A Work at Home Marketer’s Work Day

As a work from home marketer I get to enjoy a lot more freedom than I did working for others. However don’t let that make you think I don’t work hard for my income.

My experience started out a bit shaky but I eventually learned what it takes to be a work from home marketer and is so worth the time it took to learn.

My Daily Commute Is Shorter Now

For a long time I’ve dreamed of working from my home and making a living at it. Now it’s become a reality and the short commute to the office is so cool.

I get up really early, the middle of the night for most people, and never liked waiting hours before I could go to work. Now I can get up a 4am and pretty much go straight to work. It’s nice to have my day done by noon most days.

I don’t use an alarm. I just get up when I wake up and that’s always early and then it’s off to the office to turn on my computer and next the kitchen to start my first coffee of the day. Then I hit the bathroom to freshen up and I’m ready for the day.

First Let’s Dump The Email Spam

Even though I wake up without an alarm I am still a little dopey for a while so this is a good time to get rid of the spam in my email box. It gives me a little time to wake my brain up enough to really start working.

It doesn’t usually take long as my email software kicks most of the trash to the curb. Next I can get to the real email. Just this morning I received 4 guest blog posts for two different niches and 2 other requests from people wanting to guest blog on one of my other niche blogs.

Guest bloggers make my life so much easier today as I have more than a dozen blogs to provide content for.

I Review Each Guest Blog Post

Each guest post is saved in a temp folder so I can come back to them once I have finished with my email checking. Once I have them all saved I check each on to make sure it meets the rules I have set for guest bloggers.

I don’t accept all guest articles as not all follow the rules. Maybe they don’t think I am going to check them but I do and they get rejected.

Some are bad and get rejected but for those that write quality articles and yet make a mistake somewhere, well they always get a second chance with me. Just not the spammers.

It’s usually about this time I head to the kitchen for another cup of java.

I Schedule Publishing Guest Posts

What’s really great about guest articles or posts is that I don’t publish them all at once. I like to have a single post per day or every other day and schedule posts so that the show up exactly when I want them to, even when I’m off fishing with a buddy.

Publish To Article Directories With PR

EzineArticles.com is one of my favourite article directories and is where I publish first. Why, well EA has the toughest guidelines and won’t mess with any duplicate content. So I publish there first, wait for approval, which can take a few day if you’re new there but it’s quick for me.

After I get the email telling me it was accepted I take the article and spin it using The Best Spinner. This makes a few extra articles I can then use for the other article directories which are less strict.

Relevant Blog Commenting

Don’t overlook blog commenting as it can send you a lot of relevant traffic. There are a couple of commenting tips that will help you get your comment accepted.

1. I don’t just leave a generic comment like so many I reject each day. Instead take a few minutes, read the article and then add a comment that adds some extra value to their article. This will usually get the attention of the blog owner. Especially if they moderate their comments like I do.

2. Don’t know enough yet to leave a value added comment, not to worry. You can read the article and then come up with a real question that will help you learn more. People are usually eager to help as it makes them look good and you may go to their site as well.

Note: Be the first to comment. This will mean most people reading the article will see your comment. If you are commenter 27 they may not even see your comment. To make this easier I use Google Feed Reader or Bloglines to monitor the blog feeds I want to comment on. Feed readers are great time savers.

Need More Content Hire A Writer

There may be times you will not be able to come up with all the content you want. I am always looking for more content so I can publish articles all over the place with links back to my money pages. The thing is I need unique content and rewriting isn’t always an option.

Just a few months ago I learned about iwriter.com where I could request articles for the writers there.  The cost was very affordable which kind of led me to thinking maybe it sucked but my concerns quickly faded away.

An example: Just yesterday I made a request for 3 different articles at 500 words each. They were completed, checked through CopyScape for uniqueness and I was notified they were ready for approval. Today they are already scheduled to appear on my blogs.

I kept one of the articles to use as my original for spinning a bunch more in The Best Spinner software.

PageRank Building

Just two weeks ago I got an email from a blogging friend telling me about BuildMyRank.com. She told me it was a great place to publish articles to build my rankings. It wasn’t free like some of the place I’ve used that got me zero results but they do have a 15 day trial and I would have 10 links.

Of course I signed up and started using the system immediately using up my free links in no time. My articles we picked up and published quickly and indexed in a couple of days. That info is available for tracking purposes.

I wrote 4 articles and used iwriter.com for two more articles covering 5 of my niche domains.

The articles are only published once so no duplicate content floating around. My articles got published on a PR4, PR3 and PR2 sites. I don’t have any free links left but I am certainly convinced it’s a good place to be a member and made the commitment to a monthly membership.

And that brings an end to this article, hope it helps you reach new heights. If so let me know by leaving a comment. Maybe you are even a possible guest blogger.

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dog trick high fiveFor those who have the desire to create a blog that will earn cash you need to have a specific keyword focus to your articles. Fresh distinctive or unique content today isn’t really an option, it is a requirement. This is in part due to greater expectations from search engines like Google but also from humans like you and me.

Know that each of your articles has to earn money meaning it’s worth your time and effort to optimize those articles for your traffic. If you haven’t been doing this you need to start today and even return to published articles and optimize those as well.

What I Do To Come Up With Quality Content

1. I Write Down All My Ideas

For the longest time I would get ideas that would just come and go. If I didn’t write them down I may never think of them again. Eventually I started carrying a pad and pen with me so I could write those money making ideas down for future use.

I go for long walks for health reasons. It’s great and my mind can be free to wander. This is the time I get answers to different questions I’ve had and if I don’t write them down it’s unlikely I will still remember them when I return home. So I write them down, immediately. I carried a small recorder for a while but felt kind of weird talking into it while walking.

2. Niche Focused Magazines For Ideas

Magazines are one of my best methods for coming up with fresh ideas for my blogs. I make a list of my niches and give them to family members as suggestions for Christmas and birthdays, so when I am hurting for an article I can open one of my magazines and refresh my mind.

I am not suggesting you copy the content, that would be very wrong but there is nothing wrong with using them to trigger ideas of your own. Put things in your own words and mix it up a bit so that you have unique but keyword focused content.

3. Take Part In Niche Forums

The forums that exist within your niche can be a great help and full of ideas you can spin into your own content that’s still yours and unique. But Be Forewarned as forums can be really addictive and a lot of time gets wasted just chatting and hanging around.

Get in, get out and get publishing. You can visit the forums again when your work for the day is complete. I used to spend some late nights on forums where I worked during the day and then returned to chat and goof off all night.

The ideas listed above are great ways to come up with ideas for content and should keep your readers happy for a long time. But I have multiple blogs with the same niche focus and don’t like using duplicate content.

Google does care much for duplicate content either so I need to come up with even more content but instead of working night and day to get that content I put my article spinner, The Best Spinner, to good use spinning content for my sites while keeping unique.

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Guest Blog Post by: Work From Home Moncton

work from home monctonNot every one has a product to sell online. I am one of those work from home online marketers who has no products of their own but I don’t mind at all because it doesn’t mean I don’t have products to promote and sell.

It’s great to have an opportunity to sell other people’s products as it means I can go into a whole lot more niches as I can join affiliate networks and promote other people’s products. All I have to do is learn about them and promote them on my blogs.

Affiliate Products To Promote

Today you’ll find affiliate marketing has limitless potential as there are so many products and services one can choose from. Selling affiliate products all day long for the rest of your life and you’d still never come close to selling all the products available.

One of my favourite niches is the home gardening niche as it’s a great way to save money and if you choose to blog about it you have a way to make money blogging. The garden niche is so big that it has many sub niches meaning you will find unlimited products to promote and sell.

Digital Affiliate Products

I use the Clickbank marketplace to find and promote gardening related digital products called ebooks, which are books in digital form so you can read them on your laptop, computer or ipad or Kindle.

You will find other affiliate programs for digital products other than just at Clickbank. You might want to look at PayDotCom.com and eJunkie.com too.

You need to learn all you can about affiliate marketing and Clickbank is the place to look. It was there that I found the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner and my online business life started making money. Rosalind Gardner is the go to person for all things affiliate marketing.

Non Digital Affiliate Products

Of course all products are not digital so I went looking for other affiliate networks that have physical products I can promote.

There are so many affiliate networks I have joined but my top sales come from just a few I have listed below:

Commission Junction, LinkShare Affiliate and ShareASale Network

Those are just a few affiliate networks I use and they carry a lot more than just garden related affiliate programs. I use a lot of the same affiliate networks for my other niches like fishing and acoustic guitar.

Super Affiliate HandbookI really doesn’t matter what you niche is there will be an affiliate program you could make money with, unless you pick a niche that is so out there that there is little to choose from but for the normal things there are often multiple programs to choose from.

Just as a reminder, it took Rosalind’s Super Affiliate Handbook to get me on the right path to making money with affiliate marketing on my blogs.

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5 Work From Home Blog Writing Tips

stay focusedI work from home where I write a lot of articles for my blogs but today I have a few more blogs than I can write for so I look for articles on article networks. I don’t care to use the article directories to find articles any longer as I try my best to avoid duplicate content and go for content that has been spun into a unique article. As long as it’s worthy and that takes some doing these days.

Sadly many authors and blog owners only care about getting content out there pointing back to their web pages and will allow quality to suffer to achieve quantity. I don’t accept those kinds of articles where keywords no longer exist and words have been replaced with other words that don’t fit the context, so many ways to screw up an article and they manage to find them all.

So what do I look for on the article networks I use? Here is a short list of things that are easy to do and can make an article that gets rejected into one that’s readily accepted.

  1. Sentences And Paragraphs Should Be Short And To The Point. I go for short sentences and paragraphs with a couple or three sentences each. Short and to the point works for me.
  2. Bullets and Numbers Make Articles Easy To Scan. When I look at an article that contains bullets or numbers I give it a bonus point because using them allow your readers to scan your content for what they desire.
  3. Talk In Word I Understand. I am not a highly educated man and when I find an article that I can’t make sense of or have to get my dictionary out I get a little defensive I guess and usually reject the article. Don’t talk over my head.
  4. Please Take Time To Check Your Spelling And Grammar. I don’t always get it right, a few typos can slip through and my grammar isn’t always the best but I at least try. Too many articles today on the article networks are just too poorly written to accept, mostly due to typing errors and very bad grammar.
  5. Articles Need To Be Keyworded And Catchy. When I look through the titles for articles to accept or reject I instantly check the ones with BAD titles. The title is almost the most important part of your article. It’s what the search engines show in the search results. If it sucks it’s not likely to get accepted.

Article marketing is simple, until you start using article spinner incorrectly, leaving you with a bunch of low quality articles, when, with a little effort you could have had lots of quality keyworded articles people love to accept.

I do a lot of article spinning and still manage to have quality and keyworded articles. I use The Best Spinner to spin my content, however I don’t automate the process and pick each word and phrase replacement manually.

I have found it much tougher over the past year to find quality articles on these article networks and had to step back to look at the time I am spending there looking through articles. Recently I found a site, called iWriter.com where I can pay low amounts to have people write content for me specifically.

Most of the time I get quality because if I don’t I reject the article and the author doesn’t get paid, so it’s definitely to their advantage to produce quality. I can also reject and ignore authors that don’t meet my expectations. I have actually found a few authors I request in some of my niches because they do such a great job.

Like I said it’s at iWriter.com and I have been happy with the results I get there, so head over and see for yourself.

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thebestspinner-box-2Are you a skilled enough writer that you can continually create unique articles that are still high quality articles day after day? If you can my hat is off to because not many people can accomplish that task without help.

I would love to be a skilled writer like my copy writer friend Larry is, so as a work from home blogger I have to work hard at content creation for my blogs.

It’s now 2012 and I’ve got more than a dozen niche blogs to produce quality and unique content for, five days a week to keep them updated for my readers and of course for the search engines.

Is this sounding all too much like yourself, well not to fret because I found the answer to my content creation problem. It’s called The Best Spinner and I can spin dozens of articles from a single article. Just one article can give me a dozen or more unique articles for my SEO needs.

So if you find it tough to come up with the unique content for blogs you’re not alone. I spent a lot of time sifting through my thesaurus before The Best Spinner came along with it’s huge user generated database of synonyms.

Because I’m not a professional write I work very hard for the niche focused articles I write daily to write the 10 or 12 articles I need for my blogs every few days. I was getting stressed to say the least and even tried hiring a writer but it can be tough to get the writer I need so you have no idea how happy I was to learn about The Best Spinner, article spinning software.

Now I can spin content that’s unique without messing up the thought process and keyword focus, however it doesn’t happen by automating the process. I pick each word or phrase replacement using The Best Spinner much quicker than I could write a new article.

Use an article spinner like TBS to rewrite or spin new articles doesn’t just leave me with a single new article. Not at all, instead I have dozens of unique articles when I’m done that I can publish around the net pointing to my money pages.

I started my love affair with The Best Spinner using their 7 day trial for $7 and you can as well. The Best Spinner Trial Offer

While some use The Best Spinner to spin hundreds of articles from just one article I don’t. Instead I prefer to create just a few articles that are as close to 100% unique as I can, without destroying my thought process or keywords of course and that takes a little extra planning, but is so worth it.

Some Features of The Best Spinner

  • Massive user generated thesaurus
  • CopyScape support to check article uniqueness
  • Converts Spin Formats
  • Multiple nested spin levels with colour coding
  • Article rewrites can be sent to the clipboard
  • Full sentence rewriting, one of my favourite features
  • Able to create personal favourites for synonyms and word replacements
  • Supports multiple languages including French, Italian, German and Spanish

You can see that The Best Spinner is a perfect way to create a multitude of spun articles for your needs. So, take a few minutes and check this awesome article spinning software for yourself with the 7 days for just $7 trial offer.

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