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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Use Article Marketing To Increase Your Internet Marketing Success

Have you noticed that your Internet Marketing business is not getting noticed? That is one of the biggest challenges that most online business face. Everyone wants to increase their list of potential customers.

In the offline world, businesses put up signs to attract potential customers. In the online world Article Marketing can be a very effective sign to you internet business. Including article marketing as a part of your marketing plan can direct traffic and many potential customers to your online presence.

Article marketing has been around for a long time and there are huge directories for articles on the internet. All content that is on your blog or anyone else’s comes from someone that has written the information.

Is this article we are going to discuss article marketing from two different standpoints.

1.  Producing content for the purpose of posting on your blog

If you publish the article as content on your blog, it provides content for the search engines to rank your blog. Also, it provides fresh content for your blog readers to read. That keeps visitors coming back for more information from you. And any visitor is a potential customer.

2. Producing and distributing content to article directories

If you distribute your article to the article directories and include your resource or bio box at the end of your article, you position your content as a method to drive traffic to your blog. This happens when other marketer’s select your article from the article directory and post it on their blog or website. You now have a link back to your site and if anyone clicks on that link you get traffic.

Most internet marketers consider the second method to be article marketing. Actually both methods are ways to market your content.

It’s just that in the second method, you are marketing your article in the hope that someone will obtain it and use it in such a way that your business will obtain traffic as a result of the use they make with your article.

That is one reason that you want to insure that your articles are well written. That will help you achieve a higher traffic rate when marketing your articles.

Just as importantly, well written article will increase the potential that article directories will accept your articles into their listings.

Your whole intent with article marketing is to get your internet marketing presence noticed by others and to keep it noticed. The more people you can get to notice your web presence the more traffic you will have; and a web presence without traffic just as well not be present at all.

A third positive aspect of article marketing is that it will help to increase your credibility in the internet marketing world. This will help in your efforts to get traffic to your site also. As more people come to recognize you as knowledgeable, they will visit your blog to see what content you are producing for your internet marketing business.

They will want to know if what you are doing will help them in their efforts, and your online business will grow. Article marketing is one internet marketing tool that should not be ignored in your traffic producing efforts.

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3 Tips For Your Internet Marketing Sales Funnel Plan

One of the most forgotten steps in creating a new internet marketing online business is the planning phase. Creating a business plan is very important when creating your internet marketing business. By the way, planning is often overlooked by the veteran marketers also.

Early on you should use your time in mapping out how your content, products, services and marketing efforts are going to work together to insure that your internet
marketing efforts will produce income.

Here are some tips that will help your get started on the right food and insure that you create a sales funnel plan that will bring profits to your business.

1. Obtain or develop high quality products.

This is very important for the beginning and the future of your internet business.

Quality products are key whether it is a freebie your are giving away or the largest ticket item that you have in your inventory. Quality products will help you build a positive reputation for your affiliate internet business online.

And providing quality products should continue with all of your future business activities with your customers. They should be able to consider and know that you will keep treating them better and better as you continue to build your business.

2. Create your line of products.

What is a sales funnel? It’s basically offering your customers a constant line of quality products that are increasing in value and likely in price.

Your customers will probably enter your sales funnel at different places. But, the most common place will likely be by taking advantage of some free product that you are giving away. The will generally do this by opting into your list on your squeeze page.

However, some may purchase one of your products without ever seeing your free offer. In either case you want them to continue to fall through your sales funnel and buy more of your products.

This is where planning comes in. You need to have a different response for each of these customers – a different plan. Determine how to introduce your next level product. For the person that accepted your free gift you want to get him to become a customer. For the person that bought one of your products, you want him to buy your next level product or one of equal value. And then you want them both to continue to fall through your sales funnel.

3. Stay in touch.

Besides just creating a high quality line of products and services, you want to build a relationship with your prospects and customers. You do this by staying in contact. Send them email messages – content mixed with sales offers. Make sure they are aware of your blog posts.

This constant flow of valuable information helps to insure that prospects and customers stay tuned to your efforts and also makes it more likely that they will pass your information on to their associates or business partners. This could get you more subscribes and more customers.

As I stated at the beginning the planning phase is key to your internet marketing success. Planning involves creating your sales funnel plan, your marketing plan, your content plan and putting it all together to produce a working system.

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Stop Promoting Uninteresting Products

It seems that most of us that are involved in internet affiliate marketing are familiar with the fact that there are hundreds of affiliate products available to promote. Most affiliate marketers also know that we prefer to promote something that we are interested in ourselves – something that we would actually buy ourselves.

It’s hard enough as it is to promote and make affiliate sales; but, it’s doubly hard to promote something that we aren’t 100% interested in.

Sometimes the most profitable products are just waiting for us to find them, only we overlook them over while we’re looking for something more secure or the newest and most popular affiliate program. Well, it doesn’t need to be that way — you can enjoy the best of both worlds; a fantastic affiliate product and a massively profitable online affiliate marketing business.

How is this possible? By finding an innovative mix of online marketing tools and product searching software, it’s possible to search ultra-profitable niches and find products for them before you even set up a hosting account and purchase a domain. Micro Niche Finder, a great new piece of software, provides the opportunity to master any online niche and optimize your product searching and niche seeking system.

So, how do you get started and in the process stop promoting uninteresting products? Because there is such a massive amount of information available for internet marketers, it sometimes proves to be a difficult task to know where to start.

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Tired of being beaten to online niches? Don’t despair, almost all internet marketers have been there, and they’ve gone down one of two paths in order to get through it. The smart marketers have taken their losses and learned from them. As internet marketers we must learn as much as possible as we go through the process in order to maximize our online success. We must not stall or ignore new information. Staying up to date is important if we want to compete successful online. This free guide provides some of the most important and current information for online marketers to learn, implement, and optimize internet solutions.

You will find that this report outlines some of the most important strategies on how to find and master a profitable niche business. This report is packed full of valuable information and contains very practical solutions for anyone that wants to extend their internet marketing into niche marketing. Your questions will be answered and you will find that this is very much worth the time you will spend reading it. And if applied you will find yourself promoting interesting and profitable products.

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A Powerful Internet Marketing Technique

If you are in internet marketing and have ever wanted to send another email to only those on your list that didn’t open your email, here is a video with some great information for you.

For many, including me, the only way to do that is to resend to everyone on your list. What if you could send an email to just the ones that didn’t open your previous email?  Well, for the users of the Aweber autoresponder system, here is a way to do just that.

Visit Vince Craine’s – Marketing Journey blog and watch this video now.

If you use Aweber you will find that this technique will add benefits to your internet marketing effort immediately.

Aweber is a powerful tool for internet marketing and it is applicable across all niches. You should take advantage of this strategy now. Vance has done an excellent job with this video.

Visit Vince Craine’s – Marketing Journey blog and watch this video now.

This powerful technique will be of use to anyone that has a list in Aweber. It is particularly useful for those are using email adswaps as a list building tool. But the technique can be use by anyone that wants to isolate the people that did not open an email. You can segment them and send an email to only those people that did not open your email.

That’s a pretty need feature and Vince shows you exactly how to do it. This will help your internet marketing efforts and your list building efforts regardless of you niche. Take a look at this video now.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Getting Into Internet Marketing For Income

Internet Marketing has grown into one of the largest methods to make money online that exists. Twenty years ago, not much existed in the way of internet marketing. Now it has boomed into a such a vast market for making money online that new businesses are flocking into it daily.

Anyone that is looking to obtain extra income or that wants to create a business that stands apart from others can get started and find success with internet marketing. It is important to remember that this is still a business and all businesses require time and effort. There is lots of competition but many are continuing to find their way to new customers and opportunities for producing income by becoming involved in an internet marketing business.

If you want to get into this relative new way of building a business, then search for information that can drive your business forward into technology is the path to your success.

One of the main components that any successful Internet business must focus on is the need to develop a system that will drive potential customers and individuals to their website/blog or the main selling point for their products.  This can be effectively achieve by implement systems designed to make sure that visitors respond in the correct way by signing up for the information or product being offered.

For those just getting into the internet marketing obtaining and understanding the information that it takes to succeed will allow you to move forward with many opportunities for developing a successful business.

If you are still undecided about how to build your customer base online, then you should start by looking at the wealth of knowledge that is available for potential customers.  One of the newest options available is “Internet Wealth.”

This report is filled with information which includes everything that you need to know to begin driving customers to your place of business the Internet.  This report is unique because it has built the information around the average user. It has done this while providing you with simple easy to follow steps and formulas that take you to toward being successful with your internet marketing business.

If you are ready to discover your wealth on the Internet, then you can download this free report Internet Wealth.  In this free report you will find a basic introduction to all of the information that you need to help your move forward with your internet marketing business and start creating the potential to make money online.

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To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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How To Find Internet Marketing Success

If you are interested in obtaining success in internet marketing, I imagine that that headline caught your attention.  And that is step one in all of your marketing efforts.

Step 1. Get attention.

It doesn’t matter what you are doing your first activity is to get the attention of your audience.

If you want to sell something you need to get the attention of your potential customer. Why do you think all of those sales letters that you see on affiliate marketer’s web sites start off with some big bright red headline? They want to get your attention.

Why do you thing that newspaper ad say 50% off? They want to get your attention.

Think about the many subject lines that you have seen on the emails that you receive. Again, they want to get your attention – this time so that you will open the email.

Probably, your potential customer doesn’t care how much money you make or how smart you are. But he likely will be interested if you can tell him what you can do for him. How will what you are doing and offering help your customer?

Answer that to his satisfaction and you probably have a foot in the doorway to success.

Step 2. Keep attention.

Once you have managed to get someone to pay attention, you need to keep their attention. And you need to keep them interested in what you are doing. You need to keep their mind and interests focus on what you are offering.

You have several assets that will help you in this endeavor. Let’s look at a couple of them.

a. Your blog.

A blog is a place where you can interface with your customers and your potential customers. Let’s say your blog is on internet marketing. Regardless of your subject, the following  principles apply.

Don’t go off subject: in the case of internet marketing don’t start posting about politics. You may know all the ins and outs of politics, but your readers are interested internet marketing. They will watch the news or read the newspaper to get their political information.

b. Your newsletter or emails (list building).

If you are in most any niche and are using the internet to attempt to get sales, you will need some means to stay in contact with anyone that has expressed interest in what you are doing and offering.

You may call it by several different names, but in the end you need a list of prospects and a means to send them information. Remember, you are trying to keep them interested; so, get an autoresponder and set it up so that you can send them emails on a regular basis. Again, make sure your emails are related to what they are expecting.

Then expose them to your content and your offers. If you come up with a new product or service let them know about it. If you find a great affiliate program that fits your area of concentration, let them know about it. The key here is to constantly let them know about the products that you are promoting. Not to overdo it, but expose, expose, expose, and then expose again.

There are many more steps that you will need to take in order to get your internet marketing journey to success. But getting attention and keeping attention are essential. An internet marketing business is just like any other business; people must be made aware of what you have to offer and they must be aware that you still have it to offer or that you have an alternative that will help them to be successful.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Will They Leave? – That Is Exit Your Site

Probably, this is a problem that all internet marketers must address when planning for traffic to their site or blog. A lot of the traffic will look around for a bit and then exit. But that is not what you want to happen.

What if you could capture some of that exit traffic? If you could you might drastically increase the number of visitors that fill out the opt-in box on your site/blog. What is the key to make this happen?

When someone tries to leave your site, they become part of what is known as exit traffic. Now if you could capture part of that exit traffic you would be able increase your conversion rate. This is where using exit traffic scripts come into play.

Many website visitors will exit your site shortly after reaching it, without really taking a good look at what you have posted including your offers. Some internet marketers estimate that as much as 95% of your visitors will leave and never really know what your site is all about.

If you use exit traffic scripts you can tell them about one of your special offers. It’s best to offer them something that requires an opt-in so that you have the opportunity to stay in contact with them in the future.

If your exit traffic script brings up a box that tells the visitor that is about to leave to consider some option before he leaves, he will at least see your offer. He may still exit but at least you will get the opportunity to tell him to consider your offer before he does.

If your exit traffic script does not contain an opt-in box, then it should immediately redirect your visitor to some special offer page. This way you get a second chance for the visitor to stick around and take a look at your offer.

It is estimated that using exit traffic scripts can increase you opt-in rate by as much as 300%. You don’t have to be a programmer to take advantage of exit traffic scripts. Inexpensive, or even free, ones are available on the internet.

There is a free report available that will help you learn how these scripts work and how they can be use in ways that will not be offensive to your visitors. This report is called 3 Easy Steps That Will Increase Conversion Rates By 300%.

If you will take the time to read this report you will find information on which scripts work and which will turn your visitor off and make him exit even quicker than he had planned.

This is a free report and all you need to do to do is Click Here To Dowload Your Free Exit Conversion Report and take advantage of using exit traffic scripts to enhance your internet marketing efforts. If you want to really step up your chances of increasing your conversion rates, look for an exit traffic script that rotates your offers.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Bogging And Consistency

Internet marketing and blogging seem to go hand in hand. Today there seems to be two constants among internet marketers – blogging and twittering.

There are several things that you must have in order to have a blog that will enhance your internet marketing business. At the top of that list has to be consistency. Actually, consistency should be a part of all of your internet marketing endeavors.

It helps to keep your reader’s reading your blog. If your readers are not coming back to your blog over and over again, your blog will not have the success that you envisioned.

Here are some areas where you want to strive for consistency:

1) With your attempts to brand yourself.

You need be consistent in how you represent yourself on your blog. Are you represented by your name or some other handle, like maybe “the article marketer”? Whatever it is make sure you stick with it. People will come to recognize you.

2) Layout.

This includes your style, fonts, colors, etc. Also, you need to look for a blog theme that reflects all of these. If you have a regular website, you might want your blog to match your website in as many of these areas as possible. You customers and visitors will come to recognize all of these things as representative of your business. If your business has a logo you could also use that on your blog to further help in branding your business.

Be careful not to overdo any of these elements. Of all of these colors is probably the easiest to over use. But having too many colors will make your blog confusing and hard to find the primary interest point. It will look overly busy. Too many fonts will do the same thing. Over doing these types of things will likely overwhelm your visitors.

3) Content.

What is you blog, your business, all about? If it is internet marketing then all aspects of internet marketing can be a part of your content.

On the other hand if your niche is gardening, there are still some marketing techniques that will apply, but your content should not be related to all of the normal internet marketing techniques. Your readers in this case will likely want to know more about gardening.

They will want to see posts about how to do some aspect of garden and they will want to see products geared toward some aspect of gardening.

Another aspect of your content is that needs to be consistent is your writing style. If you always write it yourself your style will likely be pretty consistent. On the other hand, if you use private label rights (PLR) content or ghostwriters, you will need to make sure that the content is consistent with your style.

For PLR you can edit it appropriately. For ghostwriters you can work with them and find one that best matches your style of writhing and saying things. In both cases you want to insure that the content is the kind that you would produce if you wrote the content. The content needs to be consistent with your message or overall theme.

Consistency will help you to develop trust with your readers. It helps to show them that you are reliable and that your message is reliable. This helps to produce trust which will benefit you internet marketing business and maintain interest in your niche. So you want to develop and maintain consistency in all that you do and I haven’t even mentioned your newsletter and any other email you send out.

To your online success,

Lonnie Minton

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5 Places To Find Content For Your Internet Marketing Efforts

There are several sources of content for those that are involved in internet marketing. Using some selected source of data, the information can be turned into quality content for your internet marketing efforts. This is far from an exhaustive list but it is likely the primary list of sources for most marketers that are trying to make money online.

Here then is a list of 5 sources for content:

1. Article Directories.

If you are just starting out this is likely one of the areas that you will use quite a bit. Many internet marketers will write articles and post them to one or several article directories. These directories will then make those articles available for people to use in their newsletters, on their blogs, in their ebooks, and others applications. This is referred to as article marketing, especially when you start submitting your own articles.

The restriction is that when you use someone else’s article, you must carry the author’s credit information along in any application that you make of the articles. This credit information is known as the resource/bio box.

2. Web searches.

An inspiring internet marketer can come up with an idea and search the internet for information on that idea. It is likely that you cannot come up with an idea for which there is not something already available on the internet.

What you do with this source is to collect a few snippets of information apply your own experience, knowledge, background, etc. into the information so that you develop content that is uniquely yours. This is like doing research on a subject and then turning that research into your own concept of that particular information.

3. Outsourcing.

To me this is the rich man’s way to get content. Many internet markets will hire what is called a ghostwriter to develop content for them. They buy the content and then they own the copyright to it. They can use it any way that they like because it is theirs.

As you have resources to do so this is a great way to obtain content because it frees up your time to so that you can work on the other aspects of your online business.

4. Private Label Rights (PLR)

It is becoming ever more popular to use Private Label Rights Content in the internet marketing world. In their efforts to provide quality content internet marketers are turning to PLR as a source for information. This has been happening for a while now.

This is a lot like outsourcing in that you are purchasing the efforts of someone else. The main difference, as I see it, is that the PLR is already available. Someone has decided to write about a subject and make the content available to people as PLR. This type of content may be free or require payment. Just make sure you follow the rights that you have to the PLR.

If you want to use private label rights to produce you quality content, you will need to rewrite it so that the final product is your own concept of the subject. Just like the research above, it’s not yours until you put forth the effort to make it so.

5. You.

Finally, there is you for the source. As you gain more and more experience you will be able to come up with your own content. When you are working in the internet marketing field, any niche, your own experience and abilities will start to produce your unique approach, methods, ideas, etc. These will just naturally lend themselves to content that is uniquely yours. This will be your best content.

Regardless of the source that you turn to in your search for content, make it yours. Then, you as an internet marketer will have content that brands you and not someone else. Unique content will also play better with the search engines.

By the way, this content came to me out of my experience and knowledge. I started writing about a totally different subject and this content just flowed to me and replaced my original idea. It will happen to you also. Now I need to go back to the original idea and develop it.

Use these sources, or others that you find, in your internet marketing efforts and you will find that your affiliate internet business online will benefit and likely become more profitably. Your relationship with your ezine subscribes will improve, your posts on your blog will draw more attention, likely your sales will increase, and other benefits will come to your internet marketing efforts to make money online.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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