Affiliate Basics Wanted

If you are wanting to get started in a business, you need one of two things first. This is something that takes place before thinking about the affiliate basics everyone wanted to know about. You either need to start with an area that you are an expert in or have a good deal of knowledge. I don’t mean that you need to have a Ph.D.

One of the first things people do is try to find a niche in an area the they are interested in. Lets say you like cats and that you even have a cat. This is something that you know about and hopefully enjoy. So, you now could very well have your first direction. Maybe you can find a clickbank product about ways to care for your cat. Now you have a meaningful target that you feel you can actively promote.

The other aspect is that, let’s say you don’t know much about cats and you don’t even own a cat. Well, why would anyone even pursue this area if they know nothing about it. Let me tell you a little bit why someone would want to pursue this. You don’t know about cats, but you of a niche and some great keywords for that niche that are not very competitive. You have to do a little work here with researching cat care and products on the cat care niche. Assume you learned quite a lot about caring for a cat within a few hours of research online and that you found a nice book about 101 way to care for your cat that will give you a nice commission. You’re off to the races now.

With your new niche or expertise, you can now publish articles with hoplinks to your affiliate product. You can now do keyword search and analysis to target your new customers better. You can even look into doing some pay per click advertising which I will discuss more some other time. But you have to remember that when you Google affiliate basics wanted, you should expect to find a little help that will basically get you started. We’re talking about find your interest or niche, and taking it to down to a level where you can compete. Target a customer base with your product and find ways to get your product within a click away from your perspective buyers. It does not get anymore simpler than that.

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Affiliate Basics – Did I Mention Affiliate Basics Yet?

If you want to do anything, and I do mean anything, then you must know the basic skill or knowledge needed to begin. Well, if you go rock climbing and you didn’t read a book, take a class, or have someone tell you that you need a rope as essential equipment and you didn’t bring a rope, well – see what I mean.
Just like affiliate marketing, just a few basic strategies do really save you from pitfalls.

One of the first things is to find is a strong support group that can make your climb to the top a whole lot easier. One of my favorites Chris Farrell’s membership site where you will learn, most of all, wealthy affiliate basics. They have a great forum base that offers introduction, general marketing discussions, general success stories, and even help for marketing tools and services.

Here you can get help with picking a product or niche where you intend to promote. There are great places for everyone to get products and support that they need. Here is where you can use the WA told to help you find your product, keywords, and determine how strong the competition and search power for your new product or niche.

Lets say you decided to promote an ebook for the care of your horse. You create a website using the tools and resource from your supporting group. If you still need help, then post in the forums or email an affiliate that you think could help you out. Everyone is will to help you succeed. Its pretty amazing how I have seen even new members become successful.

Now you need some traffic to your website or landing page. One more time. Build a highway to what you are promoting. You need to direct traffic for yourself. Affiliate basics don’t get any simpler than this – build your highway. You can start getting traffic to your website or page by just doing a few simple things.

I recommend writing a few articles. Submit your article to a popular article submission site and create a linkback to your website by either using hyperlinking or your affiliate hop link. Then you can go to the big three and submit the URL of your article to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. That should be easy enough. I am not going to get into keywords and SEO at this point. We can deal with that late on. Alright, take a break because you just did a lot of work. Make sure you have good content, that is a key element. If you don’t make people want to read it, then they won’t.

You can check out more here at my Wealthy affiliate basics to learn a little more. I wish you much success and hope I can help you if you need it.

Thanks
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Affiliate Basics

Have you ever wondered how somebody is able to write so many articles, at such a fast pace, and still have quality content time after time?

I have struggled often on my road to becoming an affiliate marketer and it has not been easy. Even intermediate marketers still have problems following through with the basic. Every new project results in a different levels of success because they do not know or forget to follow specific key guidelines. I hear a lot of talk about writing lots of articles. This seems good to me except for the fact that I only want to give people only what I would want for my self. So, if mass article writing is for you, then don’t mass produce low quality articles. Sounds good, right? But what about the quality of the content that you are producing? Take a little bit more time to make your articles rock solid. If you keep content that people want to read, then you are a success. I due time you will become more and more efficient.

Before you start write your article or articles, you should research your product and decide what content needs to be involved and what can be left out. So now you have a format for writing your article. This is your quality content. As long as you keep your content intact, then you are golden for the long haul of writing more articles. You will be able to change things like you article title, your keywords used to drive ranking, and way you write for different targeted groups. I know some affiliates don’t care as much about their quality content and that’s alright. Its just my opinion that that will affect the rest of their campaign. Is the traffic going to be good traffic? Are the conversions going lower? I tend to believe the traffic will not be higher converting traffic. So remember if its good enough for you, then its good enough foe everyone else

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How To Find The right Affiliate Program For your Niche or Website

How To Find The right Affiliate Program For your Niche or Website? That’s a good question. Let’s talk about it for a second here.

To make money with articles that you place on websites, you will also need a variety of good affiliate links that will help to generate revenue. It is important that you know where to find affiliates and that you choose the best affiliates for you and your niche site.

When you pick an affiliate, it is important that you determine which companies you will profit best from based on the frequency that the product is likely to sell. There are several types of affiliates and some will offer you more money from a sale than others will. Before you get hazy-eyed by dollar signs, however, remember some products are bound to sell more than others. If you sell one product four times a year from a little known company that gives you $100 per sale or sell a well known product 3 times a week at the rate of $10 per sale, then you will make much more money with the $10 per sale product. Often times large well known companies will offer a very small profit per sale because they are established and know that their product is likely to sell well. Small, unknown companies, on the other hand, need all of the promotion they can get. Also, because they are unknown, their products are likely to sell less frequently.

The most important rule when picking affiliates to promote on your site is to pick products that would be of interest to those who would likely visit your niche site. Otherwise you will be promoting a product to a group of people who do not even want nor need it. If your niche site targets parents of young children, then promote baby products. If you niche site targets gardeners, then promote gardening products. If you promote baby products to gardeners, you are almost guaranteed to not make a profit no matter how much money the affiliate company offers for a sale.

Lastly, there are two main ways to find an affiliate company for your niche website. You can sign up with a company that manages the accounts of hundreds of companies, big and small, and apply for the products within these accounts or you can do a web search for companies that would match well with your niche, visit their websites, and see if they advertise an affiliate program.

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So You Want To Make Big Profits From Your AdWords PPC Campaigns?


By: Daniel Wandell
Everyone wants to make $300 a day or more with their AdWords campaigns. You’ve started a few campaigns, spent a few dollars, and now you’re wondering – “where’s the payoff!”

There’s no secret to AdWords success. Like anything, joining the big leagues of AdWords profits means you must put in the hours. In this case, it’s hours of keyword work.

Extensive Keyword Research

There are literally thousands of keywords for every industry. By advertising a thousand or more keywords you will greatly increase your chance of getting clicks at a cheaper rate.

Consider this:

Campaign A: Your AdWords campaign has only 4 keywords. These keywords are the most popular keywords for your industry. The average CPC is $1. These keywords get 6000 searches a day. Your campaign is getting a 2% CTR which means your getting $120 clicks at a total cost of $120.

Campaign B: You research and bid on 2000 keywords. The average CPC is .10 These 2000 keywords also receive 6000 search queries a day. Again using a 2% CTR, your campaign is delivering 120 visitors. But instead of paying $120 as in Campaign A, you are only paying $12.

Obviously, Campaign B is the better performing campaign. Campaign B is saving $108 a day, $3,600 a month and $43,200 per year. The difference in ROI is staggering.

Remember, the difference between the two campaigns was in the keywords. Campaign A had a few popular keywords. Campaign B contained 2000 keywords. The keywords in Campaign B are less popular, translating to a cheap CPC for you.

How To Find Keywords For Your PPC Campaigns

Now you know the importance of doing extensive keyword research before beginning an AdWords campaign. But how do you come up with a long list of targetted keywords. Here’s how:

The simplest and easiest method to come up with good keywords is to think long and hard. “Yeah, that’ll get me 50 words” you say.” Still need more keywords? Try these tools;

1. Google Keyword Generator (adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox)
2. WordTracker (www.wordtracker.com)
3. Overture Search Suggestion Tool (inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/)
4. Keyword Wrapper (www.keyword-toolkit.com/keyword-wrapper/)
5. MyTrashMail Keyword Generator (www.mytrashmail.com/Keyword_Generator.aspx)

Happy keyword hunting. You can never have too many keywords. Just remember with each keyword you are increasing your ROI. And istn’t that what it’s all about?

You can discuss this article in the ReveNow! Forums (www.revenow.com/forums).

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Free Article Writing Tips to Increase Website Traffic

By: John Michaels
If you’re not doing so already, you may want to consider writing articles about your website’s topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great way to:

Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
Establish yourself as an expert in your field
Increase your exposure on the internet
Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help your website in the search results.

Writing articles about the topic of your website is a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.

Some Article Writing Tips
To get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep the following article writing tips in mind:

Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your readers credit – they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away. Once they think they’re just reading another sales pitch they will quickly click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it’s one of your affiliates.
Don’t include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this is unavoidable.
Which situation would you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets picked up by 10 webmasters?
Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don’t write about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a keyword targeted link back to your site. I’m talking specifically about the words between the anchor tags. For example, this is how you should structure the link back to your website: keywords go here.

When the search engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable link by just having your website address (www.website.com) as the anchor text unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that having too many “uniform” links to a site may hurt you – just something to keep in mind.
Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles on their website and in their newsletters.
It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles. Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into articles. This may lead to a “duplicate content” penalty and may end up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.

How Many Articles Should I Write?
The number of articles that you will have to write really depends on how good your competitors are. If you’re competing against many highly optimized websites, then you may have your work cut out for you. On the other hand, if you notice that your competitors are not all that great at the SEO thing, your road to article writing will be much shorter. Any way you look at it, writing articles can bring too many benefits that are yours for the taking.

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Creating Video Software Tutorials – High Value Products You Can Easily Sell


By: James Simpson
What software programs do you use on a regular basis? What tricks do you know that make your life using the software far easier, and speed up your production because of it?

If you know secrets about the software you use, then you need to make software tutorials detailing what you do and how you do it. You can then sell these tutorials for a small fee, aiming to get many hundreds of buyers looking to make their time more productive.

So what do you need to record your tutorials? Start off with Camtasia Studio from Techsmith. It’s an outstanding software application that lets you record your desktop activity, i.e. the actions you’re making in the software you’re using.

This means you can record every action, every keystroke you make whilst using your software – and add voice commentary to it at the same time – to create high-value software tutorials people will be happy to pay for.

The voiceover will need a decent microphone, ideally USB. I’ve found that the Plantronics DSP-500 headset works best – it produces outstanding audio at a low price. Also, Camtasia Studio will instantly recognise the microphone, so you won’t have to spend hours trying to configure it.

Believe it or not, that’s all you’ll need. Using just these 2 items will allow you to create high-value software tutorials that show others the tips and tricks you know.

And don’t think for a second that others won’t pay for your tutorials. If you’re showing them a way to save time, increase their productivity and improve their overall knowledge of the software in question, then without a doubt people will pay money for your information.

Also, video tutorials have a huge advantage over books in that many, many people prefer to learn visually. Their attention span is short when reading and they can find it difficult to grasp the concept of turning what they read into actions with the software they’re learning.

By seeing what’s going on directly in the application, they can simply replicate the process without having to refer to a load of text and a dozen screen shots.

So, if you specialize in a software application and you can teach others how to use it effectively, then you need to seriously consider this. And to top it off, if the software in questions also has an affiliate program, you can quickly produce additional income from your tutorials by offering a special discount on your product if the software is bought via your affiliate link.

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Opt-In Email and eZine Advertising Still More Effective Than RSS, Blogs, and PPC!

Opt-In Email and eZine Advertising Still More Effective Than RSS, Blogs, and PPC!
By: Drew Michael
When you factor in all the costs related to promoting via an Opt-In Email or Ezine campaign you are still getting the best return on your advertising dollar investment than using RSS, Blogs or PPC. The measurable results are significantly faster than RSS and Blogs and less expensive than using Pay Per Click marketing. Without a doubt, Email and Newsletter advertising campaigns are still two of the best tools available to promote your product or service.

Email Marketing Campaigns
There are a great many people that are still reluctant to use what is one of the best marketing tools available today. Many marketers associate email marketing with spam and have concerns about being shut down by their ISP or hosting company. The fact is, done right and by following specific guidelines you have little to fear. Follow the guidelines outlined below and you will probably kick yourself for not using this tool a lot sooner.

1) CAN-SPAM COMPLIANT: Just about everyone receives hundreds of spam-related emails per week and that is the main reason a lot of legitimate businesses balk at using email marketing. But if you are a legitimate business you only need to do a few things to make your email marketing efforts legal.

(a) Subject Line: It should not be misleading in any way. It should relate to the body of the message and it is a very good practice that the first paragraph relate to the subject line.
(b) Specific Opt-Out Instructions: You must include a way for the reader to opt-out by supplying a link that works.
(c) Physical Address: If you work out of an office this is the address that should appear after your signature. If you work out of the home your home address should appear after the signature.
(d) From Address: Messages should be from the same “from address”

2) USE OPT-IN EMAIL ADDRESSES ONLY: This is very important. Use only Opt-In email addresses for your marketing efforts. There are many legitimate email suppliers so you have a lot of options. And even using 100% Opt-In Email Addresses does not guarantee that you won’t have a few people complaining. But if you purchase addresses that include the full name, IP and date stamp you have proof of the opt-in just in case it is needed.

Additional Tips For a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

1) USE EMAIL MARKETING SOFTWARE: We like Broadc@st HTML Bulk Email Software(www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/mailwork/b.asp?id=1979) and GroupMail 5 (www.infacta.com/asp/common/groupmail.asp). Some of the suppliers listed below provide free email marketing software.

2) USE SPAM FILTER SOFTWARE: Don’t let this software intimidate you. The software is easy to setup and use. It is a good idea to use spam filter software to filter out words or phrases that tend to get flagged by ISP spam filters. Some of the suppliers listed below provide free spam filtering software.

3) USE AUTORESPONDERS: Using an autoresponder will save you a lot of time and work. You can preload messages and assign specific criteria to when they should be sent. Some of the suppliers listed below provide free autoresponder software.

4) TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY ONLY: For best results send your email campaign from Tuesday to Thursday. These are the days that will obtain the most attention to your message. Monday is usually bad because people are planning their work-week and getting tasks out of the way quickly. Fridays are bad because most people are already planning their weekends.

5) COME TO THE POINT IMMEDIATELY: Don’t write a book. Try to be as brief as possible and outline your key points in the first paragraph. If you word it right the reader will read on.

Here is a short list of companies that supply 100% Opt-In Email Addresses.

Email Leads For Less
www.email-leads-for-less.com/Hot_100_Opt-In_Email_Leads.htm

EmailResults.com
www.emailresults.com/default.asp

Exact Sales Leads
www.exactsalesleads.com/

Expedite Media Group’s Email Marketing Services
www.expedite-email-marketing.com/index.htm

GetResponse Power Leads
www.getresponse.com/leads_offer.html

Lifeline Leads
www.lifelineleads.com/default.php

OptInDataSite.Com
www.optindatasite.com/

PermissionDIRECT
www.permissiondirect.com/index.asp

Prospects Influential
www.prospectsinfluential.com/

Red Clay Media
www.redclaymedia.com/

Salesleads.tv
www.salesleads.tv/index.html

SimplerLeads.com
www.simplerleads.com/

TheListGuy.com
www.thelistguy.com/index.html

Tip Top Leads
www.tiptopleads.com

VentureDirect List Services Group
www.venturedirect.com/html/lsg-about.htm

Please take note that the information contained in this article was up to date at the time of writing and is subject to change at any time. Additionally, it is not the authors intent to recommend or guarantee products or services of the companies listed. We believe that they are all legitimate and provide good products and services but readers are always encouraged to do ‘due diligence’ prior to making a purchase.

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The Most Tragic Mistake a New Marketer Almost Always Makes



The Most Tragic Mistake a New Marketer Almost Always Makes

By: Richard Meredith

So… you’re a new marketer, and you want to make extra money or even perhaps a great living! One of the first things you do is join an affiliate program or downline club of some sort. Or maybe even you are trying your hand at Ebay or another auction service by marketing some nicely profitable product. Now, once you have some sort of online business vehicle, your mind must gravitate to exactly what kind of advertising to generate sales or memberships.

Online business is an awful lot like regular advertising. What draws you to a business in your home town? Coupons? Specials? Give-aways? A personal recommendation from a friend or trusted associate?

Oh yes – and here is a little secret that is often not known or ignored:

When it comes to building any kind of business online you do the same thing! Give away a free report, an informative ebook, a trial software, an online course, or maybe a subscription to a free newsletter or ezine. This is just simply the way it is done with online business, period. But here is the most critical part… you MUST capture the name and email address FIRST before you give access to it!

It is widely known by all of the top marketers online that your PRIMARY task to be successful is to compile a list of people (prospective customers) that are interested in the type of thing you are giving away! This is so easy to do with an autoresponder. They just fill a form, and they are automatically added to your list, and then are redirected to your download page or membership site.

Then the next task is to automatically send a series of messages with that autoresponder that tell more about the reasons why your product or products (or membership program) are BENEFICIAL to them! WHY? Because it is infinitely better to contact a prospect several times rather than only once. It is a proven fact that most people will NOT buy from you or join your program until they have been approached at least 5 to 7 times. This is done as I said, automatically, on a timed basis slowly tapering off until it is a slow drip of messages until they buy or join- or unsubscribe from your list. And when you run special promotions of any kind, a feature of the best autoresponders allows you to broadcast to your entire list any time you want. This is how many marketers can make huge amounts of money and sales ON DEMAND- whenever and as often as they like!

Details about which autoresponders are best, and the techniques of developing a list and how often to mail to that list are subjects that deserve more time and attention than can be given here… but suffice it to say that if YOU are not FIRST developing a list, and then marketing to your list AFTERWARDS- you’re just missing the boat!

Pure and simple!

So if you are advertising an affiliate link, or your products’ sale page… or anything other than your free subscription, report, ebook, or course – it can indeed be the most tragic mistake you can make in your online business strategy!

If this is you, pull back and regroup, and completely re-think your marketing strategy now before you lose too much time, money, energy, or motivation.

And remember… BUILD your LIST!

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Richard Meredith is the author of the critically acclaimed ebook “The BLACK BOOK of Online Business”- the must-have source book for anyone doing business online… or even THINKING about it!
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How To Choose An Internet Marketing Niche And Quickly Dominate It

How To Choose An Internet Marketing Niche And Quickly Dominate It
By: Rick Miller
In a recent interview with Tellman Knudson for the List Crusade program, Shawn Casey revealed how to choose an Internet Marketing niche and crush your competition.

(Note: To access Shawn Casey’s complete audio interview for free, see end of article)

Shawn’s background as an attorney, author, publisher, company owner, corporate executive, public speaker, and teacher makes him uniquely qualified to show you how to be a success in Internet Marketing. Shawn is recognized one of the leading financial experts in the world. He is credited with making and saving thousands of people millions of dollars because of the valuable information he provides.

Listen closely to what Shawn has to say:

“Let’s say you know something about rose gardening. You love rose gardening. You’re probably an expert at it, even though you don’t realize it, because this is your passion.

Your marketplace would be other people that are interested in rose gardening. You can create a report, audio, video… something that is valuable information about rose gardening… maybe how to prune them…how to do something. I don’t know much about rose gardening, so I don’t specifically know what that would be.

Then you go find the people who have traffic with people coming in looking to buy roses, information about how to care for their roses, what roses to plant, where to plant them, how to trim them, how to cut them, and all that cool stuff that people do.

You then go to those people who are driving in traffic and acquiring subscribers. You say to them, ‘Listen, I’ve got this information that is of value to your visitors. So when you offer it to them, Mr. Rose Grower, you’re going to be a good guy. You’re giving them free information that they’d otherwise have to go down to the garden store or Home Depot and give money for. You’re giving it away free. That’s going to help you out and help your creditability, make your customers like you better, make you seem like a nice guy, and help you build your list.’

In turn, you get a little good will, good karma, some subscribers, and potentially customers. Obviously, you don’t need to tell them this. This is just something for them to figure out. They’re distributing your product that leads them back to your website so that they might buy from you. This doesn’t hurt them at all because you’re not competing with them directly.

Using this method, we piggyback on that related market because we provide the information, while they provide the product.”

In the List Crusade interview, Shawn also revealed:

How to ethically cheat building your list fast and cheap by leveraging your resources
Two steps to quickly become the acknowledged expert in any niche
Is banner advertising dead?
Get paid to build your list for free
What is the one secret way to test your website for less than $30?

As you read Shawn’s secrets of how to quickly achieve success in any niche, you begin to realize the tremendous potential and knowledge you already possess.  So the only question is, will you take the next step and take action today?

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