Thursday, March 22, 2007

Real-life video documentary on rags-to-riches story...

Video from Michael Cheney...

You ever wanted to know the REAL story of what it feels like to make it online? You ever wanted to see the REAL proof that the Internet dream actually exists?

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Enjoy!

Brian

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The 3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.

However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.

Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.

Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.

Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.

Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs.

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.

True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.

The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.

Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.

As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.

Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.

Monday, March 19, 2007

AdSenseDecoded -Most Awaited AdSense Release 2007

I just found about this today. I'm awaiting some reviews on this program, but for now, here is the lowdown on 'Adsense Decoded' as follows:

The AdSense Decoded project led by Dr Patrick Hillenbrand a fellow internet marketer, an Australian AdSense Expert and a top AdSense earner reveals truly powerful AdSense techniques & strategies in his online video based 'AdSense GPS Roadmap'.

An alternative name for these powerful videos could be "Step-By-Step AdSense Videos to Instant $10k/month With or Without Search Engine Traffic".

In fact, Patrick made $10,852 in just the FIRST month using NO search engine traffic at all. And importantly, without breaking any AdSense program policies.

This is a brand new concept! It's called 'AdSense Brokerage' (NOT arbitrage). Patrick shows how to monetize on every single visitor you have to your AdSense pages, and not just once but multiple times, monetizing on your visitors many times over.

Whether you are new to AdSense or a seasoned publisher AdSenseDecoded offers you an invaluable roadmap how to substantially increase your current AdSense earnings by using best practise and advanced AdSense techniques previously only known to only a handful of top earners, Patrick included.

If you are in any way working with AdSense and have decided to finally claim your slice of the largest revenue stream on the Net and want to copy the big earners, you can check the AdsenseDecoded project out today and see what all the fuss is all about!

Brian

"How to Create an Irresistible Offer"

Henry Gold discusses why he gets a minimum 2% to 3% conversion from his sales copy and what exactly to do, to create an irresistible offer on the conversion process. This way, you are able to see clearly how to OUTBEAT your competitors in the industry you are into at

:http://TheSuperGifts.com/blog/conversion.html

Say thank you,
Brian

Article - What's all the buzz? Search Engine PPC Advertising

ARTICLE: What's All the Buzz? - Search Engine Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising
by Rob Favero

One of the hottest forms of advertising on the Internet today is Search Engine Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. If you've heard the terminology, but you're not sure what all the buzz is about, this article is for you.

The basis for this form of advertising is "pay per click." This means that an advertiser only pays when someone clicks on the advertiser's ad.

So let's say you have an ad, and it gets displayed 100 times. But so far no one has really been paying much attention to it. Then, person 101 comes along and clicks on your ad. Boom. That's when you pay -- only when the person clicks.

This is a great deal for advertisers. Clearly, at those points when no one is paying attention to your ad, it has zero value for you. But at the point that someone takes focused interest in your ad -- a specific, click-through interest -- the ad takes on value. So you only pay for ads with value.

But in recent years, the power of pay per click advertising has risen to a new level.

One of the most critical aspects of effective advertising, the kind that generates income, is its ability to reach people who are looking for what you have to offer. This concept is simple, but finding an audience who wants what you have is easier said than done.

So here's the question. What places on the Internet have vast awareness of the things and topics people are looking for?

The answer is search engines.

Think about it. Helping people find the things and topics they want is the whole reason for search engine existence.

The innovation in the last several years has been to combine search engine results with PPC ads.

And it's no surprise that the big players in this game of search engine advertising are Yahoo! and Google. Yahoo! provides this service through its Yahoo! Search Marketing (http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/). Google Adwords(http://adwords.google.com/) is Google's offering.

Undoubtedly, you've seen this type of advertising, maybe without even realizing it. Whenever you do a search on Google or Yahoo!, more often than not your search results will include entries with a label of "Sponsor Results." They appear along the top or to the right side. These are PPC ads, and they are related in some way to the search you did.

So what's the cost for this type of advertising? It's not a simple answer. One of the key factors in the cost is page position. It's no surprise that the top position is generally the most effective ad position. And the top positions go for the most money.

But there isn't a set amount for a particular spot on a search results page. You can't go to Google or Yahoo! and find out precisely how much a particular spot costs.

That's because page position is decided through bidding.

Now, remember, you don't actually pay to display your ad. You only pay when someone clicks on your ad. So when you set up an ad campaign, you set a maximum amount you are willing to pay for a click. This amount becomes your bid. You also choose keywords that determine the search results your ad gets displayed with.

Then, when a person runs a search, the search engine finds all ads that are eligible to be displayed for the search. It compares bids, and the highest bidder gets position 1. The next highest gets position 2, and so on.

Isn't that mind-boggling? That every search you run results in a mini-auction of advertisers vying for your attention?

Because of this bidding process, ad costs vary greatly, depending on the particular search that was run. Ads displayed on searches for which there are few competing ads can go for pennies per click. However, with searches related to lucrative business endeavors -- say insurance, for example -- top spots can easily go for dollars a click.

This description of the bidding process covers Yahoo! Search Marketing, but it only approximates the process used by Google Adwords. Google adds a variation to their service, and it provides an interesting twist to the basic model.

With Google, determining position on a search page depends on some combination of bid amount and relevance. The more relevant your ad is to a set of search results, the lower your bid has to be to earn a position over another, less relevant ad.

The precise definition of relevance is elusive, but surely an ad, for example, of scuba gear on a search for bicycles would almost certainly have low relevance.

So Google rewards relevance -- and creativity. Advertisers who figure out how to create a highly relevant ad can reduce costs over that of their competitors. It's a factor in the equation that evens things out a bit between small and large advertisers. It's a factor that you can leverage, if you can create highly relevant ads in your campaign.

Search engine PPC advertising has taken a prominent position on the Internet because of two primary features. First, advertisers are charged only for ads with actual value; you only pay when someone takes notice and clicks on your ad. Second, the advertising is targeted; people see your ad while they are actively searching for what you have. The combination of these two features creates a powerful tool for Internet marketing.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

3 Ways to Boost Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your won website, dealing with 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? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?

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


1) 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. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish 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.


2) Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks. 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.

But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.

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.


3) 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.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Need Lots of Cash in a Hurry?

How would you like to be able to create cash on demand, just when you really need it? How about in the next 72 hours?

Maybe you've got behind in your bills. Or, unexpected expenses came up and you're in a real bind for some extra money.

AND YOU NEED IT NOW!

Hey, I know what it's like to be next to broke, behind in paying the mortgage, homeowner dues, credit card bills, etc.

The solution?

Well, if you are desperate enough, you'll fiqure out what you have around the house that you could sell on eBay. You probably will run some ads on craigslist.org in your area. Place want ads in your local newspaper. Whatever it takes. But unless you are going to sell your car or your house, you'll only make a few hundred dollars, anyway.

But what if you need to come up with a few thousand dollars, say in the next 5 to 7 days? Impossible you say.

I am going to show you how to sell affiliate products the fast, easy and simple way that could result in an avalance of cash in a very short amount of time.

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To your success in 2007,
Brian Anderson

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Why Affiliate Marketing?

I'm a firm believer most entrepreneurs should engage in selling affiliate products, unless perhaps you are already making 6 to 7 figures. Certainly for newbies, this is the best place to start earning money online. I have been involved in affiliate marketing for the last 6 months because I realized how lucrative it can be. I decided to focus my own business in that direction. The reasons are simple. Here are just 8 of them...

1) Affiliate marketing is truely downright cheap. No huge startup costs and can be done easily on a shoestring budget.

2) You have the ability to literally create cash on demand, whenever you need it. Pay off bills or meet unexpected expenses. Have the ablility to funnel extra cash flow into your primary business to build it faster. Increase your advertising budget, purchase needed office equipment, etc.

3) Affiliate products are easy to promote. All you need is an affiliate link.

4) Information products are in high demand. The market is endless and growing each day.

5) InfoProducts are digital and instantly downloadable to the customer and the commissions are credited to your account immediately.

6) Commissions can be as high as 75%. Info-product marketplaces, like ClickBank pays out a 50% to 75% commission.

7) You don't need to create your own products, deal with customer support, handle credit card orders, etc.

8) Did I mention it's quick and easy to get started right away? You can earn your first affiliate commissions in a little as 24 hours.

Of course affiliate marketing has it's ins and outs. But with a little training from super affiliates, a willing to take action, the possibilities are endless what you can earn without much experience, whatsoever.

I totally recommend anyone starting out and building their MLM business, consulting business, whatever business opportunity you're in, strongly consider affiliate marketing to create extra income streams. The benefits are well worth it and may just save your butt whenever you get into a financial jam.

If you are interested in learning more or how to get started, visit this website:
http://www.linkbrander.com/go/32037