Tag Archive: Affiliate Marketing

How To Make A Blog Part Three: Monetizing with Affiliate Products

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The next step in the ‘how to make a blog” series is monetization via Affiliate Marketing.

The reason you should check affiliate products and services to sell in your chosen niche BEFORE you start to build your blog is to ensure there are such products and services available.

If there are not, it could mean the chosen niche does not sell that well on-line.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

As the blog or website owner, you advertise someone else’s products or services and for each sale you make, you receive a commission.

Affiliate commissions range from 5% to 100%.

Internet Marketing Is Easy When You Use This Technique

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This is the second post in the new blog series called: Successful Corporate Blogs and we talk about a technique that many people do not exploit!

Successful internet marketing can be easy if you can get well-organized, but it’s important to understand the process thoroughly so you can keep to a schedule.

Let’s Dream…

Many people dream about working from home, but when it comes to reality they soon understand that it’s not as easy as they think. They come from structured 8 to 5 jobs and find when they try to start working at home they become too easily distracted.

Interview: Pawan Agarwal – MaxBlogPress Owner

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Pawan Agarwal Owner of MaxBlogPress

This interview is with Pawan Agarwal, the owner of www.MaxBlogPress.com.

Whenever I build a new blog for myself or for clients I ALWAYS install several of Pawan’s free WordPress plugins including:

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizercan save your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer

Max Banner Adseasily rotates banners to overcome ‘screen blindness’

The business model that Pawan uses is that which all bloggers should use – give something away of value and they will come back and buy.

And that’s exactly what I did.

Jimmy Brown is Retiring

jimmy brown retires 300x198Jimmy Brown, one of the most successful internet marketers is retiring…his products. He isn’t personally retired from internet marketing but he is retiring ALL his products including membership sites, coaching programs, ebooks, software programs, small reports, etc.

“Why?” I hear you asking because I agree it’s a bit strange to stop selling all your products, isn’t it?

He gives 3 reasons:

1. To free up time for personal interests

He does a lot of work for Christian based companies and he wants to spend more time doing that sort of thing.

2. To streamline his business

Want to make even more money selling your products?

In the previous article on selling more of your products, I talked about having an affiliate page for each of your sales pages plus how you’d go about writing to your blogging friends inviting them to sell your product as an affiliate.

That should be the first stage of your affiliate marketing strategy.

In this article we shall cover how we approach strangers!

Writing to strangers hoping they will sell hundreds of your products is EASY.

Writing to strangers hoping they will sell hundreds of your products and getting a great positive response is HARD.

Last week’s Up and Down blogging times

thumbs upSo this is what happened this week:

The ‘up’ times

Outsourcing

I decided to employ someone and ‘outsource’ some of the administrative and everyday tasks associated with my online business.

I was spending so much time doing all the things you have to do to keep several sites up and running, that I was finding no time to create any more of my own products.

So, this week I have been handing over work to my new employee.

I’ve been creating videos to help her quickly come up to speed and I must say, the early stages in the ‘partnership’ are turning out pretty well.

Up and Down blogging times 2 October

thumbs downThis is my first full week back after my celebratory holiday and it’s hard to say what’s ‘up’ this week because I feel I’ve been working flat out just to catch up and not got very far.

But let’s talk about the ‘up’ times:

This week I joined the newly formed Problogger.com forum. It’s a great forum where you share your experience and ask for advice from other bloggers, as well.

I have already started collaborating with quite a few people outside of the forum and we’re going to see how we can help each other with traffic, visitors and sales. So watch this space!

Affiliate Marketing Strategy end of week 4

Links to previous my affiliate marketing strategy posts can be found at the bottom of this post.

This week I’ve been getting to grips with Jimmy’s 7 different types of blog posts to write.

I feel like a person who has been working the same way for years and suddenly someone comes along and says, “I want you to change”.

“I want you to do this from now on”.

You suddenly move from being able to do something easily to you don’t know what you are doing.

How To Become A Super Affiliate In 5 Easy Steps

Some you know I am a big fan of Jeff Johnson’s and recommend his free SEO WordPress plugin.

Well, now Jeff has added a video about Affiliate marketing.

In the video he tells you exactly which products he’s promoting… and how much money he’s making with them… and it’s a lot!

Here’s the link for the video:

“How To Become A Super Affiliate In 5 Easy Steps” video

Hope you like it, as much as I did.

Affiliate Marketing Strategy end of week 3

Links to previous weeks posts can be found at the bottom of this post.

Week 3 of Jimmy’s Affiliatenaire is all about setting up your autoresponder system, so when people sign-up for their “freebie”, they automatically receive a ‘welcome’ email from you.

I have completed this process numerous times over the years but if you never have then Jimmy provides step-by-step procedures including several videos showing you exactly how.

He also explains the crucial part of the ‘confirmation’ page, which people get directed to, once they sign-up.

Monetize your blog with this affiliate marketing wordpress plugin

This is a great WordPress plugin you should have in your Affiliate Marketing strategy. Checkout the video and see how easy you can monitize your blog…

Here’s the link for the WordPress plugin: Affiliate Marketing Plugin

Affiliate Marketing Strategy end of week 2

During week 2, Jimmy’s Affiliatenaire™ course starts to explain all about blogging and building a list.

He explains in detail how to make a blog and then customize your blog, like choosing the best theme and what pages you must have in place.

I’m going to use this blog while I progress in my Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

Not only do you get pages and pages of great advice from Jimmy, he also provides numerous videos to show you exactly how to set up and tweak your blog.