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You can make Great $$$ in a week from free advertising for only one affiliate…

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:07 +0000

“Promote one Affiliate Program is the Key to your Success!”

There are a lot of affiliate marketing programs out there that claim to make you more money than you could possible spend; when in true reality, you’ve just sign up to be another person that the company can send you emails to buy their products!

Well the KEY to really making an affiliate program work for you is just by sticking with the one program you’ve signed up for. It gets quite easy to keep signing up for program after program in hopes that you will finally hit pay-dirt. What has happened is that now you are spread so thin in your ability to market a single program effectively.

Your goal is to send tons of traffic to that site URL and then in turn change those visitors into paying customers; further, your goal is to turn those customers or visitors into a down-line group that will help you build an extra layer of residual income on top of your regular commissions.

Believe or not when you promote your affiliates website directly ..Its more effective
than you put the same affiliates link in your website…

You can make $2000 in a week from free advertising for only one affiliate…

When you collect your efforts in marketing your affiliate site by only some free
advertising with more working,,,I will guarantee you will earn at least $2000
in a week ….

My important free marketing which I will show you when you use it ,,you will
ensure earning $$$.

1- submit to search engins

http://www.easyblaster.com/
http://penneypalace.ws/page6.html
http://getmassivehits.com
http://blaster-boys.com/bbna1.html
http://payperclickuniverse.com/prefunded.php
http://www.payperclickuniverse.com/pay-per-click-search-engines-special-deals.php

2- Post to free marketing discussion lists
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
http://www.discussionlists.com/
http://www.tile.net/

http://www.websuccessmaker.com/internet_information/internet_marketing_discussion_forums.htm
http://www.websuccessmaker.com/follow-up_fine-tune/follow-up_fine_tune_resource_index.htm
http://www.wilsonweb.com/cat/cat.cfm?page=1&subcat=me_Newsletter
http://everydaybusinessonline.com/dboards.htm
http://www.supertips.com/forums/list.htm
http://www.howtocorp.com/forum/
http://www.ozemedia.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/webbbs_config.pl
http://www.williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/indexcgi
http://www.network54.com/Forum/184615
http://www.talkbiz.com/cgi-bin/mlm.cgi
http://www.auctionhints.com/message/webbbs_config.pl
http://www.mcpromotions.com/webbbs/config.pl
http://www.mlmwoman.com/wwwboard/
http://www.escribe.com/computing/neatnettricks/bb/
http://www.network54.com/Forum/87014
http://homebusiness-websites.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi
http://www.network54.com/Forum/184615

3- Write a good article and submite it :

http://www.ezinearticles.com/submit/
http://ezinearticles.com
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.marketing-seek.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.netterweb.com
http://www.isyndicate.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://homeincome.com/writers-connection
http://www.web-source.net/syndicator_submit.htm
http://www.clickforcontent.com/writersadd.htm
http://www.aracopy.com
http://www.dime-co.com
http://www.zinecast.com
http://www.writebusiness.com
http://www.etext.org
http://www.zinos.com
http://www.addme.com
http://www.makingprofit.com
http://www.vectorcentral.com/ezine-question-answer-form.htm

4- Post your affiliate site to some Press Releases:

http://www.ebookbroadcast.com/submit.html
http://www.pressblast.com/
http://www.press-release-writing.com/
http://www.trashproofnewsreleases.com/

Try it an hour a day and you will be glad you did……….

About the Author

Eiffel internet … super affiliate since 1996…
My Great affilaite site http://www.telebay.com/eiffel/mall-general.html
E-mail : eiffel@soficom.net

Your Home Based Affiliate Marketing Business

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:04 +0000

Did you know that you can make money on the internet without ever selling anything? There are very few home based business opportunities that are easier or cost less than affiliate marketing. There are businesses and people earning thousands of dollars each year doing affiliate marketing. The business plan is simple. Your clients are already established online businesses selling a wide array of products and services. You get paid for bringing customers to your client which is the website you are an affiliate for. You then get paid either a set fee or a percentage of what the customer buys. Some affiliate programs also pay for every time someone clicks through.

The opportunities for affiliate marketing are numerous and growing every single day. Here is how it works. The affiliate places a banner or link advertisement on their website and every time a customer clicks through from the affiliate website to the merchant site and makes a purchase the affiliate earns a commission.

It is not that difficult to find affiliate programs because it has become so profitable and popular as an internet marketing tool that almost everyone seems to be doing it. This does not mean you should settle for just any affiliate program. It is important to choose a program that is at least somewhat relevant to your website or business. This way you have the best possible chance of your customers clicking through to the affiliate website. For example, if you sell cameras or photography equipment you might join an affiliate program with a company that sells photography books.

Be sure to read the affiliate contract

carefully. While there are excellent legitimate affiliate programs out there it seems there is always somebody trying to rip you off while making a quick buck. You can avoid these scams if you review affiliate agreements carefully and go with your gut about whether a website or program is legitimate.

The great thing about an affiliate marketing home business is that you are not limited to doing only one affiliate program. You can sign on with as many programs as you want as long as you have room on your website to place their banner or link.

Here are some tips for finding a good affiliate program.

1. Will the product appeal to your customers?

2. How much does the merchant pay and for what do they pay? Click throughs? Purchases?

3. Do they pay only for the first purchase or do they give you a percentage of all future purchases by that customer?

4. How frequently are commissions paid? This information should be in the affiliate agreement.

5. Does the merchant provide access to view your account on a regular basis so you can see how the program is doing?

With some good research you can find the right affiliate programs for your home based business website and in no time you will be making money simply for referring customers from your website.

To your success!

Your Affiliate Web Site Is Built – Now What?

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:02 +0000

When I first got my web site built, I thought I finally I had
a presence on-line. Wrong! I soon found out that I needed someone
to host my site, and I needed a domain name.

This, I found, was my moment of utter confusion. And my
first thought was – “What have I gotten myself into!?”
I realized I needed the following questions answered before I
could even begin my on-line journey. What do I need in a web host,
what is a web host, what is a domain name and – you
mean, I have to pay for a domain name as well?

What is a Domain?

A domain name is a unique name that identifies an Internet site.
Thus, if you want to do any on-line marketing you need a unique
name to identify your business – and definitely a name that
identifies or relates to that of your on-line presence.

Do I really need a domain name? Yes. Why? There are
several good reasons:

1.It projects a professional image
2.It’s mobile – you can change web hosts and your domain
name goes with you.
3.It takes time and hard work to build your affiliate business – if you
don’t have your own name and you want to move to a
different web host – all is lost because the domain name is not mobile.

There are many sites that offer a domain name service at a reasonable
price. You can go to my site at www.myaffiliateplace.biz and
look under Affiliate Information – here you can get an idea
how much a domain name costs.

What is A Web Host?

A web host is an ISP that offers space in which to store your
own personal Web pages. They utilize a web server, which
is a computer that is permanently connected to the Internet and
can send out your web pages on request.

If you want a professional presence, I would suggest that you
do not go with a free site. Why? With your free site, you
are required to include advertisements of their
choosing on your

pages.

There are many web hosting sites and prices to choose from – and all
can be very confusing and intimidating when you are first
looking at putting up a site of your own. So, what should you
consider when choosing a web host?

What to Consider When You Choose a Web Host?

When choosing a Web Host you should consider the following:

1.Does it have customer support available 24/7?
2.How often are backups done? (You should also do
your own backups as well.)
3.How much bandwidth do they give you? Bandwidth is
the amount of activity on your site (traffic). The more
visitors you have, the more bandwidth is used.
I recommend at least 2 gigs, with an option to upgrade.
4.How many email accounts do they have? At least 3, preferably more.
5.Does it have traffic stats – to monitor your hits, page views, and actual visitors?
6.Does it have FrontPage extensions? (If you are planning to use FrontPage).
7.Does it offer autoresponders?
8.Does it offer FTP?
9.Does it allow for upgrades? As your business grows, so will
your need for more bandwidth.
10.Does it offer SiteBuilder? (If you have no HTML experience/don’t
have FrontPage, or no programming knowledge – SiteBuilder
can get you up and running.

To conclude, remember your web site is your business, your
domain is your name, and your web host is your home – all
are important factors to your success. And to think, you
only getting started!

About the Author

====================
Vickie J Scanlon has a BBA degree in Administrative Management and
Marketing. She left the corporate world as a Reports Programmer,
to begin her journey as an Internet marketer. Visit her site at:
http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz for free tools, articles, ebooks,
Web-hosting opportunities and how to info. And if you want to be notified
of updates to her web site you can sign her guest book.

Your Affiliate Marketing Website

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:00 +0000

If you are serious about becoming an affiliate, you will need to have an affiliate marketing website. This website can be designed to showcase all of the products and services you are promoting. This website can either be designed by you or you can pay someone to design it for you.

Designing Your Own Website

If you choose to design your own website, hopefully you will have had experience with HTML. If you have to ask what it is, you probably need help setting up your website. Fortuately, there are many websites that provide information to someone who has never designed a website before.

Depending on what program you affiliate with, the program may or may not provide an affiliate marketing website for you. You may opt to learn web design by either taking a course online or taking a course at the local community college. Taking a web design course at the college is the better of the two options. You can gain experience in HTML,Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and other scripting software that can be used to design your website.

There are many places online that offer free websites. The steps to design these free websites require barely any knowledge of computer software. It is a simple point and click system whereby you select what you want your website to look like and you fill in the necessary data such as the websites name and what you would like written on the page.

Free websites are convenient for someone who cannot afford to hire a professional, but they can also look unprofessional, especially since you and a lot of other people will have the same web site designs.

Hiring Someone To Design A Website For You

If you choose not to design a website for yourself, you can hire someone to do this

for you. There are many skilled people who have made a living designing websites. You can start your search by looking in the yellow pages to find a reputable website designer. If you are unable to find someone this way, you can start your search online.

Searching Online For A Web Designer

Looking online for a web design company is pretty simple. It is best to start by using a search engine to look for all the companies that web do web site designing. Once you have found a few that interests you, compare their prices and what is offered in their web design packages. Take the time to view the sample sites provided so you get and idea of the quality of work done by the designer.

It is possible, but not always best, to find a company that does both web design and web hosting as well. In addition topricing, compare other factors such as bandwidth, storage, or the number of email addresses that are provided with each company.

Remember, it is bet to take the necessary time in the beginning to do thorough research

before making any purchase commitments or contractual obligations. You will realize it

is all time well-spent when your website begins to produce the profits you desire.
About the Author

Dr. J. E. Burke, an educator and entrepreneur, has been involved in various business enterprises via his business, Burke Publications for 11 years. Dr. Burke is an educator, writer and motivational speaker on a variety of topics. He is also known for his expertise on nonprofit organizations and grant proposal writing. Dr. Burke can be contacted at http://burkepublications.com or http://news.burkepublications.com

Your Affiliate Business and Taxes

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:05 +0000

Starting a home-based business on the Internet is easy you say.
You have your web page built, your affiliate links and youre
ready to go. Not really, you need to make sure you have all your
is and ts crossed when it comes to taxes.

Getting Started

First, you will need to register your business name with
the city government. When I registered my business name with the
city I was charged $11 — so expect to pay a small fee when filing
this legal document with your local goverment.

Second, you need to apply for an Employer Identification
Number with the Department of the Treasury (IRS). To file for an EIN,
you will need to complete Form SS-4. You can find these forms
in post offices, public libraries, online, or by contacting the IRS.

Once you receive this document, keep it in a safe place — in other
words, dont crumple, stomp, or throw away — this identifies you
and your business with the U.S. government and you will need this number
when you file your taxes.

Third, you will need to check with your state government to determine
if you need any specific licenses. Such as Retail Sales Tax Permit –
if you are planning on selling items offline or online.

Fourth, you may want to open a Business Account at your local bank
once the money starts to roll in. Keeping your money separate from
your family account — helps you to keep your accounting accurate
for your business.

What percentage of your income will go to
your State and Federal Government?

You will need to pay the following taxes, at the following rate,
on a quarterly basis:

States Taxes — 3.7%
Federal Taxes — 11.3%
Social Security — 12.4%
Medicare — 2.9%

The first year in business is difficult, because you have no idea
what you will be making–You will need to make a conservative guess.
However, you will only pay what you owe against that of your
expenses (your net income). For example, if you believe you will have
$3000 in expenses during the year — and you believe in your first year,
you will make $6000– you would report the following:

$6000 (Money Made)- $3000 (Expenses) = $3000 (What you owe)

This amount would be divided among the four quarters within the year
and paid to your State Government and the Federal Government.
If you find that you will be making more and you have paid
in for one quarter — you will have to adjust the balance
and divid it between the remaining quarters.

The following is what you will submit to the Federal Government:
1) Federal Taxes-11.3%, 2) Social Security-12.4%, and 3) Medicare
payment-2.9%.

The State Government will receive only the 3.7% of your net
earned income.

(Please note: If you are unsure about anything, you should enlist the
help of a CPA, regarding tax

matters).

Your estimated taxes are due on the following dates
throughout the year:

April 15
June 15
September 15
January 15

To obtain more specific information you can read IRS
Publication 505: Estimated Tax payments.

Note: You are not required to make estimated tax payments
until you have income not subject to withholding
on which you will owe tax. If you dont make
your first payment until a later period, you
must divide your entire estimated tax by the
number of payment dates remaining. If, for example, you
have three payment dates pending, you would pay one third
of the total tax by June 15, the other third by
September 15 and the last by January 15.

Typical Expenses To Deduct

Here is a list of some of the expenses you can deduct.

1. Your home mortgage — If you use a room solely for
conducting business then you can take this deduction.
There are a couple of different formulas to determine
the percentage of your home that is used for your business.

You can use the “number of rooms” method or the “area method”.
I would suggest using the “area method” because I cant imagine
having a home where all the rooms are the same size.

With the area method, you would take the area of your home
office divided by the area of your home. Example:

Your Office= 10 X 10 = 100 square feet
YOur home is 1000 square feet
Your deduction = 100/1000 or 10%

2. Indirect Expenses — with indirect expenses you will only
be able to deduct the area percentage (Note: use area percentage
calculated above) of the total cost. These indirect expenses
would include such things as:

House payment
Utilites
Telephone
Garbage collection
Internet connection (If other people are using the Intenet)

3. Direct Expenses — these are expenses that relate only to your
business.

Supplies
Advertising
Business account bank charges

Keeping Track of Expenses

To keep track of all your expenses. and you are comfortable working
with a spreadsheet software, I would suggest purchasing a small
business accounting package such as QuickBooks or Peachtree
Accounting.

To conclude, this definitely is not an exhaustive list of
what you need to know. However, this will give
you a beginning as to what you will have to be aware
of when starting a home-based business. As your
business grows, your CPA will be able to assist
you and keep you on the straight and narrow to your
success on the Internet.

About the Author

Vickie J Scanlon has a BBA degree in Administrative Management and
Marketing. Visit her site at: http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz
for free tools,articles, ebooks, and how to info or check
her blog for additional insights to the Affiliate Business
- http://myaffiliateplace.blogspot.com

Yahoo Publisher Adsense Profits With Affiliate Marketing

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:04 +0000

Yahoo Publisher Adsense Profits With Affiliate Marketing

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your websiterunning? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income?Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a webpublisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work wellfor you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cashpouring into your bank account easily. And if your website isrich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why notget into the Yahoo Publisher Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest andprobably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwiseyou are a businessman and would rather sell your own productsonline than advertise other businessmans products on your site.But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketingprograms, because affiliate marketing actually works formerchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreementmade between two websites, with one site being the merchantswebsite and the other being the affiliates site. In therelationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertisehis products on the affiliates site. The merchant, on the otherhand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method theyhave agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for theaffiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailers ad onhis site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant,as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lotmore affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote theirproducts.

Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however,does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does onthe traffic generated by your site. A website that can attractmore visitors would generally have the greater chance ofprofiting in affiliate marketing programs.

What about Yahoo Publisher Adsense?

Yahoo Publisher Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliatemarketing program. In Yahoo Publisher Adsense, Yahoo.com act asthe intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants. Themerchant, or

the advertiser, would simply sign up with Yahoo andprovide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products.These ads, which is actually a link to the advertisers website,would then appear on Yahoo searches as well as on the websitesowned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signedup with the Yahoo Publisher Adsense program.

While one can find a lot of similarities between Yahoo PublisherAdsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also seea lot of differences. In Yahoo Publisher Adsense, all thewebmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Yahootakes care of the rest. The ads that Yahoo would place on yoursite would generally be relevant to the content of your site.This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser,as the visitors of your site would more or less be actuallyinterested with the products being advertised.

The Yahoo Publisher Adsense program compensates the affiliate ina pay-per-click basis. The advertisers would pay Yahoo a certainamount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Yahoowould then forward this amount to you through checks, althoughonly after Yahoo have deducted their share of the amount. YahooPublisher Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly. Also,the Yahoo Publisher Adsense program provides webmasters with atracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings youactually get from a certain ad.

So, where do all of these lead us to?

Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits!Affiliate marketing programs and the Yahoo Publisher Adsenseprogram simply work, whether you are the merchant or theaffiliate. For the merchants side, a lot of money can be savedif advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketingrather than on dealing with advertising firms. For thewebmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doingwhat you do best, and that is by creating websites. And if youcombine all your profits from both the Google Adsense programand other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convertto a large amount of cash.

Author: Td Gunerson http://www.delicioussandwichrecipes.com

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“Work Those Affiliate Programs and Make Some Cash!”

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:02 +0000

So youve joined your first affiliate/associate program
and slapped that big old banner on your site. All you
have to do now is sit back and wait for the bucks to
come rolling in. Not so fast there, Bucky…theres a
lot more to making money with affiliate programs than
that. If your best effort is going to be that banner,
dont plan on retiring any day soon.

As with everything else online and off, what you get out
of an activity is equal to the effort you put into it.
So if you want to make some serious cash with those programs
youre joining, youre going to need to promote them.
There are a variety of methods you can use. Here are a few
that Ive used with success:

My first suggestion to you is to join only those programs that
relate to the theme of your website. Make sure theyre a “good
fit” with your site and that they pay out “healthy” commissions.
A $2.00 bounty is hardly worth the work involved to earn it,
like:

Weaving the URLs throughout your site. Make sure you weave
the URLs throughout your site or devote whole pages to their
topic.Dont just use banners, use alternatives like text links
within your pages. Banners have become so saturated online
that a lot of folks tend to ignore them,not to mention the
extra weight they add to your pages.

Most programs you join will give you a variety of ads to
use in your promotion efforts, but for best results you
really should be creative and write some of your own.
All too often I see the same old advertisement repeated over
and over online until I want to scream. A little creativity
stressing the benefits of your product will take you a lot
farther then canned ads that 10,000 other affiliates are
using.

Make a habit of scanning discussion boards and look for any
opportunity to answer a

question or give advice using your
affiliate link. At the least, make the link a part of your
signature line and use in your e-mail correspondence and
newsgroup postings.

If you publish your own ezine, make sure you keep a list
of text ads for all of the associate programs you participate
in and pick two or three to put in your newsletter every time
you publish. If youve purchased the product yourself, a
personal endorsement will pique your subscribers interest
and motivate them to click through. Your subscribers trust
you, so dont recommend something you dont believe in.

Dont forget about placing your ads in other ezines that cater
to your target audience. There are plenty of inexpensive
newsletters just waiting for your ad copy. Say an ad cost
you 10.00, and from that ad you make three associate sales
that add up to $100.00. Thats a pretty nice return on your
investment.

One trick that has worked well for me over the years is
placing my associate links in e-books that Ive written.
Since the books are given away for free theres no telling
how many people will see those links and possibly make a
purchase. If your book is well written and popular you
could stand to make some decent revenue from the associate
programs that youve placed in it.

Associate programs really are a great way to make some
cash online, but a banner alone is not going to do it.
Start promoting your “special link” every chance you
get….and youll be rolling in the dough in no time at
all.

About the Author

Merle http://www.EzineAdAuction.com
“Where some of the BEST Deals in Ezine Advertising are Made”
Buy & Sell Ezine Ads in a live auction setting!
Publishers sell off your excess inventory and Buyers
pick up some Fantastic bargains. Go now.

Working With Affiliate Programs

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Working With Affiliate Programs
by Jude Wright (c) 2004

Everywhere you look you see affiliate program offers for
every product or service that you can think of. Some have
fully automated systems that sell high volumes of hard
products all over the world. In case you dont know, “hard”
products are those that you can touch…unlike an ebook or
downloadable web template. Many affiliate programs have
several thousand affiliates and one or two of the bigger
companies have over one million affiliates.

What are the advantages of joining an affiliate program?

They provide a ready-made business. This is a very big plus
for those people who want to earn some kind of living off
the Internet but lack the knowledge or inclination to set up
a business by themselves.

Commissions and rewards are generally good, and the more
established programs offer a real chance of advancement to
higher and better-paid levels.

Other affiliates are usually on hand to offer practical
support.

What are the limitations?

You are restricted in your promotional activities due to the
fact that you do not actually own the affiliate site they
give you. You wont be able to put such things as banners,
images, links, meta tags, etc. onto your page.
The URL of your affiliate page is often either too long or
contains such awkward things as question marks, which many
Search Engines will not index.

Any promotional ads or articles have probably already been
used by thousands of other people and consequently may have
lost its impact, making it more difficult to achieve sales
or referrals.

If the program you have joined has not yet established
itself (or in some cases even if it has), then you may
encounter problems with payments owed to you not being
honored. You also run the risk of low quality products or
sub-standard statistics that do not accurately record how
many referrals or sales you have made.

You may be required to purchase a minimum quantity of the
product on a regular basis before you start to qualify for
commissions or even before you can become an affiliate.
You may not get the technical or affiliate support you might
expect from the company. This may be due to inadequate
staffing, or the companys negligence.

Other people in your downline do nothing to

promote the
program.

At least four of the above limitations can be overcome with
a little time and effort. You could, for example, come up
with fresher ads to promote the program (provided this is
allowed).

If the company supplies the email addresses of people in
your downline, then you could offer to help the less active
members. Very often these people are passive not because
they are lazy or apathetic but merely because they dont
know HOW to promote effectively! your guidance could mean
the difference between no sales or referrals and healthy
downlines and residual incomes.

As regards promoting your actual page, here are a couple of
little tricks that should overcome a number of
restrictions:

Cloak your Affiliate URL to stop hijackers Affiliate Masker
While this will not help you to get listed on the major
Search Engines, it will make your web page easier for
prospects to remember and type into their browsers address
bar.

Go to your affiliate page. Place your mouse pointer anywhere
on the page and right click once. In the drop-down box
choose “View Source”. This will display the HTML for the
page. Save this to your hard drive as a HTML document using
the “Save As” function. Upload the page to your web site.
If you dont have a web site then get some free web space
from one of these:

http://www.tripod.com/
http://www.fortunecitycom/
http://www.hypermart.net/index.gsp
http://www.coolchat.com/
http://www.crosswinds.net/
http://www.htmlpublishing.com/
http://www.freehomepages.com/
http://www.pageproducer.com/

Submit your new page to the Search Engines. You are also
now able to place banner codes, links, images, testimonials,
in fact anything you want onto these pages, because you are
in control of the HTML. A word of caution, though. Dont
change the actual HTML of your original affiliate page. Just
put the other stuff, like banners etc, around it.

Making this “mirror page” of your affiliate page will
dramatically improve your advertising options.

About the Author

Jude Wright has been an Internet Marketer for three
years. She has just created a product that will help
other Internet Marketers keep all their marketing
information in one database. Check it out at:
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WORKING WITH AFFILIATE PROGRAMMES

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:02:05 +0000

Affiliate programmes are springing up everywhere and cover every type of product or service imaginable. Some incorporate fully automated systems that sell high volumes of hard products all over the world. Many have several thousand affiliates and one or two of the bigger companies have over one million affiliates.

So what are the advantages of joining an affiliate programme?

* they provide a ready-made business. This is a very big plus for those people who want to earn some kind of living off the internet but lack the knowledge or inclination to set up a business by themselves

* commissions and rewards are generally good and the more established programmes offer a real chance of advancement to higher and better-paid levels.

* other affiliates are usually on hand to offer practical support

How about the limitations?

* you are restricted in your promotional activities due to the fact that you do not actually own the affiliate site they give you. Im thinking here about not being able to put such things as banners, images, links, meta tags etc onto your page

* the URL of your affiliate page is often either too long or contains such awkward things as question marks, which many Search Engines will not index

* any promotional literature provided has probably already been used by thousands of other people and consequently may have lost its impact, making it more difficult to achieve sales or referrals

* if the programme you have joined has not yet established itself (or in some cases even if it has) then you may encounter problems with payments owed to you not being honoured, or low quality products, or sub-standard statistics that do not accurately record how many referrals or sales you have made etc

* you may also be required to purchase a minimum

quantity of the product on a regular basis before you start to qualify for commissions or even before you can become an affiliate

* you may not get the technical or affiliate support you might expect from the company. This may be due to inadequate staffing, or perhaps the company just doesnt care about you!

* other people in your downline do nothing to promote the programme

* the programme itself ceases to exist overnight

At least four of the above limitations can be overcome with a little time and effort. You could, for example, come up with fresher ads to promote the programme (provided this is allowed).

You could shorten that over-long affiliate URL by using a free service like tinyurl.com

It might be a good idea to purchase any product you are promoting anyway. This would then enable you to review its strengths and weaknesses and would put you well ahead of the majority of affiliates who know nothing about the product they are promoting.

With your new found knowledge, you could build a site or page dedicated solely to the affiliate product. You could write a review and also produce articles related to the subject.

If the company supplies the email addresses of people in your downline then you could offer to help the less active members. Very often these people are passive not because they are lazy or apathetic but merely because they dont know HOW to promote effectively! Your guidance could mean the difference between no sales or referrals and healthy downlines and residual incomes.
About the Author

Robert Evans has been doing business online since October 2000. He currently writes a blog in the form of a free tutorial on the subject of how to build a profitable web site from scratch. http://www.market4profit.net/blog

Will Amazon Leave Affiliates DEAD?

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:02:03 +0000

Today I have a little story for you.

During my daily Internet escapades, a marketing buddy of
mine pointed me in the direction of a new press release that
was announced on CNET on February 25th 2000.

I was so shocked when I read the release, that my mind
wandered off in countless directions, trying to grasp the
devastating effect that this could bring to the world of
e-commerce. “No, surely not” I said to myself.

I quickly realized that the press release I just read
could entail me losing over HALF of my monthly revenue.

Its true.

DEATH TO SOME AFFILIATE PROGRAMS could soon be the reality.
(Well, at least the existing technologies that are used)

Amazon.com, the leading Internet bookstore and e-commerce
giant, applied for a patent to cover its affiliate program
technologies on June 27th 1997.

It seems as though Amazon.com got there first before any
one, and started off the affiliate craze. Unfortunately,
they realized that their competitors would also employ similar
affiliate tactics to increase sales. So they applied for a
patent governing exclusive copyrights to the technology that
controls and operates the affiliate software.

If enforced, it would mean that some companies would either have
to apply for a license to continue using their affiliate programs,
or would have to cease using them as a marketing method.

The bad news is they received their patent on Tuesday.

The big question now is “Will Amazon Enforce It?”.
Only time will give the answer. But if they do, this could
mean a big, BIG change in the e-commerce world.

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU?

As an Internet marketer, you

may have to change the way your
own affiliate program operates. You may find that the affiliate
programs youre involved in now cease to operate, or are
forced to change in the way that they work.

Or, maybe nothing will happen.

But the point is, will you be ready for the change if it
DOES happen? How will your business cope? How will you
cover for the lost revenue if your affiliate program stops?

The important message that lies beneath all this doesnt
just stop at affiliate programs. Its about innovating for
the future to cope with new drastic changes. Can you cope?

Were living in exciting times. The Internet is developing
all around us, and the rules of e-commerce are being
rewritten every day. What worked and applied yesterday
may be irrelevant or outdated tomorrow.

The people who will truly succeed are the ones that can
cope with these sudden changes, and inspire new marketing
methods and techniques to keep their business booming.

Be ready for change. Not just for affiliate programs, but
for anything in life. Expect change, and become so flexible
that you can adapt to these changes effectively.

After all, life is full of changes, and the successful person
can accept this and move on. Are you this type of person?

When change comes (in whatever form), will YOU be ready?

Until next time…

About the Author

Lee Benson is an avid marketer who devotes his full-time
career to Internet marketing. His brand new online venture,
Ezine-Traffic, GUARANTEES to boost your online traffic to
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