Still no reply from Google

Well, it must have been one helleva thanksgiving over there at google because I still have not received any reply from them and it's been 5 days.

This evening I think I will start advertising with yahoo - but after I finish reading the 2 valuable e-books I have. No time to post details about these e-books just now - have to rush over to the other side of the mountain for a meeting. :-)

Until later then...

Google Adwords for Free?

Yesterday I bought the book by Dr Jon Cohen called "Get Google Ads Free". It has caused quite a stir in some forums - some people think it's great while others think it's a cheat. You apparently don't actually get AdWords for free BUT you do learn a technique with it that just about makes sure that you might as well be getting AdWords for free.

So, I've bought the book, you can too if you like, by clicking here and I will be providing you some feedback on how it goes, as soon as I get my adwords working, that is :-)

My suggestion is that you wait until I have read and tested the process but if you find that you can't wait and want to GET STARTED NOW, then please do so and maybe we can compare our results. They say 2 heads are better than one and I would love to be sharing this discovery with others along the way.

Until next time...

Adwords not working? Now what?

I set up some adword campaigns a few days ago, with some products I had chosen from the affiliate networks and they're not running. I have checked every variable I can find to see if I can find out why and there's nothing that I can see. I sent google an email and am still waiting for a reply. It has just been a long weekend for them over on that side of the planet so I need to still give them time to reply.

....BUT what now? How else can I test these campaigns that I want to run?

What would we do without google? I started signing up with yahoo's equivalent yesterday but found it a bit clumsy and you don't seem to have the option to target just South Africa.

Hmmmm, will keep you posted.

Just do-ing it!

Getting started with taking the the next steps of making money through affiliate networks has been more of a challenge than I first thought.

I struggle a little with 'Just do(ing) it!' because I'm a bit of a perfectionist - I feel that I must have everything planned and setup correctly before I just go ahead and do it. I even analyse what other people are doing and discover how I can do it better. A really great quality but not so great if I'm still not actually 'publishing' anything that actually compares. I have now changed my opinion about other people that are doing something online but only, in my (humble?) opinion, 60% well. NOW - I admire them. They've done something that I am still perfecting in my own safe environment, just not publishing it just yet, because it has to be prefect...... tick, tock, tick tock Jane - the 3 months is passing you by.

Anyone relate to that? Well, today I (re)discovered a new concept - you can change, and edit things! :-) I can! ...and I just did. I just changed my blogspot address to millionairemum - from something that was too long for me to remember, even now. (I think it had something to do with "how I made my millions online". )

So, I have a blogspot now - a web page that I can now add to my signatures - more importantly - A STARTING POINT!

:-) hope this post finds you wonderfilled.

Missing the boat, well, almost

A concept that I missed while reading the business warriors website was that you can reap the rewards and more importnatly, earn some money, being an affiliate WITHOUT having a website! I had all the pieces of the puzzle in my mind but for some reason I have never thought of it this way, and feel a bit silly for not having done so. What you do is promote the affiliate products on Adsense. Eureka.

Yesterday I popped in at my favourite Seattle Coffee which just happens to be next to Exclusive Books and I meandered over to my favorite section (e-commerce) and found the following book just sitting there - begging to be picked up and read. So I did, settling down nicely with a Cafe Mocha, grande, wild and full of fun (no fun is caffeine free and I don't see much point in that :-)

Anyway, I found the book on Amazon and listed it here for you (over to the right) to have a look see yourself. Oh, and yes, the link is using my newly setup affiliate account with Amazon.

Now I'm going to find a product again on clickbank and see what all the facts and figures mean.

Learning Curves: ClickBank and Adsense

Just do it! ?

In my last post I mentioned business warriors - and here I'm going to mention them again because I found a great section about internet business models and such.

I was going through the step by step guide and Peter strongly suggested that I do the step before moving on to the next - and not shelve it for later. Like I'm prone to do.

So, here goes Peter...

Adsense is something that I'm really keen to master - there are some out there that say they earn about $20 000 per month on Adsense. Well, I think I've managed to get $44 on our www.clipps.co.za website so there LOADS and LOADS of room for improvements - wouldn't you say?

For those of you who might be new to this, Adsense are google ads.  You see them on the right hand side of the google search page when you do a google search and you see them a lot on other peoples websites.  People pay for the actual clicks they get from these ads so it could be a very worthwhile stream of revenue if you have a website that is going to receive a lot of visitors.

Now, how does one get started with Adsense? Here's one resource I found through clickbank that actually looks quite promising.

Click Here!

:-)

Valuable Resource - Elixir of Life

Today I've been gathering some thoughts together and doing my best to get back on track - most of today has been spent viewing the Business Warriors site. Wow - why do I need reminding about this valuable resource? If I could somehow convince the proverbial horse to drink the water that it had been led to then I would do so - because it's like the elixir of life for business people (SMME's and Entrepeneurs) :-)

If there is just one thing I could share that would help you with whatever you are creating with your business then here it is:



and I really suggest that you become one too - especially if you're based in South Africa or the UK.




Seriously - I still get excited when I visit the resources that Peter Carruthers has made available for us Business Warriors.

...and then there's the forum - where you'll find a whole lot of really genuine people who offer their advice and resources and very often, whether it's intentional or not, provide the good giggle. Really FRIENDLY :-)

Click here to visit the Business Warriors Site

or here:

Immobilised by choice

So the next step was to list a lot of possibilities and opportunities.

For the last little while that list has been expanding and I've been struggling to focus. Anyone have that? Which one should I focus on? Or should I do 3 at once - with 3 different things/themes.

And then I realised that it had been more than a week since my last post - eeeeeek - no, make that more than a month! Times ticking and I need to get moving on some things.

Back to the drawing board.