Affiliate Blues

Get away from the time stealers

2009-10-17T14:03:00.001-07:00

I've recently started a course from Mark Joyner called Simple*ology101.
It's a totally unique way to picture the time stealers, the energy wasters, and reasons why I do what I've done.
It's amazing the stuff Mark has - it's simple and easy to understand. Remarkable consolidation of your thought process.
It's a free signup, http://www.simpleology.com
Try it, you'll agree that it's not a time waster but an energy booster.

Are you a My Life Affiliate?

2009-06-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

People search engines are growing quickly. The major player is My Life. They provide any type of information that the consumer might be looking for, from looking up family & friends to finding a lost love.
It's very popular!
Every smart affiliate marketer is jumping in - what about you?

Marketing Makeovers

2009-04-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

In 2009 we will see a massive increase of new business owners.

Many of these will be internet based start-ups with fresh ideas just
waiting to spill out of their brains.

So with all this new competition, don't you think it might be time for a makeover?

Entrepreneur magazine (February 2009 edition) had a great revamping
article called "Five Great -and necessary- Marketing Makeovers" by Gwen Moran.
Gwen lists Store Makeover, Collateral Makeover, Logo Makeover, Website Makeover, and Packaging Makeover as the 5 necessary makeovers.

If you own a website, you will want to read the article before you start your makeover.

Then before you get carried away, head over to the Web Smarts page and do a little more research.

Don't forget that you can benefit in this down economy by having a product or
service that can assist these multitudes of new business owners.

Where's a business owner to start when looking for valuable information?

When you find out, GO where the new customers are. With over a gazillion websites out there vying for their attention keep in mind that:

1. You offer value for the money they are giving you because "one bad apple
does spoil the barrel".

2. You provide quick, efficient responses

3. You provide a means to other resources they may not be aware of yet.

Some great resources:
http://entrepreneur.com
http://the.businessmagazinenetwork.com
http://groups.yahoo.com
http://amazon.com

Do you believe in your future?

2009-01-15T05:25:00.000-08:00

According to an article from the Jan. 13 Los Angeles Times, some companies are seeing this recession as a chance to increase their market share.

They point to some examples that include an engineering firm specializing in earthquake safety; a fitness studio selling franchises, a swimwear manufacturer, and two large retailers (Kohls and Forever 21), among others.

Now, it should be pointed out that this kind of contrariness comes with a price. Said the swimwear company owner, “We have to work ten times harder for the same results (as we used to get).” Along with a willingness to put nose to grindstone, businesspeople looking to grow during a recession need a solid business plan, according to Randolph Beatty, chairman of accounting at USC’s Marshall School of Business.

“If you have financing, a good business model, and you’re in it for the long run, what better time than now to expand and make prudent investments?” said Beatty.

For the Internet Marketer, this is a good question to ponder. Consider:

Have you put together a simple marketing plan, with time-dated action steps?
If you have no capital, have you taken steps to get orders and raise capital using the resources you have on hand?
If you can free up some capital, are you willing to invest back into your business?

It’s easy to allow yourself to be intimidated by the daily negative financial news, but there’s really no reason to put your dreams on hold. As Beatty noted, “You have to believe in the future. I don’t know what the alternative is!”

If you are having trouble putting together a plan I suggest that you visit Derek Gehl's Internet Marketing Center and see the video on goal setting for 2009. If you would like to start or grow your online business you'll benefit. Complete with a step-by-step blueprint and weekly, monthly, and quarterly goals. It's a $29.95 value, yours FREE!

A Fresh Start

2009-01-03T11:45:00.000-08:00

Are you mired down in a method that doesn't quite work like you thought it should?

Having difficulty staying positive?

Do circumstances make you want to give up?

Quit struggling!

Give yourself permission to make a fresh start.

Don't ask why, ASK What OR How can I be more and create forward movement.

If you didn't do as well as you would have liked to do last year, what is stopping you from making this year a banner year?

Shift your perspective.

GOT DREAMS?

2009 Goal Setting

2009-01-01T20:18:00.000-08:00

Will you act during the economic downturn, or simply REACT?

Don't let fear of the recession guide your goal setting
plans for 2009. This is a BIG mistake...!

Fear is an emotional response, only good for short-term
survival.

When you're in "fight or flight" mode, you're not thinking
clearly about the path you're running... You're just RUNNING!

So your efforts lack strategy, planning, and insight.

I want you to do more than just survive 2009.

Internet shopping is predicted to hit $145.1 Billion in
the coming year, a significant 14% increase -- despite the
recession!

Consumers will be spending more time at home, using their
computers for everything from bargain hunting and product
research to upgrading skills.

Studies show this shift is ALREADY well underway...!

I don't want the Big "R" to stop you from pursuing exciting
personal, financial, and business goals in 2009, so I've
arranged to get you exclusive VIP access to an important
video that Internet marketing guru Derek Gehl just put up
on his site.

Derek's been successfully selling on the Internet for over
a decade now, and he's brought in over $100 MILLION in sales...

... so he's by far the BEST person to advise you about how
to thrive in ANY market.

When you watch his FREE Goal Setting Video, you'll discover
how you can make 2009 your richest year yet:

Internet Marketing Goals

Wishing you health, wealth, and happiness in 2009!

Deb

P.S. Derek's also going to be hosting a FREE Webinar in the
first week of January to help everyone kick-off their New
Year's goals with a bang.

You can register for it here:
Internet Marketing Goals

Highly Profitable

2008-12-21T21:19:00.000-08:00

Smart affiliate marketers are expanding their revenue bases during this hard economic time.
The click ad market is growing daily with everyone rushing to put advertising on their sites. Commission Junction, Yahoo, MSN, Amazon & Google have very nice affiliate programs that pay for performance. Although the leader is definitely Google Adsense, it may not provide your site with the strongest earnings.
I've found another program that provides highly profitable revenue stream and it takes only a few clicks to earn you several hundreds of dollars per week.

Cash Syndicates - Make Money!

Have you ever seen Tissa's site, multiple homes paid for by internet advertising? If you sign up for his program, you will rapidly notice that the income source that generates the most money is a company that is obscure, but very profitable. I can guarantee that if you don't make money with Cash Syndicates then you won't succeed at affiliate marketing.

Some of the programs that you can advertise pay as much as $15 per sign-up, and the money is in the sign-ups not in the clicks.

If you want to make money advertising someone else's site then you should become an affiliate for Cash Syndicates because It's Time to Make Money!

Noobing

2008-11-29T05:11:00.001-08:00

Unique site that pays you to view sites daily. Pick your own level, fund your account to purchase Ad credits and starting noobing.

www.noobing.com

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2008-11-27T09:31:00.001-08:00

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Making Money Selling Other People's Products

2008-05-04T20:44:00.000-07:00

Making Money Selling Other People’s Products

A lot of people are now getting into online businesses and online marketing either to supplement their “real world” income or for it to become their primary source of income. Why? Because online marketing just provides them a lot of benefits!

First, you can reach just about anybody in the world who has Internet access if you market your products online. That means a wider market for you, which can translate to larger profits. Second, setting up an online business requires only a fraction of the cost required to set up an actual business establishment, which means a lot of savings for the business owner.

Another aspect that has attracted a lot of people towards online marketing is the fact that one doesn’t have to have his own products to get started. In online marketing, one can start making a lot of money just by selling, or even by just trying to sell, other people’s products. And getting started with this kind of marketing strategy is actually quite easy. All that one needs to do is to set up an agreement with an online retailer or merchant, and after everything is settled, one can immediately start making money by selling the merchant’s or the retailer’s products.

Incidentally, the most popular and the fastest growing method of selling other people’s products online is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing, in its simplest definition, is a relationship between an online merchant or retailer, who has products to sell, and his affiliates, who are willing to promote the merchant’s product on their website.

In a typical affiliate marketing set up, the merchant provides his affiliates with banners and text ads that links to his site. The affiliates will then get these ads posted on their website and they get paid whenever traffic or sales is directed to the merchant’s website. Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other online merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee for the affiliate’s compensation.

Starting to make money online with affiliate marketing is relatively quick and easy. All that one has to do is to sign up as an affiliate for an online company that offers affiliate programs. An alternative method, and usually an easier one, is to sign up as a member of an affiliate network—a network that hosts a variety of affiliate programs for different online merchants or retailers. Signing up is usually free, although other companies and networks may require you to pay a particular fee. Such fees, however, are made as payment for additional services that the company may render, like providing you with tools and assistance to jumpstart your online business.

When you sign up with an affiliate marketing program, you are usually required to fill out a form containing information about yourself. Some affiliate programs may also require you to present the URL of your website and describe its contents. This will allow the retailers to verify that you actually have a website with contents that are relevant to their products. Some affiliate programs, however, won’t require you to have a website. After filling out the form and all, you are then allowed to choose the affiliate programs you want to promote.

After signing up with an affiliate program and being an actual affiliate, you are now ready to start making a lot of money by selling other people’s product online. How do you make money? There are actually a number of ways for you to earn money as an affiliate, and most of these ways depends on the type of affiliate marketing program you’ve gotten into.

Many affiliate marketing programs compensate their affiliates in either of three ways: pay-per-click (PPC), pay-per-sale (PPS), or pay-per-lead (PPL). In pay-per-click affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever he directs traffic to the merchant’s site. PPS and PPL affiliate marketing programs work rather differently. In PPS, the affiliate only gets paid when his referral converts into an actual sale. In typical PPS affiliate programs, the affiliate would usually get 15% to 20% commission for each conversion. PPL affiliate programs work the same way, although affiliates are paid a fixed fee whenever his referral converts into a lead for the company.

Some affiliate marketing programs are two-tier programs, wherein the affiliate is also allowed to recommend other affiliates to the merchant. In such affiliate programs, the affiliate would not only be paid for the traffic or sales that he would direct to the merchant’s site but also for the traffic or sales directed by the affiliates who signed up with the program through his recommendation.

Yet another way of earning more profits with affiliate marketing is through residual affiliate programs. Residual affiliate programs are affiliate programs where the affiliate gets paid a number of times for as long as the merchant keeps the customer the affiliate has referred to his site. One form of residual program gets the affiliate paid a commission every time the referred customer purchases something on the merchant’s site. Another form of residual affiliate program gets the affiliate paid a percentage every month for as long as the company keeps the referred customer.

With a lot of options available and a lot of ways to earn money, affiliate marketing is undoubtedly the most popular and the easiest way to make money by selling other people’s products online. As to how much money one can get from affiliate marketing actually depends on the affiliate. A dedicated and hardworking affiliate would certainly get more from the program compared to those affiliates who would simply sign up and forget about the program later.

Begin building your business with advertising.

2008-05-03T18:20:00.000-07:00

"An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force."

Right now, you're Internet business is an object in motion.

Getting your Internet business to start moving in the right direction is the most difficult part of your journey.

Starting an Internet business is like building a giant snowball and then getting it to roll down a mountain...

It requires a huge amount of energy to build that giant snowball and get it moving, but once it's rolling it become a force of nature that cannot be stopped.

If you haven't start yet, TODAY is time to launch your online marketing campaign.

Learn about how you can get your ads seens on Google free.

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