While teaching several offline classes this past month, I have found myself explaining to those not familiar with digital Information Publishing what Clickbank is, how they can use it and why.

That’s why I was thrilled today to open my Nicheology newsletter and see that Paul Evans created a short little video where he talks about Clickbank and I thought I would post here for another resource.

For more of Paul Evan’s great content, or his killer business boosting products go ahead and check him out at Nicheology

Paul also offers a SOLID short report that I highly recommend, and I can’t believe he gives it away for FREE on Multiple Income Streams .. once you read this report, you won’t walk through a store and look at products the same. This will make your mind start running with ideas for your own business!

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How To Leverage Clickbank

Well, I just found the bookmark and thought I would post it here, after all it’s free, if you can install it and use it, I hope you will.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gocodes/

It’s called GoCodes. The theory is simple- it’s like Tinyurl or my favorite budurl.com (allows you track all your shortened urls at budurl.com) but gocodes resides right in your WordPress dashboard, you create your links with a few clicks and you can actually insert them easily while you are writing your blog post.

Here is the key benefit- we all know that once you write a blog post it lives in the virtual world, forever.. yes, this is how people earn residual income… those links are live and you never know where they will show up.

So think now about a couple scenarios:

• 1. You are sending good traffic to that link but the affiliate program isn’t converting
• 2. You find the same product or similar product that pays a higher commission
• 3. The product is no longer available and you want to replace it.

If you are like me, you posted those links everywhere, your blogs, websites, social networks, article directories, squidoo…you get the point.. you now need to go back and trace all those links if you can and replace them one by one.

Here is the BIG benefit- if you use the GoCodes plugin you create the shortened URL then you can replace it anytime with a new destination URL.

For example, just a few week ago, I was telling everyone to come join me at Perry’s new Video Intensive Course and I created the url to use to promote it

http://moms-business-coach.com/recommends/askmrvideo

Well, that class is now over, but I still highly recommend people look at all the other video resources Perry offers so I just went into my dashboard, removed the URL of his Video Intensive sales page and replaced it with his home page that offers both his membership option and a ton of free video articles.

Boom, one change and I’m done- I don’t need to go track and change 35 links around the web, it’s done automatically!

Remember, it also tracks the clicks! You can see where people are clicking what links and for what tools, resources or products get the most interest!

So there you have it, one quick and easy change you can add to your blog for free to get more for your efforts!

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Cool Tool of the Week

• It’s Free To Use
• It’s Automatic
• It can make you money

Are you interested yet?

Introducing…Powerlines for Women!

I found this great resource by an accidental click because it was at the bottom of the Barefoot Executive newsletter. If you are not familiar with Powerlines for Women yet, I wouldn’t be surprised. I think it’s a killer free resource that has not been fully exposed yet.

Here is how Powerlines works:

There are a couple different options, the first being as an end user. This is how I started. I saw the bright orange graphic and clicked through to read more information. When you sign up for a free account, they will send you a daily email from Monday to Thursday with a short, inspirational quote and on Fridays you get a longer inspirational story.

Of course I registered! I get tired of hearing all the negative news whenever I turn around and find that small burst of positive energy work in amazing ways both mentally and productivity. I loved the emails, so when I saw a link to join as an affiliate I did. I then cut and pasted the code for my sidebar banner into my blog and well, honestly, I forgot about it.

Until I got a couple emails notifying me that I had new signups under my Powerlines for Women account. Like I said, I really just entered the code and forgot about it once I hit the save button. I have spent a full 10 minutes on the actual website while setting up my account so I had to go back and re-visit the program details again.

My jaw hit the floor when I realized that I missed a huge purpose of this affiliate program- Build Your Downline. Now I’m not crazy about calling it a “downline” because honestly that to me makes me think of recruiting people to sell stuff under you and that’s not what this is about.

The process is very simple and it keeps you in front of your customers every day.

The people that have signed up through the button on my sidebar, get their daily inspirational email everyday but it comes from me!

This is the kicker that I don’t know how I didn’t pay attention too. When you create your free affiliate account you are given the opportunity to customize how you want your email signature. You can have your name, your business, your web address, a call to action.. you choose and then it’s dropped into your customers email box everyday as a little reminder of you!

What if you don’t have a website or blog?

You can post your affiliate link in your forum signatures with a catchy call to action or in your email signatures. Who wouldn’t love a free daily power quote to kick start their day? If they sign up from one of your forum post, you now have access to someone new since your website will be in their email everyday. If they have an email box like mine, I always open the positive emails while procrastinating the not so fun emails.

Ok, your next question is going to be how do you make money with this? I know as a blog owner, every click off your blog should count for something. Powerlines for Women will send out two emails a month to all subscribers with a quality, personal development product offer. If someone from your list purchases, you earn a commission.

This is a “tiered” affiliate program meaning you will also earn on your signups affiliate sales. Are you now seeing the potential of earning automatic money as you grow your list by simply promoting the link?

As someone that uses the system, I can see the potential for promoting it in your newsletter or blog to your own customers because even if they don’t sign up as an affiliate you are still given the daily exposure.

Leave a comment below on what you think of the program!

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Powerlines For Women -Best Kept Secret for Staying In Front of Your Customers