Friday, October 31, 2008

Why You Still Can't Make Money Online...

If you are struggling to pull money from affiliate marketing, check if you are making the following mistakes:

1. Not building your own list

You probably know that the money is in the list. If no list, then no money.

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2. Thought your prospects will buy straight away

Do you remember the time you bought your own cell phone? Did you just buy the phone the sales person showed you?

Buying is a back and forth process. Your prospects experience the same process as you. Most prospects don't buy on the first visit.

Build your own squeeze page to capture their details and you can promote the product to them later.

3. Not building your own squeeze page

Since your prospects don't buy on the first visit, are you still promoting the merchant's sales page to your prospects? You need to know 2 important reasons why your affiliate marketing campaign fail miserably if you don't promote your own squeeze page.


  • Again and again, most of your prospects don't buy the first time. If you don't secure their contact, they are gone, forever.
  • If the merchant offer some sort of freebies and capture your prospects details and make the sales later, can you imagine the money you are giving to the merchant? This totally opposes the true meaning of affiliate marketing. (sorry, merchants. I just need to share with other affiliate marketers about the importance of squeeze page.)

4. Not building relationship

Since you have your list, you must build relationship with your list members. Let's use the cell phone scenario again.

Did you remember the situation between you and the sales person who sold you the phone? Did the sales person manage to establish a common ground between you and him? Did you feel like his words are trustworthy?

Building a common ground helps you to build relationship with your prospects. Will you buy from a person who has the same interest as you? Or will you buy from a person who doesn't bother to have a relationship with you?

Since you read all the tips, I bet you know what to do. If you still have problem earning money online, email me at buddingpro80@gmail.com or visit here.

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
http://www.beyondaffiliatecash.com/

Remember, earning big is easy if you know how. :-)


Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Internet Marketing – Run It Part Time or Full Time

Sometime I do get question like this. So, let's discuss about it today.

What do you think? Should you quit your job and jump straight into internet marketing? Or should you test the water and run your internet marketing business part time?

My personal advice is that if you have the saving to sustain your lifestyle (and support your internet marketing cost) for at least a year then you can quit your job and jump straight into the water. Let's say you are earning $1000 a month, you should have at least $12,000 in your savings before you can hand in your resignation letter.

Of course, you may be able to achieve financial freedom in less than a year but on the safe side, that is what you need to know before committing to your internet marketing business.

But if you are like some internet marketers who started the business with limited budget (just like me), you should keep your job and build your online business whenever you can. This can be tiring as juggling between 2 careers is certainly not easy.

If you are running your online business part time, you must have a clear schedule. You must know when to focus on your internet marketing business and when to start your day job. Never mix them together. Not just that you will lose focus in both careers, things can turn ugly when your boss found that you are doing personal stuff during his time.

It might be true that you will have less time to build your business compare to those who run their business full time. For me, it is not about how long you work. It is about the quality of your work.

If you are not focus and devoted to build your internet marketing business, you can still fail even you have 24 hours at your hand. But if you can focus your attention and work for your online business without distraction, you will have a successful internet marketing business very soon.

I hope that answer your question whether to start your internet marketing business part time or full time. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Monday, October 27, 2008

Free and Low Cost Internet Marketing Tips for You...

Since you are reading this, you should know that internet marketing is profitable. Still, you might be balked down by the cost to promote your online business effectively. So, here are some free and low cost tips you can use for your benefit:

1. Just Google for "free classified ads", "free online classified ads" or sorts like that and you will find some interesting places to advertise your internet marketing website.

2. Print flyers and have them distributed. You can ask your printers for distributors' contacts. Most of them will have it.

3. Another low cost way to advertise your internet marketing business is to your friends and family. This works similar as how the MLM executive recruits their members.

Listen to what the people around you are saying. If they need something to boost their motivation and you are marketing the same thing, be brave and talk to them. Give them your website URL and ask them to have a look.

It doesn't matter that they didn't visit your website. It is important that you use every opportunity that comes to you.

Just observe the things around you and you will notice there are a lot of free and low cost ways to promote your internet marketing business.

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Saturday, October 25, 2008

How To Be Your Own Boss...

If you are working for someone else now, sometime in your life you must have thought to start your own business. But before you start to be a boss online or offline, you need to know what it needs to be your own boss.

Core motivation

Let's think about this, "What do you want in life and why?"

Is an annual income of $84000 and the title of middle level manager not financial security to you? If not, what is your definition of financial security and why?

To me, I want to secure my children education funds (although I have no children yet). Education fund is quite heavy these days. If you want to send your children oversea for more exposure and education like me, it will cost even more if I don't start to build the business today, I might regret later.

Of course, I also want to spend more time with my family. I have seen some parents with high pose in the company but work so late that they have no time with their children. I want to grow up with them. :-)

Once you have determined your core motivation to be your own boss, not even the strongest challenge will stop you from achieving your goal.

Mode of business

As technology is maturing, you are no longer bound to be an offline boss. There are a lot of people who are earning their income online.

Both mode of have their pros and cons. You must first find out your interest before you start your business. There is no point to build an online business when you love to interact with people face to face.

Plan

No business is going to excel without proper planning. This is because a proper plan will help you to focus on your business. You can hire professionals help if you don't know how to plan your business.

Here are some tips to a good business plan:
  • Be flexible – you need to make the necessary adjustments whenever it is requires.
  • Management – you need a proper way to manage your team or freelancers.
  • Executable – ultimately, you want to profit from your business. There is no need for tedious steps.
  • Marketing strategies – determine how you are going to promote your product and how to get maximum exposure of your product.
  • Cost – this is one big question to how to be your own boss. Find ways to manage your capital and get the maximum returns from your investments.
  • Risk – what are you going to lose if your customers didn't buy from you and how long can you sustain that kind of loss.
  • Back up plan – no matter you are building an online or offline business, things will get out of hands sometime. What are you going to do then? You need a back up plan to bounce back on your feet if the initial plan fails.

Hope you find these tips helpful to be your own boss. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
http://www.beyondaffiliatecash.com/

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Navigating Through Tough Times...

No matter what profession you are in, time is certainly tough for us now. People are spending less, the direction of interest rate is uncertain and some are screaming the economy is collapsing.
Hopefully these tips can help you to navigate through this tough period

Financial future

Not just that you are uncertain about your future, your boss will also pressured by his boss. You need to be more effective in your job or help to reduce the company's cost.

If you are afraid that you might lose your job, you should start to think about what you can do in your free time. Can you get some freelance job at your free time?

Search online for freelance job offer. But before you enroll into any of them, check their reputation and remember, no matter what reason, never pay for any fees. They are the one who should be paying you. Not the other way round.

Have you look into the internet? Many have started their business online and are living a financial free lifestyle.

House hold expenses

After saving the company's expenses, you should take a look at your house hold expenses. Is it possible to have more dinner at home or can you bring the family to a local tourist spot instead of oversea?

I know it might be embarrassing to share the financial issue with your kids but now is also a good time to teach your children about financial management. Pretending everything is ok is going to burden you more.

Saving

You can then channel what you have saved to the bank or new investments.

Most of us spend more than we need and I am one of them.

Many actually don't have an emergency fund and now is there is no better time than now to start one yourself. There is no guarantee what will happen in the next 6 months.

Surely you don't want to cut your children education fund for spending. Right?

Insurance

Is your insurance policy still benefiting you? If it is, keep it as it is.

If you have extra money, you should look for chances to some new investments.

I know that the AIG case might shock you and you might think twice about investing in insurance. But it is an exceptional case.

Hope that help to clear some of your frustration. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Make Affiliate Marketing As Your Multiple Stream Of Income...

If you have been to any financial management seminar, one of the things you learn is to NOT put all your eggs into one basket. That goes the same to your affiliate marketing business and through this post, you will find that making affiliate marketing as your multiple streams of income is so easy that it seems like common sense.

Different affiliate programs come in different forms and sizes ranging from digital download to physical products and different percentage of commission.

So, the first way to make money with affiliate marketing is to promote various products and services from different merchants but within the similar niche. Let's say you are promoting an ebook (digital download) about how to take care of your cat. It is wise to be an affiliate for cat food or cat toys (physical products). After that, you can also join the cat grooming (service) affiliate program. Now, if you look at that, you can earn 3 times from the same customer.

What if you can expand further than this? What if you can offer cat training course? The more you expand your online business, the more you will earn. Making a multiple streams of income with affiliate marketing doesn't get any straight forward than this.

If you prefer to promote a single kind of product, be it digital or physical, you can still earn a good living with affiliate marketing. Just join several affiliate programs within the same niche. That means you become an affiliate for 3 ebooks about how to take care of your cat. You then open your prospects to choose from a range of product and services. This is a great affiliate marketing strategy because you don't limit your prospects and you have more business opportunity and more income source.

If you are serious to be successful in affiliate marketing, you must never limit yourself. Is there any easy or better way to take care of your cat? Is there any new nutritional formula to keep your cat healthy? Is there any way to prolong your cat’s life so that you can have more time with her?

Always expand your horizon for your affiliate marketing business. Try to look for interactive and innovative ways to grow your affiliate marketing business. You can charge higher price for something you have exclusive of.

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Try These Free Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Website

I know getting traffic to your website is not easy and things can be more complicated if you need to pay for the traffic. Maybe when you apply all these free ways, they can increase your traffic to your website:

1. My favorite way of increasing traffic is article marketing. I can hire a ghostwriter to do it for me but since I like to write, I would rather do it myself. So, all the blog posts and article you read are written by me personally. :-)

It might be difficult when you start writing your own articles but it will get easier the more you do it and I can guarantee you that.

After you have your article, submit it to the article directories like www.ezinearticles.com.

2. Create a Squidoo lense and make your content related to your niche. This is similar to article marketing where you post quality information with related keywords.

3. Like what you are reading now, create a blog about your niche and setting up a blog can be free.

Again, just like article marketing, you need to put in specific keywords or phrases to increase traffic to your web site.

Another thing about blog is that you need to post regularly because search engine spiders like constantly updated site. If you constantly update your blog and the posts are keywords targeted, it is easier for your blog to rank high when your prospects search something you are posting in you blog.

4. Another free way to increase traffic to your web site is to comment on related high traffic blogs. Most blog owners will allow you to insert your web site address.

A few things to remember when you comment on others' blog post is to be honest and sincere. Tell the owner what you think about the post instead of agreeing with the owner for the sake of getting traffic.

Never attack other blog owner. Even you disagree with the post, the easiest thing you can do is to leave the blog.

The last thing is to never advertise in the comment box simply because it is a comment box. The blog owner and other readers will think that you are desperate to get business and most people dislike that.

5. Did you build your own list?

You can ask other internet marketer to joint venture with you.

6. Increasing traffic to your web site should be fun too. You can also join forums about your niche. Post reply to other members' question, start your own thread and build relationship with other members.

A very important thing you must do before posting to the forum is to understand its rules and regulations because most forums don't allow you to advertise in them. You might be ban from the forum if you do that.

Only promote your web site in your signature link. Look at how other veteran forum members craft their signature and you can model over that.

I hope that these 6 tips are enough to increase traffic to your web site. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Are You Having Your Hard Time Yet?

Despite of what some are saying, the economy is turning down now. Economists are saying that the economy is not going to revive very soon.

Then are you doing anything to secure your financial future?

If you never thought of getting a secondary income, you should start now. You will never know when your boss is going to give you "the letter". It is not that you did something wrong in your job. Just that because of the instability of the economy status, he has to let you go. If things really get worst, you might see more retrenchment later.

Now, there are a lot of things you can do to increase your income. Be it online or offline. You can be a professional in unit trust or an internet marketer. But no matter what second career you choose, you got to start now and stick to it.

Every career has its own pros and cons. It is up to you to maximize your profit and overcome the obstacles you face. Still, if you are interested to make money online, you need to get this into your arsenal:

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Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Affiliate Marketing Mistakes You Need To Avoid...

As the recession is getting more of a burden to a lot of people, more and more people are turning online to look for their income. However, you need to be careful when you are looking for opportunity online.

It is true that affiliate marketing can help you to make a lot of money online. But if you are careless, you are helping scammers to make more money for their own. You on the other hand will be wondering why online venture fail.

So, if you are serious to make money with affiliate marketing, you need to avoid the mistakes below:

1. Be neutral – many will tell you that you can make money online really fast and you can even cash in 5 figures income with just a few hours work. Some of them even show you their big house and fast car to convince you.

What they said might be true but most of them left out a very important detail. They DON'T earn their big house, fast car and 5 figures income overnight. They work hard for it and they might fail numerous times before they are earning the income today.

If you want to make money with affiliate marketing, don't get too excited with what other marketers are showing you. Be neutral and read their offer for a few times. Make sure that you understand thoroughly what you are getting yourself into.

2. Work – if anyone told you that you don't need to work to make money in affiliate marketing, how true do you think that can be?

If you have been working before, you know that you can only make money by putting in your sweat and effort. With affiliate marketing, you can earn money with ease but not without work.

3. Research – there is no better way to find out the legitimacy of the affiliate program by doing your own research. You can Google your affiliate program with the word "scam" to know how reliable the program is.

Please don't skip this part because it is essential for you to achieve your affiliate marketing success.

4. No upfront – one of the privileges of making money in affiliate marketing is that you don't need to pay anything to join the affiliate marketing programs.

If anyone asks you to pay for the joining fee, training course, marketing materials or anything else, you need to avoid them at all cost. Most of the time you will never see any materials after you pay the money and even if you get the package, it might be a low quality package.

5. Forums – sometime what you can do is so limited. Your own research might not show the entire truth about the affiliate program. That is why you need to join a few affiliate marketing or work from home forums and the members to comment on the program.

You will also save a lot of time running around looking for answers.

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Difficult Choice...

Do you have enough time to build your affiliate marketing business?

If you re like me, you surely are struggling for time to grow your online business.

Even I have outsourced a lot of work, I am still writing contents for my subscribers and blog, tracking and analyzing traffic, figuring how to increase my opt-in rate, researching for new topic, learning the new things in affiliate marketing and many more. I got so many things to do that I have to sacrifice my gym time (by the way, I love to exercise).

Is not like that I never been to any time or project management seminar and I have a lot of books about the topics literally making somewhat of an expert in both of the topics. But things just couldn't get organize as these books suggested.

So, I am here, asking for your help. What do you think? Should I

a) sacrifice 2 hours of work time and exercise back

b) keep sacrificing gym time and get organize?

I sincerely need your help. if you don’t want to leave your answer here, you can always email me at buddingpro80@gmail.com

Thank you. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com

Remember, earning big is easy as long as you know how. :-)