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The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your won website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.

Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.

1. Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.

Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.

In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With ebooks, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale.

This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.

Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.

But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.

3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.

If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.

Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.

We just uploaded some stuff to our sister site at the Discount Ebook Store a site where we offer all kinds of e-books and software at low prices.

The first of the new products we added is so low priced it’s actually free for absolutely no money we are giving not one, not two, not even 3 but 4 e-books every entrepreneur should read.

1. Think And Grow Rich By Napolean Hill

2. Science Of Getting Rich By Wallace Wattles

3. Acres Of Diamonds By Russel Conwell

4. Personal Magnetism By Theron Q. Dumont

All of these e-books and a special bonus are available for free download right now at http://www.thediscountebookstore.com/getrich/ so don’t miss out go and grab them now.

The second product I’d like to tell you about is Free Traffic For Broke Marketers E-book  which is a guide to getting more free traffic to any website. If you’re on a budget, then free traffic is the only way to go so we have added Free Traffic For Broke Marketers  and heavily discounted the price because, well you’re on a budget right? The price is all the way down to … well go see for yourself, the link is there for you to use.

Still here? Get going and at least download the freebies listed above.

Is Your Online Marketing Slowed Down By Your PC? Is this the answer?

Your PC is a vital part of your online marketing toolkit. In fact it’s not merely vital, it IS your marketing toolkit. Without your PC you can’t do any work at all online. It’s running almost

everything that you do apart from your website. And yet we neglect our biggest asset in the most terrible way.

I know from experience how little I get done when my PC goes awol. I had a hard drive crash, and most of my stuff wasn’t backed up. Stupid. So now I back everything up as I go along. All

my websites, all my downloads and all the programs I use are saved to a seperate drive. Yet still I’m neglecting my PC and letting it slow me down.

Every day before I start working on my computer I switch it on, have breakfast while I wait for it to start, and then wait some more twiddling my thumbs. I wait again for my email program

to start, and again for my browser. At the end of the day I wait again for it to shut down. But it never used to be this slow.
How about you?
Can you remember how fast your pc was when it was new?

So what can you do about it?
How can you speed up your pc?
Well I just found out about a product which claimed to help you speed up your PC. It’s an e-book written by a self professed computer “hacker” who promises to reveal the truth about

speeding up your PC with no extra cost. I’m a sceptic in these matters, and also a bit of a geek myself. I bought the e-book and started reading.

Antivirus program for free, check it’s the one I already use.
Spyware remover, ditto the above.
Firewall, if I hadn’t heard of this one already and been using it for 6 years then I’ll barbecue my headgear.

At this point I was already checking the refund guarantee as this was basic stuff any geek knows about. I’ve even written articles about them to get traffic to my sites. This stuff is old hat.

But I continued reading just to see the rest of this “hackers” speed up your pc tips. Run Windows update, why? it’s on automatic updates for most of us isn’t it? Defrag your hard drives,

get real mr. “hacker” this ain’t news to anybody and you’re about to give a refund buddy.

Then there was a glimmer of hope, a great tip I hadn’t seen before, and some software I’d heard about but hadn’t used as it seemed too dangerous. The “hacker” came good here with a

simple guide to using the software safely. Better. I have read about it in forums, so knew this does help speed up a slow pc but it always came with scary warnings , now I could use this

free software safely.

 So any more or is that it, one useful speed up your pc nugget?

Well actually after the poor start this little e-book went from strength to strength. Still a lot of stuff I already knew, but I am, as I already confessed, a geek and this information wouldn’t be

known by your average pc user. I still learnt a lot from this concise e-book, including lots of programs I could download for free to do geeky stuff I usually did manually.

So would I recommend this e-book?
Yes, to anybody and everybody who has a pc, and can follow simple step by step instructions. For the price this is an absolute must buy, in terms of saving money on pc maintenance,

and saving time waiting for your pc to do its job.

The name of this handy book is The Secret PC Formula 
Click Here to go get it and speed up your pc today

If you haven’t heard of affiliate link cloaking software, here’s a brief description. You can feed in your affiliate link, and it will output a file, or link which will be used to cloak your link. In the case of desktop link cloaking software you will get a file to upload to a website. In online scripts, it will already be online and no further work will be needed.

So why would you need to cloak your affiliate links?

There are several reasons to cloak an affiliate link, which we will outline for you so you can make a decision whether to cloak or not.

1. Your hard won customers can cut off part of the link and stop you getting your affiliate commissions. Sometimes it will be because they think they can pay less (usually incorrect) if they don’t pay your comissions on the product. Sometimes they will cut of your affiliate id and put their own in and get a discount when they get their comissions they just took from you.
2. Emails can chop off long links. As you send out a newsletter, or any other email with a link in, sometimes the longer links will be forced over two lines, meaning the affiliate link gets broken. The link either doesn’t work at all, so no sales or just your affiliate id gets lopped off and you don’t get the comissions on sales you make from your emailing.
3. Long affiliate links look unprofessional and puts people off buying. When they see a link full of letters and numbers, people are put off clicking it. Look at a lot of affiliate urls and they are very long and full of question marks and other characters. They just look suspicious and stop people from following the link.

So now you know what an affiliate link cloaker is, do you need one? More to the point which one should you get. There are plenty of choices of link cloaker and the choice is yours of course. I can recommend two here for you right now. One is a desktop based program which I used for a long time, but it means you have to upload a file to webserver after you have made the cloaked link. The other is a script which sits on your website in a folder and redirects to your affiliate link when someone follows the cloaked link, and it also tracks the links so you can see if your advertising ois working.

The first of the affiliate link cloakers I mentioned above can be downloaded for free from us along with some other great useful software. It’s called “Affiliate Diamond” and you can find out more about the free package and download it from this link. You will need a website, but it is very simple to use with few bells and whistles. You can always track your links from your server logs if you want to track them.

The second cloaker is a website based script called “Redirection Rocket”. This software has to be installed with a mysql database but has lots of useful features for tracking your links and where your traffic comes from. You can create campaigns for each link to track the traffic. This is currently offered for under $10 at http://www.thediscountebookstore.com/ . If you need installation of a script, we can help with that, just contact us.

There are other redirection, and affiliate cloaking scripts available, but we can’t comment on them as we haven’t used them. Do you know of any others, why not comment below…

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings and maintain the account that you have worked so hard for already. Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
One of the more important ways of increasing affiliate marketing bottom line and sale is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective ways in promoting a certain product.
If the customers or visitors trust you enough, then they will definitely trust your recommendations. Be very careful in using this approach, though. If you start promoting everything by recommendation, your credibility will actually wear thin. This is seen especially when recommendations are seemingly exaggerated and without much merit.
Do not be afraid to mention things that you do not like about a given product or service. Rather than lose any points for you, this will make your recommendation more realistic and will tend to increase your credibility.
Furthermore, if your visitors are really interested in what you are offering, they will be more than delighted to learn what is good about the product, what is not so good, and how the product will benefit them.
When you are recommending a certain product, there are some things to remember on how to make it work effectively and for your advantage.
Sound like the true and leading expert in your field.
Remember this simple equation: Price resistance diminishes in direct proportion to trust. If your visitors feel and believe that you are an expert in your niche, they are more inclined to making that purchase. On the other hand, if you are not exuding any confidence and self-assurance in endorsing your products, they will probably feel that same way and will go in search of another product or service which is more believable.
How do you establish this aura of expertise? By offering unique and new solutions they would not get anywhere else. Show proof that what you are promoting works as promised. Display prominent testimonials and endorsements from respected and known personalities, in related fields of course.
Avoid hype at all costs. It is better to sound low key and confident, than to scream and seek attention. Besides, you would not want to sound unprofessional and have that thinking stick to your potential customers and clients, now would you? Best to appear cool and self-assured at the same time.
And remember; prospects are not stupid. They are actually turning to experts and may already know the things that you know. If you back up your claims with hard facts and data, they would gladly put down hundreds, or even thousands worth of money to your promotions. But if you don’t, they are smart enough to try and look at your competitors and what they are offering.
While recommending a product, it is also important that you give out promotional freebies. People are already familiar with the concept of offering freebies to promoting your won products. But very few people do this to promote affiliate products. Try to offer freebies that can promote or even have some information about your products or services.
Before you add recommendations to you product, it is given that you should try and test the product and support. Do not run the risk of promoting junk products and services. Just think how long it took you to build credibility and trust among your visitors. All that will take to destroy it is one big mistake on your part.
If possible, have recommendations of products that you have 100% confidence in. Test the product support before you begin to ensure that the people you are referring it to would not be left high and dry when a problem suddenly arouse.
Have a look at your affiliate market and look at the strategies you are using. You may not be focusing on the recommendations that your products need to have. You plan of action is sometimes not the only thing that is making your program works.
Try product recommendation and be among those few who have proven its worth.

I recently saw a book with PLR (Private Label Rights)  rights at The Unselfish Marketers Vault a website which I pay a monthly fee to download tons of the latest products with various rights. Usually I just download the e-book, look at the rights and put it aside in my “to do later” folder. I guess you’re either the same as I was and think that it just takes too long to re-write a PLR product and make it your own, or don’t know where to start.

So what changed my opinion of PLR products?

This E-book was in a niche I know a little about, so immediately it piqued my interest. The niche was also comparable with another similar niche market into which the e-book could be pushed with a little re-writing. When I say a little I really mean it, I’m as lazy as anyone so you can take it to the bank that this was a quick and easy few changes.

OK so you really want to know how the e-book was re-written to become the new product which it now is.  Well the first thing I did was skimmed the PLR e-books contents and looked for the keywords for the niche it was in. Then using Open Office (you could use MS Word, or even Notepad for this bit) I did a search and replace of the first keyword. This replaced all instances of the original keyword with the one I wanted. Then I searched and replaced the synonyms for the keyword. As an example for an ebook about caring for cars, you could change “automobile” to “motorcycle”, and then “auto” to “bike” etc. through all the synonyms for car and change to motorcycle words.

Once I’d done the quick find and replace, I read through looking for anything which didn’t make sense for the new niche, in our example, anything related to bonnets (hoods), boots (trunks) or doors obviously wouldn’t be right for a motorcycle themed e-book. I rewrote all the sections which didn’t fit the new niche replacing sections with more relevant material, but you could just delete them instead.  Then it was time for a final re-read of the new e-book. Again just skimming is ok, don’t look for perfection, look to getting it done and on sale, I added a small request for readers of the e-book to send me details of any errors or omissions and promised to update it as neccessary and send details out to those who registered their email address for updates (thus building a list of people interested in that niche who trusted me enough to buy the e-book to whom I may be able to sell something else later).

The final stage of the e-books journey was to rewrite the sales page using the same find and replace technique I used for the e-book. I also had to change the cover graphic, and sales page header but that wouldn’t always be neccessary. Then all I had to do was put the “new” salespage and download area including the rewritten ebook onto the web ready to sell. I used Clickbank for this as there may be a possibility of making sales through affiliates who have websites in the same niche. Total outlay spent was about $10 as I already pay for the membership anyway, and had a Clickbank sellers account unused (but that’s only $45 anyway and you can sell multiple items on Clickbank) so I paid out for a domain name to help it in the search engines. The cost in time, which is a most valuable asset, was about 5 hours over a few days, most of which was spent on remaking the graphics and sorting out the salespage.

I’ve decided to rework some other PLR e-books in the future too, but I’ll be looking into niches other than the common internet marketing one, but there is plenty to choose from on my preferred suppliers site ( “The Unselfish Marketers Vault” remember?). I hope I will soon have several products in various niches on sale carrying my name instead of someone elses. All for the sake of some PLR products and a small investment in time.

BTW the e-book I am selling is at http://www.classic-motorcycle-restoration.com

If you’re trying to sell anything, online or offline, you need some surefire tactics in your sales literature or salespage to grab your readers attention, and push the “buy it” hot button. These strategies are already in use by your competition, it’s your turn to take the lead again and implement these quick and easy tactics to increase your sales.

1. The “Fast Use” Tactic

The “the best part is (topic or product) takes minutes to implement…” sales tactic tells your prospects that your product won’t take long to use or work. In these modern fast paced times, People are busy and want things to as work quickly as possible, let the prospect know how quickly your product does what they need.

2. The “No Skills” Tactic

The “how anyone with no (topic) skills can…” marketing ploy tells your prospects that even they can use your product to gain their desired benefits. It also tells them that they don’t need any special training or skills. Putting your prospects mind at ease that once they buy your product or service they won’t need to spend their valuable time learning to use it, or get it working is a sure way to lower their resistance to buying.

3. The “Don’t Share” Tactic

The “(no.)% of all (topic) experts won’t ever share this with you…” strategy tells your prospects that they are missing out on an important piece of information. They will want to buy your product in order to find out about it. Letting your customer know you hold a secret that they won’t get easily elsewhere will pique their curiosity and drag their wallet or credit card out into the open.

4. The “Repetition” Tactic

The “here’s exactly what you get when you purchase…” strategy reiterates to your prospects a brief, persuasive summary of everything you told them they would get early in your ad copy. Repeating the major benefits of your product package can increase your sales. Add the repeated summary of benefits near the buy button and watch the sales increase.

5. The “Price Cutting” Tactic

The “the price of (product) isn’t even $(no.) Or $(no.). Or even $(no.). It’s only $(no.)…” strategy tells your prospects how reasonable the original price is for your product but you just keep lowering it. People get excited when the price just keeps going down and down. See this in action on a lot of web salespages with a strikethrough through the higher prices, and the lowest price standing out, it works plain and simple.

6. The “Can I?” Tactic

The “can you really (your product’s benefit)? the answer is yes…” strategy tells your prospects a question they would likely have asked themselves or other people before. Once you tell them “yes,” back it up with unquestionable proof that your product works.

7. The “Uncomfortable” Tactic

The “you may not be completely comfortable using my product…” strategy tells your prospects that your product is so effective that it will give them an unfair advantage. You could tell them that other people and their competitors will be angry, envious and jealous. It’s human nature to want to be envied and admired by others, this useful “human flaw” is another hot trigger for closing the deal.

8. The “First Place” Tactic

The “fast action bonus, the next (no.) people that order get…” strategy tells your prospects if they are one of the first to order, they will get a bonus. It creates urgency and a fun competition for being one of the first. Nobody likes to be second, and who wouldn’t feel a bit peeved if they missed out on something just for waiting a little while and getting in too late? This one tactic can be used in many different ways to make sales. Either a bonus or a lower discounted price can be the prize for fast action i.e. buying right now.

9. The “Keep In Mind” Tactic

The “while reading this sales letter, please remember to…” strategy tells your prospects what to actually think about when reading and viewing your sales letter. You want to remind them to think about the benefits of your product or how it will improve their life. See tactic 4 “Repetition” above in addition to this tactic, both used together can reinforce your potential benefit to your customer.

10. The “No, No, No” Tactic

The “no hidden fees, no monthly fees, no set up fees and nothing else you ever have to buy…” strategy tells your prospects that they will only have to pay a one-time fee for your product. People hate spending money on fees that they think businesses add on for no real reason. Reassure your potential customers that there are no hidden extras to buy and you will soon have them on your side and ready to buy.

Now you know these Quick And Easy Tactics, look out for them as you visit salespages. They are sometimes dressed up to look different, but underneath these same tactics are employed in all good sales literature and salespages online. Now you know the secrets, and you can put them to work for you to increase your sales.

Back in the back end of the nineties, and beginning of the noughties a short lived phenomenon called surfing for cash hit the internet. I personally made a reasonable amount of extra cash from the various companies which surfaced at that time and paid me to surf. The best bit was that they usually paid on several referral levels too.

Because I found a few friends online who also wanted some extra cash and were willing to surf for the money, I soon had a regular monthly cheque coming in from companies like Alladvantage.com and others. Unfortunately the paid to surf sites found that they couldn’t make it pay for everybody and stay in business.

Now there’s a whole new batch of companies giving paid to surf another try, this time with more sustainable payouts. I’m going to give this one a try…

http://www.surfjunky.com

SurfJunky will pay on 3 levels
Level 1 Referrals - 5% of whatever they earn gets paid to you
Level 2 Referrals - 3%
Level 3 Referrals - 1%

I can’t say yet whether the new paid to surf companies will last, but lets hope they can succeed where Alladvantage failed and that we can get paid to surf for a time to come.

http://www.surfjunky.com Join for free, and find out with me if it’s going to last, if nothing else it may be a way to bring in a few extra bucks towards advertising your main product.

Why not let me know what you think about paid to surf programs by commenting below?

I was just going through my emails, and reading the ones which interest me. One which I often read is Robert Plank’s which always links to his latest blog post. This time he is opening a discussion about putting your picture on your salespages and websites.

Why would you want to put your picture out there so prominently?
Why not, it’s a form of branding for your business and helps to gain your customers trust. As Robert pointed out in “Is Your Photo On Every Salespage?” he recognised a few top marketers from their online images on their salespages and websites at a recent seminar. So did many others. This strategy brought their customers and potential customers to them in person at the seminar too, so why aren’t we all doing it?

I just started by putting my own face on the widget in the sidebar >>>> and on some of my other sites as part of my signature at the end of the salesletter. It’s just another of the great ideas I get regularly from Robert Plank