By , on January 8th, 2012%
By , on January 8th, 2012%
How You Can Become a Super Affiliate
Affiliate marketing allows you to work at home and have flexible work hours.
Affiliate marketing means that you’ll be promoting other merchants’ products. The affiliate will get a commission when someone clicks on the merchant’s website and purchases through an affiliate link.
Affiliate marketing is attracting many people as it is considered one of the best and easiest ways to earn money online. Affiliate marketing can be a lucrative business. It seems easy, but success doesn’t happen overnight for most people. To get great results, you’ll have to learn some Internet marketing basics and it takes some perseverance to get good at it.
Here are some tips to be better than most affiliates and outwit some of your competitors.
Here’s how you can become a super affiliate:
- Get your own website or blog.
- Focus on a niche market.
- Provide good content.
- Write your own ads.
- Build a list.
- Develop a relationship with your list.
- Continue to market to your list.
- Build traffic to your site.
How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates
The most important thing one should remember if you want to become a super affiliate is to treat affiliate marketing as a business. If you’re doing this, a career as a super affiliate will change your life forever and could possibly replace your 9-5 job.
1. The first thing is to have your own website or blog.
I know you’ve been told that you don’t need a website to promote affiliate programs. And it’s true. There are several ways that you can promote affiliate programs. You can send people directly to the merchant’s web site through your affiliate link. You can promote affiliate programs through email and social networking. However, you can be a lot more successful with affiliate marketing and do so much more if you have your own website. It is essential for you to have your own website or blog if you’re considering affiliate marketing as your professional career.
Potential customers go to websites to search and sometimes purchase items they are looking for. When you have a website, you can capture your visitors’ email addresses so you can stay in touch with them, remind them of the affiliate product and promote additional product. You can presell your visitors and then send them to the merchant’s website through your affiliate link.
I recommend getting a WordPress blog. Get a domain name related to the topic of your site and get hosting. You can find more info about getting hosting here. Get my domain name recommendations here.
2. Focus on a niche market. Don’t try to market everything you see. It’s better to focus on one market and market products that your audience wants. This is called niche marketing. Promote products that cater to the needs and wants of your chosen market segment.
3. Provide good content.
You can use private label (PLR) content, use as is, or rewrite and reposition private label content. See more info about Private label content here.
In addition, have some unique content that is only available on your website. The best way to get people to keep coming to your site is by having something on your site that they can’t find on others.
Choose a certain market segment where you can have a potential leadership role.
4. Write your own ads. A lot of times affiliates marketers are using the ads that are provided by the merchants. That means that many people are using the same ads. If you write your own ad, you might get more attention. Besides, your primarily purpose is to attract or encourage people to read your ads and be curious enough to click through your website.
5. Build a list.
Building a list will enable you to market to your list over and over again. You’ve heard it before. The money is in the list. A targeted list is the key to being successful. See more info here on how to build a list.
6. Develop a strong relationship with prospects and buyers.
Creating a loyal customer base and developing good customer relationships is the secret of successful super affiliates. That involves sending them quality content regularly. To be able to answer your potential customers’ questions, it is best to buy and try the product yourself. This will make it easier for you to sell the product that you are trying to market. You can share to your potential customers what a great experience you had with the product, and this can make them interested enough to buy the product.
You may also be able to provide a tutorial or steps on how to use the product that you are marketing based on your personal experience.
Be totally honest about the product that you are trying to market. If you find out that the program you were promoting is a scam, stop promoting it and inform your readers about it. This will help you build credibility. We all make mistakes and admitting your mistake will boost your reader’s confidence in you.
7. Continue to market to your list.
8. Build traffic to you site. Building traffic is one of the most essential parts of affiliate marketing. See free traffic methods here.
Affiliate marketing can become a great way to earn extra or even part time income. However, it won’t happen overnight. Like any kind of business or job, you’re going to have to put work into it. Good luck to you in your new venture.
By , on January 7th, 2012%
Attract Buyers to Your Website with Content
Give People a Reason to Visit Your Website
Content is the most important part of your Website. Useful content gets visitors to your site, engages them, and builds credibility. Surveys indicate that sixty-five percent of visitors go to Websites to get information. Only five percent are interested in graphics.
Valuable content can include how-to articles, reports, tips, and even links to relevant sites providing useful resources. For example, a Web design company may provide free graphics and diagnostic tools. A CD Website may offer free reviews, biographies of musicians, and an online jukebox that allows visitors to preview their music selection.
To make money with your Website, you also need to include:
- Information about your products or services (tips for buying your products or services).
- A compelling sales letter.
- Special offer.
- A call to action (click here to see examples of action words).
- Order information (tell prospects how to order).
- An online order form (include links to your order form and sales letter on your home page).
- Contact information. Include your name, business name, email, 800#, local phone number (international prospects can’t call 800 numbers), fax, and mailing address.
- Company information.
Target Your Audience
- Provide information that is valuable, useful, or entertaining to your target market. Video is very popular today.
- Feature content relevant to the topic of your site.
- Use a feedback form to find out what your visitors want.
- Visitors typically come to your Website four to five times before they buy from you. One of my future posts will reveal how to attract visitors back to your site.
By , on January 3rd, 2012%
Here are 10 tips to get repeat web traffic:
1. Update your web pages or blog pages frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines and don’t motivate visitors to return.
2. Offer additional value on your website. Place links to affiliate and partner sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their products if they relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
3. Invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts, special offers, valuable coupons or a newsletter.
4. Never spam a subscriber who has opted for newsletters with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to “opt out” of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.
5. Add a link to your primary page asking people to “Bookmark or Add this site to your Favorites.”
6. Add a link ‘Recommend This Site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link with a prewritten title, e.g. “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
7. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
8. Create a “Policies” page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with customers. Also post your privacy policy so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
9. Create a FAQ page which addresses questions, doubts and clarifications about your product or your company to resolve most of the customers’ doubts.
10. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the bookmark.
These tips are easy to implement and will give you repeat web traffic.
By , on January 3rd, 2012%
You might have heard that about Yahoo Answers but there are many other question and answer sites.
Those sites are great to get answers to your questions. But you can also use them for Internet Marketing. Simply answer some questions related to your niche and mention your web site in the resource box. It’s a great way to get high PR links.
If you want to get links, just select one or a couple of the most popular ones such as Yahoo Answers, eHow or WikiAnswers.
Below is a listing of question and answer sites.
- 5min - Provides Instructional videos answering common questions.
- Aardvark - Taps into your social network to find the right answers fast. Once you’re set up, Aardvark lives in your IM window, and anytime you want to ask a question, just IM Aardvark with your question. Aardvark parses the question to figure out what it’s about which it does a remarkably good job and then sends it to someone who it thinks is able to answer your question. You’ll get an answer back quickly, and be able to have a brief chat with the person who answered your question.
- AllExperts - The oldest question and answer site that is operated by About.com. All Experts is a general questions and answers site. All Experts is a site that allows users to both ask experts questions and be an expert themselves based on an all-volunteer system.
- Answerbag - Community-driven question and answer site.
- Answers.com - Also known as WikiAnswers, the site allows users to edit and, over time, refine the answer to each submitted question.
- Ask a Librarian - Reference service from the Library of Congress.
- Askville - You need to log in to your Amazon acount to ask or answer questions.
- Brain Boost by Answers.com - Semantic Q&A search by Answers.com.
- Brightstorm Answers - Study help platform for students. Focuses on PSAT, SAT, ACT, and math.
- Cramster - Provides online tutoring and answers to academic questions.
- eHow - Database of how-to articles and videos.
- Experts Exchange – A technology help website. Users post questions and experts answer and are given points for quality answers.
- JustAnswer – A business questions and answers site. JustAnswer is an online expert question and answer website that connects people with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, and other industry experts.
- Linkedin Answers - Linkedin Answers sorts questions so that “expert” answers appear first. Users can gain expertise when others routinely approve of their answers
- Mahalo Answers – Users can offer or earn monetary rewards for high-quality answers.
- Merchant Circle – Allows users to ask and answer questions of other small business owners.
- Minti - Answers and advice articles for parents.
- Quora - A Social Networking-based Q and A site started by a former Facebook CTO. Quora is a Generalquestions and answers site and was launched in 2010.
- stack Overflow - Stack Overflow is aTech questions and answers site and was launched in 2010. A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for computer programmers.
- WikiAnswers - Wiki-based Q&A service from Answers.com.
- wikiHow - Collaborative, wiki-based how-to manuals.
- Yahoo! Answers - The most popular community-driven question and answer site. Click here to find out how to use Yahoo Answers sites and other question and answer sites.
- Yedda - A general questions and answers site.
Check out these question and answer sites now and take advantage of them to get links.
By , on January 2nd, 2012%
Forum Traffic
Another excellent way to gain traffic is to be active on internet forums that are related to your niche. To find relevant forums, just go to any search engine and enter “your keyword” +forum” . For example, if you are selling products related to home businesses, search for “home business + forum.”
Find the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members. Check the dates of the threads posted on the forum to see how active the forum is.
When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post useful and valuable posts, members will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are allowed to have a link to your site in the signature, which is under every post you make on the forums.
You’ll get several benefits from forums
1. Build credibility.
2. Get links from high PR sites.
3. Get direct traffic from forums.
People will click on your link and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative.
This is very targeted traffic and your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums is easier to turn into sales. You can sell your own products or recommend affiliate products as your readers are already convinced you’re an “expert” in your field.
Being active on the forums and providing good information is the key to getting successful in getting traffic from forums.
By , on January 2nd, 2012%
“Discover How You Can Sell Your Product on Clickbank, Tap Into Thousands of Affiliates And Automate Your Sales Process”
Announcing The Brand New, 10 Part, Step By Step Video Course:
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If you’re not technical savvy, don’t worry. Simply look over my shoulder as I’m showing you step by step how to set up your product on Clickbank and automate the sales process.
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Dear Product Owner,
- Do you have an electronic product for sale, e.g. ebook, software or online videos?
- Do you want to accept payments online?
- Do you want to automate your sales process?
- Do you want to have lots of affiliates selling your products?
- Are you interested in getting your products on Clickbank but don’t know how to start?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’ll want to sell your products on Clickbank.
Why you should put your products on Clickbank.
- Clickbank is the best known marketplace for selling digital products. Clickbank completes nearly 20,000 orders from more than 200 countries around the world daily.
- Clickbank is a shopping cart, payment processor and affiliate program all built into one.
- Clickbank saves you the hassle and expense of setting up your own payment system. Clickbank makes it easy for you to accept credit cards and echecks online without having to pay for a shopping cart or getting your own merchant account. Clickbank takes care of taking payments from your customers.
- Putting your product on Clickbank automates your sales process. People can order from you 24/7. They can pay online, their payment is automatically verified and they automatically receive their product download link and an email thanking them for their purchase.
- One of the biggest benefits of selling your digital products on Clickbank is that Clickbank gives you easy exposure to affiliates. Clickbank has over 100,000 affiliates who can sell your products. Clickbank is the first place where affiliates go look for products to promote.
- Clickbank also manages your affiliate program. You don’t have to buy or install affiliate software. They will bill your customers, pay you and even pay your affiliates which is a big time saver.
So if you are selling electronic products, I highly recommend putting your products on Clickbank. Keep in mind that you are only allowed to sell digital product such as ebooks, electronic videos and software. Clickbank won’t accept physical products.
So how do you go about putting your products on Clickbank?
Clickbank provides information on their site on how to put your products on their marketplace, but they don’t cover everything in video detail. Also, many of their tutorials assume that you already know how to do certain basic tasks. That’s why many people are confused, don’t know where to start, or they miss a step and they give up and become frustrated and overwhelmed. And they’re missing out on all the Clickbank benefits because they were not able to get their product on Clickbank.
The Clickbank setup really isn’t too technical and any newbie can do this with the right instructions. That’s why I’m introducting a step-by-step training course that will show you how to add your products to the Clickbank Marketplace. And this video course will cover every detail of the process.
Introducing …The Brand New Step By Step, 10 Part Video Course:
Surefire Clickbank Mastery!
Showing You Exactly
How To Put Your Products On Clickbank
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With this video training course, you can look over my shoulder and I literally take you by the hand and show you HOW to put your products on Clickbank and automate your sales process with Clickbank in this step by step training.
You’ll get 10 videos:
These ten short videos will show you how to set up your product to sell on Clickbank, comply with Clickbank’s rules to get approved, and how to sell, deliver and test your Clickbank product.
The videos are split up into bite sized chunks …short and straight to the point for easy listening.
And soon you’ll have your Clickbank product up and running in no time!
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Here’s more details about these
10 videos
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Video #1: Introduction to the Surefire Clickbank Mastery
In the introduction video, you’ll learn what tools you’ll need, how this system works, and more so that you are able to set up a product quickly, easily and correctly.
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Video #2: What Products Are Allowed – The Do’s and DON’Ts
In this video you’re going to learn which products are allowed in the affiliate network and which products are not allowed. Knowing this will set you on the right path to complying with Clickbank’s rules and regulations. I don’t want you to make the mistake of setting everything up only to find out that you can’t add it to the Clickbank system. We will also go over the do’s and don’ts.
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Video #3: Vendor Checklist
Find out exactly what you need to have ready so you can properly begin the process of setting up your product.
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Video #4: Signing Up With Clickbank
In this video you’re going to learn how to create an account with Clickbank. Find out what you need to keep in mind when creating your username and how the right user name can help you later.
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Video #5: Creating a Pitch Page (Sales Page)
In this video you’re going to learn how to create your pitch page or sales page. Clickbank is quite strict on their pitch pages and you want to make sure you get everything done right the first time around. Making your sales compliant with Clickbank’s requirement is important because you’re going to need to get your page approved by Clickbank before you can begin to sell. The rules are quite simple and include things like clearly providing your contact information, indicating when & how you’re delivering the product and offering the right kind of guarantee.
Don’t worry about anything technical. I’m going to show you how to set up a pitch page using a free WYSIWYG web editor. If you know how to use Microsoft Word, then you should be able to use this web editor.
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Video #6: Creating A Thank You Page (Download Page)
Now it’s time to set up your thank you page. Your thank you page is your download page. You see, after your customer purchases your product through your pitch page, they’re going to need to be redirected to your download page or thank you page. In this video, you’ll learn how to easily create a download page. Again all you have to do is follow me step by step and look over my shoulder in this video.
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Video #7: Making A Payment Link And Adding Your Link To Your Pitch Page
To finish your pitch page, you’ll need to create a payment button and add that to your pitch page. In this video you’re going to learn how to create a Clickbank payment button. This will enable you to create an automated system that allows you to run your online business 24/7.
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Video #8: Uploading Files To Your Website
Now that you’re done creating your pitch page, your thank you page, and your payment button, you’ll need to upload all the files to your website. In this video I’m going to show you how to use FTP (file transfer protocol – a simple software tool) to upload your files from your computer to your website.
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Video #9: Making It Easy For Affiliates To Find You
While this video may sound too basic, many people often skip over this basic process. By doing so, you’ll hurt yourself in the long run. In this video you’ll learn how to complete your site and product information so that buyers and affiliates can easily find your product in the Clickbank marketplace.
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Video #10: Testing Your Payment Link
In this video, you’re going to learn how to test your system. You need to make sure that everything works, including your payment button and your download page.
You don’t want your site to fail when it goes live. You’ll lose customers when they can’t access your product, so you’ll want to make sure you get it done right the first time around. Don’t let that happen to you. That is why we’re going to cover testing in this video.
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Regards,
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By , on January 1st, 2012%
Using Private Label Rights (PLR) content can really help your website and your business.
How PLR content works.
PLR is content that you get from the original author along with their permission to use it as your own.
You are given access by the original author to the source files for articles, ebooks, special reports, mini-courses, site graphics and more and they are then yours to change, add to or use as is. You will usually receive a Word document source so you can edit the content any way you like.
You can put your name on PLR content and sell them as your own or even give them away to build your list.
Rights can vary so read the rights for each individual PLR package you purchase. Below is what you’re allowed to do with PLR content most of the time. You can split up the content and use it for your blogs, newsletter, etc. Most of the time, you can do whatever you like with the content. The restrictions of most PLR products is that you can NOT give away the rights or sell the private label rights.
As you’ll learn more about Private Label Rights (PLR) content, you’ll come up with lots of great ways you can use PLR in your business. The potential of PLR is limitless. Here are jsut some ideas of how you can use PLR ebooks, reports and articles:
- Build your list with PLR. Giving away a PLR report, ebook and other PLR content to subscribers is a great way to get subscribers and build a list.
- Use PLR for affiliate marketing. Insert your affiliate links and earn affiliate commissions.
- Create Home-Study Courses! Online courses are popular!
- Give away reports. You can get a great report, put your name on it and have your own product to sell or give away!
- Sell ebooks! With PLR products, you become the author which means you have all rights to the product and you can market the product as you wish. Many PLR products come with sales letters and even graphics! You can sell an ebook as is, change it, or add additional content.
- Create your own info products. Within a couple of hours you can put together your own info product and have it ready for sale. There is no easier way to create a steady stream of products. Think how quickly you can have an entire product line ready to go!
- Add content to your blog or website. Provide content on your site or blog daily or weekly and build up loyal fans.
- Add content for your newsletter. Break up content and use in your newsletter.
- Use content to create videos to post on your blog and submit to video sharing sites.
- Compile into a physical book to sell.
- Develop A Membership Site! Make residual income by using PLR content. Provide quality content in a chosen niche and watch your customers come back for more!
- Provide Mini E-mail Courses! Use an autoresponder to set up automated e-mail courses such as a 10-part training course delivered to your customers over a 2 week period. Add your affiliate links into the report or sell a popular related product at the end of the course to your subscribers!
- Increase your credibility! By providing good content, you’ll become an authority in your field of expertise.
Private label rights provides instant content that you don’t have to spend hours writing – or spend hundreds of dollars outsourcing.
But not all PLR content is created equal.
Some private label right are complete junk. But some are really great quality.
There were a lot of different types of PLR content sites available. Some offer monthly memberships and others offer one time purchases.
The site I found that was by far the best was PLRWholesaler. Not only do they have an unbelievable amount of content, but it’s completely FREE. You get thousands of pieces of PLR for FREE! Most sites charge an arm and a leg for the amount of content that this guy is giving away. I’ve read of lot in the niches I’m interested in and what I have read is very good quality. This is stuff I actually want to use as your own. I have created several ebooks and reports from his private label materials.
Since it’s free, I highly recommend that you check out PLRWholesaler and see if they have anything that you can use in your business. There just may be an ebook or audio recording that you could quickly brand with your information and start selling to your list.
Check it out and let me know what you think…
Here’s the legal mumbo jumbo:
I only recommend products I believe in whether they have affiliate programs or not. I have used most of the products I’m recommending for my own web sites or clients’ web sites. Some links are affiliate links, and if you click on an affiliate link and purchase something, I might get paid a small commission.
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