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Every successful internet marketer has a mentor he learned from. w/o a mentor it could take 3-5 years or more to succeed online, but with a mentor it could take a few months. 3 things Multi-millionaires do... 1. find out what others are doing & what's really working for them 2. model & copy their proven processes 3. expand & improve on them what's next? - choose a market - write your mission statement - write detailed description of what to do - create schedule activities ask yourself... 1. what am I willing to do to make my life the way I want it? 2. what about that (product) makes me excited? 3. what do I choose to do right now in this moment? 4. when do I give myself permission to start today? 5. If I were to give my full effort, what would happen? 6. Who else besides me would benefit? 7. How does that make me feel? Mission - Why must
you win? (why it must happen) prerequisites to
succeeding: focus & action Below are some things to think about before you start selling online. Thinking of Starting a Business on the Web? Need to Jump-Start an Existing Business? Here are the steps you need to Grow and Run a Successful Online Business... 1. look deep within yourself and find your passion/knowledge. 2. create a site based upon that knowledge, full of HIGH-PROFITABILITY topics. 3. find affiliate programs that fit with what you know and love (or create your own store). 4. write content that PREsells and gets excellent CRs (Conversion Rate). 5. write content that also acts like honey to the "Search Engine Bears". 6. build traffic through a variety of strong techniques, including a lead-generating e-zine. To find out more about How to Grow and Run a Successful Online Business Click Here! You will build a site that will be searched-and-found by prospective new customers. And this number will increase steadily as your site gains in reputation and relevance at the Search Engines -- the way a dam converts a stream into electrical current. Whatever your niche or type of business, follow the step-by-step C T P M process, as outlined in the Action Guide, to generate income... STEP 1) Create high-value CONTENT. Online, people search for information, look for solutions -- they are not looking for you. Give them what they want by converting your knowledge into high-quality, in-demand CONTENT. STEP 2) Your theme-based topical content ranks high at the Search Engines, attracting free, targeted TRAFFIC... interested, open-to-you visitors. STEP 3) Develop trust and credibility (i.e., PREsell) by OVERdelivering relevant, original, high-value information to these motivated pre-customers. STEP 4) MONETIZE your warm, willing-to-buy visitors in various ways. Sell hard goods, e-goods, your personal or professional services... or all three. Or become a "pure infopreneur" and earn substantial income without selling at all, through Google Ads, affiliate fees, finder's fees and other techniques. A blend of monetization options will help you build a thriving, diversified business. Selling
is trying to get the sale. PREselling
is warming up
your visitor with high-value information -- creating an open-to-buy
frame of mind -- so that the click through to a sales site (MLM,
affiliate, or other) results in a higher Conversion Rate. 1. decide on
market
(find a micro-niche) (using keyword
research. Also see here) 1. sell what people
are already buying (amazon.com, ebay.com, terapeakresearch.com) what to sell... start by selecting 5
affiliate products to sell 1. Pick a
niche to design a blog around (ex. www.sodamakerblog.com
) 3. Fill blog using auto content with powerautoblog (also see set up website-blog ) 4. Get articles from article directories, powerautoblog above can bring them in using RSS 5. Set it
and forget it - everyday, new
stuff is added without touching 8
Ways to Explode Your Affiliate Commissions by Michael Hopkins Affiliate programs are a great way of
generating income for your online business if — and only IF
— you go about them the RIGHT way. Simply signing up for every
half-interesting
program you find and then sticking a link somewhere on your website is
NOT enough. This is what a great many people do when starting out and,
when it doesn’t generate any income, they become discouraged
and lose confidence in the concept of promoting other
people’s products. This is a shame because you CAN make good
money promoting affiliate products — but only if you promote
the right products to the right people using the right methods. So, if you’re fed up of making
zero cash from any of the programs you promote, then you might want to
consider the following points and adjust your approach
accordingly… 1. Choose programs relevant to your
target
market This is a crucial point that is ignored
by a
great many people. Just like any aspect of your online business,
it’s vitally important that your affiliate program promotions
are FOCUSED on your target market. Joining a hundred different programs and
placing all their banners on your web pages will get you nowhere. Join
only those programs that will appeal to your target audience and then
promote them heavily. If you don’t know who your target
audience is, then you need to work that out first. Then, once
you’ve established who your market is (the narrower the focus
the better), promote only those products that will appeal to that
market. Don’t promote too many different
products either. Select a few of the best and concentrate all your
efforts on promoting those products only. 2. Treat affiliate products like your own This is a very important point that,
again,
many people choose to ignore. Rather than just putting a link to the
product sales page on your site, you should pre-sell the product on
your site. This is best done through writing a thorough
review/recommendation of the product in your OWN words. Leave the
‘hard-sell’ to the product website itself, the
focus of your mini-site should be on putting the visitor in the right
frame of mind before visiting the product website. Some of the web’s most successful
affiliate marketers will create a mini-site (including domain name) for
each product they promote and then they use that mini-site to: You could offer visitors a free e-course
(or
ebook) related to the product you’re promoting and then
integrate your affiliate links into the e-course. By collecting email addresses, you
achieve
two things: Promote you mini-site using PPCs, ezine
ads
and any other online marketing strategies that you usually use. 3. Test and track The only way of knowing which links,
banners, ads, etc. that are working (and, consequently, which ones
aren’t) is to test everything. You can do this by using an ad tracker
(also
known as a link tracker). This will add just a few extra minutes to
setting up your links and, over time, it will provide you with an
invaluable insight into what kinds of links and ads get clicked and
what ones don’t. If you’re not doing this,
you’ll continue to wonder why you’re not earning
the commissions you feel that your efforts deserve. 4. Write recommendations/reviews Writing product recommendations is one of
the most effective ways to promote any product. If your subscribers (or visitors) trust
you,
then they will also trust your recommendation. Be careful, however, to
use this approach sparingly. If you start promoting everything by way
of recommendation, your credibility risks wearing thin —
especially if your recommendation seems exaggerated or without merit. Don’t be afraid to mention the
things you DON’T like about any given product. This will make
your recommendation more believable AND will increase your credibility. Remember, if your visitors are even
remotely
interested in the product you’re promoting, they’ll
be delighted to learn what’s good about the product,
what’s not good AND, above all, how exactly the product will
BENEFIT them. When one of the ‘big
name’ marketers launches a new product, it seems like
EVERYONE jumps on the promotional bandwagon within days. The result is usually countless emails
arriving with the same subject line and the exact same write-up inside. The first time you see it, you accept it
for
what it is. However, after the twentieth time, you find yourself
unsubscribing from many of the ezines because, what you first thought
was a genuine personal recommendation turns out to be just another
pre-written sales pitch for affiliates. Again, it’s a
credibility issue. When promoting a product, don’t
use the tools offered in the product’s affiliate site Again, the best way to go is to test the product yourself and then write up your recommendation or review. 6. Create promo freebies We’re all familiar with the concept of offering freebies to promote our own products, but very few people do it to promote affiliate products. Some affiliate programs will offer you freebies that you can use to promote the program but, like the ads, if possible it’s best to create your own. 7. Test the product AND support Never run the risk of promoting junk. It takes a long time to build credibility and trust — but it takes just one bad mistake to destroy it. ONLY promote products that you have 100% confidence in. Also, it’s a good idea to test the product support before you begin promoting to ensure that the people you refer won’t be left high and dry as soon as there’s a problem. 8. Offer bribes This is possibly the most effective strategy of all. This belongs to the ‘make them an offer they can’t refuse’ school of thought. In a nutshell, you tell your visitors/subscribers that if they order via your affiliate link, you’ll give them [WHATEVER PRODUCT] for free. It’s important that the product you’re offering as a bribe is laser targeted to appeal to those same people that will want the affiliate product you’re promoting. It’s also important that the product you’re offering is not freely available elsewhere — your bribe must represent genuine VALUE to the would-be customer. If you don’t have a product of your own that you can offer, then here’s an approach you might consider using: Let’s say you’re promoting [PRODUCT A] that costs $97 and pays out 50% affiliate commissions. That means that each customer you refer would earn you about $45 – $50 (depending on credit-card processing fees, and so on). Now, let’s say there’s another product, [PRODUCT B], on the market that sells for $47 and appeals to exactly the same target market. And lets say that this product also has an affiliate program that pays out 50% commissions. Now, you write to your list telling them that you’ll give them [PRODUCT B] absolutely free if they order [PRODUCT A] through your affiliate link. So how do you do this? Firstly, you tell your list that, once they’ve ordered [PRODUCT A] through your affiliate link, they should forward the receipt for their order to you. Then, you order [PRODUCT B] through YOUR OWN affiliate link and give it to the customer. That way, you’ll earn about $45 commission on [PRODUCT A] which you re-invest in [PRODUCT B]. Then, you earn your commission of $20-$25 on [PRODUCT B]. Obviously, you need to have enough cash in your bank account to cover the costs of buying [PRODUCT B] until your commissions come in. Apart from that, this is a hugely effective way to motivate your list to click on your affiliate links. One final point, be sure to contact the seller of [PRODUCT B] before doing this to ensure that he/she is okay with the idea and, while you’re at it, you might even try to negotiate a special discount to help further increase your profits. There are lots of other ways you can ‘play around’ with the ‘bribe’ concept to increase your commissions. And there you have — 8 ways to start earning serious affiliate commissions. Go back through each of the points again right now and look at which areas of your affiliate strategy you can improve right away. After all, the quicker you get started, the quicker your bank balance will begin to feel the benefits! ABOUT THE
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