Your guide to affiliate marketing success!

Once upon a time I was an online newbie who wanted very much to buy the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner. After all, I was online to replace my tailoring income with an online income. I wanted to play with my computer instead of being tied to my sewing machine all day.

I messed up.

At that time, I was still learning the magic of HTML and how to make .pdf’s and such. Trying to FTP just about drove me around the bend, so I feared I’d waste the $47 book. Little did I know how much I would spend on other books later.

Fast forward to now, years later and I stumbled across her book again, discover it’s newly-updated and I can FTP quite well, thank you. I finally bought the book with a kick to my own behind for waiting so long.

Why?

Rosalind promised I’d get maximum value by reading the book cover to cover before I zipped off to implement a new campaign. So I did. And soon discovered a chuckle-headed mistake I was making.

What color are your links?

She said one quick and easy way to get more clicks on my blog is to make sure my links are the classic colors people expect to see. My gray on gray blog links irritated me for being so nearly invisible, but being TOLD to change them and how it would boost my income was most welcome. Who knows if and when I’d ever have bothered to do that on my own?

That’s just one tiny tip and doesn’t give you any idea of the comprehensive education she provides in her book.

How do you keep track of everything?

Besides covering all the basics and steps, she shares organization tips. From the beginning, she kept track of everything–including her many passwords–with a spreadsheet.

That beats my file cards all hollow. Sometimes I have to remember a site name before I can find my card. I’d far rather be reminded of all the sites I own from seeing it on a list versus pawing through two (yes, I overflowed one a long time ago) file boxes of login info.

This book is never outdated.

As the internet is ever-changing, she keeps the handbook up to date to reflect the changing times and tools like RSS feeds, blogging and how to take advantage of foreign currency rates.  She shares her personal experience of what works and what doesn’t, so the book is evergreen.

Does it work in today’s economy?

The latest update addresses how the economic crisis affects affiliate marketing. The good news is this: focus your affiliate efforts on helping people spend their money more wisely and everyone wins.

Her methods are tried and true, proven to build a solid business with the likelihood of excellent income by using marketing methods she outlines and uses herself.

Let’s talk sales conversions.

Did you know she enjoys sales conversions 3 to 5 times higher than the rest of us? This is a lady I want to learn from!

What’s missing?

After reading the book, I wanted a simple list of the steps—a cheat sheet to accompany the handbook. So I’ll make one. Even so, as I reread and follow the links, I’m more than satisfied.

If only I’d bought it years ago. While she created wealth and a great reputation for helping, I created mounting debt. Ouch!

One last tip.

Rosalind says, “A goal without a deadline is nothing more than a wish.” What’s your goal? Write it down! Take action!

I highly recommend this book. Don’t get distracted and wait years to end the chaos like I did. Don’t lose what resources you have in a struggle to find an income-generating system that works. Grab your copy of the Super Affiliate Handbook today and get busy.

Best,

P.S.

Yes, maybe her big income figure seems outlandish and hypey. It’s no lie, though. See her YouTube video proof. Another video gives you affiliate marketing in a nutshell. Great stuff!

P.P.S.

While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.

Your tireless salesmen on the net.

You may already know that article marketing provides you with free traffic, establishes you as an authority in your niche, builds rank for your web site in Google, MSN and Yahoo, and creates the kind of content everyone searches for and gobbles up. Have you tried article marketing, but didn’t get these great results? If you don’t have much money, have little internet marketing experience, no product or are about to quit online marketing, hang on a second.

Would you like to make money with free articles, kick your site into overdrive and get top 10 rank in Google?

I found a $7 report that reveals how to:

• Find a Hot Niche and Select a Winning Product
• Target Keywords Your Buyers are Searching
• Write an Article that Converts
• Create Landing Pages
• Give Your Article Marketing Firepower to Supercharge Your Efforts
• Special Summary Bonus: 7-Day Article Cash Robots “Create, Release and Profit” Plan

This report is an instant download written by Davion Wong, a fellow who offers tons of great information, often for free. I’m impressed by his helpful products.

How Article Cash Robots Saved My Bacon

In Article Cash Robots, I learned how he goes about selecting a niche. Something about his method of how to find the “money” keywords clicked with me. I finally got it. What a relief after years of struggle. I don’t know how or why his explanation worked. I just know that now I can write articles and create products that are On Target.

I’ve paid more for other ebooks and received far less than what’s in this meaty report. No wasted pages here, just good clear useful information with screen shots so I could understand every step. I put it to work right away. His chapter on writing an article that converts readers to clickers includes everything from formatting tips to two great ways to do research and write FAST.

What’s Wrong With It

At first I was leery because his sales page makes big money promises that I thought bordered on hype. Then my jaw dropped when I saw his low price. In the report I thought he glossed over creating landing pages until I discovered it pays to click the links in that chapter. He shows sample live landing pages you can use as templates and offers free software to create an opt-in page!

If you’ve gotten nowhere fast with your article marketing so far and feel stressed out, just learn the step-by-step process this successful article marketer teaches. It’s how he built his business. This report gives a clear, concise method you can easily duplicate and make money with articles within days.

He ends the report with a 7-day plan that outlines daily steps to create a whole regiment of article cash robots that work to make money for you 24/7.

Best,

P.S.

Want to see videos demonstrating how to find a hot niche and select a winning product? I learned how in Article Cash Robots. Hope it helps you as much as it does me.

P.P.S.

While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.

Find long tail keywords.

Hey, online home business owner. How’s business? Do you get lots of traffic? Are you making money hand over fist? If not, what would you give for these four benefits?

1) know how to best maximize a method of getting free traffic to your web site
2) establish yourself as an authority in your business niche
3) build rank for your site in Google, MSN and Yahoo
4) create the kind of content that sends you traffic from this day forth like the Energizer bunny

Wait, you say. What do you mean what would I GIVE? You said it’s FREE traffic.

And it IS free. Doesn’t cost you a single penny. Instead you expend your time and effort, but don’t worry, there are ways you can minimize the grunt work and maximize your results. What would you give for that?

When I bought Davion Wong’s step-by-step marketing system Article Cash Robots for $7, I finally understood keyword research.

I know I’ve been told time and again what to search for and how, but somehow it never clicked for me. What worked in the guru’s demonstration never worked for me. I’d get bogged down in wrong numbers, struggles and confusion every time.

Without the crucial “money” keywords, what good was my article marketing? Well, A) it was good practice and B) I gained premium status at ezinearticles.com, but my pockets were still empty.

So what two article marketing secrets did I learn for finding the “money” keywords?

First, open Google Keyword Tool External or Wordtracker and type in your niche.

Let’s say it’s golf. Golf is HUGE. No way can you rank with the word golf alone as a keyword. Scan down the list of results for a more specific phrase for what you sell. Let’s try golf lessons.

You want a three or four word phrase with 300 to 500 searches per month. I see a lot of possibilities, like golfing lessons, pga golf lesson, private golf lesson, golf lesson chipping, golf lesson dvd, and more. Grab all the keyword phrases with between 300 and 500 searches.

Second, check each one for competition with a Google search using allintitle: with your keyword phrase.

Like this–allintitle:private golf lesson. Look for numbers between 500 and 1000 because this is where it’s easy to rank for your keyword. Any lower numbers are better yet.

My search today for allintitle:golfing lessons shows 7,340 pages with that keyword phrase. It seems like too many competing pages, but let’s see if that number is true using a trick I learned from Travis Sago, chief bum marketer.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the last page in the list from 1-10 or 1-20. In this case there were 7 pages. When I clicked on 7, I landed on a page that said 301-398 of 7,340 pages. You can’t get past this page, which means only 398 pages show in Google for the phrase golfing lessons.

It’s less than the 500-1000 target, so this is a great long tail keyword phrase even though it’s only two words. I see other people have articles for this phrase.

Let’s try allintitle:golf lesson chipping and see what happens. Ah-ha! Today’s search finds 331 competing pages, and when we verify that, we find 341. I see many videos and no articles. Chipping must be hard to convey in written words?

Check the other keyword phrases from your list. Get at least 30 good long tail keywords and see what it takes to rank for each one besides good numbers. Do your competitors create articles, videos, or what?

Armed with great long tail keywords and this knowledge about what the competitors offer, you can now write articles and/or make videos to boost your online home business and laugh all the way to the bank. You’re welcome.

P.S.

If you want to learn more article marketing success secrets, this meaty ebook lays them all out for you. Grab your copy of Article Cash Robots today. Hope it helps you as much as it does me.

P.P.S.

While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.

Home Business Technology Course

Hi there. Here’s something cool for you if you want to start your new online business like right now and technology gives you cramps.

Johnny B. Truant (online personality-boy persona of a really competent guy…shh!) has a new course that takes you step-by-step with videos through every stinking detail of getting your online business up and running–in seven days!

He assumes you can read email and run a browser, but need help beyond that–which is why you can’t get your business going online. If you’re more experienced than that, skim the lessons until you land knee-deep in the mire you can’t deal with.

I feel comfortable recommending his course because he was clever enough to give out a freebie awhile back on how to set up your WordPress blog in an hour for stupidly cheap. I gobbled up that book and found a step-by-step process laced with wacky humor.

As it happens, I’m familiar with the process and his method is spot on.  Thumbs up!

The giggles he added for fun makes the installation more palatable than the fingernail-chewing worries and hair-pulling I went through the first few times on my own.

So what’s wrong with the course?

If you’re offended by offensive language, be warned. It’s in the course, on the sales page, pretty much everywhere.

It starts with the name of the course: Make the Internet Your Bitch. Only he would think up that name for a course on making technology work the way you want it.

But the dude knows his technology and then some. I’m thinking he’s helped people who mishandled their software settings and techy stuff to the point that it looks like alien roadkill, and he can find the push button that makes it all stand up, salute and get busy making your online business hum.

Like I said, the name of the course is Make The Internet Your Bitch. As in, shape up you tricky technology you. Work right, right now, and keep on working right.

Ooh. Did you feel that little thrill run down your spine? I did. I remember the days when I couldn’t even FTP 90% of the time. There I was with a brand new site and it seemed like I needed voodoo to make the settings work so I could upload a page I slaved over.

Let Johnny save you from the wasted time, lost business, moping and crying. Check out his course and get your online business up and running seven days from right this minute. No fooling!

Best,

P.S.

What are you still doing here?

P.P.S.

While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.

ClickBank for Newbies Gets You Paid Faster

Did you just make your first affiliate sale at ClickBank? Yay! Way to go! Doesn’t it feel delicious?

Are you eager for the money? Well, there’s a small problem…or three.

First, ClickBank is set up to pay you when you’ve earned $100. You can change that down to a lower threshold of your choice, with the minimum being $10.

Bear in mind that they’ll take out a $2.50 processing fee, so set your threshold where you prefer.

Second, ClickBank wants to see FIVE sales from different credit cards to prove five different people made purchases BEFORE they’ll pay you your first payment.

And then they send the first three payments by mail no faster than every two weeks before they’ll allow direct deposits weekly into your bank account.

Third–brace yourself–if you don’t make another sale after that first one for ages, ClickBank assumes the account is dormant and starts taking little nibbles off your sale amount. The nibbles get larger and larger as months go by until your wonderful first-and-only sale gets all gobbled up somewhere down the line. OUCH.

That’s the situation I’m in. I’ve gotten two little sales so far, many months apart, and the first one gets nibbled at.  I need three more sales fast.

Good news: there’s a work-around.

A new ebook I just found solves these problems which cause most newbies to quit affiliate marketing with ClickBank.

ClickBank for Newbies is written by Harvey Segal, also known as Mr ClickBank because he’s written three books on ClickBank.

Reckon he knows what he’s talking about? It’s a quick easy read, focused on solving our newbie problems.

And the cost of this book?

It’s free!

And it ends with an amazing idea for making you money from the book itself.

Grab your free copy of ClickBank for Newbies today and get the money from your affiliate sales into your hot little hands a whole lot faster.

Best,

P.S.

Did you click that link? How can you argue with help that’s FREE?

P.P.S.

While all the links in my post are meant to help you, some are affiliate links, which means if you click and buy, I could earn money.