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If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I advocate setting up blogs and marketing them, and repeating the process until you make a good income.

It sounds simple, and it is, because blogs are wonderful marketing tools. Indeed, this blog is itself a marketing tool for my ebook of the same name, Blogging for Dollars.

Because the blogs-to-income process is simple, many new bloggers try to over-complicate things. Don’t do that. Just remember: blog + marketing, and you’ll do great.

Affiliate Marketing Diary has an interesting new case study - Trend Marketing Case Study - Overview: “This case study will be focusing on building a Blog from scratch and test the viability of Trend Marketing and see how quickly I can generate a decent amount of traffic to the site. By the way, if you are interested in learning Trend Marketing using strictly pay-per-click and see some case studies as well, you may want to check this out (this report costs $7, but it’s well worth it with over an hour of video).”

It’s a great series for you if you’re a new blogger, and also for more experienced bloggers who’ve been skimping on the basics.

Remember: keep it simple.

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If you’re affiliate blogging, beware some of the over-hyped sales letters out there. While the figures tossed around with abandon may be true, they may not be the whole truth. Profits quoted may be gross, rather than net. If you’re spending $5000 promoting a product in order to make $5500 for example, the net is $500.

While $500 net profit is great, not all promotions work. You may find that you’re spending $6500 to make $5500 on occasion. Remember you’re in sales: sometimes you get a great result, and sometimes you don’t.

AltrnativeSOHO is taking one of the latest “make money online” products and putting it through its paces.

In her first Challenge post, she says 20/20 Challenge: Day 1: “Only 35 pages into the 20/20 Manual, the truth is revealed about the $20,000 figure being gross income from the project. Of course, there are some other figures thrown around to offset it; Figures such as $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 and a few others for effect.”

I’ve added the blog to my RSS feed; if you’re interested in making money online, you should too.

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Whenever I visit Amazon.com, before I decide whether or not a book is for me, I read the reader reviews. I scour the Web for reviews of just about anything that I want to buy, and I’m sure that you do this too. Everyone does it. We hate to get caught out when we buy a product.

You can exploit this behavior for your affiliate blogs.

I have several affiliate blogs. I tend to create them in the heat of the moment, whenever I find something that I like, and when that something has an affiliate program. Then I forget about them.

So imagine my surprise when some of these create-post-and-forget blogs started producing regular sales. When I thought about it, that’s not surprising at all: enquiring minds want to know, and my blog reviews had come up when people were searching for product information.

If you’ve yet to create affiliate blogs, don’t hesitate. These little gems will continue producing sales for you long after you’ve created them.

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