These were the words I exclaimed to my friend who had never even HEARD of Squidoo.  Of course I quickly told him all the benefits of Squidoo and how it’s absolutely caraazy NOT to be using this Social Media service. Maybe you’re like my friend here and you are not using Squidoo to make money either.  Well, not to fear!  The Cash Coach is in the house=) Before I tell you the benefits of Squidoo, let me just inform those who are out there saying, “What in the world is Squidoo?...

Just the other day I told a friend of mine that he could start making money with affiliate marketing and it would not cost him a dime.  He was rather surprised, and maybe you are too. I am not talking hype here.  When I started in affiliate marketing I used only free methods of making money online and I did rather well, even as a beginner. You don’t have any money?  No problem.  Here is how you can start earning some extra money on the internet even if you don’t have a PENNY to y...

With the Google Adsense program you can make a nice little fortune, but it’s gonna take some work to get there. Google’s Adsense contextual advertisement program has the ability to make money for the website or blog owner. This method can actually monetize your website or blog without any need to sell any product. But to make a lot of money using the Adsense method, you will need a website or blog that has excellent content placed on it. As Google places relevant contextual advertise...

Affiliate Marketing: Why Knowing SEO is a Must Online affiliate marketing-whether through a professional affiliate marketing database program or more casually on your own-is one of the most profitable endeavors on the internet today to make money. If you are new to affiliate marketing, however, one of the most important tricks of the trade to live by is that you must be familiar with SEO. Why? One of the first questions that may come to your mind, is why do I need to know anything about search...

I just saw this story on yahoo and just had to share it with my readers, in case you missed it.  You can check it out here.   And yes, that number is correct.  This guy named Steve Demeter was just your average Joe who had a nack for developing simple video games.  Well we all know how popular all of those Ipod games are and he targeted the fire out of that niche. Steve and his small low-budget studio at Demiforce began making a game for the Ipod called Trism.  It is a color-matching, block...

Often we as marketers just want to find a niche or sub-niche or sub-sub-niche that absolutely NO one has discovered before.  We get that twisted smile on our faces and that twitch in our eye just thinking about exploiting a niche that is untapped.  But what about the competition?  Do you purposely avoid niches or markets that have what seems like too much competition?  Why here is why I think every internet marketer and affiliate marketer should just love competition instead of running away ...

Believe it or not, eBay is still a goldmine for bloggers, even after being around for a while and even if many bloggers don’t even realize it.  The easiest and best way to make money with ebay on your blog is to use an RSS feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and what it does is make a live feed of current ebay auctions that are going on and it will automatically update itself.  And it really is pretty simple to put an ebay RSS feed on your blog too.  You will need some space ...

Finding the perfect affiliate program really can make or break your online business.  No matter what kind of blog or website you have there is probably an affiliate program you can tag along with it, and it would be crazy to have a website and not promote at least one company that will pay you for any sales generated through your links. Not only are you helping out yourself and getting a nice little bonus check every once in a while but you are also informing your readers of some valuable infor...

We all made mistakes when starting off in affiliate marketing, but here are some common ones made by newbies who are trying to tackle affiliate marketing for the first time.  Many of these mistakes I made myself so I know first hand what it’s like.  Learn from these mistakes to make sure you DON’T fall into the same traps.  It’s a lot more fun to learn from other people’s mistakes than to make them yourself.  Wouldn’t you agree? 10 Mistakes Newbie Affiliate Mark...

When you are trying to decide what niche to target you will be tempted just to take a broad sweeping aproach to that niche, but don’t do it. It might seem foolish to focus on one small, seemingly insignificant little niche when there are millions to be made in the broader scheme of things right?  Well look at it this way.  How much money does a general doctor make?  You know, the guy who just knows a little bit about everything and then refers you to some other guy when he can’t s...