Obama's $3.8 Trillion Budget Includes Record Deficit

I seem to remember ex Vice President Dick Cheney saying that Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. Where were all the news hounds and Teabaggers when Cheney was in power? Was no one watching when we dropped from a surplus to a deficit?
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Your Affiliate Commissions Can Experience Overnight Success.

If you are already an affiliate marketer, you have the ability to double, triple or even quadruple your income.

One of the easiest ways of starting an online business and earning more profits is the development of an affiliate business.

Here are some powerful ways to increase your affiliate program’s commissions and profits.

Get higher commissions from your merchants. If you are a successful marketer with a sizable list, you can approach your merchants and negotiate a percentage increase on the commissions. Of course, to make that happen, you must already be successful.

If you are working in a particular niche, you can bundle your affiliate products by offering a range of products in a free e-book about your niche. Create the e-book and include the links to your affiliate products in the book. This is now your viral product that everyone can have for free.

Once your business is growing and you have your list, offer a new product each month that takes care of the subscriber’s problems.

Be careful and deliberate in the selection of your selection of your affiliate programs. Create a return on investment spreadsheet on each program you accept in your portfolio. There are quite a few affiliate programs online so you can afford to be discerning in your choice. Select the best for your bottom line and your subscribers.

Pay close attention to your process. Tweak your system to make it more profitable. Set up a schedule to audit your system once a month. Remember that you’re running a legitimate business and for heaven sakes, keep accurate records.

Never under any circumstances send your prospects directly to your affiliate link. Always set up a squeeze page to get the names and email address of your prospects before sending them off to the affiliate link.

If you can, set up a sequence that offers a free book to bring the prospect, get their address and name. Use the auto-responder to communicate with the prospect and send them to a product page.


Give your email list a reason to stick around. Offer them a lot of free material to keep them engaged. Work hard to find out what they want and make sure that they get it. Stay up on the issues in your niche.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.


If you use Pay Per Click advertising, monitor the placement, the price and the search results regularly. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online but it can get expensive. You can lose money while making money if you don’t watch your numbers carefully. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to get rid of. You can lose big if you have several niche markets running at the same time.

Give these tips a try and put them through their paces. You’ll be glad you did.

How To Work Your Magic In Forums

This might seem a bit trivial but I see this often since I use forums as part of my marketing mix. The question is how do you get people to pay attention to you once you get to the forum? There are six things that I would be concerned about when scoping out the forums. Here are the steps that I use to get traffic from forums.

1) Get your keywords formalized. It is important to have a collection of keywords that fit your niche. If you don’t use Pay Per Click advertising you still need to collect at least 50 quality keywords for your niche. The point of focusing on your keywords is to tie your website to the chosen keywords.

2) Your choice of responses must work to your advantage and to do that you must consciously optimize your responses and input to match your website keywords. If you sell soft sculpture toys, your niche keywords might be perhaps toys and perhaps teddy bears or other soft toys. Your input and responses should include some of your keywords in order to bolster your back links to your website.

3) If you create articles or have a blog of your own, you can reference them in your responses on the forums. Let’s say that you flagged a question on care and packaging or soft toys. You have a great answer to the post; so you compose an answer and reference your blog post from last year. You hyperlink the blog post line and ensure that you have a few keywords from your blog in the post. So you would write something like this: “I know how tough it is to store and ship soft toys I wrote a blog post on it at my blog – (blog name). This is solution to the problem is (fill in the blank).

4) There is a certain trick to using forums for marketing purposes. You should carefully craft your bio or your signature section to promote your squeeze page or blog. Once again you should make certain that your keywords are injected in your signature. If you are selling the soft toys at www.softhuggybears.com, you might have a signature that says “How to take good care of your soft huggy bears. Get my FREE report at www.softhuggybears.com.” make the case for your solution to their problem.

5) Keep the conversation on topic and move it along with your responses. Once you reply to the original post, send another post to add a twist to the conversation and perhaps pose a follow up question for the other members to respond to. That keeps the thread open and more people will read it. More people reading the thread means more people involved in the conversation and seeing your signature.

6) If the forum has an article section, contribute to that section as often as you can. Take a few of your blog posts and reconfigure them into articles. You’ll need to reach a lot of forums to make this pay off. Don’t stop at one or two forums and expect the get a flood of traffic. This is a business venture and must be treated as such.

This is a great way to get back links and build your reputation as well more traffic to your website. Be sure to get your facts straight when posting and stay honest. People will hold you accountable when you are solving their problems.

New blog for the folks who want to learn about traffic strategies..

There is a new blog created for Internet traffic strategies. Go to http://massivetraffic.didarticles.com. It's new and chronicles the traffic generating tactics of a new product roll out. Check it out and keep tabs on the progress.

It seems that getting traffic is the toughest part of this business. It doesn't matter how great our products are, without getting the needed traffic, we can't make any money. I'm always looking for more information on better ways to reach my target audiences. I'm sure you are too. Let me know if you come up with anything new and interesting.

The New Challenge

I will be creating a new project from scratch using the latest ebook Massive Traffic Pack Gold. This book shows any Internet marketer how to take a product from 0 to profitability in 30 to 60 days.

As a promotional challenge I've decided to create a separate blog to chronicle the daily activities while continuing to discuss the marketing and promotions on this one.
You will be able to read about the progress at http://dmrcoaching.didarticles.com.

Viral Marketing Can Explode Your Business

Put The Power Of Viral Marketing To Work For You

When the term viral marketing is used, people often think spam or malicious computer killing software sent through email. the term of course refers to the idea of speeding a message, joke, a video or other piece of information that excites us momentarily and is then passed on to others for their own show, amusement or amazement.

Viral marketing is any method that is used to encourage someone to pass on a marketing message to someone else. This creates the domino effect of one person passing it on to another and another and so on. The potential for exponential growth is enormous because if you really are impacted by a new game, video or some piece of useful software, you will with a little prompting pass it on to others as with pleasure.

So how does it work? Viral marketing appeals to several emotional factors in us; the most obvious of which is curiosity. Once we get the "gift" opened, if we like it and it the viral message leaves us in a heightened state. If it's funny, we laugh a little louder; if it's scary we feel it more acutely.

No one can accurately predict how well a viral marketing strategy will work but there are elements that must be included for a viral message to go to work. Not all of these elements need to be present; but a combination of them must play out for there to be successful.

Something must be given away; whether it is a product or service. For instance there are software creators who have chosen this method to propel their games to instant success. The first person shooter Doom was an example of effective viral marketing. The creators did the unheard of thing at the time; they allowed free downloads of their games and even allowed people to create their own levels and characters.

Before the Internet, one famous rock band was making a fortune from viral marketing and is still doing so today. The Grateful Dead allows recording of their music at their live concerts. People make living selling bootleg merchandise in the parking lots. The Grateful Dead is one of them most successful bands of all time in spite of; even because of the free attitude of their music and viral nature of marketing. They have consistently sold out concerts throughout their career.
Their intergenerational fans have done most of the selling for them over the years.

Digital products are perfect for viral transmission. Whether it is a video of someone's cat wearing a ballet outfit or the Jib Jab animations of our presidential candidates, we are captivated by the message and with a mouse click able to send the file or a link to it off to our friends and family. We have not even touched the product, it all happened without physical contact.

Sociologists say that each person has a network of 8 to 12 people in their close network of friends, family, and associates. The theory of Six Degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is an average of six "steps" away from

Viral marketing takes advantage of those principles. A teacher, for example, may send emails regularly to hundreds of parents in a year. A young college student will text message her lover in another town. Network marketers have always understood the potential of these powerful human networks, both the close networks as well as the broader networked relationships.

1. Everyone loves the word FREE. Give away products to get the buzz effect.
2. Make it easy to pass your message along. Distribution should be effortless.
3. The campaign must be able to handle explosive growth.
4. The emotional effect of the viral marketing campaign must be intentional.
5. Use the media - computer, animation, email, voice, cell phone, or video
6. Get others to get the word out for you. This is the essence of viral marketing.

The biggest issue with viral marketing is its unpredictability. No one has been able to guarantee that their viral campaign will work. If you follow these basic points you'll have a better chance of success.