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Affiliate Marketing Revealed
Friday, 20 August 2010 11:43
25 Things you Must Know about Affiliate Marketing
Introduction
Affiliate Marketing: What It Is
Affiliate marketing is the act of marketing someone else’s products or services for a portion, or commission, of each sale that you make.
Some people do affiliate marketing as their full time jobs. That’s it. That’s all they do – they market other people’s products or services, collect their commissions, and live their lives as they wish. They do not have to deal with customer service, shipping orders, or anything else. All they do is promote other people’s products or services, everyday.
Other people use affiliate programs in conjunction with their own products or services, using affiliate programs as front end products, upsells, and back end products.
For example, if you had an information product about weight loss, you might want to market exercise equipment, exercise clothing, vitamins, or other items or services that are related to weight loss along with your weight loss information product – to increase your revenue.
Obviously you would not want to create these items, so you would find these related products or services, and sign up for the affiliate programs, allowing you to promote them. Some people use low cost information products, such as ebooks, in order to sell high ticket affiliate products or services. Alternately, some people just use inexpensive affiliate products to enhance their own high ticket products or continuity programs, such as membership sites.
Some people are confused about what affiliate marketing actually is.
For instance, many people who have products and offer affiliate programs for those products might say that they sell their product through affiliate marketing. What they mean is that they have affiliates who sell the product for them, but they are actually merchants or affiliate managers, in affiliate marketing terms.
But basically, affiliate marketing is selling someone else’s products or services through various means, for various reasons – either to earn an income, to enhance a product, or even to sell an additional product. In fact, many people use low end affiliate products as lead ins, or entry level products, for higher end affiliate products – never actually creating or promoting a product or service of their own.
Is money being made? You better believe there is! If you include all products and services that are sold through affiliates, affiliate marketing is essentially a billion dollar industry, even though it isn’t technically considered an industry in its own right. Many people don’t even consider it a career, but they are mistaken.
Right now, at this very moment, there are thousands of affiliate marketers that you have never even heard of quietly promoting affiliate products and collecting huge commission checks every month.
Why haven’t you heard of them?
You haven’t heard of them because they are not in the Internet Marketing products market. They are in other ‘consumer’ niches, such as weight loss, healthcare, sports, gambling, education, financial products, etc.
Now, if you have an active interest in those things, or any other conceivable thing, you have probably searched for information or products related to your interest on the Internet. If this is the case, you have most likely come into contact with an affiliate marketer, without even being aware of it. You may have even purchased a product through an affiliate marketer without ever knowing it.
Even Google has an affiliate program. That’s what Google AdSense is all about. It’s an affiliate program, but it isn’t technically called that. EBay has an affiliate program, as does Microsoft. There is an affiliate program available for just about any product that you can imagine, but not all ‘brands’ have affiliate programs – which of course is their mistake.
Affiliate marketing presents a win-win-win situation. The owner or maker of the product being sold is making money. The affiliate marketer is making money, and the customer is getting what they want or need. Everybody wins. Affiliate marketing has been around longer than you think it has as well.
Many people think that affiliate marketing started sometime after the Internet came into existence. This is wrong. Amway, Avon, Mary Kay – all of these are essentially affiliate programs, but the people who were actually doing the affiliate marketing were called distributors or representatives – and they are still called distributors or representatives to this day.
Affiliate marketing can even entail network marketing. Affiliate marketing is the act of selling a product for a commission.
Network marketing also involves selling a product for a commission, but also focuses on bringing other resellers (or affiliate marketers, distributors or representatives) into the program as well. Sometimes, however, affiliate marketing also allows and encourages you to bring other affiliate marketers into the program.
Again, affiliate marketing is different things to different people, but the goal is the same – to make money. Affiliate marketing offers you the opportunity and ability to make money without creating a product of your own.
Seven Secrets of Affiliate Marketing
Friday, 20 August 2010 10:55
7 Secrets of Affiliate Marketing
by Shafir Ahmad
Learn the Seven most important principles to profitable Affiliate Marketing.
Implement these secrets to boost your ability to Make Money Online
Article Writing Secrets
Friday, 20 August 2010 10:37
Article Writing Secrets
Introduction
Brought to you by Jeff Dedrick
Writing articles to make money: It’s one of the hottest topics on the internet. And it’s true, articles are an awesome and easy way to make money online. Some folks feel intimidated about the thought of putting pen to paper, but I’m going to tell you about some easy ways to write quality articles.
You’ll be cranking them out in no time.
What good are articles? Well, with them you can…
• generate free traffic to your website (where you’re selling something)
• send traffic to websites you are promoting as an affiliate (via your link, of course!)
• provide quality content on a basic adsense site
• use several of them to quickly create your own e-books and sell them on their own mini sites, or even sell resell rights to these e-books.
When folks are curled up in bed with your book, you can talk about scenery and feelings and pave the way for character development.
But when people are reading on the internet, they’re wanting fast facts.
They don’t want additional fluff.
Easy to understand information. That’s the goal.
When you want to learn something, you want to learn it as quickly as possible.
Everyone looks for a shortcut so they can start applying what they’ve learned. That’s why you want to be brief and to the point in your articles for the web.
Blogging for Profits
Thursday, 19 August 2010 07:10
Blogging for Profit
by Alex Sysoef
Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain.
Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are.
The flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.
In this part of the book, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
First we need to obtain a blog. There are two options - host a blog with your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let's talk about free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at http://www.blogger.com or the newer and better http://www.wordpress.com. You can also start your own blog on a website that allows creating and posting blog articles like http://freeadslondon.com. If you are a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is robust and infinitely expandable.
Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google's radar faster and you will be indexed faster. Wordpress, however is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later).
Get a free blog at either http://blogger.com or http://wordpress.com. Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates.
As a Blogger you need to get acquainted with blogger's lingo.
Here are a few common "Blog-related" words and terms to help you start:
1. Permalink - stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2. Trackback - When you post about someone else's blog elsewhere, your post will show up in their "trackback" section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3. Pinging - Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to gaining traffic, which we shall discuss later.
For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come with it. In the next part, we discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more!
Blog Traffic eBook
Monday, 16 August 2010 09:03
Blog Traffic
By David Hobson
INTRODUCTION
A few years ago, I was browsing the internet and began to see more and more references to blogs and blogging. After a bit of additional investigation, I discovered exactly what a blog was and how to build one for myself. After some more research, I learned about ways to possibly profit from the creation and maintenance of a blog. Google Adsense, for instance, seemed to hold real possibility for revenue production.
It was an exciting idea. I could create and easily maintain a dynamic web site on the subject of my choice and make some money at the same time! I dove in headfirst.
I enjoyed writing in the blog and tweaking with its layout. In time, I was sure, the blog would “take off” and earnings would start to compile. I was wrong.
I had everything: good content, a popular topic and well-placed advertising. Nothing was happening. The reason: few visitors.
Even after adopting some of the frequently recommended methods of generating content, my blog was still only producing a few cents a day--on its best days!
I abandoned my blog. Over the next several months, I would occasionally return to my research on blogging and money making. I kept noticing articles about those making real money with blogs and Adsense. My first experience had been a failure, but I was beginning to learn why.
I compiled my research, went through it carefully, and devised a plan of action for a new blog. Within thirty days of the blog’s launch, I earned my first Adsense check. One month later, my check was for over four hundred dollars! Since then, I have added a few more blogs to my personal “network” and continue to post consistent earnings.
What was the difference between my first failed experiment and my subsequent success? The content was not better. In fact, I think my original blog was probably a better read. The design was only marginally better. The difference was traffic. I had found a way to create blogs that attract visitors.
That system of traffic production has some great applications. Of course, it can make blogging profitable for those who use Adsense or other advertising tools. Just as importantly, it can create an audience. Most of us who write blogs do so in order to say something to others. A blog may be an online diary for some people, but even many of them want to share those thoughts with the world.
I believe blogging can be fun, therapeutic, profitable and more. All it requires is having something to say, saying it the right way and helping people find the end result.
This ebook focuses primarily on helping people to find your blog and on convincing them to stop by to read what you have to offer. It outlines some powerful ways of creating blog traffic and should help any blog develop a readership. It is a guide to traffic generation. It does not discuss Adsense techniques or some other aspects of operating a profitable blog, so it should be of value to both those who are looking at blogging as an entrepreneurial pursuit and those who are more interested simply in sharing ideas with others. I hope you find it valuable and that you can find an audience for your blog.
