Affiliate marketing is one of the most easy and gainful opportunities to do business through web. And just like any other work it also requires an organized plan and efficient tools.
The Tools You Need for Affiliate Marketing
Tool 1 - A Website
The first and most important tool required to begin with affiliate marketing is to have a website. A website not only provides you a platform but also helps in developing trust and confidence amongst your clients. If you find difficult to build your own website then you can take help of other companies who deal with it. They will also help you in developing sufficient content for your business. Also, your visitors are needed to be convinced time by time and this is possible only if you a website of your own.
Your website can have:
- Articles
- Reviews of the products
- Free tools
- Membership details
- Audio files
- Endorsements & testimonials
Tool 2 - An Auto-Responder
After you get a website, you need to have an auto-responder. Every website, affiliate, e-commerce or membership requires an auto-responder. Having an auto-responder is not enough. You also need to know how to use it properly. It is important to maintain a good relationship with your all of your clients.
Tool 3 - Article Submission Software
Article submission is made so much easier by using a software for submitting the articles. This necessary task could take hours without the use of software (or an article submission service).
Advantages of Submitting Many Articles
- It increases the amount of high quality "back links" to your website. More "back links" means more publicity to your brand.
- Other website owners will make use of your content and add it to their website. They will also give a back link for your website.
Tool 4 - A Link Cloaker
If you don't want to waste your time and efforts and you think that you have worked hard to:
- Establish your website
- Build your list
- Create your article submission and search engine optimization.
Then you must have a link cloaker. You might be aware about the increase in the link thefts and frauds. By cloaking the links you are preserving your money or income. Another benefit of having a link cloaker is that it persuades the visitors to click your site because these links appear neater and less confusing. At the same time it conceals unwanted and ugly links.
In order to increase link popularity you should submit your site's link to various websites, free newsletters and so on. The more you submit the more you are increasing your website's popularity.
Tool 5 - A Good Affiliate Mentor
The last tool needed in affiliate marketing is a good affiliate guide or mentor. You will surely need good some kind of roadmap or guidance in order to move ahead. Here you really don't need to re-establish the business but simply follow the suggestions given by an experienced person in the same field.
Jude Wright is the owner of AboutAffiliateMarketing.com. Subscribe to her newsletter, About Affiliates Ezine, and receive a valuable membership to her eBook Library
To Your Affiliate Success and Profits
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Saturday 15 December 2007
Friday 14 December 2007
Finding An Affiliate Program That Works For You-By Daniel Alan
By Courtesy of Affliate Programs College
Okay, so you're looking for an affiliate program that actually works for YOU? There are of course many ways to go about doing this, but I would say the most simple way would be by making a comparison chart.
You have the compare programs and decide which one will be the most profitable for you. Compare payouts, compare payment frequency, compare how trusted the network is with their payments, and probably the most important one to consider is CONVERSION RATIO.
If you send three hundred people to that page and it doesn't convert into any sales guess what? You need to switch to promoting something else. Some sites are able to convert 1/20 visitors into buyers (mine, as an example). These are the things you have to think about as a potential affiliate.
One thing that is, surprisingly, overlooked as well yet is HUGE in making money as an affiliate marketing. Your niche. The niche you are marketing to should be carefully selected. We talk about conversion ratios and this stems from the people that you deliver to the site actually being interested in the topic. Give me one visitor that's into my niche over twenty that aren't any day. These turn into sales, and in turn, money in your pocket.
So make a pros and cons list, or a comparison chart. Far too many people that I see just blindly go into whichever affiliate program they see without really thinking it through or comparing other programs. This step truly is a much bigger part of your success than you realize right now. If you don't pick the proper affiliate program for your needs then you will die like the rest of the failed affiliates. I cannot stress that point to you enough.
Your comparison chart should lay each program out something like this:
Conversion Ratio:
Payout per sale:
Niche:
Network:
Frequency of Payments/How long it takes:
In other words, by looking at the programs on paper you can easily pick out which one may be better for you and what you are trying to accomplish in the field of being an affiliate marketer. You can't take the decision of what affiliate program to promote lightly, because it will determine your success or demise in this business. And let's face it here and now, success breeds success. I guarantee at least fifty percent of all affiliate marketers who failed picked the wrong program for them, and it left them unmotivated and defeated.
You can succeed, I know it. You simply have to know what you want and create a plan that works in order to get it.
Best of luck to you!
Article Source: http://affiliatemarketingarticles.net
Daniel Alan is the creator of the Perfect Path To Wealth system and an expert at making money online.
To your Affiliate Success and Profits
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Okay, so you're looking for an affiliate program that actually works for YOU? There are of course many ways to go about doing this, but I would say the most simple way would be by making a comparison chart.
You have the compare programs and decide which one will be the most profitable for you. Compare payouts, compare payment frequency, compare how trusted the network is with their payments, and probably the most important one to consider is CONVERSION RATIO.
If you send three hundred people to that page and it doesn't convert into any sales guess what? You need to switch to promoting something else. Some sites are able to convert 1/20 visitors into buyers (mine, as an example). These are the things you have to think about as a potential affiliate.
One thing that is, surprisingly, overlooked as well yet is HUGE in making money as an affiliate marketing. Your niche. The niche you are marketing to should be carefully selected. We talk about conversion ratios and this stems from the people that you deliver to the site actually being interested in the topic. Give me one visitor that's into my niche over twenty that aren't any day. These turn into sales, and in turn, money in your pocket.
So make a pros and cons list, or a comparison chart. Far too many people that I see just blindly go into whichever affiliate program they see without really thinking it through or comparing other programs. This step truly is a much bigger part of your success than you realize right now. If you don't pick the proper affiliate program for your needs then you will die like the rest of the failed affiliates. I cannot stress that point to you enough.
Your comparison chart should lay each program out something like this:
Conversion Ratio:
Payout per sale:
Niche:
Network:
Frequency of Payments/How long it takes:
In other words, by looking at the programs on paper you can easily pick out which one may be better for you and what you are trying to accomplish in the field of being an affiliate marketer. You can't take the decision of what affiliate program to promote lightly, because it will determine your success or demise in this business. And let's face it here and now, success breeds success. I guarantee at least fifty percent of all affiliate marketers who failed picked the wrong program for them, and it left them unmotivated and defeated.
You can succeed, I know it. You simply have to know what you want and create a plan that works in order to get it.
Best of luck to you!
Article Source: http://affiliatemarketingarticles.net
Daniel Alan is the creator of the Perfect Path To Wealth system and an expert at making money online.
To your Affiliate Success and Profits
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Tuesday 27 November 2007
How To Inprove Your Business With Affiliate Marketing
By courtesy of Affiliate Programs College
Well, what affiliate marketing is today started with Amazon in 1996...
When it comes to the web, Amazon.com really started the affiliate marketing method and scene. In July 1996, it launched its "associates" program and now counts over 450,000 sites in its network. They don't pay as well as many of their competitors, but most affiliate marketers I know have at least played with Amazon's program, because Amazon is such a force to be reckoned with online.
The basic model of affiliate marketing works something like this: A small website owner registers with Amazon (or any other affiliate program), she then puts various links, banners, and products on her web site. When her visitors click through, using these links, and purchase a book or other product, the small web site owner is paid a commission for generating the sale.
But since 1996, (and in the last seven years since the article was written in 2000), affiliate marketing has really grown.
While Amazon is remembered as the most visible pioneer, the concept really isn't new. In fact, one of the oldest practitioners of affiliate style marketing, Amway, took to the web using what they were calling affiliate marketing, using the brand Quixtar.
While Quixtar was still more of a network of distributors (Amway-style) for many years, some very large and successful companies have come up in the middle of the affiliate marketing space.
The model is that the affiliate is paid for their performance. In all cases, the goal is for marketers to only spend money when their particular performance objective is met. While Amazon only pays when a sale is made, merchants selling big ticket items like cars, or marketing services like credit cards, have modified the model paying instead for clicks or qualified leads.
(Adsense is the prime example in this space, but that will be reserved for another article as well.)
In fact, compensation schemes are as varied as the merchants themselves from a 15 percent commission on Amazon books, to 1 percent on Dell PCs. On the financial services side, lenders will offer affiliates up to $125 for a qualified application, many credit card companies will offer $20-$40 per enrolled cardholder, and many bigger ticket digital product items can result in commissions of 50% or more.
Consider a Third Party, otherwise known as an affiliate marketing network.
As merchants (people selling stuff) have rushed to build their own affiliate programs, and platforms using in-house software like Amazon, an entirely new category has been born: affiliate networks. Running your own group of affiliates is not rocket science, but it does require quite a bit of time and commitment.
And for that reason, many merchants are finding that outsourcing their affiliate program to a third-party providers (affiliate networks) is a compelling solution.
There are a huge variety of affiliate networks, with many springing up new every year. Many have disappeared or been consolidated within months of their launch, but two of the largest and longest running networks have been Linkshare and Commission Junction, otherwise known as CJ.
Most networks today, including Linkshare and Commission Junction, provide tracking, reporting, affiliate recruiting, cutting checks, sending out end-of-year tax forms, and responding to webmaster queries.
If you want to have an affiliate marketing program for stuff you sell, you can either build your own affiliate program using software like 1ShoppingCart, or you can approach a network like Linkshare, Commission Junction, or ShareASale. There are advantages of doing it yourself and also of outsourcing affiliate management to an affiliate network, which I'll cover in a different article.
In the 11 years since it's inception, affiliate marketing has become a significant force in how ecommerce happens. Hundreds of thousands of merchants now use affiliate marketing to make sales, track what's happening, and pay the affiliate marketers who are bringing them new customers.
And yet for all the jargon, hype, get-rich-quick stuff, and other affiliate marketing junk, in the end it's about is about connecting buyers and sellers and rewarding those that facilitate the connections. Affiliate marketing for the affiliate marketer (also known as a "publisher") is basically promoting/selling other people's products for a % of the sales price. Affiliate marketing for the company with the products (also known as a "merchant")
If you're going to spend your time as an affiliate marketer, the risk is low, and like most things in life, if you will take the time to study, understand, and apply the knowledge, there is a huge amount of potential to make money.
Sign up for Linkshare, Commission Junction, ShareASale, and ClickBank. Check out the products offered through the various merchants selling in these affiliate networks. To be successful however, you need to have a good grasp of Internet marketing and understand how to promote products, and more importantly, you should learn how to help both the people whose products you're selling, as well as the people you're selling to.
After all, the value isn't in the transaction, it's in the relationship...
Hopefully this has helped to answer the question, "What is Affiliate Marketing".
Posted by Jonathan on November 24, 2007 12:56 PM | Permalink
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Well, what affiliate marketing is today started with Amazon in 1996...
When it comes to the web, Amazon.com really started the affiliate marketing method and scene. In July 1996, it launched its "associates" program and now counts over 450,000 sites in its network. They don't pay as well as many of their competitors, but most affiliate marketers I know have at least played with Amazon's program, because Amazon is such a force to be reckoned with online.
The basic model of affiliate marketing works something like this: A small website owner registers with Amazon (or any other affiliate program), she then puts various links, banners, and products on her web site. When her visitors click through, using these links, and purchase a book or other product, the small web site owner is paid a commission for generating the sale.
But since 1996, (and in the last seven years since the article was written in 2000), affiliate marketing has really grown.
While Amazon is remembered as the most visible pioneer, the concept really isn't new. In fact, one of the oldest practitioners of affiliate style marketing, Amway, took to the web using what they were calling affiliate marketing, using the brand Quixtar.
While Quixtar was still more of a network of distributors (Amway-style) for many years, some very large and successful companies have come up in the middle of the affiliate marketing space.
The model is that the affiliate is paid for their performance. In all cases, the goal is for marketers to only spend money when their particular performance objective is met. While Amazon only pays when a sale is made, merchants selling big ticket items like cars, or marketing services like credit cards, have modified the model paying instead for clicks or qualified leads.
(Adsense is the prime example in this space, but that will be reserved for another article as well.)
In fact, compensation schemes are as varied as the merchants themselves from a 15 percent commission on Amazon books, to 1 percent on Dell PCs. On the financial services side, lenders will offer affiliates up to $125 for a qualified application, many credit card companies will offer $20-$40 per enrolled cardholder, and many bigger ticket digital product items can result in commissions of 50% or more.
Consider a Third Party, otherwise known as an affiliate marketing network.
As merchants (people selling stuff) have rushed to build their own affiliate programs, and platforms using in-house software like Amazon, an entirely new category has been born: affiliate networks. Running your own group of affiliates is not rocket science, but it does require quite a bit of time and commitment.
And for that reason, many merchants are finding that outsourcing their affiliate program to a third-party providers (affiliate networks) is a compelling solution.
There are a huge variety of affiliate networks, with many springing up new every year. Many have disappeared or been consolidated within months of their launch, but two of the largest and longest running networks have been Linkshare and Commission Junction, otherwise known as CJ.
Most networks today, including Linkshare and Commission Junction, provide tracking, reporting, affiliate recruiting, cutting checks, sending out end-of-year tax forms, and responding to webmaster queries.
If you want to have an affiliate marketing program for stuff you sell, you can either build your own affiliate program using software like 1ShoppingCart, or you can approach a network like Linkshare, Commission Junction, or ShareASale. There are advantages of doing it yourself and also of outsourcing affiliate management to an affiliate network, which I'll cover in a different article.
In the 11 years since it's inception, affiliate marketing has become a significant force in how ecommerce happens. Hundreds of thousands of merchants now use affiliate marketing to make sales, track what's happening, and pay the affiliate marketers who are bringing them new customers.
And yet for all the jargon, hype, get-rich-quick stuff, and other affiliate marketing junk, in the end it's about is about connecting buyers and sellers and rewarding those that facilitate the connections. Affiliate marketing for the affiliate marketer (also known as a "publisher") is basically promoting/selling other people's products for a % of the sales price. Affiliate marketing for the company with the products (also known as a "merchant")
If you're going to spend your time as an affiliate marketer, the risk is low, and like most things in life, if you will take the time to study, understand, and apply the knowledge, there is a huge amount of potential to make money.
Sign up for Linkshare, Commission Junction, ShareASale, and ClickBank. Check out the products offered through the various merchants selling in these affiliate networks. To be successful however, you need to have a good grasp of Internet marketing and understand how to promote products, and more importantly, you should learn how to help both the people whose products you're selling, as well as the people you're selling to.
After all, the value isn't in the transaction, it's in the relationship...
Hopefully this has helped to answer the question, "What is Affiliate Marketing".
Posted by Jonathan on November 24, 2007 12:56 PM | Permalink
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Stanley Joshua Kudolo
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Saturday 24 November 2007
What to look for when choosing Affiliate Programs-By Jonathan Kraft
By courtesy of Affliate Marketing Secrets
So you've decided you want to become an Internet Marketer? Will you sell someone else's products or sell your own?
If you choose to sell someone else's products, how will you know what to look for? After all, this is a new venture for you.
Or maybe it's not. Maybe you have been trying out some affiliate programs which have not brought you any money, or, worse, have not paid you for the affiliate traffic you have sent them.
If you are the new person, or the person who is floundering in Internet Marketing, this article will offer you some simple tips for choosing an affiliate program.
This article doesn't cover getting traffic to your site, which is another huge piece of the puzzle, and is covered in thousands of articles on the Internet, so let's just start with choosing affiliate programs.
You should find affiliate programs that:
a) are relatively easy to set up (code is either created for you or easy to create)
b) will pay you well. This depends on your definition of what being paid well means, but generally, for most beginners, and some novices, if you can see yourself being able to make more than $250/month, the program is at least worth looking at
c) give you products which people actually use. There are lots of products in the market which will sell, but do you really want to be selling pet rocks? If you do, please don't take offense. Most legitimate affiliate advice sites won't feature affiliate programs that are exclusively selling something like 8-Track players and tapes. While there are probably collectors out there who would love an 8-track player and cassettes, the fact is that the market is done with 8-tracks. The point is, there should be a genuine need for, or interest in, what you are selling/reselling.
So you find a program which meets the above criteria. Now what? Do a Google search on the company. Find out what people are saying about them. You may have to dig a bit, but the combined experience of the professionals (and not-so-professionals) who develop and contribute to the Internet on a regular basis is, collectively, the best source of advice you will find on making money, or affiliate programs, anywhere.
If you want advice on some great affiliate programs, you can visit sites which have already reviewed the information about companies and present it to you in a straightforward way. If you are ready to find some great affiliate programs, then you will be able to find categories of affiliate programs on these sites, which will generally represent the type of products you would like to sell.
Search engines love content, and so do your site visitors. Content is one of the most important aspects of getting people to your web site, and helping them to see the value in what you're selling. You should strive to choose programs with products which are related to your web site.
In other words, if you have a site which features information about the Toyota Camry, you're going to be pretty hard pressed to be able to get your page content matched up so that you could sell, say... baby rattles.
Find affiliate programs which relate to what you already do, and then promote those products.
Finally, see if you can find someone to actually talk to (ok, email would be okay) who has received regular checks or payments from marketing products. We think that this is, perhaps, the most important part of any affiliate program, because the main reason you promote their products is to receive a check for your efforts.
So there you have it, some simple tips for choosing great affiliate programs! Hope this helps you to reach your income goals, and also helps you to develop a long-term plan for on and off-line financial and personal success.
Jonathan Kraft has been an online marketer for many years, and now helps others understand affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us.
To your affiliate success
Stanley joshua kudolo
So you've decided you want to become an Internet Marketer? Will you sell someone else's products or sell your own?
If you choose to sell someone else's products, how will you know what to look for? After all, this is a new venture for you.
Or maybe it's not. Maybe you have been trying out some affiliate programs which have not brought you any money, or, worse, have not paid you for the affiliate traffic you have sent them.
If you are the new person, or the person who is floundering in Internet Marketing, this article will offer you some simple tips for choosing an affiliate program.
This article doesn't cover getting traffic to your site, which is another huge piece of the puzzle, and is covered in thousands of articles on the Internet, so let's just start with choosing affiliate programs.
You should find affiliate programs that:
a) are relatively easy to set up (code is either created for you or easy to create)
b) will pay you well. This depends on your definition of what being paid well means, but generally, for most beginners, and some novices, if you can see yourself being able to make more than $250/month, the program is at least worth looking at
c) give you products which people actually use. There are lots of products in the market which will sell, but do you really want to be selling pet rocks? If you do, please don't take offense. Most legitimate affiliate advice sites won't feature affiliate programs that are exclusively selling something like 8-Track players and tapes. While there are probably collectors out there who would love an 8-track player and cassettes, the fact is that the market is done with 8-tracks. The point is, there should be a genuine need for, or interest in, what you are selling/reselling.
So you find a program which meets the above criteria. Now what? Do a Google search on the company. Find out what people are saying about them. You may have to dig a bit, but the combined experience of the professionals (and not-so-professionals) who develop and contribute to the Internet on a regular basis is, collectively, the best source of advice you will find on making money, or affiliate programs, anywhere.
If you want advice on some great affiliate programs, you can visit sites which have already reviewed the information about companies and present it to you in a straightforward way. If you are ready to find some great affiliate programs, then you will be able to find categories of affiliate programs on these sites, which will generally represent the type of products you would like to sell.
Search engines love content, and so do your site visitors. Content is one of the most important aspects of getting people to your web site, and helping them to see the value in what you're selling. You should strive to choose programs with products which are related to your web site.
In other words, if you have a site which features information about the Toyota Camry, you're going to be pretty hard pressed to be able to get your page content matched up so that you could sell, say... baby rattles.
Find affiliate programs which relate to what you already do, and then promote those products.
Finally, see if you can find someone to actually talk to (ok, email would be okay) who has received regular checks or payments from marketing products. We think that this is, perhaps, the most important part of any affiliate program, because the main reason you promote their products is to receive a check for your efforts.
So there you have it, some simple tips for choosing great affiliate programs! Hope this helps you to reach your income goals, and also helps you to develop a long-term plan for on and off-line financial and personal success.
Jonathan Kraft has been an online marketer for many years, and now helps others understand affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us.
To your affiliate success
Stanley joshua kudolo
Sunday 18 November 2007
How To Improve The Conversion Of Visitors Into Buyers On Your Web Site
By courtesy Of Affiliate Makerting Secrets
People often ask me what the #1 thing is that they can do to improve the conversion of visitors into buyers on their web site.
I spoke at the Affiliate Summit earlier this year in Las Vegas. At the Affiliate Summit I was talking specifically about how affiliates and merchants can work more closely together to create more sales.
What I did in order to prepare for this is I just decided to do a little bit of a survey. In that survey what I did was I just searched for a phrase. The random phrase that I picked was "red shoes," and I searched for that. Then I looked at all the Google AdWords ads that came up on the first page, and the websites that people were taken to when they clicked.
What I found was really a tragedy. Of the ten websites that I clicked on and visited, there was only one that took me to a page that specifically had red shoes. Several of them took me to their home pages, where I had to search all over again for red shoes.
There were two of them which did not have red shoes, which I found just amazing. Really, out of all of them, only one of them was doing things right so far as I could tell.
So the number one thing really is that you send your traffic to a targeted page on your catalog website. To the extent that you can, for example if you're buying Google AdWords ads, what you want to do is you want to send people to a specific page, which you want to do rather than sending them to your home page or to the wrong page or make them search again or anything
Once you get them to that page, then what you really want to do, you as a marketer, is you really want to think about what is this person looking for? What state of mind is this person in, and how can I engage with this person personally in order to help him discover that what I have here for him is exactly what he's looking for?
This article is by Mark Widawer. Mr. Widawer is the author of the widly acclaimed "Landing Page Cash Machine", and his articles really share some insight into what makes an Internet Marketing business work.
To Your Affiliate Success
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
People often ask me what the #1 thing is that they can do to improve the conversion of visitors into buyers on their web site.
I spoke at the Affiliate Summit earlier this year in Las Vegas. At the Affiliate Summit I was talking specifically about how affiliates and merchants can work more closely together to create more sales.
What I did in order to prepare for this is I just decided to do a little bit of a survey. In that survey what I did was I just searched for a phrase. The random phrase that I picked was "red shoes," and I searched for that. Then I looked at all the Google AdWords ads that came up on the first page, and the websites that people were taken to when they clicked.
What I found was really a tragedy. Of the ten websites that I clicked on and visited, there was only one that took me to a page that specifically had red shoes. Several of them took me to their home pages, where I had to search all over again for red shoes.
There were two of them which did not have red shoes, which I found just amazing. Really, out of all of them, only one of them was doing things right so far as I could tell.
So the number one thing really is that you send your traffic to a targeted page on your catalog website. To the extent that you can, for example if you're buying Google AdWords ads, what you want to do is you want to send people to a specific page, which you want to do rather than sending them to your home page or to the wrong page or make them search again or anything
Once you get them to that page, then what you really want to do, you as a marketer, is you really want to think about what is this person looking for? What state of mind is this person in, and how can I engage with this person personally in order to help him discover that what I have here for him is exactly what he's looking for?
This article is by Mark Widawer. Mr. Widawer is the author of the widly acclaimed "Landing Page Cash Machine", and his articles really share some insight into what makes an Internet Marketing business work.
To Your Affiliate Success
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Friday 16 November 2007
Should I Pick an Affiliate Program to Get Paid Well Today, or Get Paid Tomorrow, and the Day After That,
Should I Pick an Affiliate Program to Get Paid Well Today, or Get Paid Tomorrow, and the Day After That, and the Day After That…? Residual Commissions
by Jonathan Kraft
To Your Success by Online Affiliates College
Here’s a simple question: who makes more money?
The guy who fixes your cable when it breaks, or
the company which collects your cable bill?
Here’s another question: whose income is more stable?
The service representative who helps you buy a cell phone, or
the company which provides the ongoing service for the cell phone?
These are the questions to ponder, as we delve into the issue of whether you want to choose an affiliate program that pays one-time commissions, or an affiliate program that pays residual commissions .
When you are going to market anything, on-line, or in the “real” world, you have two basic options for types of money you can earn.
The first type of commission is earned through a one-time product or service, which the customer buys, and uses and never re-purchases (or doesn’t re-purchase on a regular basis). Examples of this might be a refrigerator, a lawnmower, a CD Player, etc.
The second type of commission is earned a multiple use product or service, which gets used, and/or repurchased on a regular basis. Examples of this might be Internet service, batteries, cable television, cellular phone service, etc.
When it comes to affiliate marketing, it is important to be aware of the differences between these types of commission structures.
Why is this important to you? Because it determines how much money you will make, both in the short-term and in the long-term.
An affiliate program that pays once will pay you a one-time commission. This might be an ebook, but generally is any “real-world” product or service, ranging from apple-flavored bubble gum to zebra-striped camouflage clothing, and any other one-time use types of products or services.
An affiliate program that pays residually will pay you an ongoing commission, for as long as the customer (you bring to someone else’s product) keeps paying on the product or service. Examples of this might include: a site license to use a specific type of software which gets renewed monthly or annually, web design or hosting which is paid for monthly or annually, and other multiple-use type products or services.
So which is better: one-time commissions or residual commissions?
There are two answers to this question:
Answer 1: Both types of commissions are important
Answer 2: The type you choose should be the best for you and your needs.
Generally speaking, residual commissions can earn you more money in the long run, and one-time commissions are more stable.
Let’s say that you have a web site about gardening. You’ve had it up for about eight months, and you’ve managed to get some decent regular traffic. Congratulations! So you have about 1000 visitors/month coming to your gardening site. You can generally assume that at least 1% of those visitors will make a purchase (hopefully your conversion is much higher, but for purposes of this article, let’s say 1%.) So 1% of your visitors buy something. That means that on any given day, ten people buy something because of their visit to your site. Let’s say that five of them buy the awesome seeds you recommend them to buy, and five of them buy a subscription to “Home Gardening and Your Lifestyle”, the magazine that you think every amateur gardener should read.
You don’t actually sell seeds or the magazine directly. You simply pre-sell people that both the magazine and the seeds are good things to have, and you direct them into someone else’s site to make a purchase. (Eventually, you should have your OWN products that you sell, but we’ll save that for another article.)
Five people buy seeds at $50 (Hey, I said that they were awesome)! A good commission on a one-time product (like the seeds) would be 40%. So let’s say that for every purchase of seeds, you earn $20. So from 5 seed purchases, you make $100.
Five people buy subscriptions at $20/month. A decent commission on a residual product (like the magazine subscription) is 10%, so let’s say that for every magazine subscription, you earn $2/month. Five subscriptions brings you $10/month.
Initially, you might look at this comparison and decide that it would be better to sell one-time commission products. But let’s look at the deeper story.
If those five people stay subscribed for just 1 year (12 months), you have now made $120. This is more than you made from the one-time commission, and you didn’t have to do additional work or get additional traffic to continue earning that income. However, you have made this income over the course of a year, and you banked on the fact that the people who subscribed would stay subscribed. If they had all cancelled at 6 months, you would only have made $50 by referring them to the (residual commission) magazine subscription instead of the $100 you would have earned referring them to the (one-time commission) seeds.
This is why, at least in the short-term, one-time commission products are generally more stable. You get paid once, you have your money, and you go out to get the next buying customer.
This is also why, in the long-term, residual commission products generally earn you more income. Once you have a large enough customer base, your monthly income becomes predictable, because you begin to learn what percentage of people cancel their subscription on a monthly basis, and you work to find ways to replace the cancellations with new members.
It is important to note that, in an information-based society, (which most of the Western hemisphere is currently in), either source of revenue can change, as soon as new information comes about.
This information can be something simple, like “Tap water is bad, and bottled water tastes better.” That little piece of information created a billion dollar industry in 3 years. (If you want proof, just ask yourself if anyone you know would have bought bottled water 15 years ago.)
So it is important to always have your ear to the ground, and be aware of what your competition is doing, and what your industry is doing, so that you can continue to have a great site with great information and useful products.
At this point, it is important to go back to the question which started this article. Should I pick an affiliate program which pays me well today, or should I pick an affiliate program which will pay me today, tomorrow, and the day after, and the month after, etc.?
My opinion is that it is important to have a mix of both. Have some high-quality, high-paying, one-time products that will help you pay your bills today, and work to promote high-quality, high-paying, ongoing commission products that will help you to buy your long-term financial freedom.
You can do it! Remember, you don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going!
Jonathan Kraft has been specializing in Internet affiliate marketing for nearly 4 years. He works with a team on www.affiliateadvice.us, where he helps people learn to earn both one time commissions and ongoing residual commissions.
To your success
However bear in mind that every money count!
by Jonathan Kraft
To Your Success by Online Affiliates College
Here’s a simple question: who makes more money?
The guy who fixes your cable when it breaks, or
the company which collects your cable bill?
Here’s another question: whose income is more stable?
The service representative who helps you buy a cell phone, or
the company which provides the ongoing service for the cell phone?
These are the questions to ponder, as we delve into the issue of whether you want to choose an affiliate program that pays one-time commissions, or an affiliate program that pays residual commissions .
When you are going to market anything, on-line, or in the “real” world, you have two basic options for types of money you can earn.
The first type of commission is earned through a one-time product or service, which the customer buys, and uses and never re-purchases (or doesn’t re-purchase on a regular basis). Examples of this might be a refrigerator, a lawnmower, a CD Player, etc.
The second type of commission is earned a multiple use product or service, which gets used, and/or repurchased on a regular basis. Examples of this might be Internet service, batteries, cable television, cellular phone service, etc.
When it comes to affiliate marketing, it is important to be aware of the differences between these types of commission structures.
Why is this important to you? Because it determines how much money you will make, both in the short-term and in the long-term.
An affiliate program that pays once will pay you a one-time commission. This might be an ebook, but generally is any “real-world” product or service, ranging from apple-flavored bubble gum to zebra-striped camouflage clothing, and any other one-time use types of products or services.
An affiliate program that pays residually will pay you an ongoing commission, for as long as the customer (you bring to someone else’s product) keeps paying on the product or service. Examples of this might include: a site license to use a specific type of software which gets renewed monthly or annually, web design or hosting which is paid for monthly or annually, and other multiple-use type products or services.
So which is better: one-time commissions or residual commissions?
There are two answers to this question:
Answer 1: Both types of commissions are important
Answer 2: The type you choose should be the best for you and your needs.
Generally speaking, residual commissions can earn you more money in the long run, and one-time commissions are more stable.
Let’s say that you have a web site about gardening. You’ve had it up for about eight months, and you’ve managed to get some decent regular traffic. Congratulations! So you have about 1000 visitors/month coming to your gardening site. You can generally assume that at least 1% of those visitors will make a purchase (hopefully your conversion is much higher, but for purposes of this article, let’s say 1%.) So 1% of your visitors buy something. That means that on any given day, ten people buy something because of their visit to your site. Let’s say that five of them buy the awesome seeds you recommend them to buy, and five of them buy a subscription to “Home Gardening and Your Lifestyle”, the magazine that you think every amateur gardener should read.
You don’t actually sell seeds or the magazine directly. You simply pre-sell people that both the magazine and the seeds are good things to have, and you direct them into someone else’s site to make a purchase. (Eventually, you should have your OWN products that you sell, but we’ll save that for another article.)
Five people buy seeds at $50 (Hey, I said that they were awesome)! A good commission on a one-time product (like the seeds) would be 40%. So let’s say that for every purchase of seeds, you earn $20. So from 5 seed purchases, you make $100.
Five people buy subscriptions at $20/month. A decent commission on a residual product (like the magazine subscription) is 10%, so let’s say that for every magazine subscription, you earn $2/month. Five subscriptions brings you $10/month.
Initially, you might look at this comparison and decide that it would be better to sell one-time commission products. But let’s look at the deeper story.
If those five people stay subscribed for just 1 year (12 months), you have now made $120. This is more than you made from the one-time commission, and you didn’t have to do additional work or get additional traffic to continue earning that income. However, you have made this income over the course of a year, and you banked on the fact that the people who subscribed would stay subscribed. If they had all cancelled at 6 months, you would only have made $50 by referring them to the (residual commission) magazine subscription instead of the $100 you would have earned referring them to the (one-time commission) seeds.
This is why, at least in the short-term, one-time commission products are generally more stable. You get paid once, you have your money, and you go out to get the next buying customer.
This is also why, in the long-term, residual commission products generally earn you more income. Once you have a large enough customer base, your monthly income becomes predictable, because you begin to learn what percentage of people cancel their subscription on a monthly basis, and you work to find ways to replace the cancellations with new members.
It is important to note that, in an information-based society, (which most of the Western hemisphere is currently in), either source of revenue can change, as soon as new information comes about.
This information can be something simple, like “Tap water is bad, and bottled water tastes better.” That little piece of information created a billion dollar industry in 3 years. (If you want proof, just ask yourself if anyone you know would have bought bottled water 15 years ago.)
So it is important to always have your ear to the ground, and be aware of what your competition is doing, and what your industry is doing, so that you can continue to have a great site with great information and useful products.
At this point, it is important to go back to the question which started this article. Should I pick an affiliate program which pays me well today, or should I pick an affiliate program which will pay me today, tomorrow, and the day after, and the month after, etc.?
My opinion is that it is important to have a mix of both. Have some high-quality, high-paying, one-time products that will help you pay your bills today, and work to promote high-quality, high-paying, ongoing commission products that will help you to buy your long-term financial freedom.
You can do it! Remember, you don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going!
Jonathan Kraft has been specializing in Internet affiliate marketing for nearly 4 years. He works with a team on www.affiliateadvice.us, where he helps people learn to earn both one time commissions and ongoing residual commissions.
To your success
However bear in mind that every money count!
Thursday 15 November 2007
How To Make More Money-By Jonathan Kraft
By courtesy of Affiliate Cash Programs College
Some people wonder about selling cards from their site. They think that it maybe isn’t a legitimate business, or perhaps, they just don’t want to sell something on their web site.
The fact is, however, that calling cards are used around the world every day. People want to talk to their friends, and they need inexpensive ways of doing so. Often, it’s very expensive to make national or international phone calls using a home phone service, and using a cell phone ticks away minutes on the cell phone’s plan. This leaves two options: Voice over IP, and calling cards. VOIP technology is so new that many people don’t yet understand how it works. This will change in the next 5-10 years, but in the meantime, the option for calling is calling cards. Calling cards are simple to use, so people are willing to pick them up and use them all around the world.
Statistics prove it. In the United States alone, calling card sales generate more than 4 billion dollars per year. By 2010, annual revenue is forecasted to reach over 10 Billion dollars!
So why should you sell calling cards on your web site?
Three reasons: it’s simple, it supplements your income, and virtually any web site can do it.
It generally takes about 5 minutes to sign up for a calling card affiliate program, and you’re up and running. It takes some additional time to take care of paperwork for tax reasons, but most programs let you do that down the road. Most phone card affiliate programs these days give you the option of simply cutting and pasting code which will place a search box right into your web layout, wherever you choose to put it. These things make a calling card affiliate program simple.
There is a lot of money being made in affiliate programs right now, with phone and calling cards being one of the market leaders in the affiliate program arena. There are people working who are exclusively selling calling cards and phone service, who are making multiple 6 figure incomes from calling cards, phone cards, and phone service. With a 10 billion dollar market available, there’s a big pie to bring to market. This supplemental income really does make a difference in doing more than just getting the bills paid!
So the question is how you can incorporate calling cards into your existing web site. While it is true that not all web sites can effectively and unobtrusively incorporate calling card search forms into their sites (an auto dealership site might not be the best place for a calling card search), there are many sites that could place a calling card or phone search on their sites quite simply. Example of this include; a real estate agent placing a calling card or phone rate search within their site for a new homeowner, a study abroad exchange student posting pictures online who offers their friends a calling card search for cheap ways to call them, a travel site offering customers a phone card search for wherever they’re traveling to or from, a state government site showing site visitors ways to save money on phone service in their state, and the list goes on.
When it comes down to it, the market is predicted to grow to 10 Billion by 2009. I don’t know about you, but thinking about a 10 Billion dollar pie, I’d sure like a slice. (I’d be happy if I could just lick the knife!) Either you and your site visitors will buy calling cards through your site, or you’ll buy them through someone else’s. By setting up a calling card affiliate program, you give yourself an additional way to cash in on what's going on in the affiliate program market.
Jonathan Kraft has been an online marketer for many years and helps others with affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us. Most recently, he has helped people find the best phone and calling card affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us/phone-calling-card-affiliate-programs.html
Some people wonder about selling cards from their site. They think that it maybe isn’t a legitimate business, or perhaps, they just don’t want to sell something on their web site.
The fact is, however, that calling cards are used around the world every day. People want to talk to their friends, and they need inexpensive ways of doing so. Often, it’s very expensive to make national or international phone calls using a home phone service, and using a cell phone ticks away minutes on the cell phone’s plan. This leaves two options: Voice over IP, and calling cards. VOIP technology is so new that many people don’t yet understand how it works. This will change in the next 5-10 years, but in the meantime, the option for calling is calling cards. Calling cards are simple to use, so people are willing to pick them up and use them all around the world.
Statistics prove it. In the United States alone, calling card sales generate more than 4 billion dollars per year. By 2010, annual revenue is forecasted to reach over 10 Billion dollars!
So why should you sell calling cards on your web site?
Three reasons: it’s simple, it supplements your income, and virtually any web site can do it.
It generally takes about 5 minutes to sign up for a calling card affiliate program, and you’re up and running. It takes some additional time to take care of paperwork for tax reasons, but most programs let you do that down the road. Most phone card affiliate programs these days give you the option of simply cutting and pasting code which will place a search box right into your web layout, wherever you choose to put it. These things make a calling card affiliate program simple.
There is a lot of money being made in affiliate programs right now, with phone and calling cards being one of the market leaders in the affiliate program arena. There are people working who are exclusively selling calling cards and phone service, who are making multiple 6 figure incomes from calling cards, phone cards, and phone service. With a 10 billion dollar market available, there’s a big pie to bring to market. This supplemental income really does make a difference in doing more than just getting the bills paid!
So the question is how you can incorporate calling cards into your existing web site. While it is true that not all web sites can effectively and unobtrusively incorporate calling card search forms into their sites (an auto dealership site might not be the best place for a calling card search), there are many sites that could place a calling card or phone search on their sites quite simply. Example of this include; a real estate agent placing a calling card or phone rate search within their site for a new homeowner, a study abroad exchange student posting pictures online who offers their friends a calling card search for cheap ways to call them, a travel site offering customers a phone card search for wherever they’re traveling to or from, a state government site showing site visitors ways to save money on phone service in their state, and the list goes on.
When it comes down to it, the market is predicted to grow to 10 Billion by 2009. I don’t know about you, but thinking about a 10 Billion dollar pie, I’d sure like a slice. (I’d be happy if I could just lick the knife!) Either you and your site visitors will buy calling cards through your site, or you’ll buy them through someone else’s. By setting up a calling card affiliate program, you give yourself an additional way to cash in on what's going on in the affiliate program market.
Jonathan Kraft has been an online marketer for many years and helps others with affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us. Most recently, he has helped people find the best phone and calling card affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us/phone-calling-card-affiliate-programs.html
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Easier To Increase Sales Than To Cut Costs
By courtesy Of Online Affiliates
We are constantly hearing about the importance of cutting costs to get a business back on track. I certainly believe that we should spend wisely, but serious cost cutting is killing some companies who could direct their efforts in a more productive manner that would benefit their company, their investors, and their employees a lot more. That is increasing sales.
Logically, you can only cut costs to a point after which you are basically out of business. Sales, however, have an unlimited potential. Why do folks not focus on sales as much as costs? I have asked business owners that question many times and here is what I conclude from their answers.
First, cost cutting is usually immediate and gets people's attention. So there is a quick return. Second, it is something that generally every department can do, so there is a dramatic impact on expenses. These of course are all short term answers to bottom line problems.
The intermediate and long term answer is increasing the top line -- sales. That does take longer, but it sure has a lot more benefits. You can keep your employees, pay bills, and grow the business to name just a few.
The key for increasing sales is to start before disaster is knocking at the door. If your sales team has stalled in their growth, give them a boost. Get them Prospecting for new business. Get them some sales training. Get them out of their doldrums.
I don't mean to focus on Rah Rah stuff, I mean that they have to start doing something new. Remember, if you keep doing the same thing, you will keep getting the same results!!! You want different results, so get them doing different things.
Being a sales trainer with a specialization in Prospecting, I feel this is the way to really get a sales force pumped up and producing. Sales Management has to lead the way in this regard. No sense in crying over spilled milk. Simply get on with changing the daily activities of the sales team.
If you don't have a formal Prospecting System get one. Have the sales people start Prospecting within their customers. Most of the people I work with are not selling all they can within their existing customer base because they only call on one or two of their Prospects. Call on everyone within a customer who can use your products or services.
Follow up on old customers and Prospects on whom you have given up.
Then start Prospecting on new people. Prospect every week, not just certain times of the year. Sales Managers should be keeping track of new Prospects and the follow up made on them.
Pretty soon you will see that the top line is growing and for some reason everyone in the company will start feeling better. This all happens when leaders learn that it is easier to increase sales than to cut costs.
Sell Well and Often,
Keywords: Sales, increase sales, grow sales, top line growth
About the Author
Bill Truax
Field Prospecitng and Making Cold Calss
Bill@BlitzCall.com
More Details about Grow the top line here.
Bill is a field sales Prospecting consultant in Cleveland, OH. He provides skills and tools that field sales professionals use. He has The BLITZ CALL Prospecting Kit which includes his 4 books, 2 CDs and one year of Free e-mailing consulting to assure implementation. visit www.BlitzCall.com
We are constantly hearing about the importance of cutting costs to get a business back on track. I certainly believe that we should spend wisely, but serious cost cutting is killing some companies who could direct their efforts in a more productive manner that would benefit their company, their investors, and their employees a lot more. That is increasing sales.
Logically, you can only cut costs to a point after which you are basically out of business. Sales, however, have an unlimited potential. Why do folks not focus on sales as much as costs? I have asked business owners that question many times and here is what I conclude from their answers.
First, cost cutting is usually immediate and gets people's attention. So there is a quick return. Second, it is something that generally every department can do, so there is a dramatic impact on expenses. These of course are all short term answers to bottom line problems.
The intermediate and long term answer is increasing the top line -- sales. That does take longer, but it sure has a lot more benefits. You can keep your employees, pay bills, and grow the business to name just a few.
The key for increasing sales is to start before disaster is knocking at the door. If your sales team has stalled in their growth, give them a boost. Get them Prospecting for new business. Get them some sales training. Get them out of their doldrums.
I don't mean to focus on Rah Rah stuff, I mean that they have to start doing something new. Remember, if you keep doing the same thing, you will keep getting the same results!!! You want different results, so get them doing different things.
Being a sales trainer with a specialization in Prospecting, I feel this is the way to really get a sales force pumped up and producing. Sales Management has to lead the way in this regard. No sense in crying over spilled milk. Simply get on with changing the daily activities of the sales team.
If you don't have a formal Prospecting System get one. Have the sales people start Prospecting within their customers. Most of the people I work with are not selling all they can within their existing customer base because they only call on one or two of their Prospects. Call on everyone within a customer who can use your products or services.
Follow up on old customers and Prospects on whom you have given up.
Then start Prospecting on new people. Prospect every week, not just certain times of the year. Sales Managers should be keeping track of new Prospects and the follow up made on them.
Pretty soon you will see that the top line is growing and for some reason everyone in the company will start feeling better. This all happens when leaders learn that it is easier to increase sales than to cut costs.
Sell Well and Often,
Keywords: Sales, increase sales, grow sales, top line growth
About the Author
Bill Truax
Field Prospecitng and Making Cold Calss
Bill@BlitzCall.com
More Details about Grow the top line here.
Bill is a field sales Prospecting consultant in Cleveland, OH. He provides skills and tools that field sales professionals use. He has The BLITZ CALL Prospecting Kit which includes his 4 books, 2 CDs and one year of Free e-mailing consulting to assure implementation. visit www.BlitzCall.com
Tuesday 13 November 2007
How To Optimize Landing Pages So That Google And The Other Search Engines Will Bring Targeted Traffic
By Mark Widawer
"Landing Page Cash Machine"
There's no substitute for getting good keywords on your website. In my workshop I just recently had an insider's guide on knowing your customer, and I've got to tell you, as time goes on, the more people ask me questions, the more often the answer comes back to the basic idea that you really have to understand and know your customer.
Let's say if you're selling digital cameras and you have a page all about Canon L400, (I don't even know if that's a real model number,) and all it does is talk about the Canon L400, then people searching for the keyphrase "digital camera" aren't going to find that page, because the main keywords on that page are going to be Canon L400.
Let's think about that for a moment. What state of mind is somebody in who's searching for digital cameras,? The state of mind that person has is, "Hmm, I think I'd like to buy a new digital camera, and I'm curious about digital cameras." They're not at all ready to buy.
On the other hand, somebody who searches for "Canon digital camera" pretty much knows "so-and-so friend" has recommended a Canon digital camera to them and they want to find out more about the Canon.
The more advanced person in the process might be somebody searching for "Canon L400." They've heard about this camera, they think it's a good camera, people have told them it's a good camera, they want to find out more about that camera.
People who are searching for "Canon L400 price," are likely buyers. That's a guy with a credit card burning a hole in his wallet and he's just looking for a place to enter in the number.
Optimizing your landing pages for Google traffic and other organic search engines is really a matter of understanding what it is that somebody is searching for. So, if somebody's looking for a generic term like digital camera, you've got to assume that they're very early in the buying process.
So what do you do to gather targeted search engine traffic from people in all three stages of the buying process? Well, put up pages about digital cameras, about how digital cameras work, about how they're better than regular cameras, about digital camera lenses, another page on digital camera viewfinders and how important they are, another page on digital camera durability, and another one that talks about batteries. Put up all of these different pages on digital cameras in a different section of your website.
Then, have another section of your website all about Canon digital cameras, and yet another section of your website all about this particular model, with different pages for each of the models.
What that shows is that you have pages that are designed to attract people at different parts of the buying cycle, which is really the key to grabbing all kinds of traffic to your web site.
In the end, the real the answer to getting targeted traffic to your site is think about who your audience is and create the pages specifically for them.
This article is by Mark Widawer. Mr. Widawer is the author of the widly recognized authoritative book on designing effective Landing Pages, the"Landing Page Cash Machine", which really shares some insight on not only converting visitors into buyers, but on what makes an Internet Marketing business really work.
This is by courtesy of Stanley Joshua Kudolo of Online Affiliates College
"Landing Page Cash Machine"
There's no substitute for getting good keywords on your website. In my workshop I just recently had an insider's guide on knowing your customer, and I've got to tell you, as time goes on, the more people ask me questions, the more often the answer comes back to the basic idea that you really have to understand and know your customer.
Let's say if you're selling digital cameras and you have a page all about Canon L400, (I don't even know if that's a real model number,) and all it does is talk about the Canon L400, then people searching for the keyphrase "digital camera" aren't going to find that page, because the main keywords on that page are going to be Canon L400.
Let's think about that for a moment. What state of mind is somebody in who's searching for digital cameras,? The state of mind that person has is, "Hmm, I think I'd like to buy a new digital camera, and I'm curious about digital cameras." They're not at all ready to buy.
On the other hand, somebody who searches for "Canon digital camera" pretty much knows "so-and-so friend" has recommended a Canon digital camera to them and they want to find out more about the Canon.
The more advanced person in the process might be somebody searching for "Canon L400." They've heard about this camera, they think it's a good camera, people have told them it's a good camera, they want to find out more about that camera.
People who are searching for "Canon L400 price," are likely buyers. That's a guy with a credit card burning a hole in his wallet and he's just looking for a place to enter in the number.
Optimizing your landing pages for Google traffic and other organic search engines is really a matter of understanding what it is that somebody is searching for. So, if somebody's looking for a generic term like digital camera, you've got to assume that they're very early in the buying process.
So what do you do to gather targeted search engine traffic from people in all three stages of the buying process? Well, put up pages about digital cameras, about how digital cameras work, about how they're better than regular cameras, about digital camera lenses, another page on digital camera viewfinders and how important they are, another page on digital camera durability, and another one that talks about batteries. Put up all of these different pages on digital cameras in a different section of your website.
Then, have another section of your website all about Canon digital cameras, and yet another section of your website all about this particular model, with different pages for each of the models.
What that shows is that you have pages that are designed to attract people at different parts of the buying cycle, which is really the key to grabbing all kinds of traffic to your web site.
In the end, the real the answer to getting targeted traffic to your site is think about who your audience is and create the pages specifically for them.
This article is by Mark Widawer. Mr. Widawer is the author of the widly recognized authoritative book on designing effective Landing Pages, the"Landing Page Cash Machine", which really shares some insight on not only converting visitors into buyers, but on what makes an Internet Marketing business really work.
This is by courtesy of Stanley Joshua Kudolo of Online Affiliates College
Secrets Of Affiliate Programs That Make You Lots Of $$$
-Courtesy Of AffiliateProgramsCollege
Thanks to
profitpuppy.com for portions of this
article
Certain affiliate programs have a very high
profit potential. Others have about a snowball's chance in... well, don't
have much chance of making an income at
all.
So how do you choose? It depends upon
the content of your site. It doesn't work to promote dog medicine to
people if your site is about trips to Jamaica. While you
might be able to relate the two, your site visitor probably will not
relate their trip to Jamaica with getting cheap medicine for their dog. And
when it comes to affiliate marketing, it's not about you.
It's about your visitor. Affiliate income is about you, but
you only earn the income by doing the marketing.
There are affiliate programs on just about
anything, but only some programs are highly profitable. If you are working
with a very profitable affiliate program, then you can actually build your
entire site around the affiliate program itself.
So, which affiliate programs make the
most money?
If you have a high traffic site (100,000 visitors per month), then you
can make money with any affiliate program as long as it is related to the
content of your site. However if you have a low traffic site, you need to
be more selective to make money. Look for the following characteristics of
a good affiliate program:
1. Lifetime commissions. Certain
affiliate programs give you commissions on every product that is sold to
the customer, forever. A great example of this is
SpeedyPin. One of the designers
of this site earns residual commissions from people purchasing calling
cards, and these people signed up months ago through
SpeedyPin.
2. Affiliate programs that have high
profit for each sale will help you grow more quickly. However,
simple logic will tell you that $2 is better than $0. It's better to
make a profit of $30 per sale than $2 per sale, but if you stick and stay,
you can get your pay. What this means is that patience and
persistence are huge when it comes to affiliate marketing.
3. The product needs to be of great
quality - something that you can actually vouch for. Why sell
something that is poor in quality?
4. Information products can be the
best type of affiliate products because they do have high profits. Many
people will give you 50% commissions or more for selling their information
product. Why? It costs virtually nothing to reproduce an
information product. Stamping a CD costs 25 cents, or emailng the
information costs less. If it's a good product, it can be resold for
$9.95 (or more), and because the product designer doesn't have to market
it, they will pay generously for your efforts.
To get a real idea of what are the best
affiliate programs, you need to have a look at what affiliates are earning.
Find out more information about
what top affiliates are earning.
You can also have a look at the affiliate
networks which put together a whole lot of affiliates with merchants.
The main affiliate networks are listed many
places throughout the internet, and on affiliateadvice's
affiliate program directories page.
Check these directories out for a high quality selection of products in a wide variety of
areas.
If you REALLY want to know what the highest
commission products are, here are a few examples. But please remember that
these areas are highly competitive, and it is hard to get search engine
traffic for them
Information products - online newsletters
and ebooks.
Credit Cards.
Online Gambling, sportsbooks etc.
Mortgages/loan companies
Software products
Web Hosting (very competitive area)
Office Supplies (such as inkjet cartridges)
This is not a definitive list. There are
plenty of other products as well. These, however, are all very high profit
areas.
This article was reprinted
from
affiliateadvice.us, where you can
find
great affiliate programs and ways to generate online
income.
Consider these and take your affiliate business to a new level.
To your success
Sunday 11 November 2007
Affiliate Marketing Secrets That You Can Use
Affiliate marketing is a very hot topic on the web right now. Not surprising when you consider the fact that a vast majority of successful online entrepreneurs make their money from affiliate schemes and programs. Since the early days when Amazon was being set up and founder, Jeff Bezos was establishing affiliates as key marketing tools for any online enterprise, affiliates and affiliate marketing has come of age.
The amounts of income being made have clearly transformed affiliate marketing into a very serious business. There are more and more affiliates comfortably raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
The first important affiliate marketing secret to bear in mind is the reason why affiliate marketing remains the most effective way of marketing any online enterprise. It is all about the power of the referral. It is rather awkward when a website is trying to promote itself directly to prospects. Actually very different from the situation where somebody else refers the business to others, including people they do not know personally.
This works out superbly for several reasons. Firstly the affiliate as a consumer themselves is able to quickly identify the strong attractive points of the business that will best attract others like them.
The other little known affiliate marketing secret is that most of the top-earning affiliates have their own websites and blogs. Having their own websites gives these affiliates a tremendous edge over others. The sites are usually very closely related to the affiliate program that they are promoting. By having their own site, they are able to harvest the email addresses of the traffic to their sites.
Usually, most people you send to your affiliate site will not end up purchasing anything. However when you have their email addresses in your opt-in email list, you can continuously market to them and the affiliate will automatically end up with a much higher conversion rate from the traffic they generate as opposed to an affiliate without a website who just sends traffic to their affiliate website.
This is the affiliate marketing secret that makes a difference between affiliates struggling to pull in a good income and those comfortably making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com with experience in the website hosting industry.
By courtesy of Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Spreading The News Profits Much
The amounts of income being made have clearly transformed affiliate marketing into a very serious business. There are more and more affiliates comfortably raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
The first important affiliate marketing secret to bear in mind is the reason why affiliate marketing remains the most effective way of marketing any online enterprise. It is all about the power of the referral. It is rather awkward when a website is trying to promote itself directly to prospects. Actually very different from the situation where somebody else refers the business to others, including people they do not know personally.
This works out superbly for several reasons. Firstly the affiliate as a consumer themselves is able to quickly identify the strong attractive points of the business that will best attract others like them.
The other little known affiliate marketing secret is that most of the top-earning affiliates have their own websites and blogs. Having their own websites gives these affiliates a tremendous edge over others. The sites are usually very closely related to the affiliate program that they are promoting. By having their own site, they are able to harvest the email addresses of the traffic to their sites.
Usually, most people you send to your affiliate site will not end up purchasing anything. However when you have their email addresses in your opt-in email list, you can continuously market to them and the affiliate will automatically end up with a much higher conversion rate from the traffic they generate as opposed to an affiliate without a website who just sends traffic to their affiliate website.
This is the affiliate marketing secret that makes a difference between affiliates struggling to pull in a good income and those comfortably making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com with experience in the website hosting industry.
By courtesy of Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Spreading The News Profits Much
Saturday 10 November 2007
Revealed Evolution Of Affiliate Marketing
Internet gurus assert their authority in their respective fields of discipline with confidence and with such raw and authentic certainty.
You may ask why?Why?
Because they "know" what works and are very much conscious of the evolving nature of the online community.
We keep hearing secrets,secrets and secrets.This is based on the fact that what they discover and not revealed to you remains a secret.
The potential of this online economic phenomenon is as great and endless as new people keep coming into the world.
I see this as a new global economic college where all inclusive of the gurus can use as a platform to take our cut of the cake from the bigger picture emerging.
This lens and relative blogs have emerged as the platform where we will join ideas and agree that what is good as a cut must be considered and pursued.
Affiliate marketing is one of easiest way to get a cut you can set up that home based business with you as the owner and the customer ,profiting from yourself is making money for yourself.This is what I call the micro release however,the macro is hugely enormous.
It is a new insight.
Welcome on board
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
You may ask why?Why?
Because they "know" what works and are very much conscious of the evolving nature of the online community.
We keep hearing secrets,secrets and secrets.This is based on the fact that what they discover and not revealed to you remains a secret.
The potential of this online economic phenomenon is as great and endless as new people keep coming into the world.
I see this as a new global economic college where all inclusive of the gurus can use as a platform to take our cut of the cake from the bigger picture emerging.
This lens and relative blogs have emerged as the platform where we will join ideas and agree that what is good as a cut must be considered and pursued.
Affiliate marketing is one of easiest way to get a cut you can set up that home based business with you as the owner and the customer ,profiting from yourself is making money for yourself.This is what I call the micro release however,the macro is hugely enormous.
It is a new insight.
Welcome on board
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
Sunday 14 January 2007
Internet And Online Affiliates Auto Insurance Unveiled (1)
We hear about car insurance, auto insurance, life insurance, home insurance, insurance lawyers, insurance quotes, and all types of insurance schemes.
We are yet to hear about the emerging online and internet affiliate schemes.
Internet business concepts evolved over the years have given credence to the fact that joint and partnership ventures are the way forward.
Talk about the global stock exchange all over the world and it is all about joint ventures.
Affiliate programs proven to be tried and tested avenues for home base business residual income generators, online profit creation, unveiling of millionaires and lifetime real cash flow systems are seen as aspects of joint endeavours in business.
Insurance companies all over the world assure their customers that because we can not predict the future, there is the need for us to put in place a contingency plan to ensure that no matter what happens, where, when and how it happened, we will still have the dignity and guarantee to be taken care of.
This has given credence to the rising patronage of reliable, cheap and affordable insurance companies, policies and systems.
Auto Insurance to me in relation to affiliate cash making, money making online, internet home base business creations is considered our ability and plan to set up affiliate programs and systems which can and will stand the test of time.
I refer to them as Automatic insurance systems that ensure our financial and economic sustenance in this dynamic and unstable global economy.
Whilst our car or motor insurance, home insurance, health insurance, holiday insurance, insurance lawyers and other related insurances are of much concern to us, concerted efforts must be made as affiliates to guarantee yourself a cheap, easy sustainable insurance system through the setting up of tried and proven affiliate cash flow systems.
And as to our search for cheap insurance quotes, you must also continually conduct searches for affiliate insurance quotes.
To your success.
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
copyright© Stanley Joshua Kudolo.2007
PS: Do not forget to leave a comment I cherish them.
PPS: Check related links to see how we can get the free means to get started and share with others.
We are yet to hear about the emerging online and internet affiliate schemes.
Internet business concepts evolved over the years have given credence to the fact that joint and partnership ventures are the way forward.
Talk about the global stock exchange all over the world and it is all about joint ventures.
Affiliate programs proven to be tried and tested avenues for home base business residual income generators, online profit creation, unveiling of millionaires and lifetime real cash flow systems are seen as aspects of joint endeavours in business.
Insurance companies all over the world assure their customers that because we can not predict the future, there is the need for us to put in place a contingency plan to ensure that no matter what happens, where, when and how it happened, we will still have the dignity and guarantee to be taken care of.
This has given credence to the rising patronage of reliable, cheap and affordable insurance companies, policies and systems.
Auto Insurance to me in relation to affiliate cash making, money making online, internet home base business creations is considered our ability and plan to set up affiliate programs and systems which can and will stand the test of time.
I refer to them as Automatic insurance systems that ensure our financial and economic sustenance in this dynamic and unstable global economy.
Whilst our car or motor insurance, home insurance, health insurance, holiday insurance, insurance lawyers and other related insurances are of much concern to us, concerted efforts must be made as affiliates to guarantee yourself a cheap, easy sustainable insurance system through the setting up of tried and proven affiliate cash flow systems.
And as to our search for cheap insurance quotes, you must also continually conduct searches for affiliate insurance quotes.
To your success.
Stanley Joshua Kudolo
copyright© Stanley Joshua Kudolo.2007
PS: Do not forget to leave a comment I cherish them.
PPS: Check related links to see how we can get the free means to get started and share with others.
Saturday 6 January 2007
Starting Affiliate, Online Or Internet Business? Never Compromise On These Factors
Have you tried to imagine building a house with a plain old hammer and nails in this day and age of high power tools? Certainly if the thought of such a strategy does not ring an alarm then you better sit up.This is what I believe is necessary in considering the internet business and the necessary tools for maximum profits, sustainability and long lasting marketing benefits.
So whether it is a home based business, online marketing, internet business opportunity, joining affiliate programmes, making money online or the internet, proven multilevel marketing or home based online business opportunity there is the need for you to focus on the set up and the critical factors involved.
Statistics indicate that half of American internet users are using some form of high speed connection we are made to remember that that leaves half of them on some level of dial up. An old computer and slow internet isn't the least of their worries. They may be able to log onto the net and find some great resources, but they're still limited in the type of resources that they can consume. All due to limitations in speed and access.
If you desire to get started with an internet business you're
going to need a bare minimum of tools.
A. A good computer.
You need to first consider the fact that your computer will be the main medium to communicating with the global market. It is more or less going to be electronic headquaters of your global business. It is therefore very necessary that you get the computer that is up to date and can handle the type of task needed to maximise your chances of profiting massively on the internet. It is advised that your system may need an upgrade if it is four years old.
B. High Speed Internet Access.
Your earnings are dependent on the speed with which you communicate with the online customers and audiences .You do not have to use the excuse of cost as the reason for going for a dial up set up. High speed internet connection is a key to the success of your home based internet business. It will guarantee that your earnings and profits online are boosted and dial up system set up would not get even a tenth of what you can earn.
C. A Professional Website.
Starting an online business on a shoe string budget is what we sometimes hear however we must resist every urge to sign up for a free website host 'just to get started'. The freebie website will represent you poorly. When you can register a domain for less than $8 and buy feature rich hosting for around $9 a month, there's no excuse for cheaping out.
You can purchase a simple template for as low as $5 and adapt it for your own use if you're comfortable with it or hire a designer to put up a few pages for you. What matters is that what you put up represents you well.
D. A professional and reliable mailing list system.
With an online and internet business the major focus is to build a reliable and dependable customer base. They are the lifeline of any successful business that can stand the test of time. From the moment that you set up your website you are working to build a following of one kind or another. When someone visits your site and has an interest in you they must have a way to invite you to stay in touch. You need a lead capture page that will compile the list of visitors to your site. With your mailing list invite on every page, they'll be able to do that. Whether you will be sending out a regular newsletter, a free e-course or occasional product specials - your list of interested contacts is golden. The money is really in the list.
E. Business Mentoring.
No matter what kind of business background you have off line, internet marketing is a whole different playing field. There are tried and true principles to learn and apply and some that change constantly. It's important to know who you can trust.
If you're serious about taking your business to the web you can use this as a preliminary check list. With the right tools in place your internet business will be on a solid foundation.
Copyright © Stanley Kudolo 2006.http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/?24252
About the Author: Stanley Joshua Kudolo is an inspirational and motivational practitioner who coaches people on how to unveil their self worth and greatness. He reveals proven systems that will also help in achieving financial breakthroughs and freedom. You are certainly encouraged to visit
http://acsclick.com/?24252 for a free report and software to start your business.Do not forget also to give yourself a gift at http://www.Moneymakingsecretsonline.com
PS:
Please you may send this report to others.
Great appreciation for comments you might leave.
So whether it is a home based business, online marketing, internet business opportunity, joining affiliate programmes, making money online or the internet, proven multilevel marketing or home based online business opportunity there is the need for you to focus on the set up and the critical factors involved.
Statistics indicate that half of American internet users are using some form of high speed connection we are made to remember that that leaves half of them on some level of dial up. An old computer and slow internet isn't the least of their worries. They may be able to log onto the net and find some great resources, but they're still limited in the type of resources that they can consume. All due to limitations in speed and access.
If you desire to get started with an internet business you're
going to need a bare minimum of tools.
A. A good computer.
You need to first consider the fact that your computer will be the main medium to communicating with the global market. It is more or less going to be electronic headquaters of your global business. It is therefore very necessary that you get the computer that is up to date and can handle the type of task needed to maximise your chances of profiting massively on the internet. It is advised that your system may need an upgrade if it is four years old.
B. High Speed Internet Access.
Your earnings are dependent on the speed with which you communicate with the online customers and audiences .You do not have to use the excuse of cost as the reason for going for a dial up set up. High speed internet connection is a key to the success of your home based internet business. It will guarantee that your earnings and profits online are boosted and dial up system set up would not get even a tenth of what you can earn.
C. A Professional Website.
Starting an online business on a shoe string budget is what we sometimes hear however we must resist every urge to sign up for a free website host 'just to get started'. The freebie website will represent you poorly. When you can register a domain for less than $8 and buy feature rich hosting for around $9 a month, there's no excuse for cheaping out.
You can purchase a simple template for as low as $5 and adapt it for your own use if you're comfortable with it or hire a designer to put up a few pages for you. What matters is that what you put up represents you well.
D. A professional and reliable mailing list system.
With an online and internet business the major focus is to build a reliable and dependable customer base. They are the lifeline of any successful business that can stand the test of time. From the moment that you set up your website you are working to build a following of one kind or another. When someone visits your site and has an interest in you they must have a way to invite you to stay in touch. You need a lead capture page that will compile the list of visitors to your site. With your mailing list invite on every page, they'll be able to do that. Whether you will be sending out a regular newsletter, a free e-course or occasional product specials - your list of interested contacts is golden. The money is really in the list.
E. Business Mentoring.
No matter what kind of business background you have off line, internet marketing is a whole different playing field. There are tried and true principles to learn and apply and some that change constantly. It's important to know who you can trust.
If you're serious about taking your business to the web you can use this as a preliminary check list. With the right tools in place your internet business will be on a solid foundation.
Copyright © Stanley Kudolo 2006.http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/?24252
About the Author: Stanley Joshua Kudolo is an inspirational and motivational practitioner who coaches people on how to unveil their self worth and greatness. He reveals proven systems that will also help in achieving financial breakthroughs and freedom. You are certainly encouraged to visit
http://acsclick.com/?24252 for a free report and software to start your business.Do not forget also to give yourself a gift at http://www.Moneymakingsecretsonline.com
PS:
Please you may send this report to others.
Great appreciation for comments you might leave.
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