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Why are we failure in affiliate marketing.
People daily are trying affiliate marketing, and you may be one of them. It’s true that affiliate marketing is a very effective way of creating income online. When it works out, both the merchants and affiliates benefit on every sale.
Profiting from affiliate marketing is dependent on your advertising, promoting and your strategies for selling.
Affiliate marketing gets more competitive everyday, so you must find a way to counteract this. Our job is to find ways to be creative in our efforts. We must continue to use unique and effective ways to persuade buyers to purchase products.
The upside of affiliate programs is that they are more effective, involve little or no risk, are cost efficient, when compared to traditional advertising. Advertising is the most important part of affiliate marketing. Unfortunately, affiliates are meeting failure in affiliate marketing, and most of that comes from not enough hard work. Setting up an online business, like all businesses, requires hard work and dedication.
Here are a couple things you should look into, to ensure that you don’t meet failure in affiliate marketing.
1. Failure in affiliate marketing is also caused by a lack of preparation. A big part of preparation is researching. As an affiliate marketer, you should pick a product you’re interested in. This’ll ensure that you’ll have the right dedication to your affiliate products. You can get information by joining affiliate forums, comparing the affiliate products that are available and reading difference sources online. You should research out products that will convert sales at a high rate for you. Most affiliate networks, like Click Bank, have conversion rates.
2. One thing that can not be overlooked is your website. You should know what you’ll call it, the layout, the general design, the content and ads you’ll place. It’s important to have an easy to view and appealing site. Having an ugly site turns away visitors. Even if your site has the best content and offers, no one will pay attention if your site needs to look better.
3. You need to make sure your site has quality content. Content is very much KING in affiliate marketing. If your content is good, you’ll drive traffic to yourself. Content means having good information and combining it with good keywords that will draw in the search engines. You must absolutely hold your visitor’s attention! Otherwise they’ll never go to your affiliate program’s sales page.
4. Make sure you pick a good domain name for your site. Picking a bad name also turns off visitors. For instance, if your domain name doesn’t seem relevant to the content, people may not buy from you! Even if you have the best content and offers!
5. One of the most important things to do is continue with the learning process. There is always more to learn and it can’t be learned all at once. Improving your marketing strategies only improves your profit. Failure to keep learning can create overall failure. The internet and the way affiliate marketing is promoted changes all the time. We have to learn to adapt to these changes. Work on the basics, like advertising, setting up web pages, using pay per clicks and search engine optimization techniques. Always study your markets and see how you can best your competition.
6. Make sure not to give up! People sign on to affiliate programs daily with the hopes of instant wealth. When the wealth doesn’t come quickly, they quit, just as quick. Keep working hard and preserve, hard work and patience goes a long way!
by: Lee Torres
Profiting from affiliate marketing is dependent on your advertising, promoting and your strategies for selling.
Affiliate marketing gets more competitive everyday, so you must find a way to counteract this. Our job is to find ways to be creative in our efforts. We must continue to use unique and effective ways to persuade buyers to purchase products.
The upside of affiliate programs is that they are more effective, involve little or no risk, are cost efficient, when compared to traditional advertising. Advertising is the most important part of affiliate marketing. Unfortunately, affiliates are meeting failure in affiliate marketing, and most of that comes from not enough hard work. Setting up an online business, like all businesses, requires hard work and dedication.
Here are a couple things you should look into, to ensure that you don’t meet failure in affiliate marketing.
1. Failure in affiliate marketing is also caused by a lack of preparation. A big part of preparation is researching. As an affiliate marketer, you should pick a product you’re interested in. This’ll ensure that you’ll have the right dedication to your affiliate products. You can get information by joining affiliate forums, comparing the affiliate products that are available and reading difference sources online. You should research out products that will convert sales at a high rate for you. Most affiliate networks, like Click Bank, have conversion rates.
2. One thing that can not be overlooked is your website. You should know what you’ll call it, the layout, the general design, the content and ads you’ll place. It’s important to have an easy to view and appealing site. Having an ugly site turns away visitors. Even if your site has the best content and offers, no one will pay attention if your site needs to look better.
3. You need to make sure your site has quality content. Content is very much KING in affiliate marketing. If your content is good, you’ll drive traffic to yourself. Content means having good information and combining it with good keywords that will draw in the search engines. You must absolutely hold your visitor’s attention! Otherwise they’ll never go to your affiliate program’s sales page.
4. Make sure you pick a good domain name for your site. Picking a bad name also turns off visitors. For instance, if your domain name doesn’t seem relevant to the content, people may not buy from you! Even if you have the best content and offers!
5. One of the most important things to do is continue with the learning process. There is always more to learn and it can’t be learned all at once. Improving your marketing strategies only improves your profit. Failure to keep learning can create overall failure. The internet and the way affiliate marketing is promoted changes all the time. We have to learn to adapt to these changes. Work on the basics, like advertising, setting up web pages, using pay per clicks and search engine optimization techniques. Always study your markets and see how you can best your competition.
6. Make sure not to give up! People sign on to affiliate programs daily with the hopes of instant wealth. When the wealth doesn’t come quickly, they quit, just as quick. Keep working hard and preserve, hard work and patience goes a long way!
by: Lee Torres
Bomb scare at Ebay HQ.
EBay's company headquarters on Hamilton Avenue in San Jose, California has just been evacuated due to a suspicious looking package.
The 200+ employees at the online auction's HQ have all been escorted out, the bomb squad escorted in. "One suspicious package was discovered. We immediately evacuated the mailroom...the building remains evacuated at this point," said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy, according to Reuters.
Last year, during Halloween night, a bomb went ka-pow over at eBay's PayPal headquarters, so with good read they're taking today's threat very seriously.
The 200+ employees at the online auction's HQ have all been escorted out, the bomb squad escorted in. "One suspicious package was discovered. We immediately evacuated the mailroom...the building remains evacuated at this point," said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy, according to Reuters.
Last year, during Halloween night, a bomb went ka-pow over at eBay's PayPal headquarters, so with good read they're taking today's threat very seriously.
Tips on maintaining and growing an RSS Feed Subscriber base
13 Tips to Maintaining and Growing an RSS Feed Subscriber Base
by S. Housley - Copyright 2007 S. Housley
You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.
1. Original Content
A consistent stream of original content will do well to earn subscribers loyalty. The best RSS feeds provide content that is compelling and unique. Do not rehash existing content, look for a unique angle or spin if you wish to cover something that is hot in the blogosphere.
2. Quality Over Frequency
A posts quality is far more important than a post's frequency. Readers will tire of rambling or nonsensical posts that contain no real value. Time is precious and there are plenty of feeds and blogs, in order to retain readers provide quality not quantity.
3. Get it Right
Syndication has the power to do damage; misquoting or just plain getting it wrong can affect your reputation and perpetuate incorrect information. Be sure to verify all your RSS feed and blogs information prior to posting.
4. Literate
Blog posts are not instant messages: you should always use proper grammar, correct spelling and punctuation. Your posts are a reflection of your knowledge; content presentation matters and will affect how you are viewed.
5. Griping
Do not constantly gripe, no one likes a whiner. If you are going to complain it is not enough to point out problems, you should offer a suggestion for improvement or specifics on how to solve a problem.
6. Balance
Titles of RSS Feed Items and Headlines of blog posts should relate to the contents of the actual post. There is nothing worse than just tempting readers with information and not following through. Use catchy titles but be sure to follow it with related content. In your actual posts, strike a balance be sure to provide enough information without overwhelming readers.
7. Focus
Regardless of your RSS feeds focus' stay on topic! Your feed or blog posts will generally revolve around a specific theme, don't stray too far or you might lose readers. If your RSS feed has a specific theme, stay true to that theme.
8. Length Matters
Not too long, not too short it is a difficult balance, but your post length does matter! If a post is excessively long consider breaking it up or partitioning it into easy to digest paragraphs or break it up into multiple posts. Post length should be consistent throughout your blog and feed. Try not to vary it too much.
9. Credibility
As a publisher, you want to be viewed as a credible source. Posting or reposting inaccurate information will reduce if not nullify any credibility that you have. Provide credentials when offering an opinion and be sure any factual information is accurate before posting.
10. Link
Include links to any related information in the description field of your RSS feed, this is a great way to supplement content. Outgoing links will also often result in links back to your blog or website.
11. Consistency
It is important to remain consistent, try not to vary too much in your daily posts. Stay true to your formula for content if it is working .
12. Listen to Your Audience
Readers will often communicate what they like and what they dislike about your content. It is important that you stay in tune with what your subscribers like and don't like and make the appropriate accommodations.
13. Advertisements
Do not clutter your RSS feed with advertisements. If you choose to include advertisements in your RSS feed be sure to strike a balance between advertisements and quality content.
Starting an RSS feed or is not difficult to attract readers, it is however difficult to retain readers. By following a few simple unwritten rules you will find your subscriber base swell.
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About the Author: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for RecordForAll http://www.recordforall.com audio recording and editing software
by S. Housley - Copyright 2007 S. Housley
You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.
1. Original Content
A consistent stream of original content will do well to earn subscribers loyalty. The best RSS feeds provide content that is compelling and unique. Do not rehash existing content, look for a unique angle or spin if you wish to cover something that is hot in the blogosphere.
2. Quality Over Frequency
A posts quality is far more important than a post's frequency. Readers will tire of rambling or nonsensical posts that contain no real value. Time is precious and there are plenty of feeds and blogs, in order to retain readers provide quality not quantity.
3. Get it Right
Syndication has the power to do damage; misquoting or just plain getting it wrong can affect your reputation and perpetuate incorrect information. Be sure to verify all your RSS feed and blogs information prior to posting.
4. Literate
Blog posts are not instant messages: you should always use proper grammar, correct spelling and punctuation. Your posts are a reflection of your knowledge; content presentation matters and will affect how you are viewed.
5. Griping
Do not constantly gripe, no one likes a whiner. If you are going to complain it is not enough to point out problems, you should offer a suggestion for improvement or specifics on how to solve a problem.
6. Balance
Titles of RSS Feed Items and Headlines of blog posts should relate to the contents of the actual post. There is nothing worse than just tempting readers with information and not following through. Use catchy titles but be sure to follow it with related content. In your actual posts, strike a balance be sure to provide enough information without overwhelming readers.
7. Focus
Regardless of your RSS feeds focus' stay on topic! Your feed or blog posts will generally revolve around a specific theme, don't stray too far or you might lose readers. If your RSS feed has a specific theme, stay true to that theme.
8. Length Matters
Not too long, not too short it is a difficult balance, but your post length does matter! If a post is excessively long consider breaking it up or partitioning it into easy to digest paragraphs or break it up into multiple posts. Post length should be consistent throughout your blog and feed. Try not to vary it too much.
9. Credibility
As a publisher, you want to be viewed as a credible source. Posting or reposting inaccurate information will reduce if not nullify any credibility that you have. Provide credentials when offering an opinion and be sure any factual information is accurate before posting.
10. Link
Include links to any related information in the description field of your RSS feed, this is a great way to supplement content. Outgoing links will also often result in links back to your blog or website.
11. Consistency
It is important to remain consistent, try not to vary too much in your daily posts. Stay true to your formula for content if it is working .
12. Listen to Your Audience
Readers will often communicate what they like and what they dislike about your content. It is important that you stay in tune with what your subscribers like and don't like and make the appropriate accommodations.
13. Advertisements
Do not clutter your RSS feed with advertisements. If you choose to include advertisements in your RSS feed be sure to strike a balance between advertisements and quality content.
Starting an RSS feed or is not difficult to attract readers, it is however difficult to retain readers. By following a few simple unwritten rules you will find your subscriber base swell.
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About the Author: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for RecordForAll http://www.recordforall.com audio recording and editing software
UYMG Malaysia - final day.
Final day of UYMG Malaysia.
Stephen gave us more information on traffic generation, how to get articles for our bloggers and more traffic generation.
There were only two speakers :-
1. Sandhan touch on 'Success Navigation System' a road map to our vision for success.
After the break, we had Jaz Lai. He gave information on List Building.
It's a very useful presentation, as most of his stuff goes on auto-pilot to build a list.
It was a very good UYMG covering various aspect of Internet Marketing and ways to change of mindset.
I would recommend this seminar to anyone who is interested in Internet Marketing, and self-improvement..... I definitely is looking forward to next year UYMG Malaysia.
Stephen gave us more information on traffic generation, how to get articles for our bloggers and more traffic generation.
There were only two speakers :-
1. Sandhan touch on 'Success Navigation System' a road map to our vision for success.
After the break, we had Jaz Lai. He gave information on List Building.
It's a very useful presentation, as most of his stuff goes on auto-pilot to build a list.
It was a very good UYMG covering various aspect of Internet Marketing and ways to change of mindset.
I would recommend this seminar to anyone who is interested in Internet Marketing, and self-improvement..... I definitely is looking forward to next year UYMG Malaysia.
UYMG Malaysia 2007 - 3rd day.
This is the third day. Internet connection was slow so we had problem with some hands-on work.
Anyway the day start off with an inspirational video, and then Stephen gave us more tips on traffic generation.
Followed by the following speakers :-
1. Melissa Heweton touch on the power of Laws of Attraction. It has nothing to do with Internet Marketing instead she provided good information on the Laws of Attraction.
2. After the break another local boy, Patric Chan taught us how to conquer the niche market. He introduced to us the Niche Marketing 2.0. I guess this is a new hype compared to Web 2.0.
3. Ken 'The Storm' Shimizu, a Japanese, residing in Australia, gave us information on leadership.
4. A half an hour tips by Sern Yi on marketing your products on forum. He share with us how we can sell our products in a forum.
A long day, but very informative one!
Tomorrow the final day of the seminar, so stay tune.....
Anyway the day start off with an inspirational video, and then Stephen gave us more tips on traffic generation.
Followed by the following speakers :-
1. Melissa Heweton touch on the power of Laws of Attraction. It has nothing to do with Internet Marketing instead she provided good information on the Laws of Attraction.
2. After the break another local boy, Patric Chan taught us how to conquer the niche market. He introduced to us the Niche Marketing 2.0. I guess this is a new hype compared to Web 2.0.
3. Ken 'The Storm' Shimizu, a Japanese, residing in Australia, gave us information on leadership.
4. A half an hour tips by Sern Yi on marketing your products on forum. He share with us how we can sell our products in a forum.
A long day, but very informative one!
Tomorrow the final day of the seminar, so stay tune.....
UYMG Malaysia 2007
This is the second day of the UYMG Malaysia 2007. If you to not know what is UYMG, it stands for Unleash Your Marketing Genius, and it is a Internet Marketing seminar by Stephen Pierce.
First day we had speakers such as Mike Filsaime, his bestseller ebook, Butterfly Marketing and Greg Cesar expert on Goolge Adwords. These are excellent speakers!
Second day and Stephen Pierce has given us some tips on traffic generation and positioning ourself in the Internet Marketing arena. There were a mix of speakers such as
1. Dave Lakhani, specialise in the art of persuasion
2. Chris Guerriero, gave us tips on how to be an author of a book/ebook.
3. Inanna Lawton, on conditioning your brain to be successful. We had a short experiment on bring in our sub-conscious mind, and what an experience. We were brought into a 'deep sleep' like to bring in the hungry items into play.
4. Finally a local boy, Jason Tan, taught us steps in setting up a blog. Very useful exercise for newbies.
The seminar will last until Monday, so stay tune for more updates and photos.
First day we had speakers such as Mike Filsaime, his bestseller ebook, Butterfly Marketing and Greg Cesar expert on Goolge Adwords. These are excellent speakers!
Second day and Stephen Pierce has given us some tips on traffic generation and positioning ourself in the Internet Marketing arena. There were a mix of speakers such as
1. Dave Lakhani, specialise in the art of persuasion
2. Chris Guerriero, gave us tips on how to be an author of a book/ebook.
3. Inanna Lawton, on conditioning your brain to be successful. We had a short experiment on bring in our sub-conscious mind, and what an experience. We were brought into a 'deep sleep' like to bring in the hungry items into play.
4. Finally a local boy, Jason Tan, taught us steps in setting up a blog. Very useful exercise for newbies.
The seminar will last until Monday, so stay tune for more updates and photos.
FREE software to protect your download
If you’re looking to protect your download and a way to verify your payment through Paypal, look no further.
Download this FREE software ‘ PayGuardFree ‘ by Dan Moran.
The software has a one page control panel, automatic integration with PayPal and the PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) system, and automatic protection of your downloadable digital products.
Before you go, let me tell you a new site.
This site is launching this Tuesday (9/18) and it’s open for registrations and registration is FREE.
This site is related to building an online business, increasing traffic, monetizing your websites, blogging, web design... in short, they sell all things Internet Marketing.
Affiliate with this site and earn commissions when you refer buyers to them. It comes with a 2 tier commission. When you refer others to them and they get their free account, they are marked in the system as having been referred by you. Anything that they ever buy from this site nets you a 35% commission.
I have not seen any ‘BIG GUNS’ promoting this, so the playing field is still very open.
Download this FREE software ‘ PayGuardFree ‘ by Dan Moran.
The software has a one page control panel, automatic integration with PayPal and the PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) system, and automatic protection of your downloadable digital products.
Before you go, let me tell you a new site.
This site is launching this Tuesday (9/18) and it’s open for registrations and registration is FREE.
This site is related to building an online business, increasing traffic, monetizing your websites, blogging, web design... in short, they sell all things Internet Marketing.
Affiliate with this site and earn commissions when you refer buyers to them. It comes with a 2 tier commission. When you refer others to them and they get their free account, they are marked in the system as having been referred by you. Anything that they ever buy from this site nets you a 35% commission.
I have not seen any ‘BIG GUNS’ promoting this, so the playing field is still very open.
Do you know what 3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online ?
Every affiliate marketers are looking for a successful market where they can make money. There is no ready magic formula but good marketing pratices.
Here are three marketing tactics :-
1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.
Do a product review on the website so that potential buyers will know what the product can do for them. Another good way to get reviews is to include testimonials from other users who have already tried the product.
2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.
Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their in boxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.
3. Get targeted traffic to your product.
How? Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the averafe statistic.
The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.
Here are three marketing tactics :-
1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.
Do a product review on the website so that potential buyers will know what the product can do for them. Another good way to get reviews is to include testimonials from other users who have already tried the product.
2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.
Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their in boxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.
3. Get targeted traffic to your product.
How? Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the averafe statistic.
The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.
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"I understand where you are. But the worst mistake of your life would be to back out and quit.
Listen, nobody is exempt of having to build their business. Nobody is exempt of having to push through that launching pad. Think about a space shuttle on the launching pad.
The reason the space shuttle has those two extra boosters is because it takes more energy and more effort to get off the pad than it does to sustain itself when it's in the air.
It's just like that with business. It takes more effort, more work and more resources to get it
started and get it going than it does to sustain it once you've created the momentum.
But unfortunately, most people give up before they even get off of the launching pad."
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Here is a sample from his report :-
"I understand where you are. But the worst mistake of your life would be to back out and quit.
Listen, nobody is exempt of having to build their business. Nobody is exempt of having to push through that launching pad. Think about a space shuttle on the launching pad.
The reason the space shuttle has those two extra boosters is because it takes more energy and more effort to get off the pad than it does to sustain itself when it's in the air.
It's just like that with business. It takes more effort, more work and more resources to get it
started and get it going than it does to sustain it once you've created the momentum.
But unfortunately, most people give up before they even get off of the launching pad."
Continue reading the full 9 pages here...
==> http://the-whole-truth.com/ct/t.php?l=365
Get one of THE BEST RESOURCES for Your Internet Business!
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If Stephen can make $1,000,000 in less than 1 hour,
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