Its all about words

Contents:

   1.  Editor's comments
   2.  Its all about words
   3.  Guest Article: Write Some Articles!
   4.  Affiliate and Industry News
   5.  Thank you for helping me spread the word!
   6.  Subscribe/Unsubscribe information





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1.  Editor's comments
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Happy Thanksgiving!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and every
one of my subscribers for sticking with me through the
good times and the bad here at AffiliateMatch.

Fortunately since it is an Internet business there have
been mostly good times.

I sincerely thank you for being a subscriber and I hope
you have learned at least one thing useful for your own
business.

Enjoy!

Chuck McCullough
Chuck@affiliatematch.com
http://www.affiliatematch.com
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2.  Its all about words
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Really when it comes down to it, this whole Internet thing
is about the words.

Think about it for a minute. Visit any website that you want
and after you strip away the flashy graphics and annoying
banners you are left with just the words.

When you open your email program each day and click your
favorite newsletters you will find more words.

Your choice of words and the way you put them together make
or break your ability to reach your goals.

Your choice of words will either engage your visitors and
prompt them to read further, or it will cause them to leave
in search of another site, also filled with words.

It doesn't matter how you look or how you dress. It doesn't
matter where you live or what kind of music you like.

You will make money on the Internet based on the words you
use and how you use them.

It fascinates me to think about it this way. Most businesses
have to actually manufacture something to make money. They
have to make a physical product.

An Internet business can be run by simply putting words on
a page. You can even create digital products, such as ebooks,
and then the product that the words on your pages sell is
also just a bunch of words put together.

It doesn't get much easier than this, or more profitable!

Why profitable? When you have to create a physical product
you will always have material costs and labor involved in
creating the products. You probably have equipment costs
and building rental and so on.

With digital products and websites you can write something
once and make money from it over and over again for long
periods of time.

You may have to revisit it from time to time to update
information but for the most part it lasts and lasts and
lasts.

As an example, I have articles that I wrote way back when
I first started AffiliateMatch.com. To this day (over two
years later) I get traffic to those articles, traffic that
signs up for my newsletter or clicks an affiliate program
link or contacts me with potential business proposals.

I can honestly say that a few of the original articles that
I've written have made me thousands of dollars over time,
and usually with less than an hours worth of time invested.

Another beauty about all of this is that you can do your
writing anytime and from anywhere. Noone will know how long
it took you to write it or how many mistakes you made and
then corrected (unless you leave the mistakes in your final
copy.)

I'm asked quite often what this whole 'Internet thing' is
all about. My new reply is going to be:

Its all about words!




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3.  Write Some Articles!
    by David McKenzie
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"But I'm just an affiliate. I haven't got time.

I shouldn't have to write articles. I can get all the good
content I want from my affiliate programs."

That's usually true, but more often than not your visitors are after
unique content. Writing your own articles can often be
the most powerful marketing weapon you use.

Believe it or not, your visitors actually want to read what you
have to say at your site, not what other people have to say.
They are looking for independent content that perhaps supports
or refutes something they read on another site.

Besides, they may have already read all the articles written by
other people you feature at your site elsewhere on the internet.

While it is perfectly reasonable and beneficial to feature
"other peoples articles" at your site, you should also feature
your own.

Here are 4 reasons why you should write some of your own
articles:

1. It is unique content that distinguishes you from about 90%
of all other affiliates. That's the percentage of affiliates
not writing articles!

2. People need content. For their web site or for their
newsletter people are always in constant need for new, fresh
content. This means articles that you write can be featured on
other people's web sites and in other people's newsletters.

When this happens you get additional visitors back to your
site. And these visitors may in turn feature one of your other
articles at their site or in their newsletter. Before you know
it you are in 50 newsletters and on 100 web sites!

3. Visitors will stay at your web site longer because there are
lots of articles to read. This gives you additional
opportunities at getting more click throughs to your affiliate
programs. You could feature links to your affiliate programs
on each page you have articles.

More affiliate click throughs translate into more commissions.

4. You have given your visitors an instant feeling of trust. If
you just featured other people's content then you are just a
face in the crowd.

However, when you feature your own content, you immediately
'stand out' and people are more inclined to trust you. If
people trust you, then they are more inclined to buy from you.

For an affiliate, good content makes a site. Don't just use
other people's content. Start featuring your own articles. If
you keep adding your own new articles on a regular basis then
people come back to your site again and again.

Resource Box
David McKenzie is the author of a new e-book titled "How To
Write Free Articles and Market Them With a $0 Marketing Budget"
http://www.brisney.com/how-to-write-free-articles.htm
mailto:brisney@brisney.com




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4.  Affiliate and Industry News
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Overstock.com Challenges Amazon on Book Prices
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14860.html

EBay To Conduct First Online Auction of New Homes
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14893.html

NextCard Raises Affiliate Bar
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=17889&dest=article




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5.  Thank you for helping me spread the word!
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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!!




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