The promise

Unfortunately, you’ve been led to believe affiliate marketing is easy. Well, that’s true . . . to a point It’s far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But “easier” doesn’t mean “easy”.

Here’s the ugly truth

To top it off you’ve been given false information. You’ve been told to find quality products. Next do some keyword research. Then to use these keywords to buy ads promoting the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But this just won’t work!

Forget keywords

This method worked a couple years ago. But it’s just too competitive to use keywords now. It’s time for a paradigm shift.

A better way

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Here’s a new method that works!

• Get into CPA marketing
• Do demographics research
• Use image ads

Get into CPA marketing

CPA means Cost Per Action. It’s so much easier than promoting products. Because your visitor doesn’t have to buy anything. You earn a commission for having them perform an “action”. Entering their email into a form, for example. And it’s much easier to get them to do that.

Instead of researching keywords, research demographics

You’re not even going to use keywords (explained below.) Invest your research time into demographics. First you select your CPA offer. Then go to a site like Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.

Use image ads

Now you have your offer and your demographics. You can target these exact demographics on display networks. And let images do the work. And there was no keyword research required. Plus you’re going to save a ton of money. Keyword ads are expensive, but image ads are still cheap.

In closing

This is a great way to make money fast. Because getting started in CPA is free. You can buy image ad clicks for a fraction of keyword ad clicks. Display networks let you do demographics targeting. And your commission is much easier to earn.

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Marketing with video

No one would deny the power and popularity of video. Video online is everywhere because people love it. Keeping people’s attention is so much easier using videos. So why wouldn’t you use it in your affiliate business?

Here are a few ideas for creating affiliate videos:

• Record your testimonial
• Do a video walk-through
• Ordering
• Do a preview video

Do a testimonial video

This one is super simple. Just click record on your web cam and start talking. Don’t worry about quality. Listening to your honest endorsement makes your viewers feel comfortable buying. And honestly, if you mess up it just makes it seem more authentic. So serious, just turn on the camera and talk. Use one of the other ideas if you’re feeling shy.

Do a video walk-through

This one is a little more subtle. Basically you’re doing a tutorial on how to use the product. And seeing it being used is a great way to make people want to buy it. If it’s useful, then what you’re teaching just makes people want it. So just make sure you’re demoing a good product.

Ordering

This one is killer! Do a screen capture of the ordering process. Nothing inspires your viewers to buy like watching you do it. In the first place it acts as social proof. People will feel more comfortable buying after seeing you do it. It also build your viewers trust. Your advice is easier to trust if they can see you’re doing what you tell them to do. And don’t forget about the need to “keep up with the Joneses”. People want what they see you getting. You can add some extra punch to this by ending with: If you want to see the inside, you’ll have to order it yourself.

Sneak peak

This is a great way to build value. You do a tour of the members area. You show them the entire contents of what they get. This one also helps to remove the skepticism. Once they’ve seen the back-end, they know it’s real.

You can do this!

There’s no technical knowledge required. Anyone can create stunning videos with some easy-to-use software. The software really does all the work So there’s no need to even think about the technical side. Remain focused on the benefits:

• Increase sales Using videos in your affiliate marketing will dramatically increase your sales. People love video, so please use them.
• Reduce refunds You’ll lose less of the commission your earn. Thanks to you people know what’s inside before buying. So less of them will ask for refunds.
• Beat your competition! This is such a simple technique. And almost no one is doing it. This puts you out in front of the rest.

Take your affiliate promotions to a higher level and getting started with this now. The bottom line is that if you’re not using video, you’re losing money.

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If you want to get started quickly and easily in internet marketing, then affiliate marketing is for you. What “affiliate marketing” means is that you just refer visitors to someone else’s website, they do everything else! (make the product, design the sale page, handle the billing and support, etc.), and you keep 50% or more of the sales

The benefits of this are

1. You can get started almost immediately because you don’t have to create a product, set up a website and sales page, design the website, create marketing materials, or get a merchant account and CRM.
2. You have almost no investment of timebecause the product owner does all the hard work of support, maintenance and billing.
3. Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you already know that the visitors you send will result in commissions for you.

Looking at these benefits, it’s clear that affiliate marketing is the way to go!

There is one major drawback…

After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors your send will actually buy the product. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

What’s the solution?

It’s simple: You must get your visitors’ email addresses before you send them to the product owner’s website. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you’re really on top of your game, you’ll then send to a content mini-site in between.

Here are the benefits of doing affiliate marketing like this:

1. You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
2. By providing great content without a sales pitch, you put them in a buying mood. So when you do send them to the product website, they’re much more likely to buy.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.
2. One or more content-rich “warm up” pages
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series

The video squeeze page is where you’ll direct your traffic instead of directly to the product sales page. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.

These high-quality content pages provide value and build good will. This way your visitor is more likely to buy when they get to the product owner’s website. While they’re reading the content you’ve provided, your email system is already following up with them to send them back to the product website again and again.

There’s no doubt that it’s worth the effort to put a system like this in place, because doing so will increase your profits by 500% or more. After setting it up, you simply send visitors to your squeeze page instead of the sales page. And the rest runs on auto-pilot.

Setting it all up yourself requires some skill, and if you’re not up to it, you can use a service like Affiliate Silver Bullet. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). On the plus side, you’ll save a ton of time and money vs. trying to build this yourself. Plus you can get started instantly. One negative is that there will be other people using this same affiliate marketing system. However, the odds of you and them both finding the same visitor are so small, that it doesn’t really matter.

The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your affiliate marketing.

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Would you like to earn more money? Would you Like to boost your income? Would you like to have an another source of income to enjoy a more pleasurable lifestyle? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this affiliate marketing opportunity. Affiliate marketing is a simple method of making money online that has made many ordinary,everyday people such as you and I decent earners and even several millionaires. If you would like to become an affiliate marketer and discover a real affiliate marketing opportunity, then find out more about it in this post.

With any affiliate marketing opportunity, you promote products and earn a commission for every sale you make. If you doubt this method for making money online, you should know that some affiliate marketing networks offer commissions as high as 75%. Just imagine the possible profits youwill beable to generate!

One of the biggest advantages of affiliate marketing is that you do not need to create a product of your own to sell. You do not even need to create and keep an online store. All you have to do is to direct website readers and web surfers to buy various products and you earn a commission for every sale.

As a smart affiliate marketer, you will take advantage of free websites and blogs to market products, you can drive your site or blog visitors to affiliate marketing network sites for them to purchase. Once you know how to successfully drive traffic, you are sure to earn a decent income from this just as many others have.

Once you learn how to marketing products online, you will have a very dependable steady flow of extra income. You will be very surprised at how simple and profitable affiliate marketing can be.

The secret of a good affiliate marketing opportunity is where

• You do not have to “reinvent the wheel”, a tried and tested system that works and generates income for you.
• The system is easily learnt and has step by step video tutorials so that you very quickly start to earn money online.
• The system is “Dummy proof”, there is no need for you to think, just follow the step by step guides.
• The system should be geared to newcomers to affiliate marketing and does not require you to be a computer whizzkid.
• And finally it should only take 20-30 minutes a day to master.

If the above is the type of affiliate marketing opportunity you are looking for you check out $500 in 15 and simply watch the short video. You owe it to yourself.

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So you have done your homework, researched your particular niche and finally decided on your affiliate marketing opportunity. At last everything is starting to fall into place, your website; blog has been designed and built. Your advertising and traffic generation is working and if you have decided to drive traffic to your site before taking them to the merchants sales page you have managed to gather their names and e-mail addresses to build up your list and at last the sales are coming in and the commissions are on the way to the bank.

But have you done everything you can to obtain the maximum from all the visitors to your site? Have you squeezed everything possible from every visitor at every stage of the process? If you have answered yes there is no point in reading on, if you honestly feel that there is no more you can possibly do to get that extra dollar from your visitors you might as well close this page now and go and check your face book or see how many tweets you have on your twitter page because there is a system that all the “Gurus” (I detest that label) and “Super Affiliates” use to make sure that they dont leave money on the table and they have extracted as much as possible from all of their visitors.

What is this closely guarded affiliate marketing secret? What are you missing from the jigsaw puzzle? Well I will tell you, its the “One Time Offer” commonly known and referred to as OTO.

Of course its not a secret and it has been around for many, many years but the majority of marketers use this method to drive traffic to their sites or to build their list, whereas I recommended that you also use it as your visitors attempt to leave your websites. There is a very good reason for this and why this system works and works very well. The whole process of getting people to your site has been a slow but calculated system. Firstly with your advertising whether it be text adverts, banners, article marketing or one of the many free or paid methods that we all use (I will discuss traffic generation in later posts).This is the point here you get their interest, grab their attention and start getting their buying juices to flow. Next they click on your link and go to your website or blog where you tell them little more, get them even more interested and their buying juices flowing even faster and so they go onto the next stage and visit the landing, sales page. By this time if you have done your job right and the sales page is up to scratch they are at a stage where they are ready to buy. But what if your product is not quite right or too expensive, do you let these people simply leave your page and go and spend their money on your competitors site after you have done all the hard work and got them into the buying state. We all know that when we are ready to buy we have to spend. How many times have you gone shopping for a certain item only to find the product is sold out or is not available, you feel disappointed and let down, this is because your need to buy, the need that has been stimulated by all the advertising and the excitement created around the product has not been satisfied.

This is where the One Time Offer really comes into its own with affiliate marketing no matter what niche you are in. All you simply have to do is create a page that pops up as they close the sales page. This pops up offers your visitor a onetime chance to purchase a related product at a greatly reduced price or a bundle of goods at a great price. You will be surprised just how many merchants are willing to join together to offer these onetime offers. For example lets use the infamous “Dog training” niche, it stands to reason if someone wants to train a dog, they own or know somebody who owns a dog, what other products do dogs owners need? There are hundreds, bundle some of them together and offer them as a onetime offer. If you dont want to do this find a product similar to one that you used to entice your customers to your site in the first place and offer them that, something as simple as a report that you may have written or an e-book which you have the rights to sell, but whatever you do offer them something to satisfy their buying need. You will find by doing this your customers come away feeling good about your site and will visit again.

For those of you that are in the affiliate marketing niche there is a great free programme available called OTO Goldmine. Raama has put a great deal together where he supplies the offers and does all the hard work and you receive your commissions. I have been using it for quite soon time now with some fantastic results and have even introduced it to some of my twitter campaigns. Its very simple to use and comes with great video tutorials in fact you dont even need your own website they have added the facility to use this system with generic affiliate landing pages.OTO Goldmine is free to join with the option to upgrade if you want higher commissions and a good thing about Raama he is not emailing everyday hassling you to upgrade. The packages he has put together range from $19 to $99 and are all excellent value for money. Even if you are earning good money from your site extra cash for doing very little is always a good affiliate marketing opportunity.So if you want to take advantage of extra earnings CLICK HERE

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Today I have got something really special for you! With every affiliate marketing opportunity a lot of time is spent talking about how to build a business so that you can create long-term wealth, but there’s one thing that nobody ever talks about…

How to make lovely bundles of short-term cash almost overnight! I’m talking about being able to produce between $500 and $2,500 anytime you want!

- Need cash to pay a bill? Use this system.

- Want to buy an expensive holiday? Use this system.

- Want extra cash for a holiday and need the money quickly? Use this system.

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If you’re in a hurry, just go ahead and take a look at this web page to see what I’m talking about

http://affiliatelaunchblueprint1.com
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Here’s the deal: My buddy Michael Rasmussen is one of the world’s #1 super affiliates, and what he has to show you is, to tell the truth, mind blowing. Let me tell you, one of the best feelings in the world is jumping online and generating massive bursts of short-term cash on demand. The sense of confidence it gives you is out of this world. .

Go watch Michael’s video where he will explain  how he’s able to generate this kind of money, and how you can do the same. He’s pulling the video  down shortly, so go watch it now:

http://affiliatelaunchblueprint1.com

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IS THIS VIDEO DANGEROUS?
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There are certain kinds of people who should definitely NOT watch this unbelievable, moneymaking video. The first type of person is the complainer… the one who moans about how everyone else is making money and not him.

That person is going to be deeply upset when he sees what Michael is teaching, because it’s so jaw dropping simple and dynamic that they will no longer have anything to complain about.

The second person who should definitely NOT watch this video is the excuse maker. I’m sure you’ve seen this before. It’s the person who looks at the super affiliates and voices all the reasons why they’re earning money and he’s not.

This video will definitely remove all excuses from his vocabulary, because the affiliate launch blueprint is SO easy, and so fool-proof, that they will be forced to make money if they apply what Michael is teaching!

Are you one of these people? If not, then go here  and watch Michael show you how to make bursts of  quick cash anytime you want using the affiliate  launch blueprint:

http://affiliatelaunchblueprint1.com

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HAS THE VIDEO ALREADY BEEN TAKEN DOWN?  (better check)
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Michael hasn’t officially launched the affiliate launch blueprint yet, and he only made this video for his own small list of frenzied followers. I convinced him to leave it up a little longer so that you can check it out, but there’s a good chance that it’s already gone.

Go and watch how Michael creates bursts of $500-$2,500 anytime using this new, never-before-seen system.

Here’s the link one last time:

http://affiliatelaunchblueprint1.com

All the best,

Mark

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Do you just like every online marketer wish pay-per-click marketing could be as easy as copy and paste, but unfortunately it’s not, but the far to many affiliates make life difficult for themselves by focusing all their attention and efforts where the competition is the greatest. Google……….

The majority of PCC beginners naturally assume that Google traffic is always the highest converting and the most profitable, just because it is the largest player in town. The fact is, there are other pay-per-click advertising networks available that can be simpler to use, less expensive and sometimes more profitable than Google Adwords.

MSN Adcentre is one of the most frequently overlooked, but when you realise that it is owned and operated by Microsoft you wonder why so few marketers take advantage of the advertising opportunities MSN has to offer.

With only less than 10% of online search traffic MSN still has tens of millions of visitors per month but more importantly the quality of MSN visitors from a marketers point of view is that a very high percentage of them have made recent purchases online.

For beginners as well as experienced Affiliates MSN Adcentre offers many qualities making it an ideal advertising option.Firstly whilst there are ad quality guidelines the absence of burdensome rules and regulations assists everyone without the fear of the notorious “Google Slap”.Ads will not mysteriously start demanding $5 or $10 bids per click to keep your ad running and overall click prices may be considerably cheaper than those on Google Adwords.   

Affiliates advertising on MSN Adcentre do not have to  worry about direct linking – unlike Google Adwords. Adcentre has no rules requiring only one advertiser per keyword link to a particular landing page so you are under no obligation to incur all  the effort  required of designing a squeeze page for your campaigns. 

In conclusion – Google Adwords is, and will continue to be a great  advertising platform for all affiliates but the thing to remember is that despite its size, Google is not the be-all and end-all of advertising and affiliate marketing – the choice of opportunities is much larger than that.

For tips and techniques on how to get the most out of MSN Adcentre, check out www.zerofrictionuk.com  once you know the secrets of the “pro,s” you may feel that you are literally cutting and pasting your may to a full – time online income.

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