I just found something that I had to tell you about right away.  It’s a complete system for EVERYONE to ma’ke mon’ey  online!

Now, before you go thinking this is “just more hype and BS” please hear me out…

Kathe and Denise (the Wacky Gals, as they’re fondly known) have just released a brand new 65 page report called “7 Steps to Online Income” and it really rocks!

It’s totally packed with solid information about ea’rning m’oney online, and it’s written in a way that even newbies can understand and ACT on.

And the best part – it’s FREE!

You heard me right – they’re giving it away!

But it gets even better…

It includes a “built-in” income opportunity unlike anything you’ve seen before.

In a nutshell, the only thing you have to do is send people to your affiliate link to sign up for the free report.  After that, Kathe and Denise take over and do all the “hard work.”

This system is designed to bring YOU hands-free, automatic income for YEARS to come.

Go grab your free copy and all the details on earning money with it now.

You really don’t want to pass this up. It’ll be the easiest mo’ney you’ll ever make.

To Your Success,

Shirley Grant

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I don’t know about you, but I spend way too much time searching for just the right theme for my blogs, and I end up changing them more often than I should.

On my expeditions to find the right theme, I have found 4 that look great, can be edited to suite most niches.  The themes are listed in no particular order.

Cutline

Out of the box, this theme is very plain, with header images.  It is very easy to change the header image to whatever suites your niche.

You can set it to have 2 or 3 columns, with the sidebars on both sides or on one side.

I am  currently using this theme on my GlendaleCrafts blog.

iNoereN

This is another theme that you can change the look of quite easily.  You can change the header image and the background graphic by overwritting the image.  Simply create an image the same size as the one used in the theme, save it with the same name, and upload.

I am currently using this theme on my MMEzine blog.

Flexibility 2

I really like this theme, and I would probably use it on more than one site, but I had some problems when trying to install it on some of my blogs.

This one comes with an Options page that you can access through your Blog Dashboard.  From the Options page, you can change all sorts of things, like the colour, layout, header and background images, and a great deal more.

This is the theme that is currently on this blog.

Arthemia

This is a great looking theme.  It is a magazine style theme and takes a bit of getting used to.  I am still in the process of getting my blog looking just right with it.

It may have more features than you want or need, but the website gives you a lot of information on how to set it up and get it running the way you want.

I am currently using this theme on my ShirleyAGrant blog.

All of these themes are free to use, although there is a couple of them that offer a premium version.  All work with Wordpress 2.7.1

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Building links with other bloggers is all about networking and being social. One of the easiest ways to do this is by utilizing trackbacks. Trackbacks are essentially remote comments on another’s blog, and are incredibly easy to set up. These comments are quick and easy to put into action, and allow you to build a network of relevant links in very little time.

To start putting trackbacks to work for you, search for “your keyword + trackbacks” (without quotes) in Google.
This will allow you to find all the blogs in your niche that are using your target keywords and have trackbacks turned on. The blogger must have trackbacks enabled to appear in this list.

Next, set up your trackback post. Write a short post in your Wordpress blog with a direct link to the post you’ve chosen to comment on. Link directly to the post you’re writing about, and make sure you’re making a relevant and insightful comment. The blogger you’re linking to must  approve the trackback before it goes live, so be sure that you’re providing high quality content that they’ll want to see on their blog.

Then use the permalink trackback field in Wordpress to add the URL of the post you’re commenting on. By filling in this field, you’re telling Wordpress to ping the owner of the other blog when your post is published. This is their cue to accept the trackback, publishing the content you’ve written on both of your sites.

Trackbacks are a win-win proposition for both parties involved. You gain a relevant backlink for your target keywords, and the blogger you’ve linked to gets a review of their post and a backlink, as well. This method can be extremely useful in your link building campaign. The key is to provide high quality, on topic content that both your readers and the other blogger’s readers can benefit from. Over time, the process
becomes easier and easier, and you’ll soon be able to turn out a high quality trackback post in no time at all.

Congratulations – you’ve added a new skill to your link building arsenal. Now you can begin putting the power of trackbacks to work for you! This quick and easy method will supercharge your link building efforts.

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Here is a short video on how to set up your Twitter account.

Feel free to follow me on Twitter once you have set up your account.:)

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My computer recently stopped working and I had to use my laptop instead for about a week.  I really didn’t think this would bother me too much and I would be able to do everything that I normally do without too much extra work.

Oh Boy, was I wrong!

Here is the software that I was lost without:-

RoboForm

Although I had backed up all of my login details from RoboForm, it was not the same as clicking a button in my browser toolbar.  Everytime I needed a password, I had to open a file and search for the relevant details.  This must have added a few extra minutes every time I logged in somewhere.

Smart Type Assistant

As an ezine publisher, every time I receive an ad from one of the ezine ad coops, I have to send the advertiser an email asking them to subscribe to my ezine.  Doing this by hand added about 30 minutes to the process.

With Smart Type Assistant, you add the email text once and then you can type a trigger word and the email text is entered for you.

HTML Editor

I thought that I would be happy using any html editor but this was not the case.  I currently use DreamWeaver, but I have used other ones in the past that I liked just as much.  The problem comes when you try to use one that you are not used to using.  This cost me a lot of time over the week.

TextPad

This program allows you to format articles and other text to a certain character width and is great for formating ezines and articles that have to be a certain width for email.

Without these tools, everything took me longer to do and was less enjoyable to do.

What tool/software/program would you be lost without?

Let me know!

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Affiliate marketing doesn’t require you to have your own website, deal with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. So as an affiliate, your only job is to get people to the merchants website.

Assuming you are already an affiliate, what would be the one thing you would would like to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to supercharge your affiliate program commissions overnight.

1. Recognise the best program and products to promote.

Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure, have products that fit in with your target audience, and that have a solid track record of paying their affiliates on time.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online so you don’t have to join the first one you come accross. You may want to take your time to find the right one.

2. Write reports or short ebooks that you can give away from your site.

You will be competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you write a short report related to the product you are promoting and give it away to your visitors you will become more memorable to your visitors as someone who gives them value, instead of just another affiliate trying to sell them something.

In your report, you could outline a problem that you overcame and how the product you are promoting helped you to do that.

As part of the process to download your report, have a page  with a form for your visitors to give you their email address in return for the report.

Once they have given you their email address they will be redirected to the download page and will receive your free report.

Your visitor will have a useful report and you will have  their email address and be able to send follow-ups to  remind them about the product you are promoting and other future products.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine.
If you are in regular contact with someone and offer them usefull information, they are more likely to follow your recommendations than someone who comes accross your ad.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.

3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants.

If  you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.

If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.

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I found myself in need of two twitter accounts. One for my Internet Marketing sites and one for my Craft blog. After trying a couple of them, here are my thoughts and the conclusion I have come to:-

Digsby

Digsby allows you to manage not only multiple Twitter accounts, but you can also add email and IM accounts as well as FaceBook, MySpace and LinkedIn.

If you use desktop apps for all of these programs seperatly, this is a great program that allows you to have them all in one place, and if you take the time to get to know the program, I think it would save you loads of time and energy, not to mention all the desktop apps that you could remove from your computer.

I didn’t like the fact that there were several other programs installed on your computer at the same time.  You would really need to take notice when installing this program so that you don’t install something that you don’t want.

Although I do use a lot of the programs that are included in this app, I feel that it became quite complicated the more you added to it.

SplitTweet

No download for this one.

You login to your SplitTweet account and you are presented with a webpage similar to Twitters.  The only difference is that your separate Twitter accounts are colour coded.

The page seems to refresh, but not very often, so you have to do it manually, and I found that I was missing a lot of tweets.

Out of the two programs, I think that SplitTweet is the better one if you just want to manage multiple Twitter accounts. There is no download, so you are not clogging up your computer and you can watch both accounts or just one at a time.

TweetDeck

Despite this, I have decided that I am going to stick to using TweetDeck for my IM Twitter account and I will login to use my Crafting one.

TweetDeck is an app that is installed on your computer and updates every minute.  You can filter tweets and you can veiw tweets, replys and Direct Messages.  You can also veiw profiles, follow and unfollow people and much more.

So, after all my downloading and testing, I still haven’t found the program that will work for me and I will keep looking.

If you have found an app that manages multiple Twitter accounts, that is easy to use and isn’t a massive download, let me know by leaving a comment.

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