Finding Good Affiliate Programs To Promote

April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There are literally thousands of affiliate programs on the internet that cover just about every product and service one could imagine. Hence, finding the right affiliate program can be quite a difficult task. If you’re new to affiliate program, you have to know that to the business owner, an affiliate program is virtually a free marketing tool that allows them to generate extra business without having to invest in any significant up-front costs. They typically have nothing to lose by recruiting as many affiliates as possible.

You have to define your target audience; whether it’s general traffic or specific types of visitors? Is you audience mainly comprise a particular age demographic? Male and/or female?

You have to decide which industries fit in best with your audience. Before you can start looking for affiliate programs, you need to decide what kind of products or stuff appeal most to that target audience.Then only you should see if there are good affiliate programs that sell that stuff or products.

Here’s a good formula, that we follow, to remember always:

” No buyers = no money ! ”

Look for programs that have the best reputation, commissions, marketing materials and try to tie it all into offers for the actual buyer. Use your common sense about the price of the products or services you’ll be marketing for these programs. They may pay 50% commissions, but do they charge twice what they should to the buyer? Of course you want good commissions, but you also want and need to market something people will actually want to buy or else you’ll not get any commission at all. This actually means you have to ensure fair prices from the sellers ! You might earn less per sale, but think about the volume of sales. The right balance makes you the most money.

There are a couple of videos on affiliate marketing which we have included in our Video Tutorial section that you should view to further enhance your understanding on this subject. View them and enjoy.

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This means that you can easily:

A) CAPITALIZE ON THE LIFETIME VALUE OF CUSTOMERS you may have from an existing e-business by sending them “backend” offers for the course. (Statistics have repeatedly shown that, of the people who have bought from you before, 36% WILL BUY AGAIN!)

B) EARN 250% MORE SALES than you would promoting your own product by making a “friendly recommendation” as opposed to pushing your own product or service.

… All without the usual hassles and expense of product development and fulfillment!

It’s extremely easy to do because you just post a link, a banner, or a short letter of recommendation on your web site — or perhaps recommend the course in your newsletter or e-zine — and then COLLECT A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROFITS (called a “referral fee”) when a sale is made!

You don’t ever worry about:

– Collecting the money

– Packaging the product

– Shipping the product

– Customer service

… or anything else for that matter! You just do the promotion and collect your referral fee from the resulting sales!

Typically, affiliates who have web sites with low traffic earn between $400 – $900 per month, affiliates with medium traffic sites earn anywhere from $1,200 – $2,700 per month, and heavy traffic sites can expect $4,000+ per month. Their top affiliates are earning $8,000+ every month!

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What Tools To Use To Help With Your Research ?

April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Some useful tools that can make your research easier include, the search engine, news sites and e-zines, existing business (both online and off line), favorite hang out of your target market and some free and low costs tools.

The search engines are your best friends when conducting research online. The big three, Google, Yahoo and MSN for example have indexed billions of web pages which you can find easily by typing keywords in their search windows. Arguably, they are the simplest fastest and easiest way to find information online.

Then you have the online news sites and e-zines . You can find ones that offer information about your area of interest and check for latest news on same. Explore also e-zines that relate to your market. Many e-zines are highly specialized and geared for a very targeted market. Hence, a great way to learn about the issues dominating your market. Take the product reviews featured in many e-zines for example, can be a very rich source of information. A simple way to find e-zine related to your market is simply to type “your market” and “e-zine” into the search engines mentioned above.

It would also help to look for businesses, both online and off line, already selling to your intended market. You may want to look at the various segments. Pay attention to how existing businesses to the the various market segments and what kind of approach do they take to each of the segment. You would also be able to see how much competition there is in any particular segment. In fact you would be able to assess how well these existing businesses are marketing themselves to their target market.

A great tool for checking competition is Alexa ( http://alexa.com) which can provide you with free competitive intelligence for the web site you visit. This can help you determine the credibility and the perceived value of the sites compared to similar sites and also sites serving different segments.

Another approach is to connect with people who belongs to your specialized market as they may become your future customers. The best place to look for these people are the different types of forums, discussion boards and chat rooms where they hang out and talk to each other about their common interests. Newsgroups are also useful to check out. So are blogs or weblogs.

Meanwhile, there are also a number of free and low costs research tools that will help you know what your potential customers are looking for. You may wish to try some free online tools like the WordTracker and Yahoo Search Marketing’s Keyword Selector Tool.

Choose your web host carefully !

April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

This decision cannot be taken lightly !

There are a number of key things you need to consider when choosing your web host. While not every business will need all of the features that we list below, keep them in mind when reviewing different hosting packages:

• secure server capabilities; which allow private information like credit card numbers to be sent through your site without fear of interception.
• fast servers; a crucial feature because your online income is going to be directly proportional to the speed at which your web pages load.
• the space they provide; though most web sites in average use 10 megabyte, it is useful to have extra space available for future expansion.
• unrestricted CGI access; you have to have a full CGI-bin access as most professional web sites need to use CGI programs at some time or other. ( Refer to the Glossary for more info on CGI)
• SSH and FTP access; you need this to transfer files back and forth between your local computers and your web server. You may also want public FTP access, so ensure this is an option too. ( Refer to the Glossary for more info on SSH and FTP)
• web-based administration; a great feature for those not technically inclined as it allows you to manage your server via the Web.
• access to raw server logs; necessary to analyze your web site traffic.
• full e-mail service; including POP mailboxes and unlimited e-mail aliases. Even better if they offer IMAP.
• power and daily server backups; to ensure that you’ll never lose anything should the hardware crash or a natural disaster occur.
• no minimum contract; as should something ever happen, you might not be able to switch when you need to.
• what is their down time; your web site is your business, so choose a web host that you can depend on to keep your storefront visible to the world.
• their technical support; should be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week by phone and e-mail. This is critical.

With all that said, you should also consider what should be avoided when choosing your web host. Avoid having your web site hosted by your Internet Service Provider. Given that one of the key concerns discussed earlier is speed and reliability, it makes more sense to use a company that specializes in hosting web sites.

You should also avoid using free service, as visitors will perceive your site as small time and unprofessional. If you do manage to establish a business using a free web site address, your name becomes linked with their name because you are using their root domain as your web site address. They can shut you down instantly. For example, if you get accused of spamming, they can cut you off without even giving you a chance to defend your self. They could even go out of business, leaving you with nothing! There are many more negative effects, but suffice what have been discussed for now.

The bottom line is that your web site is your business and your host is your partner; so choose your web host carefully.

So after all this you’re probably curious who we recommend for web hosting. There are several good ones you can use and we are using the ones provided by Dotster and GoDaddy.

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