This has NOTHING to do with internet marketing……and yet it has EVERYTHING to do with internet marketing.  One of the most common questions I see asked online – is about how to turn your passion…..into profit. 

So many people stuff down the things they really WANT to do, succumbing instead to the temptation to try a myriad of different marketing machinations in the hopes that each "new big thing" will open up the gateway to great fame, fortune and the proverbially elusive 4 hour work week.

I’ve been checking out this guy’s site for a few years now…..partially because I’ve got a few competing sites in the "Yoga" market and every time I do some searches for my own stuff I always find HIS first – partially because I’m personally interested in Yoga and Meditation, and partially because I think this sort of site EXEMPLIFIES the very best sort of example how turning your passion into purpose is a great way to guarantee you can PROFIT from doing what you love. 

(I of course have no idea what sort of income this generates, nor how high on the priority list that is for the proprietor of this great site, but the fact that it’s not is sort of the point)

I just clipped this particular post – just because of the sheer simplicity of the advice – many nefarious and nonsensical assclown SEO "gurus" will gladly stick their left hand deep into your back pocket, while their right hand scours your man purse for loose change for social media tips that have NEVER gotten the sorts of sensational results Anmol gets with his…..and his explanation on how he went about getting there is summed up beautifully in about 4 poetic sentences. 

(take THAT StomperNOTreallyallthatneccessary..:-)

Do what you love.  Love what you do.  That’s really all you need.

And when you are really good at what you love – help as many people as you can with an open heart.  The Universe, karma or simply the natural order of things……will take care of the rest.

Check out this great blog if you are interested in Yoga or Meditation…..OR, if you simply want to see how easy it can be to become an amazingly authoritative voice in your niche, simply by pursuing your own passion and having a transparently good heart for helping other people do the same.

as time passed. I would get constant emails from YouTube that people are subscribing to my channel. I was aware that the videos were getting thousands and thousands of views, but figured that was due to my site and you guys , and so I continued on my merry way creating, uploading, embedding, enjoying. Well all that changed recently when I started receiving request from YouTube to join in some partner program. I basically ignored the first few requests, until finally deciding to check out what the hupla was all about. What I discovered is that essentially my YouTube channel had grown huge and was now one of the top yoga video channels on YouTube! What a nice surprise .The moral of the story is of course, just do what you love to do and results will follow. This is the foundation of Karma Yoga and how you should approach life. Just worry about doing your part and leave the rest up to life to take care of. The good news is that although, I was planning a whole new video series anyway for the Mantra videos I promised yesterday, I have some extra motivation now knowing that the videos are also very popular with all my YouTube viewers and subscribers. Below are the my top 5 yoga, meditation and breathing exercises videos from YouTube.

Best YouTube Yoga Videos and Channel

Here is a great article on how direct response style advertising and promotional methods are the perfect antidote to a small and sluggish economy, especially as it pertains to more mainstream advertising dollars.  Direct response style ads, always sort of looked at as the Ugly Duckling approach to advertising, is making a HUGE move these days across many mediums, and I dare say….SMART internet marketers everywhere are helping make the push.

Have you read any of the recent posts here where we’ve talked about piggybacking off of the advertising and marketing that many late night infomercial style ads use to DRIVE traffic to the web, searching for reviews, buy keywords related to the product, or simply blogs and other editorial style content to gage value and decide whether or not to buy these particular products?  If you own good rankings organically for this sort of thing ( and many do – especially the review style blogs) you can make easy, push button sales for the 15 minutes of fame any of these products tend to cycle though, without too much effort to boot. 

What are the best vehicles for this sort of offer?  Informercial style products, free trials, novelty items ( i.e. – when I watched Bill Mahr parody the "Snuggie" blanket on his cable show a few weeks ago….I was pretty sure it was NOT going to suck for the Snuggie set – or the online marketers who are selling it) and this is why I personally have tried to steer away from Clickbank style products for a long while ( and have recommended the same on here to you for quite some time too!)

Check out the full article at the link below – and if you want them, I’ll post a few good links to affiliate networks you can join that specialize in these style promotions.  ( which are always easier to sell, especially with the free traffic strategies that we’ve been discussing)  Enjoy!

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(Fortune Small Business) — Admit it: Thanks to some late-night pitchman, you either own a Popeil Pocket Fisherman, a Snuggie blanket or a Thigh-Master, or have been tempted to buy one.As-seen-on-TV products make popular targets for comedians – remember Garth’s hair-raising Flowbee encounter in Wayne’s World or the Saturday Night Live commercial for Nelson’s Baby Toupees?

But they also have serious consumer appeal, generating millions of dollars in revenue for entrepreneurs each year. And thanks to the weak economy, you can expect to see a lot more of them.Just ask Bill McAlister, 50, who co-owns Media Enterprises, a six-person sales and marketing firm that specializes in as-seen-on-TV products – including the Smart Mop ("the mop with a twist"), Urine Gone ("Love your pet, hate the smell") and his current hit, Mighty Putty.

On the strength of such products, McAlister says, his firm cleared $50 million in revenue last year. He expects sales to grow by 15% to 20% in 2009. Numbers like these thrust the company into the big leagues; Media Enterprises holds its own against larger firms with deeper pockets, such as Guthy-Renker, Telebrands and even Ronco, the business owned by iconic pitchman Ron Popeil.

For infomercials, downturn is prime time – Mar. 23, 2009

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