Hey
Guys welcome to the Easy Marketers, Affiliate Marketing Basic Training.
We plan to start at the beginning where you have just walked in the
door and even if you haven't there will be stuff in this for you too.
Everyone has questions we know however the greatest way to teach yourself is to find the answer yourself. Now that doesn't mean we won't be assisting but by you taking the first step yourself takes a little pressure off us simply because we are busy too. If an answer isn't forth coming then please by all means submit a support ticket and we will get back to you as quick as possible.
FIND ANSWERS HERE
Search Engines like Google or Yahoo to name just two are great places to find answers. All you need do is type the question in your browser, unless you're like me and had to find out what a browser was! No Joke I Did! The browser is the long white box where you see writing changing all the time, it usually is the addresses of the site your at and when you hit a link the information is transferred into your white box and the site is found. The browser will have http:// at the start.
Generally there is a smaller white box also up the top of the page. That is the browser search. Simply place a word or a few words into it and hit enter and you will arrive on a page full of information dealing with your word or question. You will also notice at the top sometimes you are recommended to try another word or few words. They even have these word ready for you to click on them to carry you there should the right answers for you were not on the first group of pages.
Know matter what you want to find out you can usually find it within the search pages of Google or Yahoo or some other search engines.
We suggest you take your time get to know how to use this tool, the search engine because it is a handy way to search for different niches to see how popular they are, also to clarify things for yourself if your out of ideas. After saying that however, I state emphatically should you find information you want to use or write about never direct copy the information someone else has written. Make sure you put it in entirely your own words. You don't want to be accused of plagiarism and find yourself in court.
THE BEGINNING
Affiliate Marketing is the selling of a persons or a companies product in return for a payment or commission. The affiliate sells within the framework of the companies rules and also the legal rules of the country or state.
It is our intention to give you a full rundown on how to set up everything you need to create an income online by means of selling Affiliate Products.
In the first few steps to consider in finding what to sell and finding an audience to sell to. We must first consider ourselves.
Consider ourselves? While that sounds strange we can not be seen by the public as a corner store. Therefore we need to let the entire network of our niche realize we are in business and we are a leader in the field of our subject. That can only be done by making ourselves known all over the internet by writing Ezines, News Releases, in fact advertise every where we can, offering a valuable freebie to get people to join our list. Next we keep a valuable stream of information flowing to our list, provide items of nil to low cost that proceed to solve problems people face in there lives or niche area.
What we are trying to do is through our expertise on our subject is have them feel almost forced to come back to you to find out more. Like the art of tact is to tell someone to jump in the lake in such a way you get them looking for trunks to do so. The more valuable our writing the more people thirst for what you have.
To sound professional we must be professional in all we do and with every business comes the essentials needed to operate the business in a professional manner.
THE ATTITUDE
Many arrive and start marketing without the thought of what to do! I
mean anyone can find something on the net to do throw a few ads around place a link into Traffic Exchanges. They don't even take into consideration the chance that others won't buy or join in with them.
Upon realization that others won't fall over and rush into any there business quite often people start to look for other ventures, ending up with a portfolio full of half baked attempts to get each business started but they don't last too long before they move to the next. Why does this happen with the internet?
Simply because we behave as humans and look for instant gratification. To spend $100 to many means little if it all gets too hard and something else that looks easier comes along. We justify away the $100 as we are going to make it up on this brand new idea.
I believe we should spend $30,000 on an online business. Damn I don't believe I said that am I mad?? Not really, Many spend tens of thousands in purchasing an off line business, say a corner store. Having to get a bank loan we are now forced to stay with it! no chopping or changing, we have to make it work.
So we persevere get past the slow times and finally start making money. Yes it was hard work and yes we were forced to stay with it unlike Internet marketing.
This is where attitude becomes a major factor in Marketing! We need to consider this business as though we had invested $30,000. We must work through the bad periods just like the off line business. Should we keep chasing the golden egg we never will establish a business foundation in anything. Maintain your attitude, keep in mind your going to have times where you would love to try something else but you have already invested in this business stay focused on it.
Look to treat this as a part time job if you still work off line. Decide how many hours a day you plan to work on it, remembering you have family to consider. If you work full time as I do have a start time between 8 and 9 am for me and I like to be done washed up and finished by 6 pm. Occasionally
it drags out til 7pm but that is an exception rather than a creeping on my life. I work 6 days a week and have a rule with my wife to drop everything I am doing when she discovers she needs me to do something. I keep my door open when I am not doing something tough but she knows not to bother me if and when the door is shut. That works fine for us and you need to consider what works for you and your family.
THE TOOLS
Like any off line business, online businesses need to use certain items or tools to make your job more professional and easier through automation. The basic tools required are...
- Website Builder can also be used as a HTML Editor This one is good and Free.
- Autoresponder to take delivery of captured names and email addresses and deliver to those prospects the email series you will have written
- Website Hosting to get your websites and Capture Pages seen on the Internet.
- Tracking is designed to let you know how your ads are doing and a very valuable tool.
- Domain Names Very important for your Identity.
These are the most important and although others would be useful it is these basic tools that will get your business rolling.
With your Website Builder you can create your Optin/Capture pages then take the piece of code from your Autoresponder to add to them. This provides the Information entry boxes that carry the prospects details to your Autoresponder. Make sure you have your Email series written up about 7 to 15 mails is what we do along with having top quality freebies available for your list only.
Your Tracker will tell you where your results are coming from.
However if you know anything about these necessary tools you will know they don't come cheap. You can work it out for yourself or take our word for it that a cost of about $50 to $60 a month for the above tools.
Bet that made you gasp! We do have something we have arranged for you. This provides every tool you need and a whole bunch more!...
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2 Hosting accounts with unlimited domains
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Includes Website Builder This site has been built using it.
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Autoresponder
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Tracking
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Material to sell at no extra cost
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Ability to create a membership website
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Affiliate program
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Customer support desk
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Generating pdf ebooks and reports
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Selling your products online
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Selling products they provide for you at 100% commissions
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Shopping carts
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Product download protection
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All the training you want
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Plus we also will assist you
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and so much more
What would you expect all that to cost? No I am not playing that game! How does under $20 a month sound compared to what we have already considered? Seriously that is all it is!
See for yourself.
Affiliate marketing can be fantastic fun and so rewarding so long as you persevere with it.. Next we are going to discuss how to use these tools and also working with Email Marketing. Till then Friends. Keep going!
Ray Casey
