I have been working very hard to stay on track with my Affiliate of the Month promotion plan. I have already implemented the following promotional methods: online classifieds, email marketing, forums, squidoo, traffic exchanges, banners, and some social bookmarking. I had THREE of my links on the first page of Google last week – my squidoo page, a PPC click on the top sponsor box, and my craigslist ad. Although I haven’t been able to keep up with the article marketing goal I set, I still feel that I have given this promotion a strong push thus far. All the tracking I have done confirms that I am getting traffic from all these sources… so, I am disappointed to report I haven’t made even one sale yet! Honestly, not only am I disappointed to report that… I am perplexed by it.

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If you’re in the United States, April 15th is a date synonymous with “tax time”. Those who anticipate a refund have usually filed their taxes well before this ominous deadline. Those who dread that they might have to pay often wait till the very last minute… I fell into the last group.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when filing my taxes this year since I started my home business last year. Filing with all this new home business information was uncharted territory for me. But, I kept careful records, printed every receipt, and filed everything away by date. My accountant was my hero today when she told me that not only did I not owe the IRS, but I actually got some money back! I was relieved beyond words!

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My Affiliate of the Month campaign is off to a running start! I just did a search on Google for the term ‘Affiliate of the Month’ and my Squidoo lense is #4 on the 1st page of Google! Woo hoo! This is great news as I will undoubtedly benefit from some organic traffic because of this.

Squidoo is part of the Web 2.0 craze that has taken the net by Storm. It’s especially powerful for Internet marketers because this particular social network allows you to openly advertise (unlike MySpace) and Squidoo has a high page rank with Google. So, you can market your products and/or opportunities using a little “parasite SEO” and get ranked on Google rather quickly. Pretty cool, right? If you would like to learn more about how to make the most of Squidoo, check out Squidoo Secrets – it’s free!

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Planning is one of the most important things you can do when you are building your business or beginning a new advertising or marketing campaign. The importance of having a strategic marketing plan is emphasized in the Affiliate of the Month training (module 2). Ewen explains exactly how an agressive advertising matrix strategy can be used to create a successful campaign and even give you an edge over your competition.

All of this comes together in what he calls the “fixed affiliate promotion plan”. I touched on this in my last post… you remember… the one that sent me into a meltdown last Thursday night. I’ve got it together again, no worries. After getting myself back into the right mindset on Friday, I looked at the sample promotion plan again with a fresh pair of eyes. Not as bad as I originally thought! True, the sample Ewen provides does include a lot of work, but that is what the building of any business requires. Once I truly disected it, I realized that other than the actual number of articles it called for to be written, it really wasn’t too much more than what I had already been doing.

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I had a bit of a meltdown last night. Wait… let me back up and explain. I have been working very hard for the last several months building my online business. It is incredibly time consuming and damn near exhausting for someone like me – a mother of two also working a full time job! So, when track season (my daughter’s sport of choice) and my son’s recent bought of pneumonia hit me like a ton of bricks last month something had to give… of course, it was not my kids. So, I have spent the last week or two trying to regain my momentum.

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