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July 01, 2009

Affiliate Marketing Is The Best Way to Make Money

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money that I know of. Basically, all I have to do is send web site visitors to a web page built by someone else. On that web page, someone is selling products I don't have to stock. Then, they sell the item, ship the product out, and handle everything for me - bliss!

And then I make money when they persuade the person to buy. Pretty cool, right?

Yet still lots of people struggle to make money using this method.

So what are the challenges here?

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September 19, 2008

Twitter: How To Link Ezine Articles To Post On Twitter

This is a quick video I put together based on Alex Mandossian's post about how to link your Ezine Articles approved articles to your Twitter profile. This will bring your articles more exposure, which should bring more exposure to whatever product or service you're offering.

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July 13, 2008

Optimization Advice and Basics: Google Offers Adsense Optimization Advice

Google Adsense recently published some basic beginner guidelines for getting listed in Google.

Among these are to add a Google site map to your site and to use Google's webmastering tools.

As well, they talk about the benefits of having appropriate title tags and appropriate ALT image tags for your site (Two things we've discussed here previously at Affiliate Advice).

However, it can be difficult (assuming you're using static methods of building pages) to update your Google site map every time you build new pages for your site.

This is why I recommend building your site using a content management system like Wordpress or Movable Type.

And below, I have posted the code you will need for building a Google Map with WordPress or Movable Type.

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February 16, 2008

Recruiting JV Partners - Sage Advice from Mark Widawer

My friend Mark Widawer sent out some GREAT advice about how to get JV Partners to work with you.

I liked what he had to say A LOT, so I'm re-posting here.

Again, if you're looking for JV partners, this is GREAT Advice!

(The only thing I would add to it is to say that a great way to get someone to become a JV and promote your stuff, is to become an affiliate for their products and services and promote their stuff first.)

I have one big Internet marketer I've been bugging for almost a year now to get his affiliate program set up so that I can be a JV and promote his stuff.

I've never promoted for him, because his affiliate program doesn't work at the moment, but I send him an email about once a month to say that I'd really like to be a JV for him, and to ask when his affiliate program will be up and running.

He always responds back and lets me know that he appreciates my persistence and is glad that I want to JV with him.

I'm not annoying about it, just a gentle reminder.

When it comes time to ask for help promoting my stuff, do you think he might be more receptive to it than if I approach him out of the blue?

Of course!

Mark Widawer has another suggestion for getting JV partners - and that is right below.


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Ever send emails to potential JV partners and never get a reply back?

Here's how to get around that problem, and to truly and genuinely be known as a "Giver," too.

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February 04, 2008

Aweber Systems Autoresponders: Are Lists Managed Better By Free Email Autoresponder Software?

AWeber Systems

For many online businesses (and I would argue for all online businesses who want to stay in business), an autoresponder is a necessary tool. An autoresponder (or software or system which controls multiple autoresponders), can do many amazing things for building relationships and segregating markets.

An autoresponder:
- manages databases of current and prospective customers
- enables a business to send personalized emails, either to a selected group of these customers or to all of them at one time
- automatically responds to incoming requests and comments, including the request to unsubscribe.

An autoresponder should also be able to send blog entries as emails for those readers who prefer to receive blog entries via email. This is known as an RSS-to-email service, and a good autoresponder should include tracking software to measure the performance of these emails and any ads contained within them.

One of the most highly regarded autoresponders currently available is AWeber. To illustrate, when I began searching the Internet for information for this article, I was astonished to find no negative feedback about Aweber Systems - none at all.

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February 02, 2008

1ShoppingCart: A Review of 1ShoppingCart, and a discount/promo code for 1 ShoppingCart's services

1ShoppingCart

What Norton Utilities is to maintaining a hard drive, 1ShoppingCart is to running an ecommerce business: a suite of all-inclusive programs designed to do everything that's necessary for the task.

Side note: Go to www.ZShoppingCart.com for a thirty-day trial for only $3.95.

Founded in January 2000 in Eugene, Oregon, One Shopping Cart's major component is the shopping cart software, designed to plug into a new or existing website and allow businesses to sell up to 10,000 products of their own.

This also includes an option for automatic ebook delivery/digital product downloads.

1ShoppingCart calculates shipping and sales tax, allows coupons and discounts, prints invoices and packing slips, and sends customers an email receipt while notifying the seller and his drop-shipper. It also contains a database for affiliates and existing and prospective customers for broadcast emailing, all with high data security fully certified by Visa.

An additional level of ecommerce utility is provided by 1ShoppingCart's Internet marketing tools. Their autoresponder facility harvests email subscribers via online forms, scores emails for spam prior to sending, broadcasts emails and newsletters, and automatically identifies undeliverable ones.

Other marketing tools include ad effectiveness tracking, a pop-up wizard, affiliate tracking software capable of handling multiple sales programs (though 1ShoppingCart's affiliate module can take a little time to learn), up-sell and cross-sell modules ("Would you like fries with that?"), and a questionnaire facility for market research.

This is a powerful ecommerce software suite, and coupled with a credit card acceptance account (also available through 1ShoppingCart), it's basically a "business in a box" all you do is supply the product and the marketing to make the tool sell your stuff for you.

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December 20, 2007

What Are ALT tags, And How Can They Help My Site?

Can you tell me what alt tags are in images or where I can get info on that?

Is this something I can just paste into the html of the images I get from merchants, in order for my site content to be recognized?

Gayle

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Mark Joyner's Viral Marketing Tactic On Blogging

So Mark Joyner (who I think I can call a friend at this point... though I've only met him on a few occasions... but did get to have lunch with him twice) has confessed that he isn't a good blogger.

To that I say, "huh?"

I didn't think that about him. Since his launch of "Atomic Mind Bombs", I thought that he would be like a go-to resource on blogging, but he says he's not.

Anyway, Mark's using a viral marketing strategy to get lots of backlinks and get people to post on their blogs about his blogging course that he's written, which he says is a serious credibility gap, since he is a self-professed "official blogging moron".

Hmmm...

Here's the crazy thing.

It must be working.

Why?

I'm blogging about it, just so I can get my free copy.

Actually, Mark has been of trememdous help to me in my Internet Marketing career, and I don't mind sending him free traffic at all, especially to get the one or two things in his blogging course which I may not know already. So... here's the ad below that he gave me, and if you go to the site, and blog about his course, he'll send a copy of it to you for free too.

Mark's a good guy, and sticks to what he says he will do, so you should probably blog about it and get the course for free as well.

Viral marketing at it's best. Way to go Mark Joyner and Co.

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December 18, 2007

Creating a Privacy Policy For Free

Hi Jonathan,

I am an affiliate marketer, and have a web site already.

What I don't have is a privacy policy. I've been told that I need one.

Is this true? Do I actually need a privacy policy even if I'm just doing affiliate marketing?

AND, if yes, do you know how I can get a privacy policy done for cheap or free?

Thanks,
Jane

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December 16, 2007

How To: Opening Web Pages In A New Window

Hi Jonathan,

I know this may be a very basic web page/web design question, so forgive me if it is.

But, I can't seem to find an answer anywhere.

When someone clicks on an affiliate link from my web site, they are always taken to another web page, and they leave my site. How do I get the web page to open in a new window?

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December 12, 2007

I'm only 17. How can I do Affiliate Marketing?

Hey Jonathan.
I wanna become a affiliate marketer. Some friends of mine told me about it, and I figure its way better than McD's or some job like that.

But I am only 17 years old. Every site I have found, you have to be 18.

Is there a way around this?

Johnny
-Knoxville

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December 10, 2007

5 Ways To Make Affiliate Money Without My Own Website?

This is from an interview I did with Carrie, who asked me a bunch of questions she has heard people ask me over and over about affiliate marketing.

This is verbatim from a call recording I did with her.

I've been posting the answers to these questions over the past few days.

Q: I don't have a website, can you give me a few, maybe 5 ways, that I can make money using an Affiliate Network, or an affiliate program, without a website?

AffiliateAdvice: Sure! Ok, one good way would be if you...There are all these article websites on the internet. You could go sign up for one of these article websites and publish an article on that website and at the bottom you have the option to send traffic back to a website using what's called a Resource Box. And in the Resource Box, you could actually put your Affiliate Link. Now over time, some of the article websites have stopped people from doing this because they realized that they are just loading up the article websites with spam and junk.

But if you were to set up a web address, you know, www.whatever, you can go set up a web address at GoDaddy without actually setting up a website, and you can just redirect that web address to your Affiliate Link. That would be one way to do it, is just by publishing articles and sending that traffic to your Affiliate Link.

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December 09, 2007

What is the Best Tool to Make Money Online?

This is from an interview I did with Carrie, who asked me a bunch of questions she has heard people ask me over and over about affiliate marketing.

I'll be posting the answers to these questions over the next few days


Q: What is the best tool or resource that someone can have in order to use an Affiliate Marketing Network to make money?

AffiliateAdvice: I would say a website. If I want to go partner with an Affiliate Network, the best tool that I can really have is a website where it's easy for me to publish content to that website.

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December 08, 2007

What is Affiliate Marketing, and What is An Affiliate Marketing Network

This is from an interview I did with Carrie, who asked me a bunch of questions she has heard people ask me over and over.

I'll be posting the answers to these questions over the next few days.

Affiliate Marketing is basically the idea that there are people who want to sell stuff on the Internet and people who want to buy stuff on the Internet. And then there are people in the middle who know how to communicate ideas and concepts to the people who want to buy stuff. And so the people in the middle connect the people who want to buy stuff with the people who have stuff to sell.

Because maybe the people who have stuff to sell, maybe if I sell Harley Davidson motorcycle accessories, I don't want to get good at marketing on the Internet. So I have someone, I'm willing to pay someone if they deliver me someone who actually buys; I'm willing to pay that person a percentage of whatever they deliver to me.

So that's kind of the idea, it's basically a paid salesperson on the Internet - it's just leveraging the power of the Internet to create that kind of income coming in without necessarily having, you know shaking hands, or cold-call or something to get this person to actually buy from the vendor. So, I'm in the middle.

An Affiliate Marketing Network then is another step in that process. So let's say there's the guy who has the Harley Davidson motorcycle part, and he doesn't know how to get in touch with me, who's communicating with the buyer, so there's a middle-ground, a network, that he can go to this Affiliate Network and say, hey, I want you to show me how to setup all the tracking code and all the stuff on my site and I want you to go out and recruit people who will talk to the people who will buy from me.

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December 03, 2007

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: Video 1

I created this video while teaching my friend Kevin how to get started with his own affiliate marketing/Internet Marketing business.

I could lie and say that you'll have thousands of dollars in your bank account tomorrow (like some marketers do - in order to get you to buy their programs), but the fact is that most people aren't going to become instantly wealthy overnight, and this is especially true of new internet marketers.

But what if you could add an extra $500 to your bank account every month?

And, what if you could take what you learned and over the next few months, grow that $500/month into $1,000/month?

And, what if you could take that learning and turn your part-time affiliate income into a full-time affiliate business, and figure out how to earn as much as $5,000/month, with just a little more time investment?

And then grow that to $10,000/month, and have the freedom and flexibility to travel, and build your business wherever you have a high-speed Internet connection?

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November 24, 2007

What is Affiliate Marketing: The Basics of Affiliate Marketing and Affiliate networks

A guy named Joel Gehman originally wrote an article back in 2000, and I thought it had a good answer to the question of what is affiliate marketing.

This is a question I field ALL the time, and I wanted to just start steering people into an article, instead of always offering the same explanation over and over.

But, Joel Gehman's site (AffiliateHandbook.com), and well as his contact information, seem to have gone missing.

This article is loosely based on Joel's article, but has been modified around the more modern state of affiliate marketing. (Giving credit where it's due, I have included some of his article here, because it helps people understand the background for how affiliate marketing works today.)

What exactly is affiliate marketing? And how can affiliate marketing be used in an industry in order to improve business?

Well, what affiliate marketing is today started with Amazon in 1996...

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