Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 12th, 2010
Reading time: 9 – 15 minutes
I’ll assume to start that like most people, you’re way, way more interested in yourself than what I’m doing.
Don’t feel bad – we’re all like that; largely interested in our own ends, our own stories.
But I’d like to tell you a little bit about my experiences with blogging and affiliate marketing on the internet. I don’t expect you’ll care about my experiences, but there are some lessons you’ll learn (if you’re open to learning).
These lessons in my little story will will help YOU:
Get More Traffic!
By Blogging!
PLUS!!!
It’s Easy For YOU To DO!
Now do I have your attention?
I came around to blogging slowly. At heart I’m a believer in proven direct response marketing methods and my early experiences marketing online validated those beliefs.
But the marketplace changed and the web became, well, more social. The same shtick that worked for content marketing when I started out doesn’t work today. That’s because the internet as a marketing environment has matured and the competition for “mindshare” is hotter than ever.
For years I focused almost entirely on list-building and then I would email newsletters and promotions to the list. I did do blogging, but the blog content was not my 
Written By Loren Woirhaye, August 11th, 2010
Reading time: 8 – 12 minutes
If you’re new to online marketing and you are getting ready to launch your first real website, you need to know the following, very timely information about “web hosting”
In the next few minutes you’ll learn :
how to choose a sensible web-hosting plan and what to avoid
how to host multiple sites on one account
how to know the right time to upgrade to so-called reseller hosting
the best hosting control panel for internet marketers (in my opinion)
why a blogging platform may be your best way to get started and which platform to use
My first website was really lame and I had no clue what I was doing. I blundered through the process, wasting a lot of time but learning a bit in the process. Over the last few years I’ve learned a lot about webmastering. For me, web hosting and webmastering is a means to an end, not a career. Knowing how to manage my own web-hosting empowers me to try new things as a marketer and adapt rapidly to changes in the marketplace. I also save lots of money because I don’t have to pay someone to work on any of my sites. I am
Written By Loren Woirhaye, March 8th, 2010
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
I’ll admit, I was slow to jump into using WordPress for blogging. I had tried using it and always found Blogger much more intuitive.
As WordPress matured however more marketers were using it and by a year ago many marketers were so enthused about it they moved all their existing sites over to WordPress, claiming WordPress sites rank better in search engines and get a better “quality score” with Google Adwords.
Thus, the theory is that with WordPress you’ll get more traffic, cheaper.
I’ll make some comments from personal experience about WordPress. There are a lot of people out there who know a lot more about WordPress than I, so if you’re confused, use Google to find an answer. Chances are somebody has had the same problem figuring out WordPress you’re having and it’s been answered somewhere online by a real expert.
WordPress, being free and open-source, is also very cheap to get started with. I still use value XsitePro, and there are many things that are far easier to do with HTML editors than WordPress.
Where WordPress shines for those who are design-challenged. The availability of thousands of good-looking “themes” makes it
