Making Money Online

Super Tip #1
Article submission. This is truly a very very powerful free tool you can harness. I will give you a real life example. I had, prior to this, submitted ONE article with my link to my “Clickbank Profit Machine” ebook and had 2 sales from it a day later. Can you imagine that? One single article = 2 Sales. Perhaps it is a fluke, a one off incident but there is no denying that it works! An article just like this! The thing is you cannot submit your affiliate links directly in your resources box (xxxx.cbkprofit.hop.clickbank.net) but rather, you can sign up for a free website and set that site to redirect to your affiliate link. Problem solved! You would have no problems submitting your articles with that link.

Super Tip #2
Selecting the product to promote. You really have to take a myriad of factors into consideration. I suggest you do this, select 6 products that you deem are profitable to promote and wither it down to eventually 2. What criteria should you base this on? You should look into price, commission paid, sales copy, affiliates resource page and responsiveness of the vendor.

Super Tip #3
Buy the product, mail the vendor. Because only when you have bought the product and tried and tested it out could you know if it works! This will help greatly in writing those articles and promoting it to your friends and/or relatives. Sending a mail to the vendor is not only to test his responsiveness but also to ask him for some tips to promote his product. I am sure he or she will be more then happy to help and he or she will know best what kind of promotion techniques best converts.

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“Clickbank Profit Machine” is just out and is put up only at an introductory rate only to a select few. Imagine this – Just using 6 simple steps and you can flood your clickbank account. Possible? You should really see the screenshots.

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What products to choose? That has been one of the single most asked questions from Clickbank affiliates because choosing the right product is absolutely crucial to success. Learn how.

Firstly, I would have assumed you have already signed up with Clickbank as an affiliate. If you have not, please proceed to their website to register.

Selecting the right product to promote.
This is actually one of the trickiest to do. Do you select a popular one and risk being in an over-crowded market? Do you select a new product? But risk low popularity and sales? How about a “middle” product? And risk being mediocre? As you can see, it really takes a lot of skill and experience to select the right products.

Select a high paying enough product.
When I say high paying, I mean in terms of commission. How many percent do they pay you? 50% 55%? For me that is quite low already I would, generally, never promote a product that has a commission below 50%. Almost watch the price of the product, if it is too high perhaps it would deter price conscious customers.

Take a good hard look at the sales page.
The sales copy is one of the most important, in fact I would rate it the most vital, aspect to look at. Because all it matters is whether your traffic you send to the affiliate link will convert, and a good sales page certainly does up your chances a whole lot. Rate it upon 10, how convinced are you yourself to buy? Certain stuff to look at includes testimonials, bonuses, pricing, layout etc…

Look at the stats generated for the vendor generated in Clickbank Marketplace.
It is almost a no-brainer that you have to come here to look at some very important statistics. It gives information on the percentage of sales made through affiliates, how recent sale were generate and the payout. More on deciphering these statistics will be revealed in my book “Clickbank Profit Machine”. Pay close attention to all the statistics here.

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Dylan is the author of highly relevant “Clickbank Profit Machine”. Only affiliates serious about making a fortune online need to look.

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I am going to list down 3 ways in which you can get great streams of quality traffic at no costs at all. This will help you immensely

Free quality traffic stream #1
What are you reading now? Why an article of course! This is one of the greatest and most targeted ways of getting traffic. I would even go a step further and say that it is better then Adwords. Because it is free and because you would not have a problem with click fraud!

What you should do is first get a free website and set it to redirect to your affiliate link. Next pump out at least 3 articles a day submitting to at least 5 directories for a month. All these 3 articles should be on the same topic promoting the same product. The results and sales you will get at the end of the month will astonish you. Try it.

Free quality traffic stream #2
Create a blog specifically on the niche or topic you want to promote. This is a great mouthpiece for your product. You get organic search traffic from the major search engines and traffic from search engine is pure gold. What you need to do is to get high quality content to be posted in your blog. Remember the articles you written earlier? Post them here! You can even earn Adsense income by doing this! This is a great cash generator.

Free quality traffic stream #3
Forum posting. This has to been one of the least utilized methods of getting traffic simply because it seems to be such a hassle and a chore posting comments in forums. You do realize nothing ventured nothing gained. There is no other ways of doing it except by posting valuable comments or opinions. The amount of one way back links you get are huge and you can gain credibility in that community. Just do not spam though, it is akin to suicide.

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Join Dylan’s affiliate army! He has just come out with “Clickbank Profit Machine” and it is a powerful package. Check out the affiliates’ area at http://www.clickbankprofitmachine.com/affiliates.htm

This is something many affiliates do not know yet know. It concerns affiliates and buyers alike.

Do you notice when you visit most sales pages, they have an “affiliates sign up”, “make money here” or “earn money” link which brings you to their affiliate sign up page?

Imagine this scenario, Mr. Affiliate visits the site through your affiliate link, he reads the sales copy and is impressed but the price $97 is quite an obstacle. He sees an “earn money now” link and clicks as he has been searching for this information all day. He then realizes he could get at 50% discount with the commission if he signs up with clickbank and buys through his own link.

The vendors do not want this to happen right? Wrong answer! The fact is they had intended to sell at $48.5(50%) of the price and so intentionally set it higher at $97. In addition to that, the affiliate link was prominently displayed so visitors could easily see it and sign up and get the discount. This make the buyer thinks he has got into a “winning” situation but in fact the vendor got the sale he wanted and an affiliate at the same time.

So what does it mean to you? Shouldn’t you be happy that you can get a discount on almost all books now? Wait a minute, what if you spent loads of time and money promoting that product and the visitors click on that “earn money” link? Lost money, lost time and lost commissions.

Now you know why these “affiliates sign up” or “earn money now” links does not seem so subtle anymore.

Affiliate Tip 1
Scan the sales copy before deciding whether it is worth promoting. This is a vital, essential and crucial step you must make. Rate it and ask yourself how convinced you are on a scale of ten. Scan the page for any “Earn money” links.

Affiliate Tip 2
Credibility is important. Look at the testimonials; make sure it is not any dodgy testimonial from any Tom, Dick or Harry from some American state. Are there any photos and/or proof? Are they real people with real names and websites? Do a “mock” payment with your affiliate link all the way till they ask you for your credit card. Do you see your affiliate nick at the bottom of the page? You should be seeing it.

Affiliate Tip 3
Mail the vendor. See how responsive and how sincere he is in recruiting affiliates. This is the ultimate litmus test to determine if the vendor cares for his affiliates.

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Dylan has just completed his book “Clickbank Profit Machine”. It is dedicated to helping affiliates succeed quickly. There is no “affiliates sign up” link. http://www.clickbankprofitmachine.com

Affiliates can go http://www.clickbankprofitmachine.com/affiliates.htm

One of the biggest fears new Affiliate managers have is in finding new affiliates. This fear is a stumbling block that stops many site owners from getting started with affiliate marketing. Interestingly, with a proper marketing strategy, getting affiliates may not be very difficult. Given below are some tips that may help in attracting new affiliates.

Find complimentary sites

Complementary sites are a sites that sell products or services that compliment your offerings. If you sell gardening tools, a site that sells books on gardening tips would be a perfect affiliate. If you sell software, try looking for sites that sell computers or computer parts. Finding sites that already attract your target market, and can benefit from recommending your product or service to their visitors, is the goal.

Find content sites

There are many sites that do not sell any kind of product or service but are mainly content-oriented sites. Such sites promote an idea, concept, study or belief. Content sites that are used as a resource for your target market are ideal affiliates.

Finally, there are several sites on the Internet dedicated to listing affiliate Programs. Get your program listed in these directories.

Classifying Affiliates for better management

The hardest part of administrating an Affiliate Program is deciding what your affiliates need to help make the sale.

But, by carefully categorizing your affiliates, you can easily determine what their needs are and how to accurately meet them. The plan given below helps in categorizing affiliates in order to manage your affiliate program better.

The first step is to pick at least three types of affiliates. Take a look at your affiliates and try to determine one outstanding characteristic that can easily be compared across the board and choose at least three types of the characteristic. Here are some examples:

* Level of Sales – You may find that your affiliates are so completely different that it’s hard to find something to classify them by. Try classifying them by the level of sales they’ve reached with you. You’ll most likely find that you have a few forerunners that lead the pack with a number of sales, quite a few affiliates that have sporadically made a sale or two and some that have yet to make a sale. This will help you classify them based on sales.

* Products – If you sell a wide variety of products for specific interests/needs you may be able to classify your affiliates by product. For instance, a financial site could classify types like Personal Finance, Small Business Finance, and Corporate Finance.

* Industry – If you market commodities like office supplies, health and beauty products, house-wares and so on, you may find that your affiliates come from a wide variety of industries. You can most likely classify your affiliates according to their industry.

The Second Step is to determine the needs of each type. Each of your affiliate types will have different needs; some of their needs will overlap, but you should find a distinct difference in many of their needs. If you find that all of them have the same needs, go back to step one and re-think your types.

Here are some basic things to look for:

* Linking Methods – Different types of affiliates will need different linking methods. Let’s use the example above where we had different groups based on sales. Your low sales group may be satisfied with a banner or two to place on their site. Your medium sales type may be interested in an article or two for added content on their site.

Your high sales group will probably pass up banners for articles, guestbooks, email ads and signature files.

* Capturing visitors is what you want. In order to do so you have to know what they want. Visit your affiliates’ sites to see what visitors are looking at and looking for. Ask yourself, “How does my product relate to what I am seeing?”

* Different types of affiliates may expect different commissions. You’ll have some Affiliates that have joined your program “on the side” and others that plan on earning a substantial income from the program. Determine what effort they are putting into advertising, how much other programs in your industry are paying, and the amount of time they devote to your program.

The Third Step involves the process of creating and compiling linking methods for each group of affiliates. Based on the needs you identified in Step two, create and compile linking methods for each type. Here are a few linking methods to think about.

* Banners – Though they aren’t as effective as other linking methods, banners are still widely used and expected. Make banners in a variety of sizes to fit tops of pages, bottoms, toolbars, sidebars and other miscellaneous areas.

* Articles – These are great for affiliates that need content for their websites and newsletters. Be sure that your articles are articles and not ads.

* Email Ads – Your active affiliates may be interested in placing ads in e-zines or their own newsletters. Try writing a few ads in different lengths.

* Signature Files – Dedicated affiliates may even add your tag to their signature line. Give them a few witty lines to choose from.

* Guestbooks: – Let your affiliates help you build your Opt-In email lists with guestbooks. Offer them a commission for each email address they send you, or each resulting sale from the subscribers they send you.

* Product Images – Give your affiliates images that show and link directly to specific products. They’ll be able to choose an image specific to their site, or choose several images to display.

* Review each affiliate Type and match them up with your new linking methods. You may have some linking methods that overlap Types — this is okay. Just be sure you are concentrating on the affiliates’ needs.

The Fourth Step is to decide commission levels. Your first decision will be to determine whether you want to pay a flat rate or percentage of each sale. Based on the needs you identified above for each of the affiliate types, decide on a commission amount for each Type. If you have a two-tier program, consider the possibility of different second tier rates as well.

The Fifth Step is to devise promotions for affiliate groups. Once you have your affiliates properly categorized and your system under control, consider developing promotions for your affiliate groups. Give them special incentives to sell more during a certain time frame, move seasonal products, or increase business during your slow months. Offer them additional commissions, or even bonuses for reaching a specific amount of sales.

In conclusion, if you follow the steps I have just outlined and if you are ready for a little work and a lot of organization, your affiliate program should be up and running in no time.

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Pj Germain, affiliate-success.org
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Amazon’s aStore is one of the newest affiliates tool provided by Amazon and one of the most successful if we take into consideration profits and the enhancements that are periodically added. Astore is (in their description):

Associates can configure an aStore in Associates Central by navigating through a forms-driven set up process. The store can be built and configured within minutes and Associates only need to copy a line of html code into their web pages. All data will be served from Amazon Web Services and therefore will always be up to date. Once set up, it does not require any maintenance from the Associate.

Recently (and very quietly in fact) they have launched 2 new features:

1. First is a small one, and is a feature that allows you to optionally add to the navigational menu an “About Us” page. Even though is not specified it allows basic HTML formatting to the text (inserting links for example). Basically I see no purpose to that, and perhaps what you could do with that is to provide descriptions to your categories and insert links to some products.

2. The great thing is the addition of “Astore Widgets”. Those are JavaScript ads based on your aStore products that can be embedded in other sites. Right now they come in 8 formats and are as customizable as Google’s Adsense for example. What do you need to know is the fact that the ads will provide products from your aStore’s homepage. If no homepage is set, than the ads will be generic Amazon Ads not related to your store. What is great about the widgets is that on most cases, discounted products are presented and that is made very clear, by that increasing the chance of creating a buy.

Best practice with Astore Widgets:

Even though Astore is great and has a pretty good conversion rate (might depend on your niche though) is not as efficient as Adsense. Because of that, I suggest you not to waste your space with the widgets, but to use it as an alternative to Adsense’s Public Ads.

In order to do that, prepare a blank page that:

1. Has the background of your Adsense Ads (as you might know by know, in general try to blend the ads in your page background)

2. Create a centered aligned div where you will place the Astore widget.

3. Upload the created page to a server and provide the link to that page when you generate your Adsense code.

4. Due to the constraint that you can display on the widgets only products from the aStore’s Homepage, make sure that you vary its content until you find the most attractive one.

An alternative to this is to use Openads, and to attach to a zone both Adsense and Astore Widgets.

By doing this you’ll have the following benefits:

1. You increase your revenue chances by removing those pesky Adsense public ads.

2. You decrease banner blindness by varying the content.

This new enhancement comes as a big hit to small companies like Blogger Kit that provided similar features through revenue sharing with the users.

Example of implementation of Astore & Astore Widgets:

Metal & Rock Videos has an attached Astore that sells metal and rock music related products (CDs, DVDs, Accessories). Astore widgets are added to all the Adsense areas. For example you can look here and if is not visible just browse through more obscure bands and you’ll have the chance to see them in action.

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Razvan Antonescu is a Romania based search engine marketer

There is a new script that marketers are using that allow affiliates to sell Digital products and receive a percentage of the sales, instantly deposited into their paypal account. This is a great incentive for affiliates to spread the marketers Viral products. Most affiliates don’t like waiting 6 weeks for payment. The Instant Payment Script instantly deposits payment directly into the affiliates paypal account, as soon as payment is made though paypal.

This started with $7.00 Ebooks and there are many hundreds of these products available. Most of the $7.00 Ebooks are set to pay the affiliate 100% of the sale. Another strong incentive is the affiliate does not need to buy the product to qualify as an Instant Profit Seller.

There is also a great incentive for the marketer to offer 100% Instant Payment to their Affiliates. Most marketers who use the script, use it for its viral features. The marketer offers a 30-50 page manual on their chosen Niche. It should be original, new, and have a perceived value greater than the price.

When the sale is completed at paypal, payment is sent to the affiliate and the customer is sent to the marketer’s squeeze page where the marketer attempts to add their new customer to their list.

The customer is then sent to the marketer’s OTO “one time offer” page. Here the marketer offers an irresistible offer between $27.00 to $47.00. He may or may not split the OTO profit with his affiliate.

The marketer sets the script to his preference. After the OTO, the customer is sent to the thank you page where he can download the products he purchased. At this time The customer is given the Instant Profit Selling Code and offered the opportunity to become an Instant Profit Seller and receive 100% of the sale though their PayPal account.

The Viral Spiral begins! The marketer forfeits the original profit of the sale to build his list, makes a bigger profit on the OTO, starts a viral spiral, and makes money from the links placed throughout the manual. These can be links to the marketer’s products or links to affiliate products that he is selling.

The marketer prices his manual between $7.00 and $47.00 making it attractive for the affiliate to spread his viral products though-out the internet.

It seems to be working for both the marketer and the affiliate because these products are showing up in big numbers daily.

Software products are also being sold using the viral script. There is no limit on what can be released and used to create a viral spiral, as long as it is a digital product.

The money is really in the list, and marketers are building large responsive lists, using this viral method.

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