The Affiliate Coach

2010-10-20T10:15:00.001-07:00

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How To Set Up A Banner Ad Campaign

2010-03-18T17:29:00.000-07:00

How to set up a Banner Ad Campaign

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Did you see my First Video

"How to Test an Affiliate or CPA Offer to Find a Converting Offer"

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Setting Up A CPV Campaign - Down & Dirty Method

2010-03-18T17:27:00.000-07:00

How to Set Up A CPV Campaign

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Did you see my First Video

"How to Test an Affiliate or CPA Offer to Find a Converting Offer"

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How to Test an Affiliate or CPA Offers To Find A Converting Offer

2010-03-18T13:19:00.001-07:00

http://www.theaffiliatecoach.blogspot.com - Learn how to find an affiliate or CPA offer that converts using my Down & Dirty Method for testing offers.

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1. Watch the "How to Setup a CPV Campaign" HERE!

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Link Building - What you need to know!

2010-03-08T14:53:00.000-08:00

I have been doing this online thing since 2006.

I started out by simply writing a BLOG centered around my mortgage business and since then I have branched out to be involved in several different niches across many different industries.

One thing I learned was that I didn't want all my eggs in my mortgage basket and I am thankful I didn't. With my mortgage BLOG as my learning tool I have come a long way in the past few years.

One thing that I didn't learn right away was everything I needed to know about link building.

I know Link Building is boring! It's tedious and seems to suck away your time day in and day out.

Here are a few basics that really helped springboard my results in the early going:

1. Keep it simple - I did nothing more then link to my my site from my site using anchor text!

2. Don't get overwhelmed - I looked for help from people who knew what they were doing and just followed what they did.

3. Use Web 2.0 - If you don't know this you should. Simply create a supporting blog using blogger, wordpress, wetpaint and many others.

If you stick to the basics you really can get the most out your link building activities.

Now before I close this out it is important to mention that the keywords you choose will determine your level of success. Pay attention to your competition as they will determine your success for any given keyword.

Video Marketing For An Offline Business

2009-12-14T13:23:00.000-08:00

Video Marketing for an Offline Business

Building a List Using Video

The information I am sharing with you isn't a sales pitch, I don't want you to buy anything and most importantly I want you to learn as much as possible so ask questions and leave comments.

For a while now I have been marketing different products and services online. I have tried almost everything to get traffic to sites and get my offers recognized. (article marketing, social media, link bait and much more)

I was introduced to video marketing when I was reading a BLOG several years ago and in that Post it simply said, "use video to increase conversion 600%."

Well I thought that was simple enough.

I went out the next week and bought my Flip Camera and already having a MACBook I had a huge head start. I won't go into details now but just know, easy camera and Imovie software to me equals a home run.

Having the videos shot was only the first step for me. I wanted to get people to watch them without having to resort to scams, pranks or tricks.

I did my homework and about 18 months ago I submitted my first video using a tool called Traffic Geyser.

CHECK OUT TRAFFIC GEYSER HERE!

The success that followed was a direct result of the tool, Traffic Geyser, and the formula it takes to get an online video campaign right.

Let me show you a Case Study of one of my first campaigns.

This campaign was for a offline business.

It was a vocational school in Sacramento that I wanted to do business with but I had no "real proof" that this stuff worked or more importantly that "I" could make it work. Well that's not entirely true but I had no proof outside of my personal sites for my other business I was running.

I reached out to someone I knew who had a much better understanding of the vocational school industry and put together the beginning of a "10x10x4 program" which is a program that is a staple to the Traffic Geyser tool.

After spending a few days in front of the camera getting the content right, my friend finally hit the highlights we needed to hit in order to get the conversions we were looking for.

He came over on the last day and sat in my backyard while we finished the video you see below.

You can also see that the video we shot is several months old but it only took 24 hours to rank in the top ten for that video and has remained there for quite some time since.

To top this off, I rank in the top 10 for more than 15 keywords (give or take), all from this video and one other.

NOTE - THIS IS A TERRIBLE VidEO but it proves one thing, quality video doesn't rank better than average to poor video.

This little project was a HUGE stepping stone for me.

It afforded me the opportunity to walk into the vocational school I was looking to do business with and say:

"Hey Mr. Vocational School Owner. I just outranked your website in Google and was wondering if you would like to have that traffic back?"

That little phrase, all though I say it in a more polite manner if at all, has made me an awful lot of money in the past six months.

I now have 5 offline businesses that depend on me to drive traffic to their sites where I have set them up with an email capture form to start capturing a database and have walked them through site design, A-B Split testing the pages and most importantly how to convert the traffic into paying customers.

Listbuilding is only as good as the amount of traffic you have coming into your offer or newsletter or anything else you have that is capturing an email database.

Recently Traffic Geyser has put out a new program teaching this exact same method and put together two case studies that cover offline businesses that use online video marketing to promote their business.

Go CHECK OUT TRAFFIC GEYSER'S

CASE STUDIES HERE!

Also, I have a new Video Marketing website HERE that you can follow for more case studies and much much more on how to use video for any type of business.

I know that so many people can benefit from this message that I just had to get it to you guys.

This is a simple stupid, can't mess it up type of business!

Spend 15-20 minutes learning how to use video marketing and I promise you will see more traffic to your sites as a result.

PLEASE LEAVE ME YOUR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS BELOW!

List Building Basics - Leave me your comments

2009-11-25T08:39:00.000-08:00

Well I hope the videos have come in handy!

The Videos are HERE!

It is my goal to provide you with killer content that you truly can't get anywhere else. That said, I want to learn what you need to be more successful.

Is it Traffic?

Is it building a landing page?

Is it using Aweber?

Is it copywriting?

Is it monetization?

Is it ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Please leave your comments below and tell me what

material you would like to learn about next.

List Laundering - Bonus and Review

2009-11-23T11:22:00.000-08:00

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Secret Cash Blueprint 20 - Review and Comments

2009-11-07T15:48:00.000-08:00

If you are considering purchasing "Secret Cash Blueprint 2.0" then I suggest you consider looking into my Bonus Package if you buy through my link.

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Both of those Bonuses are easily worth.... well $150/mo. minimum.

Now all of that said, here are some additional things about www.secretcashblueprint20.com that Craig really wants you to know about his product.

The product will help you bring in traffic from the big "G" both as paid traffic, cheap paid traffic, and free traffic. Now if the big "G" isn't the way you want to get your traffic then you are in luck, the Secret Cash Blueprint 2.0 will show you how to do just that.

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Let me know if you have questions.

How to Get Search Engine Traffic to my Local Business Website - Small Business Search Engine Optimization and Marketing for Small Business Search Traf

2009-09-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

Small Business search engine optimization is an interesting opportunity. There are so many different business categories in any large city that it mind boggling. The only issue is the actual search volume pumping through those ever so important keywords.

I have been running an couple experiments with some small businesses by getting them to the top of search engine rankings. I have discovered that getting on the first page is rather easy but the problem lies in getting conversions or database adds and/or sales.

Ranking #1 in the search engines for small businesses was the first step of the process and I followed a simple formula, local keywords, content, bookmark and ping!

LOCAL OR SMALL BUSINESS KEYWORDS-

If you are like most beginners and are starting out by just posting your site and expecting people to just drop by then you are more than likely sadly mistaken. One of the first thing that any small business needs to do to search engine optimize their sites is to find those keywords that people search that best represents their business.

I like using Googles Free Keyword tool and I won’t go into great detail here on how you use the tool but the information you can find within the data surrounding your local business is invaluable. You will know which keywords are getting enough traffic to support your website and quite possibly if there is enough traffic in general to make search engine optimization your focal point or if you need to revamp your thoughts all together.

Here is a great detailed explanation on How to Use Google Keyword Tool - Thanks to Wordplay who writes about making money online using HubPages (http://hubpages.com/hub/make-money-writing-hubs)

Keyword Research

Keyword research is the most critical aspect if you want to make money writing online or in any form of Internet marketing. In a nutshell, keyword research will tell you which keywords (they're called that but they're usually actually "key phrases") people are searching for in Google. Other search engines use keywords as well but Google is where most of the traffic comes from. That's why I recommend using Google's free AdWords keyword research tool. For best results, use it before you even create your hub (Website/BLOG).

Using the AdWords tool

To use the AdWords tool, click the "Google's free AdWords keyword research tool" link in the previous sentence and enter words and phrases you think describe your hub. Don't worry at this point whether they'll be profitable; the AdWords interface will give you that information

Once you enter your keyword ideas and fill in the anti-spam code, click the "Get keyword ideas" button and then select "Exact" from the pull-down menu. Selecting that setting will give you the most accurate results.

The first column will give you Google's suggestions for keywords related to your topic. The second column contains green bars that indicate how much advertiser competition there is for each term. This is a critical component, because Google AdSense ads are one of the key ways you can make money writing on HubPages. AdSense will be explained further down on the page, but suffice it to say at this point that the more green in the bar, the more money that keyword will be worth.

CONTENT-

Now the content is ever so important and is a factor in the conversion process as well but the content needs to speak to the specific need of individual searching. More specifically, focusing on the keyword and providing content that surrounds that keyword is crucial to the underlying success of an online marketing campaign.

HINT- use your main keyword in your title and your level of success will drastically increase even if this makes for a long title it’s worth it!

Here are some Keys to Content Creation for an Online Marketing Campaign for Small Businesses!

Now once the keyword specific content is created it is SO IMPORTANT to post that content to various sites that search engines like to pull content from. WHAT? Ok, let’s simplify that, you need to be posting content on sites that rank high with the search engines already because they are more likely to trust those sites than a stand alone page.

These sites are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 websites because the users of those sites determine the content. Example would be wordpress.com (NOT .net) Blogger, Wetpaint etc.

Actually writing the content is another story. I did some research and found some excellent content on content generation at make money online with seo. Ben does an excellent job going into detail with article spinning and outsourcing.

Here are some highlights.

What does an Article Spinner Do? Simply put it take the text of a completed article and changes a few select words throughout the body of the article to create a similar yet original article allowing you to write one article and produce many!

There are basically two types of spinning: single level spinning, and nested spinning. Single level spinning can make the article pretty unique, unique enough to get indexed by Google. Nested spinning adds a whole other dimension and can really make the article unique.

Here is an example of single level spinning:

The {best | top | most efficient way} how to {get rid of | eliminate| cure| stop} cancer is to not {smoke| inhale| puff} cigars.

Basically, everything enclosed in { } are a choice. Each time software converts spin notation to text, a random selection is made from the words in the { }. When you write an entire article in this format, you get a fairly unique article.

With nested spinning, you basically something even more unique. Here is an example of a nested spin:

{The {best | top | most efficient way} how to {get rid of | eliminate| cure| stop} cancer is to not {smoke| inhale| puff} cigars | {Get rid of | eliminate | stop} your cancer by not smoking}.

It looks more complicated, but what happens is that software will look at the first set of choices (in this case, the two full sentences that are serrated by the “|”)

{ sentence 1} | {sentence 2}

And fore each of those sentences, the software, spinner, or whatever will look for spin notation {}, and if any spin notation is found for that specific sentence will select from the choices enclosed in the {}. Basically, you get something really unique. It’s not that hard to figure out how article spinning works if you spend a few minutes playing around with it.

Now, the downside of spinning is that it takes a long time. If you are fast, you probably can do a 1st level spin of a 400 word article in about 1-2 hours. If it’s a nested spin, it can take 4-6 hours for a 500 word article (I know, I’ve done it.).

Thanks Ben for the great info. on what an article spinners does!

Once you have all this content you can post these articles to the Web 2.0 sites I mentioned before ore see my long list of sites to post articles to get links and increase your search engine exposure.

Here are some great examples of Sites to Post your Content to for greater Search Engine Optimization - http://www.go2web20.net

BOOKMARK -

Bookmarking is simply explained as a place to store links to your favorite sites online. It’s an easy process and is one of the single most important activities you can do to help you get traffic to your sites. These sites are trusted by search engines and are optimized to get front page results on search engines. It's all about the backlinks baby!

Now to understand how the process of optimization works, the more links to your site you have the better the rankings or the better the search engine optimization. This is only the tip of the iceberg but it’s very important that you understand the relationship between incoming links(bookmarks), content you create specific to your keywords and local search engine optimization.

I had a little local search engine marketing experiment.

I offered to take some videos and upload them into the various video networks like Youtube and Metacafe. Once I uploaded them there I then bookmarked each page with the various bookmarking sites that are out there.

I was shocked at my little local search engine marketing experiment’s results.

Not only did I get to the top of my keywords search results page but I had done it within 2 hours and with more than one link. Now 3 months later I still am number one and have anywhere from 3-6 pages rank at given time.

Now the traffic for this keyword is minimal and the relative traffic is low but I did prove that I was able to rank in local keywords and in one niche specifically. Since doing this little experiment I have approached one business in that niche and they are now wanting me to do what I did for a smaller site for them. Result was about $6000 in my pocket and another test case that I can write about.

Check out a list of Bookmarking sites and Bookmarking Software Programs http://www.socialmarker.com

PINGING -

Pinging your website or BLOG is so easy a cave man could do it! If you are using wordpress blogging platform you can set it up so it automatically pings a set number of sites letting those site and search engines know that there is new content out and that they should stop by the site and check it out. The pinging process is nothing more than that, letting other sites and in turn search engines know that you posted new content.

If you have a stand alone site or want to ping the sites manually, I use www.ping-o-matic.com and it pings several sites for you all at once. There are other sites out there but this one is a one stop shop for pinging your site.

PAGE SETUP-

It’s very important to consider the on page attributes that will enhance your small business search engine optimization. Using the keywords throughout the page and within your meta tags and description is an absolute must.

Meta Tags and Description -

A vast majority of you will have your business name and some sort of tag line listed within the meta description. You meta tags will be some keywords you “think” will drive you traffic but your keyword research should have revealed to you the new keywords your should be targeting.

Some of the best advice I ever received about keyword targeting is to target only one keyword per page. BLOG’s make this extremely easy to do and often times take care of the meta tags and descriptions automatically for you. This will free your time up for other marketing efforts.

KEYWORDS WITHIN THE URL -

Now if you have a home page and you are trying to send all your traffic through your home page then you are going about this process incorrectly.

I am a big fan of BLOGs because they do a whole lot of the tough HTML stuff for you by getting all the meta data and URL stuff correct up front. Not to mention if you get your settings right and load your BLOG with the right plug-ins then you will have a leg up on the competition.

Now getting the URL right means you need to title your article properly. If you use the keyword in your article then there is a very good chance the keyword will be in the URL. Now it’s easy to change the URL while creating a post to ensure the keyword is in there so take some time and figure that one out. HINT: Just look above the title in wordpress and you will find what you are looking for.

WRITING FOR SEO SUCCESS -

Just a couple notes on this point, you first need to include your keyword only a few times within the text of the actual page. There is no need to stuff the page full of your target keyword to get the search engines to recognize your page for your given keyword if you have things correctly in other areas.

To help the search engines out bold your keywords within you page to direct some attention to them. This is a simple strategy that has yielded me some very good results and it should for you as well. ( you can see that I have done that in this page)

BACKLINKING-

Most people figure there is some secret formula to getting on the top page of search engines. The reality is that if you have the basics down for the on page factors all that is left is to get other websites to link to you. Easy right? Well try for a whole day to get sites to link to you and you will see exactly how tough that can be. Getting the links is most important and if you find a partner to help you are in luck!

I hope this overview is helpful in getting your small business some website traffic. I know handling all of this on your own can be difficult and often times you will see other people telling you many different approaches to handling small business search engine optimization.

What have you been doing to get some traffic?

Where do you still need help?

Leave your comments below.

Never Give Up! Not Dead, Don't Quit! - Nick Vujicic

2009-09-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

Are You Going To Finish Strong? Nick Vujicic Video Awesome video! If you watch only one video today make sure it is this one! Nick Vujicic has no limbs but he leads an incredible life!

Tony Robbins Inspires Me Also - See What he is up to HERE!

Traffic Travis SEO Software Review - Bonuses - For Beginners to Experts Alike

2009-08-24T16:17:00.000-07:00

There are several things that we need to cover on the Traffic Travis Review Bonuses page so let's jump right in!

1. Traffic Travis SEO Software is for the Beginner and will give you enough information to really give you a feel for how your niche is working. The Novice SEO'er will have so much information at their finger tips that they won't know what to do with themselves. They will see their backlinks and the link pages analysis, analysis of the site owners on-page SEO score and site rankings for specific keywords in search engines and if they are moving up or down.

2. The Intermediate SEO person will find a great tool when the Review Traffic Travis SEO Software. From the basic backlinks in the novice section to the more advanced keyword density and keyword analysis. That's not even all of it, there are reports and printouts to help with marketing your skill sets. The key benefit is that this software will be a one stop shop for all aspects of analyzing your sites and those under your supervision.

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INTERESTING

Small BLOG owners are finding it More and more difficult to rank in the search engines as people flow to the Internet. New BLOG owners often don't even understand just how important SEO is to the success of their BLOG until they have had their BLOG online for months. It's only when their BLOG begins to disappear into no where and traffic goes away that reality hits home.
Mark Ling, founder of SEO software Traffic Travis, says that at this point "BLOG owners" panic and use snippets of stuff they have put together from BLOGS and posts in a crazy approach to SEO that usually produces very little in the way of an outcome. Some site owners take some bad advice and end up watching their BLOGS slip even further down the search engines.
However, he says, it is not just newbies who struggle with SEO. Even experienced BLOGGERS find it challenging. "The cost and time involved in SEO can be very restrictive - we don't all have the resources of the BBC. Obviously something had to change."
Traffic Travis is SEO software designed to make ranking in the search engines achievable and easy for BLOG owners of all levels and understanding, without the need for a big budget. And the newly-released 3.0 version includes even more features to focus your SEO process.
"Search engine optimization does not have to be labor intensive or a monetary burden," says Ling. "Traffic Travis 3.0 offers a simple optimization system that can be put together quickly and easily using a variety of custom-created tools. The tools automate different stages of the research process, so that previously time-consuming research tasks can be achieved in minutes."
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"Say you're researching a competitor, and you want to look at their backlinks. Traffic Travis SEO Software will tell you this, and it'll also retrieve the IP addresses of the websites, the PageRank and the anchor text. All these are very important factors when assessing backlink quality. You can't judge a link on one of these factors alone, so any tool that doesn't give you all this information at once is only giving you a tiny portion of the picture."
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Email Marketing Help - Email Database for Small Business - Email Autoresponders for Small Business Websites

2009-08-21T09:45:00.000-07:00

Email Marketing Help -

When you sit down and really analyze email marketing it is very similar to newsletter marketing of years gone by. The biggest difference is that the message can be delivered for a limited cost and you get an almost immediate response. The biggest question in email marketing help normally deal with building an email database.

Building your database is a function of traffic to your site or to your location and actually asking for the right information to build that email database.

Email Database for Small Businesses-

An email database for small businesses has an extremely high value to the bottom line of that small business.

There are several tips and techniques to build your email database for small businesses and most are centered around the on page offer in exchange of the email database add and the targeted traffic sent to the site. Collecting email information on location may be a bit easier but it is commonly overlooked during the course of a normal transaction.

SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT TIP - If you plan on building an email database for your small business then you need to take every opportunity out there to collect this information. If this is done properly you will not only have a sizable database but you will have a push button system to extra income.

Email AutoResponders for Small Businesses -

An Email Auto Responder for Small Businesses is a very good idea. It builds your database and if set up properly will communicate with that database automatically for you once you set it up to do so.

There are lots of different options when it comes to Auto Responders but My choice is Aweber. It is easy to use and costs you about $20 initially to get set up!

Check out Aweber HERE!

There is so much more to learn and there are all types of directions to take this information. It is my hope that this sparked something inside of you to learn more. If you have questions or comments please fill in a comment below and I would be happy to help out!

Article Generator Review - Article Spinners - Article Submitter Software

2009-08-10T15:16:00.000-07:00

Article Generator Reviews - Article Spinner - Article Submitter

EDITORS PICK FOR ARTICLE SUBMITTER SOFTWARE

READ ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE ARTICLE SUBMITTER AND TRAFFIC GENERATION

2009-07-15T20:44:00.001-07:00

I am looking forward to the Sacramento Crab Feed... http://ping.fm/CPZMD

Listbuilding Basics and Website Traffic Techniques

2009-06-29T15:39:00.000-07:00

I recently have been asked to share my SEO Strategies on how I get people to rank their sites on the first page of Google and how to turn that traffic into leads. We called it the Listbuilding Basics and we did it all for FREE! I sat down with a friend of mine, John Guanzon, and we hashed out a couple ideas and an overview of traffic generation methods but more importantly how to build from the traffic to a list and beyond. These Listbuilding Basics are so easy to use and only require a $30 a month investment which is used for hosting and an auto responder program. Take a minute and watch the videos and tell me what you think. http://www.johnguanzon.com/free

4 Types of Gurus in the Online Marketing World

2008-12-12T17:47:00.000-08:00

4 Types of Gurus in the Online Marketing Worl4 Types of Gurus in the Online Marketing World

By Dave Sherwin

There are four types of online marketing pros. Guppies, Tuna, Sharks, and Whales. Here are the characteristics of each one, and what it takes for guppies to become whales!

Guppies. Guppies are small and uninspiring fish. Discovery channel doesn't have a single show about guppies. But in the online marketing world, most people start out as a Guppy.

Characteristics of Guppies:

Small. Translation: They have a small or non-existent marketing budget. They want to become a bigger fish, but are just learning the ropes. There are two types of Guppies: Those that truly want to improve their skills and income, and those that are always looking for somebody or some software that will increase their income without requiring more skills. The former will grow, the latter will always remain feeder fish for the Tuna, Sharks, and Whales.

Insignificant. Poor Guppies. They are unknown. They have a very small marketing list. The bigger fish either ignore them or eat them, and even the other Guppies don't care much about Guppies, they want to become Tuna, Sharks, or Whales one day, so they're paying attention to bigger fish.

Advice for Guppies:

- Take responsibility. - Stop being needy. Don't use loser language like, "If I could just find somebody to show me..." - Stop looking for quick fixes and "outside" solutions. - Look in the mirror, what you see is your problem AND your solution. - Stop expecting others to do anything for you. Until you take 100% responsibility you will always be a feeder fish. - A limited budget just means you have to work harder and be more consistent. - Don't let anybody steal your dream. - Find a way to make money outside of marketing. This is a business you have to feed for a while before it feeds you. Stop wishing for it to be otherwise. - Attend all the events you can. - Don't take advice from other Guppies. - Read "Think And Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. If you've already read it, read it again.

Tuna. Tuna are Guppies that have taken responsibility. They have found a way to build their list and make some money, usually on a limited budget.

Characteristics of Tuna:

Tuna understand the basics of online marketing. They often make their money marketing to Guppies and other Tuna. They usually wear all the hats in their business: Director of product development, marketing, content creation, accounting, promotion etc. They have a limited skill set.

Advice for Tuna:

- Don't pretend you're something you're not. - Be humble. - Don't blindly trust Sharks and Whales. Do your own thinking. - Develop your own marketing plan. - Don't let Sharks and Whales product launches dictate your online marketing tool set. - Master the fundamentals: Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click, and Social Marketing. - Don't spend your money, put it back into your business. - Use professionals as often as possible. Find the inexpensive online services that can build your sites and do some marketing for you. - Learn the difference between being a small time marketer and a business owner. - Get a part time Executive Assistant to do your busy work. - Focus on accomplishing at least one core money making activity every day. - Connect with Sharks and Whales. - Attend all the events you can. - Read "The Four Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferriss

Sharks. Sharks make money. They can quit their job. They control their personal financial world. Sharks organize the events that Guppies, Tunas, and other Sharks attend. They invite Whales and other Sharks to speak. Sometimes, they accidentally invite a Tuna or Guppy to speak, but they are eaten immediately afterwards.

Characteristics of Sharks: They are independent. They are proud. They are successful. They can eat whatever smaller fish they want to. They may decide to remain a shark forever, not realizing that they could be a whale.

Advice for Sharks:

- You can now eat Guppies and Tuna and make a great living, but to become a whale you ought feed them instead. - You probably have a big list full of Guppies and Tuna. Respect them, love them, and provide real value to them, and you will become a Whale through a natural process. - NEVER abuse their trust by offering them something that you haven't tested and proven yourself. - Don't talk down to them. - Focus on giving value. - Build your business team. Surround yourself with achievers. - Outsource everything humanly possible. - Remember, humility is a virtue, not a weakness. You aren't always the smartest person in the room. - Join Stompernet (It's not open all the time, but visit my blog below and search for it to get your name on the list) - Read "Good To Great" by Jim Collins

Whales. Whales cruise slowly through the oceans of the world with no worries about any other fish. They are rich. They are untouchable. They make millions of dollars a year. They can put up a new offer, announce it, and Voila! They get rich again. They are connected. They hang out with sharks and whales, and have almost unlimited Joint Venture possibilities.

Advice for Whales: I have no advice for whales. I'm just trying to become one. Once I do, maybe I'll come back and finish this article. Until then, I'll focus on helping more Guppies and Tuna!

Dave Sherwin is a Network Marketer who won the "Rookie of the Year" award in a large international network marketing company in 2006. He is the co-author of "Lighthouse Marketing", The Art And Science Of Attracting People Into your Network Marketing Organization. Learn the Lighthouse Marketing secrets at: http://escapethematrix.net/?why

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Online Marketing - Get More Clients With an E-Course

2008-12-09T17:44:00.000-08:00

Online Marketing - Get More Clients With an E-CoursOnline Marketing - Get More Clients With an E-Course

By Cathy Goodwin

If you want to get more clients, you probably have an ezine with a subscriber list. But what if you are just starting up your ezine and your list is small? Or what if you have alway done face-to-face networking and now you'd like to expand to online marketing?

When you're starting a new website or targeting a new audience, an e-course might make more sense. For example, suppose you are not sure if your market will be responsive enough to invest time in an ezine. And once you promise an ezine, it's hard to cut back and decide not to publish.

Or maybe you want to go on vacation or deal with a personal challenge. Your website will still be attracting visitors. Some of those visitors will be potential clients. There's no need to let all those visitors disappear without a trace. You can capture their names and email addresses with an e-course.

An e-course is a series of emails, each containing a short piece of information. You call each email a lesson. You set up a system to deliver these emails to those who opt-in with a specific request for your e-course.

But you have to follow a few guidelines.

1. Begin by writing a sales letter to promote your e-course. Why will readers want to sign up?

2. Choose a straightforward topic that addresses a specific, painful challenge. "Never be afraid of cold calls again" will probably draw more readers than "Introduction to sales."

3. Keep courses short. Most readers tend to tune out after five to seven days.

Once you are established in your market, your readers will welcome longer courses.

4. Time your message for every day or every other day. Readers have short memories. They'll forget you if you wait too long between messages.

5. Use copywriting strategies to hold reader interest and motivate them to view you as a resource when they're ready to take stronger action.

6. Aim for one take-away and one action step in each message. You'll give readers a taste of what to expect if they sign up to work with you. Most won't actually take these steps but they'll understand where you're coming from.

7. Sign up with a mailing system that hasn't been universally banned for overzealous mailings. There's no way you can manually track who's on which lesson. And you'll want an automated record of subscribers so you can follow up.

And now I invite you to find out more by visiting http://www.HookYourClients.com - Download my free report, 7 secrets of websites that *really* attract clients. From Cathy Goodwin, The Website Makeover Pro.

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Video Streaming - A Perfect Tool For Online Marketing

2008-12-05T17:42:00.000-08:00

Video Streaming - A Perfect Tool For Online MarketinVideo Streaming - A Perfect Tool For Online Marketing

By Menno Spijkstra

Video streaming is considered to be one of the best tools in internet marketing these days. It is likened to television commercials. Advertisements on television are considered to be the best advertising media that could really capture a large number of audiences. All television commercials are designed to appeal to its target audience through flashy videos, good music, and easily retainable tag lines. In this way, consumers can easily remember the brand when they do their shopping. As with video streaming, online advertisers also aim to make the same impact on their customers. For newbies in video and audio streaming, you can avail of a comprehensive beginner's guide to streaming media.

It will help you start and create video and audio streaming for your web page. It is undeniable that most people's attention these days can easily be captured through visual media especially a moving one. When people see an interesting video on television, they usually stop to watch or to glance. That is one advantage of video streaming. It can arouse the curiosity of people surfing the net. Online marketers have seen the advantages of using video streaming for their online advertisements. It can capture the attention of many people online than just plain text or still photos. Moving video or animation are still the best advertising tools to arouse people's curiosity.

It is more effective when humor or suspense is integrated in the video advertisement. If you intend to use video streaming as a marketing tool, learn how to do video streaming now by using a manual that will teach you all about video streaming in an easy and proven way. Using video streaming for internet marketing will surely get more attention from your prospective customers. However, you have to know that you also need to make your videos interesting enough to keep your audiences. You have to be creative by continuously knowing what your customers are interested about, what they want to see and hear, and you fuse these ideas in your video advertisement.

If you want to start right in unlocking the potentials of video streaming for your online business, you need to have a jam-packed guide to media streaming. It will help you generate cash for your business. However, getting manuals on streaming media will not promise you to rake in money in an instant. It will teach you the ins and outs of streaming media though. Your technical knowledge must go with creativity and marketing strategies. Video is indeed the most efficient tool when it comes to getting your message to your customers because it can give your customers a better picture of what you are selling.

Remember that people will remain very curious beings. That is why you have to update and continuously improve your videos to satisfy and maintain your customers' curiosity. If your videos are old, you can replace them with newer ones so that your customers would keep looking forward to new advertisements to watch on their screens. When you keep them curious, you also get to keep their attention. And when your product is already embedded in their memory, they will have great possibilities of buying your product in the future.

The author of this article Menno Spijkstra is an Internet Marketing specialist who has been successful with several affiliate programs for many years. Menno finally decided to share his knowledge and experience through his website http://www.AffiliateDistrict.com. You can sign up for his free newsletter and join his coaching program.

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Improve Your Internet Marketing With a Virtual Assistant

2008-12-02T17:37:00.000-08:00

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Improve Your Internet Marketing With a Virtual Assistant By Chuck Jaymes

In today's technologically advanced business world, having a highly visible website is as important as carrying a business card. A well-designed Internet marketing campaign can provide you with an edge on the competition, which in invaluable in these tough economic times.

Using a virtual assistant to perform your Interment marketing can provide a significant boost to your business without spending large sums of money. Controlling overhead costs is especially important in this turbulent economy. One of the great advantages of having an online business is that it usually doesn't require lots of on-site employees. A huge portion of administrative, sales and marketing functions can be performed off-site by virtual assistants.

Internet marketing, also referred to as online marketing, web marketing or e-marketing is the promotion of products and/or services via the Internet. Establishing a viable Internet presence requires building credibility to showcase your products or service. You want the major search engines to view your site as an "authority" site in your given field.

Effective Internet marketing can be both daunting and time consuming. A well-trained virtual assistant can help solve both of these problems. These are some of the vital areas of Internet marketing that can be performed by a skilled virtual assistant:

1. Social networking sites

2. Video & podcast marketing

3. Product launch

4. Blog & forum postings

5. Article/press release distribution

6. Newsletters

7. Banner Ads

8. Custom designed email marketing campaigns

9. E-books

10. Competitor analysis

All of these tasks require certain skill sets and are time consuming. Letting a virtual assistant handle your online marketing frees you up to concentrate on the core necessities of your business. If you have reservations about the quality of work performed by virtual assistants, listen to the pros who know.

Internet marketer Jeff Mills has operated his Internet marketing firm Goldmills Marketing since 2003. Mills has a firm grip on the value of outsourcing Internet marketing tasks to virtual assistants. "I first heard about the concept of using outsourcers from one of my online marketing mentors back in 2004, who was making millions per year. I asked him how he worked so little, launched multiple products per year, and still had enough free time and he told me it was because he "outsourced" all his projects through Internet vendors that he was able to live with sanity, work less and still increase his revenues!" exclaims Mills.

Increasing your online sales while freeing up more time for yourself is a no-brainer. Discover how a virtual assistant can greatly improve your online marketing.

About the Author - Chuck Jaymes writes frequently about Virtual Assistant topics and Virtual Assistant Services for Virtual Assistant.Org

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The Top 5 Best Selling Affiliate Marketing Books

2008-11-20T17:09:00.000-08:00

Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich This is the most comprehensive guide to treating affiliate marketing as a hard-core business. Written by a highly successful affiliate marketer, "Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online" is the definitive guide to planning, implementing, and managing a successful affiliate business on the Web. Rosalind Gardner reveals pearls of wisdom from her firsthand experience, showing you how to identify a niche with a huge market, research and understand that market, and sell the benefits of the products you represent. Offering numerous time- and cost-saving techniques, she presents a five-step plan to assessing a product or service to promote, 12 ways to increase website traffic, and 20 questions to ask before joining an affiliate program. Affiliate Millions: Make a Fortune Using Search Marketing on Google and Beyond For more than a decade, the Internet has allowed people to make substantial amounts of money on both a full time and part time basis. Today, with even more online opportunities available than ever before, you can achieve a level of financial success that most people only dream about and in "Affiliate Millions", author Anthony Borelli will show you how. With the help of co-author Greg Holden, Borelli will show you how to make thousands, and eventually tens of thousands, of dollars each month through the process of paid search marketing and affiliate advertising. Along the way, they'll also share the secrets to mastering this often overlooked strategy and provide you with the tools and techniques needed to maximize your potential returns. Since making one million dollars through paid search marketing and affiliate advertising in his first full year of operations, Anthony Borelli has never looked back. Now, he wants to help you do the same. Filled with in depth insights and practical advice, "Affiliate Millions" will introduce you to this profitable endeavor and show you how to make it work for you. Successful Affiliate Marketing For Merchants Affiliate marketing has become a buzzword among Web marketers today. Since payment is based on performance, the cost of affiliate marketing is far less than any other online marketing vehicle. If you're an online business, it is estimated that the cost of acquiring a new customer on the Net can range from $75 to as much as $200 per person. Affiliate Marketing can solve this problem with little or no out-of-pocket costs. It can be done by anyone with a Web site with attractive content or any business with goods and services to sell, no matter how small the business is.This book will show anyone conducting business online, how to plan, implement, and manage a successful affiliate marketing program. The book will give marketing, advertising, sales and publicity professionals, as well as Webmasters, hands-on advice and guidance on how to find and implement affiliate programs available on the Net today. It will also provide case studies of successful programs as well as failures and scams to demonstrate and teach the lessons of building a successful program.The reader will find valuable Web resources such as tracking software and contract templates with the guidance of this book. There will also be direction for the reader to focus the content and develop the right affiliate model for the type of business. Strategic Affiliate Marketing Even though it can be argued that affiliate marketing is an old phenomenon, in a rapidly changing online business environment, it is still a new and developing business area. This highly topical book contains a thorough analysis of affiliate marketing, including theoretical and practical considerations. Strategic Affiliate Marketing acts as a unique guide for both practitioners and academics on how to approach affiliate marketing. The authors explain the core values as well as challenging and combining established marketing theories in the light of new online marketing activities, taking into account the characteristics of the Internet and interactions among various participants and agents. Rather than arguing the rights and wrongs in absolute terms, this book presents a strategy for engaging in affiliate marketing. The authors also examine what considerations should be taken into account before doing so, as well as investigating how to optimise resources once fully active in this area. This fascinating book focuses on how to build long term relationships with online partners, while gaining value and optimising resources. As such, it will be of special interest to academics and students of management, marketing and business. Online advertisers and online media will also find this a valuable tool with which to understand the potential of their online return of investment. Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires Getting rich on the Internet is no longer about IPOs and venture capital. These days, it's easier and cheaper than ever to start an Internet business. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to make big money online. Exclusive interviews with "mom and pop" entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a business that will make millions. Filled with practical pointers and inspiring interviews, it's the most accessible, uplifting book ever on starting and enjoying a super-lucrative online business. Sandra J Smith specializes in designing affiliate marketing websites, guides and blogs, for more information please visit : http://affiliate-marketing-2000.blogspot.com/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sandra_J_Smith

How to Start an Internet Business and Make Money From Affiliate Marketing

2008-11-18T17:08:00.000-08:00

For many years I had been hearing that many people -and I mean common fellows not gurus- were making a lot of money on the internet by way of marketing online. When I finally decided to take a shot at this internet business thing, I really got and remained lost for quite a while and I almost abandoned the quest to make money online, because everywhere turned I got scammed by some website offering to make me rich by the end of the week. It is obvious to me now that such offerings are the classic signal that we are before a con artist, but at that time I had no idea where to start, so everything sounded great to me until I really got my firsts tastes of tough internet business reality. After many failed attempts and harsh experiences, I think I am in the position to tell you how and where to start, and what to do in order to make money online. First, I will tell you that probably the best place to start is affiliate marketing, because in this field you will need a very small initial investment and your internet business expenses will be near zero, plus once you have developed your business structure you will be able to benefit more and more from the power of automation allowed by the internet. Second, I must tell you that the only way to realistically start making money from affiliate marketing is by getting access to education and business oriented tools. This does not mean that you have to go to college and study during a three year period in order to start working on your business development. No, you do not have to go through that, because you see, the remarkable thing about affiliate marketing is that it is not quantum physics, it is far simpler than you think, but as much as it might be simple it will demand that you set you mind to learning mode and put your brain power at the disposal of your personal development for a few weeks. However, after a week or two into a good learning resource I can assure you will start seeing results, no matter if you have not ever done anything internet related. Believe me, this is how I started and I have managed to become a near expert in the field in less than 6 months and affiliate marketing is today my main source of income. Of course, I started seeing these results only after I landed on the right places to find actual internet business education and the necessary tools and resources to build and run a successful affiliate marketing operation. So it is perfectly possible for you to start a profitable internet business based on affiliate marketing, but honestly, if you really want to make money you have to forget about easy money and start thinking about learning and working hard at least in you early stages. If you are interested in honest and reliable educational resources and business oriented tools to help you get a solid start within affiliate marketing and other online business opportunities visit this site Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alex_Cadens

Virtual Affiliate Training a Must

2008-11-16T17:06:00.000-08:00

If you're a website owner with good products to sell, operating an attractive affiliate program is a sure way to boost sales and profits well beyond the figures you could expect to generate by your own efforts alone. Common sense tells us that's true. Having affiliates promote your products is good for business, period. That said, however, the way most affiliates go about it leaves much to be desired, and huge room for improved performance. Which is not to say it's any fault of their own. We're talking lack of know how, that's all. While they might already be bringing in sales for you, and commission for themselves, in most cases they're just riding their own enthusiasm along a path of trial and error that stops them pulling in anywhere near the consistent volume of business they could, and should, be getting. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not knocking enthusiasm. Hell, none of us is going anywhere without it, that's for sure. But you and I have to accept that a good work ethic and all the enthusiasm in the world won't get the job done right unless that enthusiasm is properly channelled, and fuelled by a comprehensive knowledge of affiliate marketing. Getting that comprehensive knowledge seems to be the big stumbling block for most people. But, stumbling block or not, such knowledge has to be acquired if you really want the rich rewards from this business. Listen, if you have a business idea, even a brilliant one, and approach the bank for start up finance they won't give you a blank cheque or any sort of cheque, just a blank stare, unless you can show them a sound, detailed business plan. Those bank guys are realists who want to be satisfied you're clued up on all aspects of the venture. If you don't have a plan they know you're not clued up, and if you're not clued up they figure you're going to fail. They're not often wrong, are they. The same with building a house. The eventual result always reflects the foundations. If the setting out is wrong, the project is doomed. Or at least the finished job won't be right no matter how good the skills of the guys trying to cope with that predicament. And if you want to learn how to drive, who do you go to. Do you go to a friend and have a laugh racing round the streets with them, taking in their unstructured advice and picking up their bad habits, then just hope you'll somehow get through the test. Or do you go to a guy who's not necessarily there to help you have a good time but who is qualified to turn you into a safe and competent and, hopefully, excellent driver. Okay, affiliate marketing is different to the above because you sure don't need any bank loan to start out as an affiliate, and the only test you're going to face lies in how much highly targeted traffic you can drive to your chosen sites. But the need for thorough groundwork is a common thread running through all that's been said here. So, how do you get to know all the stuff you need to know to be a high achieving affiliate, and without it taking forever. By learning the right things, and learning them the right way. Join me at http://www.virtualaffiliateadvisor.blogspot.com for expanded thoughts on the right kind of learning and the whole affiliate opportunity. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sammy_Taylor

Secret Affiliate Code That Will Boost Your Revenue

2008-11-16T17:04:00.000-08:00

Are you an affiliate marketer who is struggling to make money with your online business? Then you need to know about a new product that is taking the internet by storm, the Secret Affiliate Code. This affiliate code will change how you look at affiliate marketing and how you do business. This Secret Affiliate Code review will show you why getting this amazing product are a must for anyone, whether you are a newbie or are more experienced. The Secret Affiliate Code was created by Craig Beckta. You may be asking, who is Craig Beckta? Craig is a normal guy just that has cracked the secret to making money with affiliate marketing. He has joined the ranks to top super affiliates online and has earned their respect. Plus, he has figured out many different ways that you can get lots of free traffic and you don't even have to have your own list to make money. Using his free traffic methods he was able to make $6,000 dollars in just one week time. It sounds impossible to do right? Well, it is really not. With the Secret Affiliate Code you will learn how to use the same free traffic methods that Craig uses. This system is set up so that anyone can get the large amounts of traffic and start making money from that traffic right away. This Secret Affiliate Code review will tell you a few of the amazing things you will receive with this amazing system. There is no way to tell you everything about what you will get or how this system can help you because Craig has over-delivered on this product to make sure you have nothing stopping you from having your own successful internet business. So, here are a few of the things you will get. 1. You can easily learn how to dominate the first page of Google. The Secret Affiliate Code will show you how to get the first, second and even the third position for any keyword. 2. Free traffic methods that you can use right away and you don't even need Google to get this traffic. 3. Learn how to spy on your competition in ways that you would never have thought to use. 4. Find out with the Secret Affiliate Code how to outsell the gurus. This alone is worth getting this system for. These are just a few of the important things you will learn about with the Secret Affiliate Code. You have found out only a little of what you will be able to learn with this Secret Affiliate Code review, now you have to check it out for yourself or you will end up regretting it. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Paul_Matthew_Moore

The Millionaire Affiliate Coach

2008-06-23T23:19:00.000-07:00