6 Ways To Make Money Online With An Affiliate Internet Business

If you want to be involved in internet marketing, affiliate marketing, making money online, building as affiliate internet business online, etc., then I would suggest that you read this article by Marlon Sanders.

After you have read it several times, read it again and note that he says it is not easy, it will require that you work, and it will require that you learn marketing, it will require that you not give up. But he also says you can do it.

This is an introduction to building an online business and like building any business it will take action on your part. This is a long article and so your very first action will be to read it. Will you read this and then start taking action to build your affiliate internet business online?

Again, I encourage you to take action and read (not skim) this article by Marlon Sanders.

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How To Escape Your Day Job, Pay Your Bills And Make Progress
Towards The Ideal Internet Lifestyle

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 By Marlon Sanders

 There are 6 basic ways to get dough online:

 1. Promote affiliate products
 2. Google adsense
 3. Sell a service
 4. Sell advertising
 5. Sell physical products (think ebay)
 6. Sell information

You’ll notice that the last 4 all involve selling something. That’s the approach I wanna talk to you about today.

I did a survey with my Milcers and Alist members. I found out that most of them are still stuck to a degree in getting things going.

I want to give you an abbreviated action plan that I spend 100 pages elaborating on in “ Gimme My Money Now ” and that the icons walk you through in “ The Marketing Dashboard “.

There are MANY Formulas out there. Here’s the Marlon Sanders Formula in a nutshell. So many of you have written and said, “I need a Formula. I need step-by-step.” This is the big picture:

1. Find demand
2. Write sales letter
3. Create info product to meet demand
4. Roll out with affiliate program

That whole formula is elaborated on in much greater depth in both Amazing Formula and Gimme My Money Now .

Here’s what I found out from my survey. Most of you guys and gals have jobs that you want to escape from. You have bills and debts to pay.

And most of you are coming into this without a lot of prior knowledge of marketing and some of you have limited computer skills.
Based on that, do you think it’s safe for me to say it’s unrealistic to think you’re going to quickly and easily become a zillionaire?

Well, it’s true. If you have no  background in sales and marketing, and you don’t have very good computer skills, you have a learning curve ahead of you and that takes time.

HERE’S HOW I PERSONALLY DID IT

I remember when I was broke and bought deodorant with all pennies. But what I did was kept learning and didn’t expect easy nor overnight results.

I kept buying books when I could afford them. There were no cheap and easy ebooks back then. I could have done it 10 times faster if I had access to all the information available today.

Anyway, my way out was self education. And action. I kept doing little projects to put what I learned into ACTION.

I ran this one little business where you sold booklets using answering machines. You didn’t have voice mail then. So I had 3 answering machines hooked up in my home (my friends hated it).

I ran these little ads in what we call in the U.S. “penny shoppers.” These are little papers given away for free that are all classified ads.

I ended up running ads in 72 cities! And people would leave their name and address on the answering machines. I shipped the books C.O.D. Half the books came back. It was sorta like paying out 50% affiliate commissions.

You didn’t have Paypal or easy merchant accounts in those days. So you had to do C.O.D. I sold $12,000 of books via “mail order.” And I was exhilerated to do so. I think at the end of the day I probably LOST money.

But I sure learned a lot.

 
Then AOL and CompuServe came along and I started writing sales letters and running ads on there. You’d run a little classified ad (they were free on AOL). People would email you.

Since autoresponders didn’t exist, you’d personally email them back your “free report.” Since there weren’t any PDF’s then (at least, that I knew of), the free report was a long email.

The “big trick” my friend Jonathan Mizel taught back then was to put their name in the return email! That was a big secret back then.
Mizel, me, others all learned copywriting from Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples. That was like one of 4 or 5 books on copywriting. But you know what? We wrote some pretty good sales letters back then. I first met Jonathan Mizel ’cause he sent me one of his sales letters, and I thought it was good. So I wrote and asked him where he learned to write copy.

Of course, he said “Tested Advertising Methods” by John Caples. So we were immediate friends.

AOL was great. You could test out your little ads, emails and sales letters. I don’t even think in those days we sent out follow up emails.

As far as I know, my friend the late Corey Rudl created the demand for autoresponders when he wrote about how he brought in all this money by automatically emailing buyers 4 days later.

It was only after that someone was smart enough to create an autoresponder. Corey’s stuff was hand coded. Gosh, I miss Corey. And I reckon you’ve been in this business a long time when you see your friends move on to the next great adventure.

 
Somewhere in this timeline (it all escapes me), I had a little retail store selling self help books and tapes. The first thing newbies think to sell online is either diet stuff or self help.

Man, self help is a tough sell. Both Dan Kennedy and I had self development stores. And we both lost bux on ‘em. But I did have the chance to write and send out a few sales letters. And since I often didn’t have the money to print and mail letters, I’d call ‘em on the phone.

I found out that just by calling people, I could say ANYTHING and I’d STILL get a lot of people coming in for the next 3 weeks.

That’s the power of staying in contact with your customers.

Anyway, I could go on with this story. I’ve told the rest of it in bits and pieces in different places.

 
What are you supposed to get out of this?

Dan Kennedy I think had a path kinda like mine. And what he said once is profound. He said, “I became an overnight success after 20 years of effort.”

Now, I’m NOT saying you need 20 years of effort. You don’t. But neither is 20 minutes a week gonna do much for ya.

Most of the people I’ve seen make it in this business do so after trying things that didn’t work. And they kept on trying. And sooner or later, somethin’ clicked.

I think I shoulda called this article, “Sooner or Later, Something Clicked.”

So you got a job that sucks. You got bills that are stacked up. Hopefully you can buy deodorant with something other than pennies like me in the old days.

 
So what do YOU do?

My friend, I’d personally tell ya to do what I did. Fall in love with the process more than the immediate fixation of “I gotta make this work now or the whole thing is a scam.”

What you’re learning is marketing.

And that’ll benefit you your whole life. It can help you get your son or daughter or friend a job. It can help you raise money for your Church or charity. It can help you promote an idea whose time has come.

See, a LOT of people say, “I feel like I’ve just wasted my #*$&* money on stuff.”

I my response is, “Then you don’t understand what you’re learning. No wonder things haven’t clicked for you yet.”

See, this isn’t about gimmicks. It isn’t about you figuring out how to trick people into buying with magic words. It isn’t about fooling the search engines into stickin’ your stuff at the top. If you do this business the way I teach it, it’s about learning marketing. And yeah, I said the dirty 5-letter word — LEARN. You can paint it up. You can put perfume on it. You can sell the sizzle not the steak.

But my friend, what you’re doin’ is learning. And like my friend Jim Edwards says, “That isn’t something you microwave.”
“So Marlon, tell me how long this is gonna take and how much I’m gonna make when I’m done?”

Rule 1: People learn at different rates, so no one knows.
Rule 2: You’ll never be done.
Rule 3: It depends on what you sell, who you sell to, how much you charge, what your margin is and how often they buy.

Some people like Russ Brunson get in this business, do it part time between classes in college and go great guns with it. Russ was one of my top affiliates. But he figured out this business so quickly, before I knew it he had his own line of highly successful products. More power to him!

Others are like me and take like 10 or 20 years to learn it. What’s average? Average is not doing anything, therefore not learning anything, therefore the bills pile higher and the job gets tougher.

“Well, if you can’t tell me how much I’m gonna make, how long it’s gonna take and how much it’s gonna cost me, then I think this whole thing is a scam.”

To say that is to say you believe marketing is a scam. Because at least the way I teach it, that’s what you’re learning.

 
What’s my advice?

Think of the best info product idea you know how to come up with. Interview some experts and record it. Or have a friend interview you. Do a little 3-hour product, write a sales letter for it. And see if anyone buys.

If they don’t buy, guess what? You asked the market a question and the market answered.

You asked the market, “Do you want to buy this?” And the market responded, “No, not in the way you’re presenting it to me.”

Your choice is to present it differently or do another product. Along the way hopefully you learn some things about how to find out what people want, how to get ‘em to buy, how to fulfill products, write letters, create sales pages and so forth.

Honestly, in the DOING, you’ll learn a lot more than you’ll ever learn in the reading. You ask. The market answers. You learn along the way.

 
But if you’re a spectator and you never get in the game, I can guarantee you one rock solid thing: You’ll never win the game if you aren’t in it.

This is a great business. It isn’t for everyone. It sure isn’t a way to become a zillionaire overnight. Maybe after 5, 10 or 20 years you hit that zillion and you’re the next John Reese or Jeff Walker.

 
I don’t think everyone should be in this business. If you don’t wanna figure anything out yourself, if you don’t wanna learn how to solve problems, if you don’t wanna learn more things about html and the computer than you really wanna know, if you can’t tolerate risk, if you need your first attempt to be a success, or even your first 3 or 4, then I don’t know, if you can’t afford to spend money on learning and education, if you can’t afford to try things that don’t work, if you think it should all be simple and easy, I don’t know if this industry is for you.

A lot of people get seduced by the lure of ez dough. The promises of zillions without learning. Just connect the dots and you too can be John Reese, Marlon Sanders or whoever you wanna choose.
Here’s the deal: People WILL sell you a turnkey system to escape your job, make zillions or whatever. They’ll give you the fish. I want to teach you TO FISH.

I have a strong belief that unless you buy a franchise, in most cases your going to better off learning marketing than “buying a fish.” There are exceptions. But more often than not, buying a fish doesn’t serve you well.

Some of my friends would disagree with that premise. I happen to have a strong conviction that you are better off learning marketing. My friends are RIGHT in that people DO want to buy the fish versus learn how to catch it. So oftentimes, you’re best off selling a “fish” product.

But everybody has their perspectives. And for me, my criteria for buying a product: If whatever “IT” is doesn’t “pan out” for you, are you STILL better off from having pent money on it? Will it continue to benefit you, your family or your friends in the future?

If the answer is NO, then think twice before spending your money.

You have a job you wanna escape, bills to pay off, retirement to prepare for. Or special needs like a sick loved one. Or a sickness yourself.

I can’t promise you ez zillions. There’s no integrity in that.

I can’t promise you 6 figures a year ez as pie.

What I CAN promise you is that selling products works. It’s no scam. People been doin’ it for thousands of years.

I can promise you that marketing works. Always has. Always will.

I can promise you that money and time spent learning marketing can pay off in many ways.

I can promise you that if you find demand, meet it with products and well-executed promotions, and you do that over time, those bills will likely fade away.

I can promise you that everybody on the Net selling you this or that “dough making system” ALL have 1 thing in common — THEY are selling you a product, service or seminar.

They have a target market.
They have an intro offer.
They have a back end.

I believe in paying more attention to what people DO than what they SAY.

People get all confused what to DO. And there’s a new system invented every day that’s the next big thing. Thank God. I love commerce.

But to remove the confusion, understand this:

They all may disagree on HOW you make money. But one thing is certain: They’re making bux selling a product to a target market — YOU!

Go and do thou likewise.

I remember back then. When I bought deodorant with all pennies.

I remember the date I had with a model in a car that smoked like a bomb.

And to me, there’s no confusion. It’s all crystal. It’s all simple. Take away the smoke. Take away the mirrors.
 

You need a product. You need people who want it with the money to buy it. You need some great promo out there.

There’s only ONE method people having using to pay their bills and quit their jobs for the past 1,000 years –

Selling products and services to a target market with a great sales pitch that presents benefits and solves problems.

I know you want more details on how. How do you find target markets? How do you identify demand? How, how, how.

I have provided a lot of those answers in the Milcer’s newsletters, Amazing Formula, Gimme My Money Now , and Action Grid.

You wanna quit that job? You wanna liquidate that debt? I don’t have an ez zillion for you. But I do have a crystal clear answer.

Find a group of people. Find out what they need and want. Meet those wants with a product. Provide great service.

And who knows. Maybe. Someday. If the stars shine down on you, you’ll hit that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 
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Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy.” If you’d like to get on his mailing list and receive tips, articles and information about online marketing, visit: http://www.marlonsnews.com

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Did you notice the section above that starts with “I don’t think everyone should be in this business…” Read it and this article again.

Now if you are ready, get ready to start building you affiliate internet business onlie. There’s a lot to do and a lot to learn. The purpose of this blog is to bring together many sources of info and guidance for your success.

Some of the posts will be mine; some of the products will be mine. But like this post, I will bring you informative and useful information from other internet marketing experts also. Stay tuned and make it a practice to visit and comment here on a regular basis.

To Your Online Success,
Lonnie Minton

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Introduction to Squeeze Pages

Before you start building a successful list or creating a powerful sales page, you need to start with a solid introduction to Squeeze Pages. In obvious contrast to the somewhat unfocused home page of a website, squeeze pages are highly focused specifically on capturing leads for a newsletter or opt-in list.

An alternative type of squeeze page is one designed for  making sales for a specific product. In either case the idea of a squeeze page is to insure that the visitor stays focused and has only the option to provide his name and email address, buy the product, or move on.

Another common name that is often used to describe the squeeze page, is “landing page” (or “lead capture page” in some circles). A squeeze page, also sometimes call an opt-in page, is a website designed specifically to obtain  names and email addresses. Usually, however, a squeeze page is a smaller type of web page that has an opt-in form in sight when the page loads.

So what are the necessary things to learn in an introduction to squeeze pages? First, it is important to recognize that all successful marketers use squeeze pages. If you plan to sell a product on the Internet, you will out of necessity find yourself using one also,  probably many.

You will use the squeeze page as your main method of list building. You likely will still use the sidebar opt-in forms on your blog and/or the unfocused pages of your website. These may or may not focus on a single point and a single call to action so your squeeze pages will be you primary method of list building.

Another important thing to consider in an introduction to squeeze pages is that every squeeze page must contain the same parts and be focused on the single  goal of getting the visitor to subscribe to you newsletter or buy the product you are promoting.

There should be four components  to every squeeze page: a header or headline; an opt-in form (or sales promotion); a brief or lengthy, if appropriate, introduction or bullet points about your newsletter or product; a call to action with assurances that you will not spam and will protect the subscribers contact information.

If desired, and very appropriate, you could add  a picture of the list/product owner,  a picture of the product itself, your name and your signature. If your squeeze page is a sales letter, you should have multiple calls to action.

Testing will help you determine which model works best for you and your product. Conversion is your objective and you may get it from a brief squeeze page. However, many internet marketers attribute their success to the use of lengthy and compelling copyrighting.

The final point of emphasis concerning an introduction to squeeze pages, and this may be repetitious but it is very important, is that you must stay focused. You don’t want your potential subscriber to think about anything besides the benefits of subscribing to your list or buying your product.

If you will use these tips in your squeeze page efforts, you will see a boost in your list building efforts and you attempts to make money online with your affiliate internet business online.

To Your Online Success.

Lonnie Minton

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Use Twitter For Business?

Yes. Just add Twitter to your set of marketing tools. You are in business to make money online. In the process you have several different methods that you use to market you affiliate internet business. Add Twitter and use The Advanced Twitter Marketing System as your guideline to making Twitter a successful addition to your marketing arsenal.

Some would tell you that you should not use Twitter to send advertisements, affiliate links, etc. They are wrong. Twitter is basically a communication tool. Using 140 characters at a time it allows you to send a message to your followers. That’s the key.

You are communicating with YOUR follows. Why are they following you? By the purpose of Twitter, they are following you because they chose to. They are expecting messages from you.

Now, where you advertise for followers (Is that a new concept?) you go after targeted followers. How do you do that?

Well first, you write a bio that tells exactly what you do and what you are interested in. For example mine at @AffiliateBus is

Internet Marketer, Affiliate Marketer, Article Marketer, list building, e-zine publisher, Internet marketer, affiliate internet business online

Now, anyone that follows me can tell very easily from reading my bio that I am into marketing on the internet and that I have a business online.

So anyone that follows me should expect that they will receive 140 character or less posts from me and that they will be related to Affiliate Internet marketing. When they receive those posts they should not be surprised or think that I am spamming them. They will be coming on a regular basis – several a day.

Second, you go after targeted followers, by using The Advanced Twitter Marketing System. This is a easy step by step process of setting up Twitter and other mostly free tools so that you target followers that are interested in what you are doing.

In my case I use The Advanced Twitter Marketing System to find other people interested in affiliate internet marketing and seek to obtain followers that are also interested in that subject.

In the end, I will market my affiliate products to them, and yes, many of them will in turn market their products to me. But I am building a list of potential customers. That’s what marketing is all about – getting your products before potential customers.

You’ve heard the old, true, and worn out, expression that, “the money is in the list?” Well, your Twitter followers are another list, just like your ezine. And along with useful information, you send them advertisements.

In that aspect, Twitter is just one of many tools that you use to attract potential customers – some will buy and some will not. However, that is true with any type of marketing effort.

So, use Twitter as a marketing tool. Use it consistently and use The Advanced Twitter Marketing System to tell you exactly how to do it. Doing so will enhance your Affiliate Internet Business Online and your attempts to make money online.

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The guest author below has outlined a way to get your affiliate internet business online off to a great start. Starting off in the right way will help to ensure that you get your business set up so that you will start to get traffic to your web site right away and that will help you to make money online quicker.

Author: Deepak Dutta

Affiliate marketing generates 45% of worldwide eCommerce revenue. But only a handful of affiliates, estimated to be 1-2%, really makes it to the top to generate a full time income from their affiliate business. What separates a successful affiliate marketer from the one who is struggling to make a few hundred bucks?

Though affiliate marketing is touted to be the easiest make money online business, it may not be as easy as it sounds. Yes, you can start an affiliate marketing business without spending any money and effort but are you going to be a super affiliate who generates a full time income from her online business?

A successful affiliate marketer creates a business plan, executes it, track every aspect of the business, and tweak it to make it the most effective money generating machine. If your plan is to get Clickbank hop links for free and spam every forum, blog comments, and classified site, you will never be a successful affiliate marketer. To layout a your business on a solid footing, follow the step described below.

Create Your Own Website: Your own web site is the greatest important and indispensable tool in starting an affiliate marketing campaign. The number one step in any thriving affiliate marketing business is creating a good, believable and professional looking website. Your website is the jump off point of all your marketing efforts. Thus, you must first create an -easy-to-use website, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the goods and services you are promoting and hopefully create a purchase.

Consequently, you must first focus your efforts in building a site that can cater to what your prospects need and desire. The most important thing you should consider is that almost all web users go online to search for information, not automatically to go and buy something.

Above all else, make your website full of original, pertinent and practical content. People love articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in the internet, content is always the key and top quality content will not just raise your credibility, it can also help you fulfill a higher-level search engine ranking.

By posting relevant and useful articles, you establish yourself as a credible authority in the field, displaying you a trustworthy endorser of the product or service you support. Establishing a good reputation is a good move in building up a loyal consumer base.

Provide Incentives: Competition is extremely fierce in the internet world. You should always be one-step in advance of your rivals to ensure that you capture a critical share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every conceivable means to inspire people not only to visit your website but also to click and go to the merchants’ websites that you are promoting.

Creating an opt-in email list is one of the ways to gather prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to inspire them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can offer free software, access to unique services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Increase Your Site’s URL Popularity: The value of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. Attracting people to your site has to be the first action you should carry out. Do everything to achieve a top search engine ranking.

Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to establish search engine rankings. So, to elevate your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive link building campaign.

One of the ways to do this, at no cost at all, is by submitting articles, with your site’s web address in the resource box, to e-zines and free article directories. You may not only earn exposure, you may also have the opportunity to advertise for no cost, just include a link pointing to your site.

The more sites you send your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Ensure your articles are unique, pertinent and practical so that other websites may pick it up and post it.

Once you start mastering the three most important steps outlined above, you will discover hundreds of other free techniques to drive traffic to your website and other ways to monetize your web site.

About the Author:

Dr. Deepak Dutta is an online entrepreneur who specializes in how to get free web traffic. Get his latest free report on 110 Ways to Increase Web Site Traffic for FREE and post unlimited free ads at his free classifieds site.

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Should You Use Twitter or Your Blog?

That’s an interesting question. Many have defined Twitter as a micro-blogging site. You just post up to 140 characters; whereas on a blog you generally make posts of 400+ words. If you are involved with an online business, affiliate marketing, internet marketing, etc., the real answer is that you should do both.

You should not use one to the exclusion of the other. You can use twitter to communicate with your followers as often as you want and with short 140 or less character messages. You can announce new things that are happening in your affiliate marketing business.

You can use your blog to make more detailed posts about something related to your business. Then you can use Twitter to let your followers know about the blog post. That way you can provide them with lots of information and still stay within the 140 characters.

So what can you do on Twitter and how often can you do it. After you have joined and setup your profile page, you can start tweeting about your business or anything else you want to. And except for your time there is no constraint on how often or how many tweets you can make. So you can tweet away to your heart’s desire. But beware; you don’t want to neglect your affiliate business. You will not benefit your affiliates if you spend all of your time on Twitter.

You can converse with you followers and start building relationships. Provide them with useful information that will help them to find success with their online endeavors.

You can help with the relationship building by uploading a picture of yourself to the Twitter site. It will appear with your tweets. Many users make a mistake here and don’t use a real image of themselves or at least an image that connects well with their online efforts.

Remember that you want people to trust you and you want to build solid relationships with those that may be your potential customers. If you are using Twitter to build your affiliate internet business online you should use an image of you.

Also don’t send an excessive number of impersonal tweets – once in a while is fine and never spam. Stick to the topic of your business. That’s what your followers expect. They want you to provide information that will be useful to them.

You should provide a lot of this information yourself. But don’t forget that many others in your market area also have useful information; so, use the retweet capability of Twitter often. This will also help you to gain more followers. More followers means more exposure for you business as well.

Micro-blogging on Twitter is great for people who want to write short posts. Just make sure that when you are telling people what you are doing that it relates to your business. Doing so will make Twitter a great tool for making money online.

You will be communicating with your followers on a regular basis and you need to reply to the messages that you receive, especially those in your close circle of business friends. There are ways to isolate those so that you will get a chance to see them and reply.

Twitter is a social marketing or networking site but it is also a business tool and can greatly enhance your affiliate internet marketing efforts online. Any tool that will help your business needs to be a part of your online efforts. So, get Twitter set up and start applying it to your affiliate marketing efforts. And follow me at http://www.Twitter.com/AffiliateBus

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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3 Ways To Enhance Article Marketing For Traffic

In my last post I talked about article marketing in general. In this post I want to address 3 things or ways to insure that your article marketing will truly benefit your efforts to make money online and drive traffic to your affiliate internet business online.

1. Use Keywords.

This is an area about which thousand, maybe millions, of words have been written. And because it is so important to article marketing, you will continue to see more and more words written about using keywords. Here are mine. Find keywords that match your subject and include them in your article.

What is a keyword? It is a word or phrase that the search engines notice. More specifically, it is something that someone is searching for on a regular bases and in some relatively large quantity. That means that a lot of people are interested enough in the subject that they will type that word into the search box on some search engine, like Google.

Make sure your keywords are specific and scatter them throughout your article. There is much discussion about keyword density, but I recommend that for your article marketing efforts that you look toward a density of something like 2-5% per article.

2. Write About Something Of Interest To Your Readers.

If you don’t write something that someone actually thinks is worth reading, you will not get any traffic. That means that no one will click through to your website/blog. If you have spent very much time on the web, you undoubtedly know that much that has already been published is not worth your effort.

Don’t write all over the world. Write about something specific to your website/blog topic. Remember, the purpose of your article marketing is to  get people to click through to your website. If they do, they may leave as soon as they get there if your article is off topic.

So, don’t write about dogs and send them to a site about gardening – unless your dog article is about how to keep them out of your garden. Stay on topic.

3. Avoid Article Directory Black Listing.

Since you are writing your articles to get traffic to your site you will be submitting them to article directories for publishing. One of the things that you want to make sure never happens is that article directories start banning your articles – black listing you.

This can happen if they feel that you are stuffing your articles with so many keywords that the article doesn’t read or flow well. It just sounds like a bunch of words that keeps repeating the keyword and does not provide any real content or value for the readers.

Don’t waste your time or effort. It takes the same amount of time to write good content around a few repeats of your keyword as it does to write garbage around a lot of repeats of your keyword. Repeating your keyword beyond the acceptable level of the article directories will likely get you banned, especially if doing so makes your article just a bunch of worthless words.

By the way a very useful and powerful tool to use in your article submitting is Article Marketer.

Following these three tips will increase the potential that your article marketing will lead someone to click through to your affiliate internet business online and also insure that your efforts help you to make money online – which is probably your main goal.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Using Article Marketing To Attract Traffic

You can use article marketing to get traffic to your affiliate internet business online. Maybe your effort to make money online is with niche marketing – same thing use your article marketing to drive traffic to your niche websites or blogs.

It has been demonstrated by many internet marketers that article marketing is a great way to get traffic to your web presence. You just use your resource or bio box to target your potential niche customers.

Article marketing is not a difficult process and it will generate traffic to your site. One thing that you have to keep in mind is that traffic from this endeavor is not instantaneous. You have to get your articles out there and then people have to spread your articles all over the internet. Once that is done you will start to see traffic. So the key is to keep submitting articles on a regular basis.

Now I can hear you saying, “But, I can’t write.” Well, you probably can if you will try and just keep after it. But an alternative is to work with a ghostwriter to get your content written.

When writing your content for article marketing make sure that it is related to the topic of your website/blog. Then you place a link in your resource box to direct traffic to your site.
When someone sees your article on the internet and they like your content, they might click on your link and you have traffic.

How will they come across your article? Maybe from one of the search engines. Maybe a website that they visit frequently will pick up your article and when they visit they get to see your article.

Maybe the author of one of the newsletters that they subscribe to will publish your article in his newsletter. Then all of his subscribes will have the opportunity to see your article and click on your link.

So, I hope that you can see that content is important to your article marketing efforts. As your articles get spread around the internet, more and more people will see them. As the people that see your articles get enthuse about what you are saying, many will likely decide that it is worth their effort to click through to your site. It is for sure that only those that consider your content worthwhile will continue to read what you have to say.

Those that like your content and click through will be what is called “targeted” traffic – they are already interested. Your chances for the desired response will be increased by their actions.

Article marketing can be a very successful tool and should be in your arsenal of methods to increase the traffic to your affiliate internet business online. Using this method of traffic generation will also help in your internet marketing efforts to make money online.

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Build Your List Using The Memorial Day Giveaway

I know there are lots of giveaways on the internet these days, but they are still one of the best ways available to go about list building. And that is one of the best ways to grow you affiliate internet business and thus make money online.

Scott Drake and Pat Murray are hosting The Second “Memorial Day Giveaway” and it will open its doors on May 25th, 2009 at 9AM EST

This will be a massive list building exercise that is happening in just a few short weeks time. Don’t miss it. You can join as a contributor now. Get your gift(s) registered and be ready for the members launch.

If you have a free gift in the form of a digital download product (like ebook, audio, video, membership site access, etc) you can add it the gifts section. Then as people sign up for your free gift, you will be building your list.

You probably know that providing a free gift for giveaways means that you will have to build a squeeze page and a download page.

Your members will sign for your free gift on the squeeze page and then using your autoresponder you will send them to your download page where they will be able to obtain your free gift. A great and dependable autoresponder service is Aweber.

After signing up for the Memorial Day Giveaway you will want to promote it. This will be a great event for you list building efforts – get onboard today.

All you need to do to get going is signup and learn more about this great giveaway.

Make sure you checkout the Low Cost Upgrade Feature that the Memorial Day Giveaway is offering. I encourage you to take advantage of it.

This giveaway promises to be a great list building effort for your efforts to make money online and thus build you affiliate internet business. Join and upgrade today.

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Internet Marketing Has Tangible Benefits

You may be involved in an affiliate internet business to make money online but you will find that the marketing rules are the same no matter how big or small your business. Let’s look at some of the tangible benefits of marketing.

The dictionary uses the following terms to define tangible:

a. that can be touched or felt
b. definite
c. objective
d. assents having real substance
f. able to be appraised for value

Let’s use that definition, the terms, to examine the tangible benefits or results of internet marketing:

a. That can be touched or felt.

Here are some ways to make your online business yours, something that you can touch and feel. Something that reflects you and what are trying to do in your online business.

1) brand your product,
2) determine your target audience and how they relate to your product or products,
3) obtain sales (that means that you get to feel the income) and build a relationship with your customers, and
4) turn customers into repeat customers.

Internet marketing is very effective in allowing you to implement all of these areas.

b. Definite.

The very definition of internet marketing provides a definite benefit to your efforts to make money online.

The definition is simple. It is you placing your business or products on the world wide web, or internet as we generally refer to it today. Once there the potential for millions of internet users to become your costumers exists. You benefit by turning your web presence into a definite tool to maximize your sales and increase your business potential.

c. Objective.

In order for your online business to be successful you must do more than just establish a definite presence on the internet. You need online goals. You need to establish an objective and/or objectives for your business. Now that may be as simple as to make money online. And that is OK, but refine it a bit to say how much, over what timeframe, and the process you will use to accomplish your goals.

Other objectives might include; establishing that there is a need for your service or product, how will you advertise your product, will you use a normal website or a blog, will you try to make all the sales of your product yourself or turn it into an affiliate product as well, etc.?

d. Assents having real substance.

Your online presence or website/blog is an assert and it must contain real substance; that translates to content. if you are using a blog, for example, it must provide useful and pertinent information to your readers.

Your ebook or whatever your product is must have substance that is perceived by your customer as something that he can truly use in his own efforts or maybe just something that will make him more content with life. He must feel that your product will in some way enhance his quality of life. Maybe it will help to make him more healthy, wealthy, etc.

f. Able to be appraised for value.

You must do more than just advertise your product online. Your marketing efforts must include communicating with your customers. They must perceive that your product is valuable for them;   but, they must also perceive that your follow up with them is of value. If they do not, you will not have repeat customers.

That is one of the main asserts of any affiliate internet business online. There is a lot of detail to it but it is called list building. As you build your list and your subscribers or current customers come to realize that you are giving them value some of them will buy again.

You won’t need a lot of money to make internet marketing work for you, but you will need to insure that your products and the information that you provide result in tangible benefits for your potential customers. That in turn will provide tangible benefits for you and your efforts to make money online.

To Your Online Success.

Lonnie Minton

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Internet Marketers Increase Your Profit Now

Because  you are trying to make money online with your affiliate internet business you need a new product that Mike Steup has just released. This product bundle is a simple push button system that can have you marking more money online from your current traffic and buyers.

If you have been involved with internet or affiliate marketing for very long you have undoubtedly seem numerous One Time Offers (OTOs). You may have wished that you had some to offer with your products.

Well, Mike has developed a set of not one but 10 One Time Offers (OTOs) for you to use in your online efforts. Each of the offers includes 25 e-books, the sales page, and the download page.

This is a turnkey solution that is ready made for you. All you have to do is plug it into your sales funnel, and doing so will only require a few minutes of your time – time that will convert to your making money online.

Mike has done all the hard work for you. All you have to do is choose the template, make a few changes, add your PayPal link, and upload the files. Place the OTO right before you download page or as a part of it. Then your one time offers will be ready to start generating sales for you.

Start making more money each time you make a sale. Why, because some of your customers will take advantage of the OTO and purchase it also. For each customer that does, you will have increase your income.

You could even use this bundle as a OTO offer after someone downloads your gift that you are giving away. They get to the download page and see your OTO; maybe a few will purchase it. If they do you have again increased your online income.

As an added benefit, since you also will be receiving all of the ebooks yourself, you benefit by obtaining several resources to read and increase your own knowledge in several internet marketing areas.

If you have struggled with developing OTO offers or you just want to start adding them to your sales funnel without having to go through the development process yourself, you should add this package to your sales efforts today. It is currently being offered at a very low introductory price.

Be sure to download your copy now while it is fresh on your mind. It will increase your affiliate internet business online profits right away. Start now.

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