Secret Success of Affiliate Marketing by GHANASHYAM GUPTA

The Internet has fast become an efficient and trusted way for companies to market and sell their product. One of the reasons for this has been the rise of "Affiliate Marketing" - which is when a website directs traffic to itself through adverts on other (usually related) websites. Affiliated marketing either pays the affiliate through a pay-per-click program (the affiliate receives money every time an advertisement is clicked) or a pay-per-sale program (the affiliate receives commission every time a posted advertisement or sales page on their site generates an actual sale or subscription.) Generally, the pay-per-sale program (also called cost-per-sale, or CPS) is the tried and true form of affiliate marketing used. Affiliate marketing began just a few years after the world wide web was launched, originally popularized by well known companies such as CDNOW and Amazon.com. Google's Adsense is also a very well known type of affiliate marketing, but is not considered true affiliate marketing as the advertisements usually center around the theme of the website they are displayed on (known more as contextual advertising). Google does not directly sell the specific product. It sells the advertising and takes a percentage just as you do. Affiliate marketing is highly cost-effective - it costs both the advertiser and the affiliate nothing, while having the potential of bringing in a very large form of income for both parties. While pay per click (or cost-per-click) advertising can present a risk to the advertiser, because a click does not necessarily guarantee a sale, the cost-per-sale (CPS) system has very little or no risk at all for both parties because an actual product sale takes place before commission is paid. This makes the CPS model of affiliate marketing highly desirable for both, the seller and the affiliate marketer. Though affiliate marketing is a relatively new way to earn money on the internet, the concept of revenue sharing has been around for quite a while, long before the internet. Thanks to the World Wide Web explosion which has turned the globe in to a "right next door" sort of communication venue, affiliate marketing has taken it to new level, reaching farther and wider than traditional sales and business commerce. It has become a staple form of advertising, bringing in business for all types of electronic commerce, inexpensively yet at a very high profit. Online merchants find affiliate marketing very appealing due to the fact that it presents little to no risk both for the merchant or the affiliate. The affiliate earns a commission or fixed amount based on the number of sales brought to the merchant. These sale occur through sales pages and links on the affiliate' website or through email, blogs, banner ads, video or audio ads, syndicated feeds or articles. Some merchants (only about 1% of affiliate marketing) use a cost-per-click remuneration system,. This gives the affiliate an earning per click every time an internet searcher clicks on an advertisement on their site or email. However, dishonesty has taken advantage of this method in the form of false clicks which unfairly cost the advertiser money that does not lead to sales so CPC is regarded by many to be too risky. Google Adsense and other major CPC advertising services have managed to implement safeguards to detect such false click activity. But for many smaller sales businesses and individuals this is not the case. Both pay per click and pay per sale affiliate marketing bear no cost to the merchant in the original set-up. In other words, it costs nothing to place advertising banners on an affiliate site. The cost only occurs if there is a click or a sale. Merchants also get to set the parameters, and decide on the incentive schemes. This makes affiliate marketing a very inexpensive but highly efficient way to grow a business. Now you know the secret. Tap into it to create a passive stream of revenue that can add to your business or perhaps be the start of a whole new internet business empire for you!
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Systematic Approach to Market Research - First Step to Internet Marketing Success by Vincent Png

Most new internet marketers ignore a systematic three-step approach to market research when they embark on an online business. They either have no clue as to where to start or end up creating a product with little or no demand.

It is essential to follow through this three-step approach, namely niche market identification, opportunity identification and lastly production creation. You will save much effort and disappointment by not jumping the gun on the sequence.

Market research is about niche identification. Big brand names create demand. As small business owner, we do not exert the same market influence. Instead our focus should be finding a specific market with specific need and creating a solution to target this niche market. Use free tools that provide these research functions

http://www.FreeWordTrackerTool.com
http://www.FreeAdwordsTool.com
http://www.FreeKeywordDiscoveryTool.com

Start with a single keyword e.g. Guitar. Say, you have an interest in blues guitar. The natural instinct will be to research keywords - blues guitar. By doing that though, you have precluded yourself from other potential market opportunities associated with guitar e.g. second-hand guitars, guitar chords, guitar lessons online.

Look for less competitive keywords that appear in the search results. They represent potential niche markets that may yet to be fully exploited. Do a Google search to verify your suspicions using this method - type allintitle: keyword. This will return websites with your targeted keywords. This gives you a feel of your competition especially if you are planning to use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to promote your product.

Extend your research by exploring micro-niche markets with common root words e.g. Blues guitar + learn/teach/online class. Some useful root words to help identify niche markets are: fix, help, learn, buy, solution, solve, successful, prevent, problem, get rid of, do it yourself, recipe, unrevealed etc.

Take advantage of other valuable tools you can use to uncover niche markets:

http://www.google.com/press/zzeitgeist.html
http://buzz.yahoo.com
http://www.blogpulse.com
http://www.eBay.com<;br. http://www.amazon.com

Now that you have identified your niche, the second step is to identify the problems faced by people in that niche market. You can research through search engines, forums, blogs and even offline resources e.g. Papers, advertisements, magazines and TV. When you have identified a problem, you have identified an opportunity!

The final step is to find/create a product to satisfy your niche market. There are several approaches to accomplish this.

- Create content websites (Content Publishing)
- Promote other people's products (Affiliate Marketing)
- Selling other people's product through resale license ( Resale Rights Marketing)
- Sell your own products/ services (Product Creation)

It is important to get the first step right as it gives you confidence and a clear goal to work with. Once you have defined your niche market and target audience, creating the perfect solution that will bring you money and credibility would be much easier.

About the Author

Vincent Png (www.easywiasuccess.com) Successful Online Business is only sustainable using a systematic approach. If you would like to learn more in detail on how to apply the system, visit www.easywiasuccess.com or drop a mail to Vince

The Revolution Of Earning Money Online by Mikael

This is the fastest way to earn money over internet,you will get your own finished website for free and also 75$ dollar to start whith.You are getting paid 2$ per lead,so if you get 100 people to your site and they sign up for free,you will get 200$,so go here to get your own free website package: http://www.earnmoney4allfree.com

About the Author

Affiliate Marketing is the only way to earn a substantial income online, working from the comfort of your own home. Affiliate Marketing allows you to earn high income by online.

The Hands Down Fastes Way to Make Money Online by Dane Clark

Are you a complete beginner? Do you want to start making some serious money online? Are you ready for me to unveil the secret to serious online money? The name of the game is affiliate marketing and basically affiliate marketing is a simple marketing technique used by so many companies that you can’t count them without taking off your sox and shoes. The companies allow others to promote their products and in return they pay out affiliate commissions that sometimes can be as high as 75%. Affiliate marketing is win win for everyone, the companies increase their sales and the affiliates make money from their websites and affiliate links.

I am sure you are now asking the big question, how is affiliate marketing actually done? There are several ways affiliate marketers can be paid and at times this depends on the actual product. The most common way is to pay a commission based on the sales that an affiliate marketer generates as I explained above. For example, if people click through from your site to the product site and then buy the product you will get a percentage of the sale. This is really what traditional affiliate marketing is all about. However, with the constant evolution of the Internet, new methods of paying affiliates have become possible.

You can be paid for providing leads. This means that each person who fills out a form for more information on a product (a good example is insurance or credit card applications) the company acknowledges that you provided this lead and you are then paid. Or you may also be paid by the click. Getting paid by the click, means that certain ad networks will pay you for posting an ad on your site and when someone clicks on the ad you will get paid. I actually recommend sticking with the more traditional affiliate model because the sale of a product will always pay out more than a single click.

Hands down affiliate marketing is the best business online. No matter if you are a beginner or have had a site for 10 years you need to implement it into your marketing strategy because it will generate many sales. Do remember that you want to find the best products before you find the best commission because your customers want good products not terrible ones that can ruin your credibility. To receive a free step by step video series on affiliate marketing and how to build your own business visit my site at http://www.onlinemoneystarter.com

About the Author

Dane Clark is a dedicated internet marketer that is devoted to helping others succeed online. Through teaching and coaching he helps others build their own online business and achieve their financial goals. To learn more about building your own online business or jumpstarting your existing one download his free video series to begin dominating your niche at http://www.onlinemoneystarter.com

Internet Marketing Profitable system by Anung Kusuma

As internet marketer we must working with system, why because you don't want your life just to working right. Ok what the system ?

1. Find your target market
2. Build your landing page
3. Generating Quick Traffic to your landing page.
4. Promote your affiliate or business.

That's all what you must to do and this system going into effect all affiliate marketing programs

Maybe you will say, but it's so long to get money from online business. Ok that you need is realize that you being build business that will give you automatic income even you while sleep so my advice you must follow the process.

If you could passing that process you will have internet marketing business empire that will give thousand dollars everyday with completely automatic.

Enjoy your journey into your success.

About the Author

Anung Kusuma is Affiliate marketer strategy from indonesia, he also give many tips about affiliate marketing. If you interested to knowing further just visit him here : http://www.akademibisnis.com for indonesian language http://www.affiliatesstrategy.com for english.

20 Ways To Increase Your Traffic And Sales by Thomas James

Quickly receive quality traffic and increase your sales by following these easy follow tips:

1. People love to get free stuff. A free eBook is perfect. They will visit your web site to get the free valuable information.

2. Give away the full version of your eBook in exchange for testimonials. You can use these customer statements to improve your ads' effectiveness.

3. When you write and give away a free eBook you will become known as an expert. This will gain people's trust and they will buy your main product or service quicker.

4. Publish your web site in eBook format. Put the eBook on a disk or CD-ROM then include it with your direct mail packages. This can increase the number of people that buy your product or service.

5. Offer your eBook as a free bonus for buying one of your main products or services. People will buy the product or service more often when you offer a free bonus.

6. Allow people to download your eBook for free, if they give the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested in your eBook. This will quickly build your e-mail list.

7. Create a directory of web sites in eBook form. List peoples web sites in the directory that will agree to advertise the eBook on their web site or e-zine. This will give them an incentive to give away or advertise your eBook.

8. Allow other people to give away your free eBook. This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the eBook. You could also include a mini catalog of all your product or services that you offer in the eBook.

9. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give you their contact information before they can download your eBook. This is a very effective way to conduct market research.

10. Make money selling advertising space in your eBook. You could charge for full page color ads, classified ads or banners ads. You could also trade advertising space in your eBook for other forms of advertising.

11. Give away the eBook as a gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business. Place an ad in the eBook for a new back end product you're offering.

12. Get free advertising by submitting your eBook to freebie and freeware/shareware web sites. This will increase the number of people that will download your eBook and see your ad.

13. Make money by selling the reprint rights to those that would like to sell the eBook. You could also make even more money by selling the master rights. This would allow other people to sell the reprint rights.

14. Hold a contest on your web site so people can win your eBook. You'll get free advertising by submitting your contest ad to free contest or sweepstakes directories.

15. You will gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your eBook. Word of mouth advertising can be very effective.

16. Make money cross promoting your eBook with other people's products or services. This technique will double your marketing effort without spending more time and money on your part.

17. Increase your e-zine subscribers by giving away your eBook to people that subscribe to your e-zine. This will give people an incentive to subscribe. Allow your e-zine subscribers to also give it away to multiply your subscribers.

18. Give away the eBook to people that join your affiliate program. This will increase the number of people that sign-up. You could also create an eBook for them to use that will help them promote your product or service.

19. Give away the eBook in exchange for people leaving their contact information. This will help you follow-up with the prospects who buy your main product or service.

20. Offer a free eBook that contains a couple of sample chapters. If they like it, give them the option of ordering the full version. It would work just like a software demo or shareware.

To learn what you're doing wrong, you should want to get some personal help or ask for additional advice. Creating successful web pages, lead pages and squeeze pages the right way can do alot for your existing business, doing them wrong can cost you alot of time and money. Additional help can be as easy as visiting http://selfequity.com and requesting assistance.

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Thomas James
Internet Marketing Consultant
Online Business Research

Self Equity Solutions
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Is Making Money Online Easy? by CW Teo

Who says making money online is as easy as ABC? There is certainly no proven way to get rich quick, but your business opportunities on the internet is virtually limitless! The internet offers everyone a chance to do just whatever you wish, regardless whether you are doing it as an individual or you are looking to expand your existing business.

To begin, taking your business to the internet offers you some spectacular enhancements. It is an alternative to your customers and they will surely appreciate. From your web site, your customers can do many of the same things they would do in person with you. Besides, the use of email provides a cheaper and faster means of communication between you and your customers.

What kind of businesses exists on the internet? There are plentiful. Large or small, these businesses can take the form of retail, wholesale, auction, clearing houses, affiliate marketers, specialized marketers, banks and other service firms, publishers, weblogs (blogs), and innumerable other forms. It is all up to your imagination.

Any individual can benefit from internet marketing. The wide range of opportunities to market your skills, include that of an independent programmer, web designer, writer, and many other disciplines. An alternative path is to either market your own products, or to market products with resale rights. Besides, you can also market your own books, also known as e-books on the internet. You can practically market anything because where there is a market; there is an opportunity to make money.

Your chances for making money online depend on many factors. But the most critical factor is you. You need to know what you want to do (your objective), how you want to do it (your implementation plan) and the hurdles that you need to overcome. You need the drive, perseverance and determination to achieve success on the internet.

About the Author

CW Teo is an expert in personal development. He created the SecretXfactor Series: InternetSuccessPrimer to help you turbo charge your internet business success. Click: http://www.internetsuccessprimer.com/ to download.

Are you making money online - 700,000 are! by omadsense.com

Are you making money online - 700,000 are!

People who make money online are said to be a great plus to the republican party Presidential Election in 2008.
According to them, the Republican Party will benefit from a cohort of new supporters to augment the GOP's traditional support from the Christian right and pro-business interests. Why, because more and more people are creating wealth online by starting their online business and other sources of income like eBay and affiliate programs.

Could Karl Rove be right about tech?
"There are two or three societal trends that are driving us in an increasingly deep center-right posture," Rove told the magazine. "One of them is the power of the computer chip. Do you know how many people's principal source of income is eBay? Seven hundred thousand." Rove's point being that the proliferation of technology puts increasing numbers of people in charge of how they make a living.

It's amazing. People still frown on the idea that they can profit and even make a recurring income thru a legitimate online business. With all the options and opportunities available to them online - the income potential have never been so real. I know that with the many scams that run rampant on the net. But with everything in life - there are risk one most take.

According to the report 700,000 thousand people make a living because of eBay [ online business ] and the facts would probably prove than more than a million people can and do make a decent living on the net. If your interested in just checking into it, check out these : online Opportunities

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Work at Home through Affiliate Marketing by Lee Masterson

Welcome to the wonderful world of self-employment. What could be better than sitting at your computer in your bathrobe, quietly sipping coffee, while you listen to Playhouse Disney on the television as your toddler watches, serenely snacking on his breakfast? Nothing is better. The toddler didn't go to daycare today, or any other day, save for one: the traumatic first day. Doing what millions of working parents do, I placed my child in a nice daycare, full of toys and kids his age, believing I was doing the right thing. Eight hours later, I took home my tear- stained, snot-encrusted, stuttering child, and calmed him down for about three hours. That was his first day and last. We rearranged schedules, became two single parents living in the same house, and the kids were happy. The fairy tale doesn't end there with 'happily everafter.' Money was still too tight and the kids rarely saw their parents together. Overtime brought in more money, but with less freedom. So I began scanning the magazines at the bookstore for money-making ideas. You know the ones - glossy, colorful, get rich quick bibles, every last one. They share something with the Bible actually; you can buy a copy of any of them 5 years later, and it's still all the same stuff! Then I just lucked into something on the computer. I found an article written by a stay-at-home Mom, who was in business for herself. She started an on-line computer business based on a practice called affiliate marketing. She said that she was making over $11,000.00 every month!! Of course I didn't believe a word of that, but I ordered her e-book anyway. After reading that book and putting her ideas and suggestions into practice, I experienced a life-changing dilemma: I was making more money on-line than I was at my 'real' job. This went on for a while, before I thought to myself: this is silly - by going to 'work' everyday, I am actually losing money. Strange, but true - I could make more money at home plinking away on the computer. So I decided to become unemployed - Happily Unemployed.

So what exactly is this affiliate marketing idea that the stay-at-home Mom sold me on? You, the computer whiz, reading this article, simply do what you are doing now: sit at the computer. You do not directly sell anything - you promote it. I know how that sounds - how can you make money from that? But by different means, whether you start your own website ( a LOT easier than you think!) or use a blog page like MySpace (EVEN easier), you simply recommend information products, like e-books, to prospective buyers. When the buyer buys, you make money. The money comes to you in the form of commissions. If you, for example, promote and sell a $25 e-book, you will make a commission anywhere from 50% to 75% of the sales price. You may make $12.50 or as much as $18.75, and you NEVER handled anything!! You did not have to buy and stock a thousand copies of these books, you did not have to pack, stamp, or mail anything, you did not have to collect sales taxes, you NEVER had to leave your chair!! That, in essence, is affiliate marketing. It is truly a beautiful thing.

So what now? This is the part where, you know, you take your destiny into your own hands. It is not overnight riches - it does take some patience and learning, and more patience, but you WILL learn how to do it. Don't think that you are on your own - even though you are in business for yourself, because with affiliate marketing, everyone makes money together. Their success is your success. If you want to be happily unemployed yourself - this is it!

The resources on the internet are endless. You will find information on every aspect of your work at home business - for FREE ! The need for a job, or jobs, will eventually go away - you will be truly Happily Unemployed.

If you want to learn more, simply visit us at - you guessed it - HappilyUnemployed.com

About the Author

Lee Masterson is writing this article in his pajamas! That's how he does most of his work now that he is happily unemployed. Learn how to join him - it's easy - visit us at HappilyUnemployed.com

Affiliate Marketing Corporation Frees Company For Service by Margriet Boogaard

Generally, a company signed with an affiliate marketing corporation will supply a variety of link styles, including text links, graphics links and even search box links. Affiliates can choose from them. These links rest on the corporation's website. They are gleaned by the affiliate for the best fit for their sites. The corporation will then track the activity for the link including the number of impressions, the number of clicks as well as the amount of purchases and commissions due the affiliate site.

Affiliate marketing corporations however often receive a cut of the sale in addition to the affiliates. They do not work for free. While this adds to the cost of making a sale, the companies realize that without the additional exposure the sales probably would not happen. The companies get the additional benefit of customer information for potential future sales.

By bringing affiliate marketers together with companies offering commissions for sales several companies in the internet market place are capturing a piece of the affiliate pie. Their role is to manage the affiliate programs for the companies while ensuring the sites offering referral links are paid commissions in a timely manner.

A few companies manage their own affiliate-marketing program, while the use of affiliate marketing corporations is growing with the trend becoming more popular, freeing company resources to concentrate on customer service. It also allows the companies to use the information from referred visitors for lead generation.

The landing page for most companies contains requirements to register to use the site. Information is, at minimum, requested as opposed to mandated, enabling companies to gather visitor information. For companies offering items or services, which are not considered renewable, this works well. For example, those seeking mortgage information or for remortgaging their homes will generally be shopping only once or twice in their lifetime. Shoppers for music, food items and other disposable items on the other hand will be shopping for them frequently.

By using affiliate marketing, these companies have thousands of other websites sending visitors their way instead of relying on expensive advertising and marketing. They are possibly limiting their exposure to potential customers specifically searching for that type of information. It can tap into additional markets where they may have been missing the boat.

Affiliate marketing corporations can also help review websites applying to be affiliates, while reducing the possibility of a website offering services that is not in the company's best interests from displaying their ads. A website that sells religious materials for instance may not want to be affiliated with websites for gambling or adult oriented materials. This of course goes both ways. A church may not want to place ads for gambling on their site.

About the Author

Margriet Boogaard is owner of At Home Making Online Income and she is dedicated to help people start their own Internet Home Business. She provides articles, ideas and opportunities that can help people. To learn more on this topic Margriet recommends you to visit: http://www.AtHomeMakingOnlineIncome.com