November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Make Money, Ideas, Affiliate Program, Marketing
Virtually everyone who has ever marketed online has at some point in time, joined an affiliate or associate program. The problem with trying to market associate or affiliate programs is that you and often thousands just like you are trying to market and sell the exact same thing. But I’m certain I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.
How can you differentiate yourself from all the others trying to sell the same thing? It’s really very simple yet something that I’ve seen very few people do.
Trick to Apply
It’s a simple 2-step process. First, you absolutely must be marketing your affiliate or associate program from your own website. Do not under any circumstances try and market or advertise the self-replicated affiliate page you were given when you signed up.
Now here’s the trick to making your offer stand out. And again, I’m assuming you have taken the initiative to setup some type of web page to market your affiliate or associate program. All you have to do is offer something unique for anyone who buys the product or service your affiliate program offers. Think about it. Offer free banner creation, or, do you design web pages? If so, offer a free 3 page web site.
Do you get the idea?
Whatever you are marketing, offer something as a bonus. The customer sees this as something few if any others selling the same thing are offering. The list could be endless as to what you offer. It can be as simple as free reports, or a great ebook. Maybe you’ve been given reprint and resell rights to several products. Instead of trying to sell them, offer them as a freebie if you think it will help get the sale for the affiliate or associate program you are marketing.
Use your own judgment and base what you give away on the commission you get from making a sale. You don’t want to give away $200 in services if you are only making a
$25 profit on your affiliate sale.
Try and make whatever you use as your free bonus offer something of real value. Don’t just use the same old worn out reports that have been floating around the web for years.
Conclude
The bottom line; If you are marketing an associate or affiliate program, and are not getting the sales you were expecting, it is never too late to try something that can jump start your sales. Unless you can make your offer stand out, you are more than likely to be one of many not earning any money with the program you have joined. Think differently. You don’t have to be one of thousands.
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November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Make Money, Marketing
Do you realize that there is a big difference in being a salesman and being a marketer? Virtually everyone selling something online call himself or herself a marketer. Most are in reality salesman. What’s the difference? A salesman tries his best to get people to want something he is selling and then purchase it. A marketer is someone who determines what the people want, then finds or develops an appropriate product or service to sell to them.
Do you see the difference?
I’m willing to bet that a lot of you are salesman and didn’t even know it. There’s nothing wrong with being a salesman but it is a lot more difficult to sell something that you want people to buy than it is to sell something to people that they actually want.
The salesman finds his product, and tries to sell it. He rarely tests his product or takes any time to find out if the people are actually interested. The salesman usually starts’ selling his product with great expectations often unknowingly his fate is already determined as there may not be much of a demand for what he or she is selling.
The marketer tests his product first, he asks his customers what they want, then gives it to them. It is very easy to do. How? One of the easiest ways is to simply ask your customers. Put a form on one of your web sites and ask the visitors what new products or services they are looking for. What products would they buy? What products they need. You’d be surprised how easy it is to fill a void in the marketplace. Use a survey, a poll, there are countless different methods to find out what the people want and need.
Conclude
So it comes down to a simple question. Do you want to be a salesman or a marketer? Understanding the difference is the first step in making that decision. The answer seems pretty obvious doesn’t it?
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November 18th, 2008 | Posted in SEO Talk
Link popularity is simply the number of incoming links to your site. If for example I placed a link from the main sales page of this site to your site that would be a link that search engines would see as an incoming link.
Link popularity is growing more important with each passing day. In fact link popularity alone can earn you a top ranking on Google, as it is one of the most important factors in their ranking algorithm. It is possible to get good rankings without a lot of link popularity but the more competitive the keyword, the tougher it becomes especially on Google.
Link popularity will help you in the other major search engines as well though none seem to place quite the weight on link popularity as does Google.
The number of links pointing back to your site can have 2 major benefits. One is the obvious boost in the search engines but at the same time you can increase traffic from having links on other sites.
Not all links are created equal. Just having thousands of irrelevant links will not be has helpful as having a handful of high quality links in some search engines like Google. So any link is better than none at all, but getting high quality links is still by far the better choice. If you sell lawn mowers, a link from another site selling lawn mowers may carry more weight than a link from a site selling bay clothes.
Keep in mind that each search engine determines the number of links pointing to your site from it’s own database, no 2 search engines will return the same number of links. It all depends on how many of the other sites linking to you are indexed in any given search engine.
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