A Busy Week: I Must Admit to You That I Am a Performing Musician
It’s going to be a busy day getting set up to sing at the club tonight (Jack’s Hideaway, Market Street Tavern in Galveston, TX). I’ve got to meet up with my accompanist pal and get some new jazz standards into our repertoire for a major gig on November 10th (Saturday, 8PM to Midnight at Selena’s Blue Room, also in Galveston, TX). More and more I’m wishing I had more time for music and affiliate marketing. That would of course mean ditching my part-time day job. So here’s how I’m going to do it – and how YOU can be an accomplice. Perhaps even quit your own day job by building a lucrative career as an affiliate marketer.
Two Projects In Need of Follow-Through
To re-evaluate last month’s two projects, I realize that I went overboard on some of the work while totally ignoring the most important parts of the Nichenomics methodology. I created two HubPage articles and two Squidoo lenses per niche instead of the required one. Yippee!!!
The problem was that I did not do the most important things necessary to complete the strategy: social posting and securing back links. Consequently, I got practically no traffic and made no sales. I won’t even imagine what my page rank looks like!
In doing this re-evaluation I see only one clear, sensible “next step”: Get Back On Track. I’ll look at the first month as Phase I of the project. I’m giving myself the three month’s at the end of 2007 to establish a monthly income of $5,000, remember? Just because I made absolutely no money in the first 30 days does not mean I can’t come up from behind and make a good showing in affiliate sales.
And just how do I plan to become the “Comeback Kid”? Well, I’ve been doing more research on getting back links and now have a better understanding of why I need them and how to get them. My initial reaction was to worry that it would take all day long going from forum to blog to social networking site name-dropping my blogs while being a conscientious citizen of the online community. But then I found a book by Yaro Starak called the Blog Profits Blueprint. The book is available for free, by the way. So go grab it now, and go for getting the additional .mp3 reading of the book. It’ll make following along with the illustrations a lot easier.
Anyway, Yaro outlines how to go about gathering up back links. Actually, the way he explains it, you’d be silly not to think you could grab 10 back links a day consistently. You’d be considered disorganized and lazy if you did not take action to do this daily task to keep your blog and your affiliate income alive.
Shaming time is over. Now, let’s get to work!
