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Step by Step to start earning with amazon affiliate by building website

Hello,

Clickbank is not a product, it's an affiliate program.
everything starts with an idea. Search on Google, how to make research on AMAZON products. You will find pdf books and with some efforts you can get them for free. Once you know how to make a research, you will increase the chances to find a niche like: silver jewelries for ex.

Once you found 10-15 niches by respecting the chriteria you found in the books, choose 1 or 2 and search for a domain name which should should contain the name of the niche but be brandable as well. From there you should buy a .com domain and a host. Both cost less than 15$. If you reached this stage and did everything correctly, you are on the right way.

REMEMBER: No one has enough free time to explain you step by step like in school. For these type of lessons you should join an AMAZON affiliate teaching program but this would cost you 20-30$/month. On-line business is about building by yourself, very few people are willing to teach you everything step by step and not because they don't want to, but because they work a lot on their own projects.

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Best Language To Start For Web Development?

English & American I'd say.

No really though, a chosen language would be project specific. One project may require the use of JAVA whereas another may require the use of PHP/MySQL for a more direct web interface approach.

See, not everything in web development is as directly related to web as a lot of people think. Think web development, think maybe on a browser, maybe on a phone, maybe on a different web device such as app development for XBox. They all use different languages.

If you're looking at developing specifically for websites then the main languages used would be HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL/SQL/Java/ASP and possibly even more. It just depends on what the clients requirements are and what would be most appropriate for that given project.

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7 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Podcast

Podcasting is not for everyone. Despite the many experts, gurus, rockstars and ninjas within the content marketing space moving their voice to the podcast format, podcasting will NOT work for everyone.

I don’t want you to waste time creating iTunes podcasts if they’re not going to work…

…because it does take hard work to create podcasts.  Launching a successful podcast isn’t as easy to purchasing a domain name and hitting the one-click install button for WordPress. {Ms. Ileane shares the basics of “How to Make a Podcast” here}

Creating a successful blog doesn’t guarantee success in the podcast format either.

Podcasting is long-format content marketing, which means the audience expects you to dive deeper into your area of expertise.

Ms. Ileane does this well with her Ms. Ileane Speaks Podcast.

My own Content Warfare {view the episode index} addresses How to Win the Battle for Attention Online.

Both shows run 15, 30, even 45 minutes in length depending on the topic being addressed.

Here’s the deal, podcasting is not for everyone, so I outlined seven reasons you should NOT start podcasting. This serves as a guide to excuse yourself from moving into the audio format of content marketing.

Podcasting allows you to dig deep into a topic. It also allows you to use words apply inflexion to certain words that delivers your message with a cadence that a text-based blog post is not able to do. Podcasting puts you on display as an expert. There is something about delivering your message in audio that adds a level of authority to what you’re saying.

See anybody can copy and paste thoughts from another blogger. But it takes a true authority, a true expert in an industry to deliver a podcast and talk for 30 minutes on a topic.

The psychology behind your audience applying authority to you from hearing you talk about a topic is incredible powerful.

Think about the amount time that the average person spends on your website. Go to your Google Analytics reports and look at the time spent on your website right now. It most likely is somewhere between 45 seconds and two minutes.

Contrast this with the fact that with the Content Warfare Podcast where the average show length is 30 minutes,  the average listener stays on the line for 24 minutes. In which form of content marketing do you think I am building a deeper relationship with my audience? The three minutes that my audience spends reading one of my blog posts or the 24 minutes that they spend listening to my podcast.

There are many people who are not interested in reading text-based blog posts. This is the built in podcast audience. These are people who want to consume the content you in audio and podcasts. Services like Stitcher, Blackberry, iTunes and Zune provide you with a way to reach a group of people who could become potential clients that you would never be able to reach with a text-based blog post.

Podcasting allows you to expand your audience and reach a whole new market of consumers.

As discussed above, people who come and listen to your podcast see you as an authority, consume your content for a long period of time and become deeply invested in you as a content creator.  This provides the ideal opportunity to create leads and sales. Podcast listeners interested in your product or service become very qualified leads as they’ll have listened to you for a long time and made up their mind to buy.

This is very different from the text-based funnels and squeeze pages used to capitalize on a consumers compulsion to buy.  Add in the fact that services such as iTunes and Stitcher and Zune and Blackberry have a built in audience that you’re not currently reaching and you have now increased the pool people who could potentially buy from you.

Whether you’re Shakespeare or John Grisham or just the average blogger there’s a decent chance that the people who read your text-based posts on a daily, weekly or monthly basis would be interested in consuming your content in a different form or fashion. Podcasting allows you to add variety to your content marketing strategy and subsequently a deeper relationship with your audience. Once people begin listening to the sound of your voice they will remember hearing the words in the way that you speak.

Depending on who’s figures you read there are somewhere in the vicinity of 156 million blogs between WordPress and Tumblr.

This number does not include all the blogs from other platforms like Blogger, Joomla, Drupal and HTML blogs.

There are only a couple hundred thousand podcasts.

So if you’re trying to stand out from the crowd… if you’re trying to have your voice heard above all the other voices online do you think you have a better chance of doing that with a simple text-based blog post or on a podcast where you only have a couple hundred thousand competitors?

One of my personal favorite features of the podcast format is interviewing other experts in the marketing industry.  You can certainly interview people using text-based posts as well, but it’s harder to get a feel for the guest with simple text.  The audience also doesn’t get that personal feel of back and forth between interviewer and guest.

Plus, the relationship building aspect of having another professional come on your show and deliver their own value to your audience. You’re giving them an opportunity to increase the size of their own audience and in the long game that pays dividends.  I’ve had the opportunity to interview the likes of Mark Schaefer, Danny Brown and Marcus Sheridan just to name drop a few (and hopefully Ms. Ileane soon).

When I started the Content Warfare Podcast as format to explore how to win the battle for attention online, I honestly had no idea what to expect from the experience. I saw some of the elite content marketers joining the podcast bandwagon, names such as Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income, Mike Stelzner from Social Media Examiner and even Ms. Ileane and I saw power in the breadth and depth of information that they were able to deliver to a podcast. After eight months of podcasting, producing over 20 episodes, I can honestly say that creating the Content Warfare Podcast has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for my business.

The only real reason you have for not moving forward with a podcast is if you don’t believe you have the fortitude to stick with it for the long term.

But I know you do. I highly encourage you to look into Ms. Ileane and her Ms. Ileane Speaks as she is a content marketer at the top of her game. If you’d like to learn more about my show, you can find it at Content Warfare Podcast | Win the Battle for Attention Online

Thank you and good luck,

Ryan Hanley

Tagged as: content marketing, Content Warfare, Mike Stelzner of Social Media Examiner, Ms. Ileane Speaks Podcast, Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, Podcastting

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7 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Podcast

Podcasting is not for everyone. Despite the many experts, gurus, rockstars and ninjas within the content marketing space moving their voice to the podcast format, podcasting will NOT work for everyone.

I don’t want you to waste time creating iTunes podcasts if they’re not going to work…

…because it does take hard work to create podcasts.  Launching a successful podcast isn’t as easy to purchasing a domain name and hitting the one-click install button for WordPress. {Ms. Ileane shares the basics of “How to Make a Podcast” here}

Creating a successful blog doesn’t guarantee success in the podcast format either.

Podcasting is long-format content marketing, which means the audience expects you to dive deeper into your area of expertise.

Ms. Ileane does this well with her Ms. Ileane Speaks Podcast.

My own Content Warfare Podcast {view podcast episode index} addresses How to Win the Battle for Attention Online.

Both shows run 15, 30, even 45 minutes in length depending on the topic being addressed.

Here’s the deal, podcasting is not for everyone, so I outlined seven reasons you should NOT start podcasting. This serves as a guide to excuse yourself from moving into the podcast format of content marketing.

Podcasting allows you to dig deep into a topic. It also allows you to use words apply inflexion to certain words that delivers your message with a cadence that a text-based blog post is not able to do. Podcasting puts you on display as an expert. There is something about delivering your message in audio that adds a level of authority to what you’re saying.

See anybody can copy and paste thoughts from another blogger. But it takes a true authority, a true expert in an industry to deliver a podcast and talk for 30 minutes on a topic.

The psychology behind your audience applying authority to you from hearing you talk about a topic is incredible powerful.

Think about the amount time that the average person spends on your website. Go to your Google Analytics reports and look at the time spent on your website right now. It most likely is somewhere between 45 seconds and two minutes.

Contrast this with the fact that with the Content Warfare Podcast where the average show length is 30 minutes,  the average listener stays on the line for 24 minutes. In which form of content marketing do you think I am building a deeper relationship with my audience? The three minutes that my audience spends reading one of my blog posts or the 24 minutes that they spend listening to my podcast.

There are many people who are not interested in reading text-based blog posts. This is the built in podcast audience. These are people who want to consume the content you in audio and podcasts. Services like Stitcher, Blackberry, iTunes and Zune provide you with a way to reach a group of people who could become potential clients that you would never be able to reach with a text-based blog post.

Podcasting allows you to expand your audience and reach a whole new market of consumers.

As discussed above, people who come and listen to your podcast see you as an authority, consume your content for a long period of time and become deeply invested in you as a content creator.  This provides the ideal opportunity to create leads and sales. Podcast listeners interested in your product or service become very qualified leads as they’ll have listened to you for a long time and made up their mind to buy.

This is very different from the text-based funnels and squeeze pages used to capitalize on a consumers compulsion to buy.  Add in the fact that services such as iTunes and Stitcher and Zune and Blackberry have a built in audience that you’re not currently reaching and you have now increased the pool people who could potentially buy from you.

Whether you’re Shakespeare or John Grisham or just the average blogger there’s a decent chance that the people who read your text-based posts on a daily, weekly or monthly basis would be interested in consuming your content in a different form or fashion. Podcasting allows you to add variety to your content marketing strategy and subsequently a deeper relationship with your audience. Once people begin listening to the sound of your voice they will remember hearing the words in the way that you speak.

Depending on who’s figures you read there are somewhere in the vicinity of 156 million blogs between WordPress and Tumblr.

This number does not include all the blogs from other platforms like Blogger, Joomla, Drupal and HTML blogs.

There are only a couple hundred thousand podcasts.

So if you’re trying to stand out from the crowd… if you’re trying to have your voice heard above all the other voices online do you think you have a better chance of doing that with a simple text-based blog post or on a podcast where you only have a couple hundred thousand competitors?

One of my personal favorite features of the podcast format is interviewing other experts in the marketing industry.  You can certainly interview people using text-based posts as well, but it’s harder to get a feel for the guest with simple text.  The audience also doesn’t get that personal feel of back and forth between interviewer and guest.

Plus, the relationship building aspect of having another professional come on your podcast and deliver their own value to your audience. You’re giving them an opportunity to increase the size of their own audience and in the long game that pays dividends.  I’ve had the opportunity to interview the likes of Mark Schaefer, Danny Brown and Marcus Sheridan just to name drop a few (and hopefully Ms. Ileane soon).

When I started the Content Warfare Podcast as format to explore how to win the battle for attention online, I honestly had no idea what to expect from the experience. I saw some of the elite content marketers joining the podcast bandwagon, names such as Pat Flynn, Michael Stelzner and even Ms Ileane and I saw power in the breadth and depth of information that they were able to deliver to a podcast. After eight months of podcasting, producing over 20 episodes, I can honestly say that creating the Content Warfare Podcast has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for my business.

The only real reason you have for not moving forward with a podcast is if you don’t believe you have the fortitude to stick with it for the long term.

But I know you do. I highly encourage you to look into Ms. Ileane and her podcast as she is a content marketer at the top of her game. If you’d like to learn more about my podcast, you can do so here.

Thank you and good luck,

Ryan Hanley

Tagged as: content marketing, Podcastting

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How to get the funds to start my own photography business?

Advertise virtually anything here, with CPM banner ads, CPM email ads and CPC contextual links. You can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish.

Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC.

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which should i start( php OR asp.net)?

.NET is more object-oriented than PHP (so, in programming paradigm .NET is better), but if you are going to spread your web-application on your own web-farms you have to buy licenses for all machines with Windows Server. Nevertheless, with clouds coming up, these problem partially will be solved.

I agree.

PHP was more popular because every webhoster supported php (IMO the main reason is/was => it's free)

c# is OOP
php CAN but isn't required to be OOP, so it's IMO easier to learn it.

I learned c#, visual basic in the school and in my job, but i prefered php because forums became my hobby and i had to learn it.

Now i'm sticking with php because i'm much more familiar with it.
Sometimes i miss the good old days, because the .net framework has provide many great things (e.g. classes) which aren't available in php. You need to code it yourself or choose one of the many available frameworks.

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Lost my business looking for a fresh start

So i was exporting goods from Asia to Europe, but not long ago the business went to hell and it got shut down permanently. /end

I am now looking for a fresh start and i have no idea what to do, so if anyone have any tips please let me know. I dont expect to earn much in the start i just want something new to do that can later generate money.

The thing is i cannot do or use anything that includes Paypal. I had several visa cards and accounts and they all gotten blocked for no reason with quite much money on them (several hundered USD). So i am SICK of that company and i wont use it so i created a moneybookers account.

So i need suggestions what i can do to start up again, but remember i CANNOT use paypal to get paid.
This is an ad that I inserted!
Ive been thinking of getting into affiliate marketing for example as i still have my own registered company, but i dont know where to start and that goes for everything. The competition online today is so intense that starting now with pretty much nothing is very depressing and gives me no motivation because everything has been done 10.000 times.

So please give me some tips on how i can start making money again, my savings wont last forever...

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If You Lost Everything Today, Where Would You Start First?

TEN STEP PROCESS IF YOU'RE STARTING FROM SCRATCH

1- I would borrow $20 from any of my friends. if don't have friends then I'll write 10 articles on some hot topic and sell each article for minimum of $2 here at DP, and make $20.

2- Then I'll buy a domain name plus hosting.

3- Get an autoresponder account like free account at GetResponse, or $1 trial of aweber

4- Search on Google for a free PLR ebook related to my niche e.g internet marketing, and download it.

5- Then I'll download the free mind mapping software, and make a mind map of the important points given in that ebook.

6- Then I'll download the free CamStudio software and make a 15-30 minutes movie by explaining the mindmap.

7- Then I'll extract the audio from the video file in mp3 format.

8- Then I'll transcribe the audio file and make a pdf report.

9- Then search for free online ecover making sites and make ecover for the pdf report, dvd cover for the video and cd cover for the audio.

10- I'll install the wordpress on my domain and make a squeeze page and download page, and upload everything on to my site, and start promoting it in the forums related to my niche and build a list of at least 200-300 subscribers.

It'll only take you 3-4 days to accomplish everything as laid down in the above 10 steps. Later on when you have a 200-300 subscriber list you can do adswaps to grow your list and promote affiliate products or make your own product and sell to that list.

So this is the process i'll do if i lost everything and if i have to start from scratch.

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Need To Start A Website!

You've purchased an excellent domain for branding.

In a nutshell, there are two types of domain names you can buy. A keyword domain, where the name is related to what the website offers (search.com), or a branding domain name, where the domain name could mean anything, but is short, memorable, and unique (google.com).

What should you do with the domain name? If you don't have a product to sell, blogging is always a good idea.

If you plan on starting a blog, I recommend you use Wordpress. It is easy to setup and easy to maintain and if you ever want to sell the blog, most buyers want to acquire content compatible with a Wordpress database.

What should you blog about? If you want to be successful in the long run, pick a topic that interests you because that's the best way to avoid writers block

Once you picked your topic, find others writing about similar things. Then, try and come up with a unique angle/approach and go from there. Make friends with your competition, not enemies! If your content is unique, and you have a well branded name, the others writing about your topic might eventually link to your site.

The next step is to profit, make one hundred billion dollars, and give it all to me because it was my idea.

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Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam: Need to Start the Small Business Engines

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Historically, American small businesses have been strong engines for job creation. Since the Great Recession, those engines have either been turned off or idling.

We need to start those engines again if we want to get on the road to meaningful economic growth and recovery. Given the current attitude and the performance of the small business community over the past few years, however, that will not be an easy proposition. Two polls released recently reveal the extent of the problem.

The January Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index painted a more optimistic picture than its November Index which had been at the most pessimistic level in two years. As the Wells Fargo news release notes, "The latest Index improved 20 points to a positive 9 (+9 ... up from a negative 11 (-11)."

In contrast, the National Federation of Independent Business' (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index released in February was not as bright. The Index gained only 0.9 points rising to 88.9. And, according to the NFIB, "Expectations for improved business conditions increased by five points, but remain overwhelming low - negative 30 percent -- the fourth lowest reading in survey history."

Setting optimism aside, the more important data in each survey relates to job creation -- or the lack thereof. The NFIB survey states, "Actual job creation and job creation plans improved nominally, but still not enough to keep up with population." The Wells Fargo/Gallup survey reports, "More small business-owners say they let employees go than hired them on average over a new hiring index of -10 in January... This is similar to the -12 recorded in November, the -9 a year ago, and the -12 of January 2011, but up from the low of -27 in January 2010."

These negative job creation numbers tell the story behind the country's sluggish economic recovery. Small businesses represent about half of the private sector economy and more than 99 percent of all businesses. In its Small Business Economy 2012 report, the Small Business Administration (SBA) observes that "[w]hile the small business economy is growing, the effects of the most recent downturn are still being felt. The number of business births and their associated employment remain below pre-downturn levels and employment gains have been muted compared with previous downturns."

Citigroup research discloses that in spite of their problems small business still account for 60 percent of job creation in the United States. But that compares to 61 percent in the 10 years through 2007, 65 percent in the decade ending in 1997, and 77 percent in the decade ending in 1987.

As Catherine Rampell notes in her New York Times article, "Small Businesses Still Struggle, and That's Impeding a Recovery," there is a huge "gulf in optimism between large and small companies." That may be explained by the fact as Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB chief economist puts it, "While corporate profits are at record levels as a share of GDP, small businesses are still struggling to make a profit."

"Struggle" seems to be the operative word for the condition of small business today. Is there anything that can be done to help them in that struggle?

First, let's look at what has been done over the past four years. The 2009 stimulus package provided $730 million to the SBA for expanded lending to small businesses. The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 included a provision of $30 billion in low cost capital for smaller community banks. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 permits "crowdfunding" and use of the public capital markets for investing in emerging growth companies.

At the beginning of 2012, President Obama made Karen Mills, the Administrator of the SBA, a member of his cabinet, thus elevating the profile of the agency. During her tenure, Ms. Mills who has announced her departure from the SBA pending a replacement, turned the SBA around which according to Businessweek "had languished under the George W. Bush administration."

Under Ms. Mill's leadership, "the SBA supported more than $106 billion in lending to more than 193,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs, including two record years of delivering more than $30 billion in loan guarantees."

That brings us to 2013. Now, let's look at what should be done for small business going forward. First, do no harm. Second, do some good.

We would put the fiscal cliff and the sequestration in the "do no harm" category. The fiscal cliff bill was a mixed bag for small business. It had positive features such as an extension of the R&D tax credit, expensing of up to $500,000 in capital expenditures, and accelerated depreciation of qualified new equipment. On the other hand, as Scott Shane of entrepreneur.com comments "three of its major components discourage small business job creation: the end of the payroll tax holiday, higher marginal tax rates on the wealthy and the increase in capital gains tax rates."

The impending sequestration does not look like a mixed bag for small business. It looks like an unmitigated disaster placed on top of an already gloomy economic forecast. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) new budget outlook indicates that the U.S. economy is not expected to return to its full potential until 2017. The CBO also sees unemployment staying high for some time: at around 8 percent throughout 2013; declining to 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, and not getting down to 5.5 percent until the fourth quarter of 2018.

According to Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post, the CBO estimates that the sequester will "shave about 1.25 percentage points off economic growth this year to cost the nation about 1.5 million jobs." A White House press release states that "the automatic cuts triggered by a sequester would reduce loan guarantees to small businesses by up to $902 million."

At this point, it appears that the sequester will take place and harm will be done. So, the need will be to address its unintended consequences by doing some good. We recommend that the good be focused in two categories: entrepreneurial support; and small business assistance.

The Citigroup research disclosed that the key drivers of job growth are "entrepreneurism and the rapid growth of young firms." It goes on to recommend that "public policy should be geared more toward encouraging small business creation rather than to supporting the small business sector per se." We agree with the need to stimulate entrepreneurship but not to the exclusion of providing relief to the mom-and-pop small businesses who must contribute to the economic recovery by retaining and adding workers in a slow and steady manner.

As The Kauffman Foundation noted in a new report, the rate of entrepreneurship had begun to decline even before the Great Recession. That's bad news. But the good news is that there already significant public and private initiatives underway focused on supporting entrepreneurs.

These include: The Start Up America Partnership created by AOL co-founder Steve Case and The Kaufmann Foundation to provide technical assistance to early stage companies. The SBA's making "strategic investments that focus on increasing access to capital for high growth businesses, strengthening entrepreneurial skills training and building regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (through clusters and growth accelerators.)" The JOBS Act which will accelerate capital formation for start ups and emerging businesses. The need is to reinforce and intensify what is there.

The real question is what to do for the mainstream small businesses that are not growing today and are still threatened by a fragile economy. The surveys of these businesses consistently reveal concerns regarding taxation, regulation and the new health care legislation. They will also be the businesses most negatively affected by any decline in demand or consumption because of the ending of the payroll tax holiday In addition, as Bloomberg reports, these businesses are still having difficulties in securing loans and capital due to the consolidation of the banking industry and tightened lending standards.

These conditions suggest a long-term and short-term course of action. In the short-term, the Congress should pass legislation similar to the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act which would have given businesses tax credits for hiring new employees. In the long term, Congress should request a systematic and rigorous examination of each of the areas which appear to be problematic to determine their actual effect on the small business' bottom line and impact on job creation. This study should be used to develop bi-partisan legislation to create positive incentives and/or eliminate those provisions or practices that are retarding small business performance.

It's not well known but the fiscal cliff bill included a tax break for NASCAR "motor sports racing track facilities." That will ensure that the NASCAR drivers have safe speedways on which to start and run their engines. We need to give the same types of breaks to our nation's small businesses so they can restart their engines. When they do, the American economy will begin firing on all cylinders again.

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