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This is not a journal of our personal lives and insignificant ramblings about the weather and so on. This is like an article library. Informative articles are posted regularly, on matters regarding internet marketing. You will find a wealth of information among these articles, so take a look around.

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Make Money From Creating Mobile Banners

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 23, 2011, In : Mobile Marketing 
Are you using Mobile Marketing yet?

If you are, are you are also using your own custom, mobile optimized banners? If not, you are going to love this.

Mobile Marketing is the latest craze - and why not? The market is huge, the clicks are dirt cheap and the potential profits are simply mind numbing.

But you have got to use professional, Mobile optimized graphics for your campaigns - and that has been reserved for the big Corporate players... until now!

Allow me to introduce Mobile Banner Creator!

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Create Tons Of Free Traffic With Article Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : List Building, Mail Lists 
To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills. With modern communication technology, comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques, in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers.

This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular. Simply put, they create lots of free traffic. So, if you are building a list, are y...
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How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, January 17, 2011, In : Affiliate Marketing 
One of the easiest methods of making money on the Internet and one that requires very little technical skill, is affiliate marketing.  Sometimes referred to as referral programs, affiliate programs are normally commission based sales, for selling someone else’s product.  You recommend a site to your visitors and then pick up a percentage of any sale that those visitors may cause.  You benefit from the commissions and the merchant benefits from the additional sales.

If you already have a webs...
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How To Make Money With Mobile Phones

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, In : Money Making 
Mobile phones are growing in popularity and in technical capabilities. There is no argument there, but how you need to realize that the landscape is changing and so too, is the way we do our business. Read this article on mobile business and find out how you can prosper.

I predicted that we will soon be doing everything on our mobile phones. This includes advertising, promoting, searching, music, TV, selling and paying and more. I reckon PCs, Cd and DVD players, websurfing etc will no longer b...
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How To Market Your Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
One of the most successful and therefore, most popular methods of marketing online is using articles.

Article marketing is a very versatile medium and is actually a very broad definition. Article marketing includes short articles, longer reports, blog posts, bundling of articles into an e-book and of course writing an e-book, but these methods need different versions of marketing.

How successful has your article marketing been? Are you attracting tons of visitors? Are you selling tons of produc...
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How To Unleash Your Creative Juices and Create Articles On Auto Pilot

Posted by Derek Robson on Saturday, August 7, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
If you are involved in any form of marketing on the Internet, you need articles. Search engines regard content imperative to ranking and this content continuously needs to be expanded and refreshed - with articles, but so many people battle to produce these articles. They freeze up and experience serious writer's block.

People seem to have the misconception that only a select few people are ever able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is simply not true. What is true, is that cr...
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What Is The Secret To Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 21, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Affiliate marketing is a very hot topic on the web right now. It always is and new people join up every day, to try to earn from affiliate marketing.

This is not surprising when you consider the fact that a vast majority of successful online entrepreneurs make their money from affiliate schemes and programs of some sort.

Since the early days when Amazon was still being set up, affiliates and affiliate marketing has really come of age.

The amounts of income being made, have clearly transformed...
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Stop Losing Valuable Traffic To Your Website

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 14, 2010,
Be creative when thinking of ways to make your product or service more attractive to your target market. For example, the New York Times increased the type size and spacing in its editorials, to make them easier for aging baby boomers to read.

If you can’t afford a fax machine, then consider signing up for your own, free virtual fax number. You can get your own online fax number that will send your faxes directly to your e-mail inbox.  If you travel a lot and need to receive faxes from the ...
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How To Use Affiliate Marketing To Promote Your Own Business

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, June 3, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Even if you are already using the Internet to market your business, you should consider adding affiliate marketing to increase you Internet marketing campaign.

Affiliate marketing, when done correctly, can yield a great deal of positive results for your business. Furthermore, even when affiliate marketing is not done right, it will not likely be financially detrimental to your business. This is because affiliate marketing is essentially an advertising program, whereby you only pay the affil...


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Grow Your Online Business By Managing And Recruiting Affiliates

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, January 22, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
One of the best ways to earn money is to have affiliates sell for you. Once affiliates begin to sign up, even if you are automatically approving them, its in your best interest to audit your network on a regular basis. Now, the FTC is making marketers responsible for the actions of their affiliates.  If your affiliates get out of control, it could cost you a lot of money.

You'll have hundreds of affiliates sign up for your program.  Hobbyists, spammers, webmasters and even marketers will proba...
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Tips For Writing Profitable Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
Many Internet Marketers have heard how powerful Article Marketing can be, but no matter how they try, they just don’t get the desired results. As with anything in life, there is a right way and a wrong way. Unfortunately you probably don’t know what you are doing wrong. All your effort is wasted and there is usually a quick fix to your problem, but you can’t see the wood for the trees.

Here are a couple of tips. Try these and I’m sure you will see a difference soon.

1. Write to one pers...
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Make Money Writing Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, December 7, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
When you are trying to make money with articles, the beauty of it is that you don’t really need previous career related experience and that you can learn the ropes as you go. That being said, there are some skills that you will need to teach yourself or pick up along the way to make your sites successful. You can’t go in not knowing anything, not learning anything, and still expect to make a good income (or any income at all).

First, you will need to know how to pick out the correct articl...
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How To Find The Best Affiliate Marketing Opportunities

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 20, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Okay, so you've chosen to enter the exciting and often overwhelming world of affiliate marketing. You'd really like to earn big checks and live the life that so many other people are doing, but the problem is, you just don't know how to find the best affiliate marketing opportunities.

There's just so many companies out there and it's damn nigh impossible for an affiliate marketing beginner like you, to pick out the one program that will be the key to your success. It would be easy for me to t...
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Starting An Online Home Based Business

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, November 16, 2009, In : Money Making 
A few years ago when I first started out in my online home business I didn't have a clue on how to go about it. I had never done any Internet marketing before and didn't know anything about Websites, or search engines, or any of that other online business stuff...in short, I was a complete rookie. In fact, I was even a bit green when it came to using a computer.

As a middle aged man, I had not grown up in the electronic technological world. In school we used sliderules, not calculators.

All th...
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Marketing With E-mails

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 13, 2009, In : List Building, Mail Lists 
E-mail marketing is one of the best forms of direct marketing, which is done via the Internet. E-mails are sent to potential customers, to boost the business and to gain the trust of the readers by disclosing relevant information and help them to make good shopping decisions. It also enhances the relationship with a current customer, by repeating business with them. Put simply, the procedure of sending e-mails to customers is known as e-mail marketing.

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How To Write Profit Generating Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, November 2, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

There is no doubt as to just how important articles are, in internet marketing today, but what distinguishes a good article from a poor one? The impact from good articles, in today's websites and internet businesses, are huge. Strategically placed, these articles not only attract attention, but are used to send hordes of traffic to the selected websites. Free e-book download.

They are also extremely useful for improving search engine rankings. All webmasters should strive to replace, or at lea...
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The Big Mistake Writing Your Articles That Renders Them Useless

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

As a marketer, if you want to go far, you know the best way to get targeted traffic to your website is writing articles, as this exposes you to your client's as an expert in your field, or maybe you are a knowledgeable person writing with other goals in mind.

Anyway, whatever the reason is, you need to hold your reader's attention. The first and most important part of your article is the headline, but do not get me wrong, I am not saying the headline is your article, I mean to say that if som...
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Create Multiple Streams of Affiliate Marketing Income

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 19, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

You must have heard the phrase “multiple streams of income” before, but do you really know what this means? For many business people, creating multiple streams of income, online, or offline, is one way of securing themselves, as well as their businesses, for the future.

They also believe that it will save them from any famine effect in the business industry. Once you are engaged in an affiliate marketing business, it is advisable to have multiple streams of  income, so that if one of thos...
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Earn A Fortune With Cellphone Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, October 16, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Wanna know how to turn your cell phone into an ATM? Wanna know how to make $328,707 per month with your cell phone? Wanna get access to a $328,707 system for under $25? Read on!

What would you think, if I told you there was a new system to generate huge sums of cash, that is far easier and more efective, quicker and more responsive than anything you have heard of so far? Have you ever thought of marketing products by way of cellphone SMS mesages? Fantastic idea hey! But, HOW do you do this?

Hav...
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Business Blogging on The Internet

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
This article explains what blogs are and how they came about and what they can be used for. With the evolution of many new internet technologies, it is now possible for freelance programmers and writers to present their talents easily on a blog. It has also made it easier for buyers, who utilize the services of these service providers, without facing too many  difficulties.

The Internet has introduced a number of goods and services to our society, which were not imagined by anyone before. The...
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How Affiliate Marketing Can Enable You To Work From Home

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Most of us are incredibly comfortable in our own homes. It is where all of our comforts are. Part of the daily grind of a job, is having to leave the home. The task is much more difficult if you have children to consider. Many of us would love to be able to work from home. We think we are more comfortable and can be much more productive there. However, very few regular jobs offer this type of flexibility. They want employees on site where they can be constantly watched and monitored.

If you w...
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Make Money On The Internet

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Money Making 
Easy, fast money is what people are looking for these days and no longer the normal 8 to 5 jobs. This is even more so, with the present economic recession.

This is pecisely the very opportunity that the internet is providing nowadays, to people around the world, from all walks of life. The Internet has his mystical allure and many thousands of people are giving up their old, conventional day jobs, in pursuit of fortunes and new lifestyles, that they think they will find online.

Making money on...
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Article Marketing Is The Quickest Way To Your Customer's Wallet

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
One of the many ways of promoting your website and products, can be done for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income.

The method is…..with articles! This is one of the easiest ways to promote your website, in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings, is with article marketing.

Now, how does this work? Write articles, relating to your website topic and then submit them to “free content” submis...
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A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 25, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Affiliate marketing is very popular these days. Many beginners decide that affiliate marketing is an easier route, than starting their own business from scratch. They reckon that it is too difficult to create websites, sales pages, download links, payment buttons and so on, so they will just use ready prepared tools, supplied by the various affiliate programs. Their reasoning might be true, but bear in mind that thousands of other affiliates are also selling the same products, with the same t...


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Make Easy Money By Selling Products Online

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

For very little cost, you can sell a product online, that hasn’t been selling well offline.  Once it is set up, it takes virtually no work to maintain and monitor.  Even if you only get a few sales a month, it is money that you wouldn’t have otherwise!

Let me give an example. Back before John took his first business online, he had advertised his book, “Secrets of Buying and Building Your Specialty Car on a Small Budget,” in “kit car” magazines (there were only two) for three years...


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An Introduction To Auto Responders

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, September 17, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

If you've reached the point of exhaustion, trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails, that threatens to bury you alive, every single day, you're ready to learn about auto responders. The bad news is that people expect prompt replies, to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails, while they're eating up your revenue, you have a problem.

The good news is an a...


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How to Become A Clickbank Super Affiliate

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, In : Clickbank 

Making money through affiliate marketing is one of the most rewarding careers one could ever have online. What’s particularly good about this business, is that anyone can join and make their way to success.

Affiliate marketing is known to be a cost-efficient, accessible method of earning long-term sustainable income. In fact, you can even start on a shoe string budget. With affiliate marketing, you can have the benefits of working from home and still enjoy the freedom and flexibility of wo...


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Easy Money From affiliate Programs

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, September 7, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Wouldn't you just love to make money online, by selling products? Of course you would, but do you already have a collection of your own products, that you are ready to sell?  If you don't, do you have the necessary money buy them? If you are like most of the others online who want to make money, you probably don't have the funds, or the know-how, to procure these products.  If you did, you probably wouldn't be reading this.

Before you despair and think that it is impossible, for you to make ...


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About Me


Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southern Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. Derek writes informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, making money online, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, motivation, and other general topics. Sally loves gardening and writes the occasional asrticle on a host of gardening topics. Clinton Robson, their son, is a qualified Personal Trainer and writes articles on fitness, body building, weight loss, supplements, cross training etc. Check the BlogRoll for their other sites.

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