Thursday, September 6, 2007

The Process Power Affiliates Use To Select Profitable Online Affiliate Programs
There are literally thousands of online affiliate programs to choose from and choosing the most profitable ones can sometimes be confusing...
...you will probably feel like a little kid in a toy store when it comes to picking the right programs.
It is very easy to become overwhelmed when it comes to picking the right partners to promote. That’s why I am going to give you some critical tips that you can take to make sure you are picking the right programs.
As I stated earlier, the advantage of being an affiliate is that you don’t have to worry about all the strenuous tactics of product development. You simply just refer customers to the merchants and get paid for your efforts. The concept sounds simple, but it involves a great deal of time and effort.
Here are the critical factors that you should take into consideration when it comes to selecting the right affiliate sales programs to promote. Read over these more than once if you want to increase your affiliate sales.
1. Make sure that you choose your market first before you choose the products to promote.
All of the merchants who develop the products look for a thirsty crowd before even considering making a product. It is very easy for them to develop a product that they want instead of gearing it towards the needs of others. Therefore, you need to evaluate the target market of the visitors that come to your website and see if they would be interested in a product or service that you want to promote.
Don’t promote products just because they pay out high commissions because you will still fail to generate a lot of sales if you don’t target the right market.
If you own a website that deals with cats then it would be hard to sell them a product that deals with dogs, even if it is the greatest cat product on the market. Always know the target market that you are pre-selling your products to.
2. Once you know your target audience, research the web affiliate programs that fit this audience.
Lets revisit our golf website example. You know that you need to find online affiliate programs that cater around the game of golf to fit your visitors needs. This is common sense, but you want believe the amount of affiliates who fail to do this.
You also have the ability to promote closely related products to your visitors, products that will compliment your golfing enthusiast needs. For example, one of your visitors buys a pair of golfing gloves, so you know have the ability to recommend golf clothing for additional back-end sales.
Here are a couple affiliate program directories for you to find products to promote:
http://www.commissionjunction.com
http://www.clickbank.com
http://www.linkshare.com
http://www.paydotcom.com
3. Look for products that already are selling well and have a high market demand.
This secret is worth million’s alone. If you want to make a lot of money promoting affiliate products, then sell the ones that are easy to sell. No use of trying to sell computers to Microsoft, it just won’t work. If no one wants the products that you are promoting then you are just spending your valuable time and money trying to promote them.
You my need to test the online affiliate program before you can tell if it is going to be profitable for you or not. If you don’t see any returns after the testing and tweaking that you have done, you might want to move on to the next.
4. Choose the top affiliate programs that have a solid history of paying out their affiliate commissions on time and have top quality promotion materials and products.
This may seem like another no-brainer, but you must make sure that the company has a good track record for treating their customers with respect because it will fall back on you if you are promoting trashy products to your customers.
Some of the top affiliate marketers suggest that you only promote products that you have personally used yourself, but though ideal, this will not always be the case. Just make sure that you do a little research on the products before you promote them to your subscribers.
Make sure that the products that you promote are priced at a reasonable price for that market. So be sure that the company has a good commission structure and whose products sell well and offer at least a 25% commission on the product.
Also make sure that the program that you are promoting has a good sales page for their products so they will have a good sales conversion based on the amount of traffic that you send to their site.
One more important pointer that I would consider is to read the fine print on the affiliate agreement page before you become an affiliate...
Warning: There are some companies that will terminate the partnership if you don’t send enough traffic to their site in a certain amount of time. If you are unaware of this, you will be at a lost for a lot of income that you should have been making.
5. Stop doing the things that haven’t been producing and get rid of them in the process.
If you get a bunch of traffic to your website, you want to make sure that you are using all of this traffic effectively.
Even though affiliate marketing is a low maintenance business, you still need to tweak your promotions once they are in place. You always need to stay up to date with all of the current trends in this market.
If you keep an inventory of the amount of money that each program brings you, then you can always get rid of those that are not producing and replace them with new ones in your portfolio.
The key here is maximum profit for minimum exposure.
Remember, the advertising that you do is paid by you and not the merchants, so you decide on the methods that you want to use. So always make sure that you are earning more than you spend on advertising.
6. Make sure you understand how you are paid for your efforts.
This is an overlooked area because most marketers don’t want to be involved with all of the technical stuff that goes along with tracking all of your affiliate links. It is important to know how your links are tracked.
Does the company you promote use cookies? What if the company has cookies turned off their browsers, is there a back up method to track the sales? What happens if a prospects visits another affiliate’s site before coming to yours, will you get credited for the sale or will they?
Why are the answers to these questions important at all?
You want to understand these little technicalities because if not, you will lose out on a lot of your affiliate commissions. The point that I am making here is that you need to be sure that your affiliate links are working properly and also be able to see how many people have clicked on your link.
Refine your marketing skills with Donny Gamble, a top affiliate for Affiliate Classroom . For more affiliate marketing tips and tricks, and to learn other affiliate sales secrets, please visit www.AffiliateMarketingJournal.com


High Income Business Opportunities
Which group of people make the most amount of money?
Many might think that business is the best way to go in earning money and making a living. And guess what? THEY ARE TOTALLY RIGHT! The way I see it, business is a huge balancing act. You have to balance your accounts very well and you need to have really good and creative ideas to capture your market and attract customers.
But you know what? Most people out there DO NOT have great accounting skills NOR do they have really good and creative ideas to capture the market. Talk about a high income business, they can't even RUN a business well enough! Let's face it! High income business opportunites don't just fall on your lap! Robert T. Kiyosaki has mentioned in several of his books, mainly "The Cashflow Quadrant", that all of income earners fall into four main groups - Employees, Employers, Business Owners and Investors. Let's break it down.
Employees
These are the people who have a boss (Supervisor, Executive, CEO, etc...) and work for them. They earn a fixed amount of money every month without fail (unless they get fired) based on their abilities and qualifications. However, this group of people have an income ceiling JUST because they are an employee.
Employers
These are the people who ARE the bosses, who have a group of people working for them. Most employers set up their own business and are self-reliant, depending on whatever they have (intelligence, capital, physical ability, etc...) to run their business and keep it running. These people juggle their money to keep their overheads low and their profit margins high.
Now let's talk about these two groups of people. Do you see something in common between them? Yes? Did you notice that these people have to exchange their time for money? That means, more money = less time, more time = less money. These people are caught in a vicious cycle where they're playing around with whatever amount of money that they have until they're too old to keep earning. They will never become the millionaires who live free and easy. But here comes the cold hard truth. 90% of all income earners fall into either one of these categories. Chances are, it could be you! Want to know another cold, hard truth? These 90% of income earners control only 10% of all money in the world. No kidding.
Now lets talk about the other two groups of people that Robert Kiyosaki mentioned, the Business Owners and the Investors.
Business Owners
These are the people who make money work for them. A good example of a business owner is the owner of the famous fast-food outlet called McDonalds. Tell me something. Have you ever seen the owner of McDonalds (not the clown) in one of his fast-food outlets? I heard you. The answer would be "NO!" All he has to do is sit home and watch his favourite TV show while his business is running for him! He has created a GENIUS system where all he needs to do is SELL THE SYSTEM! Tell me. When you visit two outlets, do you see much difference in the food and the drinks and the machines there? NO! THAT in itself is the system! Franchises of McDonalds are sprouting all over the world even today simply because the system is so simple and anyone can duplicate it easily!
Investors
These are the people who put in money once to make money. An example would be Robert Kiyosaki himself. He has invested his time and money into his books and today, his books are still being sold all over the world long after he has to in his sweat and tears into writing his books. But here's the catch. You need to have a great amount of talent or skill to be an investor, or you could end up losing a truck load of your hard earned money.
These two groups of people DO NOT exchange their time for money but they make money work for them. They create a pipeline of wealth where income flows into their pockets whether they like it or not, for the rest of their lives. These are the people who make the most money and guess what? Out of all the income earners out there, only 10% fall into these two categories. And, yup you guessed it. They control 90% of the money in the world.
So let's ask the most important question here. How do you get yourself to be in control of 90% of the money in the world? The answer is in the word - leverage! High income business opportunities are OUT THERE! You just have to find it and it will eventually work for you!
Which group of people make the most amount of money?
Many might think that business is the best way to go in earning money and making a living. And guess what? THEY ARE TOTALLY RIGHT! The way I see it, business is a huge balancing act. You have to balance your accounts very well and you need to have really good and creative ideas to capture your market and attract customers.
But you know what? Most people out there DO NOT have great accounting skills NOR do they have really good and creative ideas to capture the market. Talk about a high income business, they can't even RUN a business well enough! Let's face it! High income business opportunites don't just fall on your lap! Robert T. Kiyosaki has mentioned in several of his books, mainly "The Cashflow Quadrant", that all of income earners fall into four main groups - Employees, Employers, Business Owners and Investors. Let's break it down.
Employees
These are the people who have a boss (Supervisor, Executive, CEO, etc...) and work for them. They earn a fixed amount of money every month without fail (unless they get fired) based on their abilities and qualifications. However, this group of people have an income ceiling JUST because they are an employee.
Employers
These are the people who ARE the bosses, who have a group of people working for them. Most employers set up their own business and are self-reliant, depending on whatever they have (intelligence, capital, physical ability, etc...) to run their business and keep it running. These people juggle their money to keep their overheads low and their profit margins high.
Now let's talk about these two groups of people. Do you see something in common between them? Yes? Did you notice that these people have to exchange their time for money? That means, more money = less time, more time = less money. These people are caught in a vicious cycle where they're playing around with whatever amount of money that they have until they're too old to keep earning. They will never become the millionaires who live free and easy. But here comes the cold hard truth. 90% of all income earners fall into either one of these categories. Chances are, it could be you! Want to know another cold, hard truth? These 90% of income earners control only 10% of all money in the world. No kidding.
Now lets talk about the other two groups of people that Robert Kiyosaki mentioned, the Business Owners and the Investors.
Business Owners
These are the people who make money work for them. A good example of a business owner is the owner of the famous fast-food outlet called McDonalds. Tell me something. Have you ever seen the owner of McDonalds (not the clown) in one of his fast-food outlets? I heard you. The answer would be "NO!" All he has to do is sit home and watch his favourite TV show while his business is running for him! He has created a GENIUS system where all he needs to do is SELL THE SYSTEM! Tell me. When you visit two outlets, do you see much difference in the food and the drinks and the machines there? NO! THAT in itself is the system! Franchises of McDonalds are sprouting all over the world even today simply because the system is so simple and anyone can duplicate it easily!
Investors
These are the people who put in money once to make money. An example would be Robert Kiyosaki himself. He has invested his time and money into his books and today, his books are still being sold all over the world long after he has to in his sweat and tears into writing his books. But here's the catch. You need to have a great amount of talent or skill to be an investor, or you could end up losing a truck load of your hard earned money.
These two groups of people DO NOT exchange their time for money but they make money work for them. They create a pipeline of wealth where income flows into their pockets whether they like it or not, for the rest of their lives. These are the people who make the most money and guess what? Out of all the income earners out there, only 10% fall into these two categories. And, yup you guessed it. They control 90% of the money in the world.
So let's ask the most important question here. How do you get yourself to be in control of 90% of the money in the world? The answer is in the word - leverage! High income business opportunities are OUT THERE! You just have to find it and it will eventually work for you!
Want a way to control 90% of the money in the world?
Visit www.myrealonlinesuccess.com today!


Answer to Adsense Alternatives - Multiple sources of Passive income with Niches-in-abox .
Many top adsense earners who were slap by Google mid of July 2006 who tell you how their earnings dropped from a few thousands (or more) to a few hundreds or even less.
You might have notice over the past few months that there were many discussions in various online forums or emails you received from various list you've subscribed proclaiming Adsense is dead.
There are lots of arguments whether Adsense is dead or alive and many opportunist comes out with a series of alternatives to adsense to monetize the situation.
Well, it is true that earning from Adsense is becoming more difficult and many of us wonder what have went wrong.
We must now believe that the Golden Years of Adsense (2004-2005) are gone forever. This is especially true for those who created thousand of pages of scrapper sites or produces pages and pages of adsense sites with little contents.
Why is this so ?
This is more or less based on a few factors (There are more of course ):
Changes in Adwords :
A few of my friends who are Adsense Arbitrage publishers are complaining that Google have recently made changes that make it more expensive to send readers to their landing pages.
(Adsense arbitrage works by using Adwords to push your Adsense pages to higher rankings up the Google Search Engine in the hope that more visitors will find and view their pages.You earn bygetting your visitors to click the AdSense ads to a point where you earned more than what you paid for AdWords campaign that got them there.)
Duplication of contents :
Some of the people I know complains about their Adsense content sites suddenlylost their rankings in the Search Engine.
As I try to understand the reason behind this, I took a look at their websites and immediately understand why. Those are merely blogs that are created automatically using RSS feeds or other automation tools or sites scap from free contents from Article Directories.
We can continue on and on and on ....
But ...
The important thing to learn here is that one should never depends solely on just one source of income - For example, recent changes to that the google algorithm (or much better known as the "Google Slap") has got many people who earns thousands of Adsense dollars to less than even half of what they usually get.

So what do you mean by Various source of Income ?

What I wanted to point out is that if anyone is interested in building his online empire of Virtual "Real Estate" , they should based it on various sources of passive income such as :-
- Adsense
- Yahoo! ® Publisher Network (formerly Overture)
- Chitika|eMiniMalls SM
- Amazon ® Associates
- Search feed.com SM
- ClickBank ®
- Commission Junction ™
- Subscribers
- Your own products..
The Good News is that JP Schoeffel (Famous for his popular Adsense Firesales ) has come out with a marvelous membership that does just that : Niches-in-a-box.
While many similar membership sites provides you with websites based on five or ten unrelated topics , each month, Niches-in-a-box will provide you with just 15 sites based on ONE HOT, in-demand niche. In this way, all you need to do is to concentrate on promoting this single niche per month instead of five or ten different topics which is hard to do.
Well, some of you may be worried about How they can "Promote" their single Profitable Niche every month. Not to worry, as JP Schoeffel will provide you a video that will show you step-by-step over his shoulders on his little PC screen on how you could do it.
He will show you how he create blogs, sent traffic from MySpace.com and various Social Bookmarking sites thus relies less on the search engine to get traffic.
: http://www.livefreelytoday.com/recommends/visitorsense.php .
(This video alone cost $97 if you are not a member.)
Besides all the above, the membership also provide you a product to sell each month with suggested affiliate products related to the niche of the month.
Worry about duplication content ? the sites are design with a script that enable auto growth based on keyword you enter and to generate sites that Google will not Outdate. -- ask JP Schoeffel how he did it !
A Professional Autoresponder (similiar to Aweber) is provided to you for FREE ! this would have cost you about $20 if you get any of those commercial Autoresponder services available. A series of Auto responder email messages are provided to you as a .txt format and all you need to do is to cut-and-paste them on your AUto Responder control panel to be sent out to your subscriber daily, weekly, monthly...or... its up to you !
Automatic Installer JP has created an automatic installer and all you have to do is enter your Adsense ID, SearchFeed ID, Amazon ID, Autoresponder email address and click Submit , Wallah! all is configure ! .. you can ever FTP with the latest enhancement in the installer without using another seperate FTP program.
If you ever encounter any technical problems or queries on how to put up your site, JP Schoeffel is there to assist you in the Forum.
I would suggest anyone who is thinking of putting up websites and earning from several passive income sources,to give it a try at : Nichesinabox. I don't believe you can find another membership of such calibre and offer as much value as Nichesinabox.