How to get started with affiliate marketing for passive income

affiliate marketing passive income

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make passive income online. Essentially this is the process of selling other company’s products for a commission on the sale. For example, you might sell a $50 product and get 6% or $3.00. With a good amount of traffic though your affiliate link, this could multiply into a [...] Read more »

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Hello and welcome to the Online Marketing Studio blog. My name is Steinar Knutsen and I am a full-time Internet Marketing & Technology Consultant. I’ve been blogging since 2001 and use this blog as a platform to test new ideas and share with you what works. If this is your first time to my blog, you [...] Read more »

How to Find and Add Local Google Plus Users to your Circles and Grow your Social Network

Share my local Google Plus Circle

Searching for and adding local Google Plus users to your Circles can be a time consuming process, but I’ve come up with a solution to make it easier. I’ll use my “Cville” circle for local Charlottesville Google Plus users as an example. 1. Share your local Google Plus Circle with your followers. Go to Circles [...] Read more »

Differentiate Yourself And Your Business For Online Market Leadership

Differentiate Yourself And Your Business For Market Leadership - YouTube

I’ve been thinking a lot about online market leadership lately and what businesses can do to differentiate themselves online. You see, it’s so crowded on Twitter and Facebook and blogs these days that it’s tough sometimes to stand out from the crowd. How do I differentiate myself and my business? Personally, it’s all about pushing [...] Read more »

Worksheet: Define Your Target Market

target market worksheet

As a business owner or marketing manager, defining your target market is one of the first things we know we should do, but is often forgotten or remains stagnant over the years. The problem with this is that as your business grows and your customers change, you risk losing focus on those who need you [...] Read more »

Mind Map: Elements of a good blog post

how to write a good blog post

A little mind map brainstorming on my iPhone about elements of a good blog post. What would you change or add? Read more »

Social Media: You Can’t Be Everywhere, Nor Should You

social media be everywhere

As marketers, many of us strive to “be everywhere” on the Internet.  It seems like a reasonable goal given the capabilities of tools like TweetDeck, Ping.fm and others that allow us to continuously share information across multiple social media platforms at once. Or maybe, you’re spending hours shooting video, blogging and podcasting because you almost [...] Read more »

7 Free Goal Setting Templates and Worksheets to Download

goal setting template and worksheet

If you’re looking for a great goal setting template or worksheet to download, you should find the following resources helpful. For me, goal setting is an important process to help clarify both short-term and long-term objectives. Without goals we can easily fall into reactionary mode, whereby we fail to evaluate opportunities relative to our overall [...] Read more »

Social Media Expands with Launch of Google Plus Pages for Business

After much anticipation, Google Plus Pages launched this week.  It’s another significant step for Google as they attempt to steal market share from leading social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.  To setup your Google Plus Page, visit http://plus.google.com/pages/create. Here’s a quick quote from their official blog post announcing Google Plus Pages … In life [...] Read more »