Actually, I am pretty sure that if you have been blogging for any length of time, you already know this. I just thought I would remind you, in case you weren’t yet doing anything about it. There are company’s out there that will pay you to blog. You can add Google’s Adsense code and be paid by advertisers that place ad’s on your pages and you can offer a product from your blog, even if you don’t have one!

“How can I offer a product if I don’t have one?”

You know, I am glad you asked. There are thousands of people out there that DO have a product they want to offer, and are willing to pay you a commission if you “get the sale”. This is called “Affiliate Marketing”. Clickbank is one of the biggest “programs” out there that offer up these products and handle all the accounting. You just create a free Clickbank account, tell them where to send the money, and then find a product to offer. Take a little care here, there are literally tens of thousands of products and many won’t be a “match” for your blog, particularly if you are blogging about network marketing.

Found your product? Cool, just blog about it, include a link to the “landing page” that the product is offered on. This link will have your “affiliate id” embedded. Remember that Clickbank setup you did? When you “got your link”, Clickbank “assigned” the sale to you within the link. Now, just post it.

When someone comes to your blog, reads your post, clicks the link and buys the product, Clickbank pays you the commission on the sale.

HINT: Do not offer products unrelated to your blog topic or that you haven’t used or wouldn’t recommend to a friend. Why? Well, you don’t want to lose your readership because you offered a bum-steer if you know what I mean. Do your due-diligence and make sure the offer is a good one.

QUESTION: Cenay, why don’t you take your own advice and offer us products?

ANSWER: Another good question, and I probably will in the future. But for now, I am trying to build my credibility. So, please note, you don’t want to be too commercialized or you will turn your readership off. When I do recommend a product, I want it to matter.

In the spirit of sharing and learning from each other, I started a new forum that I would like to invite you to. The focus there is expanding our “toolbox” with “the right tools for the job”. Anyone who knows me knows that’s a pretty basic tenant in my life. I have always believed ANY job is easier when you are properly prepared and have the right tools.

So, if you have found something that works and are willing to share it in an open-minded forum of network marketing professional, I would ask that you stop by and introduce yourself (Forum topic: Introductions) and let me hear from you. I think you will be surprised at some of the topics covered and the willingness of everyone to share what is working.

Hope to see you there soon!

Toolbox For MLM Forum

Hey, hate to do it, but posting requires you “register” first… you wouldn’t believe the number of ads I have received for a body part I don’t have!

The Nussentials team of wealth builders I belong to has just started a new Blog. This will be a gathering place for like-minded individuals either interested in Network Marketing for the first time, or looking to improve their skills, contacts and tool arsenal.

I invite you to check out their Blog and leave your comments. Infiniti Team Blog

Nussentials :

Offering breakthrough products in health and nutrition such as Restore with HA, Alert, a time released vitamin packed energy drink, MORE, LESS and RUN — built on stablized rice bran , one of the most nutritious foods on the planet and so much more.

They are also a network marketing company offering two types of strong compensation plans. Most MLM companies either address the front end monies (recruitment), or the backend residual income (product commissions). Nussentials has VERY strong emphasis on both sides of the business. And, as a 3×8 forced matrix, we are also structured to help each other with “spillover”. Nussentials also gives 5% of all revenues to help “Feed The Kids”, through a charitable organization called Children Incorporated (CI). CI has a lot of programs but Nussentials has directed all their money to be spent right here in the U.S. And notice I said “5% of Revenues”, not 5% of profits. Some companies “talk” about giving something back, Nussentials backs it up. And CI is an organization that boasts an amazing 80% directed funds structure. That means that only 20% of the monies collected go towards “administration, advertising and distribution”. Very few charitable organization can claim so high a percentage (most of exactly opposite with 80% to admin and only 20% to actually “feed the kids”).

Ask the average web surfer … “What is web 2.0?”, and most will respond “video”.

They would be only half right.

Web 2.0 is about community. It’s about empowering the visitor to experience the site, and participate in the “conversation”. It’s about letting visitors communicate with each other as well. It’s drag and drop technology allowing free expression, like MySpace. It’s prebuilt pages where you just “fill in the blanks” like blogs or sites like Weebly and HubPages. It’s YouTUBE where you can watch laughing babies and motorcycle stunts. And send the video to a friend if you like it.

And I love it. All of it.

I have been playing in a lot of different arena’s recently and wanted to share a bit of it with you. I just created a new video’s site. Well, not new, I have been tinkering for about a month. There are about 20 video’s up so far. I have had requests for a few others, which are due out soon. I also have some plans for video’s, but in the spirit of “Web 2.0″ and the “Conversation”, thought you might like to request one yourself.

I can’t promise I can make a “How-To Video” for everything that is requested, but I am betting on a good many of them. So, follow this link and check out the new site. It’s a tool for you. Join the conversation!