Q. So what made you get started with AdSense?

A. I was looking for a way to monetize some of my websites. AdSense is such an easy thing to get started with the eye for it would be a great way to start earning more money without actually putting into much more effort. I think as soon as you see the first earnings coming into your account you get addicted to AdSense. I know is what happened to me and since then I’ve just spent time working out how to earn more and more each day.

Q. How much do you make with AdSense?

A. Some days I can earn close to $1000 and others it’s less than that. But it all comes down to how much time and effort you devote to creating a quality site that people like visiting. AdSense is not what my business is based on by any means – but it is a great way to earn revenue almost on autopilot.

Q. What is the biggest mistake people making with AdSense?

A. Probably the biggest mistake people make is thinking the AdSense earnings are easy to achieve. It is very easy to get started but as I learned it takes a lot of effort to increase your earnings. I got really downhearted whenever I would log in to my account to see that I had only made a few dollars. And that’s when I decided to spend months and months of my time learning everything I could about AdSense.

I basically buried myself away and devoured every single piece of AdSense information I could find. I ran thousands of AdSense tests and started to see a dramatic effect on my click through ratio and therefore on my earnings.

This is why I’d decided to record the videos – because I knew that it would help people who were in my position to also increase their earnings. I’ve read an absolute ton of AdSense e-book’s but they take so long to go through and always seem to keep information back.

With AdSense Videos I knew that I had to tell the story exactly as it is and actually show people and lead them by the hand through the exact techniques that I use to generate large earnings from AdSense.

Q. In your videos you show people how to increase their AdSense earnings – can you give us a taster of this advice?

A. I don’t want to give away my biggest secrets as you can understand! But some of the more basic things that you can do to increase your revenues include using ads that blend in rather than stand out from your content. Flat out the worst thing you can do with an AdSense ad is make it look like the standard Google ad. What you need to realise is that you will get more clicks if your ad actually appears part of your site rather than something that’s just been dropped into the page.

Q. What would you recommend that someone do right now to increase their AdSense earnings?

A. I’ve created a totally free AdSense minicourse that people can go through to learn some of my techniques. It takes you through the four cornerstone principles that I’ve used to build up my AdSense empire. You can check it out, as well as all the AdSense Videos, here:

AdSense Videos

Ever wondered how you could harness the power of Twitter to drive massive amounts of traffic to your Wordpress blogs – and how to convert that traffic into cash?

A couple of fellow internet marketers whose list I am on, John Merrick and Soren Jordansen, have just come up with the perfect solution for us, with their new product called Tweet My Blog.

It’s a Wordpress plugin that makes it super easy to combine the powers of Wordpress and Twitter – driving massive amounts of traffic to your blog.

And the best part… It’s 100% free! I know, right… unbelievable!

=> http://www.tweetmyblog.com

TweetMyBlog will automatically

1. Post a tweet whenever you update you blog. The tweet will link back to your blog, driving a ton of interested readers your way.
2. Highlight your latest Tweets on your blogs sidebar. This increases your Twitter following.
3. Promote your affiliate link on auto-pilot, whenever you use the plugin and sidebar widget. Earn commissions just for posting to your blog.

=> http://www.tweetmyblog.com

This is far more than just another Wordpress plugin – This is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

And… Even though they are giving this plugin away for free, you should take a close look at the special offer they have in store for you when you join. I instantly grabbed my own copy, and I know it will skyrocket my marketing power when using Twitter and Wordpress.

=> http://www.tweetmyblog.com

To your success,

Kathi

P.S. I don’t know if John and Soren are going to keep this free forever, I certainly feel they could start charging big bucks for it.

So, grab your copy today, while it’s still free – and start using it before your competition does!

=> http://www.tweetmyblog.com

I haven’t written in this blog as often as I’d hoped… or as I should. There are many reasons for that, of course… too many websites and other irons in the fire, family chaos, poor work environment. But the bottom line is, I probably don’t have all the positive homepreneur habits I should have.

Luckily, I stumbled upon this article from Jimmy Brown, one of the internet marketing “gurus” I respect much. Jimmy puts out high quality, but super easy to implement, manuals and step-by-step guides on all aspects of home business. I think you’re going to enjoy this article…

How To Run A Successful Home Business

by Jimmy D. Brown

We were all sold initially on the idea of working from home. Sounded, great, didn’t it – work when you want, in your pjs  with the kids playing under your desk, or wearing your swimsuit while you’re staring at the ocean on your latest vacation. Yes, working from home gives you a huge amount of flexibility, but there are also quite a few pitfalls that you don’t really hear about until you’re knee deep in it already. Here are some of them. Let me know if any of this sounds familiar…

You’re constantly interrupted by your spouse, kids or friends who just want to ask you something quickly. (Really, it won’t take a minute!)  I can definitely relate to this one!!!

Your “office” also happens to be the living room, so you end up trying to focus while the television is going, and people are running all around the house.

You spend almost every waking hour either actively working on your websites or thinking about marketing strategies, product ideas and such when you should be spending quality time with your loved ones.

You waste hours each day surfing the net (and call it research), checking your stats or answering email.

The point is, we all develop these bad habits that don’t make us very productive. I bet that almost everything you’re doing in  your usual 10 hours plus workday right now, you could accomplish in under 3 hours provided you set yourself up to be really productive during that time.

And that’s exactly what you will learn in this new report called “Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business”.

Find out how to set up your workspace, structure your day and most importantly, structure your business for maximum productivity and results. This report wasn’t created by just anyone, either. It was written by Jimmy D. Brown, one of the most successful Internet Marketers who fell into all the traps you’ve been falling into and then turned it around to a point where he is running and growing a huge home business spending just 3 hours a day working.

To your success,
Kathi

P.S. This isn’t just some dry theoretical report. Jimmy shares exactly what he does and how he has is office set up (with plenty of pictures) so you have plenty of “real life” examples. Grab the report here. You even get to see Jimmy in his PJ’s.

Have you been thinking about trying Site Build It?

If you have, Ken Evoy is offering his annual holiday special. Until midnight, January 4th, you can get 2 for the price of 1.

That is a super bargain.

But what will I do with 2 sites you ask?

You can buy one for now and build the second one later. Most people making a full-time living online have more than one site. You can start building one and wait up to nine months to start the second site.

Or you can…

Buy one for yourself and give the second one as a New Year’s gift to a friend. Do you know anyone who would like to quit their day job or needs extra money. Perhaps your husband, wife, son, daughter, mom, dad, friend, business associate, or anyone who is considering an online business that has the power to “change a life”.

And the best part is Ken guarantees your success. He’ll give you your money back if you decide you can’t do it (actually for any reason). What have you got to lose?

Get your new SBI website business started today!

Wow! It’s been a while since I wrote another installment of this series. But that’s a function of my coaching student’s busy life schedule. He was finishing up a masters in education and then had a bit of a career path crisis. But, he’s back on track now and chugging along on his first website.

I am a little behind, though, even so in reporting Jim’s progress. When I last left you, he was brainstorming the structure/outline of his site. It’s an important step, so you need to take your time. You want your site to be organized in a logical fashion that is user-friendly. At the same time, you need to organize it so that it maximizes the search engine potential. Jim chose to do it by getting a large piece of poster board and laying out his structure in an organizational chart fashion.

He used post it notes to label each page and the associated keywords, so that he can make changes if he needs to. He’s a visual person, and this seems to work for him.

After that, Jim got started on building his site. Every site needs to start with a design, or template. In SBI, this is fairly easy. You just go to the Look & Feel Selector, and you can choose from over 100 different designs. And among those, you can do further customization, even if you have no graphic skills. Jim has me, though, and I took one of the SBI designs & overlaid a photograph and logo text on it to make it uniquely his.

So, once he had a design, it was time to build the home page. Here are some essential points about a home page on a content site like Jim’s:

• It needs to have a strong “voice”, meaning basically… personality, your personality. Don’t be impersonal or standoffish… people won’t connect with you that way.
• It needs to communicate what your site is about and what’s in it for the reader… why should they click through to the rest of your site?
• It needs to not have advertising. People don’t want to be hit with ads as soon as they enter a content site. They want information. Nor do you want to give them an opportunity to click off your site before you’ve fully drawn them in.
• It doesn’t need to be more than 350 to 500 words… just enough to get your Most Wanted Response (MWR), which should be to click through, or maybe to subscribe to your ezine or mailing list.

Your home page should set the tone for the whole rest of your site, and you DO want to connect with your readers. Revealing at least a bit of your personal background helps, especially if you can show that you truly understand where the reader is coming from. Talk from your heart, and write like you talk. This is not Wikipedia and you are not lecturing.

After you build your home page, it’s a good idea to get the Contact page up fairly soon, so that if you DO happen to get any visitors (it doesn’t usually happen right away, but you never know), they can communicate with you if they want. NOTE: Don’t ever post your actual email address on a page, or you WILL get spammed. Trust me; I know. Put a form up on the page. Again, SBI makes this easy as pie with their FormBuildIt module.

Another great page to start out with is your About Me page. Here’s your chance to reveal a bit more about yourself. Really allow your readers to get to know you. This is a powerful technique that will contribute to your eventual success with your site. The Web is an impersonal place. Make yourself real.

And once you lay that foundation for your site, then get busy writing your actual content! This is where Jim is now. He’s so in love with his site, he’s having trouble actually buckling down and writing the meat. But he’ll get there…

To your success,