Article 3 – Working At Home
This dismal economy has a lot of people questioning how they used to make a living.
Instead of working at home online being a thing that you might one day like to do; now you have switched into survival mode. Now if you've been looking for jobs online that let you work from home on the Internet, I'll be you haven't found anything that pays really well yet. That's because most people who work online don't have a job, they have a business. The good money is in affiliate marketing and the fastest way to make money at it is using an Internet affiliate program.
When you did have a job in the offline world you used tools and equipment for every task.
Making money online is different but you still need the right tools and equipment to get the job done. Trying to make a steady income of any size in affiliate marketing without the knowledge and tools that work efficiently isn't a smart move. Most likely you need to start earning money fast. Marketers who don't have an Internet affiliate program could spend a year or more just figuring out how this money is actually made. Do you have enough cash in the bank to carry you through the next year?
How much money do your really want to make?
Are you just trying to replace the income your weekly paycheck brought in? Did you hear anyone say yes just then? I didn't either. Everyone wants the hold the key to financial freedom. With an Internet affiliate program there won't be anyone standing between you and earning a great deal of money but you. Excuse me ... which one of you just said it is too good to be true? It is very real to cash in big online working at home on an Internet affiliate program. There is no limit to how much money you can make in affiliate marketing IF you have the right tools, knowledge and support behind you.
You don't need a college degree to earn money in affiliate marketing.
There are plenty of highly successful affiliate marketers that earn exorbitant sums of money and have no higher education. They come from all walks of life and have interests a vast as the entire globe. The one thing these super marketers have in common is using a system that works. You can join the ranks of big money affiliate marketers who work from home or where ever they choose to. All you need to do is get your Internet affiliate program and you will quickly be on the right road to financial independence.
Article 3 – How To Market Your Product on Clickbank
A lot of people have a product that they have already created and they want to know how to make money online with it. Maybe it is a recording they did of an interview or it's a video teaching something in particular...whatever it is--I am a big believer in starting out with digital products.
One of the reasons I like digital products so much is that they have pretty high profit margins and they allow you to have some success really quickly.
If your product is digital, then I would definitely encourage you to start selling it through ClickBank.com. ClickBank is a marketplace for digital products and is set up so that you can immediately begin accepting payments and making sales. You don't have to worry about trying to set up a credit card system or any of that...they do it all for you--it's awesome.
Another great thing about ClickBank is that you can instantly plug into their affiliate program and have a bunch of people out there promoting your product for you. They handle all of the administration of that too so it's really, really easy.
This is one area that a lot of people put off when they are first learning how to make money online. They think it will be too much work, and it can be if you aren't plugging into something that is already put together for you. They also worry about how much time they will spend managing it, after they have gone through the trouble to build it. Again, not a big deal if you use ClickBank's affiliate network.
Here's my take on this...don't get your business started, get your product created, and then back away at this step just because it seems like it will be too much work. You've come this far, now you want to do everything in your control to drive sales and make profits--and there is nothing like having a bunch of people selling for you. There are just thousands of affiliate marketers on ClickBank every day who are looking for products that they can promote. Why wouldn't you want them to pick yours and sell, sell, sell?
So take advantage of what ClickBank has put together. They have answered the "how to make money online" question and handed it to you on a silver platter. It is a slick system that works very, very well and literally...with the exception of creating your product for you...they have done all the work. All you have to do is plug in.
Article 4 – Afiiliate Marketer’s Tip – Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin!
Affiliate marketing is hot, easy to do, and profitable for just about anyone.
Affiliate tip #2 - Don't spread yourself too thin. If you're just beginning in affiliate marketing then find one good, solid, quality product or service to promote and test waters that way. You have to find what you're talented in or the easiest way that you find to advertise your affiliate link. You may be very comfortable with writing articles, so focus your affiliate link on those. However, you may not be Twitter-savvy so joining that may not be an option. Once you find your ideal promotion materials and strategies then you can begin adding similar affiliate products.
If your first affiliate program is about baby products then you can later expand that affiliate association to include ebooks about potty training, toddler behavior, or sitter services, things of that nature. You expand your niche a little further while still staying inside the barriers. This way your not stretching yourself too thin so the affiliate programs are not clashing, but they are complimenting one another.
Of course one of the easiest ways of combining all of these affiliate programs into one is by having your own website, especially a blog style site. This can incorporate all your affiliate links into one area. Another option is to have a squeeze page and offer a free e-book. This way it builds your email list and you can email your list with new affiliate products you're promoting, but that's another affiliate tip to be discussed later.
Don't let that fool you though, people want quality content. If you don't offer anything except "buy me" ads then your list and readership will shrink. Create your own promotional products for affiliate programs. You can do how-to videos, be interviewed on podcasts (or create your own), write articles, or contribute to forums or guest blogging somewhere. There are also many community websites out there where you can become an expert at.
Once you've gotten a hang of promotion, advertising, and affiliate programs... then is the time to explore alternative niches. By this time, your other affiliate programs may be running on automatic and you can focus on something different. Until then, do one thing at a time and give it the quality time it deserves.
Article 5- PPC Conversion Tracking
PPC conversion tracking is covered pretty comprehensively iin our top rated Clickbank product ‘Affiliate Funnel Systems.’ Here is a quick rundown of this essential concept of affiliate marketing.
If you want to seriously make money with affiliate programs, there is nothing more important you can do than tracking your PPC campaigns. It is essential you track in order to get the highest return on your investment. Without tracking you wouldn't know where your profit and where your losses are coming from. What's more, you are losing out on huge margins by not knowing which of your campaigns you need to be spending more time on.
But what's the best method to start tracking your PPC campaigns? There are 7 steps to track your PPC campaigns in order to make money with affiliate programs.
Step 1: After you do your initial keyword research, group similar themed keywords into an ad group. Then make sure you set up tracking for that ad group to follow the progress.
Step 2: Repeat this process into as many ad groups as you want. Just make sure that all your ad groups have keywords that are similarly themed.
Step 3: After a few hundred clicks, you'll find that some ad groups are profitable, some ad groups break even and some end up being huge losers.
Step 4: At this point you want to look at your losing campaigns. If you find that there are some sales but it's at an overall loss, you may want to isolate each keyword and set up tracking individually to see if which keywords are bringing in the sales. If the campaign itself is a total failure, you should take the loss and toss the campaign.
Step 5: If your campaign is at or near the break-even point, you want to go through the same process as step 4 and go a little further by trying different elements on your landing pages, ads, offers and layouts.
Step 6: If your campaign is profitable, see if you can either cut costs and make bigger margins or start paying more per click to get to a higher position and bring in more volume.
Step 7: Rinse and repeat. As you start promoting different affiliate programs or dig deeper into keyword research to expand your campaigns, just go through the same process again and again.
If you're not tracking your affiliate campaigns using the steps outline above, it'll be hard to identify profitable keywords, grow winning campaigns and cut losing campaigns. So start setting up tracking your campaigns and what your affiliate promotions soar.
Article 6 – Cloaking Your Affiliate Link – What You Need to Know
If you have been promoting affiliate products, you should know that you have to direct your visitors to your own affiliate link so that you will get the commission when the customer purchases the product. So is it really that important to cloak your affiliate link?
It is very important to cloak your affiliate link to prevent commission theft from happening. Most of the affiliate links will tend to give themselves away as the affiliate id and the merchant id will be shown. If the user changes the affiliate id to their own id, you will not be credited with the commission. When you cloak your affiliate link, it will not be that direct and your visitors will not be able to change the link easily.
There also some people who do not like the idea of the affiliates making money out of them if they purchase the product. When you cloak and shorten the link, it will give them the impression that it is your own website and they will be more willing to click on the link. Cloaking will also hide the long and ugly original affiliate links. Impression is very important in this business as visitors will only click on the links that look reliable.
When you use a software to cloak the link, your domain name will still be shown when your visitors clicks on the link. This will be good for branding as the next time they see your domain name, they will just click on it to get more information.
When you have more visitors clicking on your link, your profits will definitely increase if you are promoting relevant product to them. Do start looking around for good cloaking software so that you prevent commission theft and get more profits
Article 7 – A Three Step Plan for Processing Affiliate Rebates
There are a lot of online opportunities to make money and in fact there are so many that it is hard to know where to start. However if you analyze each opportunity carefully it will become clear very soon which business opportunities are duds and which ones are the real deal. If you follow a simple 3 step plan for vetting your business opportunities you will make the right decision every time.
In this article I want to apply the 3 step plan for analyzing online businesses to a very popular business opportunity that is sweeping the net today. When you apply this logical method to the process affiliate rebates program you will see exactly how this method works and how you can keep applying it to any venture that gets pushed your way.
The first part of the 3 step plan is very simple. You have to do your research and just a quick Google search, before you invest your money into a program you need to do thorough research. So in this example you would type in process affiliate rebates into your search engine followed by the word review, scam, or comments.
This will give you tons of information to go through and what you want to look for specifically is comments made by people who have purchased the program. This will let you know if they are having success with it or not. You need to be careful though because for every legitimate review site there are tons of fake and bogus sites that will say positive things about anything all in the hopes of having you buy through their affiliate link.
The second step in the 3 step plan is to analyze this new information and determine the potential for serious income from this opportunity. In our example research of the process affiliate rebates program did not yield great results. There were mixed reviews so what you have to go by is your understanding of the business.
This is an important lesson to learn as there are plenty of business opportunities that will have tons of negative reviews simply because the majority of failures decided that it's impossible to make money simply because they couldn't succeed.
So what we've learned so far about the process affiliate rebates opportunity is that some people are not making money but others claim to be. This is a very common predicament which leads us to the next part of the 3 step plan.
In the last step of the 3 step plan you want to focus on your overall impression of the company that wants your money. The next step is to try to contact the owners and or anyone who is promoting the program. Based on their responses you can make an educated decision about your potential success with the program.
Just remember to apply the 3 step plan to any opportunity that comes your away and you will keep your money safe and have a successful business.
Article 8 – Avoid Like the Plague! Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes
One of the great attractions to affiliate marketing is that the marketer is simply a middle person who recommends and suggests solutions to people. The merchant or owner of the product is responsible for customer service and inventory. For example, if you want to lose weight and you go online to look for solutions and you come across my blog or an article I've written about weight loss. You read the weight loss solutions that I offer. I then suggest that you go to a website where you can purchase a product that will help your weight loss problem. Essentially, I make a commission when you buy the product because I have connected the buyer to the seller.
You don't create the product, you are just the middle person and you send people who are interested in the product to the merchants offering the solutions. This is a simplified approach to how you do affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer, you are mostly doing pre-selling. Pre-selling means suggesting solutions or endorsement via an informative write-up on a certain product to help a customer make a better decision.
One of the most common mistakes is the lack of focus. There are so many products to promote in affiliate marketing and naturally, you are excited, so you may take on too many things at one time, which will hurt your business. Start with one product and scale up from there. Write a simple plan for yourself and decide which market you want to target. You can't serve everyone. List down one to five markets, choose one product for each market and have one blog to do your promotions.
Don't try to hard-sell your customers. You want to present yourself as a neutral party, as their friend, and your job is to simply suggest solutions. This method will make your job a lot easier and you will also convert more sales.
Another mistake that affiliate marketers make is their failure to build a database or mailing list online. If a visitor goes to your blog and you don't capture their information, there is no way you can contact them again. It is crucial to focus on building your database, or as Internet marketers call it, list- building, if you want to have a successful Internet business. Start from day one using an opt-in form which is a way to capture people's names and emails on your blog or website.
The last mistake is not treating their affiliate marketing business as a proper business. Some people go in with the idea that they are going to "give it a try" and if they don't get results in three days, they jump to another opportunity. Every business model works. You just have to follow a proven, systematic process. When you treat it like a long-term business, you will have the ability to focus your efforts on scaling up the business. Remember, the more you put in, the more results you will get. Just like with every action, there is a reaction!
Article 9 – Affiliate Marketing Secrets – What You Need To Know
A basic principle anyone should know about making money online is the fact that you do not have to make any direct contact with customers in order to make sales. All you are required to do is to set up a website and drive high quality traffic to it using whatever means you dim fit. If your traffic (i.e. website visitors) are targeted, then you are more than guaranteed to make a reasonable amount of money day after day.
It is no doubt then, that the most interesting thing about such marketing scheme is the possibility of making profits even without any direct contact with your customers - especially if you are one of the shy ones - and with great ease. As you may already know, the process is called online (internet) or affiliate marketing.
With online marketing, marketers are able to automate the process of making money and can usually employ several traffic generating strategies such as PPC, SEO, social bookmarking, article marketing amongst a host of other. Also, with affiliate marketing, your earning capability is limitless and depends solely on you and your imagination.
To succeed online, it is necessary that you plan and organise your strategies so as to remain focused on the main goal (i.e. to make good money with as minimal work as possible). The good News is, you do not have to be a professional to be successful on the internet. In other words, with the advance in technologies these days, you do not need any special skills to get started. If you can type on you PC, then you are pretty much ready to start making money online right away.
Like I stated earlier, there are several website traffic techniques that you can use to drive customers to your sites or blogs and the choice depends on you. If you are good with website design, you may consider Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for free traffic. If you see yourself as a good writer, then write articles like this for more free traffic. Aside from these, the other free methods of traffic generation are: social bookmarking (where you bookmark your websites on as many social networks as possible), link building, email marketing (only works after you capture contact details from your website visitors) and the traditional word of mouth (telling your friends and family about your site and product.
On the other hand, if you have some money to burn, then you may want to consider Pay Per Click (PPC) marketing, with the most popular being Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN. Most marketer start with AdWords because it is the easiest and most effective of them all. Also, results with PPC is almost instant, when compared with the other free methods, and you could make a sale in as little as 15 to 30 minutes from setting up you ad campaign. Watch out though, so you don't lose all your money, as PPC is a craft and requires plenty of skills.
With all that said, the need for every single visitor to be targeted cannot be overemphasized. You do not want random visits but ones that are searching for what you are selling and are ready to make a purchase once they see what they are searching for. Whatever the case may be, if your visitors comes to your site via a search engine, then there is more chance it is targeted and could lead to a sale, or whatever action you require them to take on your page, at some point.
Basically, what the whole process of making money online entails is, you select a profitable niche market (preferably one that interests you but not necessary so), pick a product with a proven success record (most marketers start with Clickbank - you should too - but there are others such as Commission Junction, PayDotCom etc.) and then set up a marketing campaign using as many traffic methods as you so desire.
The marketing process (i.e. driving traffic) is the most difficult step involved in earning good money online but if you are willing to do the necessary work, then you are guaranteed success. When you first start up, you will find everything overwhelming but as time gets on and you get a hang of it. That is, you will see that things become so much easier and you can do them a lot faster. This is when your money will start pumping in in multiples and you will begin to feel a sense of accomplishments. Making money online is just that easy, all you ought to do is be smart about it.
Article 10 – How To Make Money Online With Paypal
Here is a way you can earn money using Incentive Freebie Websites directly to your PayPal account.
First Step: Sign up at an incentive freebie website. These are websites that reward you with cash or prizes upon completing a sponsored trial offer and referring others to do the same. The business model is pretty simple. Firstly, you have the advertisers who pay the site owners of the incentive freebie websites upon completion of the trial offers. Then the site owner takes a large portion of this money to pay out users who complete offers and find referrals, and then pocket the rest for themselves.
Second Step: Complete a sponsored trial offer. Many of these sites have really decent offers such as trials with major companies such as Blockbuster, Netflix, NY Times, eBay, and so on. In other words, it is clear that we're dealing with major companies and not just scammers that you have to worry about identity theft with. This is the real deal.
Third Step: Refer others to do the same. The average incentive freebie website will reward you $40 for each referral that you bring to their site. That can really add up over time. I can tell you that there were months where I earned over $3,000 from referrals alone, and best of all it goes directly to your PayPal account.
Payments on the more legitimate and professional sites are sent daily and some of them have full support teams that offer instant support.
So where do I find these referrals?
1. The #1 place are incentive freebie website forums that you can find if you search for them on Google.
2. Family and Friends: Find 20 friends or relatives to go green for you. 20 x 30 = $600. That is a lot of money!
3. Craigslist: This site has massive traffic and postings on Craigslist are free.
4. Yahoo Answers: Yahoo Answers gets plenty of traffic, and every day there are dozens of questions about earning money online. All you have to do is answer these questions, and at the end of your answer, place a link to your thread on FreeLunchRoom. You would be surprised to know the number of referrals you might find from just answering a dozen questions on Yahoo answers.
5. Create A Blog: Websites create attention. If you post often enough, your site will gain traffic and you can gain referrals from your readers. Make the blog about earning money from IFW sites, and you will rank well in those types of searches.
6. Social Sites: Facebook, MySpace etc. get lots of traffic and posting on these sites might pay off in the long run
7. Online work at home forums: There are plenty of these forums on the internet, and they are full of people interested in earning some legitimate money online.
8. Make a Squidoo Lens explaining to users what you are doing
9. Write on HubPages.com about IFW Sites with a link to your thread on the freebie forums or your blog
10. Article Marketing: Write an article about IFW Sites and post it on EzineArticles which ranks well in Search Engine results.
11. Put up flyers around your community with a link to your trade thread explaining the basics of the system.
I can tell you that it is possible to keep up a consistent stream of referrals and earn a decent amount of money. I know of dozens of people who do this FULL time!
p.s. That's all there is to making money using PayPal
| I used to make money using PayPal simply by finding referrals online. Now I actually own my own freebie site. There is unlimited potential here since there is no limit to the number of referrals that you can bring in per month - It's all based on the amount of work that you put in! |
