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 | 10 Comments »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Are you using giveaway events to grow your list?
By now, you must have heard it a million times, the money is in the LIST!
To cut the story short, every affiliate marketer hoping to run a long-term business, selling products and making sales month after month should always pay attention to this aspect of the business – list building.
It allows you to build long-term relationships with your prospects. By offering quality content overtime, you will be able to build trust and sell your products effectively.
How to Build Your List?
There are many methods such as article marketing and pulling your visitors to a squeeze page where they can subscribe to your list, using PPC to advertise your squeeze page and doing an ad swap with another list owner and so on…
But Giveaway Events – this is one of my hot favorites! I have gotten hundreds of subscribers each time simply by participating in Giveaway events.
Tip 1 – Get a Unique Book Ready
Get a book which you have the giveaway rights to. It need not be a book written by you. As long as you have the rights to give it away, you can participate in the giveaway.
But to successfully get your report out, make it attractive for your visitor. If you are using a book that the whole world has seen, people may just bypass your report. You lose the subscriber!
What if you have not written any report? Or simply do not know how?
The easiest way is to repackage a private label rights PLR report. There are tons of these reports around in the market, you can find them at $1.99, or for free. Google “free PLR” and you will find a lot of them.
When it comes to packaging the report, all you need is to create a professional looking ebook cover. You can do it yourself if you own a photoshop action script, or you can outsource this to a graphics designer. Pop over to Digital Point Forums, and you can easily hire quite a good one for less than $15 to $20.
Now, once you have the cover ready, embed your links in the PLR and convert it into a PDF. Upload the report and get your squeeze page ready.
Now, you are ready for the Giveaway Events!
Tip 2 – Take Part In As Many Giveaway Events As Possible
The tip here is to participate in as many Giveaway Events as possible. The more events you submit your book to, the more subscribers you will get.
Here’s a list of Giveaway Events taking place now. Sign up for them quickly.
http://ultimate-giveaway.com/contributor.php?id=191
http://www.schooldaysgiveaway.com/contributor.php?id=838
http://www.sepgifts.com/contributor.php?id=10012
http://www.superjvgiveaway.com/jv/go/53
http://impactactiongiveaway.com/contributor.php?id=1467
http://www.autopilotcashstreams.com/contributor.php?id=12416
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway12.com/x/?aff=5338
http://www.profitworkfromhome.com/contributor.php?id=4996
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway11.com/x/?aff=4362
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway10.com/x/?aff=7465
http://www.117network.com/jv/index.php?id=106067
http://www.freedombullet.com/jv/partners/1383
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway9.com/vmg9/?aff=5338
http://www.ebiz-launchpad.com/ebiz/?aff=5975
http://theentertainmentgiveaway.com//jvinvite.php?id=389
http://www.viewtubegiveaway.com/vtg//jvinvite.php?id=195
http://viralmarketinggiveaway7.com/vmg7/?aff=7587
http://jvsalesautomator.com//jvinvite.php?id=161
http://householdname.biz/giveaway/go/83/jv
http://www.murraysecret.net/amember/go.php?r=257&i=l1
http://digital-ways.co.uk/go/49/jv
Tip 3 – Tell A Friend!
Most Giveaway Events work like this – they reward those who refer the Giveaway Events. So if you can refer these events to as many people as you can, you will get a higher ranking for your report, which means that it will appear higher on the downloads page. This means more exposure, more visibility and more downloads, ie subscribers!
Signing up contributors can get you even more credits, pushing your product ranking all the way to the front.
All it takes is a minute to sign up for each of the events.
Well, if you are not intending to contribute a gift, why not simply go over to these events to download all the goodies they are offering. You have everything from software to ebooks worth $1000s.
These are the links to download the reports and software.
http://ultimate-giveaway.com/members.php?id=191
http://www.schooldaysgiveaway.com/members.php?id=838
http://www.sepgifts.com/members.php?id=10012
http://www.superjvgiveaway.com/go/53/
http://impactactiongiveaway.com/members.php?id=1467
http://www.autopilotcashstreams.com/members.php?id=12416
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway12.com/x/?aff=5338
http://www.profitworkfromhome.com/members.php?id=4996
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway11.com/x/?aff=4362
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway10.com/x/?aff=7465
http://www.117network.com/index.php?id=106067
http://www.freedombullet.com/jv/members/1383
http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway9.com/vmg9/?aff=5338
http://www.ebiz-launchpad.com/ebiz/?aff=5975
http://theentertainmentgiveaway.com//index.php?id=389
http://viralmarketinggiveaway7.com/vmg7/?aff=7587
http://jvsalesautomator.com//index.php?id=161
http://householdname.biz/giveaway/go/83
http://www.murraysecret.net/amember/go.php?r=257&i=l0
http://digital-ways.co.uk/go/49
Posted in Free Money Making Methods, General, Giveaway Events, Joint Venture, Web Traffic | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic, keyword research | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 9th, 2008
What Is Alex Goad’s Four Tier Annihilation Method or 4 Tier Annihilation Method?
My buddy Alex Goad has just released a new video you can go watch now for free.
In it he talks about the Four Tier Annihilation Method being deregulated… This is big news as you will soon see…
Watch 4 Tier Annihilation Method Video Now!
It’s also strange because it looks pretty much different from anything I’ve ever seen.
Not to mention that the earning account screen-shots show just short of $200,000 a month.
Here is what’s happening: they are deregulating a set of killer tactics known as the Four Tier Annihilation Method (which incidentally has nothing to do with MLM or any of that stuff).
This is the exact material that was taught to an exclusive group of 10 people in a closed door commando seminar in London England (which cost $10 thousand to attend).
There are actual case studies being released and the results are beyond impressive. Several of the students have reported making 5 and even 6 figures a month.
And this is all documented:
Listen, I just finished watching the short video (it’s under 10 minutes), and I can tell you right now this thing is going to explode any second.
In fact this has all the makings of a game changer. It’s not every day that killer underground tactics like these are made available at all…
Apparently this is going to open doors tomorrow 10th June at 12 Noon Est. You’ll be able to see the full student case studies then as well as a lot more… things like
1. How to use this “radar” to zone in on “shooting fish in a barrel” style profit magnets
2. The Legal Highjack System: Lethal and crushingly effective yet perfectly legal method to leverage geographical factors for a stunning advantage and giant profits
3. Error Cheats: Nobody is perfect: uncover simple errors others are making and transform them into huge deposits in your account.
Plus, the recent trend reversal that creates a new ground floor opening…
I don’t think this video will be up much longer, so go watch the free Four Tier Annihilation Method video now!
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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!
Posted in Article Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, keyword research | 2 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 | 7 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 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Social bookmarking first started innocently as a tool quite similar to our browser’s “Save favourite” feature.
The original intention of social bookmarking our favourite webpages was to make these pages available wherever we go. In the past, when we see a website we like or frequently visit, we will save it. But we can only access that using the same computer.
With social bookmarking, you can bookmark any favourite website and still be able to locate it anywhere as long as you have an internet access.
So what has this got to do with internet marketing or making money online?
Let me share a bit more with you.
1. Get Top 10 Ranking in Google for Long-tail Keywords
A simple experiment I did revealed that social bookmarking can boost your search engine rankings! Subsequently, I have used the same method to obtain high rankings for many other keywords. Social bookmarking sites typically have high PRs and placing your links there will give your websites a boost.
Basically, what I did was to social bookmark a blog I own http://articlesubmissionservice.wise-tips.com using the keyword “article submission service review”.
After a few weeks, it is now ranked No.1 in Google for the search term “article submission service review” out of close to 7 million search results.
2. Fast Indexing
Submitting your sites to Web 2.0 authority sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Propeller can get your webpages indexed quickly. People often complain of slow indexing especially for internal pages.
This is the surest and quickest way to get instant indexing. It takes as fast as a few hours.
3. Selling Without a Website
I personally have seen how people have social bookmarked direct affiliate links. Though I have not done it, but by virtue of seeing it happen so many times, they must be doing something correctly. Since you determine what tag to use, it is easier for you to rank well in the search results of each social bookmarking site than seeing zero hope in ranking in the search engines for an affiliate link, for example a Clickbank hop link.
The whole idea is that Social Bookmarking sites are seeing more traffic from targeted searchers. While my feel is that such traffic are not of the highest quality and many are simply window shoppers or information browsers, it can still add up especially if you manage to get people to vote for your bookmarks.
Digg has a voting system and those sites that manage to get a good number of votes within 24 to 48 hours stand a good chance to stay on top of the category. This can mean 1000s of free visitors.
At the same time, I have also seen MSN ranking hop links in their search engine. Could this be the doing of social bookmarking? Quite likely.
A suggestion here though I have not tried it is to take a newly launched product’s hop link and social bookmark it to 100s of sites. Observe for a while and see if it ranks. Who knows someone who is searching for it will find your link in Del.icio.us?
The exact steps to do social bookmarking properly:
1. Decide a page you want to rank for. It can be the home page of your site or internal page.
2. Create an appropriate title. Research on the keyword you are trying to rank the page for. Make sure that the keyword is also the target keyword of your content. Do not even attempt to try to rank a webpage on the topic of list building for the keyword “making money with surveys”. It just won’t work.
3. Research on the tags. One clue is to look at the tag cloud at each social bookmarking site to get an idea of the most popular tags. If it is relevant to your webpage, use it. Tagging your bookmark with popular tags will get you some good traffic.
4. Social bookmark at as many social bookmarking sites as possible.
I personally have found 2 free automatic social bookmarking tools that are very useful. Each can post your bookmark to over 15 social bookmarking sites, so in total, you get your social bookmarks listed on over 30 top high PR bookmarking websites.
They are Onlywire.com and GetBookmark.com. GetBookmark.com is somewhat new but works fine. You can just drag and drop it into your browser and go to each of your webpage and bookmark conveniently.
5. Be Creative
Create attractive titles and descriptions, but do not forget to use the target keywords.
Alternate your titles and descriptions for different social bookmarking sites to avoid looking spammy to the search engines.
Go ahead and social bookmark your websites for more traffic, sales and subscribers.
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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.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Forum Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 51 Comments »
