too.

You want to target a keyword or keyword phrase in every article
that you write. Then you want to make sure you include that word or phrase in the title of the article, in the introduction (the first
paragraph), in the conclusion (the last paragraph), and two or
three times in the body (the main or middle part) of the article.

Then in the introduction you want to tell the reader what the
article is going to be about. In the body of the article you want
to tell them what you need to tell them. And in the conclusion you
want to tell them what you just told.

That is the formula that you should follow for every article that
you write.

2.  Make it Readable

The second of the 3 tips for writing a great article is to make the
article readable. In other words, make sure just about anyone can
pull up the article and read it.

You don’t want the article to be too difficult to read and you
don’t want it to be too easy either. The last thing you want to do
is make it a bunch of nonsense words and sentences.

So make sure you keep your sentences short. Make sure you keep your paragraphs short. And you also want to make sure that you don’t use any big words.

3. Give Value

The final of the 3 tips for writing a great article is to give
value in the article. You want to make sure that you teach the
reader something or entertain the reader. Preferably, you should do
both.

Remember that the point of writing an article is to get people to
click through to somewhere else (where you will try to market
something to them). If your article isn’t any good then the reader
won’t click through. So make sure you give value in all of your
articles.

3 tips for writing a great article are to follow a formula, make it
readable, and to give value. Anytime you write an article to market
anything you need to make sure you follow these 3 tips. If you do
then you will have great results. If you don’t then you’re just
wasting your time.

For more advanced training on how to grow your business using the
power of article marketing, you should click here:

The Top 10 Article Directories Online

Writing articles is a great way to help market on the Internet. It
doesn’t take a lot of time and it’s completely free. If the proper
keywords are targeted then the article will get a lot of views and
this will result in traffic for the person doing the article
marketing. There are many great places to submit an article on the
Internet.

Before we get to the top 10 article submission sites, let’s take a
quick look at how article writing works with Internet Marketing.

There are three main parts to writing and submitting any article
online. The first part involves choosing the keywords you want to
target and then researching the article. The next part involves
actually writing the article. The third part is submitting the
article along with a call to action.

So you want to decide on the keyword phrase you want to target for an article. This will dictate what the article will be about. Once
you’re ready, then you need to write the article being sure to
include the keyword phrase in the title, the introduction, the
conclusion, and a couple times throughout the body of the article.

Then when you’re done writing the article you will submit it to one
or more article submission sites.

Here are the 10 best article submission sites:

EzineArticles

Article Dashboard

Go Articles

Articles Base

Article City

Article Mark

Article Alley

iSnare

Search Warp

Idea Marketers

Not all of these sites are the same (EzineArticles is the best).
Some of them are better than others, and all of them have their own
set of rules that must be followed. So make sure you know the rules
before submitting or you’ll waste a lot of time and energy
submitting articles only to have to rewrite them because they got
rejected by the site.

For example, some of these sites allow you to include links in the
article while others don’t. Some of these sites will let you have
affiliate links with your articles while other sites won’t. So
again, make sure you know what is and isn’t allowed on each site.

When you write an article online for the purpose of article
marketing then you’ll have to submit that article to one or more
article submission sites. Above you have the 10 best article
submission sites. Take advantage of all these sites and you will
certainly have success with article marketing.

If you’d like a super quick and easy way to submit your articles to
all of the top directories and many more…  Check out Brad
Callen’s new Article Submitter Platinum software here

Warmly

Colleen

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Another Case Study Brought To You By Colleen Slater, The
‘60 Minute Affiliate’

As people are really enjoying the case studies that I regularly share when I do something I thought I’d share something with you about plr articles.

Now these days plr articles are a dime a dozen and there’s
a hell of a lot more that you can do with them than submit
them to article sites.

Here’s one of my faves.

Video articles…

They’re so quick to create and I actually find them a lot of
*fun*.

I’m going to show you a video article that I just created.

You can view the video by clicking here:

Now it only took me about 10 minutes to cut and paste all
the information in, insert a few clip art images and then
turn it into a video…

And you don’t need camtasia to do it…camstudio, which is
fr.ee is fine…

Videos is one of the "hottest" ways now to get in front of
targeted traffic.  If you haven’t added video marketing to your traffic
arsenal then I highly recommend that you do.

To download the best video article marketing guide
around — in fact I think it’s THE only one — then
click on the link below.

http://www.60minuteaffiliate.com/recommends/videoarticlesecrets.html

Once you create your first one you’ll be as hooked as I
am…

Warmly
Colleen
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PS:  In the near future I’m going to share with you a
really cool place that I’ve found that spins quality
articles in a mouse click so watch out for that

Here are some interesting posts about article marketing:

How to Sell Outsourced Articles
Free Blog Content With The New Blog Feeders Makes Blogging Much Easier
Need Custom Content? Hire a Ghostwriter!
Article Marketing and PLR

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