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Affiliate Selling and Blogging

Affiliate marketing is a really sound way to utilise your blog to generate revenue. The amount of revenue generated by your blog depends on the amount of traffic you can generate to your blog,  as well as the compensation offered for the affiliate marketing program.

Affiliate marketing essentially entails making a link on the blog to someone’s product or company. The other company then compensates the blog owner according to a previously agreed upon contract. This compensation is usually a percentage of the sale of the product.

The blog proprietor may be paid off each time the advertisement is shown, each time a unique website visitor ticks through the advertizement or each time a blog visitor does a desired action such as making a purchase or recording with the website.

Picking Out Affiliate Merchandising Opportunities

There is a across-the-board variety of affiliate marketing opportunities available. Many different companies and websites offer affiliate marketing opportunities. In most instances the blog owner merely needs to render the website address of his blog along with some other basic info for approving. In most cases the company is not likely to decline the application unless the content of the website is deemed to be objectionable or otherwise in conflict of interest with the company’s goals.

However, although getting approved to display affiliate links on your website is a quite simple process, this does not mean blog owners should select these affiliate marketing opportunities without discernment. It is a far better idea to carefully select affiliate marketing opportunities with companies who are of interest to the target area audience of the blog.

A well focused blog that is reaching a specific target audience should first and foremost offer select content. Then seek to show marketing links directing website traffic to companies which complement the blog without behaving as direct competition to the blog. This helps to ascertain the blog visitors will not only be interested in the affiliate marketing links and hence more likely to click on the links but will also assist to ensure the blog visitors do not find the affiliate marketing links to be vexing.

eZine Advertising

eZines have become very popular and if it’s a decent size list, niched, relevant
to your product, why wouldn’t you be successful at it? You have more control.
You know what your audience will be.

Ezines are especially a good thing if you can write an article for an eZine.
You establish your expertise and create interest within the article and have
a link to your site or product… I like the sites that send out their eZines
and post your article on their site (with a link back to your website)… best
of both worlds.

Like anything there is going to be a lot of factors involved… Volume, Quality
of the content, how qualified the list is (hopefully an opt in crowd)… not
everyone will produce. It’s text, it’s relevant and targeting a group of people
who have interest in what you’re doing.

There are places where you can track down an eZine related to your product and
contact the publisher…

You know you can certainly pay to advertise in eZines, but I personally love
FREE advertising. And doing a Joint Venture with someone that has something
like an eZine is a perfect way to get targeted traffic.

You can create an eBook or Report targeted to an eZines readers. To give away!
There are a lot of eZine publishers that would love to do that. Why wouldn’t
they want to give their subscribers something free. It’s a great reflection
on themselves. That’s how a lot of people build their e-mail lists. They swap advertising or
put together mutually beneficial deals.

There’s very little investment… just a little effort.
I have a newsletter with a growing list. I don’t call it an eZine, but it does
the same thing… in time, I will seek JVs. It just makes good business sense.
If you give me something to give my list that’s valuable, it helps us both.

Another opportunity for ya…

How to Enter a Forum…

That sounds silly doesn’t it? Why would I have to learn how to enter a forum?
I just sign up and post right? It would seem on the surface to be that easy, but I see a lot of people have
a real hard time…Over time forums create a very tight community. Everyone
learns the rules and looks out for each other…

That’s the first thing… Read the rules. Different forums approach how you
display links differently or even what you can talk about…The other thing
is don’t come in gang busters!! Don’t try to prove yourself and get to excited
about showing everyone your knowledge etc….

Get to know the community first. Hang out for a while. Introduce yourself politely…
Usually there is a separate area set aside for intros… And then start browsing.

Get to know the other posters… Remember a lot of these people have known each
other for a while. They may even be doing business behind the scenes…Once
you have a feel for it, start helping out.

Helping out… If you have any knowledge to contribute, provide it… Help people
with things you know about. Learn… Read… Learn… Read some more… Ask
questions… Then let it rip if you want to. The bottom line is very few people
can go crazy right off the bat… There is an exception here or there, but usually
the community wants to see you contribute for a while before you get bold. They
need to get to know you.

Definitely don’t provide a sales pitch in your first post… You will getting
flaming posts and anger the community. Everyone will see it as spam.

It’s just like building any relationship. Easy at first until you get to know
each other. Forums are powerful things. Don’t abuse that power. And don’t ruin
your reputation…

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Build a Successful Online Biz - Without SEO

There are so many webmasters obsessed with Optimizing their sites they forget
one fundamental thing. That you have to have a site with quality content in
order to get visitors to come back…

A lot of webmasters spend so much time searching for reciprocal links or any
links that their site actually could suffer.

When it come right down to it, if we spent more time providing quality content,
that would actually in the end result in the making the Search Engines happy…

I’m wouldn’t say that SEO is not important. In fact I practice it daily. But
this article is a good reminder that there is more to what we do than optimizing…
We can not get so caught up in some of the strategies that our website suffers.
You can have all the traffic on the internet, but if you don’t have a good,
solid content site, the traffic just will not hang around.

Press Releases

Press Release’s are An Outstanding Tool To Market Your Products, Service’s &
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Is it a new website?

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You Gotta Have A Niche

If you are going to make money online, you gotta have a niche.

If you believe all the hype the best, most profitable niche is………Internet Marketing. Wrong!

Yes a lot of money is being made in the Internet marketing niche, but that is not the only niche that is making money. If you know how you can make money in just about any niche you choose. It’s all a matter of knowing how to approach your niche.
The http://instantnichewebsite.com/ blog is the place to go when you need help working your niche.

What you need to do is work a niche. Pick something that you feel you can hang with for the long run.
Go to Clickbank.com and open an account, it will not cost you anything. Go to the Clickbank Marketplace and look at the main categories and sub categories. Find your niche.

Select a few products in the sub category by browsing the offers. Look for something that will pay at least $10 or $20.00 commission. Look at the ‘View Pitch Page’ to see the sales page. Pick something that you feel you would buy, if you were interested in that niche. Get your affiliate links by clicking “Create Hoplink” and save them to a text file. Then use a affiliate masking tool, so your commissions do not get hijacked.

Set up a review site. You can do it for free at blogger.com or you can set up a blog on your own domain. I suggest you set up your blog on your own domain, for many reason. I will address the pros of your own domain in another article.

Name your blog, and chose a template. You will want to name your blog something to do with the niche you are marketing. If you have a niche in “gardening” you might want your blog to be. “greengarden.blogger.com” or greengarden that is on your own domain.

After you have selected a niche, find, write, or get someone to write a report about your niche. Make sure it is the kind of report that is going to give some good solid information about your niche/product.

Your “report” in going to be your hook. Your “report” in going to do two things for you. One it is going to build your opt-in list, and two it is going to show your potential client that you offer solid valuable information.

Go to your blog and write a post. You could start out your blog with reviews. Write to be informative. You do not need to write a book. Simply write how you expect the product to help you. This will be your “sales page” along with your first post, you will also have a opt-in form for your report. You should set up your opt-in form so that it will re-direct to the affiliate sales page after sign up.

Your first post could go something like, “When I first started _________ I had trouble _____________, now with “product name” information I now have a ________ that is the envy of __________.” Talk about the benefits of the product, and a link to “valuable report” about the product. Also list the downside of the product. Maybe a video with the product would have made it a little more understandable.

Once you have done this, write some articles, and submit them to some of the article directories that have high PR. Do that manually, then use article submission software to submit to the other directories. I use Article Robot. What I like about Article Robot is that you can add or subtract directories, plus it’s fast. you can get it here. http://www.pleazz.com/recommends/Article_Post_Robot.htm

Write 4 or 5 more articles, 400 to 500 words and submit. Write the article in a way to link back to your blog, or at least put your blog in the resource box.

When you write the 4 or 5 articles mentioned above submit them 2 days apart to the article directory of your choosing. Then ‘re-write’ the same the 4 or 5 articles, and submit them to a few more high PR article directories, that way they are not duplicates.

There is an absolute awesome content re-writer coming out on the market very soon. I had the good fortune to be in on the beta testing of it and I here to tell you it is going to knock your socks off! As soon as it is released I will let you know.

When writing articles you can always make use of the product sales page to get the creative juices flowing.
http://prweb.com/ click on the “search archives” tab. Type in your keyword in the search box. Most of the time you will get a list of press releases that you can use to “add” to your articles. Don’t copy word for word, but you can use most of what you find there.

Whatever your niche is, there are bound to be many groups and forums related to it. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com and search your niche. Almost any niche word will bring up quite a few groups. It will also tell you how many members subscribe to each group. Join at least 3-4 that have at least a few hundred members.

Next, go to http://search.dmoz.org and search “forums” and http://www.big-boards.com/. Join at least 3-4 relevant forums.

For both the groups and forums, you will create a ’signature’ that includes a link to your site. Now join the conversations. Don’t try to sell your products, just make worthwhile posts. Position yourself as an expert in your niche. If you can’t think of what to post, You can always find threads asking for opinions that you can add to.

Rinse, Repeat…
Devote time each day to write 2 articles a day. One for each directory. Try and make a post to each group and/or forum.

It will take a few days for your articles to get accepted and listed. Remember the more you submit, and the more you participate, the more traffic your site will receive. It may take a few weeks to get your first sale, and your sales will a little spotty, but they will come in. The longer you follow this plan, the more your traffic - and sales - will build.

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Looking For A Niche?

Finding a good profitable niche is something a lot of people coming into Internet marketing are looking for. There is no one answer for everyone. The best advice is to fine a niche that you are interested in. A niche that you have a lot of good information on. A niche that you are willing to sustain for a while.

But what if that niche is not profitable?
Look at your desired niche, drill down (target) and see what you can come up with. If that does not work here are a few niches that are both profitable and popular.

Dating, self help, weight loss, voodoo, Debt, Pets, Insurance, Gardening, Fitness, rubber stamping, potty training(kids),
Texas hold’em, blackjack, depression/anxiety, dog training, anything mom related are some popular topics.

At the moment, political, election, fuel, economic depression, war, religious sects

How To IM, MLM, facebook, youtube, bebo, myspace, yahoo answers

Here’s a few places to find some good ideas.

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/earlyadopter/browse.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/599858/
http://hot.aol.com/hot/hot
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
http://www.ebay.com/
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
http://pulse.ebay.com/
http://www.ehow.com/
http://groups.google.com/
http://news.google.com/
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
http://www.lulu.com/
http://50.lycos.com/
http://www2.shopping.com/top_searches
http://www.trendsetters.com/
http://www.trendwatching.com/
http://buzz.yahoo.com/