Posted by admin on July 1st, 2008 — Posted in Doing Commerce
As an affiliate it’s likely that you’re accustomed to writing product comparisons to enrich your website. If only it were that easy to compare the two largest and most popular affiliate networks. Both have an array of high quality merchant partners that affiliates can sign on with to forward buyers and receive commissions. There’s no reason why an affiliate wouldn’t want to deal with both networks. The terms and conditions for participation vary somewhat, but both have in place mechanisms to connect reputable merchants with the need for an additional sales channel with affiliates, or advertisers who are willing and able to direct qualified customers to them.
The networks streamline the process for both the merchant and affiliate, doing the record keeping and administration, so the merchant can concentrate on sales and the affiliate can focus upon his site development and profitability.
Some of the things both do:
For advertisers: Offer programs with merchants, provide merchant links with associated commissions to the advertiser, monitor the sales attributable to the advertiser, accumulate commissions and pay at a specified interval, provide the advertiser the ability to generate reports for the purpose of planning and management of their affiliate business. The networks also have in place mechanisms to screen merchants to weed out those who cannot and will not pay agreed-upon commissions.
For Merchants: Provide a marketplace where affiliates can apply for the merchants’ programs. Provide merchant links of the appropriate commission level to the affiliates, provide management reports for merchant evaluation of program metrics and ROI.
Karen Kari’s articles and more information on the affiliate business can be found at:
http://www.affiliatebandit.com
http://www.advertisingcellar.com
http://www.billionfreeads.com
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Posted by admin on April 24th, 2008 — Posted in Doing Commerce
…because they understand the potential of the most prevalent, work from home, Internet business Opportunity In The World!
…and because they know about Gorilla Marketing!
- Why is Affiliate marketing so prevalent?
- What are the Advantages?
The popularity of Affiliate Marketing…selling others people’s stuff and getting paid for it…is due to the ease of entry into the field…along with the many, various ways in which folks can extrapolate a potentially, very high income.
…and that’s where Gorillas come in!
Gorillas know it is not wise to put all your eggs into one basket…so they stay busy developing diverse streams of income.
Once their work from home web site has evolved into a web business, they utilize their wild Gorilla tactics to build increased traffic flow that ultimately adds streams of income from various profitable sources.
Gorilla Marketing includes:
- Offering Advertisements…such as Google AdSense, and others!
- Adding Affiliate Links to reputable merchant sites.
- Adding Internet Partner links to complementary sites that increase visitors informational opportunities.
- Writing and distributing articles that help define themselves and their brand of One!
- Utilizing Auction sites such as Ebay to sell related items and present a personal page with their work from home web site url (link).
- Responding to forums and blogs on related issues and building their own!
- Building a web site Store…to sell products and services.
- Offering free e-books, e-zines and other information that utilizes viral marketing.
- Creating various off line opportunities, through separate media sources, etc.
- By continuously monitoring the effectiveness of their efforts, tweaking their strategies and creating new tactics as they go along …that’s life long learning!
Gorillas slow down but they never stop…they grab a banana for lunch and keep their eyes on the jungle…they know changes are inevitable…they love the challenge and they love the thrill of victory…the sweet taste of success well earned!
Be a Gorilla!
Doug Channell is the founder of Alpha-Affiliate.com…that answers the question…What is Affiliate Marketing and What Are the Advantages?
Learn how, with minimal computer skills, you can build and Implement your own web site that will Evolve into a work from home, income earning web business!
Go to http://www.alpha-affiliate.com to learn more!
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Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2008 — Posted in Doing Commerce
Have you ever thought about a specific amount of money you
*think* you need, to feel what it’s like to experience success?
…
Go back and read that question again.
Most haven’t, but chances are if you have, it’s pretty close to
$5,000 a month.
I recently ran a survey to a handful of my best customers,
asking them how much money they’d have to make to call
themselves successful in their online business…
Out of 113 surveyed, 42 responded with at or around $5,000 a
month. 18 of the 42 specifically mentioned passive, or residual
income in the amount of $5,000 per month.
Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed wanted $5,000 per month,
while fifteen percent wanted it in residual income.
As you continue to read this article, you will learn about a
rock solid, tried, tested and approved nine-step strategy for
easily acquiring $5,000 per month online using only email…
1. Find an affiliate program that pays instantly, or at least
twice a month.
2. Join the affiliate program and calculate your Dollar Value
Commission divided by 5,000. This will give you the total number
of sales you need to convert from your affiliate link each
month. [Example: 5,000 / $33.50 = 150 sales per month]
3. Take your number of sales per month, and divide by four. This
gives you the number of sales needed per week. [Example: 150 / 4
= 38 sales per week]
4. Take your sales per week and divide by seven. You now have
the number of sales needed per day… [Example: 38 / 7 = 6 sales
per day]
5. Now create your Simplified Target Statement:
Example: “In order to acquire $5,000 per month, I am attracting
6 sales per day, 7 days per week — this or something better!”
6. Print out this statement, take a red pen and circle it. Trace
the circle a few times with the pen to “cement” the the idea
firmly in your mind.
7. Tape it to your computer desk, or keep it somewhere near you.
Preferably, you want to see it during the morning, afternoon and
night if possible.
8. Go to MBPAdvertising and run a solo ad inside a publication.
Keep a record of what publications pull sales, and keep buying
ads in those ezines until your campaign becomes unprofitable.
9. Buy more ads from different sources. MyWizardAds and
DirectoryOfEzines can both provide excellent resources for
advertising in online publications.
Within one week of each campaign, find out which publications to
keep advertising in, and which ones to drop by calculating the
revenue minus advertising cost of each referred sale. For
example, if Ezine A ran my ad and it received 34 sales
generating $1,139 in commissions, and I paid $149 to run the ad,
I made $990.00 in pure profit.
Obviously, I made more than I spent to acquire those customers,
so my campaign is considered profitable. This is ALL that
matters. If you’re making more than you’re spending to get
customers, you’re golden!
People often get caught up and frozen in details that really
don’t matter anyway.
All that matters is that you make more than you spend to acquire
new customers.
Granted, some can afford to lose money on acquiring new
customers because they have a well thought out follow up
strategy to pick up the profit on the back end.
This may seem basic… and it is. But if you can apply 100% of
your focus to a Simplified Target Statement without worrying
about the details… you will reach your target and acquire the
exact amount of income you’re after.
Sure, there are many other things you could do to acquire just
six new customers per day, with a commission of $33.50 per sale
– but you don’t need it.
Stick to the basics. They’re basic, because they are fundamental
principles that work.
I can’t tell you how long it’ll take you to reach your $5,000
per month reward.
But this simple method can make earning that lifestyle closer
than ever before.
Think about it. With a $67 product at 50% commission, you’re
just six sales per day away from a $5,000 per month experience
that’ll change your life.
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