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Posts Tagged ‘affiliate’
The concepts of Voice and Feel are two that I come back to often when thinking about the hows and whys of providing information and of consuming it. One aspect of the importance of voice as a writer is illustrated in thinking about the idea of feel as it relates to learning. Feel is not something you often see talked about when people are discussing the ins and outs of various Internet Marketing information products – books, reports and courses designed to teach others how to make money marketing online. It is a concept you should keep in mind. The first step in the journey toward success online is finding a field of marketing that resonates with you. Whether it’s affiliate marketing, adsense, article marketing or some other area, there is bound to be one that seems to make more sense to you. It’s true that you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket, but you have to start somewhere. Once you decide on an area of marketing that you want to pursue (and this is no easy task), you will need to light on a program to follow. If you are like me, this means that you will begin to accumulate information and products in the area as you try to find your way. While this can be time consuming and a bit spendy, it has one huge advantage. You often hear that when you eventually become successful at earning an income online it will be by taking a program and making it your own. Consuming a bunch of information about a subject is how you eventually do that. Somewhere along the way, as you zero in on the correct system for you, you will find that one program or guide that makes sense. The one that feels right to you. For me the area of Internet Marketing that makes sense right now is in the building of sniper sites. These are small sites with just a few posts, that are optimized and backlinked for easy keywords. In the past these sites have been successful with as few as two posts, but this appears to not be the best strategy these days. Konrad did an experiment on this very subject and reported on it in this post. I have four different courses that are examples of this type of marketing. They all teach substantially the same thing, varying only in the details, but there is something about the fourth and last one I bought that works for me. For some reason it feels right. I “get “it. I have built a site or two this way, enough to verify that the technique will rank a site. It also lets me know I need to learn a bit about montezing a site, but that’s a different conversation. When I get back to doing some affiliate marketing, that is the program I will largely follow. All four of these courses are good ones. They teach people how they can make money. Their authors seem to be successful with the techniques themselves, and so have some of their students. But three of them just didn’t feel right. And that matters.
No doubt you have heard the term ‘the money is in the list’ and for any type of on or off line marketer this holds very true. Creating a list will turn out to be a valuable commodity, imagine creating a new product and knowing that by just emailing your list you will achieve sales? Wouldn’t that be great? Well you can do this do and this article will show you how to easily get started building your list. The best way to start building your list is to offer your readers something for free. This could be access to your newsletter or to a report. To do this you will require two things:
There are many different autoresponder services on the market two of the most popular are AWeber and GetResponse. For a free service you can use MailChimp but be aware that they frown upon affiliate marketers and once you have 500 subscribers you have to begin paying. AWeber is the service that I use and has lots of sign up or opt in forms that you can use on your page. Once inside your account you would create a list by following the step by step instructions. Then select a template, simply copy the code and insert it into your site. The next thing you need is a free report or eBook to give away. This doesn’t have to be that long about 10 pages should do. If you have your own eBook you could giveaway the first two chapters and then sell the remainder of the book. If you don’t enjoy writing then using private label rights content or PLR as it is know, is your quickest solution. There are plenty of PLR sites to choose from just do a quick search on line for your subject + PLR and see what you can find. With your PLR report I suggest that you make some quick changes to it as I have outlined below.
Once you have your report edited then turn it into a PDF file then zip it up and upload it to your hosting account. You will want to create a thank you or download page with the link to this file. Alternatively you can deliver it with your AWeber messages as an attachment. You can now place your opt in form on your website. Make sure it is above the fold. This means that it needs to be visible as soon as someone lands on your page without them having to scroll down. If you look on this site you will see that the SEO Tips box is at the top of the page, in a perfect position to collect subscribers. Your other choice is to create what is known as a squeeze page. This is one page that displays information about what you are offering and contains your opt in box. Squeeze pages can be a very effective way of building a list. You can download a free squeeze page template from here or do a quick search online for templates. You may want to consider adding a video to your squeeze page as these have been shown to convert extremely well. Create Your Own Video Squeeze Page for Free By using this information you can now get your product and your opt in form ready. Next time we will discuss other ways to build your list and talk about setting up your follow up emails in your autoresponder account. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your newly created squeeze pages.
I know of internet marketers who only promote products or services that bring them residual commissions. In other words, if they can’t earn commission month after month for promoting a product or service once, they will not bother promoting it. The beauty with that kind of a mindset is that you can really build a huge cash-flow business very quickly (if you do it right). The downside is that you are limited to the amount of products/services you can promote. Anyhow… if you are like that or if you simply would like to earn commissions over and over again for work you did once, why don’t you signup for my affiliate program? Sign up to my SEO affiliate program Here I pay a 25% commission on all orders sent my way. If a customer does not sign up immediately, we use cookies to set your affiliate ID so that even if the customer orders anything a year or two later from this site, you get your 25% commission. Pretty powerfurl eh? To give you an idea on how cool this is: one affiliate recommended me on his blog about a year ago and without even doing anything now, he is bringing in 1 -2 customers every week. It might not be much, but the commissions add up very quickly. Did I mention that if the customer keeps renewing their order, you continue to earn the commission? Anyways… this is not a sales pitch. I just thought I would write up this update just so you all know. I get asked almost daily if I have an affiliate program and now you know that I do. Cheers, Konrad Braun
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