What is Social Media?

Social Media are Internet platforms that increase and enhance the sharing of information. This information can be in the form of pictures, videos, short updates, or blogs. What started as a personal use tool has grown exponentially and is now playing a vital role in businesses today as well.

Why is it important for your business?

It helps you to build and develop your brand quicker.  Social media posts can be used to drive free targeted traffic to your website. If you’re doing it right, social media can help you build great relationships with right people. Social media marketing can also help get you more sales.

There are many social media platforms you can use. Here are a few very popular ones:

Facebook – This is mass market. Almost every marketer is on Facebook. 

Twitter – This is another mass platform. Twitter’s messages reach many of people but the tweets have very short lifespans. 

LinkedIn – This platform is good for professional connections that in turn help you generate sales.

Google+ - Some people feel that Google + is not very popular, but it is still used as it is closely association with the search engine.

YouTube – This is becoming a must in every business. It’s not just a video platform, but is the second biggest search engine.

  

Pinterest – This is another platform which is rising in popularity. This is where customers find inspiration for shopping. It’s a pre-purchase indicator. Pinterest is perfect for niches like fashion, beauty, interior design, crafts and food.

Instagram – This platform is popular.  Like Pinterest you can put images on it. It only needs a few images to pull your prospects into your business.

Forums – Joining forums related to your business is also a very good way to promote your business.

In the beginning it will be very hard work to make time to spend on social media.  The best way to get out of that is you should write your business goals and then try your best to stick with them.  In the beginning I found it very difficult to manage, but as I started to divide my goals in baby steps.  They started working for me.

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How To – Drive Traffic To Your Offer.

It’s no secret that in order to make money, you need traffic have to drive traffic to your website. This is a task which is  never-ending.  Meaning this is a which you have to keep on doing regularly.

 Once your capture page is up, it’s time to start driving targeted traffic to your website. 

There are 2 types of traffic:

Paid - you pay for the web traffic with money.

Free - you pay for the traffic with time your time. 

Paid Traffic - What is it?

There is lot to choose when it comes to paid traffic.   You should try few different ways in order to find one that's right for your business. 

Solo Ads – Solo ads are very popular.  This type of ad you can 

buy from a person who has created a strong list. They will send email about your product to their list for small charge.

Facebook Ads – Many businesses are using Facebook to advertise. When setting your ad you can choose certain types of people you want to reach, for example gender, age, and/or occupation. You can also target audiences that are similar to your existing customer base. 

Facebook will actually find people for you who are similar to the

ones who have already purchased your type of product. You can do all the demographic, geographic, contextual, or behavioral targeting you need with Facebook Ads.

Google Ad Words - This is wonderful platform as it will target someone by what they search online. This platform is an excellent because it will only show your ads to person who is looking for your type of product.  Ad Words can be extremely effective at targeting people who are ready to buy. 

Twitter Ads - Twitter has some pretty good targeting options.  

It will target people who are tweeting about a particular product. You can also target by using specific keywords found in hashtags.

Free Traffic – What is it?

There are many ways to get free traffic. 

·    1. By working hard to put your website high on the search engines.

·     2. By creating target Facebook pages and targeting right people.

·     3. By put articles on other people’s blogs, or by adding them to             an article directory.

·     4. By joining different forums and being very active member,                promoting your website.

There are many businesses who are very successful in getting free traffic, but you need to be ready to work really hard and this can be difficult in the beginning.

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What Is a List and Why Is It an Important Part of Your Business?

What is a List?

A list is easily compiled when your drive traffic to your squeeze (opt-in) page.  The visitor gives you their e-mail address in exchange for the free gift you offer them. Then that subscriber becomes part of your list.  

You can them send regular emails with your affiliate offers and if they buy through your link, you make money.

We have all heard the saying – the money is in the list.  When you start your own online business, you will see that the saying is  

100% true!

The bigger your list is, the more chance you have of making more money you will make.

What happens when you don't have a list?  

It means you will not be able to make money. When someone visit your website they will buy 1 product and disappear for ever.

If you want to keep on selling, then you must have a list. You must build close relationship with them so you understand their needs and offer them the products that will fulfill their needs.

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What Will You Need To Set Your Affiliate Business

Starting Affiliate Marketing Online Business is the most quickest, easiest and very cost effective way to start your home business.  

The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing:

1  A.. You don’t need to create or come up with a product to sell,

   B.  You don’t need to worry about delivering the goods,

   C. You don’t need to provide an customer support

   D.  Most importantly, the startup costs are very low.

The things you will need to start your business are: - 

A. Website : - A website is like having your own shop online. A website is cost effective, because you know upfront what the cost of website will be. The good thing about online website is it is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Website help you build trust with your visitors.

There are two types of websites:

1  1. Brochure site: your blog (what you are reading now).

.    2. A Squeeze Page: (Your opt-in page).  Which help you to build           your list.  As once they are on your list, you will send them               follow up emails with your affiliate links and if they buy then           you will make money.

B.  Domain Name : -  You will have to choice name for your business, as this will help you in the future to establish your brand online. Before you can start building your website, you will need a domain name. The domain name and the website are closely connected but they are two very different things. Your domain name can be used for your website and your email. Your affiliate business email will be something like this: myaffiliatename@yourdomainname.com. Your domain name is what people will type into their browser to find your site. Domain names are not very expensive and you only need to pay a yearly renewal fee for them.

C. Hosting company:- Web hosting is a service that allows online marketers to display or host a website on the Internet. A web hosting service provider provides your business with technologies and services needed in order to successfully run your website. 

You’ll need to select a web hosting provider that has a high reputation and has a low percentage of server down time. Websites are stored on special computers called servers. You will host your  Opt In page on this server provided to your with your hosting account. This is important that your hosting plan allows for uninterrupted service. Because your potential customers will land on this page and be sent to your website.

There are lot of options available when you're considering Domain Name and Hosting Services.  Below are two links of industry's leading service providers. 

GoDaddy – Most people think that Godaddy sells only domain names but they also provide hosting services and lots of other add-on's that will be beneficial for your business. 

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Hostgator – Hostgator is very popular for hosting, but they also provide domain names & hosting service.

Click the link :  http://www.hostgator.com

D. What is an Autoresponder and Why Do You Need One?

An autoresponder is a required tool for your online business.(Just like Web Hosting). Autoresponders are used to automatically send your follow-up messages to your subscribers. You just write your emails once and each time someone subscribes to your list, the messages are sent to them automatically.

There are three types of messages that you can set in the autoresponder.

    1.  Time based - once set will be sent to your contacts in any                   sequence you want it to be sent.

    2.  Broadcast message - can be sent when you want to send special         messages or when you are launching new product.

    3.  Event based messages - can be set for if your subscriber 

         performs  a certain type of action.  For example, if they click the      link, change their personal information, or any other sort of              special criteria you have set. 

There are a lot of options available when it comes ta autoresponders.  Autoresponders are time savers and are cost effective because you know up front what the cost will be each month. 

Here are links to two very well-known autoresponder companies, check them out before buying. 

Aweber – They have a trial offer of  $1 -

 http://www.aweber.com/easy-email.htm?id=455350

Get Response – They have a free trial offer -

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How To Understand The Site Where You Have Chosen The Products From

Follow Up From Last Post.

Clickbank Marketplace

1. Sale Price: ($/Sale) This is the amount paid by the customers. The amount earned is kept by Clickbank accounting and pays out every two weeks to the affiliate.

2.  Percentage of Sale: (%/Sale) This is the average percentage commissions earned per affiliate per sale.

3.  Referral %: This is the percentage of sales that people you refer.

4. Gravity of Product: The gravity number is important because it shows the popularity of the product over time. Every time the product is sold or a new affiliate joins and uses the link the gravity of the program will change.

The popularity, price and commission paid of the product is very important.

When it comes to popularity or gravity, unless you are already a Super Affiliate avoid the products with very high gravity (125+), because it means that the market will be highly competitive and the chances of you making sales will be decreased accordingly.

This applies only to Clickbank and not the other commission driven organizations.

CB Trends

In order to find out if a product is good to add to your affiliate site, you will want to check it out at CB Trends (www.cbtrends.com)

This is a free service that shows visual representation of what is on the Clickbank marketplace site making it easier to understand. 

There are some useful tracking tools that give you an easy way to see what is happening with the products you choose including:

What is popularity of the product

How much you can earn per sale

What is percent per sale

What is gravity

 Referrals           

How much commission you will make.

If you take the visual representation, combine it with what you see on Clickbank’s Marketplace, you will have a good idea of whether the product you’re thinking about promoting is a good one.

Out of the 10 products that you pick to promote over time, you will want at least 6 of them to be popular. You want to mix it up so that at least half of what you’re promoting is more competitive. The rest of the products should be up and comers, those products that are new to the marketplace. 

CB Engine

CB engine shows you the new products. This is an excellent tool to use if you want to focus on the new product releases. If you are going to work with Clickbank, which is a best first for a new step  affiliate, CB Engine should be one of the sites you bookmark and use.

There you can find brand new products list, re-listed products with a ton of information to help you make an right choice about the products you want to promote. Each product, new and re-listed, has graphs and visual representations about the health and viability of the products.

There are a couple of ways to go about finding out more about the product or service you are about to promote. 

First, you can buy the product.

Whether it’s digital or tangible, buying and experiencing the product will usually make you a better promoter. Buying all 10 product can work out to be very expensive, you should try to buy 2 or 3 product in the beginning  and look over the sales pages only of the remainder.

When looking over the sales or pitch page, you will want to think in terms of being a prospective buyer. Ask yourself some basic questions:

1. The page, headline and opening paragraph grab your attention?

2.The page is easy to read in terms of colours, graphics and layout of the site?

 3. The message on the page is presented clear and concise and easy-to-understand?

4. The Important facts has been highlights,  the headlines have been broken up with content and pictures and relevant to the topic matters? 

5. The page has lead you to the logical conclusion where you want to buy the product?

All of these things are important, whether people coming through your link will buy or not. If the page can translate the right message this will lead to a sale. 

This is the way, the traffic you drive to the product site stand a higher chance of customer buying in the end. If the page left you with a ho-hum, whatever feeling, that type of page will give your visitors the same reaction.

When you start promoting your affiliate products, make sure that you keep track of the products that are converting well, and the ones that are not. Remember when the product you are selling goes from being hot to warm and then cold, you should be ready to get rid of that product and have new ready to replace the old product.

This is the reason you should not get attached to a product or service. This is why. You have to know when to get rid of it.

Look at the choices you first made on Clickbank and ask yourself the questions from above. Are there any products that you might want to get rid of now?

Step 1- Selecting a Market/Niche

The first step you have to do when building a website is to select a niche.

This doesn’t have to be rocket science- just make sure that you pick a niche where people are spending money. Luckily, there are tens of thousands of these markets/niches.

·        Weight loss

·        Relationships (parenting, marriage, work)

·        Investing

·        Computer games

·        Auto or home repair

·        Embarrassing illnesses

·        Computer repair

·        Pet training

·        Cure acne

·        Make money online

·        How to get a job

·        And TONS more!

You basically have 2 ways to go here. You can either

1  1. Pick an “evergreen” niche that will never go away. This  falls           generally into either health, wealth, or relationships.

   2/ Pick a niche or market that you LOVE! For example, If you love       computer games, an you can talk about them. This can be a good     niche for you to choose. 

To get ideas for niches, you can just surf around Amazon.com or browse magazines in your local grocery store. Anything for sale represents a niche or market! Once you’ve chosen a niche, it’s time to set up your domain and hosting.

Newbie to Profitable Affiliate

Build Up To About 10 Products To Promote

As an affiliate, you will want to build up to about 10 products, so that you can mix up the top performing products and add the latest releases. While you should like what you’re selling, once you get use to the idea try using other items even if you don't have lot of knowledge about them, but make sure they hot products.

Always keep in mind what is a hot seller now,  may cool off. That's why it is important to follow trends, This will help you to always know what is not selling now and what new is hot.

Make sure you don’t  add all 10 products at once, the best way is add slowly as you get more experienced. Other wise you will be overwhelm with products, pick your products carefully.  Always try to choose popular products because you want to have top performing products.

Here are some things to remember when you are selecting products.

When you search for new products to promote from Clickbank, there are certain things you should be looking for.

First and easiest is the selection of the category that you want to work with. As each affiliate products has some information that will help you to make a good decision.

The three sites you will want to use to make sure the product is a good seller 

 Clickbank Marketplace – www.clickbank.com            

CB Trends – www.cbtrends.com 

CB Engine – www.cbengine.com

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