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Starting Out

When starting out in the wonderful world of Internet Marketing, it can take you many months before you see even a shred of income. It took me five months of working long hours every single day, before I saw my first cheque arrive. Believe me, even though I had invested hundreds of hours, placing Tweets on Twitter, Networking on Facebook, writing articles and shooting videos, getting my first check from Clickbank for $285.86, was a fantastic feeling.

It was a huge stepping stone for me – to finally get PAID..

Perseverance WILL pay off, provided all your efforts are being geared to actually making MONEY…
Now, let’s be honest – as much as we all like making FRIENDS on Facebook, Twitter (whatever), joining forums, online SHINDIGS & Membership sites..

Internet Marketing is not a CHARITABLE institution.

The bottom line is…we do this for the MONEY..
Yes, maybe we also do it for

1) Getting future JV Partners
2) Gaining prospects
3) The Crack ? LOL

At the end of the day, we do it for the MONEY!! – The Cash, The Wedge, The Mazooma, The Dough!

There, NOW I’ve finally said it, I can now come out from behind the SOFA, without FEAR of getting a SLAP.. for my INSOLENCE..

“It’s TRUE.. SELLING is often overlooked.. especially among new people to Internet Marketing.

At the end of the day, regardless of how much FREE content we give away to attract people to our “LIST”, we eventually have to SELL something to them, because no sales = No Business.

Giving stuff away to attract “Buyers” definitely works, but people do not just join your list or view you Blog, and then automatically go and BUY from you. You can go on sending people FREE content until the end of time, but unless you ASK them to buy stuff from you, your Internet Marketing career will turn into an Internet Marketing SOCIAL CLUB… and your hopes & dreams will just – DIVEBOMB..

Monetise You

So how do we MONETISE ourselves in our early marketing careers? OK, so we can create web pages, squeeze pages and give FREE gifts away to encourage people to opt in to our lists… We can learn all the tricks to drive traffic to our Special Offers…BUT..

We still need products to SELL…

Now, unless you have a range of KILLER products already written and waiting to be unleashed on the WORLD, we will probably sell affiliate products for now. I personally would sell affiliate products as well as my own products even in the early stages. Obviously for the commission but also for thelearning process of how the whole affiliate platform works.

As I have mentioned in previous articles, this is a good way to get started in the whole selling process, as selling other people’s products cuts out the hassles of creating the sales page, the product, the merchant & delivery process.

The downside is of course, the vendor gets to keep the customer’s name & email address, to use in further mailings – however provided that the vendor has an affiliate program in place that tracks your affiliate ID for the life of the customer, you will still benefit from any future sales made by that customer, even in a year or so from now.

The affiliates hoplink, or tracking ID is recorded by cookies, being placed on that person’s computer to track your ID. You SELL the product, Kerchinng – you get paid. Simple as that.

I sell affiliate products from my Blog, my fan pages on Facebook – Twitter, Articles, Videos and of course to my list.
Let’s take a look at each step

1) Your Blog. Write a short post or tip related to the affiliate product and drop your link into the post as “more information”

2) Tweet your message including your affiliate link on Twitter, although don’t just Tweet affiliate links, Tweet useful content as well or you will soon see people unfollowing you.

3) Write an article, drop in a related affiliate link below the fold (lower half) of the article & submit to Ezine Articles or the many other Article submission sites. Note – Ezine Articles will not accept affiliate links, but you can circumvent this by buying a $10 domain name and forwarding it to your affiliate link. This WILL work. I do it all the time.

4) Shoot a video on a particular subject, then add your clickable affiliate link under the video. Make sure the two things are related. Don’t shoot a video on Article marketing if your affiliate link goes to a weight loss product.

5) Facebook. Don’t spam people. Deliver some good content throughout the day of use to people, then every so often, drop a subtle affiliate link in at the end of your post.

6) If you have a list, mail them every 2/3 days with some useful content and drop your link in at the bottom of the email.

Recommended Affiliate Program

Now. What affiliate programs would I personally recommend?

My FIRST choice would have to be products from Jason Fladlien

Here’s why..  Jason Fladlien has a trusted name, he has many great products that near enough ALL over deliver & make perfect sense.

I flagged Jason Fladlien up amongst my 6 most trusted online marketers a while back and  I then decided to sell his products. I like his products and I like his affilaite progaram. WHY?

Because his affiliate program has lifetime tracking of cookies, which means if you recommend someone to him and they don’t buy for a year, when they do – you wil lstill get your 50% comission on the product. He has many webinars whereby he gets a lot of attendees, on Tuesday, he did a webinar and got 3000 people on it. He clearly has a big following and his products are in demand. If one of your customers goes ot any of his webinarsand purchases a product from it – you get paid.

ALSO, another thing I like about his Affiliate program is the 10% 2 tier system. This means that, if one of your enquirers or buyers decides to become an affiliate too, you will get paid 10% of any sales, he or she makes forever.

So, you see – that is why I have opted ot sell his products. They sell well plus you get paid monthly by paypal. If you are a good affiliate and you earn over $500 a week, he pays you WEEKLY.. Now Jaso Fladlien does have hundreds of affilaites and many of these earn a lot of money.

But, it’s like anything – you have to WORK at it… Sure, give pleny of GOOD quality content away, but SELL good products. And if they are not your own, sell products from REPUTABLE people…

You can make money form the above system just by promoting Jason Fladlien’s affiliate program and recruiting affiliates.. This way you are an Affiliate broker and you receive 10% of everything they do… not bad eh?

I hope you have enjoyed today’s money maing tip, please do leave a comment here. Thanks

Keith