One of the hardest things for someone to decide when they first start marketing online is which affiliate program to choose. Many of them actually end up floundering in their marketing efforts because they never really settle in and choose one at all. Rather, they spend all of their time trying to be everything to everyone and find out that it isn't as easy as they thought it was going to be. If you really want to be successful as an affiliate, you are going to have to pick a program and stick with it.
As far as the different types of programs that are available, you certainly have a lot of choices. The best place for you to start, however, is to pick one that either matches your existing visitor base or for the visitors that you are targeting. As an example, if you have a lot of high school students as your visitors, a very easy to obtain market, you could easily make a living by promoting affiliate programs that match that audience. Two of the ones that come to my mind right away would be ring tone affiliate programs and college recruitment programs. If you try to sell them something outside of their interest, however, you will not make any sales at all.
Affiliate marketing is not all that difficult as long as you keep it simple. Pick an audience, pull them into your website and then provide them with what they are looking for. If you are able to do this consistently, you will be able to make affiliate marketing work for you.
This affiliate program The Profit Lance Automated Wealth Course is not only one of my best producing ones it's also a highly informative course on internet affiliate marketing.
This article was submitted by Joel Nickerson who invites you to visit his website for information you can trust ===> http://www.instant-home-biz.com
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
How To Choose A Good Affiliate Program
There are thousands of affiliate programs to join, but only a select few that are worth your time. I tend to receive a lot of e-mails asking my opinion on affiliate programs x, y and z. Most of them I've never heard of, so I can't lend my support to these readers. Chances are they aren't one of the big networks.
When choosing an affiliate program, try to keep these points in mind.
1. What merchants do they work with? Are they reputable?
I've seen some affiliate programs that advertise companies I've never heard of, or ones that aren't even located in North America. One program I joined turned out to only feature adult merchants, but you'd never know it by the publisher sign up page.
2. When do you get paid? And how?
I only join programs that pay by check or PayPal. I don't like wire transfer payments for many reasons. The first one being I don't want to give away my bank account information. Secondly, there are usually fees associated with accepting wire transfers. Sometimes the fees outweigh your actual profit. If a program says you'll get paid every 2-3 months, pass on it. Usually you'll get paid once a month, or sometimes every two weeks (which I recommend). I don't like waiting to get paid and neither should you.
3. Does the affiliate program have an affiliate program?
This isn't absolutely necessary, but if the program you belong to has its own affiliate program where you can earn extra commission for signing someone else up, it's an added bonus. Most of the time you'll get paid a certain percentage for tier 1sign ups and a lower percentage for tier 2 sign ups. Some programs offer lifetime payments from your referrals, but some will only pay you for one year from your referrals. Either way, it's extra money in your pocket.
4. Do your research. What's everyone else using?
When I choose to sign up with a program, I already know quite a bit about the program from asking others who are promoting it.
5. Are there incentives?
Some affiliate networks offer a sign up bonus, which basically puts free money in your account as soon as you open it. Other programs will give you similar incentives, but you shouldn't make it a requirement when considering to join or not. Incentives are nice, but it shouldn't be your deciding factor.
To see the top 16 affiliate programs that I promote, Click Here.
When choosing an affiliate program, try to keep these points in mind.
1. What merchants do they work with? Are they reputable?
I've seen some affiliate programs that advertise companies I've never heard of, or ones that aren't even located in North America. One program I joined turned out to only feature adult merchants, but you'd never know it by the publisher sign up page.
2. When do you get paid? And how?
I only join programs that pay by check or PayPal. I don't like wire transfer payments for many reasons. The first one being I don't want to give away my bank account information. Secondly, there are usually fees associated with accepting wire transfers. Sometimes the fees outweigh your actual profit. If a program says you'll get paid every 2-3 months, pass on it. Usually you'll get paid once a month, or sometimes every two weeks (which I recommend). I don't like waiting to get paid and neither should you.
3. Does the affiliate program have an affiliate program?
This isn't absolutely necessary, but if the program you belong to has its own affiliate program where you can earn extra commission for signing someone else up, it's an added bonus. Most of the time you'll get paid a certain percentage for tier 1sign ups and a lower percentage for tier 2 sign ups. Some programs offer lifetime payments from your referrals, but some will only pay you for one year from your referrals. Either way, it's extra money in your pocket.
4. Do your research. What's everyone else using?
When I choose to sign up with a program, I already know quite a bit about the program from asking others who are promoting it.
5. Are there incentives?
Some affiliate networks offer a sign up bonus, which basically puts free money in your account as soon as you open it. Other programs will give you similar incentives, but you shouldn't make it a requirement when considering to join or not. Incentives are nice, but it shouldn't be your deciding factor.
To see the top 16 affiliate programs that I promote, Click Here.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Make Easy Money Online
Most people would swear that there is no such thing as easy money that one can make online or anywhere else for that matter. And they would be wrong because there are many online entrepreneurs who spend only a few hours every week on their online business and yet make more easy money than most people make in a year every month.
Understandably what has made it even more difficult for most people to believe that it is possible to make easy money online are the hoards of hype peddlers and scum artists that we have online these days.
So how does a person make this easy money online?
All you need to make easy money online is a blog, which can easily be hosted for you for free by leading blog hosts like blogger and wordpress, and a couple of affiliate links on your blog. That's it. The rest are details. These details which are critical to you succeeding to make money online the easy way, includes the right relevant affiliate links. You must also be able to build up a reasonable amount of traffic to your blog.
Sounds too good to be true? There's more.
One of the reasons why many people have completely missed this easy make money online opportunity is because it does not require any cash investment. People are generally extremely skeptical and because it sounds too good to be true, most folks assume its' just NOT true. Can you imagine somebody missing an amazing opportunity just because they are skeptical? Well, it happens all the time. It is really sad to realize that this is one of the main reasons why people fail to take advantage of all the numerous opportunities out there to make money easily online.
P.s Rob Benwell has a terrific product called Blogging to the bank. It teaches you all you need to know about making money with your blog. You can check it out here.
Understandably what has made it even more difficult for most people to believe that it is possible to make easy money online are the hoards of hype peddlers and scum artists that we have online these days.
So how does a person make this easy money online?
All you need to make easy money online is a blog, which can easily be hosted for you for free by leading blog hosts like blogger and wordpress, and a couple of affiliate links on your blog. That's it. The rest are details. These details which are critical to you succeeding to make money online the easy way, includes the right relevant affiliate links. You must also be able to build up a reasonable amount of traffic to your blog.
Sounds too good to be true? There's more.
One of the reasons why many people have completely missed this easy make money online opportunity is because it does not require any cash investment. People are generally extremely skeptical and because it sounds too good to be true, most folks assume its' just NOT true. Can you imagine somebody missing an amazing opportunity just because they are skeptical? Well, it happens all the time. It is really sad to realize that this is one of the main reasons why people fail to take advantage of all the numerous opportunities out there to make money easily online.
P.s Rob Benwell has a terrific product called Blogging to the bank. It teaches you all you need to know about making money with your blog. You can check it out here.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
A Simple 5-Step System To Start Affiliate Marketing Today
Affiliate marketing is indeed the lazy man’s best friend to making money online. In fact I would surmise a guess that 90% of people started internet marketing doing affiliate programs.
If you are new to internet marketing, I like to share with you how you too can profit from affiliate programs. Some technical know-how on using webpage editor like Microsoft FrontPage to do up a simple sales letter web page with an opt-in form will certainly be an advantage. In this short article I have to assume you do. Otherwise go to additional resource at the end.
With some practice, you can easily replicate these 5-step system in a day and create as many affiliate sites as you like.
Step 1 : Choose A Profitable Market
Decide on which market you like to enter. Try and choose something that you have either a deep passion in or some expert domain knowledge.
Research on what is the market potential by going to yahoo overture at http://overture.inventory.com and find out how many people search on a related keyword or keyword phrase last month! A number above 50,000 will be ideal.
Step 2 : Choose A Profitable Affiliate Product
Next go to clickbank.com which is the world’s biggest online marketplace for digital products. Look for a profitable affiliate product in your niche under Marketplace.
Take your time to shop for the best program to promote. If you can, try out the product yourself to see if it passes your quality check. You certainly do not want to recommend a lemon to your customers.
A good program is one that :
• pays you above 50% referral commission
• ranks high on the popular and best-selling charts
• has a well-written sales pitch page that you yourself are convinced
Once you selected the program, sign up with Clickbank and get your hoplink to your chosen program.
Step 3 : Create A “Look-alike” Opt-In Page
Next, create a simple Opt-in page that sort of resembles the look and feel of the merchant’s pitch page.
Do not just copy and paste text from your merchant’s website. This is not ethical unless you sought prior consent from the owner. It may be quick and fast but the market will know soon enough trust me unless you are some kind of fly-by-night business which will self-destruct on the internet as all the fundamentals of business practice will still apply online.
An opt-in page is one where you can collect your subscriber’s name and email before you point them to the hoplink (the merchant’s sales page). By doing so, you are building yourself a list of customers where you could build relations with instead of starting from ground zero again when you market a 2nd affiliate product.
Try and give away a freebie for people to opt-in if you like.
Step 4 : Use An Autoresponder
Your prospect may not buy from you at the first attempt. If you know how to use an autoresponder, this is where you could simply write a series of “sales-pitching” emails to convince your prospect over time. A good rule of thumb is about 5 to 7 emails.
Highlight one unique selling point of the affiliate product in each email.
Do not spam your list. If they will not buy from you after 5 emails, they probably will not buy from you at all.
Step 5 : Drive Traffic To Your Opt-In Page
With all your autoresponder emails set up, the last task which is the most difficult is to drive traffic to your website.
For quick results, invest a little in pay-per-click ads from Google, Yahoo or other smaller search engines. If you want to see a proven pay per click system that I use to generate a solid income online Click here.
If you have painstaking performed each step so far and have picked the best affiliate product to recommend with a strong and convincing sales letter coupled with equally well-written follow up emails, you should recieve some sales after a while.
Conclusion
Try this no-nonsense 5-step system to start your 1st affiliate marketing opt-in page today and simply replicate the 5 steps again for your 2nd affiliate product and so on.
Good luck to your internet affiliate marketing business.
If you are new to internet marketing, I like to share with you how you too can profit from affiliate programs. Some technical know-how on using webpage editor like Microsoft FrontPage to do up a simple sales letter web page with an opt-in form will certainly be an advantage. In this short article I have to assume you do. Otherwise go to additional resource at the end.
With some practice, you can easily replicate these 5-step system in a day and create as many affiliate sites as you like.
Step 1 : Choose A Profitable Market
Decide on which market you like to enter. Try and choose something that you have either a deep passion in or some expert domain knowledge.
Research on what is the market potential by going to yahoo overture at http://overture.inventory.com and find out how many people search on a related keyword or keyword phrase last month! A number above 50,000 will be ideal.
Step 2 : Choose A Profitable Affiliate Product
Next go to clickbank.com which is the world’s biggest online marketplace for digital products. Look for a profitable affiliate product in your niche under Marketplace.
Take your time to shop for the best program to promote. If you can, try out the product yourself to see if it passes your quality check. You certainly do not want to recommend a lemon to your customers.
A good program is one that :
• pays you above 50% referral commission
• ranks high on the popular and best-selling charts
• has a well-written sales pitch page that you yourself are convinced
Once you selected the program, sign up with Clickbank and get your hoplink to your chosen program.
Step 3 : Create A “Look-alike” Opt-In Page
Next, create a simple Opt-in page that sort of resembles the look and feel of the merchant’s pitch page.
Do not just copy and paste text from your merchant’s website. This is not ethical unless you sought prior consent from the owner. It may be quick and fast but the market will know soon enough trust me unless you are some kind of fly-by-night business which will self-destruct on the internet as all the fundamentals of business practice will still apply online.
An opt-in page is one where you can collect your subscriber’s name and email before you point them to the hoplink (the merchant’s sales page). By doing so, you are building yourself a list of customers where you could build relations with instead of starting from ground zero again when you market a 2nd affiliate product.
Try and give away a freebie for people to opt-in if you like.
Step 4 : Use An Autoresponder
Your prospect may not buy from you at the first attempt. If you know how to use an autoresponder, this is where you could simply write a series of “sales-pitching” emails to convince your prospect over time. A good rule of thumb is about 5 to 7 emails.
Highlight one unique selling point of the affiliate product in each email.
Do not spam your list. If they will not buy from you after 5 emails, they probably will not buy from you at all.
Step 5 : Drive Traffic To Your Opt-In Page
With all your autoresponder emails set up, the last task which is the most difficult is to drive traffic to your website.
For quick results, invest a little in pay-per-click ads from Google, Yahoo or other smaller search engines. If you want to see a proven pay per click system that I use to generate a solid income online Click here.
If you have painstaking performed each step so far and have picked the best affiliate product to recommend with a strong and convincing sales letter coupled with equally well-written follow up emails, you should recieve some sales after a while.
Conclusion
Try this no-nonsense 5-step system to start your 1st affiliate marketing opt-in page today and simply replicate the 5 steps again for your 2nd affiliate product and so on.
Good luck to your internet affiliate marketing business.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Make Money Online"
"Make money online" seems to be a hot topic these days. This article is to show people who have no experience in Internet money making (newbies) what they need to know to make money online.
First of all, a few things that a newbie should NEVER do/think when they try to make money online:
Never think that making money online is an easy task, you still have to WORK, you have to spend time and effort! There's no "automated" ways, newbies always have this wrong notion in mind because of all the scam sites out there.
Never look for FAST money, making money online is like any other jobs, it is possible that you can pump up US$1000 on the first day but it takes skills! Experience and valuable ebooks will bring you skills.
The best way to make money online is to do Internet Marketing. (Which i will explain a little bit further later).
Never pay to work. You never have to pay to make money online as a newbie! The only things that are worthy of spending money on are useful, and very valuable ebook tutorials to learn how to make money online without spending any money, not even on advertising!
Best way to make money online for newbies:
Internet Marketing - Internet marketing (Affiliate Marketing) is to connect a service/product to potential clients. Affiliate marketing is one way of making people rich. There are thousands of Affiliates who are making US$5000-10000 each and everyday. All you have to do is to sign up for affiliate programs (For Free) then use the different skills that you can learnt from ebooks like "Who Loves Money" to promote for products without spending any money. Whenever people make a purchase, you will be given a commission instantly. For a newbie, if you learn enough skills from the Top products for newbies like The Profit Lance Automated Wealth Course and The Baby Boomers Guide To Online Income
you will usually make $100-500 a day. Of course it depends on how many and what products you are promoting. Therefore, the more time you spend promoting the more money you will be making!
If you are willing to put effort in Internet Marketing instead of looking for quick ways to make money online, YOU WILL MAKE MONEY!
It doesn't require any special skills like being a doctor or lawyer and it is not rocket science.
If you are willing to learn from good e-books and tools, then achieve the skills today, you will see the money in your account tomorrow!
First of all, a few things that a newbie should NEVER do/think when they try to make money online:
Never think that making money online is an easy task, you still have to WORK, you have to spend time and effort! There's no "automated" ways, newbies always have this wrong notion in mind because of all the scam sites out there.
Never look for FAST money, making money online is like any other jobs, it is possible that you can pump up US$1000 on the first day but it takes skills! Experience and valuable ebooks will bring you skills.
The best way to make money online is to do Internet Marketing. (Which i will explain a little bit further later).
Never pay to work. You never have to pay to make money online as a newbie! The only things that are worthy of spending money on are useful, and very valuable ebook tutorials to learn how to make money online without spending any money, not even on advertising!
Best way to make money online for newbies:
Internet Marketing - Internet marketing (Affiliate Marketing) is to connect a service/product to potential clients. Affiliate marketing is one way of making people rich. There are thousands of Affiliates who are making US$5000-10000 each and everyday. All you have to do is to sign up for affiliate programs (For Free) then use the different skills that you can learnt from ebooks like "Who Loves Money" to promote for products without spending any money. Whenever people make a purchase, you will be given a commission instantly. For a newbie, if you learn enough skills from the Top products for newbies like The Profit Lance Automated Wealth Course and The Baby Boomers Guide To Online Income
you will usually make $100-500 a day. Of course it depends on how many and what products you are promoting. Therefore, the more time you spend promoting the more money you will be making!
If you are willing to put effort in Internet Marketing instead of looking for quick ways to make money online, YOU WILL MAKE MONEY!
It doesn't require any special skills like being a doctor or lawyer and it is not rocket science.
If you are willing to learn from good e-books and tools, then achieve the skills today, you will see the money in your account tomorrow!
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