Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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!
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Forum Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Giveaway Events, Google Adwords, Joint Venture, Online Marketing Learning, Pay Per Click, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 40 Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Forum Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Giveaway Events, Online Marketing Learning | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Ebay Crusher is set to rock the internet marketing on the 08 May 2008, this Thursday. You may not know the author of this report David Fransko, better known online as BillyA but this man is quite well known as a former eBay Powerseller. Coined as Ebay Crusher, it is designed as a revolutionary new system to make money on eBay.
How Did Ebay Crusher Come About?
David Fransko having sold products successfully as an eBay Powerselller and later delved into affiliate marketing, he discovered 2 challenges that are peculiar to the eBay seller and affiliate marketers respectively. For the eBay seller, it is becoming tougher to find profitable products to sell. As for the affiliate marketer, driving sustainable traffic is always the mammoth challenge of every affiliate. With rising PPC costs and the ever-changing search engine algorithm, many affiliates, newbies and veterans alike are facing a great deal of pressure trying to capture more sales.
This is why Ebay Crusher was born, to solve the traffic problem as well as solve the product issue.
I had the chance to review this report and so I thought, hmmm…why not? But as usual, I shall cover this Ebay Crusher review from a third party standpoint and give you my honest take on it.
This report is a 47-page report covering 9 chapters of tips and tricks of making money online using eBay and affiliate programs. No prizes for guessing this right.
But this report covers a lot more about affiliate marketing, targeting affiliate marketers mainly leaving only the last chapter to the usual eBay folks who have been making money from selling digital products.
I shall spill the beans about the gist of each chapter. If you want to know the full story, do go and download the book.
At the time of this writing, David Fransko is offering a free copy of “No Brainer Secrets to Selling On Ebay” so be sure to go download it. Oh yes, you can watch a video right there that illustrates the entire EBay Crusher system.
Chapter 1 talks about how you can make money without selling anything of your own. Hint: Think affiliate marketing.
Chapter 2 reveals the main secret of the report, The Ebay Crusher Method. Pss…this is an eye opener to me as I have not seen many affiliates doing this at all and the profit potential is limitless. I love this chapter the most!
Chapter 3 spills it all about which are the most sellable kind of products on eBay. This step is necessary to prevent wasting time and money promoting worthless products that cannot sell at all.
Chapter 4 teaches you a really sneaky trick to take advantage of product launches and sell tons of it without even owning a LIST!
Chapter 5 – 7 are pretty standard stuff which you probably already know as an affiliate marketer. I do not find it special but just some stuff that you can read elsewhere.
Chapter 8 teaches you a cool tip to stay ahead of your competition and sell only things that sell well. It saves you a lot of time researching and selling the wrong products so that you can start profiting quickly.
Chapter 9 talks about the dilemma of all digital sellers. If you use eBay either to sell cheap $0.99 digital products to build your list, LISTEN UP! This chapter will save your business and life!
By now, everyone must have heard about eBay’s recent ruling to restrict instant downloads in their auctions. Basically, in the auctions, everyone needs to offer a physical product and ship it to their customers. For those who have been selling cheap digital ebooks to build their list are the hardest hit as you can no longer do so. It feels like losing a limp or arm and I can understand.
Ebay Crusher in this final chapter reveals a secret trick to overcome this problem and get you back on the map faster, leaner and even stronger. So at the end of the day, you may even thank eBay for coming up with this rule as it has gotten rid of your competitors in the process. Few marketers know this secret method and if you know it, then you have the cutting edge to put more money in your pockets.
Priced at $77, this amount can easily be recouped by applying the step-by-step blueprint. The steps are easy to follow and David Fransko has made it a point to illustrate everything with screen shots and simple instructions in a “do this, click that” manner.
The Ebay Crusher report is written for the affiliate marketer and it does not matter what level of marketing skills you are at, anyone can follow and profit. For those who have been slapped by eBay because of its “no instant digital download” rule, this system is a life-saver.
If you are thinking of downloading the report, I encourage you to do so here and I shall throw in some really cool Ebay Crusher bonuses worth at least $300 for you.
All you have to do is buy the product through the link below, then place a comment here “I want my Ebay Crusher Bonuses and your ClickBank receipt number” and I shall get in touch with you.
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews | 13 Comments »
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Giveaways or Giveaway events are great places for all internet marketers. You can download tons of free gifts. There are ebooks, software, guides and memberships and many of them even come with full resale rights. What this means is that you not only can use them personally, you can also sell them to someone else and profit from them.
A lot of these giveaway events give away hundreds of products created and contributed by the giveaway partners. You do not need to pay a single cent but can sink your teeth into dozens of quality products. Participate in one of such event and you can set up an entire bookstore selling all these products. Wow!
You get your products, the contributors get to build their lists. It is quite a fair deal and in most cases, the people who come for the freebies are the ones who gain the most.
So if you are wondering what are the Giveaway events taking place now, here’s some details:
1. Viral Marketing Giveaway 11
This event gives you over 300 hot and fresh Internet marketing ebooks, software packages, guides, and memberships – many with Resell Rights you can turn around and sell for big PROFITS! Download them all, or just the ones you want.
If you’re interested in building a subscriber list and have a gift to contribute, you should check out Viral Marketing Giveaway 11.
It’s designed for people who want to start or grow an online business because it offers tools in all the key aspects of online marketing – from setting up websites and list building to converting sales and creating joint ventures.
Check out Viral Marketing Giveaway 11 now!
2. Lightning Giveaway 4
Mike Mazzella and David Thompson have come up with the latest Lightning Giveaway 4 Giveaway Event. This giveaway is different from most that you see. Both Mike and David have managed to arm twist online marketers including myself to contribute brand new products that you have not seen anywhere else. You get to download quality reports, software etc from the likes of:
Jason James
Soren Jordansen
Denise Hall
Doug Champigny
Jason Dinner
Reed Floren
Mike Steup
Mike Mazzella
Larry Dotson
Xavier Nelson
Earl Day
Kez Engineer
Matthew Griffin
Gregg Hall
Michelle Brouse
Joel Osborne
Stephanie Mulac
James Jackson
Barry Richardson
Jim Miller
Jordan Hall
Brad Smith
Richard Wing
Jamie Bing
Matt Ng
John Rogers
Tuks Engineer
Kathe Lucas
Daniel McGonagle
Ken Reno
David Thompson
Gina Gaudio Graves
Joe Gilharry
Edmund Loh
Aurelius Tjin
Alex Sysoef
Rick Macaulay
Shelby Carr
Greg Lloyd
Todd Gross
Mieke Janssens
Melvin Ng
Pete Hall
Julius Moltgen
Scott Case
Davion Wong
Go and download your gifts before the event closes. It will be open only for 14 Days!
Here’s your invitation link.
Lightning Giveaway 4 Special Invitation Link
If you own a list of more than 5000, you can join in as a JV member. Here’s the JV invitation link. Only on my special invitation.
Lightning Giveaway 4 Special JV Invitation Link
Posted in General, Giveaway Events, Joint Venture, Online Marketing Learning | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I have titled this blog post as “Quitting the Rat Race In An Economic Downturn” because of 2 reasons.
The first reason is that I have resigned from my organization after working for close to 7 years now. My last day of corporate work life is on 09 June 2008. Come next week, I will be starting my leave for an entire month.
The second reason for such a title is I am quitting at a time when the US economy is still rather slow. A lot of my income comes from the US.
Yet, what are the motivations for me to do so?
In life, there are always Pull and Push factors for every decision you make. Push factors are the ones that force you to move out of your status quo, ie where you are in your current situation. Pull factors are what drives and attracts you on the other side.
In the equation, when the Pull and the Push work hand in hand together, there is no reason for staying in status quo.
That brings me the point of preparing the Pull factors. Push factors in most circumstances are not really within our control but the Pull factors can be influenced by our choices.
3 years ago, I started to grow tired of my work. I was doing well in my career being one of the youngest in my organization (huge one with a few thousand staff) to move up the ladder to middle management and I am barely 30 years of age. Thank God for the favor. I was ahead of many of my peers. But something inside me always challenges me to do something different.
For 3 years, I went around hunting for answers and finally chanced upon internet marketing or for that matter affiliate marketing. After some hard knocks here and there, I finally figured certain things out, crafted a vision and made plans. I worked towards it and I am glad that things worked out well enough for me to quit my job and work full time on my online business.
The excitement of being able to do what I truly enjoy is immense though I do have some apprehension. The “What If”s are real. I do not deny it but my promise to myself and my wife-to-be is that I will work hard and smart and by God’s grace, I will make it!
Here are some tips for all my dear readers who are working hard to make ends meet or working for long hours but always wishing in your heart to one day quit the rat race and be your own boss:
1. Develop a Vision
A vision is bigger than a goal. Making that “1 million dollars” is not a vision but a goal. Because I have seen folks who made their first million but are still not happy. In fact, they became very lost after achieving that success and needed another goal to be injected into their lives.
A vision is bigger than yourself. Yes, a vision will challenge you to where you now cannot imagine. So what is your vision? Set up a trust fund to support the orphans in a third world nation or be the most successful Internet Marketer in the world?
2. Craft Out Your Plans
What are your plans? You need a plan to meet your vision. Plan out your strategy. It is highly important to set tangible targets and goals that are measurable with a timeline.
If your goal is to quit your job at 40 years old, you need to know how much money you will need then. Then work backwards to where you are now. Do some reality checks.
3. Take Baby Steps
I am now mentoring one of my friends in making money online. One thing I always teach him is to make plans but take baby steps.
If your goal is to make $1000 in a month from now, break that down into 30 days and all it takes to meet the target is to make $30 a day. That does not sound as daunting, isn’t it?
Be accountable to someone who can constantly remind you to stick to your plans.
4. Make Adjustments To Your Lifestyle
I know this is painful but if you truly desire to quit the rat race and no longer have to report to work each day, then this is a pain you have to endure.
If you have to stop surfing the net to watch a movie or chat with your friends on MSN, do so. Some adjustments will go a long way in shaping good habits.
5. Learn From People
You do not have to be the best. Just second best will do. Richard Branson of Virgin is known for his uncanny abilities to mimic the success of others. In affiliate marketing, you really do not need to reinvent the wheels.
Just find someone or some strategies and techniques that work and do it. You will not know until you try.
This is why I make it a point to learn from people who have done it successfully. There is always a lesson to learn.
Well, I am done with my ramblings. Wanted to share something that I thought might be good food for thought for you.
Do share your thoughts with me. For friends who have successfully quitted the rat race, do also share your opinions and tips here. See you!
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning | 6 Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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!
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, General, Online Marketing Learning | 4 Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I have compiled a huge list of social bookmarking sites, about 200 sites in total that you can bookmark at. There are some niche ones. I have decided to be nice to you by sharing it here. Majority do have a PR, while the newer ones do not have any PR at all, but that is just a small handful.
In my previous post, I have explained the beauty of social bookmarking in getting free high PR links to your websites. It is also one of the best and FREE way of ranking the deep pages of your websites.
If you search around online, there are not really too many effective ways to get quality high PR links for internal webpages.
Social bookmarking your blog posts, individual web pages and so on only takes a minute. If you are like me who is too lazy to do it manually, hire someone to do so. It can be a school going kid who just wants to earn some pocket allowance.
Or head over to Scriptlance, GetaFreeLancer or money making forums like SitePoint, DP Forums, Wicked Fire etc to hire. It probably will cost you about $0.10 to $0.20 per post. Multiply that by 200 posts at all the social bookmarking websites will only cost you about $20 to $40.
That kind of money will probably just buy you a good link from a PR 3 or 4 site at best. But remember to alternate your titles and descriptions so that they are not spammy looking.
1. http://www.furl.net – PR 8
2. http://www.backflip.com – PR 7
3. http://www.blinklist.com – PR 5
4. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR 5
5. http://jots.com – PR 6
6. http://www.linkroll.com – PR 6
7. http://www.looklater.com – PR 5
8. http://ma.gnolia.com – PR 5
9. http://www.maple.nu – PR 4
10. http://www.markaboo.com – PR 3
11. http://www.rawsugar.com/search – PR 6
12. http://www.shadows.com – PR 7
13. http://simpy.com – PR 4
14. http://www.spurl.net – PR 6
15. http://wink.com – PR 6
16. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR 7
17. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR 7
18. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR 4
19. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR 5
20. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR 6
21. http://del.icio.us – PR8
22. http://www.fark.com – PR8
23. http://www.furl.net – PR8
24. http://www.kuro5hin.org – PR8
25. http://www.technorati.com – PR8
26. http://www.bloghop.com – PR7
27. http://www.blogpulse.com – PR7
28. http://www.connectedy.com – PR7
29. http://www.digg.com – PR7
30. http://www.google.com/notebook – PR7
31. http://www.icerocket.com – PR7
32. http://kinja.com – PR7
33. http://www.librarything.com – PR7
34. http://www.newsvine.com – PR7
35. http://www.nextaris.com – PR7
36. http://www.shadows.com – PR7
37. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR7
38. http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com – PR7
39. http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml – PR6
40. http://www.beanrocket.com – PR6
41. http://www.blinklist.com – PR6
42. http://www.blogmarks.net – PR6
43. http://buddymarks.com – PR6
44. http://www.citeulike.org – PR6
45. http://www.cluebacca.com – PR6
46. http://www.diigo.com – PR6
47. http://www.feedmarker.com – PR6
48. http://frassle.net – PR6
49. http://www.gibeo.net – PR6
50. http://www.hanzoweb.com – PR6
51. http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks – PR6
52. http://www.jots.com – PR6
53. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR6
54. http://linkfilter.net – PR6
55. http://www.linkroll.com – PR6
56. http://listmixer.com – PR6
57. http://maple.nu – PR6
58. http://www.mecanbe.com/temp/default.aspx – PR6
59. http://myprogs.net – PR6
60. http://www.mystickies.com – PR6
61. http://www.netvouz.com – PR6
62. http://www.nowpublic.com – PR6
63. http://www.rollyo.com – PR6
64. http://scuttle.org – PR6
65. http://www.simpy.com – PR6
66. http://www.spurl.net – PR6
67. http://suckingfish.com/welcome.do – PR6
68. http://supr.c.ilio.us – PR6
69. http://www.tailrank.com – PR6
70. http://www.wists.com – PR6
71. http://www.wurldbook.com/info – PR6
72. http://www.yoono.com – PR6
73. http://www.clipfire.com – PR6
74. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR5
75. http://adoppt.com – PR5
76. http://www.ambedo.com – PR5
77. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR5
78. http://www.bookmark-manager.com – PR5
79. http://www.bookmarktracker.com – PR5
80. http://www.browsr.com – PR5
81. https://www.chipmark.com – PR5
82. http://www.connectedy.com – PR5
83. http://www.dinnerbuzz.com – PR5
84. http://www.fantacular.com – PR5
85. http://www.feedalley.com – PR5
86. http://www.filangy.com/index.jsp – PR5
87. http://www.gather.com – PR5
88. http://gnafi.com – PR5
89. http://www.gravee.com – PR5
90. http://www.igooi.com – PR5
91. http://www.jeteye.com – PR5
92. http://www.kmfavorites.com – PR5
93. http://www.lifelogger.com – PR5
94. http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home – PR5
95. http://www.lookupthis.com/online/signin.asp – PR5
96. http://www.lookmarks.com – PR5
97. http://meneame.net – PR5
98. http://www.millionsofgames.com – PR5
99. http://motor.crispynews.com – PR5
100. http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com – PR5
101. http://www.myhq.com – PR5
102. http://www.mylinkvault.com – PR5
103. http://www.mypip.com/home – PR5
104. http://www.myvmarks.com – PR5
105. http://www.openbm.de – PR5
106. http://tags.library.upenn.edu – PR5
107. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR5
108. http://www.phigita.net – PR5
109. http://www.pligg.com – PR5
110. http://www.portachi.com – PR5
111. http://www.rrove.com/home – PR5
112. http://segnalo.alice.it – PR5
113. http://www.shoutwire.com – PR5
114. http://www.sitejot.com – PR5
115. http://www.squidoo.com – PR5
116. http://www.stylehive.com – PR5
117. http://www.tabmarks.com – PR5
118. http://unalog.com – PR5
119. http://yummy.printfu.org – PR5
120. http://www.youtube.com – PR5
121. http://www.zurpy.com – PR5
122. http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm – PR4
123. http://www.allmyfavorites.net – PR4
124. http://articletag.com/index.php – PR4
125. http://www.blinkbits.com – PR4
126. http://www.bmaccess.net – PR4
127. http://www.bookkit.com – PR4
128. http://www.butterflyproject.nl – PR4
129. http://www.clipclip.org – PR4
130. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR4
131. http://www.esnips.com/signin/index.jsp – PR4
132. http://www.favmark.com – PR4
133. http://3form.com – PR4
134. http://www.Givealink.org – PR4
135. http://www.guicookies.com – PR4
136. http://indiagram.com/index.php – PR4
137. http://www.linkarena.com – PR4
138. http://www.linkologia.pl – PR4
139. http://www.oyax.com – PR4
140. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR4
141. http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces – PR4
142. http://www.stanmx.com/sabrosus – PR4
143. http://www.stylefeeder.com – PR4
144. http://www.taghop.com – PR4
145. http://www.ticklr.net – PR4
146. http://www.urlex.info – PR4
147. http://my.xilinus.com – PR4
148. http://www.de.lirio.us – PR3
149. http://www.eigology.com/dogear – PR3
150. http://dohat.com/dohathome3.html – PR3
151. http://www.favoor.com – PR3
152. http://feedmelinks.com/portalc – PR3
153. http://www.flipskipper.com – PR3
154. http://www.i89.us – PR3
155. http://www.lilisto.com – PR3
156. https://ma.gnolia.com – PR3
157. http://www.meme-stream.com – PR3
158. http://www.onlywire.com – PR3
159. http://tagsy.com – PR3
160. http://6-clicks.com – PR2
161. http://www.bloglot.com – PR2
162. http://www.crispynews.com/global – PR2
163. http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com – PR2
164. http://www.indiamarks.com – PR2
165. http://www.listible.com – PR2
166. http://www.sitetagger.com – PR2
167. http://www.smarking.com – PR2
168. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR1
169. http://www.getboo.com – PR1
170. http://www.syncone.net – PR1
171. http://www.blabb.com/user/blabb.php – PR0
172. http://bookmarks.blauerbote.com – PR0
173. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR0
174. http://www.collectfavorites.com – PR0
175. http://www.complore.com – PR0
176. http://www.eggkeg.com – PR0
177. http://www.fatredfish.com – PR0
178. http://www.forumsofindia.com – PR0
179. http://www.fungow.com – PR0
180. http://mybookmark.gokodo.com – PR0
181. http://www.goobtoob.com – PR0
182. http://linkatopia.com – PR0
183. http://www.linklog.nl – PR0
184. http://www.markaboo.com – PR0
185. http://www.minddeposit.com – PR0
186. http://www.pixelmo.com – PR0
187. http://popurls.com – PR0
188. http://recommendit.dehsoftware.com – PR0
189. http://www.reddit.com – PR0
190. http://www.rojo.com – PR0
191. http://say.something-everything.com – PR0
192. http://www.searchles.com – PR0
193. http://www.shoppersbase.com – PR0
194. http://socialbookmarking.org – PR0
195. http://www.taganiche.com – PR0
196. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR0
197. http://thumblicio.us – PR0
198. http://www.tutorialism.com – PR0
199. http://www.ticklr.net – PR0
200. http://www.wirefan.com – PR0
Do you know of any other social bookmarking websites? Feel free to list them here.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
In the latest news on 04 April, it was reported: Washington (AP) that employers have slashed a total of 80,000 jobs in Mar 2008 alone. This figure is the highest in 5 years and the third straight month of losses. National unemployment rate in USA rose from 4.8 percent to 5.1 percent sending a strong and obvious signal that the economy is entering recession.
You may be wondering what this has got to do with Affiliate Marketing.
Firstly, a shrinking US economy means that people are tightening their belts. If the consumers do not consume as much, it can mean slower sales for you. Bad News!
Secondly, if you are a non-US resident affiliate marketer like me, then the weak economy will mean a weaker US currency against your country’s dollar. This means that you get lesser commissions in dollar value.
So how can you protect yourself and make your affiliate marketing efforts recession-proof?
1. Target the Recession-relevant Niches
The Chinese has a saying: “Every crisis presents an opportunity” How true it is! While the economy is slowing down, services and products like mortgage refinancing, debt consolidation, auctions, etc are booming and seeing a lot more business.
Build more Adsense sites targeting these topics! A case in point: I own a debt consolidation website that pulls in about $300 to $500 a day in Adsense income these days. Before the recession hits, it was earning about $50 to $70 on average daily. The jump in profits is a whopping 600%!
You can also find relevant affiliate products at ClickBank, CJ or other affiliate networks and set up niche affiliate sites to corner these niches. Your prospects tend to be desperate, and desperation can drive you more sales!
2. Find Affiliate Programs that Pay You in Your Local Currency
Perhaps it is time to start scouting around for affiliate programs that pay you commissions in your local currency.
3. Expand Your Virtual Real Estate
People tend to cut down on spending during an economic downturn. This is where the opportunists often strike in one clean sweep. In the offline world, property slumps and a bearish stock market often offer great bargains. Those with deep pockets will take the chance to keep buying stocks and properties with inherent value. When the market turns around, they will make a killing!
The same applies in the online world. Now is the time to grow your virtual real estate, ie grow your network of websites, blogs and so on. When the economy recovers, you are well positioned to capitalize on surge in spending. You can either start building my niche websites to promote affiliate programs, or create your very own products. It takes time to create products and websites so no time is better than now to start working on it.
Alternatively, head over to SitePoint or DP Forum and do some bargain hunting for quality websites that webmasters are giving up.
4. Change Your Attention from Selling Products to Pay Per Action
People may not be spending as much money as possible to buy stuff but that does not mean that they have stopped searching for services or stopped spending at all. There are tons of people seeking for help on how to refinance their home, how to manage their debt, how to pay less taxes, how to find cheaper insurances, how to find a job and so on.
Look for affiliate programs offered by merchants at CJ or other affiliate networks that pay per lead. Getting a person to sign up to request for more information is way easier than getting someone to buy something. You will realize that this is a great way to recession-proof your affiliate marketing.
5. Improve Conversions & Drive More Traffic
I noticed that conversions for products nowadays have gone down generally. This means that you need to promote your products to more prospects before you make a single sale.
Instead of lamenting on that, work on 2 things: improve your conversions and drive more traffic. Remember: Affiliate marketing is a numbers game.
You can improve the look of your websites by adding nice high impact graphics to attract your prospects or set up a series of auto-responder messages. These are 2 simple tricks to increase the conversion rates.
Spend more time writing and submitting articles for traffic, participate in forums, blog commenting, and other traffic driving techniques to ramp up the traffic volumes.
Building more websites to target different sub-niches will also help to increase your earnings. For example, all along, you may have been targeting the dog training market. Why not also target healthy dog food and other related products?
Why not pick up a copy of my ebook “Secrets of Affiliate Marketing” and pick up some tips to grow your income systematically?
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
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.
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