Archive for October, 2008
October 31st, 2008
Why Affiliate Marketing is a Top Business Model
As an affiliate marketer you basically sell or pre-sell other people?s products or services. You refer leads to affiliate programs, write reviews on your blog about the products or place ads somewhere on the internet that people can click on, get redirected to the sales page, join the program or buy the product. The affiliate marketer does not sell anything directly; he s just spreading the word about a certain product or service he is affiliated with.
Compared to a product creation process with all of its time and money consuming requirements, affiliate marketing is an absolute no-brainer. An affiliate marketer has no production costs to cover, no employees to pay at the end of the month, no inventory to take care of, no order processing or shipping, no customer service and very low start-up costs. All in all there is little to no risk in being an affiliate.
As an affiliate you are not a sales person. You are only introducing potential buyers to the companies who have something to sell. The people you refer buy, join or they don’t. The affiliate gets the commission when a sale is made. There are hundreds of affiliate programs on the internet in a variety of different niches. Someone who has spent some substantial time marketing on the internet or maintaining a website has probably downloaded and read quite a few free reports and e-books on affiliate marketing. These reports talk about how to make money with affiliate marketing and each one of them has its own little approach but all of them mostly agree that it?s better to set up your own website or blog, search for a good converting product, drive traffic to that product sales page, get lots of back links to your site to rank high on the search engines, submit your website to directories, engage in web.2.0 or social marketing and so on.
This is a whole lot of work. Additionally it takes time to learn how to do these things if you are fairly new to marketing or the internet. At the same time your mailbox is overflowing with information and promotional emails and staying focused on a few important tasks sometimes compares to trying to swim a river upstream. Good organization and persistence in the first months, preferably having a personal mentor to talk to or exchange emails with, are the main factors which determine success or failure.
Technically speaking affiliate marketing is a business model for people like you and me. The learning curve may be different for different people. Are you open minded, creative and determined to succeed also in the long run? Then you will certainly hit gold. The question is: how long does it take? Nobody will be able to answer this question for you. You are the boss and the employee, the writer and the virtual assistant. The responsibility is totally yours - this is the beauty of work at home programs. The process of setting up an affiliate business in order to make a substantial profit to live on depends not only on the technical details I mentioned above. Far greater responsibility comes into play when things don?t work out the way they are supposed to.
Why do so many people start online and give up after a couple of months? Have you ever thought about it? In my opinion affiliate marketing is easy to learn and practice. But dealing with failure, rejection, negative expectations, however, a competitive market, debt or financial problems, health issues just to name a few, is far more complicated and distracting. In Times of national recession people have a tendency to search for more security. Will they find financial security as an affiliate marketer online - they will have to go through the process to find out.
October 31st, 2008
More and more people are using e-mail marketing in their business as a way to instantly contact hundreds if not thousands of prospects. However, few people fail to realize that there is a lot more to e-mail marketing than that.
E-mail marketing is no different than any other type of marketing, the same type rules apply. It is important to understand that e-mail marketing is just a tool and like any tool you must learn how to use it. Your goal should not be to make the sale, but to get the prospect to request additional information.
Most e-mail marketing is doomed from the start, in that over 90% of e-mails sent will never be read. Why is that?
1. Poor subject line - screw this up and the rest of your message is irrelevant.
Your subject line announces your e-mail and tells the reader if the message is important to them or not. Your subject line should do one thing and one only - get your reader to open the message and read the first sentence. Simply stating “You can make $20,000 in the next 30 days” just won’t cut it. In fact, a line like this will increase the chance that it will be considered spam. The more hyped your subject is, the less chance of getting a response. How do you attract the reader’s attention without hype? There’s no magic formula, but personalizing the subject line with your prospects name almost guarantees a second look. But name alone won’t get you great results; you still need to craft the rest of your subject line without the hype.
2. Don’t confuse the prospect in the first paragraph
Now that the prospect has opened up your message, another 90% or more of your prospects will not make it past the first sentence. Your goal is to get them to read the first sentence, which leads to the second and so on. Don’t state in the first sentence why you sent the e-mail message, how to opt-out, apologize for your message and for sure don’t state that this message is not spam! Every sentence should contribute toward moving your prospect towards your objective what ever that objective is. If your subject gets the prospects’ attention, the first paragraph should lead them into the rest of you message. You should always keep one thing in mind; your prospects only care about one thing - what is in it for them.
Provide your prospects with something of value and they will take you up on your offer. What do you have that can help them in making a decision? What can you give away that will be an asset to them? If you become a resource to your prospects you will see the quality and quantity of responses change for the better.
October 30th, 2008
If you are trying to sell things on the Internet and you do not have a blog, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Would you go to play golf without a putter?
Your competition is blogging and they are beating your pants off every day with ease. A part of blogging is submitting your articles to social directories.
Here are 3 reasons social marketing must be a part of your Internet business.
1. Social marketing is a popular way to get information. Directories like Digg and Netscape are quickly becoming the choice of people all over the world as a way to keep up to date on what is going on.
If you are not blogging and submitting to relevant social directories you are missing out on this easy form of traffic.
2. Social marketing is easy to do. Here’s what you need. You should get a WordPress blog and set it up so that you can quickly bookmark the top directories. Then you should post in your blog everyday. If you can talk and type you can blog.
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3. Social marketing is an interactive way to develop relationships with your readers. This has become know as Web 2.0 and it is important to the future of your business.
People still like to deal with people. This is an age-old sales trick that sometimes gets lost on the Internet. By making yourself and your blog interactive you become a real person. This will help increase your chances for sales and repeat sales.
4. Search engines love social marketing. You are making their life easy when you blog around keyword rich topics that a person researching can find. When you master the techniques of social marketing you will find you can get on page one of Google and other search engines very quickly.
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Do not wait until tomorrow to get started. Do it today and your Internet business will thank you.
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October 29th, 2008
Tools Clickbank Gives You
Before the world of the internet, you made money by offering services to customers. And part of what made you a success was a great set of tools. So we should not be too surprised that to be a success in the world of internet marketing, good tools will make or break you here too.
Clickbank is clearly one of the real hot online resources to make big profits from affiliate sales but you still have to know your tools and know your stuff to make it work. Anyone who takes advantage of Clickbank wants to become one of the great affiliates using the system. So like that smart mechanism, dentist or stone mason, using the tools that Clickbank gives you to become a success will make or break you in this virtual world of sales and marketing.
The ClickBank calculator is a powerful tool because knowing how to use it makes enables you to compute your commission on each product without having to have a degree in math. You can access the calculator at Clickbank site. Along with the calculator itself, this is where Clickbank lays out a table of most used prices so you can understand how the tool functions.
At “template” is a common format that you can use over and over again in any setting to save you from constantly coming up with a layout for a letter, a survey or some other form of communications. Often webmasters use one template for all the web pages on a site they are creating. It’s a great tool for standardizing what works and sticking with it.
Mass mailing through email is the backbone of any successful internet marketing campaign. While in this day and age, avoiding becoming a spammer is a science in itself, that doesn’t eliminate the need for a good mass mailing tool to add to your arsenal of tools you will use to reduce the work of running your online business. But because ClickBank knows that a tool to send out large amounts of emails to customers or prospective customers, they are there to give you a group email tool.
One problem that can become a nightmare to keep straight is what affiliates are to be considered future partners and which ones are future competition or “the enemy”. So a tool to organize your affiliate contact list can be gold when you get a large affiliate list which will happen when you become successful. In addition to keeping tabs who are already onboard with you as an affiliate ClickBank’s tools helps you track potential partners so you can contact them before they become “the enemy”. Better to join up with successful internet marketers and everyone work together.
Keyword optimization may be one of the hottest internet marketing tricks of the trade to really drive traffic to your website. Keywords are what Google and search engines use to rank web sites so if you have your keywords “optimized” that means your web site will perform well on Google or Yahoo or one of the other big search engines. ClickBank can help with finding the right keywords to optimize so as you build up your online content and article base, you are naturally driving traffic online to generate revenue from your site marketing tools. Using this tool well is just smart merchandising online.
This is just a sampling of the types of tools that ClickBank provides to make you a success. When you are a success, they are a success so take the time to learn to use these tools well and to discover the vast array of other tools out there from ClickBank so you can convert this knowledge into online gold for your internet business.
October 28th, 2008
There are a lot of reasons that Clickbank has been a successful gateway to internet profitability for so many people. But two big reasons so many findsuccess with the Clickbank system is that it is simple to understand and get started on quickly and everything in the Clickbank system works. It is such a well run Internet Marketing resource that a lot of people have turned to it as a payment gateway rather than PayPal or one of the other more well known funds processing agencies on the web.
Clickbank does an outstanding job of handling third party credit card transactions. And because everything about Clickbank is digital including all products and the means of delivery, the accountability for handling payments has to be absolutely rock solid dependable and trustworthy.
The ability for any internet marketer to quickly and easily become a Clickbank affiliate is another reason it is such a stunning success. It’s simplistic to select a product from the Clickbank marketplace once you have a free account on the service which you can easily set up on their web site. And once you have that account, Clickbank generates tracking codes so it can tell when you have selected a digital product and started promoting it online. This means with the simple step of creating an account, the door is open for you to sell ten thousand products on your internet marketing web presence with little more work than that. Suddenly you go from a newcomer to cyberspace to the owner of a Wal-Mart of the web.
Any marketplace in cyberspace or not relies on the meeting of sellers and buyers. And to be a success Clickbank also has to make it easy for creators of digital products to sell their goods through their marketplace too. For a seller, there is a fee to get started on Clickbank but considering that by putting their product into this marketer, it could get picked up by an army of 100,000 sellers, a $50 start up fee and a small percentage commission to Clickbank is entirely reasonable.
Now you just get your product into the Clickbank library. You might have to hold your breath to get a sale because you need one sale to get noticed by the marketing software in Clickbank. But once you are listed, the odds are somebody is going to pick up your product and begin to sell it. Clickbank tracks and records those sales scrupulously so other affiliates will start to pay attention as your sales pick up and before long you are making tons of sales being promoted by this sales army you never met and have no idea who they are.
Clickbank is a full service marketplace for the seller because you don’t have to find affiliates or even promote your product. Just get it out there and once the momentum of sales picks up, it can snowball into a huge seller for you. The profits roll into your Clickbank account and on your regular distribution cycles you established when you set up the account, Clickbank sends the money to your bank account.
October 28th, 2008
Tax Information and Deductions About Adsense and Other Online Businesses
These Tax Deductions are aimed at U.S. internet marketers. Keep in mind, these go hand in hand with your personal tax situation. Consult a tax attorney or other tax professional in your area. I never realized this until I started preparing taxes, but being aware of your tax situation all year is a must. Just by paying a little attention and learning the basic tax code, you can save thousands in taxes. It is your hard earned money, this money should be in your pocket, or in a interest bearing account.
Google Adsense and Similar Programs
Google Adsense is required to collect tax information from those who participate in the program. If you’re a business, you’ll need to put your EIN number on your application. If you’re an individual, all you’ll need is your social security number. If you don’t have that information when you initially sign up, you can still apply for the Google Adsense program. But be advised that Google Adsense will withhold payments to you until they receive your tax information.
While Google does not withhold taxes or provide any tax advice, they will send you a 1099 once your earnings reach a certain amount. Of course, if you are a Non-US business and have no activity in the United States, you will not need to provide this information. For more tax information regarding the Google Adsense program, visit the Google Adsense Support site. For other tax-related questions or concerns, you can log onto irs.gov. Google will also send a copy of the 1099 to the IRS, so you must report this income and pay taxes on it.
Software, Computers and Other Hardware
If you use your computer for 100% business, you can deduct the full of the cost of your internet service, phone, computer, printer, fax machine and copier, even your computer desk and other equipment. Say the PSU went out on your business computer. The entire cost to repair the PSU is deductible. Bought memory? Yep, tax deductible. You can take the section 179 deduction or depreciate the equipment. Software you buy for your business, your web hosting fees, domain registration fees, and the cost of ads you place across the Internet are also tax deductible.
I stress though, only the business costs can be deducted, nothing for personal use. For example, if you use your computer for 75% business and 25% personal use, you can deduct 75% of your yearly internet bill. If you have an online business, it is vital to keep accurate records. I would suggest keeping a log of hours you spend on business and personal use, like pizza delivery people do for driving, or should do.
Membership Site Fees
If you promote your business through traffic exchanges or safelists and you pay for upgrades or buy credits, these are also tax deductible. Membership fees for sites related to your business are also deductible. For example, say you sell PLR or Resell Rights products as your business, and you pay a membership site $29.97 a month for your products, you can deduct those fees. If you buy website templates and graphics for your business site, those are also deductible. Fees for payment processors are also deductible. Pay a freelance programmer for some work? Deduct it!! Don’t forget your autoresponder fees!
Home Offices
For a room to be considered a home office, it must be used 100% for business purposes only. No tv’s, radios, or hanging clothes in the closet, no sleeping in the room, nothing but business, or it will not be allowed. The IRS has really cracked down on this in the past couple of years, and a preparer who uses due diligence will not allow the deduction. I know I won’t. If you also deduct your mortgage interest, it is even more important. If you do this properly, you will receive a great tax benefit.
Put Money Off to the Side
If you make most of your money online, I would suggest putting away at least 20% of your earnings for taxes, more if you start making high 5 figures or higher. Of course, this depends on your personal tax situation, like state or city income taxes, filing status and dependents. Myself, I’m single, live in Florida, so my returns are pretty easy, and for now, I only need to put 10% away. One last thing, and I cannot stress this enough: the vast majority of the time it is better to file Married Filing Jointly instead of Married Filing Separately. This is true even if only one spouse has earned income.
Keep Your Records
Always keep detailed records, and keep them organized, which is very easy to do. Make the records on your computer, print them, and also burn the files to a CD or DVD, and label them properly. I suggest keeping the records for at least 3 years, but 5 is better. If you make 6 or 7 figures online, I would keep the records even longer. When tax time comes around, you will be very well prepared, and you will get the best tax benefit possible. And if the IRS does an audit, you will have the records to prove your deductions are legit.
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October 27th, 2008
Affiliate Marketing Commissions Will Pay Your Bills
So you work a regular job, but when the money runs out each month there are still bills to pay, and you think affiliate marketing commissions probably won’t amount to enough to make the work worth your while. Like any new venture, sometimes things start slowly and then pick up speed when you have a little experience and confidence with what you’re doing.
The beauty of earning affiliate marketing commissions is that you don’t have to change careers to do it. You can keep that 40- or 60-hour a week job, so there’s no risk to you if it doesn’t work out. If you can just carve out a little bit of time to get started, and to put some effort into it, what may start small can become an extra chunk of income each month without you having to find a second part-time job or take on more overtime at work.
If you set up a website and market just one product, even if you’re doing everything right, you won’t make thousands of dollars the first month (at least, it’s not likely). But if you continue good promotion, add valid and interesting content to your site, get the word out about your site, get your site ranked well in the search engines, that one program can see you earning affiliate marketing commissions that might surprise you, for so little work.
But if you market several different affiliate programs on that website that keeps growing and getting more visitors, each one will earn you money, and you’ll end up with several income streams made up of affiliate marketing commissions.
It’s not uncommon for affiliate marketers to start out with one website and expand to several more quite quickly, with some people actually owning dozens of websites, each focused on a specific niche and type of products. The more you earn, the more can invest back into growing your affiliate marketing commissions, the more visitors you’ll get, and the more you’ll earn… it becomes a nice little circle of income that there’s no reason you can’t take advantage of.
A great way to earn several different marketing commissions is to use one of the many affiliate marketing companies available today. You sign up with one company, choose from the merchants who use them as payment collectors, get all of your affiliate materials and links in one place, and then you get paid all of your commissions at once through the affiliate marketing company.
These are great for beginners, because you can track statistics, clicks, how many people purchased and what percentage of clicks that came from each individual link. This allows you to see which worked best. You can adjust your efforts based on those performance reports, to earn more commissions and sales. It’s easy to get started making affiliate marketing commissions with just a little time, knowledge and effort.
Do not forget that you can also make extra money as affiliate with AdSense packages, this is how many affiliates are monetizing their traffic.
October 27th, 2008
Anyone who owns a website knows the importance of internet marketing tools. You may have a terrific idea for a website with an excellent product or service, superb design, content and functionality but if you do not use the right tactics, your site may not attract the all important highly targeted traffic. Getting a lot of traffic into a site has very little to do with the site itself but with how the webmaster or site owner advertises it. With hundreds of competing sites, you must employ the most effective internet marketing tools that will truly deliver results.
There are different internet marketing tools that you can use. All these techniques and methods aim at increasing your website traffic. You must find a way for web surfers to find your site. To do this, you must put yourself in the shoes of your prospective visitors and future clients and see the internet through their eyes. Where do they usually go whenever they are looking up something on the web? The answer is the search engine; in fact, the two most popular websites on the web today are both search engines and portals. Thus, you should focus your internet marketing efforts on the search engines.
People will usually search for something using a search engine and click on the top results that these engines give. Therefore, you must use the right internet marketing tools to get a high search engine ranking. To gain a high ranking in search results, you can use several internet marketing tools. Search engine optimization is a set of methods that are aimed at improving the visibility of your site in search engine results. Since a search engine indexes sites by looking at its keyword density, your site’s content must have favorable keyword density that is search engine friendly. Content is one of the most important internet marketing tools itself. If you have excellent content that is geared towards achieving a high search engine ranking as well as provide information then you can expect a high search engine ranking. However, this is not as easy as it sounds. Countless other sites may be using the same internet marketing tools as you do. Thus, you must continuously find new ways of attracting more traffic.
Aside from the traditional marketing techniques such as print ads, billboards, brochures, testimonials, flyers etc. you must use other more effective internet marketing tools to gain more traffic. One of the most popular internet marketing tools today is the use of Pay per Click advertising. In this method, you will bid for a particular keyword in a specific search engine. If you have the highest bid then your sites link will be the top result. This internet marketing tool is now being used by thousands of sites. It is also gaining popularity because of its relatively high success rate in attracting high traffic.
October 27th, 2008
Marketing offers many benefits that traditional employment does not including the ability to set your own hours, an unlimited stream of income, the flexibility of choosing a niche that you are passionate about, and the opportunity to help others.
By virtue of the fact that a large portion of Online Marketing revolves around the sale of information products, the opportunity to help others is by far the strongest draw that online ventures provide. Not only is the marketing professional able to make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars by pursuing their passion, in the process they are contributing to the education or training of others at the same time.
There are very few careers that afford the instant gratification this arrangement provides. Many traditional jobs provide an education or service, but the end result or the consumer that acquires the benefit is so far removed from the supply chain, that the employee never gets to see first hand the difference they are making in someone else’s life.
On the other hand, Internet Marketing professionals many times will not only see first hand the difference they are making, they are directly involved in the process while it is evolving. This is a very strong draw for those who seek and gain their gratification from helping others.
Because the claims of making an overnight fortune are so plentiful, it is often believed that it is the financial gain that drives online entrepreneurs. And while that is certainly one of the overwhelming benefits to online opportunities, more often than not you will see the people making the most money are the ones that are the most passionate about what they are doing.
This passion is what will stand the test of time. There are plenty of online marketing opportunities that fade into the background as fast as they originally appeared, but someone who puts their heart and soul into every aspect of their product or service almost always backs the ones that have the greatest longevity.
This model is one that does not get a lot of exposure, because too often the headlines we see are designed for shock value and the easiest way to capture the attention of an audience is through the income potential. But looking beyond that, if you see someone with passion, you will most likely see someone who is going to be around for quite a while or has already been around for a long time. It is a common denominator that is shared by many of the top Internet Marketing Gurus today and will remain so for a long while to come.
New entrepreneurs who aspire to reach great heights in the Internet Marketing community will do well to recognize and emulate this business model. There is no limit to the amount of ways that someone can make a living online, but if care is taken to choose a topic that is also part of your passion, then the odds of a long and successful career in this business greatly increase.
October 26th, 2008
Tips On Choosing an Affiliate Marketing Opportunity - Useful Info
Many people sign up for an affiliate marketing opportunity, place a few ads, and sit back waiting for that first $1,000 or $50,000 to roll in with their name on it. Of course, only disappointment rolls in when they realize that this wasn’t a get-rich plan; it wasn’t even a make-a-few-extra-dollars plan. In some cases they do put the work in, but the commissions still aren’t coming, or tiny amounts are coming few and far between.
Sometimes it’s not the work you do, but the product you’re marketing. There are a number of dos and don’ts when it comes to picking your affiliates that can make the difference between a disappointing venture and a profitable one.
Don’t choose an affiliate marketing opportunity just because other people are making money at it. That may sound like the opposite of what you want to do. You want the programs that are making people money, right? Not necessarily. It all depends on the program. If it’s something that intrigues you, that you think you can promote well, then it’s worth considering. But if a program called “Become a Millionaire Selling Futures Online” is the one that every top Internet marketer is drooling over right now, no matter how much money it makes them, if you know nothing about futures or the people who might be interested in this subject, it’ll take a lot of work for you to make a profit from it.
Do choose programs that interest you. If you have a passion for something, it shows. Your website will have interesting content because you’re interested and you have knowledge to share. Choose an affiliate marketing opportunity that’s related to a subject that interests you, and you’ll naturally spend more time promoting it, and you’ll have a better chance at success.
Don’t use a free service for your website. Naturally you don’t want to spend a lot of money, especially not in the beginning when you’re not sure of your profits. But free services put ads on the page in the form of sidebars, banners and worst of all, pop-up advertisements. These make your website look cheap and less trustworthy.
Do purchase a domain name related to your topic. Don’t just buy a domain name called jimsbusiness.com and expect people to flock there. Decide what kind of affiliate marketing opportunity you’re going to promote first, then make sure that’s clear in your domain name.
Do promote a few related products. You can start out with one just to get your feet wet, but then casually add in references and links to a few more merchants offering related products and affiliate programs. This doesn’t just fill your site, it gives you more opportunities to sell.
Follow these dos and don’ts and read everything about Internet marketing that you can, and you’ll help yourself succeed with an affiliate marketing opportunity.
Learn also how to capture video on screen to increase affiliate sales - if you do that wisely, this really works.
October 25th, 2008
Why Affiliate Marketing is a Top Business Model
As an affiliate marketer you basically sell or pre-sell other people?s products or services. You refer leads to affiliate programs, write reviews on your blog about the products or place ads somewhere on the internet that people can click on, get redirected to the sales page, join the program or buy the product. The affiliate marketer does not sell anything directly; he s just spreading the word about a certain product or service he is affiliated with.
Compared to a product creation process with all of its time and money consuming requirements, affiliate marketing is an absolute no-brainer. An affiliate marketer has no production costs to cover, no employees to pay at the end of the month, no inventory to take care of, no order processing or shipping, no customer service and very low start-up costs. All in all there is little to no risk in being an affiliate.
As an affiliate you are not a sales person. You are only introducing potential buyers to the companies who have something to sell. The people you refer buy, join or they don?t. The affiliate gets the commission when a sale is made. Someone who has spent some substantial time marketing on the internet or maintaining a website has probably downloaded and read quite a few free reports and e-books on affiliate marketing. These reports talk about how to make money with affiliate marketing and each one of them has its own little approach but all of them mostly agree that it’s better to set up your own website or blog, search for a good converting product, drive traffic to that product sales page, get lots of back links to your site to rank high on the search engines, submit your website to directories, engage in web 2.0 or social marketing and so on.
This is a whole lot of work. Additionally it takes time to learn how to do these things if you are fairly new to marketing or the internet. At the same time your mailbox is overflowing with information and promotional emails and staying focused on a few important tasks sometimes compares to trying to swim a river upstream. Good organization and persistence in the first months, preferably having a personal mentor to talk to or exchange emails with, are the main factors which determine success or failure.
Technically speaking affiliate marketing is a business model for people like you and me. The learning curve may be different for different people. Are you open minded, creative and determined to succeed also in the long run? Then you will certainly hit gold. The question is: how long does it take? Nobody will be able to answer this question for you. You are the boss and the employee, the writer and the virtual assistant. The responsibility is totally yours - this is the beauty of affiliate programs. The process of setting up an affiliate business in order to make a substantial profit to live on depends not only on the technical details I mentioned above. Far greater responsibility comes into play when things don’t work out the way they are supposed to.
Why do so many people start online and give up after a couple of months? Have you ever thought about it? In my opinion affiliate marketing is easy to learn and practice. But dealing with failure, rejection, negative expectations, however, a competitive market, debt or financial problems, health issues just to name a few, is far more complicated and distracting. In Times of national recession people have a tendency to search for more security. Will they find financial security as an affiliate marketer online - they will have to go through the process to find out.
October 24th, 2008
Safelists offer another way to get your message in front of people for little or no money. If you are willing to spend some time reading email messages you can have the favor returned.
However, Internet Marketing with safelists can be a total waste of time if you do not do it right. In this article we will discuss 3 things you should know how to do do before you start safelist marketing.
1. Set up a separate email account e.g with GMail and then use it to receive messages from other marketers. Hotmail and Yahoo give you to many problems with spam and you will not receive the e-mail messages you want to see.
Why do you want to spend time reading e-mails? Here is why!
2. Join credit based safelists that reward you for opening your mail. Read the messages to earn credits and in turn create opportunities for your e-mail to be read. The more credits you have the more messages you can send.
This is in fact the most important step of the three mentioned here. Don’t bother to join safelists which are not credit based as there everybody blasts out messages but nobody ever reads any.
Much like traffic exchanges, and other forms of Online Marketing, safelist marketing becomes a number game. With credit based safelists even an average ad with an average title will get looked at because your audience is trying to create credits!
This is good for you as long as you have plenty of credits built up. You can spend your money and buy credits or you can spend your time and earn them reading emails if you are working with a credit based safelists.
Also by looking at the e-mails of others you may learn a thing or two about what make a good heading and a good e-mail message. By paying attention to what catches your eye you will get ideas of your own that will help you get read more as well.
If you believe in sending out good vibes, or you reap what you sew, then reading other people’s emails is the right thing to do if you want yours read. This seems fair and it is.
3. People marketing using safelists are looking for traffic. Therefore why not market traffic generation products to them. Capture their name and e-mail address, and then follow-up with other things you sell. By taking this approach you build a list for future marketing efforts and you accomplish something that will do you good in the future.
Approaching marketing with safelists with these 3 things will make your time and money more well spent.
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