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By the way, have you watched The Clickbank Code yet? Michael Jones gives you step-by-step video tutorials on how he made $48k during his FIRST month as a Clickbank Affiliate in Feb 2009. Mindblowing! Read my review here.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Guest Blogs
I’ve just completed my first day at Geekversity! Yep, it was a long day but I really enjoyed learning about Internet Marketing Secrets.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Basically, it is only one of the many ways that you can Make Money Online. It’s a particularly attractive strategy if you don’t have a product of your own to sell on the Internet. Sign up as an affiliate to promote someone else’s product and get rewarded through commissions on the sales you generate.
Affiliate Marketing is such a flexible strategy that you can essentially tailor your online business to match whatever it is that you are most passionate about in life.
The Year of the Affiliate eBook
Sean Rasmussen was one of the presenters at the Internet Marketing Seminar today. He’s written a great new eBook called “Year of the Affiliate“. It covers all the basics on getting started in Affiliate Marketing and goes into a wealth of knowledge about different strategies for promoting your affiliate products. As a matter of fact, he even shows you how to do it all online WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A WEBSITE!
If you want to discover how to turn your Facebook or Twitter account into a money making machine then “The Year of the Affiliate” is all you need.
(…and while it’s written so that you can understand the concepts clearly, you should embrace your Inner Geek!)
Tags: Affiliate Marketing
Well I’ve been trying out twitter for the last few weeks and I must say I reckon it’s worth it! I used to think, “who cares about what other people are doing every minute of the day?” But when you get into it, you’ll find that it’s pretty entertaining and a nice social environment. You can connect with people when you may otherwise be stuck at home due to illness or injury. You often meet people with similar likes, hobbies and goals.
From an internet marketing perspective, Twitter is one of the newer social media sites (c.f. Facebook, Myspace). If you unprotect your updates, or tweets as they are called, they become viewable to everyone – the entire ‘general public’ of twitter users. Think of this as exposure – i.e. how many people that could potentially view your tweets. If people “follow” you, then it usually means that they are interested in your updates and what you have to say. Some users like to follow as many people as possible because they think that more people will follow them back, giving them a potential customer pool. While this could be beneficial, it also has the potential to make you appear like a spammer because each follower will know they are one of thousands. I prefer to follow a smaller number so that I can also work on developing relationships with potential customers and respond to their tweets – people appreciate it when they know you are actually reading their tweets and interested in what they have to say.
The people who use twitter for internet marketing purposes should vary their tweets from time to time to create a personal face for themselves. Make them personal, make them funny, give people a reason to enjoy reading your tweets. I’ve found it usually makes them take more interest when you are trying to promote an affiliate product.
Anyways, I’m not an expert, I’ve only been using it a short time but I recognise the potential. I think the key to being successful on twitter is to tweet regularly, tweet relevantly and tweet socially…what do you think?
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/marcofratelli & feel free to direct message me if you have any personal questions or just tweet @marcofratelli
Tags: Social Media Marketing
A lot of people, when delving into the world of internet marketing, often get confused by the corresponding jargon. Here are a few common terms that should soon become familiar to the new affiliate marketer.
Ad Copy – this is essentially “writing” that is done for advertising, or the “actual text” in an ad. The idea is that clever ad copy writers generate a lot more sales.
Affiliate Program – also known as associate program, refers to the program where you (the affiliate) sign up to agree to promote a company’s products and in return receive a commission for any sales you generate.
Conversion – this refers to the % of people who actually click on an ad, or visit a website AND purchase something (as a proportion of the overall visitors who click on the ad or visit a website). If you have 100 people visit your site and 2 of them actually buy something, then your conversion rate is 2%.
eMarketing – refers to online marketing or marketing on the internet, as opposed to business front, TV or radio marketing.
Impression – relates to the exposure of a banner or an ad on a website. One impression means one person has seen that ad or banner etc.
Click Through Rate (CTR) - this is the proportion of visitors (or website impressions) that actually click on an ad or banner on a website. The general process for internet marketing is you start with an “impression” –> “click on an ad” –> make the “conversion” or sale.
Niche – refers to a particular or specific kind of area or topic. An example of a broad niche would be “birds”, a more specific one would be “american eagle”.
Rank – refers to how a website “ranks” against others in search engine results. A higher rank is preferable to a lower rank.
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