Recently I posted that I  was Taking Back My Blog. I had gotten lazy with The Retirement Income Report and had signed up for a service that automatically posted articles to my site.

At the time it seemed like a good idea that would allow me to focus on other projects.

Boy was I wrong. There were hundreds of posts about shoes, dozens of posts about Forex and hundreds of posts about all kinds of miscellaneous  subjects. Most were poorly written, had absolutely nothing to do with retirement income and did nothing but clutter my site.

Today I started the process of cleaning up this blog. I deleted almost 2000 junk posts and started to redesign the lay out.

Over the coming weeks I hope to get this site back to what I had originally intended- Helping others find ways to earn extra income for retirement.

Extra Retirement Income

If you are thinking of starting a Internet home business for extra retirement income your first question is probably how do I get started? The first thing you will need is a website and My Affiliate Power Site will walk you through each step of How To Build Your Own Website.

What Is My Affiliate Power Site

My Affiliate Power Site or MAPS is a program that has been around for a number of years now and I have been a member since its inception. Recently the program completely overhauled from a program designed around promoting affiliate marketing to a training program.

There are now three levels of membership

Free- This gives you access to all the training with step by step instructions on How To Build Your Own Website. The training is informative and detailed and by following it you be able to have your site up in no time at all

Silver- There is a one time low fee for this level and I highly recommend this to everyone who is new to internet marketing. This level gives access to all the training PLUS videos of each step in the process.

From choosing a niche, keyword research, choosing a domain name and installing WordPress each step clearly covered.

After you are shown how to build your own website the next step is to show you how to optimize it so it ranks high in the search engines and then how to create your first post. Again this is all covered step by step in the video’s.

As I mentioned this is only a one time fee and I highly recommend it. I learned a several new things and I have several sites already.

Gold- This comes with all the above training plus the ability to re-brand all the training material so you can earn commissions. There is a monthly membership fee for this option so if you are completely new to having a Internet home business you may want to hold off until you have built your own website and are comfortable with marketing before you take this step.

Is My Affiliate Power Site Worth It

Absolutely!! All three levels are a great value. I chose the Gold Membership but if you want to learn how to build your own website without spending much money then the Free and Silver Memberships are perfect.

I am so certain that you can learn How To Build Your Own Website that I will throw in these extra bonuses if you join as a Silver Member

One year free upgrade to Enterprise Pro at FlippinHits Manual Traffic Exchange- This is $120.00 value and a excellent way to start getting traffic to your site.

A Free Copy of Affiliate Money Machine – This eBook will help you learn how to set up a wildly successful affiliate marketing campaign.

Before you can start into blogging for retirement income, you should first plan how you are going to get started in the first place. Why? Simply for the reason that blogging, though it may be quick and easy to set up, does take a large amount of knowledge to start making money. Here are some helpful tips that you may use to start your blogging site on the Web now!

Classify Your Target Audience

As in any business, the first and most crucial step in starting your blog site is that of identifying which is your target audience or niche market and eventually applying the Paretto Principle which states that you must first identify the top 20% of your key customers or target market which will surely bring the 80% of business sales you want to achieve.

Decide What You Really Have To Say And Say It

In the process of setting up your blogging for your business, you should first immediately decide what you have to say to your target audience or target market. And make sure that when you write what you have to say, your customers are surely going to read them and learn something from them. Sometimes, bloggers would just write anything to keep their blog sites alive. Oftentimes, there are bloggers who tend to be talking about something which in essence, they are completely unknowledgeable of. What a pity, because they are just throwing away their opportunity to add more prospective loyal customers to their database.
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