As an
affiliate, you can build a store or join a program where a store is provided
for you. There are a number of Clickbank-ready stores that are pre-set up.
You only
need to pay a one-time fee and the store will be activated in your name with
your affiliate ID.So, instead
of promoting just 10 products, you can promote the entire Clickbank host of
vendors. There are ups and downs to this.
Pros: All the work is done for you. There is a
Featured section to these stores where you can highlight the 10 products that
you are actively promoting.
It also
gives you a quick web presence and if you don’t have website building
experience, everything is done for you.
Cons: Your store looks just like every other person
who bought the store package. Because it is built for you, it is a standardized
template, so there can be hundreds, even thousands of other stores out there
that are just like yours.
Take a
short bit of time to set up a blog on one of the free sites, or build a site
and get webhosting. Whichever you decide, having a small site that is yours
will go a long way towards building your credibility for the long term. Using
PPC (pay per click) is fine up to a point. However, to expand and grow with
products and services, having a site is essential.
Wordpress: www.wordpress.com – You can get a blog started in
less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email
address. You’ll get your own WordPress.com address (like you.wordpress.com), a
selection of great free and customizable designs for your blog (called themes)
and 3 gigabytes of file storage.
There is a
great deal of help and instruction to show you what to do and how to get
started. Your website address would be something like http://product.wordpress.com and you can build as many of these free sites
as you like.
The
positives of using the Wordpress.com system is that you are on a domain that
has a very high page rank, lots of visitors and tons of help. Even if you’ve
never set up a blog before, it’s so easy that you can get started and not feel
overwhelmed.
Blogger: Another free platform that is owned by Google
is great to set up a blog on. Again, you will be a subdomain like http://product.blogspot.com, but it’s free, there’s no webhosting fees involved and you can set it
up without any HTML, programming or web design experience. You simply pick from
one of the many themes presented, and your blog is ready to go.
Having a
Blogger blog gets you listed in Google (since they own it), and makes it easy
to get your message out there.
Joomla: Although Joomla is free, they don’t have a
free site where you can build on a subdomain. Joomla is an award-winning
content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and
powerful online applications.
Many
aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most
popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source
solution that is freely available to everyone.
With that
said, Joomla has a ton of online help just like Wordpress; however, you will
have to get webhosting and a domain name to use it.
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