Building Your List
NO Product – NO Website ? – Make Money with AFFILIATE Marketing
Aug 11th
Affiliate Marketing is a way of selling an Arsenal of products you never have to own – with little or no cost.
How do we enter this potentially lucrative market… and what exactly is it?
Affiliate marketing is a way of selling products we don’t actually own on a commission basis, so when a sale has been registered from our “affiliate link” to us, we receive the appropriate commission.
Mainly, it is digital products that are sold this way, i.e eBooks & online memberships, however it is possible to also sell physical products this way but this is known as dropshipping, whereby the product maker or wholesaler ships the physical products out to your customer.
For the purposes of this Affiliate marketing article, we are referring to Digital products.
First you will need to register with an Affiliate product platform such as Clickbank
As you register you will be asked to choose a “nickname”, this is very important as this is how Clickbank will recognise that is is you who made the sale, therefore make your “nickname” an appropriate one – if you are going to be selling money making products, don’t make your “nickname” Sheilas Shoes (lol)- if you see what I mean
This nickname is embedded in your referral link, otherwise known as a hoplink, I will explain more about this in a moment.
Clickbank is where product vendors list their products in the “Marketplace” – this allows affiliates to choose appropriate products to sell and to create their own personal links (called hoplinks) to the vendors websites, so when a customer who was referred through your link, clicks to buy the product, you will receive the appropriate commission in your clickbank account.
Clickbank will pay you by cheque when your commission balance has reached at least $100.
Before you qualify to receive commission checks from Clickbank, you would have needed to have made sales from at least five different customers with 5 different credit cards. This is to try to stop affiliates circumventings the sytem by buying products after registering as an affiliate for the very same product, in effect to get the product cheaper for themselves.
Once you have found a product, check out the vendor’s website – this is very important as you will be sending YOUR customers there.
Does the vendors website contain a video explaination of the product ? – is the site well designed and easy to navigate? is it inviting and easy to understand?, and last but most importantly, does the site make it EASY for the person to BUY?… if YOU would buy from this vendor, then your customer that you are referring probably would too.
If any or most of the above points are missing, it may be best to move on to another product and another vendor whose website DOES have most of the above points.
Their are thousands of products on Clickbank to choose from, in many different catagories
How about price ? – as a new affiliate, I wouldn’t start with a high priced product – make it easier for yourself and go for a product preferably priced under $50 to start with – it should also have at LEAST a 50% commission payment, preferably 60%+ if you can get it.
It’s better to sell products with lower prices to begin with and generate more sales, than to have larger priced products, with less sales…
As you grow your affiliate business, you can add higher priced products to your product list later.
Once we have our Clickbank account open, and we have chosen an appropriate product, we now need to market our clickbank product.
The hoplink you create when you have chosen a product to promote can be a long and uninspiring URL (web address link), so I would suggest that you to go to one of the many free URL shorteners, online and get your affiliate link shortened for free. This makes it much easier to fit into a classified ad or a TWEET on TWITTER as it is much shorter. It also looks better as it is less cumbersome.
Also by changing the appearance of the link, unscrupilous people cannot change the link id from yours, to their own affiliate id – and receive the credit for the sale themselves.
The ultimate way to do this is to BUY a domain name similar to the Product title and point it to your affiliate link – this has a more professional look and if done properly, can be “cloaked” so no one would know that the website wasn’t yours.
Here is an affiliate link of mine for a product called Tweetadder – here is my domain, http://www.mytweetadder.com, when you click on it, although it is pointing to my affiliate link, you never actually see my clumsy link, it directs you to the Tweetadder site without you really, ever guessing that i’m an affiliate – this is very easy to do,
Check with your domain registration company, there should be a facility to “point” it to whatever web address you choose. Just point it to your affiliate link. you should also have a facility to “cloak” the link – this will disguise the link so the customer only ever sees your nice URL.
So where can you sell affiliate products ?
1) Make a free 30 second video at Animoto put your cloaked affiliate link in the video itself and in the accompanying description, use the http: format so that it will appear as a clickable link under the video when you upload it to You Tube
2) Make a FAN page on Facebook – include your affiliate link in your personal profile and also on your Fan Page wall amongst useful content.
3) Add your affiliate links with the product description on your Blog or Website
4) Include an affiliate link in your email & forum signatures
5) Tweet your product’ benefit & URL to your many Twitter followers
6) Include your affiliate links in your profile on all the other social networking sites, too numerous to mention here
7) Write related articles and include your affiliate link in the bottom half of the article (below the fold) and also in your “bio”
8) Use FREE classified ad sites such as “Craiglist” to promote your affiliate products
9) Create a free eBook giving great content, with your affiliate links discreetly placed within.
10) Mail out to your email list (if you have one).
I hope you have enjoyed today’s money making tip – If you would like to share them on your Blog or Website, all I ask is that you link it back to us here at http://www.keithsmoneymakingtips.com
I will be back tomorrow with another tip for you
Have a good day
Keith
How to Make Money with your own Membership Sites
Aug 7th
How would you like a constant stream of Paypal or Credit card payments CRASHING into your bank account each and every day ?
Enter – “The Membership Site”
What is a membership site ? quite simply, it’s a site whereby you have MEMBERS (obvious) who enjoy your daily, weekly, monthly information or trainings so much that they are prepared to KEEP paying you for the PRIVILAGE of continuing to do so.
We see them everywhere, membership sites for Horse Racing tips , Gardening tips, Learning To Cook – Internet Marketing Training the possibilities are endless.
I have a horse racing tips membership site, this has been running since November 2007. All you really need to do is to offer great value, and research your subject thoroughly, to be an “expert” in your field.
You can start by offering “FREE” tips to build your mailing list, once people get to trust your advice and know that you do indeed, know what you are talking about – you can then offer a “premium” service whereby for a monthly fee, they can get bigger & better, more exclusive content. This is the start of your membership site.
You can create a happy band of loyal followers who will go on to pay you monthly, for as long as you provide interesting and useful content.
Once you have found a subject to specialise in, check out other successful membership sites in that Niche to see how they are doing it, and without directly copying what they do, use some of their ideas to build your own membership site.
When I first started, I had a very cheap and cheerful (free) website, and I used a free email account (yahoo) to email the information each day, so to start with I had very little expense. It takes time to build up a loyal following but people are prepared to pay each and every month for good information.
Once you see some income coming in from this, invest some of it back into creating a good looking site that members can log into each day to get their information.
Everyone knows a little, or a lot about something. If what you know is something people will be willing to pay for, then why not use your knowledge to get loyal subscribers to your membership site. If you don’t know enough about any subject, you can always learn it off of the experts – then turn it into hard cash by passing on the quality information you have learned – in your own words.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s tip – if you have one of your own which we could use please let me know. I can link your “Tip” back to your Website, Blog, Video or offer.
See you tomorrow
Keith
“TOP SECRET” – How To WHIP Up a FRENZIED TRAFFIC STORM! – “Piggy Backing” HIGH TRAFFIC Videos.
Aug 6th
This is a HIGHLY EFFECTIVE but little known method, which will show you how to GRAB a TON of traffic to your video, FOREVER.. completely FREE of charge and WITHOUT the need to email or contact in any way, the Owners of the HIGH Traffic videos we are about to PIGGY BACK..
First, you go to You Tube, and if you haven’t already done so, you will need to open an account.
This method involves Piggy Backing Videos that are already on the You tube system.
What we are looking for here are Videos with very high traffic views – in your particular NICHE.
Some videos on You Tube, have views ranging from thousands to virtually MILLIONS. of views.. How would you like to tap in to some of that traffic?..
Well, now you can.
Below most videos, (high traffic or otherwise), are related videos, called – VIDEO RESPONSES, these are positioned under most videos, however, sometimes they are way down below the written comments.
Here you can see many videos of a related subject vying for position below.
Now the aim of this tip is to show you how to be ahead of the crowd and to get to a No1 position or at the very least, in one of the top 4 positions below a High Traffic video.
Choose videos that either have no responses yet or only have one or 2 Video responses, this way our video will get a good position, perhaps the no 1 position underneath
Position 1, this could get you as much as 30% to 50% of the traffic skimming off the HIGH VOLUME Traffic video we are now going to be PIGGY BACKING, and even position 4, underneath this video could get us at least 10% to 20% or more.
Now, if the video we are PIGGY BACKING has say 200,000 views – this could get us between 20,000 & 60,000 views to our video, all for FREE.. – what about if the video we are responding to got 500,000 or even a 1,000,000 views eventually, this would mean our video could potentially get 50,000 to 330,000 views!
Think of what this could mean to our potential SALES! with hits like this?
Now, the idea here is to find potential HIGH TRAFFIC videos, so we can Piggy Back them and grab some of their traffic, we want to catch them before they are famous. and end up getting high volume traffic – So how can we do we do this ?
First, go to You Tube, make sure you are logged in – now go to the search bar at the top of the page and type in your NICHE search terms, let’s say Money Making”, now once the search is complete, you will notice a new option appears, right under the You Tube logo, top left – called “search options” – Click on this.
You are looking for the column. 2nd from the left, you will see a heading “Sort By” – in this column you will see “View Count”, click on this.
The column next to this is a column called “upload Date” – click on “This month” – this will display, all the videos in this particular niche that have been uploaded in the last month and all of the views each video has had.
Choose a video to respond to: – Pick a video that has good traffic going to it all ready, remember this video has only been uploaded in the last month, so if it has 2, 3 or 4000+ views already, chances are it may be a winner.
So, how do we respond to this video and upload a video response ?
Underneath each video is a response box, in the response box in very faint grey text, it says, respond to video. Put your cursor into this box. but don’t actually type anything, next to this box, a link will appear that says “Attach a video”
click on that – next a screen will, appear giving you 3 choices, 1) Record A video, 2) Choose A Video and 3) Upload A Video.
Pick, choice number 2) Choose A Video, it will highlight the videos you have on your computer, just highlight the one you want to respond with and click – “”Use the selected video, under the box…
And that, is all there is to it..
You are now enjoying FREE traffic forever…
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How to make a TON of Money from writing a KILLER Blog!
Aug 1st
Do you remember when a blog was just a WEBLOG?… when it was a daily account of the life & times of, eh – YOU?
Ah,then good old Web 2.0 came along (new & advanced Internet technologies, being distributed by new & interactive ways – i.e through social networks & other content shareable methods).
NOW – all of a sudden BLOGGING just got SEXY!
People love to blog, and blogging can equal = BIG BUCKS.
Some marketers are making huge amounts of money from BLOGS…
Now we have the era of the new SUPER BLOG… a typical super blog will be, UPDATED daily with interesting & useful content ,carry interesting videos either with you in it to personalise your blog more, or just video that enhances the quality of content on your site, you can also add your FACEBOOK feeds (i.e feeds from your wall showing either your Facebook posts (or your friends posts).
You can now add plugins which will enable even your TWITTER posts to be shown, just about anything and everything can now be placed on your blog to make it an interesting & enjoyable experience for your readers.
Make your blog WORTH coming back to each day….
OK, I promised you a TON of money from your blog, so here, in short is a formula for blogging SUCCESS….
Step 1
- Make your content so IRRESISTABLE that people will be BEGGING you for MORE!
- Give people something NEW – each and every day
- Write about subjects that people actually WANT to read about
- Encourage interactivity (is that a real word ? ) i.e encourage people to RESPOND and/or SHARE your content
Step 2
- GRAB your blog visitor’s, name & email address via your opt in form – this way you can continue to build a relationship with them, and offer them your products
- Use Google Adsense ads to your blog and be paid for your visitors clicks on those ads
- Use Clickbank affiliate product ads and receive 50% commission or more on products purchased through those links
- Place links from your blog to your OWN Websites & increase traffic to them
- Create a seperate page on your blog for your BEST offer or product
- Create links within your posts directing the reader back to YOUR website.
- Organise competitions in return for your reader’s email address – offer them your very best product as a prize…
Their are hundreds of ways of making money from blogs… too many to list them all here but you get the general idea…
So what are you waiting for… I recommend you choose a blog from WordPress, with WordPress you can add plugins (functionality) and WordPress have thousands of different themes you can add, to make your blog look very professional.
Also, more importantly – if you make your blog through WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com, you can host the blog with your own hosting company and use your own domain, instead of a domain name that you will never own, with the WordPress name in it.
This is so important if you are serious about blogging..
If your blog is successful and you are able to drive to drive thousands of hungry visitors daily – you may eventually want to SELL your blog..
Check out Flippa and see the sort of money, websites and blogs can be sold for…
Most of all, Blogging is FUN… you can have great times keeping readers entertained and making money along the way
Have a good day
I will be back with another money making tip tomorrow
Keith
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How to get Opt – In Subscribers to PAY YOU to Opt – In
Jul 31st
Good Morning
It’s Saturday and I have a HOT TIP from the Treasure Chest of HOT TIPS, hidden under my bed.
The expert opinions of building any successful online business are to grow your Opt – In list to accommodate as many thousands of hungry subscribers you can get.
Any online business NOT doing this is surely treading a tightrope to DISASTER… The money is in the list – No List, NO BUSINESS.
Here is a great way to grow your list, and at the same time to get people to PAY YOU…
Everyone by now has heard of eBay – now whether you love it or loathe it, it carries a huge amount of ready TRAFFIC!…
What we are going to be doing here is offering a simple cheap as chips report for £0.99p (or $0.99) - It can be about anything, but it must obviously be in the same NICHE, you are in.
You write a SIMPLE report, for instance ” 10 HOT TRAFFIC TIPS – TO GET THOUSANDS OF SUBSCRBERS TO YOU OPT IN LIST” and you sell this for $0.99, now eBay requires you to also have the product available in a “Physical” form, not just “Digital” so you must be prepared for people who are going to want a HARD copy.
you simply ADD the appropriate postage to the product page to cover your costs.
A lot of people want it “NOW”, so you just email the report to them, the best way to prepare the report is to make a PDF file, this requires an Adobe Reader, available FREE - post a link to the free Adobe reader in the eBay ad.
If you have never prepared a report in PDF format before, their are instructions with many of the free PDF maker software tools out there.
Now, you might say “Well is all this worth it ?” – the answer is a resounding YES….
Think about it for a moment, lets say you are in the “Money Making” niche - Millions of people want to know how to make money, if your “OFFER” is a tasty one and it’s only $ 0.99, people will come in DROVES to investigate…
Now, here is where it gets INTERESTING…. personally, I don’t care if people buy my report or not – some will and this will recover my advertising costs.
The real trick here is to get people to go to your “ABOUT ME” page, because lurking on this page is your “OPT – IN OFFER!.
Your “About Me” page will have a nice description and picture of you, followed by a description of your offer and a nice FREE Gift, with your OPT - IN form and details.
Now, the URL to your “About Me” page is posted into your eBay advert for the $0.99 report, as eBay will allow a “More Information” link to an internal web page, i.e your “About Me” page…. now if you are wondering why, i’m not recommending posting a link to an external web page, i.e YOUR Website… is it because, it is more likely to get taken down by eBay, as they do not like links that take people AWAY from eBAY.
Continuous abuse of the eBay rules can lead you to getting SUSPENDED, so it is best to work within the framework of the eBay rules…
Over time, your cheap report will generate plenty of Opt – Ins to your list, plus a few cash sales of your report.
Don’t forget to include the links to your personal Website opt-in details within the report as well, as not all “Buyers” will opt in to your “About Me” page.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s tip – feel free to comment with your Website link or send me your money making tips & ideas. I can link back to your Website, video or blog – email me here!
See you tomorrow
Keith
