Below you will find a guest article from Jimmy D. Brown, developer of the Multiple Streams Theme WordPress Blog Theme. For more information on turning on ten “built-in” ways to make money from your blog, visit Multiple Streams Theme

If you’re an affiliate marketer, then you’re always looking over your shoulder to see if the competition – your fellow affiliates – are catching up to you. Or, worse than that, you’re looking up ahead trying to catch up with them!

At times any market can be crowded, so selling the same thing to the same group of people means you’re lucky to get just a small share of the market. Imagine having thirty-five Wal-Mart stores in one small town, all competing with each other to get the local business. You get the idea.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. The easiest way to outsell other affiliates is this…

Turn your AFFILIATE offer into a UNIQUE offer!

You see, most affiliates try to sell the product as is. If your prospects are shopping around, they’re going to skip all the “buy from me” offers.

Instead, they’re going to focus on those offers that give them an incentive to buy. And that means you can outsell the other affiliates simply by offering a bonus product to anyone who buys through your affiliate link.

I’ve been teaching this concept since 2001 and, all things being equal, those affiliates who put this into practice will outsell those who don’t virtually 100% of the time.

It’s a very simple strategy. Let’s break it down into three steps…

Step 1: CHOOSE Your Incentive

Your goal is to make your offer stand out from the crowd by offering an incentive to buy from your link, thereby boosting your conversion rate. And that means you need to offer a bonus that enhances or otherwise complements the affiliate product.

Did you catch that? Your bonus should “enhance” or “complement” the product you are promoting as an affiliate. That’s what makes for the best incentive.

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Yesterday we spoke of Blogger and WordPress as blogging options if one wanted to go the free route and today I want to finish up with some of the intricacies of things when it comes to blogging, and talk a bit more on its benefits to you, whether you use it as a full blown business model or if you simply use it as a information management system for your current website.

Blogger is actually owned by Google, so some say  it will be detected by Google’s radar faster, frankly I am not real sure if that is true or not. I do know that it really doesn’t make a bit of difference, considering when I put my first blog up, it was only a day before Google came by and indexed my first post, so no biggie there as far as benefiting from blogger.

However, WordPress blogs are better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories, sitemaps and googles analytics. The shear volume of plugins made available to you as a blogger is staggering and 99.9 percent of them are totally free. The other thing you will quickly find attractive to you blogging with WordPress, is the choices you have when it comes to themes. Themes truly make you unique and to your tastes. Read the rest of this entry

So what was truly hot in the year of 2008?? Its simple really, there were 2 things that stand out in a big way. Popularizing blogs as a business model and the other is jumping on promotion through social media and social networking sites. I have mentioned this a few times before and if you have been with me for any length of time you know I am huge fan of blogs. The reason is simple really, they work and they are so flexible and allow the user and myself so many options!

The one question I get with frequency is, don’t blogs take a lot of your time and don’t you have to create blog posts every day? Where do you come up with the information to keep your blogs active and fresh. Lets answer the first question. As far as time goes, they do take more time than a static standard kind of website, and yes in order for your blog to viable and something someone would want to visit, you do have have to create post a couple 3 times a week at the very least.

As far as the information to write about, well it comes from you, my readers. I get questions day in and day out that need answers and I simply read your emails and write about what it is you want to know.

Lets get into what blogging is really all about and why blogs have become such a mainstay for so many. Blogs and blogging is all about flexibility and interaction with your prospects and or customers. When blogs first started out there really were no business applications and what I mean, is people simply didn’t use them as a business type of format. Static sites were all people were putting up, whether it was a simple sales page or a full blown store with 20 to 50 items. People typically used blogs as an online journal or a platform for online rants about a given subject. Read the rest of this entry

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“There Has Never Been a Quicker, Easier Way To Create A High Traffic, Google Optimized Wordpress Blog GUARANTEED“

I truly can’t say enough good about this product. I jumped on board with Alex way back in January of 08 with his first product called Web 2.0 Wealth. Expert Wordpress is a huge improvement on his first run at it, and he delivered the first time and this product is no different in that regard, It delivers. Read the rest of this entry