No More Resolutions

Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I suggest you consider making a list of critical activities for personal success in 7 areas of your life:

1. mental
2. physical
3. emotional
4. spiritual
5. financial
6. vocational
7. social

Each area should have no more than 1 to 3 critical activities. Any more than that will lead to failure because it will seem overwhelming.

Start with physical and vocational. You need energy and money to burn.

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Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and lifelong scanner. His latest projects can be found at http://www.virtualjoefriday.com and http://www.affiliatemarketingforscanners.com.

Is the Recession Already Here?

One business that usually does well in down economic times is do-it-yourself or home improvement stores. You take on projects yourself like painting and lawn care that you would normally hire others to do when times are good. You might even take on bigger projects you would not normally consider.

If you make $1000 a week, why scrub your own toilets?

I see landscapers everywhere in South Florida. Mostly immigrant crews. Legal or illegal? I don’t know and frankly don’t care.

But Home Depot’s sales are down 26% from last year. I was in to purchase some materials a few days before Christmas, and the checkout lines were not even long.

If a so-called recession proof business is already in a recession, are we now in a depression without knowing it?

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Charles Lamm, retired attorney and lifelong scanner, posts articles on his Virtual Joe Friday blog. His latest project is Affiliate Marketing for Scanners.

2 CAs

As a scanner affiliate marketer, you have only 2 tasks to complete each day:

1. create original pre-sell content
2. get eyeballs on that content

You can pick any affiliate niche or topic your scanner heart desires. You can then create:

• articles
• reviews
• blog posts
• ebooks
• reports
• white papers
• blog comments
• videos
• podcasts
• flash presentations
• MP3 files
• streaming audio
• streaming video

How you promote your content depends on your media.

The Devil is in the details.

Micro invest $9.29 now and play scanner trumps the Devil and the details.

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Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and a lifelong scanner who recently discovered his “affliction”. You can read this and other articles – on a variety of topics, of course – on his blog at http://www.virtualjoefriday.com. His websites include http://www.clixforbrix.com and http://www.affiliatemarketingforscanners.com.

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Marketing Guru Beatdown

Affiliate marketing “gurus” fall into 2 major schools:

1. build an email list of opt in subscribers and hammer it with offers

or

2. open a Google Adwords account and pay for targeted visitors to your affiliate link

Do these marketing techniques work? Sure. For a few non-scanners. And these methods are not working as well for the gurus as they once did.

Why do you think there are so many free ebooks available now teaching list building and Pay Per Click? If you download the free ebook, you subscribe to their list. You agree to get hammered when the guru comes up with a new method of marketing that might actually work for you.

Why are lists and PPC not working the way they once did?

1. spam is killing email

and

2. Google and the other PPC search engines are making it harder and more expensive to promote affiliate links

Your email inbox is likely so full of Nigerian bank scams, penis enlargement, fake watches, get-rich-quick schemes, and Viagra ads that you may well delete 80% of you email before reading anything.

If you are really smart, you use a web-based email account to join all newsletters, and then delete all of the email in that account after you get the free stuff for subscribing.

Be honest. If you really want to send a text message to someone, don’t you use your cell phone instead?

My daughters texts me. My wife texts me. I text them back. No spam. No email filters. No delays.

Even the biggest list marketing “gurus” have been shut down by their web hosts in the middle of a sales campaign by bogus spam charges.

Your ISP is not your friend. They will shut you down in a nanosecond and ask questions later.

Some of the best affiliate marketers made their bones on PPC advertising. Four years ago. Which is something like 100 years ago in Internet time.

As soon as some clever marketer comes up with a way to make good money online, in come the copycats and the vultures. Google changes the rules, and everyone gets screwed. Except Google.

Even the affiliate merchants themselves will prohibit affiliates from bidding on the most lucrative keywords.

Affiliate marketing for scanners is not about:

- building a list
- writing a newsletter
- publishing an ezine
- PPC
- email list marketing
- black hat
- cloaking
- banners
- classifieds
- SEO tricks

It’s amazing. The big guys let the little guys discover new profit niches, then they change the rules and steal the pie instead of sharing it.

Fight Back. Don’t Fight Yourself.

You can start today to make money with affiliate marketing using totally free resources. Once you get your feet wet, you can then set up your own web host, domains, and websites.

What other business lets you test the market free before investing?

To save time, I am going to ask you for a micro-investment?

Why?

Because the Devil is in the details. I bet you can smell the sulphur.

For a one-time $9.29 via Pay Pal or your credit card, you can instantly download Affiliate Marketing for Scanners, which covers the 2 Critical Activities that every affiliate marketer must do to succeed.

Only 2. All the other marketing techniques are dessert.

These Critical Activities are so fundamental that the search engines could not exist without them.

Beat the Googles of the world and stare down the Devil for $9.29. You are smarter, faster, better, and more innovative than the big boys could ever hope to be.

To read more, or to make your micro investment, visit:

http://www.affiliatemarketingforscanners.com/?page_id=4