You were unquestionably skeptical when you began your search for an online business opportunity. The fantastic claims that were presented to you seemed so far fetched that you almost gave up on the possibility of finding a genuine program that you could trust. At last after much due diligence and deliberation you made a choice to go with the program that best fit your needs.

The Journey Begins

Initially you were like a kid on christmas morning. Impatient and raring to crack open this magic solution to your financial woes. As you browsed through the steps of the system and began striving to make application of what you were learning it doesn’t take long to realize that something is missing. You can’t for the life of you figure it out, but somehow the pocket that holds your wallet seems to have sprung a leak and before your willing to acknowledge that as a problem, you initially write it off as the cost associated with building a brand new business.

Quicksand

Despite your relentless effort and perserverance, this new business of yours just doesn’t seem to be materializing at the rate you expected. This believe it or not is the moment of truth. You can either seek help or hide behind your pride and quit. The thought of looking foolish or naive in front of friends and family for believing that internet marketing could work can easily cloud our judgement and cause us to begin rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. However; how intelligent do we look if our business that we were so confident in is unconsciously floating face down in the water?

Saved by Family

While the support of your family can help with the resulting depression that can come from a lack of success; the truth is, in most cases they’re the first to say “I told you so”. So what family am I referring to? The family of internet marketers that reside in the only place that can help you to put the pieces together real fast and renew the vigor and anticipation that you first had when you made the choice to get started.

The Forum

Want to rub shoulders with some of the internets’ leading affiliates? Would you like to get inside information that could propel you to success far beyond your expectations? How about getting access to the necessary tools of the trade for free?

If you think your alone, think again. There is a very large community of affiliate marketers of all levels progressively moving in unison to the tune of financial independence. There are those who have learned the words to that song and sing them on a daily basis and there are those who are beginning to learn the words to that same song right now from the pros.

Stop struggling and going it alone. Get on track today and visit the various marketing forums that can take you to another level completely. You deserve to win and if you’re feeling discouraged and bewildered as to the lack of success your currently experiencing than visit the forums now. You will not regret it.

Here are two recommended forums you can start with: The Warrior Forum.com and Conquer Your Niche.com. Well in case you weren’t aware of it;

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Yes You Can!

Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let’s start with a definition of exactly what “viral marketing” means.

According to the Wikipedia, “Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages.”

If you’ve ever had a hotmail, yahoo or G-mail account, you’ve participated in a viral marketing campaign every time you sent an email to someone - because the company inserted a small (and usually discreet advertisement) at the bottom of all of your outgoing emails - inviting the people you were communicating with to receive their own free email account.

So how can you put a viral marketing campaign together for your own business - and more importantly, do you even want to?

Let me answer that second question first, okay? YES! You definitely want to take the time to brainstorm your own viral marketing campaign - even if you don’t someday want to be as big as hotmail, yahoo or Gmail.

Why? Because according to a recent survey done by Forrester Research, people are almost 65% more likely to trust a review posted by a peer - or even a complete stranger - than they are to trust the marketing or sales information put out by the company.

Don’t believe me? Check out Amazon.com and I-tunes. Why is this the case? Because as consumers we tend to think that the average “Joe Blow” has less of a personal agenda when posting his review about the latest “Dixie Chicks” album and so we give it more weight.

And, by the way, this is a normal reaction - it’s one that’s kind of hard-wired into all of us. People have always shared the things they like - or hate - with their friends and family members. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, our grandparents used to talk to their neighbors over the “back fence,” call each other on the phone or tell their friends during lunch. The difference is, these days we use the Internet and cell phones.

What’s interesting though, is that with the popularity of the Internet, our trust - and believe in “social proof” - has become even stronger.

By creating your own viral marketing campaign, you’ll be doing more than getting the word out about your new affiliate product. You’ll be gathering social proof - and that will help your sales to go through the roof.

So how do you set up your own viral marketing campaign? The first thing to do is to get back to the basics.

Here’s the real “secret” to making a lot of money with affiliate products. Have the right product, with the right message to the right people in the right time.

So start with your affiliate product. Make sure that there’s a hungry audience for whatever you’re selling.

Then make sure that you’re sending out the right message - and in the right way. If you’re marketing a product to teens, you’ll want to make sure that it’s something they want - and you’ll have to reach them where they’re hanging out. That might be on MySpace, twitter or even Friendster.

What’s the right message? Maybe it’s a special report. But it could just as easily be a video. Or an audio mp3 file. Match your message to your audience. And finally, make sure that you’re getting your message out at the right time - when your audience is ready to buy it.

Make your viral marketing campaign stand out from the crowd - because that’s how it’s going to get passed around and become viral. By understanding the basics - who your audience is, what they want, how they want to get it and when they want it - all you have to do next is to create something that your audience loves - or hates - or finds interesting enough - to pass around to their friends. And because your product comes with an implied endorsement - social proof - those people will pass it around to other people - and the buzz goes on and on and on and you’ll start hearing the “ka-ching!” of your cash register going off a lot more often.

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Once you’ve written your E-Book, got your Website up and integrated your shopping cart, you can sit back and start waiting for the money to come rolling in, right?

WRONG!

These days it’s getting harder than ever before to be able to get people to notice you - and just because “you build it” doesn’t mean they’re going to come.

So what’s an author to do?

Actually, thanks to all the tools that are available to you - including Web 2.0 - marketing your book - and ramping up your sales - is not as hard as you might think.

In fact, here are a few ideas to get your juices flowing. Add them to your sales plan, and use them as a jumping off place to help you make even more sales.

Create a long-term plan before you write even one word of your first book. The truth of the matter is that you’re probably never going to get rich from writing one E-book. So before you start writing your first book, start thinking about your second book. And the first product that will tie into your first book. And the second. And then the third.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Come up with as many different income streams as you can and plan to build them into your plan. For example, can you create a workbook from your E-book? What about recording some audio files that go into further details or give more information. What about doing a joint venture with other experts in your industry?

Sell more books at one time. If your book covers any one of a number of popular subjects - self-help or development, home improvement, business, religion - there are probably corporations, organizations or niche markets that are always on the look-out for inexpensive gifts or bonuses for their employees, clients or associates. Your book could be just the ticket. Although you might have to go down in price - what do you think sounds better? Selling one or two books at a time or selling box loads of them?

Once you’ve built up your credibility as a published author, it’s time to take things to the next level. Have you ever dreamed of attending seminars or workshops as a presenter? What about having a speaking career and being flown all over the world speaking to people in your niche market? If you don’t like traveling or crowds, consider putting together teleseminars or holding intimate bootcamps.

Create joint ventures. This is the fastest and easiest way to leverage your expertise and start raking in the cash. Find people who are in similar - but not competing industries as yours. Explore ways for you to provide value to both of your customers while you’re cross-selling or upselling. For example, if you own a restaurant, what about creating a special Valentine’s Day promotion with the local florist. Offer free drinks or desserts to any of the florist’s customers who bring in a special card (that you’ve provided to them) when they come to your restaurant. And your joint venture partner (the florist) gives you roses or carnations that can be given out to any women when their companion gives you the special dessert card. See how simple that is? Real value that makes your customers happy, and builds loyalty and trust - and positions both of you as the first people your customers think of when they need flowers or want a romantic restaurant or a place to eat during a special occasion

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There are literally tens of thousands of affiliate products to market, so it should be easy to find good affiliate marketing opportunities. Or should it? With such a huge number you need some help in finding the best ones. Only a fairly small proportion of them are selling well.

First, find your market

The way to start the search is to decide what market you want to get into. The easiest way to do this is to go to the Clickbank marketplace and look through categories of interest and find products with high gravity. At this point you just want to find a market with several products with high gravity - at least over 50, and preferably over 100.

That tells you there is a good market there. A better first step is to go to amazon.com and find the ranking of the best sellers in a market niche. The lower numbers indicate a strong market, and a number over 200,000 is not worth getting into.

Now you know there are products selling in the market, make sure that this is a market online. Here the trick is to put in a few relevant keywords, and make sure there are plenty of Adwords ads on the page. These are usually the two items at the top of the page, and all the small items in the right hand column. When you go the second page for the keyword, there should be some adverts there.

A big market and a tiny one

Here are a couple of examples - car rental and 16-foot sailing dinghies. Type in ‘car rental’ and you will find adverts on the third page, and more no doubt but that was as far as I went. This is a very big market, with over 40 million websites competing. As an aside, there are only 440,000 sites competing for ‘luxury car rental’, and ads on page two.

By contrast, 16-foot sailing dinghies is such a small market that there are ads only on the first page, and most are not really relevant. If you are a dinghy sailor you might want to get into that market, but the simple fact is that it is too small.

You can see that luxury car rental is better than car rental, and that as a general rule the keywords you use to advertise should have three or four words, occasionally two words.

Next find a suitable product

Now that you have found a possible market you can go back to Clickbank or any other affiliate network and look for products that fit the market. Next you want to see if the merchant gives you any help with your marketing, such as keywords, adverts, email letters, which can be sent only to people you know and have given permission to email them, of course.

It really is important to take these steps before jumping into a market. I know, I have made that mistake, and spent of lot of time trying to compete in huge markets. Don’t do it. Find a buoyant market, then find a niche in that market, and then find a suitable product - this is the way to find good affiliate marketing opportunities.

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