There are a few things that every affiliate marketer or aspiring affiliate will need to start making his or her first dollar in affiliate marketing.

From my conversations with a lot of my subscribers, it appears that most affiliates feel too overwhelmed by the information overload. They get swarmed by all the experienced internet marketers’ emails throwing them into all directions.

Frankly, there is nothing wrong with the offers and methods taught by the internet marketers. The only problem is for a newbie, that is too much to digest.

Right here, I offer a few simple steps to start making your first dollar in affiliate marketing. If you own a list or membership site that has many newbie affiliates, perhaps you might want them to read this post.

The idea is to stay focused on a single plan and take mass action!

1. Choose Your Product

One affiliate program for a start!

While this sounds basic, the truth is, many get sucked into different affiliate programs and end up distracted!

Start with ClickBank if you are new. All you need to do is register. Approval is instant and you go for to the Marketplace to choose a good product to promote.

People will tell you to go for low competition products, ie products that few affiliates are promoting or not selling in large volumes. That’s not quite true. For me, I find from my experience in niche marketing that the hot sellers sell much better.

The reasons are simple: The hot sellers are proven to sell, ie high conversion rates. Secondly, the market is much larger!

Take a look at the Gravity. This is a single parameter that tells you how many affiliates have made at least 1 sale over the past 30 days. Not the exact number though but a good estimate. Go for at least 30 to 50.

2. Create Your Sales Funnel

By that, this is the conduit of getting visitors to your sales page. Some will advocate direct linking, in other words, sending your visitors immediately to your sales page.

This works at times. But I have only seen successful models if you use targeted paid advertising. For example, buying banners ads, text link ads, etc at Ad Networks. Unless you are an experienced marketer or have deep pockets to test different advertising avenues, this option can be very expensive! Not quite suitable for newbies.

However, it is often much better if you put your prospect through a sales funnel for the purpose of educating and preselling your prospect. Conversions are much higher!

What kind of sales funnels can you create?

a. A content website that talks about the particular market you are in.

b. A blog using free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress is great!

c. A name squeeze page that allows you to capture the name and email address of your visitor. This allows you to follow up with him or her for at least 7 times to condition him to buy from you. Offer great content or a free report as a bait!

d. A forum signature can become your direct sales funnel. Create a catchy forum signature like this “Copy The Secrets A Newbie Used To Get A $3212 PayCheck Every Month!”. The simple way to do it is to use the headline of the product you are selling and modify it.

A case study here. If I am promoting Google Manipulator, I may actually create a signature from its headline.

Headline:

“Underground Marketer Banks $57,100 In Profit From Free Google Search Traffic And How You Too Could Easily And Effortlessly Blow Past Anyone And Everyone In Your Niche And Hit The Jackpot Using The Exact Same Simple As 1-2-3 Methods”

Signature:

“Learn How I Bank $57,100 In Profits From Free Traffic Using A Simple A-B-C Blueprint!”

3. Traffic Driving

The third part is in driving traffic to your sales funnel. This is the most challenging for most internet marketers. If you do have a budget, you can resort to PPC, ideally Google Adwords.

But if you are on a tight budget, free traffic driving techniques can also deliver a punch.

Some of the most effective and simple traffic driving methods here:

a. Article marketing – I swear by its effectiveness. After all, this is the single traffic technique that gets me well over 1000,000 visitors over a year period. Hint: Use EzineArticles.

Read my other blog posts on article marketing tips and techniques to maximize your efforts.

b. Forum marketing – Spend time contributing to at least 10 forums in your target niche. This will get you a good reputation and trust. The selling point is in your forum signature. People do make their first sales there.

c. Classified advertisements – Go to the free classified advertisement websites like Craigslist, EPage, BackPage and USFreeads. These places allow you to post a classified ad. Look for the appropriate places to post your ad.

d. Create a free report and give it away – This method is a more advanced one which I hesitated to share. Nonetheless, if you feel you are experienced to do it, go ahead and create a report with your affiliate links embedded in the report.

Give it to anyone you meet, post it to free ebook directories, or participate in a giveaway.

e.  Social bookmarking at top sites like StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us and Digg.

f. List building – this is a lengthy process but you will be able to build a long-term business in the niche you are targeting. All gurus built their successes from their own lists or piggybacking others’ lists.

There are other more advanced techniques, but I shall stop here. By following these methods and duplicating it all over and over again, you will find yourself not only making the first sale, but many sales. You just got yourself a proven business model!

Wow! It has been more than a month since I last posted. So where was I? In case you are wondering if I went missing forever, I have not. The last month was busy and I was away in Japan for about 2 weeks on holidays. It was quite cooling in Hokkaido and the lavender fields were beautiful! Tokyo’s weather was quite terrible – it was hot! But my wife and I had a great time at DisneySea.

Overall, it was an enjoyable trip and now that I am back, it is time to get back to posting more good stuff for you guys.

I am going to post a quick keyword tip here for all bum marketers and practically all internet marketers. Keyword research as you know by now is a must. Whether you are using it for Pay-Per-Click aka Google Adwords or for SEO and bum marketing, it is the one most critical component.

Google’s external keyword tool is now an improved version, providing approximate monthly search counts for any keyword you search. Here’s the link to the free keyword tool.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Previously, there are no figures and you probably have to second guess what the search volume toolbar means for each individual word.

If you are a bum marketer looking for a quick keyword to target, the search volumes should give you a good idea of the traffic each keyword will attract. Also, if you notice that the advertiser competition is high, ie a full bar, chances are it is profitable for the advertisers.

This should pass the first litmus test. Then, I will go to Google.com to run a search using “keyword” and allintitle: keyword.

If both shows a low result, probably in the range of lower than 5,000 for “keyword” and 1,000 for allintitle: keyword, then I will target this for bum marketing with articles at EzineArticles, Squidoo and HubPages.

But there is more to Google’s keyword tool. Notice that there is a small section on the left hand that says “Results are tailored to”. Try to fiddle with the drop-down menu, it will give you a good grasp of how much traffic each keyword is attracting from different countries in the world.

This should be useful for PPC marketers who are targeting geographically. Even for bum marketers, you can try to plan your content to contain keywords for those specific countries. For example, if you notice that a keyword looks promising with decent search volumes in Canada, perhaps you can mention about “Canada” in your article content and title to draw some relevance to it. So, for illustration’s purpose, say the keyword is “make money online”, you can try creating content based on the keyword “make money online in Canada”.

Google Manipulator is the latest report to be launched on the 26 June 2008. Written by Pawel Reszka, an unknown 6-figure underground marketer, this 80 page report teaches you the exact methods he has used to “manipulate” the Google search engine for profits. I was invited to review this report. As usual, I am going to share what this “Google Manipulator” report is all about.

Content Of Google Manipulator:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. What This Is About

Chapter 3. Market Research

Chapter 4. The Master Plan

Chapter 5. Content Creation

Chapter 6. Executing The Plan

Chapter 7. Getting The Word Out

Chapter 8. Your Own Site VS Direct Linking

Chapter 9. Black Hat

Chapter 10. Building Huge Sites Fast

Chapter 11. Closing Words

Chapter 12. Recommended Resources

Chapter 13. Affiliate Program

I am not easily won over by sales letters and loud headlines. After all, all internet marketing products have fantastic headlines and sub-headlines. And you get numb after a while.

When you get to see the sales letter subsequently. you will read about how this underground marketer named Pawel Reszka managed to pull in over $50,000 profits in one month relying only on free google search traffic.

No Google Adwords, PPC or huge lists at all. And he earned his $50,000 profits all using free search traffic from Google. How did he do that? These are all revealed in his Google Manipulator report. But here is a hint, he uses niche sites together with the power of Web 2.0 authority sites.

The aim of this report is to show you how to conquer the Google search engine results with No.1 ranking or at least within the Top 10 search results. Anyone can do it without even owning or building a single website.

I reviewed the report, read through the entire 80 pages and found a shocking truth! This guy is really sharing what works, without hiding anything!

I hate to say it but most gurus do not share their killer techniques with us. They either write about methods that used to work but are obsolete now or methods that they personally have not used before. Theories at best!

But in Google Manipulator, the steps to dominate the Google search results are clearly spelt out. I can say that because I have personally used the methods and I know they work like crazy! When he says that you can get Google’s approval for your websites and rank top or even No.1 for your targeted keywords within days, he is not lying. And we are not talking about complicated SEO but using Web 2.0 authority sites.

Pawel tells you the 2 best ways to make use of his techniques to conquer Google’s search engine results to your advantage. No, he is not talking about long tail keywords in case you are wondering.

His killer backlinking strategies are powerful and effective. The Google Manipulator report shares 2 such methods to get quality one-way links. The black hat techniques are actually mini strategies to increase your affiliate commissions.

Priced at $67, this Google Manipulator report is worth the buy. It is a complete income system. I like his style of writing which is clear and concise. And Pawel Reszka takes great pains to use screenshots to illustrate each step. Newbies will love this because they are easy to understand and anyone can execute to outrun even the gurus with huge lists, even without your own website!

I would be surprised if you do not make any money with this report.

Grab his report and I shall throw in a set of attractive bonuses. See my Google Manipulator bonuses.

Download Pawel Reszka’s free Google Manipulator report before it is gone!

It has been about 2 weeks since I last posted. Well, I am back after getting all busy with creating and semi-automating my network of blogs. Yes, I do own tons of blogs and with my new projects coming up soon, I got to set certain systems in place to take care of the content management as well as link and traffic building of my blog empire.

Ok, back to this post. Here are some cool and free keyword competition analyzers you can use to conduct a search for “low competition keyword phrases”. Now, “low competition keyword phrases” are much sought after for a few reasons.

Firstly, if you are an article marketer or bum marketer, using such keywords will get you ranking in top placements in the search engines really fast.

Secondly, if you are using PPC, targeting a specific long tail, low competition keyword phrase for your keyword, landing page content, ad title and ad content will bring down the cost of your ads really fast. But be mindful to target low competition keyword phrases with some decent amount of searches. Otherwise, you will be wasting time building a landing page and optimizing it around the keyword.

Which are these free keyword competition analyzers?

1. WordTracker’s Cool Google Trends Feature

You may be familiar with WordTracker but did you know that you can combine the power of the free keyword competition checker with Google trends?

Say I want to check out the keyword competitiveness of “working from home”. I will go to

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends

Take a look at this screenshot.

Next, I will click on the little icon on the right column that says “Niche summary for working from home”.

It will bring me to this screen that shows the Google competition and the actual number of visitors from the No.1 website in Google.

Powerful, right? Within a few minutes, one can easily find some long tail low competition keywords to target. Now to the second free keyword competition analyzing tool.

2. SEO For FireFox Plugin

Yes, this is an add-on for your SEO browser.

Download it from

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

Install it and run the tool. See the screenshot below when I try to check if the keyword “working from home” is worth targeting.

It pretty much tells you a great deal about the sites that are ranking well for the keyword “working from home”. If you see most of them with a high PR and tons of backlinks, this is a good sign that you should avoid it!

But if the sites that are ranking well for the keyword phrase are all low PR pages with small number of backlinks, the keyword phrase could just be the low competition keyword phrase you are looking for!

In my visits to money making forums, I often come across questions like “how do I make money for free”, “can anyone make any money without a list” or “is it possible to make money as an affiliate”?

There are 4 simple ways to make money online if you are starting out and do not own a list, a product and simply do not have a single penny to spend.

1. Writing Articles and Selling Them

A very straightforward method is to sell original articles. You can either use project-based communities like Elance, Scriptlance and GetaFreeLancer to find work as a writer. Project assignments go for around $3 – 10 per article written depending on your skill level and reputation.

Alternatively, you can simply write a set of articles on a hot topic like dog training, dating and so on. Then sell them as PLR articles at forums like Digital Point forum. Go to all the money making forums and promote the sale. But the trick is to price each article below $1. If you can sell a batch of 10 articles @ $10 to 20 or 30 buyers, that is $200 – 300 in your pocket. Not too bad if you can do it every day!

2. Direct Affiliate Marketing

Since you do not own a product, you can simply sign up as an affiliate in ClickBank. This is the first step. The next step is to drive tons of traffic to your link.

Direct Linking Method

Basically, what this means is you promote the affiliate link directly. You can use a signature link that points to your affiliate link and be active in forums.

Go and post at least 10 interesting posts a day in each forum. Repeat it for as many forums as possible, minimum 10 forums. By doing so, you have 100 posts scattered around and 100 chances of getting some targeted eyeballs on your signature. Be creative and make some outrageous or catchy signature like “How to Make $100 Within 2 Hours”.

You can also leave your affiliate link in blog comments as well as free classified ad sites like Craiglist, BackPage, EPage etc.

Try this and do not be surprised that you will start seeing sales streaming in. One of my readers was so thankful when he made 2 sales shortly after doing so. While that is not a lot, but for a newbie, it can be very encouraging.

But one word of advice, try not to send all the traffic directly to the sales page unless the sales page converts really well! Otherwise, it makes sense to presell your prospect first.

Presell Method

This requires more work but it works like a charm. Do a review of the product be it at Squidoo, HubPages or EzineArticles. Direct the traffic to the affiliate product (EzineArticles require a website, so why not direct the traffic to a Squidoo lens you have created?)

Reviews are known to improve conversions by many fold. I personally tested it and found in one case that it actually improved the conversion rate from 1% to 5%.

Start driving traffic to your review pages using article submission, blog comment posting and forum posting.

Anyway, these are all free to set up, so why not?

3. Blogging

Go and start a free blog at Blogger or WordPress. Pick an expensive topic like Mortgage, Debt and so on.

Start blogging and update the blog frequently.

Do not use Google Adsense immediately. I discovered that it does not help you in the search engine rankings when you slap those ads on your blog while it is still fresh and new. Google often see these new blogs with Adsense ads as trashy “made for Adsense” sites and never love them.

But that does not mean you cannot put other affiliate product banners on it.

Build it for a while, at least a month or two before you put Adsense on it and you are safe and ready to receive expensive clicks.

One important thing you need to do is to ping your blog after posting. Ping it at http://www.Pingoat.com to inform the feed directories that your blog has been updated.

Building backlinks to your blog is vital. There are many free methods like article marketing, bum marketing, blog comment posting, forum posting and link exchange.

From this method, you are monetizing your blog by earning when someone clicks through your affiliate product banners and buys the products and click on the Adsense ads.

Once your blog hits a good PR, you can even start selling text link and banner ads on your blog. Participate in Adbrite or other ad networks for more cash.

4. Sell Your Own Products

This sounds contradictory. How do you sell your own products without creating one? Well, you can always download any product and treat it as your own by participating in giveaways like:

Viral Marketing Giveaway 11 – Download Your Free Gifts Now!

The IM Giveaway – The Most Massive Giveaway With Thousands Dollars Worth Of Gifts

There are tons of free ebooks, templates and scripts with Master Resale Rights and Private Label Rights (PLR). You can simply resell them for profits.

How to set it up?

Go to one of the free web hosts that allow you to upload web pages and files.

You will be able to find a lot of free web hosting services at http://www.free-webhosts.com.

Upload the sales page, download page and report. These are included in the resale rights packages.

Create a PayPal button for your customer to pay you.

How to promote the product?

Simply apply the methods I described in 1, 2 & 3.

So, here you have 4 really simple to follow methods to make money online without a product, a list and even budget. All the above are free techniques that work!

Once you have a hang of these methods, it is time to proceed to more advanced techniques as an experienced marketer.

Have you heard of GistWeb? If not, this is the latest free tool developed by Jonathan Leger. Jon has been pumping out many free and paid software that are useful for marketers especially affiliate marketers. This online tool is intended for people who find content research a chore.

Any affiliate marketer alive would know that writing good quality unique content is the lifeline of content publishing. Your blogs and websites need content to improve readership. Your article marketing efforts need unique content to capture the attention of the search engines to achieve good rankings.

But the trouble is, to create unique content, there are only 2 main ways. Either you write it yourself which takes tons of time and a lot of brain juice and creativity or you pay for your content.

Writing everything yourself can be time-consuming. It takes time to conduct research for the information and organize them properly before you can write a good blog post or article.

Another way is to hire someone to write for you. This may help you to get away from writing your own content, but getting somebody to write unique content for you can cost a lot of money. This is especially so if you own a lot of websites and blogs, monetized for Adsense or affiliate programs.

GistWeb.com is able to overcome both sets of problems – cost and time. Firstly, it is a free service anyone can use. Secondly, it takes only a minute for it to work.

What can GistWeb do for you?

It pulls out the gist of search results, organize them nicely into summaries of different lengths. You simply input the keyword you are interested to research on and it will go searching the web for related information. You can use the short, medium or long summary as you wish.

While it takes a little time to organize the content a bit, you will realize that it is a really cool tool to conduct online research for useful information.

Try out GistWeb today to conduct your content research and start churning out unique content as fast as lightning!

By now, you would have heard of Ewen Chia or for that matter his latest Working from Home Secret Report. He is my fellow countryman, friend and someone whom I do respect a lot. Why?

Partly because I have known how hard he worked his way to today’s status as the Secret Weapon of Super Affiliates. But largely because he often over deliver on his products. Do not expect B.S from this guy.

This is the man behind successful products like AutoPilot Profits and Secret Affiliate Weapon. These reports continue to sell well on ClickBank. But I am still curious to know how this new system works and whether he can live up to my expectations.

But what exactly is Ewen Chia’s Working from Home System about? 15th April is the first day of the pre-launch to announce the arrival of this new income system.

Well, I downloaded his free report titled “HOW TO GET RICH FROM HOME IN JUST 5 SIMPLE STEPS!” or you can watch his video here:

Watch the video at Ewen Chia’s Working from Home website now!

After watching the video and reading through the 5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet, I must say that it is still refreshing as ever. You can download the report for free without opting in to any list. So go ahead and do so.

In his 5 steps report, he covers the essential 5 steps to start making real money online fast.

1. Finding a Rabid Marketing With Huge Growing Demand

This is good old wisdom but most affiliates miss this out completely. Ewen Chia advocates in his free report that any online marketer should find a market that has ready buyers and a continuous need to consume.

The golfing and the “work from home” niches fit in the bill nicely. Rather than to sell to a market that will only buy from you once, for example, how to get rid of cockroaches, why not sell golf balls, golf equipment, golf memberships in the golf market or sell “traffic building”, “Google Adwords”, “make money online” reports and memberships to the “working from home” market?

Of course, this step involves doing some keyword research.

2. Finding an Excellent Product as a Solution to People’s Problems

In the free report, he points out the need to focus on 1 product rather than 100 of products. Just 1 excellent product is good enough. Quite frankly, I do not fully agree with him. The reason is simple – never put all your eggs in one basket no matter how good the product is.

But he does point out in this report at Workingfromhome.com that it is important for the affiliate program to pay the affiliates well. At least 50% commissions are reasonable for a digital product. This point, I fully agree.

Another gold nugget of advice which I always tell my subscribers is this, make sure the affiliate program comes with a complete set of affiliate tools such as emails, banner ads, PPC keywords, classified ads etc. I am so glad Ewen did that in his report from Working from Home.

3. Complete Sales Funnel

Kudos to him on this point about complete sales funnel. This is something that I often find missing in most make money online books I buy. A complete sales funnel does not only sell the prospect on the upfront, but it has an up-sell and a backend.

Simply put, earning a $25 per sale from a $50 product should never be your end in mind.

A complete sales funnel will allow you the affiliate earn on the upfront, up-sell and backend. Sad to say, many affiliate marketing programs perform poorly in this.

On the contrary, any product that does provide the complete sales funnel to its affiliates is likely to be a winner for a long time to come.

4. Focus on Money Making Activities

This is a practical thinking tip and I like that because I am a firm believer in this. In the report on “5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet”, he talks about focusing on money making activities, ie those things that will get you more sales.

Well he does not explicitly mention about what are the money making activities, I can translate that to activities like website promotion ie article marketing, PPC, comment posting, forum marketing, etc and website/blog creation activities or even getting JV partners.

His Mini-Day tips is simple but trust me, many people do not really implement that. It took me some time to convince my online marketing student to do that.

5. Be Proactive

Wow! This is such a SIMPLE step but the trouble is, many folks are just too bogged down by distractions.

Remember, knowledge has no value until it is acted upon.

So, even taking a little action on what you have learnt will put you in a better income position. Massive action will really let you quit your day job, work from home and get rich from home on the internet.

This free report is a good read. Do watch the video and download it to read up the details.

By the way, Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report will be launched on the 21st April. You will read about it here!

This 50-page no-fluff report will probably be the key to make real money online fast, quit the rat race and replacing your income with the internet in 30 days or lesser.

Within the Working from Home Secret Report, you will discover 3 proven and easy ways to earn cash within 30 days.

Within the report, expect to:

See proof of how Ewen Chia went from $0 to 5 figure with a Brand New Website In 30 Days

Learn the 4 simple stages of all successful online businesses

Discover how to pick a profitable market to sell your products within minutes with free tools only. Also, you will be able to find rapid markets with ready cash to spend.

Learn how to leverage one top website to start your business without any website of your own and start earning in a week.

Master the art of spying on the hot sellers and “stealing” the profits for yourself.

See Ewen show you how he made his first million bucks and how you can copy him and let somebody do all the grunt work for you!

Discover how to create simple ONE-page websites that outsell the super gurus. You will also receive some examples so that you can copy for your own success.

Learn 4 easy methods to get hot buyers ready to buy whatever you are selling to them. And 3 of these methods are totally free of charge.

Learn the exact step by step method of creating and selling your own product within 7 days.

Discover the technique of pricing your product. Yes, you will learn the psychological reason for why certain price points will automatically click within the buyers.

Know the fastest and simplest way to accept credit cards online without paying a single cent until someone buys a product from you. No sales, no need to pay!

What is the price of Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report?

$9.97!

I will let out a little secret here:

On top of the report, the Work from Home Secret Report all comes with bonuses like:

Bonus 1:

The “Instant Income System” which is an income system with a complete sales funnel that lets you earn up to $156.77.

Bonus 2:

“How To ‘Steal’ Other People’s Work And Get Rich”(Retail Value: $67). Within this report, you will:

Find out how the Web 2.0 phenomenon can help you ramp up your earnings quickly.

Discover 4 killer “pre-sell” page secrets that will beat out the competition

Learn How to Find Excellent Affiliate Programs to Promote

Sounds like a lot to me. Before he takes down the report and video from the Working from Home website, go check it out.

iContent Robot is the latest content writing software to appear on the market. If you have gone to take a look at the sales page of iContentRobot.com, you will see some interesting videos.

I have been using all kinds of article writing, rewriting and spinning software. Instant Article Wizard 2.0 (and Version 1.0), Content Assistant, JetSpinner, Unique Article Wizard, Content Spooler and what have you. Every one of these is good but none comes close enough to the speed, ease of use and uniqueness of content created using iContent Robot.

For one moment, I would consider Instant Article Wizard 2.0 as King of Article Writing Software. But it seems that it has met a strong contender in iContent Robot.

What does the article creation robot do for you?

It generates unique versions of a topic based on a keyword. For example, you can key in “Make Money Online”, and click on the “Regenerate Content” button for a new version to appear. All well within 3 seconds.

As an illustration, I am going to show you 3 unique versions of an article on “Acne Skin Care” I just created. Do not let your jaw drop. In case you begin to suspect I did some master touch-up, my reply is NO. These are taken straight from the software.

Remember, click, regenerate, copy and paste. That’s all I did. Don’t blink your eyes.

3 Sample Unique Articles Created by iContent Robot

Version No.1

If you are one of the people who suffer with acne (Zits) then you are well aware of the distress and problems it causes; but there are now many treatments available which can help the condition so it is more bearable. A great deal of money is being spent researching the condition; now, some of these skin conditions are gradually being conquered. We can classify acne skin care products into 3 broad categories: Internet or Drugstore: Treatment that helps prevents condition Over-the-counter, Prescription only: Requires visit to doctor

The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Many people use products similar to this every day as part of their skin care regime irrespective of whether or not they have the condition.

Other acne skin care products like skin cleansers are more specific about their job, they ensure the facial pores (and other areas) remain free of oil. Excess oil needs to be stopped from clogging the pores as this oil make it easier for bacteria to grow, exacerbating the condition.

Exfoliation skin peels have proved quite effective as a skin care treatment and at controlling the problem. There are now more and more of these types of products available over the counter. Dead skin cells and other atmospheric pollutants are removed cleaning the pores which reduce the chance of any bacterial growth.

There are specialized acne skin care products available over-the-counter, they do not require the need of a prescription. Products that contain the chemical benzoyl peroxide and the naturally occurring salicylic acid are used in vanishing creams. They work by removing the excess oil from the skin and halt the growth of acne.

Although benzoyl peroxide works well, it is possible you may have a reaction, it is suggested that any benzoyl peroxide skin care product should not contain the active ingredient at more than 5.5 percent. You might have to try a few different creams or lotions before you find the acne skin care product that is effective for you’re skin. If nothing you try seems to work, you should contact a dermatologist.

There are benefits of seeing your doctor or dermatologist; they can prescribe you with a prescription for treatments not available over the counter, for example a course of antibiotics. In some case your doctor may suggest the pustules are drained of harmful contents under local anesthetic, this is a minor procedure which if carried out by yourself could result in skin damage.

Your doctor could prescribe a hormone-based treatment to treat your skin problem. Hormonal changes are known to cause acne and such skin care treatments are sometimes known to be effective. Constant research has paid off, and whilst they cannot cure the condition, it is becoming easier to treat.

Version No.2

The psychological harm acne or Zits causes it’s many sufferers should not be underestimated; fortunately treatments are improving all the time. It is not surprising then that a great deal of money has been spent on skin care treatment development; as a result there are a variety of new products available to help prevent and treat skin conditions. We can classify acne skin care products into 3 broad categories: Preventative: Creams, lotions etc. to help cleanse and tone the skin. Over-the-counter and Prescription only: Requires visit to doctor

The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Whilst many sufferers use these products there are even more people who just want to keep their skin clean and conditioned.

More specialized cleaners are designed in the same way as acne skin care products; they clean out the pores to help stop sebum or oil which clogs up the pores. These products prevent the oil from getting trapped in pores and can hamper the growth of bacteria, this can lead to the bad skin condition.

This type of skin care treatment also includes those which exfoliate such as skin peels. These can be bought over the counter or on the internet. They work by reducing oil plus other contaminants from the skin and in the pores; this can reduce harmful bacteria and stop their chance of growth.

There are specialized acne skin care products available over-the-counter, they do not require the need of a prescription. Skin care products have been formulated to extract the excess oil that bacteria need to promote the development of acne. These products have benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid as ingredients which the bacterium reacts badly too.

It is preferable when you first start using this type of product to keep the concentration of it low, around 5.5 percent is best. You can always try a cleaner or cream containing alpha hydroxy acid if this doesn’t work. You might have to try a few different creams or lotions before you find the acne skin care product that is effective for you’re skin. If nothing you try seems to work, you should contact a dermatologist.

Only doctors or skin care specialists can prescribe some medications, including the use of antibiotics and certain ointments. Under certain circumstances, having the infected material removed from the pores under a local anesthetic may be suggested by your dermatologist. This is something you should never attempt yourself.

Your doctor may even suggest a course of hormone therapy as a skin care treatment. Hormone changes are sometimes responsible for acne and can be very effective when used under prescription. With all the treatments available, tackling acne is not that difficult as there are many new products available to help.

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If you are one of the people who suffer with acne (Zits) then you are well aware of the distress and problems it causes; Fortunately, skin care treatments are plentiful. Research into the causes, and possible treatments, for the condition is ongoing; as a consequence, many of these new treatments are very affective. Despite the number of acne skin care products currently available on the market, they are broadly categorized into three distinctly separate groups: Internet or Drugstore: Treatment that helps prevents condition; Those available at a drugstore or over-the-counter and Prescription: Issued for specialized medication from a doctor etc.

The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Whilst many sufferers use these products there are even more people who just want to keep their skin clean and conditioned.

Some of these products are designed to act like an acne skin care product and act against the causes of this complaint. They work by limiting the production of sebum/oil and prevent clogging of skin pores. These products prevent the oil from getting trapped in pores and can hamper the growth of bacteria, this can lead to the bad skin condition.

General skin care treatments also include special exfoliation products like skin peels. This type of peel helps reduce the chance of oil clogging up the pores as well as removing other skin impurities; this can reduce the bacterium growth on your skin.

There is a huge market for these types of acne skin care products as they don’t require a consultation with a dermatologist. These include products like vanishing creams which extract the excess oil from the skin. Most of these are based on benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, both of which are the enemies of bacteria (and hence acne).

You should start with a product that has lower concentration of benzoyl peroxide (e.g. 5%) and see how your skin responds. Alpha-hydroxy-acid based moisturizers are also popular as a skin care regime. Because we all have different types of skin, more than one type of acne skin care product may need to be tried. This is quite normal, however, if it is proving to be a problem then consult with your doctor, or skin care specialist.

On-prescription treatments are prescribed by a dermatologist and can include ointments that can be applied on the affected area or oral antibiotics or just any topical ointment. In some case your doctor may suggest the pustules are drained of harmful contents under local anaesthetics, this is a minor procedure which if carried out by yourself could result in skin damage.

An alternative that has been shown to work well is hormone therapy. Studies have shown that hormones can cause acne and skin care treatments that are hormone based have proved to be effective in many cases. With all the treatments available, tackling acne is not that difficult as there are many new products available to help.

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What I Do Not Like About iContent Robot:

While the unique versions are highly readable, what I do not like is the topics listed for this first month. iContent Robot’s creater Mo Latif pointed out that users are allowed to choose what topic they want their service to write about for the next month.

This part is not clear. I wonder how the arrangement will be like.

Members vote for what topic they want?

Or they will create articles based on the topics requested by individual member?

Or they have a point system where everyone can make a fixed number of requests on choice of topic each month?

This is important to me personally because I do not own websites on all these topics. Those who own and build lots of Adsense websites are the first ones to gain from this software. You can create tons of content to attract traffic from the search engines and with 50 topics to choose from, that is a lot of websites you can build for Adsense income!

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It has been more than a week since I last posted my Buzz marketing article. I hope you like my previous post on the “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”. My girlfriend sure had a good laugh after reading it. Read on to know what exactly is Buzz Marketing.

If you had not read it, you can read it here.

10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008

There are 2 main reasons why I wrote that article.

Firstly, to share with readers like you about the common problems many affiliate marketers are caught up in. Some are innocent mistakes, others are totally blind to them and keep repeating these mistakes. The result is a waste of precious time, the loss of sales and subscribers.

Secondly, I created the article as a simple experiment on the concept of Buzz Marketing. You see, Buzz Marketing is another form of article marketing, powered by the buzz of Web 2.0 media.

Recently, I got to read about Buzz Marketing by an under-the-radar marketer called Dean Hunt.

What do Bum Marketers normally do with their articles?

A lot of the bum marketers simply do some proper keyword research for long tail keywords, slap a piece of article together and then submit it to EzineArticles or Squidoo. That’s it! They leave it to chance for the article to rank well in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The trouble is, they are shortchanging the bum marketing method. How about combining the power of bum marketing method with a twist of Web 2.0 BUZZ? This is truly powerful BUZZ Marketing!

How to Combine Buzz Marketing with the BUM Marketing Method?

1. Create an article using the bum marketing method but write the title in a really eye-catching manner.

Notice that for my “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”, I could have written in the same old same old method of “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Successful Affiliate Marketer in 2008”.

There are tons of similar articles you can find. Titles like “Top Ways to Sell More”, “How to Be A Super Guru” and so on are pretty common. So how do you get people interested at all if you plan to write in the same manner?

Some tips to create a good and catchy title for your Buzz Marketing article:

a. Go for a negative angle. Notice that people love to read bad news. That is why bad news always sells so well. Read the newspapers and magazines to understand.

b. Use simple to understand keywords in your title. Try not to be bombastic. Go for simple to understand English. This will ensure your readers can understand and will read your article.

c. Use lists in your title. It has been proven that numbers and figures attract the readers’ attention much better. Instead of “Tips to Be the Most Attractive Guy in School”, go for “10 Killer Tips to Be the Most Loved Guy in School”. See what the small change can do.

2. Submit your article to Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com. Digg and StumbleUpon are 2 of the most popular Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Sites. There are millions of readers and even journalists hang out there for fresh news and gossips.

3. Use an attractive graphic when you post to Digg and StumbleUpon. Pictures speak a thousand words. It is true. With a nice graphic, people will pay more attention to your article.

You may think, well, you only got 3 Diggs for your article. So what’s the big deal?

Did I fail in my BUZZ Marketing experiment? The answer is NO! On the contrary, after I wrote the article “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”, my web stats are showing that I am getting at least 100 – 150 more visitors daily. And I am receiving well over 200 links from StumbleUpon!

So go ahead, use Buzz Marketing and combine it with the Bum Marketing method. Experience the combined power and traffic avalanche from the search engines and the Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites. And if you like this, do Digg my posts.

Every affiliate marketer wants to become the No.1 Most Successful Marketer, but not everybody can do that. Even with top training courses, the best tools and stuff, the most coveted Super Affiliate status still eludes the majority.

But to earn the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer title, all you need is the following 10 step blueprint! I can almost guarantee you that anyone who religiously follows it will make it to the top within 1 year! Surely, no one will be able to beat you.

1. Read all the Ebooks and Reports on Affiliate Marketing and Take Zero Action after that.

Feed yourself with all kinds of information about affiliate marketing, article marketing, website promotion, Web 2.0, social networking, video marketing, PPC with Adwords and so on. After that, tell yourself these are great books but take ZERO action.

Remember, even a bit of action will make you lose the crown!

2. Load your Mind 24/7 with All Kinds of Information from Ebooks, Reports and Videos

The purpose of doing so is to crowd and congest your mind with so much information that you suffer from information constipation. This will help you to lose focus and become totally confused about what to do in affiliate marketing.

Do not just focus on one or two affiliate marketing methods but try out every method that exists on the planet or you will never become broke.

3. Sell All Products that Come Along

Everyday, there are 100s of new products online. Do not bother to research the market or product at all. Sell everything. Spread your time so thin that you do not have time at all. Make sure you only have time to slap an email and send it to the safelist.

If you ever start to select a product to promote based on its market demand and supply as well as competitiveness, you will get sales and soon, you are out of the league of most broke affiliate marketers.

4. Spend at least 12 Hours Everyday Talking Rubbish in Forums

Contribute your opinions but remember to be as negative as you can be. Have everything negative to say about people’s suggestions and ideas. Spend no less than 12 hours. If you can forgo your sleep, do it but stay active in the forums. Please remember not to put any interesting signature link in your profile because people will visit and buy your products. Oh no…this will immediately disqualify you for the Most Broke Affiliate contest!

5. Win the Top Bid in Google Adwords

Set up crappy Adwords advertisement campaigns for crappy products with weak sales pages. Forget about keyword research or split testing for ads. Aim only for the No.1 spot. Losing is not in your blood. If you have to pay $10 to be at the top, do so. Even if the product only sells for $9.99 and your commission is $4.99, do it!

Set your daily budget at $10,000 if you can or use this formula.

(Your Savings + Credit Line + Loans from friends etc) ÷ 365 days = Daily Budget

This formula will help you to lose as much money as you can within 1 year and soon, you will win the crown as the World’s No.1 Most Broke Affiliate Marketer.

6. Spam Blogs with Nice One-Liner Comments

As an affiliate marketer, blog commenting is important. So find blogs which allow you to comment on. Do not exceed 2 words in your post. Use only these comments, “Nice information”, “Good Post” and “Thank you”. Attempting to write more informative content will get visitors to your website and you will make a lot of sales. This is no good for you!

7. Use Ugly Website Templates

All affiliate marketers own websites. You also need one. But you must choose the plainest template you can find. An ugly template is the best! This is because even if the content is good and unique, people will not buy your product. No sales mean good news.

8. Send Your List As Many Promotional Emails As You Can

Spam your list with a promotional email every day. If you can speed this up, send them an email every few minutes or hours. Do it as quick as possible until you lose all your subscribers. Those who stay on must really love you or they do not read their emails at all and do not know you are spamming them.

9. Promote to Safelists which No One Reads

Send your emails using safelists. Use only those where the members are only interested in sending out their emails but not receiving them. These guys normally will register their accounts with a throwaway email address which they will never open and read. Avoid reputable lists like HercuList because people do read their emails there.

10. Repeat Step 1 to 9 Everyday

That’s right, follow this 10 step guide and surely, the No.1 Most Broke Affiliate Marketer will go to you in 2008. Finally, you have a crown you can call your own.