TimShirley.com

It has been a couple of weeks since I have posted on my blog at Tim Shirley.com and I have been working on a lot of things since then.  I have been trying to move towards my goal of being a full time Internet Marketer, by 08/02/13, with small steps everyday.  There is so MUCH information out there it is really confusing at times.  I know it is absolutely necessary to develop a plan and focus entirely upon that plan.  That is easier said than done with all the “Gurus” out there claiming that their new product is the one missing component to my success.  I will not go into everything that I have tried and been distracted by, what I will do is talk about the steps I have been taking that I feel are going to eventually make my business profitable.

ThinkingPositiveThoughts.com is my main squeeze page I am working on getting traffic to it.  I have added a blog to it at ThinkingPosititveThoughts.com/Blog in every post I have included and opt-in form for my positive thinking list.  What I am currently offering as incentive to Join my list is:  Free weekly newsletter on positive thinking, As A Man Thinketh Ebook by James Allen and An Ebook I wrote on positive thinking.  I am thinking about creating a four week video mini course on positive thinking and including that as well.

Once someone subscribes to my list I will make it my mission to provide them with only the best content possible.  Any and all marketing to them will be held to a minimum and it will be of the highest quality.

This list is where I anticipate the bulk of my revenue to be generated, so I will treat it with care.

Declutter Fast Review is a WordPress review site that I created to market the product Declutter Fast.  Not really expecting to make more than 100 dollars a month off the site but it has served as good practice for me on creating a review site and working on getting it ranked in Google.  This is a process that I plan on replicating over and over.  The key component with with these type of  sites are getting them ranked above the actual website for the product which is not easy for me, yet.  I can envision this monetization model being very successful to me the next year or so down the road.

Marketing efforts performed:

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Overcoming Self-doubt and Fear with Positive Thinking

Our Thoughts…Exposed!

Circumstantial Positivity

I have also been posting on related forums.  I know this is a process and I will not give up.  If what I have does not work then I will tweek it until it does.

Today I am going to be practicing embedding video into my blog.  The video I have chosen really has nothing at all to do with Internet Marketing.  It is actually of my two oldest sons competting against one another for first place in a karate tournament, April 2010.

This was done by using short code if you watch the videos you will see that there are no related videos at the end.  Also there is shortcode to adjust the height and width of the video.

Here is the link to the WordPress support page that tells you more.

You Tube Shortcode for WordPress