I Sterted A New Internet Affiliate Business Blog

I finally started a blog on affiliate marketing… This is a little shameless promotion but I really think some will love the content, if I may say so myself.

There is lots to talk about in the Affiliate Marketing industry and I wanted to take the plunge and start sharing finds and tips from my own research. I’ve already posted some very useful information on there that covers some stuff that a lot of the WDI readers might already know but there are a lot of things that you will find that are new.

One post that I want to highlight is on improving click-through-rate (CTR) on image ads. It illustrates some simple techniques you can apply to the standard image ads that you see everyday online, that will instantly improve the CTR. Got to know this if you create banner ads for sure.

Check out my internet affiliate business blog at RemoteAffiliate.com when you get a chance. You might even want to sign up for my affiliate business newsletter where I will be sharing some secret information that will not be found on the blog along with the regular posts.

Ok got to go… till next time,

~ Valik

FREE Viral Email List Building Tool!

OK, growing an email list is one of the hottest ways to make money online right now and I just heard Russell Brunson has built a system that will grow an email list like a virus and he’s letting a limited amount of people get in on the fun for FREE.

Also he offers an awesome sponsored spot in there for only $47 to grow it even more and faster, but this is optional. You can use it FREE to a great advantage. I just signed up and actually got the sponsored spot. I am recommending my readers to get yours as fast as possible because once the word gets out about this this might not be as effective as right now while it is new.

Go here to check it out: TheViralSecret.com

Do Your Visitors TRUST Your Site?

Among many things that can be done to make your website and business or brand trustworthy there are simple little things that most forget, or didn’t even know about. We as website owners go through endless processes and upgrades to protect our investment, to protect from security breaches, to protect our property and our customer information, but rarely do we think about how much of an impact it would bring if the customers would actually know about the efforts put into that. These procedures and protection layers are very important but it is also important to let the visitors know that we take serious measures to protect them and their privacy. This is done by simply adding some badges to the website. Badges from trust and security programs and companies that people are used to seeing and naturally relating them to safety and security.

Here are a few good badges you might want to think about adding to your website.

BBBOnline Reliability Seal

Thawte

TRUSTe

GoDaddy Secured

buySAFE

ValidatedSite

Why Life Isn’t Fair, The Freelance Pareto Principle

by Giancarlo Gallegos

Two days ago, I was listening to a podcast sponsored by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program on the Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship. The speaker is Tina Seelig, a professor in Stanford University and the author of one of the best selling book, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”. In her podcast lecture, she talks about what distinguishes entrepreneurs from your average person. She said that entrepreneurs have a knack fo challenge themselves by looking at opportunities in everyday circumstances. They are in a constant lookout for things that will challenge their creativity.

Creativity for us designers is a given. We just have to be always creative. In fact, day in and day out, we tend to scribble ideas, create countless designs and offer various design concepts to our clients.  Sad to say, creative people tend to go overboard with designing ideas that we sometimes: 1) fail to maximize our time; 2) design things too perfectly for one client that we forget we have other clients to take care of; 3) miss our deadline because we have so much on our plate.

I plead guilty in some of these examples. I tried to search for a solution that could help me maximize my time well and luckily I found the answer from an Italian economist who lived 100 years ago, Vilfredo Pareto.

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The Mind Mapping Street: A Copy Cat Solution?

by Giancarlo Gallegos

One of the most difficult task that we face as designers is to be able to generate ideas. Just look around in the internet, the streets, magazines and you will find many design or logos looking very much similar but not quite. Often, I ask myself how much original content is out there? How do I create an original idea? Or, is it possible to create an original idea?

If you are like me, the answer was staring at my face the whole time. I have been using it but did not know what it really is. It is called Mind Mapping. To my surprise, it has been with us for the past four decades. What is mind mapping?

Mind mapping is a graphical way of presenting ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps us structure, analyze, synthesize, recall information and, more so, generate new ideas.
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