Shoemoney’s Affiliate Summit West Contest: For The Win

If fortune favors the brave—and prepared—then I’m the guy who should definitely win Shoemoney’s Crazy Affiliate Summit West 2010 Contest.

But instead of going on and on about how I’m a cool, hard-working, genuine guy from Hawaii with a totally unique Internet Marketing angle (all true stuff, of course), I’m going to share with you a story.

2 Years of Frustration Evaporated in 3 Days

Last month I headed over to Las Vegas to attend Affiliate DotCom Live. It was my first Internet Marketing conference ever.

For 3 short days, I learned more about affiliate marketing than I did over the past two years as a lonely and aimless online dabbler. I learned that success in the business has less to do with technique and more to do with attitude, confidence and making connections.

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How to Write a Powerful and Influential Letter That Will Change Your Life

There are times in life when you absolutely need the right words to get you through tense or troubling situations. This is where knowing how to write a powerful letter can do some serious damage in your favor.

Writing a solid letter is by far one of the best ways to get your point across in a clear, organized and razor sharp manner. Unlike talking, writing allows you to collect your thoughts and feelings into an official, permanent statement. Later down the line nobody can deny what you’ve said because it’s been written down.

To date, I’ve written about ten very memorable letters that have helped me capitalize on rare opportunities or overcome high-pressure and abusive situations, such as: [Read more...]

Scraping and Autoblogging: Why They Suck

Being such a lover of words and good writing, I thought I’d chime in on one of the filthier sides of blogging: scraper sites and autoblogging.

The two terms are basically the same thing, but with a slight twist in semantics:

  • Scraping refers to automatically copying full articles from other blogs (or RSS feeds) for publishing on your own site.
  • Autoblogging just snatches the headline and excerpt for your site, and supposedly links back to the original article.

Some of the more sophisticated methods involve some sort of “magic bullet” software that does everything with a push of a button: you type in your keyword and the software just starts adding content to your blog from other sources.  At this point it becomes a fully automated system.

Why Do This?

Scraping content is a quick and easy way to get free content into your website, [Read more...]

Wordful is Writing its First eBook

Holiday special: From now until December 21, 2010, if you sign up for my mailing list on the right, you will get a 50% discount on The Blogger’s Guide to Creating Great Content when it comes out.

At Affiliate Dot Com Live in Las Vegas, problogger John Chow suggested I write “The Blogger’s Guide to Creating Great Content,” and that’s just what I’ve been doing for the past two weeks.

This eBook is all about how to give your readers what they want and look good doing it. Unlike a lot of the other ‘how to’ blogging guides out there which focus on marketing, Wordful’s ebook is exclusive to producing and publishing content as a business.

One of the reasons I’m writing this is because I see a space that’s not being filled. There’s so much attention being paid to Internet marketing that the discipline of publishing content often gets reduced to an afterthought. [Read more...]

What Makes Internet Marketers So Freakin’ Successful?

No Google search could ever answer this question, that’s for sure.

The only way to find out is to pry yourself away from the internet and go out and meet some successful internet marketers. Study their characters, learn what makes them tick and best of all—give them a chance to know you, too.

This is precisely what I did last month at Affiliate Dot Com Live in Las Vegas. After going over my notes, I discovered these three distinct winning characteristics of successful internet marketers: [Read more...]