Affiliate Networks for the Newbie

Affiliate Networks for the Newbie
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As a newbie you may not even know what affiliate networks are. Let's explain. As an affiliate marketer you now know that you get paid commissions to sell products on behalf of merchants - known as affiliate merchants. What may be harder to find are reputable merchants who have the type of product that you are looking for. Affiliate networks are where the affiliate and the merchant meet.

This article is written mainly for the newbie affiliate marketer but if you are a newbie merchant you might still want to read this.

What good affiliate networks do is organise the best affiliate merchants in one place where it is easier for the affiliate to find them and choose the product(s) that you may wish to promote.

Whether a marketer or a merchant you then have to register with this network. This is relatively easy to complete by following the on site instructions. Slightly more complex for the merchant but not arduously so.

Let's take a look at some of the best of them.

Ok, We'll start with Clickbank.com. They specialise in digital products online and have over 10,000 e-books in an easy to use system. Clickbank are not a true affiliate network, but they are a place where you - as a newbie affiliate - can find virtually anything you need to begin your life as an affiliate marketer. Everything is beautifully categorised, which makes finding digital products of interest a breeze.

As well, each merchant has to agree to providing a minimum guarantee of 56 days. Sorts the scammers from the genuine.

Clickbank handles all the cash transactions for you, which means you or your clients need only go back through them to enforce the guarantee.

One of the earlier networks is Associateprograms.com. So named because in the early days affiliate marketing programs were called associated programs - probably because of the name that the owner, Alan Gardyne, gave to his website.

They have a very easy to use product directory, and provide the number one affiliate marketing discussion forum on the Internet today. You can use this to find programs to join as well as get your questions on how to do affiliate marketing answered for you.

This one is worth mentioning. CJ.com. Short for Commission Junction. They are generally regarded as one of the best, if not THE best, sources for combining affiliate merchants and affiliate marketers on the Internet.

Some of the top businesses in the world have joined Commission Junction because of the outstanding service that they provide for affiliate merchants. As an affiliate this is one place that you definitely need to go to find excellent products to promote.

Another one that is definitely worth checking out is AffiliateScout.com, particularly if you are merchant looking for new affiliates. It is very easy to apply and they have a quick turnaround with their decision making as well.

They have an interesting feature where they offer a link to additional affiliate networks. Here you will find a host of different programs including pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale.

So that's just four to get you started.

Affiliate marketing is only going to continue to grow as an industry. Merchants are clued in to the fact that this is a great way to get their products into the market place with little upfront cost.

By offering quality products, marketing support, high commissions and customer service - this has turned into a multibillion dollar industry.

And as affiliate marketing grows so will affiliate networks. They are a great way for affiliate marketers and affiliate merchants to get together and service this thriving industry.

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How To Figure Out Your Solutions And Benefits

How To Figure Out Your Solutions And Benefits
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Your marketing must answer the question of "What's in it for me?" for your prospects and customers. The fastest way to do this is by showing you understand what they need (their problem) and that you have the answer (solution) for them.

Remember that people don't buy things - they buy solutions to problems. They also buy the benefits: the emotional payoffs your solution (services and products) provide.

In order to determine exactly what your solution and benefits are, you can use some of these "investigative" techniques:

* take out some clients (or have a phone call) and ask them what they perceive the main solution and benefits of your service and products to be

* do research on what solutions and benefits your competitors are offering and talking about

* think about your product or service as if you'd never seen it, and then ask yourself what results will it bring you, and why would you consider buying it or switching to it

* put together a list of solutions and benefits and run it by a few people (customers, vendors, strategic partners) to see which ones spark their interest

Another way to think about the solutions and benefits you offer your prospects and clients is to think about what you are really selling.

For example, printers don't just sell ink on paper; they sell communication and expression. Eyeglass stores don't sell frames and glass; they sell vision and fashion. Chiropractors don't just sell relief from pain; they sell health, well-being and physical control.

Tie into emotions

Benefits are usually closely tied into emotions - how the client or customer is going to feel after they use your product and service.

Let's look at an example:

Say you are a financial planner who focuses on working with new parents to invest money for their infant's future college needs. You might say that their problem is not having enough money right now to pay for their child's education. They feel worried and scared that they won't have enough, confused about how to make the right investment choice, and committed to sending their child to a good school.

Your solution is that they will create a secure financial future for their child. With your planning services, the benefits are that they will feel more in control, confident and secure - in addition to proactively saving money.

Here's a second example using professional organizers:

Most of their potential clients share many similar feelings, regardless of what their specific problem is (i.e. messy office, not paying bills because they can't find them, cluttered garage). The emotional outcomes resulting from their problems are pretty much the same: stress, anxiety, feeling out of control, unhappy, inefficient, feeling bad about themselves, ineffectual and so on.

So the solution may be to set up an electronic and hard copy filing system. The benefits to the customer are not only a usable, efficient filing system but also:

* less stress and anxiety

* feel happy they can find things quickly and easily

* feel confident they won't lose paperwork anymore

* will feel in control of their time and their space

You don't ever want to leave your potential customers to work out the benefits of buying your products or service for themselves. Make sure you take the time to get clear on what your primary solution and benefits are.

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Why Is Affiliate Marketing So Popular?

Why Is Affiliate Marketing So Popular?
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Affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular ways to make money online. It is also one of the easiest ways to earn an income, as you do not even need your own website. But what is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is an agreement between the merchant and website or weblog owner. The website owner is known as an affiliate, and allows their site to be used for promotion of the merchant's product/s. Each time a sale is made through an affiliate link, the merchant pays a commission for that sale.

Affiliate marketing benefits both parties. The merchant's products are promoted to wider audiences, gaining maximum exposure that they may not have necessarily had through traditional advertising methods. The merchant literally has thousands of people promoting their products for them. However, the affiliate marketer also enjoys many benefits.

This has become a popular home based business venture because there are minimal or no set up fees. The merchant has already outlaid the cost of setting up the product and web sales page, so the only thing you need to do is find prospects that are interested in the products you are promoting.

The internet is one of the easiest ways to market a product. There are thousands of prospects looking to buy, every single day of the week. But if the product you are promoting is not making you any money, then don't worry. You can easily find a new product to promote. There is minimal risk involved, this being the reason so many people are turning to affiliate marketing as their source of income.

Also, an added bonus is that prior sales experience is not necessary as most merchants offer full support and advertising material for you to use. You are free to use these advertising materials on your website, blog, viral advertising campaigns or pay per click ads. Your only responsibility is to find prospects for the merchant.

One of the biggest benefits for the affiliate marketer is that you are able to earn an income without having the worries of inventories, processing orders, product shipping or customer service. All of these responsibilities are entirely up to the merchant.

Whether you plan to work full time or part time, affiliate marketing is an ideal home based business opportunity. Because of the global reach of the Internet, this truly has become one of the most effective business opportunities today.

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How To Get Crazy Website Traffic

How To Get Crazy Website Traffic
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What is crazy traffic? Crazy traffic is when you are getting so much traffic and subscribers that you no longer care where it all came from. Crazy traffic is when you are getting 300, 400 visitors a day and half of them subscribe. Many of them buy your product everyday. That is crazy traffic.

So how do you do it?

1) Write and submit articles like crazy. Mass breeds response. When you have one article, well that is OK. But when you have 50, 100, 500, now you are an expert. Find the top 20 article sites and submit several articles a day.

2) Forum post like crazy. Remember one thing: do not spam the forums. Put your URL in your signature and answer posts. Only answer posts you know the answer to and are willing to give in the reply. Do not hawk your site like a used car salesman. Once people in the forum see your name a lot, and recognize your signature, they will begin clicking just for the simple fact that they have seen it so much and they have to know more about you.

3) Network like crazy. There are literally thousands of people online that would LOVE to trade traffic with you. Offer to mail their offer to your list in exchange for mailing a link to your opt-in page. Don't try to sell their customers, just get them to opt-in to your list, so you can mail them and follow up later with product recommendations.

4) If you are spending money on traffic, develop crazy pay-per-click campaigns. I know it is easy to go overboard. Monitor everything you do, and keep track of subscribers, but the more PPC ads you have that art fine tuned, the more traffic you will get. So continuously add and test new keywords.

5) Give everyone on your list some crazy thing free. Today. Just send it to them. Tell them to give it to their friends. (Just make sure it has your link in it!)

6) Create a crazy offer for potential JV partners. Focus on sending their customers to your site. Focus on making subscribers out of their customers.

7) Link-build like crazy. Trade links with everyone you can---but do not use link farms or any other commercial method of building links. Do it the hard way, the old-fashioned way--one link at a time.

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4 Common Errors That Kill The Best Simple Work From Home Opportunity

4 Common Errors That Kill The Best Simple Work From Home Opportunity
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One mistake that we all make at one time or another in our lives is taking something that is very simple and trying to complicate it. In this article, we are going to go over a few common errors that will kill the best simple work from home opportunity if you are not careful.

1. One mistake that I see people make all the time is they do not focus on the opportunity that they are promoting. I think we have all been on a website where you come expecting to see a simple work from home opportunity. You quickly exit after you realize it is nothing but a jumbled bunch of ads and words that don't make any sense.

If you are not focusing on providing quality information on your work from home opportunity, you'll never make any sales or recruit any new members.

2. Along the lines of focusing is not staying on theme at all. Again looking at some websites, we may see a website about music that contains links to sports, Internet marketing, cooking, or whatever. That is okay if your website is a shopping mall that's offering a wide variety of products. But if you have a work from home opportunity website that you're cluttering up with a bunch of ads don't relate to that theme, you are doing a disservice to your business.

3. Another common error that will kill the best simple work from home opportunity is not collecting names and email addresses from your visitors. It is still amazing to me how many people will work their tails off to drive traffic to a website, and then allow visitors to leave without asking them to sign their guest book. In a way, that's what building a mailing list is. You're asking visitors to give you their contact information so that you can follow up with them in a future date.

Always keep in mind that the average visitor comes to a website and leaves in a matter of a few seconds. So you have very little time to capture their attention.

4. You should be sure and only offer the highest quality products as it relates to your business. The longer you are online, the better chance you have to brand yourself as a work from home opportunity specialist. You will hurt your credibility if you're not offering quality products that you can feel proud about.

This is 4 common errors that can kill the best simple work from home opportunity. No matter how easy it is for your work from home opportunity to make money, it will not work if you do not keep it simple for your website visitors.

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Tim discusses the advantages of starting an online business and the profitability of creating information products.

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Gary Hoover speaks on dreaming up your business ideas, understanding yourself, and turning your passion into reality by finding what customers need.

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Stay At Home Moms, Making Your Small Business Office Your Own

Stay At Home Moms, Making Your Small Business Office Your Own
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Owning your own small business has always been a part of the American dream. For many this dream has become a reality. Stay at home Moms face a few tough obstacles in owning a home based business. One of them is how to make your small business office your own.

There are may advantage to owning a small home based business such as the ability to use part of your household expenses as a tax deduction, more time with your family and more time to raise your children.

The home based business environment has many obstacles that must be addressed if you want to remain productive. Some of the more common problems are the telephone, finances, visits from family and fri3ends who know you are home during the day, and of course your own family and children. All of these things can place a hardship on your business.

While it is important to include your family in your business activities you must also learn to separate family from business in order to perform the daily duties a home based business requires. Below are a few ideas to help you in making your small home business office your own.

1. You must have your own space. Whether it is a corner of the kitchen a part of the Den or a spare bedroom you must have an area that is your office. Your office is the one area of your home that is dedicated to only one thing, running your home based business.

Organizing your office will be helpful with staying productive. It will keep you from wasting time searching for things you need. The most routinely used items should be within arms reach, paper, pencils, pens, stapler, copy machine etc.

Ideally you should have a business phone. One that is off limits for personal calls and only receives calls from others involved in your business.

2. Set your personal work schedule. A home business office may seem easy to step in and out of to work at you leisure but it rarely works that way. There are far too many other things in the home that need to be done everyday. These things can suck up your valuable time leaving you with very little time to build your business.

For some setting aside up to 8 hours a day is possible but for most of us we do not have that much time available. There are many things to consider.

You may have toddlers in your home or even a newborn. They will require a lot of your time. Other things such as your significant other, household chores and bills all require your time.

You must set a specific time period each day around all these things that allows When you are first starting a home business you will need to give as much focused time to it as you possibly can. As your business grows and gains momentum you can begin to automate many of your daily tasks.

Then you will be able to do what a home based business is all about, spend more time with your family and less time working.

3. Make your office off limits. There is nothing worse than spending an hour looking for a piece of paper with details on it or your stapler or any other tool you have to have because someone borrowed it.

Children seem to need your supplies and office tools more than you do. It is important they know your office is off limits and it is just as important they understand why.

Your family and friends all need to understand this is your office. It is where you make your money to support your family with and pay your bills. It's not where you store your Golf bags or hobby stuff, it's not the toy room, it is your personal business office.

This will give you a sense of purpose and security. You will know when you sit down at your desk that everything is in its place and ready for you to give your business all of your attention.

A small business home office really isn't difficult to setup and maintain. By applying the ideas above you can set your home office apart so it is the place you can go to and build your business.

If you are one of the many stay at home moms making your small business office your own will be rewarding and it will make your business time much more enjoyable.

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Find One Thing. You Will Be on Your Way to Make Money on the Internet

Find One Thing. You Will Be on Your Way to Make Money on the Internet
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The Internet provides opportunities for people to be able to make money online. Many people jump to the opportunities in the hope that they too can profit from the Internet. However, the sad part of the story is that most people who involve in online business never make any money at all. Many tried different projects before finally quit out of exhaustion.

While it is true that there are many ways to make money on the Internet, many people forget that everyone is different. We all have our own strength and circumstances that are different from others. This is the reason why when we follow other people approach to the opportunity, we will find ourselves lost in the process.

Making money online generally comes from three ways: selling your own products or services, selling other people's products or services or the combination of both. Before you get involve to the online opportunity, it is wise to decide which of the path you are going to use. Whether you are able to offer services for others, whether you have any products to offer, or whether you are willing to promote other people products or services. Once you decide the path you choose, you need to write in down as your business plan for further executions.

Having a business plan is very critical in Internet marketing. This is your guidance, your beacon that will guide you through the process to achieve your goal. Many people making the mistake by not having any plan when they entering the online opportunity. It is very easy to miss this crucial part, because they did not think it is necessary. It might not be necessary if you are going to treat the online business as a hobby, instead of a business. However, if you are serious of building a career in Internet marketing, you will definitely need a business plan.

Another advantage of having a business plan is also help you find the one thing that you can do very well, and focus on it. Can you write or re-write articles? Are you good at creating Squidoo lens? Do you have any SEO knowledge you can offer? They key is to find the one thing that works the best for you. Instead of jumping from one project to another, it is better to focus on the one thing that you are good. Then do massive actions to maximize the result. In essence, you are branding yourself with one activity that you can do very well and make yourself an expert.

There are many ways to make money on the Internet, but there is no easy way. There is no free lunch. There is no easy money. You will need to commit yourself to work. You need to harvest what works for you to create a solid business plan, then execute the plan many times to establish a long term, establish income stream.

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Configuring Wordpress: How To Optimise Your Wordpress Blog

Configuring Wordpress: How To Optimise Your Wordpress Blog
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Wordpress is free to use content management software that publishes your content in blog form. A blog does not have a static homepage like conventional web sites, instead all new content appears on the homepage and then finds it way in to folders and archives as more new content is published.

There are two big benefits to publishing with Wordpress:

1. It's FREE to download and use

2. The Search Engines, in particular Google, love Wordpress blogs

Wordpress is open source software, which means it's free to use. When you choose a hosting account, try and choose one that uses a control panel called "CPanel", because installing Wordpress becomes as easy as clicking a handful of icons, it really is simple!

So you've bought a domain name, found a hosting company with CPanel and installed Wordpress on your new domain! In theory you're ready to make your first post! But before you do, read on!
Before you post, you need to configure your blog and optimise it for the search engines, doing this before you post makes life a lot easier for the future.

As Wordpress is open source, developers around the world have written literally hundreds of plugins that enhance the functionality of your blog, and again the majority are free to install. Take a look at Wordpress.org where you'll find hundreds of free plugins. Ones I recommend are:

- Installer (install this one first, simplifies plugin installations)

- All In One SEO Pack (optimises your posts)

- Adsense Manager (adds Adsense blocks to your posts)

- Google XML Site Maps (creates a site map for your blog)

- Ultimate Tag Warrior (essential plugin for managing tags)

- Sociable (assists with social bookmarking)

Next, within your dashboard, select Options in the menu and then Permalinks. You need to modify the settings on this page to improve the seo of the url's Wordpress produces so that your keywords appear. In the Custom Options box, type and save the following:

/%category%/%postname%/

Typing this will optimise your posts, but you must be careful only to ever select one category per post in the future, and not change a post's category after you've published it!

When you post with Wordpress, it automatically notifies (known as pinging) blog directories of your new content, they index it based on the tags you assign. The search engine robots regularly visit these directories, and as a result your new post will be indexed by them very quickly. Rapid indexing is one of the huge advantages of blogging!

Within your blog set up, you need to add a bunch of directory sites to "ping" to in addition to the default. Simply search on the web for "ping list".

Finally, you need to optimise the appearance of your site. You don't want to use the basic template that comes with Wordpress. There are lots of free themes available on the web for download, take a look at Wordpress.org again in their themes directory. Whilst there are hundreds of free themes around, I never seem to find one that perfectly meets my needs, so I often end up buying one!

Once you've installed the theme of your choice, activated all of your plugins, and made the configuration adjustments I've recommended, you're ready to post, so what are you waiting for!

To learn a whole lot more about optimising Wordpress and to get a copy of my "ping" list, visit my blog at: http://www.essentialseotools.com/seoblog/category/wordpress/. For some great Wordpress Themes that I use on my blogs, take a look at these: Instant Wordpress Themes

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Top 3 Google SEO Linking Strategies

Top 3 Google SEO Linking Strategies
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Times have changed. Just a couple short years ago, about 60% to 70% of your website ranking success depended on links. Now up to 85% of your page's search engine rank on Google relates to how it is linked. More specifically, the quality and number of inbound links.

Google looks at everything from the "authority level" of the linked sites to their "PageRank" and even the IP class they use (Internet Protocol designation.) While we don't have hours to get into every little detail, I have provided three simple surefire ways to get hundreds of top rate inbound links to any page or your site you wish. And this is the absolute fastest way to get on top of Google and stay there for the long haul. So, here we go...

Google SEO Linking Strategy One: Hire a blog reviewer.

Hiring a professional blogger can be a quick way to getting the links you want. Here's how it works... You are basically hiring a blog reviewer to chat up your Website. You set the tone of what is said and even give them acceptable working parameters to meet, such as the blog's traffic rating, type of blog and overall popularity.

You can hire independent people from services like eLance.com, Guru.com or RentaCoder.com or you can use a service that specializes in blog reviewers for hire, like http://www.PayPerPost.com. Personally, I like PayPerPost because it's their specialty and this is their "posties" livlihood, so they tend to do a great job. It's extremely reliable and great for social networking but considerably slower and ultimately more expensive than the following methods if your goal is simply link building.

Google SEO Linking Strategy Two: Write articles on your Website's topic.

Providing useful article content to readers of newsletters and article directories is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to get high quality inbound links. But even more important to some is that if you share your expertise the right way, you will likely become a recognized expert in your field in no time.

People have filled entire books on the subject of article marketing so let me just hit the highlights here. This will be enough to get you started and help your name become trusted by both publishers and readers alike. Just remember these six simple guidelines...

1.) The article has to accomplish two things. First, it has to be 100% legitimate and not contain any inflated facts or sales pitches. And second it absolutely must present real value to the reader and the publisher. Don't ever write an article just for your own sake. A solely self serving article will be immediately transparent to the publisher and to most readers. Most people understand you want something in return for sharing your knowledge and are very happy to oblige a mutually beneficial arrangement, such as a great article for a link back in your bio.

2.) Obey the rules of where you are submitting your work. This is extremely important! Don't waste an editor or publisher's time. Be sure to select the best, and most descriptive category possible for your submission.

3.) You can (and in my opinion, should) write in a casual, conversational style but be careful to spell check the article and review it for clarity before submitting it. Once you have written something, especially something with your name attached to it, it will be a representation of you.

4.) Make the article the appropriate length for what you have to say. Don't drone on or cut it too short. Most article directories have guidelines about how long they like to see submissions. The same goes for newsletters. If you can't find this info for the directory you like, sticking between 500 and 1,000 words is usually a safe bet and usually up to 1,250 is OK. If you have more to say, consider splitting it into multiple articles that deal with one specific topic each.

5.) Be brief in your bio section. If your article is well written and contains similar words to the keywords you want to be found for, 350 characters (or about 40 words) should be more than enough to tell a little about yourself, your services with one or two relevant keywords properly placed. Just be sure to use those keywords as anchor text when linking to the page that covers that keyword's topic on your site. Many directories will let you have two links in the bio section and all allow at least one.

6.) And I saved the big one for last. Provide unique content to each article directory. Nobody wants to post duplicate content so carefully reword at least one third of the article so it is unique. This will help both the publisher and the quality of your resulting inbound your links.

Big Tip: Writing dozens or even hundreds of article variations to eliminate duplicate content can take a great deal of time. Then manually submitting them to hundreds of directories takes even longer. A nice solution is using an article distribution service that allows you to enter slight variations to specific sections of your article and then combines them in unique ways to provide unique content for the search engines and readers. I am NOT talking about a system that creates robotic substitutions based on replacing similar words from a thesaurus. That produces junk. I'm talking about a system that allows you to submit your own text with alternate sentences or even whole paragraphs. This works amazingly well and can easily create over one thousand article variations based on about twenty extra minutes of your time when you submit your article. And of course, write as many variations of your bio as you can too.

One system that does a great job is available at http://www.SubmitYourArticle.us. They even review the article to ensure it is a good candidate for publication, which gives you advice from a professional editor for free. They do it to help protect their own reputation as well but the benefits to you are immeasurable.

Google SEO Linking Strategy Three: Use a three way linking system.

Google has discounted the use of straight reciprocal links to the point that many people feel they are not worth the time and effort to obtain. I still use them sparingly but I avoid reciprocal linking systems like the plague. Google hates them and they are so easy to detect that you might as well put a banner on your site saying "Hey Google, I use a link farm!"

Three way linking, however, is another story. Reciprocal linking is very easy to detect but 3 way links are altogether different. It works like this... Site 1 links to Site 2 and then Site 2 links to Site 3. And finally Site 3 links to Site 1, or even to another site in the chain. In short; every link is a true and verifiable one way inbound link.

If you are part of a group of similar sites, this is well worth doing. But if you need to build links quickly or don't have the time to set this up yourself, you can use a service like 3 Way Linker (http://www.3WayLinker.com). It's the ideal "set it and forget it" option and gives you full control over important aspects of linking.

The founder and editor of SEOpartner.com, Mike Small is an SEO professional with over ten years in the industry. During that time he has founded two SEO companies and written five SEO books on topics varying from general search engine optimization to specific areas such as SEO link building.

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Start A Viral Marketing Campaign Using eBooks As Your Viral Salesman
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Viral Marketing is a very effective way to generate lots of traffic to your website. You can compare the very concept of Viral Marketing to that of someone having a cold.

As one person spread germs by coughing or sneezing while in the presence of others, more and more germs are spread until practically every person in that same area end up with a cold.

That's the nature of viral marketing. Once you create a viral eBook to start a viral marketing campaign, include your affiliate links, links to your sales page or website and give it to a few people who in turn gives it to two or three other people, the viral effect begins.

As more people get access to your viral eBook and pass it along (which is what you encourage them to do), eventually, your eBook takes on an exponential effect and is spreading all over the internet among thousands of people.

eBooks are easy to duplicate and the marketing eBook has taken on a life of its own and has become a very important part if internet marketing.

Unlike a regular eBook the marketing eBook contains a lot more. It contains navigation controls, text, links to other web pages, images, navigation controls and more.

Your viral eBook can be your best salesman because you can present your story in a much different and effective way.

It's better to write your own eBook and there are several ways that you can create it.

You can create an eBook using articles or Private Label Rights Material or you could hire a ghostwriter to write an eBook for you.

Always make sure that your eBook is very informative and interesting. It is also wise to include inside of your eBook, links back to your sales page or website.

You have to make sure that you let your reader's know that it's OK for them to pass your eBook around the internet and that they have your permission to do so.

You should provide a section in your eBook that explains the things that they can or can't do with your eBook.

For instance, you can grant them certain rights such as the right to freely give away your eBook to other people, bundle it with other products, use it as a bonus, use it as content, etc.

As you will be including links back to your website, be sure to test every link to make sure it is working properly and check the spelling and grammar before you release your eBook to the public.

Obvious grammatical and spelling errors will reflect badly on you and could be very damaging. One way to check for errors is to use the spell checker on your computer.

You will still have to proofread you eBook because the spell checker doesn't always catch everything.

Another way to market your eBook is to use eBook directories.

Some eBook directories are free. If allowed, post your eBook to those eBook directories. Though some eBook directories are not free, some will still allow you to post a link to your eBook on their website.

Marketing your eBook this way will create a viral marketing effect for your eBook for years to come.

Angela Meyers is a writer and internet marketer who writes and publishes eBooks and media material on various ways to make money online. Want to find out several different ways to make money online? visit: http://www.resellrightsandplrmadesimple.com

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Affordable Marketing for Your Small Business

Affordable Marketing for Your Small Business
By Dana Blozis
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When I started my business four years ago, I had enthusiasm and passion for my work, but a very small marketing budget. I also lacked a marketing plan for getting my message out to my target customer. I have learned a lot along the way and hope to impart what I've learned onto you. Whether you have just started your small business or are in your tenth year, there are some simple, affordable ways to keep your name in front of prospective clients and customers.

News releases. I recommend to clients that they distribute three to four news releases (better known as press releases) each year. This gives clients an opportunity to shout news out to the world about new products, services or partnerships; key hires; industry awards and certifications; new locations; events and more. News releases should be distributed on a timely basis to local media, trade publications and online. In addition, a well-crafted news release makes a great direct mail piece or a nice addition to your sales or media kit. Depending on whether you do the writing and distribution yourself, costs are variable. Distribution costs will also vary. Distribution via e-mail or fax is virtually nothing. Online distribution varies. Many news distribution sites are free, but I like to include a contribution to PRWeb.com to guarantee inclusion in popular search engines.

Online forums and networking sites. As social media continues to grow, relevant online forums and networking groups (Linked In, Connexions, Konnects) are a great way to interact with professionals and prospective clients. By actively participating in Q&A forums, you expand your reach. To take full advantage of these free opportunities, make sure you complete your online bio; include your contact information and web address; and participate regularly. Such participation can also help to position you as an industry expert.

Referral program. About half of my business comes from client referrals. To let clients know I appreciate their referrals and to encourage them to keep sending them to me, I include my referral program in my business agreement. In exchange for a prospect who does business with me, I offer the referring client two complimentary hours of writing, editing or marketing services. Aside from my time, this costs me nothing and benefits both my clients and my business.

Newsletter. There are so many affordable e-mail services these days that sending an e-newsletter to prospective clients is a no brainer. The service I use costs about $5 per month, and it not only maintains my e-mail lists for me, but it provides templates and tracks reader stats. Clients can opt-in, unsubscribe or change their e-mail address at any time. This is an inexpensive way to stay in touch with clients and prospects.

The next question, of course, is how and when to implement the above. I recommend pulling out your calendar and scheduling time for marketing and business development. Schedule a news release for each quarter, or at least three times a year. For online forums and networking sites, set aside a certain amount of time each week to participate. A referral program requires a little bit of set-up time and a notification to clients of the new program, but aside from that, it doesn't require much time. For your newsletter, I recommend sending them to clients at regular intervals. If you can't manage biweekly or monthly, at least put together a newsletter on a quarterly basis. Save ideas in a folder so they are all in one spot when you're ready to get started.

Try these ideas for at least six months and watch your business grow and, if you find that one method works better than the others, focus your efforts in that category. Enjoy your new affordable marketing solutions!

Copyright © 2007 by Dana Blozis, Virtually Yourz

With 20 years of business experience, Dana Blozis of Virtually Yourz started her own Seattle area-based writing, editing and marketing business. In addition to writing for publication, she offers writing, editing and marketing services to small businesses and nonprofits. To learn how Virtually Yourz can help promote your small business, visit Virtually Yourz.

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2 Ways To Increase Affiliate Commissions

2 Ways To Increase Affiliate Commissions
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As an affiliate marketer, you are always looking for more ways to make money when you get paid affiliate commissions. In this article, let's talk about two ways to increase affiliate commissions without spending much more time doing it.

1. The first thing we want to talk about is doing two-tier affiliate programs. A 2 tier affiliate program means that you get paid on your personal sales, and you also get paid on the sales of affiliates that you personally recruit.

This adds a nice twist to affiliate marketing, because it gives you options to earn more affiliate commissions beyond just your personal sales. If you are the type of person who enjoys working with people and helping them recruiting affiliates, then this will be right up your alley.

Social networking is extremely popular on the Internet today and two tier affiliate programs tie in very nicely with this. Because affiliate programs are free to join, it's very easy to recruit new affiliates into the program you are promoting.

The hard part is getting them to the point where they can actually make sales. One advantage you will have if you are successful as an affiliate marketer is you can put together a program that is designed to duplicate your efforts.

2. This leads into our next way to increase affiliate commissions and that is to teach your first level affiliates how to make more sales online. Although the commission rate that you earn is not as good on their sales as it is on yours, it is still worthwhile for you to put some time and effort into their success.

It kind of goes back to the old J. Paul Getty saying of he would rather have 1% of the effort of a hundred different individuals than to have 100% of the effort of himself. If you really want to increase your affiliate commissions you certainly want to sell more personally, but putting together a large team of affiliate sales reps is a great way to explode your income also.

If you have products of your own that you are creating, having a team of affiliates in place makes it easy to quickly get that product in the marketplace. Therefore as you are recruiting people into a two-tier affiliate program, you should be also building a training program on the side that includes getting their name and e-mail addresses and constantly keeping in touch with them.

This is two ways to increase affiliate commissions that anyone can do using two tier affiliate programs.

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5 Squeeze Page Errors You Must Avoid!

5 Squeeze Page Errors You Must Avoid!
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The design of your squeeze page is a really critical element of the list building process. The conversion rate of your squeeze page will have a huge effect on how rapidly your list grows.

So it's really important to optimize your squeeze page in order to collect as many new opt-in subscribers as you can from your traffic.

Therefore you must make sure that you don't make the following 5 common mistakes that a lot of other marketers do:

1. Only One Opt-In Box On The Page

A lot of marketers only include one opt-in box on their squeeze page. Use two! One under your headline and one at the end of your page. The second box gives your readers a second chance to subscribe! With only one box at the beginning you'll lose a lot of potential subscribers! The more opportunities to subscribe you offer your visitor, the more chances you have of capturing their details!

2. External Links

Your squeeze page has one purpose, to capture your visitors details. Therefore don't go including a bunch of links to other pages on your squeeze page, that just gives them the option to leave without subscribing. Minimise any links, to possibly just your home page link at the very bottom of the page.

3. No Fear Or Urgency In The Headline

Your headline needs to make your visitor feel compelled to join your list. Make them feel as though they simply can't afford to leave your page without signing up for your offer.

Introduce urgency by limiting the offer in terms of subscribers or time available.

You can also introduce fear into your headline, for exampl, "Can You Afford Not To" or "Failing To Read This Could Lose You Millions". Fear is an uncomfortable feeling for the human mind, including it in your headlines will compel your readers to opt-in to remove the fear.

Other great words to include in your headlines are "Discover", "Revealed", "Uncovered" and "Secrets". All four words induce curiosity in the mind, and the curiosity can only be cured by subscribing!

4. No Privacy Policy or Contact Details

This is an important point not to get wrong. Your conversion rates will be influenced big time by not having a privacy statement and your contact details displayed on your squeeze page. Always include a privacy statement to reassure your visitor that you won't share their details or spam them, and let them see that you are willing to share your contact details to give them confidence and trust.

5. No Graphic With The Opt-In Box

Don't include an opt-in box without a graphic above it. The graphic will draw the eyes of the visitor to the opt-in box. It also allows them to visualize what you are offering in return for subscription. Images are more powerful than words. Always use professional looking graphics to impress. If you can, get hold of a graphical opt-in box, you can buy packs of squeeze page templates for less than $10!

And finally, just one more important tip ... Test, Test , and Test again! I really suggest that you split test continually, each time changing just one element of the squeeze page and then measure its conversion rate against the unaltered version. Once one of the pages shows a significant improvement, adopt it as the standard and split test it against another variant.

Continually split testing different elements of your squeeze page can lead to significant improvements in your conversion rates.

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Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #7 Create An eBook

Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #7 Create An eBook
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If you have written articles in the past, you may be sitting on a gold mine. In this article, let's talk about using your articles to create an e-book.

Selling ebooks are another way to make money on the Internet. They are also an excellent way to build your mailing list by giving it away for free.

Have you ever consider writing an e-book? If you have written articles in the past then you may already have all the content you need to create an ebook already.

Many people think writing an ebook is this big long drawn out process. That may be true when you are writing a paperback or hardback novel.

On the Internet however, that is not the case. People like to read ebooks that are interesting and informative.

The chapters don't need to be real long, as long as the content is of a high quality. Therefore people begin to think maybe they could write an ebook of their own.

One little secret is if you have been writing articles in the past you may already have enough content to write an ebook. Many of your articles could become chapters in your book.

The nice thing about an ebook is you can add links to various products and programs that you sell right in the context of the book itself. This is another benefit of article marketing that is often overlooked.

As more and more article directories become tougher in what they will approve within an article, Internet marketers are looking for other ways to sell things. Adding links to products that use sell within an ebook is certainly one way to do that.

You can also include links to affiliate products you sell and prefer people directly to your affiliate sales page. Often times you cannot do that in an article directory or in other forms of Internet marketing such as discussion forums.

You can Google search for words "creating an ebook" and come up with many different easy ways to do it. As long as you already have the content you might as well use your articles to do your business some more good.

If you feel like your articles are not exactly what you are looking for to match the theme of your e-book, of course you can make changes to them because they are your articles. You can also write additional articles to fill in the gaps for ones need written

In summary, creating an ebook from your existing articles, or by writing articles, is an excellent way to do article marketing. If you can write articles, you can definitely write an ebook.

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Get Your Passive Income From The Internet

Get Your Passive Income From The Internet
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Which would you prefer - working for the rest of your life and getting paid with miserable monthly salary or working only once but continued to be paid for the rest of your life?

If you work only once and get paid many times over, you're earning a "residual" income. Of course you would and should choose the latter.

Therefore in order to build wealth, you need to tap into "residual" income.

Very often this is also referred to as "passive" income because you could afford to be passive or non-active (i.e. not having to work) and still continue to receive income.

Many of us have been brought up to have only one major objective in life - that is to get a good job for life! We work hard in schools so that we could get good grades to advance to colleges and universities where we work even harder so that you could get a good and secured "job". And this quest is never ending leading many to fall into the trap of "rat race" despite the fact that many could be drawing quite a handsome salary!

However many of these so-called "rich" employees are not "free' to spend badly needed valuable time with members of their families because of their very demanding jobs. Even medical doctors could not really relax and enjoy a long vacation for fear of the loss of income or patients while their clinics remain closed.

With the huge and expanding audience (600 millions, at least), many companies have now aligned themselves with the Internet which has created many new paradigms in the past few years. Residual Incomes are made available to people from all walks of life. You can now make money online with simple and proven formula used by many to earn multiple streams of residual income.

Many programs have been designed for new Internet marketers who have no time or interest to learn HTML, Java, PHP and ASP. With a simple Control Panel, they are only a few clicks away from having a complete and professional website to start your online Internet home-based business! There is absolutely no worry about computer programming, webpage design and product creation! Affiliate programs make life so much easier now.

This includes credit card authorization, order fulfilment, product shipping, and customer service. Also, there is no worry about inventory. There is no staff to hire and pay, no merchant accounts to set up, and no costly and time-consuming application process for licenses and permits to go through.

Sometimes a fully functional website could be created free of charge. It captures visitors automatically and follows up with them 24 hours a day and 30 days per month for 365 days a year! The visitors' names and email addresses are automatically recorded and follow-up automatically with a pre-written email marketing campaign. The following is a general guide one can follow in order to develop good habits for achieving one's goals:

1) Create A Plan

We should have a plan to set an achievable short term, medium term and long term objectives, prepare a budget and stick to them as far as possible. Carry out periodical checking to determine any deviations from the plan and take the necessary remedial actions.

2) Good Organisation Skill

We need to download a lot of software, ebooks or PDF books from specific individuals or organizations for your continued education along with a lot of contacts that could be our potential leads or customers. We therefore need to have a systematic procedure to keep all these vital information and data in the right and proper folders for efficient and ease of retrieving without waste of time.

3) Be Consistent

Do not fall into the trap of countless of seemingly very attractive offers promises that you would inevitable encounter. Stay consistent with a handful of strategies that work and stick with them.

4) Be Focused

Once you have decided to start working online, you must stay focused and do not allow any distraction to affect your concentration. Stick to a schedule but do not get carried away and spend too much time in front of your PC because your loved ones, including deserve your attention and time too.

5) Be Steadfast And Persevere

Failures and disappointment would be inevitable. Do persevere as this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes time to see the fruit of you effort although it'd definitely come. Use any failures to your advantage by learning from them.

See success in every failure and opportunity in every threat. Passive income from Internet business is a real possibility!

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Best Marketing Strategy Tips to Start Your Own Internet Business

Best Marketing Strategy Tips to Start Your Own Internet Business
Copyright © 2008 Adam Urbanski
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Decide What Business You Want To Be In

Are you going to be selling products, information, or services - or a mix of all of them?

Do a lot of research

Do a lot of research about the market, product, or information you want to get involved with. Make sure there is a demand for the type of things you want to sell and that you can easily and affordably reach your potential clients.

Invest in Your Own Education

Now, investing doesn't always mean money. Sure you can buy courses that will teach you how to get started - just be careful who you're learning from. But you could simply take the time to study successful businesses and learn from what they do. You could also become an employee or an intern of an Internet Business which is already successful and learn on the job about all aspects of such enterprise.

Have a Plan

Have a plan of what you want to accomplish and how you want to do it. Be specific about your goals. Get clear about what kind of financial results you want to create, how much time and money you're willing to invest to build your business.

Become an Enhancer Not an Inventor

Pioneers got shot by Indians or eaten by lions. Few people actually come up with an original idea that's going to be the next breakthrough and a financial blockbuster. For most Internet Business hopefuls finding an idea or product that already sells and finding a way to enhance it or improve it is a much safer bet for a chance to make money online. Is there a service you can deliver more effectively? Can you add value to a product and improve the way it's sold?

Become a Student of Business and Marketing

Successful entrepreneurs never stop learning. Develop a habit to regularly invest in your personal and business development. Study successful entrepreneurs. Read business and marketing articles and magazines. Participate in training programs to grow your skills as a business owner. Consider having a mentor.

Build Credibility

A big barrier to selling online is the natural distrust and skepticism of your online shoppers. You must find a way to quickly build credibility. For starters, don't hide all your contact information. Make sure you give your potential and current clients a way to find you via phone, email, and snail mail. As soon as you can, solicit and use testimonials from existing clients or share successful case studies.

Start Building Your List

Few people will buy from your website during the first visit. And hoping they will come back for another look on their own initiative is just wishful thinking. It's critical to capture the contact information from as many of your website visitors as possible - so that you can continue educating them about your products and services and make more offers to entice them to buy from you.

Keep in Touch With Your Prospects and Clients Use technology to automate communication with hundreds, and even thousands of your customers all at once. It's this long-term communication and customer service that will make your business a mega success or a dismal failure.

Surround Yourself With Success

Most great things are achieved as a result of a group of people's orchestrated effort. While the idea of running a solo-business is appealing at first, as soon as possible build your support team; bring in other people to help you with repetitive daily tasks. In addition, seek and hang out with other successful online business owners. Having the ability to discuss with them your challenges and brainstorm new ideas will be a fuel for fast growth of your online empire.

The author, Adam Urbanski, Founder and President of Marketing Mentors, teaches professionals and business owners proven marketing strategies to increase sales and profits. For more free marketing tips and a free marketing fast-start guide visit his website at http://www.themarketingmentors.com/

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How Much Traffic Do You Need To Make Money With Your Online Home Business?

How Much Traffic Do You Need To Make Money With Your Online Home Business?
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The ability to get traffic to your website will make or break your online home business. For those who have been running their business for awhile know that I'm not just talking about a few visitors a day. In order to really succeed making money online, you are going to need a considerable amount of targeted daily traffic on a consistent basis.

No matter what type of site you have, the most difficult part of running an online home business is establishing your website all over the internet and making its presence felt. You absolutely will not make any money until you learn to drive massive amounts of targeted traffic to your website.

When you are promoting your online home business it is imperative that you remember that you need to promote it on a large scale. In order to get your website ranked on the first page of the search engines and get the free targeted traffic you are after, you will need more than just a couple of hundred back links. You will need to first optimize your website for specific keywords that will draw targeted traffic then you will need more like tens of thousands of back links.

The best way to get traffic to your online home business by building back links is slowly but surely. Just by picking up back links on a daily basis will dramatically increase the amount of traffic to your site after a few months or years of doing so. Purchasing back links or adding too many right away might actually penalize your website rather than help it.

The amount of required traffic you need to generate sales or sign ups to your online home business ultimately depends on what market you are in. The business I am in, the online home business market will require anywhere from about 500+ visitors a day to get regular sign ups and sales.

Making money online is a numbers game. Once you figure out how much traffic you will need to get the regular sales or sign ups, put in the proper plan and action to make sure you can reach those numbers. Big numbers are tough to get, but taking small steps each day will get you one step closer to those numbers.

You should also be monitoring your progress often to make sure your traffic generating methods are working. There are plenty of free programs you can use to track your visitors to your online home business on a daily basis.

Do not get discouraged and give up if you are not making sales. Most likely you just aren't getting enough traffic. Work harder and be patient. The internet will reward you for your efforts if you just hang in there. It's most likely not the program you are using rather you probably just don't have enough traffic.

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New Internet Marketers Should Start With Affiliate Programs

New Internet Marketers Should Start With Affiliate Programs
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The fastest way to start your Internet online business is by becoming an affiliate (or agents in the physical world) to sell some one else's products. The approach is simplified because it allows you to make money from your website visitors without having to worry about packing, shipping, delivery and payment processing.

There are many forms of products and services from the affiliate owners. These are usually information products such as electronic books (eBook) and software that can be delivered as a file that is then downloaded directly to your customers' computers. They could be repeatedly reproduced and downloaded and sold at no cost.

The choice of affiliate programs is of utmost importance because many beginners encountered disappointment and frustration after signing up with wrong choice of affiliate programs that eventually lead to a total waste of money and time! . Before deciding on the type of affiliate programs, you should consider the following points:

1) Market Demand

Affiliate owners should offer products that the market is asking for or that are already in demand rather than creating new ideas hoping that the consumers would be convinced to buy.

2) Attractive Commission

The affiliate program must offer good commission to their affiliates. Generally if it could bring in about sufficient income to cover the cost of your marketing.$ 500 to $650/month is a good start. Some of the owners of these affiliate programs can afford to give large commissions as high as 50% if not more due to the low cost of "production".

3) Simple To Follow

It must be easy to set up with step by step easy-to-follow instruction. Website should be simple to update and yet attractive.

4) Effective Marketing Tools

The affiliate program owners should provide attractive and effective banners, images, links, sample ads, articles and emails to help you promote their products. Besides, they should also have a good support system for helping you with any problems you might have.

5) Reliability Of Affiliate Program

Owners You should conduct further research to check on the background of the organisations behind the products, their quality, reliability and reputation. Wherever applicable, testimonials must be obtained and verified. Study the affiliate agreement and assess the organisations you are dealing with. Check their quality of service by sending them an email or calling them to see how quickly and how effectively they respond - or if they ever respond at all. Assess their affiliate products. There are sites which review, compare and recommend some great affiliate programs. You should be able to find some programs with the right categories of products to sell.
6) Good Content

Visitors to your website love good and informative content of our websites. Content is o¬ne of the most important aspects of attracting potential prospects to your web sites and prompting them to become your customers.

7) Relevancy Of The Products

As far as possible, choose affiliate programs which relate to what you are already doing, and then promote those products. 8) Seek Information Join relevant online discussion forums and seek information and advice from those who are already successful being an affiliate.

Once you have decided on the choice of the organisation and the product or services, proceed to prepare a business plan, set target of your goals, budget your expenditure, follow the instructions given, be fully committed and start your challenging but very interesting and rewarding journey in the Internet Business.

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Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #5 Sell More

Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #5 Sell More
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Internet marketing is so simple. Sometimes I think people over complicate it. I suppose we do this with everything in our lives so why not internet marketing and article marketing.

O.K. here is the simple version in a nutshell! The bottom line is Internet marketing is a numbers game.

To make money you need visitors coming to a website and buying something. One of the best ways to do that is to use your articles to market your business.

I'm not talking about writing sales letters for articles. What I am talking about is providing information in your articles that people find useful.

Remember the reason that people go on the Internet is to search for information. This is the number one reason they go online! Article marketing is a great way to provide the information that they are searching for.

If you can address a problem in an article, and then offer a solution, you've now become a trusted person to them. The natural thing for them to do at the end of your article is to see a link to your website and click on it.

What you should be doing is leading them either to a splash page and capturing a name for future follow up, or taking them to a pre sell page where you have an answer to the problem you just talked about.

Affiliate marketing works great with Article marketing too! But the proper way to do it is not to send your reader to your affiliate sales page, but to send them to a pre sell page where you get them in the buying mood.

This is really where the benefits of Article marketing can shine as much as anywhere else. Write your articles with the idea that you want to help your readers solve a problem.

Then create a short direct resource box designed to get them to click on the link you have provided for them. This is how you will sell more using article marketing.

I am amazed at how short the resource boxes are for some of the top authors in various article directories. They understand that if their reader has made it that far they need to wrap it up and get the click.

That is the only way you will make more sales from your article marketing efforts. You have got to get the click through to your website, landing page, blog, or wherever you are trying to send them.

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Is Starting a Small Business The Right Way For You?

Is Starting a Small Business The Right Way For You?
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You find most people set off to work for someone else every day although more and more are finding new careers by starting a small business.

Many with entrepreneurial skills and vision find tremendous satisfaction and success by owning and operating their own small home business.

Running a small business even from home involves a wide range of activities, including developing a business plan, overseeing sales and marketing, dealing with personnel, and innumerable administrative responsibilities.

If you think you're up to the challenge, owning your own business can be tremendously rewarding, both personally and professionally. Getting a new venture up and running takes particular business skills and personality traits.

If you are considering starting your own busi¬ness, the following questions may help you decide if you're up to the challenge.

Do You Have the Mindset?

Do you have organizing ability?

Are you prepared to wait several months or more before you make a profit?

Do you like to think ahead and plan for your future, then work to make it happen?

Are you psychologically ready to take some risk?

Do you have personal drive and leadership qualities?

Do you have special expertise in the business you want to start?

The right mindset is only the beginning. You'll need important busi¬ness skills as well. Do you know how to find your particular niche in the market and how to identify your customers?

Do you know how to sell enough of what you have, at a price that will return an adequate profit for you?

Although there are no guarantees, if you answered yes to most of these questions, you may have what it takes to be successful in start¬ing your own business. Just remember, every new business faces difficulties

Getting Started

Running a small business takes sharp business sense and tenacity. Knowing how to take advantage of market conditions and develop strategies to get through the tough times will help turn your great idea into a suc¬cessful business.

First, you'll need to develop a business plan, the road map you'll use to establish and guide your business. Consider every aspect of the busi¬ness, give some thought to the idea and ask every question you can think of, and be sure you come up with satisfactory answers.

What type of business do you want to start? Will it be retail, service or manufacturing?

What service or products will your business provide and what need will it fill?

Who are your potential customers going to be for your products or service and why will they purchase it from you?

What about the competition? Is the community large enough to support another similar business? Check out the local chamber of commerce and the yellow pages for details.

Where will you locate your business? Is there a similar business nearby? Get information on the community's plans for business growth, such as shopping malls and business park expansion.

Will you be able to find enough qualified people to employ? How will you sell to potential customers or clients? Where will you get the financial resources to start your business?

Get a clear and positive image in you mind of the most likely picture of what your business's future will be by using all available data and then write a business plan.

It's essential to have written a business plan. As painful as it might be to write, the busi¬ness plan will serve two critical purposes. Firstly to clarify your thoughts and secondly your business plan is your primary tool for securing financing

Starting your own business can be an exciting and rewarding that often brings financial success, along with a sense of accomplishment and contentment. Starting a business takes planning, determination, hard work and, maybe, just a little luck.

Go for it. And... good luck!

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Acting On A Work At Home Opportunity For Extra Income

Acting On A Work At Home Opportunity For Extra Income
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Being a stay at home parent sometimes leaves you feeling inadequate. It's not that you don't want to take care of your kids, but there should be something that you can do during your spare time that can earn some supplemental income to support your family. If you have a work at home opportunity for either a business or a home-based job, it's a good way to fill in those times that you're just idling about. The income will depend largely on the amount of time and effort that you spend on your job, and can even go as high as being able to match a full-time job in terms of pay.

Why Do It?

Online business is a common work at home opportunity that nearly everybody can do. All it takes is a small amount of business sense. Profit and capital are the things that pop into mind at first thought. However, if you do decide to go this route, make sure that you have your own niche and have a ready market for your business. Your idea won't get off the ground as quickly if you don't have a ready audience for your product or service, however, if there is a target market you want to enter, be prepared to face some competition as you go.

If you don't want to face the challenges of running your own business then you may want to consider employment as a work at home opportunity. Lots of legitimate enterprises employ persons wanting to work straight from home. The immediate advantage is that you have flexible work hours, and the time spent ranges from less than an hour to a few hours at the most. Check out different jobs like call center personnel or online marketing if this falls more into your work expectations.

Legality And Earning Power

Searching for legitimate jobs however is a bit more involved than that. Scams abound on the internet, and can quickly turn that work at home opportunity into a waste of time at best, or can con you out of your savings at worst. Get in touch with work at home organizations to see which jobs the members recommend. It's one of the surest ways you can use to get that home job type you can really do. And you won't waste so much time when in fact you'd be better off working than spending time just browsing around for jobs that actually pay good money.

The first and most common question in a work at home opportunity would probably be how much would that job or business get for you in concrete dollar terms? For most jobs, it's not enough to make ends meet solely out of your home job.

But then, the income generated, from as small as a thousand a month all the way to a few thousands, can still go a long way toward making your budget a little more flexible. And one more good thing about working from home is that you can still work AND accomplish those things that you gave up your job or business to do, like looking after children, keeping the house clean and doing the chores. It's those things that make having a home based job more fulfilling.

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Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #4 Blogging and Social Bookmarking

Benefits Of Article Marketing Series- #4 Blogging and Social Bookmarking
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No article marketing discussion today can leave out blogging and social bookmarking. You can benefit both from increased traffic and search engine bait from bookmarking your articles to relevant social directories.

When you look at your article marketing efforts it should include blogging and social bookmarking. The benefits of social bookmarking can include search engine bait as well as traffic from your various articles.

This is not an article about how to do social bookmarking or search engine optimization. What I do want to get across is that you can take your articles that you have written and rewrite them slightly and then post them on your blog. Try and make it about 30% unique and just your keyword phrase in the title of the blog post.

This makes sense to do because you want to keep everything on your website and blog unique. Your goal is to have all of your content from your articles different than what you are submitting to article directories or social bookmarking directories.

If you are not familiar with social bookmarking Google search the words "Digg, Propeller, Stumbleupon. These are three of the top directories to social bookmark each blog article too.
The point I want to make is that you can really get some great search engine benefit out of your articles if you keep them different from the ones that you are putting online anywhere else.

Right now, search engines love blogs as the rightly should. Good blog articles make a search engines job much easier.

They love to take a blog article and stick it on page 1 for relative keyword extremely quickly. You will be amazed once you start to do this how you can be on page 1 of various keyword phrases within 24 hours or less just from using article marketing and blogging.

The reason you want to social bookmark your blog article is because search engines are going to spider these large directories more often than they will spider your blog. You are creating a back link back to your blog, but they may rank the actual article that you have submitted to the social directory before they rank the one on your blog.

This is just another example of how article marketing can benefit your business when you take your articles and use them in various ways. If you don't have a blog yet you need to get one and start mastering social bookmarking techniques because they can help drive your traffic through the roof!

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Why Ebook Publishing Is the Fastest Way to Make Money Online

Why Ebook Publishing Is the Fastest Way to Make Money Online
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There are many different ways to earn a living via the World Wide Web these days. Some individuals sell items on auction websites whereas others engage in freelance writing for web content in order to bring home a paycheck. For those who express an interest in writing web content, one of the fastest ways to make money online is to do so by ebook publishing. There are a few reasons why this type of online publishing is the best and quickest way to gain an income online.

Can Be Published in a Quick Manner

As opposed to written text in a physical form such as books and magazines, ebooks are items which can be published in a quick manner. As soon as the writer is finished writing the ebook, they can be well on their way to having it published online. The way in which the Internet works allows individuals to take their ideas, whether it be in the form of ebook publishing or otherwise, and then put it online as soon as they are ready to do so. This quick way of publishing this variety of written material makes producing ebooks and getting paid for them a fast way to make money online.

Distributed to a Large Group of Individuals All At Once

Another reason why ebook publishing is the fastest way to make money online is that this type of web content can be distributed to a large group of individuals all at once. When the ebook is completely written, the next step of publishing the item can be easily done. Some individuals will sell the item on their website whereas others will go through online publishers in order to get the job done. No matter which route is chosen, the writer of the ebook will be able to provide all Internet users with the ability to view and purchase their ebook online. The more people who view and ultimately buy the ebook published online, the more money one will make in a speedy fashion.

Little or No Overhead Involved

Those who may be considering ebook publishing as a way to gain a quick income online will also find that they will be able to keep much of the money that is paid to them by purchasers due to the fact that there is little or no overhead involved. All that ebook writing and ultimately publishing really takes is one's time, creativity and perhaps a small fee if using an online publisher to advertise the ebook. Therefore, the less overhead that is involved, the more money the ebook writer will be able to keep.

Ebooks Can Be Sold Online On a Continual Basis

Another way that ebook publishing can be considered a fast way to make money online is that once it is written, the ebook can continually be sold online so long as the material does not become outdated. This means that the writer of the ebook can simply sit back and relax while their ebook basically sells itself. As opposed to a web content writer who has to constantly submit new articles and only be paid on a per article basis, ebook writers need only write the book once and then have it be sold time and time again online, usually for quite a favorable price.
This is another important reason why ebook publishing is the fastest way to make money online and something which all web content producers should considering doing.

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Why Build An Opt-In List?

Why Build An Opt-In List?
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Why should you build an opt-in list? Here are two huge reasons:

Firstly, because your list belongs to you once you've built it. It gives you security. Regardless of what changes the search engines make to their algorithms, you'll always have a source of really targeted traffic.

Secondly, having your own subscriber list gives you the opportunity to expose your visitors to your offers multiple times. Very few visitors will buy from you on their first visit to your site, so the more times you can advertise to them, the higher your chances of making a sale.

Basically the larger your list the more you'll make over a longer period of time.

Having your own large list of subscribers also gives you a competitive advantage over would be competitors. New entrants to your niche will find it hard to attract free traffic in the volumes your list will bring you. Visitors will therefore cost you less than your competition and this competitive advantage will make it harder for new entrants to establish themselves.

All serious online marketers should be focused on building a targeted opt-in list of their own. It gives you the foundation for longer term success. With a targeted list your sales should increase as you repeatedly pitch to targeted contacts.

Well written, regular emails should yield regular sales and profits, the majority of which wouldn't have happened without a list. Your list allows you to convert visitors who weren't going to make a purchase into sales. The majority of the traffic you generate to your web pages will visit once and never return, unless you get them to join your list. Most webmasters concentrate on generating new traffic and not on building their list which is crazy! They should be concentrating on converting visitors into list members.

Another huge benefit of having your own subscriber lists is that you will find it much easier to find joint venture partners. Joint ventures can be hugely beneficial. If you partner with someone who has a huge list of their own, you can promote each others products at no extra cost, literally overnight your product can be promoted to thousands of potential buyers! The bigger your own list, the more attractive a joint venture will be to the other party.

So how do you build a huge list?

Firstly you need an opt-in box on your web pages with a compelling reason for your visitors to subscribe. A compelling reason usually takes the form of information critical to your visitors, that they can only get hold of via your opt-in box.

Secondly you need traffic. For list building you need to encourage traffic virally. Basically viral traffic is generated by your visitors telling others about your offers for you. You provide an incentive for each new subscriber to tell others. A good incentive will snowball the growth of your list.

Building a huge list will guarantee you make money online, both in the short and longer term.

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