adminsuzanne on September 3rd, 2010

Affiliate marketing programs have become some of the most popular ways of promoting products via the Internet today. They are free of charge to you the business owner and will benefit both you and your affiliates. You aren’t limited to the number of affiliates you can have and you will make a lot of money by using them. Your affiliate partners make a commission of the sales of your products when they are found through the partner websites but you really benefit from this in the future. This article will show you four steps that will help you find the right programs.

The first step is to select your niche. If you already know what it is you will be selling you will be able to skip this step. There are many niches out there so you should not have difficulty finding something that really interests you. Interest is the key here. If you aren’t interested in the products you are selling how can you encourage others to become interested? When selecting your niche you may want to start with something you know. If you are familiar with a particular niche you will know more about it going in and it will be easier to sell in the long run.

Next you will need to build your niche keyword list. Now that you have a general niche idea you want to have a good list of keywords on hand. These are the words or phrases that others will type into a search engine to find your particular niche. You want them to find you in particular, meaning you want to appear at or near the top of the search results so the more relevant you are here the better. Once you have made a solid list, go through it and find the keywords that have some traffic without a lot of competition. These will be the phrases you will target first. They will be the keywords that will begin driving traffic to your site right away.

Next, you will need to determine a common problem or question for your niche. This means looking for the common thread in what others will search for in that niche. Look at your list of keywords to find this. You can confirm your common thread by visiting forums that are related to your niche. Go through the posts to see what others are writing. This is also a good way to conduct research and could turn up more business for you.

Now it is time to find your affiliate marketing programs. Now that you’ve selected your niche and determined the customers who are interested in this niche want information and what type of information they want, it’s time to find the affiliate programs that meet the needs of your niche market. Every market will probably have different needs so the steps listed above will help guide you to where you should look when determining what to offer your market.

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you are guided properly. With the proper guidance you can build a following of hot and hungry customers begging you for more information about your products or services.

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In the next few minutes I’ll share with you the 3 “secret” ways I’ve used to get more traffic and leads from articles and blog posts. Using these three methods you’ll easily double, triple or even quadruple the effectiveness or your articles, sending your list-building into overdrive. At the end I’ll tell you how to get a free guide that teaches you an automated traffic method you can use to get free web traffic with push-button ease.

Picture this common list-building scenario…

You’re putting up squeeze pages and writing articles. You’re getting some traffic, but that traffic isn’t converting to email leads very well. Sure, you’re getting an opt-in here and there, but you’re looking for the secret that will explode your opt-ins.

Right Under Your Nose…

I’ve been testing different copywriting approaches for years and isolated key elements that cause articles to succeed and get traffic. The answer to your problem is right in front of your nose. The reason you don’t see the answer is because there’s so much confusing information out there.

You need to get clear why people don’t opt-in or why your traffic results aren’t what you want them to be.

3 Reasons Articles Aren’t Drawing More Subscribers

1. Not enough people are searching for keywords you are using to draw traffic
2. You aren’t making a really attractive free offer to build your list
3. Your writing is confusing to readers and they lose interest

You might be aware that many people are short of time. Therefore it’s important you tell people what they are going to get and assure them that to get it won’t take much time or effort. The real thing you are competing for as a marketer is not readers’ time, it’s their attention.

Three “Structural Persuasion” Secrets

Secret #1: The best way to get and retain attention in your articles is to make a promise at the start of the article. I like to quantify the time investment too. I did it at the start of this article and if you got this far, it worked on you. If it worked on you, it will work on other people too. Telling readers how long it’s going to take them to get the information they want may see a little goofy, but it works, so start doing it.

Secret #2: The easiest formula is “3 easy ways” formula. Title your article with a promise of 3 easy ways to make something they are doing better or easier. This may seem like a slow-pitch promise, like you’re writing for dumbies. But guess what? It works so use it. You can mix things up and use “5 simple ways” or whatever, but always a straightforward promise to deliver your information in bite-sized chunks. The number of points you are promising your reader doesn’t matter as much as the fact that you’re promising to divide the information up into easy bullet points. People crave and respond to well-structured communication and this titling method is an easy way to start doing that.

Secret #3: The offer at the end. Article traffic is all about getting readers to click on your link at the end. To get a lot of click you need to offer a very attractive free goodie. Make an effort to imply that the goodie is an almost magical solution to all the reader’s problems. While it may not be in reality, you need to whip that reader into a feverish excitement to get him to click. If you’ve built some momentum into your article and offer at the end, many readers will just click through and opt-in to your free offer, which takes some of the pressure off your squeeze page.

When you use these 3 secrets in your articles, you’ll be writing the way real copywriters do. Copywriters know that every step of the persuasion process has to be easy-peasy for the reader. When it is, lookout! because your results will be much better.

Start looking for ways to use these 3 secrets in every article you write. They don’t always all fit with all article types. I don’t always use them myself (because I get lazy sometimes) but when I do I get clickthrough rates as high as 40% of readers checking out my offer. There are other ways to write a good article, but if you’re after opt-ins for your email list, the formula I just shared with you works great.

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adminsuzanne on August 31st, 2010

Not all internet business ideas are created equal. Some topics work particularly well with information products, and some end up sitting on the shelf. From my experience, the following are some great ideas you could use to get started with an internet business or even use to do some brainstorming for a niche all your own.

1. One of my students was a booking agent for Christian artists. So she is teaching people how to become independent Christian recording artists without going through a label.

2. Another one of my students knows how to make stunning power point presentations, and she is helping people do that.

3. I have another student that ran 3 dance studios. And she was thinking, “I do not have anything to share.” But I reassured her that every dance studio owner would want to benefit from the knowledge that is tucked into her head.

4. I have a pastor friend, who was beginning to realize that most of the married couples in his church had found each other through these online dating services. So he said, I want to teach them relationship skills, but I also want to teach them how to navigate this scary forest of online dating. So he created an information product that did both. He taught them how to navigate the online dating services, which ones were the best, which ones to stay away from, how to guard your privacy, what to say, what not to say. But he also threw in relationship techniques so that after they found that special one, they could build a good marriage.

5. If you have ever taken care of aging parents, there are a lot of people who would love to hear from you. There are so many baby boomers out there, and they are so frightened of the prospect of having to take care of their aging parents. They do not know what to do. They do not know who to turn to. They do not know how to get through all the red tape. Can you ride in there and take care of that for them?

6.If you are a consultant or a coach of any kind or if you are a life coach or a therapist or a consultant or a business coach, you could have your own product.

7.If your child is a slow learner, that is a deep dark scary forest. Have you been through that? Can you help people get to the other side?

8. If you have gone through a midlife crisis or if you survived a life-threatening illness. Again, you do not have to be an MD. You just have to be the person who has been through it and can help other people get through it at the same time.

9. If you have ever been a car salesman. Mister insider. You can teach others how to go to a car dealership and negotiate a rock bottom price.

10. If you scrapbook, do creative memories, create stationery, anything like that, you can show others how to create beautiful keepsakes.

And these 10 ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. The great thing is that you could use the information that is already in your head and put it into a product that people will pay money for. There are so many internet business ideas out there that are profitable and can help others, too. Why not start brainstorming today?

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adminsuzanne on August 30th, 2010

You could have the finest product line or set of services in the marketplace, but if you fail to market your offer right, no prospects will ever see or hear about it. Even if you are employing one of the latest online marketing tools, the outrageous rate of saturation of today’s marketplace means that people are constantly bombarded with a virtually infinite amount of marketing and advertising messages throughout the day. This makes it even more of a challenge to reach your target audience.

Because of this onslaught of marketing and advertising, our brains have actually become programmed to filter out a great degree of the messages that are fired at us. What new marketing tool consistently passes through our marketing and advertising filter? Mobile marketing and the awesome power of text messages! One of the reasons why businesses are experiencing great success with mobile marketing is because it features a fraction of the competition than other media-Internet and email tools are engrossed in a jam-packed and highly competitive environment.

For example: An email message usually has around a 10 percent success rate of actually being read. Text messages, however, feature over a 90 percent success rate of not only being read, but being read within the first 30 minutes of being received! While getting your marketing message out is important, having your message actually read is key to your business or organization experiencing record-breaking sales. What adds even more potency to this special type of marketing? It’s the only marketing media that reaches prospects and clients while they are on the go! Mobile marketing and text messages allow you to automatically update, announce, invite and communicate when you want and how you want!

Top Mobile Marketing Benefits:

  • Generate leads that you can continuously market to
  • Build a mobile database for lucrative follow-up
  • Reach customers instantly
  • Build relationships with customers
  • Learn more about your customers through surveys, polls and demographic info
  • Drive traffic to your business with the use of coupons, special deals, and event promotions

Your Chance to Be a Wealthy Pioneer

Very few businesses are actually taking advantage of mobile marketing right now. That’s because this type of marketing is where Internet marketing was back in 2000. That means you can get a gigantic head start by incorporating mobile marketing within your business today. Plus, you can easily integrate mobile marketing and text message marketing within any offline and online marketing campaign. Of course, this type of marketing is substantial enough to form a standalone marketing campaign.

If you’re questioning the type of potential you have with text message and mobile marketing then consider that there are 270 million mobile subscribers in the U.S. alone, and 91 percent of them are said to keep their phones within just a few feet of themselves 24 hours a day throughout the year! In addition, text message marketing has an incredible reach of almost 5 billion compared to Internet marketing’s reach of 1.7 billion.

Lucrative Lead Generation

Every time a prospect or customer opts into one of your text message offers (e.g. to get informational updates, coupons, discounts) that creates a lead. You now have the means to market to that person as much as you’d like. Take this opportunity to upsell, build belief in your business, provide additional value, increase attendance at events and just about anything else you can think of.

This is made even easier with the accompaniment of super simple database options that allow you to file all of your leads, so you can send out a blast to your entire database or use simple filters to send out to select groups within your database. Build a herd and market like there’s no tomorrow.

Plus, mobile marketing offers one of the most significant ROI’s possible among today’s leading marketing and media tools. Text message marketing is like having hundreds of obliging little marketing assistants hustling around doing all the work for you. All you have to do is press a few buttons and you’ll have instantly reached out to your entire database of leads, customers and prospects-with a 90 percent success rate of being read!

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Aspiring Mobile marketers are keenly watching the space for signs of convergence, for consolidation among advertising platforms and for industry standards to emerge. In the meantime, more aggressive players are actively mining the mobile device revolution for increased sales and mindshare.

Here are 5 mobile channels that you can take advantage of if you belong to the “aspiring” marketer category.

1. Mobile Display Ads

Movie theatres and movie industry insiders have been religiously tracking studies that show that “avid movie-goers” use their mobile devices to get movie times and information “at the point of decision”. Studies show that this category of movie goers are heavily influenced by mobile display ads.

To place similar ads, you should sign up with mobile ad networks like AdMob and Peerfly. Very recently, on the heels of their purchase of AdMob, Google announced the introduction of “location-aware” mobile display ads giving advertisers the geo-targeted mobile display advertising capability. Google has linked this capability with its “Pay-per-call” model so that advertisers only pay when prospects call in from the ad.

2. SMS (Text message) Marketing

The SMS marketing category is still by far the most established of all the mobile marketing channels. SMS stands for Short Message Service. SMS marketing campaigns generally work by using Common Short Codes – the four, five, or six-digit numbers that subscribers use to send SMS messages in order to receive coupons, promotions, and other branded content.

Research sponsored by neustar indicates that SMS-based campaigns achieve over a 90% opt-in rate, compared to 22.1% for email. There is no better channel for database generation today. SMS campaigns have demonstrated extraordinary pulling power when deployed in TV advertising.

3. Mobile Search Advertising

Mobile search is fast coming of age, and Google and Yahoo (in particular) are angling to be the default mobile search engine across mobile platforms. Currently, Google appears to have the lead in this area – because of their brand, and their default placement both on iPhones and Google Android-powered phones.

Google offers advertisers a robust set of targeting options on AdWords, including targeting by mobile carrier or by operating system. Marketers can take advantage of mobile search to have unprecedented access to consumers at the right “marketing moment”.

Highlighting the importance of this consumer segment, 54 percent of users who researched online and bought offline did so with their research on mobile devices (according to Google’s Retail Advertising blog). When you consider that a June 2010 report by Latitude Group that click through rates are 200 percent higher on mobile vs PC searches within their client base, and “still over 35% of searches on Smartphones do not contain sponsored listings”, you probably realize the opportunities in this area for marketers.

4. In-App Advertising (or AppVertising – Ads within Applications)

Mobile apps are an increasingly significant advertising channel for marketers. Apple’s iPhone App Store now supports over 200,000 titles (and growing). Google’s Android market has over 40,000 titles (and climbing) among others who have joined the app market dash.

Marketers may choose between working with ad networks to launch ads, or sponsoring apps directly. Some of the advertising format options include using links, banners, and clickable images (like logos) to deliver messaging to consumers who have proven willing to endure advertising – in exchange for keeping most apps at 99 cents or free pricing. The promise of locally-targeted app advertising only adds to the possibilities.

5. MMS (Multimedia Message Service) and Mobile Video

Although adoption has been hampered due to the complexity of the mobile ecosystem, the diversity of carrier networks, and mobile platforms, research in the automotive industry has shown that rich media ads resulted in double the click through rates of banner ads in controlled testing.

Although Ad-supported mobile video is still a very small market ($35.1 million dollars in 2010 per eMarketer), it is projected to grow at a 60 percent compound rate between 2009 and 2014. Aggressive marketers targeting the young male consumer category may find it worth experimenting here.

6. Mobile Social Gaming & Networking Ever since Mobile Game Town, a social gaming network, ballooned to over 10 million users, with more traffic than Yahoo.com, and over $200 million dollars in annual revenues, analysts and industry watchers have excitedly waited for other breakout hits to emerge in this space.

UK-based Flirtomatic, a location-based “social flirting” site has also seen a lot of growth and has developed a model that earns revenue from 15 percent of its subscriber base.

Conclusion

If you have been putting off your first foray into mobile marketing, now is the time to launch an earnest marketing effort in this space. For marketers, who decide to take the leap, your target objectives can be:

  • Learn how to build targeted lists of mobile users
  • Work out offers and campaigns that resonate
  • Craft synergy between mobile, internet and other marketing channels

Whether your organization is a national brand, a local establishment or an institution, there is most assuredly a place in mobile marketing for you.

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adminsuzanne on August 26th, 2010

Well, it’s simple and it can be described as a sort of bandwagon. Some people got on it and everyone followed. Now the problem is that if you don’t get on it too, you will lose out. This is what many companies around the world are starting to learn. Particularly bring brand names like Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Playing catch up with Apple has seen them release lots of not-so-good mobile handsets when really they should hone in on the good mobiles that they already have.

Apple’s release of the iPod was said to be the true catalyst of all this increase in mobile technology and it’s true that many people own iPhones and iPads.

That’s where mobile marketing comes in. Mobile marketing enables companies in many sectors such as travel and retail to send promotional messages and vouchers via Bluetooth and SMS for example. A direct, targeted approach to connecting with limitless clients.

Importantly, companies such as Facebook announced only yesterday that they see the future as being mobile. According to reports, Facebook is currently seeing great success with its dedicated mobile applications. The company now has 150 million active mobile users. Astonishingly it has acquired 50 million of those users since Feb of this year… See the power mobile marketing can have?

Google’s mobile platform, Android, has seen the creation of many android mobile apps which can be downloaded onto any mobile phone that supports this platform. It currently can’t compete with Apple but perhaps one day when it’s more polished, Android will be a real contender.

So – who exactly is turning to mobile marketing. The answer is, any company that you can find promoting its services in some shape or form in the mobile apps stores… Newspapers are beginning to realise for example, that in twenty years its unlikely that many people will still want a printed version but will instead be using some sort of e-book to read the daily news. That’s what makes Apple and its iPhone mobile apps so powerful – Apple can connect to millions of people through its handsets.

“Ok, fair enough”, I hear you say, “but my company can’t compare to the likes of Facebook”… But that’s where you’re wrong, mobile marketing has the ability to reach out to more potential clients and/or create brand loyalty to ensure that your customers will keep coming back.

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Mobile phone marketing or cell phone marketing as it is often known in the United States is the latest e-marketing service to hit the World Wide Web. Some very large companies are regularly using sms to broadcast advertising messages to their target customers.

While receiving propaganda e marketing messages over the phone can sometimes be very annoying for the customer, it does get results, otherwise these companies would not invest so much money and effort in doing it – there has to be a profitable return.

But it is not just large companies that are effectively using this digital marketing strategy. Some very clever specialist online businesses have recently grown up which can directly stream online advertising to smartphones all around the world on behalf of smaller companies and individuals.

This has been picked up in particular by the affiliate sites and the best affiliate online marketing entrepreneurs. For the uninitiated, affiliate marketing is the selling of products over the Internet (particularly digital products and ebooks that are often downloadable) directly to individual customers and being paid a commission for doing so. It is a huge and very successful industry.

What is rapidly changing is that some experts believe the personal computer, laptop or desktop PC will soon become largely irrelevant. It is clear that Apple no longer wants to be in the PC business, they want to be in the mobile phone business where they are making most of their money and sales.

Latest data suggests that worldwide there are around 2 billion Internet users but 5 billion mobile phones. The phenomenal growth of the mobile phone is particularly marked in the developing world where relatively smaller numbers of people have laptops and PCs.

In the developing world most people have gone directly to the mobile phone and it is only a matter of time before they upgrade to smartphones with direct access to the World Wide Web. In 2008 the number of mobile phones in Africa reached 300 million, overtaking the combined numbers in the USA and Canada.

In continents like Africa and Asia where physical communication is often difficult and time consuming over a poorly maintained road network, the mobile phone has become life changing and in many cases a basic necessity; it has enabled millions of people to communicate easily, conduct business immediately, transfer money and get instant advice on health problems.

In the developed world currently more than fifty per cent of new mobile connections are for smartphones and the numbers are rising rapidly. Recent research in the United States indicates that a massive 91% of Americans keep their mobile phones within 3 feet of them 24/7. I doubt that many of us have ever been that intimate with our desktop PCs!

So do I think that mobile phones are the future of the online internet marketing business? You bet! Just wait for the next ring tone – it might be sending you information on something that you didn’t know you needed yet!

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Affiliate marketing works for some people, but for most who have tried it,  there’s no success at all. Why? First, you have to understand that being an affiliate marketer does not require any extraordinary capabilities or millions of start-up capital.

Failure is inevitable if you don’t know exactly what you are doing and you go on making matters worse. That is why affiliate marketing does not work out for most who have ventured into it.

If you want to try affiliate marketing, You need the proper training or Internet Marketing Course and you have to find a reputable company to sign up to. Choose from its wide array of product categories and promote the products to online shoppers.

Most of the time, when online shoppers purchase the products you are advertising, you get a commission out of the sale. Other times, you will be given a specific amount for any product that you successfully sell. Different systems propose different ways of earning an income.

If you are a beginner, it is vital that you do some research about the affiliate marketing system that you are trying out. Know its background, history, and other people’s reviews about it.

Determine its methods and procedures so you can master it properly. This is the key to maximizing all the time and effort you put into it.

What other people do not realize is that straying from the rules of the system can jeopardize their chances of succeeding in affiliate marketing. Focus on what the system is all about and do exactly what is asked from you.

The experts from this business have laid out the plan for you so there’s no reason ditching it in favor of your own techniques. Sadly, this is what 90% of online users are doing that is why only 5% are successful.

Here are the basic rules:

First, look for a genuine, high quality system. Do not fall for those that promise you millions overnight – they are just scams out to dole a hole in your pocket.

Affiliate marketing can bring you lots of steady income – enough for you to quit your office job. But it requires hard work, discipline, and commitment.

Focus on the program you have chosen. Trying out all the systems at the same time is not really that effective.

Secondly, do not panic when there is plenty of information to be absorbed. Learn at your own pace and do not be impatient.

When you lose patience and look for other systems to try out, you will just have more information overload. “Analysis Paralysis” as the online community is calling it. Stick to what you have and take time to master it.

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adminsuzanne on August 23rd, 2010

Many internet marketers talk about finding high traffic, low competition niches. But do they really exist? Or are they just another myth? Is there some mysteriously elusive niche that hundreds of thousands of people are searching online for and which miraculously nobody has bothered to create a website and capitalize on yet?

Lets face some facts, if tons of people were searching for something online we would all know about it, in fact we know exactly what people are searching for the most every day, every second of the day, it’s no mystery and there is no magic million dollar niche that hasn’t already been exploited from every conceivable angle possible.

The best that anyone can ever hope for when it comes to high volume, low competition niches is to beat everyone else to the punch, to be the first to market for a new product, service or innovation. Take the iPad for instance, how many iPad accessory or iPad review and information websites do you think were lined up and ready to be launched even before the actual product was launched? How many of these sites went live within hours of the iPad’s official premiere?

So where is the money to be made online if not from the non-existent Holy Grail of low competition, high interest niches?

The answer may surprise you and it certainly isn’t the answer that you would get from most internet marketing gurus. The plain truth is that real online earnings are made from high competition, high volume niches. Of course this isn’t the sexy, wallet popping information that marketers want you to have. In fact they prefer to perpetuate the myth of the holy grail in order to have you believe that it’s possible to make a fortune from niches that nobody is interested in.

Making money from high competition niches involves the kinds of strategies and persistence that many people simply shy away from. But what many people fail to realize is that breaking into and succeeding with high competition niches is actually much easier and faster than they have been lead to believe.

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One of the most popular online business models is affiliate marketing. For those who are new to this term, affiliate marketing basically means promoting other people’s products while getting a certain percentage of the profit generated.

Real case example – Amazon.com, Amazon.com has an affiliate program, if you would like to earn some money, you could just sign up for their affiliate program and start promoting their products on your website. If someone buys the products you’re promoting, you’re going to get a commission for it. As simple as that.

I’ve been involved in affiliate marketing for 4 years now and it’s still my favorite way of making money online. Why?

1. Simple – Like the example above, all I need to is just sign up for an affiliate program or a network, pick something I would like to promote, grab the affiliate links and I can start promoting them by placing them on my sites, forums, recommending them to friends etc… Simple but may not be easy.

2. No Need To Stock Inventory – Pretty self-explanatory, you don’t need to keep stock and deliver any goods. Everything is done by the merchants themselves.

3. You Can Choose To Promote Whatever You Want – This is awesome, with affiliate marketing you can easily promote pretty much anything you want, something you’re passionate about. If you love golf, you can just promote golf related products like books, golf clubs, membership sites etc.

4. Doesn’t Cost Much To Start – Unlike other business models where you’ll need to spend thousands of dollars to get started, you can start doing affiliate marketing with literally no money.

5. No Need To Handle Customer Service – This is big for me, no customer service involved because you’re not the vendor.

6. Great Way To Test A Market – A big advantage of affiliate marketing is the opportunity to test a market. When you want to get into a certain market and you don’t know whether it will work or not, you could just promote some of the products as an affiliate first before spending a ton of money building a full-blown business just to find out that there’s no money in the market.

I’m sure I left quite a few benefits but like anything else, there’s no such thing as perfect. There are downsides to affiliate marketing as well but I’ll save it for another time.

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