Jul
3
Let’s zoom out a bit, shall we? Let’s not go into detail of any affiliate program or a helpful marketing tool. No, let’s talk about something else today…. Let’s talk about Time!
Time is the most precious value we have. Time is the greatest equalizer of human beings. If we don’t want to admit this and to treat time with respect then we will only have to lose. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, healthy or sick, you will only have 24 hours a day either way, and you should try to use them wisely.
Most of the times, we waste our time and energy worrying and thinking about things like how to win more money and how to leave a better life. Well, when we do this we usually forget about the most important think – the time to live our life in. A wise man will always tell you: “You can always make more money, but you can never buy more time”.
How many times are we aware of the ways… Read more
Jun
30
Autoresponders are one of the most important marketing tools that you can have if you are doing business online. In fact, the only thing more important than the autoresponder is your opt-in list! But all autoresponders start out without a list – the list doesn’t exist until your autoresponder mailing list starts filling up with names and email addresses!
The easiest and fastest way to build up an email list is to give things away for free. Some marketers will tell you that this is a
waste of time – and if you already have a list of one hundred thousand people that you can market to, then it probably is. But for those who do not already have a list, this is the way that it gets built! You simply pay for advertisement to promote your freebie. Don’t think of this as lost money, think of it as an investment in future earnings.
Give away an ezine, free reports, free ebooks, free access to private websites, or anything else that you can think of. The object is to get people to sign up to receive that freebie, and to agree to receive email from you in the future! It is a win-win situation for everyone, but you… Read more
Jun
25
Affiliate Junktion System Upgrade Delayed
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What a surprise… Affiliate Junktion needs more time to get their new platform up and running. Probably 1 or 2 extra days.
This is what they say:
Our site upgrade has been completed, however, we are experiencing some delay in integrating the previous affiliate system to the new platform.We hope to be up and running with the new platform on Thursday 26th June, however, it may be delayed untill Friday the 27th of June.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience during this upgrade.AffiliateJunktion.com
So, let’s hope it won’t be longer than that time period, because we all want to go back there and make some money.
Jun
23
Affiliate Junktion Down The Next 48 Hours
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Affiliate Junktion decided to upgrade their system. After the upgrade, major improvements should be made for their affiliates. We’ll see.
Thanks to the upgrade, all the AJ affiliates are advised NOT to do paid advertising during that time. That would be between
24th of june 2008 and 26th of june.
This is what AJ’s support mailed me to do:
“…The timezone we use is standard New Zealand time. I would
Suggest stopping your advertisement at 12.01AM on the 24th
Of June and resuming your advertisement at 12.01AM on the
26th of June….”
So, this is why you probably won’t see much advertising for this program during that time period. I don’t know if signing up during that time period is possible. Perhaps you will not even get an answer from Affiliate Junktion, so I would suggest to wait and try it after the 26th of june.
Jun
20
Within this article today, we’re going to look at creating a work at home business that focuses on the internet. There are many different businesses that you can focus on and we will look at what you should look for within a particular business that you want to do.
There are great many opportunities for you in creating a work at home business that focuses on the internet. One of the best resources for you to find information about this is at www.affiliateprograms.com. You’ll want to spend a great deal of time visiting this website because you can find many different affiliate programs that you can market in many different categories.
Some of the categories that they have, that you can market, include finance and investment, food and beverage, automotive, and health and fitness. Take the time to… Read more
Jun
19
Ad Tracking Success
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It’s no secret that there’s a lot of money involved with affiliate marketing. This is only true however, for those who are serious and hard working on their affiliate program. The biggest part of succeeding depends on your perseverance and determination.
Even the best of affiliate programs won’t prosper if you don’t build the business on a solid foundation. Nothing happens if the banners and links you place on a website just decorates the pages. The affiliate must convince visitors to click on the banner or link then proceed to the program to buy products.
Affiliate marketing can be easy if you have planned your campaign well and have taken the right steps towards success. Choosing the right product and designing your website with banners and the right material are keys to making things happen.
An ad tracker is a software program that will allow you to trace and monitor every click that is made by visitors through your referral link. To make things even better, you know exactly where you placed the link. You can either use a service provider or purchase ad tracking software.
With ad trackers, you can monitor the progress of your campaigns, even advertising offline. If you have several affiliate accounts, this tool can be very good to have.
Each and every decision you make should be well grounded in facts. By using an ad tracker, you’ll be able to generate traffic reports for your personal sales page. Armed with the proper knowledge and an ad tracking software program, you’ll have no problems succeeding in the affiliate marketing world.
It can be tough to get started - although once you start making money you’ll be glad you took the chance! I recommend Ultimate Marketing Center as your ad tracker software. And the best thing is, they offer a lot more than only ad tracking. It’s all in one package for a fair monthly fee.
Jun
17
SEO for Adsense
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Do you want to earn more than just a few bucks per month with Adsense?
Well, then SEO, a.k.a. search-engine optimization, is one of the things (strategies) you should consider. Your webpages should be optimized as much as possible, i.e. on-page as off-page. By the way, I’ll tell you more about that later, in another post.
If you’ve been using Google’s AdSense on your pages you obviously feel the need to somehow generate even more traffic for your website, which in turn would translate to more AdSense click and a higher income.
But how do you do this? Well, the major way you’ll get visitors to see your website (other then using AdWords, which is encouraged as well) is to use some techniques to have search engines send more and more users towards your page, by ranking high in search results for your topics of interest.
So, believe it or not this is a technique, better known as search-engine optimization or simply SEO. Here are a bunch of tips that come handy under every amateur or professional optimizer’s belt.
The first thing you need to take care of is… Read more
Jun
16
Create A Mini Site That Runs On Autopilot And Makes You Money While You Sleep?
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In a nutshell… if you want to know how, then check out Michael Rasmussen’s “Mini Site Profits Exposed“. He’s giving away 12 free videos about how to create successful mini sites. And then of course, he tries to “upsell” you the Deluxe package, with, among other things, another 4 videos. The Deluxe package is not for free.
Before we go to the videos, let’s first look at this question:
Why do you want to have mini sites?
Most Internet marketers understand that having mini sites is the fastest and easiest way to make money online. They don’t require… Read more
Jun
16
Why Use Google Adsense?
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Undoubtedly, you’ve heard about Google’s AdSense and you are thinking about giving it a go. But is it really worth placing an AdSense banner on your site?
The answer is a definite yes. You could always have some other banner on your site, or even use some search of affiliate ad program and that would probably make you some money, given of course that your site enjoys a healthy amount of visitors. However with affiliate marketing, it is expected that the visitor from your website completes a sale before you are remunerated.
But that’s nowhere near what you get for using AdSense. There are people who earn in excess of 100.000 dollars per year by using AdSense. 
And it doesn’t just stop with making more money.
Firstly, most of the ads are text only (not necesarally though). That means they’re by far less obtrusive on your visitors then your average, flashy banner that’s designed to catch the eye of the visitor.
Sure, you’ll have to ensure they get better placement, so as to be noticed but despite that they don’t bother viewer’s as much as traditional ads. Think about the many sites you’ve seen using… Read more
Jun
15
Affiliate Marketing: Tips On How To Spot A Scam
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Many of us want new jobs with new opportunities. We are either bored with what we are doing at the moment and desire new challenges, or dislike the place we are currently working and desperately want a change. Many of us would love to run our own businesses. The freedom and independence that this brings, answering only to you and working when you want is an incredibly desirable thing.
However, the reality of this materializing is slim to none in most people’s cases. Most of us don’t have the capital required to start a small business. Others are frightened off by the risk factor involved. Your steady income will be gone as well as the fact that nearly 90 % of all new businesses fail within the first year.
Affiliate marketing is a way around the risk and start up costs. Affiliate marketing costs nothing to join and the risk is minimal. You paid according to what you produce and not according to how the company is performing. There are many wonderful affiliate programs for you to get involved with, however as with anything one needs to be cautious.
Unfortunately, today we live in an age of internet and business fraud. Countless people loose large sums of money on these home business scams. Unfortunately, the world of affiliate marketing is not immune to this. While it is impossible… Read more
Jun
14
Affiliate programs will enable a business to generate a lot of traffic and therefore boost sales through promotion by third party sales or sites. It’s also a cost effective way to advertise your products and services as you pay only for the efforts that actually turn into sales.
Setting up your own affiliate system can be either easy or overwhelming, all depending on how many affiliates you want to recruit, as well as your payment policy and the type of product that you are offering.
As for your affiliate systems, there are two options for your business - outsource the entire system or run your own affiliate system through your own web host. Each one boasts its own advantages as well as disadvantages.
If you have a small amount of affiliates, then you can run your own affiliate software. If you plan to recruit a large number of affiliates, then you will probably need to outsource. The reason for this, is because you’ll find it easy to deal with a large number of sign ups, track payments, monitor clicks, etc.
Types of affiliates
There are numerous types of affiliates out there to choose from. There’s the pay per sale, there an individual is paid only if a sale is generated from the affiliate’s link. It’s the least attractive to people, unless the product is in high demand and the most profitable for business.
Another type is the pay per lead, where you pay only for traffic. With this type, the affiliate is paid only if a visitor is generated from the site of the affiliate. It’s attractive to affiliates although costly to web site owners due to the possibility of non sale visits.
Considerations
When setting up an affiliate, something to consider is… Read more
Jun
13
Making Money with Articles: Article Directories
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Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.
Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. 
By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the work for you.
Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit.
Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are… Read more
Jun
12
If you want to fix your car, you need tools. If you want to build a house, you need tools. If you want to build an online business, then of course, you need tools.
I already had several tools to support my daily online marketing tasks. Some are paid ones, some are free. But the one I didn’t have until recently, was a good autoresponder, helping you to build and manage your LIST.
Well, here I’m not gonna tell you about the importance of a list, nor what exactly an autoresponder is and why you need it. That’s because you probably already know all that.
Here, I just wanted to give you a personal tip. No, not Aweber, although it’s absolutely the top notch solution if you are looking for an autoresponder.
Aweber is starting at a $19 fee per month (membership per year is relatively cheaper by the way). But basically, you only have an autoresponder for that money. And yes, it’s probably worth it, but…
What if you could have an autoresponder AND a few more tools, like webhosting and (link) tracking software for instance, for almost the same amount of money? You would like that?
Then you maybe want to try out Ultimate Marketing Center. It’s more like an all-in-one marketing solution. If you want to read more about all the tools and features provided by UMC, then check out their site.
Of course, you could also settle for a more cheap (or free), low quality autoresponder. I don’t recommend that. For most of your tools you can, no problem, but this tool plays a role in your business that is too important.
If you love headaches, then you must settle for those cheap ones… 
Jun
11
In my previous post I recommended to take a look at Ewen Chia’s Secret Affiliate Weapon, if you wanted to learn from one of the best affiliate marketers in the world. What I forgot to mention is the target (primary) audience…
Secret Affiliate Weapon is meant for people who:
* want to succeed as affiliate marketers;
* want to make real money online;
* need a step by step plan for doing so;
* are newbie’s;
* are intermediate affiliate marketers.
If your profile fits, then this course might be interesting for you. And now it’s not even 10 bucks. By the way, I don’t know how long Ewen is going to sell it at this (low) price. And if you (already) signed up with Secret Affiliate Weapon, then please let me know what YOU think of it…
Jun
10
What’s the secret to become a successful affiliate?
That’s a question I hear a lot. That same question is also THE one that I ask myself once in a while and maybe today I can answer that question.
After doing a little research maybe this is the very best affiliate training program that’s available.
The program is taught by a guy who consistently gets the #1 sales position in ANY product promotion launch that he decides to promote.
It seems that he consistently makes double the sales of anyone else, including other affiliate marketing gurus. This guy seems to be an absolute genius according to a lot of people in the affiliate marketing business. I’ve also got a copy of his course. He’s teaching really cool stuff.
Who am I talking about? Well, click this link and find out: Secret Affiliate Weapon.
Anyway, if you want to learn the right way to make money doing affiliate marketing, maybe this course will be interesting.
The good news is, at this moment it’s only like 10 bucks or so… and you’ll be amazed at what is taught, let alone for that price.