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Affiliate Marketing allows you to make money online without a web site or products.
Affiliate programs are a great way to get started in an online business. You can sell them via a web site, blog or email (although to make top money you will need a web site). The top Affiliates make a great living from this and there are thousands who make a decent amount of extra cash each month.
Basically, being an affiliate earns you commission by reselling other companies products or services. The transaction and payment is handled by the Affiliate Network. You don't have to develop a product, stock inventory, deal with orders, shipping and/or customer complaints. All you need to do is get people to click on your affiliate link.
An affiliate link will usually be a unique code you add to a URL link to the the merchants web site. This code tells the merchant that the visitor has come from you. If someone clicks on this link and purchases the product you will get a percentage of the overall price paid to you as a commission. The percentage can vary from single figure percentages to over 70%.
When someone follows your link to a product page they don't necessarily have to purchase the product first time. In many cases a 'Cookie' is saved on the prospective customers machine. A cookie is a file which in this instance tells the merchant that it was you that first attracted the customer to the site. These cookies are valid for a period of time after the customer first uses your link. This depends on the merchant / affiliate network and can be as long as one year. If the product is purchased in this time period you get the commission even if the customer subsequently goes directly to the merchants site.
Some affiliates have 'tiers'. In this instance not only do you get a commission on any sales you refer but if someone you refer sells the product themselves you get a commission of these sales.
Some programs have recurring commissions. These reward you for the lifetime of the customer. Not only do you earn commissions from the initial sale, but you'll continue to earn a recurring commission as long as that customer remains active.
An example of a recurring commission would be where there is a membership fee involved. Not only would you earn commission when the customer signs up but you would earn further commission every time that customer renewed their subscription. You would get paid for as long as that customer was active.
I hope you're getting the idea now that selling other peoples products can be extremely profitable !!
As stated above affiliate marketing is where you can sell another company's service or product and make a commission on every sale or lead. Your job is to drive traffic (customers) to your affiliate link.
There are affiliate programs for every area and you will be able to find several that fit your interests.
Affiliate programs offer a low cost and risk free way to make serious money. The reason affiliate programs are so great is that you only need to focus on marketing. All the rest is looked after by the network or merchant.
What is a blog?
The word Blog is an acronym for WeB LOG. blogs allow their writers the opportunity to write an online journal sharing their thoughts on everything and anything with an audience of millions. When blogs first hit the Internet they were basically online journals/diaries of individuals. The blogging sphere evolved and now it seems every one has a blog and many companies both big and small will have a blog sometimes written by a team.
What is the difference between a Website and a BLOG?
A blog is to all intent and purposes a website. The main difference is that a blog is geared up for easily publishing content on a particular subject and is therefore more regularly updated when compared to a website which is more static. Also the content is usually more bite size and opinionated when compared to the content of a website. A blog also allows for a two-way conversation as visitors to blogs are often allowed to respond to the blogs posts.
So Can You Make Money with a blog?
Most definitely! Pretty much the same way you can make money with a website and some more besides! There’s also some different ways you can market a blog and these are included in this section. How do I Start a Blog. The easiest and cheapest way is to use Google’s www.blogger.com, which hosts the site for free and is relatively easy for the newbie to get up and going. Also offering a similar service is www.wordpress.com that has a slightly steeper learning curve but is the Internet standard for blogging. Although the method of blogging is popular for newbie bloggers as it is free the people serious about blogging host their own site in their own registered domain. They download open source blogging software (for example from www.wordpress.com) and then upload their blog and subsequent posts.
Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs).
According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, SEM methods include: search engine optimization (or SEO), paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. Other sources, including the New York Times, define SEM as the practice of buying paid search listings.
Most people are suffering from information overload and need a place to find reliable, quality information amidst the hoards of questionable information that can be found online. People want to be able to save time when they need information and instead of spending hours even days researching a topic they can turn to a membership site where they can find in one location all the information they are looking for.
Membership sites can also save people money because the membership is often offered products or services at a discount. People join membership sites because they save time and money! People also join membership sites to be able to share with others who enjoy the same interests. You can learn a lot from other people sharing stories of how they grew such and such a plant or played a great game of golf.
People join book club sites and cooking membership sites to enjoy learning new things and sharing hobbies that they have in common with others. Most membership sites have forums or chat rooms that facilitate a "community setting" that encourages members to chat with each other.
People join membership sites for the opportunity to share with those who have a common interest so that they can learn from others and have an online community to be a part of. People also join membership sites to improve skills or receive an education. There are many mentorship or tutorial membership sites online that offer members the chance to learn a new skill or improve an existing skill. Many business membership sites show individuals how to run a business online or how to work from home.
Knowledge is powerful and many members agree that membership sites are one of the best ways to increase your knowledge on most any subject. People join membership sites to increase their knowledge about a subject or to learn a new skill, even to earn a living by gaining valuable information from those who are already earning a living doing something that are willing to teach others. Some people join membership sites because of the bonuses, or prizes that are given to members for being part of the membership site. Some sites offer discounts to members, or give monthly awards even run regular competitions.
Membership sites are always finding new ways to reward members for being loyal and participating in the workings of the site. People join membership sites for the extra rewards and goodies that membership site owners often give to members as a way of saying thank you for being a part of the membership. Sometimes membership site members are given the opportunity to earn money through the site like when they participate in affiliate programs run by the membership site.
People join membership sites for the opportunity to make money through what the site offers. The reasons people join membership sites vary but could be to save time or money, share common interests with others, be a part of a community of others who like what they like, increase or gain knowledge, because of the extra rewards, bonuses, discounts, or prizes and also some people join membership sites in order to make money.
Most people are suffering from information overload and need a place to find reliable, quality information amidst the hoards of questionable information that can be found online. People want to be able to save time when they need information and instead of spending hours even days researching a topic they can turn to a membership site where they can find in one location all the information they are looking for.
Membership sites can also save people money because the membership is often offered products or services at a discount.
People join membership sites because they save time and money!
People also join membership sites to be able to share with others who enjoy the same interests. You can learn a lot from other people sharing stories of how they grew such and such a plant or played a great game of golf. People join book club sites and cooking membership sites to enjoy learning new things and sharing hobbies that they have in common with others. Most membership sites have forums or chat rooms that facilitate a "community setting" that encourages members to chat with each other.
People join membership sites for the opportunity to share with those who have a common interest so that they can learn from others and have an online community to be a part of.
People also join membership sites to improve skills or receive an education. There are many mentorship or tutorial membership sites online that offer members the chance to learn a new skill or improve an existing skill. Many business membership sites show individuals how to run a business online or how to work from home. Knowledge is powerful and many members agree that membership sites are one of the best ways to increase your knowledge on most any subject.
People join membership sites to increase their knowledge about a subject or to learn a new skill, even to earn a living by gaining valuable information from those who are already earning a living doing something that are willing to teach others.
Some people join membership sites because of the bonuses, or prizes that are given to members for being part of the membership site. Some sites offer discounts to members, or give monthly awards even run regular competitions. Membership sites are always finding new ways to reward members for being loyal and participating in the workings of the site.
People join membership sites for the extra rewards and goodies that membership site owners often give to members as a way of saying thank you for being a part of the membership.
Sometimes membership site members are given the opportunity to earn money through the site like when they participate in affiliate programs run by the membership site.
People join membership sites for the opportunity to make money through what the site offers.
The reasons people join membership sites vary but could be to save time or money, share common interests with others, be a part of a community of others who like what they like, increase or gain knowledge, because of the extra rewards, bonuses, discounts, or prizes and also some people join membership sites in order to make money.
People have made millions on the internet, people are making millions on the internet and people will continue to make millions on the internet. People start to work at home in their spare time then move on to start a small business sometimes earning enough from it to quit their jobs.
Through the internet thousands of people are earning themselves a few hundred extra dollars spending money a month, some are earning several hundred dollars a month and some earn enough to quit their 9 - 5 job and become their own boss working from home. More and more (and in many cases non technical) people like you are jumping on the bandwagon to make money online.
The great thing is that the internet is still growing and is still a long way off reaching maturity. Latest figures show that 939 million people have access to the internet (up 160% from 2000). That's a great market to have access too. However with a world population of 6500 million there's still a hell of long way for the market to grow! The industry is still in its infancy and now is a great time for you to grab a part of this cash cow.
This site will show you how to make money online. You don't need to be a technical whizzkid or a programmer. Some of the biggest online earners were like you full of ideas and enthusiasm but no or little technical knowledge.
So whether you're an internet novice wanting to make some extra cash in your spare time, an entrepreneur full of ideas but with little technical knowledge or a web master looking to drive traffic to your website and make serious money this website is your one-stop resource to how ANYONE can make money online.
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E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered e-mail marketing. However, the term is usually used to refer to:
* sending e-mails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers and to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business,
* sending e-mails with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately,
* adding advertisements to e-mails sent by other companies to their customers, and
* sending e-mails over the Internet, as e-mail did and does exist outside the Internet (e.g., network e-mail and FIDO).
Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US$400 million on e-mail marketing in 2006.
Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web for the expressed purpose of delivering marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, online classified advertising, advertising networks and e-mail marketing, including e-mail spam.
Online video directories for brands are a good example of interactive advertising. These directories complement television advertising and allow the viewer to view the commercials of a number of brands. If the advertiser has opted for a response feature, the viewer may then choose to visit the brand’s website, or interact with the advertiser through other touch points such as email, chat or phone. Response to brand communication is instantaneous, and conversion to business is very high. This is because in contrast to conventional forms of interruptive advertising, the viewer has actually chosen to see the commercial.
