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Create a Content-Rich Site and Increase Affiliate Sales
Everyone wants more visitors to their site and everyone needs to generate increased click-throughs to boost affiliate sales. But before you can expect to accomplish these goals, you have to do one important thing: create a content-rich site.
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How to Use Foreign Currency Rate Fluctuations to Your Advantage as an Affiliate Marketer
When I started affiliate marketing back in early 1998, getting paid in U.S. Dollars was a huge bonus to me as a Canadian resident.
At that time, one US dollar was valued at $1.43 Canadian. By late 2001, the greenback translated into $1.60 Canadian.
Woohoo!
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How to Build a 1,000-Page Content Site in Mere Seconds!
Building an affiliate web site that sells between 5 and 20 products is relatively quick and easy to accomplish.
An experienced webmaster can put a site like 101Date.com, which has only 11 services, together in a day. Someone else might spend a week signing up for the programs, designing a template, and adding product information and affiliate links.
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Affiliates: 10 Ways to Improve Credibility and Conversions
Lack of consumer trust is still the biggest obstacle to online
sales, and judging by the amount of spam and scams flying about in
cyberspace, surfers are right to remain wary.
Savvy online shoppers, however, know how to determine a
merchant's credibility with onsite information and by asking
pertinent questions.
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Affiliate Prescription: How to Prevent 'Sudden Earnings Collapse'
What would you do if your affiliate earnings suddenly dropped from $50,000 per month to $2,000 per month; or from $2,000 per month to absolutely no income at all?
How would you pay your super-sized mortgage and auto loans?
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
A power outage of huge proportions has long been one of my
greatest fears.
I've imagined that scenario's disastrous consequences enough
that I felt immediately afraid upon hearing that more than
50 million people on the eastern seaboard of North America
were affected by last Thursday's outage.
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Top 10 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer
Back when my online business consisted ONLY of affiliate
sites, I had no need for a personal assistant.
The sites were all in place, and my affiliated merchants
handled everything related to orders.
Last week, one of my clients mentioned that he was moving
AWAY from selling his own products to promoting more
affiliate programs just for the simplicity and freedom.
Yup, he definitely 'gets' it.
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Partners & Friends
This week I had the good fortune to meet with a couple who
own one of the dating services that I promote.
The extraordinary effort they made to travel to my location
to discuss business over dinner speaks volumes about the
value they place on their affiliates and their program.
They certainly didn't need to travel so far to make me aware
of their care and concern.
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Don't Forget to Write
I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me a couple of years to
realize the one thing that super affiliates do that sets
them apart from all the rest. It's something they do repeatedly
and often, even if they don't always do it well. Do you know what they do?
They write.
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Affiliating in the Season of Love
Aaah... the season of love. Such a special time of year. For
those in love, those looking for love, and ESPECIALLY for
those SELLING love - on the Internet! :-))
I started my ebusiness with Internet dating service
affiliate programs, and they STILL provide the bulk of my
income.
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Affiliate Programs: You CAN Make a Difference
One of the rules of affiliate marketing, is to partner with
merchants that don't have too many external links on their sites.
This is especially true if you pay to advertise your site. You
might just as well burn your money as send it to sites that steal
your traffic.
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Affiliate Programs: Can I REALLY Make Money?
As an Internet marketing consultant, I often hear the question, "Can I REALLY make money online with affiliate programs?"
To me, that question speaks of the asker's skepticism, so let's put aside any question of whether money is REALLY being made online before we look any further.
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Affiliate Programs to Avoid
As an affiliate marketer of Internet dating services, I'm always on the lookout for good quality dating sites and products to offer my single visitors. Merchants help me out when they let me know about their new products and affiliate programs.
I was therefore thrilled when one of my friendly affiliate competitors got in touch to tell me that he'd started his own Internet dating service and affiliate program.
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Affiliate Opportunity Scams
What could be better than an opportunity to make money using the power of affiliate marketing, while avoiding the hassle of having to build a site or pay to host your domain? Wouldn't it also be wonderful to have someone else do the work of sending traffic to your site?
Basically, you just sit back and wait for those huge commission checks to roll in.
Sound too good to be true? Good, because you guessed it. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Affiliate Marketing is TOO Expensive
I received an email this week from a gentleman who asserted that affiliate marketing as a business simply wasn't for him. Why?
Because it is too expensive!
Huh? Too expensive? WHAT's too expensive?
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A Few Words of Advice
Supporting affiliates is a big part of my job. I want my affiliates to be successful so that I can be successful too. Consider the following advice when evaluating your traffic and resulting sales. Doing so is sure to help increase your profits.
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"blueprint" for super affiliate success
Here's the story...
When people want to start an online business,
they usually have one of two challenges:
1) They don't have a product of their own to sell, but they
really want to start a *real* online business - or -
2) They currently sell as an affiliate for others, but can't seem to make more than a couple of sales here and there and feel like all they're doing is building the *merchant's business* (instead of their own).
They see others doing really well online, but they don't understand the "pattern" or "blueprint" for making money without their own product. If you've ever felt this way about your online business, then this may be the most important update you ever read!
Here's why...
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Increasing Site Revenue: Forget the Gizmos
Forget the 3D logo. Toss the animated graphics and pictures of pretty women. Cool scripts don't help you much, and music will kill the deal.
What the heck am I talking about? I'm talking about all the things webmasters and developers use to make their sites 'better'.
But better for whom?
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