If you have known me for a while you have probably noticed a lot of improvements to the blog over the time its been online.

What you don’t see though is the the effects those changes have made.

Everything from getting more traffic, getting better search engine rankings, and yes even some affiliate sales.

Now its no way near as profitable as it could should be but it is getting there.

This blog would probably make a lot more and get a ton more traffic if I didn’t resist against all the information I was given by Mike Paetzold. He has been telling me for years everything I need to do to have a profitable blog up and running.

I always just blew it off as unnecessary work that wouldn’t be worth the time or effort.

Well it took me long enough but I have started implementing some of what he has been telling me to do. Turns out he was right all along ( yes Mike go ahead and say it , you told me so) ,and to top it off  it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort as I had made myself picture.

It’s a common mistake that a lot of people make and one I normally talk about, but I was a victim of it too!

Over thinking and Over Complicating things. It’s so easy to start thinking of everything that needs to be done and everything that will need to get done that you can easily overwhelm yourself and convince yourself that its too much for you to take on.

Well there are a ton of old sayings that could apply here,

“You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step”
“whether you think you can or can’t you are right”

or one I often use is “How do you eat an elephant?” to which the answer is “one bite at a time”.

What it all boils down to is not overwhelming your self with everything that needs to be done. Yes its good to have a plan but the best plan in the world is useless unless some one actually follows it.

Luckily for me I didn’t have to do much planning since Mike Paetzold had already laid one out for me. He has told me exactly what I would need to do, but I just got hung up on all the details and staring at the elephant as a whole instead of whipping out my fork and knife and taking that first bite.

Luckily for you Mike has taken all that same information he has shared with me and created a bite by bite audio /video series that tells you exactly where to dig in and where all the best parts of that elephant are.

In his new audio/video course at Profitable Blog Steps Mike walks you through the exact steps to easily have your own profitable blog.

If You hurry you can grab an extremely discounted Price at

http://profitableblogsteps.com

My earlier post may have caught you a bit off guard. I mean here I am a program owner, but I am telling you not to promote programs directly.

At first glance that may seem strange. Of course as a program owner I love it when people promote my sites. I enjoy sending out commission payments, and I get great joy when I get an email that is talking about me or one of my products or services.

So why would I say not to promote your referral link to my business?

It’s simple, the more successful you are the more business you can send me. Instead of promoting my business you should be promoting yourself. Build your own list and start building a relationship with that list.

Then if you like my products or services tell your list about it. You will get better results and I will end up sending you a bigger commission check.

With the same amount of traffic exchange credits that it would take you to get one sign up in a site that has been around for three years you could get two, three or maybe even more opt-ins to your list.

You could then sell things to that list several more times.

For arguments sake lets say it takes 1,000 credits. The average price for 1,000 hits is $10, so we will say it takes $10 to get one person into what ever program it is your promoting. Now if that that program is paying you $10 per sign up you just broke even.

But if you were to use those 1,000 credits and get just three opt-ins to your list. You could promote your program a little more, give more detail about it and maybe convert two of those members into paying customers. So now you have already doubled what you could have earned, and have gotten 100% increase in profits.

Now you also have these members on your list and you can recommend other products and services to them. How much more can you make?

Think about this for a second before you copy and paste your next affiliate link into your favorite TE, Safelist or any other promotion method you may use.