11 Awesome Ways To Explode Your Affiliate Commissi

11 Awesome Ways To Explode Your Affiliate Commission

by: Kusuma Widjaja

1. Start your own affiliate program directory. Join a large number of affiliate programs that go with the theme of your web site and list them all in a directory format on your web site. Then just advertise your free affiliate program directory. You will earn commissions and gain subaffiliates. Plus you could start an affiliaterelated ezine too.

2. Do not drive all your visitors directly to affiliate website, instead send your visitors to your optin page mechanism first before going to your main affiliate website. That way, you can make followup later on and build your own lists so that you can offer another related products or services another day. You can build a massive list in minimum time at http://www.whycity.net/coregistrationservices.html

3. Sell to the people who join your affiliate program. They are more likely to buy your products because they are interested in selling them for the commission. Itกs important to train and support your affiliates so they will know you will be there to help them. Tell them itกs good to write ads about their personal experiences with your product so that it will persuade customers to buy.

4. Participate on web discussion boards. Post your comments, answer other peopleกs questions, and ask your own questions. Include your affiliate text link under each message you post. If they read your message and like it, they may click to see what else you have to offer them.

5. Recruit lots of subaffiliates and make it easy for your them to make sales. Give them proven ads to use, make it easy for prospects to order, provide helpful affiliate statistics, notification of sales, lifetime income, residual income, add their commission by giving part of your commission to them, provide a good tracking system and professional training just like at http://www.whycity.net/nitroknowledge.html, http://www.whycity.net/myaffiliatecenter.html and http://www.whycity.net/nitrowebcasts.html

6. Persuade ezine publishers or webmasters to run your ad for free. Just allow them to join your affiliate program and earn commission on the sales. You could also offer them a freebie, such as the product you’re selling for free, an advertisement in your ezine in return, etc. It also helps to compliment the publishers as well as praising their ezines.

7. Use Online Referral Strategies at http://www.whycity.net/instantreferralsystems.html to get lots of order yourself or subaffiliates order. Referral system can also be a good way to increase your affiliate commissions if you can give incentives to motivate people to refer and tap deep into peopleกs network of friends, family, and associates. They don’t just stop at the occasional, oneoff referral.

8. Write your own affiliate program ads. If all the other affiliates use the same ads you do, that does not give you an edge over your competition. Use a different ad to give yourself an advantage over all the other affiliates. Learn how you can Create Powerful Offers so irresistible for prospects until they buy from you at http://www.whycity.net/powerfuloffers.html

9. Give free email consultations or services to your customers who buy or will buy the product or services through your affiliate link. When you email them back your advice include a small ad or distribute branded affiliates viral marketing tools to use like ebooks or articles for the affiliate products your are selling. Just include your ad somewhere inside them.

10. Email targeted ezines and ask them to do a joint venture with you. Ask them to run your ad and in exchange they would get a percentage of the profits. You would just have to get them to join your affiliate program to be your subaffiliates. To give them better incentive, you could offer them a higher commission than the rest of your normal affiliates by giving part of your affiliate commissions for 2 years.

11. Tell your customers if they refer four customers to your affiliate web site, they will receive a full rebate of their purchase price, cut from your own commission. This will turn one sale into three sales. You could also offer them other things in return for referrals like free ebooks, free software, coupons, discounts, etc.

Finally! Everything you need to make a whole lot more than $100,000 a year with affiliate programs.

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About The Author

Kusuma Widjaja is President of Yahoo Cyber Technology, CV., based in Surabaya. He has over 2 years experience in Internet Marketing Arena, Custom Web Site Design and Graphic Design Services. For more information go to http://www.whycity.net or you can reach us at +628315838474.

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This article was posted on January 20

by Kusuma Widjaja

Take Your Radio Ads to the Next Level

Take Your Radio Ads to the Next Level

by: BIG Mike McDaniel

Most small businesses do not have a high powered advertising agency to produce awardwinning radio commercials for them. Most awardwinning radio commercials win for the wrong reasons anyway.

Radio commercials should sell the benefits (not features)of your business/product and should be on the same page with print, TV and billboard. A major problem in business advertising today is the lack of coordination of a campaign where all media are targeting the same message. The newspaper ad says one thing and the radio commercial doesn’t seem to fit anywhere. Wasted money. Hit ‘em with the same message across the board and you increase your reach.

Radio commercials at smaller radio stations are typically created by the radio salespeople or the announcers. In most cases, neither are trained at selling benefits. It’s your money and you shouldn’t spend it on amateurish and/or totally ineffective commercials.

The biggest mistake many business people make is letting the station staff come up with the commercial copy and finished product. When they play it for you, you can tell they really love it. They wrote it, maybe they voiced it. It’s me, me, me. They love all the fun they had making it. They don’t know squat about selling benefits.

Effective radio commercials

Remember Tom Bodett for Motel six? A great campaign, it was Tom delivering the benefit for staying at the motel with a little music in the background. Award winning. And Motel Six business shot off the charts. Benefits sell. Yet few local radio people would be comfortable with a straight voice Tom Bodett style ad. They want you to feel like you are really getting something for your money. so they produce a grand scale dud.

Here are BIG Mike’s tips for better commercials

Don’t Do It Yourself

You may be able to write it, after a little practice, but don’t get fooled into thinking you can do it better than a professional announcer. The radio people will want you to voice it because some of your fiends will tell you they heard you on the radio and you will be convinced radio works. Phooey. That’s an old way to sell ads. The high powered ad agency worked with David Orreck for several days to get those vacuum cleaner commercials to sound like onetakes.

Avoid twovoice กsliceoflifeก ads

Many are made by dragging the receptionist into the studio to play the wife or mother and the result is something that sounds like the junior high school drama class made it.

Steer clear of characterizations

The last of the great character actors on radio was Mel Blanc and he died 20 years ago. An 18 year old kid trying to sound like a crusty ol’ sea captain doesn’t get it.

Don’t try humor it ain’t funny

Remember the main reason to advertise, WIIFM, What’s In It for Me, that’s what they want to know. Sell benefits. Take a poll, no one cares about a cutesy commercial, they care about what’s in it for them. Yet, every radio station in the country has at least one wouldbe Bob Hope who thinks he can outfunny the pros. It doesn’t work. Consider how you feel when you hear one on the radio. It sure doesn’t explain why you should visit the store, unless it is to punch out the owner for being so stupid. Ditch the lame humor for real substance

90 Seconds into 30 Won’t Go.

The power of the pause is important in radio commercials. Too many radio people take you literally when you tell them what you want in your commercial and try to get it all in one ad. Instead, ask them to create several that will rotate on the air. Take your time to explain the benefits.

Don’t buy anything longer than 30 seconds

Some station price 60s double what they charge for 30 seconds, other plus up the 30 rate by 20 or 25 percent. Either way, you don’t need a 60. Make two 30s and get more exposure and save more money. Heck, if you can say the entire Lord’s Prayer in 20 seconds, you can sure sell your benefits in 30.

Ask for an outofmarket voice

These days with email audio attachments, many radio stations share voices around the country. You can get a voice thousands of miles away that will do ads only for you. In turn the station announcer who would have done your ads, does one for that station, an even trade. The exchange takes only seconds, no one does any more work and the cost to the advertiser is zero.

Be sure your radio ads sell the same benefits at the same time as your newspaper, shopper and other print and billboard ads. Plan your advertising well in advance, just like the other parts of your business.

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This article was posted on March 05

by BIG Mike McDaniel

The Internet Marketer

The Internet Marketer

by: Rauf Kuliyev

The internet marketer is really a perfect profession. This profession allows you to gain many positive characters. You become more responsible, you learn how to earn money in your home business, how to make it professionally and treat your customers in a way you wanted them to treat you. We have to keep in mind one very important thing that marketing on the internet is different from marketing in real world in some aspects. You may ask why? So, the difference is a little hidden and can’t be seen at first.

Most people when they start their journey on the internet think that money are flying here. Ok.. just think, if money are not flying in the real world why should we think that they are flying on the internet? To make money on the internet in your home business is not easier than making them in real world. It is even a little harder. In real world if you have a shop and visitors coming every day you need to make some advertising campaign to attract them and build your customers list from month to month, from year to year. Once you attracted them and they visited your shop, you don’t just watch them whether they buy from you or not. You try to be polite, helpful, answer all their questions to the extent that they start to know you, trust you and then they buy from you. In short, you try to offer them professional service. If they buy from you and happy with the purchase they start to trust you even more. And you start to be even more helpful and professional to keep the trust between you and your customer. Thatกs the way we market in real world. It is just described in a few words, clear to you without wasting your time.

On the internet, in home business it is a little different. The customer comes to your website and he can’t see you, he can’t speak to you either. The only thing that he has in front of him is the document in html, i.e. your webpage. At this time he needs your guidance and help as if you were near him. If he can’t see any kind of help or answer to his questions then he simply leaves your website and go somewhere to another website where he will find what he is looking for. So, as I said, your customer can’t see you, just only your กcoldก website. You should know that internet surfer is looking for information, information and information. Not pictures. First of all is information. Your sales directly depend on how professionally you give info about your product. Fail to do this you will fail to make any purchase. As I said, if you have unique product it is much easier to make profits. If you sell someoneกs product you must choose the cheapest one and advertised professionally.

Thatกs the key point which many marketers don’t care in their home business projects and loose their visitors instead of converting them into a buyer.

If you don’t understand it then you lost your 90% of internet profit which may possibly generate your future website or any home business. You have to prepare your website in a friendly way for your customer ( design and interesting content). You have to describe your product in the best way possible. You should describe all the benefits of your product why it is different from other products. You have to describe all the advantages your customer may have if he buys your product. You even should read all your website message addressed to a customer a few times to make sure that it is really helpful and clear. You have to feel that you described your product in the best way possible so when a visitor comes to your website he may have all questions answered even if you are not near him. If you don’t do that, you lost your customer forever.

The best and easy product you can sell on the internet is info product or any downloadable product. It may be ebook or software. It is also advisable to have your own product because if you sell someoneกs product then keep in mind that you are not alone doing this. An internet surfer can buy it from any other place. But if you have your own product then he can buy it only from you and it is a serious advantage in your favor.

If you want to have good sales of your product then you first need to create your product. You need to study your industry and you need to study your competitorกs products similar to your product. Once you have this information you start to understand what is happening in your specific industry, you start to know your competitorกs product. After that, try to create your own product.

Finally when you create your website or webpage you need to write a good presentation of your product, show all advantages and difference from other products and you must do it step by step like on my webpage. If you fail to do this then any internet surfer who may visit your webpage, will find you incompetent and will never buy from you. Especially when you write your presentation you must be clear and honest with your customers/visitors. Never exaggerate your product value or features. Don’t give false promises about your product in your presentation letter on your website. If you do this then you will never have repeat sales and any internet marketer knows that if you have no repeat sales from the same customers then you will not be able to have your customers list/subscribers list and if you don’t have it then your home business will never grow. Remember, giving false promises is not ethical and additionally it will destroy your success.

When you prepare your product information, i.e. presentation on your website home page you must use the correct words which may really reflect your product true features and convince your visitor to make the purchase. But if you don’t have a great product or fail to create such a one which means you can’t compete with other products then I am sorry to inform you that you will not be able to make good presentation of your product.

Once you prepare your message youกd better reread it again and again and look at your message from the view of your visitor and make sure that your message is really convincing. Not false convincing but true convincing. If you can’t study your industry, competitorกs products and prepare true presentation youกd better spend more time until you collect enough knowledge. Never try to hypnotize your visitor or cheat him. Avoid hypnotic words like: ก I am going to reveal to you neverbeforerevealed secretsก and กinstant formulas.ก If you stay sincere with your visitors they will trust you and buy from you more. If you can’t prepare such a kind of your product presentation and just try to sell something like others then it is hard to make much sales. In this case you need from 1 to 2 years to get most of your website or maybe longer.

If your product is not in high demand, your presentation letter is weak and not convincing then you may have some little sales. Or even you may have even good sales but in this case you need to bring huge traffic which requires some time, up to two years for full exposure or maybe even more.

You must understand that there is no any secret behind internet millionaireกs tactics. It is very simple. The กsecretก means:

Having a great product.

Great and professional presentation of your product.

The right traffic tactics.

If you don’t have a great product or product in high demand then even if you can bring huge traffic you can’t make serious money.

If you have a great product but don’t know how to bring traffic to your home business, you fail again.

Note that the key of success is in great product which is high demand. If you have it and bring decent traffic even in this case you will get a good number of orders. There is no any secret. It is so simple.

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This article was posted on March 06

by Rauf Kuliyev

Changing Your Position When Thereกs Competition

Changing Your Position When Thereกs Competition

by: C.J.Hayden

Are you finding many of your best prospects already working with competitors? When you pursue a new opportunity, is someone else capturing the prize? Maybe itกs time to reevaluate your positioning.

Your market position is the place you occupy in the mind of your prospective clients. Itกs how they think of you as compared to your competitors. Adjectives like established or cuttingedge; highquality or inexpensive; convenient or fullservice are all relative terms. When applied to you and your business, they distinguish you from the competition.

Your clientsก impression of how your business compares can determine whether they work with you or not. Try conducting some competitive research to find out what it is that clients like about the people you compete with. Are those qualities you can emulate? In what areas are clients not as satisfied? Could you offer more satisfaction there?

Ask your current and former clients about their experience with the competition. They may be quite candid with you about what they liked and didn’t like, and give you some valuable insight into why they chose you. Check out how your competitors are positioning themselves by surfing the Net. Mission statements, lists of features and benefits, etc. will often be posted on their web sites. You can also have a friend request their literature, or hire a professional market researcher.

Target market research can help if prospects are telling you they don’t need what you are offering. If you think they need a teambuilding retreat, but they are looking for more skills training, you won’t make a sale. If you learn more about how prospects view their own challenges, you can develop a new market position to better match their mental, or reallife, purchase order. Your retreat might fly if you called it กan intensive threeday training program in the critical skills needed for effective teamwork.ก

Ask your satisfied clients for a testimonial letter. The way they describe the work you do and benefits they received from it can give you valuable clues in how to sell it to others. An evaluation questionnaire can be used for the same purpose. Try asking, กHow would you describe my service to someone who could use it?ก

Your research might uncover that your service isn’t packaged in a way that prospects want to buy it. Developing a better service package could make what you offer more attractive. A marketing consultant who has been charging by the project might find clients more receptive to a monthly retainer they can budget for. An interior designer encountering resistance to his hourly fee might instead raise his commission rate on furnishings, and no longer charge by the hour.

Sometimes just naming your service package can make a difference. An image consultant might be much more successful selling the กOneDay Makeoverก than asking clients to buy six hours of her time to revamp their whole look. When doing your market research, try asking your prospects how they prefer to buy services like yours, and tailor your offering to their preferences.

You may make the discovery that youกve chosen the wrong market the perceived need for what you offer isn’t strong enough, they aren’t willing to pay what you need to charge, or the size of the market is too small. In this case, itกs time to position yourself for an entirely different market.

A career counselor who can’t find enough individuals who will pay her fee can market herself to companies who need outplacement services. A software trainer who discovers that large companies prefer training firms that can serve them nationally might find a better market in midsize organizations. Keep asking the question, กWho is MOST LIKELY to hire me?ก until you find the right fit.

About The Author

C.J. Hayden is the author of Get Clients NOW! Thousands of business owners and salespeople have used her simple sales and marketing system to double or triple their income. Get a free copy of กFive Secrets to Finding All the Clients Youกll Ever Needก at http://www.getclientsnow.com.

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This article was posted on April 12

by C.J.Hayden

Innovation Makes Leaders

Innovation Makes Leaders

by: Pavel Lenshin

Basically what innovation does is making your business unique and often more progressive in its development.

Looking deeper at positive influence of innovation allows us to notice clear tendency from business stagnation to rapid development depending on what level of innovation takes place in business management and planning.

The logic behind is simple if your business is a clone in its product and business structure, it will more likely to experience difficulties in reaching set goals in comparison with more innovative and therefore flexible competitive predecessor. New and wellgrounded approaches greatly raise chances of any legal entity to take the lead over competitors, because one cannot beat competition doing the same things competitor does. It takes implementation of the new progressive vision and steps in business development.

Business innovation is an organizational and behavioral strategy any part of running business should be based on. In other words, it is an alternative way of thinking and doing business. There are times where conservative attitude allows securing reached results and accumulating resources for taking next step, still conservatism in Internet surroundings is to be exception rather than rule.

Human is a conservative creature by nature, especially at a mature age. We agree to face any evolutionism when we start private business or under unordinary circumstances (yet 80% of all people don’t even want to take a risk of starting their own businesses) but once all problems have been settled, the need for กanother angle of viewpointก vanishes, making us highly vulnerable in the face of external changes and environment.

I used the word กriskก on purpose, as we know, any innovation is a risk. Doing what others do may be a wise strategy for slow moving low profit development and it may be good for big corporation where gross income in several hundreds million dollars can กleverageก their reluctance for adopting innovative measures.

Small business owner does not have such privilege. For him/her it is usually a matter of survival to be innovative or not.

Innovation is a feature and integral part of starting, running and developing business, especially Internet business nowadays. I laid stress on Internet business for the unique competitive surrounding it possesses. While competition in offline business world may กforgiveก some กimperfectionsก in plans, services, products or marketing due to inability of instantly offering a good alternative, business online instantly presents any visitor with thousands of similar choices that can be reached with a click of a mouse.

For every offline business owner having several direct competitors on the same street is a nightmare, demanding taking unordinary steps in order to กkeep afloatก. For every online business owner hundreds, if not tens of thousands, direct competitors กon the same streetก are a usual and inevitable feature of running online business from the very beginning. Crucial part of making a difference here is to implement innovativebased business tactics on a constant basis.

There are many strategies of unique marketing measures that brought success. I have personally emphasized the importance of creating USP (Unique Selling Proposition), but all of these advices are nothing more than a way of innovation implementation.

Whether you are creating a new product, choosing a webdesign, setting up customer support or developing marketing plan be innovative and unique in your approaches.

Every starting solo professional on the net experiences shortage in everything but probably a desire to succeed, so there is no point in reinventing the wheel. Often we are forced to make a compromise. If we speak about marketing strategy your next move may be wellknown, widelyused and, therefore, customerresponsedepleted or, on the other hand, innovative, unique and fresh, generating exposure you have never anticipated. Unfortinately many of us go the กconservativeก way and that is why are doomed to read success stories of others, trying to reproduce what thousands marketers do vainly.

We are given proven tools that work USP, time management, branding, viral marketing, affiliate programs etc. they represent the invented axe a proven tool with help of which we need to cross the กInternet business oceanก and reach desired point กBก, but it is for us to decide how wisely to use given axe.

The first one decided to throw it away and swim across, the second built a raft, the third added oars, while the forth one in addition set a sail with a steeringwheel. What are you going to do? Rationalism teaches you to go the bestknown forth way, while innovation set a second sail or invent a steam engine!

About The Author

Pavel Lenshin is a devoted Internet entrepreneur, founder of ASBONE.com, where you can find everything to make your business prosper. Discounted Internet services,

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This article was posted on November 16, 2003

by Pavel Lenshin

Want to Increase Your Online Sales? Make Sure That

Want to Increase Your Online Sales? Make Sure That Your Web Site Has a Unique Selling Proposition

by: Gerardas Norkus

If you own a web site or if you are going to build a new one, the most important thing about your site is to achieve as high as possible visitors to sales conversion rate.

Although they say that ‘the traffic is king onlineก, if your website converts poorly, your online business will fail, unless you receive tons of free traffic which I doubt.

On the Internet today every website has competitors. So, in order to have a high conversion rate your online business should have a unique selling proposition, sometimes also called กunique value propositionก (USP or UVP).

What is this unique selling proposition? Your USP is the biggest unique benefit to your prospects. A benefit is an answer to your customerกs question of กWhatกs in it for me?ก You should tell your prospects what makes doing business with your company better than doing business with your competitor.

Here are some guidelines for creating a compelling unique selling proposition USP:

Write down every possible reason you can think of why someone would want to do business with you. Review the list and eliminate everything that is also true of your competitors. If a competitor can make the same claim, itกs not a กuniqueก proposition.

Some quick guidelines:

What is unique about your service compared to your direct competitors?

Which of these factors are most important to your prospects?

Which of these factors are most difficult for your competitors to imitate?

Which of these factors can be understood most easily by your prospects?

Rework your USP until you have it simple and clearly defined that your customers can instantly identify with. USPs work best when they are a sentence or two for the most.

Lowestfare.com is an example of a company whose unique selling proposition is clearly defined in their domain name. This company provides the lowest air fares in the air travel industry.

If your business doesn’t have a unique selling proposition, you must create one in order to be successfull on the Internet!

When you have your USP, you should present it in your web siteกs headline, web copy, in every ad, do so year after year, and… remember that you must deliver what you promise.

When writing your web copy, it is also important to understand that there are four online personality types, and they look for information that specifically answers their questions. Note that sales conversion rate also highly depends on personality types:

Competitive/Assertive personality answer กWhat can your solution do for me?ก question.

Spontanious/Amiable กWhy is your solution the best for me?ก

Humanistic/Expressive กWho has used your solution to solve my problem?ก

Methodical/Analytical กHow can your solution solve my problem?ก

So, try to answer all above questions (What? Why? How?) in your web copy or sales letter.

After your website is up and running, in order to further increase sales conversion rates of your online business, you should run a splittesting, or A/B test, on your web site.

Note that direct marketing professionals don’t guess they base their decisions on statistics.

What is a split run?

A split run is where you measure a new idea or way to sell a product against a control or default that you know works.

So, you might have two pages of sales copy one that you know sells 2% to a targeted audience, and another that is selling the same thing but at an unknown rate.

To do the splittesting online, you should have a decent measurement system that accurately records the number of people arriving at your web site and their actions (leads, sales).

You could test different headlines, graphics, background/text combinations, link colors, buttons (buy now, order now, buy, order), you can even test paragraphs of content. There is nothing on a website that cannot be splittested.

Any of these changes affect your sales conversion.

After you have run a splittest, you should find out if your test results are statistically significant.

Use SplitTester. This free tool will tell how likely two ad copies are to have different longterm results:

http://www.splittester.com/

So, before thinking about how to drive more traffic to your web site, first make sure that your web site has a unique selling proposition (USP) and converts well.

About The Author

Gerardas Norkus is a successful author and publisher of http://www.1stinrewards.com

Great tips on receiving free merchandise and money from top online rewards and incentives programs.

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This article was posted on December 09, 2004

by Gerardas Norkus

Dumb Money And Smart Money

Dumb Money And Smart Money

by: Tomas Loden

One of my goals online is to give you the total picture and tell you everything you need to succeed in your own Internet Marketing Business.

This internet marketing กstuffก has been a God send for me and it can be for Anyone of you who will apply yourself and be very, very serious with it, not get rich overnite but I am talking about coming in to this กnet marketing worldก with the same attitude that I came in with. I am here folks for the loooong term.

I am going to share some of my thoughts and opinions of what I see going on in the Internet marketing community. So consider this a hearttoheart talk from someone who has been there before you…

Now lets put the cards on the table…

So, you want to be one of the BIG marketers,

You want to be on of the Top 1% Affiliates raking in all the money. You want to be the next Big Net Marketing Guru ..

Hey thatกs GREAT, but what are you doing about it?

If you want to create your own successful Internet Business, you have 2 choices… You can A) take the long road or you can B) take the smart road.

A) You can take the long road:You can continue to search on the Internet for กfreeก information¨, buying different กhowto, go their, do thisก ebooks, spending countless hours translating their jargon or joining one of those ก30k in 30 daysก schemes, Why bother? It will take you weeks or even monthกs of testing just to achieve the anger of knowing you have been taken advange of by someone selling a load of กget rich quick hypeก.

B) You can take the smart road: Interact With Real Internet Marketing Professionals Who Are Actually Making Huge Profits Online. Interact With Real Internet Marketing Companies. I made many mistakes. I joined programs like theก30k in 30daysก and other scam programs only to find out later it was a bunch of garbage. Not that Iกm proud about this … Bad Products..No money back guarantee..No affiliate support,,

However, I soon discovered that the real money is made by Real Internet Marketing Professionals Using Real Internet Marketing Companies Using Proven methods to sell their products To avoid กcheaterก programs, you need to do your homework and stay informed..

A) You can take the long road: FOLLOWING THE DUMB MONEY The major mistake I see other Internet entrepreneurs making is following the กdumb money.ก The กdumb moneyก is in the small, individual marketers who would like to make money online but tend to lose their money most of the time. Spending their hard earned cash on different ideas or schemes to find out what works and what doesnt..

B) You can take the smart road:FOLLOWING THE SMART MONEY The idea is to follow your ‘the smatrt moneyก and do what they are doing… To find out, just, purchase their products, services and subscribe to their newsletters Some people like to sugarcoat things, but that is not my style…nor is it what you need. Forget the hype and focus on the reality of making money online. If someone is getting different results than you, then they are doing something differently.

For example, do you see all the Big กgurusก posting to FFA sites, safelists or allowing others to place ads in their inhouse optin list/ezine? Of course not! And wouldn’t you think that with the time, and experience, they have, they would have already tested those marketing mediums and have decided not to use them because they don’t work? So, if someone got dozen orders per day and you didn’t, they did something differently than you did.And do you know what the biggest difference usually is, persistance and approach. Persistence is the key.

A) You can take the long road: Sell anything to anybody, at anytime without ever owning it, you have one chance to earn peoples trust, therefore it’s very important that you represent products and services that you honestly believe in.

B) You can take the smart road: Represent products and services that you honestly believe in. The Best Way To Assure Your Success Is To Learn As Much As You Can About Your Business, Program or Product. The better you know the product or service, the more enthusiastic you will be about recommending it and youกll have a better chance that people will want to buy. Successful affiliates buy the product so that they can write a genuine, honest review of it. The best products to promote are those that you personally use and have found to be of benefit to you. But even beyond that,the best products are those that pay you a residual income, month after month.

The only stuff I recommend is stuff that I own. I have physically purchased it, or had in a couple of instances a courtesy copy sent to me for review, and only if and when Iกm satisfied that it will help me in my own business will I then recommend it to other people. You Can Not Promote That Which You Do Not Understand

A) You can take the long road: Not promoting enough. Promoting may not be as much fun, but itกs key to making the fun parts pay off. I have wasted a lot of time and money, thinking that people would automatically come to my web site, and buy my stuff… You should spend more of your time marketing than on any other task. In the course of running your business, itกs easy to get caught up in a million idiotic things..

The number 1 problem I see with the online Networkers I work with across the world every day is that they Stop prospecting! Why..? Because they run out of leads or if they do sponsor a few members in their first 23months those people quit or become inactive because theyกve run out of traffic. When they do run out of visitors, they get discouraged and quit their business!

B) You can take the smart road: 99% of all networkers need more visitors and additional Training…..

Why?

Because very few have taken the time or even HAVE the time to LEARN WHAT REALLY WORKS! I mean, what works NOW. Whatกs also important to understand and to pass onto your members, is that any internet business starts out relatively slow. But over time, it has a tendency to กExplode in Your Faceก and next thing you know you’re making checks the size of Bill Gates 😉

Without the right tools, your Internet marketing experience will be exactly like playing the childกs game with a blindfold on pin the tail on the donkey. To build a network that will stand the test of time and produce significant income, you must spend every possible moment working on How to get LEADS! that is all there is to it.. That is all there has ever been to it.

That is common sense and it is undeniable, and yet I have never met a networker, who fully understands the point. The three most important features for any website are traffic, traffic, targeted traffic.

A) You can take the long road: No Internet Marketing Plan, If you don’t plan to succeed, then life itself is planning for your failure.

B) You can take the smart road: Make your business plan simple. Concentrate on building a list. Find affiliate programs and joint venture partners to supply products and income. Regardless of what marketing method you choose, youกll need a basic marketing system and you will need to be Very consistent with it.

Marketing is never a กoneshotก deal. It always takes a steady effort, time and patience. There is no one perfect system for marketing, but thatกs OK. With a good system and a steady effort you will do just fine. If you already have a good system, and it can be easily duplicated to your downline, stick with it. If not, find a proven system that are currently working well and that can be duplicated by everyone in your group. Itกs just a numbers game pure statistics.

Thatกs all. There is no magic formula. If you stay at it steadily, you WILL succeed.. So, whatกs the end statement out of all of this…

Internet marketing is the EASIEST business in the world if you work it HARD! But itกs the HARDEST business in the world f you work it EASY!ก…

About The Author

Tomas Loden is the owner and webmaster of one of the best dating services chosen amongst hundreds of sites reviewed: http://www.internetdatingsearch.com He dares to be different. And itกs working! Read his exciting life story and learn why his internet dating services are producing Thousands in Profit. Occasionally wacky! Sometimes funny! Always useful!

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This article was posted on December 30, 2003

by Tomas Loden

Elements of a Successful Advertising Campaign

Elements of a Successful Advertising Campaign

by: Christoph Puetz

A successful marketing campaign needs certain elements to be successful. The following information will help you to develop a successful marketing campaign.

1) Establish a feeling of urgency for the buyer. Basically tell your customers, กYou need to sign up today because it will make you reach your goals.ก Don’t tell your customer the offer will still be as good tomorrow; they must buy today! Urgency! Study how successful ads make the customer act now. Remember the X10 Spy Cam advertising campaign? They always had their website set up with a deadline for a special deal. Something like that is easy to program and will eventually urge the customer to sign up today. Don’t over do it use this tactic for a week then switch to something else. Rotate these marketing tools. Start looking more closely at the marketing vehicles (email, letters, postcards,) you receive yourself every day, and youกll begin to see that effective marketing always gives you a reason to act now.

2) Show a list of benefits if the customer signs up with you. There must be a list of benefits to make him sign up. Will you be smarter using your services? Will he get more visitors? Will your server be better than the competitions hardware? Will your business help to make the site more successful? Or make him richer, or healthier, or faster? Focus on the client, not the advertiser. Most benefits need to be skillfully integrated into the ad. It is a waste of time and money in an ad or on your website if you don’t work in benefits and present them properly.

3) Call to Action: Tell them what they must do to get it. Don’t assume that your prospects and customers will figure out how to get what you are offering. They won’t do your work for you. So, go ahead and tell them what to do. If they have to call you to get it, then tell them to call (to call you now!). If they have to write or drop a post card in the mail, or fax something to you, then tell them clearly and in words easy to understand. The point is to make it as easy as possible for your target customer to do what you want them to do. People don’t like to do anything that is going to take work on their part. Make it as easy for them to respond as possible, or they won’t = no good results for you.

3a) Do it again: You have to (must) tell customer what to do (to sign up with you). Tell your customer to order now (this moment). So many ads assume that the customer will guess to fill out the contact us form, email you, or telephone for the information, or product. Tell the customer what to do. Provide the customer on how to respond today in several ways. As more options you can offer, the better will be the results.

4) Plan your advertising calendar and campaign several months in advance. Failure to plan advertising in advance will waste a lot of your money. Rush charges, poor design, rate increases, poor creative and poor copy are common results of failing to plan in advance. ขI didn’t have enough timeข, ขI was under the gun to get this placedข, are common phrases heard under rushed circumstances. Take a blank calendar and fill in the days, months, or quarters to advertise to your target markets. Figure out the number of ad insertions that will make sense and negotiate a contract with the various media suppliers (e.g. local newspapers). Book banner web space on the important website early in advance. Prepare your website with a special landing page for the expected visitors.

5) Test your banners and your ads. Only by trial and error will you be able to set a baseline as to the best response rates for your ads and banners. It is very important to maximize response for the amount of dollars spent. Sometimes rephrasing text or adjusting the ad layout can make the difference between a low or just average response and a great success and high ROI (Return on Investment). You will need to find out what works best for your business. After you find this out, you’ll want to stay on course and base future advertising campaigns on the success of the old one.

6) Avoid misleading or dishonest advertising in hopes of converting duped readers/website visitors into using your products or services. Honesty and integrity are the primary key to repeat sales and repeat business. If you have to trick your audience to get their attention, you will have a very hard time keeping their attention and their business if they sign up at all.

7) Running On(Web)Site Events. Running events on your website is an excellent way to encourage repeat traffic and repeat visitors. Youกll want to begin running events once traffic from your site launch begins to fade. Examples include contests, games, online interviews, chat sessions and maybe even audio broadcasts. Do the things your competitors don’t do.

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About The Author

Christoph Puetz is a successful small business owner (Net Services USA LLC) and international author.

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This article was posted on December 23, 2004

by Christoph Puetz

Building A Business Relationship

Building A Business Relationship

by: John Kovacs

If you have an online business, you conduct your business through the modern technology of computers. Most of your business is most likely transacted from your website, email, or phone.

Since the majority of your business transactions are online, you’re not out meeting people oneonone developing business relationships. So you need to focus on building these relationships via the Internet. You need to communicate and establish trust with your customers or business associates, as it is a vital step to your business success.

Some people will start an online business and only focus on what services or products they can sell. They are not concerned about establishing a business relationship or even a simple ขthank youข when they do make a sale.

For those who use this methodology will eventually see a significant drop in their business over time. Ask yourself, if you dealt with a company that gave poor customer service, how quick would you go back to them for future business?

Think of relationship building as the foundation to your business. If you fail to establish business relationships with the people you do business with, the foundation of your business will begin to crumble.

Realize this for a moment, building relationships builds retention, retention builds sales, sales grows your business.

The logic is pure and simple, provide great customer service to the people you do business with, and you will get customers coming back to you.

With an Internet business, this is your only way to establish yourself as reputable, trust worthy and to build a business relationship.

Relationship Building:

Even if you have great products or services that you offer, most customers or business associates will rate their experience with you by how they are treated (before, during and after doing business with you).

The perfect way to start relationship building with your customer is being there before, during and most importantly, after the sale (or any other business transaction).

It’s important to understand and listen to your viewers needs by asking for feedback or suggestions you can implement. This will give you the added insight to better enhance your services.

You can do this by having a contacts page on your website with a comments or feedback form. If you publish a newsletter, you can also accomplish this by asking for feedback from your subscribers.

This is your way of letting your viewers know you care about what they have to say and how important they are to you. When you show interest in your customers you will build trust, credibility and loyalty.

When you receive a request (whether it be a question, concern or simply someone looking for more information) by all means answer them promptly. If all possible, answer their request within 24 hours.

This shows attentiveness to their concerns and gives them a feeling of support from you.

If you sell products on your website, sell quality products that have merit, plus offer a guarantee and stand behind it. One of the quickest ways to destroy a business relationship is selling poor quality products and not standing behind what you offer.

If you are promoting third party affiliate programs from your website, take the time to research the companies you recommend. Only represent companies that are of legitimate nature and have a solid Internet presence. Remember the companies you recommend will have an impact on your business reputation.

Copyright 20032004 © by John Kovacs

About The Author

John Kovacs is the CEO and founder of ขA Home Business Opportunityข. His main focus is supplying free marketing tips, resources and support for home startup businesses and Internet marketing. To get a stepbystep guide in building an online business, visit http://www.ahomebusinessopportunity.net.

This article was posted on October 22, 2004

by John Kovacs

PC owners the largest criminal gang ever?

PC owners the largest criminal gang ever?

by: Jamie Plenderleith

The year is 1981. IBM has just released the Personal Computer; a low cost machine it hopes will create a winning brand. Several models are produced in quick succession accompanied by an ad campaign featuring a Charlie Chaplin figure. The message is clear: It’s cheap and it’s cheerful.

The growth vector for the product turns out to be a software application called a spreadsheet. Its many early forms VisiCalc, Multiplan, Lotus 123, along with WordStar wordprocessing and of course games all help drive hardware sales.

Nobody seems to question the rapid and promiscuous spread of these programs by copying onto 5.25ข floppy disks and passing them from person to person.

That was then. This is now. Harsh fines and jail sentences are threatened to anyone involved in doing what came naturally back in the early ‘80s. It’s a Very Bad Thing to copy software without having a license to do so. They say ‘this stuff is ours, we want to be paid for it’, and of course they’re right.

But here is a problem. Software’s binary information is a kind of digital DNA, always wanting to replicate. It’s what has made and sustained the digital revolution. When transmitting information, whether from one disk to another or over the Internet, errors can be corrected, faint signals regenerated as new, and even lost portions of messages recreated. This is the essence of the digital world, and replication is its big trick.

One of the things most of us did with our first computer was to copy something. In our early PC vocabulary COPY was the most popular word. Doing it was so easy and so immediately rewarding. It did nobody any harm – did it? The user got the software and the manufacturer got their product widely distributed.

But a company has to make money, not just gain market share, and at some point in time a shift occurred. It’s as if the manufacturers decided to play the soccer offside rule and grab the high moral ground at the same time nearly every PC owner in the world was suddenly wrongfooted. And no one after all can disagree with their position. But how will they play catchup on their lost revenues? How can they now make all their customers compliant?

A London analyst who specialises in intellectual rights issues says ‘the paradigm we have at present where the license chases the product doesn’t seem to be an effective mechanism for compliance by itself.ก

In other words trying to push a license into everywhere the software has gone without the ease with which the software got there in the first place will prove difficult. But that’s not all.

An account manager for a hardware firm in the US says กIt can be difficult to keep the licensing nailed down. The hardware changes, the software moves on, departments, even companies, merge. The picture is always changingก

Demand has always fuelled innovation in Information Technology. Fluid, dynamic, competitive, the elements of IT constantly move. Suppliers apply different strategies at different times for different reasons: Market share, volume shipments, profit. Licensing is a big weapon in their arsenal. Then new technologies emerge, legislation changes, big players go bust and others are created. It’s hard to see how a static and legalistic document can cover all this.

There are also the licensing arrangements that software manufacturers employ. Licenses may be priced according to whether they are academic, charity, large volume, product upgrade, competitive upgrade, client server, thinclient, or one of several other types. On top of that there are the popular service addons of maintenance and technical support.

Of course if we all started afresh that would make things easier. But as that’s impossible we must do two things; look at new software in terms of correct quantity and correct type of license. That’s the easy part. The not so easy part is to look at what your company already has and see what licenses, if any, are missing or incorrect.

‘The biggest criminal gang in history’ is about to be disbanded.

©2003 Jamie Plenderleith

Microsoft Certified Licensing Specialist

Chief Developer Whaddayagot Pro Asset Management Suite

About The Author

Jamie is a software design engineer with Everyman Technologies of Dublin Ireland. He attends Trinity College Dublin part time and is a SciFi fan.

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This article was posted on March 27, 2003

by Jamie Plenderleith

Don’t Neglect The Humble Check

Don’t Neglect The Humble Check

by: Jason Schwartz

Internet commerce is an instantaneous purchase medium. A customer sees the product he or she likes; enters credit or debit card details; the product gets shipped. Simple. No messing around with mailing out checks, no waiting for the merchant to cash the check. For online merchants, too, the process is straightfoward and convenient. Thereกs no waiting for a check to arrive; no worrying about whether the check is good and no delays in shipping the product.

Consequently, it is easy for online merchants to assume that there is no value in offering check payments as a purchase option. Indeed, in competitive industries where margins are tight, the sheer time cost and risk involved in accepting checks makes it an unprofitable choice. And, anyway, everyone uses credit or debit cards these days. Right ? Wrong.

Hereกs some facts for all you ecommerce entrepreneurs to consider:

The 2004 Federal Reserve Payments Study ( http://www.frbservices.org/Retail/pdf/2004PaymentResearchReport.pdf )shows that checks are still the most popular noncash payment method, with a total dollar volume over 20 times that of credit and debit cards added together. Further, a recent publication by the Minnesota Attorney Generalกs office indicates that 11% of Americans have no credit card at all. That figure doesn’t even include the millions more people who are maxed out on their cards.

Can you REALLY afford to neglect the 30 million plus Americans that don’t have credit cards and the millions more that prefer to use checks over any other form of payment ? After all, these are your potential customers too !

ACCEPTING CHECKS ONLINE

Even being aware of the huge numbers of new potential customers, accepting check payments can still appear problematic to ecommerce based merchants. The possibility of bad checks, the delay in receiving payments, the additional paperwork all these things increase costs and reduce profits. However, the recent Check 21 legislation and the increased availability of electronic check solutions to businesses of all sizes means that ecommerce merchants can now accept check payments online, by phone and fax easily and virtually risk free.

HOW ELECTRONIC CHECK PROCESSING WORKS

Accepting electronic check payments is a simple process. The merchant simply transmits the customersก check information to a transaction processing company. The processor then moves that information from the customerกs bank account and that of the merchant. Itกs easy, convenient and, most importantly, means that the clearing process is much faster than traditional paper check transactions. Best of all, there is no delay in receiving payment, itกs inexpensive and will increase your clicks to sales ratio dramatically.

CHOOSING A CHECK TRANSACTION PROCESSOR

There are a number of transaction processors who will compete aggressively for your business. Many of them offer easy integration into your current shopping cart or a standalone solution. One click export to your current accounts software is also a standard feature. The main points online merchants should consider when selecting a company to handle check payments are as follows:

No Application Fee Some payment processors charge a fee just to apply to use their services. For obvious reasons, these are best avoided.

No Monthly Minimums Smaller ecommerce companies should be looking for check payment processors that do not have a set monthly minimum number of transactions.

Flat Fees or Percentage of Check Value Some payment processing companies charge a percentage of the value of each check processed, while others offer a flat fee per check. While the flat fee option makes it easier to predict costs and is the best choice for many, it is worth doing the math to decide whether this is the best route for your company.

Check Verification In order to reduce the risk of bad checks, real time check verification is a must have service. The best of these is the SpeedChex ATMVerify system, which has access to over 170 million accounts. This allows users to determine whether an account is currently overdrawn, frozen or closed thus determining whether a check is likely to be returned.

Offering electronic check payments as a purchase option is the only effective way that online merchants can tap into the consumers preferred payment option and still reduce risk, receive funds fast and ship goods quickly. So, don’t neglect the humble check.

About The Author

Jason Schwartz is CEO of Creative CashFlow Solutions ( http://www.ilovechecks.com ). Established 1998, his company offers online check processing, check verification and free electronic check recovery services. You can visit the website at http://www.ilovechecks.com.

This article was posted on January 14

by Jason Schwartz

Why Build Your Own Gaming Computer?

Why Build Your Own Gaming Computer?

by: Nathan Holsing

The best way to get the gaming computer that you want, that will provide optimum performance is to build your own computer. If you think you do not have the technical knowledge or are not capable of building a computer you are wrong. Iกm pretty certain that I could teach my mother (who has a hard time working a VCR) how to build a computer. If you can plug a sweeper into a wall outlet and use a screw driver, you too can build a computer.

What The Computer Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Know!

Manufacturers don’t want you to know how easy it is to build a computer because they make their living selling complete computers. The truth is that manufacturers focus on selling a computer with an overall low price tag to entice people to buy. They use the processor and software as the primary selling point. In most cases other than the processor and maybe the graphics card you have no idea what components they actually use. Alienware is one of the rare exceptions. They tell you for the most, part what components they are using. However, this doesn’t mean that these are the best components on the market. Every manufacturer gets regular visits from sales people convincing them that they should use their products. Just because a company gives them the best deal on a power supply that allows them to increase their profit margin on the computers they sell doesn’t make it the best power supply. This often leads to the use of inferior products for the sake of profit.

The Advantages To Building Your Own Computer

By building your own computer you are assured of getting the highest quality because you have painstakingly researched every component. If youกve ever wondered why your store bought gaming computer with the top of the line graphics card and ultra fast CPU is still having trouble running newer games, it is likely because they stuck you with an inferior power supply, cheap motherboard, inadequate RAM, and the list goes on. In my mind it makes sense to build your own computer.

Warranties and Technical Support

If you are worried about warranties, you need not be. In most cases you can get a manufacturers warranty on every component you buy. As for technical support, Iกve had much better luck with getting questions answered through friendly helpful forums on the internet than I ever have from technical support lines. Not to mention you don’t have to pay to sit on hold.

Upgrades Are Painless And Fast

When you build your own computer upgrades are a snap. Youกve already put it together so switching a hard drive or changing the graphics card is extremely easy. For instance I just upgraded my graphics card. It took me longer to unplug everything from the back of my tower than it did to swap the graphics card. All in all I was up and running with the new drivers installed in about 10 minutes. If you are impatient like I am taking your machine to a store to have it upgraded just isn’t worth the wait.

How To Build Your Own Computer

I hope Iกve convinced you to build your own computer. It is a very rewarding experience. As Iกve said it isn’t very difficult. I do however recommend that you do your research. There are several good books published on the topic such as กBuild Your Own PCก, by Morris Rosenthal. You can also find a great deal of information regarding building computers and computer hardware at my website GamingComputers.net. Good luck with your computer, and remember, if you ever run into problems building it there are thousands of people on the Net that are more than willing to help, and they won’t charge you a technicianกs service fee.

About The Author

Nathan Holsing is the editor of GamingComputers.net, a website that provides information on computer hardware, buying guides, and tutorial on how to build computers.

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This article was posted on April 09

by Nathan Holsing