Ok I'm having a bang up week, Things are clicking like never before. My search campaigns are kicking ass all my white hat shit is doing well. Ok enough bragging.
Let's get to work. I make anywhere around $150-$200 give or take a few dollars with these methods.
Pick a Niche or a product on Click Bank.
Get something that will be around for a while so you can build off it.
Making money methods become dated. So do Video game products like fix my xbox ring of death e-books.
Let's take weight loss.
nothing really changes with this niche, sure it's competitive but people are always going to eat too much and be fat.
there are a ton of things
You can pick. Things that have to do with health problems do well. People are usually freaked out and want to find out as much as possible.
Ok You have no money noob so here's how you make some. Get your Clickbank account. They approve anyone. I'm not writing an hour about CB.
Pick your product.
ok now start writing articles, Even if you hate writing and your articles suck focus on writing as a person who has had a pleasurable experience with the book or product you promote.
for example
"My acne was so bad until I bought the cat piss cure and rubbed cat piss on my face now I have no acne"
Even if your articles are shitty people will believe you if you write like a real person.
Here's what you do. Try to buy a domain and a hosting account. If you can't afford it just get a .info domain it's like 3$ and use a free host to redirect your traffic. I don't like to link articles straight to products because if there is a problem with the product in the future you can always redirect your traffic. It will be a pain in the ass to change the links on all your articles.
The moral is you write an article and submit it to a article directory ezine seems to be the most popular these days.
If you're not good at writing look through articles on ezine about your niche and try your best to copy the article in your own words without totally ripping the article off. If you don't write effectively they will not accept your article.
Here's the catch for 30 days you have to write 10 articles a day and point them to your domain and then to your product. you will have 300 backlinks when you build a site you'll be doing good and you'll have 300 articles being crawled by spiders.
there are limitless article directories.
I think the best are
ezine
squidoo is a little different you build a lense and promote it.
you can promote on hub pages.
go through the forums pick up some books on bum marketing they will help you a ton. You'll have a better Idea. If you're going to write articles on squidoo, you can just walk away you have to stay on top of your lenses and try to promote them.
Another method is to watermark youtube videos related to your niche. You can do this with windows media center for nothing. Make a youtube account. you can either link to your articles or link to your landing page. Sometimes it's better to link to your articles because it's a better presale. If you're doing a health niche there's always doctors talking about illnesses this works great.
Another site is US free ads although it's not a social bookmarking or article directory. It allows you to pop stuff up there and get indexed by google pretty quickly. I've got a ton of clicks from us free ads.
Well good luck guys.
Just remember stay consistent, keep churning out those articles. Remember you want to peak interest and get them hot to buy. Don't worry about being the best writer because most people have average intelligence if any intelligence at all.
So I WAS making $30 a day w/ my adult image hosting site with 1 hour of work per day. Today I had my account deactivated and was not allowed access to my files 
. On the third copyright violation notice my host shut me down.
I will go through how to do this pretty easily and how to avoid getting shut down.
I was using dream*host as my host and using the mihalism script. I used the adultad*world in page pop ins, adbrite (interstertials) and click*sor adverts. I had 3 300x250 above and below images.
I would copy and paste images/files from planet*suzy.org to porn*bb.org. I would also post on exbii.com. I would get about 15K PV's and 8K uniques.
I am not going to do this anymore because I had built up a nice residual income business and how this BS host shut me down w/o prior notification. So just be aware of the TOS of whichever host you sign up with and make frequent back-ups as I had none. GL to whoever tries this.
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This was originaly by Nick Flame "I didnt write this i just ripped it XD"
This is a collection of some of the somehow blackhat tricks that i have used in various situations to add a twist to some known methods and explode my income. They are not all invented by me, but i have personally used them and found them extremely useful.
1) Direct linking to an affiliate link in adwords, and getting a GREAT quality score.
-When you create your add, write in both the destination url and display url the address of an authority site in that niche (make sure that site does not promote on adwords as well). I use wikipedia most of the time.
-After that, you go into your adgroup and use the "Edit keyword settings" function to change the destination url of each keyword, and you can place your affiliate link there. There is a heck of a work to change it for each keyword, but is well worth it.
Now, your landing page will receive the qs of the greatest authority site in that niche, while your ads will direct your visitors straight to your affiliate links. No more hassle creating landing page and optimizing, you can basically burn through campaigns and find the most profitable ones right off the bat.
Kick ass trick explained to be by an anonymous ppc friend over IM- unfortunately i forgot his name. Use it before google close this loophole.
2) The Minimum Conversion CPA method.
The basic method is simple. Whenever you are sending fake /fraud / blackhat/ nonconverting /incentive leads to a cpa network, you can't push any volume due to the risk of getting canned by companies. The principle is to send only one - or two (maximum 3) fake leads to each offer in a cpas company. No advertiser is going to complain because you only send him 1-3 leads and none of them converted, but when you are going to be paid by the company, all these leads will cumulate. You can get as much as 2000-3000$/monthly per CPA company in blackhat leads as long as you leave no other footprints. They'll have a hard time detecting these fraud leads, cause the numbers you sent to each advertiser is too low in order for them to draw a statistical conclusion. Multiply these over several networks, and you can reach a nice number just by filling in/incentivizing your own offers.
This is rudimentary but if it puts cash in your wallet, it s still a money making method.
3) Content generation technique: unlimited and extremely good content.
- find an authority site in any other language (preferably german, but other languages work as well) and translate its content using google translator. IF you only use one translation (german- to english for instance) the quality of the translation will be extremely high,(much higher than any indians writing for 5$ an article) and google sees this as original content.
If you try multiple translations english-german-spanish-french-english, however, the quality will be shit. Stick to only one translation.
4) Domain parking trick.
Use the techniques explained in this forum for blanking out referrer and send traffic to domain parking companies. These companies only want direct traffic so no referer showing for them is something completely normal.Some of them pay really really good.
You can use whatever source of traffic you want, as long as you blank the referer and do not let them know about it.
5) Creating multiple accounts on social sites with one email address:
All messages sent to the following emails:
nickflame+1@gmail.com
nickflame+2@gmail.com
nickflame+3@gmail.com ....
reach the same inbox of nickflame@gmail.com.
Most of the social websites out there, however, will see them as different emails adresses, therefore you can create different users with them. You can basically open 20 youtube accounts with only one email account, and receive all the confirmation links in the inbox of that email.
I think you got the idea. The advantage over the catch all domains trick is that they can not ban gmail.com, obviously.
6) Spoof your earnings (I learned this trick from Harro, as i remeber.)
Code:
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Now, you can show those fabulous faked earning screenshots you have always wanted to.
There are many ideas for making money on craigslist.org. Some of them range from common sense to the extreme. You could create a book on this topic. Let's focus on ideas for making money on craigslist.org using help wanted ads.
There are actually several ways to make money on craigslist.org using the help wanted ads. The first is the most obvious. You can look for a job. It is one way to make money on craigslist.org. Browsing through the help wanted ads may bring in an employment opportunity or two. There are employers who have caught on that posting ads for employment here work, and the big plus is that the ads are free. A business looking for local candidates that do not want the head hunters bothering them can post an ad on craigslist.org. Browsing these ads will help you locate either a permanent or part-time job. This is one of the many ideas for making money on craigslist.org using help wanted ads.
Another way to use these ads is to find a way to pick up some extra income. There is a "short term gig" category. There you will find a lot of ads for bands, and freelance work. If you have a job or if you are a stay at home parent; here is a way to pickup some extra cash. Many of these freelance positions will allow you to telecommute or work from home. You can take on more than one job at a time and make a decent living. There are more and more people looking for legitimate extra income. Taking on a freelance project or two every month is a terrific way to add money to your bank account without having to commit to a second part-time or full time job. This option is a great idea for employers and freelancers because the positions are local and the posting is free.
The help wanted ads on craigslist.org can also be used for business promotion. As long as you are legitimately posting an ad for employment, you can make sure that your business name and website are included in the ad. Including your business name and website sill give your business free exposure. You may get increased calls, most likely from head hunters, but that is a trade off you will have to decide on. Promoting your business this way, posting the ad on craigslist.org and linking to your company's website will drive traffic to your site. Include a page for them to read more specific details about the job and the qualifications and everyone who is interested in the position will click on the link. It is a round about way to drive visitors to your site. If one of your business goals is to increase traffic to your website, then using this technique will help you reach your goal. You can post in the help wanted and in the short term gig categories, thus doubling your exposure. Generating traffic to your website for free is always a great find.
These are just of few ideas for making money on craigslist.org using the help wanted ads. Browsing through them you will see how others are also using this category of ads to help them make money. Everyone can use some extra cash in their pockets. Why not take a look and see if any of these ideas will help you make some extra money.
There are many ideas for making money on Craigslist.org. The basics are getting your listing out there, however there is a little more to it than that. Let's see how we can make out ads really work well for us by using a few simple strategies.
First of all there is the basic listing. Before you can list anything you need to have a craigslist.org account. This is easy to do. If you have a valid email address you can get an account. You will need to enter your email address and then type in the scrambled letters and hit enter. Then you care ready to post. Go to any category and choose post. A list of categories will appear. Then choose the one that best suits your item. At the next screen, type in the title of your ad. Avoid all caps. Then add the text to the body of the ad. Finally you can add a picture if you like. There is an option to keep your email private and to decline offers from others. This is how you enter an item for sale.
If you are looking to post a job, the process is basically the same. Choose what you want to post; enter a title, a description and details about payment. Then hit the enter button. You'll have to pass the human check by entering in the scrambled letters.
There are plenty of opportunities to make money on this website. Here are some ideas for making money on craigslist.org. Post an ad for your business. Every business can use promoting why not promote yours for free. You can add a picture, type a description or make a craigslist.org only offer to anyone viewing the ad.
Another way is to sell and resell items. You can pick up free items on craigslist.org. Let's take furniture for example. You can get free furniture, clean it up and repair it. Then sell it for a profit. No listing fees, no delivery charges. It's a great way to make some extra money. You can do this over and over again.
Have a service to offer? Craigslist.org is a way to get more customers. Whether you tutor math, offer music lessons, babysit, walk dogs, clean houses, or what ever there is a place for you to offer your services to those in your city. All other city websites charge you for this service. At craigslist.org it is free.
What are you looking for? I am sure you will find it on craigslist.org. You can find craft materials for your arts and crafts business. Need a camera to take digital pictures, its there. Want a guitar so you and your buds can jam on the weekends? You got it, guitars are there too. Buy, sell, offer services, and promote your business. Who needs the other pay for listing websites? Craigslist.org has it all covered with no fees and no advertising.
These are just some of the ideas for making money on craigslist.org. I am sure that there are many more. With such a flexible and easy to use community website, you can't go wrong. It is impossible to lose money as the listings do not cost you anything. There is nothing else like it on the web. With everything that this site happens to offer, how can you go wrong?
What started out as a simple idea in 1995 has grown into an incredible website. Based on the idea that there are things that should be free; craigslist.org was born. Craig's idea, that everyone can get together, sell their stuff and socialize, without commercial intervention has grown into one of the best run websites in the San Francisco area – at least that what his website claims.
So how do you as an individual take this "vision" and use it to make money? It's simple. Follow the posted guidelines about what you can and cannot list for sale, learn to take great pictures and write good ad copy and sell your stuff for free. The nice thing is that free really means free. On Craigslist.org you will not be bombarded by banner ads, or links to adwords websites. It is strictly for the use of socializing, buying and selling, and looking for a job. A savvy individual can make some money on Craigslist.org if they stick to the rules.
Here are the rules. No spam, no threats, no animals for sale (adoption fees are ok), no weapons. You cannot violate copyright laws. That is it in a nutshell. There are not a lot of rules to work around so posting an item for sale is actually pretty easy.
Here is how to list your item. Choose a city - there are 450 for you to select from. Then find a category, write the ad, upload a picture and post it. That is all there is to posting an ad for sale. If you are interested in posting a job, you can do this for free also, except in 10 cities which there is a small fee. Rentals in New York City are also listed for a fee. In addition you can post ads for your business in the same way. There are so many ways to come up with ideas for making money on Craigslist.org that they cannot all be listed here.
Here are some facts about Craigslist.org. Although it was originally set up as a non-profit, in 1999 the company's status changed to a for profit organization. The ORG extension was kept as a symbol of what the list is supposed to be. Income for the site is generated by charging for job postings in 10 cities and for apartment listings in New York City. The current CEO is Jim Buckmaster. He has been in this position since 2000. Craig Newmark is still with the company in customer service. In 2004 eBay acquired 25% of Craigslist.org.
Craig Newmark's little bulletin board has evolved from a list of a few cool spots into a venue for millions of people to make money without paying fees. Craigslist.org is not only a buying and selling venue but a social site as well. You can go straight out to the website and get money making ideas right there.
Now you know a little bit about Craigslist.org and how it evolved into what it is today. There are more ways to make money on Craigslist.org than on any other website. It is still the only website where you can sell items, post information about your business and check out what is going on in your city. Hat's off to Craig Newmark and his great little idea!
Craigslist.org is an interesting website dedicated to bringing buyers and sellers together. There are no fees to join craigslist.org. Anyone can join. All that is required is a valid email address. You can make money selling items on this website. The dynamics are very different than on auction sites. Craigslist.org is more like a free classified ad website on steroids. Everything can be found here from dating to items for sale to services offered. Here are some ideas for making money on Craigslist.org.
First see what is listed in the category of items you want to sell. You can post an add for just about anything on Craigslist.org. Businesses post ads for services and products, individuals sell cars, real estate, jewelry, musical instruments and more. There is even a portion of the website for free items and a place to list yard sales. Once you have an idea of what people are selling write an ad, take a photo of your item and list it.
Decide on what it is you want to sell. Good choices are furniture, car parts, arts and crafts items, baby items and pet items. Take really great pictures and list the items in the correct category. It pays to take the time to write a good ad. Make sure you spell check it. Nothing looks less professional than an ad with poor spelling. Your ad is good for 45 days but you may want to relist it more often.
Make sure that you follow up with all inquiries. After a week, you may want to cancel your ads and relist them so that your ad remains near the top. As your ad ages, it drops down toward the bottom of the page. If it is a popular category, it may drop off to a second or third page. This is why you should keep renewing your ad no less than every 7 days.
Promote your ad offsite. Link to them in your emails and tell everyone you know about your Craigslist.org listing. This will ensure that your ad gets lots of views. Therefore the item is more likely to sell. Another strategy is to list different items in many categories. The more items you have to sell, the more likely that someone will make a purchase. These are just a few ideas for making money on Craigslist.org.
You can combine selling items on Craigslist.org with other websites. Use online auctions for smaller items that are easily shipped. Use Craiglsist.org for large items like furniture, car parts, large toys and electronics. Have the buyers come and pickup their items. You should not have to be responsible for shipping. It is assumed that the buyers will pickup on Craigslist.org.
You can actually use only Craigslist.org to make money. Check out their free and yard sale links. Purchase and fix up furniture, small appliances, and lawn mowers. Once these items are refurbishes you can sell them for a profit. It is easy to think up many ways to make money on Craigslist.org.
These are just a few ideas for making money on Craigslist.org. I am sure that you can think up many more. Why not log on and see what people in your town are doing. Perhaps you can start up a sideline business for little or no money following the ideas in this article.
Although craiglsist.org is meant to be for those who are 18 and older, there is nothing stopping children from using craigslist.org. My advice to parents is to supervise to be sure that certain areas of craigslist.org is not visited by minors. That said there are opportunities for everyone to make money. Here are some ideas for kids making money on craigslist.org.
If your child is over the age of 13, have them take a Red Cross babysitting course. This will certify them as a babysitter and they will have the knowledge at hand to handle emergencies should one occur. There are many avenues to advertise on craigslist.org and putting out an ad for babysitting is one way that older kids can make money. Be careful and make sure you know the person that your child is going to sit for. Ask to meet them first, at their home. You want to be sure that the opportunity is legit and you also want to be sure that your child is safe. If in doubt, ask them to have your child babysit in your home. There is no reason to compromise anyone's safety just for a few bucks.
Your older child or teen can do very well for themselves in the small appliance or small engine repair fields. This is a great way for them to bring in some extra money, learn about small engines and appliances and teach them the value of self employment.
Small electronics like PDA's. cell phones, smart phones like the Blackberry and Treo's, iPods and other devices like it can be picked up for free or almost at no cost if they are not working. Have your child get a few, and see if the can find a repair manual online. By taking the parts from on and putting them into another your child will learn how these devices work. Once they are able to consistently fix these, they will have a great business going. Most of the problems with these devices are that the battery needs replacing or the screen has broken. A simple fix with a free part and they can make a lot of cash very quickly.
Computer repair is a great hobby for teens to get into. Again non working units are easily obtained for almost no cost at all. Building running units from non working ones is always fun and it can be very profitable.
Other ideas for kids making money on craigslist.org include looking at the job postings. This is especially true in the summer when teens can work at camps and local pools and beaches. Summer employment is a good teacher for them. They get to understand what it takes to hold a job and they will learn money as well.
Craigslist.org is not suited toward young children. If your children are under the age of 13 then let them help you with whatever business you may be involved in, but do not expect them to be able to run one by themselves. There is too much risk involved from a personal safety perspective to allow youngsters access to craigslist.org. Keep the little ones safe and let them help you until they are old enough to understand a little more about how a business should run.
There are so many ways to make money on craigslist.org. As an adult you can help your older child start to build a part-time business that will help pay for their college education and put spending money in their pockets. A part-time business will teach them responsibility and give them a sense of accomplishment. There is no better teacher than life experience and with your guidance their first venture into self employment can be a great experience for them. These are just a few ideas for kids making money on craigslist.org. Take a look at them and see if any will be suitable for you child.
There are many ways to finding deals on craigslist.org. You must understand the market of the items you are looking for before you can decide if something is a good deal or not. You also have to know where to look for items, and know how and when to negotiate. If you keep your eyes open there are plenty of deals to be had on craigslist.org.
The first place to look is the free area. If you are into furniture and other freebies this is where you need to look. Check this category everyday. Go back through several pages until you see ads that you know were posted a while ago. Then you know that you have gone through all of the recent stuff. Most of the older ads have had the items given away, the owner just never bothered to delete the ad. Don't bother with anything more than a week or two old unless it is something that you really want. Hopefully it will still be available.
After searching through the free area, start looking in the categories that interest you. Go through each category very carefully. If there are no deals today there will be more tomorrow. Don't get caught up in I have to have it now. You will not get as good a deal as you should if you do this.
When you find something you like send an email to the address listed in the ad. Let them know you are interested and ask for more information. Then see if you can bargain. Sometimes you can and sometimes it is not possible. Although stolen goods are not supposed to be sold on craigslist.org, ask if they are the owner of the item. If they are not, don't buy it. Falling for the "my boyfriend told me to sell his 1968 Gibson guitar for him for $300" is most likely untrue. A 1968 Gibson in playable condition should sell in the thousands.
Knowing your market is important. If you are knowledgeable about your category you will be less likely to get ripped off. Knowing the market is important. You will pay too much for an item if you do not know how much it should sell for. Likewise, you cannot tell if it is a good deal if you do not know your pricing. Here is another tip. Understand the items. If you collect Limoges boxes, you should know what to look for and how to spot a fake. The hinges need to be a certain way, there are only certain marks for the legitimate Limoges producers. Unfortunately, porcelain and ceramics are easily forged so you need to be sure of what you are buying. This is where the local community comes into play on craigslist.org. The ability to actually view the item up close before you buy is crucial to getting a good deal. If the seller will not allow you to do this, find someone else to buy from.
Never be so desperate to buy something that you cannot walk away from a purchase. If you do not feel that this purchase is the right thing to do, then walk away from it. Trust your gut feelings and you will not get ripped off. Keep in mind that you are looking for the best deal possible and unless you are searching for a very rare antique, there will be other opportunities to buy this item from someone else. The trick to always getting a good deal is to only purchase from reputable people. A good seller will not pressure you to buy their item.
Finding deals on craigslist.org is easy to do. You must spend a little time to research the category that you want to make your purchase in. If it is antique dolls then be sure to read a book or two and know who the top manufacturers are. For example in antique dolls Madame Alexander is a quality name. Expect to pay well for an older doll, but knowing what the dolls are worth will enable you to know if a deal is good, or if it is too good and you should question the authenticity of the item. Caveat Emptor – Buyer Beware is always a good thing to remember. Finding deals on craigslist.org is fairly easy, you just have to know how to look for them.
There are disadvantages to using craigslist.org to make money. Although it can be done, and the chance of actually losing money is limited, craigslist.org only reaches a small percentage of customers. This is fine if what you are doing is limited to your location, however if you are selling products, this is a very limited area to do so.
The first disadvantage of using craigslist.org to make money is reach. Although millions of people visit this website, all of those visitors are distributed among 450 locations. This is where craigslist.org is lacking. You are not supposed to post your ad in more than one location at a time. If you are selling widgets, and you want to sell a lot of widgets to everyone, everywhere, then craigslist.org will be very limiting to you.
Another disadvantage of using craigslist.org to make money is that there is no protection for the seller. Many auction sites have procedures in place to make sure that both the buyer and seller are protected from unscrupulous individuals. Craigslist.org has no such protections. You make contact with a potential buyer or seller and hope that they will not rip you off. You do not know if they are legitimate or not and you have no idea if they are a dangerous criminal or not. Online auction sites remove the person interaction by means of shipping the item to a location. On craigslist.org you usually have to either have a buyer come to your home, go to a seller's location or meet in a public place somewhere. Meeting someone is fine if the item is small. However if you are selling a projection TV, it may be more difficult to get it to the local diner.
Craigslist.org does post a notice explaining how to keep safe from fraud. Their intentions are well meant and in this case you get what you pay for. Craigslist.org is free. Most auction sites have fees. In this case it seems that you are paying for an additional level of safety and security. On an auction website there is recourse if someone passes you a bad check or if someone offers to pay you via PayPal and then reverses the payment. With cragislist.org there is recourse only through law enforcement for a bad check or through PayPal. Your chances of recovering payment is not good. You will be out the money and the product.
Another problem with craigslist.org is if you are trying to promote your business. There are many businesses that will keep reporting your ad as being in violation of craigslists.org's rules and regulations or that it is spam or even that it infringes on some else's copyright. In certain categories it can be nearly impossible for a new business to post an ad. For example, posting an ad for carpet cleaning services in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area can be next to impossible. I know of one particular company that finally had to contact Craig Newmark directly in order to get a problem resolved.
Now that you know all about the disadvantages of using craigslist.org to make money you can decide for yourself if it is worth it. Although the ad is free it takes a lot of time to write, post and constantly delete and repost your ad so that it stays on the front page. Is it worth it? Only you can decide for yourself.
People ask the question all of the time "can you make money on craigslist.org"? The answer is you can. All it takes is some time and ad management and you can make money just like anyone else.
Here are some tips that you may not be aware of. These should help you to make money if your ads were not as effective as you would have liked them to be. Your ad is good for 45 days. Everyday that your ad appears it is listed lower on the page. This is because new ads get top priority. In some categories, a single vendor will post multiple ads. This is fine as long as they are not for the same business, product, or service. If they are, mark them as spam. It is the only way that you will get it to stop. If you sell jewelry, you can post an ad for a bracelet, a necklace, a ring, a pendent, a brooch, a watch, a jewelry box, earrings, and an ankle bracelet all in the same day. They are all different products. You will have close to the top nine spots on the page the day you enter them, especially if you add all of the ads one after the other. Now you wait two days, delete those ads and re-enter them. They are returned back to the top positions. You cannot do this any more frequent than every 48 hours. If you do, you will run into problems, so no sooner than ever two days.
Add a picture or multiple pictures to your ad. Pictures tell a thousand words and this is true. You will get more interest if your ad has a picture of the product. Use an actual photograph of your product, not some stock photo off of the internet. This will build trust in the potential buyer and it will generate more interest.
Respond to all inquiries promptly. Even if you think that the person is not really interested, you never know for sure. Follow up with everyone who responds to your ad. The one person you decide not to get back to is the one who will actual want to buy your item.
Write a clear and concise advertisement. Your headline should have the keyword for what you are selling. The body of the ad should be very descriptive and easy to read. If you use html to enhance your ad, do not go crazy with font colors and weird background colors. Red on blue is horribly difficult to read, people who are color blind cannot see that color combination so the text and the background will merge together. Orange and purple or yellow and purple are not good either. There is nothing wrong with a plain white background. Add a border if you want to make it fancy. Text can be changed from black however keep these things in mind. Bright colors like shocking blues and greens are hard on the eyes. Yellow can be difficult to see on a white background. Red makes you appear untrustworthy. Dark green and dark blue are good choices, but stick to forest green or navy blue. Dark brown is also a good choice.
Finally you want to promote your ad. Have a link to your ad in all of your email signatures. Tell everyone about your ad. The best ad in the world cannot sell a product if nobody sees it.
Yes you can make money on craigslist.org. It takes a talent for good ad writing, good photography, and some planning. Making sure that your ads are managed well and that they are posted, deleted and reposted every two days is critical. Having a good looking ad is also extremely important. If your ad is difficult to read or understand then nobody is going to buy from you. Make sure that your photograph portrays your item in the best possible way. Combining all of these items into a single ad campaign is important to getting your item sold.
The Best of Craigslist.org is a list of ads that the community of craiglist.org has voted as the best. You will find a mix of all sorts of ads in this category. It is not for children to view at all. If you want are looking for your ad to be read a lot, then try to get it voted into the Best of Criagslist.org. Here is how you can accomplish this.
First of all you need a great ad. It should be funny, amusing, or perhaps obnoxious but it really has to stand out from all of the others. The other requirement is that you need to get a lot of traffic to view that ad.
How do you generate that kind of traffic? The best plan works like this, you need word of mouth, email and links all pointing to your ad. Here is how to get this done.
Word of mouth:
This is an easy concept tell everyone you know to go and look at your ad. Then ask them to tell everyone they know. Explain to them that you are looking to get into the Best of Craigslist.org and you need their help. Your friends should want to help you, especially when it does not cost them anything. Remind them daily to vote your ad in.
Email:
This is somewhat easier because you are in charge of it. Change you email signature to include the link to your craiglist.org ad. Have it look like this Your Name then the text "please click on this link to vote my ad into the Best of Craigslist.org" LINK GOES HERE. Another effective email technique is if you know someone who loves to send out email. Have them send out as many emails as they can with your ad linked in it. These techniques combined with the word of mouth campaign should help tremendously toward getting your ad into the Best of Craigslist.org.
Links:
This is a little more difficult but it can be effective. Everywhere you blog, exchange links, post links, submit articles and the like, be sure to ad a link to your ad. Places like digg.com and other social websites are a great place to do this. Look to see if you can get you ad link posted on Yahoo! Answers. It is easy, just as the question "do you think this should be in the Best of Craigslist.org? If so, click on the link and vote for it". This should bring you closer to getting voted in.
If you really want to get in you ad cannot be the usual Ford F-150 for sale, need work, $1000 OBO. That will never get in. The ad has to be funny or have some weird twist to it. A better way to have the same ad would be: Need to sell my beloved truck. This is a rare 1980 Ford F-150. My first born was conceived and delivered in the bed of this beauty. I hate to see it go, but I need to make my mortgage payment. Please come and give 'er a good home. I'll miss it but I need to keep my house. It's a steal at $1500.00. Bring tissues, I may cry when it leaves. This is the type of ad that will make it into the Best of Craigslist.org.
Overall you have to combine a massive ad campaign for your ad in order for it to get into the Best of Craigslist.org. The ad has to have some entertainment value, and you have to let everyone know about it. This is accomplished through emails, word of mouth, blog postings, link exchanges, and any other way you can think of to get people to look and vote for your ad. Without this massive ad campaign it is extremely difficult to get voted in unless your ad it so out there that everyone just has to read it. This is how ads get into the Best of Craigslist.org.
Bartering versus selling on craigslist.org is an interesting debate. Should you sell or should you barter. Is one really better than the other? Is there a better change of not getting ripped off if cash is involved? How do you know which is best for you?
Wow – that is a lot of questions. First lets look at the main difference between bartering and selling. Bartering is the exchange of goods or services for an equal exchange of goods or services. There is no cash involved in a barter transaction. It is the oldest form of trade and it predates money. Selling is the exchange of goods or services for cash. This is a newer concept as far as civilization is concerned.
Many people do not fully understand bartering and that is when they get into trouble. You need to really understand equal value for equal value. If you need a roof and it should cost $2500 and you want to barter for services like accounting then you need to be prepared to offer $2500 in accounting services. This is how bartering works. The best way to be sure that everything goes as agreed upon in to get a written contract for the barter drawn up. Everyone gets a copy and there is written documentation of what is expected from both parties. Putting it in writing is the best way to barter these days. A handshake is not enough to resolve a dispute.
Selling we are all familiar with. You have something another person wants. They give you money, you give them the item or service. It is simple, it is what we understand best, and it too can have disputes arise. Usually there is no written contract.
Before you enter into any form of transaction on craigslist.org you must understand that unlike some auction sites, there is no safe harbor. Buyer and seller protection does not exist. Sellers and Buyers are not verified, certified etc. Craigslist.org does not get involved in any way shape or form in the transaction. This is important to know as they will not help you in a dispute.
Knowing that you are on your own in a transaction, you should be sure that you are comfortable with the other party. It does not matter if it is a barter or a sale. You must know and understand the terms of the transaction. If you are unfamiliar with how bartering works, then you should read about it and look at what the ads on craigslist.org are about before posting or responding to a barter ad.
If you are selling the same holds true. Do not enter into an agreement in which you are unsure of the terms. You should know what you are getting into. This is very important. Know the buyer or seller well enough to be comfortable with them.
Craigslist.org is a local community. This is a good thing as you can meet with the other party face to face in order to work out an agreement.
Is barter better than selling? When comparing bartering versus selling on craigslist.org is one a better deal? No. you can get a great deal either way if you understand bartering. If you do not then it is best to steer away from it. Selling should be what you stick with if you do not understand bartering.
Overall when comparing bartering versus selling on craigslist.org neither is better. It all depends on the parties involved and how well they understand or do not understand their agreements. If everyone is happy then it was a good deal. If there are constant misunderstandings then something needed to be changed. There is a higher risk of an unequal trade in bartering. It is easy to think that if you spent 3 days up on a hot roof then the accountant you traded services for should at least spend 3 days or more working for you. It all depends on his hourly rate and what you agreed upon. As long as both parties are in agreement bartering is fine. Bartering versus selling on craigslist.org is an interesting debate. It would be nice to see what the statistics were for transaction satisfaction.
Instead of trading a product or service for cash, why not consider barter. Although bartering will not pay your bills, you can get really great services by trading with someone else. Here is an overview of bartering on craigslist.org.
Bartering, the act of trading a product or service for another product or service is the oldest type of trade. It predates money. Long ago we figured out that we can trade what we have an abundance of for what we are lacking. This is barter in its purest form.
Now lets jump into the twenty first century. There is a website called craigslist.org. On this site you can barter. What can you barter, anything that is legal for any that is legal. It really is that simple. So, how can this work for you?
For example, let's say you need a new roof but its out of your budget right now. You work as an accountant. You go out to the barter category on craigslist.org and you place an ad, looking to barter accounting services for a new roof. Then you write out the details in your ad. Make sure that you explain how large a roof you have and how many hours of accounting service you will be offering. It is really important that you make this very clear. Otherwise there will be problems along the way.
Just like any other transaction, be sure to check out the other party. The last thing that you want is to have your roof left half done. Even if you refuse to perform anymore accounting, you still have a half finished roof and it will leak if it is not fixed immediately. So be careful that you only deal with reputable people.
You will need to be flexible in your terms. Don't give away the store, so to speak but be prepared to negotiate a little bit. I know people who have traded life coaching for writing, tae kwon do lessons for maid service, accounting services for day care, the list goes on. There is a whole lot of bartering that occurs. It is a way to get things you need, without having to shell out cash.
No cash, but in reality you are asking for someone to give you something of value in exchange for you to give them something of equal value. If you look at the cash value of what is being bartered it should work out to be equal. If not, then adjustments have to be made. This way it is fair to all of the parties involved.
Be sure to keep it even and everyone should stay happy. Another caveat is to be sure that the terms of the barter are spelled out very clearly. There should be no guesswork involved and both parties should sign the agreement and keep a copy of it. This way if a dispute arises there is no question as to what was offered and agreed upon.
Bartering on craigslist.org is something that can be very beneficial to both parties if it is handled correctly. Don't ask for the sun and only give a little. If your ad is ridiculous no one will respond. If it is fair then you should get many responses. Remaining open to negotiation and staying flexible in your terms is the best way to successfully barter on craigslist.org. Remember to keep your listing current. This way you will not be pushed down to the bottom of the page. Deleting and re-entering your ad is what you should do every 2 days so that it can be seen by all.
Hopefully this overview has given you insight into the world of bartering. On craigslist.org you can barter for just about anything. Keep in mind what you are able to offer and you can find some amazing deals that will not set you back monetarily. Perhaps our forefathers really knew what they were doing.
There are many advantages of using craigslist.org to make money. The fact that this website reaches over 450 different communities and that almost every type of ad is free, there is very little reason not to post items and services for sale. Exactly what are the advantages of using craigslist.org to make money?
The answer is very simple, it is free and easy to do. That's all good and fine, but we really should elaborate. First of all, anyone who has a valid email address can post an ad. This makes joining very easy. All you have to do is upload a picture if necessary and write a good ad. You can post just about anything on craigslist.org. From services and items for sale, to real estate and cars, and even job postings (although there is a charge for this in 10 cities), you can find anything and sell just about anything that is legal for sale.
Selling items and services on craigslist.org is a great way to add extra income. It does not take a lot of effort and you can bring n a decent amount of money selling off your old and unwanted items. Some people also run their own business off of craigslist.org. Are you creative? Can you fix cars? Cars are bought, fixed up, and sold for a profit. Creative people sell quilts, crafts, and other items they have made. Yard sale junkies sell this weeks finds. It is all free, fun and profitable. This is the main advantage of using craigslist.org to make money.
Another advantage is that it sure beats having a yard sale. With a yard sale you are stuck there all day, the weather may or may not cooperate, and you might have undesirables shopping around in your front yard. With craigslist.org, you can be contacted via email. You choose who you wish to deal with. Your personal email address can be hidden and there is an option to have all inquiries go through a craigslist.org email address that gets forwarded to you. Protecting your privacy is important and selling through craigslist.org is more private than holding a yard sale.
Safety is another consideration, especially for single women, single moms, or women whose husbands may be out of town for extended lengths of time. Holding a yard sale can put you at risk if there are no other adults around. You do not want to broadcast the fact that you are there alone or alone with kids. Craigslist.org removes that situation. Only people that you invite come to your home. You can even agree to meet them at a local McDonalds or some other public place, thus keeping your actual residence private. This is a huge benefit over a yard sale. Personal safety should always be a primary concern. Safe and almost anonymous versus having droves of people come to your home. That is one of the many advantages of using craigslist.org to make money instead of a yard sale or classified ad.
Craigslist.org is free to use for buying and selling items and services. Online auctions sites cost you money. So does posting an ad in the local newspaper. Anytime you can promote a business or sale for free it is a good thing.
Now that you know about the advantages of using craigslist.org to make money, why not give it a try. Pad that bank account and start saving for a better car or perhaps just keep it for a rainy day. Whatever you use it for, you should consider giving craigslist.org a try.
There are many advantages of using craigslist.org to make money. The fact that this website reaches over 450 different communities and that almost every type of ad is free, there is very little reason not to post items and services for sale. Exactly what are the advantages of using craigslist.org to make money?
The answer is very simple, it is free and easy to do. That's all good and fine, but we really should elaborate. First of all, anyone who has a valid email address can post an ad. This makes joining very easy. All you have to do is upload a picture if necessary and write a good ad. You can post just about anything on craigslist.org. From services and items for sale, to real estate and cars, and even job postings (although there is a charge for this in 10 cities), you can find anything and sell just about anything that is legal for sale.
Selling items and services on craigslist.org is a great way to add extra income. It does not take a lot of effort and you can bring n a decent amount of money selling off your old and unwanted items. Some people also run their own business off of craigslist.org. Are you creative? Can you fix cars? Cars are bought, fixed up, and sold for a profit. Creative people sell quilts, crafts, and other items they have made. Yard sale junkies sell this weeks finds. It is all free, fun and profitable. This is the main advantage of using craigslist.org to make money.
Another advantage is that it sure beats having a yard sale. With a yard sale you are stuck there all day, the weather may or may not cooperate, and you might have undesirables shopping around in your front yard. With craigslist.org, you can be contacted via email. You choose who you wish to deal with. Your personal email address can be hidden and there is an option to have all inquiries go through a craigslist.org email address that gets forwarded to you. Protecting your privacy is important and selling through craigslist.org is more private than holding a yard sale.
Safety is another consideration, especially for single women, single moms, or women whose husbands may be out of town for extended lengths of time. Holding a yard sale can put you at risk if there are no other adults around. You do not want to broadcast the fact that you are there alone or alone with kids. Craigslist.org removes that situation. Only people that you invite come to your home. You can even agree to meet them at a local McDonalds or some other public place, thus keeping your actual residence private. This is a huge benefit over a yard sale. Personal safety should always be a primary concern. Safe and almost anonymous versus having droves of people come to your home. That is one of the many advantages of using craigslist.org to make money instead of a yard sale or classified ad.
Craigslist.org is free to use for buying and selling items and services. Online auctions sites cost you money. So does posting an ad in the local newspaper. Anytime you can promote a business or sale for free it is a good thing.
Now that you know about the advantages of using craigslist.org to make money, why not give it a try. Pad that bank account and start saving for a better car or perhaps just keep it for a rainy day. Whatever you use it for, you should consider giving craigslist.org a try.
Variety is a good thing but when there are so many choices for a single purpose, it can be very confusing. Such is often the case when prospective affiliates try to make their decisions regarding the best affiliate marketing program to use. Since the choice of an affiliate marketing program is critical to your success, find out which among the hundreds now available is the best program to use. Here are some criteria to look for:
The affiliate marketing program is top quality
Always go for the affiliate marketing program that is backed up by a reliable and trustworthy team with the appropriate and sufficient knowledge about the industry. Check the affiliate product and services as well. Are they for real, offer good value and are saleable? Remember that you will be putting your own credibility on the line when you sign up for that program. If it's trustworthy, then you will be viewed as such as well.
The affiliate product is 'hot' or getting there
Stay current on market demands and about the 'hottest' and 'to watch out for' products. A simple search online will help you find out the kind of things that people are looking for and are willing to buy. There's a good chance an affiliate marketing program is selling that product. When a product has a high market demand, it's much easier to sell.
This is good news for you as an affiliate of that program since there won't be any backbreaking work to do just to get the product off the ground. It will sell on its own or for minimal effort.
The affiliate marketing program pays high commissions
Ultimately, the affiliate's goal in signing up for an affiliate marketing program is to earn money. In affiliate marketing, earnings come in the form of commissions – usually a percentage off the sale of a product. Why settle for a low-paying program when there are others from which you can benefit more from given the same amount of efforts on your part?
When considering what affiliate marketing program to use, choose those that offer higher commission rates. Good rates range from about 50 percent to 75 percent. If the program pays lower than that, you might want to reconsider. It may not be worth your effort at all.
The affiliate marketing program has a higher than usual conversion rate
Conversion rate refers to the period it takes for a prospect who clicks on an affiliate site to become a paying customer. In affiliate marketing, this can be notoriously fickle, with leads taking as much as 60 days before ever purchasing anything.
A good indication that a particular affiliate marketing program is the best one to use is its high conversion rate. This means that more visitors to an affiliate's site become buyers. When there are more buyers, an affiliate's earnings increase.
To find out about their conversion rate, you can check an affiliate marketing program's website. Some of them publish this information. If not, you will have to test the product yourself using targeted visitors to see how well it performs.
The affiliate marketing program offers full support.
This is an especially important criteria to look for when deciding what affiliate marketing program to use if you're a beginner. There are many programs that will offer their system and leave you to your own devices without checking in on your progress.
If you're not a self-starter or are wary of affiliate marketing programs that don't assist their affiliates, avoid these types. Use affiliate marketing programs that provide sufficient information, training and affiliate support. You will appreciate this extra feature in case you run into a bit of trouble later.
Web Hosting Affiliate Programs:
Another Way to Boost Your Online Income
If one of your goals of being online is to earn an income, still one of the best methods to consider is signing up for one or two affiliate programs. Experienced affiliates are some of the Web's highest earners and with enough training, support and willingness on your part, becoming involved in an affiliate program may just be one of the best decisions you'll ever make. And now, here's another way to boost your income online: web hosting affiliate programs.
What are web hosting affiliate programs?
These are programs that sell web hosting services through members, called affiliates. The market for website hosting is one of the fastest growing industries today, thanks to a robust Web economy and the continuous appearance of numerous websites, both corporate and personal.
How do web hosting affiliate programs work?
They pretty much work in a similar manner to the average affiliate program with the exception that the products they are promoting are web hosting plans. An affiliate earns when his referral purchases a plan from the program.
A good step for a web hosting affiliate would be to create a standalone site or blog that promotes web hosting and attract traffic to that site. However, posting affiliate links consisting of banner ads and text links from an unrelated website could also work.
Who can benefit from web hosting affiliate programs?
From the customer's side, virtually anyone who has a website or is planning to build one will find web hosting services useful. From the affiliate's side, it varies greatly – beginner and experienced affiliates, internet marketers, webmasters, web consultants and bloggers will find this opportunity very promising.
How much commission can I expect from web hosting affiliate programs?
Web hosting affiliate programs offer some of the best wallet-friendly commissions in the industry. Commission rates are great, ranging from around $50 to $100+ per successful business referral. That's considerably larger than other commissions paid through affiliate programs selling more traditional products.
What's the success rate for affiliates in web hosting programs?
This is a very competitive segment of the industry, which means that once you sign up, you better have a good strategy to back you up. If your idea of earning from these programs is posting an affiliate link on your website and leaving everything to chance, you won't earn much. If you have a strong game plan, however, a web hosting affiliate program will work well to your advantage.
Some of the web hosting affiliate programs available today include:
Yahoo!
Yahoo's web hosting affiliate program rewards you for the volume of referrals you bring in. Earnings can range from $60 to about $70 for every successful web hosting customer you refer, although you can also make as much as $100 for each referral if you bring them in by volume.
And here's more: Yahoo! will pay about 20 percent out of the total sales generated from every domains customer you refer.
LunarPages
If you have your own website, you can set up an affiliate link to LunarPages' web hosting program site. You'll earn $65 each time you refer a new customer. You can earn more by referring advertisers to the program. Each new customer referred by these advertisers will bring in an additional $5 per.
Web.com
Web.com is another excellent web hosting affiliate program, offering $80 in commission. If your sales reach over 25 in one month, you can add 12.5%. Over 50, that increases to 50%.
DreamHost
DreamHost offers you two choices for the type of commission you'll earn: one-time credit for every referral you bring to their web hosting affiliate program or you could choose to earn recurring credits for payments made by your referrals to DreamHost. One-time payments will earn you up to $97 while recurring payments give you 10% off the payment amount of your referrals.
DreamHost is also one of the web hosting affiliate programs that offers a two-tier payment scheme. If your referral brings in their own referrals, you'll earn a one-time payment of $5 or 5% of these referrals' payments to DreamHost.
Techniques for Keeping Track of Your Affiliate Referrals
The number of referrals you can generate for your affiliate marketing program can range from a few dozen to several hundreds. Great if there are only a few names on your list so far since they would be easy to familiarize with but what if you've collected enough names equivalent to a mid-sized city's worth of phone numbers? Without an organized system, you could easily lose potential income from referrals you can't monitor. Learn how to keep track of your affiliate referrals offline and online so you'll never have to waste your efforts.
Offline tracking techniques
Just because you're in affiliate marketing doesn’t mean all your affiliate referral prospecting methods are limited online. Offline activities can be incredibly useful for generating leads.
If you're the type of affiliate who has an active social networking life, you probably make use of conferences, trade shows and meetings to mine affiliate referrals. If you do, then make sure you are organized enough to take advantage of all the prospects you get in touch with during these occasions.
An excellent way to do this is to obtain a prospect's business card. That piece of paper should hold enough information for you to use later to get in touch with that person. If you attend multiple events or are constantly generating leads online, make a few notes on the back of the business cards so you never forget important information about the person, such as the event they attended, what they said and other business-related stuff you might have discussed.
Keep all business cards collected specifically for your affiliate marketing program separate from your other business cards. This will prevent confusion later when you begin communicating with these people. Don't be afraid to use labels and to make notes – this will help ensure that you keep track of all your affiliate referrals and never forget critical information and data.
Online tracking techniques
One of the fastest and most convenient ways to track affiliate referrals is to use online resources. Some of these include:
An affiliate referral tracking application
Once your referral activities begin in earnest, you'll find it difficult to manually track the number of referrals you bring to your affiliate company's website. You'll need a reliable application to perform this efficiently. Some of these referral tracking applications may be downloaded for free, although you might prefer premium editions if your affiliate business is big enough.
These applications are quite easy to use so you can conveniently keep track of the activities of your affiliate referrals. Many of these applications even offer extras, such as features that allow you to monitor your banner exchanges, start pages and affiliate links – essentially the kind of activities you'll been doing in order to promote your website.
Your affiliate marketing program's tracking system
Majority of established affiliate marketing programs have their own tracking system for their affiliate's referrals. Check your program for this. You'll usually only need your own affiliate ID in order to gain access to your stats.
Your affiliate program is able to do this because the affiliate links you post on your web pages are coded. This usually comes in the form of a tracking cookie. Each time your visitors click on that link and arrives on the affiliate company's website, their tracking system will register the unique code coming from your site.
Activities related to this code will be kept in the company's system which you can view at any time.
What You Should Know About Affiliate Commission Payment Schedules
Arguably the best and most exciting part of becoming an affiliate is receiving your payment for the very first time. After all, that check or deposit notification represents all those weeks (or even months) of hard work, tireless promotion and lead hunting on your part. Finally, there's proof that your affiliate marketing efforts are beginning to pay off. To understand how the payment system of affiliate marketing program works, learn the basics of affiliate commission payment schedules.
Getting paid
Your earnings as an affiliate come in the form of commissions. This is a set percentage or portion of the total price of an affiliate product or service that you helped promote or sell. In many cases, it can also come from a portion of the monies generated through the efforts of downline members in your team.
The payment of commissions to affiliates is ruled by a schedule. This can vary from one affiliate program to the next, although a minimum amount and cut-off date are generally imposed.
If you're wondering why affiliate programs do not automatically send you a check for every sales income you generate, it's quite simple, actually. Affiliate programs need to maintain a standard when it comes to paying their affiliates to make sure that the process is seamless, glitch-free and fair to all. A program without a commission payment schedule risks becoming disorganized and erroneous.
Finding out the schedule of commission payments for your affiliate program
When you sign up as an affiliate for a program, it's important that you check their FAQ section. Affiliate marketing programs often provide the most basic information about themselves on their website. Their FAQ section should clearly state the schedule of commission payments they have imposed for their affiliates.
If the information is unavailable, you can ask your sponsor (if you have one) or your affiliate program. The schedule of commission payments to affiliates is an important consideration when choosing an affiliate program. Do not sign up for an affiliate program without this information so you will be able to avoid disappointments later.
How often is the payment disbursed?
The schedule of commission payment varies, depending on the preference of the affiliate program. The affiliate pretty much doesn’t have any control over this matter. Schedule of disbursement can range from bi-monthly to monthly payments. Some, such as LinkShare, disburse commission payments on a weekly basis, a considerably shorter amount of time.
What methods are used for affiliate commission payments?
There are three methods generally used by affiliate programs. These include: electronic payment processing (such as PayPal), checks and wire transfer. The length of time it will take for your commission payment to reach you will depend on the transaction method.
If the payment is coursed through electronic payment systems, this will usually take as little as 24 hours. Checks (usually delivered via postage mail or courier) usually take from 3 to 7 business days – longer if the affiliate is located in certain areas. Wire transfers take from 3 to about 6 business days.
Is there anything that will affect the schedule of affiliate commission payments?
Generally, the schedule of commission payments for affiliates are pretty much set. However, there are certain things that might cause delays. One of the most common is whether an affiliate's earnings have reached the minimum amount.
Affiliate programs often impose a minimum earned amount per pay period ranging from $10 to $100. If an affiliate earns less than that, his current earnings will be carried over to the next pay period until such time that he will meet the minimum required. Only then will his payment be released.
Sales pitchy free reports is not the way to promote your affiliate product
Posted by ƒ Labels: Affiliate MarketingAre Your Free Reports Too Sales Pitchy?
That's NOT the Way to Promote Your Affiliate Products
The great sales pitch can be a bit overrated, seeing that majority of the most seasoned affiliate marketing customers and prospective members tend to be skeptical and jaded. When giving out free reports to promote your affiliate products, enthusiasm can cause you to produce a sales pitchy report, something that could be taken the wrong way by your prospects. If you want to make a good impression, writing a free report that smacks of too much sales pitch is just NOT the way to get people to purchase your affiliate products.
Why sales pitchy free reports are ineffective
There are several reasons why sales pitchy free reports are not recommended for promoting your affiliate products. For one, they sound rather suspect, are usually too colorful to be believable and, if they are especially badly written, are peppered by punctuation marks and bold letters that shouldn’t be where they are.
They also sound too desperate to be credible, sounding as if they were written with the sole purpose of making a quick sale. Furthermore, they usually do not present the whole picture to the reader, focusing instead on promoting a product profusely without considering how it can be useful or relevant to potential customers. Sales pitchy free reports usually lack the declaration that states its true value to its readers.
If you've read sales pitchy free reports before, you probably know exactly why you treated them with disbelief. If you've thrown away or deleted a sales pitchy free report you didn’t even bother to finish reading, you will understand why that's NOT the way to promote your affiliate products.
Writing the right free reports without being sales pitchy
When you write free reports, consider them as part of your sales campaign. This means that they are essentially advertising and as such, should be able to gently push prospective customers into performing certain desired actions. Here are some very important things you have to remember when using free reports to promote your affiliate products:
Free reports should make a good first impression
A well-written title is an excellent technique to ensure that you get a hold of your readers' attention and encourage them to read further. If the title is bland, your readers will either skim through the report and miss the good points or give up altogether.
Free reports should avoid the 'general public'
A common mistake among marketers who write free reports to promote their affiliate products is that they tend to write for just about everyone. Remember that your affiliate products have specific market demographics. Find out what these are and write directly to them.
Free reports should include details
Words such as 'excellent', 'good', 'amazing' and 'incredible' always find their way into free reports. While there is nothing wrong about using them, they tend to be too generic and ultimately, sales pitchy.
Instead of using these words or their synonyms again and again, try to use details and specifics instead. Review that free report you have written and check out generic words. Instead of saying that the affiliate product is 'an excellent deal', say 'you get 25% off your purchase'. Instead of merely saying that the purchase is 'risk-free', say instead that you offer a '100% money-back guarantee'.
There has to be a sense of urgency
A good, non-sales pitchy free report should include a statement regarding the effectivity date of the promotion. When promoting your affiliate products, state in clear terms when the product will be sold for the special price and for how long. By restricting the product's availability, you will be able to gently persuade your readers and turn them into real paying customers.
So are you still writing those embarrassing sales pitchy free reports?
The Power of Testimonials in Promoting Your Affiliate Sites:
Posted by ƒ Labels: Affiliate MarketingWhy They Work and How to Use Them
Someone's good word can be incredibly powerful. As a consumer yourself, wouldn’t you rather purchase a product that has been recommended to you by a friend even if it is unfamiliar to you? Given a selection of similar products, wouldn’t you rather try one that has had some glowing reviews even if you've never heard of them before? Such is the power of testimonials when used in promoting affiliate sites.
These days, testimonials are a common strategy for building credibility and generating buzz about a product or a company. The world's largest corporations spend billions of dollars in harnessing the power of a good word alone. In affiliate marketing, testimonials are regularly utilized to promote an affiliate's site, attract new customers and recruits and compete directly with another known brand.
Why affiliate marketers use testimonials
The role of testimonials in promoting an affiliate marketing site is to try to influence consumers' buying decisions and behavior. Carefully chosen testimonials can be very effective in convincing prospects to try the affiliate product, service or membership. It has such power that many affiliate marketing sites regularly publish testimonials from satisfied customers on their home pages for visitors to view.
Many of the affiliate marketing programs in the industry today are fairly new while others have been operating quietly under the radar. Their relative anonymity can work against them, particularly since the affiliate marketing field tends to be very competitive.
To stand out, affiliate marketing programs try to increase their credibility factor by inviting famous personalities to speak for them through testimonials. While this can be very effective particularly if the celebrity has a large fan base, it can also be quite expensive. Not every affiliate marketer can afford to pay a celebrity just to place their name on his site.
To compete, affiliate marketers turn to their own customers and members, specifically people who have had sufficient experience in the program and those who have experienced success. A fully satisfied customer's testimonial, if it's well-written and based on a true experience and event, can be as convincing and effective as that of any celebrity.
Using the power of testimonials for promoting an affiliate's site
Building your credibility can be tricky, particularly since the affiliate marketing industry continues to evolve. However, if careful strategies are employed, there is a high likelihood that you can succeed as an affiliate. Consider the following factors:
Specifics
Testimonials exhibit much more power in promoting your affiliate's site if they are expressed in more details. If a testimonial from a customer or another affiliate states that the program is 'excellent', it should be followed by a specific description of the program's most useful features – what makes it excellent, how it has helped the customer or affiliate, why it's reliable, etc.
Skepticism
Believe it or not, skepticism is healthy when used with testimonials for promoting your affiliate's site. Words such as, 'I wasn't convinced at first, BUT…' or 'I have always used XYZ product and didn’t think of switching to another brand. However, your product has ____ and ____ features that convinced me it was so much better.'
Even with the stated objection, a testimonial can be quite powerful if it is followed by a positive statement.
Keeping it real
Avoid using fake testimonials. 'Designer' testimonials are easy to write according to the specifics you require but someone will get wind of the fact and expose you. Once you're found out, you lose your credibility. That simple act could haunt you for the rest of your life as a discredited affiliate marketer.
A few good words
Try to be selective with your choice of testimonials. They can be quite powerful when used for promoting your affiliate's site but over-use can work against you. Find the best ones, especially the well-written and detailed testimonials and use these instead. Or, you could take the best sentences and phrases and post those in place of a whole paragraph.
Harness the Power of Offering Freebies to Your Affiliate Site's Visitors
Who in his right mind would refuse a freebie? Out of 10 people you ask, only about one or two will forego a freebie for some strange reason. The rest will gladly accept it. It's simply a part of human nature to be appreciative of gifts, particularly useful ones. This is also something that advertisers and business owners understand fully well and thus use to their advantage.
In affiliate marketing, the use of freebies can be especially beneficial, provided of course, that you understand how to deploy them strategically. Find out how to use the power of offering freebies to your affiliate site's visitors and reap the rewards:
Freebies should be integrated into your marketing campaign
Freebies can be quite powerful as marketing tools for affiliate marketing. If visitors to your website find that free stuff is available, they will stick around and be more willing to come back for more but only if they find it relevant to their needs – the very reason they came to visit your website in the first place.
Consider each affiliate marketing campaign you perform and find out how to use freebies strategically. Just because something is free doesn’t automatically mean that people will visit your affiliate website and grab what you offer. There has to be a relevance between the freebie and the main product or service you are promoting.
Let's say your main product is an e-book that teaches the secrets of the affiliate marketing trade to affiliates. A good freebie to offer with this campaign would be a short report on the top 10 mistakes that affiliates make that cause failure in affiliate marketing. Or you could offer a freebie in the form of a script that could help affiliates track their own stats.
Remember that the power of freebies when offered in affiliate marketing is only limited to its relevance. The free stuff should be something that can supplement the main product or enhance its use. Otherwise, your visitors will simply have no reason to try to obtain it.
Offer something better
Just because you're offering freebies to your affiliate site's visitors doesn’t mean you should allow them to completely ignore your premium offers. If you let this happen, forget about earning an income from your affiliate site.
Remember that all those free stuff you offer are part of your strategy to attract more visitors and affiliate prospects to your website. If you find out later that you're dealing with visitors who are mainly freeloaders, you might want to rethink your career as an affiliate marketer and switch to becoming a charitable foundation instead.
Always offer your affiliate site's visitors some form of incentive to persuade them to purchase, subscribe or sign up for membership. Offer a product or service that is considerably better than the freebie as an alternative. So instead of just providing a link they can click to download or obtain your free stuff, you could also say something like:
"Get our free version now OR buy the premium/complete package for just $$$. This is a limited offer and will expire soon. ACT NOW!"
By imposing a time restriction, you also impose a sense of urgency and persuade your affiliate site's visitors that if they want to take advantage of a better offer, they should act immediately.
This is one power that freebies have over other types of promotions, which makes them very effective when used in affiliate sites. Plus, you can even expect a conversion without performing any follow ups.
Find out the best freebies you can afford.
There is no logic at all to giving away freebies if you have nothing to gain from it. When affiliate marketers and business owners offer free gifts to their site's visitors, it is a carefully crafted strategy and not just some careless act of generosity.
When you do offer freebies, you have to have something in return, if not now then at least later. Learn to harness the use of freebies for your affiliate site's visitors carefully. It's a proven strategy and can be a very valuable component of your affiliate marketing arsenal.
Niche affiliate marketing already marked its spot on the online business world. Not only because of its popularity – also because of its affectivity.
To be able to join in the affiliate marketing world, you are not required to have a specialization regarding a specific subject. Affiliate marketing is no rocket science. Niche affiliate marketing means promoting someone else’s site and gaining profit from it. Don’t think that this online business is automatic – no sir. Niche affiliate marketing also requires determination and discipline. You will need to have basic tools to be able to deliver the goods to your affiliates. Of course that is figuratively speaking – what I meant was you must always bring more people to visit your affiliate’s site.
The more visits your affiliate site gets, the more rewarding it will be for you. That’s how affiliate marketing works. So before you even begin planning joining the niche affiliate marketing world – think twice. Are you ready for the tough competition? Yes. Since niche affiliate marketing has been around for years now, a lot already ventured into its exploits.
You will encounter tigers and as a beginner you are no more than a pussycat to be dealt with easily. That being said, you will need artillery. Fire power. You need to equip your resources well so it can compete online. Fair and square. So how do you do that?
Let’s have an example. If you have a blog, the least you can do is to make your blog worth reading. It doesn’t matter what your blog is about – just be sure you have a target audience and it will appeal to them. Also, add banners to your website. This banners (not to mention they are attractive to the eye) can really increase the attraction power of your blog. Not to mention this banners will be your key to back link your niche affiliate marketing partner.
Here’s the logic, how would you expect others to visit your advertised site if your own site doesn’t have enough visits alone? That is a no –no. Since niche affiliate marketing has been around for years now, a lot already ventured into its exploits. You will encounter tigers and as a beginner you are no more than a pussycat to be dealt with easily.
That being said, you will need artillery. Fire power. You need to equip your resources well so it can compete online. The least you can do is to make your blog worth reading. It doesn’t matter what your blog is about – just be sure you have a target audience and it will appeal to them. Also, add banners to your website. Since niche affiliate marketing has been around for years now, a lot already ventured into its exploits. You will encounter tigers and as a beginner you are no more than a pussycat to be dealt with easily.
That being said, you will need artillery. Fire power. You need to equip your resources well so it can compete online. The least you can do is to make your blog worth reading. It doesn’t matter what your blog is about – just be sure you have a target audience and it will appeal to them. That is the key to niche affiliate marketing.
In short, niche affiliate marketing is not as hard as it sounds to be. It is up to you how you will approach the market and how you will make niche affiliate marketing work for you not the other way around.
Promoting Your Affiliate Product Sites Made Easy
Promotion can never be a walk in the park. That’s what most of us say. Promoting somebody else’s site for instance makes it much harder for you to attest for the said website. That’s how affiliate marketing works by the way. You are tasked to promote a certain website through your own website. It may sound like a hard task but in reality, that is not true.
Promoting your affiliate sites can simply start by enticing your website visitors to try out this particular product you are endorsing. If you are running a blog, you can simply shift your entries t the product’s advantage. Here’s an example.
You are currently promoting an Xbox website which caters to online gamers. The products range from Xbox accessories to online downloadable games. Your blog is about your everyday living experience, sort of a journal like website. So how would you shift your blog so it could help your affiliate to boost up its product’s sales? It is pretty simple. You could make your entry for one day something like – you are bored and tried to look for something to do. Luckily your cousins arrived and look what they have brought – an Xbox! So you hurriedly setup the console and played to your heart’s content! You must emphasize how you have enjoyed the experience, hence, now you are longing to buy yourself that same console. That’s when you will introduce the affiliate website that you have. You will then mention there how they will save if they go to these certain website and order. You know the drill – just make sure that you always say good things regarding your affiliate.
Here’s another example. Same thing – you have a blog and your affiliate site is for a Nintendo Wii. You could make your entry for one day something like this. You are bored and tried to look for something to do. Luckily your cousins arrived and look what they have brought – a Nintendo Wii! So you hurriedly setup the console and played to your heart’s content! You must emphasize how you have enjoyed the experience, hence, now you are longing to buy yourself that same console. That’s when you will introduce the affiliate website that you have. You will then mention there how they will save if they go to these certain website and order. You know the drill, you have to detail the good testimonies you have regarding the website you want them to visit.
If you are running a blog, you can simply shift your entries t the product’s advantage. That’s when you will introduce the affiliate website that you have. Promoting your affiliate sites can simply start by enticing your website visitors to try out this particular product you are endorsing. That’s when you will introduce the affiliate website that you have. You will then mention there how they will save if they go to these certain website and order. If you are running a blog, you can simply shift your entries t the product’s advantage.
In this manner, promotion of the affiliate sites will be much easier. No pressure on your part and the effect will be colossal. You can simply make the most out of your advertisement by simply using your blog to your advantage. It is like telling a story and at the same time, enticing to your target audience. Now that’s what I call effective blogging marketing.
How to Choose a Niche for Affiliate Marketing
Nowadays everybody wants to earn in the most convenient manner. Everyone seems to be looking for the easiest way to get the extra bucks they would need to fill in their increasing expenses. A lot of us are asking how can we earn extra easily and quickly. The answer is as simple as 2 words. Affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing came about in the early stages of the 20th century. It was like a little spec when it started and it proved itself to be effective therefore it expanded and now everybody seems to be enjoying the benefits of affiliate marketing.
If you are just new to the industry you might be asking yourself: What is affiliate marketing? Well, derived from the word itself – affiliate marketing is an affiliation between you and a certain company that has this product or service they would like the public to know about through the power of online advertisement or promotion. Companies will gladly pay certain individuals that could actually showcase their goods online through blogs, articles or in any manner that their products will be exposed.
Having this said, so what do you need in order to plunge in to the world of affiliate marketing? To tell you frankly, you might be surprised to know that it really doesn’t require much. Aside from a decent computer, you would just need an internet connection and of course a bit of your time to this chosen online business.
Where to start? Companies will gladly pay certain individuals that could actually showcase their goods online through blogs, articles or in any manner that their products will be exposed. That being said, it is obvious that you should have at least a website online. The more traffic you have on that website – the better.
Since affiliate marketing is an affiliation between you and a certain company, their product or service must be known to the public through online advertisement or promotion. Let’s say you have at least 5,000 visits a day in your website – that will have a corresponding equivalent to your affiliate marketing capability.
That being said, it is obvious that you should have at least a website online. The more traffic you have on that website – the better. Since affiliate marketing is an affiliation between you and a certain company, their product or service must be known to the public through online advertisement or promotion. Having this said, so what do you need in order to plunge in to the world of affiliate marketing?
To tell you frankly, you might be surprised to know that it really doesn’t require much. Aside from a decent computer, you would just need an internet connection and of course a bit of your time to this chosen online business. Companies will gladly pay certain individuals that could actually showcase their goods online through blogs, articles or in any manner that their products will be exposed. That being said, it is obvious that you should have at least a website online.
The more traffic you have on that website – the better. Since affiliate marketing is an affiliation between you and a certain company, their product or service must be known to the public through online advertisements or promotion. So if you want your affiliate marketing to be successful, you need to have an established website first then the rest will follow.
Hits and Earn: Hit per Sale Ratio Affiliate Program Decisions
Congratulations! You have gone through the grueling task of deciding whether or not to try your luck with affiliate marketing, choosing the products you would be promoting, and establishing your affiliate marketing sites. The first few dollars have managed to come marching in, and you think it is enough. I know you are fed up with decision making and would rather just wait for the money to flow, but in order for you to succeed more, you have to make more decisions: that is what businesses are all about.
One of the best tools you can use to aid you in your affiliate program decisions is the hit per sale ratio. What is hit per sale ratio? Everyday, a number of unique individuals visit your site. Each unique individual is called a “click.” However, out of the hundreds, nay, thousands who visit your site, only a handful end up purchasing your product. This handful of people is called your “sales.” A hit per sale ratio is the number of hits you must get in order to get one sale. To calculate, simply divide all of the hits you get in a day by the number of sales you get in a day, and voila! You have the hit per sale ratio of your affiliate marketing sites!
But how, you ask, do you get anything important out of a simple number? Well, knowing your hit per sale ratio and making informed affiliate program decisions based on that is one of the best things you could ever do to elevate your affiliate marketing enterprise. You might find yourself wishing you had a higher hit per sale ratio by either having more hits everyday, or having more sales out of your current hits. You could actually choose from a million solutions out there, but in this article, the liberty has been taken to discuss two of the most logical affiliate program decisions you can make and to which a lot of other affiliate marketers can attest to.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Ads are great if you simply want increased hits, which can lead to increased sales, everyday. You should take note, however, that since you are working on increasing your profit, you should never shell out more cash than you can afford (you might especially be tempted to bet all or more than your earnings when you discover that the ads you pay for are significantly raising your profits). Do a simple computation of how much money you can spend on these advertisements, and base your decisions on these.
For example, if you have a total of 300 hits per day, to which only 5 are ending up in sales, which means it takes 60 hits before you could establish sales (this is your hit per sale ratio). And if each sale gives you a profit of $25, it means you are earning $225 per day. This is the maximum amount you can spend on advertisements. To play it safe, pay for something that is significantly lower than your current profit so that when your ads prove to be worthless, you still have a bit of cash to take home.
So let’s say you made the decision to spend $100 bucks on ads. That leaves you $125 assured take-home money, which isn’t half as bad as taking home nothing. Let’s say your $100 ad doubled your total hits per day, and thus, doubling your sales (from 5 sales to 10 sales). That would mean that you have a $450 figure as your total sales. Subtract the amount of the ad, and you have yourself a total profit of $350. Not bad, eh?
PAY PER CLICK PROGRAMS
Pay per click programs are programs you could establish with search engines for your products to appear on top of searches. You are bidding per click here (for the keywords you have chosen), and this means those who bid highest find themselves on the top of the food chain. This is a relatively tricky business, so don’t get caught up in false hopes.
Now, to our calculations. Supposing you have a hit per sale ratio of 60, and a profit of $25 per sale, like the last example. In order to know the total amount you can risk on bidding, simply divide your profit per sale by your hit per sale ratio. That leaves you with a $0.40 figure. Again, do not risk this entire amount into bidding. You would do well to bid half of your safe value just so you can still be reassured of a bit of profit even if this program does not work out. A $0.20 bid per click shouldn’t be bad enough.
You would find some affiliate marketing enterprises bidding dollars for each click. DO NOT DO THE MISTAKE OF FOLLOWING THEIR STEPS. Instead, find a way around them by bidding on different keywords. Always keep your profits in mind.
However, in the world of affiliate marketing, increasing your profits isn’t as easy as simple arithmetic. You have to weigh your options well, and no one could ever teach you that as good as experience can. Try your different options as well as you can, make smart and informed decisions, and if you work hard enough, you might find yourself singing happily all the way to the bank.
