5 Affiliate Marketing And Webmaster Resolutions For 2010

Posted by Powder Dog

January 1, 2010

As a Internet Marketer, Website Builder, Blogger whatever you want to call me I am always looking to Improve. Its very Important to get better at making money online. There are people doing the same thing we are but with bigger and better resources. Like money and people to produce content etc.

With 2010 here I was thinking about how to improve this year and every year for the decade. So I came up with a off the fly list. I’m sure it will change as time does, but the basic theme is always the same. To improve and make more cash!.

It being tax season lets get that out of the way. If you don’t pay attention to this you could be getting a letter from the tax man at some point.

Resolution #1. So my first resolution is to get some tax software. My bookkeepers over the last 25 years have all hated me. I’m one of those people who keep two boxes. One for money coming in and one for money going out. Not the way to do it.
I have had so many business’s I could go on forever about this but a few things to remember.
(1) You have to file taxes even if you can’t pay what you owe. Not filing is the biggest no no. You need to atleast send in the forms declaring your income.
(2) If you make over $599.99 in the USA you must declare it. That means if you have made over that amount as a affiliate then you are a business.
(3) Its never to late to start organizing your taxes and business. If you simply jumped into internet marketing and suddenly started making some cake start keeping better track for this year. Start today! I am.

Resolution #2 is to do bigger a better email marketing campaigns. I don’t really do any of that stuff and I am losing money. So what one plan is to join AWeber and start collecting and making very large lists. It shouldn’t be that hard using AWebber because they give you everything you need. I used this to join.

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Resolution #3 is to make sure every website I have has a mobile version. This has become very apparent to me as I love smartphones and own all the great ones. Its my one indulgence.
Cell phones are becoming mini computers. Take the Droid that just came out. Its amazing what this thing does. The drawback for people search the web from a smartphone is webmasters not making there site phone friendly. It sucks so bad trying to navigate a website and constantly touching links. Your phone visitor will never come back. I won’t. WPTouch plugin is what many wordpress blogers use including us.
I know the whole mobile version lecture seems stupid since I don’t have it on this site yet. Its coming. I only work on this site when I’m bored. Its not a money maker and not ment to be. Its really a place to store ideas like resolutions.

Resolution #4. Build better websites. This is very important to me. I started from never even typing to making a good living and skiing 100 days a year from Internet Marketing. I know I need to be better though. Slapping up niche sites and making a income is one thing but being truly successful online is another. The landscape changes every day along with rules and trends.
I try to look at it like this. In the beginning you need to learn from others and use what others are using. This is typical for many reasons the first being lack of skills. Its hard to face but most people do not have the knowledge to build a great website from the ground up. Hence BANS, PHPBay and many more scripts.

You can’t build a successful business on top of someone else s stuff. Why? Because after you perfect it the site you built off of will simply do it themselves. This is happening everyday to people who even paid or built for something that works off a API like Twitter or Facebook. If you build a image tool 6 months or even 2 years from know they will build there own tool if it looks like it will make money.

So you may think I am wrong, but that’s my road for 2010. I plan on learning and building my own ideas as I do Internet Marketing of Niche Sites. I suggest everyone do the same. Its OK by me to use what you need from a content provider like Amazon or eBay but don’t depend on them to always be there for you. They won’t be!

Resolution #5. Humm, this was simple to think of after a email I received the other day. Someone told me I was unprofessional on one of my sites. They said I was doing a dis service to my advertisers and I should take down the site. I promptly replied that the site was a personal blog and it wasn’t any of his business how I ran it.

So number 5 is a dual resolution. To be more professional and not have thin skin. The person was kind of right, but I think he was competition. I have learned how to bump anyone out of number 1 on Google and pissed a few of them off doing it. The email hit a core though and it will remind me to use spell check more.

Being more authoritative and knowledgeable is very important these days. People will call you on anything. So I will do due diligence on these areas and more in the coming decade

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