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If you are trying to sell a product or service on the Internet, then you are probably doing so through an affiliate program. You signed up as an affiliate (usually for free) and they gave you an affiliate ID (user name or number). They may have even given you a basic marketing package which includes text ads, banner ads, and solo ads with a link to your affiliate sales page. All you have to do is use these tools to get traffic to your affiliate sales page.

Well that sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? This process actually works too, except that your probability of converting your traffic into sales is very, very, very low. In other words, you may have to have thousands of people to visit your affiliate sales page before you ever see your first sell. Now those aren’t very good odds, are they?

Unfortunately, that is what most people do. They spend a lot of time, effort, and money getting all of those people to that affiliate sales page and then they finally make a sale and earn a referral fee or commission. But wait, it can get even worse. Let’s say that you made one sale and earned a $10 commission. That’s great, right? Well not really, because in the terms and conditions of your affiliate program, you don’t actually get paid until you have accumulated at least $20 of commissions. So get back to it and get another sale and finally get paid. Good grief!

Don’t quit! Internet marketing is a great way to make extra money, but you have to know some of the secrets. Here’s one. “Don’t advertise your affiliate program directly.” You must use a four step process.

Four Step Process

1. First, you must provide something of value. The easiest valuable thing that you can give away is information. An informative email course, special report, or ebook are all great ways to give away free information.

2. This step goes along with the initial step above. Don’t give away your free information until you get an email address. You must capture the name and email address of your prospective sale in order to be able to implement the next step.

3. If the information that you are providing is good and helps people, then you will earn some trust. If someone gives you some information that saves you time, money, or effort; then you are going to closely read anything that they send you – as long as the information is still valuable. This is why it is so important that you get that name and email address before you start giving away your information. Now you can keep the information flowing through an occasional email to your prospect.

4. Finally, if you have been providing valuable information and earning trust from people, it is much more likely that they will buy something that you recommend. This is especially true if you can convince them that what you are recommending will help them and that it is worth their money. The easiest way to do this is to recommend something that you have actually purchased and use yourself. Just tell them how it helped you and why you think that it was worth what you paid for it!

Back in 2000 I wrote a book “Starting an Internet Business at Home” which was published in hard copy format by Kogan Page (ISBN 0749434848).

It is currently out of print but in its day it was considered hot stuff and sold over 20,000 copies in bookstores world wide.

At the time I though I knew all there was to know about online marketing but a few days ago I happened across a little book by another author that shattered my illusions and exposed how little I really know.

It reveals the astonishing story of how the writer took a single idea and turned it into $37,641.85 in just 24 days.

Moreover, he demonstrates step by step exactly how he did it.

So what did I learn that I didn’t know before?

Manifold gems of wisdom on online marketing, including…

1. The building blocks to conducting effective online market research

2. How to develop products in obscure but highly popular niche areas

3. How to create them seamlessly and inexpensively

4. Why falling in love with your produce is the worst mistake you can make

5. An ingenious and incredibly simple strategy for attracting JV partners

6. How to use other people’s websites to jack up overall sales

7. A little known but highly reputable POD (print on demand) source where the pricing starts at $5.95 for just ONE book &ndash perfect bound with ISBN and free shipping to customers

Oh, and lots of other useful things, but especially how to repeat another author’s proven format over and over again.

So what will I do with my new found wisdom?

Two things in the first instance…

 First off I will breathe some fresh life into several of my own existing self-generated products that started with a bang and died off soon after like damp squibs. Now I know (thanks to another author) how to re-launch them to new heights – and keep them up there.

 Secondly I intend to venture into new pastures and create a whole bunch of innovative products for popular niche markets I didn’t even know existed.

If you would like to learn more about the little book that shattered my illusions on what I thought I knew a propos online marketing, visit the website featured in the resource box below.

You center most it every the time. Someone you undergo knows someone who is making a experience over the internet. You center most grouping making whatever player outlay money. You also center most grouping making thousands of dollars a month.

How do they do it?

Well, there are lots of structure to attain money online. And they don’t refer spamming or whatever shadowy techniques.

One artefact is to attain period promoting another people’s products or services for a authorisation or fee. This is titled affiliate marketing.

One of the large affiliate marketing programs online is separate by eBay. eBay pays grouping a proportionality of their earnings for every traveller you beam to eBay who buys something. They also clear discover at small $25 for every newborn individual you intend to tie eBay.

Many grouping attain beatific money environment up websites that exist every of eBay products. When a traveller clicks a creation on the site, they are directed to eBay. If they acquire something, the someone of the place gets a commission.

There are whatever structure to ordered up an eBay place flooded of whatever products you poverty to sell. If you undergo how to program, you crapper ingest eBay’s API or RSS take to exhibit products on your site. But I favour using and out-of-the-box code same phpBay Pro (which allows you to easily attain an eBay place using wordpress blogging software), or BANS (stands for “Build A Niche Store”). Both are relatively affordable and such easier to ingest than the eBay API. I favour phpBay Pro because it crapper easily combine with wordpress to enthusiastic enthusiastic sites.

If you are old with wordpress, you should be healthy to intend your prototypal eBay place up in a hebdomad using phpBay Pro. If you don’t undergo wordpress and do not poverty to wager it, you crapper essay BANS, but ready in nous you requirement to undergo whatever base HTML using BANS.

How such does it outlay to intend started? The eBay API is free. phpBay Pro for wordpress costs most $49. BANS costs most $97.

How such crapper you make? I currently hit threesome sites prefabricated with phpBay Pro and I attain most $500-$600 a period amount from every of them. And every period they acquire a lowercase taste more.

Now that you hit the aggregation on how to move making whatever money online using eBay, provide it a effort and wager if you crapper move earning whatever player cash!

If you are new to the net and interested in making money ethically then this article will educate you in the various methods of making money online.

It uses a blog as an example of various types money making paths. Blogs cost nothing and are provided free to build a community on the internet.

First of all you can sell a product directly. Have a website and sell as you would have in a mail order catalogue, except thanks to the internet you can automate most of the process, other than shipping and handling. You also still have to stock a product. However this becomes limited when compared to your traditional shoppping mall because while Wal-mart, K-mart, Big-W or whatever can have thousands of products on display, attempting the same on one website becomes very difficult. This is why most people to sell products direct online have a limited number of products for sale. I do participate in a variation of this same theme and you probably have as well, selling on auction on ebay is a type of direct product selling, courteousy of a third party provider.

Next go to the resource box and you will see examples of all the rest of the things I am going to be talking about. (just copy and paste the address to your URL – thats the address bar)

Firstly, you will note that there are no direct products for sale. I don’t want to ship hundreds of items, I want to leverage my time, so the first thing for sale is a product available through an affliliate. At this stage it doesn’t matter who it is for, its the concept that is important here. You don’t have to sell a product directly to make money on the internet. You can become an affliliate member which gives you the right to advertise a product and if a sale is made you get a commission – kind of like your old door to door salesperson, but this time the door is via the customers internet. In order to succeed here you need traffic to your website, the more targeted traffic the better. (by targeted I mean something that the customer is looking for, you don’t want someone who wants to buy a dog to come to your cat website, as its unlikely to result in a sale). Eventually given enough traffic the sales will come. Remember the higher the cost of the product the less sales are likely, most people are on a restricted budget, but the higher the cost or the product normally the large commission payout. This is a balancing act, if one thing pays out $500 dollars you would only have to sell one a week, if another paids you a $5 commission then you would have to sell hundred to make the same money.

It is important to understand that as an affliliate you are provided with a code embedded into your links which tracks you are being responsible for bringing the company the sale. Hence in any banner, links, code to put in, make sure its your own.

The second item for sale is a viral type of product or similiar to the old MLM’s.

In this case GDI – Global domains International, which has the rights over the .ws web address ending (in this case .ws is advertised as standing for website). What they are selling is a hosting service provider as well as a domain name and a variety of other internet services, quite cheaply really considering what your getting. But the real money making deal here is that by signing up others you make a $1 per person per month, and you make another $1 for each person they sign up and so on to five levels deep. Why would a company do this. Because its cheap advertising for them and explodes their growth. In the case of GDI they have made it very clear that they want be the dominant website address .ws, in order to accomplish this they are willing to share money with anyone who helps them grow. By clicking this link the company knows you brought them another customer and your share in the profits. I call it viral because like a virus it catching from one person to a few more to many more, to hundreds, well you get the idea. $1 dollars is not alot, but $1 times 5000 is. Once again you are not selling a product, you are as an agent, and you are not selling a tradtitional goods but in this case a service. This is a viral type or MLM type of system. Often MLM gets a bad rap, but I believe it is because people buy the SYSTEM, instead of buying the PRODUCT, whatever you buy make sure you are happy with the PRODUCT.

The third one is an ebay link. Once again this earns money through affliliate program. It is easy to sign as an affliliate, just look on any web home page and your will normally find a link to “affiliates” In this case the affliliate it run through a third party – commission junction, who acts as an independant company to make sure affliliates are not ripped off, paid on time, etc. This isn’t even directly selling a service – its straight out promoting another website.

The four one is EPI – Emerald passport Inc. which is a total online product, namely financial education materials, self improvement, hours of video and audio, information store on line. Its an example of selling INFORMATION online.

Don’t think information is valuable consider this short piece of information

for anyone who has sold on ebay.

Do you list a product at $20 or $19.99. Which will make you the most money?

The $19.99! how you ask, because the listing fee difference between $20 and $19.99 is 25 cents (don’t tell ebay I told you this, that might lose some of your money). Hence if you list and sell at $20 you earn 24 cents less than the person who listed and sold at $19.99.

How much is this information worth – well at least 24 cents, but to those who sell hundreds of items, much more if they are making this basic mistake and costing themselves money.

Obviously quality information that saves money, creates money or increases your knowledge is important.

Finally you see an short article on clickbank. Like comission junction they act as an afflitate provider and users. This link sells NOTHING yet still makes money. HOW? because anyone who travels down your link to clickbank and joins in makes you a small commission. Once again its a company paying you to advertise, in this case to help them advertise.

A similar thing is google adwords where you are paid to advertise and then pay a small amount per ad click through.

Some other links are included as examples, but you get the picture. Some links make NO money but are their to try and generate traffic, see instantBuzz.com, traffic swarm, etc. Not everyone can be listed in the first pages of a search engine, so you can either accept that fact, be in constant competition to optimise and re-optimise your web page to stay near the top.

There are people willing to do this. Why you may ask? Because the free advertising generated by being in the number one spot is a virtual goldmine and drives huge quantity of traffic to your site, especially if you are listed with a big search engine like google or yahoo. However if you aren’t going to be listed high on one of these search engines (in fact sometimes its even hard to be found and cache by these engines) then you are going to need alternative ways to bring traffic to your website. Another option to marketing is to pay for it, like with google ads word. Another is to advertise offline in a variety of traditional media, magazines, newspaper, radio and TV.

I hope this article and the website at have helped you increase your knowledge of how business takes place on the internet. There may be other ways I haven’t yet covered, but this is a good base for you to start.

(This article is written by Alastair HARRIS and is the property of the HARRIS family, you have permission to copy the article and share it as much as you want, but do not modify the article in any way. I will respond to criticism, but remember I’m new to writing articles so don’t be too harsh)

The author may be contacted at anhharrisandsonsprimusonline.com.au

Happy netting.

Many people avoid resell rights products simply because they believe that they cannot compete with other resellers who are selling the same product, or they feel the market for that product may be flooded due to the fact that there are a great number of other resellers.

However, if you really think about it, most people purchase resell rights, and have no intention of reselling the product &ndash they simply wanted the product. Others purchase resell rights to sell the product, but honestly don’t know how, or don’t use very effective marketing techniques. In fact, 90% of the people who hold the same resell rights that you hold are doing it wrong.

You must also consider the market. While it is harder to sell Internet Marketing related products, selling non-Internet Marketing products is easier than you think. The reason it is harder to sell Internet Marketing products is because most of the other resellers will in fact be Internet Marketers who do know what they are doing.

First, you must increase your marketing efforts. By doing more, you will put yourself well ahead of the 10% that are actually marketing the product correctly. Find new markets for the product and new ways to reach them. Consider holding teleseminars or joint venturing with other marketers who have large subscriber lists.

Next, make your package more attractive than other people’s. You typically will not have the right to change the product, but that doesn’t mean you can’t change the offer. Use other products as bonuses, as long as you have the right to give those products away. Beef up your package, and you will pull ahead of the competition quickly. Also, change your sales letter. Don’t use the same sales letter that other resellers are using. Make yours unique.

The possibility’s are endless and there is a ton of money to be made. As with any thing it will take some effort on your part

Every busines sonline or off line needs a promotion. The type of business we wish to reserch is email marketing techniques.

Using newsletters, announcements, promotions, is a good, inexpensive way to reach prospects and customers with your message.

Being totaly honest and keeping our integrity we don