A few years ago a gentleman came to me in total frustration. He had bought every marketing product under the sun and was still not making any money.

As soon as I heard the words come out of his mouth… “Liz, I’ve bought everything, but I’m not making money”. I basically knew what his problem was.

He had bought so much stuff, but wasn’t doing anything with it. He had information overload in the worst way.

So I got on the phone with him and asked him a few questions…

What are your hobbies?
What do people say you’re good at?
What are your favorite things to do?

Basically he said he had no hobbies, and never did anything. All he wanted to do was make money online to be able to quit his job and travel.

Well it turns out, one of his hobbies was traveling, his favorite thing to do was travel, and people loved the pictures he took when he traveled.

If you don’t see where this is going yet, just wait.

With that one statement, I had an entire plan created in my head for this man.

I told him he needed to start a blog. Blog about all of his travels and post all his pictures on it. For a few weeks he did this, and absolutely loved it. He had placed some Adsense ads on his blog as I had told him to do, and had started making a few bucks a day.

Not enough to get him to the quitting his job level, but he actually made his first money online ever, and he had been trying for over 4 years.

So after I taught him blogging, the correct way to do it, and had him making money, we talked about creating products for the travel niche. He wanted no part of that. At the time anyway…

So I talked him into promoting products as an affiliate he agreed, and we went to work creating an affiliate marketing plan for him.

He built (I should say paid to have built) 5 additional websites promoting 5 different products. These were simple squeeze pages, that got people to give up their name and email address in return for a free offer. They were hooked to an autoresponders that had promotional email messages and content promoting different affiliate products

He took the Adsense ads off his blog and replaced them with ads for his squeeze pages. Almost instantly instead of getting money for Adsense clicks, he started getting subscribers to his optin pages which turned into affiliate sales.

He was now making more money than with Adsense…

Next we created an advertising plan for the 5 squeeze pages.

He stuck to this plan and worked on it each day for a few hours.

Within 2 months this man was making double what he had with his job. 4 months later he quit his job.

He now travels, blogs about those travels, and makes an awesome income as an affiliate marketer.

He pays me $497 a month religiously because of the success he has had with me, and we still talk 4-6 times a month.

Over the last several months, we have been talking about product creation. Now at first he was dead set against it because he hates to write, and has no other skills to create any other type of products.

I’ve now taught him about outsourcing product creation, and his first product is due out in November of 2008. It’s a product all about getting paid to travel.

So basically, this guy went from buying everything, and not making money to living the lifestyle he wants and making even more money.

That’s what a coach can do for you.

If you’re willing to listen, do what you’re told, and learn, then a coach can save you a ton of money and at the same time get you to the money making level you want to be at.

If you’re looking for one-on-one Internet marketing coaching, I have just opened up a coaching program at www.MarketingForREALPeople.com

If you’re serious about success, sign up, and let me help you get started today!

Liz

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My Category Order - Allows you to list your blog categories in any order that you want.

Askimet - When you install WordPress this is automatically installed. You just have to activate it. This thing is a must have as it catches the SPAM you have to deal with on your blog.

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Google Sitemap Plugin - The Google Sitemap Plugin automagically pings Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search at regular intervals, notifying them of new content and/or changes to your site. You literally don’t have to do anything in order to make it “work.”

All In One SEO Pack - I only get about 20% of my traffic from the search engines, so I do little with SEO. However this plugin allows me to do what little I do VERY quickly and easily. Another must have!

Subscribe To Comments - When someone leaves a comment giving them the option to subscribe to it will get them back to your site. Recycling traffic is a VERY good thing. You’ll get a return visitor to do more for you than you will a new one!

This post will be continually updated….

Each time I create a new video related to affiliate marketing, I’ll post it here for you.

Residual income is simply income that you get started (maybe by promoting a membership site, a network marketing program, or something you own that pays you monthly), and work very little to keep coming in.

Now don’t let the word residual income scare you. You can easily create this kind of income simply by educating yourself a bit, using the right tools, and having a guide that will help you.

This article will act as your guide, so let’s dive in right now…

To get started, you will need to know how you want to make your money. That simply means finding a program that you can promote that will pay you a monthly commission. You can also create your own programs or websites that will pay you a monthly fee.

Once you’ve decided how you want to earn your money, you’ll then need to create a plan to promote what you’ve decided on.

So let’s say that you are promoting a network marketing company that pays you $50 for every person you signup, and $10 for every person that buys the product that network marketing company owns.

Your job would be to create a plan to advertise the opportunity. That way for every person you signup, you get paid $50.

You would then need to create a plan to advertise the product also, so that you would be paid $10 for every person who buys the product.

So in simple English here, you find the opportunity you want to get paid by, and then advertise it, so you get paid.

My advice to you with what you’ve learned here, is to find experts who specialize in teaching people to create residual incomes. You can do this very easily.

Simply go to your favorite search engine, and search using the term “create residual income”. You’ll find many people with websites, newsletters, and blogs all specializing on this topic.

Simply grab a notebook, educate yourself, and take notes. Then use your notes to take action.

Whatever you do, just realize that creating a residual income is the answer to working less and still making a lot of money. This should be at the top of your “to do” list to get your finances where you want them this year!

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Enjoy!

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For instance, if you are in direct sales, you make money by selling products and recruiting people. Instead of spending your time answering emails, creating newsletters for your team and customers, or posting recruitment ads online, you could hire a virtual assistant to do those things for you. You will be able to take the time you would normally spend on those tasks and use that time to book extra parties.

If you are an internet marketer who creates and sells information products, a virtual assistant can handle administrative tasks such as distributing articles and press releases, answering emails, and researching new topics. You can hire a ghostwriter to write your articles, special reports, etc. This will allow you more time to market and sell your product.

If you feel as though you cannot afford to outsource, there are actually many ways to do so on a budget. You can start outsourcing one or two tasks a month; you can add to this number as your profits grow and you can afford to outsource more tasks.

You can also trade your products or services in lieu of payment. For example, if you specialize in designing graphics, you can offer to design a logo instead of sending cash payment. If you are in direct sales, offer to exchange something from your catalog. You may find a writer or virtual assistant who would be willing to make that trade.

Finding someone to outsource your work to is very easy. If you belong to a message board or forum that is business focused, you can ask other members that you know and respect for referrals. Some of the members that you know may be service providers, themselves.

You can also visit sites such as www.elance.com or www.guru.com and post a job opening for free. The site’s members can communicate with you through a messenger system and bid on your job. If you do list your job, you are not obligated to hire anyone. You can also post your job opening through a service such as www.craigslist.org.

Whichever way you go about posting your job, you will want to interview several candidates before you hire anyone. This can be done via email or phone. You should ask for referrals from others they have worked for in the past and to see samples of their work. Make sure they have a clear understanding of the project you want completed; both of you should understand the price that you will pay and when the project is due.

When this day comes, a swipe file can be a real lifesaver. A “swipe file” is a collection of writings that you can go to for inspiration. Please note it is not a collection of work that you copy or plagiarize. There is a big difference! A swipe file is there just to help out in case you get stuck in the creative process.

A big part of the learning process is to mimic what others have already done. As you are reading magazines, newspapers, email, blogs, and web copy, start making mental notes of what catches your attention. What are the things about the writer’s style? Take notice of the fonts, colors, and graphics that were used. You can clip the tangible pieces and save them in a manila folder. And you can create a virtual folder on your computer desktop for the digital items you liked. This is your swipe file.

It does not matter what business these clippings are for. The only thing that matters is that you are in some way inspired by them. If you have a business targeted to mothers with children and you see an ad for basketball jerseys that you like, save it. You can take the things you liked about the ad, article, blog post, etc., and adapt it to fit your business.

Creating your swipe file may be the hardest part because using it is quite easy. For example, let’s say that you recently created an information product that explains how to make homemade gifts. If you find yourself sitting at the computer and trying to come up with an idea for the sales letter, take a look at your swipe file.

Perhaps you had saved an ad for a men’s watch company. Maybe the headline read something like, “It’s Time To Make A Statement.” And perhaps the ad had a graphic centered just below the heading in a way that you found very attractive.

You can adapt those things for your own product. Since the above example is for an information product about homemade gifts, perhaps you can use a heading such as “Avoid The Mall Rush – It’s Time To Get Started Now”, and you can place a graphic of a present or other holiday symbol in the same way that the graphic in the ad was placed.

As you can see, you are not plagiarizing anything that the original author wrote. You are simply taking something you liked and adding your own spin to it. A swipe file is something every writer should have, as they can save you lots of time and frustration.