The ACE Ezine… December 10, 2009 – Issue #27

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The ACE Ezine newsletter
December 10, 2009 — Issue #27
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In This Issue:

1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
==> How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It by Burke Ferguson
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact/Removal Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new subscribers.

This week we dive into How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It.
This is one of my most favourite topics.

Enjoy!!

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,….

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========= FEATURE EDITORIAL ==========
2) How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It… by Burke Ferguson
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Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.

We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

Happy Marketing.

Burke Ferguson has both a BSc. in Computers as well as being Certified in Search Engine Optimizination and Search Engine Marketing. Burke can be reached at http://www.altacanweb.com or burke@the-ace-ezine.com.

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We would love to hear what you think of this issue of The ACE ezine newsletter. And of course, if you have any suggestions for upcoming issues that you’d like to share with us, please send those, too!

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T9A 2W1 Canada

The ACE Ezine… December 3, 2009 – Issue #26

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The ACE Ezine newsletter
December 3, 2009 — Issue #26
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In This Issue:

1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
==> How To Use A Tell A Friend Script To Drive Traffic Today by Burke Ferguson
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact/Removal Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new subscribers.

This week we dive into How To Use A Tell A Friend Script To Drive Traffic Today.

Enjoy!!

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,….

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2) Top Sponsor
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========= FEATURE EDITORIAL ==========
2) How To Use A Tell A Friend Script To Drive Traffic Today… by Burke Ferguson
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More and more webmasters have the recurring dilemma on how to increase the flow of traffic to their websites. During the past few years many methods that been developed to solve this predicament. While most of them would work there are those that would not make even a small impact.

One of the methods that have spawned many success stories in driving traffic into websites is viral marketing. Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something to find informative, entertaining or amazing.

Many companies bank on this behavior to spread their products and increase the popularity of their company or their website. Viral marketing makes use of many mediums in enticing this behavior. It might be in the form of an interesting story, an addicting flash game, an amusing video and many others that may catch a person’s fancy.

This ingenious form of marketing is typically low cost and is a wonderful tool for any company to utilize. The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize this marketing scheme. Any website would greatly benefit that viral marketing.

Tell A Friend Script

One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.

The basic concept of a tell a friend script is a script wherein a person may input his name, e-mail address, the recipient’s e-mail address and send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he wouldn’t think of the mail a spam mail because he would see the sender’s name as someone he or she knows and trust.

Tell a friend script eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked because they use the information inputted by the sender. This allows for wider spreading of this marketing method. It can be quite sneaky but it is very effective.

With the e-mail sent and opened the sent media will either be read, viewed or played. Also along with the mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the site, company name or its products. The along with it is another tell a friend script.

Then the process begins again. As more people use the tell a friend script, more and more people will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or site. People who read the ads inside the mail who liked what they see would go and click on the link and visit the site. This drives traffic into the site resulting to great number of potential customers.

Tell A Friend Script Availability

A tell a friend script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming. In fact, you can copy paste a script and simply put it on an intended page. Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a search engine and type in the search box “tell a friend script” then press enter or click go.

In the search results page you will see many links that will direct you to a site where you can get a tell a friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and searching for the script and copying it to your intended web page.

With a tell a friend script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.

It is imperative that you have patience in using a tell a friend script. If your chosen media doesn’t get the mileage that is expected of it, it may take some time before it gets spread or shared. But surely many people will see your ads and there is great probability that they will visit your site increasing your traffic flow.

Happy Marketing.

Burke Ferguson has both a BSc. in Computers as well as being Certified in Search Engine Optimizination and Search Engine Marketing. Burke can be reached at http://www.altacanweb.com or burke@the-ace-ezine.com.

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5) “Tell Us What You Think!”
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We would love to hear what you think of this issue of The ACE ezine newsletter. And of course, if you have any suggestions for upcoming issues that you’d like to share with us, please send those, too!

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T9A 2W1 Canada

The ACE Ezine… October 29/2009 – Issue #21

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The ACE Ezine newsletter
October 29, 2009 — Issue #21
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In This Issue:

1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
–> Viral Marketing 101 – Not Using It Could Kill Your Business!
by Burke Ferguson
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact/Removal Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new subscribers.

This week we dive into some tips and tricks on creating viral marketing campaigns. What they are and how you go about creating them.

Enjoy!!

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,….

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2) Viral Marketing 101….. by Burke Ferguson
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Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race into the ruthless competition of the Internet based business. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a great website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, your business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spywares.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pass on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and they will open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentives they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most every site and companies are catching on to the effectivity of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story perhaps or many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

Happy Marketing.

Burke Ferguson has both a BSc. in Computers as well as being Certified in Search Engine Optimizination and Search Engine Marketing. Burke can be reached at http://www.altacanweb.com or burke@the-ace-ezine.com.

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We would love to hear what you think of this issue of The ACE ezine newsletter. And of course, if you have any suggestions for upcoming issues that you’d like to share with us, please send those, too!

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T9A 2W1 Canada

The ACE Ezine… October 22, 2009 – Issue #20

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The ACE Ezine newsletter
October 22, 2009 — Issue #20
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Hi [First Name],

In This Issue:

1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
–> 10 tips for a better response from your Marketing efforts
by Burke Ferguson
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact/Removal Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hey [First Name],

Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new
subscribers.

This week we dive into some tips and tricks on how to get more exposure for your website
They might be a bit basic for some but sometimes we have to go back to the basics, to remind ourselves of it every now and then.

Enjoy!!

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,….

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2) 10 tips for a better response….. by Burke Ferguson
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1. Strive to write a new article each issue you turn-out. This gives your readers new and fresh material each issue to read and implement, plus this adds to your brand as well.

2. Implement a signature or resource box into your articles as well. This adds to your Brand as well as if your readers want to contact you they can and don’t have to search around for a contact address.

3. Implement a contact method into your websites as well, and insert your residential address. This proves you aren’t hiding behind a postal box and your readers can easily find you if need be.

4. Since the internet is becoming a prime medium of communication these days, don’t forget to insert your website address and email address onto your business cards, and
letterhead.

5. When creating your websites,… implement a rich keyword title and headline. This aids for a better search engine ranking position.

6. Let the search engines crawl/spider and index your website instead of you submitting it to them through their submission service. This ensures a better, and most of the time quicker, response for indexing your website.

7. Strive to have no more than 2 or so keywords per webpage. This ensures that your webpages are optimized the best and not too long for the search engines.

8. Strive for a constant and ongoing communication with your customers, before, during, and after every sale. This ensures a good business relationship and a good chance for future sales from existing customers.

9. Research shows that an “attractive” guarantee for your products and services helps a sale. Strive for a long guarantee, why? When people “know” they are within the time frame to return the product or service, they usually hesitate and put it off until later.

10. To quickly add another product to your product line, compile a number of related articles into an ebook and add an index page.

Happy Marketing.

Burke Ferguson has both a BSc. in Computers as well as being Certified in Search Engine Optimizination and Search Engine Marketing. Burke can be reached at http://www.altacanweb.com or burke@the-ace-ezine.com.

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Just e-mail me at: burke@the-ace-ezine.com

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T9A 2W1 Canada

The ACE Ezine…. Issue #19 – October 15/2009

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The ACE Ezine
October 15/2009 — Issue #19
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Hi [firstname],
In This Issue:
1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
–> BizWeb2000 Coaching
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hey [firstname],
Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new subscribers.
Even though I offer my own private coaching via email,
http://www.altacanweb.com/coaching/
everyone needs coaching and yes even I need coaching. I get mine from Jim Daniels, he has been in it since the mid 1990’s and I believe he is one of the prime entrepreneurs online and can take one to the utmost levels online.

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,…

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FEATURE EDITORIAL
BizWeb2000 Coaching
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Even the big wigs online need coaching, even Yanik Silver gets his from Dan Kennedy, he admitted it in one of his recent emails. And yes Alice Seba has her own mentor and coach she was talking of in her recent emails recently. And yes even though I don’t consider myself a big wig or guru that is about the last word I refer to myself as, I have my own coach – and I’m a member of Jim Daniels private coaching website, he is one of the prime entrepreneurs in my opinion and a guy that knows what he is talking of.

If your wanting some prime coaching yourself have a look, from someone that has been in it for more than going on 14 years. He only accepts applicants for certain times of the year as it is a private website. But to give you a little hint. If you purchase his make-a-living-online.com package it gives you lifetime access to his coaching website.

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We would love to hear what you think of this
issue of The ACE ezine. And of course, if you
have any suggestions for upcoming issues
that you’d like to share with us, please send
those, too!

Just e-mail me at: burke@the-ace-ezine.com

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T9A 2W1 Canada

The ACE Ezine Issue #18 — October 8/2009

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The ACE Ezine
October 8/2009 — Issue #18
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Hi [firstname],
In This Issue:
1) Author’s Ramblings
2) Top Sponsor
3) Feature Editorial:
–> Web 2.0 — 5 Part Article on my Blog
4) Bottom Sponsor
5) Tell Us What You Think
6) Contact Information

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1) Author’s Ramblings
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Hey [firstname],

Hope your day is going well today. And a big welcome to our new subscribers.

Well I am back from a lengthy time off due to family illness and I would like to bring your attention to my new blog. Plus its new 5 part Web 2.0 article I posted in it first. Have a look. I think you’ll enjoy it if you like the Web 2.0 at all.

So without further ado,… Lets get to it, shall we,…

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Get Your Share Of Internet Money

Imagine a business that doesn’t require thousands of dollars in startup costs – no inventory, no rent, no franchise fees.

Imagine a store with the potential to start earning money for you from day one, where you can sell anything under the sun without having to worry about stocking a single item.

Imagine being able to run a store in your PJs without ever having to leave the comfort of your own home.

Imagining it?

Here’s the reality. You can build an ecommerce storefront to cash in on the internet money making craze in just a few hours – but it takes planning, promotion and the sweat of your brow to make it into an ongoing source of internet income.

We’re in the second wave of an internet money explosion. Unlike the first, the one’s that made a few people who were in the right place at the right time very very wealthy, this one is open to anyone who has the right qualities. Those qualities are the same ones that made names like Sears & Roebuck household words – vision, persistence and good old-fashioned elbow grease.

The increasing ease of internet publishing has made it possible for anyone to have a fully functioning store online and in operation in less than an hour – and for less than $100.

Storefront malls like Yahoo Small Business, CafePress and others let you get your own business started with full support with just a few mouseclicks and a credit card number. But it takes far more than a ‘prime location’ to be successful as an internet merchant.

The dismal truth is that failure rate in ecommerce retail is even higher than in brick and mortar stores, even if the financial loss is generally far less.

The very fact that you can start your own business for so little has turned starting your own business into an impulse decision. It’s far too easy to make a decision on the spur of the moment – and walk away when it doesn’t work out.

There are things you can do to avoid becoming just one more internet money failure story.

Here are five tips to help you make a success of your internet store.

1) Don’t Make An Impulsive Decision About The Business – Make A Commitment

Don’t jump at the first ecommerce opportunity that you see. Before you make a decision, take the time to do some research and ask yourself some questions about what you want out of your business then evaluate the best business opportunities for you.

Make a commitment to be successful and learn as you grow. On-going education is critical to your success (see #5 below).

2) Know What You Want

Evaluate the amount of time you have to put into a startup business. How involved to you want to be? There are many different ways to cash in on internet money.

It’s possible to buy into a complete setup with store, merchant account and fully stocked shelves where all you’ll have to do is promote your site. On the other hand, if you’d like to have more control, you can build a store from scratch right down to stocking the shelves.

3) Comparison Shop For the Best Business

You wouldn’t buy a car without comparison shopping. Why buy a business that way?

There are literally dozens of ways to cash in on the internet money boom. Do you want the jump-start that goes with name recognition and support from a parent company? Then a franchise business might be right for you. Do you want total control over what you sell and for how much? Then you’ll want a business that lets you stock your own shelves. Are you creative and want to capitalize on your artistic abilities? Look into a storefront to market your own work. The possibilities are endless. Your hardest job is finding one that suits your style best.

4) Pick Something You Love

The way to succeed on the internet is no different than the path to success in the brick and mortar world. It takes time and hard work. If you’re starting your own business, why would you choose to do something that you don’t love to do?

Even if you decide to buy into a total package ecommerce turnkey store, pick a product that you love and can believe in. The better you know what you’re selling, the more successful you’ll be in promoting it. And when it comes to making internet money, promotion is the name of the game.

5) Educate Yourself.

No matter what you choose to sell, your main job is going to be promoting your website. The more you know about website promotion, the more successful you’ll be. Spend at least a few hours a week keeping up on the latest techniques of promoting your web site and watch your sales grow as you put them into practice.

The potential for making money on the internet is real.

It just takes some forethought, planning and a lot of hard work.

Know what you want to do.

Love what you do.

Believe in your abilities – and you’ll find the internet money rolling into your account.

How To Choose An Affiliate Program To Promote

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program.

Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on.

Will it cost you anything to join?

Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

When do they issue the commission checks?

Every program is different.

Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.

What is the hit per sale ratio?

This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system?

You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

What are the kinds of affiliate stats available?

Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed

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Here's Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff.

The challenge is to try and do things differently then other  affiliates and add value at the same time.

What better way to ‘wow’ your prospects and customers and ad value than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos!

This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly.

You do not need to have training and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials to step-

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Why people buy a product or service

Why People Buy A Product Or Service

This is not something people talk about at polite social events. You’re not likely to hear about it at your son’s soccer or your daughter’s softball game. Even your best friend will not discuss it, if they even thought about it, with you. Not one in a thousand books will ever mention it. But it is the very foundation of ‘trade’ and business success!

To understand what I am about to say you have to be a student of human nature or at least you need to have some understanding of it. I’m not a psychologist. I only know what I see and observe. And I have been a life-long ‘student’ of human nature.

It doesn’t take a genius to understand this, but once understood it will change the way you do business forever!

Read this slowly. It’s not as profound as it is insightful. This is what I call the “The ONE Secret”:

THE ONE SECRET:

“98% of all human beings buy products or services emotionally and then justify those purchases logically.”

You may have heard this before. You may have even understood it. But I doubt you have fully comprehended the total significance of it.

What I’m going to do is OPEN YOUR EYES, illuminate this truth so that you’ll never forget it.

Let’s take it one step at a time. I’ll provide examples as we move along, as well, to help drive home the more important points. Keep an open mind and try to recognize yourself in the following examples.

We Are Emotional Creatures

We are emotional creatures. We think emotionally, act emotionally and make decisions emotionally. If you ask your spouse why they bought that new coat they will say, “I need it!”, of course.

But if you ask them what their thought processes were before they made the decision to buy, it will be a surprise to them what little logic actually went into that buying decision!

Let’s take as an example the decision to purchase a new automobile. Now, a large ticket item like that is obviously a very serious financial commitment and should be done with all due diligence!
We’ll start from the very beginning of the buying decision through post-purchase.

A Typical Buying Decision Process

Think about the last car you bought. Do you remember what your thoughts were? Do you remember what you felt when you first started looking for a new car?

Most people will begin to feel somewhere inside like they want a new car, but will express to themselves and others that they need a new car. ‘Need’ is a ‘logical justification’ and ‘want’ is emotional. No one wants to be thought of as ‘emotional’ so they use ‘logical’ words and expressions to describe their purchasing habits.

Just to prove that ‘want’ is an emotional term- did you ever see a child, who is really just a little bundle of “wants”, ever say, “Mommy (or Daddy) I need a new skateboard. My skateboard would cost more to repair than a new one and I would still have an older skateboard that will probably be in need of many future repairs. I’ve completed an entire analysis on the cost effectiveness of a new purchase. Here’s the spreadsheet. Also I completed a matrix of options and features that would be beneficial…”…?

Does that sound like any child you’ve ever been around? Probably not.

What do children usually say when they want something?

“Mommy (or Daddy) I need a new skateboard! Please, Mommy, buy it for me! I really need it! All my friends have new one’s, why can’t I? I’ll take out the garbage for the next year, promise! Just get it, please!!”

What’s interesting about this one-sided exchange is that:

1) The child wants it- even if they already have a fully functioning skateboard in good repair and;
2) He (or she) is willing to do something they hate, loathe, and detest in order to get it!

When we grow up do we really change any more than the little boy or girl who wants a new skateboard? My opinion is that we don’t change that much. We still want what we want.

Your customer who wants to purchase some information on home gardening or to learn how to save money on taxes or a number of other “wants” is just like that little boy who wants the skateboard – he just wants it! And he’ll do almost anything to get it, if he wants it bad enough. He will justify the purchase

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