Affiliates-School

How can I get started in affiliate advertising?

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0000

If you want to be a successful affiliate and earn money through the Internet, here are 5 tips to save you a heap of time and money:

1/. Do not get bogged down with problems creating a website, you can now get free websites created for you - affiliates should focus on marketing and promoting their websites, not get blocked by obstacles like the complexity of html and other anorak stuff.

2/. Find a niche product with few competitors, that pays good commission.

3/. Check to see whether the affiliate program has a cookie expiry - this means that you do not get paid if the buyer purchases 30 days or more after your introduction - choose an affiliate program with no cookie expiry.

4/. Do not pay for advertising, help DVDs, how to make a million overnight type secrets, or other scams, good affiliate program directors will provide marketing ideas for free.

5/. Visit http://www.affiliates-school.com/ for free advice, recommended affiliate programs, articles, useful tools and links and ideas - no sign up, good free advice.

What affiliate products are best to promote?

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:37:00 +0000

One of the questions most asked by affiliates is - What product should I promote? If products are too common, i.e. ring tones and mobile phones, advertising rates will be very expensive. If the market is very competitive, i.e. ring tones and mobile phones, too many people will be trying to bid for keywords on AdWords, so the cost per click will be prohibitively expensive. If the product is too cheap, you will need to sell many products to get paid a decent income. If the product is too boring, you will loose interest. Niche products have few competitors, so are cheaper to advertise. Check out http://hovpod-affiliate-opportunity.blogspot.com/

How can I get started in affiliate advertising?

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:01:00 +0000

How can I get started in affiliate advertising? Many people like the idea of working from home, and affiliate marketing provides that opportunity, provided you can overcome a few hurdles. The 5 main problems to overcome are:

1/. Creating an affiliate website - some companies will create an affiliate website for you leaving you to focus on marketing their products - good example is http://hovpod-affiliate-opportunity.blogspot.com/

2/. Finding a niche product with few competitors - if you sell the same products as everyone else does, the commission is generally less as margins are tight, the marketing is harder to do as you have too many competitors, and therefore advertising costs too much - we recommend http://hovpod-opportunities.blogspot.com/

3/. Cost of advertising can be high thru pay per click advertising, so sell products which are visual that you can promote by posting interesting videos on YouTube and social network sites - check out http://www.hovercraft-hovercraft.com/

4/. Avoid the scams - do not get disheartened, do not pay any money to join a scheme, do not pay for books, do not pay for website design, do not pay for DVDs.

5/. Get free good advice, get affiliate help sheets, articles, and tools for free, go to Affiliate School at http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

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Affiliates ask - What product should I promote?

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:36:00 +0000

One of the questions most asked by affiliates is - What product should I promote?

If products are too common, i.e. ring tones and mobile phones, advertising rates will be very expensive. If the market is very competitive, i.e. ring tones and mobile phones, too many people will be trying to bid for keywords on AdWords, so the cost per click will be prohibitively expensive.

If the product is too cheap, you will need to sell many products to get paid a decent income. If the product is too boring, you will loose interest. Niche products have few competitors, so are cheaper to advertise. Check out http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

Get paid to Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:09:00 +0000

There are millions of Blogger who rant everyday about how they would change the world, and provide tedious details about their tedious lives.

And there are some Bloggers who just like to make money.

It is now possible to get paid to Blog to promote goods and services. Google will also pay you to place adverts on your blog page. If you have never created a Blog or don't understand what a Blog is, read this article at http://www.scribd.com/doc/19640299/Blogging-for-Profit.

Get paid to blog companies even supply free Blogs for you to promote, and free scripts to tell you what to write, so even non-geek people like me can post a few blog missives during the lunch break.

Get paid to write

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Affiliate School seeks Bloggers who would like to get paid to Blog.

Bloggers get paid commission on sales that result from promotions.

Bloggers also get AdSense revenue paid directly by Google.

Affiliate School provide unique capture forms and free websites, or Bloggers can have their own Blog site, from Blogger or WordPress. The system works by bloggers writing regular blogs about specific subjects. Bloggers get paid to write on a regular basis, so this opportunity would suit people with writing talent who wish to work from home. You could even post a Blog in your lunch break, takes only 5 minutes each day. For more information on how you can get paid to Blog, please contact Affiliate School at http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

How to get 7 times as many visitors to your website

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:00 +0000

Measure the effectiveness of advertising to get more visitors to your website

Using Twitter to Pimp your Website

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:04:00 +0000

To understand how Twitter can drive visitors to your website, I have created an article and posted it here. Using Twitter to Pimp your Website

How to become a successful Affiliate in 10 easy steps

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:01:00 +0000

How to become a successful Affiliate, and work from home, in 10 easy steps.

I guess the most common question I get asked at Affiliate School is “How can I get people to visit my web-site”; a pretty important detail to get right when you think about it, because many people spend loads of time creating beautiful websites, but if no one visits, what’s the point.

In case you don’t know what an affiliate is, this is someone who promotes other people’s products via the Internet. We provide free tuition for new affiliates and home workers through Affiliate School.

Rather than just sell one product, an affiliate can promote many products. By signing up to the Google AdSense Program, affiliates get paid commission every time someone on their site clicks an advertisement posted onto the website by Google, 24/7.

Here are 10 steps to ensure you become a successful affiliate, and not just another wannabe rich someday sort of person.

Step 1. By all means, have a nice website, but let people know how to find it. No visitors? No Clicks! No income! We recommend the Hov Pod Affiliate program - click on the banner to get a FREE website promoting the Hov Pod Hovercraft. This is a unique niche product - request their FREE Hovercraft Report website.

Step 2. The easiest way to create a one page site nowadays is to sign up to Blogger, which is owned by the grand masters of the Internet universe, Google. I love Google, why use any other search engine. You will find links to useful websites that will explain how to create an account and get started through the Affiliate School website. http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

I love Blogger as it is easy to create very nice looking one-page websites, plus there are loads of gadgets you can add to make it interesting for your visitors. To prove a point, we have made Affiliate School website entirely with Blogger, and stitched various Blog sites together interconnected with links to create our website, to practice what we preach.

Step 3. Once you have created a nice site, tried out a few templates, added a few widgets, be sure to tell people how to find you. On the Blogger Settings page, you will see a tab titled Site Feed – through that page see FeedBurner. This free service publishes a site map so that Google can find your site, when they send out their robots on site watch patrol.

Step 4. Sign up to AdSense via Google, and place the AdSense bar on the right hand column high enough up the page so people can see and click onto the ads. Once signed up, Google will take a look at the content of your site and automatically place ads to maximise the likelihood of people clicking through to an ad. Once somebody clicks, they get directed to an advertiser’s website, to an advertiser who has bid the most amount of money to Google to get noticed through an advertising program called AdWords. Don’t be tempted to advertise your own site through AdWords unless you really know what you are doing, otherwise you could spend $20 advertising, and get $1 back in AdSense revenue. Why so little? Well, Google have to make a living somehow, how else do you make $21 Billion.

Step 5. Check out the valuable tips and resources at Affiliate School Library page. http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/ See Find the Share & Save button on the top right hand side of that page. First of all, use this button to tell your friends about Affiliate School, either via email or through social network websites. If you like this button, get your own button. You will find a link to Share & Save Add to Any website on the Resources list on the Affiliate School Library page. This link will take you to the Add to Any site, where they will explain how to get the html code so that you can copy and paste the HTML code into your Blogger website, see Customise Menu (Add HTML).

Step 6. Read about Viral Marketing by selecting the link on the Affiliate School Library page.

Step 7. Take the link from the Affiliate School Library http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/ to Cash Key Words and watch the video, entitled, See how the CashKeyWords Toolbar can help you make more money online. It’s really great; we use this toolbar all the time, really useful.

Step 8. The Cash Key Words toolbar will explain how to select subjects such as weight loss etc that you could focus on in your Blog to earn valuable AdSense click-through commission, but one subject even better to focus on is ofcourse Affiliate Marketing. Lots of people have lost confidence in relying on others for gainful employment, and the recession has resulted in many people wondering whether Internet Marketing offers a work from home business opportunity. Home working is ofcourse possible, provided that you quickly get up to speed to know what to do and what not to do. It is the objective of Affiliate School, to provide such information. If you register and sign up to the free Affiliate School program, you can copy and paste articles like this one to add content to your site. By posting this article from your Blog, you will receive visitors to your site, as for sure this subject is very popular, as confirmed by Google Trends.

When you do a post, be sure to add keywords in the window at the bottom of the post window in Blogger, we suggest that you use the words, business, affiliate, work from home, home working, Internet Jobs, home jobs, free online business, work online, online job, internet marketing, affiliate marketing. Add a comma after each word or phrase.

Step 9. Submit this article to article submission sites or use the other articles in our posts, copy from Affiliate School, and use the really useful Affiliate School Article Submissions Site at http://articles-submit.blogspot.com/ Add a paragraph to provide your endorsement of Affiliate School, but add a link to your website or Blog site so that readers click through to your site in the first instance.

Step 10. Checkout Alexa to see what’s hot and what’s not on the Internet, so that you can develop your site to maximise relevancy to future trends. Find the link to Alexa on the School Library page at http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/

If you discover any more useful Internet marketing tools, be sure to contact us and share your knowledge with us – be sure to bookmark Affiliate School, and consider adding the Affiliate School Banner to your site, to allow you to more easily find our site and gain quick access to the Affiliate School Library.

Follow these steps and you will be well on your way to financial independence, but to stay motivated please do sign up to Affiliate School so that we can send you free regular updates.

Social networking - advertising success

noreply@blogger.com (Affiliates School) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:40:00 +0000

If run your own business, perhaps as an affiliate working from home, or in network marketing, have you thought of using social network sites to get your message across?

Hi, my name is John Pennington, and I provide free help to new affiliates through the Affiliate School site at http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

This site is a self-help resource where we share (for free) ideas on Internet marketing, for people who want to start a business, working from home. Many of my students have been asking lately whether I have had experience and success with advertising through the many social network sites; and as a matter of fact, I have.

One of our contacts runs the Hov Pod affiliate program. Hov Pod manufacture small 3 man hovercraft which travel over any flat surface at speed, i.e. water, sand, mud, ice, snow etc. As a unique niche product, with scope for showing images and posting videos on You Tube, it is a pretty neat affiliate product. Hov Pods sell for a few dollars, so the affiliate program pays very generous commissions, but let me get back to the point of this article.

Hov Pod have a dealer in Australia who recently ran a charity event in support of the victims who suffered devastating damage during the recent bushfires. The charity event provided free hovercraft experience rides in return for charitable donations. This was advertised on FaceBook through http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=64584463775

The event was really well attended, it seems that every FaceBook member in the area had a go, and so did some of their friends. It might just be that hovercraft are a niche product - everyone seems to love hovercraft rides, especially when they fly from land to water and back without stopping. However, the event was a great success, everyone had a great time, and guess what, everyone took loads of pictures. And they chipped in hundreds of dollars to the Bush Fire Appeal.

It was only a few days later that it dawned on the dealer why he was suddenly getting a lot more contact through his website, especially from people wanting hovercraft rides. Increased interest might have been expected, since everyone had a good time, and word probably got around through word of mouth. But the surge in interest kept increasing, how come?

It seems that FaceBook and other social network site members love to post images to show their friends what they have been up to. A good proportion of people who attended the event appear to have posted images showing their kids having a good time on the hovercraft. This is where we have to consider the maths, never my best subject at school, but one that I have got better at since Google started paying me lots of commission cheques (read my articles on affiliate marketing through my website)

If 200 people attended the event, and just 10% (20) posted images on their FaceBook site, as a rough average, they may have 200 friends or contacts who know them on FaceBook. That is 4000 people. If just 10 percent of 4000 people also want to have a go on the hovercraft, you get 400 customers. If just 10% of 400 people also have a go on the hovercraft, post images on FaceBook, those 40 people know 8000 people. Pretty soon, one heck of a lot of people want to have a go on the hovercraft, and after everyone has had a go, if only 10% post images on FaceBook, you got it, word really gets out to high numbers of people, and it didn’t really cost anything, free advertising.

Here’s another little gem of a tip to increase your wealth and sense of well-being. On my Affiliate School website you will find a Share Button gadget. Test this button and try it out to tell people about Affiliate School through your social network website, and email everyone you know in your email address book. Once you have tested the button, sign up to Affiliate School, and I will explain to you how to make a free website like mine and add these Tell a Friend buttons, so you too can start receiving commission cheques from product manufacturers and Google – help me to help you!

As I try to point out to my students at Affiliate School, if you really want to make money and gain financial security through marketing on the Internet, you can either do it the hard way like I did, or get rewards quickly by taking free advice. Affiliate school provides a shared resource of excellent tips, with no sign up fee to put you off. No excuses now! More money can be made through niche product marketing with products that people are genuinely interested in, rather than by trying to sell products like ring-tones and mobile phones that everyone else sells. I will provide the tools and knowledge to help you started – just make a donation after I prove to you how simple affiliate marketing really is.

If you really want to start a home-based business working from home, take my advice; for free! More info about the Hov Pod Affiliate program at http://wfh-am.blogspot.com/ (see link to recommended affiliate program)