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I know you can use the info in this tutorial, so go ahead and click now to get started: http://www.affiliatemistakes.com/myob.htm Anyway, this week I've got 2 great guest articles for you. Both of them offer the perfect motivation to get you going in the right direction. If you have any questions at all, please let me know. Contents: 1. Guest article: How To Get Your Affiliate Sales Rolling 2. Guest article: Making sales online is easy, isn't it? 3. Thank you for helping me spread the word! 4. Subscribe/Unsubscribe information /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Looking for HIGH PAYING affiliate programs? How about one that can pay you $.10 to $.90 on EVERY CLICK? Employment and job opportunities are one of the hottest sectors on the Net...and Employment911 will help you cash in on it! Employment911 pays you on 4 different resume services including FREE resume posting! If you've got B2B traffic you can earn as much as $63 to $1,000 on a SINGLE job posting sale! You even get FREE CONTENT to add to your website, including articles and a search box so your visitors can search from over 100 job sites! Call (610) 564-3837 or sign up now at: http://www.employment911.com/asp/affiliates.asp?B=40&A=215 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// =========================================== 1. How To Get Your Affiliate Sales Rolling by Joshua Rose =========================================== What can Michael Jordan, Ed McMahon and hundreds of other high profile product endorsers teach you about cashing in with Affiliate sales? Tons! In effect, they're Super Affiliates. After all, what is the role of an Affiliate? It's to gain sales by endorsing a product. Would Nike have sold as many sneakers without Mike? Or, would The Publishers Clearing House have sold all those magazines without Ed? Not a chance. Why are companies willing to pay their endorsers such big bucks? Simple. They know all too well that *trust and credibility* sells. Let's put it this way: What if Nike had hired me, Joshua Rose, to endorse their products? Pretty ridiculous, huh? Why in the world would someone buy some Nike's if I told them to? They wouldn't. It's exactly the same in the online world. Why should someone buy a product you're endorsing as an Affiliate? Who are you? Why should I listen to you? I don't know you. Your endorsement is next to meaningless, sorry. If you want my business, you must first convince me that you're worth listening to in the first place. But gain my respect and trust, and the opportunities are endless. The key to Affiliate success is to at first focus your efforts *away* from your products and *towards* marketing vehicles that give you the opportunity to win trust. In other words, the first essential step to Affiliate success is to SELL YOURSELF. For example: ***Write a 3-10 part Free Report brimming with insightful and useful information and I'll start paying attention to you. ***Publish a newsletter with more of the same. And let me get a sense of who you are as a person. I like what I see. Now I'll think more seriously about your endorsements. ***Write a Free E-book that's going to help me. It can be in your own words or a compilation of the work of others. Help me and you'll gain my respect ... and my ear. ***Submit articles to ezines. The more I see your name, the more credibility I'll associate with you. I'll sign-up for your newsletter to learn what else you have to say. ***Show me that you've used the products you're suggesting. How, exactly did you benefit? What were the results? Is there any downside at all? (You see? Now you've got me paying attention and asking for more information). Get the idea? Affiliate sales are all about building relationships, not promoting products. You can promote until you're green in the face, but if you haven't developed a personal relationship with your prospects, and earned their respect and trust, it's unlikely you'll ever get more than a handful of sales. And remember this, Affiliate success does not come overnight. Like anything worthwhile, it takes effort and commitment. The good news is that once you establish who you are and win the respect of your leads, it does indeed become easier. After successfully crossing the trust and credibility threshold, it's not difficult to transfer this influence to additional top-notch products and opportunities. -------------- Joshua Rose is webmaster at The Internet Profit Wizards http://www.internetprofitwizards.com , a site devoted to the three mandatory skills necessary for internet success: Copywriting that sells, a thriving ezine and effective Affiliate links. Visit to subscribe to his newsletter and get free e-books. Or, send a blank email to: mailto:webwizards@freeautobot.com /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CAN YOU MAKE A LIVING ONLINE? People from all walks of life are becoming wealthy online. Could YOU do it too? Find out, in this free, step-by-step Guide to Making a Living Online. (By someone actually doing it!): http://www.affmatch.com/makealiving /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ========================================== 2. Making sales online is easy, isn't it? by Martin Avis ========================================== You've read the book, seen the ads, heard the rumors. Making money online is easy, isn't it? Well yes, it is. Maybe. There are a lot of people who get seduced by the big idea that all they have to do is sign up for an affiliate program, throw up a quick, free website and sit back on the beach waiting for the cash to flow. It ain't like that. Maybe if you have a ton of experience you can automate everything to the point that you need to do very little. But that isn't the road a beginner can tread. It is said that one in twenty people who set out to make a profit online actually manage to see a return. Most disappear without trace after spending their, often vital, last cent on hosting or ebooks or programs. But it doesn't have to be like that. The problem is not with the Internet, but with people's attitude towards it. Two people can buy any of the famous 'guru's' program on the same day. One may make a $1000 a month and think the sun shines from the guru's every word (I cleaned that up). The other may not make a dime and retire believing he was scammed. Both are wrong and both are right. It isn't the program that works, it is the operator. Some things just don't work for some people. Maybe their attitude is wrong. Maybe they try to change things. Maybe they truly believe they are following the rules, but actually are bending a few. Whatever the reasons, these people won't believe that the problem is with them It must be the program. They were scammed. In all of my talking with people who are making money, there are three key traits that they have in common: 1. They truly believe in themselves 2. They are not afraid to change course 3. They don't give up You have to believe in yourself to achieve anything. If a man says he can and another says he can't, they are both right. If at first you don't succeed, reinvent yourself. This is vital in Internet marketing. Test, test, test. That is the key that unlocks the door of success online. Nineteen times out of twenty your first idea won't make money. So what do you do? Give up? No! Learn why and move on. There are many 'secrets' out there - most of them are free if you know where to look - that will tell you how to target your audience, which product to sell, how to get traffic, how to write great sales copy, how to create your own products, how to automate your business. But the biggest secret of all is this: you have to be willing to learn. I started out online less than a year ago. My intention was to build up a newsletter, create a useful and resource-filled website, provide an online shop- window for my offline consultancy business, and, maybe, make a few dollars to cover my costs. I have achieved all of that. I don't try to, or profess to make a fortune - that was never my intention. But almost as a by-product of doing what I love - writing, teaching and helping others - I generate a steadily growing income - currently about $250 a month. Enough to cover my costs and show a nice profit. I've got to this stage by learning everything I can. I read endless reports and ebooks, spend time in forums, and, most importantly, learn from my own experiences. Nobody can tell you how to do it. They can tell you how they did it. You have to do the rest. -------------- Martin Avis is a management and training consultant. His free weekly newsletter, BizE-zine, is packed with articles, interviews and quotes to help you be the best in business or Internet marketing. mailto:subscribe5@BizE-zine.com or visit his information-packed website at http://www.BizE-zine.com BizE-zine: Success strategies that really work. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Discover the Secrets of the Super Affiliates! Find out exactly what you need to know to take home MASSIVE commission checks each and every month. If you haven't picked up your copy yet, you better hurry before your competitors do! http://www.affmatch.com/mistakes /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ============================================= 3. Thank you for helping me spread the word! ============================================= AffiliateMatch.com has become one of the top affiliate portals on the Net. If you know of anyone that might be interested in making more money from their website, please forward this issue to them. Thank you!! ===================================== 4. Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information ===================================== The only way to receive this newsletter is to signup for it at http://www.affiliatematch.com I do not sell, lease, share, or use any other means that may result in your email address being used for any purpose other than our newsletter. |