Apprentice Affiliate
Teaching You How to Make Money if you're new to Affiliate Marketing
Is it possible to Get Rich as a Freelance Writer?
Nov 22nd
The problem is, many people are in the wrong writing business. Instead of making a hundred dollars or two per month writing articles for magazines and newspapers, you should explore the possibilities of writing simple letters, as this can result in earnings of $2,500 per week on average .
Here’s where you can learn the secrets of this little-known freelance writing market:
Getting Rich as a Freelance Copy Writer
Where to Find Well Written Article Content for Your Blogs, Website, or Newsletter
Dec 18th
OK, so you’ve taken the plunge to learn all you can about Affiliate Marketing, with a view to making a little (or a lot) of money as an Affiliate Marketer.
That’s awesome. You should be congratulated for taking charge of your life. The key now, is to persevere with your venture no matter what. There will come times when you think it’s never going to work, but this is a long term business and if you look at it that way, then you’ll find success eventually.
When beginning out or growing your Affiliate Business, creating or finding content for your articles, website, blogs, or newsletters is readily and widely available. The process of writing all your own content is very time consuming, however there are sites around that provide PLR (Private Label Rights) content written by others, that you can obtain or buy, and use widely yourself.
Check out PLR Articles for sales of a range of exclusive PLR article content, or shop for a bundle of PLR articles on a particular subject matter that has a limited distribution for a reasonable price.
What are the Essential Tools Required in Learning to be Successful as an Affiliate Marketer -Part One
Jan 13th
Becoming a successful Internet Marketer, or Affiliate Marketer, requires the use of a few key tools to make your life easier, and to also save yourself a lot of time. I’ve listed some of the typical tools I use, and I’ve added an optional beside the title if it’s a tool you can pretty much get away without having, although they would be a ‘nice to have’
1) Website and Domain names. Initially when starting out as an Apprentice Affiliate, you can probably get started using various Web 2.0 site options. (Things like Squidoo lenses, and Hubpages) However these will limit what you can create yourself, and so having complete control over your own Internet Real Estate is essential. The best and cheapest option for obtaining the cheapest Domain names is Go Daddy, where you can get .info domains for as little as $0.89 with Godaddy. When it comes to selecting the actual ending suffix of a domain name (ie whether you for a .com, .net, .info, etc) it actually doesn’t make any difference to the search engines when it comes to ranking your site during Searches, although it can count when and if you ever decide to sell the domain (or website) and also when people remember your brand but not your suffix. They will often just search for the.com option first, which potentially means you could lose out on some good free traffic, and obviously some potential business as well.
When buying some Domain names though GoDaddy, just ignore all the hoops, and up-sells they put in your way during the buying process.
2) Website Hosting. Being an Affiliate Marketer with a bunch of cheap domain names requires a home, and certainly requires you to have a webhosting company that will host your various sites. The cost of web hosting these days is cheap (compared to what it used to cost) and there are a number of various web hosts that will offer to store an ‘unlimited’ number of websites for you for less than $100 for the whole year. It’s important to use a respectable web host that has been around for some time, and that a lot of other Affiliate Marketers use. Avoid the absolute cheapest Web hosts as the chances are they offer no support, (which is still essential from time to time) Some of the more well respectable web hosts around that can offer you good value for money are:
* Bluehost (This company is recommended by WordPress.org as the best host for bloggers)
* Justhost
Step by Step Tips on How to Make Money As an Affiliate on the Internet
Jan 17th
How to make money as an Affiliate is a common question asked by many budding entrepreneurs looking to create an income earning Internet Business, and whilst their is an absolute plethora of gurus out in the market telling you that their system is the ‘must have’ system to make money on the Internet, the truth of the matter is there is no ‘one size fits all’ type of system. Becoming an Affiliate Marketer, and developing it into a true online business over time, can be one of the most financially rewarding ventures you will ever undertake, and also providing you with an immense lifestyle freedom that is unsurpassed
Assuming you have a basic understanding of the Internet, and how to navigate your way around (I’m presuming this, as you’re obviously reading this article, and must have navigated your way to get here) the web, if you have the desire and passion to be an information product marketer on the internet, then these are the following steps you need to undertake (These are the basics, and further information about more detailed processes and techniques to follow are available by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page) to get your business off the ground.
1) Ensure you have the right mind set from the outset. Many people get involved in Internet Marketing with the belief that they only have to do a few things, press a few buttons, and bingo, the cash will start rolling in forever. Starting up your own Internet marketing Business is just as difficult, and requires just as much effort as creating an offline business. The mindset you need to have from the outset is that you are going to be creating and building a business, and that this will involve a reasonable time commitment from you.
2) Investigate, and Identify a Market Segment that interests you. It’s best that you get involved in an Industry or market that holds some interest (or better still some passion) to you, otherwise your interest will wane, and you’ll end up giving up on it before you achieve any success. During the investigation process, try to identify a niche within your chosen market, and then try and identify even deeper sub-niches of the main niche you have chosen. This is important as it will minimise your competition, and also enhance your conversions because the people that visit your site will relate to the sub niche as if you are talking directly to them, rather than trying to cover the major niche which will result in lost opportunities, as well as also being intensely competitive.
3) Find a suitable product to promote that fits with your sub-niche. Make sure it is a quality product that you are happy to promote, and sell to your clients. Once you have identified this product you need to become a ’sales rep’ for this product, or in other words an ‘Affiliate’.There are many Affiliate marketing companies out there that offer Affiliate Programs from many vendors, such as Clickbank, Commission Junction, to name a couple. Once you have joined a program, applied to sell some products, the next thing you need is a website presence.
4) Getting a website up and running used to be an expensive and time consuming exercise, however these days it isnt. You can get a website presence up and working in a matter of minutes through sites like Squidoo, Weebly, and Hubpages which cost you nothing to start with, however eventually you will require your own domain name, and some website hosting services. (This gives you more control, as it is usually better to own and control the virtual real estate, than to effectively only rent it) The cost of website hosting is minimal and for what you will need to start off shouldn’t cost you any more than about $50-$100 for the whole year. Often this will also enable you to have unlimited domain names (and hence affiliates businesses) hosted by the host, you just need to purchase the domain names to be hosted, and depending on what you decide here, you can obtain domain names from as little as $1 from some cheap domain name providers like GoDaddy.
5) Once the website has been built, and is live (whether this is your own domain or a Squidoo type page) you then need to begin marketing it so that it receives traffic. This is the lifeblood of your Internet Marketing Business because without traffic, you effectively have a business with no customers. There are many ways to obtain ‘organic’ traffic; this is traffic that arrives from the Search Engines through natural searching and search engine optimization. Then there is Paid Traffic which come from Advertising like Google AdWords, Banner Adds, Pay per click, etc. To start your business off initially I always suggest you begin with the Organic type of traffic, as this is free traffic, and it means your business starts off profitably. You can always reinvest your profits into advertising later.
If you would be interested in learning a way to begin your Affiliate Marketing Career where you actually can start earning an income (often inside the first week) without spending a single dime, then check out the One Week Marketing product. This helped me get started and is written in a very easy to follow step by step (hold your hand) style that would suit any newbie apprentice affiliate
What is the Best Keyword Analysis Tool Ever?
Jun 27th
There is a Keyword and Affiliate marketing management tool available that has no equals on the market.
This tool has saved me literally hundreds upon hundreds of hours of tedious Google keyword analysis and research, competitive keyword analysis, and monetization options. It really is the only product like it on the market, and if you’re serious about developing a good quality affiliate income, then you need to get hold of a free trial copy of Market Samurai and try it out for yourself. There are quite a few essential tools out there in the market and it pays to know which ones are the definitely needed ones compared with those that are perhaps nice to haves but not essential. I can tell you for one, Market Samurai is the Internet Marketer’s hammer on the carpenters toolbelt.
What is the Best Keyword Analysis Tool Ever?
Market Samurai will reveal to you how to uncover “gold-nugget” keywords – each of these keywords can send hundreds, even thousands of free visitors to your site each day.
It will help you to stop attracting time-wasting tire-kickers to your web-site, and target the keywords in your market that real buyers are using right now.
and it will also show you exactly how to beat the competition, and get front-page rankings in Google for high-traffic keywords in weeks or days – not months or years.
Selling On Ebay With Dropshipping
Jul 5th
Imagine that you have your own eBay business, and you can make money for your entire life with it. Now, you will make all of your dreams come true with eBay business even if you have no products of your own.
With eBay, lost your regular jobs is not a problems anymore. eBay provides you a good opportunity to make your new life without owning a lot of money to start with.
This is made possible with the help of drop shippers. Drop shippers send merchandise to the customers of business owners. If you have an eBay business, you are a business owner.
With the help of drop shippers, You can offer many variety of products stock in eBay store. You can sell all of those product without have a warehouse to keep it.
This is your job to start your drop shippers business. First, you can sell the products on your eBay auction. Second, you can contact the drop shipping company to tell them about your costumer’s info.
Then, the product will be sent by the drop shipper to your costumer with the information of your company. Even they can put your company logo on the package if you have asked it.
When your costumer will receive the products at home, they will think that your company send the product directly to them. It needs time for your drop shipper to package, put your label and ship the product. At this time, you can set up even more selling on eBay for more income.
You must establish a relationship with several drop shipping companies in order to become successful. In the beginning, most companies will require you to pay for the items that your customers order before they are shipped.
You need to fill orders in a timely manner, so you should pay for the items with a credit card for speedy service. Eventually, you will be able to have the drop shipper fill your orders, and then bill you for them later.
eBay auctions is very easy to set up, you just need to set the reserve price higher than the price list on the drop shipper. Of course, The difference between these price is your income.
Depending on the item you are selling, a markup of about 10% should be about right, but you should do some research to see if the item is selling for a lower price in another eBay auction, or through other online sources.
You can start your eBay empire using drop shipping method without any financial risk. You receive the money from buyer that have bought the product before you pay the drop shipper. So you can make income before you have to pay for it. Absolutely no risk !
Ebook-a Solution To Small Internet Businesses
Jul 3rd
If, like me, you have got tried and failed previously to get success online with internet advertising and marketing, then be rest assured that help is at hand. I certainly want I had access to such data once I started out three years in the past, and may be I wouldn’t have been so overwhelmed with the practicalities of website design, utilizing autoresponders, joining affiliate packages, writing sales letters, and find out how to get traffic to my site. I do know better now, however more of this in a moment. . . .
Some great benefits of the e book over selling physical books is that there isn’t a need to buy or retail stock, no time and effort incurred in packing anything up and delivery it off in the put up and your buyer can pay their money to your product and get instant access to it from a download page. In an age where demand is for immediate gratification, an e book is ideal and effective! And once written, you can sell limitless copies of it with out having to supply each item so it is each time and cost efficient too.
After all, when you have data or practical expertise on a particular topic in which there is a large market to sell your ebook, perhaps on well being and health, or food and drinks, you would be more likely of success, but remember you will be competing with many others. So select your topic carefully!
Nonetheless, in writing your e book, don’t forget to give your buyer a value and so they could turn out to be prospects to your future e books too! Make the content of your e book high quality meaningful – no matter its size, it needs to be good, or you’ll leave your prospects feeling disenchanted. Give away a number of free bonuses an additional report may be, or some free coaching that they must pay for elsewhere. See for buyer satisfaction!
In case you don’t know how to go about creating an e book (you possibly can at all times write an ebook explaining how you can do it!), then it brings me to the matter that I discussed above the launch of a free course in all elements of web advertising, together with creating e books. Visit the link above for how you could get to start online. Good luck!
Six Steps To Writing Articles That Your Readers Will Love
Jul 2nd
A lot of people, including seasoned authors and marketers dread the thought of having to write another article.
There are some who just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads their article anyhow. To some people, reading articles seems like work too, especially if the article is boring and very unstimulating. Well, articles are supposed to be read, that’s their intent, to impart your knowledge, message and information. If it is not read by anyone, then it is a waste of time and energy.
But all the same, articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them effective. Writing a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and arduous. There are some tips needed to be reminded of, and some guidelines to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles should be fun, as well as advantageous for you and your website.
Of course, the articles you write must be about a subject you know something about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably have some knowledge about the theme of your site. When you write about it, you won’t have too hard a time because you already know what the subject is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative, informative and stimulating.
To make sure that your articles get read and enjoyed, here are six really functional tips. These tips will make your articles readable, informative and interesting.
1) Apply brief paragraphs. When the paragraph are really long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader. Just looking at a long paragraph can get quite confusing and makes it hard work to read it. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are favorable to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!
2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As you are emphasizing each relevant point, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, your readers will know that this is where the tips begin. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of boring square paragraphs. It pays to add a little bit of flair and originality to your articles shape.
3) Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections. It will also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another; the transition will be smooth, easy and ‘natural.’This way, you will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction of your article.
4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header. If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already halfway there in getting a person to read your article. Use statements and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles or headers that describe your articles content, but should also be short and concise.
Use titles like, “Tips on making her want you more”, or “How to make her swoon and blush” .You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them interested. Once you have the readers emotional attention, you are guaranteed that person will read your article.
5) Keep them interested in your article from the very first word, to the last. From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive home your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.
6) Utilize figures when necessary and not just ordinary and insipid statements. Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student.
7)Don’t use drawn-out, technical or unusual words. Many authors assume that their readers already know about the subject. These authors use technical words and slang that are hard for the reader to understand and follow. So try to keep it as non-technical as you can. After all, you want them to visit your website for a more in depth understanding of what you are writing about.
8)Pay close attention to your spelling and grammar. If your article is cluttered with spelling mistakes, and bad use of grammar, then that will weaken your claim to be knowlegeable about the subject you are writing about, and may get your article declined. If you want to give the appearance of being an authority on your subject, always run a spell check before submitting your article.
Want to find out more about writing articles, then check out Scot Pelt’s site on how to advertise your articles with the Unique Article Wizard the most amazing article directory submission system.
Affiliate Marketing Suggestions You Can Implement Now
Jul 1st
One of the easiest methods to set up an internet business is through affiliate marketing. There are many different methods to make money online, but nothing beats affiliate marketing. Some affiliate marketing suggestions follow which you can implement straight away.
The products you choose to sell need to be relevant to the market you are in. One of the biggest mistakes new affiliates make is that they try selling the product to the wrong market. It’s important to zero down on one niche and then focus on it to see good results. You won’t make any cash if you promote products that aren’t relevant. For people to trust you, you must first understand what they want and offer it to them through quality, relevant content. By choosing the right niche and product, in time, you will find that you are selling more than your competition.
Regardless of which niche you decide to promote, you should have a passion for it. Trying to promote products you’re not interested in is a fast way to lose motivation with building your internet business. For example, suppose you’re interested in piano music and you are promoting acne products; will that do justice to your affiliate business? Absolutely not – in fact, your prospects will be able to sense that you don’t really have any interest in that niche, which gives them a good reason to not buy from you. When you’re passionate it shows and when you’re not interested in a niche, even then, it shows.
When it’s time to register a domain name for your own affiliate site, choose one of your own and not a free site. Avoid free blogs and choose a domain name that makes sense for what you’re promoting. If possible, try to choose a domain name that relates to the keywords for the niche you want to promote. The domain name you choose will play a vital part in how well your site will end up ranking in the search engines. Registering a domain name is cheap and choosing the right one can give you an edge over your competitors.
Affiliate marketing is a full-fledged business model and if you want a good return on your time investment you need to put in the effort and work. You must pay a lot of attention to whom you are dealing with and take great care when choosing the company you will be working with. Sell relevant products to your target market, use the resources provided by the company and always see to it that the company you’re working with has a good reputation. Once you have the fundamentals in place, the sky is the limit.
It’s All About Marketing!
Jun 28th
When you are starting out in business there are some things most people know. You need to have a plan, a product and you should have a good idea of your market. On top of that, you need to make sure that you have secured the financing that will see you through the start up, until the business grows and begins to pay you back.
But how many of us really comprehend the real nature of our business? Is it really about having the best knowledge about your product or industry, the best technology, or the most locations available to make it easy to contact you? Although all of these things are important and do serve a key purpose in your business, they are not what your business is really about.
Your business is about Marketing your products and services. The consumer today is a much more educated shopper who does their homework before making purchases. The advent of instant access to consumer information has done away with spontaneous purchasing or using the local store because it is convenient. Although we may still patronize friends, or friends of friends in the business we are interested in, we also look beyond these methods to make sure that we are still getting the deal we want. To be successful today, any business person needs to accept this and adjust their thinking about what their business is really about. And once again, that is Marketing their business.
Any business person must realize that they are a Marketer first and a Retailer, Banker, Doctor, Real Estate Agent or Broker second. The acceptance of your role as a marketer is paramount to your success in whatever area you focus on. In the world of sports the athlete that trains and prepares the most is the one that is going to stand out in their field. In the business world the marketer that incorporates and practices the best marketing methods, will win.
Having success in business is largely dependant on two things, attraction of new customers, followed by their retention. This is why Marketing must be a priority no matter what other tasks you encounter in day-to-day operations. The purpose of this article is not to dismay you, but to provide you with some insight about marketing opportunities that are available to help any business incorporate these best marketing practices into their operation. They are available today. Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS, is a full service provider of marketing technology and solutions that incorporate the latest Direct Marketing Techniques. AMS Direct Marketing solutions provide inexpensive, result-oriented programs that use proven sequences to attract and retain customers. Their solutions work for the smallest start-up business to mid-sized companies.
A key aspect of their technology solution is the ability to place an entire Marketing Program on Auto-pilot, meaning is basically runs by itself. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, it is loaded into AMS Lead Management System. This system provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction.
The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for apathy. If you would like to hear more about AMS marketing programs and how they can benefit your business visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.