Step By Step Affiliate Marketing Is The Key

March 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

step by step affiliate marketing walkthroughYou’re here because you want to learn about affiliate marketing.  It’s because of affiliate marketing I was able to leave my stressful job in 2008.  I now enjoy working in the comfort of my own home. 

I’ll be honest I LOVE my lifestyle and I LOVE affiliate marketing.

What is affiliate marketing exactly?

Affiliate marketing is essentially promoting someone else’s products and/or services and earning a commission.  As an affiliate you basically act as a 3rd party in promoting these items.

What items can be affiliate products?

 

 

ANY!  In fact, many of the biggest retailers have affiliate programs including but not limited to Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Staples and Bow flex, just to name a few.  There are thousands of online merchants with affiliate programs in fact.  Plus, new niche markets pop up every single year.

Where do you find these merchants?

You find these online merchants in Free Affiliate Networks.  These networks look for people like us who are interested in promoting products we can earn commissions off of.

The amount of commissions you can earn can vary greatly from merchant to merchant.  Some merchants pay you anywhere from 10-20%, while others can pay 50% or more.

How do you get paid by these merchants?

The networks collect the money and pay you.  They will pay you either directly into your bank account, into a Paypal account or send you a check.  You can also do this in nearly every single country.

Here’s the step by step explanation.

In order to get started in making money online this way you need to do the following.

Research – You’ll need to find a niche market that you can get into and earn money in.  I set up a series of free training videos at my site for free affiliate marketing training if you’ve never tried this, start there.

Build a website – Relax, it’s easy.  It’s not like it was many years ago where you had to actually know how to ode everything.  Now everything is done with a WYSIWYG editor, which stands for What You See Is What You Get.

This allows you to build a website using free templates, without having any prior experience.  I also give some pointers about building a website based on a topic or a product here.

It’s important to write good content on your website so that it will attract sales and attention from visitors.

Add affiliate products or pay per click programs – Once you start building your website you can start adding affiliate products to our webpages.  Anytime someone buys one of these through you, you earn money.  Pay per click programs like Google AdSense will actually pay you per click when a visitor clicks your ad.

Drive traffic – Now you’ll want to start sharing your website with the entire Internet.  You can do this in many ways including with online article directories, social sites like Facebook and Twitter, in various forums, answer sites, and more.

You will start rising in the search engines, like Google, for your relevant keywords that people search for and ultimately start making sales through your website as visitors start coming in.

This is of course a much abbreviated step by step affiliate marketing walkthrough.  It’s impossible to do it justice inside of a simple blog post but if you’re interested in getting started I offer two ways to do this.

The free way by joining here….

Or

The paid route with hands on help every single step of the way.  If you want all the help you need to make money online with affiliate marketing get started here.

The above is also a very do this, do that type of step-by-step system for learning how to use affiliate marketing to make money.

Have you tried affiliate marketing yet?

Do you have any experience with making money this way yet?

Are you nervous to try it?  Have doubts?  Concerns?  Or have any other thoughts?

Leave them below!

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Making Money With Email Affiliate Marketing

March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
email marketing

Not long ago I put out a webinar with about 200 people showing some really fantastic stuff about making money with email this year.  I answered several dozen questions about how I make money through email.

It was fun and the audience learned how to get started.  But, here is the key take away from that event…..

Below you'll find why you need to make money online with email this year…

 

Fact #1 – Sales of smart phones has skyrocketed. 

In fact, 1/3 of U.S. adults now have a smart phone!  Access worldwide is also at an all-time high.

*87% of all people who own a smart phone check and send emails on their smart phone.

Smart Phones are expected to continue to find their way into more hands soon too.  This means more people accessing email on an easy, regular basis. 

So if all of these people have smart phones and you can reach them with a few clicks of the mouse, why not?

Smart phones are also currently outselling laptop and desktop computer sales combined.

 

"You Need To Make Money With Affiliate Email Marketing This Year…."

 

Here are more facts and reason why:

#2.  Nearly 77% of Internet Users Have Made An Online Purchase

Many of these sales occur through email!

So imagine sending offers to people via email (people that want to hear from you NOT SPAM) and making money when someone clicks your link and makes an order.  It’s pretty awesome.

 

#3.  You can automate everything through an “Auto-responder” and never have to be at your desk while sales are coming in.

This is probably the most appealing aspect of email marketing.  You can set all of your emails to go out while you are away. 

 

#4.  An email list is super-valuable asset that you keep for life!

I can’t stress having an email list, enough.  It’s extremely valuable and at any time of the day or night you can contact your entire list.

If you provide your list value, they buy.  It’s simple.  What I teach people to do is give to their list, build a relationship, help them and make money helping.  A win-win for both sides.

Email allows traffic anytime you need it.  It’s also targeted traffic that is interested in what you’re saying.  These types of people become buyers!

Conclusion With Email

Do not underestimate the power of using email to make money.  Most people will wait, and not start.  Then most people will kick themselves a year later when they could have built a 1000+ person email list of potential buyers.

It never hurts to learn more and grow and it certainly never hurts to start seeing those awesome results from your efforts.

I have training in place now to show you how email marketing works (especially for beginners) and how to get started….

Curious to see exactly how making money with email works?  Read more here.

 

I’ve been asked before why do email marketing and niche affiliate marketing? 

Why Do Both?

Simple.  They both work and wouldn’t you want to make more money?  The more you learn the more ability you’ll have to make more money.

I still learn new stuff daily.  Then I put it into practice.

So my advice is learn both when you can and learn from someone that knows what they are doing.

You can also take a tour of all of my new email marketing training here.

So what do you think?  Are you already making money with email?

Do you plan on starting this year?

Do you hate email?

Give me your thoughts below and let’s discuss this…

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Fast Way To Write Articles For Content Or Link Building

February 1, 2012 By 5 Comments

create articles fastIt seems like every week I get an email, forum post, PM or Facebook message about how much someone hates to write or is simply having trouble trying to figure out what to write about.

I am going to show you something powerful that allows me to get more done in the least amount of time.  Let’s face it, I’m busy, you're busy and we always need content right?

If you don’t want to pay for someone to write for you and you’re working on content creation for your site or simply trying to get more articles published so build more backlinks to your website then this blog post is for you!

 

You Really Can Create 30-40 Articles In Just A Few Hours

It all starts with research.  Now, there are 2 ways to do this so pay attention to the first way and then the second way I’m going to show you.

1st we need topics and we need them in bulk so we can do this as fast as possible.

 

Step #1

 

Way #1.  Load up the Google Keyword Tool and type in your niche keywords.

Next, find any keyword phrases that are question oriented.  (i.e. “How do I saw wood with a chainsaw?”, “Best way to saw down a large tree?”) 

Keep in mind the Google Keyword Tool will not add the question marks at the end so you’ll need to read through each one to determine if it’s a question or not. 

Save the selected keywords to a CSV or word file as you find them.  This will become your list of topics to write about.

 

Alternative Step 1 – The Easiest Way To Research Your Topic

 

Way #2.  Grab a free copy of Market Samurai.

Next, put in the keyword phrase (use the primary keyword phrase for your niche).

When you get to the screen that asks for the keyword phrase length put in minimum of 4.

What this will allow you to do is pull up only keyword phrases for 4 or more words put together (long tailed keywords).

These phrases usually have low competition and many are question oriented.  When you go into the keyword analysis area simply export the data to a CSV file, remove any keywords that are not relevant to your niche and save your work.

You now have a list of topics to write about in just a couple of minutes.

 

Step #2

 

Next, create a folder on your computer called “Your Niche” Articles.  Make sure to replace “Your Niche” with either your website URL or your actually keywords.

Then, create a Word Doc or Open Office if you don’t have Word.  As the title of the Document simply paste in your first long tailed keyword phrase from your research and SAVE your work.

Do this for every single keyword phrase up to about 50 keyword phrases max.

Next, create a folder with the “Your Niche” Articles folder called “DONE” or something like that.

 

Step #3

 

Turn off your cell phone, Facebook, close out of your email account, shut off the T.V., don’t check your commissions for a little while and even ask you family for a couple hours of uninterrupted time.

Basically, this will become focus time and a time where you’re going to just crank out content.

Next, go through each document and answer the questions in full.  For articles that will go into article directories you’ll need 300+ words in each.  For content for your sites you’ll need at least 150+ words.  If you’re writing content for your site, the more the better, but 150 words is the bare minimum.  If you have awesome typing skills you might even be able to blow these numbers away.

Finally, drag and drop each completed article into the "DONE" folder.  When you're done you'll be left with a brand new folder of new content!

Take a small break every 10 or articles you’ve typed to gather yourself.  I can usually type a full article this way in 7 minutes or so for the 300 word articles and less for the 150s.  Sometimes it takes slightly less and sometimes slightly longer and I am a horrible typist. 

This saves time and money and we all know we can use more of both.

Also on writing like this something like Dragon Naturally Speaking (not an affiliate link) would work well.  I have always found Dragon works best for small projects like this and not as well for the bigger projects.  However, you may be different than I and have different results with using a tool like that.

This can also be easily outsourced.  Simply find the topics and give the topics to your writer if you don't want to type these up yourself.

So, that’s it!

Have you ever tried to do something like this?  Are you already doing this?  How has it worked for you?  Let me know below!

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Easy Link Building Strategy

January 16, 2012 By 2 Comments

I love to test and try new things.  In fact, I am always searching for ways to save time, make more money, automate processes and get more done with less hands-on.  The busier we become in life the more critical simple solutions for getting more done, with less, becomes important.

Today I want to show you what I am doing currently to automate my link building even more and how I am doing it while spending just a few minutes of my time. 

Obviously, everything we do for our websites; we do with the intent to get hem ranked in the top 5-10 on Google (optimally #1) and of course ultimately the goal is to make more money by doing so.

I call this article marketing with a twist and it involves having someone else do everything else for you.

Before you start keep in keep in mind that there may be a little extra learning involved here for you.  However, I have some extra links with some extra teaching if you need it on this page.

Step 1 – You need a system where you can build links to high PR sites.  (PR = page rank and is a stat that only relates to Google.  If you need to read more about PR read this Page Rank At Wikipedia).  Of course you’ll put a backlink pointing back to whatever web page on your site that you want from these sites.

The system I recommend is this one right here.   What this system allows you to do is put in articles and put backlinks pointing to the web pages that you want to boost in the search engines.  You'll need to write up a few articles to submit into the system.  It's extremely easy to follow and use. 

Step 2 – You need articles.  You can either write these yourself (need to be 150 or more words in length to put them in the system) or you can hire someone to write them for you.  You can use a service like this one that that will do the writing for you or you can use a service like Article Builder where you can snag articles on the cheap but, you’ll need to upload them into the 1 way links system yourself (it’s easy and will save you some cash in the long run).  Using Article Builder is the cheapest way in the long haul.

Again, optionally you can also just write everything yourself and spend nothing but, I am simply showing you how I like to automate my link building as of late.  Writing a 150 word article should only take you a few minutes.

Step 3 – Once you have your articles make sure each article has at least 1 link inside of it pointing back to whatever webpage you want.  This doesn’t have to be your home page it can be any page you want to rank on your site.  Use anchor text with the keywords you want to rank your webpage for as your anchor text.  (If you need help understanding anchor text read this article).  Change your anchor text for every few articles that you submit so it’s not always 100% the same.

This is an easy way to build links, increase your web rankings for pages of your websites and a big timesaver.  I wanted to share this with you today because it’s one of the many ways I do my link building now and I know many of my students would appreciate this method.

You will gradually rise in the search engine rankings for your keywords and it will be done naturally. 

If you have questions or comments I’d love to hear about them below!

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