You will always hear me praise both online ecommerce sites eBay and Amazon. They are the perfect medium for the brand new to online selling person in which to get started. These large venues teach many ecommerce lessons and there is all sorts of support should one become overwhelmed or have questions.

I do want to mention though that there are several ways to make money online and a few business models include not ever touching a product. One of my most favorite ways to earn money online is through affiliate marketing. This business model can be lucrative yet certainly has a learning curve.

Affiliate marketing is where you, the website owner or email list participant or person with lots of friends, sign up to affiliate or promote a product or service created by someone else. The owner of the product or services is the merchant. You, as an affiliate, will be issued a snippet of code to place on your promotional materials then the merchant tracks your sales.  When a potential buyer goes to the merchant website by clicking your code and purchases something you are paid a percentage of the sale price. You receive a check once or twice a month. It really can be a win/win situation. If you are authentic in your recommendations to your friends then you can become quite successful in this arena of sales. Did you notice I said friends? This is the success mindset of an affiliate. No matter if you own a website or participating in an online forum where you are recommending a product you need to think of the people you are advising as friends. Here is the acid test question: [click to continue…]

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My Saturday musings:

Entrepreneurship is collectively defined as exhibiting one’s business vision, taking action, pursuing that vision as a tangible goal and achieving it in life.  The unrefined definition is getting your butt off of that couch and doing something rather than fulfilling your life’s destiny of being a couch potato wishing life were different for you.

Stated below are some of the distinct attitudes an entrepreneur should positively have:

Optimism – is foreseeing things in a positive way notwithstanding any circumstances that may hinder progress. The assertiveness of the entrepreneur depends on the skill in handling a difficult situation and landing on top. Size of you verses size of problem is the equation. Enough building of you will minimize the problem, not enough building of you will magnify the problem so it will be too big. Optimism sees problems as challenges not obstacles to stop one.

It is necessary for a entrepreneur, even in the beginning stages, to be positive about all endeavors. You must be very observant of what the environment lacks and needs. The positive mind set frees thinking so they can be tuned into the environment and needs of others. You, as a leader, need to have sturdy shoulders to put on the extra weight of carrying a responsibility that will change your life as well as the life of others.

Stability – Physical, mental, social and emotional, a leader must possess a stable life which means you can handle tough situations during tough times. You’re grounded and know what you want and how to handle life.

Charismatic – You need to be an evangelist [click to continue…]

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Publish that Book You Wrote through Amazon

Here is another of Amazon’s well hidden sites. https://www.createspace.com/

This is one of two places I recommend to publish your ebooks. What? You haven’t written that book inside of you yet. What are you waiting for? If you are…

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Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle for FREE

Add your blog to the Amazon Kindle!

Can you imagine having your very own Amazon Kindle blog?  This is a very nice way to get exposure for your blog, promote whatever you’re selling and/or make affiliate income. If you use…

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Vintage Betty Crocker Cookbook – Valuable Find of the Month

Bet you had no idea Betty Crocker’s cookbook was a find for resale? Remember this one mom (or grandma if you are real young) used? This baby is a hot, hot, hot find. Think a bill. Yep, $100!

Some of…

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