Thursday, 21 July 2016
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Become an Online Entrepreneur Today - As an Affiliate Marketer
By Stuart Fish
Online marketing is a trillion dollar business today with over 123,000,000 results when searching "how to make money online" on Google. There are indeed many ways to start your online business but 5 that I like and use are:
1. Affiliate Marketing
2. Blogging about an area you are passionate about
3. Writing and Publishing your book on Amazon
4. Building a website for your Product
5. Creating a Membership Site
In this series of articles, I will cover each of these in some detail, as I believe anyone can start to become an online entrepreneur, in as little as an hour or two a day.
Affiliate Marketing
When you become an affiliate marketer, you don't need your own product to make money online. By signing up at sites such as ClickBank or JVZoo, you can select from thousands of online products and begin to market suitable ones into your chosen niche.
A successful niche, or market, that can deliver profits is the first thing that an affiliate market needs to find. But there is no magic formula or a one-button solution. It is more complicated than that and takes some dedicated work, research and focus together with some good marketing practices.
I have found that there are a number of key steps, call them tactics, which have worked for me and continue to bring me success. Build these top three marketing tactics into your online business and you will see your opt-ins and sales increase.
To Succeed Online as an Affiliate Marketer You Need These 3 Tactics
1. Do not try to combine a number of affiliate products onto one website. Rather develop unique web pages to market each separate product you have decided to sell, as an affiliate. I use WordPress to develop these unique web pages, as it is easy to set up and manage. I will share some information on WordPress sites in a future article. So aim to create a separate web page for each affiliate product that you intend to market into your niche.
You should also try out each product that you plan to sell and provide your own product review on your website. In this way, the visitors to your site will have an understanding about what the product can do for them. Where you can, include testimonials from other online marketers who have already used the product. But first check with these customers that they are willing to allow you to use their feedback, name and photo on the site of the specific product you are marketing.
It also helps if you write articles that detail how the product can be used and add these articles as a separate page on the website. If the pages are attractive with images and compelling with good copy, they will increase interest in your product. Always include a "call to action" that can add the visitor's information to your list. A captivating headline and special points highlighted will help visitors quickly grasp the content and uses of the product.
2. Offer free reports to your readers. This will encourage them to send you the name and email address so they can receive your free report. Make this report relevant to the product you are selling. In a future article I will talk more about this and how to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed automatically to all those who opt-in for your free report. Research has shown that it takes more than one contact with a prospect to get them to buy your product, so keep building contact and a relationship with your opt-in prospects. A good example of this can be found in my bio below.
3. You want to attract the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. If the person who comes to your website has a huge interest in what you are promoting, then there is a much better chance that they will ask for more information, than if they have no interest whatsoever in what you are offering. The latter will be among those who move on and never come back to your site.
You can write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports - such as this article of mine. This way you can find publications that focus on your target customers and this will increase the likelihood that what you are offering might just grab their interest.
Just 2 articles per week, with at least 400-600 words in each article, can generate as many as 80 -100 targeted visitors to your site in a day.
Realise, however, that usually around 25 to 30 people out of 100 will grab a free report, whereas only 1 or 2 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or ask for more information and then use your services. So persist and slowly build up the number of visitors through this article writing approach. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website each day, that could result in you making 10 sales based on the average statistic.
These 3 tactics are not difficult to do, but will require a little time and an action plan on your part. As Nike says, "Just Do It."
I am a keen blogger and online entrepreneur and have learned a lot of what makes for a successful online marketer. Blogging is one way of sharing your entrepreneurial knowledge and success.
You can learn how to start your business from home and become an entrepreneur at http://www.stuartfish.biz.
Stuart Fish
Blogger and Online Entrepreneur
Article Source: Ezine Articles expert: Stuart Fish
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Five Tips On How To Get Started In Affiliate Marketing On A Limited Budget
Choose Products That You Know And Trust
If you have already purchased products and you know they are great products, you can start promoting them. Go to the website from where you purchased the product and see if they offer an affiliate programme. If they do sign up to the programme to receive your affiliate link.
It is a lot easier promoting a product that you already own and trust, and it's a lot easier writing a review of that product when you already know it.
Find The Top Marketers In Your Field
If you don't have a product to promote you can look in all the usual places like ClickBank and Amazon but I would like to offer a different approach to finding a product, look for the top people in your niche. These are the most well-known with the biggest and best blogs, have a large social media presence and lots of products.
They could offer an affiliate programme for you to join, if they do then go ahead and join their programme.
The advantage of promoting a well-known person in your niche is that they have already built trust with their audience, so not very much credibility will have to be built with your audience when you promote their products to them.
Choose Best-Selling Products Proven To Sell
Another approach is to find the best-selling products, that is products that are proven to sell. You can look for products on Amazon, in ClickBank and other affiliate marketplaces. Whilst in Amazon click on the Best Sellers tab to view the best-selling products in that category. On ClickBank filter your options to popularity and check the results that they give you.
Make sure that the products that you are choosing are all related to the niche that you are in. For instance if you are an expert in hiking and your website is all about hiking there would be not point in promoting the latest smartphone there. The people reading your blog would probably not be very interested. So choose products that your audience will be interested in. For hiking this might be a hiking guide, hiking boots and any other accessories that go along with hiking.
Use Social Media To Promote Your Website
Once your website is up and running with a blog and posts related to your niche it is time to tell people about your website.
If you have a Facebook page then you can update your timeline with posts every time you write a new blog post inviting people to come to your blog to read your new post. You can do exactly the same if you have a YouTube channel, once you have uploaded a video share it on your Facebook page for others to see. You can use a paid option here which is called Boost Post, this will promote your post all over Facebook and you only pay when someone clicks on the link.
Mix your posts with content and tips with the occasional promotion. Do not send users from Facebook or YouTube straight to an affiliate sales page, this is often against the terms of service and you will face getting your page banned. It is a much better idea to send them to a page on your own website where you have written a review about the product that you are promoting with a link to the sales page on your page, not Facebook or YouTube.
Use SEO To Get Organic Traffic
Every post that you write on your blog should include keywords that people in your niche will type into Google when looking for information about your niche. This is called optimising your website for search engines, or search engine optimisation, SEO for short.
There are so many ways to do this that it is impossible to list them all here and out of the scope of this article, but you can go to Google AdWords and start a new campaign to check and see how many people are searching for a particular keyword in your niche.
If you choose a generic keyword that is being searched for thousands of times per month, for instance "how to lose weight", you will find that you are up against millions of pages using those keywords. It is much better to think about using longer keyword phrases that someone will type into Google, for instance "how to lose weight without dieting and counting calories." The total number of people searching for that keyword phrase will be lower but you will have a much better chance of your blog post being ranked higher in the search results, especially if you get a few back-links to that page, that is inbound links from high-ranking websites like Facebook, YouTube, EzineArticles and other high-ranking Blogs in your niche.
Don't make this difficult, just choose a phrase that you think people are searching for, you can check this by typing the search phrase into Google and see what results you are given. It's a judgement call, there is no rocket science here just look at the results you are given and see if you can make a better job with your information than what you see in the results. Get some back-links to this post and see where you have been ranked. This takes time, perhaps thirty to ninety days before you start seeing results from the search engines.
Darren Breeze is an independent marketing strategist and author of "How To Write A Great Product Review."
Article Source: Ezine Articles expert:Darren Breeze
Monday, 18 July 2016
As An Affiliate Marketer, You Will Want To Avoid These 3 Common Mistakes
By Stuart Fish
In my experience, affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful, effective and profitable ways of earning some money online. This method of building an online business gives anyone and everyone who has the focus and willingness, a chance to make money online. More people than ever, are now joining affiliate programs, as they are easy to join and can pay regular commissions.
However, as with any business, there are things to look out for, which can trip you up in the affiliate marketing business, and which can cost you time and money. Hence it is better to know how to avoid the most common mistakes right from the start. These are my 3 Don'ts.
Mistake #1: Don't work with the wrong affiliate company or person
Like many others, you will most probably want to earn a return from affiliate marketing as quickly as possible. Many people therefore pick the product or affiliate company that seems to be the flavour of the month. In my view, you should rather choose to market products that you yourself would be willing to buy and use - this is an important step too, so you can give a personal review of the product. So choose your affiliate products carefully and try to choose a product in which you are truly interested.
For any business to succeed, spend some time to plan and figure out your ideal niche and strategy.
So, in summary: Pick a product that appeals to you. Do your research about that product to know the current demand for the product. With ClickBank, which offers thousands of affiliate products in many different niches, each product identifies the level of sales and the commission payable to the affiliate. Promote a product that you are truly passionate about, rather than one just based on the commission payable.
Mistake #2: Don't join too many affiliate programs.
I made this mistake when I started out and it turned out to be a nightmare. Because affiliate programs are so easy to join, it is tempting to join all that you come across, thinking you can earn more money this way.
But, as I discovered, joining multiple programs and trying to promote them all at the same time became hard to manage - it is better to focus on just one affiliate program, at least in the beginning, that pays at least 50% commission. Then focus on that program and its related products until you have built up a list of at least 500 prospects and started to earn a reasonable income. Only then, should you consider joining a second affiliate program.
There is no need to rush, as the way online marketing through affiliate products is going, the future is looking really bright and this method will be around for a long while.
In summary: Decide on a niche that you are passionate about, choose one program that offers products into that niche and start slowly but surely.
Mistake #3: You don't buy the product yourself.
As I mentioned before, you should only market products that you are prepared to use yourself and which you feel are good products. You want to convince your prospects to buy the product, so a good review from you is a convincing way to start your promotion.
By buying and using the product yourself, you can decide if it delivers what it promises. You can then give a convincing review and testimonial of the product.
In summary: after researching your niche, pick a product you think will work and try it out. Then write a convincing review and promote to your lists.
Allow enough time to do things properly. Take the time to research your niche and your marketing strategy to ensure you are heading in the right direction. If done properly, you will be able to build a successful affiliate marketing program and enjoy a worthwhile income from your efforts.
I am a keen blogger and online entrepreneur and have learned a lot of what makes for a successful online marketer. Blogging is one way of sharing your entrepreneurial knowledge and success.
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Article Source: Ezine Articles expert: Stuart Fish
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