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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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November 14, 2008

How To Analyze Traffic to Your Website

Analyzing Traffic to Your Website
by Diego Norte

Figuring out traffic statistics is a necessary part of your marketing responsibilities if you want to succeed online. It's an obvious course of action but one that many webmasters fail to act upon. Taking advantage of other people's neglect will help you dominate the competition.

There really isn't any excuse not to be proactive in evaluating the amount of traffic your are receiving, what target audience is visiting and what areas of concern you need to improve to ensure you are bringing in the right people. This also helps you work on getting more quality traffic.

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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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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 07, 2007

Here Comes Another Bubble: The Richter Scales

Here Comes Another Bubble, by the Richter Scales

There is no question about it. There is a big boom coming and already here in the tech industry.

If you follow historical trends, this begins the next great upswing in the global economy, before a major global crash.

I'm not being Doom and Gloom here, but it's just a fact when you really look at trends in the world and see how things have been running for the past 800 years or so.

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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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September 03, 2007

Dumping Affiliates Who Don't Produce

Shawn Collins posted on the Affiliate Tip blog some thoughts about an affiliate manager wanting to dump inactive affiliates. I started typing a comment on his post, and apparently I have some strong feelings about this, so I've decided to share those feelings here, as well.

Begin rant
From an affiliate's perspective, it's incredibly annoying to be removed from a program where I was a big producer, and then maybe haven't produced anything for a couple of months. And without any warning or notification from the company, I am simply removed from the program. That means...

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May 21, 2007

How To Optimize Landing Pages So That Google And The Other Search Engines Will Bring Targeted Traffic

by Mark Widawer
"Landing Page Cash Machine"

There's no substitute for getting good keywords on your website. In my workshop I just recently had an insider's guide on knowing your customer, and I've got to tell you, as time goes on, the more people ask me questions, the more often the answer comes back to the basic idea that you really have to understand and know your customer.

Let's say if you're selling digital cameras and you have a page all about Canon L400, (I don't even know if that's a real model number,) and all it does is talk about the Canon L400, then people searching for the keyphrase "digital camera" aren't going to find that page, because the main keywords on that page are going to be Canon L400.

Let's think about that for a moment. What state of mind is somebody in who's searching for digital cameras,? The state of mind that person has is, "Hmm, I think I'd like to buy a new digital camera, and I'm curious about digital cameras." They're not at all ready to buy.

On the other hand, somebody who searches for "Canon digital camera" pretty much knows "so-and-so friend" has recommended a Canon digital camera to them and they want to find out more about the Canon.

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May 18, 2007

How to Get Testimonials for a Product that is Brand New

by Mark Widawer
"Landing Page Cash Machine"

Creating momentum with a new product is sometimes a difficult thing to do, but the issue with a new product is really about trust and credibility. For me, establishing trust and credibility really goes back to the idea of testimonials.

There are two kinds of testimonials. There are testimonials from experts and there are testimonials from other people "just like me." What you would like to get ideally are testimonials from both kinds of people.

A testimonial from an expert you can get by calling them up or sending them an email and saying, "I have this new product. I would very much like it if I could get a testimonial from you. As a thank-you I'd like to send you a preview copy of the product. Would you please read this or look at this or whatever and send me testimonial."

You'd be surprised at how many people will be willing to do that for you, in addition to giving you some great feedback about how you can improve your product.

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May 17, 2007

This Is Just Too Funny!

Microsoft AdCenter launched a video about advertisers and consumers called "The Break Up."

Old world meets new world.

Cracks me up, and sends an important message about actually engaging your customers in a dialogue.



May 14, 2007

How To Distinguish Your Website From Others That Are Selling Exactly the Same Thing

by Mark Widawer
From "Landing Page Cash Machine"

There are a few different elements to making sure your web site stands out from other sites which are selling the same product as you. The main thing you can do is to take a look at what everybody else does, and do everything differently with respect to the easy way out that they usually take.

What a lot of people will do is put up a sales page that offers all of these different kinds of things, all at one time, and not really hone in on who their customer is.

That's what the problem was with the red shoe survey that I did for Affiliate Summit. The random phrase that I picked for the survey was "red shoes," and I searched for that. Then I looked at all the Google AdWords ads that came up on the first page, and the websites that people were taken to when they clicked.

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How Not To Do A Value Build

How Not To Do A Value-Build For Your Product Or Service
by Mark Widawer
"Landing Page Cash Machine"


People are often confused about how and why they should put a value build into their offers. Basically, the idea is that you want to build the value of the item before you ask for the sale. This is a basic sales tactic, and it's an important tactic to know if you're going to build business on the web.

Doing a value build is extremely helpful, and in other articles I've talked about how to do a value build. But in this article, I want to share with you how not to do a value build.

The way you don't do a value build is, "I was thinking of selling my really great e-book for $1,000, but I had another thought and I figured, you know what, it would probably be better at $300, and then I decided I would discount that to $150, but today only it's $29.95."

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May 12, 2007

Make Them Want To Buy From You

by Mark Widawer
"Landing Page Cash Machine"

When someone lands on your web site, you want to make them want to buy from you.

How do you MAKE them do anything that they don't want to do?

Well, If you really start thinking about what somebody is looking for when they come to your website, you should be able to figure out what it is that you want to say to them. This is important to know, because in the answer to the question is the answer to how you convert them from a visitor into a buyer.

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May 10, 2007

What Is A Value Build And How Do You Build It Into Your Web Site's Sale And Bonuses

by Mark Widawer.
"Landing Page Cash Machine",

People are often confused about how and why they should put a value build into their offers. Basically, the idea is that you want to build the value of the item before you ask for the sale. This is a basic sales tactic, and it's an important tactic to know if you're going to build business on the web.

So, let's say you sell sports team floor mats. A value build would be something like this: "This is the same kind of floor mat that is actually used in the stadium. The stadium, when they buy them, they're actually paying $100 each for them because it's made with this, that, and the other thing, and they have them specially done."

"We make them exactly the same way, but instead of paying $100, ours are just $31.99, and besides that it's really just $24.88."

Now what you've done there is you've put in somebody's head, "Wow, this is a $100 floor mat." You've built the value of the item before you're asking for the sale. Hopefully you get that, and once you do a value build, then what you do - and by the way, this applies to physical products, digital products, anything - once you've done the value build, then you say, "And here's how much it is."

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May 09, 2007

How Can I Improve the conversion of visitors into buyers on my web site

People often ask me what the #1 thing is that they can do to improve the conversion of visitors into buyers on their web site.

I spoke at the Affiliate Summit earlier this year in Las Vegas. At the Affiliate Summit I was talking specifically about how affiliates and merchants can work more closely together to create more sales.

What I did in order to prepare for this is I just decided to do a little bit of a survey. In that survey what I did was I just searched for a phrase. The random phrase that I picked was "red shoes," and I searched for that. Then I looked at all the Google AdWords ads that came up on the first page, and the websites that people were taken to when they clicked.

What I found was really a tragedy. Of the ten websites that I clicked on and visited, there was only one that took me to a page that specifically had red shoes. Several of them took me to their home pages, where I had to search all over again for red shoes.

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How to Establish Trust with your list

by Mark Widawer
LandingPageCashMachine

How you get someone to not only give you their name and email address, but also their phone number, street address, and other information depends a lot on what it is that you're trying to get them to opt into.

The answer, though, in general, is a little bit at a time.

The thing you have to keep in mind when you're trying to get an opt-in or sell something online is that by default people don't trust you. It's maybe a hard thing to get over, because you are, after all, a nice person, but you have to assume that people don't trust you.

The way to gain their trust is not by saying, "I'm trustworthy" or not by saying, "Trust me," which I think are two of the most dangerous words in the English language.

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March 07, 2007

Ken McArthur's Survey

For anyone who filled out Ken McArthur's survey today, and didn't realize the real value of the survey, I thought I would make a little post here.

In question #4 Ken asks people what parts of creating an information product they would like to outsource. And then it gives you options.

Those options that you can check ARE the blueprint for creating an information product and getting it sold on the Internet. There are perhaps some other steps, but Mr. McArthur actually provides the actual steps, in order, for creating an informational product.

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February 28, 2007

Anything Will Sell

I woke up this morning thinking, what could make my world complete? And while this doesn't necessarily have to do with affiliate programs, it is proof that anything can sell on the Internet.

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February 19, 2007

The Importance of Pre-Selling As An Affiliate Marketer

This video (while a bit boring in terms of presentation) has some really good things to say about affiliate marketers trying to sell a product.

Here are some things to think about:

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February 12, 2007

Call your affiliates

I have been to three Affiliate Summits now, and have loved them. For the people I've met, the things I've learned, and mostly, the expansion that has happened for me about what's possible.

One of the people I have met, at the previous two Affiliate Summits, and then at this affiliate summit, has talked with me about getting things going with his company, since I haven't promoted for/with them at all, and they have a huge array of software products to promote.

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February 07, 2007

Call with Alex Mandossian and Jim Guarino

One of the biggest challenges people face when they're getting started into affiliate marketing is the set of philosophies and attitudes with which they enter the business.

I was on a call today with Alex Mandossian (one of my heroes) and Jim Guarino, where Mr. Guarino was talking about his book (which became an Amazon.com bestseller): Get Real Money! Get the Money You Want in Just 7 Minutes a Day.

Some of this is word for word what was on the call, and some of it is my paraphrasing, but it was a good call. What they talked about mostly is the fact that your personal philosophy, more than anything else, will have the greatest impact on the actions you take, and the actions you take will have the greatest impact on the lifestyle you ultimately achieve.

Here are some of the more specific ideas that were covered on this call.

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February 03, 2007

How do I Start My Own Affiliate Program

With regard to Affiliate Programs, there are many options, but they basically fall into three categories

1. Manage your affiliate program in-house
(using software you buy or build, hosted on your servers, or by signing up for a monthly service, which involves learning a system, but is generally the least expensive long-term option as far as set up and paying of commissions goes)

2. Have someone else or another company manage your affiliate program for you
(either using software on your servers or a third party solution, but they basically run everything for you, at a fee)

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December 27, 2006

What? SEO? Search Engine Optimization? Why should a legitimate business think about SEO?

I wrote this article and made the video for an entry into the EliteRetreat "Get a Free Ticket" contest. I didn't win the contest, but the article is still a good basic article for helping people understand why they need to think about Search Engine Optimization, so I've included it here. Please add your comments below.

Every legitimate business should maybe not worry about SEO, but MUST PLAN on SEO.

Why? Let's pretend...

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November 29, 2006

Joel Comm Talks About the Value of an Affiliate Network

Joel Comm is a brilliant marketer and is someone I have come to know and respect as a mentor and friend. He sent this email out today about attracting, recruiting, retaining, and supporting the affiliates in your affiliate program, and I thought it had some really great things to say to anyone who has affiliates.

So here's Joel Comm talking about Your Affiliate Network:

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November 15, 2006

Jim Edwards Article: Find Extra Hours Online

You might say that this article by Jim Edwards is at the crux of what people MUST know about building a business online.

The thing that people MUST know?

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November 04, 2006

About the Pay-Per-Click-Affiliate Programs on AffiliateAdvice

With regard to pay-per-click affiliate programs, we recommend that you focus your site content very well, rather than trying to fool your visitor into making a click. What do we mean by this? Well, many pay-per-click programs are based on the idea that you can get people to simply click on a link, and by doing so, they will see something which might catch their attention. Your job is simply to get the visitor to click here. (Maybe this tactic tempts you, maybe it doesn't.) Want to see something really exciting, then click here!

In the early days of the Internet, this sort of click here marketing was very effective. But then came pop-ups and junk mail. Internet users got smarter about how they surf, and the pay-per-click campaigns had to refine the way that they did business. There are some web designers who still operate on the notion that you don't have to offer visitors relevant content, and that may be true if you want to earn an additional $10/month. But if you want your visitors to respect you and your site (and come back again), then you had better give them content behind the click they make. The pay-per-click programs that we feature will pay you when your visitors click. below are those which we feel offer you some legitimate content for your visitors.



September 10, 2006

What do I bring to the table in Affiliate Programs?

In an era when it has become quite easy to publish on the Internet (i.e. all the recent developments of the last six months), the question must become for people "What do I bring to the table?"

What do I mean?

Well, back in the early days of the Commerical Internet, Affiliate programs didn't exist. And once affiliate programs became available, people began flooding the Internet space with web sites on everything. If I can re-sell a product on my site after copying and pasting text about the product onto my web site, and do that over and over and over, I can build a web site that is filled with products which I don't own or inventory, don't have to ship, and don't have to ever pay for. I just collect a commission once someone clicks through. That's great, and it worked for a while, and still works today to some extent. But software has entirely automated this process, and it means that anyone can put up a web site filled with products and services overnight. They can even put up a well-optimized web site with products and services, and make it look nice, and do so in a matter of minutes.

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