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Think You CAN'T Make Money Online? Think Again! The Easiest Way to Earn $200 a Day Right NOW

2010-11-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

Who else is NOT making money online? Are you ready to give up? Think that all the easy money has already been earned....and the pickings are getting slimmer by the second? Do you have tons and tons of PASSION...and simply aren't able to parlay that into profit?

The BAD news?

The vast majority of the work at home programs out there are silly, self serving and often outright scams. Billions of dollars are wasted every year, by ordinary people who simply want better lives for their families...and are willing to invest their hard earned income on business opportunities that appear too good to be true. (because they truly are)

The GOOD news?

You can easily make $200 a day, using NOTHING but your keyboard, a little bit of passion and a willingness to work at creating content just like what you're reading right now.

CRUSHING it with content is simply the easiest, most evergreen and ENJOYABLE way to make a full time living online...and the best part is you don't need experience, or expertise to do it well. (you can truly learn on the job)

The FASTEST way to get to the $200 a day mark?

Pick a high volume niche. (I recommend diet, dating or divorce.....or something similar....tons of traffic, tons of competition and TONS of high paying affiliate programs)

Write articles until your fingers hurt...and your eyeballs bulge! Okay....you may want to stop before your eyeballs bulge....but you get the point..:-)

Content marketing is a strategy of scale, and if you can dedicate 4 hours a day to creating KILLER content that compels, cajoles and coerces your audience to take action on your offers and opportunities, and then distribute that content around the web, the MATH starts to make the marketing easy.

In other words, you hit a point of critical mass.....where you have so many good articles out there, and those articles are being distributed, repurposed and re-published by OTHER folks around the web, that the tidal wave of traffic can't be bottled up. (depending on the niche, this can happen in a week....or a month, or anywhere in between)

BONUS TIP? Stop selling affiliate products that no one has heard of..:-) Promote BIG name products that have household name recognition, international brand awareness campaigns, and that have public trust. Why? They CONVERT far better...and you'll make a ton more money when you promote them, I promise!

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3 Useful Social Bookmarking Tips for Beginners in Online Marketing and Online Blogging Business

2010-11-11T12:22:00.000-08:00

Social bookmarking is a great way to bookmark website or web-page when you are using the World Wide Web. This enables you in getting a quick access whenever you want to access that page in future. This is therefore one of the best method that you can use when you are going through many of the pages and want to book mark some for future use.

For internet marketers, social bookmarking has proved to be a boost in the marketing campaign without the need of any extra costing. This is one of the best ways to get the free backlinks for your business websites and is highly effective in giving you much link popularity. Here are the 3 useful tips for you to effectively use the social bookmarking for your marketing campaign.

• First of all make a list of variety of bookmarking sites that you are going to use for the marketing campaign. Most of these bookmarking sites are popular among search engines and can give you very good results when used effectively.

• Bookmark the regularly and continuously should be your next step to follow. You should be consistent in what you are bookmarking for gaining link popularity and web exposure. You can get adverse affects if you are bookmarking various pages in a week and just forgets about it the next week.

• Bookmark the sites that are worth for your readers and visitors. Never indulge in bookmarking the sites that are never updated. Managing and organizing the bookmarks effectively can get you great contacts and you can form the community of like-minded people, which is quite profitable for you in long run.

Learn how to market your products and services online. Article marketing and social networking with effective use of social bookmarking can help you out in making your online business better to earn easy net money on internet.

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Part Two – PAD Files

2010-02-08T17:03:00.000-08:00

This is the second part of a series of blog posts about making the affiliate sales channel bring revenue to software vendors. In the first post I focused on the importance of the affiliates information page and how it helps you recruit affiliates. In this post, I will talk about another important component of the affiliate sales channel optimization process: PAD Files.

PAD Files – what are they good for?

Short for Portable Application Description, PAD files are special XML format files that contain information about a software product, from software vendor contact data to product description and price.

The main plus point of PAD files as a standard in the software industry is they offer a more simple way for webmasters to automate product listings, without having to manually edit every minor change the software vendor makes to the product price or description. This works best especially when dealing with download portals which aggregate lots of software titles.

Here’s a big list with the software download portals that accept software submission by PAD files– you can see there are big names involved there, like Download.com, Softpedia, Softonic,Brothersoft or Tucows. So, here are the benefits PAD files have to offer from the software vendor – affiliates relationship point of view:

they offer a more convenient way for affiliates to list a vendor’s products by including all the product details in a single standard file and by offering the possibility to automate product listings. This way, affiliates can focus on promoting your products rather than checking if anything has changed in the description or price of the product.
they are an important source of content for affiliate websites, having product descriptions, product images, multi language details and other elements that are important for a successful pre-sales campaign.
if any trial versions are available, they can boost a software product’s download count, thus increasing the exposure of that product.
since trial downloads are tracked in many affiliate networks, affiliates will be credited with the sales they refer through trial downloads from their websites.

How does it work?

It’s very simple:

1. the software author creates / edits the PAD file with product information: description, contact information, license type, supported platforms, price etc.

2. the webmaster of the affiliate website (download portal or any kind of website) uses the URL of the PAD file (whether published on the vendor’s website or submitted) and parses the XML format file to get the information he wants to display.

3. every time the software vendor edits something in the PAD file, the information will usually be automatically updated on all the affiliates’ websites using the URL of the PAD file as a source for displaying the product information.

How to create / edit a PAD file?

This is the more hands-on part of this post. We’ve seen what the advantages of using PAD files are – now let’s get busy. In order to be able to create a PAD file, you have to download a PAD file editor – they’re available free on the Internet. I recommend the latest version of the PADGen tool, available on the ASP Shareware website. After you install it on your computer, just follow the next steps:

1. Run the PADGen application; you will get the “Company Info” section. Fill in the Company Information fields – see example below.

You can save this information in a separate file, so you won’t have to fill it over and over for every software product. Just use the “Company” toolbar from the PADGen window.

2. Fill in the Program Information and Descriptions. Enter the program name, version, release date, type, category and other options on the “Program Info” screen. Then, in the “Descriptions” section, you can enter multiple descriptions (sorted by length) in multiple languages (English is default).

3. Set the Web Information and enter the text of the Distribution / End User Agreements. In the “Web Info” screen, enter the URLs for the product information page, order page etc. In the “Permissions” tab, enter the text of the Distribution and End User License Agreements.

4. Enter the Affiliates information – this is one of the most important part of the PAD file for your affiliates, because they can easily sign up in your affiliate program. It also contains a link to your affiliates information page. You can usually get the information required here in your Control Panel. If not, you should contact your account manager.Be sure the “Include this Extension into PAD File” option is checked! If you use another PAD editor, the Affiliates extension might not be available – you need do download that extension.

5. Verify, generate and sign PAD File according to the options set in the “Build Options” tab of PADGen. Should any errors occur, you will be notified by the application. If you use another PAD editor, be sure it has a validation tool included; if not, you can use the PAD Validator tool on the Avangate website.

You’re all done! Repeat the steps above for each of your software products. See here more factsand details about creating PAD files.

I have a PAD file. Now what?

First of all, make sure the URL to the PAD file is available on your website, inside the affiliates info page.

Secondly, to get some results, start submitting the PAD files to download websites – you can use our PAD Promoter, it’s free. Or, if you want to save time, you can use professional software submission services.

Don’t forget – whether you’re a software author or the webmaster of a download site, you can find more resources on PAD files on the special section of the ASP-Shareware.org website.

There is still one post from this series to come. Subscribe to the Avangate blog by email or RSS.

Tags: affiliate manager, Affiliate Marketing, PAD files

What Does it Take to Sell through Affiliates? Part One – Affiliates Info Pag

2010-02-07T17:11:00.000-08:00

Lots of software vendors ask themselves this question and, unfortunately, I’ve seen cases when the conclusion they reach is that “affiliate marketing doesn’t work” or as Joel Spolsky says, in his case, it’s “ a big waste of time“.

Both for these vendors and for the ones that think their affiliate sales channel could be improved and seeing the positive feedback I got from our software publishers regarding the issue ofvendor involvement to motivate affiliates, I’m starting a series of posts with a more hands-on approach. I hope you will find them useful.

Affiliates Info Page

The first thing I’m going to talk about is what you can do in order to help potential affiliates find you and join your affiliate program, thus maximizing the chances to sell more using this channel.

The easiest way to advertise your affiliate plan is to have an affiliate information page on your website, which should explain clearly and concisely what your affiliate program is all about.

Think at it this way: affiliates reach your website when they’re searching for your products or for products from the same category. They are more likely to become affiliates of a vendor who knows to present them this opportunity at the right time, since they don’t have very much time to search how to become one’s affiliate partner. So why not take this chance and enroll them into your affiliate program?

It’s recommended you include on this page details like:

the commission(s) – base commission, commissioning schemes, etc. “What’s in it for me?” is the first question that pops into an affiliate marketer’s mind when deciding whether to join or not an affiliate program. Usually, base commissions for software start from 20% but, naturally, they are concordant to the price range of the products.
tracking details – cookie duration time and, generally, the period of time in which the affiliate will be credited for a previously referred customer. These usually start from 30 days upwards and in the software field, the bigger the cookie duration, the better for the affiliates. Geno Prussakov offers some interesting statistics about the customer return rates over a period of time.
payment frequency – how often will you pay your affiliates? How can they receive their money? (wire transfer, prepaid debit card, PayPal, etc.) The more payment options you have, affiliates are more likely to join your program.
the affiliate network(s) you are using for your program – some affiliates may be confused when they click the sign up button and find themselves on another website. To avoid this, it’s best you specify your affiliate network provider (such as Avangate).
the sign-up link (and page) – this is the thing that matters the most and you must not forget about it. If you’re using an affiliate network, it’s best if you can customize the sign up page to resemble your website from the same reasons as stated above.

Also, affiliates will appreciate it if you include other useful info on the dedicated page, such as:

contact information – it’s best you use a special email address for affiliate matters, like “affiliates@company.com” or the email address of the affiliate manager in your company .
other advantages they will get by joining – e.g. marketing materials (banners, text descriptions), live support from you / the affiliate network, etc.
links to PAD files – these are extremely helpful for download portals – will be discussed in the second part of this blog series.

I think it’s not necessary to talk about the advantages you get by implementing an affiliate info page from the search engines’ point of view… Just to be sure – potential affiliates will find you easier :)

How Do Other Software Companies Do It?

But enough with the theory- let’s see and analyze some examples:

1. Iobit has a basic affiliate section included on a more general partners page. The most important elements are present – the commission level and the sign up link.

2. In the case of VSO Software, the affiliate information page is very comprehensive, including all things that may concern affiliates. They work with multiple affiliate networks and they included specific details for each one. Also, marketing materials, PAD files and contact information is included on that page.

3. AVS4YOU has a step-by-step like affiliate information page, in which they make it easy for affiliates to become their affiliates. They also work with multiple affiliate networks and have specific buy links for affiliates.

4. Here’s an interesting approach – nice aired design with benefits outlined and social media contacts on Lavasoft’s affiliate information page.

If you aren’t convinced yet that affiliate marketing does work if you get involved into it, I have 2 more posts to convince you. ;) Stay tuned!

So, You Want To Do Affiliate Marketing?

2010-02-07T17:00:00.000-08:00

How in the world are you supposed to market your affiliate products via article submissions when most quality publishers will outright decline articles that are sales oriented?

It can be a little tough to wrap your mind around at first, but affiliate marketing with articles can be done and done well.

I’d like to spend a couple posts giving affiliates pointers for using article marketing in their campaigns.

First let’s start with the basics.

When using your article to market an affiliate product, you need to keep these guidelines in mind:

Be sure that if you are writing about a product, that you don’t mention the product in your resource box. That’s a dead giveaway that you are promoting the product.

If you are writing an article about the product, be sure that the URLs you use in your resource box do not include the name of the product.

Do not link to the product website or use an affiliate link in the article body. (Save that for the resource box)

Articles should always come across as informational rather than promotional (self-serving or sales oriented).

If you review a product, the article must appear unbiased, and not use hyped up language (sound like you’re trying to sell the product).

Article submissions are a great venue for doing affiliate marketing, but you need to be subtle about it.

Here’s a quick rule of thumb:

=> If you mention the product in your article, you would not mention that product in your resource box either via the URL you’re linking to (if the URL contains the name of the product you’re promoting) or via the text in your resource box. How do you give your affiliate link then? Use a URL that does not mention the product, and give it in the resource box without mentioning the product.

=> If you would like to mention the product in your resource box, then do not write about the product in your article. Instead, you can write about the niche that your product is in.

For example, if you are an affiliate for SubmitYOURArticle.com, you could write about anything having to do with article marketing, writing, link building, seo, driving traffic to a website, marketing a website, etc. Then, in the resource box you can talk about the product and give your affiliate link.

Make sense?

These are just the basic guidelines–there is so much more to doing effective affiliate marketing with articles!

In my next post I’ll go over some of the more fine tuning aspects of affiliate marketing, and I’ll give you some tips on how you, as an affiliate, can get the most out of your article submissions.

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The Fastest Way To Make Money

2010-02-03T15:38:00.000-08:00

Duplication Is the Missing Link To Making Money Online

All too often we see and hear all the claims of easy riches and wealth being spewed throughout the internet. What is truly needed to making any long lasting money is duplication. When you have duplication in any business or product being sold and someone right off the street is able to make it work, that’s when you have a winner. The biggest questions always asked is how do you know if you have a program that is easy to duplicate.

Well, the best way this is found out is by doing your research into how many people are in a program and then finding out how many are actually making money with it. Typical results for most programs are in the 2-3% range. Which means that only 2-3% are profiting from it. The best duplication rates will be in the 20-30% range. You may think that it should be much higher and I’d have to agree with you, however, unfortunately, most people that get involved with a new endeavour, especially in the work for yourself industry, simply give up before they even start.

These people want the benefits of a profitable business but most often is the case, they don’t have any help along the way and are forced to figure everything out for themselves. This is causes anxiety, frustration and massive confusion which then leads directly to these people just giving up before they even start trying to make it work. The best way to protect yourself from getting involved in any program without the help and resources you need to succeed, you must look deeply into the organization your joining and also what kind of help will they give you.

The most duplication comes from working with leaders and successful individuals in a proven program. Also, look for effective systems that are in place that you can immediately plug into to get up and running as quickly as possible.

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Make Money From Home With Affiliate Marketing

2010-02-02T17:28:00.001-08:00

Nearly everyone dreams of being able to work from home and set their own hours. There are many ways you can go about it: network marketing schemes, bid for work and freelance sites, and starting your own business. However, the easiest way to make money from home is affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing provides a unique opportunity to build something great without spending a lot of money or having your own product. It is not a get rich quick scheme, but with some hard work affiliate marketing websites can eventually be put on autopilot, giving you income with very little effort.

The key to any affiliate marketing campaign is the products you choose to market. You can research this on your own fairly easily. Just about any large website, and many smaller ones, that sell products or services offer an affiliate program. Amazon is just one of these. Each program is different, so you need to check out their products, programs, and policies before getting started.

Once you have a product, affiliate marketing is just what it sounds like. You set up a website to sell your affiliate products and market it on the web. There are many ways to do this, and you can find a lot of ways to make money from home with affiliate marketing online. However, many of these sites will give you the tips and tools you need without telling you how to use them to become successful.

One exception to this rule is Mafioso Marketing. This site gives you everything you need to make money from home with little to no effort once your websites are up and going strong. You will learn how to find and develop a niche website, choose affiliate products based on that niche, and dominate it in the search engines and web directories.

What makes affiliate marketing different from other ways to make money from home is that you can be your own boss, yet not actually start a business. Other than the investment to your websites, which does not need to be much, there is no investment or buy in as there can be with network marketing programs. You can truly build residual income with very little investment and a little bit of knowledge.

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Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing - Learn About 3 Types of Affiliate Programs

2010-02-01T15:57:00.000-08:00

As you know there are many ways to make money online. I mentioned 3 of these ways in my post Discover 3 Ways to Make Money Online. One of the ways that I mentioned was becoming an affiliate. There are several advantages of becoming an affiliate which include not needing to create your own product, provide customer support, or have your own website.

Now I would like to talk about 3 different types of Affiliate programs. When you get started as an affiliate it is a good idea to look at these 3 different types of programs to decide which ones will work best for you in your quest to make money online. The best way to find the one that is right for you is to test out all three different types.

1. Affiliate Programs for Informational and Digital Products.

The most common affiliate program for informational and digital products is the affiliate network called ClickBank. ClickBank is the most widely used affiliate network that offers a marketplace for internet marketers to find digital informational products to promote.

One great thing about digital informational products is that they are downloaded instantly when the customer purchases them and this offers customers instant gratification. This can even be used as a selling point if your are promoting affiliate products.

2. Affiliate Programs for physical products.

One of the most commonly used affiliate program for physical products is the Amazon Associate Program. These types of programs work when you send customers to the products website and they make a purchase. You then get a commission from the sale that was made from your link.

If this is the type of affiliate program your interested then you should take a look at the Amazon Associates Program. It is very easy to incorporate Amazon products you are interested in promoting by adding the widget to your blog and writing blog posts with product reviews. If you want to get started with this quickly then you can create a blog on blogger.com and it is very easy to add the Amazon Associate widgets to help you promote any of the products that you are interested in.

3. Affiliate Programs that offer a residual income.

The most common programs for residual income would be the ones for web hosting. Most of the time if you become an affiliate for a web hosting company and you send them a customer you get a commission for as long as they remain with the hosting company. Some of the affiliate programs may have different commission policies. It is a good idea to read the specific program policies about commissions to find out about how commission work for the specific affiliate programs you join.

Finding any of these different types of affiliate programs is as easy as doing a search on Google. There are millions of programs so it should not be hard to get started in your quest to find the right one for you and get started making money online.

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How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing Without Breaking the Bank

2010-02-01T15:55:00.001-08:00

Financially times are tough for everyone and many people have begun to look at the Internet as a way of bringing in extra money. The easiest way to start out is as an Affiliate Marketer. Simply put you promote other peoples products. There is no absolutely free ride, but you can make a start with affiliate marketing on a very low budget. You will need a few things but they can be acquired quite cheaply.

- A domain name. The name you choose should of course relate to the product or niche that you plan on marketing. GoDaddy is an excellent domain name company to get started with and have very reasonable prices.

- Website hosting will be your next step. You can pay anywhere from $1 a month to over $100, so you will want to do your research prior to choosing a provider. You can get free hosting but it is not as reliable and I would recommend going with a paid service.

- Software. You can purchase a professional system such as QuickBooks or stick with a basic program such as Excel, but you need some method of keep track of your income and expenses online. Affiliate marketing is a business and you should have the power to know exactly what is working and what should be eliminated.

- Advertising. This can be tricky. Although there are free methods available they will simply not generate the same amount of traffic as paid ads do. There are new companies arriving in this field on a daily basis so once again you will need to shop around and do your research.

- Affiliate programs. Once again there are many choices. ClickBank, Commission Junction and tons of others. Some companies even offer their own program for you to use. Try and stick to reliable and well-known areas to start.

Affiliate marketing can be a great source of revenue but you have to ensure that you study the workings and do plenty of research before you jump into anything.

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Making Money With Affiliate Marketing Programs - The Internet Finally Delivers

2010-02-01T15:38:00.000-08:00

Making money with affiliate marketing programs is getting much more common and very popular. And that is no wonder when you consider the fact that affiliate marketing is a legitimate way for average people to start their own home based business with very little investment; other than time.

Affiliate marketing programs are very plentiful - almost every major retailer has an affiliate program; Wal-Mart has one, so does Office Depot - almost everybody you might think of has an affiliate offering.

It works like this:

-Do some research to locate affiliate programs or products that you are interested in promoting.

-Register for those affiliate programs (this is usually free).

-Start promoting the products through multiple methods

There are companies that offer many different products (like ClickBank). ClickBank products are primarily digital products that are available for immediate download once purchased. There are companies that offer mostly physical products (like Commission Junction), which are shipped once the order is completed.

Typically, commission rates on digital products are much higher than on physical products due to the fact that there is no manufacturing, warehousing or shipping involved.

To look for other opportunities for making money with affiliate marketing programs, simply open your search engine and type "product type + affiliate", without the quote marks. For example, designer purses + affiliate, or sunglasses + affiliate - this will produce plenty of links to opportunities for you to check out.

Most affiliate programs offer free sign up for people wishing to promote products, but some do require an application to be approved before you can start marketing.

There are many different ways to promote products, both paid methods, such as pay-per-click; and free methods like article marketing and online free classified ads. I do suggest trying out the free methods first until you have gained a little experience.

Another suggestion is to join a couple of affiliate marketing forums - reading posts by other marketers can be very helpful and can allow you to learn some things the quick and easy way rather than through hard won experience. Just open your search engine and type in "affiliate marketing forums"; you should get plenty of links to check out. I recommend that you look for a couple that have been around for a long time and have a lot of active members. On most forums of this type; people are very helpful and offer a lot of useful free advice.

Making money with affiliate marketing programs is a quick way to start building some extra income working in your spare time. Many people have grown their part time affiliate businesses into full time occupations.

I have to say that making money by selling products that you do not even own is a pretty sweet endeavor.

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Impact Radius

2010-01-27T14:38:00.000-08:00

There has been quite a bit of coverage about Impact Radius in the last week but if you were like me earlier today then you might still be trying to work your way through the press release to actually figure out what’s in it for affiliates. Thankfully I’m just off the phone to Ricki Jones (ex Affilinet, CJ & Wheel) who will be heading up the UK office and so I’ve got a bit more idea of what’s going on now

The company grew out of the realisation that often a traditional affiliate network could best serve their clients by getting out the way and letting affiliates speak directly to merchants. Even when networks offer a full affiliate management service to their clients it’s hard for them to know either side of the business as well as the people working in it each day. So with that in mind Impact Radius is about offering a solution rather then a service.

3 Key Issues for Affiliates

Open Conact – Yellow Pages style directory with full contact information for both advertisers & affiliates (media partners in Impact Radius terms) This means it should be easy for both sides of the relationship to contact each other and to find relevant partners to work with.
Pricing Structure – Impact Radius override fees are much lower than most networks with the highest level being 10% and sliding down with volume. The transparency means that you know the full costs to the advertiser of your activity and so for example you could suggest a higher CPA based on sending a higher volume of leads that would bring the override down.
Negotiation – using the directory you would be able to find merchants and approach them with an offer of a commission rate that would be acceptable to you. This is managed by insertion orders back and forth which are all logged when the agreement is made. Up for discussion would be commission rate, cookie duration, minimum CPC’s, any performance caps, incentive tiers and any other specific terms and conditions required.
There are a host of other features that should also be interesting for example flexible payments (daily if required!) and also facilities to track offline activity through unique voucher code, pay-per-call and unique URL tracking.

Time will tell how it works out as aspects like the directory idea might be hard work to reach a tipping point before it becomes an “everyone who’s anyone” type directory. Overall though I think it’s a really interesting business and it will be intriguing to watch how it finds it place in the UK market.

This information was provided courtesy of: http://www.affiliateblog.co.uk/

The One Sales Copy Rule That Will Transform Your Income!

2010-01-16T09:34:00.000-08:00

A.I.D.A

Attention
In our media-filled world, you need to be quick and direct to grab people's attention. Use powerful words, or a picture that will catch the reader's eye and make them stop and read what you have to say next.

With most office workers suffering from e-mail overload, action-seeking e-mails need subject lines that will encourage recipients to open them and read the contents. For example, to encourage people to attend a company training session on giving feedback, the email headline, "How effective is YOUR feedback?" is more likely to grab attention than the purely factual one of, "This week's seminar on feedback".

Interest
This is one of the most challenging stages: You've got the attention of a chunk of your target audience, but can you engage with them enough so that they'll want to spend their precious time understanding your message in more detail?

Gaining the reader's interest is a deeper process than grabbing their attention. They will give you a little more time to do it, but you must stay focused on their needs. This means helping them to pick out the messages that are relevant to them quickly. So use bullets and subheadings, and break up the text to make your points stand out.

For more information on understanding your target audience's interests and expectations, and the context of your message, read the article on the Rhetorical Triangle.

Desire
The Interest and Desire parts of AIDA go hand-in-hand: As you're building the reader's interest, you also need to help them understand how what you're offering can help them in a real way. The main way of doing this is by appealing to their personal needs and wants..

So, rather than simply saying "Our lunchtime seminar will teach you feedback skills", explain to the audience what's in it for them: "Get what you need from other people, and save time and frustration, by learning how to give them good feedback."

Feature and Benefits (FAB)
A good way of building the reader's desire for your offering is to link features and benefits. Hopefully, the significant features of your offering have been designed to give a specific benefit to members of your target market.

When it comes to the marketing copy, it's important that you don't forget those benefits at this stage. When you describe your offering, don't just give the facts and features, and expect the audience to work out the benefits for themselves: Tell them the benefits clearly to create that interest and desire.

Example: "This laptop case is made of aluminum," describes a feature, and leaves the audience thinking "So what?" Persuade the audience by adding the benefits ".giving a stylish look, that's kinder to your back and shoulders".

You may want to take this further by appealing to people's deeper drives "...giving effortless portability and a sleek appearance and that will be the envy of your friends and co-workers."

Action
Finally, be very clear about what action you want your readers to take; for example, "Visit www.mindtools.com now for more information" rather than just leaving people to work out what to do for themselves.

Using "AIDA" will help you ensure that any kind of writing, whose purpose is to get the reader to do something, is as effective as possible. First it must grab the target audience's attention, and engage their interest. Then it must build a desire for the product offering, before setting out how to take the action that the writer wants the audience to take.

this information was provided courtesy of www.mindtools.com

Affiliate Marketing Information Report

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Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online. It has also become one of the most popular ways for entrepreneurs to make money on the Internet. Simply put, an affiliate program is an agreement between a merchant and a third party marketer which allows the third party to promote the merchant’s product for a percentage of the profits that are the result of a sale from the third parties promotion. Typically, promotion is done via a website, but can also take the form of an advertisement in a e-zine or even a link from a web 2.0 property, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the marketer and the merchant. The merchant will only pay for advertising if a successful sale is made, making it one of the most, if not the most, cost effective advertising solutions available. The merchant is also given a wider market in which to advertise his or her product or service. Rather than just having the merchant promote the product, affiliate marketing creates the possibility of a whole team of marketers working to sell the product. The marketer benefits by making money off of products with their website or another format. This method of making money requires some work up front in terms of building and promoting the website or putting together a newsletter, but once the link is up and running and receiving clicks, the income stream is passive. Unlike most types of Internet businesses, the start-up cost for promoting a product tends to be relatively low. If you are promoting on your own website, the only initial costs will be your domain registration, which is typically under $10 for a year long registration, and hosting services, which can be under $5 per month. Furthermore, the product is already developed by the merchant meaning you will not have to worry about creating your own digital or physical product, you will not have to worry about payment solutions, or order processing. All of these matters are taken care of by the merchant.

You may be wondering how one finds affiliate partners. There are many high quality reputable services which act as an intermediary between the merchant and the affiliate marketer. If you’ve created a digital product you’d like to promote or you are interested in marketing a digital product, such as an ebook, a downloadable piece of software, or a monthly membership site, a service called Clickbank is a popular choice. Many products on Clickbank offer relatively high commissions of fifty percent or more and because of this, they have a huge network of affiliate marketers. Clickbank is easy to use and is known to pay its affiliate marketers on time making it one of the most popular affiliate intermediary services to use. If you’re more interested in promoting or selling physical products, for example books, cell phones, televisions, etc. or services, such as vacation packages, banking products, there are literally dozens of choices for affiliate networks. Some of the most popular networks include Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Azoogle. These networks often have very popular name brands as merchants, including offline stores like WalMart and Sears. While physical products from name brand stores tend to be an easier sale, they provide lower commissions, meaning you will need to sell a higher volume of products in order to make money. Ultimately it is a personal choice whether to market physical or digital products and in turn, which affiliate network to join. Both types of products and every network has the potential to make you money.

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