Making Affiliate Money
Go to Clickbank and find the newest and hottest affiliate product out there. But it had to be something that you believed in. That was going to be the hard part.
Set up a blog where you do a review of the product. Made it an unbiased review even though you use your affiliate link. When I say unbiased, I mean revealed what you think was good AND bad about the product. That’s right folks…Said BAD things about the product (if true). I know…shudder the thought. Anyway, do it.
Write up an article and submitted it to Ezine Articles. In the resource box put a link to your blog. Made the article a review of the product but from another point of view. You didn’t want the blog and the article to be the same content.
Sign up with some safelists that and make sure that they are credit based. YOu want to make sure that these people have to open the emails to get credit for looking at it.
Then write an ad that was NOT a sales pitch. Guess what it is? You got it…another review. Why? People don’t want to be sold to. They want information. Here you will be giving them a review of the hottest thing on the Internet right now. Then send them not to a sales page but to a page to get…more info.
Go to forums that allow affiliate links (they do exist) and post…you guessed it…reviews of the product and put your affiliate link in your signature. You’d be surprised how many forums there are that allow affiliate links in sigs and their Alexa Rank is pretty darn high.
Hit the message boards. You know, like WAHM and stuff like that. There are a ton of these online. Post a review of the product and NOT a sales pitch.
Get Jon Olson’s Hit Exchange News and find the top traffic exchange sign up and creat a
quick splash page for a free report. You can find templates to make the splash page. Offer a free report. Inside the report, have a review of the product, tying the two together. This is tricky and takes a little thought. Include a link in the report to a page to get…more
info. Notice that in NO point in this process do you send them to a sales page. Gain their trust by not trying to sell to them.
Now, imagine if you decide that you’re going to go into affiliate marketing totally and do nothing else.
You can do this and make a killing with just one expenditure…An autoresponder service which is like $20 a month. That way, you can build a list while you’re doing all this and then when each hot product hits that you go through this process for, you can ALSO send a review to your list.
Join Qassia now!
Add your websites, instantly, and get unlimited backlinks. No need to reciprocate.
Click here to sign up for a beta testing account.
What can I do at Qassia?
You can add your websites, and get unlimited quality backlinks. There
is no need to pay, or to link back to Qassia. Websites are processed instantly
and ranked by the amount of credits you have amassed. To earn credits,
you can add intel, i.e. tidbits of intelligence.
Why is Qassia needed?
Promoting a new site has never been easy,
and it’s getting tougher every day. Site owners are forced to spend hours
upon hours doing mundane and unproductive tasks such as exchanging links.
Many give up, and splurge on advertising - which is why Google Adwords
earns $1 billion per quarter.
How will Qassia generate traffic?
At Qassia, you will get credit for adding your intel. The more credit
you get, the better your sites will rank. This provides incentive for
site owners to contribute to Qassia. Thus harnessing the minds of millions,
Qassia will become the largest repository of intelligence on the web.
Brainstorm Domain Generator
cover creator
This Is The BEST Quality Graphics Site EVER!!!
I’ve seen and downloaded all the free templates and squeeze pages out there - they SUCK …and if they are halfway good and have rights I’ll be buying them up and including them here in one big bundle.
So, I’m insanely excited about how cool this site will be for you, AND couldn’t wait to tell you that, for a limited time…you can get some great graphics FREE! Just Click
Add Bubbles, and links to any video,
http://www.bubbleply.com/default.aspx
If you just need a quick banner that you can create by yourself then
this works pretty well… http://www.searchbliss.com/banner-maker/build-banners.htm
This website has an extremely helpful tool to create headlines.
I have used it successfully for my PPC ads, as well as titles from my
post cards/direct marketing. I have used it to come up with my next Info
Product title which scored 75% 
Make sure the headline though is more
than couple of words for it to be effective. http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/index.htm
Need Some Free WordPress Themes And Templates?
http://freelister.info/
Have a update box?
Benefits of an “Updates” Box My initial purpose of an “Updates” box is
not really for search engines. My purpose is to:
1) Let the potential clients know that I am still active
2) My company is getting work and sales
3) Instill confidence for the clients to order from me The side benefit
could be the ranking for the keywords that you have in the Updates box.
So, you either get rankings with Google, or you get better conversion
rate for your visitors. Isn’t that good?
http://www.josephthen.name/2008/general-posts/have-an-updates-box/
How To Make Money Online (Without Money)
This is mostly for the newbies and those who end up broke every now and again (it happens, ain’t no biggie), if you find yourself in a tight spot… there’s ways to earn money online without actually needing money, hope this article shows you how.
Need Free Web Hosting? Try http://www.50webs.com — I have used this at least twice and they’re very reliable. There are tons of other free hosts; this is the one I recommend. They don’t put any ads on your site and many of your customers won’t know (or care) that you don’t have a site yet… contrary to what you might think.
Need a trustworthy easy to set up (and use) payment processor?
Try http://www.paypal.com (It’s free if you don’t sign up for a business or premiere account — you only need a few sales to come in and then you can upgrade to business or premiere on Paypal, no need to bother until then — but check the Paypal TOS to be sure this is not against the rules.. pretty sure it’s not.. but check!
Need an email account to sign up for Paypal and receive your Paypal earnings? You’ve got loads to choose from… I’d go with http://www.yahoo.com
Product research? Again very easy… Use forums. People do it everyday. Questions are always being asked about a product You can ask questions and are almost sure to get good advice. Or you can look through past posts and create a product out of something you find in there. You can do this with most forums.
If you need to research online via the engines and need an easy one stop research tool, again, you don’t have to be stuck with just Google or Yahoo. A fellow warrior sells a solid piece of research software over at http://www.searchautomator.com – You can get a 14 day free trial of it at http://www.download.com – just type in “search automator” without the quotes. When you have some cash, you can go over and grab the full version.
Again the usual portals for research are free… http://www.overture.com etc. Loads of choice when it comes to free research tools… those are just a few of the best.
Need feedback on your product idea(s)? Again, I recommend forums– Free quality feedback is available forums (you may get the odd unnecessary negative remarks, but that comes with using this type of medium – if you have a tough skin, go for it 
Need an HTML editor? Loads of these are free… I use Netscape (from the old school), if you know your HTML, you can use a reliable editor like Araneae over at http://www.ornj.net/araneae/ — it’s 100% free… Again there are loads of options you can choose from, these are a couple of the ones I personally use.
Need a powerful text editor? There’s a solid one I use, it’s 100% free and called Notetab Light… I use this in place of the windows notepad as the former comes with some very useful tools that allow you to get more editing done faster for example…
Read the block of text below…
“If I wanted to turn this whole block of text into all caps after typing all I have to do is hit a couple of buttons and like magic it’s done…”
Observe…
“IF I WANTED TO TURN THIS WHOLE BLOCK OF TEXT INTO ALL CAPS AFTER TYPING ALL I HAVE TO DO IS HIT A COUPLE OF BUTTONS AND LIKE MAGIC IT’S DONE…”
Pretty cool huh? That took me about 2 seconds… you can get the software at: http://fookes.com/notetab/index.php
Need a mailing list processor? Sign up for a free one at http://www.ezezine.com – and you don’t have to bother with php script installation or anything. It’s free up to the first 1,000 subscribers you get, then when you have some cash, you can move over to the more powerful list processors like aweber.com and emailaces.com.
Need product creation tools? Let’s see…
* You have MS word already on your PC (if you’re not a Mac user;-)
* PDF creator software:
a. Free PDF creators are a dime a dozen, but the best one in my book is Primo PDF at http://www.primopdf.com – It’s 100% free and very easy to use.
b. Adobe PDF creator + free reader = If you want to go Pro before you have money, you can download Adobe free for 30 days (the reader is always free). Go to: http://www.adobe.com/
* Need to record screen capture for a product you’re thinking of? I suggest Camtasia studio, it’s free for 30 days so you have enough time to get accustomed to it and make some good screen capture products with it, make some cash, buy the full version.
Get your free 30-day Camtasia at: http://techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp
• Need to record video? There are loads of options for this as well. You can use Camtasia or any of the other free trial video creation and editing tools out there or you can just fire up Windows media maker already installed on your PC if you have Windows XP. It’s free and doesn’t expire and it works just as well as the other pay-to-use software if you have basic video recording and editing needs. When you have cash, you can choose to upgrade to the other software available for this, if you so desire.
Site graphics like covers, headers, order buttons etc…
I’d recommend a barter trade with someone who can create good site graphics for you. There are good graphic designers here in the warrior forum. If you’re strapped for cash, you’ll have to be creative and come up with something to barter for their services.
And it would be worth it, a really good graphics designer can have images up for you within minutes (saving you lots of time doing it yourself especially if you’re new or graphically challenged like little old me
If you’re creating a product, usually free access to that product is ample payment for a lot of people, most of my graphics have been done free this way for years, in fact I never paid for an ecover or header for 8 years and I have some of the best ones out there.
You can offer whatever you think is generous non-cash payment or squeeze a little money together if the worst comes to the worst and you can’t barter anything for this.
With a little arm twisting you can get great graphics done for around 20 bucks.
If you’d rather do the graphics yourself, you can get a free copy of Photoshop at: http://www.adobe.com/ – free for 30 days. There’s a learning curve as with most advanced software but worth it to get your cool graphics.
Signature maker:
If you want to add those signature type images to your site, try http://www.vletter.com — I found the link to this myself right here in the forum.
Adtracker
The only Adtracker I’ve used for many years is Adminder. It does most all the tracking you’ll need. It’s not dirt cheap at $20 a month but you can get a free 2 week trial at their site if you need to track some of your sales attempts before plunking down some cash.
For your free 2 week trial go to: http://adminder.com/tryitfree.shtml
Email formatter
This is very useful if you plan to send out an ezine or email offer to a list you’ve built or are in the process of building. It can be very difficult to get the formatting of your emails quite right and I’ve used several email formatting programs in the past but for a free handy tool I’d suggest you try: http://www.fwointl.com/FWOFormatter.html — I have it bookmarked myself. It’s pretty much “cut and paste” simple, within seconds and your text is ready to send out crisply formatted.
Image thumbnail maker
There is an excellent thumbnail maker at: http://fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php — This is handy if you want to have smaller images of your own photo or any other image on your site. Rather than resize the image yourself, browse and select it through this free and very easy to use software and within a couple of seconds you’ll have a professional looking thumbnail ready to use. Very cool tool I have used for half a decade at least.
Affiliate program manager
Now we’re getting to the interesting cash generating part of these tools. You know as well as anyone (I’m sure) that a good affiliate following can get you more sales, faster than you can yourself – it’s not always necessary but when you need the boost, the leg up from your resellers can do you a world of good… it’s sweet to see the orders coming in without you actually going out to generate any traffic or pay for any advertising.
Well, there are very few programs that you can use to track and pay affiliates that offer you free usage or even a free trial except for www.paydotcom.com (which is free bar the $1 charge on every product you sell – which if you’re selling a $10 product can seriously eat into your profits.).
I found this one just a few days ago: http://www.EasyWebAutomation.com/default.asp it’s not free but cheap to try at $4 for 30 days. I hasten to add that I have not used it myself, but I’m planning to give it a spin just for research purposes.
They only allow you to build a 50 man affiliate program during your 30 day trial but think of it this way… you only ever need a few affiliates to generate real cash anyway
If you snag a big fish top affiliate, you actually only need one
Forum software
There are loads to choose from. I personally favor “phpBB” even though it looks a little err… tacky… for want of a better word. It’s easy to set up and use and most web hosts have this ready for you via Cpanel, just ask your web host if you need help with this.
Blog software
I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you this one is free almost everywhere you look. There’s Blogger.com and Xanga.com software you use free. Or you can set up Wordpress which I believe is also available via most Cpanels (ask your web host if you get stuck).
Membership site script
If you need to set up a membership site, you’ll be hard pressed to find a good free script that’s easy to install and pretty much offers you a hands-free, easy to use admin experience. I’ve recently installed the free one at: http://www.locked-area.com/html
You can use it free for a lifetime. The only requirement from the developers is that you leave an unobtrusive link back to them at the bottom of your member site pages. If you’d rather remove the link and get a few more features thrown in, you pay only $65 for that.
With both versions, your customers (prospects) sign up and get to choose their own username and password which is all automatically entered into a database and the script lets them into your site and even shows you usage statistics like how often a member is checking in and using your products etc. Very cool tool. It does not integrate into Paypal etc but that’s not necessary since you can collect payment and then redirect to the member sign up page where your members can set up their membership quick and easy.
Sound/Music samples for music intros etc on your recordings…
A good one I use is at: http://www.freeplaymusic.com – check their terms of use first.
Need to record audio?
No need to buy audio recording software. Just download Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ — it’s pretty (very easy for me) to use.
I read about an ebook, recommended by another warrior, that is suitable for newbie with zero budget. You can check it out here(not affiliate link!)
http://www.one-month-magnate.com
For those who are technically challenged but want a blog on your own server, here’s a video tutorial on how to install wordpress on your server http://esnips.com/web/cre8d-tutorials
I would like to add to this topic. You can create ebook covers, software boxes and cd cases for free at http://www.groundbreak.com/graphics2.html The results are quite impressive.
