Affiliate Marketing – Five tactics for getting the most out of your traffic
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Getting Started, News
Affiliate marketing is tough, there’s no denying it. Especially if you’re just starting out; you first have to build your website, then, you have to get traffic to it (that’s a whole different can of worms). Finally, after weeks or probably months, you start getting a steady stream of visitors to your site. Now, it’s time to start selling to them.
Yes, I know, “selling to them” is an ugly term, but let’s face it –it’s what we’re here for. Whether you’re trying to build a business that will allow you to quit your day job or simply trying to make a few extra bucks – affiliate marketing (promoting other peoples products and services) is the quickest way to get started. Here are five ideas to help you start earning those commission checks:
1) Become an authority – Whatever your niche is, regardless of how large or how small it is – visitors come to your site with the assumption that you know what you’re talking about –you have the upper hand, don’t disappoint them. Give your visitors good, original content, keep your site fresh, report about what’s going on in your niche and your visitors will come back to your site again and again – this is called authority site building and it’s one of the most powerful techniques for building web success.
2) Know what you’re selling – Don’t sign up for every affiliate program you see and fill your site with every banner and every offer you can find. This is counter productive and goes against the authority site building process described above. Sites like this (often called banner farms) have been around since affiliate programs began and they’ve NEVER sold anything! If you’re an authority within your niche, then you really ought to have first hand experience with the products and services you’re recommending. Banners won’t sell to your audience, thoughtful (warts and all) reviews will.
3) Don’t sell it PREsell it – As affiliate marketers, it’s NOT our job to sell. We’re in the business of recommending products and services and sending interested visitors to their sales pages. This is called Preselling, it’s the process of warming your visitors up to an affiliate product (For more information, read Ken Envoy’s free ebook “Make Your Content PREsell”). Let the affiliate programs landing page do the high-pressure selling, you’re just recommending a product you like to your visitor.
4) Always include a call to action – This is a very subtle technique and one that is often overlooked; you need to tell your visitors what you want them to do. If you want them to fill out a form and hit submit – tell them! If you want them to go to the sales page for a particular product –tell them! It sounds pretty simple but it is a basic selling technique that is often the difference between being a good salesman and a great one. Here’s a few call to actions to give you a better idea of what they are: “Click here to learn more” or “Check out their website now”
5) Be Patient, don’t quit or get discouraged – This is the big one. Only a fraction of the visitors you send to the sales page ever buy and of the few that actually do buy, most will NOT buy on their first click through, it can be days even weeks or months before today’s visitor, actually hits that buy button and plunks down their credit card number. In other words, even if you do everything right the odds are you won’t see your first sale for at least a month after you start getting traffic to your site. You have to just keep plugging away; you never know when success is just around the next corner.
In conclusion, the five ideas above are by no means the only things you’ll need to concentrate on to make your site successful, but in my view they are up there very near the top of the list. Re-read this list whenever you start to get discouraged! Oh and pay special attention to number five – if you can fully digest that one, you’re well on your way to being successful.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't forget to get Your Own Personal Bailout!! My Brand New - FREE Ebook that Will Show You Exactly How Start Making Money On The Web - TODAY - FOR FREE!
Tweet This Post 
Ping This Post 
Stumble This Post
RPM Institute announces Headache free Authority Site building.
Filed under: Authority Sites, Getting Started, News
Recently the RPM Institute (RPMi) unveiled a very clever way of handling the headaches that invariably arise when designing a new website. How? By simply taking all the technical issues of setting up a new sight away from the membership and putting this burden squarely on the shoulders of the more technically adept site design department. With the new and improved system, we (the membership) simply request a new site; fill out a few entries on a form and the support staff takes care of the rest. The entire build process takes less then a week (often much quicker).
Included with the build are all of the tools, plug-ins, widgets and graphics you need to create a content rich authority website. The designers create a professional looking site that just works —You simply have to add your content.
So what do you actually get with your new site?
First, you get free web hosting. The hosting includes the full range of services you expect – unlimited emails, traffic stats and log files, file manager, cpanel, fantastico and more…
Next, RPMi sites are blog based. They’re built using an SEO enhanced version of the Wordpress blog system. The blog system is further extended with a suite of plugins, some of these publicly available others proprietary. Finally, two stand-alone applications, ContentPress and PheedPress are included and configured with each site build.
ContentPress (CP) is a system that automates the posting of content to your blog, this is NOT a site scraper, or some other black-hat site builder, CP is a tool to help automate the process of getting content on your blog. Among the uses of CP, is the ability to have the system automatically post content at random days and times. You just add your articles to the CP database, set a few calendar options then go about your business. CP then posts your articles at the intervals you selected.
The next tool, Pheedpress is an application that allows you to configure custom RSS feeds for your sites. Feeds can be created by you and listed on your blog, there is also an interactive tool that allows your users to create there own feeds of your content (very innovative). Pheedpress is an awesome tool for getting your site noticed by potential users all around the world.
Both of these tools, CP and Pheedpress are proprietary and available only to RPMi users.
What I like about this new set-up is that they’ve removed ALL the old road-blocks to building your sites. Now, there’s no more excuses, you simply request your site, wait a few days for your new Authority Site to be hand-crafted by the RPMi sight building team, then start posting content. It’s that simple!
Have a look at the RPMi, It’s a great system and one I fully recommend to anyone who’s looking for a headache-free way to get their website live.
Learn More Here: RPM Institute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Don't forget to get Your Own Personal Bailout!! My Brand New - FREE Ebook that Will Show You Exactly How Start Making Money On The Web - TODAY - FOR FREE!
Tweet This Post Ping This Post Stumble This Post
Internet Marketing WAHT
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Getting Started
I’ve been an Internet marketer for over eight years, I’ve been working from home for the last six years. It’s great, I’ve been a stay at home dad for my sons entire life. That doesn’t mean it’s all wonderful. Working at home has its share of challanges. Here’s some of the most important Work At Home Topics (WAHT) I’ve dealt with.
My son is older now and started kindergarten this year, so he is out of the house for about seven hours a day during the week. This is nice, as it obviously gives me the opportunity to get work done without the pitter patter of little feet (not to mention, the crash clang of his soccer ball against the wall or the tug-tug of “daddy please come play with me”). Anyway, over the last six years I’ve had to develop some strategies for getting things done. Here’s a few of my favorite:
Set yourself up to succeed
I used to get frustrated with all the interruptions as soon as I started to work. So what did I do? I realized that there are 24 hours in a day and that even though I was used to working 9 to 5 in my old job, I could make my own hours now that I’m working from home –let’s face it, most of my job as an Internet Marketer is solitary work that can be done at any time. So, I decided to give my son as much of my time as I could, and did my work during his “down time”. This allowed me to really bond with my son in a way that most men don’t get to. When he was napping or in bed for the night, I did my work.
Use a notebook computer and go wireless
When my son was about three years old, we decided to take a family vacation to Florida. To that point I used strictly desktop computers, however since I knew we would be away for over two weeks, I decided to take the plunge and purchase a portable computer that I could take with me so I could at least keep up with things while we were away. Well, I’ve been using notebook computers ever since (I’m on my second one now). Combine the portability of a notebook computer with the convenience of a wireless network and I can work from any room in the house. Also, at times when I just have to get something done at a “noisy time” in the house, I can simply pack up and go work at my local Starbucks –most now offer wireless access.
Get organized to Keep Focused
When you’re self-employed you face the challenge of having too much freedom. It’s very easy to get lazy and put unpleasant tasks off even though you know they’re important. I find that working from a priority list helps me get the things I need to do done. I recommend that you take a work day and simply clean your desk (or work space). Get rid of any unnecessary documents, file anything that needs to be saved, hold on to anything that may require some action. Next, go through your emails; answer any that will require a quick response, save any that require some kind of actual work (RFP requests, new client projects etc). Next, go through whatever is left on your desk and your email inbox, note each separately on a sheet of paper (paper lists are better for this). Once this is done, prioritize each task based. Now make a separate list of any tasks that need to be accomplished on a dialy, weekly, monthly basis – prioritize each task based on how crucial it is to your business.
Now with your two lists in place, finish cleaning your desk – be brutal, get rid of anything that is not absolutely necessary. Once your desk is clean, you can get back to work.
Going forward you’ll be working from your lists, your lists should always be near by. As projects are completed cross them off the list, as new once come in –add them to your lists. Doing this quickly becomes a habit and you’ll soon find that you’re getting more done then ever before.
Tags: waht, internet marketing, affiliate marketing
Well that’s it for now, hope these tips have helped you –if you have any to add feel free let us know in the comments section of this post.
Don't forget to get Your Own Personal Bailout!! My Brand New - FREE Ebook that Will Show You Exactly How Start Making Money On The Web - TODAY - FOR FREE!
Tweet This Post Ping This Post Stumble This Post
Free Auto Discovery Tool for RSS Feeds
NotePage, Inc. announced the creation of the online auto discovery tool. The tool prompts for the Feed name and its URL, it then generates code that can be copied and pasted into the header section of your web page. When the code is in place, many RSS Readers can recognize that an RSS feed is available for the website, it can then notify the visitor that the feed exists. Browsers and aggregators including FireFox, Safari and IE 7 are just a few applications that will take advantage of the presence of RSS auto-discovery code.
Here’s a link: RSS Autodiscovery Tool
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Don't forget to get Your Own Personal Bailout!! My Brand New - FREE Ebook that Will Show You Exactly How Start Making Money On The Web - TODAY - FOR FREE!
Tweet This Post Ping This Post Stumble This Post
Online turnkey business website
Here’s another headline that I love; “Online Turnkey Business Website”. You’ll find ads like this frequently on Ebay. Don’t be fooled, a turnkey business is one that comes not only with a store, but also a marketing plan, training and ongoing support.
What you see on ebay is a website that has been built –probably from a freely available template with rehashed content that is all over the internet. Often times these sites are using content and graphics that they don’t even own the rights to. In other words, you’re probably getting ripped off. Further, even if everything is on the up and up, unless the website is established and is getting traffic, you’re probably not getting anything that is really of value anyway.
Today, it is pretty easy and inexpensive to get a website up and running. Domain name registration is as low as $5/year US, reliable web hosting can be had for under $10/month. It’s free to install a wordpress blog on your site and many hosting packages include tools that allow for push button deployment of wordpress…
The bottom line, if you want an Online Turnkey Business Website —build it yourself!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Don't forget to get Your Own Personal Bailout!! My Brand New - FREE Ebook that Will Show You Exactly How Start Making Money On The Web - TODAY - FOR FREE!
-
Learn How To Start A Profitable Web Business
Right Now - For FREE!
- Learn How Money Is Made Online Everyday
- Learn How To Get FREE - Targeted Traffic to your Offers
- Learn How You Can Get Started Right Now - at ZERO Cost
This Free ebook is all you'll need to build your online business started NOW!
Download Your Personal Bailout Plan Now - This one is FREE!