I Could Spoil You

If you want extra cash every month, you have to read this. You can start a part-time or full-time business simply by developing an affiliate network on the Internet. You will enjoy the comfort of working at home and be your own boss. However, this will take lots of determination, persistence, communication, and organizational skills to achieve success. Let me share with you the secrets of building your own affiliate empire with little or no start up cost.

Before you start you affiliate empire, you have to learn “who you are”. Yes, this sounds weird, but you will appreciate learning who you are. What this question leads to may surprise you because if you are doing something that you really enjoy, you will do whatever it takes to wake up early or stay up late to get things done. Trust me. You will because you love what you do.

Once you know who you are and what you are passionate about. Now, you can narrow your “circle of interests” to golfing, traveling, reading, knitting, sewing, eating, drinking, driving, diving, or anything you name it. List out the top 3 of your favorite sports or hobbies - write down one idea on a piece of paper. And, you have three pieces of paper with three favorite things that you love to do.

Go to your favorite search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others) to search for the keywords on each piece of paper. For example, you search for “travel”. You will find a list of websites. Try “discount travel” or “world travel”. Visit these websites and see if they have an affiliate program that you can join for free. Yes, these affiliate programs are usually free. You don’t need to pay a dime to join because you are doing a good thing for the company. You are going to help them to promote their website and bring in new revenues for them. Write down these websites and commission structure on the paper. Compare the payouts and find your favorite affiliate program. Sign up one or two affiliate programs only. Otherwise, you will have tons of emails drowning you in your Inbox. Now, pick one product in the affiliate program. This target product should give people unique value or help them to solve a problem. Once you determine your target product, you are ready to go.

Whether you have little or no money to start your business, here are three easy ways for you to become a super affiliate:

1. No Budget Approach: Start at zero dollars by searching through your “circle of friends”, including your family, high school friends, college friends, co-workers, employers, neighbors, and many other people whom you have met and know in the past three years. Create an email list if you have their email address. Otherwise, create a phone list with name and where you met them. Create a one-page sales letter or promotional flyer telling them why this target product is great for them. List out all the benefits in point form. Send out this warm message to your circle of friends. You are not cold calling. You are simply telling them how much value you want to give them. If you have picked a great product that you believe in, you will feel good promoting it. Follow up with them by a phone call. Basically, you need to touch base with your prospects at least 3 to 7 times to close a deal. Never give up. Keep trying. This is the most cost-effective way to start your business with no cost. When you make your first few transactions, you are ready to switch to a low budget approach.

2. Low Budget Approach: Set up a niche website that promotes your target product. A niche website means that you will attract buyers with special interests. For example, someone who is looking for a specific thing, like Hello Kitty, Superman, Wonder Woman; or, a specific solution, like growing hair on a bald head, toning muscles on arms and legs, and losing weight after having babies. Developing your website is easy. If you have good computer and Internet skills, you should just set up your own website with good sales copy. Setting up a website will cost you $100 to $500 a year. There are many cheap web hosting solutions out there, but every additional web tool you want is a new add-on cost. So, choose wisely. Ideally, you want to have the ability to set up a website in 10 minutes, and have the freedom to manage it anywhere around the world with just an Internet connection. When you have your website up and running, you are ready to promote your target product to your online visitors and earn some cash.

3. High Budget Approach: Promote your niche website is the key to success. However, it costs time, money, energy, and resources around you. You should budget your money wisely to minimize risks and maximize profits. Online advertising can drain you lots of money if you don’t know how to track and measure return on investment. The ultimate goal is for you to build your own contact list or mail list which you can use it time over time to sell your prospects or members on various products in your niche interest. For instance, you may start selling hockey cards. You grow your contact list in a few months and start adding on new products like hockey board games. Just an idea. Remember your mail list is your gold fountain with running water. Focus. Focus on building your mail list with name and email addresses. You can use search engine keywords (e.g., Google Adwords). Or, you can just gather leads through different networking events in your local community.

Becoming a super affiliate is a number game. You have to focus on two variables: product price and market reach. When you have a high ticket item, you don’t need to sell as many to earn handsome cash commission. When you have a low ticket item, you will have to sell many to earn the same amount of cash commission. It is your choice to determine what type of product and price range you feel comfortable in selling. If I can make couple hundreds of dollars in one transaction, I think it’s great because it saves me time and effort.

In terms of market reach, you will be successful only if you can reach lots of prospects who are interested in your product. This means you have to determine in learning whatever you can to promote your website to target customers and close the deals with bonuses or unconditional guarantee. You need to learn how to write the best sales copy, how to keep your website up and running, and how to manage your own accounting. When you become a super affiliate, you can hire a web assistant and an accountant to assist in all these tasks.

Take a minute to visit http://www.globalmcn.com and learn one of the most affordable web solutions and one of the best super affiliate programs in the world.

Please feel free to reprint this article in your ezine, newsletter, RSS, website, or print publication with original content and author bio.

Copyright © 2005 Dr. Vivian Lee, Global Marketing Communications Network, Inc.

Dr. Vivian Lee is the founder and CEO of GLOBAL MCN (http://www.globalmcn.com). She writes, coaches, consults and speaks about best practices to accelerate growth and success. She likes to inspire individuals and organizations around the world with value, balance, and trust. Her goal is to empower you, enhance communication, and enrich life. She is an expert in bridging the gap between the East and West, as well as the digital and real spaces in the 21st century. She has a Ph.D. in Organizational Management, major in E-Business; a M.B.A. in Marketing; and a B.Sc. in Biopsychology. Her research interests include Competitive Intelligence, Internet Marketing, and Cross-Cultural Communication.

Until recently information was generally in written form and to
find something you had to search for a book or article in a
bookstore or library. The advent of computers and the Internet
means every document is automatically in electronic formats and
potentially available to anyone connected to the net via a
computer. Then to many the understanding of the Internet appears
to be a daunting problem at first and the workings the preserve
of specialists and experts. Here is how you start for Internet
Profits. There are literally millions of people regularly using
the Internet and visiting sites of interest. A good number would
be interested in a new idea or concept that could solve a need
or problem area in their lives or aspirations. Of these a
significant proportion would be very happy to become your
customers. However information is readily available on the
Internet and so is information over-load. It is just too easy to
end up with thousands of possible references that are often
quite impossible to sift through. To make money on the Internet
you must stand out form the crowd and be located. “Today’s good
news” - You do not have to battle and struggle anymore, as there
is a way open to anyone. The trick is to make the Internet your
friend and literally tame the beast so that the Internet special
benefits are available to you and able to serve your commercial
needs. Sounds too easy to be true, you say. “So how does a real,
no non-sense and no rip-off system work”? - Well I’ve just been
studying how it works and are delighted to share a part of this
with anyone who wants to be independent from the daily 9-5
grind. All you need is an idea. The object of the exercise is to
create an item of intellectual property that is distinct to you
and then to make your idea readily available to others on the
Internet and generate profits. The idea can be physical objects
requiring a commercial set-up (complication of stocks, delivery
and the host of legal regulations and not considered in the
following) or the supply of intellectual objects over the
Internet in readily available instant data formats. Take your
idea and refine it by concentrating all your thoughts onto the
various facets of the idea that come to mind. Use your thoughts
as arrows that you mentally fire in the direction of your target
idea and continue until you have defined the core concept. Ideas
like this can be commercialised on your own web site and the
mechanisms for that require much more space and hence are
obtainable elsewhere. The above is the essential starting point
and I hope the information is useful to you and helps your
Internet success.

Copyright 2006 Mark Nenadic

The world wide web is an extremely unique place that allows
everybody to have access to the same information from all around
the world. This truly is an ability never experienced before by
humankind. Just as exciting is the fact that this resource is
always growing, expanding, and improving, so that a web user is
limited only by his or her own imagination.

As the world wide web continues to grow, so will the needs of
its different users. For this reason, universal web design is
also increasing in its importance, so that web sites are
continuously able to accommodate these needs.

Fortunately, by implementing a site with a universal web design,
you can continue to grow with your visitors’ needs, and without
a great deal of difficulty. In fact, by using universal web
design, you’ll achieve a much more professional, clean, and
usable website. Any alterations will involve only a few very
simple, straight forward changes, which will make you much more
likely to keep it improved and fully up to date.

Universal web design, when done correctly, will automatically
accommodate your visitors, no matter their computer skills,
internet experience, needs, and desires.

For example, when using the universal design style, your site
will be consistently laid out as far as its links, navigation,
content, and other features. This way, your visitors will
quickly become used to the way the site works, and they will not
have to “re-learn” it every time they changes pages.

Universal website design will also not rely wholly on
Java-Script, and without using alt-tags for images. This is all
very helpful to users who want a faster result, as well as those
who aren’t really sure what they’re doing.

After all, many of your users may be visiting with the graphics
feature turned off in order to give themselves higher protection
from viruses and spyware, and to speed up the process because of
a slow computer, a slow connection, or an expensive connection.
If your site depends entirely on graphics and Java-Script, you
have already excluded those clients before they were even able
to get started.

Universal web design, therefore, will often require that the
site offers two different methods of website accessibility for
reaching the same goal.

Even better, this will open your website up to visitors who have
very special needs such as those who are:

- Visually impaired, such as blind or color-blind - Deaf -
Motion impaired, resulting in greater challenge using a mouse or
keyboard - Cognitive impairments - Text-only browsers, such as
Lynx

This is true because many of these individuals have different
hardware, software, and overall techniques for accessing the
web. For example, people who are visually impaired will
frequently use a screen reading software. This software works by
reading the webpage to the visitor one word at a time, one row
at a time.

Now consider your own website accessibility. When you first see
it, your eyes will go over the entire layout of the page,
including its headings, side bars, text content, images,
subheadings, ads, and other elements. You are quickly able to
recognize the organization and goal of the particular page and
are able to skip to your desired information right away.

However, will a person with a screen reader be able to do the
same? Their reader will go across the page one word at a time,
straight across the entire page, including any alt-tag
information that may be there. Top-listed links create a
disastrously confusing result.

There is an easy way to get around this with the universal web
design style. When you create your alt-tags, simply enter the
words “Navigation Bar” within the information and the screen
reader will this information and then the links, having it make
sense to the person listening to the screen reader, and will
remain invisible to sighted readers. If you want the screen
reader to ignore it altogether, simply enter “” as your alt-tag
description, and it will move past it without a pause.

Similarly, make sure that your buttons are a good size, so that
any visitors with motion impairments won’t struggle to point and
click.

Remember that color should be used very carefully, as
approximately 8% of all visitors to your website will have
difficulty distinguishing among colors to some extent or
another. Your colors shouldn’t be dense enough that they appear
black on a black-and-white screen, nor should they be so similar
that those with red-green color blindness cannot differentiate
between them.

By taking the precautions of universal web design, you’ll make
certain that your site visitors are always able to access the
different elements of your website, and that you’re always
keeping up with their changing needs and desires. This is the
mark of a web designer who will achieve great successes.

If you want your online business to be successful, it’s a good idea to optimize your site on a regular basis to make sure it’s got a good position in the Web’s top search engines.

However, in order to maintain your ranking, you have to keep on top of what’s happening in the rapidly changing search engine industry. The rules that affected your ranking yesterday may be meaningless tomorrow!

Read on to learn more about the latest developments in the search engine industry and what key tricks you should (and shouldn’t!) use to optimize your site to make sure it gets a high ranking with all the major search engines, plus the tools and resources you can use to keep it there.

The “Dos” and “Don’ts” are constantly changing!
The search engine industry is continually evolving. You need to know which of the major “players” is powering the smaller search engines if you want to know where you should focus your optimization efforts.

1. The battle of the titans

For the past couple of years, the major search engines have been preparing to square off against each other and battle it out for the industry’s top spot. Google has been #1 for a while now, but Yahoo! and MSN have been making moves to steal the crown.

Google is still extremely powerful, with about a 55% market share. Yahoo! is the closest runner-up, with about 20% of users choosing it as their main search engine. And MSN is still a distant but threatening third, with about 10% of the global usage share.

Keep in mind, however, that Google and Yahoo! power many of the smaller search engines. For example, Google powers the free listings featured on AOL and Netscape, plus the paid listings featured on AOL, Netscape, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, Teoma, and Lycos.

Yahoo! powers free listings featured on MSN, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and HotBot, plus the paid listings on MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb.

However, MSN won’t be powered by Yahoo! for much longer! MSN came out with a preview of their own long-anticipated search engine technology earlier this month. They’re still working out the bugs, and the official MSN Search engine is still being powered by Yahoo!. But you can expect MSN to go solo sometime over the next few months.

You need to be aware of these changes if you want to gear your optimization efforts toward the engines that will send you as much traffic as possible.

2. The changing rules of search

Of course, you also need to keep tabs on changes to the search engines themselves!

Search engines frequently change the algorithms they use to rank sites. They don’t want unscrupulous site owners manipulating their indexing methods in order to get high rankings. By doing so, they damage the integrity of free search!

As soon as the search engines become aware of a trick being used by “search engine spammers” to boost their site ranking, they figure out a way to catch them.

So be careful! You don’t want to catch yourself employing a “great strategy” promoted by a marketing “expert,” only to find out it’s a tactic the search engines hate! That could get you booted off their listings in no time flat.

In fact, that’s exactly what happened at the end of last year, during what has come to be called the “Florida Google Dance.”

Google made some major changes to their algorithms in November 2003 and started imposing an “over-optimization penalty” on any sites that appeared to be artificially boosting their site’s relevancy for targeted keywords.

Many members of the business community were surprised to find their sites dropped from their high ranking in Google’s listings. These people had to put a lot of work into revamping and resubmitting their sites in order to get listed again.

And many of the people who were penalized weren’t “unscrupulous” site owners! They weren’t trying to pull a “fast one” on search engines using frowned-upon techniques such as “keyword stuffing.” They were simply trying to be smart marketers — and some feel they were unfairly punished for it.

You don’t want the same thing to happen to you!

So let’s have a look at a list of what exactly the search engines are currently looking for when indexing sites — and what they’ll punish you for…

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The temptation in creating an affiliate site is to develop on that will meet the needs of the masses, so you’ll be able to sell a wide range of goods and services. But stop and re-think. Amazon.com already exists as do the sites for the mega-box retailers. Most people know the sites that meet their needs for favorites such as music, computers and office supplies.

So, how do you decide the subject and scope of your site? You need to develop a niche site, and balance the scope of the site with the number of potential visitors. For example, if you decide to create a site for the pachysandra, your research (begin by Googling the term) may tell you that there isn’t enough demand for information about this ground cover. However, if you research the keyword “groundcovers” or the key phrase “low maintenance groundcovers” you may find that you have a market.

Why is creating such a niche necessary? People have specific needs and are becoming increasingly demanding in web searches. While they may have been satisfied years ago with “almost” results, they now expect to land right on a page that will provide them with a solution or an answer. If you also provide articles on planting bulbs in established groundcover beds, transplanting and propagating pachysandra and other groundcovers, you will found yourself a place in the visitor’s world. When they’re on your site learning, and think about buying a trowel (perhaps one you reviewed) or special fertilizer, they’ll be ready to buy through a site that’s trusted resource. Isn’t it better to have 2000 highly targeted and involved visitors, than 2 million who care about the general subject of gardening or yard care?

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