How To Spice Up Your Affiliate Internet Marketing Site
July 18, 2009 by jcasmer · 10 Comments
Most affiliate internet marketing programs provide marketing and advertising material to their members. Some even provide a pre-built website.
This of course is very convenient for the affiliate and allows them to get started right away by driving traffic to their website. However, often an unforeseen dilemma results because of this convenience.
All the affiliate sites begin to look like clones. The marketing material loses its punch and appeal, making it increasingly difficult for the affiliate to get the prospect to take action.
Therefore even as an affiliate you have to take a personal creative approach to your business. You cannot rely too heavily on supplies from your merchant. However, you don’t have to be a marketing maverick to stand apart for your affiliate competitors here are some ways to do this.
1. Add pictures. Images are an exceptionally easy way to make your site stand out. They not only add color but interest. The picture can directly relate to your niche or it can be thought provoking, but using images sparsely throughout your site and content is a good way to spice up your affiliate internet marketing.
2. Add quick content. Not all your affiliate internet marketing content has to be a thousand words long, sometimes just a quick 300 word article can both get search engines and prospects to notice. You can write a quick how to article, or an update of an already existing piece of content. Content can also be in the form of a quick video. Create a 1-3min long video for entertainment and educational value and upload it.
3. Add widgets. Widgets are both useful and fun ways to spice up your affiliate internet marketing. If you belong to social network sites you can find widgets that will automatically post your participations and updates on your website or blog. Depending on the affiliate program you are with you can even find widgets that show product and top products, service updates, and even reviews.
4. Add testimonials. The company often has their own reviews that they use for their site but you can get your own for your affiliate internet marketing site. Two ways to do this is by asking people in forums and social sites if they used the products and services, and if they wouldn’t mind leaving a review for your site. Even without an incentive people will reply. But you can encourage them by giving away something for free like an ebook.
5. Add an ezine. Set up an autoresponder and produce a weekly or monthly ezine with tips and updates. Through your ezine you can answer questions, ask for testimonials, set up polls, and provide information. This is one of the best ways to spice up your affiliate internet marketing.
6. Use the newest textlinks and banners. Within the marketing material provided by your merchant look for the freshest newest ones. If the same material is still in use for more than 3 years ask your merchant when he plans to create new ones.
7. Change your textlinks and banners every 3 months. The average life span of any online marketing material is 3 months some experts argue 1 month but 3 months is good time frame to stick to. Every three months change your banners and textlinks. Seasons and seasonal holidays a good thing to keep in mind when placing banners. Don’t use a summery banner if Christmas in is in the air.
Spicing up your affiliate internet marketing so it stands apart is not difficult. You may have to get a little creative but most of the tips are easy to put into practice.
Affiliate Marketing Training: What is a Mentor?
July 8, 2009 by jcasmer · 8 Comments
A mentor is a teacher. They are someone who has both experience and knowledge to allow them to help others achieve their goals.
Lessons and exercises are used to help the mentee develop the required skills to move onto the next phase of fulfillment and success.
Mentors play a very important role in the achievement of success. They help people to take that next step with more ease than they would have experienced should they have attempted it on their own.
Mistakes are fine teachers, but having someone help you avoid these mistakes is better. It conserves your time, energy, and financial resources.
Thus for the sake of reducing stress, mentors are very helpful. But one can?t define a mentor as simply a stress reducer. They are also motivators.
To learn the right way to do something is fine but to actually have the will to do it is completely different. Often, we need a surge of enthusiasm to help us on our way.
A mentor is someone who is good at inspiring. Like any good teacher, a mentor can rally excitement around learning and applying what has been learned. They don?t do the work for you nor do they do all the thinking, but they are there to help increase your skill and knowledge so what you do has a higher level of success, and may even become more enjoyable.
Mentors generally work with specifics. They have knowledge and experience about a specific realm which allows them to answer questions, address concerns, and develop doable steps. It is the facts that mentors are able to create specific steps and help you fine tune your goal that makes them so instrumental to a number of people?s goals.
Many people who have used a mentor, whether it be for business, careers or personal goals have stated that their mentor helped them to focus and stay interested. Mentors are good at helping you see the long term benefits of short term goals.
But besides being able to help someone identify specific steps to reach a goal, and being able to being able to help someone develop effective strategies and skills for reaching goals, a mentor is also a friend.
Over 50% of people consider their mentor as their friend. When you work closely with someone for a common goal you can?t help feeling bonded. Mentees find their mentors to be a motivator, confidant, advisor, councilor, and a sounding board. Developing a friendship with a mentor helps the process but it is also a nice feeling to know that someone is genuinely in your corner.
There are mentors in virtually every industry and field. They are there to help guide you through the process of obtaining your goal and success.
They help reduce time consuming and costly mistakes and help you to remain focused and motivated. Overall, their purpose is to make sure you have more skills and knowledge so you can succeed.
Niche Affiliate Marketing Mentoring Group Offers $4.95 14 Day Trial Membership
July 3, 2009 by jcasmer · 4 Comments
The Niche Power Group is now offering a $4.95 14 Day Trial Full Membership to their highly publicized niche affiliate marketing mentoring group. This is not a typical trial membership where you get access to certain areas of the site and then you have to upgrade to get full access. The NPG is offering full access for 14 Days at $4.95 for a limited time only.
Here is what the NichePowerGroup Trial membership gives you…
1) Unlimited daily access to 5 experienced internet marketing coaches. We all earn a full time income online and we will help you do the same! Unlike many membership site owners, we are actually in the private members forum every day to help you, advise you and answer all your questions.
2) A step by step action plan that teaches you how to go from a complete newbie to a profitable niche website owner. We’ll teach you everything from finding a profitable niche, to creating your site and getting thousands of visitors and sales. If you don’t understand something – no problem. Just post in our private members forum and one of the mentors will help you.
3) Free Wordpress Installation – we recommend building your website on Wordpress – a free content management system. This allows YOU to be in full control of your site without ever having to learn any HTML or fancy programming. Our experienced Web Tech will install Wordpress for you and a modern theme so you can get your site up and running in no time!
4) Massive 70% Discounts on our Niche Power Sites – If you want a ready made site to start promoting straight away, then these professionally designed and monetized Wordpress sites are perfect for you. We normally sell these at $97 per site, but as a member of the Niche Power Group you can purchase a site for less than $30, including installation and embedded with your own affiliate ID.
5) Niche Marketing Learning Center – niche marketing training covering many different “How To” subjects, article marketing, and FAQ’s. We are constantly adding new content and videos to this section.
6) Niche Checklists – these handy checklists will help to ensure that you don’t forget anything important when you are marketing your website.
7) Niche Ebooks, Reports and Articles – we add PLR and resale rights products on a regular basis. You have unlimited access to these products and can sell them on your website and keep all the profits.
This is a limited trial offer so get on board before its too late:
