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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Learn How to Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing
As an affiliate marketer, your job is not to sell but to pre-sell your affiliate products. This doesn't involve making a direct pitch. Rather, your affiliate marketing website, blog or e-list should concentrate on the problems your niche market experiences. After all, most products--especially information products--are sold to people who have a problem they want to solve.
When you sell someone else's product, you don't have to worry about paying anyone to write a sales letter because it's already done for you. You also don't have to worry about testing different versions of the sales letter to see which one works better. (Product owners do this all the time, because even something as small as a new headline or extra bullet point can add thousands of dollars of value if it drives up enough site traffic.) The benefit of this is that you can use the sales letter that's already been written to identify not only what the problem is, but also the emotional triggers associated with it. Then, on your blog, your web pages or on your e-list, you can talk about those problems from the angle of a consumer. You don't even have to directly pitch the product--in fact, it's often better if you don't! Just make sure you provide a link and a small advertisement about the product somewhere close to your content.
Good sales letters written by competent sales writers can cost anywhere up to the low four-figure to the five-figure range. One reason good sales literature costs so much is because the writer may end up spending a whole month researching it. It's not just sales words that go into the material. Hours and hours of product research--and more importantly, market and consumer research--go into the building of a sales letter. Good sales writers are "worth their rate" in gold, though. After all, a sales letter is what gets that prospect to say the final "yes."
Ultimately, creating your own product (or paying somebody to create it), then marketing it, is one of the best and most fulfilling ways to earn an income online. But this can take time and financial resources that most beginners just don't have. Learning to make money online with affiliate marketing can also keep you from making costly mistakes when you finally do have your own product. Mistakes are part of the learning process, and you should expect to make a few when you first start out. But it's best to make them when you don't have large amounts of your own money, or your own brand, at stake.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Your Car Needs Insurance
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I think there are too many cars today, that's very waste, but we do need them. I have my own one. It looks like good, I use it to travel all over my country. Wonderful thing, right? I started to buy insurance for it when I brought it. I found information at Best Car Insurance Quotes.
Monday, July 2, 2007
20+ Websites anyone can make money with
1. Bitwine.com | Ether.com - sell your knowledge by offering consultancy services
2. About.com - become a guide (publisher) on about.com, and get paid for writing content. Based on your performance, your salary can be anywhere between $500-$8500/month. Check out the list of available
topics here
3. Chacha.com - chacha is a human powered search engine that’s maintained by search guides. It has more than 10.000 guides already and pays them between $5-$20/hour depending on performance.
4. Cafepress.com | Zazzle.com - these websites lets you put custom graphics or photos on popular, easy-to-ship, high-selling products i.e. t-shirts, mugs, hats, bags….etc. If something is sold you receive a commission. Since both of these websites receive lots of traffic, it seems quite promising
5. Elance.com | Getafreelancer.com | Odesk.com | Guru.com - mainly for techies; SEO professionals, web designers, developers…etc
6. Associated Content - write a story, how-to articles, rant etc, and if they like it they’ll pay you somewhere between $3-$20 for it
7. Clicknwork.com - get paid $5-$150/hour for doing some freelance work on a per-assignment basis. You’ll have to pass a tough test before you can start with it
8. Squidoo - squidoo won’t pay you but lets you publish articles with promotional content (ex; amazon products). It has lots of traffic and if you figure out what’s popular there, it can be well worth your effort
9. AGLOCO - how about getting paid whenever you browse the web? That’s exactly what agloco does, it pays you for browsing the web. There is a lot more to it though, check it out here.
10. H3 - Get paid to find the right candidate for particular jobs. Commissions range from $50-$5,000 depending on how desperate the hiring company is.
11. VIDEO: (post a video and share whatever revenue it generates from ads. To get an idea of how well paid this can be, check out metacafe’s top earners list)
Break.com | Metacafe.com | DareJunkies.com | Blip.tv | Revver.com | Flixya.com | Atomfilms.com + Addictingclips.com | Shopwiki.com (create reviews and get paid 50$/review) | and some more
12. Domain Parking: The idea behind domain parking is the following; 1)you simply register some domain, usually a misspelling of something popular (ex; yoitube.com instead of youtube.com or dominoespizza.com instead of dominospizza.com), 2)add relevant ads to them and 3)earn money as visitors click on them. It’s a gold mine once you get familiar with it, a friend of mine used to make around $2000/month from it. Read more on it here
13. Affiliate Programs: What you do here is promote someone’s product and earn money from each sale/referral you make. It’s much easier when you have own website but you still can do quite well even without one. It really works! I used to do it myself. I would find affiliate program on cj.com and afterwards advertise it either on Yahoo or Google. In the end, my costs were considerably lower then my commissions. It’s way harder than domain parking but also has higher potential. More on affiliate programs here.
14. Some Extra info for bloggers and website owners
- 40 ways to make money on internet (dumblittleman.blogspot.com)
- Making money on the internet (Stromcode.com)
- How to make money from your blog (Stevepavlina.com)
- Problogger.net
- Business-opportunities.biz
- Other advertising networks besides google adsense (JohnChow.com)