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		<title>Tips for Making Money Online Through Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you thinking about joining the world of affiliate marketing? You might have heard from a lot of people that affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online, and I have to agree.
 Affiliate marketing provides solid benefits for both the affiliate and the online business paying out affiliate commissions. With [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Are you thinking about joining the world of affiliate marketing? You might have heard from a lot of people that affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online, and I have to agree.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Affiliate marketing provides solid benefits for both the affiliate and the online business paying out affiliate commissions. With this type of marketing, an online business can increase its traffic on the website, thus, generating more sales. In addition, the affiliate earns his revenue by simply referring people to the web site where the products and services are found.</p>
<p>Every customer visit is converted to an agreed amount of commission for the affiliate. Though many people have already ventured into this kind of business, it doesn&#8217;t mean there is no room left for you. The Internet provides numerous clients and you can earn money if you use effective methods of affiliate marketing. Here are some ways to increase your online earnings:</p>
<h3>1. Join pay-per-click (PPC) programs</h3>
<p>Make use of the Internet efficiently. With the number of websites currently online nowadays, which by the way keeps on increasing at a fast pace, you need to make your web site stand out from the rest. Although, it would be impossible to create a site made for everyone, you can improve your site one step at a time.</p>
<p>Be sure your site reaches people worldwide. An effective way to do this is to join a pay-per-click program. Here, you are required to pay a search engine such as Google and Yahoo when someone clicks on an ad that directs them to your website. Although it can be quite expensive, the rewards are worth it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to note that this method is filled with potential for wasting money. I wouldn&#8217;t start with this method, and maybe wouldn&#8217;t do it at all unless you take a <a href="http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/go-to/succeed-with-adwords.html" target="_blank">solid course in how to do Google Adwords</a> (or other PPC) the right way.</p>
<h3>2, Use AdSense efficiently</h3>
<p>AdSense is yet another way of making the most of your web site. This method is quite basic, furthermore, the rewards you could possibly gain counters the negative effects on your web site. It works by charging advertisers a service fee so their products can be advertised on websites. When people check out these products on your site, then you start generating your income. Though they make your site unattractive and a distraction to some people, they are seldom ignored.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.homesweetbiz.com/2009/04/11/an-interview-with-google-adsense-guru-michael-cheney/" target="_blank">Learn more about how to do Google AdSense with Adsense Video guru, Michael Cheney</a></p>
<h3>3. Communicate with your customers</h3>
<p>Just like other forms of business, affiliate marketing essentially needs customers to run successfully. Given that this type of marketing runs online, another way in which you can persuade prospective customers into buying your promoted products and/or services is through the use of e-mails. You can start emailing your customers and you may set up software which allows you to respond their queries immediately. When these people keep hearing from you, there&#8217;s a big probability of them finally taking notice of the products you are promoting.</p>
<p>Sending unexpected, printed greeting cards is another way of keeping in touch with customers in a very real, caring way. <a href="http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/go-to/sending-greeting-cards.html" target="_blank">Check out my preferred system for sending cards</a>.</p>
<p>In the end, you&#8217;ll find out that affiliate marketing is really simple to set up. You can&#8217;t make money online without your computer, Internet connection and your own web site. The rest, as what most people say, is history.</p>
<blockquote><p>Find out how you can earn affiliate commission checks in just 1-3 hours every week by completing ONE simple assignment. Even without a website, experience or even an idea! <a href="http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/go-to/affiliate-marketing.html" target="_blank">Go to this easy affiliate marketing course</a>&#8230;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Why I Love Affiliate Marketing &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors, Jimmy D. Brown of &#8220;Affiliatenaire.&#8221;
Do you find yourself &#8220;starting&#8221; to create your own product to sell online, but never &#8220;finishing&#8221; it?  If so, you&#8217;re definitely not alone! One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is &#8211;
You don&#8217;t need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>NOTE: </strong>The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors, Jimmy D. Brown of &#8220;Affiliatenaire.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Do you find yourself &#8220;starting&#8221; to create your own product to sell online, but never &#8220;finishing&#8221; it?  If so, you&#8217;re definitely not alone! One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is &#8211;<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>You don&#8217;t need to create your own products.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Many people find the idea of creating their own products to be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task. They say&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>I don&#8217;t have any good ideas!</li>
<li>I&#8217;m not a writer!</li>
<li>There&#8217;s too much competition!</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t know how to set everything up!</li>
<li>I can&#8217;t figure out where to start!</li>
<li>It&#8217;s too hard!</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.<br />
I&#8217;m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come up with a list of many more.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But here&#8217;s the good news&#8230; With affiliate marketing, you <strong><em>don&#8217;t need your own products.</em></strong> You simply promote someone else&#8217;s already proven successful offer for a commission.  And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Nobody wants to create new products all the time!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As good as you may be, you don&#8217;t know everything!  Why try to create a product on every topic imaginable in your  market when you can earn just as much money by simply promoting someone else&#8217;s really good offer as one of your profit streams?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s why I love affiliate marketing&#8230;. <em><strong>You don&#8217;t need to create your own products.</strong></em></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Jimmy D. Brown is the author of &#8220;<a href="http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/go-to/affiliate-marketing.html" target="_blank">Affiliatenaire</a>&#8220;, teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week.  Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea by clicking the Affiliatenaire link above.</p>
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		<title>Learning to Write for Online Home Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to write well is a skill every home business person must have&#8230; at least, if they want to succeed. Here are 3 types of writing you may need to do, depending on which online home business model you choose:

Sales writing, for example on a sales page
Informational writing designed to educate
Preselling writing, where you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learning how to write well is a skill every home business person must have&#8230; at least, if they want to succeed. Here are 3 types of writing you may need to do, depending on which online home business model you choose:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sales writing, for example on a sales page</li>
<li>Informational writing designed to educate</li>
<li>Preselling writing, where you put people in the right frame of mind to buy&#8230; either your own products or an affiliate produce</li>
<li>Stories, designed to entertain and also to educate</li>
</ul>
<p>The good news is that even a non-writer can learn to do all or most of these types of writing. Here&#8217;s an article from an associate of mine that can help you get started&#8230;</p>
<h3>The Key To Creating Information Products That Sell Even In Overcrowded, Highly-Competitive Markets</h3>
<h3><em>By Jimmy D. Brown</em></h3>
<p>I want you to add a new word to your business vocabulary -</p>
<p>The word is &#8220;specialization&#8221;.</p>
<p>A new age has dawned in information marketing. And it&#8217;s the age of &#8220;specialization&#8221;. Before I explain how this will help you create information products that sell like crazy, let me give you a very brief history lesson.</p>
<p><em>(I promise, this won&#8217;t hurt a bit. <img src='http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
<p>Information products online have evolved since I logged onto the Internet back in 1999&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>1) THE SIMPLE AGE.</strong></p>
<p>Times were simple back when I first came online. And so were the information products. Way back when, information products weren&#8217;t readily available online like they are today. If you could find ANY information on the topic you were interested in, you grabbed it.</p>
<p><strong>2) THE SYSTEMATIC AGE.</strong></p>
<p>As more and more people learned how to create and market information products online, a new era emerged: the &#8220;systematic&#8221; era. This was a time when huge information products were created with hundreds of pages. The idea was to create comprehensive courses on a particular topic.</p>
<p><strong>3) THE SEPARATION AGE.</strong></p>
<p>As &#8220;internet marketing&#8221; and other business-related markets became inundated with product offerings, the birth and rapid growth of &#8220;niche marketing&#8221; occurred. People began separating themselves from the crowd and focused on &#8220;tiny niche topics&#8221; of interest.</p>
<p><strong>4) THE SPECIALIZATION AGE.</strong></p>
<p>Again competition came &#8211; even in these small niches. While there is still money to be made by focusing on these tiny, untapped markets &#8212; the well is drying up at a fast rate. Now enters a new age &#8230; the &#8220;specialization&#8221; age of information marketing.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the lesson&#8230;</p>
<p>There is a LOT of money to be made by creating small, 7-15 page reports on PRECISE topics.</p>
<p>Most consumers would rather <em>NOT </em>sift through 100 pages of information to find out how to do something they are interested in, nor would they like to pay for 100 pages of information when they only need chapter 3.</p>
<p>With more and more products available on the market, consumers are getting pickier and pickier. They want what they want and only what they want.</p>
<p>Perhaps the biggest untapped information gold mine lies in this concept of creating small reports on precise topics.</p>
<ul>
<li>17 Ways to Find New Affiliates Using Google.com</li>
<li>How To Walk Off 7 Pounds in 7 Days</li>
<li>3 Ways To Get Your Next Vacation Free Of Charge</li>
<li>The 15-Minute Guide To Stalling A Divorce</li>
<li>Top 7 Ideas For Starting A Homeschool Support Group</li>
</ul>
<p>Specialized information. 7-15 page reports that sell anywhere from $10-$100, depending upon the information.</p>
<p>And the benefits of writing these small reports are staggering -</p>
<ol>
<li>You can write a small report in just a few hours of one day.</li>
<li>The profit per page ratio is astounding &#8211; 10 pages for $10 is a dollar per page per customer.</li>
<li>Small reports are MUCH easier to write than full-length courses.</li>
<li>There is a never-ending supply of topics for small reports.</li>
<li>You maximize the lifetime value of your customer. In other words, you can sell report after report to the SAME customer.</li>
<li>A series or collection of your small reports can be bundled into premium-priced courses over time.</li>
<li>When &#8220;hot topics&#8221; emerge (almost daily!) you can quickly crank out a small report to strike while the iron is hot.</li>
<li>When other marketers are seeing success with their products, you can create a complementary report to offer for sale as a supplement.</li>
<li>Many people can&#8217;t afford to buy (or refuse to buy) high-priced courses &#8211; but virtually anyone can whip out $10-$15.</li>
</ol>
<p>The list could go on and on. I&#8217;ve been creating small reports for a long time. In fact, I make over $15,000 in PROFIT every month from just ONE of my sites.</p>
<p>I know this works. And not just for me.</p>
<p>I had a customer recently email me to let me know he sold 420 copies of his VERY FIRST small report, during its first month.</p>
<p>So, what I want to convince you to do is this -</p>
<p><strong>***TRY IT FOR YOURSELF****</strong></p>
<p>Create a small 7-15 page report and begin selling it online and see what kind of results you see.</p>
<p>A new information age has dawned &#8211; the age of specialization!</p>
<p>Create your own &#8220;special&#8221; reports and get your piece of the pie.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE FROM KATHI:</strong> I&#8217;ve used this method a number of times myself and I can tell you it does work. Sure, it takes a bit of work, but the rewards are great!</p>
<p>Do you have an idea for a great Small Report, but need some help? Check out &#8220;<a title="Get it now" href="http://www.online-home-business-connection.com/recommends/information-writing.html" target="_blank">How To Improve Your Information W.R.I.T.I.N.G.</a>™&#8221; by clicking the link. You&#8217;ll learn useful tips to help you in the writing process – so you&#8217;ll be able to create information products faster, easier and, ultimately, better &#8212; and that&#8217;s more money in the bank.</p>
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