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Is Affiliate Marketing a Viable Business Model for Successful Businesses?

Friday, September 5th, 2008

affiliate marketing as a business model for success. If you do a search on the Internet, you’ll find literally thousands of E-books, Homestudy courses, and affiliate marketing products for sale.But can you really build a business around selling other people’s products?

Yes. And no.

The truth of the matter is, there is a specific formula that can lead to success if you decide to base your business around selling affiliate products.

But if you do it wrong, you may never make more than enough to cover your Internet connection and telephone costs each month.

Why is there such a huge disparity between the really successful affiliate marketers (those who make several thousand dollars each and every month) and those who are barely eking out a living?

Like with any business, it all boils down to creating solid systems that are scalable and can be duplicated to bring income from as many different sources as possible.

Here are some things to keep in mind when getting started:

Start with one product. Do your research. Find a market with a product that people want and are buying. Set up a system for promoting that product. (Think article writing, white papers, case studies, product reviews, e-books, workbooks, etc.)
Find additional and complimentary products or services that you can sell after you’ve started making a profit with the first one.

Create a squeeze page where you can collect names of people who want to find out more about the affiliate product or niche market.

Drive traffic to your Squeeze Page and offer them valuable information in exchange for their contact information.

Create a way to keep in touch with the people on your list, and continue to promote the additional products to them over time - but make sure that you’re offering good solid information to them as well, to help build your credibility and their loyalty.

Once you’ve got your first affiliate product selling well, it’s time to start cross selling and upselling. This may take you from a few weeks to several months - but like any other business, it’s important that you are willing to spend the time and money necessary to build your affiliate business.

As soon as you’ve got the first product and cross sells operating at a profit, you can expand. For example, you could go into another complimentary niche. Or, I you want something a little more advance (and this one is a trick used by some of the Internet Marketing gurus in many different niches), go into competition with yourself.

That may sound a little crazy - but think of it this way: by competing against yourself - especially if you’re able to grab onto the two of the top five positions - you’re really just giving yourself a bigger piece of the pie!

If you’re the type who gets bored easily, or is always looking for a new challenge, you might want to go into a totally new niche. Find something that doesn’t have anything to do with your first niche.

Whatever you decide to do, just make sure that you’re following the proven formula for success. Build each product or niche until it becomes profitable before moving on to the next one.

After that, you can just “lather, rinse and repeat” to your heart’s content - and you’ll be able to watch your bank balance grow too!

How to Use Internet Marketing to Build Your Business

Monday, August 25th, 2008


The statistics on how many people are online now are mind-blowing.  As of November of last year, there are over One Billion people online.  This gives all of us an incredible opportunity to grow our businesses – to global proportions, if that’s what we want.

However, the Internet is not without pitfalls and obstacles.  In fact, if you make the wrong move, you can find yourself in very real danger of losing everything you’ve worked so hard to build.

Here are some things to keep in mind when it comes to using the Internet to market your business:

Create a professional-looking Web presence.  These days with all the readily available Website templates, blogs and highly affordable Website designers who can be hired to design a custom Website, there just isn’t any excuse for amateurish or poorly built Websites these days.  Even when you add the cost of Internet access, hosting, buying the right domain name and the cost of having a Website built, starting an online business is affordable to almost anyone – and so even if you run your business from your home, it doesn’t have to look that way!

Make sure that you’ve done your research.  Find a hungry market that is already buying in your chosen niche.  Choose a product that your target market wants to buy – the best way to do this is to choose a product or service that meets a need, takes away a pain or solves a problem.  Competition is good – but make sure you choose something where you’ve got a good chance of getting close to the top.

Write a business plan.  Even if your business is completely online, a business plan is your roadmap that helps guide you from where you are right now to where you want to end up.  Business plans aren’t just for people who are looking for venture capital or business loans. Include your plans for marketing and selling on the Internet in your plan.  Be flexible and willing to adjust those plans as needed.

Start with the end in mind.  Do you know where you want to end up?  What are you going into business for?  To make a little extra money? To build a business that you can later sell and live on the proceeds?  Whatever your reason for going into business for yourself, decide what your ultimate goal is.  That way you’ll be able to direct your actions towards achieving it.  Brainstorm as many different ways as possible that the Internet can help you to achieve your goals.

Create a vision board.  Although some people call them hokey or old fashioned, having a vision for your business can help you to stay focused and moving towards what you want.  Whether you believe in them or not, a vision board can keep you excited and motivated.  If you do a Google Search, you’ll find several companies that let you build a vision board online – and will even let you send it to your team, your mentors or other people who matter to you.

Have an action plan.  Once you know your long-term plan for your business, it’s easier to chunk it down and create shorter, medium and long term goals that will help you to achieve them.  Write down your plan for marketing on the Internet and make sure that you take at least one or two actions towards those goals every single day,
Surround yourself with positive, supportive people who will hold you accountable when you need it, give you encouragement and keep you on your toes and stretching beyond where you think you can go.  Thanks to the Internet, the people on your team no longer have to live in your town, your region or even your country!

Test, test, test.  Whatever you’re doing – whether it’s banner advertising, using a newsletter, trying an AdWords campaign – or any other form of Internet marketing or advertising – keep testing your results.  (But here’s a hint – when it comes to your copy, don’t waste your time on unimportant elements – only test the ones that are going to give you the biggest return on your investment.)

Spend your time where it’s going to do the most good – making money.  There’s so much information available – and so much to do online, that it’s easy to get sidetracked and involved in activities that waste your time.  If you find yourself with lots of plans for what you’re going to accomplish in the morning, but suddenly the entire day’s gone by – and you wonder what happened – then chances are you’re wasting too much time online.  You can find some great time-tracking programs online – monitor yourself for a few weeks and you’ll be amazed at all the ways you can find to turn things around and become more productive.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  Develop a marketing plan where you’re using offline as well as online marketing methods to grow your business.

Follow these simple rules for being online and marketing your business, and you’ll end up exactly where you want to go.

Why I think PayDotCom is the Best Affiliate Marketplace on the Net!

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP …

While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace… they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions…

Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE now…

It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.
Yours OWN product…

- OR - (the best part)You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace.

It is called PayDotCom.com!

Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!

This site is going to KILL all other marketplaces and I by now, almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com

So get yours now and see how much they offer…

OH! - Also, they have their won affiliate program now that pays you COLD HARD cash just for sharing the site with people like I am doing with you…

They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS, and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.

If you want an ARMY of affiliates to sell your products for you, they also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!

Even better… If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)…

…then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and get Millions of impressions per month.

So, what are you waiting for…

PayDotCom.com ROCKS!

Get your FREE account now…

Thanks

P.S. - Make sure to get your Account NOW while it is Free to join.

Discover How You Can Have Your Own Successful Business Online In 30 Days … Or LESS!

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Every once in a while, something comes along that changes the way that people do business online. Sometimes it’s a new software product, sometimes it’s a traffic generator.
Right now, online marketer Richard Legg is putting the finishing touches to his new online marketing course titled:
“Succeed In 30 Days - How anyone can have an online business in a month or less”
I’ve had a sneak preview of the course and I can tell you it is absolutely amazing. If you are a newbie, or if you’ve tried every program under the sun… and failed, this WILL help you finally succeed online. As part of the course you’ll discover:
> How to have your own “Online Empire” even if you have absolutely no experience.
> How to generate a list of Hungry buyers for ANY site.
> How to advertise to millions of people legitimately.
> How to get the most essential tool, that every marketer needs. Without it, you could lose 90% of sales. (You’ll be shown how to get it at No-Cost!)
> Plus: Instant Access to a resource that can make you $50 or more within one hour of joining.
Plus much, much more…
As you can guess, a package like this could easily sellfor hundreds *BUT* act now and you can get instant access at no cost to you whatsoever!
Not many people know this, but in order to tweak and perfect the course, Richard is GIVING away a limited number of V.I.P memberships to the first few people to visit the site and join up. This way he can get feedback and improve it. Once he’s confident, he’s going to start charging up to $197 - $297 for the course.
I have been given access to a special V.I.P link to share with a few people. Visit the site now, and you can join for absolutely nothing. You can save hundreds!

Like I said, there are only a limited number of V.I.P memberships and many are gone already. If you want to grab a copy, you must visit now and secure it before someone else does.

http://www.all-4-all.co.il/SucceedIn30Days/

All the best

P.S. Using the last item on the list, I generated two $50 payments in my first hour. And it didn’t cost me a penny!

Make sure to sign up now before he starts charging for it.

http://www.all-4-all.co.il/SucceedIn30Days/

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