Well my 1st attempt to create a blog has been a disaster!!
After spending a good half hour staring at a blank page wondering what to write, I finally got started with a few words, then a few more came, and then it almost seemed the floodgates opened and I was able to actually write and it looked sensible.
Fantastic I thought, so I wanted to see how it would look if it were published, and I noticed a link at the top of the composing page which says, "Preview".
Choice, I thought! I can go see what it's like and come back to finish it off.
Uh-Oh!! How wrong I was.
I made a cardinal mistake!
Forgot to save it first, so consequently lost the whole lot.
So here I am back again trying to re-do what I had before. I started out by saying I really wanted do Affiliate Marketing to make an income from home.
As an "Old Age" Pensioner, who only had home-making Skills, and other bits and pieces but no actual Certificates for anything, you don't get much income once you are no longer in the work force.
For some reason or other, the Employers have the idea that we are "Too Old" for the Job!! My Goodness, what happened to all those years of learning their trades that we did? Did all that learning just go up in smoke because we increased in age? Not sure what happens there. :))
Anyway, it sets your mind to thinking, How can I earn some extra income? What skills do I have now, which I can put to work without having slave in a 9 to 5'er again?
Ah!! I will get a computer and learn how to make a living online!! That's what I will do. Okay, so I spent several years, not months, learning how to operate a computer, and also learning everything I could about making a living online.
Or so I thought!! Big Deal! All I got was bombarded daily with heaps of this and that and everything except the kitchen sink almost! A huge amount of it was really just junk too.
Talk about information overload! I had it in a big way, but not one jot of it got my any closer to my dream of having a home business.
One day I was blessed in being able to purchase and read a wonderful book written by Ros' Gardiner called Super Affiliate Handbook. Ros really detailed exactly how to go about doing Affiliate Marketing. Every detail was fully explained. My only problem was that at the time I still hadn't learned to "focus" on one thing at a time. That part took me almost another full year! I guess you would call me a "slow learner". :))
Finally, it began to sink in to my mind, words that I read in an email one day: If you keep doing what you've always done, you will get what you've always got.
That is so true. So, I went back and read the Handbook from Ros again. now it was beginning to make sense.
Yes, you can make a living from the Internet and a darned good one too. It's a matter of "focusing" on what you want to do, how to do it, and what you need to do, to be able to do it.
Lots of "do's" in there, but that is how I see it.
One of the things I finally grasped was, I didn't have a "list". Everyone kept saying, you must have a list! MY Brain, kept saying quietly, "what for". Then I found out. I didn't know anyone online. I had no one to offer any products I might have. therefore, I would never be able sell anything and thus begin my home based business, earning money at home.
So, the search began in earnest. 1st I had to learn about building lists. Oh dear, how to do it? Okay, who can I ask to teach me? Well, luckily for me I had been receiving a ezine from Matthew Glanfield, and he sent me a wonderful offer of how to make "Squeezepages". I found myself wondering what on earth a Squeezepage was.
Then I discovered it actually has several names. Opt-in site, is one, and catch -all is another. There's a few others out there too. Anyway, now Matthew had my complete attention.
"Focused", at last!
His lessons were really simple too, and he also sent along a superb assistant by name of Jim Musselwhite. Jim made it fit together so easily.
Thank you Matthew and Jim. Matthew also offers a free course on Affiliate Marketing Formula.
Its a super simple, easy to follow course sent out in daily issues, which means each day you are able to do one task at a time. Like eating an Elephant, just one bite at a time, and you will get there.
Now, it is all coming together at last. I can honestly say, I know now that making an income online truly is a reality!
I have already sold some items through Clickbank, which, by the way, is a great place for budding affiliate marketers.
What a Great Feeling it was when I saw My Check from ClickBank!! I couldn't believe I had actually made some dollars online! But it sure was real. The Bank Cashed it for me anyway, so it must have been.!!!
By joining Clickbank, you get the ability to choose from approximately 11,400 products with which to try your wings as it were, as a Affiliate Marketer.
You can even join a couple of places and get your very own ClickBank Mall.
These are superb sites for starters and really get your appetite whetted for more ways to grow your income online.
There are very many ways out there for affiliate marketers, but you MUST STAY "Focused".
That was where I lost so much time. now I have to play catch-up football, as they call it. :))
However, now I know how it's done all I need to do now is apply the lessons I've been taught so proficiently by talented people.
They too had to learn, but have graciously shared there learning with those of us who are wiling to listen and apply those lessons.
That is the way we can definitely make a living on the Internet. Many have done it before us, and many, many more will do it long after us.
In conclusion of this page, I ask that you please don't judge my writing too harshly, this is written by someone who is totally new to blogs, but who is definitely interested in any good constructive criticisms, and who is completely willing to work and learn.
Perhaps I better add, :)) I don't manage to retain large chunks of info now-a-days.
Memory has gone down the tubes a little these days, so my Grand-kids tell me. :))
Bless you all, and have a wonderful day night, depending in which hemisphere you live. We live in New Zealand, a very beautiful country it is too. no extremes like most other countries.
After spending a good half hour staring at a blank page wondering what to write, I finally got started with a few words, then a few more came, and then it almost seemed the floodgates opened and I was able to actually write and it looked sensible.
Fantastic I thought, so I wanted to see how it would look if it were published, and I noticed a link at the top of the composing page which says, "Preview".
Choice, I thought! I can go see what it's like and come back to finish it off.
Uh-Oh!! How wrong I was.
I made a cardinal mistake!
Forgot to save it first, so consequently lost the whole lot.
So here I am back again trying to re-do what I had before. I started out by saying I really wanted do Affiliate Marketing to make an income from home.
As an "Old Age" Pensioner, who only had home-making Skills, and other bits and pieces but no actual Certificates for anything, you don't get much income once you are no longer in the work force.
For some reason or other, the Employers have the idea that we are "Too Old" for the Job!! My Goodness, what happened to all those years of learning their trades that we did? Did all that learning just go up in smoke because we increased in age? Not sure what happens there. :))
Anyway, it sets your mind to thinking, How can I earn some extra income? What skills do I have now, which I can put to work without having slave in a 9 to 5'er again?
Ah!! I will get a computer and learn how to make a living online!! That's what I will do. Okay, so I spent several years, not months, learning how to operate a computer, and also learning everything I could about making a living online.
Or so I thought!! Big Deal! All I got was bombarded daily with heaps of this and that and everything except the kitchen sink almost! A huge amount of it was really just junk too.
Talk about information overload! I had it in a big way, but not one jot of it got my any closer to my dream of having a home business.
One day I was blessed in being able to purchase and read a wonderful book written by Ros' Gardiner called Super Affiliate Handbook. Ros really detailed exactly how to go about doing Affiliate Marketing. Every detail was fully explained. My only problem was that at the time I still hadn't learned to "focus" on one thing at a time. That part took me almost another full year! I guess you would call me a "slow learner". :))
Finally, it began to sink in to my mind, words that I read in an email one day: If you keep doing what you've always done, you will get what you've always got.
That is so true. So, I went back and read the Handbook from Ros again. now it was beginning to make sense.
Yes, you can make a living from the Internet and a darned good one too. It's a matter of "focusing" on what you want to do, how to do it, and what you need to do, to be able to do it.
Lots of "do's" in there, but that is how I see it.
One of the things I finally grasped was, I didn't have a "list". Everyone kept saying, you must have a list! MY Brain, kept saying quietly, "what for". Then I found out. I didn't know anyone online. I had no one to offer any products I might have. therefore, I would never be able sell anything and thus begin my home based business, earning money at home.
So, the search began in earnest. 1st I had to learn about building lists. Oh dear, how to do it? Okay, who can I ask to teach me? Well, luckily for me I had been receiving a ezine from Matthew Glanfield, and he sent me a wonderful offer of how to make "Squeezepages". I found myself wondering what on earth a Squeezepage was.
Then I discovered it actually has several names. Opt-in site, is one, and catch -all is another. There's a few others out there too. Anyway, now Matthew had my complete attention.
"Focused", at last!
His lessons were really simple too, and he also sent along a superb assistant by name of Jim Musselwhite. Jim made it fit together so easily.
Thank you Matthew and Jim. Matthew also offers a free course on Affiliate Marketing Formula.
Its a super simple, easy to follow course sent out in daily issues, which means each day you are able to do one task at a time. Like eating an Elephant, just one bite at a time, and you will get there.
Now, it is all coming together at last. I can honestly say, I know now that making an income online truly is a reality!
I have already sold some items through Clickbank, which, by the way, is a great place for budding affiliate marketers.
What a Great Feeling it was when I saw My Check from ClickBank!! I couldn't believe I had actually made some dollars online! But it sure was real. The Bank Cashed it for me anyway, so it must have been.!!!
By joining Clickbank, you get the ability to choose from approximately 11,400 products with which to try your wings as it were, as a Affiliate Marketer.
You can even join a couple of places and get your very own ClickBank Mall.
These are superb sites for starters and really get your appetite whetted for more ways to grow your income online.
There are very many ways out there for affiliate marketers, but you MUST STAY "Focused".
That was where I lost so much time. now I have to play catch-up football, as they call it. :))
However, now I know how it's done all I need to do now is apply the lessons I've been taught so proficiently by talented people.
They too had to learn, but have graciously shared there learning with those of us who are wiling to listen and apply those lessons.
That is the way we can definitely make a living on the Internet. Many have done it before us, and many, many more will do it long after us.
In conclusion of this page, I ask that you please don't judge my writing too harshly, this is written by someone who is totally new to blogs, but who is definitely interested in any good constructive criticisms, and who is completely willing to work and learn.
Perhaps I better add, :)) I don't manage to retain large chunks of info now-a-days.
Memory has gone down the tubes a little these days, so my Grand-kids tell me. :))
Bless you all, and have a wonderful day night, depending in which hemisphere you live. We live in New Zealand, a very beautiful country it is too. no extremes like most other countries.
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