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Read This Only If You Buy Products Online

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

 

Have you ever heard of a product called “Affiliate Profit Guard” or how about “Keyword Elite?”  Let me just state for the  record that their is nothing wrong with either product.

But,I have had problems with them and a few other products, that I’ve purchased online in the past.

You see, I have a number of email addresses, and I often forget, which email address is the right login for whatever product that I have just brought.

This is not usually a major problem because I have Robo Form installed on my computer, to save all of my important password details.

However, there is one thing that you or I have very little defence from.

It happens when the original product owner decides to sell their company to someone else.

Now just imagine.

That this happens 2 or 3 years after you purchased the product.

If your lucky, you might just get a email from the original company owner.

Announcing that he or she is about to hand over ownership of their flagship product to John Smith or Jane Smith.

Providing that you have.

1)Signed up to their newsletter

2)Made sure that they have your real email address

3)Kept your email address for a number of years

You should be alright but…

…If you are anything like me, then one of the above points has, or will catch you out. Especially if you buy a lot of  software products online.

I don’t usually sign up to the news letter of the product that I’ve just purchased.

But.

 I do sign up to a lot of other Affiliate Marketers news letter owners.

Who are the ones that recommend most of the products that I buy online.

This is where my problems begin because, I have changed my (ISP) Internet Service Provider at least 4 times in the last 6 years.

So all of my passwords associated with that particular email address then become null and void.

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 Which means that I can’t receive any important updates regarding my purchased products.

You might think, “this is something that will never happen to me.”

And you are probably right.

If you have no intention of ever buying anything online.

Then I’m sure that you won’t be to bothered about missing out on any upgrades.

But if you plan on building your own online business.

Then you will eventually need to invest in more expensive purchases…

…and also protect those purchases as much as you can from any unforeseen circumstances.

So if you want to avoid having the same problems as me,  my advice to you is simple really.

Before buying  anything online make sure that you .
 

  • Have a web email address like Gmail or Yahoo for all of your online transactions.

 

  • Keep all of your email receipts, and put them into a special file or folder

 

  • Keep your business email address and the one that you use for friends and family “SEPERATE”

 You will also need to be aware that any product that you buy online, can suddenly be discontinued without warning.

I have had this happen to me on a couple of occasions. and it can be very frustrating, especially when you are still trying to figure out exactly how the product works.

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3 Crucial Mistakes THat You Must Not Make!

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

 

Affiliate Marketing, isn’t it “GREAT,” You don’t need to spend money on a web site, products, or advertising. All you have to do is promote other people’s products to you’re friends, family, and others.

Then start counting the cash as it rolls into your bank account. “Easy Money right,” So how come you haven’t made a cent yet? Maybe it’s because your making one of these dangerous mistakes.
 

 

Crucial Mistake#1 Believing in the Easy Button

 
Generally speaking, “nobody likes hard work” myself included. How many times have you been told, that their is a easy push button solution to all of your financial problems. The sales patter usually goes something like this…

“Make Money Online working 30 minutes a day while still dressed in you’re pyjamas!”

Believing in the above headline, is like believing in the “Fairy Godmother.”

You want it to be true but, deep down in your heart you know that it is not. Take my friendly advice and, Stop looking for something that doesn’t exist.

 Forget about finding that “Easy Button” and come to terms with the fact that you will never have a successful stay at home business, until you roll up you’re sleeves and build one.

Continuing to believe in the magical easy button will only hinder your progress, prevent you from investing in yourself, and ultimately will kill your dreams of owning a real online business.

“Let me tell you something” a few years ago I went back to college to study for a BTEC in business and finance,  and compared to my workload then, Affiliate Marketing seems very easy and simple to learn and do.
 

 

Crucial Mistake#2: Lack Of Self Belief

 

Before getting fully involved in Affiliate Marketing, I tried other business opportunities like Amway and Kleeneze. I liked both companies but they were not quite right for me at the time. You could say that I’m a bit of a “Business Junky” and a eternal optimist.

I have always, and still believe,  that working the 9 to 5 treadmill is the wrong way to go.

Yes! I know it’s nice to have a steady wage to pay off your mortgage,  and to go on you’re family holidays…

 But, over the long run owning you’re own business will bring you far greater rewards.
 

 

The simple fact is…

 
If you have any doubts about what you are doing online, don’t believe in the products that you promote. Don’t expect anybody else to believe in you either. You cannot let “FEAR” of failure stop you from trying.

Stop blaming others for your failures, accept that you will suffer the occasional setback, and learn from you’re mistakes.

Sh*t happens always has, always will. Only true self belief in yourself will set you free and help you achieve your goals.

 

Crucial Mistake#3 Not Building A List

 
“You just knew that I was going to bring this up again, didn’t you?” It is my little bug bare, and I make no apologies for bringing this point up again, because you simply must do it.

 “WHY” would you want to waste your time, money, and energy sending somebody straight to a merchant’s sales page, when you know that 98% of them won’t buy a thing.

Getting your visitors to sign up to your news-letter first is the smartest thing that you can do. You then will have multiple opportunities to convert them into “BUYERS”

With just a little help from an auto responder service you will be able to get repeat sales from the same customers which is the real secret to long term profits.

Capturing leads is important, because it gives you time to build rapport and trust with you’re subscribers. It is probably the most critical skill in Affiliate Marketing, and to continually ignore doing or learning more about how to do it, will result in disastrous consequences for you.

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A Quick Way To Earn Money Online

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

If you have been interested in learning how to start a work at home Internet business for any length of time, then you probably have a fair idea how Internet Marketing works.
You can sell you’re own product or service and pay affiliates to promote you’re online business for you. Or you can become an affiliate yourself and earn a commission by promoting other people’s products.
What I want to show you in this blog post are three of the most common methods of making money online.

After reading it you should have a clearer understanding of what course of action you need to take to get you’re own business up and running.

What are the three main methods that are on everyone’s lips?

1.Affiliate Marketing: (A personal favourite of mine) in theory, this is very easy, all you have to do is send traffic to the web site that you joined as an affiliate, and earn a commission every time somebody buys a product or service via you’re affiliate link.

2.Product Creation: Have you got you’re own product and service ready to sell online? If not, you can follow the route that most people take, which is to create you’re own digital product such as an ebook, software, or a membership site.

3.Resell Rights: “talk about saving you time,” you get a pre written salesletter,graphics, and a download page.  All you have to do is purchase the rights to whatever product you are interested in selling.

These are three great ways for you to start making money online, but I suppose the question you really want answered is…

What is the best method if you’re just starting out?

“DRUM ROLL please,”

The answer is all THREE!

Why limited yourself to just creating products, selling resell rights, and promoting other people’s products.
What you really need is a plan that will make you a fair amount of cash quickly. But not forgetting that you’re ultimate goal is to develop you’re simple idea into a fully fledged business that will earn you a size-able yearly income.

As much as I would love you to start you’re business empire with Affiliate Marketing. I realize that this method might be just a tad to slow for you, because it will take you TIME to generate the sort of traffic that you need to earn a full time income.

To speed up the process, you could consider paying for you’re traffic, but unless you know what you’re doing it will be very expensive.

Here’s the master plan to making quick cash that you can inject back into you’re business and watch it grow.

1.Grab yourself a couple of low cost resell rights products ($10 – $30). It would be even better for you if you could obtain PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS because it will allow you to modify the content and add your own affiliate links.

2.As you are a relative newcomer,It would be advisable to consider paying you’re affiliates 100% commission to promote your product or service for you. This will encourage them to send vast amounts of traffic to you’re web site and build your list.

3.Once you’ve established who the buyers are on your list, focus you’re efforts on selling them high quality affiliate products that you truly believe will help you’re subscribers succeed.

4.If you have taken the above 3 steps, then you should be “SMOKING HOT” and ready to implement the final stage. Take a chunk of you’re profits and re-invest it for exclusive rights, you can charge more for exclusive rights to quality products.

Another option is to create your own product and brand yourself as an expert, which will gain you the respect and trust of you’re customers.
You can easily expand on this business model by adding an opt-in box, squeeze page, etc. Not forgetting of course, the almost now obligatory up-sell, down-sell or one time offer.

Marketing techniques and strategies come and go, but you’re main objective should always be the same. Surrender you’re short term profits, and get your customers to build you’re list.

This will allow you to continuously make money on the back end. Once you have set this system into motion, it becomes almost impossible to stop and you will truly have a 24hrs a day 7 days a week work at home Internet business. That will keep churning out cash like clockwork.

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