Warning! If you're ever bored and want to stir up some trouble, go to an Internet marketing forum and post a question asking how well E-zine advertising fares in comparison to other marketing methods.
The answers you get are likely to be diametrically opposed. This is not only because each marketer has his own product to sell – and it is in his best interest to justify the purpose of that product – but it is also because there has been a genuine debate raging for the past few years about the effectiveness and direction of E-zines and E-zine advertising.
There are those who posit that E-zine advertising is dead or is near the bottom of a very steep decline. They see the average person as being overwhelmed by superfluous emails on a daily basis – some coming from friends and others coming from businesses and E-zines.
In their eyes, this amounts to a continuing decrease in attention paid to any emails that look business related, even if they specifically subscribed to them.
Additionally, they argue that many people forget that they joined lists and eventually begin to ignore emails coming from that address. And all of this is true – which is precisely why it is important to take it into consideration when you are conducting E-zine advertising campaigns.
So how can you affectively advertise in E-zines and reap a profit from affiliate products?
There are a number of different ways, of which, I will cover three below:
1. Target E-zines that are related to your specific affiliate product.
Create a viral report that is related to your affiliate product (as we discussed in the previous lesson). Purchase sponsor ads in reputable E-zines – and send all of those interested to a page where they can download your viral report for free.
This report will have an embedded affiliate link, which will generate sales on your behalf.
2. Create a persuasive solo ad.
Again, start off by purchasing solo ad space in cheaper E-zines – ones that are responsive, but have a low subscription count. Test your solo ads to determine your approximate conversion rate with the given affiliate product. Once you have a rough handle on your profit margin, attempt to market your solo ads in larger publications, including e-zines with subscriber bases of over 100,000. Keep in mind that this will be expensive, but it will also pay off if you did your homework in the previous steps.
3. Last, consider targeting high-end online publications with your ads.
These will include ones that don't normally include their sites in E-zine directories, such as authority sites that publish a monthly E-zine in PDF format. These often have high response rates and will similarly draw the best response if you use them correctly.
For regular E-zines with reasonable fees, you will want to check out the following site, which lists most E-zines that offer advertising:
http://www.E-zineadvertising.com/cgi-bin/pz.cgi
If you're looking for something less expensive, you may want to check out the following
URL: http://www.E-zinead.net/ http://www.ezines-r-us.com/
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Marketing Techniques - Affiliate Tactics
Welcome to Affiliate Tactics, where you will discover over 8 powerful methods you can use to offer a boost to your affiliate commissions from selling other people’s products and services.
This guide discusses some of the methods you’ve probably not heard of, whereas other methods you’ve thought would never work. In a real essence, it’s really only a matter of doing it right and you can make a living off affiliate marketing.
Which is really fascinating, because you can earn big commissions just promoting products you DON’T even have to create!
Of course, like everything else in life, it takes multiple practices to reach the top level. But I assure you that through the coming pages, I can help you reduce your learning curve significantly and you will make less guesswork… and mistakes!
I have written this blog as short and precise as possible. Because I know you’re a very busy individual (and it takes no guess), and above all, I also know that you’re excited and that you can hardly wait.
Without further ado, let’s quickly cover the first of the 8 methods you can use in boosting
your affiliate promotion… and the commissions!
Classified Ads - The process of using classified ads to generate sales for any product – whether it be an original product or an affiliate product – is often over-simplified and discouraged. This is,
in part, because it actually is one of the harder ways in which you can advertise.
It requires you to use a small amount of words to communicate an important point, which will either make or break your ability to garner interest in the product in question.
In most cases, supposed experts will discourage you from using classified ads because they themselves have never had much luck using them – NOT because classified ads aren't a viable method of advertising.
So how can you use classified ads correctly to generate a considerable amount of traffic to your affiliate product sales page?
The first step entails finding viable places to advertise. Again, many of the so-called experts will jump in and either tell you to use free sites or that free sites never work. The truth here, too, is somewhat in between: free sites can work, but you must use them carefully. For instance, if you want to generate traffic from sites that allow you to post free classifieds, you will have to find ones that actually receive traffic themselves.
One example of a site that receives a massive amount of traffic, but also allows you to post classified ads for free is craigslist, which you can find at the following
URL: http://www.craigslist.com
As long as you post classified ads in the proper section, you can do it completely free of charge. Additionally, you can do this on each of the craigslist sites for the metropolitan areas in the United States.
Another place you can post free classified ads is Yahoo. You can find this feature at the following URL: http://classifieds.yahoo.com/.
Again, as long as its on topic, you can post a classified at for whatever you want. Now, with this in mind, you will want to consider the best way in which you can construct your classified ad. I personally suggest creating a headline or first line that uses psychological triggers. Remember! With classifieds, you're not paying by the click. It's either free or you're paying for a certain period of time or impressions, so your goal should be to generate as many clicks as possible, so use words like “cheap,” “free,” “proven,” and “shocking” to draw attention to your ad.
Once you have successfully drawn attention to your ad through the headline, you will then want to seal the deal by providing viewers with a reason to click through, provided that your affiliate product is something they will want to buy. You can do this by explicitly stating a quantifiable benefit in the second line of the classified ad – and then stating a crucial feature in the third line.
Once you have gained some experience posting ads on free classified ad mediums, you will want to move on to major electronic publications, including large e-zines and authority sites; however, before you do this, you could be confident in the classified ad and your conversion rate.
This guide discusses some of the methods you’ve probably not heard of, whereas other methods you’ve thought would never work. In a real essence, it’s really only a matter of doing it right and you can make a living off affiliate marketing.
Which is really fascinating, because you can earn big commissions just promoting products you DON’T even have to create!
Of course, like everything else in life, it takes multiple practices to reach the top level. But I assure you that through the coming pages, I can help you reduce your learning curve significantly and you will make less guesswork… and mistakes!
I have written this blog as short and precise as possible. Because I know you’re a very busy individual (and it takes no guess), and above all, I also know that you’re excited and that you can hardly wait.
Without further ado, let’s quickly cover the first of the 8 methods you can use in boosting
your affiliate promotion… and the commissions!
Classified Ads - The process of using classified ads to generate sales for any product – whether it be an original product or an affiliate product – is often over-simplified and discouraged. This is,
in part, because it actually is one of the harder ways in which you can advertise.
It requires you to use a small amount of words to communicate an important point, which will either make or break your ability to garner interest in the product in question.
In most cases, supposed experts will discourage you from using classified ads because they themselves have never had much luck using them – NOT because classified ads aren't a viable method of advertising.
So how can you use classified ads correctly to generate a considerable amount of traffic to your affiliate product sales page?
The first step entails finding viable places to advertise. Again, many of the so-called experts will jump in and either tell you to use free sites or that free sites never work. The truth here, too, is somewhat in between: free sites can work, but you must use them carefully. For instance, if you want to generate traffic from sites that allow you to post free classifieds, you will have to find ones that actually receive traffic themselves.
One example of a site that receives a massive amount of traffic, but also allows you to post classified ads for free is craigslist, which you can find at the following
URL: http://www.craigslist.com
As long as you post classified ads in the proper section, you can do it completely free of charge. Additionally, you can do this on each of the craigslist sites for the metropolitan areas in the United States.
Another place you can post free classified ads is Yahoo. You can find this feature at the following URL: http://classifieds.yahoo.com/.
Again, as long as its on topic, you can post a classified at for whatever you want. Now, with this in mind, you will want to consider the best way in which you can construct your classified ad. I personally suggest creating a headline or first line that uses psychological triggers. Remember! With classifieds, you're not paying by the click. It's either free or you're paying for a certain period of time or impressions, so your goal should be to generate as many clicks as possible, so use words like “cheap,” “free,” “proven,” and “shocking” to draw attention to your ad.
Once you have successfully drawn attention to your ad through the headline, you will then want to seal the deal by providing viewers with a reason to click through, provided that your affiliate product is something they will want to buy. You can do this by explicitly stating a quantifiable benefit in the second line of the classified ad – and then stating a crucial feature in the third line.
Once you have gained some experience posting ads on free classified ad mediums, you will want to move on to major electronic publications, including large e-zines and authority sites; however, before you do this, you could be confident in the classified ad and your conversion rate.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
FREE GRAPHICS - Free Website Graphics
Exciting news for all internet marketers.
I came across this great product that is a definite plus in my books.
Not only does it make the job of an internet marketer easier, faster and with a great professional look, they are offering it for free.
Imagine that! Finding great professional work like this will cost a fortune, not to mention if you even try to design them yourself?.
I am sure it will consume your days leaving no time to attend to anything else. I must say that the graphics are great and the quality is superb, just what you need to grab attention and to help make that sale.
You can use these for
-Opt In forms-Order Now Buttons-Download now Buttons-Guarantee Buttons- and more...
And the best part is, the are All for free.
To find out more, click here...
http://www.freemarketinggraphics.com/?download-now=18272
I came across this great product that is a definite plus in my books.
Not only does it make the job of an internet marketer easier, faster and with a great professional look, they are offering it for free.
Imagine that! Finding great professional work like this will cost a fortune, not to mention if you even try to design them yourself?.
I am sure it will consume your days leaving no time to attend to anything else. I must say that the graphics are great and the quality is superb, just what you need to grab attention and to help make that sale.
You can use these for
-Opt In forms-Order Now Buttons-Download now Buttons-Guarantee Buttons- and more...
And the best part is, the are All for free.
To find out more, click here...
http://www.freemarketinggraphics.com/?download-now=18272
Friday, September 26, 2008
Adsense - Setting up and Customising
Setting up your Google AdSense account – Part 1 (Enrolment form)
So, you have decided to go ahead and use Google AdSense for generating revenue from your website. Google AdSense doesn’t need you to sell any products or services. With Google AdSense, you are just selling advertising space on your website. And the best part is that Google doesn’t discriminate between websites; so, any website owner can enroll with Google AdSense program (as long as it adheres to the Google AdSense program policies). Moreover, setting up a Google AdSense account is so easy that you can literally start generating revenue within 15 minutes.
For enrolling to the Google AdSense program, go to https://www.google.com/AdSense and click on the ‘Click here to Apply’ button. You will be presented with an enrolment form where you need to fill-in some details like your website information (URL and website language), the Google AdSense products that you wish to use (i.e. AdSense for Content or AdSense for Search), your contact information, your email address and your preferences. You will also need to select an account type (business/individual) for your AdSense Account and agree to the various policies, terms and conditions of Google AdSense program. The account type will not affect your revenues in any way; it is there just to determine if the payment is to be made in the name of a company or an individual. The email address and the password that you provide during the enrolment process will be required by you for logging into your account later on. Note that you will be referred to as publisher by the Google AdSense program; so when you return back to the Google AdSense website, you will be asked to enter your login details as an ‘Existing Publisher’.
That’s it. You can now submit your application form for Google to evaluate and get back to you.
For more information
Bloggers Guide To Profits - Many Business Owners Are Using Blogs To Promote New Ventures, New Products, Establish Customer Relationships And Make Lots Of Money In The Process
Setting up your Google AdSense account – Part 2 (Essential customizations)
Once you are done with setting up your Google AdSense account and once Google has approved your application, you are ready to use Google AdSense for earning revenue from your website. Just login into your account using your email address and password, click ‘AdSense Setup’ in the top menu and select the product type (i.e. ‘AdSense for Content’ or ‘AdSense for Search’). You will be presented with various options for customization of your AdSense Ads. Here we will take a look at setting up ‘AdSense for Content’ only (however, the setup for ‘AdSense for Search’ is quite similar and equally easy).
The first thing that you need to choose is the Ad type (Ad unit or link unit). Based on the Ad type you choose, you will need to specify the type of ad (text, image, etc for Ad unit) or number of links per link unit too. Google AdSense program allows you to use a maximum of three ad units and 1 link unit per web page (and you must use both, in order to maximize your AdSense revenue).
The next thing is to choose the Ad layout. There are various layouts available but large rectangle (336x280) and wide skyscraper (160x600) are preferred over others (since they help get more impressions for you and hence help you make more money).
Customizing the colors of various parts of your AdSense ad is the next thing you need to do. Even though customizing colors is optional (as far as the Google AdSense program is concerned), it’s strongly recommended for making your Ads attractive and more effective. Your choice of colors must be governed by the look and feel of your website so that the Ad doesn’t look out of place.
These are the essential customizations that you surely need to do before you can start using Google AdSense Ads on your website and your blog.
Helpful Reading.. Bloggers Guide to Profits
So, you have decided to go ahead and use Google AdSense for generating revenue from your website. Google AdSense doesn’t need you to sell any products or services. With Google AdSense, you are just selling advertising space on your website. And the best part is that Google doesn’t discriminate between websites; so, any website owner can enroll with Google AdSense program (as long as it adheres to the Google AdSense program policies). Moreover, setting up a Google AdSense account is so easy that you can literally start generating revenue within 15 minutes.
For enrolling to the Google AdSense program, go to https://www.google.com/AdSense and click on the ‘Click here to Apply’ button. You will be presented with an enrolment form where you need to fill-in some details like your website information (URL and website language), the Google AdSense products that you wish to use (i.e. AdSense for Content or AdSense for Search), your contact information, your email address and your preferences. You will also need to select an account type (business/individual) for your AdSense Account and agree to the various policies, terms and conditions of Google AdSense program. The account type will not affect your revenues in any way; it is there just to determine if the payment is to be made in the name of a company or an individual. The email address and the password that you provide during the enrolment process will be required by you for logging into your account later on. Note that you will be referred to as publisher by the Google AdSense program; so when you return back to the Google AdSense website, you will be asked to enter your login details as an ‘Existing Publisher’.
That’s it. You can now submit your application form for Google to evaluate and get back to you.
For more information
Bloggers Guide To Profits - Many Business Owners Are Using Blogs To Promote New Ventures, New Products, Establish Customer Relationships And Make Lots Of Money In The Process
Setting up your Google AdSense account – Part 2 (Essential customizations)
Once you are done with setting up your Google AdSense account and once Google has approved your application, you are ready to use Google AdSense for earning revenue from your website. Just login into your account using your email address and password, click ‘AdSense Setup’ in the top menu and select the product type (i.e. ‘AdSense for Content’ or ‘AdSense for Search’). You will be presented with various options for customization of your AdSense Ads. Here we will take a look at setting up ‘AdSense for Content’ only (however, the setup for ‘AdSense for Search’ is quite similar and equally easy).
The first thing that you need to choose is the Ad type (Ad unit or link unit). Based on the Ad type you choose, you will need to specify the type of ad (text, image, etc for Ad unit) or number of links per link unit too. Google AdSense program allows you to use a maximum of three ad units and 1 link unit per web page (and you must use both, in order to maximize your AdSense revenue).
The next thing is to choose the Ad layout. There are various layouts available but large rectangle (336x280) and wide skyscraper (160x600) are preferred over others (since they help get more impressions for you and hence help you make more money).
Customizing the colors of various parts of your AdSense ad is the next thing you need to do. Even though customizing colors is optional (as far as the Google AdSense program is concerned), it’s strongly recommended for making your Ads attractive and more effective. Your choice of colors must be governed by the look and feel of your website so that the Ad doesn’t look out of place.
These are the essential customizations that you surely need to do before you can start using Google AdSense Ads on your website and your blog.
Helpful Reading.. Bloggers Guide to Profits
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Viral Marketing In Its Purest Form
There are many ways to increase the amount of traffic to your website, and one of the most effective methods is known as viral marketing.
Too use viral marketing to it's fullest potential, you'll want to employ many different techniques into the marketing plan of your site.
Some include great looking graphics, pre written emails, integration marketing strategies, pre-written articles and blog posts, etc.
All of the above will help to increase the traffic to your site by offering incentive for your existing members so they will do the work for you.
But one of the best and under-utilized viral techniques of them all is by providing a simple way for your existing members to tell their friends about your product or service.
Trusted endorsements by friends is the best form of advertising bar-none.
And what's even better is it costs nothing to implement.
Many tell-a-friend scripts have came out and have been effective to a certain degree, but they lacked the features necessary to cause a viral wave of traffic that we'd all love to experience on our sites.
Well, the same guy who created the most incredible Viral Marketing script that has revolutionized the internet marketing industry and made viral marketing easy for virtually everyone has just created a new tool that has been responsible for over $209,349 in extra sales just from two beta testers using it in it's raw form.
The marketer is Mike Filsaime, and the new tool is Viral Friend Generator.
He just launched the completed version and I am thoroughly impressed.
Viral Friend Generator is the next evolution in tell-a-friend technology.
In less than five minutes (the time it takes you to fill in the form and upload to your server)... you can literally multiply the number of visitors and subscribers your web site receives by 300% or higher!
It is compatible with all of the major autoresponder services out there and has many incredible features that every other tell-a-friend script just cannot compete with at all.
Put your marketing efforts into high gear with this extremely powerful new and easy to use tool that was put together by the Viral Marketing Expert of experts, Mike Filsaime.
Visit:Viral Friend Generator for more info
Too use viral marketing to it's fullest potential, you'll want to employ many different techniques into the marketing plan of your site.
Some include great looking graphics, pre written emails, integration marketing strategies, pre-written articles and blog posts, etc.
All of the above will help to increase the traffic to your site by offering incentive for your existing members so they will do the work for you.
But one of the best and under-utilized viral techniques of them all is by providing a simple way for your existing members to tell their friends about your product or service.
Trusted endorsements by friends is the best form of advertising bar-none.
And what's even better is it costs nothing to implement.
Many tell-a-friend scripts have came out and have been effective to a certain degree, but they lacked the features necessary to cause a viral wave of traffic that we'd all love to experience on our sites.
Well, the same guy who created the most incredible Viral Marketing script that has revolutionized the internet marketing industry and made viral marketing easy for virtually everyone has just created a new tool that has been responsible for over $209,349 in extra sales just from two beta testers using it in it's raw form.
The marketer is Mike Filsaime, and the new tool is Viral Friend Generator.
He just launched the completed version and I am thoroughly impressed.
Viral Friend Generator is the next evolution in tell-a-friend technology.
In less than five minutes (the time it takes you to fill in the form and upload to your server)... you can literally multiply the number of visitors and subscribers your web site receives by 300% or higher!
It is compatible with all of the major autoresponder services out there and has many incredible features that every other tell-a-friend script just cannot compete with at all.
Put your marketing efforts into high gear with this extremely powerful new and easy to use tool that was put together by the Viral Marketing Expert of experts, Mike Filsaime.
Visit:Viral Friend Generator for more info
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Freelance Home Writers - Legit or scam
Freelance Home writers, well what can we say? After many times trying to contact their support team or any sort of contact, I have come to the conclusion you are not supposed to contact them.
$2.95 for the first week, yeah that seems good, but if you are having trouble logging on, and you cannot contact them for support, that money seems a waste of time. Now a couple of weeks later and still no contact, and you notice that a deduction has appeared on your bank statement of around $50 (depending on conversion rates) then I am of the mind that this is a scam.
I have now under constant determination been able to log on. Reading through all the documents, and then having a look at the actual jobs offered. Unless you have quite a bit of experience or a degree of sorts, forget it. Learning on the job, and getting paid for it may take a while. By the time you would actually get enough experience to be able to submit for those better paying positions, you would have paid Freelance Home Writers a monthly sum of around $50.
One position I read about actually stated you needed atleast 3 years experience.
So now I am waiting to see if I can get a refund. They advertise a 100% satisfaction guarantee, so lets see if it is worth anything.
$2.95 for the first week, yeah that seems good, but if you are having trouble logging on, and you cannot contact them for support, that money seems a waste of time. Now a couple of weeks later and still no contact, and you notice that a deduction has appeared on your bank statement of around $50 (depending on conversion rates) then I am of the mind that this is a scam.
I have now under constant determination been able to log on. Reading through all the documents, and then having a look at the actual jobs offered. Unless you have quite a bit of experience or a degree of sorts, forget it. Learning on the job, and getting paid for it may take a while. By the time you would actually get enough experience to be able to submit for those better paying positions, you would have paid Freelance Home Writers a monthly sum of around $50.
One position I read about actually stated you needed atleast 3 years experience.
So now I am waiting to see if I can get a refund. They advertise a 100% satisfaction guarantee, so lets see if it is worth anything.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Become the hunted instead of the hunter. Actually get paid to prospect.
Education and more education is the rules required to make it in the world of marketing. If this is one thing that I have learned in the past month of searching for a home business.
There is many avenues out there that are not going to suit what everyone is looking for, but when we are really serious about starting a new business via marketing etc on the internet, we will eventually sift out the weeds and find the strong stems that will lead us in the right direction. Whichever product we choose, as long as we have the right marketing system or strategy, I am sure that we all have a future in our age of the internet. There is a chance for us all to become financially secure.
There is many avenues out there that are not going to suit what everyone is looking for, but when we are really serious about starting a new business via marketing etc on the internet, we will eventually sift out the weeds and find the strong stems that will lead us in the right direction. Whichever product we choose, as long as we have the right marketing system or strategy, I am sure that we all have a future in our age of the internet. There is a chance for us all to become financially secure.
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