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Archive for January, 2010

Jan
31

Using Niche PLR Websites To Catapult Your Affiliate Marketing Business

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If you are looking at making money online with affiliate marketing, you will need to have many websites. But creating these sites, or having them custom made, can be time consuming and expensive. Thankfully, niche PLR websites offer a solution that is inexpensive, quick and can catapult your business to the next level by getting you up and running fast.

Just what is a PLR Website?

This is a site that is created for a certain niche and sold to many people, therefore you won’t have to pay hundreds of dollars like you would with a custom made site.

The price can actually be under $50 and you get professional quality and design plus the site is loaded up with content so you just need to set it up and promote it. Of course, adding your own content is always a good idea, but a PLR site will get you started and you can be up and running in under an hour.

Don’t Make The Mistake Of Buying Just Any Site

When buying niche PLR websites, one must be cautious because you don’t want a site that is distributed to thousands of people. Instead, you want to look for limited edition sites where the distribution is limited to under 100 sales. That means that only 100 other people will have the same site which is great for you because most people won’t even put them up on web so when you buy a limited distribution site, it’s almost like having a unique custom site because hardly anyone else will be using the same one!

What To Look For

When buying a PLR website, here are a couple of things that I look for:

1. Design - the site must have a great design and be easy to use. Actually, I would look for a PLR wordpress blog as opposed to an html site because blogs are much easier for you to add to and manage.

2. Limited distribution - as mentioned above you want to buy a niche site that will only be sold to a few other people, the fewer the better. If you can get one that has a distribution limit of 25 then you have hit the jackpot!

3. Monitization - It’s great if the site comes with monetization like an ebook, adsense built in and a way to add affiliate programs.

Setting Up Your Site

With these niche PLR websites, there is no domain and no setup included. That means you will have to have your own hosting and domain name and install the site yourself. If you are not technical, sometimes you can pay a bit extra and get the setup done for you. One thing to look for is to make sure the site comes with instructions as to how to get it up and running.

How Niche PLR Websites Can Catapult Your Business

If you could get each of your sites to make $200 a month, how many would you build? A niche site can help you get 1, 2, 3 or more sites up each and every day for a little over $100. Compare that to spending hundreds of dollars on just one site or spending weeks to make it yourself.

As you can see, getting these sites up fast will increase your earnings quicker allowing you more money to invest in your business and more time to spend with your family doing the things you enjoy to do!

You can find custom designed Niche PLR websites that are limited to a distribution of 25 sets sold for only $37 at http://www.nicheplrarticlepacks.com/nicheplrwebsites

Jan
28

How To Get Your First Clickbank Sale

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If you have problems making that first dollar from clickbank, you have come to the right place. I may not be a university graduate but based on the fact that I have made $1000 a day from clickbank, I believe I have some tips which can help you.

First of all, make sure you have signed up an account from clickbank and fill in all the required details. Once you have registered an account, take note of your nickname(username) as you will need it to build your affiliate link later.

Now, there 2 ways which you can use to make money on clickbank. The first way is to check out what’s the latest trend that is going around in your neighborhood, the newspapers, magazines, what people are talking about daily.

Write a list of about 5 topics down and plug them in google and check for any active discussions in the forums and yahoo answers etc. If you are able to find them being discussed online, try out find out if anyone talks about problems related to your topics in the forums.

Note down all the problems in forums. Now you should have 5 topics with all the problems written down. You can now goto clickbank and try to match a product that can solve the problems you found from the forums.

The second way is to do product reviews on popular clickbank products. This is especially easy if you have bought a product, say a dog training book from clickbank before and now you want to share it with fellow dog owners how this dog training guide has help you to discipline your own dog.

Whether you choose the first or second method, the next critical step to make a sale on clickbank is to write down all your research onto a webpage.

Now, don’t get too intimated about setting up a website or worried about those html programming codes needed to design a website, because you can simply put up a webpage without any experience. As long as you know how to write a word document, you are ready to go!

Just go to blogger.com and registered an account to setup your blog. Once that is done, you can put all your research into the blog and put your affiliate link from the clickbank product into your blogpost.

Remember, the title of your blogpost is the most important element because that’s the first thing that will be seen by your visitor. If the headline does not capture your visitor’s attention, they will not be bothered to continue the rest of your blogpost.

What is an attractive headline? Just ask yourself when you read the newspaper every morning, which are the headlines that attracts you to read that particular news in details?
How did you choose the magazines you want to buy? Does the headline of the magazine on the front cover help you to make that decision?

One tip for writing headlines is that always try and use the phrase “how to do this”, “how to ….” and you fill in the blanks.

I hope you are now in a better position to get your first sale from clickbank.

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Jan
27

Affiliate Link Cloaking - No Longer Optional

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The business of affiliate marketing online undergoes constant changes that require us to adapt and evolve our marketing methods as well as the technical tools we use on a daily basis. Using an affiliate link cloaker, or affiliate link cloaking software used to be something that we considered more for the way our links looked in emails than for functional reasons. That has all changed now though…

The past several months have seen numerous changes in the way the search engines, and Google in particular view not just affiliate links, but affiliate review sites, and redirects as well. This is evident in what are commonly known as Google Slaps when even previously long held positions in Google’s organic search results disappear overnight. Many affiliate marketers have seen their webpages and websites get deindexed by Google when previously they had enjoyed widespread top rankings for keywords within their niches. Why is this happening, and is there anything we can do about it.

The why part of that question is very difficult to answer. Google has long shown that they are more than happy to leave the little guy behind as their search algorithm evolves. And Google is not the only culprit here either. Many prominent article directories now not only will not allow affiliate links even in the author’s resource box, but require a top level domain in order for the link to be included at all. This turns a lot of what affiliate marketers used to consider to be options into standard operating procedure if they want to continue being not just competitive, but profitable in the least.

Using a good method to cloak affiliate links is one of the most important things an affiliate marketer can do. There are literally dozens if not hundreds of options available to affiliate marketers to fill this need, but not all of them will do enough to satisfy Google’s spiders. And at it’s most basic, this has to be an affiliate link cloaker’s first job. If the url you promote will not be indexed by the big G then you are at a huge disadvantage from the word go. And if you are going to go to the trouble of cloaking your links, then why not use a link cloaker that will satisfy not just the article directories, but the search engines as well. Over the past years I have used and ultimately rejected many such link cloaking methods and software titles because they could not meet this need.

I have heard many affiliate marketers say that they really only need something that will redirect the reader to their affiliate link since they primarily market affiliate products by writing articles. But why not get twice the effectiveness from your article marketing efforts by taking advantage of the SEO value of the backlinks you get from those same articles?

The one constant in the affiliate marketing world is change. If the method you are using to market affilate products does not meet the changing needs in the marketplace, you will be left behind. Keep up on these changes and you will find that you can locate good quality methods to cloak your affiliate links and leave your competition in the dust.

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Jan
26

Affiliate Marketing Tips-Tops Tips for the Affiliate Marketer

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If you are planning to join the thousands of people who earn money as affiliate marketers, then you should know some useful affiliate marketing tips for beginners like you. Many people resort to online money making schemes like affiliate marketing because of the several benefits that it provides, aside from the fact that the situation of most companies today, even the big ones, are worsening.

One benefit that you can get from this type of income generating scheme over the internet is convenience. You can do it at home, anytime you want. You do not even have a boss. It is also very easy. You do not need an expert knowledge about the topic. All you need to know are some basic affiliate marketing tips and you will be good to go. To help you on this, below are some useful affiliate marketing tips that you can apply.

* The very first thing to think about is the topic where your business will revolve around. It is important that you choose something you love and, as much as you can, something you are familiar with. This is especially true for beginners because you are just learning the ropes. And you need to like and to know a bit about what you are doing because it will be easier for you to create your own website and to add contents. Once you get the hang of it, then you can probably start a website about something you are not so familiar with but you think will gain a high commission.
* Try not to stuff your site with too many banners. A website with too many banners will only annoy visitors. Instead of clicking your banner, they will instead leave your website and go to another one which has useful content and fewer banners. Moreover, too many banners are not a good sight. It also makes your website look ugly, not to mention useless.
* Try to promote several merchant sites that belong in the same niche. This is important so that your visitors will have options and you will also have a general view on which merchant is the most popular. Once you have an idea, you can then focus on that website. Keep in mind that if one merchant made one affiliate marketer a millionaire, it does not mean that it would make you a millionaire as well. You cannot say that there is one best merchant because there isn’t. Being a successful internet marketer does not solely depend on the kind of merchant you have but also on many other factors.

These are some tips that you should keep in mind as a newbie affiliate marketer. They are very basic affiliate marketing tips but they can help a lot in your business.

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Jan
19

What You Can Learn About Joint Ventures from eBay and Craigslist

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Joint ventures can provide both partners with tremendous success, but even the best intentions can go awry. One example of an off track joint venture involves online marketing giants eBay and Craigslist.

In 2004, eBay and Craigslist entered into an agreement whereby the two companies would try to expand more into global markets. However, the joint venture soon stagnated to the point where eBay was trying to market the 28.5% share in Craigslist to other companies, and Craigslist was fighting to get it back.

The biggest problem with this joint venture is that the two companies obviously had completely different intentions and goals. Craigslist wanted to retain authority and management of its own operations, but learn from eBay about larger online classified operations. eBay wanted to use their share in Craigslist to better compete against Google in the online classified industry and maximize profit potential in Craigslist operations. Although both companies had a shared intention of expanding into bigger global markets, their alternative intentions soiled the relationship, and they are now in litigation to end the JV.

Looking at the original intention of the JV, it was a good one. However, there are things you can learn to prevent such a tragedy from occurring in your own JV. Here are some things to consider:

Write Out the Intention of the JV as a Mission Statement

Before your JV goes “live”, you and your JV partner need to know exactly what is expected from one another. Are you looking to have access to technology while your JV partner needs help in reducing expenses? Or perhaps you both are looking to enter into bigger national markets by combining forces?

The mission is critical to ensuring that you and your JV partner will not have disputes over the overarching goals.

Explicitly Write Out the Partner Responsibilities

What will you be contributing to the JV? What will your JV partner contribute? Who will manage the accounting books? Who will handle distribution?

All of the facets need to be clearly outlined in the beginning. You don’t want to have a finished product ready, but find your JV partner reluctant to distribute it appropriately. Know who is responsible for every step of the joint venture.

Shelter Your Proprietary Information

eBay used confidential Craigslist information and techniques to form its own “free” online classifieds, called Kijiji. Craigslist did not want another competitor, especially one that was using its own technology and industry secrets.

Although you may agree to share certain proprietary information to develop a new product, be careful what information you do share. Keep your proprietary information private. Remember, you are still in business for yourself.

Define the Exit Strategy

eBay and Craigslist are still in a lengthy and expensive dispute on how to dissolve the joint venture partnership. You can avoid legal litigation by defining exactly how your JV will dissolve if things go wrong, as well as if things go right.

Joint ventures don’t have to end badly. Knowing all expectations and responsibilities will help you and your JV partner get the most benefit and profit from your JV efforts.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

Join his free Joint Venture Wealth Report at http://www.christianfea.com/joint-venture-wealth-report/