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		<title>Tons Of Unbeatable Affiliate Marketing Tips And Tricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Make Money Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for some ways to boost your Affiliate sales?  Check out these tips and tricks! #1 &#8211; The Most Important Tip The most important key to having a successful affiliate marketing program is to choose a high-quality product. Promoting affiliate products on your site means putting your credibility on the line. If you try to [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/MP900399463.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3455" alt="U.S. Coins and Paper Money" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/MP900399463-239x300.jpg" width="239" height="300" /></a>Looking for some ways to boost your Affiliate sales?  Check out these tips and tricks!</p>
<h2>#1 &#8211; The Most Important Tip</h2>
<p>The most important key to having a successful affiliate marketing program is to choose a high-quality product. Promoting affiliate products on your site means putting your credibility on the line. If you try to sell your visitors on a shoddy or second-rate product, you will lose their trust and their business.</p>
<h2>#2 &#8211; &#8220;Sell&#8221; Your Product</h2>
<p>When working as an affiliate, you cannot assume that people know what the product is or what it does. And you certainly cannot assume that people know how the product will benefit them. You need to spell this out in a clear and concise manner. Readers only know what you&#8217;re telling them about the product.</p>
<h2>#3 &#8211; Choose Where You&#8217;re Sending Them</h2>
<p>Where you put affiliate ad graphics and links on the page is as important as what you choose to link to. <em>Tanya&#8217;s Note: Make sure you actually visit the page that you&#8217;re sending your readers to.  You want the information they find there to be clear and really help them understand what the product is all about.</em></p>
<h2>#4 &#8211; Place Your Ads Wisely</h2>
<p>If you have a menu at the left, putting a small graphic at the top is good. Links within content are also excellent, as is at the end of an article right above the comments.</p>
<h2>#5 &#8211; Would YOU Buy?</h2>
<p>Check out the website of the affiliate program you&#8217;d like to join and consider whether you would buy from it. Does it look professional? Is it eye-catching? Can you easily navigate it? How hard is it to find help? Is there a phone number and address available? If you trust it, your readers will, too.</p>
<h2>#6 &#8211; Use Article Marketing To Grow Your Reach</h2>
<p>Make sure you are <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/2011/08/9-article-writing-keys-for-article-marketing-newbies-pt-1/">submitting quality articles to the major article marketing directories</a> every weekday. Don&#8217;t let up &#8211; build this into your routine so that it happens without you even thinking about it. Hire a virtual assistant to login to the directories under your name and upload the articles for you each day.</p>
<h2>#7 &#8211; Be Honest</h2>
<p>When using affiliate marketing, be sure to be honest about your intentions. Let the visitors know that you are doing affiliate marketing. When you are honest with your visitors/readers, you will gain their loyalty. When a reader uses your referral link, they will feel good about it if they know that you are using affiliate marketing and that they are able to help you.</p>
<h2>#8 &#8211; Treat Your Readers Right</h2>
<p>It is important that you treat your website visitors right. They know an affiliate advertisement when they see one. If you endorse a product that you do not believe in or if you take advantage of their visit with excessive ads, then they will not visit your website in the future.</p>
<h2>#9 &#8211; Broaden Your Horizons</h2>
<p>Some people avoid promoting high-ticket items through their affiliate marketing business because they feel that those items are too hard to sell. However, your sales skills often play a more important role in your success than the cost of the product. If you can write effectively, you can let potential buyers know how the product looks, feels and sounds. You can give them a sense of what it would feel like to actually own the product. Appeal to their senses in creative and tempting ways. Make them feel as if they can&#8217;t live without the product, for another day.</p>
<h2>#10 &#8211; Affiliate Marketing Is For The Long Term</h2>
<p>Affiliate marketing should be approached as a long term project. It all starts with building a web site or blog. The consistent creation of great content and the generation of traffic is next. Only then should affiliate links and banners be added. As one progresses it become easier to determine the right placement for the ads and the type of content that converts. So, be prepared for the long haul to become a successful affiliate marketer.</p>
<h2>#11 &#8211; Once You&#8217;re Comfortable&#8230; Promote!</h2>
<p>If you plan to hold a contest with an affiliate company, promote the heck out of it! You&#8217;ll have to dedicate the bulk of your time to posting the link on forums, social media, contest directories, &#8220;Linky&#8221; lists, and any website which shares a similar topic to yours. It&#8217;s a lot of work but the increase in sales will be worth it!</p>
<p>As previously explained, affiliate marketing can be a wise marketing strategy.</p>
<p>Every business could benefit from having more customers or developing new ones.</p>
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		<title>37+ GMail Keyboard Shortcuts &#8211; Use These Tricks To Email More Efficiently!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are keyboard shortcuts that Gmail recognizes? Maybe I&#8217;m in the dark a bit, but I didn&#8217;t know these were set &#8211; or that there were so many of them! Anyway, I thought I would share the shortcuts that I&#8217;ve found &#8211; and hopefully help make your emailing take up just [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that there are keyboard shortcuts that Gmail recognizes?</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m in the dark a bit, but I didn&#8217;t know these were set &#8211; or that there were so many of them!</p>
<p>Anyway, I thought I would share the shortcuts that I&#8217;ve found &#8211; and hopefully help make your emailing take up just a little bit less of your time!</p>
<p>As someone who uses Gmail <em>a lot</em> for my blogging, I look forward to putting these shortcuts to good use!</p>
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		<title>30 WordPress Tips YOU Can Use Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know, WordPress is a dynamic web publishing platform and the choice of over 60 million website owners. You can use it to create a professional looking blog or traditional website quickly and relatively easily. There are also countless ways that you can customize your WordPress site so that it uniquely reflects your [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you probably know, WordPress is a dynamic web publishing platform and the choice of over 60 million website owners. You can use it to create a professional looking blog or traditional website quickly and relatively easily. There are also countless ways that you can customize your WordPress site so that it uniquely reflects your business.<a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/30wordpress-tips.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6233" alt="30wordpress tips" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/30wordpress-tips.png" width="526" height="169" /></a>Here Are 30 WordPress Tips That YOU Can Use Today:</p>
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<li><b>Use a Landing Page.</b> Change your site so that it displays a custom landing page instead of your current posts. Many themes have this feature, or you could use a premium solution such as <a href="http://getpremise.com/" target="_blank">Premise for WordPress</a>.</li>
<li><b>Strengthen Your Footer.</b> Make the best possible use of the space at the bottom of your theme to include important links, a short bio or other important information about your site.</li>
<li><b>Update Your Theme.</b> Are your traffic numbers flat or falling? When’s the last time you updated your WordPress theme? The answers might be related. If your theme no longer reflects the current branding of your company, then <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/blog-makeover-service/" target="_blank">update or switch to a new theme</a>.</li>
<li><b>Start Video Blogging.</b> The current version of WordPress makes it extremely easy to post video content.</li>
<li><b>Improve Your Permalinks.</b> By changing the URLs for the articles on your WordPress website to include fewer (but higher value) keywords, you may be able to improve the ranking of those articles on the search engines.</li>
<li><b>Leverage Your Images.</b> Each time you upload an image, make sure to tag it with appropriate “title” and “alternate text” tags to assist your search engine rank. The “title” is also what appears when someone tries to “pin” your image to Pinterest.</li>
<li><b>Improve Your Sidebars.</b> Use <a href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/wordpress/enhanced-sidebars-with-dynamic-content/">this tutorial</a> to populate the sidebar areas of your site with content that can be dynamically selected and displayed based on a number of different parameters that you specify.</li>
<li><b>Add Page Numbers to Blog Post Comments.</b> If you have a particularly active community of users who comment on your blog posts, use a plugin such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/">WP-Paginate</a> to add page numbers your comment pages.</li>
<li><b>Hide Certain Post Categories From Your Home Page.</b> Install the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pe-category-filter/">PE Category Filter</a> to keep certain categories of post off your home page, but still keep them available on other portions of your site.</li>
<li><b>Let Users Register or Comment with Facebook.</b> There are many different ways you can integrate your site with Facebook. The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/">Simple Facebook Connect</a> plugin is one of the best and easiest ways to start.</li>
<li><b>Make Sure Everything is Current.</b> This should almost go without saying, but take a few minutes today to make sure that your WordPress install, your plugins and current theme are all current.</li>
<li><b>Enable Avatars.</b> In order to make your commenting environment more personal, you can enable avatars in the &gt;&gt; Settings&gt;&gt;Discussion area of your dashboard</li>
<li><b>Check Your Site as a Visitor.</b> If you’re only viewing your site through your admin dashboard, you may be missing out if something weird happens to the display. Logout of WordPress then reload your site to verify.</li>
<li><b>Add an Author Bio.</b> Follow <a href="http://wphacks.com/how-to-add-bio-info-to-wordpress-posts/">this tutorial</a> to add a brief author bio to each blog post.</li>
<li><b>Display a Random Post as a Tweet.</b> You beef up your Twitter account by using <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-old-post/" target="_blank">this simple plugin</a> to automatically display a random post as a tweet.</li>
<li><b>Change Author During Editing</b>. To be able to identify a particular author when creating a new post, you must change your default settings. From the “Add New Post” page, click “Screen Options,” then “Author.”</li>
<li><b>Clean Up Your Comments</b>. While plugins like Akismet do a good job of filtering out blatant comment spam, you can also use <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-remove-author-url-and-comment-links/">this plugin</a> to help you get rid of commenters who spam through their author URLs and comment links.</li>
<li><b>Highlight Author Comments</b>. If you actively engage in conversations with your readers through the comments sections of your posts, you can use the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-author-highlighter/">Simple Author Highlighter</a> plugin to make your comment responses stand out.</li>
<li><b>Display a Random Post.</b> If your website has hundreds of posts, you may want to make it more likely that new readers will be able to discover some of your older material. Use the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-post-for-widget/">Random Post Widget</a> plugin to display a link to a random post in a sidebar widget.</li>
<li><b>Members Only.</b> Consider building a membership area of your website by selecting a new theme or plugin with those capabilities.</li>
<li><b>Use Breadcrumb Navigation.</b> “Breadcrumb Navigation” is a navigation that can provide you with SEO advantages, and can make your site easier to use by your site visitors. If your theme doesn’t offer native support, consider a plugin such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hansel-gretel/">this</a>.</li>
<li><b>Encourage Social Sharing</b>. Make it easier for your readers to share your website on Facebook and Twitter with a comprehensive <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/loginradius-for-wordpress/">social sharing plugin</a>.</li>
<li><b>Personalize Your Greeting.</b> Use a plugin like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/" target="_blank">WP Greet Box</a> to change the message that appears at the top of the page when someone loads your blog, depending on how they found your blog.</li>
<li><b>Redirect after Comment.</b> Readers who make comments are likely to stay more active on your blog, so you can use <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-redirect/">this plugin</a> to take them to a special page after they make their first comment.</li>
<li><b>Schedule Future Publication.</b> On each new post page, there’s an option to schedule future publication of a post. This means you can prepare a number of posts all at once, then schedule them for an even publication stream.</li>
<li><b>Allow Readers to Easily Email Links to Your Articles.</b> Use the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/">WP-Email</a> plugin to help your readers share your posts via email.</li>
<li><b>Disable HTML in Comments</b>. Disable the HTML risks in your comments by using <a href="http://www.theblog.ca/literal-comments">this tutorial</a>.</li>
<li><b>Speed Load Times.</b> Use a caching plugin to make your site load faster.</li>
<li><b>Change Image Quality.</b> Update the default size of your thumbnails in &gt;&gt;Settings&gt;&gt;Media.</li>
<li><b>Install Google Analytics.</b> If you’re not yet using <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a> to analyze your site traffic then install a Google Analytics plugin and get started today.</li>
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<p>There are so many little things you can do with WordPress that can add up to big results. Just work on one thing a day and you’ll have an improved blog in no time.<a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/30wordpress-tips2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6234" alt="30wordpress tips2" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/30wordpress-tips2.png" width="508" height="124" /></a></p>
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		<title>Are You Sabotaging Your Own Blogging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you ever find yourself thinking about how much you <em>can&#8217;t </em>do right now in your blogging?  I know I do!  Sometimes everything that needs to be done is just too overwhelming for the moment!<a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/not-cants.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6288" alt="not-cants" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/not-cants.jpg" width="250" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>My challenge to you this weekend is to stop focusing on what you <em>can</em><em>&#8216;t</em> do and start thinking about all you already <em>can</em> and <em>actually are doing</em> with your blog!<em></em></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get stuck in the negative and drag your blogging down with you!</p>
<h1>So, What CAN You Do Right Now In Your Blogging?</h1>
<p>What did you accomplish recently?  Or what new skill or improvement did you add to your blogging lately?  Tell me about it in the comments!  I&#8217;m excited to hear what you have going on!  Remember, even the seemingly small things are a step forward!<strong>Popular Posts:</strong>
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		<title>This Week&#8217;s HOT Blogging Deal: Get 5 Blogging E-Books For Just $7.40!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a blogger, it&#8217;s important to always be learning and moving forward with your blogging know-how. And, today&#8217;s deal is a steal that will help you do just that! Get The Following Blogging E-books For Just $7.40 (normally $25.95)! Blogger Behave by Laura Booz Pinteresting by Tabitha Philen Blog-at-Home Mom by Christin Slade 25 Simple [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a blogger, it&#8217;s important to always be learning and moving forward with your blogging know-how.</p>
<p>And, today&#8217;s deal is a steal that will help you do just that!<br />
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<h1>Get The Following Blogging E-books For <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Just $7.40</span> <em>(normally $25.95)</em>!</h1>
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<li>Blogger Behave by Laura Booz</li>
<li>Pinteresting by Tabitha Philen</li>
<li>Blog-at-Home Mom by Christin Slade</li>
<li>25 Simple Ways to Make Money Blogging by Tara Ziegmont</li>
<li>30 Days to Make and Sell a Fabulous Ebook by Angela England</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://bundleoftheweek.com/blogging-bundle-week-19/?ap_id=blogelina" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here</strong></a> To Get Your Bundle Today!</p>
<p><em>This deal expires early morning on May 13th &#8211; so don&#8217;t delay!</em></p>
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		<title>The Keys To Finding More Time To Blog: There Is A Way!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve helped bloggers start and maintain their own profitable blogs over the years, the one complaint I hear over and over is &#8220;I just need more time!&#8221;.  And it&#8217;s true&#8230; Finding the time to blog well can be difficult, especially when you factor in family, friends, other jobs, school&#8230; You name it! Here Are [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I&#8217;ve helped bloggers start and maintain their own profitable blogs over the years, the one complaint I hear over and over is &#8220;I just need more time!&#8221;.  And it&#8217;s true&#8230; Finding the time to blog well can be difficult, especially when you factor in family, friends, other jobs, school&#8230; You name it!<a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MB900433178.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5196 alignright" alt="MB900433178" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MB900433178.jpg" width="192" height="192" /></a></p>
<h2>Here Are A Few Ways To Find More Time To Blog!</h2>
<h1>1.      Find your most productive time of day. <b> </b></h1>
<p>It’s a sad fact that most of us really know our most productive time of day – that time when you can think clearly and sharply, you’re in the “zone” and you get twice as much work done as later (or earlier) in the day.  It’s a sad fact because few of us honor those precious hours.  Instead we fill them with non-billable, non-creative tasks such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Checking email</li>
<li>Cruising Facebook</li>
<li>Making beds</li>
<li>Browsing news sites and websites</li>
</ul>
<p>And doing a whole host of other tasks that could easily be done (a) another time during the day (b) after “hours” (c) by someone else.</p>
<p>When you find that sweet spot in your day, make it sacred.  Cut out everything that will distract you. Find other solutions, if it’s something you “have” to do.  (There’s always a way!)</p>
<p>But honor that sweet spot – and use it!</p>
<h1>2.      Change “bad” working habits.</h1>
<p>In the same vein, if you find you need a cup of coffee to wake up and you like to browse Facebook while you do so (until the fog clears from your brain) that’s okay.  But if you find that you end up browsing Facebook for two hours (well into your creative sweet spot), find a way to “break” that habit – merely resolving not to do it is guaranteed not to work.</p>
<p>What you have to do is keep your routine but change one key point about it.</p>
<p>For example, if coffee and Facebook always go together for you, give up Facebook – but don’t try to work:  Replace it with something more productive, such as reading articles in authority online magazines or blogs such as Mashable or TechCrunch or any industry-specific online publication that’s in the forefront with news, innovations and developments. Another solution:  Don’t get on the computer at all!  Have your coffee in the sunroom – and read a real magazine or a daily newspaper, just like your grandparents did.</p>
<p>Pick one magazine from your stash and stick to just one.  That way, it’s a self-limiting activity: When the magazine ends, you get up and go to work.</p>
<p>If it’s the coffee itself that triggers an insatiable need to play Mine Sweeper, don’t have too many coffees during the day:  Substitute a different drink – Chai tea, herbal tea, tea, hot chocolate or even a cold drink.</p>
<h1>3.      Trick yourself into working when you don’t want to.</h1>
<p>Another name for not working when you know you should is “procrastination”.  Often there are deep-seated reasons for this:</p>
<ul>
<li>You feel over-faced by an impossible schedule or an intimidating task</li>
<li>You’re about to tackle the “boring” donkey-work part of your project</li>
<li>You have an unpleasant email to send or phone call to make</li>
<li>You had really authoritarian teachers and/or parents</li>
<li>You really, really hate what you’re doing</li>
<li>Playing Mine Sweeper is more fun</li>
</ul>
<p>All of these can be addressed differently.  For example, if you find one consistent part of every project “boring donkey work”, then outsource it to someone to whom it’s their favorite part.  If Mine Sweeper is more fun, use a physical timer that literally “dings” when it’s time to stop – and keeps on dinging if you don’t.  And if you really, really hate what you’ve chosen for a career, change it.</p>
<p>But the best strategy for dealing with procrastination is to trick yourself.</p>
<p>It goes like this…</p>
<ul>
<li>You don’t want to write that report on growing Savoy cabbages.  For one thing, it’s fifty pages long.  Tell yourself “I’ll just write <b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">five hundred words</span></i></b>”.  If you promise yourself this and just start writing, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you’ll get into your stride and you’ll be soaring past five hundred words with ease. (And it there’s no particular magic about five hundred:  One hundred would work just as well, or two-fifty…)</li>
<li>Plan really unpleasant tasks the night before, and get everything you need ready.  For example, you need to be planning that report on Savoy cabbages and writing a good outline.  One strategy is to say (instead of “I’ll just write five hundred words”):  “Today I’m just going to <b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">write the outline</span></i></b>.  And then I’ll reward myself with a cup of Earl Grey.”</li>
<li>If you feel intimidated by a task, <b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">break it down into small components</span></i></b>.  Promise yourself:  “I’ll just make a list of things for my shopping cart today “ (instead of trying to set the whole thing up in one sweep).</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately, however, there’s no nice way to trick yourself when it comes to unpleasant phone calls or emails you have to write.  That’s a case of “Just do it”.</p>
<h1>4.      Reduce your expectations.</h1>
<p>Most work-at-home entrepreneurs want to do too much in a day.   Somehow, we become conditioned to thinking we have to get a million things done – and we trick ourselves into not counting activities such as field phone calls from the school, picking up sick kids, coming up with something for dinner, answering the phone, answering text messages and emails, finding out that the simple fact we needed to look up leads to a whole chain of frustrating links that don’t give the right information and discovering that the “simple” graphics we’re supposed to include with our report all need fine tweaking that adds hours to a project.</p>
<p>Then we beat ourselves up for not getting anything finished.</p>
<p><b>Pre-planning</b> will reduce these mountainous expectations to a normal level – particularly if we combine that with <b>time tracking</b>.  (Use a simple time clock program such as <a href="http://www.spudcity.com/traxtime/">TraxTime</a> to do this easily.)</p>
<p>Then we’ll discover that we know, to a “T”, exactly how much time it takes per graphic… and that we are interrupted an average of 2.3 hours per day.</p>
<p>Many work-at-home time experts actually recommend you only plan on achieving <b>one major priority per day</b>, work-wise.</p>
<p>If you manage to accomplish that, you’ll be doing better than most people in your situation!</p>
<h1>5.      Unsubscribe.</h1>
<p>If your email inbox is getting flooded with marketing emails (something that seems to happen to anyone who uses the net for a living), unsubscribe to all but your top ten.</p>
<p>An alternative – unsubscribe from everybody and create a new email address.  Re-subscribe to your top ten favorite niche or industry leaders from this address.</p>
<p>Yet a third alternative is to create a brand new email address and announce it to friends and family.  Warn them that if they send emails to your old address, their mail may be deleted since your old address is now your “trash” file.  (Don’t tell them it’s your “work” email – most relatives will then feel an overpowering urge to prove to themselves that they are your exception; and that you will welcome emails at that address, any time.)</p>
<h1>6.      Organize your email addresses.</h1>
<p>In fact, you may wish to set up new email addresses and organize them something like this:</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">cratchit@bobsyouruncle.com</span> = Family, close friends, contact address for your kids’ school or lessons (your strictly personal email)</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">info@bobsyouruncle.com</span>       = your blog email address</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">offers@bobsyouruncle.com</span>    = your subscription address:  The one you sign up with</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">clients@bobsyouruncle.com</span>   = Correspondence to and from clients only</li>
</ul>
<p>That way, you should never experience inbox confusion (or miss important emails) again.  And you will know where to look for particular types of email.</p>
<p>You can even read each inbox on different schedules, instead of compulsively checking each one, all at once.</p>
<h1>7.      Make and use Templates.</h1>
<p>Take stock of forms you regularly fill out, letters you regularly send and other types of documents you create.  Do you ever feel you’re re-writing them endlessly?  (Gets pretty boring, doesn’t it?)</p>
<p>Take your latest batch of documents and create Templates you can use again and again, dumping in only specifics.</p>
<p>When it comes to using Templates…</p>
<ul>
<li>Blank out all previous specific data (e.g. Put “Dear _______,” – not “Dear Bill”, the name of the previous client you sent it to).  That way, if the worst happens and you forget to fill in a field, a client will find a blank less offensive than someone else’s name.</li>
<li>Keep them in a separate folder called “Templates” right on your desktop.  (Make a back up for your “My Documents” file, just in case you have a computer hard drive or CPU disaster one day – data kept on the desktop is likely to permanently disappear.)</li>
</ul>
<p>When you open a template, get into the habit of saving it immediately – before you’ve entered any data – with your new specific filename, in your project file folder.  That way, you won’t have any nasty accidents – and you’ll always have a master copy intact.  (Keep a back-up Templates folder in your Dropbox or Google Drive – formerly Google Docs – too).</p>
<p>And don’t just make Templates for documents:  If you work in different areas than in content creation, such as graphic or web design, or sewing, use Templates, patterns and graphs for these too.</p>
<h1>8.       Don’t write – Dictate!</h1>
<p>If you struggle with the written word (or you’re short of time), try dictating your content into a tape recorder or even your web cam or video camera.</p>
<p>Then either have your VA transcribe it, pay someone new to transcribe it (if you  don’t have a VA)  or transcribe it yourself.  (Transcribing is generally faster than creating-and-writing at the same time.)</p>
<p>You may be astonished at the results.  Your content will sound real, authentic and it won’t end up a stilted copy of everyone else’s content.  (And yes, of course you can cut out the “ummms” and “uuuuhs”.)</p>
<h1>9.      Simplify Your Life.</h1>
<p>I know.  Easier said than done, right?  But break it down into small components and you’ll find it’s not only possible, but a relief!</p>
<p>First you’ll need two boxes or totes – one marked “Keep” (or designated with the storage area you’re sending it to), one marked “Donate” – and a nice, extra-strong garbage bag.</p>
<p>Pick a quiet day, when the kids are at school (or hockey practice) and work is slow.  If that never happens, just write it into your schedule and plan around it.</p>
<ul>
<li><b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Simplify your physical office space</span></i></b> – Haven’t used that old HTML manual for fifteen years? Throw it out or donate it!  That pot of silk flowers looking drab and dusty?  Toss it out.  Never use the inbox?  Donate it.  Your only question should be “Am I using that at all, these days?”</li>
</ul>
<p>If the answer is “no” – out it goes.  With your office clean and lean, you’ll feel refreshed and slightly uplifted.  You may even feel you can “think” again.  Clutter in our physical space creates clutter in the mind for most people.</p>
<p>So if in doubt – chuck it out.  (That goes for house cleaning, too!)</p>
<ul>
<li><b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Simplify your Workload</span></i></b> – Too many clients, rather than too few?  Stretching yourself too thin?  Working night and day?</li>
</ul>
<p>You have two options – and you really should take both of them, if you can.</p>
<ul>
<li>Outsource some of your tasks or projects</li>
<li>Raise your prices.  (You’ll especially need to do that if you’ve taken the step to outsourcing.)</li>
</ul>
<p>Whatever is happening, you’re in demand.  It can mean you’re selling yourself short.  Literally</p>
<p>And if your workload is too heavy and you don’t want to outsource – lose your most troublesome clients.</p>
<ul>
<li><b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Simplify your Social Life</span></i></b> – If this too is stretched too thin, drop people.  Sounds cruel, I know:  But it’s worse to be endlessly cancelling engagements.</li>
</ul>
<p>Want to see more of certain people?  Dropping the ones that are really peripheral will help make this a reality.</p>
<p>And do choose a specific night or two a week for socializing, leaving weekends for occasional engagements.</p>
<p>Get your friends together in a group and start a book club – and bring a pot luck supper or even just snacks.  Have a Girl’s Movie Night (with coffee at Starbucks or your favorite donut shop afterwards).</p>
<p>Go snow-shoeing together every Saturday morning in winter.  Start an exercise group at your local pool in summer.  Not only will something like the latter two suggestions be enjoyable, you’ll be killing two birds with one stone by getting healthy exercise too.</p>
<p>By creating your own group based around a common, enjoyable hobby or interest, you get to see several friends at once.  You stay in touch – and you have a great time without the pressure of having to invite someone over reciprocally.  (Hosting a quilting circle meeting at your place every six weeks because you’re all rotating houses is a lot easier than one-on-one reciprocity.)</p>
<p>So there you have it.  Twenty-one creative ideas for saving time.  Some will be new to you, some will make you say “I already do that” – but tips like this can help with the most creative function at all, when you commit yourself to reading them.</p>
<p>And that is… getting started in saving more time and working less!</p>
<h1>What&#8217;s Missing From The List?</h1>
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		<title>How To Recover From A Bumpy Week of Blogging&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who follow along here at Blogelina, you may have noticed me missing quite a bit this week.  I missed posting the weekly goals link-up and my promised post on Tuesday about blogging hours and how to manage blogging time didn&#8217;t happen.  We lost electricity here at our house due to a [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those of you who follow along here at Blogelina, you may have noticed me missing quite a bit this week.  I missed posting <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/2013/04/5-blogging-goals-for-this-week-2/">the weekly goals link-up</a> and my promised post on Tuesday about blogging hours and how to manage blogging time didn&#8217;t happen.  We lost electricity here at our house due to a big wind storm on Monday and somehow it&#8217;s thrown the whole week for a loop!</p>
<p>I think it might have something to do with having three kiddos underfoot, too &#8211; unplanned catastrophes are a bit harder to recover from &#8211; at least for me!</p>
<h2>Life Happens &#8211; Deal With It&#8230;</h2>
<p>All that to say&#8230; While I&#8217;ve been tempted this week to get discouraged with how far behind I am, today I&#8217;m <em>choosing</em> not to let it get to me.</p>
<p>While I really emphasize in <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/profitable-blogging-for-beginners-the-online-class-january-session/">my online blogging class</a> that consistency is crucial in blogging &#8211; and it is &#8211; we do have to remember that we are human!  Humans living real lives where sometimes unplanned things come up and plans just don&#8217;t work out as we had hoped.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ll be back next week &#8211; at least I plan to be!</p>
<p>Thanks so much for being such amazing readers!</p>
<h1>How Has YOUR Week Been?</h1>
<p>Any insights to offer for those of who didn&#8217;t quite accomplish what we had hoped to?  Please share in the comments!</p>
<h3>Plus, Here&#8217;s a Fun Infographic On Time Management Tips For Small Business Owners (That&#8217;s You If You Blog For Profit!)&#8230;</h3>
<p><img class="infographic_embedder" alt="Time Management Tips for Small Business Owners [INFOGRAPHIC] - An Infographic from Marketing Mojo for Small Business" src="http://blog.webs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/webs_infograhic-time-management-minute.png" width="100%" /></p>
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		<title>This Week&#8217;s Blogging Freebies &amp; Deals &#8211; HUGE Bundle of E-Books This Week Only!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 04:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a HUGE bundle of Homemaking Ebooks available &#8211; this week ONLY &#8211; and ONLY for $29.97! There are 80+ e-books, e-courses, and resources in this bundle on an amazing list of topics from an amazing list of bloggers! Books On Blogging &#38; Small Business Ownership: These books are included in the bundle &#8211; [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a <strong>HUGE</strong> bundle of Homemaking Ebooks available &#8211; this week ONLY &#8211; and ONLY for $29.97!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=229192&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6220" alt="Collage-bundle" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Collage-bundle.jpg" width="400" height="400" /></a></p>
<h2>There are 80+ e-books, e-courses, and resources in this bundle on an amazing list of topics from an amazing list of bloggers!</h2>
<h1>Books On Blogging &amp; Small Business Ownership:</h1>
<p>These books are included in the bundle &#8211; take your blogging to next level this year with these great resources!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1053228&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank">Your Blogging Business: Tax, Talk and Tips</a> ($4.99)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=224560&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank">The Bootstrap VA</a> ($12.99)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=187354&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank">How to Grow Your Blog and Manage Your Home</a> ($4.99)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=929414&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784&amp;cl=69376" target="_blank">How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too </a>($12.00)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=139993&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank">Simple Blogging: Less Computer Time, Better Blogging</a> ($8.00)</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=229192&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here</strong></a> To Get Access to ALL of the Above</p>
<h1>PLUS&#8230; You Get:</h1>
<p>$600+ worth of other valuable resources on the following topics, too:</p>
<ul>
<li>Budgeting</li>
<li>Organizing,</li>
<li>Decor</li>
<li>Spiritual Growth</li>
<li>Motherhood</li>
<li>Health &amp; Fitness</li>
<li>&#8230;and more!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss Out On This Amazing Deal &#8211; Act NOW and <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=229192&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=102784" target="_blank">get $640+ worth of inspiration for just $29.97</a>!</strong><strong>Popular Posts:</strong>
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		<title>You Can Get There &#8211; What Blogging Dreams Are YOU Reaching For This Weekend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things I tell bloggers who take our Profitable Blogging For Beginners class is&#8230; While it is very possible to earn a full-time income from blogging, it doesn&#8217;t happen overnight. Blogging is not a &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; type of thing. But, It IS Possible For YOU To Make Money Blogging &#8211; And [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the first things I tell bloggers who take our <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/profitable-blogging-for-beginners-the-online-class-january-session/">Profitable Blogging For Beginners</a> class is&#8230;</p>
<p>While it is very possible to earn a full-time income from blogging, it doesn&#8217;t happen overnight.</p>
<p>Blogging is not a &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; type of thing.</p>
<h3><strong>But, It IS Possible For YOU To Make Money Blogging &#8211; And Be Quite Successful At It!</strong></h3>
<h1>The Real Question Is&#8230; Do You Have What It Takes?</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/darrenrowsequote.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6194" alt="darrenrowsequote" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/darrenrowsequote.jpg" width="700" height="415" /></a></p>
<h1>What Are You Dreaming About For Your Blog Right Now?</h1>
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		<title>Blogging Freebies &amp; Deals &#8211; Blog Back-Up Service, FREE Content For Your Blog, FREE $50, and More!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing a BRAND NEW feature here at Blogelina! Each Thursday, we&#8217;ll be highlighting Deals &#38; Freebies that will help you in your blogging ventures.  We already have lots of great stuff lined up &#8211; everything from domain discounts to blog design discounts to e-books to blog planners &#8211; and more! Stay tuned each week to [...]<p></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Announcing a BRAND NEW feature here at Blogelina!</strong></p>
<p>Each Thursday, we&#8217;ll be highlighting Deals &amp; Freebies that will help you in your blogging ventures.  We already have lots of great stuff lined up &#8211; everything from domain discounts to blog design discounts to e-books to blog planners &#8211; and more!</p>
<p>Stay tuned each week to see what kinds of goodies you can get YOUR hands on!</p>
<h1>Blogging Freebies &amp; Deals For April 24th, 2013</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blogelina.com/is-your-blog-safe-and-secure/" target="_blank"><strong><img class="alignright" alt="" src="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/locker-2-256x256.png" width="98" height="98" />Blogelina Back-Up Service</strong></a> &#8211; Did you know that, without a back up in place, you could lose your whole blog in an instant?  Don&#8217;t lose all your hard work &#8211; make sure that you&#8217;re backing up your blog regularly!  If anything happens, from someone hacking into your blog to a faulty plugin upgrade, with a back up plan in place, you don&#8217;t have to worry about losing everything. <strong> (<del>Normally $9/month</del> &#8211; <span style="color: #ff0000;">NOW Just $6.75/month. Expires April 30th, 2013<span style="color: #000000;"> -<a href="http://www.blogelina.com/is-your-blog-safe-and-secure/" target="_blank"><strong> Click Here!</strong></a></span></span>)</strong></li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://thepeacefulmom.com/organize-your-blogging/" target="_blank">Organize Your Blogging: Printables</a> -</strong> Looking for an easy way to start staying organized with your blogging?  Whether you&#8217;re looking for printables to help you keep track of your blog finances, your passwords, or plan out your blog posts, Kimberlee has them here!  <strong>(<span style="color: #ff0000;">FREE<span style="color: #000000;"> &#8211; <a href="http://thepeacefulmom.com/organize-your-blogging/" target="_blank">Click Here!</a></span></span>)</strong></li>
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<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/50-Ways-to-Earn-Money-From-Home-9.pdf" target="_blank">50+ Ways to Earn From Home: FREE E-Report</a> -</strong> If you&#8217;re looking for some other ways to make money from home, besides blogging, this report gives you some great ideas to try.  These sites and earning ideas are tried and true &#8211; I&#8217;m sure at least one will work for you!  <strong>(<span style="color: #ff0000;">FREE</span> &#8211; <a href="http://www.blogelina.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/50-Ways-to-Earn-Money-From-Home-9.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here!</a>)</strong></li>
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<p>Check back next week for even more deals and freebies!</p>
<h1>What Kind of Freebies Do YOU Want To Find?</h1>
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