An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

If you’ve ever read this blog before, or even if you haven’t I guess, you’ll know that I absolutely love XSitePro2. I was hesitant to buy at first, mainly because I hadn’t seen the product advertised a lot. I would occasionally see an ad on a blog, or maybe in a forum post signature, but never did I see it to the extent of say, Dreamweaver.

Which leads me to my next points. For the money, I can’t believe anyone wouldn’t be pleased with the quality and capabilities of XSitePro2 versus Dreamweaver. I realize Dreamweaver is considered the industry standard, but for what I’m interested in, XSitePro2 fills the slot perfectly. It’s less expensive than Dreamweaver, much easier to learn, and does everything I could ask for.

If you know you need Dreamweaver for whatever reason, then by all means, buy it. If it’s a compatibility thing though, XSitePro2 does have an export to Dreamweaver function that could be just what you need.

This isn’t a tutorial on XSitePro2, or even any kind of features list, but if you’re looking for a reasonably priced, easy to learn, powerful, WYSIWYG website builder, XSitePro2 could be exactly what you’re looking for. With it’s excellent support, updates and user’s forum, it’s a real value and great addition to any marketer’s toolbox.

Oh, the testimonial I mentioned wasn’t my own, but this one from PV Advisor, a well respected U.K. publication. I believe it sums up XSitePro2 very well.

In case you don’t go to check out what PC Advisor has to say, here are a few quotes:

“Getting a good-looking site up and running within minutes is
very simple.”

“Where XSitePro 2.0 really stands out is by applying this ease
of use to a wide range of additional features which, if coded by
hand or created using Dreamweaver would be considerably more
complex.”

“This is one of the most pleasant to use interfaces for web
design that we’ve encountered.”

Having used this software for quite a while now, I have to agree with every comment made.

This past weekend a friend was at my house and was asking about what I was doing regarding Affiliate Marketing. I showed him a few of my sites and listed my recent commissions from one of my eBay affiliate sites. I had a very good commission on a guitar that someone had bought through the site. I don’t remember the exact amount, but it was probably about half of what many people make working a real job.

Although I had talked to my friend several times about getting into Internet Marketing, he was never really interested. This time though, after seeing that one sizable commission, he was all ears. As soon as I started talking about ’setting up a site,’ he immediately gave up before he even started. He said, ‘I don’t know anything about setting up websites, don’t you have to be a programmer or something ?’

Obviously times have changed very much. If you had to be a programmer there would probably be a tiny fraction of sites that are presently up and running, and none of them would be mine.

I showed my frined how easy it is to install WordPress, and he was definitely impressed. I don’t have any statistics, but I would guess that the vast majority of the sites being set up regularly for marketing are WordPress installations. With nothing more than a shared hosting account, you can be up and running with more free software at your disposal than most people could probably ever afford to buy to get started.

The one issue that my friend brought up, which was a valid point, was the fact that the new WP installation looked horrible. It did too, it was the default theme that is used when you install WP. He said, ‘I guess you have to pay a programmer to make it look good ?’ I said, ‘nope.’

That’s when I popped open Artisteer and showed him the best software that I’ve purchsed recently. Just the included themes had him ‘ooooing and ahhhhing.’ When I showed him how easy it is to make the themes your own by customizing them, he was sold…literally.

Though I will probably live to regret it, I sold my friend a hosting account through HostGator, Artisteer through an affiliate link, and even XSitePro2 also.

When I showed him XSitePro2 he was again amazed at the power and ease of use that the software offers.

My point of this post is this – don’t let anything stop you if you’re wanting to get into Internet Marketing. I know very little about programming. I don’t even know much about marketing in general. There’s many things I didn’t know when I started a little over a year a go, and there’s many things I still don’t know now. There’s nearly an endless supply of information to help you in your marketing endeavor, usually free if you look hard enough.

I made my mind up I would stick with it until I was able to earn my living solely from marketing online. I’m not there yet, but I will be, and it will be this year.

Setting up websites shouldn’t even be something that you let slow you down, much less stop you. Whether you choose to use only WordPress, XSitePro2 or even just HTML sites, there’s software and information available to get you to the point of creating your own attractive, functional, impressive websites…use it.

I’ve talked about XSitePro here before, but I was just working on a site and was thinking how much I like the software. I know a little HTML, but not nearly enough to do what I need to do. Enter XSitePro2 – now this isn’t’ so much a formal website design software review as it is an enthusiastic recommendation of a fantastic product.

If you haven’t had a chance to see XSitePro2 first hand, you need to go to the company site and have a look at the features brochure, Webinar, and some of the other stuff they have available on the site.

The reason this post came about was because when I was working on my site, I wasn’t sure how to do something with XSitePro and I had to go to the manual(s). I started readng through the manual and I had forgotten what all the software is capable of. It’s really amazing – if you’re an affiliate marketer it’s going to be a dream come true, especially if you’ve been paying someone to do your sites or making do with a blog when that’s maybe not the best site for your situation.

XSitePro let’s you store your affiliate links and makes them available by just a right mouse click. It’s also ready for Adsense, allowing you to put in your account number for use on which sites that you choose. It’s even ready for Amazon adverts as well as product listings.

I was looking at the right-click menu options – check this out, remember this is just a very few of the overall capabilities.

• Headings Design Wizard
• Sub-Headings Design Wizard
• Boxes and Frames Design Wizard
• Bullets Design Wizard
• Graphics Design Wizard
• Buttons Design Wizard
• Highlighted Text
• Snippets
• Image Library
• AdSense Advertising
• Amazon Advertising
  
• Oxado Advertising
• PayPal Advertising
• Audio Wizard
• Video Wizard
• Widget Wizard
• RSS Feed Wizard
• XML Syndication Links
• Social Networking LInks
• Formas Wizard
• Site Search Form Tool
• Page Breaks Tool
• Link Insertion Tools
• and more…

Whew…and that’s just the right-click menu options. It also comes with a great library of clipart images. If you’re an affliate marketer, it has PayPal integration so you can easily sell products from your sites.

Oh, the ‘Widgets Wizard’ function lets you add scripts to cloak an email address, add a sticky note, jumping text, a banner rotator and about a dozen others. I had actually forgotten about a lot of these, just because I don’t use tham often.

With siloing, 2 click site publishing, custom redirects, mobile site wizard, automatic sitemap creation, the list is awesome. I’m getting tired of typing all the features. Just head to the XSitePro2 site and you’ll see what the hype is all about. If you’re purchase the software and you’re not happy, it’s not a problem. They have a 30-day money back guarantee. I’ve never heard of anyone getting their money back, but hey, it’s there if you need it.

In case there’s any doubt…have a look at the huge number of testimonials.