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Affiliate Buzz #211 – Affiliate Marketing Coaching – Is It Right For You?

published Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 7:07 am by

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Are you considering doing your own podcast? Do you have an idea to publish your own eBook? Have you been thinking about creating a community site? Is your website performing poorly? Are You A Former (or Current) Student Wanting Some Personal Attention? Do you have something else in mind?

In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz, James Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author and his wife and co-host Arlene Martell touch on each of those questions as they discuss a simple way to take your business to the next level.

Whether you are just starting out or have had your business online for a while the time comes when you wonder, “Am I really getting the most out of my business?” The reality is everyone can find a way to improve their revenue. All it takes is the ability to recognize where to look and how to move forward. Read the rest of this entry »

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Affiliate Buzz #210 – Affiliate Adventure Travel – FREE Internet Start Page Helped Make It Happen!

published Sunday, July 10th, 2011 at 10:45 pm by

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In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz audio newsletter James Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author and his wife and co-host Arlene Martell talk with Jonathan and Carrie Kraft from CarrieAndJonathan.com about one secret weapon that can make your dreams come true!

Two weeks ago Jonathan and Carrie joined the Buzz as they discussed their affiliate successes and how they have been touring the world. Many listeners were impressed with their story but few thought it could be a reality for them. This edition of the Buzz brings this successful traveling couple back on the call to share the secret weapon that took them across the globe. Read the rest of this entry »

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Affiliate Buzz #209 – How To Earn $100 A Day As An Affiliate Marketer

published Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 7:44 pm by

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In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz podcast James Martell, successful author, publisher and speaker talks with Karen Garcia, outsourced program manager and Co-Founder of GTO Management about a simple plan outlining how to earn $100 a day as an affiliate marketer.

For some the thought of earning $100 a day from affiliate programs is a goal they are striving hard to achieve and for others it seems too far out of their reach despite the work they’ve put in. Whichever group you’re in I’m sure you’ll agree that a solid plan can help bring that $100 goal much closer!

That’s what Karen and James aim to do during this edition of the Buzz. They aim to bring you closer to that goal with fewer mistakes. And what makes these two good candidates from getting you from A to Z? Both have been in the industry since the beginning, one is a top affiliate and the other has been managing programs with these top affiliates for years giving them both top knowledge on what it takes to really make it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Affiliate Buzz #206 – How Many Backlinks Do You Need To Earn a 5-Figure Income?

published Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 5:59 pm by

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In this edition of the Affiliate Buzz audio newsletter James Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author talks with wife and co-host Arlene Martell about what it takes to earn that five figure income online.

Is earning a five figure income even a reality in the online industry of affiliate marketing? There are plenty of affiliates who can tell you it most certainly is, but now without commitment and hard work. Climbing up the ladder of success online is no different really than climbing the ladder in a more traditional career, except maybe you can climb higher online. Read the rest of this entry »

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Quick Tips for Beginning Freelancers: Get Your Skills Noticed

published Thursday, April 4th, 2013 at 5:57 pm by

Working as a freelancer can be a very rewarding and fulfilling experience regardless of what your specific skill set may be. However, one of the biggest challenges in beginning a freelancing career often involves getting oneself noticed. Being a new freelancer often means coming into the game with few or no contacts at all, making it difficult to find work at the onset and leading to understandable frustration. Fortunately for those who are looking to begin working as a freelancer, there are plenty of helpful tips out there for getting oneself noticed. So if you are considering freelance work in your field, read on to find out more!

Consider Starting a Website

Regardless of your specific level of knowledge when it comes to web design, all freelancers should have their own website. Not only is this a great way to make yourself discoverable to those looking to hire freelancers in your line of work, but a website is a great way to establish a professional ethos and to showcase your work and skills. In a sense, such a website can function as a working portfolio that can be expanded with each new job that you take on.

Of course, not everybody is a web guru, so starting your own website as a freelancer can be a challenge. Luckily, there are some great tools out there these days that have made it easier than ever to build a website. For example, you could consider starting something as basic as a free WordPress website, where they have both free and paid templates available for you to choose from ans customize your page with. Furthermore, if you want something a little more personalized and tailored to meet your needs, you may even want to consider paying for an affordable web design service.

Blog Away!

Once you have established your own website, you can increase traffic to it by having a blog on your site where you discuss the services you offer, recent projects you have taken on, and other interesting information about you or the field you work in. This is a great way to make your website easier to find in search engine results and will likely lead to more work from clients in the future.

Practice Self-Promotion

Make sure you’re doing all you can to step out into the world and let people notice you. Look for events to showcase your work like trade shows, art galas, and parties. Sometimes all you need is a bit more social mixing and mingling to find the clients you’re looking for. If you can find a way to showcase your work for free at some of these events, it can really boost your business.

Guerrilla Marketing

Get into the practice of guerrilla marketing for your business. There are some great books on amazon on this topic and it can be a free way to gain more visibility. If you’re an artist, a photographer, or a writer, you’ll find Guerrilla marketing can be easy with the skills you already have.

The main thing here is you’ve got to put yourself out there, and you’ve got to be hustling. We all want to escape the 9-5 but before you do that, you’ll need to put the work in and build up your clientele. Stay hungry, and you’ll soon find that it’s certainly possible to make a living doing what you love.

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Vicky Hyde is a freelance writer and photographer with experience in finding clientele as a freelancer. In her spare time she enjoys scenic hiking and mountain biking.

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Seven Tips for Making Money as an Affiliate

published Thursday, April 4th, 2013 at 5:49 pm by

Affiliate marketing is not a new concept, but it has enjoyed a huge surge in popularity over the past few years. Thanks to widespread Internet access and one-click WordPress installers, anyone can set up an affiliate website. This means that competition in the affiliate marketing space is fierce. Only a small percentage of affiliate marketers actually make a decent living out of their sites. These tips will help you to become one of those successful affiliates.

1. Choose an interesting niche

One mistake that novice affiliate marketers make is trying to pick too broad of a niche. They decide that they will sell “books” or “video games”, or, worse, they sign up for every affiliate program that their chosen network offers in the hopes of making a lot of money quickly. This strategy doesn’t work.

It’s hard to start a successful website about books, because if someone wants a book they’ll go to Amazon.com – however, if you were to set up a site devoted to vampires and werewolves, and promoted scary books and movies related to that subject, you’d have a fighting chance at creating a community. It helps if you know a lot about the niche you’re going to work in, too.

2. Put content first

When you’re building your affiliate website, focus on content first. Users don’t like to feel like they’re being sold to. Produce some interesting, informative content and save the monetization until you have a decent audience.

Continuing the previous example, you could write blog posts about the latest horror films, review some of the newest scary books or create a discussion about famous vampire and werewolf folk stories. This’ll make your site look and feel better, and generate some more visits and trust for it.

3. Use calls to action

Remember that monetizing your users means more than simply cluttering up your website with banner ads. Most regular internet users are ad-blind, or have an ad-blocker to hide advertisements for them. Instead of littering your site with ads, write about the products that you like, and use calls to action to encourage people to check those products out.

This’ll also feel far more natural and legitimate, which will likely make people more willing to click and buy.

4. Build your mailing list

Don’t rely on passing traffic to make money out of your affiliate program. Create a mailing list and offer people an incentive to join it. That incentive could be a free ebook, some money off coupons, or an entry into a prize draw. Get people to sign up, provide them with some great content via email, and start pre-selling to those customers, gradually.

5. Don’t over-sell to your list

It’s true that your mailing list is the thing that will make you money, but you shouldn’t go over-board trying to sell to your subscribers. Pre-post a steady stream of informative emails that do not include sales pitches. Insert the occasional pre-sales pitch into those mails, and then send the occasional sales pitch. For example, you could send out a series of “Get great abs for summer” emails, and at the end of that series, send a mail promoting a super-food or fat burning supplement. If your users liked and appreciated your informative mails then they’ll be more receptive to the sales pitch.

If you try over-selling to your mailing list, you might soon find the number of people subscribed to your list quickly dropping – and that, clearly, is not something that you want.

6. Invest in web design

If you want your visitors to trust your website, you need to make it look professional, clean and modern. Avoid pixelated, cheap looking clip-art, well-known stock photos and free themes.

WordPress is a platform often chosen to run an affiliate site from as it allows you to set up an easy to use website incredibly easily, fully enabling you to customise it to suit you and your product through different themes and options.

Professional or bespoke themes can add an extra layer to your site design and help to sell your product much more effectively, while avoiding it from looking the same as any other WordPress site using the same free theme. If you can’t afford to buy a professional looking theme for your site, at the very least take the time to customize the free theme you decide to use.

7. Cross sell within your own site

If you find that you’re getting a lot of traffic to certain pages, but people aren’t staying on your site, do something about it! Make it easy for your visitors to see what you have to offer. Prominently display links (or even ad-style buttons) inviting users to check out your other ebooks, your discount codes, or other related products. If you’re using WordPress, install a related posts plugin to help with this. The longer people stay on your site, the more likely they are to buy something.

Follow this advice and you’ll be well on your way to becoming a successful affiliate marketer – but the rest comes down to you.

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This post was written by B. Frisby on behalf of Clicksure; find out more about them on their help centre.

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The Greatest Benefits to Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service

published Thursday, April 4th, 2013 at 5:30 pm by

The increased need for security when online is nothing new. The only difference is that more people are starting to pay attention and see the need for a better and safer way to connect to the web. One of the top solutions that you could consider when you are looking for a safe method, whether you are an individual or you are running a business, is a VPN service. The virtual private networks really do have quite a few benefits that users will be able to enjoy. The following are some of the ones that users seem to appreciate the most.

Better Security

When you are using a VPN to connect to the networks, you will find that you have great security. Those who want to look at what you are doing online will not be able to do so, which means that you do not have to worry about any hackers gaining access to your private information.

Send and Receive Encrypted Data

You are going to be able to send and receive encrypted data, which means that the files and you send are going to be truly private. People are not going to be able to break through the encryption.

Remote Access for Businesses

One of the best features of VPNs that businesses are going to love is the fact that they are going to be able to access information remotely. If they are at home, or in just about any location, they will still be able to have access to the files and information they need. This can actually help to improve the company’s productivity since employees will be able to work from anywhere. Best of all, they do not have to worry about prying eyes.

Easy to Share Files

Another great thing that businesses should enjoy about VPNs is the fact that it is going to be easy for them to share files with one another. This is helpful when a team at the workplace is working on the same project and they need to be able to access files no matter where they are.

True Anonymity on the Web

One of the benefits that everyone will love is the fact that they are truly anonymous when they are using a VPN. They can browse the web without worrying, and they will be able to access applications just as easily as sites while remaining hidden.

No Blocked Sites

No more worries about filters on the web or blocked sites. By using a VPN, you are going to have much more access to all of the places that you need to be on the web. This is the reason that many countries that have restricted web access have a large number of people who are starting to use VPNs. You can simply change your IP address to another country where the VPN has a service, and you should not have any trouble accessing sites blocked in your own country.

Achieve Better Performance

Those who start to use VPNs often find that the efficiency of their network actually improves as well. This can be helpful to anyone who has to use the network, as it means more speed and less time waiting.

The costs of using a VPN are quite low, and you can see just how many benefits it truly offers. It is easy to understand why so many people today are gravitating toward this type of service. It really can be quite beneficial. You should take the time to weight your needs and the benefits you’ve seen here and then decide whether a VPN is right for you.

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Veronica Clyde reviews the best VPN providers at VPNServices.net. She loves to share Online Security, VPN technology and Blogging tips.

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Online Marketing: How It Is Really Beneficial

published Thursday, April 4th, 2013 at 11:18 am by

Since past few years, the idea of internet marketing seems to be flourishing over the world. Countless business whether they operate online or offline, are using online marketing for a wide range of benefits and its importance seems to be increasing with every passing day. Due to this, you could witness a fierce kind of competition over the online world. Now, you will find the online marketers trying a number of ways to beat the competition and prosper in their marketing efforts.

Online marketing is beneficial for any size business and the smaller ones are yielding one of the best benefits out of it. If you know the number of techniques, which work perfectly then you can benefit the most from this approach. In fact, considering the huge amount of people accessing internet, asking a question whether the online marketing approach can really prove beneficial to you would be a little naive thing. If you check the number of benefits attached to this approach, you will certainly not ask this question.

You can reach out to a bigger audience

One of the best benefits of online marketing approach is that it is known for having the global reach, which helps in challenging all geographical locations and boundaries. The web is a medium, which helps your potential customer from any place to come in touch with you without any hassle. Hence, you could conveniently eradicate the customary geographical boundaries and come in touch with a wide range of clientele base seeking the help of appropriately implemented web advertising planning. You could even come across with your overseas marketplace and thus enhance your overall commercial projection to a great extent with a number of online marketing techniques. This you would fail to achieve with other traditional marketing approaches.

Cost effective solution

The business of marketing and advertising is big and you need good amount of money to reap the benefits from these traditional marketing methods. Fortunately, this is not the case with the internet marketing approach. It is pretty cost effective as compared to the traditional options. You can reach to wider audiences at less cost as compared to the other traditional methods.

Easy to implement

The other big benefit you could reap from internet marketing approach is that you could easily manage and customize your online marketing programs. Any modifications over the approach could be essentially incorporated in the overall marketing plans at any stage to get better and quicker results. The efforts and money you are putting in your online marketing strategy could be easily tracked and analyzed as these are very much complex unlike the traditional marketing options, which need a committed marketing professional. You also have the option of hiring any professional internet marketing firm or could carry out things on your own with good study and research, which is not possible with other forms of marketing.

Real time tracking

The best benefit you could enjoy with the online marketing efforts is that you could translate the results in a most conspicuous way. To put in other words, you have the option of statistically defining whether the internet marketing campaigns are reaping out any positive outcome along with knowing the exact number of hits being actually converted into your real consumers. One of the big benefits of online marketing is that it could help you in showcasing as much information about your products or services. This is certainly not possible with the help of traditional marketing mediums; you will never be able to find the real time targeted tracking with the traditional marketing options.

Successful brand promotion

In a big ad world of traditional marketing tools and techniques, you need some amount of the box kind of approach to make your brand a standalone one in your niche market. However, this is not the case with internet marketing; here you get a wide range of tools, which can help the businesses and companies to stand alone in the market. You are supposed to preserve and institute the constructive patron trustworthiness and brand responsiveness. Apart from the methods like word to mouth campaign and other options found over the web, your website alone could act like an important advertising tool.

Having an updated site with the meticulous contextual services, which have the potentials of attracting your potential clients and their inquisitiveness, can help in promoting your brand in your niche market.

Final word

The internet marketing approach has proved out to be a great savior for a wide range of businesses all across the world. It has changed the fate of a number of small and medium size businesses to a great extent, hence asking such question, whether it is a beneficial approach is really not relevant in today’s modern world.

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Kelly is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Commenting Engine.

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Benefits of Utilizing the Best Niche SEO Keywords and Terms

published Thursday, March 28th, 2013 at 9:20 am by

The keywords that you choose are going to be some of the most important items that you have in your SEO campaign, and that means you have to make sure that you are choosing the right ones. You have to make sure that they are the right keywords for your business now, but you also want to make sure that the keywords are going to be able to retain their relevance for the future. If the keywords are going to fall out of favor in a year, this could actually have a bit of a negative effect on your page ranking.

While popular keywords might work in some instances, it is about more than choosing just the most popular ones. In fact, when you have only the most popular keywords, you will find that you are going to run into a bit of trouble because it can take so long to start gaining real traction. Instead, you are going to need to have keywords that will be able to be somewhere in the middle that have less competition but that still get enough usage to make them viable for the long term. You will find that they are able to offer quite a few advantages.

Not as Competitive

One of the best things about using some great narrow niche keywords is that you should not have to worry quite so much about the competition. When you start to consider your niche more carefully, you will find that it is going to be easier to gain attention. For example, if you have a company that sells t-shirts, you will find that using just that as a search term is going to be a bad idea. Imagine how many other companies are using that same term and are competing for space on the web. Consider the advantages of narrowing your term to something such as “young men’s zombie t-shirt”. This can help your audience find you easier.

Convert Your Visitors

Because of the niche aspect of the keywords, the people who are using those terms are already looking for something specific. Because they have an interest in your niche, they are already a few steps closer to becoming actual customers. When you are utilizing the niche words properly, you will find that you can often have a higher conversion rate of visitors to sales on your site. That’s the goal!

Easy to Develop a Campaign

One of the other things that you will find when you have these niche keywords is  that developing a campaign for your marketing is easier. You are certainly going to be able to make sure that you are keeping your phrases to the point with your onsite content,
and you can do the same with your PPC ads and more. Knowing the niche words can help you focus all of the different elements of your campaign, which can make the process more effective and provide a better ROI.

When you commit to your niche, it can be easier for you to get a handle on your SEO in many cases. Take the time to look at the different aspects of your business and see what ways you are going to be able to start incorporating the niche words more into your content onsite and offsite. By using these SEO terms with your offsite content too, it really can help more people to find you as well as what you have to offer. The more links back to your site the better.

You will find that many of the Premium WordPress themes , and possibly the one that you are already using, are SEO friendly.  Make sure you utilize this feature fully for the best results!

About the Author:

Anny Solway is a dedicated writer at ThemeFuse – a leader in the premium WordPress templates area. She likes to discover new ideas about internet marketing, social media and blogging.

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