Internet Marketing For Solopreneurs

As you may know, I am a big proponent of having multiple streams of income. I have diversified my own income streams - I do a lot of coaching/consulting, but I also have ebooks, audio recordings and teleseminars.

Why is it important to have multiple streams of income? Because if all of your income comes from coaching/consulting and working one on one with clients, your income is limited. There are just so many hours in a day, and they put a limit on the amount you earn. However, by creating multiple streams of income, and selling products, in addition to services, you can increase your profits, without increasing the time spent on generating them.
Ready for a new income stream for your solopreneurs business? I help other business owners add another income stream to their business. Many business owners have created a passive income stream by selling my products. They are earning money by inviting their colleagues and newsletter subscribers to my teleseminars, or posting information about my latest ebooks and programs.
Today and tomorrow you can earn money by inviting people to attend my Article Marketing for Profits Teleclass. You will earn 40% commissions on everyone you refer. Start earning - register for the Avocado Consulting Affiliate Program, it is free to sign up.

What should you do first - create a large newsletter list OR create a product that you can promote (ebook, report, etc)?

Why not do both? List building should be done every day - through your blog, articles, other marketing efforts.

But even if you complete a product, and your list is still small, you can lots of other things with your product:

- You can still sell it to your list
- You can start getting affiliates to promote it with you
- You can use parts of your product to create teleseminars, recordings and other products.

Biana Babinsky

P.S. Want to learn more about building your list and creating products? At MarketingSalad.com members learn how to create ebooks and recordings, sell their products and make more money online.

Hi, everyone

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Every month I pay money to my affiliates - these are people who are members of my free affiliate program and link to my products from their blogs and newsletters.

My affiliates receive free marketing help from me as well - tips, ideas and suggestions on the best way to promote my products.

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From the comments on the Passive Income Streams: Affiliate Revenue Post:

marketing Says: Some people have told me that when recommend a product with an affiliate link, it takes something from the recommendation. It’s like you are recommending it to earn money, instead of recommending it to benefit the recommendee. Thoughts?

Biana Babinsky Says: Yes, I have heard this argument. I think if you have used the product, and can recommend it, you can use your affiliate link to do so. After all, you are putting yourself/your business on the line, when you recommend something.

If it still bothers you, you can always offer a regular link to your product, as well as the affiliate link. I have seen this done on a few lists, and it seems to work well. Then it is up to the person asking for the recommendation which link to use.

What do YOU think?

Hi, everyone

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It is amazing how much more you can accomplish by teaming up with other business owners to help each other market. Here are just a few ways to do that:

- Affiliate marketing - recommend each other’s products to your blog readers and newsletter subscribers. Affiliate marketing is a gold mine when it comes to selling your products - make sure you utilize it in your business.

- Referral programs - use these programs to refer clients to non-competing business owners, and get clients referred to you.

- Bonus donations - do you need bonuses to give away with your upcoming e-book? Don’t spend the time on creating your bonuses in addition to e-book. Instead, ask others to contribute bonuses. This will save you time, and provide the additional
exposure for them - win-win situation.

There are many more ways to market together, and I will be discussing them during the Earn More Money Through Partnerships Teleseminar.

Register for the teleseminar at http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zventures for just $1.

What are your methods for shortening long affiliate URLs in e-mail and on message boards?

I always encourage my clients to Brand Themselves First, whenever they are online. Therefore, when they need to shorten a URL, I teach them how to do that using their own web sites.

There are lots of ways to do that. There are some more techy ways, such as using different PHP scripts, or .htaccess file. You can also use redirects in your HTML files to redirect a shorter URL to a longer one.

I want to emphasize that you should try to use your own domain for redirecting if you can. This will give you yet another time to brand yourself and your domain.

For example, here is one of my redirect links:

http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zcourse
(it links to Complete Step by Step Online Marketing Course)

Biana Babinsky

Many coaches, consultants and other solopreneurs that I know miss out on a very important income stream - earning money from affiliate programs. Quite a few people told me (and I agree with this) that they are in business to promote their business and their products, not someone else’s products, even if they get paid for every sale.

You are, of course, in business for yourself, so a lot of your time should be spend on promoting your brand, your business, your products and services. However, there are times when you are talking about, recommending, or even blogging about someone else’s products. And that would be a perfect time to use their affiliate program to earn affiliate revenue.

In the past few weeks I witnessed dozens of business owners blogging, e-mailing and recommending products, all without using their affiliate links. Here are just some of those situations:

- Recommending a Product on a Blog/Mailing List. If someone asks for a product recommendation, and you know of a product that they need, and can personally recommend it, why not recommend it with an affiliate link?

If you have a book to recommend, Amazon.com has an affiliate program that helps you link to any book on their web site - great option, and you earn money recommending books that you love.

- Cross Promotions And Join Ventures. Many of you participate in join ventures and cross promotions with other business owners. If you are recommending someone else’s web site or product, make sure you use their affiliate link to link to them. This way you will earn money for every sale without any extra efforts on your part, since you are already participating in the cross promotion.

- Using Other People’s Articles. Many business owners I know re-print articles from others’ web sites. If you re-print articles, check to see if the author allows you to replace a link in the Resource Box with your affiliate link, thus earning you money.

I encourage my affiliates to re-print my articles with their affiliate links, as this is a great way for my affiliates to earn more money.

Curious about earning more money with affiliate programs? Join Avocado Consulting Affiliate Program and check it out for yourself.