My Top New Year's Resolution - The Mistake That Can Practically Guarantee Failure

My top new year's resolution is to create my own job: earn an income of $500 per week from affiliate products without investing any money.

Specific, measurable, challenging, and deadline-oriented, my top new year's resolution is a solid goal. But will it happen?

Achievable With This Item

A goal or resolution will never spring into action unless there's a plan to make it materialize. My top new year's resolution is achievable as long as I put a plan into place. Without creating a blueprint for action, failure is almost guaranteed.

Build or Find a Plan of Action?

I could have spent a good deal of time researching and then developing my own plan. But why do that when there are blueprints available that already work?

The plan I chose is called One Week Marketing written by PotPieGirl, an affiliate marketing guru. I looked at many, many methods to make my top new year's resolution work and One Week Marketing is THE plan for Internet Marketing newbies, beginners, and dummies like me.

Plan Components

Since PotPieGirl's blueprint is directed to an audience who has limited funds and who may not be knowledgeable about affiliate marketing, it contains information not normally included in an action plan.

For example, besides the action plan, there is a set of emails between PotPieGirl and a newbie marketer as he executes the blueprint. This is an excellent way to see what obstacles a beginner might face and then overcome.

As I read his questions and PotPieGirl's responses, I realized my top new year's resolution will happen sooner than I ever hoped!

Internet Marketing for Small to Medium Size Businesses

If you have an online business, it is not enough to simply have a website. There's ton of websites all over the internet and all of these contain as relevant or may be more relevant contents than yours. How then can you reach out to your prospective clients when these websites are also vying to the same attention?

Well, there are many strategies that you can use in order for you to get an edge or advantage over your competitors. What are they?

The other side to an internet presence is knowing how to leverage the tools that will make you website as effective as possible, as quickly as possible.

What are these tools? Just to name a few:

Social media

Internet video production

Blogging for business

Email marketing campaigns

Search Engine Optimization

Web analytics

Keyword analysis

Confused as to what are these strategies? Don't worry, there are many companies that can help you not to go crazy figuring it out.

Rent-a-Site Model Consultants Assist Business Owners

There are many services that an offline consultant can offer to local small business owners, including:

• Web Design and Redesign
  
• Search Engine Optimization
• Video Commercials
• Social Bookmarking

Jamie Garside has a product that teaches internet marketing consultants how to research niches and create websites that can be rented out to the small business owners.

Terrie Soberg has designed a Rent-a-Site Model website to supplement his book with helpful hints and strategies that will allow a consultant to be even more successful.

Visit her site at: Rent-a-Site Model Consultants for more information.

Christmas Panic?

Christmas is fast approaching! Are you ready with your wishlist? I am! I've been putting together a list of items that I'd like to buy myself for Christmas, or hopefully, when my friends are reading my blog, then they'd be able to see the items I'd like to add on my greatest possessions,haha.

1. Camera!

I'm debating whether wanting to have a Nikon camera or Canon G11 Powershot 10MP. Well looks like I got a preferred model from Canon so it appears that I love it better than the former, haha. I've always loved Nikon cameras as I love the pictures that my dad takes during our fishing activities and picnics. They are so clear and can't help but blushing when my friends tells me on Facebook that I look good on those pictures.

2. Minnesota

I miss our little hometown since we moved here in Tennessee. I wish that we could spend sometime there on Christmas, get to visit our grannies and eat some brownies that grandma always prepare for us. Ah, what could be better than having the whole family complete for Christmas eve dinner.

3. Quality Time

I always look forward for Christmas because almost everyone goes home and spend some quality time with the rest of the family, we bake cookies, we play with our cousins, we take pictures, everybody's having fun. Except for dad, mom said he needs to be overseas for his business transactions. I miss the days when we were fishing in the lake. I wish he'd be home this Christmas. Even just this year when I'm turning 18.

Those were just my simple wishes for Christmas, what's yours?