Affiliate Programs To Look Out For Promoting.

I get a lot of funny questions like “What is wrong with Affiliate Marketing”, so I respond with a series of posts starting with the basics of Affiliate Marketing.

But I tell you upfront that is nothing wrong with AM, it is just a flood of newbies which is generated by a sluggish economy, the competition increases considerable, and the gurus in general don’t offer real solution for beginners.

Why I personally participate in an Affiliate program:

• It allows me to work part-time
• It gives me the opportunity to build a generous residual income
• It helps me start a small business

Did you ask yourself why some affiliate programs have already created millionaires and others have destroyed hopes?
So a real problem is – How do you choose a good affiliate program to promote?

I am not going to tell you that you have to work hard, this is a pathetic cliche. I strive to give you 1o tips which will guide you to the right path of choosing the right product to promote:

1. Look after a product you are interested in and purchase the product. In this case, chances are, there are many others who are also interested in the same product. But this is not enough…
2. Use the product yourself and this way
   1. You can objectively conclude that it is a product of high quality or not
   2. You can produce a review of the product as a specialist
3. Join in programs which offer real and viable products, to determine this:
   1. Look to the gravity of the product.  By the way, this month we have had in Clickbank two products with gravity higher then 1000. This is very rare, and is supper, but also means a lot of competition.
   2. Search the testimonials, and see if they are coming from the serious marketers or strangers
   3. Make inquiries in forums, entice discussions and you will get reliable feedback
   4. Create surveys for that niche
4. Research to see if the product is part of a growing target market to ensure more and continuous demands for your referrals. If it is part of a saturated market, it is still possible but it is hard for you the be better then all the competition. I will say, especially for beginners, stay away from saturated markets.
5. Choose a product with a compensation plan that pays out  50% to 75%, and/or a residual income. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts
6. Find out if exists pre-requisites before you get your commissions and see if you are comfortable with them. With other words, if the product is not from Clickbank which offers the best proven quality management for affiliates, look to get instant pay with Paypal
7. Select a product that has plenty of tools, resources that can help you grow the business in the shortest possible time, and provides continuous help and upgrades
8. Check out if the affiliate program has a proven system that  allows you to check on-line your compensation at anytime
9. If you chose a recurring affiliate program – as a membership – verify if the program is offering strong incentives for members to renew their membership each time.
10. Find out the things that members are not happy about a program.

In summary: Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program and network you will be promoting on. Using the product and knowing the kind of product you are getting yourself into will make you anticipate and prevent any future problems, rejections, and luck of success.
In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings but everything started with choosing the right product to promote.

As a good read I recommend:

Affiliate Marketing Resources

http://promotedprofits.com/affiliate-marketing-programs

Success is not an accident.

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I was reading Jeremy Gislason for two years now, never had a disappointment. Now he and Simon Hodgkinson publish long awaited Underground Traffic Blueprints. Yes, it is now on LIVE.

I was fortunate to got a sneak peek and I am delightful.

So what they are doing?

Well, from the start I was impressed with a huge series of Videos, 36 of brand new video in the first section alone, and more videos when you include the second bonus set of videos. All together, this series is providing an underground traffic blueprint with over 11 different ways of driving traffic which directly enlarge your bank account profits, and wait to see the surprise ending!

It will take you days to get through this series of Videos, but let be it as you definitely need to stop and take notes all along the way.
If  some techniques look complicated at times, it is OK, they are explained well and the flow charts included, give you a step-by-step action plan, with lots of examples to make it handy for you.

The video quality is great; my only disappointment is in the audio of the second bonus. It was a little off in places; probably it was recorded using different equipment. However, it definitely wasn’t enough to distract me from the quality of information.

I’ll give you an example of what this training can mean to you…
Using just Phase 1 part 1: You got targeted visitor’s per-penny… For 1,700 pre-qualified customers, that is only $17.00 dollars, in any niche visiting your offer regardless of the prevailing average cost of keywords for that niche!

This says it all about first phase of the blueprint, and each phase keeps getting better!
Not bad for seventeen bucks! And is done without any “Black Hat” tactics!

Forget everything that you think, you know about keyword research and pay-per-click advertising. This is a brand new blueprint, with time saving brand new tools, taking advantage of loopholes you don’t even know exist for you to use them!

If you are a  ”newbie” you could stop after this first section of Phase 1 and set up and organize a working plan, per this blueprint. You could, write your own copy and make your own image ad, by following the step-by-step tutorial and make back several times the cost of the course, (on auto-pilot) even before you have time, to finish the rest of the video series!

I can continue for hours but I like you to have the joy of trying, learning, experimenting, and cash to your Bank.

Everything you need to accomplish Search Engine total domination is in Underground Traffic Blueprints:

• How to do the research
• Where to find the tools
• How to use them
• How to leveraging your work over and over
• How to do the automation to scale your dominance across several niches and keep yourself on top

And the level of details will blow your mind:

• How to make the links
• Where to put them
• How to set-up a system of outsourcing
• Explains what not to do to be sure you don’t get a slap
• How you could squeeze every once out of each penny you spend on advertising

Literally I cannot see any aspect of this business, the dynamic duo, doesn’t tackle, they explain all of the factors and how they are relate.

You will be surprized that even the people who are making profits in the networks are still leaving lots of money on the table, I believe it’s because no one has ever been able to put together such a complete blueprint on this subject.

Jeremy and Simon have two Extra Bonuses which make a lot of sense and will surprise you.
What I find most amazing though, is the bonus video about a new hybrid direct mail to Internet business model. It is something, everyone else is teaching on the web don’t tell you, the only reason I can think of, for why others don’t teach it, is maybe

• they don’t know themselves, or
• they know, but don’t want you to know

So I definitely highly recommended:

Click on image or click here right now.

To your success!

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Ewen Chia is consider the  #1  Super Affiliate for a good reason.

I dedicate this retrospective on Ewen Chia talking about his personality, achievements, awards, couching, author of 13 Digital Products ( not including Videos, webinars…), brilliant speaker on seminars and conferences.

He has a life full of real gems, an inspiring working attitude, well guided stubbornness and success we all must learn from.

It is also my way to say “Thank you Ewen Chia” for all I personally learned from you.

Education:

Ewen is a graduate of the Singapore Institute of Management, he holds a BS in Management with honors from University of London.

After the graduation he had a full-time job in sales and marketing but soon he start thinking about supplementing his wage for a better future of his family, a beautiful wife and two lovely boys.

He started to learn Internet Business in 1997. For five full years he was working tirelessly, he was up burning the midnight oil from 11:00 PM – 3:00 AM each day.

He had full credit cards as all of us, he was tired but stubborn enough not to give  up the dream.

I was  meticulous doing research to find out his turning point which changed his life forever, and gave us a super affiliate to learn from.

I am convinced now that what catapulted him to great success was a change in mindset, somehow he got the winning mindset.

It was not a “secret”, a “magic bullet”, a “7 steps of…”, it was an attitude.

It was:

• his commitment to learning
• focus to take action
• creating an attainable vision, and backup this with hard work
• and doing so some pieces started to connect

It you read what he is preaching, you will find the fundamentals of marketing you already know. You must:

• Find a target market
• Offer a solution t that market
• Drive traffic to your offer
• Capture leads onto an opt-in list in order to follow up on your offer

But the difference was in his new attitude – the focus to take action and never give up!

It was around 2007 when some signs of prosperity started to surface, and from that moment he was unstoppable.

Autopilot Profits published in 2007, was a great milestone. It is an easy affiliate marketing program for new and intermediate marketers which includes step-by-step VIDEOS. Very easy to follow, if you are curious click on this link or on the first picture.

International Best-Selling Author, Trainer & Speaker, Awards:

Today Ewen is one of the world’s most famous and respected internet marketing guru. He is specialist in marketing, especially in the areas of

• affiliate marketing
• list building
• product creation and branding

Ewen is also referred to as the “World’s #1 Super Affiliate” .

Widely acknowledged as the “secret weapon” of many internet marketers, he has the uncanny ability to take on the coveted #1 reseller spot in almost every marketing he gets into.

Ewen will guide and teach you how to become wealthy with the internet. For example, a brand new internet business he set up generated US$100,000.00+ in less than 30 days. Many people following his teachings have been able to quit their day jobs and make their own income online.

In 2006 he got the first-ever World Internet Challenge trophy at the World internet Marketing Summit held in Singapore.

Since 2006 he is traveling the world and speak on seminars, conferences.

In March 2007 (Australia), Ewen was unanimously voted the Best Speaker out of 10 other international speakers by the audience at World Internet Summit for his breakthrough presentation and sincerity in helping people become successful online.

He like to teach and some of his websites are memberships from where you can learn a lot.

I presented here only 6 Ewen’s ebooks, he has 13 so far, numerous videos as well. A couple of physical books, the last is the most wanted, it is called “How I made My First Million On the Internet and How You Can too!”  published on Amazon.

But I recommend to take it from here as it is bundle with other great product you will enjoy “Internet Millionaire System”

In summary: In a different blog  affiliate-marketing, I’ll create a page “Ewen Chia” and I’ll strive to publish all his Digital products.  That will be an impressive tribute to Ewen.

Now is late but tomorrow you will have that page, check it out and just seeing the entire Ewen’s teaching effort will make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.

Regards Michey

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I know you’re busy, and you’ve probably already seen the fuss that CB Predators is causing…  it’s all over, and it seems like just about everyone in the world and their grandma are talking about it.

So I like you to look over, how frequently  you see a product with as today:

• %/refd: 91.0% and
• Grav: 351.70
  

Really how? Click Here Now!

This is what you can expect from this product:

• With just 18 clicks of your mouse you will create streams of cash into your bank account every month, you can sleep, go in vacation … and it takes ZERO further effort from you to keep that process going every month…
• Everything you’ve seen or heard about building sites, paying for traffic, wasting time with linking campaigns is useless… you have everything done for you within the package
• The slogan “set and forget” income… can be done – period
• The competition was always the big problem for affiliates, now how to weigh in and effectively promote any affiliate product you want… is done automatically, with just a few mouse clicks.
• For free you get unlimited numbers of the most effective, targeted traffic you can imagine… at zero cost

CB Predator is totally revolutionary, it is a super advanced marketing system, and it basically runs automatically.

The  promise of 18 clicks is real and you need around 15 – 20  minutes right now to put up a quick and easy site that will be paying you for years to come.

I totally stay behind this product and I recommend to you CB Predator.

So what you get:

• Complete access to the exclusive custom built Predator Software, this is a completely proprietary system - you won’t find it used or licensed anywhere else…

• Quickly and easily create unlimited affiliate/money sites with a few simple mouse clicks

• Target any keywords you want, any products you want, and the Predator software will create a ready-to-go site in just a couple of minutes.  All you need to do is add content

• Each site is a blog which are completely hands off.  And it is more,
  every blog you make will automatically update itself with unique, custom written content. You don’t need to waste time writing, because it’s all done for you.  So:
  • Automatically Updating Content
  • Automatic Traffic
  • Killer “secret” plug-ins

You can see why those guys,  Chris Fox and  Jerome Chapman completely blow my mind and make me to buy this product for myself.

Do you a favor and do the same, buy the software!

To your success

Michaela

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Do you want a  completely white-hat software which perform very fast in the background and get you long-term results that last?

If you  cannot afford Jeff Johnson’s “Traffic Voodoo” , this affordable software is for you.

This is what I warmly recommend – Miracle Traffic Bot.

It is a one click SEO and traffic automation software created by Internet Marketer Paul Ponna and his team.

The software submits your videos, articles and websites to dozens of article directories, social bookmarking sites, and video submission sites with a couple of clicks. I don’t know about you but for me this is 80% free time, precious time, my time.

Did you happen to be boring and frustrated spending time submitting to Social Media… because you have to?…  then keep reading.

With the unique combination of simplicity of use and speed of submission, the software makes getting top rankings on search engines a breeze.

Plus, the software suite also comes with complete step by step video training on not only how to use the software but also trains you on how to get traffic and make money using the software.

The benefits of this miracle software are:

• The software gets you top 30 or more rankings on top search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and others search engines
  
• The software also gets your website, blog or affiliate page hundreds of quality backlinks that not only increases your Google PageRank but also catapults your website to rank high for most keywords of your choice
  
• Miracle Traffic Bot also allows you to spread your message because the platforms and sites that the software integrates with syndicate their content to several hundreds of other websites

This ripple effect ensures that one simple article, video or URL for bookmarking of your sites will turn into hundreds of one-way backlinks and thousands of visitors to your website, blog or affiliate page.

Hence, you do not even need your own website or product to get the most out of the software as once you get the traffic, everything else becomes easy.

Miracle Traffic Bot is a powerful software suite and what’s better is that it is the only software of its kind that sells for a low one-time fee which makes it a must for every online marketer to have it in their marketing efforts.

Miracle Traffic Bot is live now.

Michaela, until next time be well and well informed!

P.S. It is the first submitter software that automatically submits to:

• Top video sharing sites
• Top social bookmarking sites
• Top article directories

… All this within just seconds!

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Part III

Alexa

Alexa is a Yahoo free tool that allows you to find out the traffic of any site online, it is coming with some controversy, I will say that even when is unreliable, it is doing an excellent job:

• It does give you a good indication as to how many hits a site is getting
• Let you compare sites traffic
• Let you monitor your own site, just creating an alexa-account for the site and implementing a small HTML code in your site meta-tags

In the next picture I compare traffic for:

• Zazzle.com
• CaffeePress.com
• eBay.com
• Amazon.com

Looking to the chart: Amazon has the most hits, followed by eBay, Zazzle and Caffee Press are almost zero traffic vs. Amazon and eBay. But between Zazzle and CaffePress, Zazzle is doing better.

If you request a chart just for one website you scroll down can click on self-service tool (red arrow):

At this point you open an Alexa account for your website, follow the instructions, and when the account is approved, we will receive an email from Alexa with a piece of HTML code, and instructions where to put the HTML snippet on your site. 

Making money online is all about traffic AND conversions, if you know more about how your site is doing, it will be easy to know the areas you must improves.
If you understand its limitations of this tool, and you will do using it, then Alexa can be a fantastic free marketing tool.

Zamzar

Did you ever want to convert files from one format to another without to download bulky software?  You need www.Zanzar.com

Zamzar supports a big variety of different formats, I frequently use it when I need to convert a gif  picture in a jpeg picture,  I also use it when I need to convert something to a PDF really fast.

Gigasize

Did you ever need to send a big, really big file that e-mail cannot handle it?
You need www.Gigasize.com which will let you transmit max. file size 300 MB and 10 file max for a free account.

It is supper fast, you’ll have your files sent before you know it! You basically send large email files on Internet by uploading to Gigasize.

This way you can upload: Movies, Music, Games, and Photos, and store them on-line for instant access and sharing.

Copyscape

Did you ever worry about people stealing your content online (if you don’t, you should be!)? Y0u need www.Copyscape.com.

The debate is still on about whether penalties for duplicate content exists or not, but I advise everybody to have a quick look to discover if anyone has stolen your content every now and then.

This is a handy free tool, you type your website address into the box, and then click submit. This is it, the tool will rush off and check if anyone is copying your post/aticle when they shouldn’t be.

It is amazing! Isn’t it?  

Until the next time

All the best Michey

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I kept last post to be about the fold longer then usual, I did it on purpose.  Now is the right time to go forward.

Everybody under the sun is complaining about information overload and the luck of enough time. We cannot make the day longer then 24 hours even if we try, this is a fact, but we can help ourselves with some Marketing Tools which can be Free or Paid.

I’ll tell you today about FREE Marketing tools I use and like to make my life easier, to minimize the time, and make me happy as an Internet Marketer.

I need more then one post but this is the plan:

• Google Free Tools
• Graphics
• Blogging
• SEO
• Others

Google Free Tools

They are so many; I enumerate 6 of them in alphabetical order:

1. Google Alerts  it is a tool which can help you to get more traffic, and more knowledge about a subject

Google Alert

I am interested on Affiliate Marketing, I create a Google Alert for it and all the time when it is a new blog post, forum discussion, website and so on I receive an email about it, this cover the knowledge part.

All other people who have a Google Alert about the topic of this post receive an email about this post.  It is a very easy way to keep abreast with new publications, and make your activity visible in the same time

2. Google Analytics is a free tool which you must download.

It gives you rich insights into website traffic and marketing affectiveness. It is a great traking and stat tool which is not used yet at the real potention.

3. Google Docs It’s basically a place to store your documents online, with the added benefit that you and others can edit files at the same time.

You can watch this video.

The beauty is, you don’t end up with lots of different versions of the same file flying around, and you don’t have to download your file each time you want to open it. It really is a brilliant free software to use.

4. Google Keywords It ia a tool you can download.

It is a tool that helps you with your keyword research, very fast, and it has loads of features. I advise to use it in combination with other tools as well. My favorite is SpyFu , this tool is teling me what the competition is doing, and I love their motto:

“It’s tough out there. Succeed beyond survival”

5. Google Reader 

You must use RSS to keep up to date with the best content on the web. Almost all blogs publish an RSS feed, and that means that if you use an RSS feed reader, you can have the content of that site delivered to you as soon as it happens.

When you start subscribing to your preferred RSS feeds, you’ll discover that you save a  loads  of time which you can now use for other purposes to grow your business.

There are lots of different RSS readers out there, but my personal favourite by far is Google Reader, click to get a tour first. It’s completely free, very easy to use, and it will save you ton of time.

6. Google Trends  It  is an excellent tool that allows you to see graphs of search volume over a period of time.  The following graph is for Squidoo:

For the next graph I narrow the scope, and I choose just USA, you will be surprised to find out which States and  Cities are using the most Squidoo:

This is a great niche research tool, and you can use to get a feel for whether some search terms on a particular topic are likely to go up or down.

Others:

Roboform If you want a  big time saver download now the Roboform.

I am sure you have over 100 of usernames and passwords for loads of different sites. Just to remember so many passwords it is mission impossible

Roboform does the work for you, as it saves all of your different login details inside a toolbar that sits at the top of your browser. To visit any site you just select it from the drop down menu and then Roboform takes you to the relevant page and logs you in.

I successfully use this simple site, for over 2 years, but last week I give up as the new Norton Internet Security 2010 has a nice feature called: Log-ins and Cards which makes the Roboform features even easier to use.  Norton is a paid product but I have it anyway for security reasons, and I decided to you his new 2010 function to replace Roboform.

I’ll continue in differnt posts.

Until the next time all the best

Michaela

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Theoretically I know from years that Information Overload exists, and I have to get rid of it to produce work in a reasonable amount of time.  From time to time I am guilty of it again and again, and I have to discipline myself and implement drastic rules.

In my case is happening because I am doing a lot of Affiliate marketing along with my products marketing and I have to advertise a new product when is release to the public, not after a month when half of the world already know about it. Nowadays it seems like a new product launches just about every day, doesn’t it?  It is hard to keep a balance and again I find myself working on a main project and on other 3 other projects on the same time.

I can hear you saying: sure, excuses, excuses, what you can expect from a Affiliate marketer? But if I tell you that 70% of my income is coming from Affiliate marketing and only 30% from my own products, you maybe will keep reading.

What is the Information Overload? This is the definition in Wikipedia:

“Information overload refers to an excess amount of information being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks very difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the information. As the world moves into a new era of globalization, an increasing number of people are logging onto the internet to conduct their own research and are given the ability to produce as well as consume the data accessed on an increasing number of websites. As of February 2007 there were over 108 million distinct websites and increasing…  More and more people are considered to be active writers and viewers because of their participation. This flow has created a new life where we are now dependant on access to information. Therefore we see an information overload from the access to so much information, almost instantaneously, without knowing the validity of the content and the risk of misinformation.

… As a result, there is a downfall or a negative impact within this issue. Together with the amount of information being produced from various people on the net, the problem of Information Overload arises. The implication arises from the psychological field, society and individual.”

I consider this an accurate definition, with a clear explanation of the negative impact.

Two weeks ago happened  to me gain, but the difference was that all 3 extra projects I was working on was vital, in critical stages and supposed to be ready yesterday! I analyzed the results on my last month, I found out that I am not proud of myself, the pace was too slow, I kept missing dead lines, and I had to admit that a had to take action to get out of Information overload, and come back at working on just one product at the time. 

The main project was my Squidoo Challenge which was time consuming because I drove free traffic with Social Media, sometime 1/2 day I was working just on that task.

The other 3 projects:

• I was writing an eBook, 2/3 was done (60 pages), 2 more chapters to go
• I am learning to set up a Membership Site - important task which will produce recurring income if it is set up right
• An affiliate product of an exceptional value, it is written by one of my mentors, person I trust and respect, I definitely want to be part of his success, he deserve my effort as Affiliate

As you can see I cannot give up on any of them.

What I did under those circumstances?

I put in hold the main project for 2 weeks, hoping to finish the other 3 and come back to work only on this one later

I decided to completely isolate myself and work on the other 3 until I finish them or a part of them:  

• I stopped reading e-mails, and answered the phone
• Stopped tweeting, squiding, and anything else related with Social media
• Stopped watching TV News, shopping, even cooking (I improvised the dinner in 15 min, and breakfast or lunch in 5 min.)

I just slept, ate in minutes, drink coffee and worked around 12 hours per day burning the midnight oil.

The first 2-3 days was hard to follow this schedule but I resisted to open the Outlook as I knew that I couldn’t stop answering e-mails, checking sites and so on.  After that it was like a normal habit, the work efficiency was rewarding, I was able to finish my ebook, to learn all I need to know and set up my membership site, and I did a really hard work to advertise the affiliate product.

In summary – isolate yourself from the world and ignore the new “Holy Grail” daily promises if you want to finish what are you doing. Having said that, it is just one “Holy Grail” – your hard work, your perseverance, your consistency, your desire to be a winner.

Until next time, all the best

Michaela

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The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, taking care of customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.

Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Boost Your Affiliate Commissions, right? How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.

• Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time. There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site. You are in competition with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you write a short report related to the product you are promoting, you are distinguishing yourself from the other affiliates.In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With ebooks, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering. 
• Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free reports/ebooks. This means you must have a squeeze page. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale. This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you. Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners.You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever. Your goal isn’t one-time sale only. But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission.

  Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers. This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.

 

• Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.

More about affiliate marketing strategies on my Squidoo lens Affiliate Profit for Beginners.

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Just a short note to tell you want was remarkable on Internet Marketing on last week.

1) The eBay finally decided to get read of other types of payments and accept only PayPal. Make a lot of sense, they a talking about it from some time but now they implement this idea. Forcing customers to pay only with PayPal which is part of eBay will:

• Create more secure payments
• More stability
• Build trust between sellers and buyers
• Make transaction easy to follow

This is a “change”,  I am totally agree with.

 2) Opt-in Forms are back on Squidoo, I already update my lenses, you can see an example at  http://www.squidoo.com/BeginnersAffiliateProfit or http://www.squidoo.com/SquidIncomeGoal

3) I create my own group on Squidoo, and call it: AffiliateMarketing09

 4) It is a flood with new Twitter Applications:

http://www.tweepler.com  http://twitter-splitter.com and so on.

At this point the power of tweeter is incredible, there are people with thousands of followers and there is no restriction on what you advertise. When affiliate marketing URLs are more and more restricted on: some blogs, forums, ezines, on Squidoo and Twitter we can use affiliate link as much as we want. But don’t abuse it, use Twitter ethically and spamlessly and you will increase your web traffic.

Until next time all the best

Michaela

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This is the time of year when we look back at 2008 and we make New Year’s Resolutions. This is also my last 2008 post.

For me 2008 have been a year with ups and downs. I am proud of my accomplishments but I have a list of things that are unfinished.
Why?

• I worked at too many projects at a time, I promised to discipline myself, but never happened.  I think this was my weakest point
• Spend too much time with Social Bookmarking and Social Networking. It is Ok because I learn a lot, but I have to take some decisions in 2009 about separating the weeds
• My planning must be more realistic

I am determined to learn from my 2008 mistakes and accomplish more in 2009.
I put in writing my business vision, my goals, and my actions.

I think this must me the start doesn’t matter what you do:

• Take the time to think about what you want to accomplish
• Putting in writing
• Follow up because things that are tracked and measured tend to improve
• For Internet marketers – constantly test and track to improve conversion rates
• Setting up attainable dead lines for your actions, this will make you feel a sense of accomplishment that might be enough to encourage you to stick with the plan until you achieve your goals

This is the general wisdom but let’s get back to my resolutions:

• In 2009 I’ll work on one project at a time, it’s a promise I have to stick with it
• Try to isolate myself from any distractions
• I learn a lot about Social Marketing and Networking, I can separate now what is working vs. what is not, and I’ll concentrate only in what is working
• Must finish an eBook I started in 2008, and plan for the next Digital Product
• I will work minimum one hour per day for a Squidoo Challenge I committed in Dec 2008 see  http://www.squidoo.com/SquidIncomeGoal
• I will set up a membership site
• I’ll work more with affiliate programs
• Cut off on coffee drinking…

I wish you all a Happy 09, let’s strive to make the best of it!
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