November 21, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you have your own squeeze page, you will be either promoting the first product on your thank you page or you will be redirecting your subscribers straight to your affiliate link that directs them to the first product that you are promoting. The 1st product that you will be promoting to your subscribers will also be called the lead affiliate product. So how can you test the lead affiliate product to get more profits?The first thing that you will track is the number of subscribers that sees the affiliate product. You will want to let at least 200 people view the offer before you make any conclusion. Once you have 200 unique people who have viewed the offer, you will want to check the number of sales that you have. Most of the products will have an average sales conversion of 1%. This means that you should have at least 1 sale for every 100 people that view the offer.If you do not get any sale even after 200 people view the offer, you might want to consider changing to another lead affiliate product which have better sales letter. If you do get one which has a conversion of 1%, you might want to test out other product and choose those that will gives you a more then 1% conversion. If you choose those have better sales conversion, you will be getting more profits for the same amount of visitors that you drive to your website. It will be more practical to find one product which has better conversion as this will means that you will be fully maximizing the profits that you will get for every 100 people that you refer to the offer. When you do more to drive more traffic to your offer, this will simply means more sales for you. So start to track your lead affiliate product sales conversion and choose one that will get you more sales.
Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse. He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.
Heâs recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
So how can you affectively advertise in E-zines and reap a profit from affiliate products? There are a number of different ways, of which, I will cover three below:
1. Target E-zines that are related to your specific affiliate product.
Create a viral report that is related to your affiliate Purchase sponsor ads in reputable E-zines and send all of those interested to a page where they can download your viral report for free. This report will have an embedded affiliate link, which will generate sales on your behalf.
2. Create a persuasive solo ad.
Again, start off by purchasing solo ad space in cheaper E-zines; ones that are responsive, but have a low subscription count. Test your solo ads to determine
your approximate conversion rate with the given affiliate product. Once you have a rough handle on your profit margin, attempt to market your solo ads in larger publications, including e-zines with subscriber bases of over 100,000. Keep in mind that this will be expensive, but it will also pay off if you did your homework in the previous steps.
3. Last, consider targeting high-end online publications with your ads.
These will include ones that don’t normally include their sites in E-zine directories, such as authority sites that publish a monthly E-zine in PDF format. These often have high response rates and will similarly draw the best response if you use them correctly.
Once you have selected reputable e-zines to advertise in, you will then want to begin creating your solo ad. There are a number of writing formulas you can use to do this; however, you will always want to keep in mind what it is that your potential customer wants most.
In conclusion, promoting your website and making profits from it using E-zines is a very viable and effective method. You just have to keep in mind what it is that people want and need. I’ll give you a quick recap of the three most effective tips for using this powerful method:
- Target E-zines that are related to your specific affiliate product.
- Create a persuasive solo ad.
- Consider targeting high-end online publications with your ads.
In advertising, it is often easy to project our own wants in a given product onto potential buyers; however, it is important when communicating with them that you talk about their wants, not yours.
I hope you don’t take this advice lightly, and is it could mean sink or float for you and your online aspirations.
Daniel Alan is the creator of the Perfect Path To Wealth system and an expert at making money online.
The Perfect Path To Wealth Affiliate Program is one of the best choices for affiliate marketing offering $33.90 per sale, which is a 75% commission. It is one of the best converting programs around and is free to join.
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you are doing a affiliate marketing business, it is important for you to know the difference in roles between the merchant and the affiliate. Although you may be the affiliate for the merchant, you will still need to know the different roles that you have to play.
When you are promoting affiliate product, your main goal is to presell the product. This is an important concept that you must know as the role of the affiliate is to presell. Once you have directed the customer to your squeeze page and they join your list, your subscriber will start receiving email from you.
Your role as affiliate will be to list down the benefits, the reasons on why the subscriber should click on the affiliate link that you have recommended. Once you have managed to get the subscriber to click on the affiliate link, you have already done your part.
Once your customer goes to the merchant’s page, it will be the sales letter job to sell the product to your directed customer. If the customer buy, both you as the affiliate and merchant wins because both of you have gain something.
Thus, it is important for affiliates to choose a good affiliate product with a good sales letter so that when they direct the customer to the merchant’s page, the sales letter will convert more customer into buying customers so that the affiliates will earn commissions from the hard work that they have put.
In conclusion, the role of the affiliate is to presell the product and he should never hard sell the affiliate product. If you have done the preselling of the affiliate products properly, you will be able to achieve much better results.
Zack Lim is an up and coming affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com providing information on Affiliate Marketing. To get Free “7 Days to Affiliate Marketing” course, go to http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
As web technologies continue evolving each day, new information keeps coming out in the limelight but not all web designers get to know about it. This is due to lack of comprehensive coverage of the subject on the internet where one can get concise and up to date information without having to jump between the many different web Tutorial portals offering bits to their readers.This article seeks to highlight issues to address in development of a wed design tutorial portal or for any other topic on the internet.1. Design – The design and layout of the information should be void of complicated link overlaps; this reduces the user getting lost when following a particular link. The layout should also be simple and attractive to the eye, avoid dull colors on your pages and unnecessary graphics that may clog your page and increase delays during loading.2. Informational Flow -A flow chart can help to depict the organization of the web pages in your web tutorial portal, a well thought table of content with links to the relevant related articles and pages will help the user to easily spot and follow their link of interest without getting lost in between. This applies to each article too, structuring it to have a heading where you introduce the topic, body where you discuss in length and conclusion helps the user understand the topic in a systematic manner.3. Consice content âThe content in the tutorials should be to the point, no one likes reading loads of pages to get to the point, A simple and detailed article can drive the point home other than long and often repeating essays most people write for tutorial.3. Up to date Information âThe information published on the web tutorial portal should be updated and new ones added periodically, This shows the users that they are on an informative site offering current and new information. Its advisable to display newer articles for repeated users and allow new users browse for topics they want in the portal.4. Relevance âThe content in the web tutorial should be relevant to the needs of users. It should meet the needs of your visitors. This is the hardest part but allowing user feedback and feedback is a way to gauge satisfaction to your web portal users. Try also targeting specialized groups it gets easy to serve them other than being diverse in your content.5. Allow for comments from users and readers âKnow what the users think about your articles learn their expectations and bond with them. Comments can help you determine effectiveness of your tutorials.6.Accept users contribution âThis will allow users raise their concerns and views that can help you improve the quality of your tutorials, Sharing of ideas with your users helps in addressing their diverse and sometimes personal experiences that forms the basic reason why your web tutorial portal gets more visitors and retains them.
Sullivan Pau is a web Consultant and Webmaster at Syspag Studios ,A company offering web/blog design,web/blog hosting and SEO Outsourcing services.Rate this article and read more Internet Technology articles at More Blog/Web Design Articles .
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
The process of studying and getting to know their affiliate products better is a step that most affiliate marketer will not do. Most of them will be thinking of only the amount of money that they can earn if they promote and not the idea of giving value to the customer. This is a mistake which all affiliate marketers should avoid.
You will never really promote the products well enough until you know it well. Why? The reasons are:
1. You will be able to endorse the products with authority if you know the products well enough.
2. You will be motivated to promote the products if you actually used the products before and you find it to be a very good product.
3. If you study the sales letter or product, you will be able to see in a new angle the ways which you can use to promote the product.
Although it is not possible to buy every product that you are going to promote, the least that you should do is to study the sales letter and do some research on the product. You will have at least had some ideas on whether the product is worth promoting or not.
If you decided to focus on just one affiliate products which will be your main products, it will be advisable to buy the product yourself so that you have more understanding. Besides you being able to experience the merchant’s sales process, you will also own and understand the product better.
So in conclusion, if you want to promote any affiliate product, it will be better to spend some time on knowing and understanding the products that you are going to promote. This will definitely increase your income if you bother to take action.
Zack Lim is an up and coming affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com providing information on Affiliate Marketing. To get Free “7 Days to Affiliate Marketing” course, go to http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Today one of my clients asked me the million dollar question about whether or not he should sell advertising on his company blog.
My answer, every time a client asks me this, is…
Hmmm.
The reason I always stop to think about my answer to the blog advertisement question is that it’s different for each client, different for each blog. Because each blog has different goals and different reasons for their existence.
And each client is different. Knowing this particular client is a big fan of contextual advertising (Adsense, Yahoo Publisher, etc) I had to hesitate a bit before I answered him. Because in this case, contextual advertising would hurt the client much more than it would help him.
The reason why is because this particular client offers a service in which he receives a large payment should his users decide to contract him. Several thousand dollars for each new client.
But stop and think about what he receives if they come to his site and click one of those contextually targeted links. You guessed it, they are going to click on one of his COMPETITORS links being served on his website. It’s not a long stretch to come to the conclusion that he just sold a client that might have paid him several thousand dollars for a couple of bucks. Maybe less, maybe a couple of pennies.
The reason advertisers use contextual networks like Adsense is because they work. It’s cheap advertising that can effectively steal clients from their competition. For a few cents a click they might just nab one of your clients right off your website and pull down the sale you could have had if you had not served up the ads.
Yes, there are ways to configure your Adsense ads to exclude specific websites, but bet your bottom dollar that some of your competitors are going to target your site, somehow, someway. If you are offering them the doorway for a small price, they are going to pay it and see if they can convert your users.
A better plan for service oriented sites such as the client in question is to optimize the site and work on the sales approach. Simply speaking, to CLOSE THE SALE with the users you have. Not to look for pennies when you could be making dollars.
If you can’t convert the traffic you have, then a couple of different things could be wrong.
* You could have really low traffic
* You could have the wrong traffic
* Or your content is not capable of SELLING what you are offering
All three issues can be solved with some optimizing, with some strategy. But you need to know which it is first. To fix a problem, you need to first pin down what the problem is.
So be objective. If your sales text sucks, recognize that it sucks, move on, and FIX IT.
Set the goal in your mind to make your site a success. Then take action to get it done. You can be at the top. All it takes is a little elbow grease.
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
The common thread of social media marketers is that they connect with the world, the people, and their surroundings. These people are connecting, communicating and reach out to others. Always sharing and giving news and ideas. The main interest is other people, always sharing and being active in the interest of others. To be successful in Social Media one must be active in it. Social Media marketers are communicators.
A good Social Media marketer knows the area. Look at it like a map. You must know the layout and the terrain. Understand the products, the people you are reaching out to, understand the industry you are promoting. An expert Social Media marketer must understand the Internet as if they are a member of the community and they know, understand and gain the trust of that community. You will fail if you do not have the working knowledge of customers, markets, and the complete picture of the company’s product. Knowing the Internet, using it most effectively and being able to distribute the information is very important.
Proficiency in the various social web community is the main goal of a good Social Media marketer. One that connects, an information resource at the same time being very trustful and an active participant, a conversationalist in the social media community.
Ideally, a Social Media marketer, not really “marketer”, is a person with many qualities, Web Marketer, Customer Service and PR combined with genuine enthusiasm, trustfulness (listening, speaking, a conversationalists).
Do not let all of the tools, peer pressures, and work get in the way of the big picture, our morals and knowledge that develop significant and gratifying associations. As an expert in Social Media, we must have the ability to conclude which networks are pertinent to the product/service we represent. And why, how and when to fit into place.
The conclusion, those who find the most success in the social media marketing territory are those who are seriously networked and make certain that continue constant associations is part of their everyday routine.
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November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
There are millions of articles on the web that teaches people how to increase their page rank. Some of these articles have gave Google’s page rank a very high importance by presenting them as the most important thing a website owner should look for.
In order to determine whether Google’s page rank is really useful or not we have to look at it from two different angles. How Page rank affects your website’s traffic and how does it affect the sales of your products. After all, the only sources of income you can get out of a website are advertisements (which depend on traffic) and selling products (either selling your products or selling through affiliate programs) so it makes absolute sense to examine those two major factors since they are the ones that are responsible for your website’s revenue.
From the experience I have in the E-business world and after developing many websites that generate respectable monthly income I can confidently say that Google’s page rank has a minimal effect on your website’s traffic or even a non existent effect.
What determines the position of your website in the search results are hundreds of factors that might include the page rank In between them. I have seen tons of websites having a page rank of Zero yet they are being displayed on the top 10 results in Google’s search.
I also ran a website that jumped from a rank of zero to a rank of four without any noticeable increase in Google’s traffic. So the conclusion is, Google’s page rank might be having a little effect on your search engine’s traffic but this is effect is so small that it cannot prevent a well optimized website having a rank of zero from appearing on the top of the results.
In my article, how to increase my EBook sales, I described how trust can be the most important factor that lets a visitor buys your products online. The more trust you can build in the visitor the more likely is he to buy your product. Some consumers, but not all, can trust websites that have a higher page rank because it gives them the feeling that their money isn’t going to be lost.
The “S” word scares most of online users and that’s why they never buy from a website unless they make sure that it’s not a Scam. A higher page rank also helps users know that Google respects your site and so this gives your site and your products further credit.
Yes it is, but not when it comes to traffic, it can only help consumers perceive your website in a better way and it can help them have more trust in it. To summarize this in one line, Google’s page rank may not affect your traffic but it will defiantly affect your sales and the way people perceive your website.
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November 9, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Organic traffic is traffic that comes to your website naturally and without being driven there by any specific paid marketing campaign. With organic traffic website surfers are there because they found the site when they clicked on your resource box in your article. The main engine for organic traffic is article writing. To ensure you understand how to start getting your share of these amazing marketing system, type into your browser “organic traffic”.
The results you get on the right are paid and the results you see on the left are organic and normally unpaid. Let us examine the methods you can start using right now to start generating your share. Organic traffic usually happens in the same way that you might browse the bookshelf at your local bookstore or library for something in a specific area of interest and discover that little treasure that contains all the answers you’re seeking. This is what the Web was all about when it was first created. The main sources of organic traffic include referrals from other Web sites (links), referrals from search engines, and URLs placed on business cards or letterheads. The best way to get organic traffic from referrals from other websites is to write articles that contain useful content that is needed by these website owners. A top criterion for them using your content is they must include your resource box which includes a clickable link to your website in the article.
If the reader of your article likes your information he or she may click on your website link in your resource box to find out more. The trick is to call for action in your conclusion. If your information is genuine, the reader might just click on your website link in your resource box to check your site out and thereby given you an opportunity to sell your products displayed on your website.
Referrals from search engines. Organic traffic from search engines is based on complex formulas and explanations can be compared to the tax laws. I will you some known facts that will get you started immediately. The search engines in order to determine popularity have spiders crawl the web looking for links. Accordingly, the more links pointing to your website from other websites or link directories tells the search engines your site is relevant and must have something interesting for all this other websites to link to yours. Now, how you generate this links and the way they are counted or measured is open to major dispute and false claims.
The best ways to start generating this links is to start writing articles that is relevant to what web surfers are looking for and in the bottom of the article you place your website URL in the resource box. Use the same method you find in the resource box of this article, just use your own words to start getting your share of organic traffic. You submit your article to article distribution sites like Articlesdynamic for distribution to website owners looking for relevant contents.
Submit your articles to at least ten other articles distribution sites. When other website owners use your article you get a link pointing to your website. I have seen one article become so popular that in two months is has generated thousands of links for the writer. Your best bet is to just keep writing unique articles with relevant keywords and submit them to article distribution directories. I know website owners that write and submit fifteen to twenty articles a month. Just imagine the links pointing back to your site and the search engines will reward you with an ever increasing share of organic traffic relevant to your website.
URLs placed on business cards or letterheads or emails. Another effective method to generate organic traffic is to start including your website URL in your business cards, letterheads or emails. Since you have no idea who might need your services, it is in your best interest to invite everyone. I usually include my business card with any bill I pay through the mail. I also include my website in my emails.
Use the above methods to generate organic traffic. Be cautious about scams that promise to give you dramatic search engine placements. From experience the only placement that happened was my money got placed in their pocket with no visible results. You can also buy articles just make sure you’re the only original owner. Plr articles sold to hundreds of individuals are a waste. Buy only unique articles. The above techniques will get you an ever increasing share of organic traffic that can become an avalanche as long as you continue writing and submitting unique article content.
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November 6, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
As web technologies continue evolving each day, new information keeps coming onto the limelight but not all web designers get to know about it. This is due to lack of comprehensive coverage of the subject on the internet where one can get concise and up to date information without having to jump between the many different web Tutorial portals offering bits to their readers.
This article seeks to highlight issues to address in development of a good blog for any topic on the internet.
Design – The blog design and layout of the information should be void of complicated link overlaps; this reduces the user from getting lost when following a particular link. The layout should also be simple and attractive to the eye, avoid dull colors on your pages too.
Informational Flow -A flow chart can help to depict the organization of the web pages in your blog, a well thought table of content with links to relevant articles and pages will help the user to easily spot and follow their link of interest. This applies each article posted too; structuring it to have a heading where you introduce the topic, body where you discuss in length and conclusion helps the user understand the topic.
Consice content âThe content in your blog articles should be to the point ,no one likes reading loads of pages to get to the point a writer wants to bring out, A simple and detailed article can drive the point home other than long and often repeating essays most people write in their articles.
Give Up-todate Information âThe information published on your blog should be updated and new ones added periodically, This shows the users that they are on an informative blog offering current and new information. Its advisable to display newer articles for repeat users and allow new users browse for topics they want in the blog.
Relevance, relevance, relevance! âThe content on your blog should be relevant to the needs of users. It should meet the needs of your blog visitors. This is the hardest part but allowing user feedback and feedback is a way to gauge satisfaction to your users.
Allow for comments from users and readers âKnow what the users think about your articles learn their expectations and bond with them. Comments can help you determine effectiveness of your blog articles in relation to topics you are discussing.
Accept users contribution âThis feature will allow users raise their concerns and views that can help you improve the quality of your blog, Sharing of ideas with your users helps in addressing their diverse and sometimes personal experiences that forms the basic reason why your blog gets more visitors and retains them.
Sullivan Pau is a web Consultant and Webmaster at Syspag Studios ,A company offering web/blog design,web/blog hosting and SEO Outsourcing services.Rate this article and read more Internet Technology articles at More Blog/Web Design Articles .
