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Turning Your Hobby Into an Internet Business – What are Your Options?

Affiliate Blogger — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:11:55 +0000

Internet Business

If you’re new to internet marketing, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed by all the opportunities. Indeed, there is so much information available about online business opportunities that many people don’t know where to start! What you need to do is start with something in which you have an interest. There is a market for just about anything, and people are willing to pay good money for information. Consider your personal interests and do research on the niche.

For instance, if you have a hobby, you can share your knowledge with others and earn money in the process!

Here are your options

Create a content rich website or blog and earn advertising revenue.

You can create a site filled with unique content, including articles, guides, and tips. The content must be original, which means you have to either write it yourself or hire a ghost writer. If you are familiar with the topic, then you shouldn’t find it too difficult to write articles and tips. Sign up for a program such as Google AdSense and place links on your site. You will earn revenue every time somebody clicks on a link.

This could be either easy or difficult, depending on your competition. If there are hundreds of other websites or blogs out there similar to yours, then you’ll have to work really hard to obtain traffic. When it comes to traffic, quality is usually better than quantity. It’s better to have 100 visitors who are truly interested in what you have to say than 1,000 visitors who could care less.

This means you need to aim to receive targeted traffic. Learn about demographics and promote your website or blog accordingly. Your ultimate goal is to establish yourself as an authority on the niche and obtain as many targeted visitors to your site as possible.

Create an informational product and sell it.

Take your knowledge and turn it into an e-book, DVD, CD, or software. These don’t cost a lot of money to produce, and many publishing companies give discounts on bulk orders. You could also make the products available via downloads, which will save on production costs. The bad news is that you’ll probably have to spend some money on advertising. The good news is that there are cheap advertising methods on the internet.

One method involves affiliate marketing. You can pay affiliates to promote and sell the product for you. There are thousands of affiliates on the internet who are willing to promote informational products. In return, they receive commissions. Networks such as Clickbank and Commission Junction will set everything up between you and affiliates. All the sales will be tracked automatically. Even though you won’t receive 100% of the profits, you can still potentially earn a lot of money.

Become an affiliate yourself.

You can do this along with setting up Google AdSense links on your website. If you don’t want to create an informational product, you can sell others and earn money yourself. Sign up at network such as Clickbank or Commission Junction and select a few products to promote. You can place a banner on your website, and whenever someone clicks on the banner at your site and buys the product, you will receive a share of the profit.

Of course, you’ll have to select the right products to promote. If you create a site or blog about your hobby, then you can promote products or services based around the hobby. Now, you don’t want to spam banners and links all over your site. Once again, it’s important to have unique articles and tips on your web pages. This way, people will view you as an expert on the subject. If you can gain their trust, they’ll be more likely to purchase the products you promote.

Conclusion

These are just a few examples of online money making opportunities. The easiest way to start is to turn your own hobbies and personal interests into an internet business. Whether you want to create your own informational products or promote others, there is no limit to what you can earn. However, you must be willing to put in time and hard work if you want to succeed. The most important thing is to create your own site or blog with informative, unique content. Once you have established yourself as an expert, you can start earning money!

Turning Your Hobby Into an Internet Business – What are Your Options? is a post from: Top Affiliate Network

Performance Marketing Expo – Sept 27-29 – Miami Beach

Affiliate Blogger — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:48 +0000

Exciting news…the newest and hottest new Internet marketing conference, Performance Marketing Expo, is now booking exhibitors and sponsors for this exciting event!

If you are looking to get your business in front of proven super-affiliates and other Internet companies, this is a must show for you.

The show will feature 30 guaranteed super-affiliates that will be flow in for the show from all over the world, as well as 100s of hungry intermediate and new affiliates to meet and network with.

I will be personally inviting 100,000 of our affiliates and publishers from the affiliate programs we manage to this show, so you know it will be huge!

The company producing the show, IIR, is the world’s largest conference organizer so you know it will be a top-notch production.

My company, Experience Advertising, has already agreed to exhibit and speak at the show and help with the promotion, which I’m really excited about because you know how I like to promote!

Don’t wait! I will be blasting all of my Internet connections (2000 on LinkedIn) to see if they are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring so if you want a good booth space do it quickly.

I already have commitments from several companies that I know, so don’t be left out of this great show. Also, you will get the early-bird rate if you sign on early.

You can visit their homepage here: http://www.iirusa.com/performancemarketingexpo/event-overview.xml

You can visit the exhibitors page here: http://www.iirusa.com/performancemarketingexpo/become-an-exhibitor.xml

Or simply contact:
Lisa Deutsch, Business Development Manager
Phone: 646.895.7482
Email: ldeutsch@iirusa.com

Any questions please let me know. I will keep you updated on all the exciting developments leading up to the show.

Hope to see you there!

Evan Weber, CEO
email: evan@experienceadvertising.com
cell: 954-662-8010
twitter: www.twitter.com/experienceads
AIM: webvicious
MSN Messenger: evan@experienceadvertising.com
Yahoo Messenger: evan.weber@yahoo.com
Skype: webvicious

Performance Marketing Expo – Sept 27-29 – Miami Beach is a post from: Top Affiliate Network

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Techniques of Highly Successful Affiliate Marketers

Affiliate Blogger — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:12:13 +0000

Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to make money on the Internet without actually selling a product or service.

A person joins an affiliate network or an affiliate program with a single company and promotes their product or service to others via specially encoded links.

When a visitor to the affiliate marketer’s website clicks on one of these links and makes a purchase, the affiliate receives a percentage of the sale.

Successful affiliate marketers need a website that attracts visitors with unique and interesting content. Fresh content goes a long way in making a website rank higher in search engines. The content must be relevant to the product or service the website is promoting.

Writing content to entice visitors to click on an affiliate link is easier when it is a subject the website owner is familiar with and interested in. The website must also be visually appealing and easy to navigate to entice visitors to stay and read the content. The website should never appear to be simply thrown together to promote affiliate links, it should provide helpful information.

Having relevant inbound links to your affiliate marketing website generates traffic. Search engines place more emphasis on websites that have good quality links pointed toward them. There are numerous ways to build links.

Commenting on relevant blogs using a signature that links back to the affiliate website creates back links. Write relevant articles and post to article sites that allow backlinks within the articles or author information. Trading links with other websites should be done sparingly, if at all. The goal is to limit the amount of advertising on an affiliate website and trading links simply adds more advertising clutter.

Now is the time to start looking for affiliate partners to promote. Affiliate partners should have products or services relevant to the website. Consider website analytics to see what keywords are bring visitors to the website and chose affiliate partners that offer products related to these keywords.

Most companies that offer affiliate programs want to see a website in place first. Partnerships with companies that offer affiliate programs are how successful affiliate marketers make money, so affiliate programs need to be chosen carefully. A website that partners with too many companies will not be as successful as the advertisements will compete with each other. Check the landing page of each affiliate partner. If the deal is not appealing to you, it won’t be appealing to your visitors.

Even a website that attracts traffic does not necessarily benefit from affiliate links without a call to action. A call to action is any content that gets visitors to click on an affiliate link and make a purchase. Affiliate marketers need to convince visitors that they need a partner’s product and they need to be told the benefits of owning the product. Articles about personal experiences using a product or service work well.

Calls to action are more effective if visitors trust a website and consider the website authoritative. Blog comments and social media content without overt sales pitches help build both trust and traffic.

Affiliate marketing requires continual work in addition to creating new content. Partners will offer special promotions that must be incorporated into an affiliate website. Most affiliate partners will send new promotional material to you via email. Sales and seasonal promotions offer affiliate marketers an extra chance to make money only if new promotional banners or ads are added in a timely fashion. Check all affiliate links regularly to make sure they are still working properly.

Affiliate marketing provides many people an easy way to start a profitable online business without a major investment. Don’t expect to see large profits from affiliate marketing right away. The most successful affiliate marketers see their income rise as they gain experience.

WordPress Thesis Theme Affiliate Program Moving To ShareASale

Affiliate Blogger — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:30:41 +0000

DIYthemes’s affiliate program for their Thesis wordpress theme is moving to ShareASale affiliate network.

Below is the note from the DIYtheme :-

” Just wanted to drop you a quick note regarding the DIYthemes affiliate program…

As a Thesis customer, you may or may not be making your money back (and more) with our affiliate program, but you should be.

If you’re an existing Thesis affiliate, we have important news regarding the move of the program to the Share a Sale platform.

This move will result in better tracking, better data, and better overall support for you.

And if you’re not already an affiliate, here’s your chance to get on board for 2010 :D

Today on Copyblogger, my partner Brian released a post spelling out all the important details.

Please check it out, especially if you’re already promoting Thesis:

http://www.copyblogger.com/thesis-affiliate-program-moving-to-share-a-sale/

Thanks!

Chris Pearson and the DIYthemes team ”

Below is the excerpt from Brian Clark post :-

” As current Thesis affiliates know, we use a 60-day cookie. That means if you send someone to the diythemes.com site today, and they buy anytime within the next 60 days, you get credit for the sale.

We’re keeping the old program active for 60 days from today, so you won’t lose any sales you would have otherwise been credited for. But you need to go ahead and change your affiliate links as soon as possible in order to start tracking new leads and sales through the Share a Sale system.

While you technically have 60 days to change your old links, you could actually miss sales by waiting due to the cookie issue. Plus, at the end of 60 days, your old links won’t pass commissions at all.

So, complete the quick sign-up process with Share a Sale today.

Existing Thesis affiliates will be getting notifications and reminders by email. I wish we could just port everyone over, but we can’t do that. So don’t delay and you won’t miss out on great revenue opportunities with Thesis in 2010. ”

Why join the Thesis Affiliate Program?

- 33% commission on all sales
- 60-day return cookie
- Creative banners, emails, and text links that are optimized to convert
- Knowledgeable and responsive affiliate management team accessible by phone, email, IM, and Twitter
- Rapid monthly payments + performance incentives

WordPress Thesis Theme Affiliate Program Moving To ShareASale is a post from: Top Affiliate Network

When To Use Affiliate Network CPA Offers

Affiliate Blogger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:50:50 +0000

Promoting affiliate network CPA offers can very profitable if you know when to use them.

With so many ways to make money on the Internet it can be a challenge to decide which method to use.

Ten years ago it was very simple, put a 468×60 banner on your site and get paid pennies every time someone clicked on it.

Now we have AdSense, Yahoo Publisher, CPM banners, affiliate marketing, text links, selling ad space and you can probably think of many more.

One question many marketers ask themselves is – Should I use AdSense or CPA Offers on my site, or maybe a mixture of both?

To help answer this question, it is important that you do some split testing, otherwise you will never truly know which is going to be more profitable.

Now affiliate network CPA offers pay much more than AdSense clicks, but the trade off is that it is much easier to get AdSense clicks.

Imagine you had a credit check website.

AdSense generally pays well and the CPA offers usually require just an email and/or a ZIP code and pay around $2 per offer.

The site is very informative and gets a steady stream of traffic from the search engines, for arguments sake, let’s call it 1,000 unique visitors per month, of which 700 are from the US.

This is important because most CPA networks only pay for US customers.

If you have optimized your website correctly for AdSense with proper placements, you can expect around a 10% clickthru rate, if we assume an average Cost Per Click (CPC) of $0.50, which is very likely in the credit check niche then we have 1000 x 0.1 x 0.5 = 50, or in other words, we can expect about $50 per month from this site for AdSense.

Now let us assume that we replace AdSense with the CPA offer that pays $2 for every visitor that fills out the form with their ZIP code and email address.

Again, you have correctly optimized the site (which is different to AdSense) and you achieve a 5% conversion.

Now remember, you are only paid for US visitors so that’s 300 visitors we have to immediately discount so the sum becomes 700 x 0.05 x 2 = 70, or to put it simply, you will earn $70 per month from CPA offers.

Although we are using fictional information here, you should be able to see how you can go about deciding when to use affiliate network CPA offers and when to use something like AdSense.

In the example above, even though the amount of visitors we could earn money from was less, the CPA offer worked out to be more profitable.

One thing you can do straight away when deciding whether to us a CPA offer is to look at the analytics of your site and find out which country most of your visitors come from.

If US visitors make up the vast majority of your traffic, then definitely consider using affiliate network CPA offers, however, the only way to know for certain is by split testing over at least 1,000 unique visitors and seeing which one is more profitable.

Something you might want to research is a script that detects which country a visitor is from and serve up affiliate network CPA offers for US visitors and Adsense for everyone else, this way you are monetizing all your traffic.

When To Use Affiliate Network CPA Offers is a post from: Top Affiliate Network

How Affiliate Network CPA Offers Work

Affiliate Blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:44:28 +0000

CPA stands for cost-per-action, which means that when an affiliate, or publisher, can get someone to click on an advertiser’s offer and take some kind of action, then the affiliate makes a commission.

The affiliate network CPA business model is very popular, especially among online marketers these days.

You may have heard the buzz around the Internet marketing industry about the unholy amounts of cash some people are generating from CPA offers – all from their own home and probably sitting in their underwear doing it as well!

Like with most things, CPA is not a new method for generating cash, infact, until recently it was known by another name; Pay Per Lead.

Many of the large affiliate networks have had Pay Per Lead offers since they began 5-10 years ago.

However, one major difference is that affiliate networks tend to pay much less (around $1) for every lead you generate compared to a CPA network.

However, the buzz word is now CPA, which stands for Cost Per Action, or just to confuse you even more, Cost Per Acquisition.

Essentially all of these three terms refer to the same thing with some subtle differences between them all.

Hopefully the names are quite self explanatory but we’ll just run through them quickly here.

Pay Per Lead, as you might expect involves generating leads for companies on the Internet.

Usually it involves getting the user to fill out a form such as for a mortgage quote, or in some way requesting more information from a company about a product or service.

In the past, these companies paid very little for the leads, often because they were promoting free offers and were simply trying to capture as many email addresses as possible on the hope they could make money from their list.

Cost Per Action offers are very similar, you are attempting to get the visitor to submit some information and in return you earn some money.

The type of information the companies ask for can vary from a simple ZIP code to full name, address, contact number and email.

Obviously the more information companies are asking for, the less people are going to fill out their forms, so they reward you with higher payments.

Such offers can range from ringtones to credit card applications and can pay between $0.20 and $10 per offer.

Pay Per Acquisition differs slightly in that the user is offered a free sample, in most cases of a physical product, they simply have to pay for the postage and packaging.

These offers pay out large amounts as it requires your visitor to have a credit card and be convinced enough to place the order – even though the offer is ‘free’.

You may notice that the shipping and handling fees are slightly (or in some cases, blatantly) inflated from what you would expect to pay, and just like eBay, the companies here are making the money on the S+H fee.

Pay Per Acquisition pays out very high amounts, ranging from $5 to $50 per completed offer.

This is mainly because by ordering a free sample, the visitor becomes a very hot lead to the company in question; they have demonstrated a high level of interest and they have shown that they have the means to buy more of their product if required.

MaxBounty Affiliate Network Listed in Revenue Performance Top 20

Affiliate Blogger — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:09:40 +0000

MaxBounty Affiliate Network was recently ranked as one of the top 20 performance marketing networks by Revenue Performance’s Online Advertising BlueBook.

Revenue Performance, originally named Revenue Magazine, is one of the leading sources of business strategies, innovative marketing methods, effective online advertising techniques and emerging trends in technology for internet marketers.

Their Top 20 list is the result of aggregating expert views, traffic data, measures of industry influence and many other pieces of information that they have researched.

You can view the full rankings here – http://bluebook.mthink.com/top20

Considering the performance marketing industry is populated by hundreds of affiliate networks, CPA networks, leads exchanges and co-registration providers, it is a tremendous honor for MaxBounty Affiliate Network to be ranked in the top 20 alongside such companies as Commission Junction, LinkShare, and MediaTrust.

MaxBounty Affiliate Network believe their 5+ years experience as an affiliate network, and surviving all the change the internet marketing industry has seen over those years while many of their competitors fell to the wayside, contributed to their ranking.

MaxBounty Affiliate Network also believe that the high-level of service they provide to their affiliates is another factor.

MaxBounty Affiliate Network have over 10,000 active affiliates.

They have over 500 campaigns for their affiliates to advertise across all traffic types like surveys, freebies, financial, insurance, dating, diet, etc.

Signup with MaxBounty Affiliate Network here.

Join AffiliateBash @ Affiliate Convention LA

Affiliate Blogger — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:27:43 +0000

WebmasterRadio.FM is pleased to announce AffilaiteBash is coming to Los Angeles for Affiliate Convention, LA!

Join us at the premier party of the Convention.

On the evening of Thursday December 3rd, WebmasterRadio.FM presents AffiliateBash @ AffiliateConvention LA at the fabulous Aqualounge in Beverly Hills.

General admission opens at 9PM with the party flowing all night until 2AM.

WebmasterRadio.FM has confirmed an exclusive, private concert featuring the groundbreaking hip-hop artist and producer Shock-G of Digital Underground.

Known for his work with Tupac Shakur and as lead singer of Digital Underground, Shock-G has performed with Gorge Clinton, MURS, Bobby Brown, the Wayans Brothers and many others over his 20+ year career.

WebmasterRadio.FM’s parties are the premier social and networking events of every conference and convention where WebmasterRadio.FM is the official radio network.

Planned and performed to provide life-long memories for attendees, AffiliateBash is always free to everyone attending Affiliate Convention.

If you are coming to Affiliate Convention LA, you are cordially invited to RSVP through the AffiliateBash website at AffiliateBash.com.

Due to heavy attendance numbers at AffiliateBash, a RSVP is required for entry.

Sponsored by Litle & Co., Market Health, DirectCPV Technologies, Atrinsic Interactive and GotWebhost.com, AffiliateBash @ AffiliateConvention LA is going to be a night to remember.

Please join us by completing the RSVP form found at AffiliateBash.com

AffiliateBash @ Affiliate Convention LA – Where Affiliates are ALWAYS Free to Have Fun

(Dec 3-4) – http://www.affiliateconvention.com/

(Dec 3) – http://www.affiliatebash.com/

Marc Lesnick
Affiliate Convention

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Affiliate Convention – Dec 3-4 in Los Angeles

MonetizeIt Affiliate Network Publisher Promotion – Win a Luxury Trip to South Beach

Affiliate Blogger — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:58:32 +0000

Good news for all MonetizeIt Affiliate Network publishers.

In November 2009, MonetizeIt Affiliate Network will be giving away a trip to The Setai in South Beach, Miami to one very lucky publisher!

This trip for two includes airfare and a three day, two night stay at The Setai, a luxurious, oceanfront resort located in the heart of South Beach!

The winner will be selected in a random drawing at the end of November.

Affiliates will receive one entry in the contest for every $10,000 in revenue they generate.

So the more revenue you generate, the better your chances are of winning!

So hurry and start increasing your revenue today – anyone can win!

Thanks and good luck!

The MonetizeIt Affiliate Team

MonetizeIt Affiliate Network Publisher Promotion – Win a Luxury Trip to South Beach is a post from: Top Affiliate Network

Affiliate Link Management For Your WordPress Blog Posts

Affiliate Blogger — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:56 +0000

Posting affiliate links is a great way to monetize your wordpress blog post.

If you have been wanting to ensure you make the most money possible from your internet marketing efforts, then this message will be of importance to you.

Make more money now by cloaking your affiliate links.

If you’re an affiliate, you need to take control of your links now.

You could be losing a huge amount of money if you are not protecting your affiliate links.

There are only two type of affiliate marketers – the Ninja Affiliates, and everyone else.

It’s no secret that 95% of all wordpress bloggers out there make pennies from affiliate marketing, while a select few who are privileged enough to be in the “inner circle” make thousands of dollars effortlessly.

They know how to properly manage, track, cloak and shorten their affiliate link so that they can achieve most out of their affiliate marketing.

By having stats in hand and with the ability to manage all of their links from one central location, they get unfair advantage over every other wordpress bloggers out there.

That’s the kind of power the “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate” brings to you.

Here is what you can do using MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate .

Brand your blog domain while creating professional looking short links:-

- Now you can easily create professional and short link like:

http://www.yourblog.com/go/CoolProduct

http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/CoolProduct

or
Whatever you like, the choice is yours.

It’s completely flexible and you can redirect them to any affiliate link you want.

- Manage all your affiliate links in one central place.

You can group and manage all your affiliate links in one central place.

That means you’ll have a clear overview of which affiliate program is doing good and which is not.

Also, if one affiliate program shuts down their door then you can easily change the link with another affiliate program anytime you like.

- Track how many people are visiting your link and from where.

From the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate back office you can see exactly how many people have visited your link and also from where they’re coming.

No guess work for figuring out which of your marketing effort is actually bringing you the result.

- Cloak your affiliate link so nobody steals your commission.

When you use affiliate link directly then there’s always a possiblity that other can replace your affiliate information with their own and earn commissions themselves instead of you.

By using this wordpress plugin, you can stop the commission thieves right on and let no one steal your hard-earned commisions ever again.

And, I’ve saved the best part for the last.

The “Keyword to Ninja Link” feature – that means by using this plugin you can convert any keyword in your wordpres blog to affiliate link which will passively earn you commission forever.

The best time is now, so join now the “inner circle” of 5% select few smart bloggers who use “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate” to maximize their affiliate earning.

You can just be an average wordpress blogger or a money making affiliate blogger.

The choice is yours.

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