But I my hope is to not to just pay you once. I want you to be earning commissions consistently! That’s the difference between having some extra spending cash and experiencing a complete lifestyle change.

When I say lifestyle change, it can even be a few hundred dollars a month. How much would your life change if you knew you would start making just $300 extra each month?

The odds are most online marketers are losing out on a ton of cash by not building the foundation of your business first. Making some cash online is great, but knowing it will come in each and every month is just pure bliss.

Here is how to prevent the cash from leaking out of your pockets before you ever get a chance to see it:

1. Commit – You can’t swim with just your toes in the water. Make the commitment to succeed with internet marketing and dive into the pool. This doesn’t mean to make rash decisions like quitting your day job or spending your life savings. Mentally, you must commit. If you are not committed to success, the odds are you’ll never experience it.

2. Invest In Yourself – Are you willing to skip your favorite tv show to read about money making tactics, traffic generation, list building, or learning basic HTML? Can you dedicate some of your leisure time now to create a lifetime of freedom later? Are you willing to skip out on going out to a pricey dinner or the movies once in a while, so you can pay for that website hosting or autoresponder service that has the potential to pay you back 100x more? Stop throwing away your resources, invest it and make it grow.

3. Discover – Take action and discover what it’s like to be in the trenches. You’ve been educating yourself, now it’s time to test your skills and discover what you have learned. You’re going to see small successes and lots failures. Learn from your mistakes and the experience of others, and continue onward.

Follow those steps and stop losing out on the cash you could be making.

Helpful sites for steps 2 and 3:

• Plug-and-Play Money Getting System
• Free Autopilot Empire Report
• Free One Time Offer Script
• Effortless, Viral Traffic

Fortunately for you, the current squeeze pages already do a fantastic job at converting people into subscribers. Even to this day, I’m using the exact same List Recon squeeze pages given to you to build my own list, so I know they work and they work well!

With that fact, I don’t feel a need to add new squeezes… BUT … after reviewing what was already there, I did realize that I have uncovered quite a few additional tactics that increases conversions since we first introduced List Recon.

And now those subtle changes have been added! You may not even notice the changes, but they use secret ninja tactics that make people much more willing and excited to subscribe. List Recon has been helping many folks out there build their subscriber list and finally start making sales, but now it has quietly just gotten a lot better!

If you aren’t sure why you want to build a subscriber list or just aren’t a member of List Recon yet, just go to the homepage and see why it is such a necessary weapon in your income-building arsenal.

And it seems like marketers all over are already seeing their websites drop significantly in the rankings. There’s already large and growing threads in many of the popular marketing forums where folks are sharing how far their website rankings have fell!

I just thought I would take this opportunity to show you yet another reason why I believe so strongly in building your own subscriber list.

This protects your business from being at the mercy of the search engines. So whether you are using SEO, safelist, traffic exchanges, paid advertising, or any other type of traffic generation method, please don’t put all that work to waste!

You never know when that website you’re promoting might go out of business, making your affiliate links pointless. You never know when an owner might just stop paying out commissions (has happened to me a few times and lots of other marketers!). And you never know when your top ranking website might suddenly stop receiving any traffic at all.

Build a customer list that you can bring with you wherever your business takes you.

For building a subscriber list, I like Aweber.

If you need some tools to start you on the way to building your own mailing list, try out my very cool list building and traffic system, List Recon.

Have you been affected by this change or know someone who has? Have a story or comment you want to share? We would love to hear from you!

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* Place their Time-Bonus Ads widget on your own website for autopilot referrals and commissions, plus boost your ranking!

* Even if you don’t have a lot of traffic, you can just advertise their Time-Bonus Splash page to increase your ranking and GET more traffic

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And say this may be one of the most powerful articles you will ever read about online business.

Haha ok I take that back, but honestly this IS a powerful secret that I will reveal with you today. Do this, and you will experience greater success in your business.

At the time I write this, I have a mailing list of about 15,000 people and 300 followers on IM Faceplate. I’m not saying this to show off, but I want you to know that I speak from experience. And YOU can easily do the same or better if you follow the secrets I’m about to share with you.

I have to warn you though, if you’re looking for the answer for fast cash, you won’t find it here.

What you’re going to discover is the secret to BIGGEER, LONG LASTING cash. It won’t happen overnight, but once you have this, the money comes often and with ease.

This is what you’ve been waiting for…

You Must Build TRUST!

When you’ve established yourself as being trustworthy, people will begin to follow you wherever you go.

“Easier said than done Solomon!”

I promise it’s not as hard as it seems! =)

So how do you build a reputation and instill trust?

For beginners, the easiest way is to build your brand. This is what I did to get started online. I put my name and face everywhere I advertise.

For those of you who have the brand established, now it’s time to respect the people who recognize your brand. That means being an honest seller and taking care of your customers.

This could get very long, so let me keep it short, sweet, and simple:

* Build your brand – Put your name and picture on everything you’re associated with. If you don’t feel comfortable doing that, create an Identity that you want to be known as. (Ex. Mr. Money Bags, except something less corny than my example!)

* Be yourself – Just be comfortable with who you are. While professionalism is important, you also want people to feel like you are a real person just like them. Can you kind of feel my personality through this article? Be yourself, and people will feel more connected to you as well.

* Be Consistent – This one is kind of weird, but it’s true. You want people to see you often, because it shows you’ll be around for the long term and won’t randomly disappear. For example, you can regularly in contact with your mailing lists and be active in IM Faceplate often.

* Be Honest – Of course part of trust is being honest! I can’t think of a great example here, but one thing I personally do is I don’t promote products unless I believe it can help you.

* Give Away The Goods – Educate people with solid information. It doesn’t mean you have to reveal all of your secrets for free, but share valuable information and show people that you can help them. Part of building trust is people want to know you can lead them somewhere great. Then be amazed as people anxiously await to hear what you’re doing next!

A big reason why I have 300 followers on IM Faceplate is because many perceive me to be someone you can trust to deliver real secrets about making money online.

You want people to “follow you” on IM Faceplate because they want to hear what you have to say… NOT because they’re hoping you will follow them back so they can spam you with affiliate links!

Try the steps above, beginning with building your brand first. And soon you’ll have hundreds or even thousands of people following you on IM Faceplate and everywhere you go!

What I’ve shared with you is some general, powerful rules to personal branding. You can read my personal story and INDEPTH tricks on how you can establish your brand today in my free report, Zero To IM Hero: Zero To IM Hero.

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So when something new launches, especially from someone well known in this market, I’m always excited to check things out.

Today I wanted to share with you my thoughts on List Building Maximizer.

I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak into the site before the launch, so naturally I had a really good look around.

The owners of List Building Maximizer are Bill Portnova and Mike Murphy. They’ve already had quite a bit of success with their previous site, Downline Builder Direct, which I’m also a huge fan of.

They call it a list builder, but I’m going to call it a safelist because … well I can!

In case you don’t know about safelists, List Building Maximizer is an email based advertising website. Members join and can send each other emails using credits. You can be confident your ads will be seen because members need to view emails in order to earn credits and send their own advertisements.

List Building Maximizer has many of the traditional features of most credit based safelists, but let me share with you why I think you’re in good hands here:

* Has all the popular features that you would expect from other top credit based safelists like banner ads, text ads, downline builder, solo ads, and more.

* The amount of credits they give out are about right. This is super important because managing credits properly can have a huge effect on the results you get from your advertising.

* They allow top sponsor ads (tiny ads shown at the top of each safelist email) for upgraded members. This makes your upgrade a better value and gives you autopilot advertising. My ad has already been shown ____ times after about a day

* A HUGE referral contest to celebrate their launch … with $1,500 in prize money up for grabs! Why is this important? Well obviously you could win a lot of cash, but also it could mean a huge rush of new people for you to advertise to.

* Bill and Mike are owners with a proven track record.

So yea, overall I think if you enjoy credit based safelists, you’ll be very happy with List Building Maximizer.

It’s free to join, so I highly recommend you check it out. Click here to join List Building Maximizer for free.

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• Thanks for the recent comments and tweets. Remember that if you don’t have anything to add with a comment, sending out a tweet is appreciated just as much

• So I finally fixed that optin box at the top right of my blog. Only took me a few months to get around to it!

• A lot of aweber emails have been hitting the spam box in gmail lately, hopefully this pattern doesn’t continue, because historically they’ve been an excellent autoresponder.

• Apparently you can customize the look of your blog at the warrior forum too! Didn’t know that!

• I created a fan page on facebook. I haven’t actually done anything with it yet or added anyone, but eventually I’ll get to it. Feel free to become a fan while you’re reading this.

• So I happened to establish contact with a well known Internet Marketer named Rhys Davies. He pulled in $148,000 online last year … in actual profit! He did it with just a simple, 3 step system and I got an insider look at it! I think it’s definitely worth checking out, and he’s giving away one of his secrets right now for free. Click here to see it!

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Main Article – Making Cash And Promoting Your Business With Your Blog

So one of your fellow readers wanted to know how to promote a business with your blog.

Now there are SO many ways to do this depending on your niche and the type of business you have. So rather than write some massive 50,000 word article, I’ll give you a nice little list of stuff that you can pick and choose from.

• Find the keywords in your niche likes and focus on posting content in those areas.

• Make your posts that also apply to things about your business, so you can provide useful content and drop friendly reminders about your business. For example, one thing I talk about is getting traffic to your websites. Why not talk about my own websites EliteSafelist and FastActionAds since it helps get website traffic?

• Like to promote affiliate programs? Make sure to smoothly link to some of your affiliate links in your blog posts.

• Update your readers about the latest news going on with your business! For example, I think one or two blog posts ago, I mentioned that EliteSafelist hit 5,000 members.

• For affiliate marketers, of course it makes a lot of sense to devote posts about a new program. You can give an honest review and/or talk about your ongoing experiences with it!

• Remember that those rss feeds and blog networks can be spreading the stuff posted on your blog all over the internet! That means tons of links going back to your website or affiliate links! Your new blog posts can automatically be sent to places like twitter, facebook, and more!

• Have an optin form so you can keep people up to date about your blog (and your business) through email.

• Get your blog active, and it will show new readers that the content you are writing about is interesting to other people. This makes people more inclined to read your blog so they can see what other people have to say. That also means even more exposure for you.

• Remember that sometimes a blog will look a lot friendlier than some salespage where you’re trying to sell someone something. A blog gives you another outlet and way to connect with potential customers.

• Give your readers step by step instructions on how to do stuff, and of course include some action having to do with your business. People love lists!

I’m sure there’s more but I can’t think of them at the moment. If you look around, I’m sure you’ll notice that I apply many of these techniques myself, and it brings me additional, long term business.

What do you think of this list? Are you applying any of these methods to your blogs? Let us know!

• Just wanna send out a quick shout out to you for adding some very helpful comments on my last blog post. It means a lot and seeing activity like that will SURELY keep me active and sharing info with you!

• Woo hoo, so EliteSafelist hit 5,000 active members. I’m really proud of that since the site is still pretty young and it’s already larger than many of the older, established safelists out there. If you haven’t joined yet, shame on you! But it’s ok, you can still join now by clicking here

• Viral Ad Store just launched. Although the name is kinda funky, it makes sense once you know what’s unique about it. It’s a viral list builder from Mike Purvis and Greg Hickman, the same guys behind The List Auction, which is (in my opinion) one of the best list builders out there. So far, Viral Ad Store is already getting me incredible results … I don’t have the exact numbers handy but at the time I wrote this, I’ve gotten something like 50 signups to my various lists since it launched. Obviously these guys know what they’re doing. Join here, I highly recommend it.

• Resale Rights Hosting launched as well, and I’ve got to say this is an awesome idea. Have you ever tried setting up a resell rights product to sell? Well it’s a PAIN! Resale Rights Hosting has taken care of all of that stuff for you. You could literally be selling resale rights products in minutes. They’ll even give you a 30 day free trial just to check things out. If you’ve been wanting to sell stuff like ebooks, videos, and software but have been intimidated by the technical side of things, then you have to check this out.

• So I got today’s article topic from one of your fellow blog readers, and hey I thought it was a good suggestion! Thanks Richard!  I’m actually going to split it into two posts, because I think each deserves it’s own so you get the most out of it.If you want to recommend a topic, you can use that blue box on the left (skribit) to request for particular things for me to write about.

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Main Article – Flood Your Blog With Traffic … At Will!

Blogging has been a recent phenomenon that’s taken the internet by storm.

Some people do blogging for fun or to make some extra cash. Some people even make their entire living just from blogging!

I want to make a disclaimer that I’m not some blogging “guru”, but I am always reading and studying internet marketing. Naturally, stuff like blogging comes up fairly often, so I’ve read quite a bit of stuff on blogging and marketing online.

With that said, there are a ton of ways to get traffic to your blog. There’s SEO (search engine optimization), blogging communities (technorati, mybloglog, etc), social networking, blog commenting, blog directories, and tons of other stuff.

They all work! For me personally, I’m all about getting the MOST results for as little effort as possible.

This is how *I* drive traffic to my blog with one simple method…

BUILD YOUR LIST!

That’s it! In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say this would be my answer for most struggling internet marketers.

First let me reveal how I do it, and then why.

1) I create a squeeze page where people can opt in to my mailing list. I’ll usually offer something of value to them, like a free ebook or membership.

2) Then I send traffic to that squeeze page using traffic exchanges, credit based safelists, and viral list builders. I also kind of (as in almost never) do other stuff like social networking or blog commenting, but only if I’m really…really…. really bored, haha. If you’re in a niche outside of Internet marketing, find hotspots where people from your niche would go like forums, popular blogs, and social networking groups.

3) I also naturally get search engine traffic without even doing fancy SEO stuff. If my blog is about internet marketing, I’ll tend to always use keywords about internet marketing anyway, so either way I still get traffic from search engines without any extra effort. But of course if you do your keyword research too, you can enjoy even more free traffic.

4) Then when I make a new blog post, I tell my mailing list subscribers about it.

And that’s how I get traffic to my blog.

So why do I do it this way?

First, it doesn’t take me any extra effort to promote my blog, because I’m always building my mailing list. And YOU should be too. Click here for my recommended autoresponder.

It’s also a good way to remind people that your blog even exists. Lets face it, we’ve all got busy lives and sometimes things will slip our minds. You don’t want people to forget about your blog, so it’s always nice to send them a little friendly reminder and let them know when you put up a new post.

Promoting your blog to your list is a GREAT way to build a relationship with your readers. Sometimes people want to know that you’re more than a marketer, they want to know what kind of person you are. Sending them to your latest blog post with actual info is a nice change of pace from just emailing them whenever you want to sell them something.

Using a list also makes your blog “Google Slap Proof”. Huh? Basically every now and then Google changes their search engine algorithm (basically a math formula). I’ve read SO many times about people who have spent months or years optimizing their websites/blogs to get on the first page of Google. Countless hours of hard work … and then *SLAP*, Google changes the formula and you’re now listed on like page 10…

Well guess what, if you have a mailing list, it doesn’t really matter where your blog ranks in the search engine! You just send out an email like you’ve always done.

And the best thing about this method is that it doesn’t actually take me any extra work. If you do have the time, then sure go out there and do that extra stuff I listed for more traffic to your blog. If time isn’t quite a luxury you have yet, then you might want to give my method a try.

I know I covered a lot of stuff today and jumped around a bit, so if you have a question, just leave a comment and I’ll try to get ya an answer.

This is actually a two part series. Next time I’ll tell you something else about blogging and how it can make you extra cash.

In the mean time, here’s my recommended action steps for more blog traffic:

1) Build a squeeze page to get people to join your mailing list. You can make them for free at Instant Squeeze Page Generator if you’re not sure how to do it.

2) Whenever you make a new blog post, let your subscribers know!

See that wasn’t hard was it?

So how are you getting traffic to YOUR blogs?

• Whoa, tons of stuff happened this past few weeks! If you wanna know why I didn’t post much this past month, make sure to keep reading…

• One blog reader was kind enough to point out that my optin box in my header doesn’t have a submit button! I still need to fix that, haha. Thanks Online Biz!

• I was out of town for a week awhile ago. Remember to work hard and work smart. One of the things that an online business can do for you is allow you to travel (i.e. VACATIONS!!) and still make money.

• One of the biggest launches in traffic exchange history just happened. Tezak Traffic Power launched with something like 10,000+ members in 10 days! Incredible, and I gotta add it couldn’t have happened to a better guy. If you like traffic exchanges, this is a surefire winner. It’s got the same minds behind Traffic-Splash and a 10 year TE veteran in Tony Tezak.

• Mike Coursey just launched a cool new service called Splash Speaker. It lets you create splash pages that automatically create audio for you. Use the approved sites and it will even say stuff like a member’s name! It’s really cool. Sign up for free, but I recommend upgrading to get full access to these awesome features.

• Sunny Suggs continues her “All About” series with the arrival of All About My First List. This is a really cool site that helps walk you through how to build your own mailing list. Join here and you can get the first chapter for free, but as always the upgrade will get you a ton of really cool stuff.

• … And here’s a big one. Clickbank Pirate is LIVE! I was lucky enough to check things out from the inside and all I can say is WOW. Basically, Cindy Battye and Soren Jordansen have created a true plug-n-play system that will help you make commissions from Clickbank for LIFE! They’ll handle ALL the work, EVERYTHING! All you’ve gotta do is show it to people (and they reveal how to do that too). Check out their video and get two free, eye-opening reports that reveal a ton of secrets about making money online.Oh and here’s my official update. I started using Clickbank Pirate August 5th just by putting some banners ads out there linking to their professionally made squeeze pages (as in, I put in no real effort on my part). As I write this, it’s 7th and I’ve gotten my first clickbank sale thanks to Clickbank Pirate! That’s right, 2 days, barely any promotion (not even an email sent out folks!), and I got my first sale. Can I say Clickbank Pirate is awesome now?

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Main Article – Get YOUR Voice Heard!

Ok, so no real article today. Instead…

I want YOU to tell ME what you want to hear about!

Bottom line, I really write this blog for you. I want to see you succeed, and part of doing that is discovering what you need help with.

Not sure if you noticed, but I haven’t been posting to my blog as much. I noticed that on some posts, I get some good activity, while others…not so much.

Sorry but that just won’t do!

Personally, I’d like to keep this thing updated around once a week and let you know what’s going on in the world.

It’s pretty simple though: less comments, less updates.

So if you really wanna hear what I have to say about Internet Marketing, leave a comment or sent out a tweet for me!

If not, well then I guess you don’t have to do anything! haha

I installed this shiny new thing called skribit, which allows you to easily suggest and vote on topics for me to blog about.

You’ll find a blue tab on the left side of my blog, just click that, and you can make suggestions or vote on stuff for me to blog on!

So let me know what you want to hear more about! It’s really easy to do with skribit

I know a lot of you out there read this blog, so lets get more active and leave some comments. This is a great chance for you to get to know other readers, and also a chance for me to get to know some more of you better as well.

Basically, this is your chance to get YOUR voice heard!

Action steps:

1) Something you’re dying to know? Click on that suggestion box hovering on the left side and let me know. See some other suggestions you like? You can vote for those too!

2) Leave some relevant comments and share you thoughts when you read a new blog post. You can meet new people, get your website link out there (this is a “DO follow” blog by the way, for you SEO pros ), and help keep this place active. Gives me a lot more incentive to post updates when I know I’m helping you.

3) Nothing you want to say at all?! Haha it’s ok I understand, then at least do me a favor and send me out a tweet for me.  That’d be awesome too!