Archive for November 11th, 2008

Affiliate Niche Marketing Tips

Tips for getting started in Affiliate Marketing

Newbies, here is a crash course in the basis behind
affiliate marketing. (Seasoned vets will probably recognize
all the steps outlined here)

Affilate marketing allows you to get paid promoting other
people’s products:

It is a well-known fact that in the information business,
there are two types of people, people who are best at
generating content (experts), and those who are great at
marketing it.

Affiliate marketing attempts to fuse these two types of
people together in the best way, allowing an affiliate to
gain commissions based on his/her marketing of another’s
product or service online. Today it is so easy to become an
affiliate marketer that you don’t even have to know the
person whose stuff you’re promoting! Clickbank offers the
biggest variety of products for you to promote, but other
sites are trying to gain a foothold in this realm, like
paydotcom.com. The great thing about affiliate marketing is
that those with the most limited amount of web experience
can gain the tools to build their business rather quickly.

Steps

1. Join Clickbank.com to look for products to promote

2. Join Aweber, Get Response or other email campaign
software

3. Build a simple one page website using Wordpress, being
sure to allow users to

opt-in on this site using forms from Aweber.

4. Write articles about the product using some of the ad
copy and what you know

about the product (I suggest buying any product you wish to
promote).

5. Offer other affiliate marketing tips as an incentive to
people to opt-in to your website.

6. Insert your affiliate link as a tag in the article and
post them to Ezinearticles.com. (there are many others, but
this is the biggest).

7. If someone clicks through from your link and purchases,
you get paid!

James Nissen

www.vmarketingblueprint.com

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Niche Marketing on Crack - My Passport to 2500 Dollars a
Month

When I first got started with affiliate marketing, I was
stumped about how to choose a niche to go into. I was bad at
picking products to promote. And I had an upside down
approach to structuring and designing an affiliate site.
Basically, I was doing the complete opposite of what I
needed to be doing to be making nice money each month with
affiliate marketing.

And it bummed me out, big time!

I was putting so much time and effort into creating
graphics, coming up with articles and unique content,
letting other people know about my wonderful new sites, and
working up a sweat that I was somehow losing site of the
basic principle you need to master in affiliate marketing:

Sell products people are already buying.

I was going into all of these obscure little niches where,
as I soon discovered, there were few if any buyers. I was
creating way too much free content, too - writing thousands
of pages of articles and distributing them across forums,
websites, and article directories. I was providing wonderful
information for other people but I wasn’t making a dime!

After I began counting more gray hairs which were rapidly
appearing at my hairline, I grew desperate.

I felt developmentally disabled - seriously handicapped when
it came to choosing products to promote and selling them
successfully. Why was it so hard for me?

Like many Internet marketers, I did a lot of reading and
research. I had piles of eBooks and reports on my desk. I
had even more of them sitting on my desktop. But somehow,
each new eBook was exhausting to read. They all promoted
“systems” that were so complex it would take me months to
learn how to use the special software the author
recommended. Or it would take ages for me to master some
complex linking strategy, and then I’d find out soon enough
that the technique didn’t work for long.

So then it was back to the drawing board.

Along the way I developed a craving for simplicity. I
stopped buying “systems” and complicated reports. I focused
on building skills instead. And I only bought reports that
taught simple skills or easy techniques that were
practically guaranteed to make me money - as long as I was
willing to put in some effort.

Somewhere in my journey I discovered Niche Marketing on
Crack by Andrew Hansen, a sharp, successful Internet
marketer from Australia. This book gave me a shot of
adrenalin like no other eBook I’d purchased. He laid out a
remarkable yet simple way of targeting affiliate products
and setting up easy to manage minisites to promote them.

His techniques were so simple that they were revolutionary.
I’d never seen anyone teaching what he talks about in Niche
Marketing on Crack.

I set up some small websites using his techniques and could
not believe how well they worked. Each of them began
bringing me income almost right away - within about five
days at most.

And the best thing about the techniques outlined in Niche
Marketing on Crack is that you can benefit from the tiniest
trickles of traffic - in fact, you’re actually targeting
such specific visitors that you are unlikely to receive lots
of traffic on these sites. And that’s a good thing, because
you’re going after visitors who are in buying mode,
searching for specific products online. And these people are
predisposed to buy from you so it’s like taking candy from a
baby!

I call Niche Marketing on Crack sites “low effort” sites. I
earn thousands a month from the sites I created using Andrew
Hansen’s techniques, and these sites have become a lovely
part of my ongoing income from Internet marketing. I have
other sites that are very different, and I love those, too.
But there’s something wonderful about sitting down and
goofing off and creating a simple NMOC style of site and
knowing that profits will come in very fast, and they won’t
stop coming!

I always advise people to set up multiple profit channels
for their online businesses, so that they don’t get overly
dependent on one huge site. Servers go down, Google’s
algorithms change, and stuff happens. If you run into a
technical problem on one of your sites you could be out of
income pretty fast unless you have lots of other sites which
are also earning you decent money each month.

It’s easy and fast to set up Niche Marketing on Crack sites,
and you don’t have to be particularly geeky to do them,
either. Andrew Hansen advises setting up WordPress blogs,
but you can also create NMOC sites as regular html sites. I
have some set up in WordPress format and some are regular
html sites, and they all bring in juicy income each month.

I recommend Niche Marketing on Crack for affiliate marketers
of any type - if you’re just getting started, or if you’re
more experienced and are looking to build out more profit
producing affiliate sites. Either way, I think you’ll
benefit from this fabulous resource.

Learn how simple sites I created using Niche Marketing on
Crack earn me thousands per month at my Internet Marketing
Badger Blog.

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Setting up A Blog
Instead of a Website Part II

Yet another advantage of blogs in that it has a function
which allows other people to comment on your space. This is
a great way to get good feedback and a wonderful system of
give and take wherein your customers can tell you about
their reactions to the content of your page and you adjust
it accordingly. More professional blogs call this as a sign
of trust, because you rely on your audience to provide you
with constructive criticism and they expect you to change
your content when needed.

Let us now move on to the cons aspect of our discussion. We
have already stated that there are some people who really do
not have a lot of valuable things to say, so this is a
starter con. Good business blogs are difficult to find
because only a few bloggers out there can dish out easily
understandable text that will catch the interest of the
public and move them to action. Anyone can start a blog, but
the real work comes when it is time to maintain it. And
while blogs make for free advertising and marketing, one
should also key in the time factor of writing your content.
Writing can be a very time-consuming task, especially if you
are not used to it or if you are really dead set on making
it sound really good. Should you fail to update your blog
with good quality content, and then you run the risk of
losing valuable points for reputation.

While hiring a professional writer to regularly update your
organization’s blog with good quality content is a good move
on your part, this will again cost you some valuable income.
Only do this when you feel that you have generated a
following big enough to offset the costs of hiring a
professional writer.

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Sean Mize is an internet marketing strategist who teaches
internet marketers how to increase their income by creating
high ticket classes and coaching programs.

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