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Top 3 Free and Easy Affiliate Programs to Join for Beginners

Let’s assume you have your website up and running. You have built a website or blog, and now it is time to monetize it. There are so many choices out there online, so where is the best place to start? First of all, from my own experience as a beginning affiliate a few years back, I didn’t have a plan of action. I began my affiliate programs blindly because it was simply too much to process in the beginning, with all of the choices. I didn’t do much research at first, and that made it tough to know exactly where to go for some order in the information overload.

Through my failures and successes, I have learned a lesson of strategy that has finally grown with me. If I had begun my affiliate start up with first a solid plan of action, followed by research on all of the affiliate networks in order to minimize my choices to only the top plan of action and best three affiliate networks to promote while I learned the ropes, I would have succeeded much sooner.

Top 3 Affiliate Networks for beginners

1. Google AdSense

· This is actually an Ad Site, but because it is an extremely popular and easy way to monetize your website, I use it in the same or similar way as I would use to promote products from the actual affiliate network sites.

· Google AdSense offers high rewards along with several options for displaying monetized content.

· You can run various tests and or campaigns for the right types of ads to use on your website. They can be automatic or responsive ad units that change according to those who are viewing the pages on your site, or the content of your site.

· Payouts are monthly. Minimum payout amount available is $100.00. Don’t worry; it adds up quickly when you begin active affiliate marketing.

2. ClickBank

· My number 1 go to market place where there are tens of thousands of vendors offering hundreds of thousands of affiliates commissions of anywhere between 50 to 75% for every sale.

· ClickBank is also a lot like a payment processor.

· Fast, weekly payouts and great customer support.

· ClickBank is awesome for beginners with how easy it is to use.

3. Amazon Associates

· This affiliate program is hands down the easiest to use with about 1.5 million sellers, it is among the largest affiliate marketing programs online.

· Amazon unfortunately offers smaller commissions and longer payout periods at first, which means you have to promote products at a higher volume, but the success and volume of sellers as well as how easy it is to incorporate into any niche makes it worthy of this top 3 list.

Now you have the best 3 affiliate markets for beginners in the affiliate marketing arena. It’s time to know your products and get a step by step plan of action built. It is difficult to form a detailed plan of action when you are new to marketing, but along with knowing the affiliate networks you will utilize first, a detailed plan is a must for any affiliates success.

Selling Online – Make it Easy For Your Customers to Reach You With Google Voice

Too many online sellers want to remain anonymous and do business without having to have any contact with the buyer. That’s just not going to work and if you don’t build relationships with your customers they may buy from you once, then never again. Building an online business means being accessible when the potential buyers have questions. Ignoring them and leaving their questions unanswered will only make them find another company to do business with.

I had a telephone call today from a gentleman in another country wanting to purchase some of my items in bulk. He called me on my business phone and we worked out a deal. This man told me he hates doing business via email because he can’t type well and would rather have a conversation face to face or on the phone. I agree. Although I do most of my correspondence via email, I would rather talk to my customers and find out who they are and what they really need. I can make recommendations that help my customers get exactly the products that will work for them and maybe upsell them a related product they didn’t know we carry.

Now, with that said, you don’t want to give out your home telephone number and have people calling at all hours of the night and day. You need a separate business telephone number and I recommend you get a Google Voice account. It is a free service from Google that you can sign up for. Google Voice issues you a telephone number in an area code that you choose and you get free voice mail with your account. You can set the call forwarding so that it rings at your home, your work or cell phone. There are a lot of features offered with this product but I like the voice mail feature the best.

When callers leave voice messages for you, Google Voice translates them and you can view them on your computer screen or cell phone like a text message. I have found that the translation service is pretty accurate considering a computer is doing the translating instead of a human being. I have even called my own Google Voice account to record myself when I had an idea I didn’t want to forget. When I get back to the office my voice recording is all typed out for me. You can even email the message to another person if you need to.

There is no reason not to have a business telephone number if you are selling online. The call you miss may be money gone forever.

3 Easy Ways To Increase Sales For Your Small Business

Having started my business career using the more traditional bricks and mortar business route I know only too well how difficult it can be to increase sales for a small business. Sadly, nowadays it is even harder for local businesses to survive as more and more of us opt for the more convenient route of ordering our goods online… But are there any “tactics” that small businesses can employ to lure more of us to buy their goods or services?

Mobile Marketing-Promoting To The Converted

Many local businesses miss out “big time” as they waste too much valuable time and resources chasing new customers when the real money (and consistent income) comes from marketing to existing customers. After all, people who have already bought from you will already be aware of the quality of your product or service and providing that the buying experience that they had with you was good, then chances are that they will buy from you again and even encourage others to buy from you as well… They just need a little prompt or reminder that you are still open for business.

One of the easiest and most instant ways to promote to existing customers is to use mobile marketing. Let’s be honest most of us now carry our mobiles with us 24 hours a day and more texts are opened straight away than any other form of communication.

Indeed, most of us now provide a mobile phone number as our first point of contact as opposed to the more traditional landline contact number. Therefore all you small business owners out there need to make a point of storing these valuable mobile numbers and start using them to promote your business via a cheap text messages. Don’t worry of you don’t know how to get started as there are affordable training packages out there that will show you step by step how to set a mobile marketing campaign.

The best way to achieve instant results for your business by using this method is to promote an offer or a promotion. Let’s be honest we all like a bargain so simply offering, for example, a free glass of wine to customers who book a table at your restaurant on a quiet evening will help to attract more business. Even though it will cost you a glass of wine, you will more than make up for it by filling empty tables with paying customers.

Mobile marketing can benefit other small businesses too including texting appointment reminders for businesses like dentists or doctors, luring people into car showrooms via Bluetooth messages, promoting special offer up sells for businesses like beauticians or health spas. There are endless benefits that using mobile marketing as part of your local business marketing can offer, not least of all that it’s cheap, quick and offers instant results.

What Is A Business Without A Good Website?

I am amazed by how many local businesses are still not online. Given the ever growing popularity of the internet, small business that are not promoting their business online are losing out on massive income potential and are passing that business onto other business savvy owners instead.

Creating a website for your business does not have to cost a fortune… In fact some websites even offer free templates that you can use. You then simply need to purchase a domain name and some hosting for your website. If you lack the confidence or knowledge to do this yourself, there are websites out there that offer a way of outsourcing this task to others quite cheaply, simply check out outsourcing sites for that offer that type of service. Often you can put a bid on the outsourcing websites that will invite people to bid for the work. This can be a great way of getting the best value for your money.

Again, there are training packages available that offer step by step training on the best ways to create a website for you business together with the cheapest ways to drive traffic to the website including how to get onto page 1 of Google.

Without a doubt, regardless of what small business you own, it is vital to have a good internet presence to ensure consistent sales for your business.

Business Blogs- Seeing The Bigger Picture

It’s often quite challenging to persuade small businesses to start blogging. They fail to realise that writing a blog can significantly increase sales for their business; most sadly fail to see the bigger picture.

Blogging takes time but if you are consistent, your business will begin to see dramatic results. Blogging for your business can help you to connect with people, especially if you are careful to write in a style that is unique to you and that you offer valuable content. If you are careful to offer useful advice within you blog, then you will help to promote yourself as an expert who people can trust, which will result in the reader buying from you rather than your competitor. It doesn’t matter what business you own, whether you’re a dog trainer, a piano teacher, a shop owner or a driving instructor, writing a blog can offer an affordable and fun way of getting your business noticed.

You can then drive traffic to your business blog by sharing the link to your blog on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. There are also opportunities available, (for a small monthly fee) for small businesses to use existing high ranking blogging sites to promote their business.

These are the 3 ways that I personally consider to be the most effective way to increase sales for your small business. They are methods that I have personally used, with success, within all of my businesses as they are affordable and create instant results.

Social Media for Business (2) – Twitter Branding Made Easy

Thanks to the Twitter revolution, establishing your brand awareness and expanding your customer base was never easier. In fact, the whole idea of “humanizing” your marketing strategy allowed companies to get a deeper understanding of their customers and serve them better as a result.

However, if you want to win the SMM game, you must know the rules and play right. If misused, social media sites can break not make your business. For example: if you showered your Twitter followers with Ads and sales-pitch-loaded tweets, you will lose them to a more “human” competitor!

Here are few insider tips to help you leverage Twitter for your corporate branding.

Show Real Interest in Your Followers

When someone follows your brand on Twitter, chances are he/she is a hot prospect. It is worth your while to check their profiles and send them a message thanking them for following you and needless to say, you must follow them back. You also need to reply to their private messages promptly. If that sounds like a lot of work, hire someone to do it on your behalf.

And hey, you need to follow people as well in and 99.99% of the cases, they will show their appreciation of your gesture by following you back. Reciprocation is ingrained in the human nature. If you take the “nice” road, many people will follow your track.

Ask Intelligent Questions to Boost Your Brand Awareness

From time to time, (please do NOT overdo what I am about to say) ask followers to give their opinion about your new product/campaign. If your questions were interesting enough, your followers will probably retweet them to others which translates into more brand visibility. If some of them gave you some sound advice(s) that you implemented, you need let them know and, even better, publicize your appreciation by acknowledging their help in several tweets. If you do, they will be happy to share your brand with the world.

I couldn’t think of a better way to let people know who you are (as a brand) and what you offer.

Out of the endless social media sites out there, Twitter is the simplest mainly because of its 140-characters microblogging magic! It goes without saying that tweeting is much faster and easier than writing a conventional blog post. With Twitter, you can build a powerful online presence at a fraction of the time compared to other social media tools. That’s why; you need to take your time and dig deep in the Twitter world if you want to make the most out of it. In future articles, we will be discussing more Twitter branding tips. See you then…

New And Easy Amazing Ways To Get Better Traffic For FREE

Traffic is the lifeblood of your online business. It doesn’t matter whether you are involved in niche marketing, affiliate marketing, sell physical product or digital goods, or you are simply interested in building brand awareness; without traffic, your website will starve and dry up as will your ability to build a successful online business.

The truth is, when it involves jump starting an internet biz, finding and luring targeted traffic in, is really quite simple if you’re taking the time to carefully structure your campaigns before your launch.

You need to create a system based on longevity, so that you can continue to generate traffic to your website long after the initial rush.

So, let’s get right to the heart of the matter; creating a rock solid, powerful traffic campaign that will skyrocket your sales and boost your brand awareness!

Where To Get Instant And Better Traffic

There’re tons of way to generate traffic to your website in order that you’ll instantly maximize your income and automate your online business. The trouble is, there are actually many traffic sources to settle on. But knowing which of them will ultimately generate the very best volume (and the best quality traffic) isn’t always easy.

Throughout the years, there are two main ‘blocks’ of traffic:

Free Traffic

Paid Traffic

It won’t to be that so as to get fast and straightforward traffic to your website, you had to line up advertising campaigns with pay-per-click marketplaces like Google AdWords. While these campaigns would send instant traffic to your website, they often came at a hefty price, requiring constant monitoring so as to make sure that advertising dollars weren’t wasted.

Then came free traffic.

It was slower, often from multiple sources and sometimes tedious to manage. The results could be worthwhile but most marketers and business owners would give up too soon, unsatisfied with the time and effort required.

Thankfully, things have changed across the marketing landscape and lately there are ways to siphon high-quality traffic to any website or landing page you select without spending a fortune on advertising channels and without having to endure the slow and tedious process often related to free traffic campaigns.

In fact, using just a few of the FREE traffic resources that I’m going to share with you, will ultimately flood your website with more traffic than ever before, instantly increasing your profits while solidifying your home as an authority in your online marketing success

Are y.ou ready to get started? Let’s dive in…

Social Media Traffic

Those who haven’t seized the power of social marketing are missing out on what is one of the easiest strategies of generating fresh, targeted traffic, at absolutely no cost.

One of the most popular social networks, carrying remarkable branding power is – Twitter!

Twitter’s interface is simple to navigate, and it’s popularity is unbeatable in comparison with any other social community, including Facebook.

The trick to generating traffic with information portals like Twitter is to be as active as possible and to post a mixture of both free and informative messages (referred to as ‘tweets’) as well as promotional messages that will send people through your affiliate links off to the merchants website.

With social media platforms like Twitter, you’re ready to connect together with your audience easily just by sending out short updates, notices and news of interest. Instead of marketing heavily within your social communities, always specialize in offering value within the sort of useful information, hard to seek out material, freebies, discounts and other benefit-driven offers that will help you stand out while nurturing relationships within your online marketing success.

Always try to think of ways of being entertaining, as the majority of people on Twitter are interested in networking and communicating with new friends, and are reluctant to click on links or visit websites that they believe are promotional based. This means that you need to take a very different approach when promoting through these networks.

Social marketing is all about directly connecting with your customer base, engaging them in conversation and building relationships with your target audience. One of the easiest ways of building a customer-based marketing campaign is to exploit the popularity of social media like Twitter.com, Ning, LinkedIn and Facebook.com.

When it involves social media there are countless ways to the touch down and connect together with your audience.

With Facebook, you’ll found out paid advertising campaigns that are set to deliver supported user activity. It’s a highly targeted sort of advertising and a really cost effective strategy for those that want to check the waters while generating quick and steady traffic to their website.

You can also make your own marketing campaigns at no cost, just by creating a Facebook page for your business and connecting with potential customers. You can enhance your Facebook pages by offering discounts, special coupons and savings available only to those that join your Facebook group, like your page or connect with you in another way.

And don’t forget other leading social networks like LinkedIn.com and Ning.com, both viable social media platforms which will assist you further extend your marketing outreach. LinkedIn is taken into account the “professionals social media community” where you’ll create a live portfolio and resume that lists your achievements, connections, business information and contacts.

With Ning, you’re ready to create your very own customized social media community, providing your customers, members and subscribers with a fun and straightforward way to interact with one another and with you.

With social networking sites you can:

1: Direct contacts to a squeeze page where you offer them a free download/product to encourage sign ups to build a targeted mailing list.

2: Direct contacts to your blog where they can learn more about you and your company.

3: Creating brand awareness and an increased follower army by using this alternative to thank them

for following you, while easily including your website URL within your own automated message.

Additional social networking sites worth joining:

Friendster.com

Orkut.com

Zorpia.com

Bebo.com

Flixster.com

Tagged.com

hi5.com

Getting Traffic With Video

You can quickly generate nonstop traffic from video submissions. To begin, create a short video clip and then upload to the popular video directories, including YouTube.com and Video.Google.com

Another easy way of creating video presentations is by using the article content you’ve already created to quickly develop “article videos”.

The best service for this is found at ArticleVideoRobot.com

Article Video Bot will take your existing articles and create live, talking videos! All you have to do is copy and paste your article content into an online form, and Article Video Robot will convert the material into a high quality video within seconds!

The traffic you will be able to generate just by leveraging your article content this way will start generating traffic through your affiliate links almost instantly!

Another powerful strategy forgetting your videos distributed quickly, while maximizing circulation is by creating an account with TrafficGeyser.com

Traffic Geyser will automatically upload and promote your videos across dozens of popular video communities, with a click of the mouse!

Here are the top video distribution sites to include in your video marketing campaigns:

video.Google.com/

brightcove.com/en/

Photobucket.com

YouTube.com

DailyMotion.com

Vimeo.com

hBuzznet.com

Easy to Get Small Business Loans: 6 Tips for Applying for Funding for Your Company

Small business funding, unfortunately, isn’t easy to get for most people – especially if you don’t already have good credit. Typically, it requires a lot of legwork to get business loan. For some start-ups, owners often have to resort to getting a personal line of credit and using that to find the business. Easy to get small business loans really do exist, just as long as you prepare everything properly and look in the right place.

Here are a few tips to increase your chances of finding and obtaining a small business loan:

1. Get your personal credit report cleaned up. This is something that lenders will want to see. If you have poor credit, take the time to get it straightened out. You might even want to use credit repair services.

2. Create the best business plan possible. Consider this to be your “sales pitch” to funders. If you want as much money as possible from a lender, you can’t be secretive. You must specify exactly why you need the money, how much you need, and what it will be used for.

3. Keep everything as organized as possible. A wide range of documents may be required, including tax returns, annual revenue, and bank statements. Know which documents a potential lender will require from you ahead of time.

More Tips for Easy to Get Small Business Loans

4. Determine the best type of lender. There are many types of organizations that offer easy to get small business loans, including banks, online lenders, non-profit micro-lenders, “angel investors”, credit card companies, and more. Use a bank when you already have good credit and can provide collateral. Use online lenders if you lack collateral and need the funding as quickly as possible. A micro-lender might be ideal when you have a company that is so small that it doesn’t qualify for traditional funding.

5. How long have you been in business? If your company is under one-year old, you’ll have difficulty If you have a start-up, consider solutions such as personal loans, angel investors, or even online crowd-funding if you can come up with an innovative marketing message.

6. Find out how much the payments will be and make sure you will absolutely be able to pay them. Different lenders have different terms and different interest rates. You might be required to pay just one time a month or two times a month.

If you need a fast business loan, US Business Funding is a great place to start your search. This site has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, CNN Money, and other such organizations. US Business Funding reviews are primarily positive.

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