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PROSPER ONLINE TIPS
Bryan Thorby
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http://www.home-business-and-marketing.com
Date: May 13, 2008
Welcome to This Edition
In This Issue:
Thoughts of the Day
Article 1: 3 Necessary Tools for the High Rolling Affiliate Marketer
Article 2: 3 Steps to Find “Freebies” to Add to Your E-book
Article 3: 5 Important Rules in Website Design
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website. This is because there are so many free ones out there
that you can use to get the word out, and they are really just
as good as having a website that you pay for. There are of
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When you have your own blog, you are in charge of the content
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out of your home, the choice is yours. Using a blog to get the
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and promote something.
To your Online Success
Bryan
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The man who goes farthest is generally the one who
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-- Dale Carnegie
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and
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-- Peter Drucker
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3 Necessary Tools for the High Rolling Affiliate Marketer
What does it take to become a successful Affiliate Marketer?
What are the ingredients of an affiliate marketing success story?
Is there a shortcut to Affiliate Marketing glory?
All these questions play around in the minds of affiliate
marketers who want to make it big in this business.
Although affiliate marketing is touted as one of the easiest
and most effective ways to earn money online, it is not as
easy as it sounds. The wise affiliate marketer plans every
action and executes it the best way he can. He should also
maximize the potential to earn by utilizing the right tools
necessary for a successful Affiliate Marketing business.
We have consulted some of the most successful affiliate
marketers in the business and below are the top three
necessary tools for a successful affiliate marketing business.
Important Tool #1: Your Own Website
The most important and indispensable tool in Affiliate Marketing
is your own website. The first step in any successful affiliate
marketing business is building a good, credible and professional
looking website. Your website is the jump off point of all your
marketing efforts. Thus, you must first build a user-friendly
website, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them
to click on the links to the products and service you are
promoting and make a purchase. Therefore, you must first
concentrate your efforts in building a website that will cater
to what your prospects need.
The most important thing you should consider is that almost all
web users go online to look for information, not necessarily to
go and buy something. Above all else, make your website full of
original, relevant and useful content. People will love
articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in
the internet, content is still king and good quality content
will not only build your credibility, it can also help you
achieve a higher search engine ranking. By posting relevant and
useful articles, you establish yourself as a credible expert in
the field, making you a more trustworthy endorser of the product
or service you promote. Establishing a good reputation is a good
step in building up a loyal consumer base.
Important Tool #2: Incentives
Competition is extremely tight in the internet world. You must
always be one-step ahead of your rivals to ensure that you
capture a significant share of your target market. Therefore,
you must use every possible means to encourage people not only
to visit your site but also to click and proceed to the websites
of the products and services you are promoting. Building an
opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather prospects.
Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives
to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your
newsletters. You can present free softwares, access to exclusive
services and other freebies that will be helpful to your
prospects.
Important Tool #3: Link Popularity
The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your
website cannot be emphasized enough. The all-important web
traffic is at the top of the list of the most important
entities in the internet world. Attracting people to your
site should be the first step you should carry out. Do
everything to achieve a high search engine ranking. Link
Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to
determine search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your
link popularity, you must launch an aggressive reciprocal link
campaign.
One of the best ways to do this – at no cost at all – is by
submitting articles, with your website's link at the resource
box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain
exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for
free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you
submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is.
Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more
websites will pick it up and post it.
These are but three of the many tools that an affiliate marketer
can use to maximize earning potential. The possibilities are
endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity,
resourcefulness and determination. You can always explore other
ideas and adapt other strategies, which you think might help
you become a high rolling affiliate marketer.
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3 Steps to Find “Freebies” to Add to Your E-book
Those of us who regularly shop on line are familiar with the
array of free gifts, free bonuses and just plain freebies that
are offered to a visitor to a website to encourage them to buy.
How could you collect, select and offer free gifts, which will
be valued as much as the original merchandise that is being
purchased, put these gifts together and add them to your E-book?
There are just three steps to do that very thing. They are:
1. Identify your key words in each chapter of your E-book. Now,
type those words into your favorite search engine. You are
looking for free E-books on the same subject in more depth, by
a greater expert than you are, or by someone who gives a new and
fresh angle to the topic. Add a link to the free E-book in each
chapter of your E-book.
2. Research the Internet for related free gifts. Now you are
looking for things that you could give as free gifts in your
E-book that will make it more appealing and give it more
pass-along appeal to your readers. For example: If you are
selling gardening supplies, find a planting guide on the web
that can be downloaded and include that as a gift in your E-book.
3. Download the freebies. Visit the freebies pages on those web
sites. Most sites have freebies and encourage you to distribute
them.
Other key words I searched for are freebies, free E-books, and
free reports and then gave the key word that I wanted the free
stuff for. Like… “freebies for gardeners”.
Give your reader the vest that you can offer. Give them your
book, additional reading material and free gifts to boot.
Everybody loves a bargain!
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5 Important Rules in Website Design
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to
every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve
its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe
to make sure your website performs well.
1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a
website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words
like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just
that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your
visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them
the value of your site up front without the splash page.
2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to
ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable
website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content
and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let
your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being
pushed to buy.
3) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation
menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay
away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown
menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will
leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you
will want to make sure they know which part of the site they
are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse
relevant information or navigate to any section of the site
easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means
"abandon ship"!
5) Avoid using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site,
reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not
annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website.
If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control
over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.
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