Adventures in Lifestyle Design from a Path Less Traveled
Are You Down for a Challenge?
Holy cow! It was a little over two years ago that I got serious about making money online after desperately floundering around for a few months reading the latest scams and “theories” in the Warrior Forum!
Things have been crazy busy lately with all the projects I’ve been working on (which has left me little time to write here).
Anyway, even before starting AffiloBlueprint (which I did neurotically for a full year), I learned a lot of the basics of internet marketing by doing Ed Dales’ 30 Day Challenge (These days it’s just called The Challenge).
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4000+ Words on Keyword Research
So, I’m trying to forge out into covering some new topics here, but I just wanted to put a few things to rest about keyword research and SEO first. So in this lengthy blog post, I’m going to lay out how I use Market Samurai to do keyword research.
(FYI: This blog post is filled with affiliate links for Market Samurai, Traffic Travis, and Niche Profit Classroom. If you are considering getting one of these programs, it would really make my day if you got through my affiliate link)
Am I an idiot for revealing my precise keyword research strategy below? Or will the daunting 4,000+ words in this post be enough to deter anyone from actually reading it? You be the judge of that.
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The Marketing Divide
So, over the past several months, I’ve been really pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged to step up my game and take things to a bigger level than I thought I would ever really get to.
I’ve had the good fortune to meet some real game changers since my trip to Las Vegas in May. It scares me to do this, but I think the timing is working out just right.
But first, I want to discuss something that I’ve observed in my own wandering across the internet.
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The Myth of the Soulless Marketer
Note: This is a continuation of a discussion about Awesome Bloggers (people who believe that marketing is beneath them or that quality content should naturally do all the work for them without any marketing effort involved)
I meant to put this out last week, but I got completely snowed under with a deadline that has basically taken over my life for the past three weeks. Well, it’s all done now, so I feel like I can finally get my life back to normal.
Today, I’d like to talk about the second kind of marketer I see online these days. For the sake of this blog post, I’ll call them the Soulless Marketer.
The Soulless Marketer is the opposite of the Awesome Blogger.
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The Myth of the Awesome Blogger
From my observation, there seems to be two distinct kinds of marketers on the internet today.
I’m going to talk about one of them in this post. For the sake of this post, I will refer to them as the Awesome Bloggers.
Awesome Bloggers are people who get into this game because they, like many of us, probably read a book like the 4 Hour Work Week. It opened their eyes to a new way of living their life. They started some kind of feel-good blog about travel, quitting your job, or self-development while caught up in the thrill of leaving their job and vagabonding around the world.
They tend to over-use the term “awesome” (hence the name Awesome Blogger)
There is nothing wrong with Awesome Bloggers. I like them. In fact, I aspire to be one :)
The only problem is that many of them seem to be misled by a lie that has taken root in their collective unconscious.
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