The Affiliate Marketing Simplified Podcast

Pinterest0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 0Shares Before we get onto today’s episode, I wanted to let you all know about a few changes that I am making to this show here. As per all the requests and suggestions that I received, we are moving to a weekly frequency from the next episode onwards. We are also changing the day on which we telecast the show from a Sunday to a Wednesday. So The DKSpeaks Podcast will now be available on all Wednesdays. This would mean that the next episode will be telecast on the Wednesday of the next week. I hope you all like these changes. Feel free to write to me about your thoughts, comments, suggestions and feedbacks. With that said, let us get onto today’s Episode of THE DKSpeaks Podcast. Today’s topic is – Making Money with Fiverr: Why FIVERR Could Be Your Best Option to Start Making Money Online? FIVERR has had its share of controversies with a lot of people complaining about the quality of services being offered there. You can call it the $5 value and would proudly justify it with the quote, “what you get is what you pay for”. But if that true? With markets becoming more of a buyers market and every Tom, Dick and Harry opening up an online service, the buyer always has an option of deciding where to buy from. And if you really think, $5.00 is not enough to get value for then you might just want to look for a better place for a better service. But FIVERR is not all that bad. Just as in the case of any other product or, service you are bound to find some bad ones and have some bad experiences as well. But you will be able to avoid all of this if you can spend some time and do your due diligence. There are tons of reviews for most of the sellers on FIVERR. And FIVERR sellers thrive on this reputation. Also keep in mind that these reviews and feedback are from genuine buyers. So there is no reason why it will be biased or, ingenuine. FIVERR has a lot of extremely good quality sellers and if you are ready to spend some time finding them, you can get some nice services done for a fraction of what it would cost you elsewhere. A couple of years ago, I first recommended FIVERR as a seller to my young brother. He was battling with unemployment. What worse could somebody go through than losing a job that was paying extremely well and that too unexpectedly. A dearth of good jobs, thanks to the IT recession added to his woes. His expertise was in graphics designing. He had a nice eye for colors and designs and was exceptionally talented. I found that designers were doing very good on FIVERR and there was a lot of demand for infographics. I recommended him to start a gig there for infographic creation. Until then I used FIVERR as a buyer only. He took my advice and setup a gig for infographic creation. He did not have to wait long. He got his first order on the 2nd day. And that was just the beginning. In just about 15 days he was buried deep into orders. There were more than 30 orders pending. The first month he earned about $600. That was big money for somebody who had just lost his job. He continued with his FIVERR gig for about 4 months. And by then he had realized the power of freelancing and being self-employed. Today he does freelancing for multiple high value clients and runs his own business. Why am I telling you this story? If you are struggling with making money, then FIVERR could just be the place which can help you with the push required. Making Money with Fiverr is not that difficult and it could help you get started with your Internet Marketing business. There are numerous sellers on FIVERR who rely solely on the income they generate from FIVERR. And that should be enough to tell you the kind of money you can make selling $5 gigs. So how you do start and How will you be able to stand out from the cro...

Pinterest18 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 18Shares In the last post we discussed about creating a reader profile for your blog. A reader profile primarily identifies your readers so that you can write for them. At the same time, the reader profile also gives you another very critical information which is one of the pre-requisite to creating a lead magnet. In this post we will discuss about how to create a lead magnet for your blog. If you would like to skip this post and go to the Show Notes and Resources, you can do so by clicking the below links. * Show Notes* Resources Before we dive into that specific critical information that the reader profile provides, which can help us in creating our lead magnets, let us first understand what a lead magnet is. This is what Digital Marketer says about a “Lead Magnet” – Lead Magnet — noun — an irresistible bribe offering a specific chunk of value to a prospect in exchange for their contact information. In simple terms, a lead magnet refers to a specific thing, tangible or, intangible that you are offering anybody who enters their contact information (email address, to be specific) on your website or, blog. If you have browsed through the internet, I am sure you would have come across some or, the other type of a lead magnet. Because pretty much every website out there welcomes you with a pop-up asking you to enter your email address. And in return, they will offer you something like an ebook, a discount coupon, a trial access etc. Since the topic of our discussion is our blog, the lead magnets that we will be talking about in this post will be very specific to our blog and the niche that we are covering. Also it will be about something that your audience is seeking more information about. And this is the critical information that your reader profile will give you and which I was talking about a little while back.. Now another thing that we need to keep in mind is that something like a discount coupon will not and in fact, will never work as a lead magnet on a blog. Why? Because your blog is not about selling something. And the people coming over to your blog is not there to buy something. They are there on your blog for information. That makes the obvious point on what is it that they would be enticed with and for which they would be ready to give away their email address – that is “information”. Let us look at what are the best lead magnets to offer your blog readers. The Best Lead Magnets for a Blog Blogging is all about providing information. Hence it is obvious that people coming over to your blog is coming for information. Now imagine, if they read about some specific topic that they were struggling with, on your blog and are satisfied with what they saw, would it make sense to offer them a report with additional information about the same topic? Will they be ready to enter their email address in order to download that information? Absolutely.

Pinterest47 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 47Shares How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs? This is one thing that every blogger on the World’s largest blogging Platform – WordPress, is worried about. Why? Because WordPress is the world’s favorite CMS platform (sarcasm intended). According to a study by the security firm Sucuri, 4 out of 5 hacked websites that they investigated were running WordPress as their content management platform. More precisely, Sucuri reveals that 78 percent of the total number of hacked websites it investigated were WordPress sites, with Joomla in a distant second, taking up only 14 percent of the data sample. Further, six percent were no-CMS websites, 5 percent were running Magento, and 2 percent were using Drupal. If you are still wondering as to what was the “sarcasm” in that earlier comment above, then let me explain. WordPress is indeed the favorite platform of everyone – both bloggers and hackers alike. And hackers don’t have to work hard to break into a WordPress Installation and take the site down. Sucuri, in its investigation found that the primary reason for WordPress sites getting hacked was outdated plugins and not the Core files itself. As for a breakdown of hacked WordPress sites, Sucuri says that a large part can be attributed to outdated plugins. There were minimal attempts to use vulnerabilities in the WordPress core itself, and crooks relied on WordPress’ popularity and its large plugins and themes ecosystem to inflict their damage. If that wasn’t horrifying enough, then let us look at some more reasons why WordPress is the favorite platform of hackers and how to secure your WordPress blogs. How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs Have you ever woken up to a Blank homepage on your WordPress blog? Or, you might have seen a page with a disastrous formatting that left you wondering as to what happened to your WordPress blog overnight. If yes, then welcome to the world of WordPress bloggers. I went through both of the above. Now, imagine if this happens to a blog with over 400 posts and you don’t even have a backup of the files and the database! I am sure you would agree that it is not the best situation to be in. And, I was in that situation too. It was after all of this that I realized how important securing your WordPress blog is. And since then I started spending a lot of time to ensure that I ring-fence my blog enough to prevent this from happening. In this episode we are going to look at why a WordPress Blog gets hacked and how to secure your WordPress blogs from hackers and spammers. Here are some of the things that we are discussing in this episode – * Why is the single most important reason for a blog getting hacked?* 2 things that you should avoid to ensure that your blog is protected* A simple plugin to update all your blogs in a single click* A readily available firewall that is free to use Resources Mentioned in this Episode These are the resources that we spoke about in this episode –

Pinterest0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 0Shares Hello and welcome to episode 13 of the DKSPeaks Podcast. IN todays episode we are going to discuss about SOLO ads – how to generate traffic with solo ads and what is the key to success with SOLO ads. SOLO ads is one of the best forms of driving traffic to your websites, to your blogs and to your offers. While there is a lot of debate on whether SOLO ads is a good source of traffic, it is important that you understand that solo ads is a guaranteed form of traffic just like any other paid traffic source. There are a lot of advertising options like PPC, banner ads to drive traffic to your offers and to your websites. The same set of risk that you run with running any of these paid ads is what you will run with SOLO ads. But the only difference is that with solo ads it is easier to build a list. While you have no guarantee as to what is the amount of clicks that you will get for a set amount that you will be spending with most of these ads till the time you don’t go about refining it, analyzing it and setting it up the right way, solo ads stand to be a traffic source that is guaranteed to get you traffic, and to get you clicks and to get you optins. I had sold solo ads a lot until about a year and a half back after which I decided that I will only be promoting offers to my list, but during that one year as a solo ad seller, I witnessed a lot of scams. A lot of people who were scamming people by taking the money and not sending them the clicks and I also saw a lot of people sending junk traffic for amount that you pay but in all of this something that you need to keep in mind is that if you do your due diligence, do the analysis that is required, evaluate each of these solo sellers, go by the review that people post on most of these forums and Facebook groups, then you cannot go wrong. Buy from people who have credibility in the solo market, buy from people who have sold good quality solo ads, and you will not get scammed and you will not get crappy traffic for the amount that you spend. And considering the fact that you can get 100 clicks solo ads for just about $40, it is probably one of the cheapest traffic form of traffic that you can generate instantly to any of your offers. There are a lot of people who sell solo ads for about $30 per 100 clicks or, $35 per 100 clicks, I am not saying that these are not quality clicks. But you need to spend your time to go and evaluate what is the quality of clicks that these people send you. SO spend some time evaluating the sellers, reading through the review, and doing your due diligence and I am sure you will get a lot of good quality solo sellers who can send instant traffic to your offer and to your squeeze pages. Okay, so how to go about getting people to click on your ads and how to go about building your optin list using solo ads In this episode we are going to discuss about a few simple little tricks you need to keep in mind in order to get the best solo ads buys that you do in order to drive traffic. Solo Ads Buying Strategies What we are going to discuss about first is how to go about buying solo ads and ensuring that you get the best ROI. Okay so the first pre-requisite for an offer to be run through a solo ad is that you need a high converting or a good quality squeeze page. Now you know that with a squeeze page, you need to put forward an offer where people will have to enter their email address to get this freebie or, get this free offer. So it is important that the freebie that you are going to give in return for somebody adding their email address to the optin box has to be good quality. That offer need to entice your visitor to drop their email into the squeeze page optin box. How do you build such a product? It is pretty easy because of you are not a product creator,

Pinterest23 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 23Shares What are the different ways to use Content Curation as part of your Blogging Strategy? One of the questions I am asked the most, by people coming across my Content Curation course is the above. Most of them have never used content curation and they are absolutely unsure of how to and when to start using Content Curation as part of their blogging strategy. In this episode I will be talking to you about 5 different ways to use Content Curation in your blogs. This is the fifth and the last part in a series on Content Curation. You can find the other posts at the below links: * Episode 44 – Content Curation Tools * Episode 45 – Content Curation Types and Strategy * Episode 46 – Common Content Curation Mistakes * Episode 47 – Effective Curation Commentary Styles We will be closing off this series by discussing about how you can incorporate Content Curation into your content strategy and derive the maximum benefit out of it. If you wish to learn more about Content Curation, you can check out my course at http://blogcurationblueprint.com 5 Ways to use Content Curation in Blogging Content Curation not only helps in getting readymade content for your blogs, but also helps build relationship with influencers in your industry. If you can incorporate Curation in your overall blogging strategy and build it into your overall plan, you will be able to build an influencer tag for yourself and at the same time generate a lot of traffic by ways of referrals. But, how you would use content curation is something that you need to plan and decide. Here are some of the things that we discuss in this episode – * 5 Ways I use Content Curation in my blog * A Curation technique that will help you build a relationship with influencers in your industry * An effortless content generation technique * How to get the most benefit out of Content Curation Resources mentioned in this Episode We didn’t discuss a lot of resources in this episode. But if you have been following me on this series you would know about the essential tools and resources for content curation. Here are those – * Blog Curation Blueprint * Feedly * Content Gems * Rightrelevance * Drumup.io * Scoop.it * Paper.li * Workflowy * Evernote * Onenote * CurationSuite Thank you for Joining A sincere thanks to everyone who joined me on this episode today and for following me throughout this series. I am sure you would have learnt a lot about content curation and how...