Learn How to Market Your eBusiness in Real Time: Dissect, Study, Emulate – Affiliate Programs
Learn How to Market Your eBusiness in Real Time: Dissect, Study, Emulate
Isaiah Hull
Everything you will ever need to know about internet marketing is plainly available to you everywhere you go on the internet. All you need to do is dissect, study, and emulate these methods and you invariably will become just as successful as the people who created them.
How do I know this Because I use this exact pratice to make money with my own online businesses and newsletters. Whenever I have a problem, I look to other successful internet marketers and see how they have overcome these same obstacles I am facing.
Some people will tell you must buy a certain ebook or internet marketing course to become successful. This is not true. Informational products do have their merits, but it is important to understand that a lot of them become out-dated immediately after publication.
The online marketplace changes very rapidly and the best, most successful internet marketers change with it. A good traffic-building tactic one day may be ineffective the next. If you hinge your entire business plan around this single idea you read in an ebook, and that idea ends up being outdated, then you will fail.
I am not trying to say that informational products are not useful. But I am saying you need to find a real time way of analyzing and implementing the information you do have. You cannot purchase internet business success, but you also cannot have it for free. You must work for it.
If you blindly purchase information and then try to implement it, you will not succeed.
Take list-based marketing for instance. Sending email to opt-in subscribers used to be one of the most effective, inexpensive ways to make quick sales. But in the wake of recent anti-spam legislation, this same method has become drastically less profitable. Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and other email client services have clamped down on business emails in general, blacklisting all email from some autoresponders and filtering out up to 70% of legitimate business emails in some cases.
Of course, you wouldnt know any of this from reading 99% of the marketing information available on the internet. Why Because these books became outdated the second congress passed the CAN-SPAM ACT. These books will still tell you that simply filling an autoresponder with messages and buying leads will make you a fortune. This is no longer true.
You can still make just as much money from list marketing now as you could before, but you just need to solve some marketing problems first. You cannot continue to use outdated information that could not possibly take into consideration the current marketing world.
So how do you deal with these problems The same way you need to deal with all eBusiness marketing problems. You operate in REAL TIME. You dissect, study, and emulate what successful webmasters, listowners, and netrepreneurs are doing to make money right now.
There are a number of different ways you can do this--but they all involve the same three steps: dissect, study, and emulate. In the remainder of this article, I will explain website reverse engineering, which is one of the real time methods I use to improve my marketing efforts.
You can start by taking a closer look at the websites you visit most often. Rather than looking at them as a customer or as a member, think about the process that went into making them. You did not find that website by accident. You are not looking at certain products for no reason. If the webmaster of this site is a professional, then it was engineered to drive you there and then to look at specific things. Undo this process to learn from it:
Dissect. Study. Emulate.
Look at the layout of the pages. Check the site map. Look at how things are arranaged. Are there popups Is there a newsletter Do they have a lot of outgoing links to websites they do not own Is this website actually mini-site of another bigger site
Figure out why this webmaster has things setup in the way you see them.
How does the webmaster really make the majority of her revenue Does this webmaster get a lot traffic If so, where does it come from hint: google and alexa have functions that allow you to back-track links and traffic. Does this webmaster use certain techniques to lure you in--and then close a sale Does the mainpage contain primarly free or purchasable items
How is this webmasters sales copy constructed Would this webmaster prefer you to purchase a product or sign up for a list
Dissect. Study. Emulate.
Answer all of these questions. You can do it for free and you will only get better the more you do it.
Now take some of the methods you understand best and are technically capable of implementing and then emulate them on your own website, personalizing them to fit in with your own scheme, of course.
If you do this regularly--if you use REAL TIME as your standard of evaluation--you cannot fail. I personally have used this method dozens of times to fix my website, and just recently I used it again to adjust my new internet income course. Both my website and my new course not only now address the current issues in the internet marketing world, but they also teach my subscribershow to do the same.
Copyright 2004 Isaiah Hull
About The Author
Isaiah Hull is the CEO of an internet business, a publisher of two business newsletters, PTL of several affiliate programs, and a business trainer for his affiliates. On 11/10/04, he released a brand-new free internet income course to address the major changes in internet marketing: http://www.workathomerightnow.net.
Top Three Reasons For Why Your Product Is Not Selling – Affiliate Programs
Top Three Reasons For Why Your Product Is Not Selling
Radhika Venkata
Huh You are selling a product I didnt know that! Why didnt you say so... So Top *ONE* Reason: You dont advertise.
Oh...this product They are giving it away free. Why should I pay for it if I am getting it for free... So Top *TWO* Reason: You are trying to sell a freely available product or service.
You have any other product I dont have much use for this. So Top *THREE* Reason: No demand for the product.
Getting the grip We will see how true they are.
***Top ONE Reason:***
The people and the world should know about your product or service. They have to visit your website to see your product. Then why are you waiting for Tell them that you have this great product that they can be benefited from.
Go for pay per click engines. Bid for the keywords. See how your website is getting hits. People think that PPCs are expensive. But no. If we bid reasonably with out getting in to a bidding war, pay per click engines are very reliable source for getting targeted traffic to your site.
http://www.goto.com/
https://adwords.google.com/select/
Submit your website to Search engines. Optimize with good keywords and title tag before submitting. Buy a submitting software. You cant submit by going to every search engine site and filling the form. You have to learn how to automate your business. Otherwise you will end up wasting lot of your time. Choose the software that updates its search engine databse on regular basis.
http://cyberspacehq.com/products/AddWeb/home.shtm
http://www.webposition-gold.com/
http://www.promotion-expert.com/submitter/ds2.htm
Write ezine articles. Submit them to articles accepting web sites and publishers to reproduce them in their ezines. Ezine articles are a great way of getting traffic with out spending a penny. Go to http://www.ezinelocater.com and search for the ezine publishers that accepts articles. Select your target ezines and send the publishers your articles. Remember the golden rule - Dont flood them with articles. They might refuse your articles once for all. Nobody likes flooding of their inboxes with mail.
Start your own optin list. Anything like an ezine of your own or a free course that people might interested in. You can send promotional emails to your subscribers, a great way to promote your business.
Other methods of advertisings are:
Ad swaps
Free and paid ads in ezines
link exchanges
Classified ad submissions
Banner advertising
Participate in discussion forums,message boards
Offline methods
Really there is no end to this list. What ever you follow free or paid advertising methods, ALWAYS spend 70% of your time on advertising.
***Top TWO Reason:***
You are trying to sell a freely available service or product. When people are getting it free, why they bother to buy the same for money
Before start selling a product, look around you. For example, people are getting web site templates freely on the internet. If you keep website templates in a box and try to sell them, it wont be much profit for you.
You can question me. Quality! Paid templates are always be little bit more of quality products. I will answer that Anybody can improve the free templates to their needs.
How do you know that the product that you are going to sell is freely available on the net Simple. Add the word free to your product and search the term in search engines. Sites offering similar product freely will show up. For example, take above example. You can search for free website templates.
OK...Still want to sell a freely available product Then give it a Unique Selling position. Add some unique property to your product. Add bonuses. Offer free upgrades that they wont get with free products. Hope you can survive with these tips.
***Top THREE Reason:***
No demand product. Right now information products are number one selling products on the internet.
People are seeking information. Information about making money online, building a website fast, selling their product, how to cook and serve, how to repair electronics with out paying lot for repair services...
There is no end to the above list and there is no limit to the information seeking areas. All you have to do is just find out the hot market.
Here comes the affiliate programs. Great way of having your product with in few seconds. Having your own product is always better. But people making lot of money with affiliate programs too.
Select a good affiliate program that gives you 50% of commission. If you join in an affiliate program and if you see your affiliate ID at some thousand number, dont be scared. So many people selling the same product and how come you are gonna make money with competing so many people Most of the times people join in affiliate programs and forget about them. May be only few people work sincerely and stick to one or few programs. So dont bother if your affiliate id is some 18746.
So sell a product that has demand. It is not matter whether it is your own or affiliate product.
About The Author
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Making Money from Parked Domains – Affiliate Programs
Making Money from Parked Domains
Derek Vaughan
Let me tell you a true story. A friend of my who likes to collect domain names was describing a few that he had acquired. While he has a wide range of domains in various categories, these particular domains were all related to web hosting.
Some of the domain names were similar to existing web hosting company names or derivatives of web hosting company names. Others simply had ‘hosting’, ‘host’, or a related term in the domain itself.
So my friend and I were talking and he said something like, “Yeah, it’s a shame – if only I had the time to develop some content for some of these domains then I might make some money form them”. It turns out that he had no content on any of the domains – just parked pages, or no content at all. When I investigated the domains, it turned out that there was a small but steady traffic stream that visited these domains. Some simply typed in the domain, others apparently found the domain through a search engine that had categorized the parked page.
So I suggested the following to him – why not use a service that will take the domain as is – with no content whatsoever – and suggest search options that generate revenue for each click He took my advice, grudgingly I might add, and guess what He made $50 the first month from just a few of his domains.
He was so excited that he asked what he might do to further increase his revenues from his domain names. I suggested that he use his parking pages these can be customized with some hosts to test banners from affiliate programs with the highest paying hosting companies. He placed only three banners at the top of his pages – with a brief description of the company’s product offerings taken straight from their web sites. This also proved to be a great success – and his revenue stream increased.
My friend has since invested some time and energy in monetizing his other domains. He has either pointed the domains to a pay per click search engine, or listed affiliate links on almost every domain. This has turned a lackluster domain speculation business into a profit generating pay per click and affiliate business that requires almost no effort to maintain. Needless to say, my friend has taken my out to lunch a couple of times since then.
If you have parked domains and what to try getting paid for search results on those pages, check out this service offered by Sedo there are others out there as well:
http://www.sedo.com/services/parking.php3
Good luck in transforming your parked domains into cold, hard cash!
About The Author
Derek Vaughan has been actively marketing on the Internet since 1995. Mr. Vaughan has marketed products at the Walt Disney Company as the online marketing manager of ecommerce for ESPN.com. Mr. Vaughan is also the founder of Cheap Hosting Directory - a web hosting review site. Mr. Vaughan holds degrees from both the Indiana University and Purdue University. He has also received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Owen School at Vanderbilt University. Cheap Hosting Directory - http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com - is a part of TechPad Agencys network of web hosting portals.