Article marketing is one of the best ways to generate traffic to your website.

Here’s how it works.

1. You write an article.

2. You submit it to article directories.

3. Web publishers (website owners & bloggers) grab your article from the article databases and use your article on their sites free of charge.

4. Inside your article, at the end, you include a resource box that contains a link to your website. When the article is published, that portion must tag along and be published, too.

Your link tags along with your article and you get FREE advertising.

Recently there has been lots of media attention and books written and people teaching the principles regarding the Law of Attraction. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s actually quite simple. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. In other words, you’ll receive good things or bad according to what you focus on. And also according to the feelings or thoughts you have.

If you focus on the positive in your life, then more positive things will come your way. If you spend your time and energy focusing on the negative, then you’ll attract more negative things.

Procrastination plaques us all at some time or another. If this is your weak point in your life or business, you may profit greatly by developing new habits of taking  action and getting things done.

We’ve all heard the quote, “Why put off till tomorrow what you can do today?” For some of us, this is the only motivation we need, while others struggle with putting things off for weeks, months, or even years.

Take a moment to think about things you may have been putting off. Starting to write that book, losing a few pounds, cleaning out the garage, learning audio or video marketing, cleaning up your hard drive.

This is my first post in 2010. Last year was a very busy time for me with travel and taking online courses along with some major changes in my personal life.  I took some time away from my blog which I would not suggest doing for long when you have a business online. There is a certain momentum that must be maintained when we are doing business online. Things change quickly and there is always new information to be communicated to your list.  I learned a whole lot of new information last year that I plan on sharing with you over the coming weeks and months. I’m sort of a research hound and I love to take classes especially about internet marketing.

Computers have become such a large part of our lives, and  it seems that workloads have dramatically increased. Now, instead of things getting easier, we’ve gotten busier and more hectic than ever before. We use Twitter and iPhones and we are always checking our Blackberries. Someone once told me that he keyed in directions to his hand held GPS device in an unfamiliar city, then  he couldn’t find his way back to his hotel when he didn’t have his GPS with him.

We have almost forgotten how to use common sense and our own intuition to lead a more balanced and efficient life.

NOTE:  This is the 5th and final  guest post from one of my favorite
internet marketing mentors. I would suggest reading all 5 posts if you are serious about affiliate marketing.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 5
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

The word “overhead” is not a favorite among those who run
businesses of any kind.  Nobody likes the expenses of
operating a business.  And nobody really talks about them
much when it comes to promoting all of the “money-making”
products and services online.

But, don’t kid yourself, there’s a lot of overhead.

NOTE:  Continuing on with the 4th  guest post from one of my favorite marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 4
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

I’m sure by now you are well aware that there are those who
have reported HUGE amounts of money being made with their
online businesses.  What you may not be aware of is the
amount of work involved in generating those “sales” (not
always net profit, mind you … this isn’t “spendable”
income in a lot of cases.)

That brings me to the fourth reason why I love affiliate
marketing…

NOTE:  The following is the 3rd in a series of guest posts from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 3
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Some people have the ability to persuade others and talk
them into just about anything.  Especially when it comes
to influencing their buying decisions.  They know how to
push the right hot buttons, say things the right way and
generally get consumers into an emotional frenzy to the
point they are ready to click an order button.

NOTE:  Today I am continuing the series of  guest posts from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 2
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Pop quiz time.  What does “HTML” stand for?  Don’t know
that one?  How about this – what does “FTP” stand for? OK,
one more chance.  Do you know how to work with either?

That brings me to the second reason why I love affiliate
marketing…

** You don’t need to build a website **

What scares people more than creating a product is building
a website!

NOTE: The following is the beginning of a 5 part series of guest posts from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product
to sell online, but never “finishing” it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –

** You don’t need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to
be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.