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Publish Date: 08/15/2010 10:01

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1) These affiliate marketing tools are what separates a veteran from a newbie. Newbies would perhaps take an affiliate website and start buying traffic to promote it. They may occasionally make a sale or two but this never touched off …

Publish Date: 08/15/2010 16:29

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Reasons Why People Buy Electronic Products

There are many reasons why people by electronics.  As an affiliate marketer you want to find out those reasons.  When you know the reasons you will be able to
tailor your affiliate website to meet their needs.

Here are some of the reasons people purchase electronics:

• They want to use them for entertainment while they are at home
• They want to be informed of different kinds of information
• They want to use electronics to help fill and decorate their home
• They want to use them to entertain guests that come to their home
• They want to use mobile electronics to communicate, be informed and to be entertained away from home
• They want to record and capture memories or experiences for future reference
• They want to keep up with the latest trends in electronics
• They want the latest electronics as status symbols

Types Of Electronics on the Market

There are many types of products you can sell.  Picking a niche and specializing in it is a good idea.

Here is a list of electronics niches:

Desk top Computers    Video Game Systems         MP3 Players

Printers                             Stereos                                   PS systems

CD Players                        Scanners                                 TVs

Mobile Phones               Cameras                                  Web Cams

DVD Players                     Cell Phones                       Laptops

Car Stereos                      Satellite Dish                      Digital TV recorders

Speakers                           Internet Phones                 Monitors

Projectors                      Car Phones                         Answering Machines

Camcorders

Products Related to Electronics

Products that people need to purchase along with electronic items can be a profitable niche.

Suggestions for products related to electronics:

Software               Internet Access                 Special Cables/Wires

Mousepads           Video Games                     Service Plans

Batteries/Chargers   Printer Ink                 CDs

Product Stands/Cases     Memory Cards   Controllers

DVDs              Microphones/Headphones

Digital Downloads          Adapters

Graphics and Images That Sell Electronics

Help sell electronic products by placing images and graphics of them on your website.

Here are some imagery ideas:

• Pictures of the electronics with attractive backgrounds
• People using or playing with the electronics at home
• Children being entertained or educated by the electronics
• People using mobile electronics away from home
• A service person installing the new electronics

Content and Articles on Electronics Websites

Creating articles and reviews on your website will help sell the electronics.

Some suggestions for articles are:

• How viewing sports is much better on a flat screen television
• The convenience of every member of your household having their own cellphone
• How the latest laptop or desk top computer makes gaming better
• How the latest laptop or desk top computer helps children get good grades
• How a GPS system makes driving on vacations a much more pleasant experience
• How to clean and take care of an electronic item
• How to fix and troubleshoot problems that may arise with an electronic item
• Product reviews of electronics items that you own or tried out
• How easy it is to use digital cameras and camcorders
• How easy it is to preserve family memories with digital cameras
• How to do digital scrapbooking and crafts with electronic products

Words Or Phrases That Sell Electronics

Use good keywords in the title and body of the articles on your website.

Here are some targeted words and phrases related to electronics:

quality sound                   wireless                    Internet ready
good picture quality      stylish                      carry it with you

fast processing                 durable                     flat/compact

lost of memory               lost of channels      a wide selection

handy gadget                  clear sound               in many colors

digital                                 great apps                 top rated

mobile                              space saver               cool graphics

Taking part in a Joint Venture can really help boost your business. However, you need to make sure you approach the Joint Venture the right way; otherwise it might end-up a disaster. So, here are 3 tips for your next joint venture.

Tip #1: Choose the Right Project

You need to choose a project that is right for a Joint Venture. You also need to choose a project that will succeed as long as it’s completely correctly.

Tip #2: Choose the Right Person

The next tip for your next Joint Venture is to choose the right person. This is extremely important. You need to make sure you choose the right Joint Venture partners.

The right Joint Venture partner is someone who has the same basic goals as you. It’s also someone who can be relied upon and trusted. Finally, the right Joint Venture partner is someone who does something very well that you don’t do well. That way you will be able to have separate tasks that you can excel at.

These criteria should be applied to every Joint Venture partner you recruit. Obviously the more people you include the harder it will be and the more ways the benefit will have to be split. However, be sure to have as many Joint Venture partners as it will take to complete the project perfectly.

Tip #3: Be Very Clear with the Terms

Lastly, be very clear with the terms. You want to make sure all the partners know exactly what is expected of them. You also want to make sure that everyone knows exactly what the goals are and how the benefits will be divided. Then there won’t be any confusion.

3 tips for your next Joint Venture are to choose the right project, choose the right person, and be very clear with the terms. Follow these tips and you will have a smooth Joint Venture that should lead to success.

Are You Ready to Take Affiliate Marketing

To the Next Level?

Easily Build Shopping Websites with Product Datafeeds.

What kinds of websites can you build with with data feeds?

• Audio Bookstores and eBookstores
• Cartoon Character Merchandise Stores
• Calendar Stores
• Event Ticket Stores
• Art, Music and Poster Stores
• Coupons and Deals Websites
• Product Review Websites
• Themed Shopping Malls
• Niche Affiliate Stores
• And many more

What are you passionate about?

There are literally hundreds of stores you can build as an affiliate marketer using merchant data feeds.

If you think you have to be a computer programmer or a geek in order to use datafeeds – then you are in for a surprise.

Our new guide to Affiliate Datafeed Marketing explains everything you need to know about merchant datafeeds and how you can use them to join the ranks of savvy affiliate marketers who have been using datafeeds for years!

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Do you want to use product data feeds from online merchants, but have no clue how to get started?

If you think you have to be a computer programmer or a geek in order to use datafeeds – then you are in for a surprise.

Our new guide to Affiliate Datafeed Marketing explains everything you need to know about merchant data feeds and how you can use them.

Join the ranks of savvy affiliate marketers who have been using datafeeds for years!

There is so much more to affiliate marketing than simply placing banners and links on your website.

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It’s a strategy that the top marketers have been using for years and years now - they even tell us to do it, but most of us are just too lazy! Well, I crawled out of bed and decided to test the strategy and was absolutely blown away!

Over the course of two months, I wrote a total of 7 articles that I published in a few places (I’ll show you where in a minute). Then, I got sick as a dog and was in and out of the hospital.

Guess what? During the time I was sick and not working, my articles went to work for me – it was amazing. In just a few weeks I sold about 20 memberships to AffiliateClassroom.com, and am still selling to this very moment.

Over the course of a year those 20 memberships are going to earn me about $4,800 in profits. Can you believe that? Here is exactly what I did…

I wrote an article of around 500-700 words on any topic related to internet marketing ranging from “How to use solo ads” to “How to get approved for Google AdSense.” Now, you’re asking, well how do I write articles?

How to Write Killer Articles

1. Headline – The most important to get someone to even read the article.
2. Introduction – To hook the reader
3. Body
4. Closing
5. Resource Box – The second most important to generate traffic

Headline
Focus the most on the headline, introduction and the resource box. Your headline needs to be catchy and needs to make a promise – the person should know exactly what they will get after reading your article.

Introduction
Once they’re reading your article – you need to hook them to read the whole thing, that’s the only way they will read your resource box.

Resource Box
This is where you tell them something about yourself and then make an offer to get them excited enough to click a link and visit your website. For the best response, send them to a page where you can offer a free course.

Why Should You Use Articles
I’m going to cut through the chase and get to the point, you use articles for various reasons – they do more for you than you can imagine – here are just a few:

1. TRAFFIC
2. SALES
3. Brand yourself
4. Brand your website
5. Free incoming links to your site
6. Become known as an expert…

Bottom line, NOTHING bad can ever come of writing articles – only good. That basically means that you have no excuse to not write articles to promote yourself.

Where To Post Your Articles
There are many places that you can start promoting your articles, here are a few:

1. Submit them to ezine publishers
2. Submit them to article directories
3. Submit them to websites

Now, all of this can be very time-consuming unless you develop a system to help you. I use 3 different automated systems to help me: A service called SubmitYourArticle.com, a software called Ezine Announcer and I also submit directly to ezines who accept articles.

If you want to learn exactly where to get these resources and how I use them, please visit http://www.AffiliateClassroom.com – we did an entire case study on this topic in February, 2005.

The bottom line is that you want your article to get out as much as possible. However, once it’s out, you never need to worry about it again! It will continue to promote for you for years to come without you ever having to manage it.

Final Strategy You Should Use
I really recommend directing your resource box traffic directly to an opt-in page. Start building your list with this strategy and you can profit for a long time to come. Think of the infinite profit potential if you build a list!

Final Note
Do not expect this strategy to pay off in a day, a week or even a month. If you really want to use this strategy then be ready to be at it for months. Put in some work now and you will profit from it for years to come.

Article Courtesy: Anik Singal

Anik Singal is founder and CEO of Affiliate Classroom. Anik developed his own affiliate system that helped him earn over $10,000 in just 60 days working part time. If you want to learn this unique method for just a $1.00 trial click here.

Video games are a very popular item to sell. Most boys and many men play video games and are always interested in buying new games and accessories. There are many reasons why people buy video games. When you know some of the reasons you will be betters able to persuade visitors to your website to buy video games. The reason are usually based on emotions rather than logical reasons.

Reasons Why People Buy Video Games

• They want complete short term goals that video games offer.
• They like the thrill of winning challenging games.
• They like to be entertained and escape the reality of real life.
• They can relax and give their hands something to do.
• They like to play the role of a character they fantasize about being.

Types of Video Games to Sell

There are many types of video games to sell.  You need to determine the niche and target market you want to sell in.

Here is a list of the types of video games on the market:

Sports                 Boardgames          Building           Card/Casino Games

Roleplaying     Children                 Strategy            War

Shooter             Word/Trivia        Learning           Puzzle

Action               Fighting                 Simulation        Multi player

Adventure       Carnival                 Racing                Arcade/Classic

Products Related to Video Games

Selling products and accessories related to video games will increase your revenue.

Here are some related product ideas:

• Game systems
• Clothing and toys featuring the video game
• A video game storage case.
• A music soundtrack of the video game.
• Video game accessories for the game or game system.

Graphics Related to Video Games

The design of your website will have an impact on your visitors.  Graphics and colors onyour web site and graphics can trigger people to buy.

Here are some imagery ideas to include on your website:

• Popular characters in the game. (cartoons, people, creatures, etc)
• Scenes from the game. (levels, intro pictures, etc)
• Famous people the game is based on. (athletes, celebrities, professional, etc)
• Famous things the game is based on. (race cars, tanks, weapons, tools, etc)

Suggestion for Content and Articles on Video Game Websites

• Videos about the games – find them on YouTube.com and embed them on your website
• Article about the storyline of the game
• Article about how the video game was created
• Article with a short walk through of the video game
• Music clips from the video game.
• Article about game cheats
• A strategy guide ebook for the video game.
• Previews of similar upcoming video games.
• Reviews of forums for game players

Keyword Suggestions for Video Games

Using good keywords in your articles and titles of articles will help with search engine optimization.  You need to use ones that will persuasively describe the video and get sales .

Here are some targeted words and phrases:

excellent graphics      real sound effects      awesome sequel

good storyline      amazing music       very addictive

great game play      simple controls      cool levels

easy navigation      smooth movement      fun and entertaining

beautiful visuals      award wining       customizing options

As an affiliate marketer it is your job to pre-sell jewelry on your website. You need to know why people buy jewelry and what reasons will persuade them to buy.    The reasons are usually based upon emotions they want to experience rather than logical reasons.

Here are some of the reasons people buy jewelry:

• To highlight or decorate a certain part of their body
• To purchase jewelry as a gift for another person
• To accessorize their wardrobe
• To use it to symbolize a time period in their life
• To show off their expensive jewelry to others as a status symbol
• To get engaged or married
• To keep up with the latest fashion trends

Types Of Jewelry To Sell

There are many types of jewelry products you can sell as an affiliate marketer.  When you have decided on your niche, then you can determine who your target market is and what specific items they want.

Here is a list of some of the jewelry niches:

• Rings – diamond, precious and semi-precious stone, wedding, engagement, bands, metal, birth stone,  etc.
• Bracelets – wrist, ankle, beaded, metal, charm, plastic, etc.
• Earrings – studs, dangling, hoops, pierced, clip-on, etc.
• Watches – pocket, wrist, digital, windup, hands, etc.
• Necklaces – beaded, rope, pearl, chain, pendant, locket, chokers, etc.
• Pins Or Brooches
• Men’s jewelry – cuff links, tie bars, money clips,  etc.

Related Products To Sell With Jewelry

To increase your website sales you can also feature related products that people can purchase along with jewelry.

Products related to jewelry are:

• Jewelry Cleaner  – To clean and make their jewelry look like new.
• Jewelry Boxes -  To store all their new and old jewelry in
• Jewelry Insurance -  To repair jewelry parts or replace lost stones.
• Jewelry Travel cases – To safely hold jewelry when traveling

Graphics Or Images That Sell Jewelry

Including graphics of beautiful jewelry on your website will help to pre-sell it.  You can get royalty-free images from stock photo sites.

Some ideas for images related to jewelry are:

• A body part with a sparkling piece of jewelry on it
• A positive facial expression of someone wearing the jewelry
• A piece of jewelry in a beautiful, elegant case.

Website Content or Articles that Sell Jewelry

In order to make a datafeed affiliate website unique you can include articles on your site.  The articles should be informative and help pre-sell your visitors to buy jewelry.

You can also create a free short report about jewelry as an incentive to get people to subscribe to your opt-in list.

Some ideas for articles and reports related to jewelry are:

• How to safely buy jewelry online
• Creative wedding proposals
• How to buy wedding rings
• How to buy an engagement ring
• How to buy a diamond
• The meaning of birth stones
• How to clean and store jewelry
• The different types of pearls and how to care for them

Choose good keywords and phrases for the titles of articles and within the body of the article.
Persuasive and positive words relating to jewelry are:

stunning          fashionable       romantic            rare

gold/silver        sparkle             priceless           perfect cut

diamond          elegant             hand crafted      shiny

valuable           glamorous        gorgeous           flawless

beautiful          bright               dazzling             precious

There are many reputable online jewelry sellers nowadays. People are not afraid to purchase even something as personal and as expensive as a diamond engagement ring online.  This means plenty of opportunities for affiliate marketers in the jewelry niche market.

Product data feeds are really popular among affiliates because they can help produce thousands of product pages quickly and easily. Such pages can be used to drive highly targeted search engine traffic looking specifically for those products. But there is a big problem.

The problem with data feeds is the fact that a lot of affiliates use the same copies of feeds in the same exact ways. Most data feed affiliates put just the product names in HTML titles, so they all end up with a bunch of similar pages that have identical titles. And since the search engines give a lot of weight to the titles of HTML pages, those affiliates end up competing with each other for the same highly specific keywords.

Luckily, this problem has a quick and dirty solution. It’s worse than going over the feed by hand, but much better than doing nothing. What I get from affiliates is that manually modifying feed simply defeats the purpose. But being able to do it automatically can help one differentiate his site from other affiliates without losing the benefits of using data feeds.

There are two basic ways to automatically make your site a little bit different from other affiliates of the same merchant.

The first way is to add some keywords before and/or after the product name in the HTML title. For example, let’s say you pick a phrase “On Sale” to add after the product name. So instead of “Blue Widget #MN-3143″ you have in the original data feed, you would now have “Blue Widget #MN-3143 On Sale” in the HTML title of that product page. You simply add that phrase to the titles of all products in the feed. That lets you specifically target people who would search for “blue widget on sale” or “mn-3143 on sale.”

You can also use some arbitrary keywords like “Cheap” or “Discounted” or “Quality” before the product name to have something like “Cheap Blue Widget #MN-3143.” The keywords you pick largely depend on the merchant’s product line.

Another variation of this technique is to randomize the keywords that are displayed before and after product names in the titles. You can use a sever-side technology of your choice to pick a random keyword out of some predefined list and append it to the name of a product to form the title for the page. Your scripts would pick a new keyword for each request for the product page. Of course, that would only work if you are using a database, and do not generate static HTML using Webmerge or a similar program. That way, even though you don’t control the exact keyword that is displayed for any particular page, with enough product pages you can cover a wider market of people searching with different modifiers. You should be able to cover different shopper types — the ones looking for bargains as well as the ones looking for quality.

The second way to make your site different from others is a bit more complex, but could yield much greater results. Instead of adding something to the product names, you can try changing the names on a large scale. As I said earlier, modifying feeds by hand would defeat the purpose of using them. But if you perform a find-and-replace operation on the whole file then you can get different content without spending much additional time.

The utility you might want to use for feed modification is called sed. You can search for that name using you favorite search engine. It’s sed — the stream editor. I’m going to skip much of the technical detail on how and why it does certain things in a certain way. Instead, I will concentrate on describing practical application of sed with product feeds.

At its core, sed takes input data, modifies it according to certain rules and outputs the result — all done line-by-line. It uses regular expressions and can perform extremely complex operations, by for now I just want to concentrate on simple replacements.

The good thing about sed is it can use an external file with multiple commands and execute them one after another for the entire input file (in our case, it’s a product feed). So you can replace as many words as you need. Also, once you define those commands, you can use them for many different feeds with different merchants.

Let’s go over a few examples that should illustrate the true power of this approach.

I’ll assume that the merchant we are working with sells widgets of various kinds. You looked over the feed and saw that the merchant has some porcelain widgets; red and blue, large and small. One of the synonyms for porcelain is ceramic, so first thing you would do is replace the word porcelain with ceramic in all product names and descriptions.

This can be done by adding the following commands to a sed script file before running it against the feed:

s/porcelain/ceramic/g
s/Porcelain/Ceramic/g

Those commands will replace your keywords while preserving capitalization. So that a title like “Big Blue Porcelain Widget” becomes “Big Blue Ceramic Widget.”

To make things more interesting, let’s assume that the feed already has some ceramic widgets aside from the porcelain ones. So you do not want to end up with just one kind. Instead, you want to switch them around. Remember, your goal is to be as different from the original feed as possible.

You can achieve that with the following set of commands:

s/porcelain/MYTEMPKEYWORD/g
s/ceramic/porcelain/g
s/MYTEMPKEYWORD/ceramic/g

In the example above, I used MYTEMPKEYWORD as a place-holder. That let us make sure that we are not losing the original keywords.

What happens there is:

all “porcelain” is changed to “MYTEMPKEYWORD’
then
all “ceramic” is changed to “porcelain”
then
all “MYTEMPKEYWORD” (which used to be the original porcelain) is changed to “ceramic”

and then the same thing should be done for all capitalized keywords.

You can use anything in place of MYTEMPKEYWORD as long as it does not already appear in the feed. You want to use some unique keyword.

Once you are done with those keywords, you can change something like “Metallic” to “Shiny Metal Finish” — assuming that makes sense for a given product line.

Adding that to a command file would give you:

s/porcelain/MYTEMPKEYWORD/g
s/ceramic/porcelain/g
s/MYTEMPKEYWORD/ceramic/g
s/Porcelain/MYTEMPKEYWORD/g
s/Ceramic/Porcelain/g
s/MYTEMPKEYWORD/Ceramic/g
s/Metallic/Shiny Metal Finish/g
s/metallic/shiny metal finish/g

That would also change “Blue Metallic Widget” to “Blue Metal-Looking Finish Widget.”

As I said earlier, you can add as many commands as you want for different words and phrases. And with enough such small changes, you will be able to reach traffic that is not already covered by your competing affiliates. While a few hundred affiliates with their data feed sites might be displayed for a keyword “blue porcelain widget” — there might be just a few (if any) covering “blue ceramic widget” for the same merchant.

Even something like

s/TV Set/Television Set/g

along with diagonal sizes and brand names might help you stand apart from the rest of the affiliates who use the same feed. Any change is better than having the same exact content as others.

I encourage you to download a copy of sed and check it out. Once you get a hang of it, you will be able to automate the whole process. And if you are already using scripts to refresh merchants’ feeds and rebuild sites automatically, then you can plug sed in the middle and modify feeds on the fly.

Also, if you are having a hard time coming up with words to replace, you might want to check out Princeton’s WordNet. You can even download the word database and use it locally on your desktop.

Article Courtesy: Konstantin Goudkov
Konstantin Goudkov manages an affiliate program with a merchant that carries 2500+ gifts. If you enjoy working with companies that treat affiliates like valued partners then be sure to check us out. You can find more information at: http://www.genericgifts.com/affiliate_program.jsp