An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

Adsense is a good income for many, but for most of us it's really just in drop in the bucket if you're looking to make a full-time income from the Internet.

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I mean Adsense is a good thing, but it's usually only pennies per click. If you're getting tens of thousands of visitors everyday, you might be profiting okay, but most don't. Enter ClinkBank Ad Rotator, the next idea for displaying ads on your site.

It works like Google Adsense ads, and can even live side-by-side with Adsense, so nothing really changes on your site...except your income.

If you know about ClickBank then you know about the very good commissions that are possible. There are products priced up to $297.00, and there are commissions as high as 75% !! Those are some pretty impressive numbers.

ClinkBank Ad Rotator is as easy to use as Adsense. You simply set your ads up the way you want them to display, enter a few keywords so that the ads are relative to your site theme, copy and paste a little code, and you're done. Oh, except for the part of collecting the great commissions.

If you're using Adsense on your site now, great, keep using it, but...you owe it to yourself to take a look at CB Ad Rotator. Why earn a few pennies per click when you can earn many, many times more.

Free Classifieds: 5 Classified Advertising Tips for Affiliates
By Jinger Jarrett

Free classifieds are a good choice for marketing affiliate programs on the internet, especially if you are new. Everyone is familiar with classified advertising. It has been a staple of newspapers for hundreds of years.

The best part of using free online classified ads to promote is that you can see results in hours. With offline classified ads it make take days or even weeks to see results.

If you are marketing affiliate programs online, most free classified sites will accept affiliate links, so you don't have to worry about creating a website.

Below are five tips for getting the most from marketing affiliate programs on free classifieds:

1. Follow the rules.

Although most free classified ad sites allow you to use affiliate links, sites like Craigs List usually don't. The best way to get around this is to use a simple one page subscription site, or create a blog or Squidoo lens.

Use different titles, different links, and different cities.

2. Write a good ad.

The first thing your readers will see is the headline. This determines whether or not readers will read your ad. Write a title emphasizing the main benefit of your product.

In the ad body, show how your product solves a particular problem. Don't just tell your readers to take action. Tell them what they need to do, whether it's click a link, send an email for more information, or whatever you want them to do. Give them a reason to take action.

3. Take advantage of images.

Many ad sites will allow you to include images in your ads, and some of these sites will even allow you to do it for free.

A good image can increase the conversion of your ad because it allows readers to see what the product looks like.

If possible, include at least one image. If you have to pay to include the image, then make sure you test this part of the ad. Don't waste money on ads or added features if they don't help you increase your bottom line.

4. Post consistently.

If you post one ad to a site, or even several, and you don't get any traffic, it's easy to get discouraged. However, you won't get any traffic if you don't post any ads, or if you only post when you feel like it.

Bad marketing is better than no marketing at all. If you try marketing and fail at it, then you know what to change.

Set a schedule for your ad posting and stick to it. If you plan to post 10 ads a day, post that many. Renew ads that have expired. Keep posting. It's the major way to see results.

5. Test your ads.

Even if you are using free classified ad sites, it's still a good idea to test, especially if your ad isn't converting.

Start with the headline. The headline is the most important part of the ad because it's what gets readers to read the rest of the ad and take action. Rewrite it. Make sure you have chosen the right benefit to your product.

Test it. If changing the headline doesn't increase conversion, rewrite the ad. Change one thing at a time whether it's the headline, ad, category, or link. If you've tried everything, and you still can't make the product sell, then start over. Find a new product.

The real "secret" to making money using free classifieds is to build a portfolio of products. Have more than one product you are marketing. The more products you market, and the more ads you have, the more money you can make.

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How to Write Smart Email Marketing Campaigns
By Jim Janowiak

It doesn't matter what you are marketing online; Sooner or later you will use an email campaign. Email marketing campaigns can be one of the best ways to get your message and offer to your customers. There are companies that use nothing but email campaigns to market there products and services.

It is a huge industry and you need to learn how to use it. Many email campaigns are very poorly done. You can't use anything that comes into your head and think your customers will read it. Everyone's busy and bombarded with email; most email is not even opened.

These tips will help you focus and organize your efforts to build effective emails THAT GET READ!

Take several days and study the emails you receive for an offer you were not expecting. Make notes about why the subject line caught your attention. Find at least 10 emails that you did a second take on and were curious about the content. Write them down and you will find they have something in common.

You will see that the subject lines are enticing and interesting, but are a blind offer. It will not tell you exactly what is in the email. It will have a benefit that interests you or a question in which you are interested. But you will have no idea what the exact benefit or content really is.

If you let the recipient know exactly what is in the email they will make an instant decision and assume they know what is inside. Then they will delete it.

When you are putting your email campaign together write out what your intention for the email really is. Most of the time, you will want the recipient to take some action. What is that action? Be specific. Define the specific action you want before you write the copy.

If you want them to click on a link you will tailor your copy from the beginning to get that click. You tailor your copy by getting to the point. Make your copy very tight and relevant to getting the click. Use this simple formula to lead prospects to your intention.

1. Who are you? – Briefly let them know who you are.

2. What do you want? – Tell them why you are talking to them.

3. Why should I care? – Give them a major benefit.

4. What is in it for me? - Let them know exactly how the benefit will help, solve, or prevent a problem.

5. What do I do now? – With a strong call to action, tell them to click on the link. Don't be afraid to tell them exactly what to do.

We're just scratching the surface here. However, if you follow the steps above you can improve your email marketing response. Once you write several tight and to-the-point emails, this will become very easy for you. Your sales will go up.

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If you look around at different blogs, you'll see that many, if not most, make every post an advertisement. If you're just starting out, write about something you know, and know well.

Although it's okay to embed affiliate links in your post, don't make every post nothing more than affiliate links with no substance. If you're writing about something you know and love, this shouldn't be a problem.

If you submit articles to a quality submission site like Article Marketer, the money will come when you readers accept you as a source of valuable information. Most article directories won't allow you to insert affiliate links directly in the article, you can link to your site from your BIO Box. There you can have links to products and/or services that you know to be reputable.

I never, ever, insert links to any product or service just because they have a good commission payout. That's a surefire way to alienate readers. No one wants to buy something, join a membership site, or pay for a service only to find out it's worthless.

Checkout thoroughly, anything that you plan on being an affiliate for.

To give you an idea of the power of article marketing, read this article. Almost $1,700 profit for one short article.

How to Increase Traffic and Profits
By Jim Janowiak

We all know the more traffic you get the more money you will make. You can't get around the fact you need traffic. Yes, you need more traffic especially if you're just getting started. If someone were to tell you their website was getting enough traffic they are either lying or nuts.

Traffic for traffic's sake is not always good. OK you are getting five thousand hits per day and not converting or selling anything. Your conversion rate is less than one percent and dropping. You are wasting a tremendous resource.

Keep in mind there is a difference between money/revenue and profits. I guarantee you can get five thousand hits a day with pay per click (PPC) on Google in a well searched niche. The problem is I would be broke in two weeks with the website above. The cost for PPC has risen in high searched niches that only great converting websites will make any money. It is not unusual to lose money with this marketing campaign. Pay per click is not the answer in most cases.

So let's step back and start from the beginning. You have to establish what you want your visitors to do and then you can develop an effective marketing strategy to get traffic. First, what do you what your visitors to do?

Do want them to subscribe?

Do you want them to buy your product?

Do you want them to buy an affiliate product?

Do you just want them to click on your Adsense add?

Establish, what exactly you are trying to get your visitors to do. Write your copy using this simple but very effective system. Here is what I've got. Here is what it will do for you. Here is what I want you to do next. This three step system is used by all the top marketers, the big guys.

Don't be hesitant to lay out exactly what your offer is. Be up front and proud of the offer. Just make sure you lead your visitors to take action. Show them where to click, download or subscribe.

OK, you're set to steer your visitors to your offer and take action. Now you need visitors and traffic. If you're just getting started, I strongly suggest not using PPC. You should start with organic traffic. Organic traffic costs you nothing but your time. Since you have no direct cost, your profits will go way up. Here are four ways that definitely work to drive traffic to your website.

1. Boost Your Credibility, Attract Targeted Traffic and Pre-Sell Your Prospects Using Articles: Submitting your article to leading articles directories is a "tried and tested" way to bring in traffic to your website. Though the task is daunting, it is one of the best methods.

Article directories are frequently visited by search engine robots because they love content rich sites. When they find YOUR website link, they will start 'crawling' and indexing your site too. Publishing articles will also double up as a 'lead-generator' because ma ny newsletter publishers rely on new content made available at leading article directories.

2. There are hundreds of forums on every imaginable topic on the Internet. By participating on leading forums in your niche, you will not only get a steady stream of highly targeted traffic, but you will also get back-links. As an added bonus, you will become an authority figure and boost your credibility. When people visit your site from a forum, they already know and trust you. This plays a very important role in converting visitors to paying customers.

3. Attract Organic, Targeted Visitors by Becoming Excellent Search Engine Fodder. This is an Easy & Long Term strategy. By submitting your website URL to leading Search Engines and Directories, you will start showing up on natural search results by REAL people, bringing in a constant stream of eager visitors to your website. However, just submitting your site is not enough. It has to be done along with other tasks below. Further, submitting your site to a group of 150 hand-picked search engines is found to give good results.

4. Help Real Visitors Find Your Website Quickly AND Tell Others About You, At No Cost. Social Book Marking Sites can get you a huge number of traffic. You ought to have  great content to hit the front page. If you hit the front page of Digg or Netscape, you will have a good time seeing visitors flow by your site. Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us can get you traffic in the long term. Further, people visiting those "high-traffic" social book marking sites have the ability to vote for your site that makes it go up on the listing, resulting in even more publicity and targeted traffic.

If you follow this strategy you will increase your traffic. With increased traffic you will have increased profits. Get to work.

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Top 7 Tips for Getting Repeat Website Traffic
By Jinger Jarrett

Getting visitors to return to your site is easier than getting new visitors to your site. For those who have already visited your site, they're familiar with who you are. If you want your current visitors to return, then there are some things you need to do.

1. Offer constantly updating content.

If your site doesn't change once in awhile, your visitors have no reason to return. Write new content like product reviews and articles. Try to add something new on a regular basis. If you own a blog, you'll want to write more often.

For those who don't have time to write new content, adding RSS feeds and dynamic content will give your visitors something new. What's good about dynamic content is that once you set it up, you don't have to constantly add to it.

2. Switch up your product offerings.

If you sell your own products or services, add a new product or service. Offer specials on your current products or services. Add an affiliate program offering that complements what you already sell.

For affiliate marketers, expand your affiliate offerings. Look for new affiliate programs to join and mix up

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5 Simple Ways to Begin Using Social Media for Killer Results
By David Ogden

No matter who you are or what you are marketing, social media could be the best thing that ever happened to you. Not limited to social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, social media includes podcasts, message board, forums, and any other type of media that combines technology with human social interaction.

Using social media to your advantage can significantly increase your marketing results with very little effort. For those who aren’t sure how to apply it, here are 5 simple ways to begin using social media for killer results.

1. Take advantage of podcasts. Podcasts are, in simplest terms, broadcasts that are uploaded in digital format so they can be downloaded by other people and played on computers and mp3 players. They can be syndicated, which allows them to be included in RSS feeds. As a result, a series of podcasts can quickly and easily be accessed by millions of listeners on a constant basis. Podcasts allow you the ability to establish yourself as an authority in your market area, converting customers without ever using an “in-your-face” advertisement.

2. Write a blog. In fact, you can write several blogs, if you’d like. Because the content is constantly changing, the blog will get more attention from search engines than a static web page, leading to more visitors. As with other forms of social media, blogs are your opportunity to establish yourself as an authority. A steady stream of blog entries about guitars, guitar parts, strings, picks, and chord charts will tell potential customers that you know what you’re talking about, leading them to buy your easy guitar playing method eBook. Of course, you will want to announce its release on your blog, too!

3. Make friends. Social media focuses on interaction, so having friends is a key element of using social media effectively. On social networking sites, like MySpace, anyone connected to people on your friend’s list can also see you. As you blog, add videos, and let other people see who you are and what you do, you encourage them to find out more, leading them gently to your sales page.

4. Remember your signature. While this may seem insignificant, it’s actually a very important tip. Social media outlets are great for marketing, but nobody likes SPAM. Constantly marketing your product in a forum, for example, will get you banned for spamming the forum. Marketing your knowledge, however, will get people to read what you have to say and, eventually, click on the link in your signature.

5. Link up. This goes with making friends, but it takes a little more effort. Offer to exchange links with people and businesses that have similar interests. This builds traffic to your site by creating the external links that search engines are looking for, and visitors to the other sites will naturally follow their curiosity and check out your site, too. Building traffic is an important part of getting people to buy what you are selling.

Although social media is relatively new, it shows every sign of being around for a long time to come. There is a great deal of power in the ability to connect with others from around the world, and learning to harness that power can produce killer results for your marketing efforts.

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