Saturday, January 31, 2009

5 Quick Tips To Boost Your Affiliate Marketing Business...

Looking at the current global financial crisis, you will be hearing more news about retrenchment or more drops in the world index market. Since you are reading this, I bet you are looking for some ways to boost your financial security. The tips I have prepared for you are not just to boost your affiliate marketing business, you can also look at it as a new way to make money for yourself.

So, let's get started

1. Do you remember how you get here? Is it through article, PPC ad or blog links? Anyway, you are my traffic and I thank you for that. :-)

Whether you are building an online or offline business, you will need traffic or people to visit you. It is only then you can convince these people that what you are offering is what they need. A word of advice is when you are starting to make money with affiliate marketing, choose an affordable way to build traffic to your website or blog.

2. Some said that banner ads are dead but personally I think it can still give a huge impact to your visitors and that depends how you use it. Take a look at the banner ad at the side. That is a normal text banner ad and imagines you add some related images to it. Wouldn't that grab more of your attention?

The reason I think banner ads don't work is because people are overexpose to them. There are website or blog owners who load lots of banners on their sites. Too many banners can make your site look messy and those flashing ads can be annoying to your readers. Can you think about any reason to return to that kind of sites? That goes the same to your visitors.

So, limit your banner ads even though you are affiliate to 100 products or you can consider rotating those ads once in a while.

3. For a lot of rich affiliate marketers, there is no better way to build your affiliate marketing business than publishing your own ezine. Who will be more willing and happy to buy your products than someone who has already been following your newsletter?

You don't always need a website to grow your opt-in list. Look at the top right and corner. You can also put your opt-in box in a blog like this. You just need to provide something useful to your visitors so that they will subscribe to your ezine.

4. Have you ever look into the possibility of growing your affiliate marketing business with forums? This is one of the overlook marketing tools probably because it is kind of time consuming responding to other members issues. You need to really look into the issues of others so that you can provide constructive solutions to them.

However, that is just a small setback to forum posting. Imagine that your solution do help the member. Don't you think that he or she will become your loyal supporter? They will certainly go to your website and if you have an opt-in box, they are most likely going to sign up for your newsletter. And when you build your relationship with them, they are going to invest in you.

5. With so many ways to boost your affiliate marketing business today, my favorite way is still article marketing because it is so fun to write. :-)

Just to let you know, article marketing is flexible as it can be free or you can pay for it. If you started this business with limited budget, writing your articles and submitting them to article directories can be a good way to build your affiliate marketing business.

You may ask what you can write about. What I recommend is that you start with the 'how to' topic. Let's say your business is selling laptop, start your article with how to choose a laptop or something like that and broadcast it out.

Remember to start writing your own article after this. :-)

Create your success,

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

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

P.S. Hiring professionals to write the article for you can be expensive and out of your budget. Look here to save your money and build a successful article marketing campaign.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Positive Thinking To Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Business

It is always stressful when you are running your business. Things can be even worse when you are an entrepreneur link affiliate marketer. For many people, this is a lonely journey and it can be overwhelming at time. I knew because I have been through what you are experiencing.

Some told me to look at the business as a game and things will be more enjoyable. But can you? What if I fail in the game? This is my once in a lifetime chance and it I fail in the game, I might lose all I have.

From my experience, it is your inner strength that can guide you through the darkness and bring light to your business. You can have all the ebooks and gurus showing how to build your affiliate marketing business. However, when you hit a bump and tell yourself you are going to fail in this business, nothing or no one will ever be able to motivate you.

So, when you are starting in affiliate marketing, shrink down your desire. If you started your goal to buy a BMW 5 series with affiliate marketing, maybe you will want to see yourself signing the paper for a BMW 3 series first. If you started with the goal of staying in a beach side bungalow, probably you will want to imagine yourself staying in a double storey link house with affiliate marketing income first.

One of the reasons that hinder you from being successful in affiliate marketing is the small sound in you that question the possibility of you enjoying your life. By reducing your desire, you then silence that small voice and make your goal look more achievable. If you don't believe me, imagine you are chopping a watermelon and a thick hardwood block. Which one is easier to break?

Of course is the watermelon and through practice and experience, you will be able to break the hardwood block.

And when you are stuck in a situation, relax, take a deep breath and clear your thought. When your mind is clear, you will see things more clearly and solutions will come to you more naturally. There are a lot of times I have experienced this and there is nothing more satisfying then being able to solve your problem yourself. :-)


Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/amd.php

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Monday, January 26, 2009

How To Hire Ghostwriter?

Article marketing has always been a marvelous way to make money with affiliate marketing. Since we talked about writing the articles in the last post, let's look at what you need to do when you are hiring ghostwriter.

1. Be specific

Never talk to a ghostwriter when you are unsure of what you want them to do. Telling the ghostwriters to write you an article about affiliate marketing is so general. What kind of information do you specifically need from them? Is it how to make money with affiliate marketing, choosing the best affiliate marketing programs or just a background of affiliate marketing? The list can go on if your topic is popular and hot.

Think of the ghostwriters as obedient robots. You need to lay it clear to them of their responsibility so that they can do their job and you can get what you want. Both win. :-)

The few things you need to tell the ghostwriters are:
  • Topic or sub-topic of your article
  • Length of your article
  • Is it going to be technical or a light read
  • The message of your article

2. Your purpose

What do you need your articles for? Is it to impress your readers or the search engine or both? This is because different purpose will require different skills or even different ghostwriters for the job.

I have seen writers with such powerful ability that you will literally hook with the articles once you look at the first 2-3 sentences. Some ghostwriters can even out in subliminal message that make you to act after you read the article. Imagine the ghostwriters you hire can write like that. Your conversion will skyrocket so much that you will ask why you didn't started affiliate marketing earlier.

3. Be budget wise

Of curse the ghostwriters with such ability don't come cheap. You probably need to spend tens or hundreds of dollars for an article. This can be quite heavy on you when you are running your affiliate marketing business with a budget.

Sometime, ghostwriters will make things easy for you by showing how much they charge. If they didn't show it, you can always ask for a quotation. Or you can search online and see how much ghostwriters are generally charging and you can develop a budget for it.

Whatever you do, you will want to be clear of your budget. The purpose you outsource the job to ghostwriters is to leverage on their expertise to help you make money with affiliate marketing. It doesn't feel right when you your affiliate marketing income doesn't tally with the money you are paying the ghostwriters.

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/amd.php

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing business can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Friday, January 23, 2009

How To Write Effectively?

Since we talked about article marketing in the last post and the previous post before that, I think it will be more beneficial to you if I include some tips about writing effectively. I know some can't afford to hire ghost writer, so these tips will be useful to you. :-)

Let's start.

1. An idea

Some thought that you can only write when you have a good idea. Then, let me ask you a simple question. "What is a good idea?"

Some might think I am talking nonsense here but you might like what you are seeing here. Different people will respond differently towards your writing and you can't assume your idea is bad without people reading it. It is unfair to your idea too.

My advice is, just write. And when you started it, more ideas will come to you. And the more you write, the easier it gets and even more ideas will come to you easily and frequently.

2. Write for your readers

Your readers are the one who read your articles and in affiliate marketing, they are the one buying your product. So, in the common sense of running a business, are you going to cater to your prospects interest or yours?

Right. It is their interest that is important. So, before you write anything, you must ask yourself. "How can your writing be important to your readers?" Remember that people are always interested to improve their life.

Can you focus your writing around that? Start with a problem, bring your readers through the process and offer a solution (preferably link to your product) for them. Your readers are going to be grateful that you help them and they are going to buy your product when it feels right. Quite nice for focusing on your readers right? :-)

3. Why do you write?

Is it for traffic, money or to share information with your readers?

From my experience, being sincere and helpful always help to make money with affiliate marketing.

When you are writing sincerely, you actually write from your heart and your readers can feel it. When you are writing from your heart, you offer the most honest suggestion to your readers. You are OK that your readers don't buy from you because you know that they are not obliged to do so. All you want is for your readers to enjoy what you have done for them.

In return, your readers are fine with you anchoring your keyword because they know that is how you make a living as an affiliate marketer. Since your readers are happy with your articles, they are willing to spread the good words about you and eventually you are going to make more money with affiliate marketing.

4. What should you include in your articles then?

When you are doing article marketing , the first thing you want to include in your article are keywords. These are the things that get your article up and high on the search engine result page (SERP). Your readers search for information base on keywords, so the more you can match their searches, the easier your readers can see you hence more business opportunity to you.

Another thing you need to remember when you are writing is fact. Is the information you reveal in your article the truth? How you write your article actually reflect on your reputation. Let's say someone with relative knowledge about coffee machine read your article and found that you are making mistakes on the configuration of the machine. Do you think he or she is going to be impressed by you? Most likely not.

It is wise to spend sometime researching your topic when you are writing something. You don't want to look like a fool in front of your readers.

Lastly, make your article as entertaining as possible. It might not be possible when you are submitting your articles to article directories because some article directories are very particular about what you say in your articles. They might reject your articles because you are being informal in your articles.

Still, you can include the daily jargon in your blog post. There is no red tape to how you need to deliver your article. Your readers are going to enjoy more of your blog when you can be fun in your posting. Sometime it is easier to connect with your readers when there is no string attach.

I hope these 4 tips help you to write more effectively and for those who can hire ghostwriter, I will talk to you about tips how to hire ghostwriter in the coming post. Although article marketing sounds less like any affiliate marketing tips, please bear in mind that when you are successful in drawing more traffic to your website, you stand a higher chance to make more money with affiliate marketing.


Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/amd.php

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing business can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Power Of Article Marketing...

Since we touched about article marketing in the last post, let's look at more benefits of this method.

1. When you submit articles to article directories, you are actually building backlinks to your website. This is because search engines are sensitive to the number of links pointed to your website from other directories or websites.

So, when you think of that, it only sounds logic when the more links you have to your website, the higher you will rank in the search engine result page (SERP). Imagine that you rank the top 10 in your niche. The traffic you will begetting is enormous.

2. For those who read your article till the end and click on your link is the targeted traffic you need to make money with online business.

Your readers don't simply click on your link just for the fun of it. It must mean something to them. Either you sound like an expert or they belief your offer might solve their issues. These visitors are easier to convince because they are already interested with your offer.

3. Most article directories allow publishers to reprint your articles on their website or newsletter as long as they keep your resource box. When that happens, not just that you will enjoy more traffic, you will boost your credibility too.

Do remember that publishers don't simply publish any articles. The thing that they show on their website reflects their image. Let's say you speak nonsense in your articles. If you are a publisher, will you publish these kinds of articles on your website? I certainly won't.

So, be joyful when your articles are seen on other's website. It is like the publishers acknowledging your expertise and again, the more articles you have out there, the higher you will rank on SERP.

4. When your articles are on other's website, they will remain there as long as the publisher doesn't see the need to remove it. When that happens, your articles will be another informational source for anyone who searches about your topic.

Again when your readers like what they see, they will publish your articles on their website and you get more traffic. Let me ask you; is there any better way to enjoy free and recurring traffic than this?

5. Another good part about article marketing is that it helps to pre-sell your product.

A lot of prospects are skeptical about your offer and that is totally normal. Look at yourself. Don't you think twice before you want to invest in something?

However you can ease this process by sharing more information with your prospects. What you can do is to write an article about your product. Highlight why your product or service can help to solve your prospects issues. Be honest and share as much as you can. It is easier to convince your prospects when you are transparent about your product. :-)

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/amd.php

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Traffic...

Let me ask you, what is targeted traffic?

It is just visitors who are interested to your offer in your website or blog. Since you are reading this, you are my targeted traffic and targeted traffic to other internet marketing or affiliate marketing website.

Then, you might ask how can you create targeted traffic?

The first thing I am going to show you is article marketing. Some refer submitting articles to article directories is the surefire way to attract targeted traffic. This is because people who click on your link in the resource box are people who are interested in your article and therefore would like to see what you can offer at your website.

What more is that when your article is good, other publisher will publish your article on their website. That is free advertising, if you ask me. And the best part for article marketing is that you can get all these benefits for FREE. :-)

Next, is newsletter. You can either advertise on other's newsletter or create your own. The benefit of having your own newsletter is that you have full control over what you want to show your audiences. You can say whatever you think is appropriate and convince your audiences with your own style.

Whereas when you are advertising on other's newsletter, your content might be edited to suit the owner's content. Some might think that it is bad to have their content edited but when you look at the fact that you are leveraging on the owner's huge visitor base, it might not sound so bad after all.

Then how else can you attract targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing website?

What I did was I took part in forum discussion. Again, this is a FREE way to attract targeted traffic to your business. When you answer to a thread, you automatically setup an image that you are someone who can solve the member problem. Logically, the more difficult question you can answer, you will look more like an expert in the field.

When you are perceive as an expert in the field, more members are going to click on your link. When that happens, rejoice that you are seeing hundreds or more clicks to your website.

After that, you can also try exchanging links. The trick to doing this is to look for websites that are related to your niche but not in direct competition with you. Let's say you are the affiliate for trumpets. What you want to do is to exchange links with websites which are offering trumpet courses or guides about maximizing your trumpet.

Before you want to ask for link exchange, you will want to develop your website first. When you have more quality content on your website, it will increase your chances of getting other website owner linking to you.

The other way of getting targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing business is to buy it. However, there is a strong debate whether you should buy traffic or not. So, I am going to talk to you about the pros and cons of buying traffic.

First off, what is buying traffic all about?

When you buy traffic, one of the sources of the traffic come from expired domain name. When someone searches for that website, he or she will be redirected to your website. This can be done when you categorized your business during your purchase. This process allows you to leverage on the traffic build by the previous domain owner. Imagine how much traffic you can enjoy when that domain name was listed the top 5 in your business.

Then, some people argue that since that domain name was getting such a big hit, why in the world someone wants to give it up? To some degree, I do agree on that. If you are getting so many visitors a day, will you give up your domain name? You will see to it that the domain name sticks to you for life.

Some also said that the traffic you are buying is actually generated by computer software. There are no real people really look at your website. However, to be fair, I believe that there are honest and legitimate companies do crack their head, thinking how to get you the traffic you bought.

Another thing about buying traffic is that you need to track the result. You can setup a system to look at the IP address that visited you but that might involve a great deal of money. Then, what you can do is look at your earning. Do you make more money with affiliate marketing after you bought the traffic? If you are not, probably you want to think about asking for refund.

I personally never buy traffic. It is not that I don't believe in them, it is because I don't have the time to monitor the result. I would rather write more articles and blog posts which I know I can get targeted traffic.

The other way to attract traffic to your affiliate marketing business is by Pay Per Click (PPC). To be frank, I hardly do this because I suck in it. I have spent lots of money on it. Despite the tutor tried to help me, I still fail miserably in this. I think I am just too "slow" in this method. But that doesn't mean that PPC is any less to attract targeted traffic. When you do this right, you will be able to get as much targeted traffic as you want with the least investment in every click. There are tons of success stories for PPC just that I am not the right person to advice you on that.

Perhaps you can look at this:

=> AdWords For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

This has been a long post about traffic and I think I better stop here. I hope that you understand what I said in the post and I hope you enjoy it. :-)

Create your success,

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

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Always Believe In What You Have Chosen

Let's think about this, you need to report to your office every morning, work for 8 hours everyday and you are most happy on Saturday and Sunday. There is nothing wrong with your job but it was not the perfect career you have in mind either. It was what your parent prefers. What you want is to work whenever you want, have more control in your life and earn the money you deserve. That is possibly why you never derived any satisfaction from your job and when you saw this affiliate marketing opportunity, you decided to take the plunge and pursue your own destiny.

When I started this business, I was worried that my offline sales experience can't help in my business. But little do I know is that my experience helps me to find out what my customers want easily. So, you see, regardless of what you are working as or previously, you hold something unique in your hand. Let's say you are a bill collector, my negotiation skills might not be as good as you.

Then, when you are seeing money going into your account, you will feel that all your hard work has been paid off. It just motivates you to go further.

Of course, there will be downtime when you are running your affiliate marketing business. Sometime it is so painful that you have problem sleeping at night. That is why you are advice to make more friends with like-minded affiliate marketers. An affiliate marketing forum is a great place to get motivation and inspiration.

Besides that, forum is a good place to learn about the business too. There are many veteran affiliate marketers who are willing to help you make money online. Sometimes you don't even get this kind of information in paid affiliate marketing guide. Plus, when you feel frustrated when you fail to see result, the forum members are happy to cheer you up. They are never stingy about any motivational and inspiring words. There is nothing happier to them then to see you become successful in the business.

Since we got the support online, what about the support offline? Do you remember you made your parents happy by following what they ask you to do? How are you going to tell them that you are going to drop your job and venture into something totally unheard of? This can be difficult to explain to the elders because they only see job security is to wear a suit and work in the office.

What I did was I told my parents straight on and you can imagine the look on their faces. Even though they disagree with what I am doing, I still continue to purse my dream but I kept them in the light. I showed them what I did and I showed them my earning. Things only started to change when my first check of $355.37 came.

So, believe in yourself, your passion, work hard and everything will fill in the place.

Create your success,

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

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

P.S. Learning about affiliate marketing can be easy when someone shows you the system. It is even better when that someone understand what you are going through and is ready to motivate you.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Beat Procrastination

When you are running your own business, procrastination is a big hinder to your success. I have seen what it did to me and surely I hope the tips below can help you to dispel off this great evil.

1. Don't just write your goal. State how long it is going to take for you to accomplish your goal.

2. Write your goal on a post it notepad and stick it where you can always see.

3. Goals are meant to be accomplished instead of sticking it. When your goal takes a year to achieve, replace your notepad every month to motivate you to strive for your goal.

4. When you are changing your notepad, ask yourself what you have done to accomplish this goal. Or you just look at it every now and then and replace it every month? Be honest with yourself.

5. Read out loud (if you can) your goals everyday. When you can't read out loud, read it out in softer volume. The bottom line is that you need to read it out. This will help to register your goal into your mind.

I can give you more tips to battle procrastination but do you know that you need to be a highly discipline person to execute those tips?

Then, what if you are not a discipline person?

Well, you can consider telling your goals to someone else. This person should have higher authority than you like your boss (if you can tell your boss that you are building your affiliate marketing business) or your parents and they need to see eye to eye with you. Most importantly, they need to believe in you.

You will then get them to monitor and supervise your progress and better, if they can challenge you. Remember, they are your external source of success. The more you accept their challenges, the faster you will see money flowing to your back account.

Create your success,

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

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

Monday, January 12, 2009

What Is Your Motivation?

When you are running your online business, the first thing you need to ask yourself is:

"What is motivation?"

For me, it has always been the money but not the way you think it is. You see, a lot of people thought we internet marketers are motivated by the money. For me, it is about providing to my family. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing my love one enjoying the things I am giving them. Sharing their love and listening to their laughter are the things that motivate me to go on with the business.

I once met a trainer who told me that "find your motivation, get yourself align with it and the money will come to you naturally." That was some great advice because when I focus on bringing more good things to people around me, all the hard work just seems to be light and enjoyable. Ideas come to me easier and I can accomplish more in the same period of time. It felt so good. :-)

Just to let you know, many people will want to become their own boss but not many of them will put it into action. Since you are building your own online career, then you will probably face a lot of challenges.

In my opinion, being a successful internet marketer depends on how well you deal with setbacks. When things are difficult and distracting your attention, your first task is to calm down and build on your motivation.

Go read articles or books about other successful internet marketers. See how they deal with their issues and see how you can incorporate their ways into your problems.

Now, everyone has their own worries and doubts. So do me. When things didn't turn out well, me too will start to worry. What you can do is to see yourself through short term goals. These goals should be easy to accomplish in a short period of time. By achieving every one of them, you will regain your confident.

Another way to be motivated in your internet marketing business is to belief in your product and what you are doing. I don't see how anyone can be successful in this business when you hate to log into the internet. When you sense that you are losing your steam, leave your task and take a break. Take a deep breath and clear your mind. It is important that you reignite your motivation so that you start fresh building your online business.

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/CBk2.php

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

P.S. Andrew Fox has created a system to help you make money with ease. You just watch the video and apply the system step by step. Money can't come to you anyway easier.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

5 More Affiliate Marketing Tips For You...

You have read some of the tips of how to grow your affiliate marketing business in the last post and I hope that they have given you some insight of how to build your online income. So, here are the balance 5 tips for your viewing.

1. Know your audience

Successful affiliate marketer knows that they need to met their prospects need to make money with affiliate marketing. So, why did your prospects visit your website or blog? They must be looking for something. Ask yourself, what is your prospects looking for? Make sure your affiliate product answer their need.

When you are talking about self-help, be sure that the banners on your website or blog are about self-help even though the self-destruction affiliate program pays better. This is because your affiliate banner contradicts to the intention of your visitors. Why should they click on the banner then?

2. Be up to date

Sometime, merchants will release new marketing materials to help you make money with affiliate marketing. These materials are specially made free for you so that you can refer more business to the merchants. If the new banner is more visually appealing, why not replace the code with the old banner? Plus, new things always draw people attention and those who never visit your affiliate link might visit the site just because they feel the need to do it.

Never underestimate any small change you did to your website or blog. You might be leaving the money on the table.

3. Be honest

When you are publishing your content, be honest in your content.

Just like the example of writing your review about self-help program, make sure that you reveal the truth. If it is not user friendly, do say so. Don't worry. The review is your personal experience. You won't provoke anyone by sharing your personal feeling.

Things can be worst when your customers found that the program can't help and ask for refund. You will still lose your commission. Then why not just be honest at the start? At least you will leave a good impression to your customers.

4. Be trustworthy

Since I am talking about honesty, might as I continue to talk about building trust with your customers.

Customers nowadays are can't be bully. They will voice out when you take advantage on them. Not just that they won't come back to your site, they are going to spread the words about your business. You can imagine the damage that can be done on your affiliate marketing business. This will be even worst with the power of the Internet.

Since you are looking for a way to make a long term income with affiliate marketing, you will want to build trusting relationship with your customers.

5. Be patient

This is the one thing I very much like to tell my readers:

"You can't earn $20,000 overnight."

Affiliate marketing is a business that need time to grow. This is a legitimate opportunity for you to make passive income instead of a short term get rich quick plan.

Remember, successful affiliate marketers are persistence and persevere in building their affiliate marketing business. You should too. :-)

It can be challenging to make money in the current market and you might have the concern about the security of your job. Imagine that you have a new skill to earn an income. Wouldn't that make you feel more secure and help you to sleep better at night?

Andrew Fox has made $633,798.35 with Clickbank and bought a $1.4 million home for himself and his family. Think about you can making half of his income, you can definitely improve on the situation you are in now. You really need to have to take a look how he has done it:

=> www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/CBk2.php

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/CBk2.php

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

P.S. Andrew Fox system is easy to use and come with a 56 days money back guarantee. When you are unsatisfied with the system, you can get a full refund. So, you see, your investment is safe.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

5 Affiliate Marketing Tips For You...

As you already knew, affiliate marketing can be your big source of income. However, you will only be paid when people buy what you are selling. So, your responsibility is to convince your prospects and this post is going to share with you 5 tips to build your affiliate marketing business. But before you start reading, I need to tell you that some of the tips below will require you to have a website or at least a blog.

When you are ready, let's start

1. Select carefully

When you are selecting the affiliate program for your affiliate marketing business, you will want to take your time and look through the affiliate programs. Look at the commission you will be earning, you will also want to read the sales letter. Does it sound convincing? Does it move you to buy the product yourself? It is also important for you to understand the terms and conditions of the affiliate program so that your hard work will be handsomely paid.

After you have selected your affiliate program, you will publish related content in your website or blog promoting your affiliate link.

2. Try other program

It is normal to take some time before you can make money with affiliate marketing. But if you fail to make any progress after 6 months, probably you will want to take a look at other affiliate program.

Know that not all affiliate programs performs the same. Some of them pay well and their product converts much more easily than other. Some of them supply you with marketing materials whereas some will need you to work on your own marketing materials.

Then, you can find affiliate program by doing a search with "your niche + affiliate" in Google. You can also find other affiliate program to grow your affiliate marketing business in Commission Junction, Linkshare than limiting yourself with ClickBank or PayDotCom.

3. Content, content and content

Your content is the life force of your business. So, your job is to provide superior content to your selected platform (website or blog) and link your content to your affiliate program. It is easier for your prospects to accept your suggestion when they see the relationship of what you say and your product.

That is why I will suggest you to research your topic before you publish it. Publishing unhelpful content is going to turn your prospects away. Plus, it also reflects that you might not know what you are talking about.

4. Be helpful

Your prospects appreciate value and when your affiliate product can add value to their life, they are going to buy from you. So, see into how your content can be useful and informative to your prospects.

Let's say that you are an affiliate for a self-help program, the easiest way you can be helpful is to write a review about the program.

Take your time and go through the program. Do you see any improvement after you join the program? Does the program deliver what it says it will? If it does, how satisfy are you?

When you are writing your review, anchor your affiliate link into the keywords and you can direct your prospects to your affiliate link at the end of your post.

5. Schedule

When you are posting on your platform, make sure that you are consistent about that. It is always good to keep your content fresh to help the search engine spider to crawl your website or blog. This will then help to move your platform up the search engine ranking.

So, follow your schedule as close as you can and make it a habit to always update your content.

I am going to talk about 5 more tips about how you can build your affiliate marketing business in the coming post. Until then, have fun practicing the tips you just read.

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/CBk2.php

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

Monday, January 5, 2009

You Got Your New Year Plan. What Next?

After much discussion about planning for 2009, there is something you must include in your plan so that you will keep your online business on track. Let's take a look together what these things are:

1. Where are you now?

"Where does your affiliate marketing business stands now?" You need to look into your business seriously and where you are now. What are you doing to let your business visible? Are you getting the response you are supposed to?

Ask yourself how much have you done for your business so far. This will help you to establish goals for your near and far future.

2. Where you want to go?

To know where you want to go, you need to know why you want to be successful in affiliate marketing. Is it the money? Is it the satisfaction as a successful person? Or the challenges you face in every project?

Once you understand the why, it will be your motivation to get you through any challenges you will face in this business. When you are stuck in any situation, just look at what you join the business in the first place and you will draw the energy back to you. Then, the solution will come to you.

3. Get from where you are now to where you want to be

Of course the first thing you need is action. You can't get anything done when you are sitting on the bench. Can you? I bet you knew that but somehow we just like to procrastinate (I hope you are not like that).

When you sense you are delaying your work, look into the why again. If you want that big house, make sure you see the picture of that house everyday. Let it motivate you to go for your goals.

Then you need to choose your tools. What kind of tools you need to get the response you want? Sometime only particular tools will attract your target audience and sometime you need to pay for that.

When you are paying for these tools, always look into your budget first. Remember this, affiliate marketing is for you to make money instead of losing money. When you are low on budget, you can either look for other alternative or stay with the free tools that might take you longer time to see your result.

Successful affiliate marketers have a schedule that they are dedicated to follow. Every marketing campaign need to be roll out on time. Imagine these campaigns are your construction project. Everyday you delay your construction is another day you loss profit.

Now, you have done everything you can possibly imagine to build your affiliate marketing business. It is time to track your result. It is time to look at which tools are getting the respond you want. Replace the under performing tools with something more responsive. You can save a lot of money then.

Plus, by tracking your result, you will know what is working and what is not. Then, you will know where to better spend your time. You can then streamline your schedule to be more productive.

So, I hope that you enjoy the tips and hopefully they can help in your affiliate marketing business. By the way, the tips you read just now can also be apply for your personal plan too. Just replace your affiliate marketing goals with your personal goals and you are well on your way. :-)

Create Your Success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/CBk2.php

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