Well … we’ve planned our next trip to Mexico and I’m soooo stoked! In early June we’ll be taking kids down to the resort where we took our honeymoon, Dreams Puerto Aventuras, in the Riviera Maya area about 45 minutes from Cancun. It’s an all-inclusive resort and we’ll be totally spoiled. LOL We’ll also be in our bathing suits much of the time … so that means the race is on for me to lose some weight and tone up.

Since I was journaling my food and exercise and taking before and after pictures I decided to put up a blog and share my tips and ideas with others who would also like to look great in their swimsuit http://www.bikiniafter40.com. Why am I sharing that with you? Well, I am building this blog from the ground up so I thought some of you might want want to follow along and see what I do to set it up, to drive traffic, build backlinks, do the SEO, monetize, etc.

If you’d be interested in watching me I’ll be posting every so often here on the blog at suzannefranco.com and I’d love to hear any questions you have about what I’m doing with the site. I’d also love to have your feedback on the blog itself. What do you think of the concept? Of the look and feel? Of the content? All thoughts are welcome of course!

Here’s a video message:

Please leave me your comments and let me know what you’d like to learn about my new site and I’ll address it here on the blog. *SmiLes* Suzanne

P.S. If you’re looking to lose weight and/or tone up … or interested in health and fitness in general I hope you’ll join me over on the new site so we can support and encourage each other

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Promoting & Selling Affiliate Products ~ A Successful Day!

Even though I promote and sell affiliate products here on the blog today was my first attempt at choosing an affiliate product (well … two actually) and using the skills I’ve learned to promote and try to make some sales.

Well, I’m happy to report that after the work of researching, selecting and promoting I made 2 sales within my first 3-4 hours! My commissions were just under $50 bucks! I used free methods to promote … so that’s all profit.

I’m sorry but I won’t disclose the products I chose or the exact methods I used to promote but I will say it was “easy” and it didn’t really feel like “work” to me.

With that said, I believe the trick to making affiliate marketing work (for me anyway) is to choose products that I’m somewhat interested in myself. At least interested enough that I can write about them easily and without feeling “put out” to do so.

The next time I commit some time to these same two products (busy with kids, football games and weekend family time) I will just continue to add to my marketing methods and I believe I will make even more money as time goes on. My favorite methods to promote are: classified ads, article submission, blog posts (I have several blogs), Squidoo lenses, and Hub Pages. I personally don’t do any PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising, or any other paid advertising, and right now I prefer the free methods. The only exception is that I have a paid account with US Free Ads and I use them for the backlinks and the traffic.

If you haven’t tried promoting and selling affiliate products my advice is to just jump right in there and give it a shot. I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for but I guess fear of failure was holding me back. I finally went for it and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome … I hope you’re do the same.

If you have questions please ask them through my contact page or right here in the comments section. I’ll be happy to help in any way I can.

Do you do any affiliate promoting and selling? Have you been successful do so? Have you been wanting to try it but haven’t taken the plunge yet? If so, what’s holding you back … fear, lack of knowledge, etc. Please let us hear from you so we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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The Best $5 Bucks I’ve Spent in a Long Time!

Wow! Today I spent the best $5 bucks I’ve spent in a long time! Anik Singal (the hugely popular “Affiliate Classroom” guy) just made my job as an online marketer 10 times easier!

His eBook, “Not Your Typical Article Report,” is a 96 page step-by-step instruction guide to researching, writing, and submitting articles to article directories and to article marketing in general. If you’re not already using article marketing to promote your site, your blog, your products, or affiliate products … you should be. It’s free and it’s a very effective marketing and SEO method! Now read below about how you can also add another income stream by doing so.

Anik has also just started an amazing new article directory, AffSphere. It’s very different than all of the other directories. AffSphere is being built with business owners and affiliate marketers in mind. Not only do they allow affiliate links in your articles and in your bio box, you can earn banner ads through the unique points system, you can earn money through AdSense, you will get those all important backlinks through links in your articles and in your author bio box, you can make money for referring others to AffSphere, to the Affiliate Classroom, for any courses purchased, and much more.

It can’t hurt to see what he has to offer so check it out and let me know what you think. If you buy the eBook come back and let me know if you too feel it’s worth WAY more than $5 Bucks! *SmiLes* Suzanne

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