A membership site is a great way to get consistent monthly income but it can bring you even more money if you sell it after it’s been established for several months. By doing all the groundwork for a membership site, you can sell your website to someone who wants to take it to the next level. When you follow these simple steps, you can be ready to sell your first website very quickly…

My wife and I have been married since 1994. During the years since our wedding, we have stayed in a variety of hotels ranging from a “glorified closet” to a resort suite, everything from a 1-star rating to a 5-star rating.

We’re not into astronomy, but we do like to see a lot of stars when it comes to our accommodations!

Here’s what Hotels.com says of a “5-Star” rating…

“These luxury hotels offer the pinnacle of service and pampering. Pristine surroundings often include manicured landscaping and famed works of art. Guests may expect multilingual concierge and/or butler services, extensive pool, spa and fitness facilities, and gourmet restaurants with world-renowned chefs. There is typically a high staff- to-guest ratio. Guestrooms feature ample space, designer linens, and special touches such as fresh flowers, champagne and flat-screen televisions. These hotels most often are located in the most desirable cities or resort destinations.”

In other words, 5-star means “the best”. It represents the highest order of a hotel. Or, anything for that matter.

There are 5-star hotels, restaurants, campgrounds, salons, banks and much more.

In fact, you can apply the 1-5 star rating system to just about anything.

Even internet marketing.

What I’d like to do is share some insights into becoming a 5-star internet marketer.

Hiring an affiliate manager to oversee your entire affiliate program operations is one of the key decisions you’ll ever make.

A good affiliate manager can do EVERYTHING for you in terms of getting massive sales for your product or service from affiliates.

I guess the best place to begin is to define what an affiliate manager is.

I’m going to borrow a definition that my own affiliate manager, Nicole Dean, provided in an interview that I include as a bonus in my Sales Army Secrets course.

Do you remember what you were doing 15 years ago on this date? June 3, 1994 … what were you doing?

(That’s probably a bad question to ask … most of us can’t remember what we were doing 15 MINUTES ago! )

I remember what I was doing on June 3, 1994 -

One of my coaching clients asked me the following question during one of our sessions…

“Part of being productive is knowing what NOT to do. What are 3 common activities that Internet Marketers engage in that you recommend they minimize or not do at all?”

I’d like to respond to that question here publicly because I think it’s something that is EXTREMELY important for ALL internet marketers to consider.

So often we’re so concentrated on “traffic generation” and “list building” and “product creation” and all the internet marketing “stuff” that we fail to realize that there are some fundamental things that are keeping us from really being productive in our businesses.

See if any of these things are killing YOUR business…

In follow-up to yesterday’s post (http://www.jimmybrown.com/5-free-apps-every-marketing-needs/) here are 5 more free applications…

1. NVU (Compare to Dreamweaver). From their website…

“Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.”

Visit http://www.net2.com/nvu/ for more details.