Guest Post by Lee Ka Hoong
Affiliate program is getting more and more popular when it comes to monetize our blog or site, affiliate program is the program that you will get paid when you promote the seller's product, and referring someone to buy the product, you'll get paid either in a fixed one time payment or recurring payment. There are more and more people trying to make more money with affiliate program, they follow the techniques on the internet blindly and end up they get nothing because they're failed in marketing the products. Knowing the right affiliate marketing tips to apply in your work will not only help you earn a lot of money, it will help you build a career out of the online opportunity.
There are also few different types of affiliate program, one of them is called pay per lead affiliate program. Pay per lead affiliate program is becoming popular in the industry, pay per lead affiliate program is the program that pay you for referring someone to sign up or fill up a form with their personal details. It's much more easier to make money with pay per lead affiliate program because there is no sales required.
Here are the tips that you could boost your earning with pay per lead affiliate program :
1) Using Article Marketing Effectiveness
How many of you know the power of article marketing? Article marketing is a way that promotes your product or site by writing articles and submitting them to article directories or others' blog. If you just promote your product in your blog, you will only get minimum exposure, but if you promote your product by writing in others' blog or article directories, you could get maximum exposure. I found this quite effective when it comes to promoting product. Guest posting is one of the type of article marketing, just like what I do in this blog.
2) Knowing Your Product Well
You may need to know your product well before promoting it to your visitors. You need to show your readers that you've actually tried the product and found this quite useful, this increases the trust from your readers. So, you need to know what you're trying to sell to your readers, instead of promoting them blindly, it's not working at all. Of course, it's a plus if you could write a full review about the product that you're promoting.
3) Fire Up Your Email List
Many people are trying to build up their email list by using email autoresponder services such as Aweber and RevResponse. They get up to 5 sales out of the 100 emails that they've sent out, that's considered a good conversion. But this might not work if you don't know the technique of building a strong email list, I suggest you to learn some email marketing technique from this blog or others' blog.
4) Choosing The Right Pay Per Lead Program Network
There are many pay per lead program networks out there, so you need to choose it wisely, choosing the wrong network might waste all of your time in promoting them. If you get to know about a pay per lead affiliate program network, try to search their review on Google search engine, you might get some useful review about them, choose the one that someone had their successful story.
Making money with pay per lead affiliate program might be very interesting, you need to find the best and reliable pay per lead affiliate program on the internet in order to boost your earning.
Author Bio:
Lee is the owner of MyBlog2Day which is a Top 10 Make Money Online blog. Feel free to visit his blog and learn how to make money online with your blog.
Friday, 31 July 2009
Thursday, 30 July 2009
How to Make Money With Both Big and Small Websites
Guest Post by SR Connell
One of the greatest implied conflicts in the "make money online" community is the debate whether we should focus on creating small "niche" websites or larger "flagship" websites. As someone who has found success in both niches, I've found the debate to be completely wrong-founded.
This article will introduce you to the two most popular website business models, and will compare them for you to choose.
Small Niche Websites
A small niche website is a website that has just a few dozen articles and is written to rank well for a very specific niche. For example, I built a website that details the basics of information dealing with short term loans.
The website details the basics of student, personal and business short term loans. It isn't amazing. The content isn't breathtaking. But I still make $20 per day.
That website is geared towards the search engines specifically. I focus on content and links -- and that's it. By focusing on writing a good 20-30 articles, you have enough content to rank in Google. By building links, you'll be increasing your ability to rank in Google as well as the other search engines.
The total amount of time to build a website is less than 2 days if you're a fast writer. The time to build links depends, but I usually spend about a month working on a new niche site.
The income is usually limited. I usually make no more than $5-10 per day per website, with the exception of the short-term loan site. But when you build 20 or so small niche websites, you have a relatively easy income stream.
Here are the reasons people like to try small niche websites:
-You don't have to constantly update
-You don't have to constantly manage comments
-You don't have to build links for years
-You can expand as you see fit
Large Flagship Websites
Large websites are different from the small niche websites. They aren't written only for the search engines, but are wired specifically for people. The goal is to get a large following of people to read the website. These readers will give you a huge level of traffic every day.
An example would be my How to Make Money Online website. My biggest money-making page is the affiliate page, where I help others make a few hundred per day who aren't looking to actually create a website.
You make money specifically by selling products, placing ads on the website, etc. You don't make much per visitor, but the theory is that with enough traffic, you can still pull a profit.
The idea is that you generate traffic by writing and publishing fantastic content every single day. Some blogs publish literally 5-10 articles per day, trying to shock and awe the Internet into gathering them a great income and following.
-It takes a lot more work
-It takes more time to succeed
-The competition is usually worse
-But the payoff can be lucrative
This is where most people earn millions online -- by publishing a flagship website in a competitive and high-paying niche.
Conclusion
There you have it. If you are willing to work harder to get the money, a flagship website might be for you. Of course, if you're just starting out a niche website is probably the best bet. I have used both and both methods work just as well in the long run -- it's really just up to you.
One of the greatest implied conflicts in the "make money online" community is the debate whether we should focus on creating small "niche" websites or larger "flagship" websites. As someone who has found success in both niches, I've found the debate to be completely wrong-founded.
This article will introduce you to the two most popular website business models, and will compare them for you to choose.
Small Niche Websites
A small niche website is a website that has just a few dozen articles and is written to rank well for a very specific niche. For example, I built a website that details the basics of information dealing with short term loans.
The website details the basics of student, personal and business short term loans. It isn't amazing. The content isn't breathtaking. But I still make $20 per day.
That website is geared towards the search engines specifically. I focus on content and links -- and that's it. By focusing on writing a good 20-30 articles, you have enough content to rank in Google. By building links, you'll be increasing your ability to rank in Google as well as the other search engines.
The total amount of time to build a website is less than 2 days if you're a fast writer. The time to build links depends, but I usually spend about a month working on a new niche site.
The income is usually limited. I usually make no more than $5-10 per day per website, with the exception of the short-term loan site. But when you build 20 or so small niche websites, you have a relatively easy income stream.
Here are the reasons people like to try small niche websites:
-You don't have to constantly update
-You don't have to constantly manage comments
-You don't have to build links for years
-You can expand as you see fit
Large Flagship Websites
Large websites are different from the small niche websites. They aren't written only for the search engines, but are wired specifically for people. The goal is to get a large following of people to read the website. These readers will give you a huge level of traffic every day.
An example would be my How to Make Money Online website. My biggest money-making page is the affiliate page, where I help others make a few hundred per day who aren't looking to actually create a website.
You make money specifically by selling products, placing ads on the website, etc. You don't make much per visitor, but the theory is that with enough traffic, you can still pull a profit.
The idea is that you generate traffic by writing and publishing fantastic content every single day. Some blogs publish literally 5-10 articles per day, trying to shock and awe the Internet into gathering them a great income and following.
-It takes a lot more work
-It takes more time to succeed
-The competition is usually worse
-But the payoff can be lucrative
This is where most people earn millions online -- by publishing a flagship website in a competitive and high-paying niche.
Conclusion
There you have it. If you are willing to work harder to get the money, a flagship website might be for you. Of course, if you're just starting out a niche website is probably the best bet. I have used both and both methods work just as well in the long run -- it's really just up to you.
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Creating a High Quality Customer Base for Surefire Affiliate Marketing Success
Building up a valuable email list is the very first step on the road to successful affiliate marketing. As an intelligent affiliate marketing, you are not resuming to send out numerous emails to a bunch of ordinary email addresses. It is preferable and more efficient to send emails to targeted prospects. Follow the next 4 tips to professionally build up a high quality email list.- Build your landing page
A landing page is among the most efficient and successful tools in affiliate marketing. A landing page enables you to gather email addresses of prospects interested in your products or in what you have to offer. One method to get those email addresses is to offer them something for free. Among the things you can offer them for free are for example, online courses, e-books or special reports closely related to the targeted niche market.
- Redirect Subscribers to your Affiliate’s Link
Normally, you are waiting and wishing for your visitors to click on your affiliate links! You could eliminate that by redirecting them via your landing page to your affiliate site. However, this is considered to be a pushy marketing method that many visitors just hate, because they want to decide whether to click on your link or not.
It is preferable to use this method, if your affiliate website has for example related articles that are not considered spam. Instead, if you are marketing a particular niche market, that is well-known for detesting spam, it is recommended to simply place a link to your affiliate website.
- Efficiently manage your follow-up emails
It is essential to know how to distribute the emails you send out in a week, with maximum efficiency. You should not send message to your email list too frequently, as you will just irritate them, being considered spam and put on a blocked list. For best results, it is highly recommended to have a break of three or four days between your messages. It is also wise to have your messages contain something useful and valuable. You will not reach far as an affiliate marketer with clear advertising messages.
- Test your Landing Page’s efficiency
It is recommended to change from time to time the content of your landing page, as they are not normally ranked by the different search engines. You should build a couple of different landing pages and use them in rotation to evaluate how well are the visitors responding to them, which one of them have a higher response rate. Experiment different keywords and visual elements. Affiliate marketing specialists are saying that straightforward landing pages with professional look are producing the best results.
The above tips have to be taken in consideration when planning to build up your very own email list containing a valuable prospects list to use a long time fro now on for your successful long term business. Learn how to use it, apply it in your strategy and you will see the superior results.
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
How You can Start Making Your Living Online
As somewhat of an Internet marketer myself I’m always looking for the good way to make money online. I’ve tried my hand in a lot of the different trades but the only problem is motivating yourself. More often than not internet marketing forces you to learn new skills, talk to different people and keep working even when there’s no end in sight.
Recently however, an amazing Internet opportunity has popped up. Tim Lowe one of the all-time successful Internet marketers is going to open up a membership website. Tim’s estimated online income is about 40 000 – 100 000 USD per month. I can’t imagine what doors are going to be opened once he opens up his site to the general public, and I’m just glad that I’ll
be in on this huge insider secret.
This membership website is designed especially for people who need to make money on the Internet. The website is coming up shortly but because Tim Lowe is in such demand (currently in the middle of the 2009 joint workshop) he already started a priority waiting list.
Since his main membership site isn’t up all we can rely on is his temporary site at simplynoexcuses.com for information. To give you the gist of things Tim Lowe membership site is offering everything you need to start making money online including:
http://www.simplynoexcuses.com
Imagine sitting on a warm beach just watching the waves gently crash against the shore, while sipping on ice cold drinks and scrunching up finely ground up sand with your toes. This could be you because Tim’s offering you the chance to make enormous amounts of money. Don’t let this pass you by!
Conclusion
Tim’s offering to build an Internet home business for you each month and you will not be working alone. Tim and his team will guide you and give all the support you need to get started on the Internet. As spots are limited in the membership site, if you are interested in this opportunity, sign up for his priority waiting list now to guarantee you get a spot when the site opened.
Recently however, an amazing Internet opportunity has popped up. Tim Lowe one of the all-time successful Internet marketers is going to open up a membership website. Tim’s estimated online income is about 40 000 – 100 000 USD per month. I can’t imagine what doors are going to be opened once he opens up his site to the general public, and I’m just glad that I’ll
be in on this huge insider secret.This membership website is designed especially for people who need to make money on the Internet. The website is coming up shortly but because Tim Lowe is in such demand (currently in the middle of the 2009 joint workshop) he already started a priority waiting list.
Since his main membership site isn’t up all we can rely on is his temporary site at simplynoexcuses.com for information. To give you the gist of things Tim Lowe membership site is offering everything you need to start making money online including:
- A new professional website every month
- 100 of products you can choose from to promote
- Updated videos and training resources that teach you the success strategies and techniques
- And much more……
http://www.simplynoexcuses.com
Imagine sitting on a warm beach just watching the waves gently crash against the shore, while sipping on ice cold drinks and scrunching up finely ground up sand with your toes. This could be you because Tim’s offering you the chance to make enormous amounts of money. Don’t let this pass you by!
Conclusion
Tim’s offering to build an Internet home business for you each month and you will not be working alone. Tim and his team will guide you and give all the support you need to get started on the Internet. As spots are limited in the membership site, if you are interested in this opportunity, sign up for his priority waiting list now to guarantee you get a spot when the site opened.
Twitter or Blogging for Internet Marketing?
Rather than being faced with the choice of whether to use a blog or social networking to promote your website, service or product there is another solution. You can have both your blog and twitter run simultaneously as twitter is mainly a micro blogging site. Twitter supports tweets of user posts on any topic with a maximum of 140 characters and thus can never replace original blogs. A smart internet marketing strategy is to announce to your followers that your original blog had been updated by tweet and derive SEO benefit from combining the use of both platforms.
Now with a basic understanding of what the site is all about, let’s see what is achievable with twitter. After signing up at twitter, update your profile page with your information and website link. You can start posting posts and make it act like a mini advertising blog. You can post at any minute of the day and your post gets updated instantly. Follow fellow bloggers of your niche, can meet new people, post and Retweet other interesting news that you want to share with you followers. Hence the term social networking where members can use the work of others users to help their own profile and marketing agenda.
A good suggestion is to maintain good relationships with fellow twitter users and use it to improve your communication skills. Not even an internet connection is not necessarily needed because twitter has a feature that enables you receive tweets to your mobile and you can also update your posts through your mobile and even IM.
The most common mistakes people make while using twittering are, using auto DM (direct message) feature in the wrong way, spamming the inbox of followers, mass following, posting tweets only to promote their business, not using real profile pictures or vague profile information. Avoid these errors in order to achieve maximum potential from social networking media like twitter.
Irrespective of the increasing widespread usage of twitter, there are also some limitations to twitter. The 140 characters limited text support in each individual post id is obviously the major one. This does not allow posting of very detailed or descriptive posts and also, you are further restricted to using simple code structure to reply to your tweets.
The key to micro blogging is people learning creativity and to be able to appeal to readers from what is only a summarization of the information they wish to convey. For those that master this skill then twitter is going to be amazingly effective for internet marketing purposes. Write short and catchy posts and you can find people retweeting your posts if it’s interesting. Twitter can also be used with most of the IM clients such as yahoo and Google talk. All you need to do is with the help of a few tools, add the id in your friend list and whenever you send an IM, it gets updated as the post to your twitter account.
After time spent in the building followers stage this will now help provide instant promotion to a highly niche targeted list. Twitter can be used for any purpose but always remember to respond to tweets, update your posts, follow people and make good conversation with followers.
Now with a basic understanding of what the site is all about, let’s see what is achievable with twitter. After signing up at twitter, update your profile page with your information and website link. You can start posting posts and make it act like a mini advertising blog. You can post at any minute of the day and your post gets updated instantly. Follow fellow bloggers of your niche, can meet new people, post and Retweet other interesting news that you want to share with you followers. Hence the term social networking where members can use the work of others users to help their own profile and marketing agenda.
A good suggestion is to maintain good relationships with fellow twitter users and use it to improve your communication skills. Not even an internet connection is not necessarily needed because twitter has a feature that enables you receive tweets to your mobile and you can also update your posts through your mobile and even IM.
The most common mistakes people make while using twittering are, using auto DM (direct message) feature in the wrong way, spamming the inbox of followers, mass following, posting tweets only to promote their business, not using real profile pictures or vague profile information. Avoid these errors in order to achieve maximum potential from social networking media like twitter.
Irrespective of the increasing widespread usage of twitter, there are also some limitations to twitter. The 140 characters limited text support in each individual post id is obviously the major one. This does not allow posting of very detailed or descriptive posts and also, you are further restricted to using simple code structure to reply to your tweets.
The key to micro blogging is people learning creativity and to be able to appeal to readers from what is only a summarization of the information they wish to convey. For those that master this skill then twitter is going to be amazingly effective for internet marketing purposes. Write short and catchy posts and you can find people retweeting your posts if it’s interesting. Twitter can also be used with most of the IM clients such as yahoo and Google talk. All you need to do is with the help of a few tools, add the id in your friend list and whenever you send an IM, it gets updated as the post to your twitter account.
After time spent in the building followers stage this will now help provide instant promotion to a highly niche targeted list. Twitter can be used for any purpose but always remember to respond to tweets, update your posts, follow people and make good conversation with followers.
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