James Artre's Internet Marketing Blog

Have you ever been called a workaholic or a Type A personality? If you have been called this more than once, you may want to do a careful self-analysis. This personality type can actually be quite dangerous for your health and well being.

Type A individuals are typically described as impatient, time-conscious, concerned about their status, highly competitive, ambitious, business-like, aggressive, and having difficulty relaxing. They are sometimes disliked. In addition, they are addicted to stress.

Take a look at the following questions and answer them honestly.

When you decide to make money blogging, you will discover that there are many options available to you.  The truth is, that no matter what kind of blogging you do, whether you want to write about dogs, frogs, the rain in Spain or arthritis pain, there is money to be made blogging!  Because of the research capabilities of search engines like Google, Yahoo and others, there are thousands of people online who are searching for quality blog  content and content-rich material.

So you have a list of subscribers and now it’s time to launch your newsletter. Your goal…to make money, right? How do you accomplish that with a newsletter? Here are five ways to create a moneymaking newsletter.

1. Sell ad space. In addition to selling advertisement space on your website, you can sell ad space on your newsletter. In fact, if you have a high circulation, lots of subscribers, then many businesses will likely be more interested in buying ad space in your newsletter than on your website.

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of research concerning Private Label Rights (PLR) content.  Earlier in my online career, I used to think that PLR was simply for lazy people who didn’t want to do their own writing, or content and product development. But as I learned more over the years, I began to understand how crucial PLR content can play in the success of your online business.

As an internet entrepreneur you know the value of content. It boosts search engine results and thus drives traffic to your website. It provides a benefit to your visitor and keeps them on your website reading content and diving further into the depths of your site – hopefully to your product page. It also connects you to the reader in a personal way, forging a relationship that will hopefully be long-lasting.

Listen, every affiliate marketer looks for the Niche that gives the biggest paycheck, right?  I know I do!

Many times, however, affiliate marketers believe that success is some magic formula that is readily available to them.  Unfortunately, it’s a little more complicated than that.

Affiliate marketing success, is simply a matter of  good marketing practices that have been proven over the years, plus hard work and dedication to your craft.

However,  there are several tactics that have worked before with online marketing and continues to work as well in today’s market.  With the following top marketing checklist, you’ll be able to increase your sales and make serious money in affiliate marketing, now and in the future!

What are these tactics?

Sales copy has a single purpose, to motivate the reader to take action. That action could be to make a purchase, though it may also be to motivate an inquiry, to inspire a click-through or to generate a subscriber. Regardless of the ultimate goal, using emotions to motivate action is a great way to increase your conversion rate.

We buy for emotional reasons, plain and simple. We justify our purchase based on logic but the initial purchase is always triggered by emotions. We want to feel better, look better, be more respected, and a whole host of needs and desires. It’s your job when you’re writing your sales copy to tap into these needs and desires with emotional copy.

So your social website features are fumbling and gasping for air. No one is actively engaging anyone or anything and you’re not sure what to do. Don’t panic. With a little planning, patience and the right mindset, you can revive your “dead” or at least comatose social website back to success. Read on to find out how.

At some point in each of our lives, everyone has dreamed of being somebody special, or something more than they may currently be. After all, who among us hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the game winning homer? Or being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being wealthy, successful and happy in our relationships?

Most all of us dream big dreams and have great aspirations to achieve great things. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that – dreams. And our aspirations of “making it big!” end up as just a stagnant memory, collecting dust in the attics of our mind.

These self-defeating dream cycles, if not interrupted, can become

One day, many years ago when I was a young boy, my Grandmother told me a story of a lunch date she had with some of her closest friends.  ”Aunt Florene”, as we called her growing up, although I don’t think we were actually related, was a sturdy built “blue-haired” woman of about 80 years old; a friend of my Grandmother’s from the Bomber Plant where they worked together here in Fort Worth during WWII was also at the luncheon.