Finding New Affiliates

Writen by Peter Garant

Some online businessmen have claimed that they were able to have hundreds of dollars worth of sales overnight. And their stories have inspired other businessman to persevere in e-commerce. Their stories have also made many other online businessmen curious about what could have brought such a success in Internet business. The reason for such an astounding amount of sales is called affiliate marketing.

What actually happened to such successful online businesses is that the affiliates increase the traffic of visitors to their websites, and consequently significantly boosts the sales. Thus, many online companies today are looking into establishing their own affiliate marketing programs. But where do online companies find affiliates that are professional, reliable, and honest? Here are some recommendations.

1. Be listed in affiliate program directories

Affiliate marketing programs is a niche in Internet marketing. This is why there are many sites that have a dedicated list or directory of affiliate programs. Professional affiliates go such sites when they are searching for new products to promote. An online business must have its affiliate program listed in such a directory so that affiliates can find it. To do this, the online businessman must open an Affiliate Program Directory, such as in Google, and then submit his affiliate marketing program.

2. Link up with complementary websites

The online businessman should analyze the type of his target market. Then, he must find websites that are already attracting such target market. These websites are complementary websites. For example, if the online business is selling computer software, then the businessman should find websites that sell complementary products such as computer and computer parts. He should stay away from competing websites, i.e., those that sell the same products. And he should also avoid websites that sell products that are not related to his own products. For example, it will be disastrous to link up with alternative medicine when the product being sold is computer software.

Once the online businessman has found complementary websites, he should contact them and offer his affiliate marketing program. The owners of such complementary websites will the "perfect affiliates" since they are already catering to the target market of the online businessman.

3. Link up with content websites.

Content websites feature articles that focus on ideas and concept and not on selling any product. Such articles are informative and visitors are more likely to go back to these content websites again and again for the information that these websites provide. The online businessman should link up with such content sites because the information from these sites is an important ingredient in successful affiliate marketing.

4. Offer affiliate programs to the visitors and consumers

The online businessman can tap into the visitors and consumers of his own website. He will place a link in his website that leads to the presentation of the affiliate marketing program.

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Affiliate Networks A Basic Overview Of This Powerful Marketing System

Writen by Blake Stevenson

Affiliate marketing networks are an outstanding way for websites to increase their customer base in a cost efficient manner. By building a network of affiliates, a business can tap into an extremely large number of independent contractors who will actively promote their products and services in exchange for a commission. Affiliate networks have the potential to greatly boost sales for both online and offline businesses.

An excellent example of an affiliate network is Amazon.com, which happens to be one of the most successful online. Amazon has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success, in great part due to their massive number of affiliates. After seeing the success of Amazon.com, many other businesses have utilized affiliate programs to expand their businesses and boost sales with great success.

Affiliate networks have even spread to businesses such as executive recruitment and career searches. The most well-known programs in this industry are Monster.com, Hotjobs.com, and CareerBuilder.com. By allowing affiliates to sign up and promote their websites for a commission, they've been able to spread the word of their services virally all over the internet in a very short amount of time.

To see affiliate marketing in action and to see firsthand just how popular it has become, simply look at the next webpage you view. Chances are, you'll be staring at colorful banners promoting affiliate products for a commission. I would encourage you to get involved in the world of affiliate marketing, it is an outstanding way to earn a living and one that can certainly make all of your financial dreams become a reality. Massive incomes are being earned every single day by super affiliates who have grabbed hold of the affiliate marketing concept and created businesses around it.

To get started earning money with affiliate marketing, you don't need a certain level of education or credentials. Simply sign up as an affiliate for various programs, put together a game plan, and work towards your goals every single day until you achieve them. Just remember, with affiliate marketing, there are no limits and anything is possible!

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Affiliate Tip Build A Website

Writen by Nell Taliercio

One of the first things you should do as an affiliate marketer is to build you own website. Yes, you can market affiliate programs without it by adding links to your email or signature file on message boards, but you will be very limited in how much you can earn this way. Building a website allows you to expose the products you are promoting to a much larger audience with less effort.

Decide on a Topic

Your first step is to decide what you would like your website to be about. Find a topic you like, something you are passionate about. You will be spending a lot of time creating content for your site, so it may as well be something you enjoy reading and writing about. Your enthusiasm for the subject will shine through as well, and will get your visitors interested. Once you have your topic, make sure there are affiliate products available that compliment the site and that there are people interested in buying it.

Pick a Domain Name

Use a site like register.com, or your web host's site to research available domain names. It helps to have one of your major keywords in your domain name. So if you decided your website will be about growing roses, try to work "rose" in the domain name. You want your domain name to be easy to remember and easy to type. Try to avoid using dashes in the name and find something that's available as a dot com address.

Hosting

The next step is to set up a web hosting account. You should be able to get by with a basic personal website package to begin with. Get some recommendations from others when it comes to choosing the actual hosting company. You want a service that is reliable and has good customer service. After all, you won't be making any money when you site is down. I have been using Dayana hosting for years and highly recommend them.

Site Builder or Software

Let's talk about how you can build your website. Your options are using a site builder, like internetbasedfamilies.com or software like Microsoft FrontPage, or my favorite x-site pro. A site builder is usually easier to use in the beginning and hosting is included. You will pay a monthly fee for the software and hosting combined. If you build your site using software like x-site pro or FrontPage, you have the added initial expense of buying the software, but your monthly hosting costs are usually lower. Of course a third option is to have someone else design the site for you. You should still get familiar with the site builder or software, so you can make changes to the site.

Getting Traffic To The Site

Your last step will be getting traffic to your site. Optimize your pages for search engines to get free traffic. You can also write articles and submit them to article directories. Pay per click advertising and buying ads on other related sites or newsletters are also great ways to drive traffic to your site.

For more information about websites go to http://www.mommysplace.net and for more information about affiliate marketing go to http://www.nellnews.com.

Launching Your Affiliate Program Correctly

Writen by Mark Kenny

To any Internet Marketer these days an affiliate program is absolutely essential marketing method of achieving a decent e-growth. Allowing others to promote your products or services can be the most efficient way of selling your products as you only pay for successful results, whether these are leads, sales Or traffic.

Unfortunately with the hundreds of affiliate programs that are started weekly by merchants, Attracting Your fair share of affiliates willing to participate in your program is never an easy goal unless you are already experienced in such matters.

With this in mind there are several solutions catered towards announcing your program to the industry. The most obvious solution is offered by affiliate program submission services which submit your program to the relevant directories, in the hope that affiliate marketers will find and join your program. These can charge up to $300 (Usd) which may seem a bit excessive for inclusion in the majority of directories.

On the positive side they will present your program accurately and promptly to the correct editors, And these submission services are normally very well established and recognised as professionals by the editors of such directories. You'll find that most directories themselves recommend you use these services.

An alternative method is to submit your site manually to these affiliate directories. This will take a lot of time as researching these directories alone can be a mammoth task. You can easily spend a week just finding these directories & even with a complete list Of directories you'll discover that some will only accept submissions from the paid submission services. If your going to follow this route, Affiliatecrashcourse.com offers an ebook containing a list of such directories saving you days of searching though Google & Yahoo for the results. The majority of directories are free to list in, Offering you an upgraded spot for a small fee.

Whichever method you use to get your program listed whether its doing it manually, Or paying you will generally find that the main directories such as Associateprograms & Adbility will contact you within a few days. These are also the ones that will supply you with the most prospects. Some of the smaller directories will take months to list your program, I've known it to take up to three months to get a listing in some of these directories.

It's not an ideal situation especially when you launch your own program you'll want to atract some super affiliates, Those marketers already established with several successful web sites & massive mailing lists which can push your program for you. But in reality, they are not likely to be watching these directories for the release of your program.

However, one place where you can find these super affiliates is on Joint Venture Websites. A JV Site is where marketers present offers to each other in the hope of finding partners to promote their programs and if you use them along with the main affiliate directories you can give your program a successful launch. Additionally by listing In JV sites you are establishing some credibility for yourself with other marketers. These are marketers who you could find yourself dealing with time and time again. You can find a list of JV Web sites at: Http://trading-web-solutions.com/jv

Personally I subscribe to a lot of mailings from established internet "gurus" and you often see a few of them promoting identical offers. Believe me this is not a coincidence, I've saw announcements listed at JV Sites and within a few days everyone is promoting them including these gurus. Just make sure you research and develop your affiliate program properly before launching on A JV Site. If you do it badly they won't forget you - But for the wrong reasons.

Mark Kenny is an online entrepreneur who specialises in developing turnkey websites in niche and profitable markets. You can see a selection of the work he is involved in at: http://www.trading-web-solutions.com and http://www.concept-casinos.com

Why Start An Affiliate Program

Writen by Cody Frazier

As any business owner knows advertising can be a very expensive aspect of starting and maintaining a business. Advertising on the Internet can take many forms form Pay Per Click search engines to ezines. You could literally spend hundreds of dollars just to get a few people to visit your site but there is no guarantee that they will buy anything. So wouldn't it be nice if you could forgo all the hype and pay for only what works.

With pay per performance advertising you only spend money when you make money. Here's how it works. When someone signs up for your affiliate program they will do the advertising for you and you pay nothing. If they refer someone to your site who makes a purchase then you pay the affiliate a commission for the sale. You only pay when you get payed. Commissions vary from program to program usually ranging from 10% to 75%.

Name recognition is benefit of affiliate programs. If someone knows about your business and what you offer they will be most likely to buy from you then a competitor they've never heard of. With multiple affiliates advertising your products even if they don't sell your products you still receive publicity at no cost to you.

The first thing many ask is where do I find people interested in being my affiliate. The first place to look is your build in audience. Your normal visitors and customers is an excellent place to start. If you run a subscription based business you could offer your customers a discount on there next statement for ever customer they refer. There are also many affiliate networks available that will advertise your program for you and many will also over see your program, keeping track of affiliates and commissions so you won't have to.

Living in a post dot com bust world the cost and quality of advertising as depreciated exponentially. What used to work years ago no longer will. Many businesses that start affiliate programs see a noticeable increase in sales. No only that but it is a win win situation where both you and the affiliate profit from the sale. The only thing you have to ask yourself is who will start taking on affiliates first, you or your competitors.

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Reselling Money On The Side

Writen by Anthony Vita

The other night I had dinner with a friend who mentioned knowing quite a few people needing websites for their local businesses. Despite being a software engineer, my friend is not a web designer nor does he know enough about servers to actually host (store) websites. On the other hand, he suspected there was a way to translate contacts into some money on the side. That's when I told him about reselling.

Reselling is basically the business of selling web space that is already established by a web space provider (known as a host). A host sells you their space and, in turn, you sell it to your client. This arrangement is like buying at wholesale and selling at retail prices. It's also like subletting an apartment for more than your own rent. In terms of websites, the ideal reseller scenario is one where you buy web space at a low enough rate so you can sell it to your client at your own price and make a profit.

More specifically, if you purchase a web hosting plan for $5 per month and sell it to your client for $15 per month, you are making a 200% profit instantly each month. Who wouldn't like spending $5 in order to make $10 profit? Ten such arrangements bring in around $100 per month or $1,200 per year. Sounds like easy money on the side.

But what exactly is required of a reseller? This article isn't meant to provide quick ways to simply make money off your friends and business contacts. It's a legitimate way to provide them with something they need for a fair price. While you need to have a basic knowledge of what a host does, you won't have all of the answers, not a first. This is where the experience and professionalism of your host comes into play. For instance, if your client has questions about setting up an email account, you need to respond in a timely manner with the answer. If you don't know the answer to a support issue raised by a client, this is where you host can assist you.

I have seen the roles of resellers vary depending on the host. One host may have direct contact with your clients and answer all their questions. This could be dangerous for you (the reseller) as one day your clients may wind up a direct client of the host and leave you out of the arrangement completely. More commonly, the web host has no dealings with your clients at all. The host bills and supports you (the reseller) and, in turn, you bill and support your clients. If your clients have a problem you can either handle it directly with them or, if you're not sure of the solution, you can ask the host who will take care of it for you. Once you have been reselling for a while you will likely notice two things. First, you will find that clients ask the most questions early on. Once your clients have been setup and their site is running smoothly, you probably won't hear from them much. Secondly, after you field some of the more common support questions from clients and see how your host handles them, you will soon be resolving many issues on your own.

Now that we have established what is involved in becoming a reseller and the importance of good customer support, let's talk about how to widen the profit margin. At the beginning of this article I mentioned my friend was not a web designer, but what if he was?

What if you are a web designer looking to earn more money? Why build a website and then hand it over to someone else to host when you could be offering that service to your clients? Becoming a hosting reseller would be the perfect match for you. The more services you can provide your clients, the more money you will make. Earlier I mentioned that with only 10 reseller accounts you could be earning $100 per month. Imagine if you added fees for web design. The cost for web design is often a one-time fee, but if your client requires monthly updates to their site you could be adding $50 to $100 per month to your monthly profit. Add a few of these type arrangements and you could be earning $500 per month or more.

If you have access to people interested in starting websites they can quickly become a paying client. Web hosts are there to handle everything you don't know how to do; including the management of servers, ensuring your client's data is not only backed up, but protected from natural disasters and hackers. Just because you don't have a degree in server management doesn't mean you can't get into the web business.

Many hosting companies offer reseller packages and most are unique arrangements so shop around and find out which works best for you. Reselling can be very rewarding in that you are genuinely helping others get a website and also you can quickly start earning some money on the side. The trick is to partner up with a host you can trust, one that provides you with the same quality of service and professionalism you want/need to show your own clients.

Copyright 2005 Anthony Vita

Anthony Vita started his own successful web hosting business, Web Feat, Inc, in 1997. Since then, Anthony has been helping businesses and individuals worldwide ahieve their online presence.

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10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates

Writen by Ken Hill

1. Create an infopacked mini site. Build your mini site for a specific niche audience and then choose affiliate programs specifically for that niche audience.

2. Test and track your ads and promotions for your affiliate programs.

Tracking and testing your ads will show you exactly which ads, promotions and affiliate programs pay off the most for you and are excellent choices for you to continue to promote.

3. Publish an ezine.

Your ezine will give you a powerful way to promote your affiliate programs to your subscribers.

Choose affiliate programs that relate to the content of your ezine and that make it worth your while to promote them.

4. Promote your affiliate programs by recommending their products.

You could recommend your affiliate programs to your ezine subscribers in your publisher's note or you could create a recommended resources section where you promote your affiliate programs in every issue.

You could also recommend your affiliate programs to your visitors by creating a recommended affiliate programs section where you list your favorite affiliate programs along with descriptions of their products or services.

In addition, you could create a best affiliate programs section that helps you build up your second tier by listing the affiliate programs that have paid off the most for you.

5. Write product reviews where you detail the benefits you like about your affiliate program's product.

Make your product reviews honest and hype f~ree and post them on your site along with your other articles.

6. Write your own ads for your affiliate program.

A good way to create your ads is to look at the ad copy on the site of the business you want to promote and also ads they provide for their affiliates to use, and use their unique selling proposition or USP to write your ads.

Their unique selling proposition is a unique benefit that they promote in their ad copy that their competitors don't stress or offer to their visitors.

It could be that their product saves lots of time, is easy to understand, that their product is a complete answer to a problem, or it could involve their price.

Some businesses develop more than one USP so you'll be able to choose the one that you think works best in getting more targeted visitors to their site.

7. Try out the support of the companies you want to promote by asking questions.

This will help you to find out how long it takes them to respond to emails (if they respond to emails) and how professional they are.

8. Create freebies that promote your affiliate programs.

You could offer your visitors a f~ree email course, an ebook filled with your tips or articles or an ebook that provides your visitors with places to promote their businesses.

When creating freebies for an affiliate program that is 2 tier, increase your profits by letting your affiliates in your second tier use your freebies as a promotional item.

9. Create a directory.

Your directory could be an article, ezine, ebook or affiliate program directory.

List your own resources within your directory to increase your commissions. For example, you could add your own affiliate programs to your affiliate programs directory or your ebooks to your ebook directory.

Add a what's new section to your directory to garner more repeat traffic from your visitors.

You could also provide a tutorial on the subject of your directory, or add things to your directory that your visitors can use on a regular basis to get more repeat traffic.

10. Run ezine ads for your affiliate programs.

You could purchase sponsor, feature, classified or solo ads for your affiliate program.

Choose ezines with subscribers targeted to be interested in the products of the business you want to promote.

Run your ads for multiple issues in a row when possible to maximize the profit you get from your ads.

You can also run f~ree ads in ezines as many ezines offer
f~ree advertising on a weekly, monthly or per issue basis to
get more new subscriptions.

Running f~ree ads can help you find out which ads work best,
and which ezines are most responsive before you purchase
ezine advertising.

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Internet Poker Affiliate Profits

Writen by Anthony LeMaire

Are you looking for the most lucrative internet poker affiliate profits? Some of the online poker affiliate programs offer the most generous internet poker affiliate profits in the online poker industry. That means more money for you and the easiest money you have ever made in your life, and the best part of all is that it does not cost you a cent.

But, beyond just looking for the best internet poker affiliate profits, we recommend you to look for an internet poker affiliate program with the best and most professional and helpful affiliate support in the industry. This will assure you will get your own account manager who will work with you to maximize your internet poker affiliate profits.

So, while you are rewarded for your efforts in spreading the word about a site and at the same time getting the best internet poker affiliate profits, you will also be treated with excellence, and with the utmost respect and consideration. Not to mention that more than getting the best internet poker affiliate profits, you should get lifetime residual revenue from each referred real money player, several payment options and all the advertising material that you need custom designed.

So, what are you waiting for? The best internet poker affiliate profits along with prompt payouts, superb customer service and great technical support are out there. To begin you just usually have to fill out a simple registration form, recruit new players using their advertising material such as banners, text links and referral cards and then keep track of your internet poker affiliate profits stats. It's actually really easy and fast.

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Integrate Your Affiliate Programs To Explode Your Affiliate Income

Writen by Ron Passfield

When you have been involved in affiliate marketing for a year or more you tend to accumulate memberships in a diverse range of Internet programs that are often disconnected.

You will have memberships in a number of income opportunities, downline building programs, traffic exchanges, and payment systems. In addition, you will have one or more domains and web hosting services and access to autoresponders (free and paid). You might also be lucky enough to have a storehouse of e-books and articles that you can draw on.

The problem with this accumulation of diverse programs is that it can cause you to become unfocused and can dissipate or drain your energy.

There are parallels in the corporate world of the 1970's when companies decided to diversify through random acquisitions. By the 1980's, many companies were drained by these acquisitions and had to off-load them. The catch-cry was "get back to your core business". There was a strong move to "integration" of processes, products and services to lift revenue and profit.

In affiliate marketing, you too can explode your affiliate revenue by identifying your core business and integrating other programs around this focus. This will require some hard decisions but it will be worthwhile in the end.

Here are 3 ways that you can achieve integration of your programs.

1. An integrated downline building program

There are numerous downline building programs available that can help you integrate your programs. You need to make sure that the one you choose also builds downlines in your core income producing business.

It should also enable you to build downlines in traffic exchanges, payment systems (such as Paypal, e-Gold, and IntGold) and other downline building systems.

You should also make sure that the owner of the downline building program is genuinely interested in helping you build your downlines and is not just focused on promoting themselves and their own affiliate links.

This form of integration enables you to promote one core program URL and simultaneously build downlines in multiple programs, including your core business.

2. An integrated autoresponder

Often affiliate marketers have one or more autoresponder systems, a separate storehouse of e-books and a different repository for articles.

One way to integrate the functions of ezine publishing, lead capture page creation and list building is to locate a provider/program that gives you an autoresponder integrated with an electronic warehouse of software and e-books and a library of articles for your use.

You can then build lead capture pages that offer an e-book or software (from the integrated warehouse) as a teaser and capture the "lead" as a subscriber to your ezine (through using your autoresponder link). Your weekly ezine can be built from the integrated article library.

Make sure, however, that you are also able to plug-in your own articles. As you become more proficient with writing articles, you will be able to include more and more of your own articles in your ezine and build "resource boxes" or "author profiles" that direct prospects to websites or blogs of your choice.

3. An affiliate marketing coach focused on integration

There are now endless resources available on the Internet to help you with your affiliate marketing. There are e-books, video and audio resources, online tutorials, special reports and e-mail courses on every conceivable topic. Increasingly, many of these resources are free.

However, gaining access to information is no longer the real challenge. The challenge of today's world is learning how to focus and harness this information to achieve your goals.

This is where an affiliate marketing coach can help you. They can help you identify a niche product/service that draws on your strengths and life history, assist you to develop a comprehensive and integrated marketing plan, and build your confidence in affiliate marketing. Such a resource person is priceless because all the information in the world is of little use to you unless you can translate the great ideas into real, focused action.

If you adopt the "integration" mindset, you will find numerous ways to achieve synergy amongst your programs so that your results grow rapidly because each program is reinforcing the others.

This article is written by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is also on a quest for the "holy grail of affiliate marketing".

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The Incredible Affiliate Marketing List Giveaway Technique

Writen by Guy Vincent Harvey

You are probably leaving a lot of money on the table while promoting you affiliate program and don't know it. Any big time affiliate marketing program owner who sees this article will be screaming, "No!" at the top of their lungs. You on the other hand will be cheering, "Yes!"

When you use and affiliate page or link, you are sending traffic to the owner of the program's site. On the surface, that seems great. You send people to look at the product, opt-in, buy it, and get paid. What could possibly be any better?

This is what could be a lot better. You could be the one getting what you just gave away, to market other products in the future or even now. What is it? It's the name and email address of the person. That's right, the information that you just gave away, is the most valuable thing you could have and you probably don't know it.

That name and email address is worth everything to you. This is why. You could use it to send your promotional mailings to that person about anything you offer. If you don't have it, you have no way to contact that person. However, the owner of the program you're promoting does. You can bet that they will use it to send their offers out to people on the nice shinny list that you just helped them build. They are thanking you and, at the same time, laughing at you hysterically.

This is just one way solve the problem. Build a landing page that offers the program or service with your own opt-in box. If you don't know how, learn how, because you're loosing a fortune. Then you just take the affiliate link and place it in the section of the code that would go to your thank you page. So, after the visitor signs up to be on YOUR list, you are automatically sending that person to your affiliate page. Then you are getting the best of both worlds.

Can you think of one good reason to give your list of potential customers and profits away? Internet marketing gurus have big enough lists. Makes sure that you are building yours first. You wouldn't leave $1,000,000 on a table in a city bar. At least I hope you wouldn't!

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That was fairly straightforward.

Online Poker Affiliate Program Marketing Poker Affiliates Generating Large Incomes

Writen by Blake Stevenson

The online poker gaming industry has been subject to an unprecedented growth rate. Where poker was once a game played between friends around a table in a backroom, the online revolution has freed up the game and made it an accessible, interactive experience. Huge daily tournaments, different table sizes and quirky tools have made online poker a vastly different derivative of the original rigid card game.

Many of the common skills in reading players is lost through the faceless interface of the computer. Instead chat rooms and message boards provide forums for players to chat and interact, even during the hands. Tournaments offering vast sums of money as a reward are a daily occurrence throughout the online industry. Players of all abilities can pit their wits against others from all corners of the globe, putting themselves in the position to be in with the chance of winning huge amounts of money.

The online gaming industry has revolutionised the both the traditional and electronic versions of the game. International tournaments are broadcast live on television with prize money often totalling hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. The rise in popularity has rejuvenated and in many respects reinvented the game of poker. The ease of availability and bonus schemes has tempted a huge global following to try their hand at the game. With the influx of new players the game has grown, as have the poker sites creating yearly revenue of millions if not billions of dollars.

This new online wealth has not remained in the pockets of just the site owners. Through a number of affiliate programs the money has slowly trickled down to be within reach of even the most inexperienced website owners. The basic premise of all affiliate schemes is that site owners can get money by encouraging people to join or purchase from a number of large sites. Through linked words or banner advertisements the host site can determine the source of the custom and then reward the website owner with a cash bonus.

Becoming a poker affiliate is a simple cost free process. All a website owner needs to do is sign up to an affiliate scheme either directly through a poker site or one of the many representative sites. They will then be supplied with a number of marketing tools to optimise both parties' visibility to potential customers or visitors. All the website owner needs to do is place the advertising material somewhere, preferably an obvious or clear area on their site and wait for the hits to come. In the affiliate business hits mean more money, so the more people you can attract the more likely one is going to follow your link and sign up to a poker site. Then all the owner needs to do is sit back and wait for their percentage to roll through each and every time the players deposit cash or generates funds.

Learn how to become a super online poker affiliate by promoting the best poker affiliate program at http://www.epokeraffiliate.com/

Change To A Bigger Mailbox To Receive Truckloads Of Commission Checks From Clickbank Now

Writen by Dy Loh

Number 1 – Choosing the right product to promote

There are several factors to consider there. I shall list a few. For me, I never choose a product with commission below 50% and a sale which results in less then $19. I only promote products which I have mailed the vendor and he has replied. I visit the sales page and rate it upon 10 on persuasiveness and would not promote products with a rating below 6.5

Number 2 – Create a mini course

It is a know fact that on average a person needs to see an advertisement for about 7 times before they decide to buy the product or not. So what do you do for those who visit the site only once? Simple you create a mini course! A 5 day or 7 day mini course which offers them some valuable information on the product you are offering. Of course, for every mail you send, you must include your affiliate link in it. There are many auto responders that can do the job for you. Do a search around Google for them.

Number 3 – Create a mini review

It would be best if you buy that product and review it yourself so you would know you are promoting and would give better reviews. Another way of doing this is to lift off a few of the most outstanding testimonials from the vendor's site to use it on your own. Keep it short and keep it sweet, do not overkill and overdo the reviews. A review is a good way to "soften" the visitors and make them more likely to buy. It is also in this review page that you should incorporate your mini course.

A tip, if you have made some sales already, you can email and ask them customers to give you a review in exchange for a bonus ebook or resource you give. This way, you would have testimonials that the vendor do not even have whilst your customers and happy with their extra bonuses. Truly a win-win situation!

Number 4 – Email the vendor

This tip serves two purposes. Firstly, you can determine the responsiveness of the vendor and much he cares for you- the affiliate. Secondly, you can ask him for tips and extra resources (other than those on his affiliate page) to help in your promotion. More often than not, the vendors are very likely to help.

Number 5 – Test

Send at least a hundred targeted visitors to the page before deciding it as a failure. Give it some time to work. Do not so hastily give it up, many a times, your patience will be tested but do not buckle.

Dylan is the author of "Clickbank Profit Machine" – A 6 Step Personal Clickbank Profit Automation System. http://www.clickbankprofitmachine.com

Affiliate Businesses Can Build Their Income By Using The Following Affiliate Strategies

Writen by Karen Kari

The amount of money you can make as an affiliate will depend primarily upon the popularity of your site as well as the "fit" between the focus of your site and the products and services offered by the merchant or advertiser.

Advertisers pay differing commission percentages for sales or other actions such as the completion of a survey. For sales, the most common sales commissions are between 15% and 25%, except for downloaded information products which pay considerably more, but require careful review because of the variability in quality of the products.

Individual merchants will negotiate relationships with you, the percentages of which will vary. The best way to negotiate a good commission percentage is to be an authority in your field. If you are women's adventure travel, be certain your content is second to none. And that means trying every search you can with variations on your keywords or the key phrases used by women who are contemplating rugged travel, outdoor adventure, scenic outdoor travel etc. Study your competition, but don't copy them, do better than them. Have more articles, more reference material, calculators, fitness exercises, product reviews and comparisons, packing lists, how to books, maps, guides.

Then negotiate links with the greatest companies in the women's adventure travel space. Don't worry if they don't advertise an affiliate program. This is a plus – You'll have an exclusive or be one of a few, rather than offering something your site visitors can get anywhere. Keep focusing on what your site visitors want – and make the little changes that over time let them know you know who they are, and are not just focusing on but catering to their changing needs.

Karen Kari's articles and more information on the affiliate business can be found at:

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http://www.advertisingcellar.com
http://www.billionfreeads.com

Which Affiliate Networks To Look Out For When Promoting

Writen by Gerardas Norkus

There are many horror stories about affiliate programs and networks. People have heard them over and over again, that some are even wary of joining one. The stories they may have heard are those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this kind of market does not have real, worthy product.

You do not want to be associated with these schemes. It is obvious you want to be with a program that offers high quality product that you will readily endorse. The growing number of those who have joined already and are succeeding immensely is proof enough that there are reliable and quality affiliate programs out there.

Why participate in an affiliate program?

It allows you to work part-time. It gives you the opportunity to build a generous residual income. And it makes you an owner of a small business. Affiliate programs have already created lots of millionaires. They are the living testimony of how hard work; continuous prospecting, motivating and training others pay off.

If ever you are deciding to join one, you must take note that you are getting into something that is patterned to what you are capable of. This will be an assurance that you are capable of doing anything to come out successful.

How do you choose a good affiliate program to promote? Here are some tips you may want to look over before choosing one:

1. A program that you like and have interest in. One of the best ways of knowing if that is the kind of program you wish to promote is if you are interested in purchasing the product yourself. If that is the case, chances are, there are many others who are also interested in the same program and products.

2. Look for a program that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in that particular industry. This way, you are assured that of the standard of the program you will be joining into.

3. Join in the ones that offer real and viable products. How do you know this? Do some initial research. If possible, track down some of the members and customers to give you testimonial on the credibility of the program.

4. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Make inquiries. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

5. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

6. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

7. Select one that has plenty of tools and resources that can help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate programs have these capacities. Make use you decide on one with lots of helpful tools you can use.

8. Check out if the program has a proven system that can allow you to check your networks and compensation. Also check if they have it available online for you to check anytime and anywhere.

9. The program that is offering strong incentives for members to renew their membership each time. The affiliate program that provides continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain its members. These things can assure the growth of your networks.

10. Be aware of the things that members are not happy about in a program. Like with the ones mentioned above, you can do your checking at discussion forums. If you know someone in that same program, there is ho harm asking if there are many downsides involved.

Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program and network you will be promoting on.

Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will make you anticipate and prevent any future problems you may encounter.

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Dear New Affiliate Be Picky When Choosing Affiliate Programs

Writen by Nicole Dean

Question: How do you choose an affiliate program to promote? There are so many out there. Which ones are good?

Dear New Affiliate,

There are several ways to determine whether an affiliate program is worthy. Oftentimes it looks like the Affiliate Manager has all the power, but this is a partnership. There really are thousands of programs available. Don't sign up and promote just any of them. If you aren't completely thrilled about the program, look 5 more minutes and you'll find something better.

Here are some questions to ask yourself whenever you find an affiliate program you're interested in.

Are the products something you believe in? The products better be good. If you're not 100% sold on the products to the point that you'd tell your best friend to buy them – then you've got no business signing up for that affiliate program. Keep looking for something better.

Is their website professional?

Your reputation is on the line every time you promote a product or service. If you're sending your traffic to a website that is on free hosting or just looks unprofessional, then you're going to lose the confidence of your subscribers. Now, many sales letters aren't 'pretty' but they are grammatically correct, and everything is functional, with pictures and testimonials. So, although the website doesn't have to be beautiful, it does need to look 'live'.

Is their website easy to navigate?

If shoppers can't figure out how to purchase, then there's no point in sending your traffic there.

What are the numbers?

If you have two programs you like equally well, you can choose between them or write reviews for each and compare and contrast their benefits. Or, if that doesn't fit into your site, then test both to see which gives you the best results.

Free trial?

Any product that offers samples or service that offers a free trial deserves a look. If you can offer your website visitors a sample of any sort to get them hooked, you'll have much higher results than trying to convince them that the product is good.

Are there any tools to help you?

The best affiliate programs go above and beyond in their tools and resources section. Not only do they provide the standard text links and buttons and banners, but you also have solo mailings, articles, and even product feeds. These are the affiliate programs that 'get it'.

Once you find an affiliate program that you love, it's still smart to continue to test the results. Just because you think it's great doesn't mean you visitors will. Continually look at the statistics to see how much traffic you're sending and if any of it is converting. If you're not getting results and you're sending a lot of traffic, then you might want to look at a new program.

Are you looking for affiliate programs that don't stink? Nicole Dean is on a mission to find a few good affiliate programs. She's found a handful of programs that don't stink. Check them out at http://www.freeaffiliatearticles.com/free-affiliate-programs.htm and be sure to grab some Free Affiliate Articles while you're there.

Online Casino Affiliates Making Money From Online Casinos Without Putting Your Money At Risk

Writen by Blake Stevenson

The online world of casino gambling has bought new opportunities for Internet users all over the world. The range of games and bonuses has made them a popular haunt for online gamblers, looking for fun and excitement or in the serious game of earning some cash. Whilst the money that said gamers pump in each and every day have made lucrative businesses spring up from everywhere. From casino ownership and programming software to advertising through affiliate marketing. Each sector has benefited hugely from the vast interest in the online gaming industry, and with the gains each sector has produced it has also shown a rise in creativity. Casinos initiating new games and styles for programmers to create, giving extra scope for the affiliate to sell. The industry is generating money everywhere and for anybody with the initiative and ability to take advantage.

Take the casino affiliate program, for many this may represent the bottom rung of the ladder to online casinos successes. But the truth is in fact very different. Affiliates may not be in line to generate the potentially huge gains that an individual casino can make, but in turn the affiliate is far more protected. Most casino affiliate programs do not allow the affiliate like a casino has to worry about. Therefore with the inherent risks of gambling parlayed, the affiliate stands only to profit from a players misfortune and not suffer at the hands of their successes.

In respect to the idea of profiting from another's failure providing fortune for another. The affiliate program is kind of a faceless entity, which merely aids a players passage to the site with suggestion rather than implicit pleading. The affiliate scheme is simply a way of deferring the money away from the huge casino companies, so in many ways it provides a service to spread the cash rather than simply all going straight to the company. But still for those violently opposed to the world of gambling and the promotional side of it, casino affiliate programs probably aren't the best way forward. But for those with one eye on making some money from a business already overflowing with revenue it provides a simple and successful partnership.

The casino affiliate program all of those in the online gaming industry market, benefits from huge global interest and a seemingly never-ending source of new members. This provides a benefit to both the industry and the affiliate. For the affiliate the line of people willing to dip their feet in the waters of online casinos means that their chances of luring one or more through customers through their site is greatly increased. More people joining through their site means more money pouring into their bank account and who could say no to that? As for the casinos they remain happy because for all the people that the affiliate introduces, there is extra revenue to be made. Whilst they have to share a percentage of that with the affiliate, each member is a potential goldmine in terms of money wagered and the friends they may inform.

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Tips For A Successful Adsense Site

Writen by Gabriel J. Adams

One doesn't have to dig very deep on the internet to find an adsense site. At its most basic level, an adsense site is a site which displays Google Adsense ads to earn money. The problem is that the majority of Adsense sites are trash – just content scraped off other sites that has been thrown together into a mish-mash that the webmaster calls a website.

If you want to be highly successful in the Adsense site industry, you're going to have to do something drastically different. Following are several tips you can use to distinguish yourself from the crowd.

1 – Use a professional design
Many adsense sites use a very basic, cheap looking template that they paste their content into. If you use a professional website design, people are more likely to place value and trust in your site.

2 – Use unique content
Don't use recycled content. Take the time or money required to get your own unique articles and content written for your site. This will allow you to offer your readers content that they cannot get anywhere else, as well as give you better rankings in the search engines.

3 – Create a valuable resource
The purpose of an Adsense site should not be just to get a visitor to come and click on the ads. It should be to get a visitor to come, and because the like you site so much, keep coming back again and again. That is how you can have a highly successful site – returning visitors.

4 – Use other monetization methods
Adsense should not be your only source of income from a site. Sell a product, promote affiliate programs, sell banner ads, or sell text link ads on your site. This serves to diversify your income, as well as gives other content for your visitors to look at or click on.

Learn how Niche Content Packages can help you get unique content for your website.

Affiliate Internet Marketing Tip Number One What Top Affiliates Spend Most Of Their Time Doing

Writen by Christopher Kyalo

The most valuable affiliate Internet marketing tip has to be finding out exactly what the top six-figure-monthly check guys spend most of their time doing. It is really very simple. If you were to learn what they spend most of their time doing and were to start doing it right from day one, then this has to be the fastest way for any new affiliate to reach that six-figure monthly check status.

Let us first narrow down this mystery to one area to make it easier to solve. Top Internet affiliates spend virtually all their time at their affiliate blog or the affiliate site that they use to generate traffic to then direct to their affiliate sites and that is so obvious that it does not qualify to be called a marketing tip.

But now that we have that information we need to know exactly what it is that they spend most of their time doing. Do they spend it churning out content for instance? Not really. As important as content is and the truth is that they do allocate a little time to it, they do not spend most of their time on it. Further evidence can be found in the fact that most top affiliates usually hire writers to write their content. But even before they assign the writing of their content, there is something else they do first. Something else that consumes so much of their time, especially in the early days of an affiliate blog as they seek to build enough traffic.

Actually there are two very important, specific tasks that top high flying, high earning affiliates spend virtually all their time doing.

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Webmaster Affiliate Programs How To Separate The Good From The Bad

Writen by Michael Turner

More and more people are turning to the Internet and specifically, affiliate programs, to make money online. However, it is not as easy as you might think to determine the good affiliate programs from the bad, especially if you do not know much about affiliate programs to begin with. If you are interested in making money with affiliate marketing on the Internet, then help yourself and get educated before signing up for any affiliate program. The more you know means the better choices you will be able to make. Also, consider the following suggestions as well when researching affiliate programs.

-Established

A well established affiliate program shows you several things. One, it is successful enough that it has been able to stay around for years, and two, affiliates are happy enough with the commissions to keep selling. By finding an established affiliate program, you know that it is successful. However, it can be rewarding to be one of the first people in a new affiliate program, you'll simply need to do a lot of research before you go this route.

-Credible

You want to make sure the affiliate program has credibility. Talk to other affiliates, find out as much information as you can, and make the affiliate program convince you that it is worthwhile to join. If it really is it should not be too hard to convince you.

-Good Commissions

Do not get involved with an affiliate program that does not pay you good commissions. You are working hard to sell the products and should be rewarded for doing so. There are plenty of affiliate programs out there that are really good and want to keep their super affiliates happy and therefore pay high commissions. There are also bad affiliate programs that do not pay good commissions at all. Stay away from these because all that will happen is you will become overworked and seriously underpaid.

-Good Products and Services

When it comes to choosing between a good or bad affiliate program, you will have an immediate hint by the products that are being sold. For example, if the affiliate program is selling good, quality products that a large percentage of the population needs, wants, and would buy, then this is a hint that the affiliate program might be a good one to get involved with. Just keep in mind that the program must meet the other important criterion as well.

Now that you know some of the things you should look for when researching affiliate programs, you are better prepared to make some sound decisions about your future working with affiliate programs. Always ask questions, demand answers, and if something does not seem right, then it probably isn't. You will save yourself a lot of time, money, and headaches by recognizing it early on.

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How To Set Up An Affiliate Business

Writen by Ruth Marquis

Thinking about starting your affiliate business? There are three phases that you go through.

1. Pick an affiliate.

You must find out which specific audience you'd like to target. Most people go with whatever program with the first one they check out. They never consider if their target market will purchase this product. As long as people will pay for it and you can give them a quality product, you will be able to make a lot of money.

Choosing the right affiliate program to start with is very important. Brand yourself as resourceful by having quality products that have lots of value. You need to know what commission rate they plan on paying you and the program's refund policy. You need to know when you get paid. Most take 30 to 45 days to mail you a check based on your previous month. Many affiliate programs cost nothing to join. However, some do require a start-up fee. It should be a discount for you to buy your own products. You must purchase whatever you plan to sell. If you don't, why do you expect anyone else to?

2. Setup your mini-site.

Now, this is where most affiliates drop the ball. Affiliates promote their affiliate website but not there own. It takes seven visits for a prospective customer to turn into a paying customer. So what happens when they don't buy from you the first time? How will you follow-up? They'll visit someone else who probably will follow-up and get their business. You should be promoting your own email list. Highlight the benefits to your visitors of joining, then, set up a series of pitches, articles, etc. with your auto responder. The best formula to use is to promote for at least two whole weeks every other day before you introduce another product. Now all you need to do is set your website up. Find a domain name and register it. Then, find a quality web hosting service that server has no down time because it's bad for business. Now, design your site with two pages. One has a strong headline, bulleted benefits and a place to sign up. The other is a Thank You page, where you can confirm their order.

3. Build Your List.

The best way to get customers to visit you is through advertising. Free advertising includes adding your site to your signature when you send out emails. (Never spam.) Swapping links, starting an ezine, and submitting articles are also free and time-consuming. Paid advertising includes ezine ads. Solo ads work better than classified ads.

Finally, develop a marketing plan. Treat it like a business and not a hobby. And for others, treat it like a job.

Ruth Marquis is an experienced marketer in various industries including affiliate, network, and small business marketing. To find out more information like this, visit rumarketing.com.

Content Really Is King

Writen by Chris Sanderson

It is every affiliate's wish to have unique site content absent of any re-write or editing restrictions, effectively content with an "open license." Many sources do exist for content that can't be changed, but there are very few sources which allow an affiliate to manipulate the article and make it unique and specific to their site(s). However, this trend could be changing in the near future.

There is a war between content sites and sites which purely provide product lists. Google, for the moment, has clearly indicated that sites providing unique content will prove victorious in the battle. This means affiliates who want to compete on Google need to have unique content for their sites or risk vanishing into that ever increasing special black hole Google seems to reserve for affiliates.

So where does an affiliate get unique content from? Some affiliates can write their own, but it's generally a minority that has the time or desire to do so. A few pay for content to be produced by freelance writers on networks such as Elance (www.elance.com) or by professional copy writing services such as InfoSearch Media (www.infosearchmedia.com).

Others are lucky enough to get content from their merchants. That is until the merchants realize that distributing their own content is only a short term gain for long term oblivion. The content's value is diluted and degraded due to being repeated and copied to a point where the merchant loses control of it. Affiliates absent of the gratuitous merchant turn to sites such as Ezine Articles (www.ezinearticles.com) and ARA Content (www.aracontent.com) where the content is free, but can't be edited or changed. In most cases, content provided from these sources must also retain links and/or credits to the author as well as the source site.

The obvious solution is to have merchants develop content specific to their affiliates, no credits required, no back links requested (well other than affiliate tracked and tagged ones that is), the right to edit, cut, slice, dice and the expressed permission to generally edit the content to make it unique.

The niche of "open license" content has but a few players in the arena. For example, Wikiepedia (www.wikipedia.org) while not a merchant, does allow articles to be re-written; however, this permission does come with a few strings attached as they apply a fair number of requirements in order to use the content. Various Affiliate Management firms now provide in "open license" house content development for their affiliates. These services should place them as leading contenders in the affiliate content arena. At the end of the day though, each individual affiliate still needs to sit down and work out how to make the content unique to them if they want to win their battle with Google.

Article can be used with permission of Chris Sanderson as long as the signature and in place links are left unchanged. Chris Sanderson is an Affiliate Marketing Manager based in Bangkok Thailand with AMWSO.com and the owner of Xaap.com.

Affiliate Networking

Writen by Karen Kari

Any business of your own can, at times, be a lonely place. You don't always have perspective, never mind all the answers. Just as offline business owners do, affiliates need to have sounding boards for ideas, problems, questions and just plain encouragement.

Who can you go to, besides to your friends, spouse, or colleagues from a prior business who alternate between being jealous of your freedom and incredulous at the risks they think you are taking? Venture out and spend some time with people who can broaden your perspective: Go to affiliate conferences where you can make contacts who understand your business model, but don't compete in your space. Attend local and regional business meetings in your area of technical specialty, in the subject of your niche site, or in a totally unrelated industry to see how they approach things.

Strike up a business friendship with merchants with whom you do business. Affiliate network contacts are great sources of information, but they're very busy so don't expect to chat—ask specific questions, or better yet, offer information that's constructive.

See what's new at conferences of businesses in your industry. Don't be shy about striking up conversations with speakers and other attendees. Read offline ecommerce magazines to keep up with the news and identify people you'd like to partner with in the future.

Participate in online communities with information, communication and collaboration by fellow affiliate marketers. A few sites of this type are: affiliateforum.com , affiliatecommunity.com , abestweb.com and associateprograms.com

Karen Kari's articles and more information on the affiliate business can be found at:

http://www.affiliatebandit.com
http://www.advertisingcellar.com
http://www.billionfreeads.com

Pros And Cons Of Third Party Online Affiliate Networks

Writen by Veronica Dubak

Online affiliate marketing has taken the internet by storm and has proven to be a highly effective way of maximizing website revenue. Why limit yourself to selling your own products when you can profit by selling somebody else's too?

There are thousands of individual affiliate programs offered on the internet, many being through third party affiliate program networks such as OffersQuest, Commission Junction and Linkshare. These companies connect a large number of advertisers and publishers together via their own network. Advertisers sign up through their network to have publishers promote their products and publishers sign up to access a large network of advertisers all at one location. In the process, the affiliate network makes a profit via advertiser set-up fees, monthly account maintenance fees, commissions, etc.

The question is, as a publisher, is it worth using these large affiliate networks or is it better to form direct partnerships with advertisers?

The Good
The primary selling point of third party affiliate networks is convenience. As a publisher, one registration gives you access to tens, even hundreds of advertisers simultaneously. Tracking partner performance is easy, there is only one technical support contact, things are easier and simpler to manage, and best yet, payment is received as one convenient monthly lump sum.

The Bad
Because as a publisher you're utilizing a service, advertisers who also offer a direct affiliate partnership will typically offer a lower commission for publishers who choose to partner with them through a third party network. This is because it costs advertisers money to use the services of a third party. Also, without naming names, some affiliate networks have been known for not tracking sales and leads properly as honestly as they could be (which means money from your pocket). Payment thresholds can often be fairly high - a $50 US minimum is common for international publishers. Finally, a payment delay of two months or more from the date of a sale/lead generation can occur, as the third-party affiliate network waits until the advertiser pays them, before they pay you (the publisher).

Conclusion
In many (if not most cases), having both options of partnering directly with an advertiser or through an affiliate network is not a choice - it's usually one or the other. If an advertiser you like only offers their affiliate program through a third party, you're limited to the advertiser network they've partnered with, or not partnering at all. Affiliate networks are not bad programs to use, just keep in mind the issues outlined above, and you'll be making money in no time!

Veronica Dubak is the owner of the successful SurveyBounty.com, http://www.surveybounty.com free online paid surveys directory. With a comprehensive listing of market research companies classified by region, and background information on the online survey industry, SurveyBounty.com is the legitimate source for online survey information.

So Many Affiliate Programs Which One Do I Choose

Writen by Gerardas Norkus

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on.

Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.

What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

How are referrals from an affiliate's site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links.

Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.

Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? 5% - 20% is the commission paid by most programs. .01% - .05% is the amount paid for each hit. If you find a program that also pays for impressions, the amount paid is not much at all. As you can see from the figures, you will now understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important.

These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website. Try to ask your affiliate program choices these questions. These can help you select the right program for you site from among the many available.

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Casino Affiliate Programs Getting Started

Writen by Blake Stevenson

If you have ever considered a foray into the world of advertising but have never found a medium to express yourself, maybe you should consider trying out affiliate marketing online. The affiliate programs are available to anyone who has online capabilities and either has or is considering investing in a website or at least some webspace. It is an easy and hassle free to the world of advertising offering all the rewards of offline advertising but without any of the risk or necessary qualifications. Possibly the best thing about being an affiliate is the ability to earn and learn at the same time, experimenting in marketing techniques and exploring the numerous promotional avenues available to online businesses.

If interested in affiliate marketing you should first consider which industry you would like to work with. Choosing the right industry is key, you should base your decision on the size and potential popularity of any particular business. One of the largest in terms of current members, profit turnover and expansion capabilities is that of online gaming, or more particularly casinos. Most online casinos offer an affiliate system with free advertising and marketing tools. They supply the tools and the affiliate supplies the customers, with both profiting from the equation. As an affiliate to a casino you will be entitled to a percentage of the overall money made by a player that has joined via your link. So it will be in your best interest to attract as many people as possible in order to maximise your own earnings. In turn your efforts will not only reward you as a casino affiliate partner but also of course the casino because they will be taking in a new client and profiting from all that is associated with them.

So having found your affiliate partner and received all of the marketing tools for their site, you may then choose to go about promoting your own site. Because in the affiliate market you must first be able to attract sufficient visitors to your own site before you can ever hope to earn from creating customers. The more people funnelling through your site the higher the likelihood that one will decide to heed your advice and click on through to one of the gambling sites. If you advertise your site as a forum for online casinos then you can immediately expect to encourage the right sort of clientele. If it is a site that is about your personal life or something wholly irrelevant then the likelihood of your website attracting the right people is significantly decreased. Getting your site noticed is one of the hardest things to do, it is a problem that faces every website owner. There are a number of ways to get yourself increased visibility including SEO vocabulary on the site, advertising through one of the major search engines or becoming active on various blogs and online forums using your URL as a signature. All of these options take either time or money, something that must be invested if you are to become a successful affiliate from scratch.

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Selecting Affiliate Systems That Work

Writen by Eric White

There are thousands upon thousands of different affiliate programs available to you across the world wide web, so getting started with an affiliate program can sometimes seem a bit daunting. However, when you know what you're looking for, you'll feel much more prepared to tackle this first major step.

Though many affiliate sites will give you the impression that all that is required to enjoy affiliate program success is plugging a link or a banner onto your website, and the money will begin rolling in on its own, this is not always the case. Usually, this is only the case if your website already experiences massive amounts of daily visitors.

For that reason, you'll want to make certain to hook up with affiliate program that offers products, services, and bargains that hold real attraction to the type of website visitor you will be experiencing.

Once you have that set, it's up to you to get the word out, and draw as many people to your site as possible, using a number of different marketing techniques. Variety is the key, both with the products you'll offer, and the advertising you'll perform.

Furthermore, once your audience has reached your site, you need to encourage them to click through your affiliate links. Remember, your visitors need a very good reason to click on a link or banner on your site. Otherwise, they won't use it.

How do you do this? Use a wide variety of the different banners and links offered to you from the affiliate program so that you have the highest chance of attracting people's attention – no matter what draws them. Moreover, if you use simple straightforward links and banners you will experience much more success than highly colorful and picture-filled banners.

Remember, a 2% is considered doing pretty well, so you will need to do everything you can to get at least 2 out of every 100 of your visitors to use your links.

There simply isn't any easier way to earn money online – that is, as long as you know what you're doing. By using the techniques you learn through How to Become a Master Affiliate, you'll be left with only one question: how do you want to spend all that extra money? A new car? Paying off your mortgage? A dream vacation? The options are limited only by your own imagination!

Remember, the sooner you begin, the sooner you'll achieve your dreams; they're only one click away.

Eric White
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Best Free Affiliate Program What You Must Know

Writen by Christopher Kyalo

In your search for the best free affiliate program, there are a number of significant factors that you have to be very much aware of.

For example what will be the best free affiliate program for you will not necessarily be the best program for me. People's circumstances are different. And so are levels of traffic, quality of content and numerous other small details that matter like crazy and will impact directly on the performance of a particular affiliate program that one chooses to join.

Thus the only way of finding your best free affiliate program is by trying out a number of possible programs and then based on the results, you can make a final decision as to which particular program is best suited to your purposes.

The huge advantage that affiliates tend to have when it comes to testing is the fact that most affiliate programs will tend to have detailed statistics on the traffic received and leads that have been converted into sales. This makes extensive testing fairly easy and straightforward. It is therefore easy to test dozens of programs that you have already short-listed so as to come up with your final best free affiliate program.

Finding your best free affiliate program is important and will impact directly on your affiliate earnings.

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22 Questions To Ask Before You Use Any Shopping Cart System

Writen by Tom Antion

Many seasoned professional speakers agree that you can make more money selling your knowledge in the form of products than you can speaking.

You can use traditional methods to sell products such as direct mail, catalogs and advertising. However, if you have a great online presence, the entire world is your marketplace at a fraction of the cost of most traditional methods. To easily sell to this worldwide marketplace, you need a great shopping cart system.

Choosing a shopping cart system is perhaps the most important single decision you'll make in your online marketing career.

This is because:

You're stuck with the decision for a long time.

If you buy into a system that isn't adequate, it can cost you money--big money- because it won't maximize the amount of money spent by each visitor.

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of off-the-shelf, free and alternative products out there vying for your money, time or both. And most of them are junk.

Don't suffer like I did I learned the hard way. When I started on the Internet I couldn't find a decent shopping cart program, so I took one that was highly recommended by my ISP (I now know the only reason they suggested it was because it made them the most money. They didn't care if it was the best one for me or not). What a headache! The system wouldn't do anything but take the order, but you had to have a PhD in computer science to work on it.

Here are 21 questions you absolutely, unfailingly must ask anyone trying to sell you a shopping cart. If you don't hear positive answers to the majority of these questions, put your wallet back into your pocket and evaluate the next option. Don't get stuck with a crappy shopping cart, even if they give it to you free.

If you have a poor shopping cart, get rid of it. I know that hurts, because you may have spent lots of time and money getting it going, but a bad one will cost you many thousands of dollars by waiting to replace it later rather than sooner.

Oh, and one more thing: if you hear the shopping cart programmer answer one of the questions below by saying, "Well, we could make it do that," run away even faster, because you're going to get stuck with a big custom programming bill with no guarantees that the cart is going to work the way you expected.

Every question below is very important when it comes to having a quality shopping cart system that gets more money out of the same number of visitors.

1. Will it calculate shipping and tax?

2. Does it handle specialized shipping like FedEx and UPS?

3. Will it automatically deliver hard goods and soft goods (e- books and other digital products) in the same transaction?

4. Does it offer customizable "Return to Shopping" pages without needing custom programming? This is important so you can send your customers to the most likely product they will buy next. Standard carts just send customers back to the main catalog, which forces them to search for related products. This is both irritating and time-consuming. Any delays in finding what they want could mean a lost sale, when they finally throw their hands up in disgust and move on to your competitor's site.

5. Does it offer customizable "Thank You" pages based on what the customer just bought? These are pages where savvy marketers put affiliate links and other offers specifically related to the customer's interests. When a customer clicks on one of these links and buys something from someone else, you get a commission.

6. Does it deliver receipt and confirmation e-mails automatically? The customer wants to know immediately that the order went through. If he or she is unsure, you are going to have to field many wasted e-mails and phone calls letting the customer know everything is OK.

7. Does it allow multiple order and dropship e-mails? In many cases, several different people in your organization and/or outside your organization need notice of an order. Again, you don't want to have to do this manually.

8. Does it have a Web-based administration page so you can work on your cart from any computer that has Internet access?

9. Does it include encryption technology and a secure server? Many companies make a fortune by sucking you in with a cheap or free cart and then make money on selling you an overpriced secure server.

10. Does it deliver easy output to your accounting software? You want to be able to import and export data easily between the cart and whatever programs you have that need to share the customer and sales information.

11. Does it have its own associate/affiliate program or is it easily compatible with other major brands of associate software? An affiliate program lets other people promote and sell your products on their Web sites. You don't pay them unless they sell something. When I tried to get an associate/affiliate program to work with my old cart, it cost me six months of down time and untold amounts of money lost because it wouldn't work. The associate program people blamed the shopping cart people and vice versa. But ultimately I was left holding the bag.

12. Does it have integrated up-sell modules? The ability to offer more related products to customers making a purchase makes me a small fortune each month. We call it, "Do you want fries with that?" If you don't have this ability, you are leaving many thousands of dollars on the table from people who would have spent more if your cart just gave them the chance.

13. Does it have an integrated sales and prospect database? In the old days I would have to print out orders and then retype them into ACT or some other database program. A good shopping cart system eliminates all this hassle and potential for error and gives you instant access to your sales reports and clients.

14. Does it have broadcast e-mail capability? Good shopping cart systems are able to manipulate your customer database instantly and send e-mails to any segment or sub-segment of your clients and handle unlimited e-mail magazines. Again, in the old days I would have to be genius enough to pick out segments of the database, export them to a file, import them into a mail program and then an hour later send the darn e-mail. Now this is all done in a few seconds.

15. Does it have mail merge capability? The e-mails sent are personalized to the recipients in any number of ways. Their names can be popped in to the subject line and in various portions of the body of the e-mail. You can merge "what they bought," "when they bought," "where they live" or just about anything that will make them feel the e-mail was just for them. Virtually all studies show that mail merge gets a much higher response than plain broadcast e-mail.

16. Can it handle coupons and other discounts? You can make a deal with Joe Blow that everyone coming from his Web site gets an automatic discount -- either a percentage or dollar amount. This makes Joe look great to his visitors and makes more sales for you. Here's a secret: Joe is your affiliate and makes money on the sale too, so he's got a great incentive to keep your discounts and coupons in front of his visitors. Good shopping cart systems can automate all of this and also handle any quantity discounts you offer.

17. Can it work for multiple Web sites with no extra fees? When I first started I had to get a separate (and expensive) license for each site and a separate merchant account too. Not only was this a great deal of expense, the hassle with installation every time you wanted a new site to go up was enormous. Modern carts can sell bras on one site and bibles on another, and no one knows the difference. The carts run on their own servers so there is no expensive installation and set-up is immediate.

18. Does it have unlimited and fully integrated "sequential" autoresponders? This is one of the most powerful features when it comes to Internet marketing. This feature follows up automatically over and over again to your clients and prospects to provide them customer care and to sell them more products and services. You can even provide free or paid e-mail courses, and each part of the course is delivered automatically.

19. Does it have ad tracking tied into actual sales? Simple ad tracking can be had all over the 'Net, but it is pretty much worthless unless it is tied to actual sales. This is called the "conversion ratio." Your cart system should be able to tell you how many people clicked on a particular promotion and how many people bought. This is the only way you can determine if an ad paid off. Good carts will also automatically split test one of your sales pages against another and tell you which page sells more. You keep the page that sells more and get rid of the page that sells less.

20. Does it have a pop-up box builder? Even though many people hate popup boxes, they work. I use them judiciously to make all kinds of offers, and I have the sales figures to prove they get more money out of the same number of people. If you know how to use them properly, no one gets upset.

21. Does it have a printable off-line order form? Believe it or not, many people are still afraid to put their credit card numbers into a Web site. I still get lots of fax orders and phone orders. If you want to maximize your sales, your cart must take these kinds of orders easily.

22. Does it provide free training? You'll need training in both the basic set up of using your shopping cart and determining your online sales strategy, so that you maximize the amount of money spent by each customer.

You may not understand what all the above questions mean right now, but I can assure you they are important in putting more money into your bank account. If you want to know even more about this subject, you can download a free e-book, How to Pick a Shopping Cart System That Makes You Money at www.public- speaking.org/ebook.htm.

What shopping cart system do I use? I have my own private label called www.KickStartCart.com.

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Dos And Donts For Affiliates Part 3

Writen by Larry Potter

Now that we've covered the "dos," here come the "don'ts." Although these questionable tactics have worked well in the past, the search engines absolutely hate them. If they catch you using any of these tricks, they may go so far as to drop you from their listings like a hot potato!

1. Beware irrelevant links!

Yes, it's a good idea to get a lot of different links pointing to your site, but the search engines only like RELEVANT links. If they find sites that have nothing in common with the content on your site linked to your web site, they'll lower your relevancy rating.

2. Beware irrelevant keywords!

Search engines hate finding irrelevant keywords on your site -- especially in your meta tags. If they catch you using keywords that have nothing to do with the actual content of your site, they'll penalize you for it.

3. Don't "keyword stuff" your meta tags!

In the past, people used to repeat their keywords in their meta tags over and over again. This used to get them a high ranking with the search engines -- but not any more! Search engines are on to this trick and will punish you for it by dropping your ranking.

4. Don't create "link farms"!

"Link farms" are the evil cousins of the "information pages" we discussed above.

In the past, some spammers used to build multiple "doorway" sites that existed only to multiply the number of links pointing to their sites. Unlike content-rich information pages,these doorway pages would usually only include a string of keyword terms that would earn them a high ranking with the search engines. The search engines have caught on to this tactic, however, and will drop you from their listings if they find you using it.

5. Avoid "free for all" link pages!

Don't bother placing links to your site on pages where everyone and their dog is invited to put up a link. Such sites have extremely low relevancy ratings and will cost you points with the search engines.

Essential tools and resources to optimize your site and stay n top of the search engine game There are a lot of great tools out there that can help you optimize your web site while ensuring that you stay on the good side of all the search engines. Here are a few of our favorites.

Tools:

Wordtracker: This great online tool helps you select specific keyword phrases that will direct more traffic to your site. Free and paid versions are available.

SitePromoter: This useful software program helps you create individualized submissions to the different search engines.

Optilink: A lot of search engine optimization experts swear by this software. It's a "link reputation analyzer" that helps you determine a site's reputation and why the search engines like it or dislike it. It certainly comes in handy when you're checking out the competition or looking for reputable sites to link to yours!

WebPosition Gold: This is a great piece of search engine placement software that generates Web pages designed to rank high on the major search engines. It also analyzes your existing Web pages, providing suggestions for improvement, and tracks your ranking on different search engines.

Resources:

Search Engine News: Planet Ocean's online resource, "The Unfair Advantage Book on Winning the Search Engine Wars" is updated monthly and provides excellent optimization tips and information on the Search Engine industry.

Search Engine Watch: This free site is another rich source of tips and information on the Search Engine industry. Paid memberships are available for more advanced content.

Search Engine Guide: This free site contains a lot of useful information about the smaller search engines on the Web, and who you should submit your site to in order to get a better ranking with the bigger search engines.

Final thoughts

Recent research by search engine optimization experts suggests that there is a surprising lack of overlap between the results produced by the major search engines. All too often, sites that are ranked high on Google get a much poorer listing with Yahoo! and vice versa.

This could mean that webmasters are focusing their optimization efforts solely on one search engine while neglecting to improve their ranking with the other. They might be using optimization tactics that work for Google on Yahoo!, without being aware that Yahoo! uses different criteria to index a site.

Either way, sites that aren't optimized for both Google and Yahoo! are missing out on a lot of potential visitors.

And don't forget, MSN will soon be throwing its hat into the ring and switching from Yahoo! to its own search engine technology. When that happens, you should be sure to submit your site to MSN as well.

No one really knows what the future holds for the search engine industry, but one thing's for sure: Businesses that don't stay on top of the changes are going to find themselves slipping behind. Don't let that happen to your business!

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