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Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Can Help You Make An Extra Income

February 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Clickbank Affiliate MarketingYou must be interested in making some extra spending cash if you are reading this! Affiliate marketing could be your answer. Many people, totally broke, used affiliate marketing for extra money. Affiliate marketing is where you promote a product on your site, and you keep a small percentage of the sale made from your site. Even though this sounds easy, many people fail at making a decent amount of money with this approach. The below article will give you some tips to help you succeed.

Don’t think you’ll be making extra money overnight. Affiliate programming is a gradual process that takes a while to make money from. It is important to remember that many programs give you lifetime payouts for members that you refer to their service. You must remember that affiliate advertising is not a get rich quick scheme; rather, it is an easy way to make some extra cash.

Consider asking each of your affiliate companies for a code which will allow your readers to save a percentage off their sales through your links. It could be the holiday themed, like HoHoHo11, or a permanent code for your website. Once you receive a code, use it in your marketing for that company.

The truth is only a small percentage succeed, however, that is true in every business venture. A large percentage of online marketers will fail because they did not believe in themselves or their products. The percentage of failed marketing strategies is well over 90% and mostly because their mindset is not as positive or as prepared for the venture as it should be. Always approach your venture with a good frame of mind and a plan of attack.

The beauty of affiliate marketing is the ease at which you can set up a new site. It’s time to expand, once you have that first site up and making money, then it’s time to expand. Using what you have learned by building that first site, move on to a new project. Leave the first site to keep making money by making adjustments and updates, but generally letting it do its thing.

Another big plus for affiliate marketing is the number of different ways or places you can get affiliate links. With affiliate marketing, there is no best network. There are many favorites, and everyone has their own personal reason as to why they prefer one over the other. You will find that each network is good in its own right. Your network selection should be based on what the network can do for you.

Want to fail? Just get a pile of affiliate links and put them on a page. Make sure you have a strategy before you get into affiliate marketing. You want to prepare a plan of what types of products you want to have available and how you are going to attract attention to your webpage. You can’t expect to just make a webpage and that customers will just find it. Plan things out and it should help with bringing customers to your webpage.

A great affiliate marketing tip is to always think of long term profits instead of short term profits. Try not to get excited by an expensive product if it can’t benefit your customers. You want to make money over a long period, so you need to make smarter choices.

A good hosting account is essential because you’ll be able to host a large number of domain names …or new sites! Develop different site for different affiliate programs, especially if the products that you are advertising are very diverse. You can use subdomains to cut on cost. If you have 10 different affiliate programs going, do not try to make them all fit within your one site. You may confuse your visitors.

Keep creating products. Creating products can make more money for you directly, but giving your affiliates more to work with means that they can make more money for you as well as themselves. Plan a schedule for releasing new products so that your affiliates know to expect something new.

As the above article demonstrates, it is possible to be successful with affiliate marketing. It does take some work on your part in order to attract potential customers to you. However, if you apply the above techniques in the correct manner, you are very likely to be successful with affiliate marketing.

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Governor Pat Quinn Destroys 20,000 plus Jobs In Illinois with New Law

March 13, 2011 by 2 Comments

Gov Quinn Destroys 20,000 JobsGovernor Pat Quinn and the democrat party of Illinois, and the people who have voted for these idiots, have singled handedly destroyed 20,000 and more jobs for Illinoisans.

The governor, who wasn’t going to raise taxes more than 1% is acting as a tin horn dictator by killing more than 20,000 jobs of hard working Illinois residents.

Governor Quinn and the democrats of Illinois have passed a bill and Quinn signed the bill that has caused the Book Sales giant Amazon.com to terminate more than 20,000 Amazon Affiliates in Illinois. An Amazon affiliate is someone who builds websites and sells amazon products on their websites. Some people can make a lot of money, some make enough money to make a car payment. For some Illinois residents who are disabled, Amazon’s affiliate program gives them hope of developing an income and providing for themselves.

The fact is, these idiots who run the government of Illinois  and who have run the government of Illinois into literal bankruptcy have killed this source of income for over 20,000 residents of Illinois. The governor and is team of idiots haven’t hurt Amazon one bit, they haven’t increased their income one bit by passing this law because Amazon simply closed its affiliate program to Illinois residents.

All these morons have done is taken a big hunk of cash out of the economy of Illinois. Lets say these 20,000 make an average of $10,000 a year, which is very low. That’s 20,000 spending $200,000,000 a year in Illinois. Quinn with the stroke of a pen took $200,000,000 out of the economy. That means these Amazon affiliates won’t be buying cars from your car dealers, won’t buy boats from your boat dealerships, won’t buy clothes from your stores, won’t stop by your restaurants and on and on. That means Illinois won’t be able to collect income tax on $200,000,000 …..yep, brilliant move guys.

Governor Quinn and the democrats of Illinois have just added another 20,000 to the government teat. How many of those 20,000 will sign up for food stamps. How many will apply for some sort of government assistance. Oh, let’s not forget, the Illinois democrat party also did Obama a favor by adding to his unemployed numbers.

First Quinn targets the business community in general by raising taxes to the highest in the county. He chases out those who build businesses and hire residents of Illinois. Quinn kills jobs by the thousands. Now Governor Quinn targets a specific industry ….and let’s be clear, he really is targeting a specific company…Amazon. Is that fair? Is it morally right? How can this be legal?

These guys should take IQ tests before they’re allowed to run for office!

The democrats of Illinois, of which Quinn is one, claim they are for the people. Tell me, how can they be for the people when they are raising taxes, passing laws that chase away business, target individual businesses and business models and ultimately take away jobs from the working people of Illinois.

Governor Quinn is an immoral, unprincipled man. He lied to the citizens and voters of Illinois to get elected. He even reneged on a wager he made with the Governor of Wisconsin in the Packers vs. Bears game last year. Quinn was supposed to work at a soup kitchen if the Bears lost…..well the Bears lost and Quinn just couldn’t be bothered to pay up….. you see, he was too busy conjuring up plans to screw the fine citizens of Illinois.

Governor Quinn….. you are a liar, a failure as governor and an embarrassment to the people of Illinois! Thank you for taking my job from me!

The folks at Affiliate Tip blog bring some clarity to this idiocy and declaration of war against Illinois Businesses

The hostile signal from Governor Quinn came by signing HB 3659 into law, which forces out-of-state retailers to collect Illinois state sales tax for Internet sales, based on the view that affiliate marketers constitute a tax nexus for the retailers.

Brian Littleton, founder and CEO of Chicago-based ShareASale, an affiliate marketing network that will see a huge negative impact from this legislation, had this to say…

“Let us remember that the reason the bill was written was to collect revenue for the State of Illinois. This bill does the opposite.

Because out-of-state retailers – and we are not talking about just Amazon – but any and all retailers can simply terminate their affiliate programs in Illinois, thus removing themselves from this bill’s grasp, no revenue will be collected. That means no revenue, lost contracts for Illinois businesses, lost jobs in Illinois.

It is entirely unfortunate that the Federal government has not acted on this issue as everyone on all sides of this issue knows that it is truly a problem that only the Federal government can solve. Unfortunately, Governor Quinn jumped the gun on this. Despite the fact that we’ve been in communication with Senator Durbin’s office, who indicated that this exact issue would be considered during this session – the Governor’s early action will make that all moot as the damage will already have been done in Illinois.

As we speak, Illinois affiliate marketers are being forced to pack up their businesses and move to another state. Through a bill, which started with a lack of understanding, and finished with poor judgment – Governor Quinn has spoken unequivocally that the growing, innovative, job-creating industry known as affiliate marketing is entirely unwelcome in Illinois. Where we were once poised to become the “Silicon Valley” of the Midwest, we are now forced to look to other states. We have confirmed that neighboring state Governors and Lt. Governors have been in direct contact in an attempt to woo affiliate marketers to their borders.

Governor Quinn has instead decided to side with big-box retailers – those who destroyed main street in the first place – in an issue of “fairness”. This bill helps Walmart, Target, K-Mart etc… this bill does not help Ma and Pa booksellers who were simply being used by the big-box retailers to put a better face on the issue. When this bill becomes a law in July of 2011… there will be no increased revenue for Ma and Pa on Main St.; there will be no more people shopping on Main St. as opposed to online; and there will be no more a fair level playing field for Ma and Pa than there was prior to this bill. Unfortunately, the big-box retailers have fooled Ma and Pa into thinking that they are on the same side – when, in fact, they never will be.

The irony is that during his last budget address, the ink still not dry, Governor Quinn setup a Technology Council designed to foster growth in the growing Tech community of Illinois. Unfortunately, the very first thing he did was pass a bill that a) isn’t fair, b) doesn’t create any revenue for Illinois, and c) kills job growth in an industry that he wished to grow.

Here are two critical things that have to happen now.

  1. The State of Illinois Dept. of Revenue MUST setup a mechanism to track new revenue coming in from this bill on July 1st. If the Dept. of Revenue fails to do this, it will be an irresponsible lack of action – piling on to the already devastating loss of jobs in Illinois.
  2. The Federal government, specifically in Illinois the office of Senator Dick Durbin must take great care in looking at this issue – as there is still time before July 1st where he can save the State of Illinois from the unfortunate actions of the Governor.

Fairness? What is fair about eliminating a whole bunch of jobs in Illinois.

Here’s how this goes:

  • The bill passes.
  • Amazon terminates affiliates.
  • Other merchants do the same.
  • Affiliate-powered businesses large and small are decimated.

No revenue is collected, Ma and Pa are still being hammered by big-box retailers, and nobody benefits.

Tell me. How is that fair?

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How To Choose A Winning Clickbank Product To Promote

December 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

When choosing a Clickbank product to promote as an affiliate you want to choose one that will convert well and make you a lot of sales.  It is advisable to have a good solid criteria to follow when selecting a product to promote to increase your chances of choosing a profitable product.  Some of the factors you want to consider are gravity score, competition, the sales copy, commission payout, product price and repeat commissions.  Let’s take a look at each of these in more detail:

Gravity Score

When first starting out it is best to stick to products with a gravity score between 20 and 50.  These will be products that are converting and do have affiliates actively promoting them, but at the same time aren’t saturated with competition.

When you become a little more experienced with affiliate marketing, then start promoting products with a gravity score of over 50.  There will be a little more competition, but with more affiliate promoting these products they are likely to be better converting products.

Don’t promote anything with a gravity score below 20 as these are not likely to convert well.

Competition

You should look at how much competition there is for promoting a particular product.  You don’t want too much competition but at the same time you don’t want zero competition.

If you look at the Pay Per Click ads on Google and see there are no ads for that product then chances are that people have tried to promote that product without success.  If there are PPC ads for that product then those people must be seeing some success to continue to pay for advertising.

So zero competition usually means there is no demand for that product.  So even though you don’t want too much competition, you do want some competition.

Sales Copy

The gravity score is not the only way to evaluate whether a product will convert well.  In fact, gravity scores can’t always be relied on as some vendors will boost their gravity score by selling their product through a number of their own Clickbank accounts.

It is always advisable to check out the sales page of the product you are considering promoting so you can decide whether you think it would convert well.  Generally, if you read the sales page and it makes you want to buy the product yourself, then it will be a good sales page.  If a sales page does nothing for you and you have no interest in the product at all after reading it, then it might not be a very good converting sales page.

Commission Payout and Product Price

When choosing a product to promote you want to look at the price of the product and how much of that you will receive in commission.  If a product pays out only a small commission then it might not be worth promoting. You don’t want to put in a lot of effort for very little return.

Higher priced products will pay out a higher commission and are often just as easy to sell as lower priced products.  If a product has a good gravity score then it might be worth trying to promote it.  It is better to promote a higher priced product that pays out well than promoting a lower priced product that pays out less than $20 per sale.

Repeat Commissions

Another factor that makes a product good to promote is if it has the opportunity for repeat commissions.  This might occur with a product that has a membership site where a customer will pay a monthly membership fee and you can earn a commission every month on that membership fee.  It doesn’t take any extra effort to promote a membership product than it does to promote a one time payment product so you might as well go for one that will pay you commission every month.

Conclusion

When looking for a good Clickbank affiliate product to promote, take into consideration a gravity between 20 and 50, not too much competition but still a little, high commission payout, a good sales copy and if possible a repeat monthly commission.  If you can get a product that matches this criteria then you will have a very good product to promote and earn affiliate commissions.

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Four Methods To Make Money With Clickbank

December 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Making money as an affiliate marketing by promoting products from Clickbank can be a very profitable business.  There are a number of different ways to successfully promote Clickbank products, some are easier than others, some are free while others require some capital.  This article will discuss the top four methods for promoting affiliate products and making a great income with Clickbank.

1. Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the most popular methods for promoting affiliate products.  It is easy and it is free which are two of the reasons for it’s popularity.

With article marketing, you write articles based around your chosen keyword phrases that relate to the product you are promoting.  Then you submit those articles to article directories to be published on those directories.  You will include a link to your website, where you promote the affiliate product, in the resource box of the article.

By submitting articles with a link to your website you are getting more exposure to your website through those visitors that read your article. Some article directories will allow you to link directly to the product you are promoting, while others will not let you link directly to an affiliate product so you will link to your own website.

2. Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is a great way to earn money long term with affiliate marketing.  With Search Engine Optimization or SEO the idea is to set up your website so it is optimized for the search engines which will help you to get a higher ranking.

If you can get your website ranking high in the search engines then you will get a lot of free traffic that you can then promote your affiliate products to.

Good SEO can take a bit of practice and you need to learn this skill well to be successful with it.  If you do learn SEO and set up your site so it is highly optimized the results will pay off for long term success.

3. Pay Per Click

Pay per click is one of the very popular methods to promote affiliate products used by the ‘super’ affiliates.  This method is not so popular for those starting out and who are on a limited budget.  PPC can be quite expensive and if you don’t set up your campaign correctly then it could cost you a lot of money.

Pay per click does require some investment to get started but if done right that investment can pay off nicely.  PPC is all about finding the right keywords that you can get a lot of clicks through to your website without paying a high price to get those clicks.  PPC can involve a lot of trial and error before you find the right keywords and offers that pay off well.

You can often lose money when first starting out with PPC but if you keep trying and tweaking your campaigns it can be very profitable long term.

4. Forum and Blog Commenting

Forum and blog commenting is also a very popular way to make money with Clickbank.  Some people get this wrong by spamming forums and blogs and they will soon get banned from those forums.  When using forum and blog commenting you need to be professional and make informative posts and comments.

With forums, when you become an active member of the forum and leave informative posts, you will be able to put a link to your website in your signature.  If you are making short, spamming posts then you will get banned or not be allowed to have a link in your signature.

The most important point to remember with both forum posting and blog commenting is to be helpful and contribute to the posts.

These are the four most popular methods used to promote and dominate Clickbank products.  You can try all of these methods or just one and see which method you prefer.  If you find a method that works for you then duplicate what you are doing and you can increase your Clickbank income until you are making the sort of money you dream of making.

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Tips for Affiliate Article Marketing

October 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

affiliate article marketingAffiliate marketing is one of the best ways to start an online business.  It’s free to get started and if you take the time to learn a few simple skills you can make a lot of money pretty quickly and easily. Your main job as an affiliate marketer is to drive as much targeted (people who actually want to buy what you are selling) visitors to your site. One of the very best ways to do that is to use affiliate article marketing.

The basic idea of article marketing is that you will find a list of 5 to 10 good keywords for your niche. A ‘good’ keyword is a keyword phrase that has at least 1,500 searches a month but less than 20,000 competition. Once you have your keywords you can write several articles per keyword phrase. Make sure your article provides some beneficial information for your reader.

When you submit it to the article directories you can provide a resource box. This is where you can promote your website. You can provide a direct link here so that when people read your article they can click on the link in the resource box and be taken to your website.

While you can’t do any blatant selling in your main article, you can use the resource box to do your selling for you. Each article directory has it’s own rules, just follow those rules and you’ll get published.

This method is so effective for several reasons:

1. It’s free. You can write an article and submit it for free. It won’t cost you a cent. You can even use a free keyword tool online.  You can submit as many articles as you want to.

2.You will establish yourself as an expert in your field. Don’t let this freak you out. Some people, especially those who are just starting out, can get intimidated by this. But just remember, you don’t have to know everything to be an expert, you just have to know more than most of your readers.

3.If you write a good article and target the right keywords you can have your article show up online for months, or even years.  So, it will take more than one article, but you can write a few articles and have them stay online and drive traffic for a long time to come.

4. Submit multiple articles to several article directories. Don’t submit all the exact same versions. Instead submit several versions of each article. As long as they are mostly different ( I understand that if you are using the same keyword there will be a lot of similarities).

There are a lot of great resources available online that can help you build your business. Many of them are free and most of them are easy to use. affiliate article marketing is one of the best methods of driving traffic to your website.  It’s perfect for anyone who is getting started online and doesn’t have any money.

Affiliate Article Marketing is the one thing that you could almost say is guaranteed to make you money. If you did nothing else but write and submit articles for the entirety of your internet marketing career…..you’d make more money on a consistant basis than everyone else who tries every new tactic that comes across the net. It might be a little boring…..but it would definitely product results!

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Article Marketing Service

October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment

article marketing serviceI’ve always thought one of the coolest aspects of starting an online business is the number of ways you can generate traffic to your website and some of them are free. I can’t think of any place else where you could literally start a million dollar business for no money at all.  One of the best free methods online is article marketing. If you’re one of those people who are convinced that they can’t write but want to take advantage of the benefits of article marketing, there are many article marketing service companies online that would love to assist you, for a price of course.

One of the biggest benefits of article marketing is that you get to shine. You can show the people who read your articles that you are an expert. You can gain virtually instant credibility.  The goods news is for those of you who are ‘writing challenged’ that a marketing service can do as little or as much as you want them to.

For example, you can hire a company that will write all your articles for you but you can then distribute them to article directories yourself. This is time consuming but if you’re on  a limited budget and just can’t stand the idea of writing but still need to save some money this may be a good option for you.

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You can get the whole package and have the company write and distribute your articles for you.  In most cases they can even help you with finding the right keywords to target in the articles.

Besides the obvious time saving advantage of going this route, the company will probably know about more online article directories and other sites that will accept original content. Sure, it’s all online and you could find out about these sites too, but it would take a lot of your time. For many, it just makes more sense to streamline their online business as much as possible and that means hiring a firm to take care of all the ‘grunt’ work.

Before you pull out your credit card, make sure the company you are considering is qualified and reputable. One way to do that is to check for testimonials right on their website. Do they have a lot of them? Of course you have to be aware of the fact that a company will only list their best testimonials and the negative ones will most likely end up being destroyed, still this can be a good place to start.

Also compare the rates and service plans of several companies. Don’t settle for the first one you find. Make sure that you carefully consider what each company will do as well as how much it will cost you.

If you want to take full advantage on all the traffic and credibility that article marketing can offer, but just don’t have the time to do it yourself, you should consider finding a good article marketing service. This is an excellent option for anyone who has more money than time when starting their online business.

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Small Business Articles for Online Business Exposure

October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

small business articlesUsing the internet to build your business, it works equally well for an online or offline business, and is a great way to increase your exposure to get more customers. And one of the best resources available on the internet is small business articles. When you write an article and submit it to an article directory or a blog, you are vastly increasing the exposure of your business.

To get the maximum exposure there are a few things you’re going to need to do. For one thing you’ll want to make sure that your article is optimized with keywords. And not just any keywords either, you have to focus only on those keywords that have fairly high monthly searches and low competition.  It’s definitely a balancing act. If you target keywords that have a lot of searches they will most likely have too much competition and will be virtually impossible for you to get a good ranking for.

If you focus on keywords that don’t have enough searches it won’t get you very much traffic for your efforts. Everyone has their own opinion of what a ‘good number of searches’ and ‘low competition’ really means. I’ve always used the guide line of at least 1,500 searches a month and less than 20,000 in competition and it’s worked very well.

Find your own guide lines for writing small business articles and determine what works best for your niche.

Now that you’ve got a list of 10-20 keywords for your niche, it’s time to write several articles for each keyword. If you have 10 keywords you can write 3-5 articles for each keyword. This will give you a lot of great exposure online. Make sure each article is slightly unique from the last.

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If you own a local business and you’re trying to figure out how to do online marketing for your offline business…..let me give you one hint. When writing your articles, place your city, town or local area in front of your keywords. For instance, lets say you install hardwood floors. In your article about hardwood floors your keyword phrase would be Barrington Hardwoood Flooring installation.

Now,you will submit those articles to article directories online so they can be published. Don’t worry about the ‘published’ part. As long as your article is written in accordance with their rules it will be published.

One thing to remember, most article directories won’t let you do any direct ‘selling’ in your article. You will need to provide useful information but the selling needs to be done in the resource box at the end of the article.  This is where you can put a link to your website that people can click on and be taken to your site.

The resource box is your place to shine. Make sure you make it something interesting. Pique your readers curiosity and interest. The more compelling you make it the more likely they are to click on the link and check out your site…which is exactly what you want to happen.

This method, small business articles, can work very well for most any type of business. The internet is an amazing resource for business owners and it would be just plain silly to not take full advantage of all it has to offer. Even if you can’t stand the idea of writing you can take full advantage of small business articles. You can always hire someone to do your writing for you. You can find many good writers who would be willing to write your articles for you for only a few dollars each.

Times have changed radically in the last 10 years in regards to marketing and advertising. Those who understand how internet marketing works can take their businesses to the top of the search engines simply by writing small business articles. Of course there’s many more aspects to internet marketing and if you want to learn how to use the internet to make 5 bucks a day….click here!

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