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Showing posts with label Affiliate Marketing. Show all posts

THE 7 GREAT LIES OF NETWORK MARKETING

On this post you’ll be exposed to some profound and highly-controversial truths and of course, untruths. You’ll discover some incredible principles that will save you an enormous amount of time, money and headaches in your business. Not only that, it also contains some of the most valuable marketing principles that you will ever learn.
 
Learning and applying these faithfully to all your endeavors is guaranteed to bring you phenomenal results.
 
The below are the 7 great lies of Network Marketing
Lie No. 1 – Everyone is your prospect.
Lie No. 2 – This really isn’t sales. We just share products with people.
Lie No. 3 – Anyone can do this.
Lie No. 4 – We’ll build your business for you.
Lie No. 5 – We have the best product ever.
Lie No. 6 – You just don’t have enough belief.
Lie No. 7 – The proven system.
 
If you feel like you’re struggling way too hard to make it in network marketing and nothing is happening, I publish this post specifically for you. Have you ever thought to yourself: There are going to be a better way to do this? Something’s missing - it can’t be this hard?
 
After years of religiously going to meetings, setting up appointments and showing the plan, I came to a point in my business where I hit a massive brick wall. For all my hard work, I had nothing to show for it but debt, an abundance of products and a dwindling list of friends who actually still talked with me. Maybe you can relate.
 
The worst part about it was, I could not – for the life of me – figure out why this wasn’t working! I was doing everything I had been told to do. In fact, I did way more than that. I was the kind of distributor you’d kill for. But I wasn’t any closer to the dream of financial freedom than I was when I started. So I began looking for real answers to why I was spinning my wheels. To make a long story short and get right to the point, I finally did figure out what was wrong. And when I did, my entire view of this business changed forever.
 
I’d like to share with you what I discovered:
Almost Everything You’ve Ever Been Taught About Building A Network Marketing Business Is Pure BS!
 
And here’s why: In this industry we have a genuine case of the blind leading the blind. Network marketing is very unique in that it’s the only business opportunity that’s ever been marketed to the general public on such a massive scale. Your average, every-day American is told that they can jump right into this, with no prior experience what-so-ever and make a killing within 6 months!
For example, on the website of one well known nutritional company, would-be distributors are told that “You don’t have to be a pro to succeed!” Unbelievable.
 
This self-destructive message is broadcasted to thousands of people over and over again as they join this industry. As a result, 95% of people who get involved in network marketing have absolutely no foundation in effective sales techniques or good business practices. This has severe side effects.
There’s a horrible mess of hype, hot air, misconceptions, falsehoods, delusions, distortions, myths and downright lies that get passed along from one sponsor to the next. This is what happens when you take a bunch of people who don’t have a clue about sales and marketing and have them tell a bunch of other people who don’t have a clue about sales or marketing, to go make a bunch of money doing it. The few techniques that actually do have some grounding in basic sales philosophy are all outdated and completely ineffective. They might work okay for you – if the year was 1984 – but in today’s modern society, these kinds of Neanderthal tactics will get you slaughtered.
 
You see, not only do the common methods taught in mlm not work, they’re extremely destructive as well. That’s why it’s so common to feel like you’re working yourself into the ground and not getting anything out of it. Well, I had put up with this for far too long. I started doing the opposite of what my upline had taught me to do and guess what? I didn’t just start to experience success – I was flooded with it. I went from desperately coercing one person every 5 months into my business…to having more eager prospects than I could handle.
 
By ignoring conventional mlm “wisdom,” I learned how to have prospects line up to join my company and sponsoring 10 people a month didn’t just become normal – it became routine. And if you’re willing to be open-minded and set aside any predisposed beliefs you currently have…for just a moment…you’ll discover how you can easily do this too. Network marketing doesn’t have to be so hard. Using the wrong techniques – like trying to force a square peg into a round hole – makes it hard.
 
So my purpose in publishing this post is to help you “deprogram” some of the nonsense and misconceptions that pollute internet marketing.
 
This is the crucial first step towards becoming a highly-effective, well-paid, professional network marketer. Then, once you have a clean slate to start with, you can begin learning how to really make this business work.
 
Enjoy your reading from our next post of the Number One Lie of the 7 Great Lie Of Network Marketing.


USING CAMTASIA TO INCREASE YOUR AFFILIATE CHECKS

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.
 
There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved.
What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then.
 
This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly.
 
You do not need to have trainings and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step.
 
For those who do not know it yet, how does Camtasia works?
1. It can record your desktop activity in a single click. No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then.
 
2. Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do.
 
3. Upload your pages. Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts. You may want your Camtasis videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future. There is nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself and get your message through.
 
There are other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia. You can…
Create stunning multimedia presentations that are proven to increase sales because all the senses are engaged. This also has the tendency to reduce skepticism among hard-to-please customers.
 
Reduce refunds and other customer issues by demonstrating visually how to use your product and how to do it properly. Complaints will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to just see and hear about.
 
Promote affiliate products and services using visual presentations. This is an effective way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video. Make the most of the presentation by putting your site location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information.
 
Multiply your online auction bids exponentially when you give your readers a feel of what you have to offer. Based from reports, auctions that includes pictures increases bidding percentage by 400%. Imagine how much higher it will be if it were videos.
 
Publish valuable infoproducts that you can sell for a much higher price. It will be all worth the price because of the full colored graphics menu and templates that you will be using.
 
Minimize miscommunication with your customers. Instantly showing them what you want they wanted in the first place is making them understand clearly the essence of your affiliate program. The good thing about multimedia is, nothing much can go wrong. It is there already.
 
These are just some of the things you can do with Camtasia that can be very helpful in your chosen affiliate program.
 
Note that the main purpose of using Camtasia is to boost the income that is generated from your affiliate program. Although it can be used for entertainment and enjoyment purposes, which is not really a valid reason why you choose to get all through that trouble.
 
Try to focus on the goal that you have set upon yourself to and achieve that with the use of the things that may be quite a lot of help in increasing your earnings.

HOW TO USE PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCREASE YOUR BOTTOM LINE / AFFILIATE COMMISSION

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings and maintain the account that you have worked so hard for already. Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
 
One of the more important ways of increasing affiliate marketing bottom line and sale is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective ways in promoting a certain product.
 
If the customers or visitors trust you enough, then they will definitely trust your recommendations. Be very careful in using this approach, though. If you start promoting everything by recommendation, your credibility will actually wear thin. This is seen especially when recommendations are seemingly exaggerated and without much merit.
 
Do not be afraid to mention things that you do not like about a given product or service. Rather than lose any points for you, this will make your recommendation more realistic and will tend to increase your credibility.
 
Furthermore, if your visitors are really interested in what you are offering, they will be more than delighted to learn what is good about the product, what is not so good, and how the product will benefit them.
 
When you are recommending a certain product, there are some things to remember on how to make it work effectively and for your advantage. Sound like the true and leading expert in your field.
 
Remember this simple equation: Price resistance diminishes in direct proportion to trust. If your visitors feel and believe that you are an expert in your niche, they are more inclined to making that purchase. On the other hand, if you are not exuding any confidence and self-assurance in endorsing your products, they will probably feel that same way and will go in search of another product or service which is more believable.
 
How do you establish this aura of expertise? By offering unique and new solutions they would not get anywhere else. Show proof that what you are promoting works as promised. Display prominent testimonials and endorsements from respected and known personalities, in related fields of course.
 
Avoid hype at all costs. It is better to sound low key and confident, than to scream and seek attention.
 
Besides, you would not want to sound unprofessional and have that thinking stick to your potential customers and clients, now would you? It is best to appear cool and self-assured at the same time.
 
And remember; prospects are not stupid. They are actually turning to experts and may already know the things that you know. If you back up your claims with hard facts and data, they would gladly put down hundreds, or even thousands worth of money to your promotions. But if you don’t, they are smart enough to try and look at your competitors and what they are offering.
 
While recommending a product, it is also important that you give out promotional freebies. People are already familiar with the concept of offering freebies to promoting your own products. But very few people do this to promote affiliate products. Try to offer freebies that can promote or even have some information about your products or services.
 
Before you add recommendations to you product, it is given that you should try and test the product and support. Do not run the risk of promoting junk products and services. Just think how long it took you to build credibility and trust among your visitors. All that will take to destroy it is one big mistake on your part.
 
If possible, have recommendations of products that you have 100% confidence in. Test the product support before you begin to ensure that the people you are referring it to would not be left high and dry when a problem suddenly arouse.
 
Have a look at your affiliate market and look at the strategies you are using. You may not be focusing on the recommendations that your products need to have. Your plan of action is sometimes not the only thing that is making your program works.
 
Try product recommendation and be among those few who have proven its worth.

EASY PROFITS USING PPC IN YOUR AFFILIATE MARKETING BUSINESS

PPC or Pay-Per-Click in full is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted Internet advertising. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click, accounts to 2 billion dollars a year and is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars.
 
Let us take a quick look at how PPC Search Engines work.
These engines create listings and rate them based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers bid against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or phrase.
 
The highest bidder for a certain keyword or phrase will then have the site ranked as number 1 in the PPC Search Engines followed by the second and third highest bidder, up to the last number that have placed a bid on the same keyword or phrase. Your ads then will appear prominently on the results pages based on the dollar amount bid you will agree to pay per click.
 
How do you make money by using PPC into your affiliate marketing business?
Most affiliate programs only pay when a sale is made or a lead delivered after a visitor has clickthrough your site. Your earnings will not always be the same as they will be dependent on the web site content and the traffic market.
 
The reason why you should incorporate PPC into your affiliate marketing program is that earnings are easier to make than in any other kind of affiliate program not using PPC. This way, you will be making profit based from the clickthroughs your visitor will make on the advertiser’s site. Unlike some programs, you are not paid per sale or action.
 
PPC can be very resourceful of your website. With PPC Search Engines incorporated into your affiliate program, you will be able to profit from the visitor’s who are not interested in your products or services. The same ones who leave your site and never comes back.
 
You will not only get commissions not only from those who are just searching the web and finding the products and services that they wanted but you will be able to build your site’s recognition as a valuable resource. The visitors who have found what they needed from you site are likely to come back and review what you are offering more closely. Then they will eventually come back to search the web for other products.
 
This kind of affiliate program is also an easy way for you to generate some more additional revenues. For example, when a visitor on your site does a search in the PPC Search Engine and clicks on the advertiser bided listings, the advertisers’ account will then be deducted because of that click. With this, you will be compensated 30% to 80% of the advertisers’ bid amount.
 
PPC is not only a source of generating easy profits; it can also help you promote your own site. Most of the programs allow the commissions received to be spent for advertising with them instantly and with no minimum earning requirement. This is one of the more effective ways to exchange your raw visitors for targeted surfers who has more tendencies to purchase your products and services.
 
What will happen if you when you integrate PPC into your affiliate program?
PPC usually have ready-to-use affiliate tools that can be easily integrated into your website. The most common tools are search boxes, banners, text links and some 404-error pages. Most search engines utilize custom solutions and can provide you with a white-label affiliate program. This enables you, using only a few lines of code, to integrate remotely-hosted co-branded search engine into your website.
 
The key benefits? Not only more money generated but also some extra money on the side. Plus a lifetime commissions once you have referred some webmaster friends to the engine.
Think about it. Where can you get all these benefits while already generating some income for your site? Knowing some of the more useful tools you can use for your affiliate program is not a waste of time. They are rather a means of earning within an earning.
 
The best thing is to know more about how you can use PPC search engines into your affiliate program than miss out on a great opportunity to earn more profits.

THE BEST AFFILIATE PROGRAMS/NETWORKS TO PROMOTE

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 40% 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.

HOW TO AVOID THE 3 MOST COMMON AFFILIATE MISTAKES

There are some hazard signs and dangerous waters you shouldn’t be treading on in the affiliate marketing scene!
 
Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now willing in this business.
 
However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business.
 
Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday.
 
That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.
Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.
Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.
 
Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try to choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.
 
Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.
 
Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs.
Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting.
 
Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.
 
True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.
 
The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.
 
The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.
 
Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.
As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service.
 
It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.
 
Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.
 
Many affiliate marketers make these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.
 
Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track.
 
If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.

HOW TO BECOME A SUPER AFFILIATE IN NICHE MARKETS

Over the past years, web hosting has grown bigger than it used to be. With more companies getting into this business and finding the many benefits it can give them, the demand for web hosting has never been higher. These seem to be the trend of today.
 
About 38 million people have put up their very first websites online. It is estimated that, the Internet sales industry top the dollar bank. And to think of it, majority of those sites will be offering different affiliate programs for people to choose and participate into.
 
This only means one thing. It is easier now to find the right web host for your application. The possibility of quality web hosting companies separating themselves from the rest of the industry is anticipated. If this is done, the unprofessional and incompetent ones will suffer.
 
Support will be the number one consideration for people when choosing a web host. It will be obvious that traditional advertising will become less and less effective. Most people would rather opt for the web host based on things that they see and hear. Also based on the recommendations by those who have tried them and have proved to be a successful.
 
This is a great opportunity for web hosting affiliates and resellers alike. There would hundreds of web hosting and programs to choose from that the difficulty in finding the right one for them is not a problem anymore.
 
How does one become a successful affiliate in the niche markets using web hosting? If you think about it, everyone who needs a website needs a web hosting company to host it for them. As of now, there is really no leading hosting industry so most people choose hosts based from recommendations. Usually, they get it from the ones that have already availed of a web hosting services.
 
With the many hosts offering affiliate programs, there is the tendency to find the one which you think will work best for you. Think of the product you will be promoting. Pattern them to the site and see if they are catering to the same things as you are.
 
When you have been with one host for quite some time and seem not to be making much despite all your effort, leave that one and look for another. There is no use in trying to stick to one when you would be before off in another one. Things will only have to get better from there because you already have been in worst situations.
 
Try this out. If you are quite happy and satisfied with your web host, try to see if they are offering an affiliate program you can participate on. Instead of you paying them, why not make it the other way around; them paying you.
 
The process can be as easy as putting a small “powered by” or “hosted by” link at the bottom of your page and you are already in an affiliate business.
 
Why choose paying for your web hosting when you do not have to? Try to get paid by letting people know you like your web host.
 
Always remember that when choosing a web host, choose the one that is known for its fantastic customer support. There are also many hosting affiliate programs. Residual affiliate program is also being hosted. This is the program wherein you get paid a percentage every month for a client that you refer. This can allow you to have a steady source of income. With perseverance, you can even be quite successful in this field.
 
There are a lot of niche markets out there just waiting for the right affiliate to penetrate to them and make that dollars dream come true. Knowing which one to get into is being confident enough of your potentials and the good results you will be getting.
 
Web hosting is just one affiliate market you could try out and make some good and continuous income. Just remember that to be successful on your endeavor also means that time, effort and patience is needed.
 
Nobody has invented the perfect affiliate market yet. But some people do know how to make it big in this kind of market. It is just knowing your kind of market and making the earnings there.
 
So Many Affiliate Programs! Which One Do I Choose? 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? 20% - 80% (and some cases, 100%!) 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.
 
Try to ask your affiliate program choices these questions.
 
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.
 
It can help you select the right program for your site from among the many available.

3 TOP WAYS TO BOOST YOUR AFFILIATE COMMISSIONS

The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not only require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.
 
Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?
 
Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions.
1. Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.
 
There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.
 
There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.
 
Write free reports or short E-Books to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.
 
In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With E-Books, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.
 
2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free E-Books. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale.
 
This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and E-Books. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.
 
Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.
 
But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.
 
Publish an online newsletter or E-zine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.
 
This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.
 
3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.
 
If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.
Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture.
 
Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.
 
Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.

AFFILIATE MARKETING PART 2

Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the Internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…
 
Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.
 
The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.
 
That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program!
 
Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.
 
There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.
 
The affiliate marketer remembered that there are questions to answer from the visitors. This has to be done quickly. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email.
 
To prove that the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently, inquiries would have to be paid more attention on. Nobody wants to be ignored and customers are not always the most patient of all people. Quick answer that should appear professional yet friendly too.
 
In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.
 
There are things to be learned and it is a continuous process. Sharing tips and advices is a good way of showing support. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. There is no harm in assuming what opportunity is ahead.
 
The newsletters and E-zines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer’s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.
 
These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.
 
It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.
 
Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.
 
The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabes.
 
Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.
 
Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….
 
Ok, so this may not be all done in a day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.
Is that success looming in the distance or what?
 
The 3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online
Now every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
 
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.
 
What are these three tactics?
1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.
Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.
 
Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.
 
You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.
 
2. Offer free reports to your readers.
If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.
 
Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.
 
Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.
 
3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.
Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that are focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.
 
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.
 
The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.
 
Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.
 
Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!

THE 7-STEP FACEBOOK AUTOPILOT CASH STRATEGY (STEP #8)

This is the additional post which We have really gone so far with on the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy. On our last post We stopped at Finding Products to SELL of the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy. on this additional post we shall look into Puting the Strategy On Autopilot-Automation & Outsourcing.
 
STEP #8: Put This Strategy On Autopilot-Automation & Outsourcing.
So far we have talked about
• Creating Facebook Pages
• Buying old-style Facebook Groups
• Building a following of thousands of Facebook Fans and Group Members (in a specific market)
• Finding relevant products and offers that they might be interested in.
• Communicating with your Fans and members, and monetizing your network by telling them about certain products, services, and offers.
 
By following this strategy outline above, a lot of people are making $1,000 to $3,000 per month.
 
The problem, though, is that most of them are doing all the work themselves, and it is tying up their TIME.
How can they use MORE LEVERAGE, make MORE money, AND free up their time?
How can they turn this into an automated income stream?
.That’s where Automation and Outsourcing come in.
 
Putting this Strategy on Autopilot.
Once you have understood the basic strategy explained in this course, you are ready to EXPAND and rapidly scale your business up.
 
You can do this by OUTSOURCING this work to workers in the Philippines, who will work full-time for you, for less than $200 a month.
‘Outsourcing’ – definition: “The practice of having certain job functions done outside a company instead of having an in-house employee handle them, so as to concentrate on what you do best and where you create the maximum value.”
 
I recommend that you hire 1 to 10 outsourcers, gradually, to work on this business for you.
 
Here’s the strategy, in a nutshell:
1. Hire 1 to 10 outsourcers at http://manila.en.craigslist.com.ph – offer $150 to $200 a month for a ‘VA’ – Virtual Assistant – that will help you with Facebook marketing tasks.
2. Each outsourcer creates and manages 4 (or more) Facebook accounts.
3. Each outsourcer focuses on 1 specific target market (e.g. ‘weight loss’).
4. Each outsourcer joins 100 relevant Facebook Groups and Facebook Pages per Facebook Account.
5. Each outsourcer adds 150-200 new friends a day from those Pages and Groups.
6. Each outsourcer creates 1 new Facebook Group and 1 new Facebook Page per facebook account (i.e. 4 Facebook Groups and 4 Facebook Pages per outsourcer, initially – though this can grow to HUNDREDS of pages and groups per outsourcer).
7. Each outsourcer posts 4 updates a day on the Facebook Pages’ Wall, 4 posts a day to the Facebook accounts’ walls; and send 2 messages/week to Group members.
8. Result: Georgina gets AT LEAST 2,000 clicks per month per outsourcer (highly targeted traffic) and $1,000 in affiliate commissions per outsourcer on average.
 
Note: this number will grow naturally, as the more your Facebook Groups and Pages grow, the MORE traffic and sales they will generate.
 
How to hire an outsourcer
You can hire hundreds and even thousands of well-educated English proficient workers in the Philippines, for just $200 a month, to work full-time on making you money on Facebook.
 
Here’s what you do…
First, go to http://manila.en.craigslist.com.ph and click on ‘post to classifieds’. Next, click on ‘job offered’.
Then click on ‘I will abide by these guidelines’, at the bottom of the page.
There are 32 different categories of workers to choose from (including ‘web design/tech’), but I prefer to choose the ‘Admin/Office jobs’ category:
On the next page, you need to post your job requirements and your contact details.
 
This is the job post that I use:
VA Facebook Marketing.
I am looking for a full-time Virtual Assistant (VA) to assist my company with marketing activities on Facebook.
Full training is provided.
Requirements:
- Must speak good English
- Must have Internet access at home Daily Tasks:
- Adding Friends on Facebook (from relevant, targeted Facebook groups)
- Joining relevant, targeted Facebook Groups
- Accepting Friend requests
- Creating Facebook Accounts
- Creating Facebook Pages
- Creating Facebook Groups
- Sending Facebook Group messages
- Posting updates on Facebook Account walls
- Posting updates on Facebook Pages walls
- Inviting friends to like our pages
- Inviting friends to join our groups
- Creating Facebook Events and inviting friends to event
- Buying Fiverr.com gigs and supervising completion
- Buying Facebook Groups, on Fiverr.com or Elance, Freelancer.com, etc.
- Identifying and contacting potential Facebook Joint Venture partners
- Answering Facebook messages
 
Full training is provided. Please send your CV.
Compensation: $150 - $200 per month”
 
Next: click on ‘ACCEPT the terms of use’:
Then, fill in the ‘Captcha’ test and click ‘Continue’:
Finally you’ll see a message: “You will receive an email shortly, containing a link that will allow you to …..”
Once you’ve received the email from Craigslist, click on the link in order to publish your ad onto their website.
 
You should receive 5-10 CVs over the next 2-4 days, of people in the Philippines eager to start working for you. (Re-post your ad once a week, to get more results)
 
Add them on Skype, and speak to them – do a brief interview, to check their level of English.
Ask them why they want this job, ask them about previous jobs they’ve held, ask them about what they want from this job, etc.
Give them a simple task to complete – for example one of the following:
- Create a Facebook Page (or a Facebook Group)
- Create a new Facebook account
- Join 100 Facebook groups in the weight loss niche market
- Contact 20 potential JV partners on Facebook (e.g. creators of Facebook Groups relating to the ‘Forex’ market) and arrange some joint ventures.
 
Key qualities your outsourcer must have:
1. Must speak good English
2. Must complete first task well and in time
3. Must have internet access at home!
 
What you need to do (at least at first):
1. Hire outsourcers
2. Train them, give them clear instructions, show them exactly what they need to do
3. Track their individual results (traffic, affiliate commissions earned, growth of Pages, Groups, and Accounts) and fire under-performing outsourcers.
4. Find relevant offers and affiliate products to sell, and create the affiliate links, write the messages and facebook updates
 
Note: you can outsource all of these tasks too.
 
Managing Your Team – daily supervision
1. They absolutely MUST send you a daily update.
.This is a short email detailing what activities they completed that day, what challenges they encountered, and how they got around them.
2. You can hire one outsourcer to manage the rest of your team (once you have 6 or more outsourcers)
 
Motivating Your Team – carrot & stick approach
1. Reward your best-performing outsourcers (e.g. $100 bonus, a Flip camera, etc.)
2. Fire your worst-performing outsourcers every 2-3 months.
 
This process of rewarding your best outsourcers and firing the non-performing ones will result in having a solid team of highly profitable, well-trained outsourcers.
 
How To Be A Great Manager
1. Be CLEAR about your expectations about EXACTLY what you want and expect from your employee, what they are being measured upon.
2. Make sure you inspect their work. They need to know somebody cares about their work and what they are doing. Make sure you show an interest in their DEVELOPMENT.
3. Comment positively on their work at least ONCE every 5 days.
 
Tracking Each Outsourcer’s Results
Another way to track the TRAFFIC they generate: create shortened links with www.bit.ly
 
How to use software Automation.
OK, now we’re getting to the really exciting stuff. This involves using FB Auto Traffic software to automate a lot of your Facebook tasks.
A few of the advanced Facebook marketers use a version of this software to turbocharge their online earnings.
In fact, they mostly hire outsourcers to use the software for them! By using so much leverage, these Facebook Marketers are making $11,000 to $20,000+ a month…
 
This software performs many tasks that Facebook marketers used to do manually:
1) Finds people
You can make a list of people from groups, fan pages, or people's friends. Basically, it generates a list of people in a simple text file.
2) Adds people
You can add people from the list the software has generated above.
3) Sends traffic
- message targeted friends
- post wall updates
- comment wall updates
- message online friends
- like wall updates
- share wall updates
4) Advanced features:
- manage proxies
- change account password
- confirm friend requests
- find targeted walls
- fill profile information
- add online friends
- upload contact file (that's if you have your own database)
- upload profile pictures
- remove sent requests
- invite account friends
 
You can either do some of these actions to one account, or to as many accounts as you select.
 
My outsourcers use this software, to amazing effect.
 
Tasks that used to take us 3 hours to complete now only take 2-3 minutes.
If you’re serious about scaling up your Facebook business, make sure you invest in this software.
You can program tasks to be performed in advance.
By combining such automation tools, with hiring one or more outsourcers, you can put your Facebook marketing on AUTOPILOT.
 
How I use these strategies to make $17,000+ Per month
Here’s how I use Facebook to make thousands of dollars a month.
My three outsourcers create and manage my Facebook accounts, Facebook Pages, and Facebook Groups.
In the last 8 months, by following the above strategies and by leveraging AUTOMATION
SOFTWARE and FIVERR.COM my outsourcers have built up for me:
a. 114 Facebook accounts (25,000+ facebook friends, drawn from ‘business opportunity’ and ‘internet marketing’ related Groups and Pages)
b. 1 official ‘Mark Anastasi’ Fan Page (1,500 fans)
c. multiple Facebook Pages (related to internet marketing)
d. 7 Facebook Groups (22,000+ group members).
 
Every day they purchase Fiverr.com gigs to get us thousands of new Fans and Members, as well as posting regular ‘status updates’ on my Facebook Pages, every single day.
 
Here is how I monetize this network of friends, fans, and group members:
When I have a webinar or live seminar scheduled, one of my outsourcers creates a ‘Facebook Event’ on one of my Facebook accounts – then re-posts that Event across all our other Facebook accounts as well, inviting thousands of Facebook friends in the process.
 
Once you’ve uploaded a picture, typed in your event’s title, and invited all your Facebook friends to attend, your Facebook Event page will look like this:
This ‘Facebook Event’ promotes a LIVE webinar on a given date (I set up the webinar on www.gotowebinar.com – it takes just 3 minutes; this service costs $99 a month).
 
I then promote this webinar through:
• Facebook Events
• Facebook posts
• My Facebook Groups
• My Facebook Pages
 
Listen…
These strategies really, really works. It is working for me.
 
This will work for YOU too. You just need to DO it.
Study these strategies on this post, and make sure you TAKE ACTION!
 
I highly recommend you take action and quickly build up one or more Facebook Pages and
Groups, until you have a network of at least 20,000 fans and members.
I believe this will help you create a steady income of $2,000+ per month.
The good news is that getting 20,000 fans/members can be achieved very quickly!
I myself got 8,870 Group members in less than 30 days!
 
To Your Success.
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THE 7-STEP FACEBOOK AUTOPILOT CASH STRATEGY (FROM STEP #7)

We have really gone far of this Topis the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy. On our last post We stopped at Getting Thousands Of Facebook Fans & Group Members of the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy. We will continue with Finding Products to SELL.
 
STEP #7: Find products to SELL.
So you now have thousands of Fans and Group Members. You have been giving them some great content for free, so far. Great. It is time to start monetizing that network you have created and the TRAFFIC that you can now generate on a daily basis.
 
REMEMBER: Financial independence can start at just 400 clicks…
What you need to do now, is make a list of interesting, good, relevant products that solve your target market’s problems.
 
You can of course use these strategies to sell your own products and services. You can also create your own products. I like creating products by interviewing experts (I use Skype and the software called ‘CallBurner’, to record the call). (I also like creating products by filming seminars, but that is much more expensive).
You can also buy PLR (‘Private Label Rights’) products that you can put your name to, edit them, change the title, sell them and keep 100% of the money.
 
(Simply go to www.google.com and type in ‘PLR products’, and you find hundreds of websites selling these. If you are looking for PLR products on a specific topic, go to Google and type in e.g. ‘PLR + weight loss’).
 
You can license products (I have bought many, many product licenses over the years). I do this by simply contacting the owner or creator of a product (a course, ebook, DVDs, software, website, etc.) and offering to pay them for a license. You would be surprised at what gems you can pick up this way.
 
And of course, you can find products that you can affiliate yourself to, and earn a commission for each sale you make.
Some of the websites you should check out:
www.clickbank.com
www.findaffiliateoffers.com,
www.cj.com,
www.jvnotifypro.com
 
On these websites you will find relevant offers and products that you can affiliate yourself to (e.g. find products relating to weight loss).
 
By the way, it’s FREE.
 
And of course, you can also join some CPA networks. Let’s have a look at finding offers on Clickbank.com and CPA networks…
 
Profiting on facebook thanks to Clickbank.com
Clickbank.com is a marketplace of 12,000 digital (downloadable) products that YOU can sell for a commission (typically, you get a 50% to 75% commission).
 
You can join Clickbank as an affiliate, and it’s free of charge. Click here to join:
https://www.clickbank.com/affiliateAccountSignup.htm?key= (you are then provided with a ‘Clickbank nickname’… for example, mine is ‘inspired10’)
 
In the Clickbank ‘Marketplace’ you can find more than 12,000 products for you to promote:
http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm
 
There are over 80 different categories and hundreds of sub-categories for you to choose products from! Being an ‘affiliate’ on Clickbank.com means that you can sell these 12,000 products and collect a commission per sale that you make (typically $20 to $40, but it depends on which product you are promoting).
 
The benefit of promoting affiliate offers is that you don’t need to create the product, you don’t need to create the sales letter, and you don’t need to create the website. You make money by simply getting people to CLICK on your affiliate link.
 
Because you don’t have to create a product, build websites, and write sales letters (all these things take a lot of time), you can get started with internet marketing in a matter of minutes, rather than months!
 
In the Clickbank Marketplace, type in the word ‘betting’ in the search box.
You will then see the most popular products in that category. You will see…
a. How much money you earn per sale (‘Avg $/sale’)
b. What the product is about (there’s a short description under the product title)
c. You can look at the sales letter (by clicking on the product title)
d. And you can click on the ‘Promote’ button to get your affiliate link.
 
Important Note: A typical sales page for a product on Clickbank has a conversion rate of between 1% and 4% on average, depending on how targeted your traffic is. (This means that 100 people clicking on your affiliate link should generate 1 to 4 sales for you)
 
A typical affiliate commission on Clickbank is in the $20 to $40 range. Some of these products though, pay on average $87 to $113 commission PER SALE!
 
Like I mentioned previously, the benefit of promoting affiliate offers is that you don’t need to create the product, you don’t need to create the sales letter, and you don’t need to create the website. You simply get people to CLICK on your affiliate link.
 
Here’s what I do to get my affiliate link, once I find a product I would like to promote…
First, I click on the ‘Promote’ button, and a box will appears.
You will type in there your ‘Account Nickname’ (e.g. ‘inspired10’), and click on the ‘Create’ button.
 
Within a second or later you will have your new affiliate link.
So after Clickbank have given you your affiliate. If people click on this link and buy the product, you stand to earn up to $113 in commission!
 
You then go to http://bit.ly or http://tiny.cc or http://tinyurl.com or http://goo/gl to shorten the link and make it look more ‘presentable’ – the result: http://tiny.cc/sportsprofessor.
 
Now, I just need lots of people interested in sports betting to CLICK on this link! (That’s where FACEBOOK comes into the picture…).
 
Profiting on facebook thanks to CPA offers
You don’t even need to make sales to make some serious money on the Internet.
You can also promote ‘CPA’ offers. (‘CPA’ means ‘Cost Per Action’)
(Note: CPA networks are large networks of affiliates. Advertisers incentivize affiliates on these networks, to generate leads for them)
 
The best CPA offers that work well with Facebook are simple ‘submit’ offers. These offers simply require a person to fill in a short form and pay anywhere from $2.00- $3.00. Facebook users love gadget type of offers or entertainment offers.
For example, the CPA offer, pays $2 per lead! With CPA offers, you can get paid $2 to $50 or more every time someone types in their name and email address in a form like the ones shown above.
 
Imagine making money by giving away things for free (or giving people the chance to WIN something for free)…
To get access to such offers that you can promote, you need to join some CPA networks.
It is recommended that you sign up with 20 CPA networks (there are hundreds online)
www.ewanetwork.com
www.azoogleads.com
www.eliteclicksmedia.com
www.neverblueads.com etc. (you can find a list of more CPA networks at http://cpaoffers.com/profit/cpa-networks.php orhttp://www.affiliateseeking.com/netwo/23000002/1.html). ( read the bonus ‘Fanpage Dollars’ report in your Members Area, to find out more about how to join CPA networks and profit from CPA marketing)
 
4 MAIN TYPES OF CPA OFFERS:
• Email & zip submits
These offers tend to pay you $1-2 per lead.
You need a lot of cheap traffic (or free traffic) to make these profitable.
150 downloads per day x $2.50 per download = $375 a day, $2,650 a week, $10,100 a month!
Each campaign takes just 1 hour to set up.
Direct linking. No landing page required.
 
• ‘Short form’ offers
Credit report, dating offers, education offer… They convert well with a landing page.
These types of offer pay $5-10, sometimes as much as $20. For example, ‘Totally Test Drives’ (test drive a luxury sports car) pays you $15 per form filled.
 
• Interactive offers
Mobile, games, ringtones, download offers
Mainly works well with younger audiences
Convert well with direct linking.
No need for landing page.
 
• Rebills
Business opportunity offers, skincare, teeth whitening, muscle building, colon cleanse, weight loss…
It entices consumers with a free trial upfront. After the trial they get billed monthly.
These offers pay the best – as much as $30-$40 per signup!
One of the best: Acai Optimum offer
 
Inside an affiliate network you will find hundreds of offers.
To find successful offers to promote via Facebook,
1. Ask your affiliate manager (in the CPA network you belong to)
2. Look at what Ads are running on Facebook already
3. Pick from this list of campaigns on the next page. (Tip: before you pick the offer you are going to be promoting, be sure to check out their advertising policy guidelines. http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php so that you don’t waste time creating a campaign that simply is not allowed on Facebook.)
 
Once you have joined some CPA networks and found some interesting offers to promote, you can suggest some offers, 2-3 times a month, to your Facebook Page Fans, Group
Members, or Facebook ‘Friends’…
…by posting on your page Wall…
…by posting on your profile Wall…
… by emailing your Group members…
 
(To be continue with Step#8 on Puting This Strategy On Autopilot-Automation & Outsourcing an additional post to this topic  the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy, you can also like our facebook page to get frequent  updates).

THE 7-STEP FACEBOOK AUTOPILOT CASH STRATEGY (continued from Step #6)

On our last post We stopped at Buying An Old-Style Facebook Group & Change Name of the 7-step facebook autopilot cash strategy. Here we will begin with Getting Thousands Of Facebook Fans & Group Members.

STEP #6: Get Thousands Of Facebook Fans & Group Members
OK, so if you’ve followed the steps so far, you have…
1. Set up a Facebook Account
2. You chose a target market for that account
3. You joined 100 relevant Pages and Groups (from that target market)
4. You set up a Facebook Page
5. You Bought a Facebook Group, Took it over as an Admin, and Changed the Group’s name.

Now it’s time to get thousands of targeted Facebook fans and Group members on board. (by ‘targeted’, I mean that these people prospects from your target market and are interested in the topic you’re focusing on – e.g. ‘weight loss’).

Why do we want to have thousands of Fans and Members? Because this can be highly lucrative and make you a lot of money.

Let me illustrate this with some numbers…

How much is a facebook fan (Or Group member) Worth?
I estimate a Facebook Fan or Group Member is worth on average $0.25 per month. According to a new study by Vitrue, the average fan is worth $3.60 in earned media. http://vitrue.com/blog/2010/04/14/360-facebook-fan-valuation-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg $3.60 / 12 months = $0.30 per month per fan.

The point I am making is that there seems to be a consensus that Facebook Page FANS and Facebook Group MEMBERS are worth approximately $0.25 per month.

In this STEP #6 of this course I am going to teach you how to get tens of thousands of facebook fans and members for just cents…

How to get thousands of facebook fans and group members
There are many things you can do to get thousands of Fans and Group Members. Let’s start with the basic things you must do.

a. Click on the share button and Post to your profile
For starters, when you set up your Facebook Page, you can click on the ‘Share’ button and post it to your Profile, so that your Facebook Friends see it. You can also ‘Send as a Message instead’, although this is very time consuming, as you would need to choose your Facebook friends one by one (though maybe this is a task for an outsourcer to do for you – more on this in Step #8).

b. Invite people from the 100 relevant groups and pages you joined, to become your friends
Every day, go into some of these Groups and Pages and invite 50 or more new friends from these targeted Facebook Groups and Pages, to your relevant Facebook account. (e.g. Invite people from the 100 weight-loss Groups and Pages that you joined, to join your Facebook account where you are focusing on the weight-loss market)

You can click on one of the people, go to their profile, and then click on ‘Add as Friend’. The result is that each one of your new Facebook accounts grows with targeted prospects (i.e. people that we know are interested in this specific topic).

Tip: you might need to have 8-10 Facebook accounts and invite just 20 people per account per day, so that Facebook doesn’t freeze your account.

Doing this all yourself, manually, on a full-time basis, means that you can probably get 5,000 or so facebook ‘friends’ in 30 days (if you use multiple accounts). That’s a good start. But luckily there are some strategies to turbocharge your results (for example, by using outsourcers or software automation – more on this later).

c. Invite your friends
You can of course invite all your Facebook friends to ‘Like’ your page, by clicking on the ‘Suggest to Friends’ button, and then selecting your friends (I recommend putting your friends in ‘lists’ of 200 or so people, to make this task faster).

d. Promote your page on your website
If you have an existing website or blog that is getting good traffic, you can always click on the ‘Add Like Box’ option, and have a ‘Like’ button on your sites.

e. Tell your Fans
You can upload up to 5,000 contacts with a .csv file onto facebook and invitations to like the page will be sent to these people (this is an option for you if you have an existing mailing list).

f. Do joint venture Ad-Swap on facebook
Thanks to this strategy I built up a mailing list of 20,000 subscribers at zero cost, and last year I did $200,000 in sales in 90 minutes thanks to a webinar. The name of this strategy? It’s called ‘Joint Venturing’.
It can be VERY powerful, very fast, and costs absolutely NOTHING to implement.

You see, your ideal prospects (your target market) are probably already on someone else’s mailing list. They’re probably already a member in someone’s Facebook Group, or they already ‘liked’ someone’s Facebook Page about this topic…

So why not find other Group creators and Page administrators in your niche, to do joint ventures with!
Simply contact them and say something like,
Hi there, my name is john carley, and I noticed you have a successful group/page called “X”. I happen to also have a group/page on this topic. It is called “X”. if you are interested in growing your fanbase at no cost, I would like to propose we do a simple cross-promotion. I will invite all of my friends and fans to like your page, at no cost to you, in exchange for you reciprocating by inviting your fans to my page. If this sounds like something you would like to do, please feel free to contact me. Warm regards. John Carley.

g. Post daily on your facebook page wall.
Post 4 updates a day on the Facebook Page Wall. Important: alternate good content (valuable information, or interesting quotes, sayings, statistics, facts, news, tips, etc) with offers (selling products that make you a commission).

This way people will like you and your Facebook Pages and Groups, and will click more. Note: the more often you post on your Facebook Page Wall the faster your Facebook Page will grow (this is not the case for Facebook Accounts or Facebook Groups).

Why will your Facebook Page grow faster and virally? Because your posts will appear in the ‘Newsfeed’ of your page’s fans, and when they ‘like’ the post or the when they comment on the post…then their friends see it as well in their newsfeed!

This means that the more often you post, the more likely it is for people to notice your Page and more and more people click to join your Facebook Page!

This viral growth can be HUGE!

Tip: post 1 to 4 status updates on your Facebook Page ‘Wall’ per day, with interesting content, and your number of fans will grow virally very fast. Make sure you provide interesting content to them on a regular basis.

You can get some great content for free, on www.ezinearticles.com, www.youtube.com (videos), and also, look for lists of famous quotes, sayings, aphorisms, etc. on Google.

It is recommended that you give interesting content 2-3 times, and then make an offer in your 3rd or 4th post.
This way, you are not ‘burning your list’ or annoying your Fans and Group members by constantly trying to sell something to them.

h. Buy Fiverr.com micro-outsourcing gigs.
For added leverage, you can use Fiverr.com ‘gigs’ (they cost $5 each), to get other people to promote your Facebook Pages or your Facebook Groups.

I spent $320 on Fiverr.com gigs towards the end of last year and I got 11,680 business opportunity seekers to join my various Facebook Groups in less than 2 months! This means that I got prospects (leads) for less than $0.03 per lead! I found that every $5 gig got me approximately 100 to 200 new Facebook Group members or Page fans.

By the way, Fiverr.com is not the only website that offers such ‘gigs’.
Check out these websites:
http://www.Fiverr.com
http://www.Tenbux.com
http://www.Zeerk.com
http://www.Gigbucks.com
http://www.Mturk.com
http://www.Dealerr.com
http://www.Sevenstew.com
http://www.JobsFor10.com
http://www.Gigswood.com
http://www.Gighour.com
http://www.TaskArmy.com

Make a record of who you bought gigs from, and who delivered outstanding value for you.
Note: you might need to make the gig provider an ‘Admin’ of your Page, for them to be able to invite all of their friends to ‘Like’ your page or join your Group.

Make sure you remember to remove him as Admin as soon as the task has been completed!
i. Use facebook events to promote your facebook page.
Another way of contacting all your Facebook friends and informing them of your new Facebook Page, is by setting up a Facebook Event in your Facebook profile, inviting all of your friends, and then emailing them through the ‘Message All Guests’ tool in your Facebook Event (more on how to do this in a bit).
j. Use facebook Ads to promote your page.
The latest strategy for getting thousands and thousands of Fans quickly, involves using Facebook Ads.
When you are on your Facebook Page, you can click on ‘Promote with an Ad’:

The upside of using Facebook Ads to promote a Facebook Page, is that you can very quickly get MILLIONS of impressions on Facebook, and lots and lots of traffic, for just $0.01 to $0.05 per click.

The downside of this strategy, is that it is not a free traffic generation strategy, which means that you need to spend money to get this traffic.

Let me explain what I mean.
My friend got 60,000 fans to like a Facebook Page in 2 days, thanks to Facebook ads…and then repeated the feat by getting 100,000 fans to another Facebook Page in just 24 hours!

He gets traffic for just $0.01 to $0.03 per click. To get 60,000 people to click ‘Like’ on his Facebook Page, he got 200,000 people to click on his ad in just 48 hours.
200,000 x $0.01 = $2,000 in advertising expenses.

The good news was… he made $5,000 straight away by promoting a CPA offer to them!
AND he now has more than 60,000 fans (and growing all the time, virally) that he can communicate with and promote offers to!

One of my followers used this strategy to promote one of his Facebook Pages. He got 426,000 impressions of his ad (his ad appeared on people’s Facebook accounts 426,000 times), and he got 903 clicks on his ad, at a cost of £9.59 ($15). That’s just $0.017 per click!
Basically, he spent $15 and got 500 new fans this way (and this now grows virally).

Creating a Facebook Ad to promote your Facebook Page is fairly straightforward. When you click on ‘Promote with an Ad’… a page appears, where you can ‘Design Your Ad’:

You will need to:
a. Write the Title of the ad
b. Write the Body of the ad
c. Upload a picture (although typically it is recommended you use the same picture as you have for the Page itself)

In the next section you need to select who you are ‘targeting’ with your ad. For examples, I have chosen below Women, aged 25-45, who live in 5 English-speaking countries. We see that there are 69,147,140 women on Facebook who fit these criteria.

But in the next section, ‘Likes & Interests’, I am going to narrow the targeting to Women who are part of Groups or Pages relating to ‘weight loss’, or ‘losing weight’:

You will found about 200,840 Women, in these 5 countries, in that age group, that fit these criteria. Because my ad is relevant to their ‘Likes and Interests’, they are much more likely to click on my ad.

TIPS FOR WRITING YOUR AD
Making ads that grab attention is essential for a successful campaign. The more attention-grabbing your advertisement, the more clicks (traffic) you get and the cheaper your traffic becomes (this results in higher profit levels and allows you to scale up a campaign rapidly).

Your ads must ENGAGE users, and needs to…
1. GRAB ATTENTION! (the image)
The Image needs to tell the story, and grab their attention! (don’t just put your logo!!). The image determines to a large extent your click-through rate.
2. ASK A QUESTION! (the title)
Headlines should usually be in the form of questions. The title is important….
The IMAGE makes a great Facebook Ad, but the title and body text influences your conversion rate.
While the image pulls in the users’ eyes, the title and body text are what cause the user to click onto the ad.
3. MAKE A PROMISE! (the body text)
Body text should make ONE big promise… and that promise should be delivered on the landing page. Also, have a Call to Action, to encourage people to click. (e.g. “Click here Now”)

If you do these 3 things you will produce solid ads.

Tips For Writing Compelling Ad Copy:
Ask an EMOTIONAL question in the Headline
“Are you an MJ fan?”
.evokes Loyalty/patriotism emotion
“Is he cheating on you?”
.evokes Fear/paranoia emotion
Key: identify the emotion you want to arouse in your reader.
“Lonely?” or “Who Searched You?” – The usage of the question mark brings a good click through rate.

Tease the reader
“Impossible IQ Question”
“97.6% get this question wrong”
“How many Eyes?”
“She’s too hot for you”
“Think you might be wild & horny enough for her? Come meet her on singlesnet.com and prove it to her!”

Appeal to Users’ Intelligence and Self-Esteem – People like to think they can be one of a few people to do something. Appealing to this ego mentality means we can grab a bunch of people who are willing to do what it takes to know if they are better.

First person’s perspective
(Testimonial Style)
State 1 ‘HUGE’ Benefit
Make comparisons (idea: Target users of a particular brand and recommend a better product.)
Leverage on current affairs
Always have a call to Action in your ad.

Extra Ad Writing Tips:
1. When writing Facebook Ads, remember ‘AIDA’:
- Attention (grab their Attention!),
- Interest (what’s in it for their self-interest, what’s in it for me),
- Decision/Benefit,
- Action! (commands on exactly what they must do next!)
2. Be conservative, especially in the beginning
If you’re selling bicycles, simply say: “Bicycle for sale”
3. Tweak ads after 2 days if CTR is under 2%
Apparently, if your ad gets less than 2% CTR, Facebook will show your ad less and less (you may need to tweak targeting; see previous section)
4. Plan to rotate in new ads and pictures every 7-10 days (or whenever CTR drops)
People don’t wake up and go to Google and type in ‘London plumber’, then do it again the next morning, then the next morning, etc. Facebook is different to Google. On Facebook you’re marketing to the SAME people every single day.

There are 114,000 or so fans of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’. Within a few weeks ALL of them will have seen my ad! (and that’s where ‘banner blindness’ can set in). Their brain ignores it from then on. So you’ve got to go in there and change the ad, and change the picture.

TIPS FOR HAVING COMPELLING IMAGES THAT GRAB ATTENTION:
Your Ad IMAGE must be…
a. Attention grabbing
b. Relevant
c. Sexy women images for male demographics
d. Pictures showing women with their cleavage, for certain offers, gets the most clicks.
e. Pictures of people smiling, looking straight out, gets CLICKS.

The image of the ad is the MOST important part of the ad. This is because the image is what grabs the user’s attention away from the normal browsing experience while on Facebook.

Ads without images tend to under-perform compared to those ads with images. But what image will work best?
It’s impossible to tell exactly what type of image will bring the most clicks. You really need to split test multiple images. Here are some guidelines to find the best types of images based upon what has worked REALLY well for me:

Use Amateur Looking Photos – Those professional stock photography looking photos tend to look too much like an advertisement while the amateur looking photos tend to look like “user generated” content that people are used to seeing on Facebook. In the sample ads above, you can see that the photo of the dad with his baby does not look professional.
Use Shocking Images – Shocking images catch the attention of users very well. This can be a car crash or a face full of acne for example. Shocking images grab the attention because we are all interested in the things that shock us.
Use Celebrity Images – Celebrity images are hard to get through Facebook’s approval process at times but if you can get them through. The images generally grab the user’s attention very well.
Use Localized Images – When you’re targeting a specific region, using an image that only that region would know about or that relates to that region can be very powerful in grabbing the user’s attention. One such example is showing a California drivers license as the ad image when targeting California drivers for an auto insurance offer.

Remember: Don’t use plain and boring images. (You can find images using Google image search, but be aware of any copyright issues)

Test Multiple Images
Just like I mentioned a little above, you never know what will do well for your particular campaign. You really need to start by testing 3-4 images and keep the winner.
Sneaky trick: Use extra words in your images, to sneak in extra copy!

BIG FACEBOOK AD NO-NO’S
a. No all caps (use proper capitalization)
b. No incorrect spelling, grammar, or slang
Facebook doesn’t like ALL CAPS, irrelevant images, don’t use funky characters
like ‘$’ for money or ‘4’ for ‘for’, etc.
c.  No incomplete thoughts
d. NO B.S. Discounts
(They go and check your landing page)
We put ‘free download’ on the ad, but people could get the free download only if they ‘liked’ our page.
If they have to optin to download it, or take some action to download it, FACEBOOK WILL REJECT THE AD.

The promise from your ad must be instantly delivered after they click. If you say in the ad ‘Subscribe to download XYZ’, then it’s ok.
e. Use of irrelevant images (big no-no’s!)
f. Nothing can be offensive
Headlines like ‘Hey You, Ashtray Breath!’, Or: ‘Hey Fattie!’ are very effective with Google Adwords but you CAN’T use this with Facebook Ads. (Facebook wants users to have a positive, ‘nice’ experience on their site – and not be offended or made to ‘feel bad’ while on Facebook. Facebook won’t allow shocking ads or insulting ads.
They want a friendly user experience. They don’t want anyone entering their private CLUB and insulting their members. (remember: you are a guest of Facebook)
g. No abbreviations or symbols for words

Tell the truth, write it like you’re being graded by a teacher, and be nice.
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