Lessons from Smart Passive Income Podcast 2

A lot of times, podcasts, especially affiliate marketing podcasts, become dry and worthless in the marches of time and technology and time.  Checking out Podcast 2 from SPI turned out a pleasant surprise.  I have heard that "bum marketing" - churning out articles for cheap traffic - has mutated a bit, if not died outright since 2010, which I doubt - so I'm holding pending my own research on that tool, but here's the rest of what I'm applying:

1. Have a posting schedule.  I've been dogged by setting up galleries on my memes site at http://musicmemes.com. I love making up the memes, but getting 10 memes at a time drawn up and labeled is a bit time-consuming.  Starting tomorrow I'm going to just post one meme at a time, schedule them seven at a time, and have a weekly auto-publish of them all.

I'm also posting here daily, just a few minutes at a time, based on my free time.  No fancy images, no social media sharing (yet, aside from G+), just text I hope you can use.  If you come across this blog, simply coming back for new content will be appreciated!

2. Don't fault yourself for small results.  Just try to learn how others are doing better.  Currently I am making $0 for running this blog and under $10 a month on MusicMemes.    Still, it is a great improvement over seething over a penny at a time coming in in ads for a new blog with little traffic so far.  Using Amazon has been a nice reward so far, relatively, and I look forward to results when MusicMemes matures and starts getting a lot more traffic.

3. Rank the importance of your business in life.  Is dubbing around consuming all your brainpower and time?  Cut it for your business, or just give in and don't be a marketer.

4. Niche affiliate marketing is a good starting place. 

• Do keyword research first.  
• Try to register an exact keyword match in the form of a .com, .org or .net.  
• Provide valuable info plus your product link.
• Try ranking for "best (brand) (product)".  Consider AdSense for this.
• If you're doing affiliate marketing, convert people for the sale on your home page.  For an AdSense blog, get them off your site ASAP via a high bounce rate.

5. Look up Nicole Dean, an info product marketer.  Her strategy is to make the web a better place, substainably instead of simply flinging around affiliate links like fish hooks.

6. For the successor site to MasonWorld.com, you can visit LateNightIM.com. 

Below is a blog feature called My Marketing Checklist, which will show how much I practice what I preach.  Results on anything lacking will be updated to the best of my ability here with brief summaries.

My Marketing Checklist: 

• Posting schedule: check
• Don't fault myself: check
• Rank the importance of my business: check
• Start in affiliate marketing: must do
• Research Nicole Dean: must do
• Visit LateNightIM: must do

Thanks for reading and if you got anything from this as a beginning marketer please feel free to share it! Also, please do check out Pat's Smart Passive Income podcast.  There may be lessons I've already learned or may have otherwise missed.