Showing posts with label affiliate marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affiliate marketing. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

What I Learned From Secret Affiliate Weapon 2

For under $10 Secret Affiliate Weapon 2 is a must have for anyone who wants to succeed at affiliate marketing but is not successful yet. There is a 100% money back guarantee if you're not satisfied.

- affirmations work! (not that I didn't already know this. LOL. If you know me you know I love affirmations)

- how you should be promoting your affiliate links. Linking directly to the sales page is NOT the way to do it.

- wear the colour red for the next 30 days.

- there are opportunities to make money in network marketing online and how to go about it.

- "How can I make money?" is the wrong question to ask yourself if you want to be successful.

- one of the easiest ways to make money is to help other people make money.

Secret Affiliate Weapon is awesome! Click here to read all about it. If you actually purchase it you'll find out what I've done here to promote Secret Affiliate Weapon that is wrong! (only because I haven't got the time right now....)

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Affiliate Advantage - a FREE online ecourse

Your efforts to make money with affiliate marketing could be wasted unless you have the valuable information contained in this ecourse. It's free and no optin required.

Click here and simply answer YES to get the password to start the ecourse immediately.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing Part 1

NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors - Jimmy D Brown.


Do you find yourself "starting" to create your own product
to sell online, but never "finishing" it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is --

** You don't need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to
be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

* I don't have any good ideas!
* I'm not a writer!
* There's too much competition!
* I don't know how to set everything up!
* I can't figure out where to start!
* It's too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give
when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.
I'm sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come
up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don't need your own products.
You simply promote someone else's already proven successful
offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have
lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out...

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don't know everything! Why try
to create a product on every topic imaginable in your
market when you can earn just as much money by simply
promoting someone else's really good offer as one of your
profit streams?

That's why I love affiliate marketing.

You don't need to create your own products.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliate Payrise", teaching
you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions!
Tired of "tiny" commission checks? Grab your copy today by clicking here.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Top 3 Ways to Boost Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

Hi everyone

Sorry I haven't updated this blog for a while but I have been away! My family and I spent the long weekend at Couran Cove. We had a fabulous time, but I was exhausted after all the bike riding, basketball playing etc etc. It was full on! The kids wouldn't let me relax at all! Oh well, at least I know I'm fit. The fact I had to push the bike along instead of riding sometimes is no big deal, my legs were sore... The kids thought it was hysterical. Oh well, good luck to them.

Anyway, I'm back and I have another "cheat" article. Yes, I haven't written what follows myself, but that doesn't mean that it isn't good stuff. It is and I hope you get something from it. (thank god for PLR)


hugs
Sharon
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Top 3 Ways To Boost Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.

Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.

1. Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.

Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.

In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With ebooks, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale.

This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.

Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.

But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.

3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.

If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.

Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.
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Pay Per Click ads are a great way to boost traffic to your website. However, there is an art to writing the ads. I recommend doing the free ecourse on PPC by Perry Marshall. Sign up for theGoogle Adwords Definitive Guide 5 day ecourse here. It's free and no obligation.

cheers
Sharon

Thursday, May 1, 2008

3 tips for affiliate marketers

Hi everyone

One thing I have mentioned a couple of times on this blog is the fact that you don't have to write every single article yourself. If you are time strapped - (and who isn't you can use PLR.

The following article wasn't written by me. I haven't even changed it slightly because I just haven't got time. However, it makes some good points so I hope you enjoy it.

By the way, if you want some good PLR for yourself have a look at All Private Label Content. Some PLR sites just give you a stack of PLR that you may not be interested in. All Private Label Content allows you to only purchase those subjects you are interested in.

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Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…

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I will be going away for a couple of days so my postings may be spasmodic. And don't forget to check out All Private Label Content


bye for now
Sharon

Monday, April 14, 2008

No website? No problem. A simple business idea to try.

Don't let the fact that you don't have a website stop you from making money on the internet.

Just copy this business idea. Only cost is in advertising with Google Adwords, but that doesn't need to cost a fortune. I started with about $50 to discover what would work and what wouldn't.

When you see some success from your adverstising you will want to ramp the business up and that will cost a little, a very little!

Essentially, what I'll describe in this blog is how to advertise and sell downloadable audio books online. Think how huge the market for audio books is. Commuters, the blind, people who have difficulty holding a book, and so it goes.... Most people these days have an mp3 player or CD player.

First of all you'll need to sign up to be an affiliate of an audio books store. Leisure Audio Sales has a fabulous range, great affiliate support and training, and offers free excerpts so that customers can try before they buy.

Then you need to decide what titles you want to promote. Do you want to promote specific titles, an entire category or perhaps the entire store? The training section for affiliates gives ideas on what to promote and how (even offline promoting at doctors surgeries etc).

You'll need to sign up for a Google Adwords account. Get the advanced account straight away. It doesn't cost anything and it's a lot more flexible.

Learn all you can about Google Adwords from their website and do this free 5 day Google Adwords ecourse by Perry Marshall.

One thing you will learn is that you'll need some keywords for you ad. Keywords are how people search on the internet ie. what they type in to the Google search box. Google adwords are displayed on the right hand side of the returned results. This is where you want your ad to appear.

Your keywords will need to be things that people are actually searching for. To find this information you can get a free 30 subscription to Wordtracker. However, before you do this make sure you have completed the course and signed up for and found your way around the audio books website. That way, you'll have a full 30 days to concentrate on your keywords for no cost.

I'd be interested to hear how you go.

Until next posting
Sharon

Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Super Affiliate Handbook

I just thought I'd let you know of the very first ebook I bought on affilate marketing. The Super Affiliate Handbook.

I had barely heard of internet marketing but was doing a seminar with Sandy Forster from Wildly Wealthy Women who mentioned Rosalind Gardiner as the guru on affiliate marketing.

Sandy being Australian and living only 100kms from me how could I not take her recommendation?:-) Particularly as affiliate marketing sounded like a no brainer for getting started on line....

Anyhow, I went ahead and bought the ebook and signed up for quite a few things that she recommended. I was soooo eager to get my business started and I have never been accused of being patient.

The Super Affiliate Handbook is definitely worth the money, BUT if you are new to the internet I wouldn't buy any products she recommends JUST YET. Why? Simply because you won't understand the implications of any choices you make - don't worry, they wouldn't be devastating - just a waste of money.

Have you downloaded the free guide to affiliate marketing yet? There's a link just to the right of screen. Whether or not you buy The Super Affiliate Handbook my strong recommendation is that you download and read the free one as well.

Also there are free internet marketing guides on my website. Check this page often as new ones are added regularly.

Go here to read the salespage for The Super Affiliate Handbook.


That's it for today.
Sharon

Do you want health and fitness to be your niche?

Well, if you haven't got a website and have even less clue about getting one then this health biz in a box may be a great place to start.

I'm sure you've heard of Dr Suzanne Gudakunst. If you haven't just "google" her. Anyway, she wrote an ebook called "Top Secret Weight Loss Secret".

Now she has health biz in a box that I think is definitely worth a look if you're in or want to be in the health and fitness niche. Read on to discover more.......

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Wise Online Entrepreneurs know that the best selling products online are health products and health-related ebooks, books, tapes, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

Now World famous Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her latest "shocker!" that makes it possible for just about anyone to profit from this fact.

She's making it possible for someone to get a fully-operational online "store" that specializes in "health-related" goods and services.

Literally now anyone can get a complete Internet "health" business in a box!

This complete website has a main product as well as up to 17 separate products that all center around breakthrough health products. And where YOU can earn some really HUGE CASH!

It seems that Dr. Suzanne has really done her homework (especially for YOUR benefit!)

First she correctly determined that according to Forrester Research (which is perhaps the most powerful & accurate online research database to date!) "health-related" products and information is by far the most sought after things anywhere online.

Nope! -- Despite what you might have thought, "sex," "porn," and "UFOs" are NOT the most searched for items on the Internet (but "health stuff" is hands down!)

Second, Dr. Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" shook the entire World with its release recently - and she's even made a special lead-capture page that you also get central to this amazing site!

Why is this important?

Simple: because Dr. Suzanne's affiliates are making millions right now with what is perhaps one of ClickBank's HOTTEST products (and this same product is the central seller at your new health e-Biz site!)

Third, the site you get also acts as a "database" that never stops growing so that you get 10,000's of customers you can continue to sell to over and over again other things!

Why is this important?

Again, very simple: anyone who's wise online knows that "backend" sales are chief to making long term and extra profits!

Dr. Suzanne's NEW "Health Biz In a Box" complete and fully-operational website you get for next to nothing contains an electronic "Automatic Sales Manager" (like a salesman robot - Ha!) built-in that works to upsell to your list over and over again so that you enjoy additional "automatic" income!

Fourth, Dr. Suzanne health-biz site also includes a complete health-related products Shopping Mall so that your site visitors stopping by are likely to buy at least 1 to up to 17 additional products creating instantly for you up to over a dozen other income streams!

This way you get the "most bang for your buck" so to speak!

As if all this weren't enough, the fifth (and perhaps the very best) thing about this automatic seller is the tiny spokesmodel "Rachel" that literally walks out onto your Health-Biz site and guides your site visitors (like a tour guide) through your entire site and what it has to offer!

Dr. Suzanne carefully tested the site both WITH and WITHOUT "Rachel" and accurately determined that the addition of "Rachel" boosted sites sales by as much as 396% (meaning nearly 4 times as many sales!)

Dr. Suzanne believes that having the spokesmodel adds credibility as well as an informative approach to the site so that it generates a much higher "conversion-to-sales" ration at large.

And ALL these amazing features stand to make YOU very, very rich as you get all of them with your own "Health Biz In a Box" website!

If any of this floats your boat, then I highly recommend you get over to health biz in a box website and have a look.

...and because rumor has it that Dr. Suzanne may put a ceiling on the number of these Internet "health-biz" sites she's giving out in order to avoid everyone having one and risking market saturation.

Already people securing theirs have had nothing but great things to say about this:

"I'm so happy with mine! ... Having this site professionally set up by Dr. Suzanne's Team for us was the greatest thing we ever did! ... the site literally is just pouring money into our pockets even while we're doing other things, vacationing, and even crashing out!"
-Cynthia Conrad, Atlanta, Georgia

"I never knew that making money online could be so easy!"
-Richard Bosworth, SLC, Utah

"Health stuff is the real way to make money online easily ... everybody sooner or later has to have it!"
-Carla Dupree, Boise, Idaho

"I'm making about $6,000 a week with mine ... and this after failing on the Net for nearly 10 years trying to sell everything else!"
-Jason Herman, San Dimas, CA

"$500 a day is what this biz is shoving in my pocket! I even went out of town for nearly two weeks and my health biz site completely ran itself!"
-Michael Sorbowski, Mason, Ohio

As you can see by these people's comments, everyone grabbing their own automatic health-products Internet business is raking in the cash! (And now you can too by clicking here!)

I guess I should have added above that not only do you get all the things I've described thus far, but you also get professional customized set up at no extra charge!

That's right! - Dr. Suzanne's own Team of web experts actually build your "Health Biz" for you so you don't have to!

They:

- design your site
- put all the 17 income streams into place
- install the electronic sales manager for you
- add sharp selling graphics
- add powerful videos
- add several other webpages
- and a complete online shopping mall of health products!

All so that you can earn big income online and while you sell product that help people and that you can be very proud to sell.

So all in all this is perhaps one of the BEST instant online ventures worth your time.

Check it out here.

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Whilst it all sounds wonderful, just remember that there are no get rich quick schemes. As good as the business is and as profitable as the health and fitness industry may, you will still have to put in some work.

OK,they build the website for you, and provide support, but you will still have to put in time and effort promoting the site.

Remember, your wealth will never exceed your level of personal development..... Subscribe to receive my daily inspirational quotes to continuously remind you of this fact.

No, I haven't actually bought the health biz in a box product, but that's only because I have so much on my plate at the moment. If I didn't already have a website though, I'd definitely be interested. I am, however, promoting Dr Suzanne's weight loss book on my website.

If you do go ahead and buy the website, make sure you let me know so I can have a look!


All the best
Sharon

Monday, April 7, 2008

Simplest way to make money online

When I say simple I mean that the concept is easy to understand. Anyone can do it if they put their mind to it and were prepared to spend the time to make it work. Unfortunately, there is no get rich quick schemes that actually work, despite the fact we are constantly bombarded with such claims.

When people first toy with the idea of starting a business, particularly an offline business, they realise that to get started it takes a substantial cash injection. Almost immediately they incur expenses for rent, stock, and so on.

With an offline business the money to getting started is relatively affordable. The major cost is time, but that is also true of an offline business.

Now, I said that I'd explain a simple way to make money online so here goes.

The first thing is to brainstorm what sort of business to create? This is easy!

Think of the things you love to do? Craft, watching movies, gardening, fixing cars, tennis, netball..... Whatever it is, write it down. Don't concern yourself with the level of skill you have in that area. Whether you are good at it or bad at it doesn't matter. You just have to enjoy doing it or learning more about it.

Then think of things that you know about. Perhaps you have a child with ADHD or some other disability. May be you have first hand knowledge of illness such as cancer or scleroderma. Perhaps you have overcome some major addiction and your life is back on track.

Look at your current occupation for skills. Maybe you're in the customer service industry and know heaps about conflict resolution. Perhaps you're a handyman that knows how to solve problems around the house.

So, write those things down. You'll probably have a list of three to four things. Can you build an online business on one of these things? I'm betting you think "no", but I know the answer is probably a resounding "yes".

Then have a look at this site Affiliate Scout. Also google "affiliate programs". Look at the results to see if there are affiliate programs related to the topics on your list.

So, what is an affiliate program? For example, lets say someone has written an ebook called "How to Stop your ADHD child having a tantrum at the supermarket". That person has set up a website to sell the ebook for $27 that can be downloaded instantly after payment.

OK, that's all well and good but how do all the people who have a child with ADHD know that the website actually exists? Afterall, if no one knows about the website then no one will buy the book will they?

So, the author has to advertise and that could cost thousands depending on how, why and where they advertised. The problem also is that the author is not a marketer (probably), he/she is an author and would rather spend time writing more books rather than learn about marketing.

That's where we as affiliates come in. The author offers us a percentage (and it can be as high as 75% or more) if we direct traffic to their site and subsequently make a sale.

So, it's a win/win situation when the author makes a sale from someone who was directed from an affiliate site. (Remember, unless the author wants to spend lots of money and time on marketing themselves it is quite likely that most of their sales would be affiliate sales).

Doesn't that sound easy? It is, a child could understand the concept.

However, do you need a website? If so, how do you build one? Once built, how do you get traffic to it? It's the old situation of the more you know the more you realise you have to know (if that makes sense).

As a matter of fact, you don't need a website. You could promote affiliate links through traffic sites, blogs (like this one), forums and social networking sites.

However, if you want to build a serious online business you'll need a website eventually. You can get to my website through the link on my "About Me" information. I started that website with absolutely no knowledge of HTML whatsoever.

Anyway, I hope that you now realise that whoever you are, whatever you do it is within the realm of possibility for you to make money on the internet.

Download this free ebook called The Affiliate Masters course for more information on creating your own online affiliate business.


best wishes
Sharon