Tag: Affiliate Marketing

If someone asked you if you were leading a successful life, what would your answer be? So many of us get so busy and get into a routine where we’re unconsciously running through life doing the same thing day after day and not even realizing how or why we got started on that path in the first place, let alone enjoying it.

Success is not measured by the amount of money you make or by the position you hold in life. If you enjoy what you are doing without worrying about where the next day’s meal will come from, you can pat yourself on the back and answer that question with a Yes, I am successful. A cobbler can be successful if he enjoys mending footwear, without worrying about financial constraints. So, how does one become successful by enjoying what he or she is doing without the worry of finances? One way is by learning how to use the internet’s online profit systems to make money, of course.

The internet can be a money-making machine! The profit systems online are like a vast ocean, an endless tunnel. You can continue looking for information, continue clicking on links and your journey through the pages will never end! This is exactly what allows us the greatest opportunity to become successful…to earn a living while having the freedom to work in the comfort of our own home on our own time!

Just imagine your life in this way…You don’t have to get up early in the morning, leave the house before your children are up, sit through traffic to get to the office and make your way through the maze to your cubicle. You don’t have to slave away at that report or presentation late into the evening, then fight traffic to return home after your kids are already in bed. You don’t have to worry about being nice to your boss, even though he is the one who controls your time off, your pay raises, your future! In short, you don’t have to carry all of this stress and worry because YOU are your own boss.

So, how is this possible with the internet? How do you get started making money using the profit systems online? With some simple training, you can profit from such systems online as Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate Marketing is a form of marketing in which you promote products that others have created then and receive a commission when you make a sale of the product. And I’m talking large commissions, typically at least 50% and sometimes up to 75%! This is the easiest and fastest way to start making money, because you don’t need your own product or website. You simply create an account under whom you wish to partner with and receive an affiliate link that is tied to your account. When you make a sale, you get credit and the commissions are sent to you (sometimes via check, but Paypal seems to be the most popular method of receiving payments).

The best place to start in affiliate marketing is with Clickbank (www.clickbank.com). You just create an account in the Clickbank profit system online and you can choose from thousands of products to promote among 20 plus categories. Once you choose a product, you will be given an affiliate link right then and there and you can start promoting. It doesn’t get any easier than that…not that I’ve seen anyway. The best place to learn about Clickbank is at www.profitonline.us. You get a free report that will help you understand what Clickbank is, the basics of affiliate marketing with Clickbank and how to succeed with the Clickbank Marketplace.

Thousands of people have profited from online systems over the years. The internet is certainly not going anywhere anytime soon, so the possibilities are endless. Be your own boss, set your own hours and earn as much as you want!

There is nothing to stop you now from achieving your ultimate success-except for yourself!

My introduction to Affiliate Marketing was through the Google Cash system that was selling through Clickbank. You could actually make money using only Google Adwords back then. You could easily purchase good keywords for what was then Google’s minimum bid of .05 (five cents). I remember paying $1,000.00 a day for clicks at .05 a piece and doubling my money. Others did much better, I’m sure.

Man have times changed, and not for the better. Perhaps it would take a smarter person than me to understand, but the Google Adwords bidding system has become convoluted, illogical and just plain selfish.

Why is it that I can find a word with NO competitive ads and for which I use the keywords I’m bidding on in the ads title and Google won’t even start displaying the ads until I’ve hit $1.00, $5.00 or more? This makes no sense to me what-so-ever.

Google talks about the bid price being determined by competition, relavency and other factors, but they are so vaguely explained that one can only guess at what Google is doing.

I just don’t see how I can continue using Adwords and making money at the same time. At .05 or .10 per click, I make money. With Adwords bids the way they are today, the margins are so thin, or completely eaten up by click costs, that it’s not possible to make a profit.

Since Google is willing to make it nearly impossible for me to make money, I’ve decided to take my business to other PPC providers

So, back to the title of this article, “Is PPC still a viable Affiliate Marketing strategy?”. I think the answer is yes, but not with the same ease of use that we’ve accustomed to with the OLD Google.

That leaves two big boys to work with and they are showing signs of improvement. Those two alternatives are Yahoo (Overture) and AdCenter (MSN).

First, let me say that you simply can’t get as many clicks with these PPC vendors because they’re just not as big as Google. But I think than through the yen/yang of change, Google is going to loose business and these two PPC engines will gain.

MSN Adcenter: I have been experimenting with this Pay Per Click engine for a little while now and it’s good. The user interface is uncomplicated and it gives very good estimates of where your ad will show (position) and how many times it will be clicked upon based upon different bid prices. We’ve always known that Google’s impression / click estimates have been garbage. This really makes picking bid prices for MSN easy. On my first few ads, it took over 24 hours for them to start playing. I don’t know if this will improve with time, but it’s kind of a pain now. Also, Adcenter only runs within Internet Explorer because of ActiveX code that it runs on your box. This probably makes things faster, but it’s a pain for me because I use Firefox.

Yahoo/Overture: I used Overture a bit about a year ago and just found it too hard to work with. It was slow, adding words was difficult and it took them forever to activate the ads. The good news is that Yahoo is totally revamping Overture and I bet they’ve learned from the success of Google. The new Overture should be much better. I don’t know if a beta is being run or not, but it would be nice to get in on it.

So I’m going to turn off all Google Adwords campaigns and work with Overture and MSN Adcenter for a while to see what happens. I think PPC is still a good strategy. It just makes sense! (cents?) But it will only work for us if we can accurately gauge how much we have to pay for traffic and we can test campaigns quickly. 24 hour delays in testing will make it too difficult to work with.

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eBay classified ads make up less than 1 percent of all listings on eBay. These classified ads show up alongside regular auctions and get just as much exposure as a regular auction except classified ads have a one-time fee, no final value fee, and runs for a minimum of 30 days.

In fact, if you still want to continue selling eBooks on eBay, it’s the only format in which you can still sell eBooks. But eBay classified ads are still very much under the radar and not utilized to their fullest potential.

The 2 best uses of eBay classified ads for internet marketers are list building and/or affiliate marketing. However, the rules of what can be placed in a classified ad are very vague, but you can still have things in a classified ad that you can’t have in listings that use other formats.

For instance, you can place links from websites outside of eBay with the item you have for sale, you can have an opt-in box in your ad to build your list, and often you can get away with having your email address in a classified ad.

As with everything on eBay, this too will be a numbers game. Obviously the more views your ad gets, the more opt-ins and/or sales you will make.

So the most important part of your classified ad will be your title. If people aren’t searching for the keywords that are in your title, chances are people aren’t going to find your ad or not many people anyway.

Another thing to consider with your title is how popular the keywords are in your title are; meaning are there a large number of people searching for that keyword or a small number. A way to find out what the popular keywords are on eBay is to check out eBay pulse.

eBay pulse tells you what the most popular searches are on eBay. But something I like even better than eBay pulse is the site at auctioncloud.com. Although it’s not as up-to-date as eBay pulse this site goes into more detail about the most popular search terms on eBay.

With eBay classified ads the number of people viewing your ads is very important so using information from eBay pulse and ‘Auction Cloud’ can give you ideas of what you need to have in your title.

But to be certain about how many people could be potentially viewing your ad you should check out a few completed listings with the keyword(s) in the title. A lot of the completed listings will be 7-day auctions but by checking out how many views a few of those completed auctions get and multiplying that view count by 4 (4 weeks in a month; ads are 30 days) you get a rough idea of how many views your ad will get.

Ideally you want your eBay ad to get a few hundred views in a month’s time but a eBay ad can still be successful even if it doesn’t get a whole lot of views in the course of a month.

Real life example:

A guy named Warren decided to promote the ClickBank product ‘Fat Loss 4 Idiots’ using an eBay classified ad with 5 tips on “maximizing your weight loss goals” and an opt-in box that offered a FREE 2-week diet diary with tips if you signed up. The following are his results with the ad:

– 114 views
– 29 people opted in
– 6 sales

Total commissions earned: $207.18

A 30-day ad costs $9.95 not including extras like subtitle, bold, border, etc. There are 60-day, 90-day, and 180-day eBay ads but its recommended you test your results with 30-day ads first.

Also, something that gives you a competitive edge with your eBay ad is when you can find keywords to put in the title of your eBay ad that gets a lot of searches, thus possibly getting you a lot of views, but keywords in which there are not many results for, anything with less than 100 results is great.

In conclusion, eBay classified ads are a great way for internet marketers to build their list(s) and promote affiliate products but before doing that do a little bit of research and then try using an eBay classified ad.

I get asked many times as to what the most important ingredient for succeeding online is. I have to say that there is no single key and that in my opinion there are at least 4 keys for succeeding online. There may be other factors which contribute to online success but in my opinion these are the ones that matter and I have listed them below.

One of the secrets to being an online success is being organized and disciplined. Even if you are the smartest person on the planet but cannot sit down and do a single day’s work, then it really would not matter in the least. There are many people with high IQ who have not gotten anywhere with their lives and all because they lacked the necessary discipline and organizational skills to do anything much about it. Take my mother for example, she was a brilliant pianist and a great opera singer and as a result of her poor organizational skills, her career pretty much met a dead end. That really sucks for me but then again, that is the truth.

The key to online success is to start creating your own products or services .One can make money online as an affiliate marketer by promoting the products of others. But remember, or more detail www.affiliate-directories-online.com. You would be competing with hundreds of other affiliate marketers who will be selling the same product. By creating your own products you would not only eliminate the need to compete with other affiliate marketers but you can also use them to promote your product for you. Having done this, I ended up quadrupling my income within a year.

One of the key factors to any online success is advertising. Your site may well be the greatest one but if no one knows about it, then you will find it difficult to make even a dime off it. I am not going to give an explanation as how setting up an online site without any promotion is useless. I shall save that for a later article. But the point being that until and unless you utilize the proven methods for promotion, the chance of you succeeding is minimal, to say the least.

Finally there’s communication or rather, writing. This is one important tool; one that we all use at all levels of our business. From the sales pages to the page contents, from the auto responder emails to responding to customer inquiries, or more detailwww.success-affiliate-marketing.com, they all have to do with writing in one form or the other. If you cannot communicate effectively then the chances of you capturing the attention of your target market is slim. You can always outsource such ‘writing’tasks, but they will prove to be expensive.

Affiliate marketing’s been a staple of the internet marketing scene for many years now. It’s highly touted as a money maker for newbies and experienced marketers alike. But does it really pay to be an affiliate marketer? Let’s take a look to learn more…

Basically affiliate marketing’s an agreement between a web site owner and a merchant. The web site owner’s actually an advertiser for the merchant or product creator. The agreement is a contract between the two parties that stipulates that the site owner can use various methods including the space on his site to promote the merchants goods. The merchant meanwhile agrees to pay a percentage of each sale generated through the affiliates personalized link.

This benefits both sides because the product creator spends nothing to advertise their goods and the affiliate pays nothing to research and develop new products.

This creates a win-win situation.

The product creator wins by saving money on advertising, which is one of the most costly aspects of doing business, by passing this cost on to affiliates. Basically it’s a pay-per-performance deal because the merchant doesn’t accrue any costs until the sale’s made and the merchant pays the specified commission.

The affiliate marketer wins by being able to sell an already developed product, thus saving the time and money on the front end by not having to deal with R&D and product creation. The product is already developed and proven by the merchant, and all you have to do as an affiliate is find as many prospects as you can that will bring in the profit for both the merchant and yourself.

Another benefit to the affiliate is that most programs are free to join and have pre-made sales material so your marketing experience doesn’t have to be that of an expert.

Probably the biggest benefit to being an affiliate marketer on the internet’s the internet itself.

Because of the global reach of the internet it’s very easy to reach tens of thousands of prospects for almost any type of product line. It’s also very easy to intensify your efforts as an affiliate marketer to exploit new and productive strategies such as viral marketing, ebooks, special reports and autoresponders.

Lastly, as an affiliate marketer you get to pick and choose between many different products to promote. You’re not married to a specific product or even a specific product type. Your risks are minimal because there are no long term binding contracts so if one product doesn’t bring in a profit you can quickly and easily replace it with another.

All in all affiliate marketing’s still an excellent way to earn income from the internet. Perform your due diligence, find a hungry market, find a good product and go for it!

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