 Go after your target audience. An advertising campaign should be geared to your niche market. It is a common mistake to create generic ads that do not speak the language or grab the attention of your potential customers. For more information, read How to Identify and Reach Niche Markets for Your Business.
 Highlight your competitive advantage. One of the keys to all advertising is to accentuate the pros of your company, those factors that give you your competitive edge. Too many ads are clever but fail to sell the benefits of the product or service.
 Establish an image. You can recognize the McDonald's arches while whizzing by on the highway. Likewise, there are plenty of products that you recognize by their packaging or logo. Image counts when it comes to advertising and promoting your business. Too many advertisers do not work to build a consistent image. Check out Three Brand Identity Myths That Will Bring Your Business Down for additional issues to avoid.

 You have to spend money to make money. There are ways to save money, but typically advertising is not the place to cut corners. It will affect sales, and that affects the bottom line. Successful advertising may cost some money, but that is because it works. Check out More Bang for Your Advertising Buck for cost-cutting tips that won't cut your goals.
 Advertise in the right places. Your favorite magazine, radio s• tation, or even television program might not be a favorite of your audience. Know what they read, watch, and listen to, and advertise in media that reaches your target market.
 Don't allow your budget to run your advertising campaign. If you budget $5,000 per month for advertising, you've made it very easy from a bookkeeping perspective. However, if like most businesses you have seasonal highs and lows, you are spending too much money advertising during down times and not enough when you want to attract customers. Too many entrepreneurs do not budget according to their seasonal advertising needs.
 Diversify. It is all too common for business owners to choose the best place to advertise based on price and potential rate of returns and then stop. As is the case with investing, you do not want to put all of your eggs in one basket. Spread your advertising dollars around.
 Don't try to be everything to everyone. No product or service will appeal to everyone. Many business owners, including corporate executives, try to come up with ways to reach every market. Typically, this does not work. It can spell disaster for small businesses, who cannot afford to spread themselves too thin. Therefore, find your market and be everything you can be to that audience.

 Test your ads in advance. If you have the time or money to invest in focus groups, you should test your ads on other people. Do they understand and accept the message that you are trying to convey? For further information, read Focus Groups: How They Can Work for Your Small Business. There are other less-expensive ways to test your ads as well: questionnaires, for example. The article Creating Questionnaires for Gathering Market Research can be helpful.

 Monitor your ads. It is very easy to ask new customers or clients where they heard about you. As simple as this is, many entrepreneurs do not bother to do so. It is advantageous to know which ads generate business.

24 Simple But Effective Ways To Attract Cash In Hand, Ready To Pay Customers To Your Websites Every Single Day!

Written by Komolafe Isaac

Of recent, I am being bombarded with requests from asking me what my secret for traffic is. I mean people keep asking me almost everywhere I go to give them a special magical tip that pulls the most results and which will bring the most number of visitors to their website.

Each time I get this question, I just smile. The simple truth is that if you want to attract a load of cash in hand, ready to pay customers to your website, you don’t follow a single traffic route. You use multiple strategies. Personally, I use a combination of 3, sometimes up to 10 of the traffic techniques you are going to read about in here to get the kind of results I want!

Please don’t get me wrong. Some of these methods are Super Fast methods which will bring results in as little as minutes. Others will take some more time to work. Also, some are costlier to operate that others and some will work in certain situations better than the others. It is your duty to familiarise yourself with these techniques and then choose the most appropriate for any website you want.

I bet you are ready to discover how to drive rabid, cash in hand customers to your websites every single day.

1. Joining Forums, Sharing Your Opinions & Creating Your Own Communities

Anyhow you look at it, this is very effective and if you are not using it, I beg you to start immediately; today! You see, forums are online communities. A place where people come together to share ides, get help and just talk. The great thing is that you will find millions of forums online relating to almost anything you can think about. If you love sports or have a sports website for instance, find and join sports forums. If you have a website about Internet marketing, join internet marketing related forums.

There are four basic keys to getting traffic from forums. First, join as many as possible you can find relating to your website. Second, introduce yourself when you join the forum (if the forum has a place for this). Third, start making your own contributions. This is very important. The more contributions you make, the more you will get people to visit your websites (Beware: don’t make junk or useless contributions or else people will come to regard you as a member who should not be reckoned with). Fourth, always make sure at the bottom of your posts (contributions you make that is), always add a link to your website. It is called your resource box. Doing this alone will send good traffic to your website daily.

For instance, you can join www.warriorfourm.com/forum

Now, you can go a step higher. Build your own forum. Now, this can be some real hardwork because growing a forum from scratch is a little cumbersome. However, if you can stick to it, you will find out that at some point, you are no longer the one growing the forum. It will just grow by itself as more and more people will start flocking to it to be a part of the community. The most beautiful thing is that when this begins to happen, you immediately begin to get some massive FREE but highly targeted paying traffic.

2. Article Writing

Don’t say I am biased BUT I love this one. You see, all you need to do to get people visiting your websites daily is simply to write very quality articles, relating to your websites and start sending out the articles. Now, at the bottom of the articles, you get to include your website and a little description for yourself. Before you start submitting articles, learn the rules of the websites and don’t negate them. Places you can submit your articles to include www.ezinearticles.com, www.businesstoolchest.com, www.ideamarketers.com, www.goarticles.com, www.articlecentral.com, www.authorconnection.com, www.isnare.com , www.searchwarp.com , www.findbusinessarticles.com , www.amazines.com , www.addme.com

The beauty of this method that your articles get used up over and over on the Internet so much that there won’t be a day you won’t get results from those articles after a while of writing and submiting.

Another method to explore is to write articles and send to newpaper and magazine publishers. The fact is that these set of people are always looking for stories to publish and they will be more than willing to publish your work if they are great. The result is a herd of traffic to your websites.

3. Email Marketing

People seem to be forgetting this technique but it still remains very effective. All you have to do is send an advert by email to thousands of people. I bet you will start getting results the same day. This is usually called ezine advertising and it works like magic.

However, you have to be careful because there are loads of fake ezine publishers out there. Before you buy ezine advertisement, you should try and join that ezine and watch how it works. Also, try and see if the ezine truly has the size it claims to have. For instance some ezine publishers will tell you that your advert will go out to 200,000 people whereas they only have 2000 (it is difficult to know for sure anyway but try and find out).

To get a huge list of ezine publishers, dates of publication, advert rates for both classified (this is a small ad at the top, bottom or middle of the email) or solo ad (here your advert goes alone with nothing else), you can go to www.directoryofezines.com

3. Place an ad in a target market magazine

Although this can take some large gobs of your cash, they tend to be very effective and when you do it right, you will get good rewards. The key is to choose the right magazine. For instance, if your website is about dating and relationships, a business magazine will be a lousy advertising platform. You should go for magazines related to that topic.

4. Create business cards

Have plenty of them and be ready to give them out to as many people as you meet everywhere you go. Church, seminars, parties etc. You never know, the next person you give might be your biggest website customer.

5. Create A Guru/Expert Status

This is not so obvious as a way of getting visitors to your website but it works. You see people prefer to associate with the experts. Therefore, no matter what your website is about, work hard at becoming an expert on that topic. To do this, go out and research deep into that area, uncover the myths, demystify the mysteries and always come out with angles that people fail to see.

When you do this consistently, and you make such information available consistently, your website will seem to have a life of its own and will start bring you a steady stream of daily visitors.

6. Yahoo answers

Most people don’t know this yet and it works. You see, Yahoo has a question and answer section where people from all over the world participate. All you have to do is participate and start helping people by answering there questions, especially questions related to your websites. Since your website will go with each question you answer, in time, you will start seeing a steady flow of good traffic to your website daily just from Yahoo answers alone.

7. PPC

PPC stands for Pay Per Click and it is a form of ingenious advertising where you only pay for the results of your advert. You can use such a programme to drive tons of traffic to your website. Examples of places where you can get pay per click advertising includes Google Adwords www.Google.com/adwords, Yahoo Publishing Network www.publisher.yahoo.com, www.FastClick.com, www.BidVertiser.com, www.Publisher.TargetPoint.com, www.kontera.com, www.chitika.com etc

8. Videos

Put your video on YouTube and you can end up with millions of visitors to your website literally overnight. All you need is to do a video recording. You can even use your webcam to do it. The video might be a demonstration about how to do something, how to use a product, or something just hilarious and insert your website url on the video.

Overnight, you can get a stampede of visitors. I have seen this happen over and over on YouTube.com for instance I recently saw a guy playing guitar on YouTube (the guy was very good of course) and on the video was his website which was selling an affiliate product about playing guitar.

The amazing was that when I looked at how many times the video had been viewed, it ran into over 1million views, which means this guy has had 1million+ visitors and only God knows how many sales of the affiliate product.

9. Use Free Gifts

Anyday, anytime, anywhere, free gifts work because people love free stuff. You will attend a free seminar if I organised one. You will download my free book once I say it is free and guess what, people will flood to your website when you tell them you have something free for them.

10 Technorati

When it comes to blogs, technorati is the place. You can use this website to pull some dangerous traffic to your own website. www.Technorati.com

11. Search Engine Traffic

Search engines get a load of visitors daily. If you can get your website to show up on major search engines, you will get good traffic delivered to you automatically without any payment from you. Find out courses and materials on search engine traffic and implement it on your website projects.

12. De.li.cious

www.Delicious.com This site is a kind of social bookmarking site where anyone can come and keep a link to something he or she likes. For instance, if you visit a website and like it, you can hop over to delicious and bookmark the site, giving you the ability to access these sites anytime you want from anyother computer and anywhere in the world. The links also become available to other people using delicious.

If you have the links of your websites on delicious therefore, you will get a steady stream of traffic quietly without anyone ever suspecting.

13. Blogging

Everyone seems to know about this. A blog is simply a website where you can post information.. something like your personal diary. You can easily start one for free by using www.Blogger.com, www.wordpress.com Once you have your blog running, you can then go over to www.BlogRush.com and use the free tool available to get massive traffic on a daily basis.

14. Joint ventures & Cross Promotions

This is very easy. Just find someone with a website and exchange promotion or advert with the person. Something like; I advertise your site, you advertise mine. This is very effective and works very well with email cross promotions to build your list and get overnight traffic.

15. Tell-a-friend

Put up a “Tell-a-friend” script on the website. Anytime someone comes to your website, they are given the opportunity to tell others about the website and even send them a gift which goes along with the invitation.

You will get great results from this.

16. Social Networking Websites

These sites are becoming a traffic hub. Talk of places like FaceBook, www.squidoo.com, www.myspace.com etc. These sites will pull massive traffic for you.

17. Create Screen Savers & Give It Away

If you are into graphics, this will work very well. Everybody has a screen saver. I mean everybody. Just start creating screen savers, brand them with your website name and give it out free. You will get tons of great traffic to your website. You can download screen saver making software at http://www.dd2002.com/download.htm or just search on google to get more options.

18 Television & Radio

Get on TV as a guest, do a show or put an advert on air and let your website be mentioned. You will get loads of traffic.

19. Public Speaking

Become a volunteer speaker on the topic of your website and speak at events. Don’t forget to mention your website.

20. Flyers

Do small handbills and flyers and give to people at bus stop, church, seminars you attend, even leave copies at banks, and other public places.

21. Tee Shirts, Mugs..

If you already have a website, you can start giving out Tee Shirts to members. As they wear it everywhere they go, other people will see your website and will come to it. Infact, if you like, you can sell the Tee shirts, mugs, calendars etc from your website. A very good resource for getting this done is www.CafePress.com (make sure you check it out)

22. Word Of Mouth

This one is old fashioned but will always work. Two of my websites is entirely based on this and everyday, I get a fresh, paying customer. At every opportunity you get, tell others about your site and encourage others to tell others about your website.

23. Build Relationships With Others

Never make a mistake about it. You must seek out and build a lasting relationship with other people in the area of focus of your website. When you have a relationship with these people, it becomes easy for you to do JVs, link exchanges and cross promotions and things like that with them.

Also, these other people will always make reference to your website and you will get more traffic as a result.

24. Always Be Creative

Try off the wall ideas. See every situation you encounter as an opportunity. Read new books, keep learning. Don’t allow yourself to be boxed up. I am sure the results you will get will amaze you.

7 Steps to a Massive List and Huge Profits

By Jo Mark

Building your own list is one of the best things you can do for your online business. Having a massive list is the one sure way to generate huge profits. You can expect to earn about one dollar every month for each person on your list. An productive and growing list can catapult your profits to levels you only dreamed of. An effective list building campaign can gather 15 to 20 new subscribers each day. This works out to about 500 subscribers each month and nearly 6000 people each year. And remember, that means that your income will grow by that amount. Wouldn’t you like a $500 raise every month at your regular job?

But how do you get people to subscribe to your list? Following are the steps you need to take to effectively grow your list.

1. Develop your own niche. Everything you do should be related to a single subject. Your subscribers will all be interested in this topic, after all, that is why they joined your list.

2. Create a targeted web site that includes lots of content related to your niche. Give people a reason to come to your site. Provide hard to find information that they cannot find elsewhere.

3. Provide free articles, information and downloads on your web site. This will increase your traffic and get you referrals.

4. Put a sign in box on every page of your site. Give them good reasons to subscribe.

6. Get a good autoresponder. An autoresponder is a necessity to maintain a list.

7. Build a good relationship with members of your list. Send them lots of valuable free stuff. When promoting a particular product to your list, make sure it is a good quality item. Never recommend something that is crap.

By using the techniques outlined above, you are on your way to growing a large and profitable list. So start building that massive list and generate those huge profits. Your bank account will thank you for it! Want to learn more about profitable list building? Check out the information below.

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10 Easy Ways to Make Money Online Blogging

By Michael Bridges

One of the best and must used ways to make money online these daysis by blogging. Hundreds of blogs are started everyday. One of the reasons is because it’s the easiest way to have your own website and start making money right away. You just monetize your blog put a few posts on it and start marketing it.

Google already loves blogs because they always have new content, but marketing can help you push your blog up on the search engines. Pinging your blog whenever you do a new post, commenting on related blogs with a link back to your blog and social bookmarking your blog post are affective ways to market your blog.

Okay, so what are the 10 easy ways to make money online from your blog?

1. Ad Units: Monetize your blog with ad units from Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher, Bidvertiser, RevenuePilot and other contextual ad sites. Contextual ads are ads that the ads sites show on your blog that are related to you’re your blogs topic. When these ads are clicked on you get paid for it.

2. Sell Your Products: If you have a product blog about it and offer it for sell on your blog. You already have an audience that’s interested in what you’re doing take advantage of it.

3. Sell Other Peoples Products: If you have an affiliate account at Amazon. com, Clickbank, Ebay or some other affiliate program, sell affiliate products on your blog. You can do related posts for any product you want to sell.

4. Sell Ad Space: If you have a blog with a pretty good Page Rank you can sell ad space on it. You can have different prices for different areas on your blog.

5. Write Paid Reviews: You can make money from your blog by writing paid reviews for paid to blog sites like PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, Blogsvertise, Smorty and others. These sites offer advertisers who pay to have their product or service reviewed. I must add a word of warning here though. Google has started penalizing blogs for doing paid reviews and will drop your Page Rank if you are caught doing so. However you can still make money online doing this even after a PR drop.

6. Sell An E-Book: Lots of people make some good money online writing and selling their own e-books. You can write an e-book relate to your blog’s subject and offer it for sell on your blog. Your e-book doesn’t have to be real fancy just give some information that people would be interested in and downloadable.

7. Ask For Donations: You would be surprise of what you can just by asking. You can for donations to help your blog going. Just put a PayPal donation in your sidebar or after every post. It doesn’t hurt to ask.

8. Point Your blog To Your Paying Article: If you write articles for a site that pays you a performance fee for your articles like Associated Content or Helium you can have your blog lead your audience to those articles and make more money.

9. Sell Your Service: If you offer some kind of service like graphic design, website design, financial consultation, story writing or some other service offer it from your blog. You can even offer your blogging service to people who might need bloggers.

10. Sell Your Café Press Items: Café Press a site where you create your own t-shirts, coffee mugs, calendars, posters and other stuff that you can sell. Way not offer this stuff on your blog. Us PayPal “Pay Now” buttons to take the orders. When someone orders an item they pay you, you pay Café Press a reduced price, they make the item and ship it to your customer and you never have t see the item.

That’s it, that’s the 10 easy ways you can make money from your blog. I realize that not all these ways are for everybody, but I’m sure there is at least one or two of these ways that everyone can find to make money online from their blog.

Learn more ways to to make money online for free at SureCashNow.com. You’ll find videos, articles and other resources to help you make money online. Also follow along with Michael Bridges as he takes you through his quest to make money online through niche marketing and mini-sites at his blog titled, My Make Money Online Adventure.

The Quickest Way To Get Cheap Sustained Website Traffic

by Willie Crawford

During a recent radio interview, one of the callers asked for several ways to get fast, cheap, sustained website traffic. She added on top of that “tall order” that she didn’t want to use pay-per-clicks!

Digging deeply into my toolkit of traffic generation techniques that had actually work beautifully for me, I suggested joint ventures and article marketing. Then I had to admit that article marketing often doesn’t produce an immediate flood of traffic but that it can be sustained and highly targeted.

Joint ventures get you fast and cheap traffic because you’re arranging for those who already have the attention of your ideal customers to send them to you. You’re convincing those who already have the trust and respect of your ideal customers to point out to them that you can help to solve their pressing problems.

My “answer” to the question of the quickest way to generate sustained, inexpensive website traffic still is joint ventures. As a joint venture broker, and Executive Director of The International Association of Joint Venture Brokers, I’ve seen first-hand how large, successful joint ventures with just the right partners can deliver 7-figure days.

However, the joint ventures that so typify product launches in the Internet marketing niche often miss delivering real “sustained” traffic. They are mostly “flash in the pan” launches where the traffic flow dies-off even faster than it builds up.

A better option for generating inexpensive, sustained, targeted website traffic is an affiliate program, or strategic partnerships. The strategic partnerships can even BE an affiliate program, where the partners have agreed to promote certain products within that affiliate program contributed by various members of the alliance.

In ultra-competitive niches, such as Internet marketing, where you often see dozens of new product launches per week, strategic alliances are almost a “requirement.” It’s sometimes so difficult just to get noticed that the secret to breaking through the clutter is TEAMWORK.

You often need to find a group of likeminded individuals, and then work to jointly develop, launch and promote group products and projects.

An example of a product launched using this model is the ebook “20 Ways To Make $100 Per Day Online.” This ebook was written by members of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle (http://TIMIC.ORG), then group members created the buzz that got the product noticed and eventually started other affiliates promoting it.

The “20 Ways” ebook had a viral twist to it too though, and that’s what created and will sustain it’s growth. That viral aspect is the customer-only affiliate program. A customer is eligible to register as an affiliate, and then use their affiliate link to sell the ebook at 100% commission.

The 20 Ways Ebook was indeed launched via a strategic alliance, an affiliate program, and viral marketing. It’s a launch formula that you could easily model, and use to generate a steady stream of quick, inexpensive traffic.

Some would look at the “20 Ways” ebook though and ask “What’s the point - if you then give away 100% commission?” The answer is that you need to build-in backend sales. Add links to your product that drive repeat customer back to you, or offer additional products to those customers on your download pages.

When I further contemplate the question of the fastest, easiest, cheapest ways to generate sustained website traffic, I would still have to say joint ventures… and an affiliate program. An affiliate program fits the “inexpensive” criteria because you only pay for performance. If the traffic doesn’t convert to sales, it costs you absolutely nothing. Any costs involved in an affiliate program comes from revenue that you wouldn’t otherwise have anyway.

The only twist missing from the “20 Ways” model that I would incorporate in hindsight… is to perhaps make some part of the ebook rebrandable. Perhaps use software such as Viral Document Toolkit to allow customer who buy resale rights (as an upsell) to change links within the ebook. No kind of resale rights are offered for the 20 Ways ebook, but it is a twist that you might want to consider for one of your products.

Anyway… joint ventures, an affiliate program, and releasing viral rebrandable products are all proven methods of quickly, easily, and cheaply setting in motion a sustainable flow of traffic!

Willie Crawford is an Internet marketer with over 12 years of experience at generating massive website traffic, and sales using viral marketing techniques. Viral Document Toolkit is his favorite tool for creating rebranded PDF ebooks in minutes. Checkout the demo video at: http://ViralDocumentToolkits.com

Steps To Earning Great Affiliate Checks From Hot Selling Products

By komolafe Isaac

Earning great affiliate commissions is something that doesn’t just happen. It is something that you work at and make happen. It is all about visualising it, planning it and working it out. However, it doesn’t have to be something difficult. Infact, following these 3 steps, you will be able to almost immediately match existing market demand with smoking hot products (on demand) that results in great checks every single month.

Your first step is to know what the market wants. Perhaps the greatest affiliate marketing mistake you will ever make is to pick a product to promote before you know what the market wants. Going that way is being plain stupid about your affiliate campaign. What you should do first is to know what the market wants!

So how do you know what the market wants? There are a lot of complex stuff about know exactly what people want, ranging from $97 softwares to paid membership sites. However, I love simple techniques and I always go that way.

Here are my top 3 techniques for knowing exactly what people want so that I can monetise that and create good affiliate earnings.

First, I recommend you go over to nicheaday.com and subscribe free so that you can get daily niches. Second, go over to ClickBank.com and look at what the top sellers in each category are. If those stuff sell, it means people want them and you can make money off that need. Third, think of all-time people needs and drill down using Google and other keyword research tools like www.wordtracker.com This way, you can get an idea of the market size (consumer demand) for those products.

Second, decide on where you want to sell and what you want to sell. This sounds straight forward but it is can get a little tricky and it is one of the most crucial decisions you will ever need to make concerning your affiliate marketing campaign, so I’ll just take sometime to explain it.

Where you want to sell means your niche. Incidentally, most people always end up in the “make money” niche, trying to sell in overcrowded markets, with far more experienced and richer marketers. If this is where you want to sell, good-luck. I am not saying it isn’t possible. What I am simply saying is that it is far easier to make more money from non “make money” related niches. Here are a few niches you might consider that are sure to pump in the cash much easier. Health and health related niches (e.g. diabetes, cancer, cancer detection and cure, quit smoking etc), dating and relationships (dating and dating tips, marriage tips, repair etc.), office furniture, architecture, games, golf and so many other high profit niches.

Now, that you know what niches you want to sell in, you need to know what to sell to them. This is where choosing products that sell to market demand comes in and this can be really straight forward and dead easy when you know what to do. The basics go thus: choose product with good sales copy. As a rule, if the product’s sales pitch doesn’t make you feel like buying, forget it. Look at what commission the product is giving: for me, anything offering less than 50% per sale is not good enough. Then, the price of a product is also important. If you sell a $97 product for instance and you get a 75% commission, you’ll make $60+ per sale, so I personally won’t go near anything selling for less than $47 except I am sure the product has a backend going for higher and I am sure I will get the affiliate commission on the backend sale.

So, choose your product wisely and then finish off with the third step.

Third step is simply your affiliate marketing strategy. Now, this is really important and a small investment in this area will really be worthwhile. The first thing to do is to create a simple mini-site like what you see on http://easyaffiliatebucks.com which does two things: the first is to pre-sell the affiliate product and the second is to help you build a list, so that you can sell related products to that list over and over again. This is where the real “juice” is! When you have a list of loyal subscribers who you can contact with offers on a regular basis, it will be easy - infact so dead easy, to generate up to $2000 in affiliate commissions with a single email.

Once you have this up and running, start promoting your own website instead of promoting the affiliate product page directly. Write articles, go for PPC advertising, do ezine advertising and watch your affiliate checks go up month after month.

© Komolafe Isaac, 2008

Top 7 Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes

By komlafe Isaac

Affiliate marketing can be really profitable when done right. However, almost everyone EXCEPT the few super affiliates who understand what it takes and make herds of cash in commissions make these mistakes and that is why I have come to regard them as the top 7 mistakes that affiliate marketers make.

1. Thinking There Is Only One Niche To Sell In & To

As straight forward as it looks, most affiliate marketing campaigns fall victim to this mistake. They erroneously believe that to make money from affiliate products, you have to sell “make money” products. This is nothing but a misconception. Marketing as an affiliate is simply about selling products and services for a commission and you can just as well sell stuff outside the “make money” niche and trust me when I say you can do it far more easily. So, dump that idea that only certain niches sell and expand your view by looking into selling in other highly profitable niches.

2. Zero Landing Pages versus Poorly Done Landing Pages..

One of the biggest, yet most made mistakes is to launch an affiliate marketing campaign and then lead your prospects straight to the vendor’s pitch (sales copy). This might have worked well back in 2002 but not now. Internet users have become more sophisticated and the honest truth is that most web users won’t click on an affiliate link or anything that looks like it.

That is why more than anything else, you need a landing page. You landing page doesn’t necessarily need to be something complex. I suggest you see http://easyaffiliatebucks.com to get a feel of what I mean by having something simple. The object is to pre-sell the product you are marketing and also to build a list of prospects so that you can followup and sell other related products to them.

If you are not already using this method or you are doing it wrong, never start another affiliate marketing campaign without it.

3. Neglecting A Followup & Contact System

Don’t expect to reach the full potential of your affiliate marketing campaign without having a followup system fully in place. When you followup with prospects, you build trust, which helps you create even more commissions because the people who read from you believe in you and respect your views and opinions and that is why you need to build, feed and maintain your own list instead of helping other people build their own list at your own expense.

4. Thinking Short Term Profits Instead Of Long Term Earnings.

I agree, there are times when you just plain want some cash in the short term. However, as an affiliate marketer, the first thing on your mind should never be short term profits. PPC advertising is great and can help you produce some incredible short-term profits but never forget that when you do not make conscious effort to turn your efforts into a persistent income channel, it will all dry up the day you stop paying.

That is why more than anything else, you need to create other affiliate marketing avenues that will still give you results even 5years from today. These includes: article marketing, viral ebook marketing, having your own blog, forum marketing, building your own landing pages etc (This also goes for using links that you cannot control in your resource box. It is always better to login to your control panel, go to the redirect section and do a redirect to the affiliate products you are promoting. This way, you are still in control of what your links.)

5. Promoting Too Many Affiliate Products At A Time

The opportunity trap is a deadly mistake into which a lot of people are lured. Every new offer will look better than the previous and it is your duty to hold you head and focus on just a few programs at a time. Too many programs at a time will most likely sap your energy. If you are looking at selling many products at a time, the key is to choose product clusters in related niches and promote them. Too many dis-similar and far apart product niches will shatter your concentration.

6. Giving Up Too Soon

Giving up too soon is a big mistake most affiliate marketers make. It sometimes takes persistence and a chunk of effort to start making the kind of affiliate earning you want.

Expecting to hit $10,000 with just one article or after a 24hour effort is delusion. Yes.. I agree you can make a lot of money as an affiliate marketer but it won’t happen overnight. You will need to learn the ropes, try out several techniques and work hard at it to make it happen.

7. Horror Pages!!

Actually it is called error pages and these are the pages that come up when the specific pages being requested on a website is unavailable. Just imagine having writing 10 articles that each got published on 250 website and having an average of 100page views per article in a few months. That gives a total of 250,000 potential clicks on your links which could result in valuable affiliate sales.

If those links go to an error page – then you understand what I mean by horror!

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3 Websites & Resources You Start Using Today

By komolafe Isaac

The best thing about these websites and resources is the fact that they are all free. Despite this fact, they are so very useful – you will soon find out for yourself.

SeoQuake

If you are interested in search engine optimization and promoting websites on the Internet, this is a tool you should start using. It gives you the ability to view a huge number of SEO parameters and investigate them on the spot. You will be able to know immediately keyword and keyword density of a site and so many other useful information.

Scribd

With Scribd, you can access over 17 million people a month who come over to view documents! If you use this site, you can be getting a steady stream of traffic without paying a dime! All you have to do is create and upload your documents to scribd and let people who search for documents online find them. Its very easy, its free and it brings traffic.

OpenOffice

I love this one. When you think of how much you would have paid to get a pdf converter, you will immediately fall in love. Infact, I would have paid for this software. Anyway it is free and once you have it, you can immediately start converting your documents into pdf – it also has an inbuilt word processor that works like Microsoft Word, an inbuilt section that works like Microsoft Excel – even an OpenOffice Draw – quite a useful software to have around.

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Still Wondering How To Accept Credit Card Payments?

By komolafe Isaac

Still wondering how you can start accepting credit card payments on your website because you cannot use either Paypal or ClickBank or you are just sick and tired of Paypal - then you should see this.

You can immediately open an account at AlertPay. The payment processing site was founded by Firoz Patel back in 2004. Alertpay makes bank transfers, bank wires, direct bank deposits and other modes of payments easy and the great thing is - they accept people others reject.

How To Turn Your Writing Skills Into Fast Cash!

By komolafe Isaac

If you love to write, you can start earning some really fast cash simply by offering your skills to people who need them.

Everyday, countless number of people (online and offline) search for people like you to complete their writing jobs and this can fall into a lot of categories ranging from Copywriting, Website Content Writing, Writing of Children Stories and Short Fiction, Writing of User Manuals for Products and Services, Article Writing, Report Writing, Press Releases and the likes.

Now, if you have a flair for writing, you can work to meet deadlines and you can do little researches here and there when needed, then this might just be the right way for you to earn some good money by trading your skill for cash.

To start getting jobs which you can complete and get paid for, go immediately to websites setup specifically for such. A few examples are www.getacoder.com, www.rentacoder.com, www.freelancewriting.com (Dig up more websites by doing a search for “freelance writing jobs” on any search engine).

Another quick way to start earning from your writing skills is to participate in online forums. A perfect example is www.warriorforum.com where you can register as a member and start participating. Once on the forums, look out for people with specific requests for writing jobs and go for them if you can complete them. Also, you can take advantage of the Warrior Special Section of the forum to make writing offers and get almost immediate results from people who need your services.

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How I Got 1000+ New, Targeted Visitors With Less Than 60 Minutes Of Work

By Komolafe ISAAC

This little secret brought me over 1000+ highly targeted new traffic with less than 60 minutes of my time invested in it.

Now, this is not like the traffic you get from pay-per clicks which dies off as soon as you stop paying.

This little technique of mine actually produces traffic that just won’t stop coming. The first time I tried it, I thought it was just a fluke. I tried it again and traffic went higher.

Then just to be sure - I did nothing for about 30 days and guess what.. the traffic did not drop. Infact the page rank of the sites I used this technique for went up.

So, the technique works and it is very simple.

All you need to do is write good articles. Forget about writing an “encyclopaedia” - short articles of 100 to 500 words related to what you do will work just fine.

Even if you cannot write articles or you consider it too much work, you’ll get thousands of very good writers who are ready to give you high quality articles. Try freelancewriting.com, elance.com …

Next, find keywords that are highly targeted to your websites and products and insert them intelligently into your article to create a flow of content. This makes your article an SEO (Search Engine Optimised) article. The object is to make your articles come up each time these topics are searched for online.

When you have done this, it is time to begin to submit your articles all over the web.

There are websites that will allow you to submit your articles for free. Also, there are sites and softwares that will submit your articles for you. Personally, I submit my articles myself and here’s how I do it.

I search for “article submission websites” in search engines and I sniff through these sites. I basically go for websites that have a page-rank of 4 or higher (Note That). Sometimes, I post in places where the page rank is less BUT I usually stick with a page rank of 4 or more.

Some of the ones I particularly like are searchwarp.com, ideamarketers.com, ezinearticles.com

I then submit my articles to all these places.

To cover all grounds, I usually want to know what’s happening to my articles, so I go to http://google.com/alert and set up an alert that covers the web and ask for a daily report.

All these usually takes me less than 30 minutes and then I sit back to watch what happens next.

The result is usually a stampede of traffic that floods to my websites starting not more than 24 hours after I have posted those articles.

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3 Little Used Techniques To Create $500 Or More Easy Affiliate Money Every Week

By komolafe ISAAC

Most people do not realise how uncomplicated it is to create an outflow of weekly affiliate profits that pours in on automatic. Even a newbie can use these techniques starting out immediately. They are painless.

The first step for making affiliate profits is to find good products with fine sales websites, that are in high demand. You can easily find such products at places like ClickBank.com, Cj.com, PayDotCom.com, Plimus.com, ShareAsale.com, etc

Once you have a product to promote, it is time to apply these 3 techniques and use it consistently to generate as much as $500 every week.

1. Pay Per Click Marketing

This is by far one of the quickest and smartest ways to promote as well as to make fast cash from Affiliate Marketing. If you do it right, you can easily pump in $500 and more weekly from your affiliate marketing campaigns.

All you need to do is signup an account with any of the better known pay-per-click sites, and create an advertising campaign. Within 15minutes, it is possible to start seeing results from your efforts.

Example of the sites you can begin with immediately include; AdBrite.com, Adwords.Google.com, Kanoodle.com, SearchMarketing.Yahoo.com, ePilot.com and more. It costs $5 or less to start at most of these websites.

2. Affiliate Marketing With Articles

This still remains one of my all-time favourites because more than anything else, it can be totally costless. All you have to do is write a quality article related to the affiliate product you are promoting and submit the articles to the major article submission websites. Some of such sites include: EzineArticles.com, SearchWarp.com, BusinessToolChest.com, GoArticles.com, IdeaMarketers.com

Now, here is the great part.

Even if you are not like me who enjoys writing my own articles and find it hard to write articles yourself, you can still use article marketing effectively. You can just hire someone to write high quality articles for you. It is not uncommon to find people to write you 100 solid articles of about 100-200words on topics you specify for less than 4bucks an article.

Places where you can get people to write your articles at modest fees include: freelancewriting.com, guru.com, rentacoder.com

At the end of the article, you are permitted to do a promotion of yourself or your affiliate product and getting thousands of $$ worth of exposure from it absolutely free.

3. Ezine Advertising

There is a direct link between how many people you are able to reach with your chosen affiliate products and how much sale you make. Basically, the more people you reach, the more your sales.

Now that is the summary of everything you’ll read in most 60paged books on affiliate marketing. The key is “numbers” and the faster and smarter you can get people to visit the website you are promoting using your affiliate links, the more cash you pull.

To get large crowds quick, use ezine advertising. You can go to DirectoryOfEzines.com to get a huge list of newsletters where you can advertise in. Some of these newsletters will give you the advantage of reaching over 100,000 people at very modest fees.

So, what are you still waiting for. Go right ahead and implement these strategies to create your own $500 a week income from affiliate marketing.

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