Smart Passive Income #262 - Second Podcast

Smart Passive Income PodCast

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In his second podcast Pat interviews Mark Mason, who's web page changed from masonworld.com (back in 2010) to late night in marketing ... they talk about internet marketing and how to cope with a 60-hour-a-week job in parallel ... of course Pat's show notes have affiliate links, e.g. Crush It, ...

Listen to the podcast, especially to Pat's intro, which is different every time!

Smart Passive Income #242 - ... How to Choose Your Keywords ... continued

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Pat tops his last affiliate-link post ... he has created a 75-minute webinar  for the same product ...

... it seems Pat was overwhelmed with the length himself, thus he felt the need to provide an additional description how to play his video faster ;)

... first you need a keyword relevant to your website/product ... it does not make sense to create traffic to your website, which is useless to you when people are not actually buying, because they where looking for something else ...

... second you need a keyword which creates traffic ... a keyword nobody will use in his/her search query is useless ...

... you need a unique keyword ... if you are using keywords, everybody is using, it might get quite hard to compete ...

... you need a high value keyword ... meaning a keyword people use it with the intend to actually buy ...

... and you need to like your keyword ;)

Smart Passive Income #161 to #163 - Income Report & Reading List & Affiliate Marketing

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Pat's income for November 2009 is down another 100 bucks, but still at 8.500,- USD.

... and suitable for the Christmas vacation he provides a list of reading/listening/using/doing suggestions.

 ... and he explains three types of affiliate marketing:

• unattached affiliate marketing - where you (or the affiliate provider system) just add randomly affiliate links to your page, hope that somebody clicks on the link, buys the product and makes you some money ...
• related affiliate marketing - where you choose the adds related to your site/topic/content, which is more targeted and suited to your visitors ...
• involved affiliate marketing - where you "truly" believe in the product you are "selling" and create a story around the affiliate link which "should" make clicking and finally buying unresistant ...

Smart Passive Income #128 to #130 - Affiliate Links & Income Report & Five Reasons not to become Self Employed

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Pat is not sure if he should hide his affiliate links ... well he does now (end of 2013) ... seems he made up his mind ...

... and we have reached September 2009 ... his income report for August 2019 is up a couple of hundred bugs, has not reached its former height, but more than 9.000,- is not bad at all ...

After one year of self employment, Pat gives five reasons why you shouldn't:

• You are responsible for everything, you make your own decision, nobody tells you what to do ... of course that's one of the reasons to become self employed ... but sometimes you would like to hand over that responsibility and just do tasks somebody tells you to do ...
• You are master over your time, you can schedule on your whimsy ... which again is nice, but sometimes, you actually will do nothing, and other times you do too much ...
• Procrastination ... it's really much easier to achieve a mind of procrastination than at a work place where your boss looks over your shoulder all of the time ...
• You are sooo alone, no coworkers, ... well that depends on the size of your company ;)
• No benefits, ... true, you get no retirement plan (actually not true, set up one yourself!) ... no medical, or dental plan (again, setup one yourself!) ... no paid vacations (wasn't the idea of passive income, to get paid even when you are not working?) ... no free lunches (... which you actually can pay for yourself when you earn more ...)

Smart Passive Income #43 - PPC Affiliate Marketing

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With blog entry #43 Pat returns to smart passive income. He actually did not stop but now he returns to writing about that topic.

Remember, passive income means you create a product once, setup an automatic process to monetize your product ... and earn money without further work.

In this blog entry Pat introduces PPC affiliate marketing.

With affiliate marketing, you need to find somebody who has a product and pays you a fee when you allure somebody else to buy that specific product. E.g. if you have blog, you could write an article about a product and link to it (using a special affiliate code). If somebody uses that link and then buys the product, you get a fee ...

The PPC stands for "pay per click". In the example above you might have the problem, that people need to know and visit your blog to be able to actually use your affiliate link. To increase the visitors to your blog you can e.g. use Google Adwords and pay (per click) to be on top of a search result to increase your visitor stream. Depending on the keywords you use and the click-through rate (meaning that not everybody visiting your article will actually also buy the product), PPC affiliate marketing might be the solution for you. If you spend more money on adwords than you get as affiliate fee, you might want to reconsider this strategy.