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This is a list of the top 10 affiliate programs for Software and Education that I use in my multiple businesses.
You will find software for email marketing, link tracking, final building, website hosting, video marketing, and much much more.
As always, if you have any questions or would like to collaborate, I am open to ideas and would love to have a conversation.
Together We Accomplish More!
ABOUT: Looking for Search Engine Optimization Training – Ben Theis is owner of Skol Marketing located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Skol Marketing is your resource for getting your small business found on the web. Did you know that businesses with a web presence are expected to grow 40% faster than those that don’t use the web?
WEBSITE: https://skolmarketing.com/
SPECIAL OFFER: Skol Marketing offers many free seminars here in the Twin Cities for small business owners to learn the basic essentials of online marketing.
Search Engine Optimization Training – Search engine optimization is a process of getting great quality and quantity of traffic for your website and will increase the visibility of your website and also your webpages for users when they search the web. Also referred to as SEO it’s the improvement of natural searching which is on pay results.
There are some basic steps for creating search engine optimization for your web posts. When you make a website, you want to choose the right URL. Also putting great titles and descriptions in each one of your post is very important. This also goes for when you create a webpage. You need to add all the text to all your images. This is very time intensive, but it is one of those things that needs to be done. You need to give some structure to your copy so that it is using the right headers and is easy to read. I am not sure how the search engines figure this all out, but they do.
There are a lot of elements to be used when attempting to be found on the Internet. You need to improve your website user experience first of all. You do this by writing great content, and make sure it is optimized for the search engine. You also need to establish back legs. You need to do this from getting other people to link to your site. It is also important to have a website that opens fast. Try not to add too many pictures because images slow down page loading.
Ben and the folks at SKOL Marketing are natural Viking Fans, so a Viking Snack Helmet may be a mandatory accessory for them in their office.
WEBSITE: https://stefanaarnio.com/
In this SynergyCafe VIDEO I interview Stefan Aarnio of Black Card University. He is a coach, consultant and self-made millionaire.
Stefan is an Award Winning Real Estate Entrepreneur, author of Self Made: Confessions of a Twenty Something Self Made Millionaire and the winner of the Rich Dad International Hall Of Fame Award.
STEFAN has a BOOK on AMAZON
Leah notices that MagicBrad has a lot of things going on just from the view of one of his websites. He has a lot of websites online. He determines that it is his Internet real estate.
The focus is live events. People meeting people. The Internet has allowed us to connect with a lot of people all over the world, however it has reduced the time available to actually meet person to person.
The business events that MagicBrad produces, are for people to meet connect and do business. Relationships are one of the most important parts and most difficult to create and nurture and maintain.
Upcoming events, our Synergy First Thursdays, the Minnesota EVENT PLANNER Expo, and also the Minnesota Business Expo.
MagicBrad can be reached at: MagicBradMarketing.com
Laura Pennington is a freelance writer and entrepreneur who threw out her entire business model at the end of 2015. She was sick of working on unfulfilling contracts and outsourcing her work to subcontractors – a process that seemed to add far more work and frustration.
Instead of continuing down Burnout Boulevard, she fired half her clients and kicked off the new year with some commitments, one of which was to only work with clients and subcontractors who allowed her to grow her business the way she wanted to.
You’ll find all her best advice about building a fulfilling and sustainable business here. It’s where she will give you all the juicy details about building a strong digital team or using project management to stay on top of tasks.
One of the biggest changes in her business came when she hired her first VA. Although there was a learning curve, it’s when she finally started to see hours and energy come back to her own biz. You feel the same – you know you want to outsource, but you don’t know how. That’s what she is here to teach you.
So if you’re tired, overwhelmed, and sick of not having a business that fills you with joy or allows you to take time for yourself, deep breath: You got this.
WEBSITE: http://www.betterbizacademy.com/
Tom Gledhill has founded, built and sold 4 companies during his career as a business owner. He is an M&A Advisor and the author of “How To Sell Your Company And Not Leave Money On The Table”. How to sell a business for profit.
Tom has been in the trenches founding, building, and eventually selling his small businesses. He understands a business owners day to day stress – satisfying customers and staff, meeting payroll, and concern about future sales.
He has combined his experience from building and selling his companies and helping many other business owners sell their companies, to develop the XITpro System to help business owners increase the value of their company, make more money, and make their business more salable.
WEBSITE: https://www.xitpros.com/
Building a business is one thing, and building a business for resale is another. If you have a franchise business can you sell it someday? It is hard enough to build a business to be profitable, let alone building it strategically. You need to know if you are going to exit the business, and sell it at a profit, or are you building the business to continue to operate it into your retirement years?
These are two very different aspects of building a business. My old business partner wanted to create a job for himself, so he is still operating the business that we started. My interest was not in having a job. My interest was more in having a business that paid me passively, regardless of if I was working the business or not.
If you seriously are passionate about what your business is therefore, then you might spring out of bed and jump into your office. Honestly, this is not my desired lifestyle. Therefore I have chosen to build a business that is online, and operates 24 hours a day seven days a week regardless of whether I am on site.
The Internet offers a vast array of opportunity for earning an online income. I have seen a surge of coaching businesses that are teaching everything from social media to fitness to business and marketing and the list goes on. It seems where ever you turn, there is a coach. The coaching industry has become very saturated, so it is important for the coach to find a specific niche so they are not overshadowed by the plethora of business and lifestyle coaches online.
In addition to teaching and coaching, there is the affiliate marketing model, where you promote other peoples products and services, and earn a commission from them. I personally prefer this business model, and that you can do your promotion anytime of the day or night, and the sales and fulfillment are handled by the product creator.
The passive affiliate marketing model is significantly different than the hands on coaching model. Although there are some elements of coaching and teaching that you can automate, and make Evergreen. Four example creating some courses that people can buy and learn on their own. However, there is always going to be some handholding when you have students.
With the affiliate marketing model, you are the middleman, and the creator of the product needs to take care of the customers.
If you have other questions about building a business with an exit strategy, please feel free to contact Tom. WEBSITE: https://www.xitpros.com/
If you are interested in the affiliate model, you can contact me. #MagicBrad
One on one coffee meetings may be a waste of time.
Taking the time to drive across town to meet one person for coffee, then having the meeting, purchasing coffee, then taking the time to drive back to your office maybe a very inefficient use of your time.
A more productive time use might be leveraging the power of video streaming online, or perhaps social media advertising.
Also one of my favorite methods of getting new business, is attending tradeshows and expos as an exhibitor. When you take the time to select a proper trade show or event, you can meet a lot of very qualified people in a very short time window.
Trade shows are very cost effective when done correctly. When done wrong they are very expensive.
