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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Top Online Business Models

Work At Home As Affiliate Marketer , e-book publisher or info product creator

Three Online Internet Business Models

1) Affiliate Marketing

This is perhaps the single most popular work at home internet business

model out there, seeing how the possibilities to

getting started are endless. Just about anyone can sign-up for an affiliate program for free and start

promoting products or services on the internet with hopes that someone will buy, giving them instant

commissions.

Affiliate marketers for the most part, do not carry any risk since they do not-

- pay for the creation of the product or service being promoted

- affiliates do not handle customer service of the actual product or service (maybe upsells or bonus offers)

- affiliates do not need any up-front investments (sometimes there are latent costs on websites,promos, ad

spend, outsourcing, and services- which all make your life tremendously easy.

When you consider that those are the top three things prospective business owners and online business owners

want to avoid, thats why its no surprise that there are hundreds and thousands of affiliates worldwide.

In fact, if there is a single reason why the internet today is so inundated with online ads and banner ads,

it's

because of affiliate programs and affiliate marketing alike.

Even though there are so many affiliate marketers out there, approximately the top 5% ever make any money

and only 1% of top affiliate marketers

make big money.

2)

E-book and Information Publishing

Authors, E book publishers, and information product publishers need to be a little more disciplined with

their approach to internet marketing business. Obviously, ebook publishers may also need to invest more

time,effort, and money than affiliates do. While affiliates can get away trying to "get something for

nothing" the same is not true for the e-book internet business.

If you're thinking about publishing and selling your own e-book online, and you think it's going to be easy,

think again. Online publishers typically need to learn a lot more about internet marketing than affiliate

marketers are required to, but this is not always true , as many affiliate marketers are online ebook

publishers as well. You'll need to spend some amount of money getting your business up and running.

The reason why e-book marketers and "online info products" usually make more money is simple; they have very

low overhead on

production, logistics, and maintenance costs.

Most info and digital products hardly cost anything when they are produced by the millions if necessary,

and usually initial start-up costs can be recouped by selling just a few copies of high-margin info products

and e-books.

One of the best perks to publishing info products and ebooks is that you can recruit an army of affiliates

whom are more than willing to spend time, money , and effort on selling for you. Just think Amazon, Ebay,

Clickbank, Affiliate Networks, and many other online marketing methods.

Obviously, it is usually not as easy as it sounds, but you would be surprised that when executed properly,

the "Info Products and E-book Publishing" online business model is a truly profitable and sound online

business idea.
3) Internet Based Network Marketing
Many people state that the internet and network marketing are a match made in heaven.

Although almost 90% of people get it wrong when it comes to Internet based network marketing.

A lot of online marketers in this business usually think they are talking about network marketing, but in

reality they are referring to affiliate marketing.

They try to make the internet do all the work for them while they hide behind their computers and pretend

everything will be fine. Typically this does not work,

as an affiliate marketer should be building relationships (online and offline) and utilizing other peoples

contacts and networks. You would be surprised at what you can accomplish and what opportunities may present

themselves with a little networking. This paragraph may sound like an oxymoron, but keep in mind you would

be

presenting your own opportunities to other contacts and networked contacts and vice versa.

Internet based network marketing and affiliate marketing are simple if you take the time to understand

it,learn it, and are also willing to put in the time,effort, and money .

The role of the internet currently is only to get you the names and contact details of people you can talk

to,

after which you, not a computer, has to build a relationship with said people and help them to start their

own internet business.

Utilizing social networking websites for related business contacts and also for online marketing purposes

have also proven to be very lucrative for a myriad of online and offline business owners.

Due to the above statement, it is not necessary for you to have some high-tech system and pretend that your

auto responder is building relationships for you, maybe for products , but not true networking contacts.

Developing real contacts and opt in email lists to further market and to further build customer/contact

relationships is a very tedious, time consuming, and exhausting process.

The key is to have simple systems -KISS - "Keep It Simple Stupid" systems that are easy and can be

duplicated, something

you can teach to all those contacts and customers you have built a relationship with over a period of time.

E-book authors, no matter what they say, have no obligation to teach you their "How to Become a Millionaire

Online Overnight” or any variations of that. The reason is simple; why tell anyone the absolute truth when

you would just end up as their competitor anyways? No one wants more competitors, right?
Internet based network marketing is very much the opposite of that. You need to tell people just about

everything you know or your online business will never take off.

For this reason alone, it has been recommended that if you're new to the online world, you need to first

learn everything you can about internet marketing, online advertising, and affiliate marketing .Information

overload can and will stop you before you even get started, thats if you let it.

No matter which internet marketing model, affiliate marketing model, or online business model you choose,

make sure you understand the basics of online marketing, and stop listening to and buying things that are

not applicable to your business plans.

Keep in mind that the more you outsource your daily , mundane tasks - the more you will be able to

effectively focus on growing and diversifying your online business. This ties back into your networked

contacts, whom can probably refer you to reputable internet marketing companies that they have used and/or

currently use themselves.


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Friday, October 1, 2010

Affiliate Marketing - Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

In the realm of internet marketing, there is affiliate marketing , which does not require having a website, or dealing with consumers, or refunds, or product creation and maintenance. Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and most powerful ways of launching an online business with next to no overhead, keeping in mind that you will eventually have to invest your time, efforts, and money.

If you are already signed up as an affiliate with an affiliate program, then you already have a basic overview of affiliate marketing. So the next question would be

" How Do I Generate Affiliate Income Like The Super Affiliates?"

Here are some extremely powerful affiliate marketing tips on how to supercharge your affiliate commissions sometimes overnight.

1. Research and find the best affiliate programs and affiliate products to promote. Moreover, you would want to promote an affiliate program that will enable you to achieve the greatest affiliate profits in the shortest amount of time possible. Patience, persistence, learning affiliate tactics , and having a plan of action for your affiliate marketing business are all a recipe for success. Typically things do not happen overnight, but if you find the right niche markets or other mainstream markets that already get a a lot of exposure you will be well on your way to achieving affiliate commissions.

When choosing which affiliate programs and affiliate products to promote, there are a number of factors to consider when selecting such a program. Find the affiliate programs that have a lucrative affiliate commission structure. Find related products that fit in with your target audience and niche markets. Make
sure any affiliate program or affiliate networks that you decide to sign up for has a proven track record of paying their affiliates easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, drop that affiliate program and keep seeking out affiliate programs that work for your particular market or vertical.

Currently there are thousands of affiliate programs online which allows any affiliate the means to be picky of which affiliate networks they sign up for and promote. Obviously when internet marketing and affiliate marketing , you are always researching new services, markets , and verticals and tracking the results from your affiliate marketing strategies.

Writing free reports or short teaser ebooks to distribute from your site is an excellent way to capture users information, which you can now use to do some backend affiliate email marketing . Keep in mind that there is a possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same affiliate
programs, affiliate products, and affiliate networks. This is why writing a short report related to the products you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish and brand yourself differently from the other affiliates.

When creating and writing these brief viral affiliate reports , provide some valuable and pertinent information for free while keeping in mind not to divulge to much information in one report. If possible, add some recommendations and reviews about the products that you are promoting. By utilizing viral ebooks or
viral reports are an excellent means of you gaining credibility for your brand.
Customers will notice that you are knowledgeable and they will be enticed to try out other affiliate offers you are promoting.

2- Collect and save all email addresses of consumers that download your free ebooks. It has been

statistically proven that consumers do not make a purchase on the first solicitation for the most part, keep

in mind also that it has also been statistically proven that it takes 6-7 follow up emails before an interested consumer purchases your affiliate promotions.

This is the reason why you should always collect the users contact information from those who have downloaded your free viral reports and viral ebooks. Email marketing and customer relations are an excellent way to gain more profits and also to keep customer retention up. As it has also been proven statistically proven that it is five times more expensive getting one new client then developing a relationship with your loyal followers.

Make sure when you always collect the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Affiliates always need to keep in mind that you are providing free online advertising for the product and service owners. You as an affiliate only get paid only when you make a sale. Sending prospects
directly to the vendors website is no longer a smart choice in the affiliate marketing world, and chances are that your prospect would be lost to you forever.This is why when you collect email addresses and their names, you will always be able to follow up with other affiliate marketing messages to them while earning a residual affiliate commission instead of a one-time sale only.

Another great means of affiliate marketing is publishing an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a complete stranger. The purpose behind publishing your own newsletter is it also allows you to develop a solid relationship while branding you as an expert in
whatever vertical works for you as an affiliate.

This affiliate marketing strategy boils down to a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials, blog posts , forum posts, and newsletters-
you will be able to build a sense of trust with your readers that may lead them to support you by buying more of your affiliate products and affiliate promotions.

3. Pay per click advertising as an affiliate can be very exciting if you know what you are doing. We highly recommend learning one PPC network at a time and start off with small keyword bids and daily limits per campaigns.

Writing effective Pay Per Click ads. PPC search engines are one of the most effective means of advertising

online and marketing online. As an affiliate, you can make a decent income just by managing multiple PPC

campaigns such as Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Network, and Microsoft ad center.

Please be very careful with PPC advertising as you can lose your shirt in practically minutes or even

seconds if you do not have a clue.
When you have your PPC campaigns you need to track and optimize for optimum efficiency,low costs per clicks

and better ad quality .You can also create different ads per ad group for split testing purposes, this

allows you to monitor your results with different ads to see which ones are performing better and which ads

are not doing well.

Do some further research into at the very least PPC advertising as this can bring instant traffic, but pay

per click advertising has its ups and downs as well. PPC advertising has become very popular which in turn

has driven up ad costs, now depending on which markets you are in as an affiliate, you should be able to

make any PPC campaign work for you but it is going to take time and and a lot of tweaking of ads,ad groups,

keywords and campaigns.

If and when you figure out PPC , you can ultimately generate a healthy income from your efforts.

If you are in need of affiliate management services, pay per click advertising services, or internet marketing services

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