Archive for January, 2011

With affiliate programs, you can easily sell products without
even having to have the product in your hand.

As nice as it sounds, you still need to have you own website. This is a
requirement for many affiliate programs.

Having a website is ideal, but to really make money with affiliate programs,
you need to have a website that receives a relatively high amount of traffic.
If you would like to increase the amount of traffic that your website sees,
you should examine newsletters.

They are a great way to increase website traffic.

Before examining how newsletters can help you increase your website’s traffic,
it is best that you first understand newsletters.

When it comes to understanding newsletters, there tends to be a little bit of confusion.
Newsletters come in a number of different shapes, sizes, and styles; they are all used
for different purposes. Newsletters are essentially emails that are sent to those who
have requested to receive them.

Some use newsletters solely to update their customers. Others use them as a means
of regular communication. Despite a variation in purposes, one of the most common
uses of a newsletter is to increase traffic.

One of the most common questions asked, concerning email
newsletters is “why?”

I will answer this question in the next blog post.

Jan Tallent is the Publisher of Rim Digest eZine and has been for TEN+ YEARS!

She is also a Virtual Asssistant doing home based office services
at the business she started off and online almost 13 years ago,
the Tallent Agency .

po box 858 – Steelville, MO 65565 USA

I am a stickler for backing up after two huge computer crashes and a domain company going out of business and BOOM! all of their customers’ files being ALL GONE with NO warning.

I always rename a page on my site that I am updating as “name2.html” – always – BUT, last night, being careless and in a hurry to update my rates page, I neglected to do so and …

what happened next was a near disaster!

ONE teeny tiny error messed up the entire page AND since I had recently cleared my web cache as well, I had no previous instance of the page to copy and start over. I do USUALLY remember to update the files on my laptop, which I use pretty much exclusively for my Twitter tweeting, Facebook commenting and my Facebook Fan Page , BUT, as luck would have it, I had not updated my laptop as I had not used it except to do client work for the past week!

Thank goodness I did make a CD backup the last time I updated the site and added the new Social Media Assistance Package or I have no idea how I would ever have fixed things on that messed up page.

So, please, take a lesson from MY mess up and make sure you:

Name any page you are updating, for example, rates.html – to rates2.html and keep checking that one as you work before making it a permanent change to rates.html

Copy your web site pages, blog posts, etc. to a CD and if possible have them also backed up to another computer or spare room on your domain

Double check that your backups are correct before you do anything permanent that can not be undone or fixed.

Enjoy your wonderful web site and/or blog!

Happy 2011 to all of us! May this be our most successful and wonderful year yet of many more to come that just get better and better!

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing, proofreading
and transcription assignments along with research, blog posts, article submissions
and social media maintenance!

Why not Schedule a Project now?