Showing posts with label Affiliate Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affiliate Marketing. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2008
PayDotCom, Sell Products Online, Affiliate Marketing, PayPal
Hi
jim mcgarry here...
If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP ...
While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace... they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions...
Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE now...
It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.
Yours OWN product...
- OR - (the best part)
You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace.
It is called PayDotCom.com!
Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!
This site is going to KILL all other marketplaces and I by now, almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com
So get yours now and see how much they offer...
OH! - Also, they have their won affiliate program now that pays you COLD HARD cash just for sharing the site with people like I am doing with you...
They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS, and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.
If you want an ARMY of affiliates to sell your products for you, they also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!
Even better... If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)...
...then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and get Millions of impressions per month.
So, what are you waiting for...
PayDotCom.com ROCKS!
Get your FREE account now...
http://paydotcom.net/?affiliate=322982
Thanks,
jim mcgarry
P.S. - Make sure to get your Account NOW while it is Free to join.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Affiliate marketing,Affiliates,resources,Ebooks
Learn how a 122lb skinny computer geek picked up 5 women in 1 hour... just by saying seven "magic" words to them!
http://hop.clickbank.net/?marketerjm/smackudown
Make some money selling ebooks and software
http://bizzydays.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=618&p=3&h=1
ADNet - ADNet provides automated storefronts, systems, and training to improve affliate marketing conversion and sales. - http://www.adnetinternational.com/management.htm
Affiliate Goddess - Consults with companies that want to use performance-based marketing to develop, implement, manage or improve an affiliate marketing program. - http://www.affiliategoddess.com
Affiliate Manager - A portal for resources, tips and ideas to help you set up and manage affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatemanager.net
Affiliate Performance - Develops affiliate program strategy and business plans and provides program management. - http://www.affiliateperformance.com
Affiliate Program Guide - Directory site of affiliate programs, business opportunities, links, tools and resources. - http://www.affiliate-programs-guide.com
Affiliate Tracking - Provides companies with the tools and technology to administer a successful affiliate program. - http://www.affiliatetracking.com
AffiliateMatch.com - Helps create a match between website and the affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatematch.com
AffiliatePeople.com - Provides turnkey solutions for daily management and marketing of affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatepeople.com
Amazon.com - Associates earn up to 15% of the sale price on individually linked books, CD's and electronics that are feature on other sites. - http://www.amazon.com
Apmanager - An affiliate program management system of web-based link tracking tools. - http://www.apmanager.com
Be Free - Promotes goods and services through a range of online partnerships, including affiliates and portal relationships. - http://www.befree.com
CashPile.com - CashPile helps establish the vital link between online merchants and a burgeoning community of affiliates. Through supporting electronic commerce-based affiliate programs, CashPile helps its merchant clients extend their channels of distribution to encompass broader content and affinity Web sites. - http://www.cashpile.com
clixGalore - A global provider of performance-based pay for results only affiliate marketing solutions for merchants and affiliates. - http://www.clixgalore.com
Commission Junction - Creates online sales channels for websites to promote advertisers on a pay-per-performance basis. - http://www.commissionjunction.com
CyberTrakker - CyberTrakker is for those who want their own cost-effective in-house affiliate system. - http://www.cybertrakker.com
DirectResponse.com - A full service firm that offers pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale programs. - http://www.directresponse.com
Hamster.com - Provides of plug-N-play solutions for e-Businesses to implement their own pay for performance program. - http://www.hamster.com
Leadhound Network - A pay-per-action affiliate network that markets any products, leads or registrations on a performance basis. - http://www.leadhound.com
LinkageXpress - LinkageXpress is a hand-tailored, targeted link poplarity service for websites. Because targeted link popularity increases targeted traffic, LinkageXpress' service helps to increase search engine relevancy and in turn drives buyers to sites. - http://www.linkagexpress.com
LinkShare - A provides banner and text links to 400 merchants for sites to generate revenue. - http://www.linkshare.com
My Affiliate Program - A web-based affiliate marketing tracking, automation & management application that "plugs in" to virtually any website. - http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com
NETexponent - NETexponent provides comprehensive solutions for all performance marketing needs. Services include; Affiliate Marketing, Media Partnerships, Strategic Alliances, E-mail Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Creative Production. - http://www.NETexponent.com
onResponse.com - Conducts customized cost-per-lead and cost-per-acquisition campaigns on behalf of advertising and direct marketing clients. - http://www.onresponse.com
PlugInGo - Develops and implements advanced and affordable web-based solutions for online merchants. - http://www.plugingo.com
Volumeclick.com - An international affiliate program that places money earning text links (or small buttons) into the content of websites. - http://www.volumeclick.com
WebAffiliatePrograms.com - Directory of the top affiliate programs and associate programs on the Internet. - http://www.webaffiliateprograms.com
Websponsors.com - An advertising network offering primarily the cos-per-action revenue model for Webclients, Inc. - http://www.websponsors.comAffiliate terms
Above the Fold: part of a web page that is visible once the page has loaded, normally it is the top part of a web page. This term is derived from the newspaper industry, referring to the portion of the front page that is visible with the paper folded.
Affiliate: a Web site owner that earns a commission for referring clicks, leads, or sales to a merchant.
Affiliate Agreement: terms between a merchant and an affiliate that govern the relationship.
Affiliate Information Page: a page or pages on your web site that explains clearly and concisely what your affiliate program is all about.
Affiliate Link: a piece of code residing in a graphic image or piece of text placed on an affiliate's web page that notifies the merchant that an affiliate should be credited for the customer or visitor sent to their web site.
Affiliate Manager: the manager of an Affiliate Program who is responsible for creating a newsletter, establishing incentive programs, forecasting and budgeting, overseeing front-end marketing of the program, and monitoring the industry for news and trends.
Affiliate Program (also an Associate, Partner, Referral, or Revenue Sharing Program): a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate's site.
Affiliate Program Directory: directory of affiliate programs, featuring information such as the commission rate, number of affiliates, and affiliate solution provider. Associate-It, AssociatePrograms.com and Refer-it are among the largest Affiliate Program Directories.
Affiliate Solution Provider: company that provides the network, software, and services needed to create and track an affiliate program.
Associate: synonym for affiliate.
Auto-Approve: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are automatically approved for an affiliate program.
Auto-Responder: an email feature that automatically sends an email message to anyone who sends it a message.
Banner Ad: an electronic billboard or ad in the form of a graphic image that comes in many sizes and resides on a web site's web page. Banner ad space is sold to advertisers to earn revenue for the web site.
Browser: a client program (software), such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Opera, that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.
Charge Back: an incomplete sales transaction (i.e. merchandise is purchased and then returned) that results in an affiliate commission deduction.
Click & Bye: refers to the process of an affiliate losing the visitor to the merchant's site once they click on a merchant's banner or text link.
Click-through: the action when a user clicks on a link.
Click-Through Ratio (CTR): percentage of visitors who click-through on a link to visit the merchant's web site.
Client: a software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each client program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of server programs, and each server requires a specific kind of client. A Web browser is a specific kind of client.
Co-branding: situation where affiliates are able include their own logo and branding on the pages to which they send visitors through affiliate links.
Collaborative Commerce Networks: networks of merchants and web sites that work hand in hand as true business partners. Merchants treat their affiliates as sales and distribution channels worthy of any and all support that manufacturers would give to their resellers.
Commission: income an affiliate receives for generating a sale, lead or click-through to a merchant's web site. Sometimes called a referral fee, a finder's fee or a bounty.
Cookies: small files stored on the visitor's computer, which record information that is of interest to the merchant site. With affiliate programs, cookies have two primary functions: to keep track of what a customer purchases, and to track which affiliate was responsible for generating the sale (and is due a commission).
Context-Centric: matching your product or service offer closely to the visitors of an affiliate's site. Place the product or service in-context (closely related to the content it's next to) and more people will buy.
Contextual Link: integration of affiliate links with related text.
Contextual Merchandising: placing targeted products near relevant content.
Conversion Rate: percentage of clicks that result in a commissionable activity (sale or lead).
CPA (Cost Per Action): cost metric for each time a commissionable action takes place.
CPC (Cost Per Click): cost metric for each click if an advertising link.
CPM (Cost Per Thousand): cost metric for one thousand banner advertising impressions.
CPO (Cost Per Order): cost metric for each time an order is transacted.
Customer Bounty: pays the affiliate partner for every new customer that they direct to a merchant.
E-mail Link: an affiliate link to a merchant site in an e-mail newsletter, signature, or a dedicated e-mail blast.
Email Signature (or Sig File): signature option allows for a brief message to be imbedded at the end of every email that a person sends.
eZine: short for electronic magazine. Some e-zines are simply electronic versions of existing print magazines, whereas others exist only in their digital format.
FAQ: (Frequently Asked Questions) FAQs are documents that answer the most common questions on a particular subject.
HTML code: the lines of code that affiliates use to put links on their Web sites. Affiliate solution providers often provide a tool where affiliates can simply copy the code for an affiliate link and paste it into their own HTML pages.
Hybrid Model: affiliate commission model that combines payment options (i.e. CPC & CPA).
Impression: advertising metric that indicates how many times an advertising link is displayed.
In-house: alternative to using an affiliate solution provider; building affiliate program architecture within a company.
Lifetime Value of a Customer: the amount of sales in dollars that a customer in his lifetime will spend with a particular company.
Manual Approval: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are manually approved for an affiliate program.
Media Metrix: measures traffic counts on all the web sites & digital media properties on the Net. They regularly publish the names of the Top 50 sites in the US, the Global Top 50, and the Media Metrix Top 500 web sites.
Merchant: an online business that markets and sells goods or services. Merchants establish affiliate programs as a cost effective method to get consumers to purchase a product, register for a service, fill out a form, or visit a Web site.
Mini-site: prefabricated HTML page for affiliates that displays new or specialized products with integrated affiliate links.
Pay-Per-Sale: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sale of a product or service that they refer to a merchant's web site. Pay-per-sale programs usually offer the highest commissions and the lowest conversion ratio.
Pay-Per-Lead: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sales lead that they generate for a merchant web site. Examples would include completed surveys, contest or sweepstakes entries, downloaded software demos, or free trials. Pay-per-lead generally offers midrange commissions and midrange to high conversion ratios.
Pay-Per-Click: program where an affiliate receives receive a commission for each click (visitor) they refer to a merchant's web site. Pay-per-click programs generally offer some of the lowest commissions (from $0.01 to $0.25 per click), and a very high conversion ratio since visitors need only click on a link to earn the affiliate a commission.
Residual Earnings: programs that pay affiliates not just for the first sale a shopper form their sites makes, but all additional sales made at the merchant's site over the life of the customer.
ROAS: stands for 'Return on Advertising Spending'. This is the amount of revenue generated for every dollar spent on advertising. For instance, a ROAS of $1 means you're generating $1 in sales for every $1 in advertising spend, and a ROAS of $5 means you generate $5 in sales for every $1 in spending.
ROI: stands for 'Return on Investment'. This is what all marketing managers want to see from the money they spend on their marketing and advertising campaigns. The higher the sales, the large the number of shoppers and the greater the profit margin generated by sales – the better the ROI.
Server: a computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g."Our mail server is down today, that’s why e-mail isn’t getting out." A single server machine could have several different server software packages running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network.
Spam (or Spamming): electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings, generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
Storefront: prefabricated HTML page for affiliates that displays new or specialized products with integrated affiliate links.
Super Affiliates: those small percentage of sites - the top 1% of affiliates, based on performance and earnings - that generate the lions share of the revenue for your program. They are born marketers and are very successful with the affiliate program they promote from their sites
Targeted Marketing: offering the right offer to the right customer at the right time.
Tracking Method: the way that a program tracks referred sales, leads or clicks. The most common are by using a unique web address (URL) for each affiliate, or by embedding an affiliate ID number into the link that is processed by the merchant's software. Some programs also use cookies for tracking.
Text Link: link that is not accompanied by a graphical image.
Two-tier: affiliate marketing model that allows affiliates to sign up additional affiliates below themselves, so that when the second tier affiliates earn a commission, the affiliate above them also receives a commission. Two-tier affiliate marketing is also known as MLM (Multilevel Marketing).
Viral Marketing: the rapid adoption of a product or passing on of an offer to friends and family through word-of-mouth (or word-of-email) networks. Any advertising that propagates itself the way viruses do.This is good !$5 to Sign up, $3 for direct referrals and $1 for indirect referrals it doesnt get any easier! http://www.wowearnings.com/?r=jmcsworld
http://hop.clickbank.net/?marketerjm/smackudown
Make some money selling ebooks and software
http://bizzydays.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=618&p=3&h=1
ADNet - ADNet provides automated storefronts, systems, and training to improve affliate marketing conversion and sales. - http://www.adnetinternational.com/management.htm
Affiliate Goddess - Consults with companies that want to use performance-based marketing to develop, implement, manage or improve an affiliate marketing program. - http://www.affiliategoddess.com
Affiliate Manager - A portal for resources, tips and ideas to help you set up and manage affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatemanager.net
Affiliate Performance - Develops affiliate program strategy and business plans and provides program management. - http://www.affiliateperformance.com
Affiliate Program Guide - Directory site of affiliate programs, business opportunities, links, tools and resources. - http://www.affiliate-programs-guide.com
Affiliate Tracking - Provides companies with the tools and technology to administer a successful affiliate program. - http://www.affiliatetracking.com
AffiliateMatch.com - Helps create a match between website and the affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatematch.com
AffiliatePeople.com - Provides turnkey solutions for daily management and marketing of affiliate programs. - http://www.affiliatepeople.com
Amazon.com - Associates earn up to 15% of the sale price on individually linked books, CD's and electronics that are feature on other sites. - http://www.amazon.com
Apmanager - An affiliate program management system of web-based link tracking tools. - http://www.apmanager.com
Be Free - Promotes goods and services through a range of online partnerships, including affiliates and portal relationships. - http://www.befree.com
CashPile.com - CashPile helps establish the vital link between online merchants and a burgeoning community of affiliates. Through supporting electronic commerce-based affiliate programs, CashPile helps its merchant clients extend their channels of distribution to encompass broader content and affinity Web sites. - http://www.cashpile.com
clixGalore - A global provider of performance-based pay for results only affiliate marketing solutions for merchants and affiliates. - http://www.clixgalore.com
Commission Junction - Creates online sales channels for websites to promote advertisers on a pay-per-performance basis. - http://www.commissionjunction.com
CyberTrakker - CyberTrakker is for those who want their own cost-effective in-house affiliate system. - http://www.cybertrakker.com
DirectResponse.com - A full service firm that offers pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale programs. - http://www.directresponse.com
Hamster.com - Provides of plug-N-play solutions for e-Businesses to implement their own pay for performance program. - http://www.hamster.com
Leadhound Network - A pay-per-action affiliate network that markets any products, leads or registrations on a performance basis. - http://www.leadhound.com
LinkageXpress - LinkageXpress is a hand-tailored, targeted link poplarity service for websites. Because targeted link popularity increases targeted traffic, LinkageXpress' service helps to increase search engine relevancy and in turn drives buyers to sites. - http://www.linkagexpress.com
LinkShare - A provides banner and text links to 400 merchants for sites to generate revenue. - http://www.linkshare.com
My Affiliate Program - A web-based affiliate marketing tracking, automation & management application that "plugs in" to virtually any website. - http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com
NETexponent - NETexponent provides comprehensive solutions for all performance marketing needs. Services include; Affiliate Marketing, Media Partnerships, Strategic Alliances, E-mail Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Creative Production. - http://www.NETexponent.com
onResponse.com - Conducts customized cost-per-lead and cost-per-acquisition campaigns on behalf of advertising and direct marketing clients. - http://www.onresponse.com
PlugInGo - Develops and implements advanced and affordable web-based solutions for online merchants. - http://www.plugingo.com
Volumeclick.com - An international affiliate program that places money earning text links (or small buttons) into the content of websites. - http://www.volumeclick.com
WebAffiliatePrograms.com - Directory of the top affiliate programs and associate programs on the Internet. - http://www.webaffiliateprograms.com
Websponsors.com - An advertising network offering primarily the cos-per-action revenue model for Webclients, Inc. - http://www.websponsors.comAffiliate terms
Above the Fold: part of a web page that is visible once the page has loaded, normally it is the top part of a web page. This term is derived from the newspaper industry, referring to the portion of the front page that is visible with the paper folded.
Affiliate: a Web site owner that earns a commission for referring clicks, leads, or sales to a merchant.
Affiliate Agreement: terms between a merchant and an affiliate that govern the relationship.
Affiliate Information Page: a page or pages on your web site that explains clearly and concisely what your affiliate program is all about.
Affiliate Link: a piece of code residing in a graphic image or piece of text placed on an affiliate's web page that notifies the merchant that an affiliate should be credited for the customer or visitor sent to their web site.
Affiliate Manager: the manager of an Affiliate Program who is responsible for creating a newsletter, establishing incentive programs, forecasting and budgeting, overseeing front-end marketing of the program, and monitoring the industry for news and trends.
Affiliate Program (also an Associate, Partner, Referral, or Revenue Sharing Program): a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate's site.
Affiliate Program Directory: directory of affiliate programs, featuring information such as the commission rate, number of affiliates, and affiliate solution provider. Associate-It, AssociatePrograms.com and Refer-it are among the largest Affiliate Program Directories.
Affiliate Solution Provider: company that provides the network, software, and services needed to create and track an affiliate program.
Associate: synonym for affiliate.
Auto-Approve: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are automatically approved for an affiliate program.
Auto-Responder: an email feature that automatically sends an email message to anyone who sends it a message.
Banner Ad: an electronic billboard or ad in the form of a graphic image that comes in many sizes and resides on a web site's web page. Banner ad space is sold to advertisers to earn revenue for the web site.
Browser: a client program (software), such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Opera, that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.
Charge Back: an incomplete sales transaction (i.e. merchandise is purchased and then returned) that results in an affiliate commission deduction.
Click & Bye: refers to the process of an affiliate losing the visitor to the merchant's site once they click on a merchant's banner or text link.
Click-through: the action when a user clicks on a link.
Click-Through Ratio (CTR): percentage of visitors who click-through on a link to visit the merchant's web site.
Client: a software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each client program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of server programs, and each server requires a specific kind of client. A Web browser is a specific kind of client.
Co-branding: situation where affiliates are able include their own logo and branding on the pages to which they send visitors through affiliate links.
Collaborative Commerce Networks: networks of merchants and web sites that work hand in hand as true business partners. Merchants treat their affiliates as sales and distribution channels worthy of any and all support that manufacturers would give to their resellers.
Commission: income an affiliate receives for generating a sale, lead or click-through to a merchant's web site. Sometimes called a referral fee, a finder's fee or a bounty.
Cookies: small files stored on the visitor's computer, which record information that is of interest to the merchant site. With affiliate programs, cookies have two primary functions: to keep track of what a customer purchases, and to track which affiliate was responsible for generating the sale (and is due a commission).
Context-Centric: matching your product or service offer closely to the visitors of an affiliate's site. Place the product or service in-context (closely related to the content it's next to) and more people will buy.
Contextual Link: integration of affiliate links with related text.
Contextual Merchandising: placing targeted products near relevant content.
Conversion Rate: percentage of clicks that result in a commissionable activity (sale or lead).
CPA (Cost Per Action): cost metric for each time a commissionable action takes place.
CPC (Cost Per Click): cost metric for each click if an advertising link.
CPM (Cost Per Thousand): cost metric for one thousand banner advertising impressions.
CPO (Cost Per Order): cost metric for each time an order is transacted.
Customer Bounty: pays the affiliate partner for every new customer that they direct to a merchant.
E-mail Link: an affiliate link to a merchant site in an e-mail newsletter, signature, or a dedicated e-mail blast.
Email Signature (or Sig File): signature option allows for a brief message to be imbedded at the end of every email that a person sends.
eZine: short for electronic magazine. Some e-zines are simply electronic versions of existing print magazines, whereas others exist only in their digital format.
FAQ: (Frequently Asked Questions) FAQs are documents that answer the most common questions on a particular subject.
HTML code: the lines of code that affiliates use to put links on their Web sites. Affiliate solution providers often provide a tool where affiliates can simply copy the code for an affiliate link and paste it into their own HTML pages.
Hybrid Model: affiliate commission model that combines payment options (i.e. CPC & CPA).
Impression: advertising metric that indicates how many times an advertising link is displayed.
In-house: alternative to using an affiliate solution provider; building affiliate program architecture within a company.
Lifetime Value of a Customer: the amount of sales in dollars that a customer in his lifetime will spend with a particular company.
Manual Approval: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are manually approved for an affiliate program.
Media Metrix: measures traffic counts on all the web sites & digital media properties on the Net. They regularly publish the names of the Top 50 sites in the US, the Global Top 50, and the Media Metrix Top 500 web sites.
Merchant: an online business that markets and sells goods or services. Merchants establish affiliate programs as a cost effective method to get consumers to purchase a product, register for a service, fill out a form, or visit a Web site.
Mini-site: prefabricated HTML page for affiliates that displays new or specialized products with integrated affiliate links.
Pay-Per-Sale: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sale of a product or service that they refer to a merchant's web site. Pay-per-sale programs usually offer the highest commissions and the lowest conversion ratio.
Pay-Per-Lead: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sales lead that they generate for a merchant web site. Examples would include completed surveys, contest or sweepstakes entries, downloaded software demos, or free trials. Pay-per-lead generally offers midrange commissions and midrange to high conversion ratios.
Pay-Per-Click: program where an affiliate receives receive a commission for each click (visitor) they refer to a merchant's web site. Pay-per-click programs generally offer some of the lowest commissions (from $0.01 to $0.25 per click), and a very high conversion ratio since visitors need only click on a link to earn the affiliate a commission.
Residual Earnings: programs that pay affiliates not just for the first sale a shopper form their sites makes, but all additional sales made at the merchant's site over the life of the customer.
ROAS: stands for 'Return on Advertising Spending'. This is the amount of revenue generated for every dollar spent on advertising. For instance, a ROAS of $1 means you're generating $1 in sales for every $1 in advertising spend, and a ROAS of $5 means you generate $5 in sales for every $1 in spending.
ROI: stands for 'Return on Investment'. This is what all marketing managers want to see from the money they spend on their marketing and advertising campaigns. The higher the sales, the large the number of shoppers and the greater the profit margin generated by sales – the better the ROI.
Server: a computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g."Our mail server is down today, that’s why e-mail isn’t getting out." A single server machine could have several different server software packages running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network.
Spam (or Spamming): electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings, generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
Storefront: prefabricated HTML page for affiliates that displays new or specialized products with integrated affiliate links.
Super Affiliates: those small percentage of sites - the top 1% of affiliates, based on performance and earnings - that generate the lions share of the revenue for your program. They are born marketers and are very successful with the affiliate program they promote from their sites
Targeted Marketing: offering the right offer to the right customer at the right time.
Tracking Method: the way that a program tracks referred sales, leads or clicks. The most common are by using a unique web address (URL) for each affiliate, or by embedding an affiliate ID number into the link that is processed by the merchant's software. Some programs also use cookies for tracking.
Text Link: link that is not accompanied by a graphical image.
Two-tier: affiliate marketing model that allows affiliates to sign up additional affiliates below themselves, so that when the second tier affiliates earn a commission, the affiliate above them also receives a commission. Two-tier affiliate marketing is also known as MLM (Multilevel Marketing).
Viral Marketing: the rapid adoption of a product or passing on of an offer to friends and family through word-of-mouth (or word-of-email) networks. Any advertising that propagates itself the way viruses do.This is good !$5 to Sign up, $3 for direct referrals and $1 for indirect referrals it doesnt get any easier! http://www.wowearnings.com/?r=jmcsworld
Saturday, February 10, 2007
affiliate,making money with affiliate programs
Here are some things that I look for before joining an affiliate
program. They are items I feel are imperative to being in a
successful affiliate program.
1. The affiliate program has a great payment structure. For me, a
high commission that is also a high percentage of the purchase price
is essential. Nothing under 25% commission.
2. Make sure the affiliate program you are joining has a good looking
site. You do not want to be sending visitors to a site that you do
not like yourself.
3. Make sure they offer a comprehensive affiliate statistics page
that lists the number of click throughs, number of sales and amount
earned. This should be broken down per month.
4. Also make sure that the affiliate statistics are updated
automatically and immediately. You do not want to find out today
about a sale you made a week ago.
5. Ensure they give a wide variety of text links, banners and
graphics to put on your web page. Although I prefer text links,
certain types of banners and graphics still work well.
6. Know how often you are going to be paid. If you are tossing up
between 2 programs and one pays monthly and the other pays quarterly,
the one that pays monthly is better. You do not want to wait months
before getting paid for your hard work!
7. See if the affiliate program gives examples of how the top
affiliates are doing. This can be a great pointer to whether it is
good or not. If some affiliates are earning many thousands per month,
it is a good affiliate program.
8. Along these lines, also see if they give examples of what
marketing methods these successful affiliates are using to get the
best results.
9. An affiliate program that offers a special monthly newsletter just
for the affiliates is great. Here you can get extra tips and
techniques that are working well.
10. See if they offer email notification when you make a sale or get
an affiliate signed up under you (if it is a 2-tier program). It is
good to see `You have made another sale' in your inbox.
11. Ensure top level support is given. If they cannot answer your
query straight away make sure they can respond within 48 hours.
There is tremendous demand for affiliate programs and choosing the
right one is no easy task. Make sure you do plenty of research before
joining one.
Free ways to promote them
After learning of the success many online businesses have had increasing their sales with an affiliate program, you decided to follow suit. You hammered out a compensation plan both encouraging to affiliates and profitable to your business. You’ve got tracking software in place. You’ve turned the key in the ignition of your marketing machine… and nothing’s happening.
Your army of affiliates can be viewed metaphorically as a tree. Full grown, it will thrive in rain and sunshine. Strong changing winds can shake its branches, but the tree will continue to grow. In the early seed stage, however, special care is needed if you want your tree to break through the surface.
You spent a great deal of time, energy, and likely at least a little money creating your affiliate program. You need to attract strong affiliates that can rapidly build your customer base and return your investment. How can you bring these powerful marketing dynamos into your camp, ideally without drawing on your already diminished cash reserves?
1.) Submit to Online Directories
The method that will show the most immediate increase in new affiliates is listing your program in online affiliate directories. These reference sites are the first stop for hungry potential affiliates looking for the income opportunity that is going to allow them to quit their 9 to 5 jobs. Many such directories exist, and obviously some will bring you better results than others. Since submitting to almost all of these directories is free, though, get listed on as many as you can. Here are a few links to submission pages to get you started, but by no means should you stop with just these few:
http://www.becomeanaffiliate.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.affiliatesoftware.info/joinaffiliatedirectory.php
http://www.affiliatescreen.com/suggest_program.php
http://www.affiliatematch.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.2-tier.com/cgi-bin/add_url.cgi
http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/links/add.cgi
http://www.earnfind.com/addprogram-howto.php
2.) Advertise in Your Own Newsletter
Hopefully you’ve been collecting email addresses from your website and sending a regular newsletter to your visitors. (If not, read this article: http://www.zeromillion.com/ebiz/creating-an-email-newsletter.html) Your newsletter subscribers are a precious handful of people that have expressed direct interest in keeping abreast of the latest developments with your product/service and company. Give them what they want! You can kick off your affiliate program with an article in your newsletter explaining the benefits and encouraging your subscribers to participate. Your future newsletters can contain short blurbs about the affiliate program and how it’s progressing to inform new subscribers and remind your original readers.
3.) Post to Affiliate Forums and Newsgroups
Approach this method with caution. No one will be impressed if you post a blatant advertisement or a plea to join your affiliate program. If you find a forum that contains such messages, don’t even bother making a post there. The forum probably isn’t moderated, and almost certainly isn’t read by many people. The place to include information about your website and program is in your profile (and in your signature line if other posters do so). A serious forum, read by the type of people you want to have as affiliates, will only contain posts with relevant and useful content instead of advertising fluff messages.
How can you add relevant and useful content? The first step is to read some of the existing posts and get a feel for the general personality of the forum. At best, reading old posts will spark questions that can be turned into relevant posts and generate interested responses. At worst, you’ll see what’s been talked about recently, so you don’t make the awkward mistake of asking a question that was answered a few days ago.
If no topics come to mind after reading old posts, a possible strategy is to ask for the advice of some experienced affiliates in how you could improve your program. You’ll find different ideas on what constitutes a solid compensation plan, tracking system, or incentive program. Beyond getting attention for your program, this is a great opportunity to improve your program by picking the brains of people who’ve been in the game longer than you.
This list is obviously not comprehensive, but it contains a few forums worth investigating:
http://www.ablake.net/forum/
http://iwiz2.richdad.com/jive/application2/forum.jsp?forum=33
http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=7
program. They are items I feel are imperative to being in a
successful affiliate program.
1. The affiliate program has a great payment structure. For me, a
high commission that is also a high percentage of the purchase price
is essential. Nothing under 25% commission.
2. Make sure the affiliate program you are joining has a good looking
site. You do not want to be sending visitors to a site that you do
not like yourself.
3. Make sure they offer a comprehensive affiliate statistics page
that lists the number of click throughs, number of sales and amount
earned. This should be broken down per month.
4. Also make sure that the affiliate statistics are updated
automatically and immediately. You do not want to find out today
about a sale you made a week ago.
5. Ensure they give a wide variety of text links, banners and
graphics to put on your web page. Although I prefer text links,
certain types of banners and graphics still work well.
6. Know how often you are going to be paid. If you are tossing up
between 2 programs and one pays monthly and the other pays quarterly,
the one that pays monthly is better. You do not want to wait months
before getting paid for your hard work!
7. See if the affiliate program gives examples of how the top
affiliates are doing. This can be a great pointer to whether it is
good or not. If some affiliates are earning many thousands per month,
it is a good affiliate program.
8. Along these lines, also see if they give examples of what
marketing methods these successful affiliates are using to get the
best results.
9. An affiliate program that offers a special monthly newsletter just
for the affiliates is great. Here you can get extra tips and
techniques that are working well.
10. See if they offer email notification when you make a sale or get
an affiliate signed up under you (if it is a 2-tier program). It is
good to see `You have made another sale' in your inbox.
11. Ensure top level support is given. If they cannot answer your
query straight away make sure they can respond within 48 hours.
There is tremendous demand for affiliate programs and choosing the
right one is no easy task. Make sure you do plenty of research before
joining one.
Free ways to promote them
After learning of the success many online businesses have had increasing their sales with an affiliate program, you decided to follow suit. You hammered out a compensation plan both encouraging to affiliates and profitable to your business. You’ve got tracking software in place. You’ve turned the key in the ignition of your marketing machine… and nothing’s happening.
Your army of affiliates can be viewed metaphorically as a tree. Full grown, it will thrive in rain and sunshine. Strong changing winds can shake its branches, but the tree will continue to grow. In the early seed stage, however, special care is needed if you want your tree to break through the surface.
You spent a great deal of time, energy, and likely at least a little money creating your affiliate program. You need to attract strong affiliates that can rapidly build your customer base and return your investment. How can you bring these powerful marketing dynamos into your camp, ideally without drawing on your already diminished cash reserves?
1.) Submit to Online Directories
The method that will show the most immediate increase in new affiliates is listing your program in online affiliate directories. These reference sites are the first stop for hungry potential affiliates looking for the income opportunity that is going to allow them to quit their 9 to 5 jobs. Many such directories exist, and obviously some will bring you better results than others. Since submitting to almost all of these directories is free, though, get listed on as many as you can. Here are a few links to submission pages to get you started, but by no means should you stop with just these few:
http://www.becomeanaffiliate.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.affiliatesoftware.info/joinaffiliatedirectory.php
http://www.affiliatescreen.com/suggest_program.php
http://www.affiliatematch.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.2-tier.com/cgi-bin/add_url.cgi
http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/links/add.cgi
http://www.earnfind.com/addprogram-howto.php
2.) Advertise in Your Own Newsletter
Hopefully you’ve been collecting email addresses from your website and sending a regular newsletter to your visitors. (If not, read this article: http://www.zeromillion.com/ebiz/creating-an-email-newsletter.html) Your newsletter subscribers are a precious handful of people that have expressed direct interest in keeping abreast of the latest developments with your product/service and company. Give them what they want! You can kick off your affiliate program with an article in your newsletter explaining the benefits and encouraging your subscribers to participate. Your future newsletters can contain short blurbs about the affiliate program and how it’s progressing to inform new subscribers and remind your original readers.
3.) Post to Affiliate Forums and Newsgroups
Approach this method with caution. No one will be impressed if you post a blatant advertisement or a plea to join your affiliate program. If you find a forum that contains such messages, don’t even bother making a post there. The forum probably isn’t moderated, and almost certainly isn’t read by many people. The place to include information about your website and program is in your profile (and in your signature line if other posters do so). A serious forum, read by the type of people you want to have as affiliates, will only contain posts with relevant and useful content instead of advertising fluff messages.
How can you add relevant and useful content? The first step is to read some of the existing posts and get a feel for the general personality of the forum. At best, reading old posts will spark questions that can be turned into relevant posts and generate interested responses. At worst, you’ll see what’s been talked about recently, so you don’t make the awkward mistake of asking a question that was answered a few days ago.
If no topics come to mind after reading old posts, a possible strategy is to ask for the advice of some experienced affiliates in how you could improve your program. You’ll find different ideas on what constitutes a solid compensation plan, tracking system, or incentive program. Beyond getting attention for your program, this is a great opportunity to improve your program by picking the brains of people who’ve been in the game longer than you.
This list is obviously not comprehensive, but it contains a few forums worth investigating:
http://www.ablake.net/forum/
http://iwiz2.richdad.com/jive/application2/forum.jsp?forum=33
http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=7
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Free gift!
Hi [[readers]]
[jim] from [jmcs internet news monthly] and I have a special
offer for you today.
Nothing to buy, so put your wallet away. :o)
I was given the "Thank You Page" for Derrick VanDyke's
newly revised "Affiliate Cash Secrets" and was told I could
share it with anyone...A $97 Value absolutely F-R-E-E with
no strings attached.
Check it out here:
http://acsclick.com/thankyou.php?22631
The package includes the "Affiliate Cash Secrets" ebook,
The "Free Traffic Secrets" training manual, and the
"Affiliate Organizer" software.
You can download the whole package here:
http://acsclick.com/thankyou.php?22631
Have a great day,
[jim]
[jim] from [jmcs internet news monthly] and I have a special
offer for you today.
Nothing to buy, so put your wallet away. :o)
I was given the "Thank You Page" for Derrick VanDyke's
newly revised "Affiliate Cash Secrets" and was told I could
share it with anyone...A $97 Value absolutely F-R-E-E with
no strings attached.
Check it out here:
http://acsclick.com/thankyou.php?22631
The package includes the "Affiliate Cash Secrets" ebook,
The "Free Traffic Secrets" training manual, and the
"Affiliate Organizer" software.
You can download the whole package here:
http://acsclick.com/thankyou.php?22631
Have a great day,
[jim]
Monday, January 29, 2007
Where to start making money online?
Affiliate marketing
We'll start with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is basically an arrangement where a seller of a product or service pays commissions to affiliates in exchange for the affiliate referring sales or leads.
Pretty simple, right? That's not a trick question, it really is that simple.
Let me give you an example. If I was selling an ebook for $50, I might have an affiliate program in which I pay YOU (my affiliate) $25 commission for every sale you refer.
As an affiliate, you might place a link to the ebook on your website, or review the ebook in a newsletter, place a classified ad, or send traffic by a variety of different methods. Each time one of your referred visitors buys the ebook, I pay you a $25 commission. That's affiliate marketing.
There are also "affiliate program providers" which act as middlemen between the sellers and the affiliates. Some popular ones are ClickBank and Commission Junction, both of which we'll be talking about later.
affiliate program providers
Two of the MANY affiliate program providers that are compatible with my system.
Click bank Commision Junction
You can sign up with these companies as an affiliate marketer (also called a publisher), and take your pick of products to promote from a selection of thousands of products and services from thousands of sellers.
Being an affiliate marketer is an attractive opportunity because you can make a ton of money without keeping any inventory, dealing with customers, etc.
Remember, this is a hype-free page with no income claims, so I'm not going to tell you how much I make from affiliate marketing or force you to look at a bunch of screen shots of my earnings statements... so just trust me when I tell you that I make a lot of money from it, OK? Keep following the blog posts and soon youll see many links and information coming related to affiliate programs and products.
Pay-per-click advertising
Next let's take a brief look at pay-per-click advertising (PPC). Pay-per-click is exactly what it sounds like; it's a form of online advertising in which an advertiser pays for each click on a particular advertisement.
The most popular PPC providers include Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Whether you're aware of PPC advertising or not, I guarantee that you've seen the ads before...
If you do a search on Google, Yahoo, or most other search engines, the listings that appear on the right side (and often the top) of the page are the PPC ads. If you click on one of those ads, the advertiser is charged for that click.
The great thing about PPC is that it allows virtually anyone with a website to start getting targeted traffic almost immediately.
It also opened up a huge door for affiliate marketers such as myself to easily and instantly promote products and services.
If you've been told you shouldn't pay for web traffic, then you haven't been given the full story. Yes there are ways of getting free traffic (SEO, free ads, etc), but most serious marketers know that targeted traffic is one of the most important investments for your business.
It's simply a numbers game. Suppose you use PPC to send traffic to a particular offer that pays $20 commission per sale. Let's say you send 100 visitors for 10 cents per click. That's an expense of $10, right? Now suppose just one of those 100 visitors buys the product and you make $20 commission...
That's a net profit of $10, which means you doubled your money. If you had the power to turn a $10 bill into a $20 bill, how many times would you do it?
Of course you would do it as many times as you could. Some people call it "click flipping".
I can't promise any particular rate of return on investment, but I am certain that it works. I know it works because my PPC ads are increasing my income right now as you read this.
It's great because you don't have to do a lot of work or invest a large amount of money to start doing it. You just have to do a little work up front to set up each campaign, and then you can reap the benefits of it for weeks, months, and sometimes years...more to come..
We'll start with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is basically an arrangement where a seller of a product or service pays commissions to affiliates in exchange for the affiliate referring sales or leads.
Pretty simple, right? That's not a trick question, it really is that simple.
Let me give you an example. If I was selling an ebook for $50, I might have an affiliate program in which I pay YOU (my affiliate) $25 commission for every sale you refer.
As an affiliate, you might place a link to the ebook on your website, or review the ebook in a newsletter, place a classified ad, or send traffic by a variety of different methods. Each time one of your referred visitors buys the ebook, I pay you a $25 commission. That's affiliate marketing.
There are also "affiliate program providers" which act as middlemen between the sellers and the affiliates. Some popular ones are ClickBank and Commission Junction, both of which we'll be talking about later.
affiliate program providers
Two of the MANY affiliate program providers that are compatible with my system.
Click bank Commision Junction
You can sign up with these companies as an affiliate marketer (also called a publisher), and take your pick of products to promote from a selection of thousands of products and services from thousands of sellers.
Being an affiliate marketer is an attractive opportunity because you can make a ton of money without keeping any inventory, dealing with customers, etc.
Remember, this is a hype-free page with no income claims, so I'm not going to tell you how much I make from affiliate marketing or force you to look at a bunch of screen shots of my earnings statements... so just trust me when I tell you that I make a lot of money from it, OK? Keep following the blog posts and soon youll see many links and information coming related to affiliate programs and products.
Pay-per-click advertising
Next let's take a brief look at pay-per-click advertising (PPC). Pay-per-click is exactly what it sounds like; it's a form of online advertising in which an advertiser pays for each click on a particular advertisement.
The most popular PPC providers include Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Whether you're aware of PPC advertising or not, I guarantee that you've seen the ads before...
If you do a search on Google, Yahoo, or most other search engines, the listings that appear on the right side (and often the top) of the page are the PPC ads. If you click on one of those ads, the advertiser is charged for that click.
The great thing about PPC is that it allows virtually anyone with a website to start getting targeted traffic almost immediately.
It also opened up a huge door for affiliate marketers such as myself to easily and instantly promote products and services.
If you've been told you shouldn't pay for web traffic, then you haven't been given the full story. Yes there are ways of getting free traffic (SEO, free ads, etc), but most serious marketers know that targeted traffic is one of the most important investments for your business.
It's simply a numbers game. Suppose you use PPC to send traffic to a particular offer that pays $20 commission per sale. Let's say you send 100 visitors for 10 cents per click. That's an expense of $10, right? Now suppose just one of those 100 visitors buys the product and you make $20 commission...
That's a net profit of $10, which means you doubled your money. If you had the power to turn a $10 bill into a $20 bill, how many times would you do it?
Of course you would do it as many times as you could. Some people call it "click flipping".
I can't promise any particular rate of return on investment, but I am certain that it works. I know it works because my PPC ads are increasing my income right now as you read this.
It's great because you don't have to do a lot of work or invest a large amount of money to start doing it. You just have to do a little work up front to set up each campaign, and then you can reap the benefits of it for weeks, months, and sometimes years...more to come..
Thursday, December 7, 2006
affiliate marketing made easy
Subject: JUST RELEASED - A Most Powerful Book on Affiliate
Marketing!
Hi [friends],
I'm so excited about this I almost can't type straight.
You know that all we hear about these days is "affiliate
marketing."
But is affiliate marketing for real, or just the flavor of the
year? Does anybody REALLY make a good income with it?
Just a few days ago, that question was answered with no room for
doubt...
===> AFFILIATE MARKETING IS * VERY * REAL! <===
George Pluss has created what I think is the BEST book I've ever
seen on Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Payday, and you can learn
more about it here...
http://myprofitweb.com/cgi-bin/x.cgi?a=r&id=54&aid=849&p=10
Marketing!
Hi [friends],
I'm so excited about this I almost can't type straight.
You know that all we hear about these days is "affiliate
marketing."
But is affiliate marketing for real, or just the flavor of the
year? Does anybody REALLY make a good income with it?
Just a few days ago, that question was answered with no room for
doubt...
===> AFFILIATE MARKETING IS * VERY * REAL! <===
George Pluss has created what I think is the BEST book I've ever
seen on Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Payday, and you can learn
more about it here...
http://myprofitweb.com/cgi-bin/x.cgi?a=r&id=54&aid=849&p=10
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