Discover how to write high quality in demand articles so quickly that you could churn out 50 to 100 a day without breaking a sweat!
"How To Write Articles That Make
You Instant Cash And Bring In A Residual Income For Life!"
How To Use This Guide
The best advice I can give you is to read everything over once. If you
can, do it in one sitting, then re read it again. Then, read the sections
again that you are not sure about, and if you can, get someone else
to read it as well, and both of you make notes.
There are plenty of website links in this book so it probably is best to
read this book while you are online so you can see exactly what I'm
talking about through out the book.
What This Guide Is About And Who It's For
If you want an easy to follow step by step guide to writing articles to
promote your product or services or you just want to turn your
writing into a full time income, this book is for you.
In this book I show you how to write articles that bring in immediate
cash. Everyone talks about how great articles are for traffic to your
site and how they brand you as an expert in the field, and thats true,
and are great reasons to write articles, but what I'm going to show
you is how to turn your articles into instant cash machines that not
only turn a profit instantly, but make you money for years to come.
I've been writing articles for publication online since 1999 and I
havn't looked back since my first article made over $1100.00 in
affiliate commissions and it only took me 2 hours to write.
This is a business idea book more so then a traffic generation idea
book. While everything I teach you in this book can be used to
generate greats amount of traffic to your website, I want to show
you how to turn that traffic into instant cash whether you have a
product or not. So let's get started!
How To Turn Easy To Write 750
Word Articles Into An
Unstoppable Money Machine
That Will Bring In A Good
Income For The Life Span Of The
Internet
The funny thing is, I use to think I had to write mammoth 400 page
ebooks and provide everybit of information on a topic to make any
money at all, but what I found is, I make more money by keeping
everything short and to the point.
People want to learn something and they want to learn it quickly.
So here are the methods below that I'm going to show you how to
profit from articles.
* How To Write Articles So Quickly And Easily You Could Churn Out
50 To 100 In A Day
* How To Write Articles To Profit From Adsense
* How To Write Articles To Profit From Affiliate Programs Instantly
* How To Write Articles To Profit From Affiliate Programs For Long
Term Money
* How To Write Articles For Viral Income
* Other Ways To Profit From Articles
How To Write Articles So Quickly
And Easily You Could Churn Out
50 To 100 In A Day
What most people don't realise is that the work is already done for
them, they don't need to come up with unique content from the top
of their heads, they just need to look for what is already out there
and improve on it.
Every possible topic has been covered and covered well by someone,
but most of the time these people don't even want to profit from
their work, they do it for the fun of it, which is great for you.
While you can't steal these people's hardwork, (we wouldnt want to
anyway, we want to profit from our work) you can use their ideas
and learn from their content to write your own. Anyone can become
an expert enough in a subject to write a 750 word article on it in
minutes if you have the write content in front of you.
I'm skipping ahead of myself here, but I'm going to tell you where to
find this content now, then tell you how to come up with article ideas
afterwards.
When I come up with an article idea I go directly to the source of the
Internet's content. Online bulletin boards, FAQ pages and Article
directories!
Everytime I need to learn about something to write about it or just
for the heck of it, I go to these places......
Everything I could ever want to know about nearly every
subject known to man I can find for free there, if you're
willing to dig for it.
All I then do is disect all the information out of the articles,
re write them into my words and add a snazzy article title.
So say you wanted to write an article or articles on fly
fishing to promote a fly fishing ebook thru clickbank.com,
here's what I would do.
I would go to Groups.google.com and type in fly fishing and
see what questions people were asking. I would also go to
Goarticles.com and type in fly fishing and see what articles
are already written and how many people have viewed them
so you can tell which article topics are the most popular.
Then when I wanted to start writing my article I'd go to
FAQ.org and look there for fly fishing Frequently Asked
Questions and rewrite that content in my own words for my
own articles.
****DISCLAIMER*****
I don't mean steal other peoples content when I say rewrite.
I mean use the FAQ's are a place to research a topic and
then use that research as a bases for your articles.
Your articles don't have to be masterpieces that are 5000
words in length, infact it will help your sales if you keep
them short 500 to 750 words and you give your readers
information they can instantly use and implement.
The most important part to your article is your article title, it
will make or break your article.
When people read articles they want information that they
can use straight away. Say for you instance you're writing
about how to get your baby to sleep better at night, then
you'd want a title something like this.
"6 Easy Steps For A Better Nights Sleep For You And Your
Baby That You Can Implement Tonight!"
Ok, that's not perfect but you get the idea.
I've found if you're targeting the Internet Marketing niche
you'll find your articles will get a better response and you
will make more sales if you give people a plan they can use
to make money straight away from your article.
For instance, let's say your promoting the "Google Cash"
ebook that shows people how to make money with Google
Adwords, you could write articles on the following....
How you made money following the formula in the ebook.
Give them a well thought out business plan they can steal
and use as their own.
Or even....
Tell them how you failed using the Google Cash method but
another method worked for you.
People love a story, success story or even a failure.
How to spit and polish your article so it looks
like you're a professional writer.
The number 1 reason why most articles don't get published
(behind not following posting guidelines, which I talk about
next chapter) is the article is full of spelling errors .
Just because I said you don't have to worry so much about
correct grammar in your article, it doesn't mean you can
slack off and not proof read and spell check your work.
Even if you don't have a spell checker program on your
computer, there are plenty of free web based ones.
If you are having trouble with one or two words, why not try
You will also want to make sure your article flows properly
and makes perfect sense. I know sometimes I write one
word but mean another. Like put instead of but, etc....
You might want to print it out and read it aloud a few times,
or even get a few other people to do the same.
This is also a good time to see if you've covered everything
you've wanted to cover and your not leaving anything out
the reader might need to know.
There is nothing worse then an article that either doesn't
make sense, or leaves so much information out due to the
fear of giving too much away, that it's practically blank and
full of fluff no one is interested in.
How I Made $1159.30 With One
Article In Under 24 hours
This is a very quick step, but it will show you exactly how I
earned over two thousand dollars in the first few weeks I
started promoting affiliate programs.
I started off promoting three affiliate programs, I then wrote
3 articles based around all those affiliate programs and I put
links to them in my article. Mind you I did not have a web
site or anything sophisticated like that :) I submitted articles
to hundreds of ezine publishers which I found at
TopEzineAds.com and DirectoryofEzines.com and sent them
out in one day.
These articles produced over $1200 in sales in three weeks.
In my article by-line I also placed my autoresponder link so
they could sign up for my free course. With these names,
which were just over 700, I gave them the chance to buy
another product from me that I happened to buy the resell
rights to. I earned another $1100 from these people as well
in that initial 3 or 4 week period. So that's just a bit over
$2300 in sales in 4 weeks work.
Mind you, I live in Australia and $2300 in sales US is over
$4500 Australian dollars. I was also getting checks every
month for doing nothing as other people began promoting
my articles with out me asking them. I also ended up getting
my name blasted all over the search engine's as people who
published my articles put them on their web sites.
I also signed up quite a lot of people under me, who are
now selling these product's and I'm still earning commission
from their hard work. I love 2-tier affiliate programs, they
bring you in just a little bit extra every month for nothing
with no permanent web site.
That's it. It cost me nothing to set up and the advertising
was free, so it was all PURE PROFIT. I do the same thing
now every month without fail. While what I made in that
month is small compared to other affiliates, it goes to show
you how putting a little hard work in your first month online
can bring you amazing profits.
The longer you keep promoting your affiliate programs and
trying new methods, you will constantly see increases every
month in your commissions.
How To Write Articles To Profit
From Adsense
Adsense is all the rage now, and there are so many different
ways to make money from Adsense, but here is a method
you've probably not tried and most people probably won't as
it does take effort and time.
Most people seem to want to keep switching from automatic
software generators to bombs to portal sites to directory
listing sites, which is fine, but I have and always will stick to
creating unique content that's informative and of high
quality.
My method is not the only way to make money with
Adsense, but I feel this is the best method for long term
success, simply because it's been working well for me in
different ways since I began Internet marketing back in
1998.
This is a business idea that I'm doing right now and I believe
it will make me a fortune in the long run.
What I've been doing is creating a site like Ehow.com. It's a
free site that shows people how to do a lot of different
things. The best way to explain the site is just for you to go
have a quick look now.
They have thousands and thousands of pages of content on
all sorts of subjects and the way they get traffic to their site
is through the search engines, which is all well and good if
you want to wait awhile, but this guide is all about making
money quickly.
Every page on their site has an adsense box on it and that's
how they make their money. They also have a Alexa traffic
ranking of around 2000 which is great.
Trying to write that much content before making any money
would be difficult, you'd lose interest quickly and trying to
write that much content or even buy that much content in
one hit would be lunacy.
I've always prefered to make money constantly even if the
project is only half done or in progress. I find it gives me
incentive to keep going.
So this is what I'm doing, and no I'm not going to show you
my site because I don't want everyone copying it.
I registered a catchy domain name, something like
fiveminuteguides.com or learnitnow.com and I started
writing little 500 to 750 word action plans on all sorts of
topics and one happens to be on a favorite subject of mine,
fly fishing.
So my fly fishing page looks something like
small 750 check list on all things to do with fly fishing with 2
Adsense boxes, one in the middle and one of the right hand
side.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your
website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? There is
no use putting something on my website about how to make
money with your fly fishing passion because the advertisers
with Adsense are selling fly fishing equipment not how to
make money with fly fishing.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ad's and
I think that's where a lot of people go wrong with Adsense.
Back to the business plan. Ok, so you've got your site up,
you have a page up on a certain topic that had a fairly high
search rate and Adsense payout rate, now what? How do
you make money with this page.
Write articles! For every one fly fishing type checklist write
10 to 20 articles on all sorts of subjects to do with your
topic. I wrote close to 40 for mine and I havn't become rich
from it but if I can put up 500 similar checklists in the next
year I will be earning a very nice income.
But how do you get people from reading your article to
going to your website?
Well, not only would you mention your site within your
article, (slip it in subtley) you also have your article byline
you can use for that purpose.
For example
"For a complete checklist for your first fly fishing trip visit
blah.com"
or
"For a complete step by step checklist for catching large
Trout visit blah.com"
So not only will you make money instantly from your
website, you will also build tons of quality content over time
and you will have hundreds maybe even thousands of
articles all over the Internet working for you around the
clock and your site will do a heck of a lot better in the
search engines due to all the incoming links!
This is a very rough outline, but you smart people out there
will be able to run with it and add new ideas I havn't even
thought of. This is one of those money machines that will
make you money on demand pretty much for the life of the
Internet.
How To Write Articles To Profit
From Affiliate Programs For
Long Term Money With A New
Twist
Quick Intro - Read This First
This is a quick guide on how you can earn a full time income
with affiliate programs without even a web site. This is so
simple, it's stupid, yet so many affiliates keep failing.
The biggest reason why I failed when I first started online
was because I complicated things. I tried to create huge
web sites filled with content, and it just didn't work because
I lost my motivation.
With this guide, all you have to do is create a free
autoresponder series, then advertise it directly with ezines
and other simple methods that I will show you.
Step 1. Select 3 Affiliate Programs
To make this work and not be a one hit wonder, you will
need to select THREE affiliate programs to join. The criteria
to select this programs is a little different then going out and
selecting the affiliate program with the biggest commission,
even though this does play a role.
Of course, all the affiliate programs you promote will have to
be on the one subject. For instance, say your first affiliate
program is an ebook on Mini Sites, then your second affiliate
program you sell could be a members only site based on
Mini Sites and your third affiliate program could be a service
where someone creates a network of Mini Sites for your
customers.
I will talk more about this later, and how the pricing is
crucial.
The first affiliate program you promote will want to be one
which pays a larger then normal commission on the first
sale. Do not accept anything less then 40% commission for
your first affiliate program. The reason for this is because
we want to make a profit on the first affiliate program and
by selling any product that does not make you at least $20
per sale you will not profit straight away. The main aim of
this is to really build up your Opt-in Mailing list.
If you break even, don't be discouraged. Breaking even is an
amazing result, and if you have built your list up, then you
will be profiting for years to come.
So for your first affiliate program, choose a product that sells
for around $40 to $50 and where you still get at least 40%
of the total profits.
Your second affiliate program you join will be in the category
of what we call "Residual Income".
This is an affiliate program that pays you every month
someone stays signed up for their product or service. For
example, if you were to promote a web hosting company,
and they charged $25 a month, you would get around $10 a
month for as long as that person stays signed up for web
hosting. Terry Dean believes this is the closest way to
earning a secure pay check every month.
These are great programs to promote because all they
require is a little hard work up front and you're set for
months, even years. That's why I recommend promoting
this type of program once you have a large list of names to
email to.
Of course you will still be promoting your free course to
other people, but this is a way to make back end sales from
your current list. Don't think if you've advertised to these
people once, that's all they are good for. I will talk more
about this later in the book
You can find a large list of Residual Income affiliate
programs at LifeTimeCommissions.com which is run by Allan
Gardyne. You will hearing a lot about that name in this
book.
Now your third affiliate program will also be a program that
you will promote to your current subscriber list. This
program should pay you a large lump sum of money. This
type of program will have a lower conversion rate, but you
should be making $80 to $150 commission per sale.
If you would like to find a directory of affiliate programs,
visit AssociatePrograms.com
Step 2. Create A Free Report Series
I'm going to keep this step very simple and to the point, but
remember, this step is vital to your affiliate success. I will go
as far as saying that if you create a responsive Opt-In list,
75% of your work is done for you already. That goes for
anything you're doing online.
This free report will be promoting the first affiliate program
you chose from step 1. It should be priced around $40 or
$50 and pay you around $20 to $25 per sale.
Creating your free report is easy. Either find 5 articles on
your subject that you're allowed to use, or create 5 articles
yourself. They don't have to be long, only around 500
words. Then send them out to your prospects over 5 days
using your autoresponder. Make sure these reports are full
of useful information, not just blatant advertising. You do
however get a chance to advertise to them directly later.
How I create autoresponder series is by writing 5 to 10
articles on the topic the affiliate program I'm promoting is
on. For instance, if I were writing a report on search engine
ranking, I would create the following articles.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Tools Of The Search Engine Specialist
Meta Data, Yes Or No?
How Mini Sites Can Generate Thousands In Extra Visitors
Getting Listed In Yahoo! The Easy Way
Creating Keywords Relevant To Your Site
Search Engine Ranking On A Budget
7. The Biggest Search Engine Myths
And so on..
Everyone can write, I don't care what you say. Keeping it
simple is the best way to go. Don't get daunted by the task
ahead of you otherwise you will delay doing anything at all.
Another tip I have for writing articles is to jot down points,
and use those points to build your article. For instance,
when writing "How Mini Sites Can Generate Thousands In
Extra Visitors", I would jot down points like this.
*
*
*
*
*
*
Choosing A Domain Name
Finding Cheap Web Hosting
Using Keywords Throughout The Web Site
Submitting To Search Engines
Tracking Hits
Doing This All Over Again
I would then write 100 to 200 words per point and voila!,
there's your first article/report for you to use.
Now when sending out your free report with your
autoresponder, it should be set up something like this.
When the person signs up, they get part 1, then for the next
4 days they get parts 2, 3, 4 and 5. In these messages, you
will get a chance to advertise to them in the first and last
sections of your message.
Here's an example of an autoresponder message I sent out.
Hi [[firstname]],
I would like to thank you for requesting our free
report "How To Become A Super Affiliate And A
Digital Information Millionaire On A Budget".
My name is Shane Pearce, and I recently quit my job
and I'm now working from home as both a Super
Affiliate And A Digital Information Marketer. In this
free report, I am going to show you how you aswell
can work from home selling your own and other
people's products, for amazing profits.
Not only that, I'm going to show you how you can do
it ON A BUDGET with the power of Mini Sites.
And I will show you exactly what product I'm selling
as my own, but did not create. It really is a great
business to be in.
This course is written in plain english, and is very
easy to read, however, if you have any questions or
comments, then please feel free to contact me at
email@addresshere.com
P.S, [[firstname]], for a very limited time only I'm
offering to everyone who buys Master Reprint Rights
to Killer Mini Sites from my site,
www.websitehere.com a special bonus of SIX
MONTHS worth of email consultation FREE.
That's right, ask me any question's anytime. How
valuable is that to you?
Not only will you get your own product/business to
market online, I will help you do it in the process.
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Part 1, Becoming A Super Affiliate On A Budget With
Mini Affiliate Sites
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Earning a good income from Affiliate Programs is not
as hard as everyone make's it out to be.
The figure's are that 95% of all affiliates never earn
enough to warrant a check. And of those 5% only 1
to 2% earn enough to live off their commissions.
That's not good news for the "average" Joe Affiliate
is it.
But I'm telling you now, it does not have to be that
hard. All you need is a simple formula that work's
over and over again. It really is that simple.
The hard part is doing it all on a very tight budget,
which I will show you how right now.
(I recommend grabbing a pen and paper and writting
down any good points)
******* Unsuccessful Affiliate Strategies *******
Here are a few thing's that kill any chance Affiliate's
have of earning any decent commissions.
1. They Simply Do Nothing To Promote The Affiliate
Program
This is the most common mistake I see happening.
People simply sign up for the Affiliate Program and
they either think the money is magically going to roll
in, or they simply didn't take the responsibility of
being an Affiliate as seriously as they should have.
Because most Affiliate Programs are free to join,
people don't really take it as seriously as say
someone who pay's $1000 for resell rights to a
certain product. You need to treat your Affiliate
Network like a serious business or you will never
earn serious profits.
That's why I only let people who buy my course join
my Affiliate Program. This I think makes it fair for
the people who are willing to spend some money on
their business.
No matter how hard you try, you will have to open
your wallet sooner or later.
2. They Get Incorrect Information From So Called
Experts Or Read Outdated Material.
Two big myths, free classified ad style advertising
works and placing paid advertisingfor their program
will reap huge profits. All incorrect. Let me explain
FFA posts and free classified ad's use to work. You
could once rely on these to bring in a fair bit of
money. Now days though, I feel the work you have to
put into them is too much trouble for the results you
get. You would be lucky to even a response from this
sort of advertising. That also goes for putting
Affiliate banner links up and expecting that too work.
The biggest secret for all Affiliates is to create a 1
page site that's focused on one product and theme.
1 product + 1 Web Site = Big Profits. If you don't
remember anything else in this course, remember
that.
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The 5 Step's To Becoming A Super Affiliate On A
Budget
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******* Step 1 *******
1. Create A 1 Page Free Report Web Site With A
Simple Subscribe Form
Before we get into creating your Mini Affiliate Site we
need to select an Affiliate Program to promote. If you
already have one you want to promote, move on, if
not read on :)
When selecting your first Affiliate Program for your
Mini Affiliate Site, I suggest you go for a product
with a rather large price tag, so you can make profit's
from day one. Of course the big money come's from
you backend, which we will talk about later.
I alway's suggest you promote a product you have
used and trust before anything else.
Don't just promote an Affiliate Program because of
the commissions, as that's a sure fire way to fail.
If you're looking for a directory of Affiliate Programs
to join instantly, I suggest you look at Allan
Gardyne's AssociatePrograms.com.
Setting up a web site now has never been easier. A
few year's ago, domain names sold for $35 for 1
year, and webhosting was about the same for 1
month. Now it's so very inexpensive.
You can purchase domains names for $13.50 at
000domains.com and even cheaper at godaddy.com.
The last time I checked they were selling dot com,
net, org names for only $8.95.
As I speak, there's a new hosting company that
specialises in hosting Mini Sites. They are
www.bizminisites.com and for only $9.95 you get 3
months of quality web hosting.
If you would like an example of a very effective Mini
Site have a look at the following sites.
You can find alot of really good web site templates at
www.freesitetemplates.com.
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That's it for Part 1 today. You will get the second,
third and fourth parts in a few days.
If you can't wait until then, you can always visit our
site http://www.websitehere.com and get all the
information you need.
Best Regards
Shane Pearce
email@here.com
As you can see, I've got my web site address and special
offers throughout the report. But I was telling people to go
to my website. Since you don't have a web site, you would
put a little advertisement for your affiliate program at the
start and at the end of your reports.
Also, you can put your affiliate links throughout the report as
long as its in context, not blatant plugging of your affiliate
program. Trust me, this does not work.
If your prospect hasn't purchased from you after your free
reports have been sent out, don't worry. The next part is
where you will get most of your sales. Considering there are
so many other affiliates promoting the same or similar
product you are, you have to make them want to buy from
you.
How do you do this? Easy, you over deliver. You give them
more then what they expected, and you distance yourself
from being a no name affiliate and turn yourself into a
trusted friend.
I like to do this by giving away something else if they
purchase from the affiliate program I'm promoting. For
instance, I give away consultation free, where I help them
with any problems they might have.
Here's an example of a report I used to get people in the
buying mode. Mind you this is for a product I was selling,
yet you will still get the idea.
Hi Firstname,
I have a secret for you that will hopefully make you
very excited.
As you know, Product X is selling from my web site
for $22.70, $79.95 and $249.95. If you're confused
about the different options, let me explain.
For $22.70, you get a copy of the book Product X and
you can resell the book to your web site visitors for
$24.95. But remember, this option is full of my
Affiliate Links, where I'm earning money from your
hard work.
For $79.95 you get a fully branded copy of Product X
that you can sell for $24.95 with your Affiliate Links
that will earn you residual income constantly.
For $249.95 you get a fully branded copy of Product
X that you can sell for $24.95, you also get to sell the
customization rights for $79.95 and the big profit
puller is you can sell the MASTER RIGHTS for a
massive $249.95 per sale.
But, here's the best bit. I'm offering, for a very
limited time only, the MASTER RIGHTS to Product X
for ONLY $150. I'm slashing $100 dollars off the
price and I'm throwing in FREE Consultation with me
via email any time you need help.
That's right, you get your own Internet Publishing
Busines complete with website sales letter and
branding utilities, and FREE consultation that I sell
elsewhere for $147.00.
To be honest, I don't know what you're waiting for,
this offer will not be around for long.
You can purchase the MASTER RIGHTS Today by
clicking the link below. Remember, this link is for the
$150 MASTER RIGHT option.
I can tell you now, the book is selling like hot cakes
and if you purchase today, I will give you my secret
tactic that makes 1 in every 45 people purchase this
product.
I will also show you how to get unlimited email leads
for you to advertise to constantly without spamming.
If this is not a big enough motivator to purchase
today, I don't know what is.
If you would like more information about the book,
which in itself is amazing, visit my web site at
or email me at
email@here.com - This is my home account, you
email will get priority status. To your success and
may your clicks come often
Your Name
P.S, If you don't order today, please email me and
tell me whats stopping you so I can sweeten the
deal.
This got an amazing response. It was sent 2 days after the
free course was over. The pull here was that I will give them
$100 off the price of the product, plus still give them free
consultation for 6 months.
The options are limitless.
Of course this would not be the end of your contact with
them. If the prospect still hasn't purchased the first affiliate
program you're promoting that's OK. Don't go breathing
down their necks telling them to purchase from you or else.
The lifetime value of a prospect is a lot more then just a one
off sale.
That's why for this very reason, you selected three affiliate
programs to promote. Instead of trying to get the prospect
to buy the one product over and over again, offer them
something fresh. With this in mind, I recommend offering
them a residual income affiliate program, like a membership
site.
Create another report and start all over again. An Opt-in list
is a continues funnel of money.
Of course, when people purchase from you, they should be
taken off the prospect list, and added to your customer list.
This list is your most important asset. It's 10 times as
important then your prospects list because these people
showed they were willing to buy from you.
Some affiliate programs don't allow you to see the email
addresses of people who buy from you, so that's why when
you're giving away your special offer in conjunction with
your affiliate program, you ask them to send you an email
when they have purchased, then you will give them what
ever bonus you were offering.
(Remember, when your prospect buys something
from you, they become a customer, so do not forget
to take them off your prospects list.)
With these people, you will want to give them other special
deals not available to your prospect list. The first email sent
to them should be thanking them for their purchase, and
letting them know how they can receive their free bonus and
how they can contact you at anytime.
The second email sent to them should be sent a few days
later giving them another free bonus they were not
expecting. I love it when people do this for me, and I
suggest you do this for your customers, because that's what
they are, they are your customers.
The third email you send them should be sent out about 7
days after they purchase from you. This email should offer
them a backend product, for instance your residual income
affiliate program. If you can, see if you can talk to the
affiliate program manager and get a special discount rate on
the product, or maybe the first month for $1, just for your
customers. I doubt any affiliate program manager would
reject a sure fire way to make even more money.
In the mid to long term, this will build a nice on going
lifelong income for you.
About 7 days after your third email was sent, send them
another discount product, but make sure this product is in
the high commission range. This is where you will make
most of big incomes from.
You will earn a decent income with smaller sized
commissions, but when you start selling larger priced
affiliate programs when you already have a list of contacts,
it becomes a very large automated income.
The information business is truly the best business to be in.
I get excited when I'm writing books and thinking about the
possibilities. It's great meeting new people and making new
friendships.
Make sure you keep in contact with your customer base and
offer them free reports and other special offers every month
or two. Just make sure you don't over do it.
There are not too many autoresponders that can handle this
sort of work load for a cheap price, however, I have found
one that will do this and more. It's called Aweber.com and
you can get a free trial for 30 days. Then after that it's only
$19.95 per month. They give you unlimted autoresponders
and other great options. You wont find anything else like it.
If you're after a residual income affiliate program to
promote, I recommend these people.
Considering you have no web hosting bills like nearly
everyone else on line, you can afford to pay a little bit more
for your autoresponder.
Now how many businesses do you know of that can run on
a $19.95 investment only every month?
If you really want to keep generating income constantly, you
could produce free reports every month, and advertise them
to your current list, while still advertising your first affiliate
program report. Imagine having an around the clock sales
machine sending out free reports to thousands, while
promoting your affiliate program's and building a name for
yourself.
Step 3. Advertise Your First Affiliate Program Via
Your Free Report
This is the easier step, yet the step most people have
trouble with. Creating an excellent free report is ALOT
harder then advertising your free report. It's just a matter of
coming up with a list of good ezines and discussion boards
to advertise on. Signature files are a surprise add on here,
but they really do work. I will discuss this more further
down.
Plus you will need to generate a list of ezine publishers so
you can send them articles to use for their ezine.
While all these ways will produce you a nice flow of
subscribers, you really can't beat Co-registration for price,
effectiveness, speed and ease of use. It's not unheard of to
generate hundreds of new subscribers everyday using Co-
registration, and it's true, they won't be as responsive as
people from a web site promoting your free report, but you
didn't have a web site to start with.
Ezine advertising would have to be my favorite option, as it's
quick and easy. The only hard part is writing the ad copy for
your ads, and finding ezine's to advertise in.
Apart from that, there are two ezine directories that I use
constantly, they are TopEzineAds.com and
Directoryofezines.com.
There is a cost to use these, but they will be your lifeline
until you generate a list of ezines yourself.
The whole aim of this advertising campaign is to generate
leads for your free report, so you really want to advertise
anywhere you think people might be interested in your
report. Since your not going for a direct sale straight off the
bat, this somewhat allows you to be a little less worried
about how targeted your audience is.
If you're running low on money, I recommend classified
advertising. It's so inexpensive that I advertise Internet
marketing products in humour ezines and still pull a good
response rate for the amount of money I put in.
You can get classified ads for around $2 per ad, which is
extremely cheap. I highly recommend Partneon.com and
Twodollarads.com for any classified advertising you're going
to do. Of course if you search through ezine directories you
will find a lot of other places to advertise cheaply.
Writing classified ads has turned into somewhat of an art
form. There are literally hundreds of books on the subject of
writing successful classified ads, yet most over complicate it
too much.
So what makes a good classified ad? A good classified ad
consists of the following,
1) An attention grabbing headline
FREE REPORT
SECRETS REVEALED
HOW TO
2) A promise
Become A Millionaire Overnight
Earn $1200 In Two Weeks
FREE REPORT: Secrets Of The Super Affiliates Revealed
How To Become A Super Affiliate On A Tight Budget
3) A call to action
For More Information
Be Quick Or You Will Miss Out
FREE REPORT: Secrets Of The Super Affiliates Revealed How
To Become A Super Affiliate On A Tight Budget For More
Information, Send A Blank Email To
Your@autoresponderhere.com
Once you've found a few good ezine's, keep advertising with
them. After you think you've got the most out of their
classified ad section, start using sponsorship ads.
While this will be quite a steep climb in costs compared to
classified ads, the results will be quite dramatically different.
Top sponsorship ads can cost anywhere between $15 to
$300 dollars depending on where you're advertising.
I recommend using top sponsorship ads if you don't want to
spend a lot extra on purchasing a solo ad. However if you
can purchase a solo ad for an extra $50 or so, I would
definitely go for the solo ad. Sponsorship ads also give you
an idea of how well their ezine pulls and whether or not it's
worth the time and money to buy a solo ad.
Don't get carried away with figures when you purchase a
solo ad. When I first started out, I advertised a product
directly via my solo ad. The ad went out to 12,000 people
and going on the figures of 1% buying my product, I
thought this Internet Marketing thing wasn't that hard.
I did my research, I was told this ezine was good, which it
is, and I went for it. The commission I was going to receive
for every sale was $20. So 120 were suppose to buy, time
$20 per sale came to $2400.
How much money did I actually make from this ad? $20!.
That's right, I only made $20. Why?
A) Because I advertised the affiliate program directly
B) I did not know the affiliate program had been advertised
about 10 times before
C) I didn't even have a way to capture email addresses
It was a total flop and I was very put off from trying again.
That lasted about 4 hours! That night I was re-reading the
information that got me into this mess to start with. I
followed exactly what the affiliate program manager said to
do, and it didn't work. Luckily for me, at that time I stopped
listening to affiliate managers and started thinking for
myself.
Have a look around any ezines you've joined, and try and
remember if you read any of the ads. If so, which one's and
why? Did you sign up for what they were offering? If no,
Why? This is the best way to find ezine ads that work. If you
read the ad and signed up for what they were offering,
other people would have as well. Well, you would hope so.
Another method of free advertising I like to use is discussion
board posting.
Discussion board posting is free and very effective,
especially if the message board is inside a members only site
where you pay to join.
The idea here is not to spam the message board, but to
actually add some content. Only answer questions you know
a lot about. Don't try and be an expert on a topic your not.
I'm not an expert at copywriting, so I very rarely give people
expert advice on this. I help people with basic questions, but
no more unless I really know what I'm talking about. This is
the best way to ruin your reputation before you're even
lucky enough to create one.
Here's a sample posting which I think is the perfect
Posted by Elizabeth Sinclair on Sat, Oct 27, 4:11 pm, in
response to Ebook Covers.... Recommendations, please!,
posted by Julie Jordan Scott
I have several free ebook cover templates at
http://www.onlinewebcreations. All you need to do is add
your own text. Otherwise, you can check out my Ebook
gallery to see the custom ebook covers I have created.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
The reason this is a good post is simply put is because it
answers the persons question while still advertising their
web site, with out it looking like a blatant plug. The answer
told the person exactly what she wanted to know.
Here's the post it was in response to.
Ebook Covers....Recommendations, please!
Posted by Julie Jordan Scott on Sat, Oct 27, , 3:24 pm
Happy Weekend One and All!
I am looking for an Ebook Cover Designer. I know that many
folks here are ebook authors or are ebook cover designers.
I am in the market for some covers and am looking for
recommendations.
Please share any positive recommendations, or email me
with cautions.
Thanks a bunch, everyone, all of a sudden I am on warped
speed here in Bakersfield.....
With Purpose and Passion,
JULIE JORDAN SCOTT
(That was taken from http://www.ablake.net message
board, which is highly recommended.)
I must admit, I don't use the following advertising method
as much as I should because it can really boost traffic over
time.
Signature files are little blurps of text either after a post in a
message board or at the bottom of your email. The most
notable use of a signature file would have to be Hotmail.com
Hotmail originally relied on it's own customers to promote
their service as each email message they sent contained a
direct link to Hotmail's sign-up website.
This viral marketing strategy generated hundreds of
thousands, very possibly millions of new users for their free
service.
The idea of signature files is to make them as short and as
compelling as possible. Let's say I just finished writing a post
to a message board and I was just talking about affiliate
programs.
This is what I write after my message board post to
advertise my website.
"Discover How To Generate Thousands Without A
Web Site Or A Product Of Your Own"
And I would link that to my sales page. A good idea is to
also use a separate tracking system to track how many hits
your message board postings are receiving. I talk about this
more in "Tracking Your Way To Success"
If you were answering a question on creating a well written
sales letter, you could use your signature file to promote an
affiliate program like InstantSalesLetters.com. It's that
simple.
How To Write Articles For On-
Going Viral Income
Here's the idea.
We've all been taught to create free viral ebooks to either
promote our products or affiliate products and submit them
to free ebook directories. This was sound advice, but I've
found an even better way to make this work.
Create your own free ebook directory full of your own free
viral ebooks!
Think Clickbank.com but with free ebooks on all subjects
that you own, promoting affiliate programs 24/7.
People go to this site, download the free book they want,
they pass it around, and there ya go, automated affiliate
income.
But how do you go about creating these free ebooks so they
produce the best sales possible? I've found by creating an
FAQ list (frequently asked question) on a certain subject and
then converting it into PDF, my affiliate sales have soared.
I'm not trying to heavily sell them in the book, they are
getting very useful free information and I then point them to
a paid resource to get more information if they want to.
I also ask them to pass the book around as much as they
like.
Want an example of an FAQ list? Go here
This FAQ list is quite big and detailed. Your free books only
need to be 5 or so pages long.
Here is an article I wrote on creating a viral ebook. It really
doesn't have much to do with the business idea in general,
but will give you an idea of what I'm talking about at least.
****
This is just a very quick overview, but if you want more
information on creating Ebooks, I suggest you visit 2 sites.
My favorite site is Terry Dean's exclusive membersite at
information on marketing and it's only $19.95 a month.
The next product solely focuses on creating your own Ebook
in less then 7 days and that is written by Jim Edwards. You
can find it at http://www.7dayebook.com. It's a one off fee
for $27 and it comes in Ebook format ironically enough.
Now, back to my explanation.
Whether you like it or not, having your own product gives
you more flexibility in your online advertising AND believe it
or not, compiling an Ebook is no more then a weeks work
part time if done correctly and IF you do it this way the
profits will come in for life.
I have checks coming in still from work I did 2 years ago,
thanks to the power of residual income affiliate programs
and viral marketing Ebooks.
Ok, lets get down to the nitty gritty. What is a viral
marketing Ebook and why should you create one?
A viral marketing Ebook is a book which sole purpose is to
be spread around the Internet quickly, by any means
possible. It's not meant to make you money on the front
end. You want other people selling it and giving it away to
as many people as possible.
Why?
Because the inside of that book is full of affiliate links to
other peoples products and every time someone gives away
your book or sells it, (depending on how you want to do it)
more people will be seeing your affiliate links, and this is
costing you what? NOTHING? Exactly!
The best examples I could give you of this process would be
by Yanik Silver. He created 2 marketing books that spread
over the Internet like wildfire. He gave everyone who
purchased the book for $19 or $17 (depending on the book)
the rights to sell it or give it away to their customers.
Needless to say, thousands of people starting selling it and
promoting it all over the Internet. To this day, he is still
earning good money from that book, plus he became one of
the most well known Internet Marketers to date.
So how do you go about creating your own viral marketing
Ebook?
Here are the steps.
1) Come up with a product idea based on your
affiliate program you've already chosen and are
already promoting.
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. For example, and I know I
use this example a lot, BUT, If you are going to be
promoting a sports betting affiliate program, why not create
a book on becoming a successful punter. Then throughout
the book, you can recommend your favorite sports betting
affiliate program.
101 insider secrets to sports betting
How to bet with other peoples money
A good way to come up with ideas is to look at what others
are already selling and mimic that. You dont need to
recreate the wheel here, so PLEASE don't make things
harder then they have to be.
2) Get the tools you need to succeed
You are going to need a few tools here.
A) A domain name
I register all my domain names with
http://www.namecheap.com for under $9 a domain name,
which to me is pretty darn cheap. You want a fairly short
domain name that describes the content of your book fairly
well.
Here's an example for you people promoting sport betting
affiliate programs.
etc....
B) Webhosting
Let me say first, you get what you pay for. This has never
been more true then with webhosting. YOU NEED a good
reliable webhosting company with 24/7 technical support. If
your site goes down and you can't contact anyone to help
you get it back up, you will lose sales and a lot of them.
I recommed you use http://www.thirdspherehosting.com for
the simple fact they offer all you need, plus a lot more for a
reasonable price.
C) Autoresponder
You will need this so you can contact your prospects that
don't purchase straight away. This is where you will give
away your free course or someway to entice them to give
you their email address so you can contact them
periodically.
D) Credit card processor
Just use http://www.clickbank.com. This step is too easy.
They will let you accept all major credit cards and start an
affiliate program for a one time setup fee of under $50.
They do take a percentage of every sale, but this is so much
cheaper then getting your own merchant account.
Just about everyone selling Ebooks online is using Clickbank.
E) Ebook Software
You will more then likely want to create your book in PDF
format so everyone can read it. Some Ebooks come in EXE
format, but mac users can't read that format, so I find it
best to use PDF. You can create your book with
http://www.createpdf.com for a fairly cheap price.
F) Graphic Design Software
If you are anything like me, your artistic abilities peaked at
age 7. So instead of busting my hump to create my Ebook
covers and website graphics I use
http://www.headergenerator.com for all my graphics.
They are great pieces of software that you can use instead
of hiring graphic designers.
I do however recommend one graphic designer by the name
of Brian Terry. You can view his work at
3) Outline your book chapters into articles
Writing a whole book in one sitting is hard, and trying to
write a book without outlining the chapters is nearly
impossible. My first book I ever wrote took me over 6
months but now most of my books take me less then a week
to finish and that is with a sales letter and website up.
All you have to do is think up 12 to 15 article topics in
sequence and write about them. Each page should be
around 700 to 1000 words, full of useful information, not
information people could get for free.
4) Write your content
Like I said just before, you need original content. There are
too many books out there now where people are just
regurgitating information others can get for free and this
lowers the value of your book, which means less people will
pass it around and even less will read it.
If you are really stuck with your writing, I suggest that you
do the following.
Actually, Terry Dean from
http://www.netbreakthroughs.com taught me this trick.
The best way to get a good amount of original information
without writing it yourself is to interview experts in the field.
For instance, if you were writing a book about improving
your golf handicap, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find
some local experts who you could grill in person, over the
phone or even via the Internet and you can then put all that
information in the book. It's also a good selling point.
Also remember when your writing what the point of this
book is. The point of the book is to earn you an on going
commission with affiliate programs, so don't feel like you
can't throw some affiliate links in, because you can, but
make sure it's tactful and in place.
Another good idea would be to put a "Subscribe to my
newsletter" section in your book as well, so not only will you
make commissions on sales, but also generate leads without
doing any extra work.
Make sure you clearly state in the front of the book, that the
buyer can sell this book as his own. State that he has Resell
Rights to the product and can sell it or give it away if he
chooses.
5) Create your sales letter
This is where you will be selling your book from and is
critically crucial to your success.
Creating a sales letter takes a lot of work, especially if your
new to the whole thing. The best way and the way I use, is
to mimic successful sales letters.
I recommend you have a look at the following sales letters
selling Ebooks.
If for some reason you think you can't do this by yourself,
you have 2 options.
1) Use software that helps put together your sales letter
and
2) Hire a copywriter
Software is great and there a 2 options out there. The first
one is http://www.instantsalesletters.com by Yanik Silver
and http://www.saleslettergenerator.com by Armand Morin.
They are just as good as each other.
However, if you want to hire a professional copywriter, your
looking at thousands of dollars, plus royalties from your
book sales.
Remember that your selling this book with reprint rights,
which means when they buy the book they can sell it as
well. This is a huge selling point for you. You will also be
giving them your Ebook cover, website graphics and sales
letter to use to sell your product.
6) Plug in your free 5 day autoresponder series
The best way to write your free 5 day course that your
prospect get via your pop up window is to take chapters out
of your book and put them in as a free teaser.
Remember to emphasize an urgency. You want to make
these prospects who don't buy straight away, feel like they
are missing out on an opportunity of a life time and
considering the low price of the book, if they don't buy,
more then likely they weren't really interested or were
freebie seekers from the start.
7) Advertise!
Depending on your topic, you will want to target different
people. However, no matter what topic your selling on,
there is one market who will want your book for the sole
purpose of selling it, and that's the Internet Marketing
group.
Your book could be on Hippo's but all they care about is the
fact they can sell it as their own. This is why this type of
book always does well.
The key is to target people in your market and then the
Internet Marketing crowd. I really am begging you to check
out Terry Deans http://www.netbreakthroughs.com as it will
give you all the knowledge you need and if you want you
can stay for 1 month and still get more then you will ever
need, information and personal help wise.
Other Ways To Profit From
Articles
Being an affiliate is a hard enough job at the best of times,
but have you ever tried to get your article published in a
large ezine publication? It can be a nightmare sometimes.
It's even harder if you try and work your affiliate link into
the article.
Articles are a great way to get free exposure for your web
site and your affiliate program. Hopefully your web sites goal
will be to get Opt-In email addresses and you have some
sort of free report system working.
However, I have been testing an idea for quite awhile now
that I think really works and I guarantee you that you will
get your article published 100% more then you do now. This
works especially well if you're running an Opt-In mailing list
which I recommend you do.
Ezine publishers receive hundreds of articles for publishing a
week, so why should they publish yours? You might think
you have the best article ever written, and you might, but
ezine publishers have to make money too you know. My
idea not only will increase your chances of getting published
but you will also be helping ezine publishers make more
money, which in the long run they will remember and will be
more receptive to your articles in the future.
Here's the idea.
When you write your article, try and work an affiliate link
into it. Make sure it's in context and not just a blatant
advertisement as that's why most ezine publishers refuse to
publish affiliate members articles.
As I was saying, write your article and in that article put a
link to an affiliate program you're promoting in context in
your article. It helps when doing this that you can say that
you honestly use that product or service. I guarantee you a
personal endorsement in your article will double the sales
you would get with out an endorsement.
The twist here is that the affiliate link you put in will be
changed by the ezine publisher. You will be letting the ezine
publisher change your affiliate link in your article so they can
earn commissions from your article and therefore increasing
the chances of getting your article published. This has never
failed for me and I'm sure it won't fail for you.
So how do you make money from this? Well if you have your
own autoresponder free report series set up, you can use
that in your article by line. You would make more sales from
this then from commissions from the article. Your goal in
any affiliate exercise is to get as many Opt-In email
addresses as possible and as cheaply and quickly as
possible.
Make sure your article by line is something that catches the
readers attention. Heres a by line I used when promoting an
article on Mini Sites. You can see I use a tracker to show
how many people click on my link.
Shane Pearce has been helping people succeed online for
over six years and has dedicated his life to Internet
Marketing. Visit his web site to find out how you can create
mini sites that sell like crazy. Go to his website at
However, if you wanted to promote your free autoresponder
report series I would use something like this,
Shane Pearce has been helping people succeed online for
over six years and has dedicated his life to Internet
Marketing. Find out how to earn a full time automated
income with affiliate programs on a budget by sending a
blank email to your@autoresponderhere.com
(I have many variations of this by line)
This is the most effective way to use your article. Going for
the one off sale is ridiculous and risky to your online
business.
Where To Submit Your Articles
For Maximum Exposure
There are many pieces of software that will submit your
article to directories for you, for instance.....
Which is all the rave now.
You can also hire services like Submityourarticle.com and
Phantomwriters.com to submit your articles for you, but this
gets very costly if you are writing lots and lots of articles at
once.
Personally, I like to do it myself.
Here are list of article directories I submit my articles to.
Yahoo Groups
groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/
groups.yahoo.com/group/aageneral/
groups.yahoo.com/group/aainet/
groups.yahoo.com/group/articles4you2use4promotion/
groups.yahoo.com/group/articlesubmission/
groups.yahoo.com/group/articles_archives/
groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce
groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce_list/
groups.yahoo.com/group/epub
groups.yahoo.com/group/ezinezone
groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/
groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Reprint-Articles
groups.yahoo.com/group/freeezinearticles
groups.yahoo.com/group/freelance_promotion/
groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeWrites
groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontent
groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/
groups.yahoo.com/group/hersmallbusiness
groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/
groups.yahoo.com/group/netwrite-publish-announce
groups.yahoo.com/group/PromoteYourArticle/
groups.yahoo.com/group/publisher_network
groups.yahoo.com/group/qc_reprint_articles
groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise
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