Archive for Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing Programs For Beginners
Posted by: | CommentsI remember when I first got started in affiliate marketing a few years ago. One of the hardest things to do at the time was finding training that….
#1. Wasn’t expense
#2. Was real and honest
The problem? The programs were virtually non-existent back then and even now finding real and honest ways to get into the affiliate marketing field can be tough for the newcomer.
About a year ago I opened the doors on free training to all who were interested in learning how to make money online with affiliate marketing. If you’re interested just put your name and email in the right hand side bar on this page (near the top of your screen).
Before you go and do that I want to just briefly share with you what is involved in affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing in its simplicity is promoting someone else’s service or product and earning a payment for doing so. This can be a tangible goods like products you’d find at the mall, a service based good like Identity theft protection services or a digital good like an online course or an e-book.
The money from promoting these affiliate programs can be paid usually via Paypal, check or direct deposit.
You’ll only need a few things to get started.
*A market that you are interested in. Hobbies are great for this see my post here.
*A website (I’ll show you how to do this- it’s not as hard as it sounds).
*A domain (very cheap).
*The desire to make money online and work for yourself.
A couple of things to consider when finding affiliate marketing programs for beginners can be found below. Make sure that the program is really geared for beginners. I’ve seen e-books and courses that state they are geared for the newbie, but are anything but easy to learn.
Find someone you trust and learn everything they know. Soak up their knowledge and keep growing. Eventually start testing other things out on your own after you’re making some money with your website.
Make sure if you end up paying for training that that training has a member’s forum or help desk where you can as questions and get help. My paid program called Niche Blitzkrieg has this and much more if you want to skip past my free stuff and get serious about this.
Also when you’re learning how to get into affiliate marketing, pay attention and utilize the training. One of the biggest problems I’ve seen in people trying to make money online is this perceived notion that it takes virtually no effort to make a fortune online. This mindset will doom you from the start.
Just remember that everything that is worth doing and makes us money will take some work and effort on our part as individuals.
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Make $1000 In A Week….
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I tend to get a lot of questions that ask questions about making X amount of money in X amount of time. The interesting way this is usually termed is like this: “How Can I Make $1000 In A Week?” and sometimes it’s stated “Per Week.” My answer is: Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is basically promoting someone else’s product or service and earning a commission anytime someone buys this product or service through you. |
The problem for some people is they then realize that, like everything, it isn’t done with magic and it actually takes work to start making $1000/week.
The great thing about affiliate marketing is that it can be done at home, you need no prior experience and all you need is a laptop or desktop computer and a small website.
So instead of asking “How much work does this take?” The people who are really ready to make money online ask “How do I get started?”
If you’re not a member of my Free course titled Unleashing Your Success and I’ll teach you how to get started step-by-step…..
Now, before you head out to get started I want you to have the right mindset.
This doesn’t happen over-night and it will take some time to build up to where you are making $1000 per week. However, many people are making hundreds-of-thousands and many are making millions with affiliate marketing. Even sites like Amazon have affiliate programs that you can make money with so you can see this is a pretty big deal.
Your work ethic and determination will set you apart from the crowd. If you work hard, focus and ask questions you have a higher chance of success than someone who learns and then does nothing with that knowledge.
Just remember once you start, stick with it and see it trough.
Questions or comments? Ask anytime below!
How To Make Money With Pinterest
Posted by: | CommentsIn the ever changes Internet world it seems that every single week a new Internet sensation explodes onto the market. Well, it’s happened again with the introduction of Pinterest.
If you do not know much about it yet, don’t worry, you soon will. It’ll be all over the news just like Facebook and Twitter. Then the time will come when we’re sick of hearing about it.
What is Pinterest?
A social site that allows you to create boards and post pins to it. Pins are pictures that can be extracted from any website and then added to your boards.
I know, I know, more social stuff to do and another place to waste precious time.
However, I think this is going to be useful in the make money online world. So the biggest question and the reason you are reading my blog is to find out how to make money with Pinterest.
So How Do You Make Money With Pinterest?
Well a couple ways really. (NOTE: I am still experimenting and will have some feedback shortly).
But, this is how I see making money with it for now. Sine you can pin up pictures and it generates a link back to the page where you snagged the picture from you can drive sales to an affiliate page of yours.
For instance, if you have a blog that promotes Baby Grand Pianos and someone clicks through on your link from Pinterest back to your blog site and ends up buying through you, you make money.
Pretty simple, eh?
I have yet to try to send directly through an affiliate link and I suppose I’ll be trying that as well over the weekend. I’ll keep you updated as to any results or if this will work.
Moreover it’s at least a great way to get traffic to your blog or website. So if you need more traffic I highly suggest coming over to Pinterest and starting to post as many pictures from your websites as possible.
Some early tips for the best results with Pintrest.
I’ve already noticed with Pinterest you need to have unique pictures or inspiring pictures to get more attention. For instance, a picture of a baby playing a piano would get more attention than a picture of a TV remote; a cute picture of two kittens playing would get more attention than a picture of a set of muddy shoes, etc.
So far the pictures I see doing well on the site are pictures of:
Landscaping
Beautiful Homes
Hot people
Unique foods (pretty cakes, etc)
Cute pets and animals
Photography studio pictures
Interesting quotes
Unique gift ideas
Hair and design
Art
I am sure there are many other categories that are being used too. Go easy on me right now, it’s all brand new. 
If you own a business (whether your own personal business or an affiliate work at home style business) I think you'd do well to make money with Pinterest.
I think the gift area has some real potential to be a money maker at Pinterest unless they completely turn off any ability to link to things at some point.
I also think using their site to get traffic to places like Youtube videos and other video sites will be extremely useful.
I was checking one video still frame that was posted on Pinterest that lead back to a Youtube video about hair braiding. This video had over 180,000 views from Pinterest alone in the last few months! That is substantial!
If only 1% of those viewers clicked on just one of your ads that would be 1800 clicks. I am not sure how many people click the ads from Pinterest or what they’ll go onto buy as of now. But, I will say this, if you’re not on the site testing now you’re missing out!
On a final note if you check out the stats in Alexa for Pinterest you’ll find that so far 80% or more of the sites users are female! So if you are promoting products that are useful to the female population you’ll probably have more success making money with it.
Another funny note by looking at Alexa keywords coming into the site is that people are having a hard time spelling it. Just look at some of the terms people are typing in to find Pinterest:
Pintrist, pininterest, pin- interest and pintereste. So you can see it’s so new that many people are just frantically searching to find “what the heck” it even is.
So if you’re looking to drive more traffic to you site or make money Pinterest might just be a nice free way to attract new visitors! Go give it a try for yourself. It’ll take a few days to get an account approved but it’s worth experimenting with (at your own risk as I am not 100% sure on their rules yet – it’s not clearly defined, but I see other people using it commercially).
UPDATE JAN 5 2012:
I tested posting direct affiliate links on the site for a few days. I just used direct Amazon products. I found that all male products did terribly. This is about what I assumed. Female products with bright colors did well and I actually had quite a few repins of the products I posted. I posted about 20 pins total (nothing crazy) and made about $10.18 so far with only about 15 minutes of total work. I expect the few pins I put up will make more money over time.
That's not awesome but what it does tell me is that from clicks on pins put on Pinterest you can make money an you can also scale it up.
What I suggest is this: Make your own blog based on a female oriented niche market and put good pictures on it for every product you promote on the blog. Then simply pin those images to Pinterest. You'll want to promote as many images as possible. The more the better. Also note that so far brighter more vibrant colors tend to catch the female viewers eye more (at least from this experiment).
In my opinion to make a fortune from Pinterest users lone you'll need a lot of Pins! I would use this more as a means to help promote your website rather than the ultimate solution.
If you do not know how to build a blog yet go grab my free course here.
Are Your Web Pages Optimized?
Posted by: | CommentsAre your web pages optimized?
If not you’re probably missing out on a lot of sales or ad clicks.
The better your site is optimized the better your results are.
However, even looking inside of Niche Blitzkrieg’s website review section one thing we see often is websites not living up to their potential simply because their optimization is poor.
Good optimization means….
*Having your keywords in the title and header of your web site
*Using your keywords and related words on the web page itself
*Not over using the keywords (be at the optimal level of keyword density)
*Adding in an occasional H1 H2 and H3 tag on your pages (you can do this through your dashboard in WordPress on the post/page editor
*Using “alt” tags on images (remember search engines can’t read images only text… so you need to tell the search engines what your images are about
*Using the occasional bolded, italics and underline keywords
See all of these things help you organically rank in the search engines. This is how websites with less backlinks can often outrank websites with many more backlinks. It’s because search engines see well optimized websites as more “important” for their topic than websites poorly optimized.
One thing I use to optimize my web pages and posts for my niche sites
is a new cool (check it out right here). <<==== I highly recommend this…
This tool checks all the parameters I mentioned above and does it in about 5-10 seconds….
It’s cheap and easy to use and affordable. It’s a simple tool that you simply install on your computer and at any time you want you can check any of your webpages/posts out and see if they need anything optimized. It will tell you what you’re pages/posts are missing and you simply just need to correct anything in RED.
If you can’t afford the tool or just don’t want to spend the money right now, you at least need to manually check the things I mentioned above. Make sure you’re doing them and your sites WILL rank better in the long term.
Ranking higher in the search engines provides more visibility to your site and the more visible your site is, the more money you are likely to make.
