I have been asked this question a couple of times from my team. What steps do I take to build my business online? Well I have some steps I can share with you in a second. First I wanted to share a thought with you. Your daily discipline is going to dictate what you do in the future.

So think back to the last couple of days and note the routine you have done. Hopefully you will have realized that you were doing non-productive activities. I call this “being busy on your business instead of being busy in it”. You need to recognize that the way you have been doing business is not working and you need to change your routine to change the results of doing business.

First Step in your daily routine should be to clear out the clutter. This means getting rid of all the unwanted distractions, and focusing at the task on hand. No more checking emails incessantly, no texting, and no spending 3 hours on facebook.

Second thing you should be doing is creating one piece of content for your business each and every day. So you will be creating a video or article at least once a day. Yes this means you are going to miss the latest Sons of Anarchy episode.. You should be DVR’ing it anyways to skip the commercials, which will further save your precious time.

Third idea to get a solid daily routine going in your business is to spend about an hour a day listening to training for your online business, and also listening to personal development type speakers. Remember your financial growth will mirror your personal growth. Don’t leave money on the table by not developing the right mindset for the job.

Lastly, you should be making 20 connections with people daily. I do realize that you may not be able to do that every day at this point, but you will soon. Just keep following your daily routine, and the principles of attraction marketing and you will be on your way soon.

Now, at this point you are probably saying to yourself. “When do I sell them on my business?”

The truth of the matter is you should not be selling anyone on your business when you first meet them. I am sharing with you how to convert a person from your cold market to your warm market. Develop the relationship with them first, there will be plenty of time to sell them later, but you will not meet resistance when you talk about the thing you are passionate about this time. Bottom line, don’t Get anyone, don’t treat them like a piece of meat that you have to devour, and by all means please don’t beg them to join your business.

Hello again good people, and thanks for coming to read yet another stellar article brought to you by AskClintAnderson.com. Today we are going to talk about writing persuasive articles for blogs… I already can hear the questions coming in about it.  Persuasive in the respect of keeping your readers interest long enough for them to take your action at the end of the article.

This is a test in article writing in itself because I have to try and talk about this and keep it interesting enough for you to actually continue reading. lol So, there are a couple things that you are going to want to do when writing your articles for syndication on your blog.

First rule of blog writing is to come up with a Title that just screams click me cuz I want to be read by you! So writing persuasive articles for blogs is lame title I know, so lets work on that a little… I was taught once how to do this, but I still have to practice it from time to time. You create a subject and some kind of shocking action statement with an odd number in there and voila you have a headline. I added the text in parentheses in order to spice up the title a little. It kind of grabs your attention. Just 3, well I have to read them.. quick and easy right..

Second thing to consider when writing persuasive articles for blogs is the body, meat portion of the article.  You want to keep the reading lite and fun.. Maybe put in a couple of your instant messenger acronyms or something.. lol right? You always want to keep the reader engaged enough to always want more, and of course you are always sprinkling bits of quality content just to keep them reading on and wanting more.  The best situation when writing persuasive articles for blogs is when you get to the end of your article and you leave the reader hanging so much, that they have to opt in for the list to get the conclusion to your suspend filled article, but you have to deliver!  Don’t deliver in that situation and you have lost your reader forever.

Third and final tip (I know you were keeping track) is always include your call to action at the end of your article. Even if it is to tell them to leave a comment, or go opt in to your newsletter, or just retweet a message. All easy things for a reader to accomplish, but if you don’t ask they won’t do it for you, unless they have been trained on how to get link juice like Justin Brooke from Sitefling.com has taught me.  I would compare it to when you are trying to make a sale. I was at Hooters one night and the waitress wanted my cousin and I to buy some special calendar right? Well, she had this great schpeal going on, told us how the ladies get picked for the calendar etc.  Showed us the back where all the sample pictures are, and the benefits of the calender.. getting to save money on food purchases in the future.  Well, she forgot one thing… You got it! She forgot to ask for us to actually buy the damn thing.  We both walked out and I laughed because I knew she forgot to ask for the sale…  I digress, so point is, just ask for your reader to do something at the end of your article.

Better get going here, lots of work to do to get online presense don’t you know!

To Your Success,

Clint

There are always minor things that you come about when you are creating an online presence.  One of those issues is getting your name out there. Well, in this case we want your name, face, and comments all looking consistant and good.  One of the ways we do this in the marketing world is we make sure we have a Gravatar image uploaded and working.  It is so important for people to put a face with a name, so people will trust you more and you can build brand with them.  In the following video I am going to show you how to add your image to your gravatar account, and thereby solidfying your online presence just that little bit more…

Hope you enjoyed the video, if you are wanting to share this with others please socially comment on it or leave a comment below please.

To Your Success,
Clint Anderson

Hello again, hope you all are having a good day! In continuing with my last article about keyword selection, I wanted to share with you some thoughts and resources for Affiliate Marketing Niche Selection. It is gonna be hard at first to find the right niche, but it is not impossible. As a matter of fact you may find that a niche is not really what you need.. Let me explain a little…

Back when I first started my affiliate marketing journey, I used to do the niche selection process by seeing something and saying oh that would be cool to sell online.. lol Oh my, that was indeed the wrong way to do this! We all learn right?

Today, I approach it from a couple of different perspectives. One being… “Is the product that I want to sell going to satisfy a problem for someone?”  Usually this falls under 3 general headings. I will explain general in a second. The 3 general headings are…

• Money problems
• People problems
• Health problems

These 3 general Niche Topics are going to be the basis for the niche research. So inside of the general niche of Money lets say, there are many Niche topics like ‘make money’ and ‘get out of debt’, etc… For our research we don’t want to stop there though because this is not going to totally solve the problem.

The next step is to identify the micro niche that will satisfy or in our case provide a solution to our problem. Let’s go back to my two examples of ‘make money’ and ‘get out of debt’.  The focus of these topics is still a little too broad for us to select a product to generate a profit with. So let’s narrow it down a bit to ‘make money online using google’ or ‘get out of credit card debt’

Now we have some very specific Micro Niches that we can work with and find products that will satisfy the problems people face on a daily basis.

You just have to ask yourself a question when doing this… If I had money problems specifically credit card problems. “Would the niche topic satisfy my problem?” If it does answer it, then you probably have a winner.  Again, ‘get out of debt’ does not help you get out of credit card debt because we may be talking about mortgage debt, where ‘get out of credit card debt’ does.

It’s not too confusing if you take a minute to think about what we are really trying to accomplish online as an affiliate marketer. I hope I have provided some valuable insight today also.  If you want to further investigate this topic, may I suggest Stephen Pierce or Lynn Terry as other places to get information about affiliate marketing.

To Your Success,

Clint

There are many different keyword research techniques that I could share with you, but I am going to defer to the experts for this one. I say why reinvent the wheel, and both of the people I am going to refer to here are experts at what they do… So without further ado… here is Justin and Chaunna Brooke in Tuesdays Twenty Minute Tackle. They overshot the 20 minutes a bit, but every minute is worth it with these two…

The other really great person to help us out with affiliate marketing keyword research is Lynn Terry. She is the real deal as far as the affiliate marketing business goes and she is a great energetic person to listen to. Here is her take on keyword research..

One last generic keyword research method(s) here. I don’t know where or when I found and started following this blog, but I like some of the things he says. Go check out his keyword research method…

To Your Success,

Clint