Blogger Max, new technology evangelist, on-line marketer.
I wish I knew years ago what I know now. I would retire earlier.
5 Easy Steps: How To Make A Million From Your Business Blog In A Year?
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
So you run somewhat successful blog – you have a decent traffic and generate few dollars here and there from AdSense, but it still looks like a hobby, not a real business. Can it be changed? Can you find better ways to monetize your publication if you don’t have an army of advertising sales agents selling your ads, and affiliate network ignore you since no ad network really runs B2B offers?
As you know majority of advertising networks focus on consumer market while your blog targets business professional. If your blog is still generates limited traffic, running CPM probably wouldn’t pay off, neither pay per lead programs, since reputable companies that pay over $50 a lead would rather advertise with more established publishers.
Feels like you don’t have many options, right? Well, wrong!
Here is how you get retired within 3 years:
Step 1.
You locate an affiliate network with B2B merchants that run PPS offers with VERY high payoff.
It’s easier said then done, but I’ve found one for you. Actually it’s the only affiliate network that has technology and infrastructure to serve B2B advertisers, even those that don’t close their sales on-line. You would think that there is no way to track a sale if payment transactions are not process on-line, but those guys have it all figured out. You will see status of each lead that their forms capture on the advertiser’s landing page. You can login any time to the system and see how leads move through the sales pipeline, how sales milestones are reached by advertisers’ sales force (contracts are signed, PO placed etc.) and what is your revenue forecast for next 6 months (since you are selling a product with a long sales cycle, don’t expect the campaign’s performance in a first week). So, IdeaMama Ad Network.(bookmark it – IdeaMama Ad Network.). You can try to find other suitable networks, but I didn’t find any, zero. So. Let’s go with it for now.
Step 2.
You select few merchants with very high pay out, $5,000-$10,000 per sale. It could be IT or consulting companies that market to multinational corporations, law firms, you name it. Their average order exceeds $50,000 per client and they easily can pay 10-20% commission on each sale since their margins usually pretty high.
Step 3.
Develop content that presents benefits of your advertisers, give them generous editorial content to pre-sell their offers to your audience. Keep the language very professional, deliver your point with minimum words, add facts, case studies, white papers. Remember, you target professionals that know their business. They are looking for a real content on your blog, give it to them. Add 5-10 articles per advertiser, it won’t take long.
Step 4.
Start driving traffic to your advertisers’ corporate web sites (client showcase section, case study section, white paper library). Choose the page that really sells as none of your advertisers have a real “landing page” since they don’t sell on-line. Log in to IdeaMama’s affiliate interface once a week to check the status of your leads and estimated income from each advertiser in next 6 months.
Step 5.
Drop merchants that have lousy sales team. If you see that they don’t move your leads through the pipeline, and no deals seem to be any close to be signed with your prospects, fire them. Go back and check for new offers on the network. There will be always some better companies. But don’t drop merchants too fast, give them at least couple months to prove their ability to make money for you.
Let’s do a math now.
You selected 10 advertisers.
Their average sale per client is $50,000.
Your average commission per sale is 20% ($10,000).
You generate 50-100 leads for each merchant a month.
They close only 1 deal a month from your leads.
You make $50,000 for each merchant monthly.
What does it mean for you?
It means 10 deals a month that is equal $10,000*1*10= $100,000 a month >> $1,200,000 a year.
Can you accomplish the same result with pay per impression or per click campaigns if your blog or magazine generates not more than 10,000 a month? Well, good luck with that thinking even if yoru are an award winning writer!
May be you won’t make your million in a year, may be it will take 3 years, but the road map is very straightforward: choose companies which deliver great value and write about them, share your passion with readers, profile the entrepreneurs behind the enterprises, promote their service and product, expose them. Create a very niche publication, don’t spread too wide. Deliver real value in your content.
Be real and build a real business where others can’t.
Share your knowledge and wealth with others. There is no other way to happiness than sharing.
Super Affiliate: How I Made $436,797 In One Year.
November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Start Your Own Home-Based Affiliate Marketing Business With Super Affiliate Rosalind Gardner’s Expert Guidance! Topics Include Blogging, Market Research, Affiliate Programs, Web Design, Problem Avoidance And So Much More! Updated Regularly.
Hot Affiliate Marketing Tips for This Year
October 31, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
As the Internet changes, so marketing has to change with it, and that includes affiliate marketing. My affiliate marketing tips for this year include a different attitude to how to attract buyers and toward websites and blogs.
Presell don’t sell
The whole point of affiliate marketing is that you presell products, you don’t sell them. Trying to sell affiliate products, with banners and ads that scream ‘Buy Me’ are some of the biggest mistakes I see being made by affiliates. As an affiliate, your job is to get the prospect to the merchant’s site, and let the merchant do the selling.
Be careful, though, when selecting banners and text ads from merchants. Some do not understand the need to presell either, and they will offer sales material rather than pre-sales material. Don’t use it, write your own. That, then, is the first important tip for this year.
Get a website
Many affiliates do not have a website, and rely on Adwords to make money. This used to work, and can still work with impulsive buy products, but not with many products. The problem is simple – they don’t trust the seller.
This has nothing to do with the internet, by the way, it is just a fact of life. People like to feel comfortable with firms they deal with, and need to have been in contact with them five to seven times before they are ready to trust them enough to buy their products.
If you send someone directly to a merchant’s site from Adwords, you are invisible, and they merchant is a complete unknown. So you have little chance of making a sale. It is true that many seasoned marketers do, but believe me, the bulk of their income comes from elsewhere.
As an affiliate, you need to set yourself up as an expert in your niche, and that means you need a website. It does not need to be big. Five to ten pages are enough to do the job. Here, you give information, and get the prospects to sign up for your list so you can send offers to them.
So, my second affiliate marketing tip for this year is to get our own web site.
Write a blog
My third affiliate marketing tip is to write a blog. This can be added to any site that has Cpanel and Fantastico, which will install Wordpress for you in less than a minute. You can also get a blog at services like blogger.com and wordpress.com, but these have less authority than one you host yourself.
Straight away you can start posting to your blog, and you can write anything you like related to your topic. Not only is this useful, but it is fun.
So here are my three affiliate marketing tips for this year: Presell don’t sell; get a website to support your affiliate business; and set up a blog.
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How To Make Money Blogging this year
October 29, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
How To Blog For Cash in 2009
Social media promoting is all the rage at this time. Facebook is attractive, Twitter is fast and easy, and MySpace – well, you’re nobody without a MySpace page. So where does that leave good old blogging? A has been. Blogging is still one of the finest ways to make money online.
If you want to make money blogging in 2009, the following 11 blogging tips offer some sage advice on the way to go about it.
To make cash Blogging in 2009, Start From Scratch
Blogging Tip one : make a Posting Schedule. It makes it easier for readers to follow you ; indeed, look forward to your posts. If your schedule is erratic, it will take you that much longer – if ever – to build up a loyal following:
Posting Schedule Tip : Try to do so once or more a week.
There’s a great software which can help schedule and automate your blogging. You can check out a full review of it here.
Blogging Tip two : Post from Experience. Did you know that info is the best selling product on the web? And, much of it really is written in a’how to’ format by writers who’ve experienced it first-hand.
Readers will come to understand, like and trust the information you provide. It will also build up your credibility as an authority in your niche.
Blogging Tip 3 : select a Niche. Speaking of niche – select a niche and stick to it. It’s where the money is. So, clearly define your niche and always post with their needs and desires in mind.
Blogging Tip four : engage with Other Popular Blogs in Your Niche. The best way to do this is by commenting on other popular blogs in your niche. Make your posts applicable. Do not just post to post. This is purposeless and is a waste of your time. Use the space to leave useful, topical feedback.
I don’t care how good your post is, if it is’s poorly written, you’ll lose credibility. Never underestimate the power of good writing.
Blogging Tip 6 : Get a Clean Design. You do not need to be a web designer to have a good blog. Of course , readers come for your information. If design is not your forte, don’t sweat it. Just use a clean design that is’s easy to navigate. A clean, straightforward design is sort of a little black dress – it’s sophisticated – timeless.
Plugins are things like’most important posts’,'most up to date posts’, and so on. They inspire readers to hang around longer.
What I mean by this is, center each post around a keyword phrase. And, the writing doesn’t need to be bad to’force a phrase,’ just keep SEO in mind when you blog.
But, the ideas apply to blogging as well.
Blogging Tip nine : do not forget to plug your Blog. Don’t stop at posting. Tweet them on Twitter, post them to Facebook and MySpace, stumble them on StumbleUpon, etc.
Social bookmarking and networking tip : These are time-consuming selling techniques because you’ve got to have interaction with these communities to make this kind of selling effective. So just keep this in mind when you commence with them.
Be you ; inject some of your personality.
Blogging Tip 11 : never give up. Blogging is more time consuming than many think when they first start. So don’t give up.
If you keep these blogging tips in mind as you head into 2009, it could be your must successful year ever as a blogger.
Matthew Ball is a veteran internet marketer. He specializes in SEO, and ocassionally writes articles teaching his methods
The Ultimate Blogging Secrets That you Never Know for Year 2008
October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Blogging has become more and more popular these days, people are looking for ways how they can improve their blogs so that more people know about their blog and can hence visit their blog. I believe that you can find a lot of blogging tips, guides and even secrets in the search engine, blogging has become one of the most-seek topic because everyone blogs.
So what are the ultimate blogging secrets? In my opinion, those blogging tips such as submit your blog to Technorati, post constantly, get a FeedBurner account, submit your posts to social networking sites, ping your blog and many more are not secrets anymore. This is because by simply typing ‘blogging tips’ in the search engine, you will come out with tons of results of the same kind. Almost every bloggers out there knows about these tips and guides.
So what I’m going to tell you here about the ultimate blogging secrets are something much more ‘mental’, it is more to your mindset rather than something like all the blogging tips that you can find from the net itself. Therefore, for me, the ultimate blogging secrets are:
Secret #1 – Know why you blog
Know the reason that you blog. Everything happens for a reason, and if you create a blog today, there must be a reason for you. So, why did you blog? Is it because you are just following the trend? You see a lot of people are playing with blogs, and you decide to join them as well? Or is it that you want to earn money from your blog? Whatever reason it is, there must be a reason; you have to find this reason.
Once you know why you blog, then nothing can ever stop you. Just like if the reason you blog is because that you want to create an extra stream of income online, then do whatever it takes to achieve it. It is the purpose that keeps you going, motivates you, inspires you and keeps you moving forward. Today, if you don’t know why you blog, it is most likely you are going to give up the moment you find that nobody actually visits your blog.
That is why the reason is important. Know why you blog before you start creating your blog. This is just like having a clear goal, if you have a goal, you will know where you are heading. However, if you don’t have a clear goal, you will be lost somewhere. If you don’t even know where you wanted to go, how can you ever reach somewhere?
Secret #2 – Serve your readers
Many people did not know about this. Did you know that the reason people visit your blog is because of the information that you have? Therefore, the main purpose visitors arrive at your blog is because of your content, so you will have to write quality posts. You will have to serve your readers. This is the one question that you have to ask yourself, “Are you willing to do whatever it takes to educate your readers and without asking for anything in return?” If your answer is yes, then you should start creating your blog right now.
Just imagine that if someone arrives to your blog, but your blog contains nothing, your visitors will leave immediately, because your blog has got nothing that they are looking for. I like to use this word when I talk about serving your readers, Value. Yes, you have to create value for your readers, the more value you created for them, the more likely they will addict to your blog, and thus, follow your advice, and purchase whatever you recommend to them.
This is how it works; creating value for your readers, provide something that they are looking for. I know you’ve heard this, ‘content is king’. This is very true, your blog content is just like the heart of your blog, and the traffic is blood. Without the heart, your blog will die, and without the blood, you blog cannot live. So, often bring out valuable posts for your readers, write with original content and your readers will appreciate it.
Secret #3 – Treat their blog as a get-rich-quick scheme
I believe that almost 50 percent of people who start their blogs with the reason that they hope they can make some money out from their blog, fast. If you think it this way, then you are wrong, blogging is not something that can bring you money in a fast way. In fact, blogging is something just like real-estate, it will appreciate over time.
Meaning that you have to spend time and develop your blog. Your blog is not a money tree and it cannot earn you any money if you don’t develop it properly. Most people start their blog and wish that they can make some money out of it; this is because they have heard that many bloggers are making a lot of money from their blog, easily. They think that by simply setting up a blog, throw some posts in it, set up Google Adsense, and checks will come to them automatically.
If you think that blog is something that can make you rich in a quick way, you are wrong. Indeed that some people can earn a lot of money from their blog in just a short period of time, but did you really think that they are just lucky? You have to spend a lot of time to build your blog, you have to treat your blog as a serious business if you really want to make money from it.
There you go, the 3 blogging secrets that you never know about. Well, maybe you’ve already known about these, but in my opinion, these secrets are also important compare with other blogging tips such as submitting to Technorati, pinging, bookmark, etc. I hope that this article can help you achieve much more in your blog.
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