Saturday, December 30, 2006

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the revenue sharing between
online advertisers (and merchants) and online
salespeople. Compensation and pay is based on
performance measures, normally in the form of clicks,
sales, and registrations.

The advertisers and merchants are normally referred
to as affiliate merchants, and publishers or sales
people are known as affiliates.

The many benefits of affiliate marketing include
the potential for making lots of money. You can
automate a lot of the advertising process and
receive payment only for desired results, which
includes sales, registrations, and clicks.

Even though most merchants will assume some level
of risk with fraud, there is still a level of risk
involved. Once you know what you're doing with
affiliate marketing, you'll be on top well before
you know it.

Affiliate marketing has been a contributor to the
rise of many companies online, including Amazon.com.
Amazon.com was one of the first adopters of affiliate
marketing, and now has thousands of affiliate
relationships.

When it comes to making money, affiliate marketing
is in a league of it's own. You don't have to
worry about bosses breathing down your neck, and
you are in control of everything you do with
your company and your website.

Affiliate marketing also gives you the chance to
stand behind products you know and love, be
offering links and banners to them on your personal
website. You'll receive money for each product
purchased that you represent, which is reason
enough to participate.

If you've been looking for extra money, affiliate
marketing is the way to go. You can stick with
one merchant or go with as many as you need for
your business. Affilate marketing on the internet
is truly becoming more and more popular - making
now the time for you to get your foot in the
door.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Affiliate Marketing In 3 Steps

Affiliate Marketing In 3 Steps

Affiliate marketing is a process where the merchant
will pay a portion of their sales revenue to an
affiliate if the sale is result of the affiliate's
promotion to the products and services offered by
the merchant.

Now days, it's one of the fastest growing industries
because it's cost efficient and quantifiable for
both the affiliate and the merchant. Other players
can profit as well, such as the affiliate network
or the affiliate solutions provider.

The best benefit for the merchant is the fact that
he will gain opportunities to advertise his
products to a much larger market, therefore
increasing his chances to earn. The more affiliates
the merchant obtains, the more sales he can expect.

With the merchant having affiliates market his
products and services, he will save himself time,
effort, and money in looking for markets as well as
customers. The affiliate marketer will benefit
from each customer that clinks on the link in his
website and who actually purchases a product from
the merchant.

If you have wanted to join the growing legion of
affiliate marketers and have an unlimited potential
for income, simply follow these 3 steps to start
an effective affiliate marketing program.

1. Identify something that interests you or you
feel very passionate about. Then, focus on a
specific area you know a lot about, as this will
help you bring out your best and give your
visitors who are possible buyers a demonstration
of your expert in this field. This way, you'll
gain their trust and encourage them to buy the
products that you endorse.

2. Search for merchants and products or services
that are related to your interest then creat a
web site with top level domain names and very
reliable hosting. When you choose the products
for your web site, you need to consider the
commission structure and the conversion rate.

There are many different affiliate networks and
affiliate solution providers where you can obtain
the information on most profitable products and
which merchants pay the best. Take your time -
and be sure you choose the right one.

3. Now, you are ready to promote. You've chosen
everything you need and even created your very own
website. You'll need to be creative, flexible,
and willing to embrace new ideas. By this stage,
you'll be well on your way to making more money
than you ever imagined - and enjoying every
minute of it.


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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Road To Success

Currently, there are thousands of online enthusiasts
who are taking the plunge and joining the community
of affiliate marketers. With e-commerce booming,
and the internet dominating the business world,
becoming an affiliate marketer is a very wise choice.

To be successful with affiliate marketing, it's always
best to learn the basics of the affiliate marketing
business, then realize what sacrifices will need
to be made for you to accomplish your goals. To
get to the top of affiliate marketing, you'll need
to make the necessary sacrifices.

Before you join any type of program, you should
learn as much as possible about the company. It's
actually very easy to research companies, as search
engines are easily the one of the most primary
sources for information. To be on the safe side,
you should ensure that the program and company has
been operating for several years - which can be
easily and properly verified.

One such company is the Money Legs Development
network
. Online continuously from 1999, it is a complete
suite of online advertising and marketing programs.
With a wide range of products that are geared for Newbies
and seasoned veterans and everyone in between. This is
one of the most stable, credible and constantly up to
the minute sites on the 'net for the person who wants
a complete system to make money online and is
willing to do their "due diligence". Join for FREE and check
it out. Click here.
Many individuals are under the impression that you
can earn a lot of money with affiliate marketing
and not have to invest a penny. Even though
the majority of these programs are free to join,
you'll have to invest money at some point in
time during your affiliate marketing career.

More than likely, this money will be used for
advertising and the promotion of web sites. In
most scenarios however, the amount of money spent
will be earned back with a little bit of time.

Making it as an affiliate marketer will take
time, effort, and a lot of hard work. The more
of these qualities you put into your business,
the greater the success you'll achieve. You
should always be willing and ready to stick with
your program to build up your earnings.

You'll also need to design a variety of different
strategies and methods, which range from creating
web sites to product promotion. You'll also need
to advertise, as well as keep in constant contact
with your affiliates. You should be ready to
put in the most time during the first few months
of your program, as once your network begins to
get established, your work load will lighten.

Even though the system of affiliate marketing
may seem overwhelming at first, you should realize
that you are surrounded by online support. A
lot of the individuals who join affiliate programs
are new to the business.

Many organizations and companies have around the
clock support forums and customer support for
those affiliates who need advice or assistance.
A lot of web sites are equipped with e-books,
tutorials, articles, and tips that will make your
quest of becoming an affiliate marketer a little bit easier.

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Affiliate Marketing 101

Affiliate Marketing 101

Affiliate marketing programs are a great way to get
income for your website, and a great introduction
to e-commerce. The more people that drop by your
website, the great your chance will be at creating
an excellent income.

Affiliate marketing programs are where a company
offers to pay you a set amount for either a click
through from your website, or a set amount for
visitors signing up, or even a percentage of a
purchase made by visitors as a result of being
referred from your website.

Even if visitors don't make a purchase immediately,
almost all programs offer cookie duration, normally
consisting of 30 - 90 days. What this means, is
that as long as the visitors have the cookie in
their cache, you'll still recieve a profit from
the sale.

The biggest amount of time in maintaining your
site will be searching and implementing affiliations
with various companies. Even though there's a lot
of money in affiliate marketing, you have to take
the time to search for the best programs.

One program that has been around since 1999
(An enormous task for any online business) is
MoneyLegs Development Network.

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One thing that you may not be happy with, is the
idea of other companies banners littering your
website. If you use too many banners or links on
any web page, it can confuse and help to irritate
your visitors. More than one animated element on
a web page can be very distracting as well.

Affiliate tracking can also be a problem. Once
you have applied to become an affiliate for a
company, they'll usually supply you with a
personalized link or code. It's very important
that you implement this code into your page
correctly, or you may be sending visitors to the
company without recieving any profit.

A majority of snippets in the code will contain
a unique user ID, which the company uses to
distinguish which site sent traffic.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Birth of Alliliate Marketing

In 1999, as many of the dot-coms crashed, a new form of consumer marketing was taking hold on the Internet. Web marketers, hungry to drive sales on e-commerce sites, launched affiliate networks that represented leading advertisers such as BMG, Blockbuster, NetFlix, Discover Card and hundreds of others in what is known as "affiliate marketing."

As affiliate networks grew, they provided savvy marketers with the opportunity to earn big commissions by generating sales for advertisers through the marketing of free gift sites online.

Part of the appeal of this type of marketing lies in its simplicity: It lets anyone with a presence on the Web promote and sell goods online and get paid a commission by the advertiser for sales generated. This opportunity affords nearly limitless venues for promotion and marketing, access to an instant sales force of thousands and no out-of-pocket media costs for advertisers.

One example is MoneyLegs Development Network, which is a network of traffic exchange sites that allow promotion of your own business. If you are looking for access to business and marketing resources that will save you time and money, then this is the opportunity you have been looking for.

Since MoneyLegs inception, it has delivered thousands of customers to hundreds of well-known brands. MoneyLegs connects consumers with marketers through advertising campaigns including Web, Search Engine and e-mail programs, plus traditional marketing channels such as offline print marketing.

You can earn commissions with Multiple Income Streams from downline building as well as through the Matrix and Profit Sharing. The company is essentially to be used to drive Web traffic to your sites. Rather than paying for advertising to persuade people to log on to clients' sites, MoneyLegs provides special online surfing incentives, such as free credits and other popular rewards.

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    Saturday, December 09, 2006

    5 Free And Essential Marketing Tools To Ensure Any Affiliate Partner’s Success

    Time and time again, it has been said that affiliate marketing is, without a doubt, the quickest and most efficient way of earning a living online. There are a variety of reasons for this. For starters, most affiliate programs do not require any enrollment fees. There is no financial investment on the part of the affiliate. Secondly, the affiliate is only tasked with pre-selling the affiliate merchant’s products. The sales page, the payment processing, the digital delivery, and the post sales services shall be borne by the affiliate merchant.

    These shouldn’t mean that the affiliate should want in commitment, however. As a matter of fact, an affiliate’s success wholly depends on how much commitment he could give the program, and how much effort he could invest to pursue such commitment.

    Sometimes, this requires some monetary expenses. Getting a web host, for example, as well as a domain name, would necessitate some cash to be laid out. Getting professionally made graphics to make his website attractive can also cost some dough, in the event that the affiliate cannot do this for himself. PPC advertising can equally be just as costly, if not even more, if the affiliate would ever decide to utilize this option.

    But not everything needs to come at a price. There are vital tools that would help ensure the affiliate’s success, and they can be availed of for free.

    Here are the top five tools under this category. Knowing them would give you the edge you need. Using them would give you the head start that would push your online enterprise to the next level.

    1. MoneyLegs. MoneyLegs is a traffic development club that allows you to advertise your site thousands of times daily. They offer 6 traffic exchanges that are free to join and free training to all members. You can check out the advantages at: http://www.mainthings.com and sign up from there is you feel this is something that would benefit your business

    2. NVU Website Creator. Macromedia Dreamweaver is too expensive? Microsoft Front Page is too complicated? Then the NVU Website Creator is the program for you. This software program streamlines the website creation process through an interface that is easy to use, but powerful enough to make professional-looking web pages. Download the client for free from www.nvu.com .

    3. Backlink Builder. If you’re maintaining your own website, either as a review center for your affiliate program’s products, or as an affiliate mall for the same, or even as a blog which promotes the aforementioned digital items, you will need to build a thorough list of backlinks to increase your page rank. The higher your page rank is, the better chances it will have of appearing in the first few pages of search engine results. Don’t know where to start? Use the free tool available at www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php to discover all the places where you could leave some links to your website.

    4. Keyword Selector Tool. Keywords are the primary ingredients of any search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. You will use them for your meta tags, your h1 tags, your ALT tags, your page title, and your content. You will even use them for the articles you will submit to the many article directories in the World Wide Web. The proper use of keywords would result in the more efficient documentation of your website so that the search engine spiders will have an easier time finding your web pages for any relevant query. And since 80% of the traffic that you will be able to generate for your website would come from the search engines, keywords become the most essential aspects of your site building efforts. Need to find the right keywords? Go to www.nichebot.com and use their powerful tool to determine the profitability of the keywords related to the affiliate products you will be promoting.

    5. Statcounter. You will need to study your website’s statistics so that you’ll know what you’re doing wrong, as well as replicate what you’re doing correctly. For this purpose, simply copy and paste the code that will be provided by www.statcounter.com to get in-depth reports about the performance of your website.

    All of these tools would improve your performance as an affiliate. And the fact that they all come without charge just makes the deal even sweeter. Try them out. Chances are, you will realize that the best things in life can be free after all.


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