Way to Profitable Internet Marketing

Profitable Products/Programs

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:32:00 +0000

This is an e-book which teaches the basics of affiliate marketing and how to generate profit from them using free advertising techniques as well as paid advertising like pay per click programs. It starts with basics of affiliate marketing which can be helpful for begginers, and goes on to describe an automated business model which if followed carefully can generate real high affiliate income without much of manual work. It describes the setup of the model in a step by step and easy to follow way. It describes the way to earn high affiliate revenue without a website and also with a website through Google Adwords Program, and various other ways of online marketing.

This book is reccommended for begginers and also for those who want to know more about maximizing revenue through some killer marketing strategies. The business model described in the book uses intelligent concepts of email marketing and presell which can tremendously increase the conversion rate of affiliate programs.

Visit Google Black Book Home Page

LeadClub

This is an ideal advertising avenue for email marketers and affliate marketers. For a full pro membership one can get over 60,000 opt-in email list per month and also autoresponder accounts. The customer base is no doubt all targeted and so conversion rate for affiliate programs and email marketing will be high. Their services are completely spam free.

But those not full ready for a paid membership can get a 7 day free trial membership which will give access to 10,000 opt-in email addresses and full trial to pro services and auto responders for 7 days. One will be able to download 10,000 emails immediately after registering.

Visit Leadclub Trial Page

Article Submitter

This product submits article to more than 650 article directories online whcih is quite impossible as a manual task. These submissions generate many in bound links for different pages of the website whose referral URL is added with the articles. Thus it increases link popularity and page rank of the website. The free smaller version of the product is available for download which submits to 60+ directories. On paid upgradation the full version is available.

The software group who has created this product also has another product called directory submitter which can give over 2000 quality in bound links to one's website.

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For 3 more product reviews on high profit programs go to admarket

Blog Pinging Services

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:23:00 +0000

Blog Pinging Service are very useful service provided by some websites in the net. It helps in marketing your blog by submitting it to different blog directories, web directories and online blog services like Feed Burner and Technorati. Always ping your blog to these sites after updating it each time. These services will make sure that the different blog directories are informed that your blog has been updated and thus facilitates search engine indexing. Following are some free blog pinging services and every time blog is updated all the sites should be pinged by either your blog URL or blog feed URL.

Google Blog Search Ping Service

Article Submission Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:47:00 +0000

Following are some article submission websites. For good link popularity and fast traffic generation any article should be posted in as many sites as possible to get it indexed by the search enigine.

365 Articles
A Woman In Business
A1 Articles
About Small Business Information
Accessify.com
Add Article
Add Me!
Advertising KnowHow
AF Work
All Merchants
All The Websites
All Women Central
Article99.com
Article Alley
Article Bar
Article Beach
Article Bliss
Article City
Article Content King
Article Dashboard
Article Depot
Article Farm
Article Highway
Article Hub
Article Jackpot
Article Nexus
Article Peak
Article Pros
Article Sphere
Article Time
Article To Go
Article Warehouse
Article Wiz
Article-Dir
Article-Submit.com
Article-Warehouse.com
Articles 411
Articles For Your Business Success
Articles Haven
Articles Magazine
Bharatbhasha.com
Big Articles
Big Business Web
Biz-Whiz
Blog Widow
Business Highlight
Business Know-How
Business Knowledge Source
Business Opportunity.biz
Chiff.com
Common Connections
Concept Marketing Group
ConstantContent.com
Content Desk
Content Edge
Content-Articles.com
Cumuli Ezine Finder
Cyberindian.com
Digital Women
Dime Consultants
Ebooksdeal.com
eBusiness Articles
Ezau.com
Ezine Articles
Ezine Crow
Free Articles Zone
FreeSticky
FreeZineSite.com
Fresh Articles
GetYourArticles.com
GO Articles
Home Biz Tools
Home Business Articles
Home Business Directory
How It Works
HowTo Advice
Impact Articles
Internet Based Moms
Internet Search Engines FAQ
isnare.com
Jogena's
Linkgrinder
LinkSnoop.com
MailBiz
Marketing Troll
Marketing-Seek
Max Ebooks
MiniGuides
More4You Article Directory
Morgan Article Archive
NetterWeb
New Articles Online
NewFREEArticles.com
Niche Content Articles
Online Internet Coach
Organic Rankings
PowerHomeBiz.com
Promotion Data
PromotionWorld
Purple Pages
Rapid Article
ReprintArticles.com
Reprinted Articles
Ryze
Self SEO
Sierra Times
SimplySearch4It
SiteReference
Small Biz Portal
Sticky Article
StoreBuilder
Submit Your Articles
SubmitYourNewArticle.com
Super Publisher
T&I Grafix
The All I Need
The Article Inn
The Article Zone
The Articleshelf
The Ezine DOT Net
Themanager.org
U Promote
Ultimate Article Directory
Uncover the Net
Uniterra.com
uPublish.info
Web Hosting Articles
Web Promotion Guru
Web Reference Newsletter
Webmaster Traffic Tools
Webmaster's Library
WebProNews
Website Promotion & Optimization Services Bangalore. India.
Weeno
Womens Articles
Work On Internet
World Wide Information Outlet
Zone Bot

Internet Marketing Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:56:00 +0000

If you are reading this right now it is quite clear that you are eager to gather information about Web marketing and hence want to make big money from it. Yes, all will come in good time. But you need to be a little patient and choose the correct path. If you can sequentially follow the articles given here you can get a clear general picture about internet marketing which will help you choose the correct path. There are thousands of products and “get-rich” schemes in the internet. Not every one of them is effective. I will suggest you to gather some overall knowledge before you go for any of them because your awareness can help you not only to choose the right tools but also to make the most out of them. There are thousands of people who are eager to indulge themselves in this profession due to its tremendous capability to generate high income – not only for the seller but also for the marketers i.e. they who help the seller to sell his product by promoting it to many customers.

Now why is it so profitable after all? Very simple. Before this e-age, marketing product to a global customer base was very difficult and costly. Only companies having capability to invest highly on advertising and promotion could actually do so. But things have changed after internet came into being. Now reaching a global audience is a matter of a few keystrokes and clicks of the mouse. Without investing highly on advertising, mid-cap and even small business owners can reach every corner of the world thus helping them increase their sales. So no doubt the popularity of the internet marketing is on the rise.

So the question in your mind right now is “I don’t have any product to sell. Neither do I have any service or business to promote. Then how do I fit into the scenario?” Remember, in the first paragraph I mentioned “marketers”. Well you can take up that role and while helping some sellers to generate more profit you can also make pretty decent money. And the good news is you do not necessarily require any website for this. Neither do you need to have any company nor any agency, any advertising firm, any workers and not even any technical know-how about web development. If you are a logical thinker, patient and open minded, ready to devote some amount of regular time for it, ready to learn from your experience and be persistent then you qualify to be a good web-marketer. You have the following options:

If you do not have your own products or services to sell then what you will want to do is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is nothing but promoting someone else’s product or service through various techniques of online advertising. Whenever there is a sale due to your promotion there will be a commission for you. This commission amount varies from product to product and some may go as high as 75% percent of the selling price. You can do affiliate marketing with the help of a blog, with the help of a website or without any blog or website. I have tried to cover most of the important aspects of affiliate marketing here. You can find all the posts under Affiliate Marketing heading. I will suggest you to go through them according to order, to get a comprehensive idea about affiliate marketing in a short time.
Well you may also want to be a little more specific in your work and can use a blog for your web-marketing campaigns. You can generate revenue from your blog through affiliate marketing, advertising programs and also can use it to promote your own products and services if you have the same. You can find all about blogs in the posts under Marketing with Blogs.
Now if you are really passionate and want to have full fledged professional approach towards web marketing then you must go for your own website which will give you recognition and uniqueness in cyber world. Your website can be a turbo charged money machine for you if you can market it well. Many important information about building your website and marketing it will be given in near future.
Last but not the least is the importance of publishing in the net for internet advertising. A well written article targeted not to sell anything blatantly but to inform about something worthy of interest can dramatically increase your credibility and hence can boost up your sales. To know more you should definitely go through the posts under Publishing in the Net.

In the Web Resources posts you will get the links to many websites offering different important services which are indispensable for your web marketing.

Here you will also find recommendations and advertisements of different products and programs which solely designed to maximize income from internet marketing. Most of the products are designed by marketing gurus and if you are really serious about making this form of business your profession and fulfill your dreams then you should try these also.

E-zines And Newsletters

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:25:00 +0000

These are generally forms of email marketing. If you have created a long list of email subscribers over time then this form of marketing can prove to be quite profitable.

E-zine is a short form of e-magazine. What do you generally find in a magazine?

Many articles about diverse topics on a particular field
Advisories
Answers to questions sent by readers
Advertisements of different products
Games, puzzles, joke etc

Why do people read magazines?

To keep them up to date with current affairs
To enhance their knowledge on many topics
To entertain themselves
To find answers to their questions
To unknowingly get exposed to various ads offering wonderful products and services.

So the same rule goes with e-zines also. You definitely should keep the above points in mind while creating your own e-zine. You can stuff your e-zines with current market trends about your product, useful articles and obviously advertisements. It is an excellent way to market affiliate products but marketing should be contextual. You definitely need a healthy opt-in list of emails to profit from this way of marketing.

Newsletters are tiny forms of newspapers. What do you generally find in a newspaper?

News
Editorial articles on various topics
Advertisements

So the same thing should be followed for a newsletter also. You should give some news and happenings in your particular field and tell about advancements and new product releases. You should provide some related articles and incorporate contextual advertisements either of your own product or affiliate products. You should also inform the readers about what new things you have added recently in your website or blog.

Remember one thing. Don’t give away everything in your e-zine or newsletter. Always retain most interesting things for your blog or website so that there is always a urge within the readers to go back to your blog or website.

Generating Revenue

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:05:00 +0000

Well now that you have marketed your blog well and have got quite a few visitors, naturally the next question is “Can I make any profit from the materials that I have created with my hard work?” The answer is obviously a Yes.

In your blog you have stuffed important information in a specific field. The people who are looking for information on that field will certainly find all the ordered information on your blog quite helpful. So you have also marketed your blog in such a way so that people having the need of those information are correctly routed towards your blog. Now say there are many products available in the market which are related to your specific field. So naturally the vendors of those products will be interested to advertise their products in your blog which attracts targeted traffic who can be potential customers. You, by allowing them to advertise on your blog can charge some fees.

Advertising revenue is the most effective way to make your website or blog profitable. But for that your blog must be quite informative and useful. More explanations are given below for 3 most prevalent ways of revenue generation:

Affiliate Marketing: Well you can definitely promote your affiliate products through your blog. But you must take care of the fact that you should never try to mislead the visitors by recommending them useless products. Always recommend good quality products which you think can help them solve their problem. The responsibility of choosing the correct product lies upon you only. If you advertise rubbish products then you will end up losing visitors because you will lose credibility. Now if the buyer is unable to use the product to its full potential and yet holds you responsible then you can’t do anything about it. But from your side you should always be clean and satisfied about what you are promoting.

Always align correct product referrals to the particular area of problem you are talking about. For example if you are talking about “How to avoid loss in share investments” and then refer a product which deals with “Ways to avoid Depression” then it doesn’t make any sense isn’t it?!! This kind of marketing approach is called Contextual Marketing i.e. directing the need towards its fulfillment. Also try to include some product description and explanation about how it can actually help the buyer

Selling Advertising Space: As I have said earlier you can generate revenue by selling advertising space on your blog to vendors and service providers. Payments schemes are generally of three type :

Pay Per Impression: In this scheme the advertiser pays you on the basis of how many times the particular web page on which the advertisement appears is loaded i.e. how many times the advertise is being shown. The payment is generally calculated per 1000 impressions.
Pay Per Click: Here the advertiser pays you on how many times his advertisement gets clicked.
Pay Per Sale: In this case the advertiser pays you only when a sale is generated. Practically this is nothing different from Affiliate Marketing.

Google Adsense: This is a very nice and profitable advertising program from world’s one of the leading companies Google. Now Google Search Engine is world’s most used search Engine. Google always want to serve the users with utmost relevant information on their search terms. That is their one and only goal. So they have created this beautiful way to reward the webmasters of websites or blogs, who have quality content site which are truly informative, contains authentic information and most importantly caters to need of information on any specific field.

Previously this program was not open for freely hosted websites and blogs. But now they have stopped differentiating between rich and poor and have opened the doors for poor webmasters also who have really useful information to offer. You have to apply to them providing them with the URL of your blog. If they find the content useful enough to attract both advertisers and readers they will approve your application. You will be given a publisher number and then you can place advertisements provided by Google on your blog. The payment is on Pay Per Click basis and you will get a percentage of the payment made by the advertiser to Google. The most beautiful thing is that only those ads will appear which are relevant to your blog’s content and you don’t have to worry about that. To know more and to apply visit http://www.google.com/adsense

What Are Blogs?

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:02:00 +0000

Blog is a short form of Web Log. In general computer language a log means a record. The blogs are also online records of your thoughts, ideas or important information which you would like to keep together in one place in sequential or chronological order. They can be very much used like a web diary in which you can write down your daily learning and experiences and share it with your friends, families or anyone else over internet.

The look and feel of blog is very much like a website. All the links to the posts that you publish are maintained in a sequence in the blog archive and available in the template of the blog. You will be given a URL for your blog through which anyone can access your blog and through the links of the blog archive can access each post that you have published over a time. You generally don’t have to think about anything related to page and template designs and HTML codes. They are taken care of by the designing tools provided by your blog space provider, You only have to write and publish.

In blogs there is also option for the visitors to leave a remark or comment. You can definitely personalize that who can give comments and who cannot or can totally disallow comments. It is totally up to you whether you want to make your blog public or private i.e. you can choose to show it in different search engines, blog directories or can keep it completely to yourself.

Blogs have actually brought a remarkable change in web communication. A particular person can voice his opinion through a blog and others can communicate with him regarding their own opinions or ask him questions. It’s a two way effective communication. That is why the use of blogs is becoming widespread and even large corporate companies maintain blogs these days which help them to reach the opinions and concerns of their employees.

Now the question is can a blog be used for marketing purposes and generating revenue? The answer is definitely a Yes. Why does websites generate revenue? Because many people regularly visit those websites to find useful information. The websites host many advertisements about many products. The advertisers are happy to advertise in those websites with regular high traffic so that they can generate more sale. The websites in turn generate revenue by charging the advertisers for providing ad-space, pay per click, pay per impression(i.e. charging a fee for every 1000 times the advertisement shows up) or pay per sale. Now you can similarly do it with blogs also. But for that you need two most important thing which I already mentioned:

Important Information in your blog
Regular high traffic in your blog

If you have these two things then only you can expect any advertiser wishing to place ad on your blogs. So if you are maintaining a blog with useful information and people are regularly visiting your blog then you can surely generate high revenue through them.

The most fascinating thing is you can get a blog absolutely free through blog providers. You write your own posts about a particular topic and then market your blog(We will see how to do it). When you have a good number of regular visitors you can go for advertisng and make money. If you have quality content blog then you can go for Google Adsense which is a phenomenal advertisng program. The only thing you have to do is to update your blogs regularly with more quality contents to retain the viewership. If you keep your blog unchanged for long people will lose interest and go somewhere else for new contents.

Article Submission Websites

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:55:00 +0000

Articles:

Following are some websites which allow free submission of articles. Never forget to write about yourself and give a live link to your website or blog in space provided for About The Author. Also specifically mention the clause that someone has to follow if he wants to reprint your article in his site or newsletter. If you write a quality article and it gets published in other’s websites and newsletters then your blog or website will gain link popularity and in turn gain page rank in search engine results For a list of websites where you can submit your articles free see the post Article Submission Sites

There are many software in the market which relieves you from all the hassles of submitting your articles to many sites manually. I have also used them. Article Submitter is one good product which not only submits your article to hundreds of article directories but it also submits your blog or website to numerous web directories which increases your link popularity and improves your pagerank

This product Turn Words into Traffic can teach you really effective ways to write articles which can increase your conversion rates up to 200%.

There is one more product which can be helpful for those who maintains a blog or website and wants to generate lots of targetted traffic to his site. It is called the Internal Article Directory. It deals with article indexing and Search Engine Optimization.

Forums:

You can also write in different forums and communities related to your specific field. Always add a live link back to your blog or website. Try to write something useful maybe as answer to specific queries asked by other members of the forum. Try to post regularly and in as many places as possible. Some online forums related to internet marketing are:

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/

http://www.ceowebsites.com/forum

http://www.wahm.com/forum

http://www.traderonlineforum.com/

http://www.theadvicepro.com/

http://www.talkfreelance.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums

http://moneymakergroup.com/

http://www.webmasterworld.com/home.htm

http://www.ablake.net/forum

Importance of publishing in the net

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:59:00 +0000

Lets see an example. Say you come across two advertisements of two products which reduces abdominal fat. One is of two lines which says that if you buy the product and use it for two weeks then your abdomen will be like that of Sylvester Stallone. And the other one goes on to describe the problems associated with excessive fat and actual scientific explanation about the working principle of that particular equipment. It shows you reasonable calculation taking into account the amount of calorie intake through proper diet and calorie burning through proper exercise using that equipment and gives you a well estimated time frame in which you will be able to reduce 50% of your abdominal fat. So from which vendor do you think you will buy the product? There is above 90% probability that you will buy from the 2nd vendor. Why? Because the claims he is making seems feasible.

So what actually has made him look more credible after all?

He pinpointed the problem area and emphasized the need
He described the working principle of the product
He pointed out how exactly it is going to solve the problem or fulfill the need.

So the pain that he has taken to write those extra lines in his advertisement has paid off.

I gave this example to show that to generate big sales what you need is credibility. People must have a reason to believe that the claims you are making are truly feasible. To increase credibility in the world of internet marketing there is no better way than to publish different articles on your particular field which will be informative and useful to readers.

There are so many marketers out there who advertise their products in an obscure way. Good marketers and vendors always give a clear picture. And they can do it because they have the requisite knowledge about the problem area and the product. They strongly believe in the product’s capabilities

To market anything you must talk about the problem area i.e. the need. Like if you want to sell any product on Reducing Abdominal Fat you can write on the possible health hazards caused by excessive fat accumulation. When the potential customer reads your article he can understand that you are not talking rubbish. Chances are that as a vendor you will gain credibility to that reader. So he will definitely check out what your product has to offer.

Another big advantage of publishing articles and writing is it can help increase traffic to your website or blog. If you include the URL of your website or blog with your articles then you can redirect interested readers to your blog. To sum up you should publish for basically two reasons:

To increase credibility
To increase traffic

And no doubt both of the above are indispensable for a marketer. You can publish in the net in two ways:

By publishing articles in free articles submission sites and by writing in forums and communities. You can get names of some article submission sites and forums in the post Article Publishing Websites.
By publishing regular newsletters and e-zines if you have an email list of opt-in subscribers who have subscribed through your website or blog. You cab go through the post E-zines And Newsletters.

The bottom-line – Freedom from slavery

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:20:00 +0000

We all want to take control of our own life isn’t it? But what exactly does it mean taking control? In this world most people are slave to money. They work from morning to night earning substantial amount of money. Most people are inclined to this kind of daily job because of primarily two reasons:

They have a sense of security that at the end of each month one particular amount of money will always come.
They don’t have to undergo the hassles and tensions related to the setup of an independent business.

But to ensure monetary security and a tension-free life(which is a myth actually) they end up sacrificing important things like:

Enough time to live life and actually utilize the money that they are earning in something which they love to do.
Full satisfaction about their standpoint in life because their abilities and knowledge are in no way making their own life better but helping someone else earn more money.
Quality time to spend with their family, friends and loved ones.

So what else is this other than slavery? But there are also people in this world who no longer are slaves of money. Through their wisdom and hard work they have made money their slave. There are thousands of persons who earn money even when they sleep!! They actually have kinds of self made business setup which is composed of automated processes. Having a fantastic website with lots of targeted traffic is like having a money machine. That can generate revenue for you even when you sleep through advertisement programs like Google adsense and also through sales of your affiliate products. But it won’t happen in one day. You have to make the website informative and have to employ correct marketing strategies to drive a considerable amount of traffic.

When I started on this journey to freedom I did not have any website. I started with affiliate marketing. When I started making reasonable amount I figured it out that to make the money secured I must have some solid foundation. At that time I didn’t know much about web development neither marketing strategies.One particular product which is very popular in market by one of the most renowned super affiliate Ewen Chia, the Secret Affiliate Weapon proved to be very effective. I think that was a very good investment maybe the turning point investment of my internet marketing career. It was not my first investment though. Before beginning with affiliate marketing I purchased one e-book. I will suggest that e-book to newcomers. It is called The Google Black Book. It is really something worthy of possession. It is huge repository of effective, useful information, strategy and explanations about business models. If not for this product I would never have achieved my freedom. I owe an awesome lot to the person who created this particular e-book.

There are many products that I have used but some I can genuinely suggest. I have written reviews about some products. You can read those in the post Profitable Products/Programs. You can also find reviews about 3 money making programs at admarket

The bottom-line – Freedom from slavery

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:20:00 +0000

They have a sense of security that at the end of each month one particular amount of money will always come.
They don’t have to undergo the hassles and tensions related to the setup of an independent business.

But to ensure monetary security and a tension-free life(which is a myth actually) they end up sacrificing important things like:

Enough time to live life and actually utilize the money that they are earning in something which they love to do.
Full satisfaction about their standpoint in life because their abilities and knowledge are in no way making their own life better but helping someone else earn more money.
Quality time to spend with their family, friends and loved ones.

So what else is this other than slavery? But there are also people in this world who no longer are slaves of money. Though their wisdom and hard work they have made money their slave. There are thousands of persons who earn money even when they sleep!! They actually have kinds of self made business setup which is composed of automated processes. Having a fantastic website with lots of targeted traffic is like having a money machine. That can generate revenue for you even when you sleep through advertisement programs like Google adsense and also through sales of your affiliate products. But it won’t happen in one day. You have to make the website informative and have to employ correct marketing strategies to drive a considerable amount of traffic.

When I started on this journey to freedom I did not have any website. I started with affiliate marketing. When I started making reasonable amount I figured it out that to make the money secured I must have some solid foundation. At that time I didn’t know much about web development neither marketing strategies. One particular product which is very popular in market by one of the most renowned super affiliate Ewen Chia, the Secret Affiliate Weapon proved to be very effective. I think that was a very good investment maybe the turning point investment of my internet marketing career. It was not my first investment though. Before beginning with affiliate marketing I purchased one e-book. I will suggest that e-book to newcomers. It is called The Google Black Book It is really something worthy of possession. It is huge repository of effective, useful information, strategy and explanations about business models. If not for this product I would never have achieved my freedom. I owe an awesome lot to the person who created this particular e-book.

There are many products that I have used but some I can genuinely suggest. I have written reviews about some products. You can read those at NetShopperWorld.

How to Market?

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:10:00 +0000

Yes, this is the most important question. There can be endless way to market your affiliate programs. Slowly you have to device different innovative ways yourself. But here are some suggestions:

You can join up forums, communities and groups in the internet related to your field of interest and can talk about the products that you are marketing. You can talk about its features and how it can help anyone and then you can provide your affiliate link so that the interested visitors can click it and go to the sales page.

You can write articles about that particular field with your affiliate link placed underneath. If you feed the readers with some useful information then that will increase your credibility and people will not be unwilling to see what you have to offer. To see a list of free article submission sites go to the post Article Submission Sites

There are many software in the market which relieves you from all the hassles of submitting your articles to many sites manually. I have also used them. Article Submitter is one good product which not only submits your article to hundreds of article directories but it also submits your blog or website to numerous web directories which increases your link popularity and improves your pagerank

This product Turn Words into Traffic can teach you really effective ways to write articles which can increase your conversion rates up to 200%.

There is one more product which can be helpful for those who maintains a blog or website and wants to generate lots of targetted traffic to his site. It is called the Internal Article Directory. It deals with article indexing and Search Engine Optimization.

You can write advertisements and post them in free advertising sites. In this way you can definitely advertise to thousands of people. But free advertising will definitely have some restrictions on your ad postings. To fully make use of the capacity of the advertisng mediums you generally need to pay a small fee to them which is quite small compared to the targetted traffic you get. One website called Leadclub is giving a free access of 7 days to their 10,000 strong targeted customer base. I will strongly suggest you check it out.

You can create a blog (See the posts under Marketing with Blogs to get more info on blogs) and write review of your products in them. You can ping your blog to free pinging services. To get a list of blog pinging services see the post Blog Pinging Services This will ensure that your blog URL is submitted to different search engines and web directories. You must ping your blog whenever you update it. Don’t forget to give your affiliate links in your blogs.

You can also make one opt-in list of email ids through your blog or website. This is nothing but a list of email ids of persons who are willing to receive newsletters or promotional letters from you as you have promised to deliver. You can send them periodic articles, ezines or newsletters to them and add your affiliate link with them. Don’t send rubbish mails and advertisements. Always send something useful following with the product references.

Always remember one thing. You should not think only of selling and making profit. You should also give the people something useful. Without giving anything you can never achieve anything and if you think this is crap then business and marketing is not your cup of tea. And also remember that only good product sells well, not a useless one.

Different aspects of affiliate marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:42:00 +0000

Before you dive in the world of affiliate marketing you need a little more explanation of the total procedure. I would explain to you step by step what you exactly need to know to have a comprehensive beginning of your affiliate marketing career.

First calm down and set aside your excitement about making it big. Always remember one thing that to make it big you must be practical and innovative and must believe in this statement: Persistence is the key. Give yourself one very strongly motivating goal like achieving your financial freedom in some reasonable time frame. What your time frame will be depends on what amount of work you want to give for this. Whatever amount of time you want to give make it specific and do your marketing job everyday for that much time without failure.

Create a merchant account to handle your payments. Merchant accounts are online money handling accounts through which you can make payments to different companies for purchasing their product or service and also can receive payments for any sale you make either through affiliate marketing or direct sales. You can receive payments through different ways like credit card payments and account to account transfer etc. You will need a credit card to open an account. Paypal is the most common one which most companies use. Another good Merchant account provider is Moneybookers

Decide about the field or area related to which you will like to market the products. For example if you are keen on Share Investment and have some knowledge on it then you may want to market services related to Share Investment. Deciding your particular field of interest has two advantages:
You will not lose interest or feel bored.
You will be able to promote it much better than any other product.

Now you must look for affiliate programs from companies which have products and services related to your particular field of interest. For this you must register an account with a affiliate programs provider. The most widespread and popular provider is Clickbank. Each has different payment options. You should go and check them out. In these websites you will find products of all categories.
Once you choose one product you will be given one unique link which will contain your unique id. This link when clicked will take the visitor to the sales page of that particular product. For each product the links are unique. You can choose as many products you wish but always keep the links arranged so that they don’t mix up. Some vendors will also provide you with many affiliate sales generating tools like banners, sales letters and suggestions. It is always good to check those additional resources out.

Now that you have all the links ready you are ready to go for the promotion of your products. Once you generate any sale through your link the specified amount of commission will be debited either to your merchant account or in your account of the affiliate program provider. Once your account has some minimum cutoff value of money you can then either request for a check or can go for any alternative payment facility they are having.

There is also something called a 2-tier affiliate program. In this kind of program you can have sub-affiliates under you. Then you will not only earn when you yourself generate a sale but also when any of your sub-affiliate generate sale. Here if you have some good affiliates under you then you will continue to earn money even when you are not doing anything. But you have to find your own sub-affiliates, train them, work in a group and keep them motivated for a long time which can be difficult sometimes if the program is not promising enough and does not generate reasonable income right at the beginning.

Can you achieve anything significant?

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:38:00 +0000

If you want to see this – “Only by working half an hour a day you can earn $5000/day” then I am really sorry. I can’t say that. Because it isn’t true. Never in the history of mankind it has happened that without working hard someone has become successful or rich(in a legitimate way) except in three cases – getting ancestral property, winning a lottery, having a great day at the casino.

But it is also true that being successful does not only mean having a great job. Businessmen are also successful persons, they are rich and actually they are the ones who give you jobs. You also have the right to decide which way you want to go. Internet marketing is nothing but a way to do business only. Here you are working for yourself and controlling your own life. This gives you a totally different level of satisfaction. But as I said Web-Marketing is in no way a get rich scheme. So if you want to make a living through this you have to take it seriously like any other profession. In this ever changing world you have to be proactive, ready to learn, device innovative marketing ideas yourself and must be persistent.

Yes, you can achieve a lot. I have. I have achieved my freedom from 9 to 5 slavery. Now I only work for myself and make a decent living only through online marketing. I can afford all those materialistic satisfactions which I might not have achieved for a long time through my day job. And there are thousands of people out there who earn much more than me only through affiliate marketing and they do that year after year.

I will give you a simple estimate. Consider this: You have some really eye-catching ads about a particular product. You place your ads in enough places so that about 10,000 people can see your ad everyday. Only 1% per cent i.e. 100 people click on it. From them only 1% i.e. only one person actually buys your product. You will earn say $10 as commission(Most companies give you much more than this). Now you are marketing 10 such products. That means your average income per day is $(10*10) = $100. Which means your income per month is $(30*100) = $3000!! This is only a minimal projection of what you can do. If you seriously work and devote more time in it you can increase your income manifold. This is just like a business set-up and maybe the only one which does not need any monetary investment.

So feel good now. Dream, but be practical enough so that you can work to fulfill that dream. Here you will get enough material which will help you to get a kick start in you affiliate marketing career. But after that it is all up to you. It is you who have to discover ways towards more effective strategies, it is you who have to take control. But don’t worry. I will be with you. Check this blog regularly. I will post different articles about many aspects of online marketing written by experts in this field which you will definitely find helpful.

The e-book that changed my life is called The Google Black Book. If you want to check it out click here.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Lee) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:10:00 +0000

Affiliate means an associate or partner.

In affiliate marketing you work like a marketing associate of a company. That means you market someone’s product, service or website online to potential customers to help the seller generate more sales.

The primary question is Why affiliates? Aren't the companies capable enough to promote their own products? Yes, they may be capable but think of it like this: A particular company has their product. From their advertisements and marketing every day 100 people buy the product. Now they announce an offer that some percentage of the selling price will be given as commission to anyone who can generate a sale for them and it will be given for every sale they generate. 100 affiliates join the program. Each of them in turn generates 10 sales. So the total number of sale goes up to (100 + 10*100) = 1100 from only 100 without practically any work from their side!! And think of the affiliates. They each have earned some good commission for each of their 10 sales. Previously only the company was having an income that too quite low, but now, not only company has boosted up their income but also 100 other people have a source of income!! It is win-win situation and nobody looses anything.

Affiliate marketing does not set you any rule or norm for marketing. You can do it your way as long as it is ethical. Now another pertinent question is how do the company know that who is generating a particular sale? Whenever you join as an affiliate to a company you will be given an unique link which contains a unique id for you, embedded in the link. Whoever clicks on that link will be taken directly to the sales page of the company. If the visitor buys the product the commission will be automatically debited to the account of the person holding that particular id in the link which has brought the customer to the sales page. The companies all have link tracking methods using cookies or may be sophisticated server-side scripting. If you generate the sale then you and only you will be given commission. No one can stop it!!

The most beautiful thing about it is you don’t have to persuade any customer or talk to him to convince him to make sales. You simply write some noticeable and attention catching ad, place your affiliate link with it and put it in different places in the web(How you can do this is explained in the post How To Market?). If any person interested in your marketed product sees your ad, high chances are that he will click on your link. That’s it. Your job ends here. Now it is the company’s sales page that is going to do the trick. As they are much more experienced marketer their sales page will be much more convincing. And the moment the visitor buys the product – Bingo!! You have earned something. Just think how much did you really do? You have only selected the product to market, written a good advertisement and routed the potential customer towards his destination. As simple as that. You have earned online without going out in the sun, without much amount of work, without investment and you don’t even have a website!!