Invented by CDNow.com at the end of 1994 and pioneered by Amazon.com in 1996, “affiliate programs”, also known as Associate Programs or Partner Programs, are a simple way for Web sites to generate revenue by directing traffic toward other sites and a great way for the operating site to increase its traffic and revenue. Because affiliate programs are so convenient and work so well, they have become the industry’s dominant method of online Marketing. There are 4 different kinds of affiliate programs to compensate “Affiliates” (or referring sites) for generating traffic to the Affiliate Program operating Website: Pay-Per-Impression, Pay-Per-Click, Pay-Per-Lead and Pay-Per-Sale.
Pay-Per-Impression (CPM) The Pay-Per-Impression and Pay-Per-Click Model are not common to be used in Affiliate Marketing anymore. They were used in the Past, but were mostly abandoned due to Fraud and lack of Results. The CPM (cost-per-impression) compensation Model was revived by Google for Google AdWords in summer 2005. The feature is called “Site-Targeting” in AdWords and allows you to display your Adsense Ad on a specific Website that runs adsense ads.
Pay-Per-Click (CPC) Model
Like the Pay-per-Impression model was the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Model popular during the dot com boom at the end of the 1990th but was mostly abandoned by Advertisers for Advertisements on other Websites due to rampart problems with click fraud. The PPC Model was kept alive by the PPC Search Engine GoTo.com which became later Overture.com and is now owned by Yahoo! and renamed from “Yahoo Sponsored Search” to Yahoo Search Marketing. Google launched their PPC Service AdWords in 2000. Ask Jeeves, now simply Ask.com followed with their PPC Service in 2005 called Ask Sponsored Listings and MSN.com in 2006 with AdCenter. Other PPC Services are Miva/FindWhat.com and 7Search.com.
Contextual Advertising
The big come-back of PPC came when Google launched AdSense in 2003, the birth of contextual Advertising. What is Google AdSense? Here is a quote from Google’s History at Google’s corporate Website.
Google AdSense: “… offering web sites of all sizes a way to easily generate revenue through placement of highly targeted ads adjacent to their content. Google AdSense technology analyzes the text on any given page and delivers ads that are appropriate and relevant, increasing the usefulness of the page and the likelihood that those viewing it will actually click on the advertising presented there.” Yahoo’s Version of AdSense called Yahoo! Publisher Network was launched (beta) in 2005. Microsoft is also working on their own Version of AdSense which is expected to be launched (beta) in 2006.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Classic PPC Search Engine Marketing (Cost-Per-Click (CPC) advertising) is not Affiliate Marketing. It is an entirely different type of Internet Marketing and only has some technical details in common with old PPC/CPC Affiliate Marketing. Ads are primarily displayed at the Search Engine Search Results Pages (SERPs) next to organic, free, Search Results. Contextual Advertising introduced with Google AdSense is also not Affiliate Marketing since no direct Partnership between the Advertiser who creates and pays for the Ads and the Publisher who displays the Ads on his Website.
This type of Marketing is generally referred to as Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and is often and wrongly mixed up and confused with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which is about improving the ranking of a Site in the organic, free, SERPs at major Search Engines via technical means and deep understanding of the complicated ranking algorithms used by modern Search Engines.
Pay-Per-Call Advertising is neither Search Engine Marketing (SEM) nor Affiliate Marketing. Recently developed call-tracking technology allows to create a bridge between online and offline Advertising. Pay-Per-Call Advertising is still new and in it’s infancy. It is expected to become the 4th major type of Internet Marketing next to Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization within the next years.
The Affiliate Marketing shifted almost entirely to the Pay-Per-Lead (CPA or CPL) and Pay-Per-Sale Model (CPS) which is also known as Performance Marketing. The paid commission is usually a percentage of the referred sales or a flat dollar amount.
The Pay-Per-Lead (CPA or CPL) Model
The Advertiser pays Affiliates a Flat Amount Commission if a referred visitor performs a specific action on the Advertisers Site. It could be Actions like filling out a Form, Signing up for a Newsletter or Creating an Account. The CPA Model is very popular with Online Services like Credit Card Providers, Insurance Services, DVD and Video Game Rental Services and Loans and Mortgages. Due to the usual high flat commission amount is the CPA very attractive for PPC Affiliates that do not have a permanent Website and an established User Base. Before you consider the CPA Model for you problem, make sure to have mechanisms in place to validate the quality of referred leads. Your program will be vulnerable to become a victim of fraud, affiliates that generate tons of “fake” leads if you do not have anything in place to verify the quality of the produced leads.
The Pay-Per-Sale (CPS) Model
This Model is used by most Online Merchants today. The Merchant pays a percentage of the Order Amount that was created by a customer who was referred by an Affiliate.
Do not pay commissions that you end up loosing money on an order. You will gain new customers because of the Affiliate Program, but you will also pay commissions for returning customers. Shoppers on the internet are more savvy today. Comparison Shopping Sites, Coupon Sites, Cash-Back Shopping and Charity Sites, that make up a large percentage of successful affiliates, are often visited by Shoppers first. See the Affiliate Program also as a Customer Retention Tool. CPA or CPS?
If your competitors have affiliate programs and you don’t, chances are good, that you are loosing a considerable amount of business to them, because the lag of an affiliate program for your site. If you want to use an Affiliate Program as an Online Merchant for the whole purpose of customer acquisition, consider the CPA Model and pay a flat commission for new customers referrer by affiliates. Do the math to come up with a Flat Commission that makes it worthwhile for affiliates to promote you. Affiliates are not waiting for you, the next Merchant that has a Program is only one click away. What you do and what commission you pay is up to you. You can also mix compensation models. The best thing to do is always to check first what your competitors are doing and use their compensation model as reference. Pay-Per-Sale is by far the most common compensation model. 2/3 to 3/4 of all Affiliate Programs today are Pay-per-Sale Programs. The operating Site only pays “Commission” to their Affiliates for actual Results (a Sale, Sign-up etc.) and not just for promises (Clickthroughs, Banner Impressions). Affiliate Networks
Operating an affiliate program to drive traffic to your website has never been easier. Most Sites utilize 3rd Party Services (so called Affiliate Networks). Those Services provide the infrastructure for you to track all the traffic and referrals to your Website. Networks also work as a Recruiting Platform to find Websites willing to promote your Products or Services. The Integration of their Service usually takes just a few days or sometimes just a few hours. Some of the Networks also help you to keep the generated overhead low (such as Payment of the Affiliates). Networks usually charge 20-30% of the commission you pay to Affiliates as Fee to you. If the Fee is 25% for example and you pay 10% commission per Sale to you Affiliate, you must pay $12.5 in commission and fee for a $100 Sale.
In-House Affiliate Program Solutions and Software
You might want to have more control over your Affiliate Program and avoid the Network fees by running the program In-House. You can, of course, develop all the necessary tools and technology by yourself, but that is may be not very cost effective and not as easy as it seems. The technology has already been developed by various Affiliate Tracking Solution Providers and Software Packages. They are most of the time easy to plug into your existing Sites and have already proven themselves. Be carefull with too small or too new Solution and Software Provoiders. Check the Background of the Company you consider first. Do your diligence! Outsourcing – Outsourced Program Management (OPM)
When you have your Program up and running, the first and important step was done. Now begins the complicated part starts. The Wild West of Affiliate Marketing when quick and easy money was made and having an Affiliate Program running on “Auto Drive” generated a huge increase in sales by affiliates that seeked out programs and did everything themselves without the need of support and guidance is over. Business on the internet matured and Affiliate Marketing as well. An Affiliate Program requires attention. To get active and quality affiliates requires active recruitment efforts. Support of existing affiliates also became vital. A clear set of Rules, the Affiliate Agreement, must be worked out and be enforced. Allocate Resources to the program and don’t do it on the side.
Your program is destined to fail if you don’t spend the required resources and time for your program. If you don’t have the resources in-house, consider outsourcing of your program management (OPM). There are today a number of quality service companies available that are specialized in this.
Conclusion
Thousands of Websites operating their Affiliate Program successfully today, prove, that Affiliate Marketing is the most cost effective and efficient way to promote your products and services on the World Wide Web. Affiliate Marketing guarantees a fast ROI (Return of Investment) and for some Online Merchants and Services are the Sales generated through the Affiliate Channel making up a considerable percentage of their total online Revenue.
Important Abbreviations
CPA – Cost per Action
CPC – Cost per Click
CPL – Cost per Lead
CPM – Cost per (Mil) Impression (1000 Impressions)
CPS – Cost per Sale
CR – Conversion Rate
CTR – Click through rate
DRM – Dynamic Rich Media (type of Ad, technology). It has nothing to do with DRM as in Digital Rights Management
EPC – Earnings per Click / Earnings per 100 Clicks
OPM – Outsourced (Affiliate) Program Management
PPC – Pay per Click
ROI – Return of Investment
SE – Search Engines
SEM – Search Engine Marketing
SEO – Search Engine Optimization
SERP – Search Engine Result Page
SID – URL Parameter the Affiliate can pass to get tracked with Sales and Leads
Abbreviations of Websites you will come across
ABW – ABestWeb – Affiliate Marketing Forum
CJ – Commission Junction – Affiliate Network
LS – Linkshare – Affiliate Network
MyAP – My Affiliate Program – In-House Program Solution
PF – Performics – Affiliate Netwok
SAS – ShareASale – Affiliate Network
SEW – Search Engine Watch – News and Resources
SR – Share Results – Affiliate Network
TW – Thread Watch – Internet Marketing News Discussions
WW – Webmaster World Forums
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With the growing popularity of the World Wide web and online video services such as YouTube, many people are turning away from TV to the web. However, traditional TV broadcast advertisement is still the most popular and effective mass-market advertising channel. Even Google has launched its Google video adwords system to help small business owners to buy TV airtime at cheaper prices.
Although originally built to create vector-based web animation, Adobe Flash can also be used to create animation for video and television. You can use Flash to produce movie-quality animation and output to video format for displaying on DVD or TV, which can be a short ten second TV ad commercial or minutes long cartoon animation.
By using Flash to produce video file, you can create TV commercial quality ads with a low budget — there is no need to hire a whole video production crew and actors to do the video production.
Flash can export file into AVI and Quicktime movie format, both with or without sound. You can then import these formats directly into many standard video editing programs and then output them to tape or CD.
The following are few important factors you need to take into consideration, when creating a Flash TV commercial, which includes display resolution, screen size, frame rate, color and video format required when you output from Flash.
– Display resolution
Display resolution refers to the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. Usually televisions are of the following resolutions:
* SDTV: 480i (NTSC, 720×480 split into two 240-line fields)
* SDTV: 576i (PAL, 720×576 split into two 288-line fields)
* HDTV: 1080i (1280×1080, 1440×1080, or 1920×1080 split into two 540-line fields)
* HDTV: 1080p (1920×1080 progressive scan)
Output your flash animation to an SWF, animated GIF, AVI or QuickTime file. These formats show you the speed of your animation better than Flash movies inside the Flash editor.
Even with the latest graphics card, Flash movies played inside the Flash editor often run a bit slower than the stated frame rate.
— Frame rate
Frame rate is the measurement of the frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. Frame rate is most often expressed in frames per second (FPS) and in progressive-scan monitors as hertz (Hz). The standard frame rate is 30 fps for NTSC, and 24 fps for PAL.
– Screen Size
TV screen size is often different from your standard compute monitor. When creating a flash commercial, you should maintain an aspect ratio of 4:3 to avoid any stretching in the post-production changes. 720 x 540 at 30 frames per second (fps) is a fairly standard stage size for NTSC. For PAL use 768 x 576 at 25fps.
Flash is a vector based program, therefore if you design the flash ad using vector images, their quality will be the same regardless of final screen size output. However if you are going to use a lot of raster based images in your production, like pngs and jpgs, then it becomes more important that you use the images in highest possible resolution, or it will look blurred in your final product.
— TV Safe Color
Many color used in Flash, such as the red color, are too bright when broadcast on television. You should choose television-safe colors, or use a graphic software program to create a television-safe palette.
— Output your flash animation into Video Format
You should export the flash movie file into standard video file format such as AVI, WMV or MPEG for TV broadcasting.
The steps are very easy to follow. In Adobe Flash, simply select [File->Export->Export Movie] and choose the exported movie option, and then the conversion is complete.
The display resolution, frame rate and video format used might vary from different TV broadcasting companies. Therefore you should always check for video file format details first before working on the flash movie.
Creating a Flash TV commercial is very time-consuming and complicated. If you need to create a Flash commercial quickly, you can consider to use ready-made flash templates, which is usually available with full source code file, so that you can edit it in Adobe flash, and replace the template images and text with your own.
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Google AdWords has become a must have for almost every small and medium business out there. If you are looking to get customers from the web (and who isn’t) then at some point you’re going to need to get familiar with Google AdWords.
When you first sign up for AdWords, you’ll need to have your credit card handy. After you’ve entered your personal information, you will next need to create a Campaign. The best way to think of a Campaign is that if you had 3 separate businesses, you most likely would create 3 separate campaigns.
After you’ve set up your campaign, you need to create a number of what are called Ad Groups. Think of Ad Groups as a container for different types of advertisements. These advertisements are text ads that need to describe what you are selling or offering.
Each text ad has a header and lines of copy for the description. The bottom line is the URL of your website. Each ad group should only have 2-4 keywords and should contain a handful of ads. These ads can be routinely tested to find out what converts best, because it’s all about click through rate.
After you’ve set up a few adgroups with keywords, you are off and running! Don’t forget to bid high at the beginning or Google will penalize your account for trying to skimp on clicks. Constantly monitor your click through rate, because the higher the click through rate the better your cost per click will be and the more traffic you will get for less!
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Over the next few weeks im going to be offering some advice and solutions on specific mistakes that people make when venturing into google adwords. It also Helps to refresh my memory now and again to. Heres the first.
A problem that i see crop up time and time again is when people choose their keywords before they find there niche market. Many people that get into PPC advertising set up a campaign, set their CPC’s high, add a truck load of keywords that they think will convert, and then begin to research the product that there trying to sell. This is all wrong!
It is very important the you seek out your market before you find a product to promote to them.Try going on forums or visiting newsgroups and focus groups…see whats hot, what people are having problems with or complaining about and looking for a solution to — and then deliver a product to these people.
Lets look at it from a different angle. If you have a stand that sells pizza in a demographic where everyone likes to eat only Chinese, you are not going to sell many pizzas, no matter how delicious. The same goes for online promotions, if you are promoting the wrong products to people or trying to sell to people who simply are not hungry to buy, they are not going to purchase from you.
So whats the lesson? Focus on market research before promoting a product. Spend time to learn your audience, what they buy, why they buy, and then look at what fellow affiliates are doing. This will give you a great starting point before you jump into the “deep end”.
Only then should you start looking at your chosen market and product on a keyword level, buts thats an entirely different article!!
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Chapter 2 – Getting Ready For Your AdSense Account
The first step in the preparation process is to have your initial website properly prepared. Please pay attention to the word “properly.” Google has very definite guidelines for websites so reviewing their Terms of Service is crucial to being accepted into the program. If your website does not fall within their established guidelines it will be unceremoniously rejected.
Look specifically for Google’s Program Policies. One item of importance is that Google only accepts completed websites. You are not allowed to have any pages “Under Construction.” Furthermore, check all your links and graphics making sure that all hyperlinks and source links are functioning as they should. Broken links can be a cause for rejecting your website.
Google also has a set of Quality Guidelines to which you must adhere in order to gain an approval. The Quality Guidelines and Program Policies lay forth exactly what is expected regarding your website’s content and other qualifications for membership into Google AdSense. All of these are easily accessible on the Google AdSense website. Granted not many people enjoy reading anyone’s terms of service and policies, but in the case of AdSense it is a necessity.
Second, you need to decide whether you’re signing up as an individual or business. The revenue you generate is taxable and you are advised to seek the counsel of an accountant in making this decision. Google asks whether you are registering as an individual or business.
Third, you need to open a checking account. In the application process Google will ask for information on where they can send your commission checks. It is advised that once you have your AdSense account setup that you switch to automatic deposit.
Once you have taken these three steps you are ready to make your request for a Google AdSense account. One mistake that so many aspiring adsense publishers make is that they do not read the Terms of Service. Google is very specific about the requirements and they are very diligent in seeing that they are obeyed. If you’re sloppy in the application process and after, you’re experience with AdSense will be very unfulfilling. Don’t miss out on an opportunity to generate income because of laziness or a nonchalant attitude.
Your approval is based only on the initial website submission. After you are approved you can submit as many websites as you like on a variety of topics. This does not mean that you can publish websites contrary to Google’s Terms and Service, but you are given a little more latitude in publishing your websites.
Maybe you don’t have a website but you wish to have an account. If this is the case Google allows you to sign up for a free blog at the company owned website http://blogger.com, allowing you to use this for your website submission. For an easy approval it is suggested that you take this route. Once you are approved then you can begin submitting your other websites.
Don’t spend a lot of money on web hosting services, as there are some great deals on the Internet. A recommended hosting company is Equus Hosting. As part of a good adsense strategy you want to have a great number of websites. Equus Hosting has a plan that allows you to have unlimited sites for one very low monthly price. In addition, they offer over 50 additional products and have 24/7 customer support.
Catching name, isn’t it? Just seeing the name Google Assassin Google Adwords Course was enough for us to want a review done pronto on this informational product. Would it really be good enough to say goodbye to Google? Who knows, but being an addition to the Day Job Killer we had to at least take a look and see what all the hype was all about. In the end, we’ll find the means.
Making Money in the First Week
Many of you who come online to make money need it right now. It may be to make a payment on the car, put money towards the electric bill, or even just have a gallon of gas in the tank to get you by for now. Whatever the reason may be, the Google Assassin Google Adwords Course has suggested they’ve made people money in the first seven days of using this program.
In fact, when you make your way down the sales page, you’ll see a section where he talks about a beta tester using the system. In his first week, he gathered $470. So what if you only made half of this in a week? What would you do with that kind of money? While the answers are probably obvious, it’s important that you figure out a place for it to go. This in a sense creates a goal for you to achieve.
Using Clickbank
As you continue reading about the Google Assassin Google Adwords Course, you’ll find that Clickbank is the main source of income. There will be snapshots shown in front of you with amounts that range from $1,000-$47,000 in a two week pay period. One thing you should keep in mind however is the time frame it will take to learn and implement everything. Be patient, be realistic, and these thousands of dollars could be in your clickbank account as opposed to your counterparts.
Chris is Just Like You
For some reason it’s hard for people to believe everyday people like them are making money online. It doesn’t matter if you’re going to college, working the graveyard shift, or never knew much about the Internet to begin with, you can still make money online. Why we don’t want to sound like your mom and tell you, “You can accomplish anything you set your mind too.”, the truth of the matter is, you can. You’ll find his story along with others situated within the sales page.
Our Overall Analysis
We actually own a copy of the Day Job Killer and it had terrific information included within its documents. We have know doubt the Google Assassin Google Adwords Course could have the same thing and be beneficial for many people just like you. The only thing is, after reading DJK, it’s imperative you follow everything to a tee. If you don’t, one little minor detail that you skip over could be the reason why you don’t become successful. Like we said before, be patient. When it’s all said and done, you’ll be happy you were.
Using Web Analytics in Technical Documentation – Part 2
Do You Know What Your Adwords Consumers Searched For?
One valuable piece of information you can capture in your landing page is the keyword the user searched for. Using the strategy of having one keyword per ad group should already tell you what the consumer was looking for. But, if you use phrase or exact match, you may not have the complete search term. This information is valuable, since it will tell you what term consumers use to find you ad. You’ll discover what niche is bring consumers to your website. You can then use this to target other similar keywords. Plus you can alter your landing page for the search term.
The technique uses adwords dynamic keyword insertion. You may already know that the campaign creator at adwords-marketing-tool.com has it’s own method of keyword insertion. The dynamic keyword insertion built into Adwords works a little differently. Adwords assumes you have more than one keyword per ad group, and therefore can’t insert one keyword out of many into the ad. Instead, Adwords uses the search term for it’s dynamic keyword insertion.
That means you whenever you use the {keyword} in your ad, Adwords will replace it with the search term. Using it can tell you exactly what search term the consumer used.
You simply use this in the url for your landing page, in the form a querystring parameter. A querystring parameter is a piece of information you can pass to a page. It’s part of the url, but doesn’t affect the path or page name. The querystring is key value pairs. You will need server side scripting, like PHP or ASP.NET to take advantage of the technique.
For example, perhaps your landing page is domain.com/myPage.aspx. You can add the querystring like domain.com/myPage.aspx?search={keyword}. When Adwords displays your ad, it will replace the token with the search term and it will now be a parameter passed to your page. The following code in ASP.NET can parse the data from the querystring.
public string _searchTerm = string.Empty;
if (Request.QueryString["search"] != null) { _searchTerm = Request.QueryString["search"].ToString(); }
The search term is .
You take the search term and add it to a database so you have a record of every search term used to reach your website. You will learn exactly what consumers are looking for when they come to your website.
Episode #10 – Web Analytics TV With Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski
7 Key Reasons to Add a Visitor Grabbing Giveaway to Your Website
There is the old adage: “You have to give to get.” When it comes to internet marketing, having a giveaway promotion on your website, to drive visitors to your site, is a great part of your marketing strategy.
It was by accident that I discovered that having a giveaway on a site will draw visitors. When we launched our website, Think Divorce Before Marriage, in January of 2010, I didn’t have much of a plan to draw visitors to the site. I was just interested in building content and giving a forum to help people make better choices before getting married. At first, I just wanted to help a person avoid a bad relationship and a potentially bad marriage. Monetizing the site was not a priority at the outset.
I figured that giving something away on the site would be good to get organic traffic. But, I didn’t know how that worked. It turns out that it was a good idea. Our first day we went live, we had 343 unique visitors with 638 page loads. I had no idea how we got the visitors. We didn’t do any advertising nor did we place any entries with sweepstakes sites. Somehow, a sweepstakes site found our giveaway and published it on its site. I only discovered this because my partner had enough sense to use a stat tracker for our site. So, I logged into the stat tracker and found a Came From link…and there it was. A URL from a sweepstake website. I got excited when I made the discovery so I spent the rest of the night combing through the internet looking for, subscribing and entering our giveaway as much as I could. Being new to internet marketing, I thought I discovered another planet. In just over three months, we have had 10s of thousands of visitors and have gathered lots of e-mail addresses. A decent portion of our traffic comes from sweepstakes visitors. We continue to offer a giveaway and continue to add visitors who want a chance to win a giveaway. After all, who doesn’t want a chance to win something?
So, how did we take that lucky break and continue to capitalize on that stumbled upon sweepstakes internet marketing tool?
Grab the right audience, make it relevant - Make the giveaway match up to the content of your site. For example, we are currently running a Swiss Army Men’s Watch giveaway. Makes sense, since our site Think Divorce Before Marriage helps men, primarily, to make wise choices before getting married. Take a look at the giveaway entry. http://www.thinkdivorceb4marriage.com/?page_id=218 . Note how the landing page takes the visitor to a relevant registration. The registration gives instructions and the rules of the contest.
Just the basics – Besides being informative, your landing page should be easy to for the visitor to complete. Also, make sure the landing page has some content or interesting information to keep the visitor on the site, turning some pages. You will need to use a service like Aweber to hold your e-mail data bases and allow you to send marketing e-mails to the e-mail subscriber lists you develop.
The key is in the word – Whenever possible, use relevant keywords in your landing page and also embed the keywords in the Meta tag keyword in the post or widget of your publishing platform, like Word Press. The first day, we accidently used keywords and our giveaway was picked up by a sweeps website. Now we use key words to grab sweep sites attention.
Reciprocity – link your site with the sweepstakes site and save some money. Several sweep sites charge to enter a sweep or giveaway on its site. Standard submissions are about $45. Unless, you put a link on your site. If you go to our site www.thinkdivorceb4marriage.com , you will see a link on the right side of the pages toward the bottom of the page. Not a big deal.
Pay Per Click at half Google Adwords – Some sites, like Sweepstakes Advantage offers a pay per click (PPC) advertising model. With Sweepstakes Advantage, you can try the PPC for a $102 investment to get 600 clicks. Your entry is listed in the top 25 of your listing category and in keyword searches. With a CPC campaign it’s up to Sweepstakes Advantage to drive traffic to your promotion by using banners, email and text listings. There is a 3rd party tracker that you have access to that allows you to track your campaign in detail and in real time. View reporting on referral URL, IP address, time/date & remote host.
Giveaway hungry – Sweep sites collect e-mail addresses and often have newsletter. Make sure that the newsletter goes out to thousands of double opt-in recipients. Have the sweeps sales/marketing contact prove the number of subscribers. Just send them an e-mail. Your ad will show up in the Featured Sweepstakes section of the newsletter. The sweep site charges a flat rate.
Why build a list? - Building an e-mail list is an important part of your internet marketing plan. You have a subscribed list of people who you told via e-mail confirmation that you will be sending them important information periodically. So, they will expect to see e-mails from you. What are you going to e-mail to them? Well, you could send monthly newsletters. Or, you could send e-mails offering them relevant products and services. To do this, you want to set up affiliate relationships with organizations like ClickBank, Commission Junction, Amazon or others to monetize your site. By having the subscribers, you can then, through tools like Aweber, e-mail offers or information to drive subscribers to your affiliate relationships to make money. So, if you find relevant products and services with good sales conversion rates, you can bring buyers at a fairly low price per click using sweep sites as part of your internet marketing campaign.
Building and maintaining sweepstakes entry subscriber lists are a great way to develop recurring revenue. For a low cost option, try using the sweepstake sites as part of your internet marketing plan.
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Five Ways for a Newbie Netpreneur to Keep from Going Broke
People who aspire to earn a living online are often strapped for cash to begin with. So in they go to the vast internet ocean where sharks of every spot and stripe lie in wait to prey on their hope and ignorance. One can, however, take the following five pieces of advice and swim more freely in infested waters.
1. Commit to completing a program before trying a new one
This may seem like a no-brainer, but there’s a large segment of individuals online who are essentially marketing system junkies. They buy one e-book, then after reading it and applying one or two concepts realize they haven’t made a million yet, and then go off in search of a new e-book.
Look, most of these products are sold on Clickbank which gives you eight weeks to try out anything. If after seven weeks of seriously trying it the program you purchased, you see no income, then return it and look for something else.
There are of course exceptions to this, such as the outright scam you wouldn’t want to waste your time on, but on the whole, it’s a good rule of thumb.
2. Skip the promotional “upsell” page that follows your initial purchase
These really annoy me. The marketer spends all his energy telling you how his $29.95 system will change your life and then after you buy it, he greets you with a page that says something to the effect of, “well, what you just bought was good, but if you REALLY want to make money online, then buy my $129.95 program where I’ll show you secret techniques blah blah blah…”
So, how valuable was the initial offering that you said would change my life?
I don’t care for this tactic at all. It’s designed to catch you while you still have your credit card out. The pages are full of threats about how you won’t have the complete picture and won’t succeed nearly as well without it and that you’d better get it now because this offer will never be repeated.
Don’t even look at these pages. Scroll down, and click where it says, “No thanks, I’m going to pass on this opportunity to have a better life.”
And if you’re really put out, return the original and tell the vendor why.
3. Be careful with shared mailing lists
One way to increase traffic to your site is with a mailing list program whereby you are allowed to send your ads to so many people provided they can send you theirs. Going into the details of this is way beyond the scope of this article, but one caveat should be observed: don’t spend a lot of time reading the emails you get. If you do, eventually, you’re going to get sold on something. And if that happens, you’re going to have a hard time following rule number one.
4. Stay off of, or unsubscribe to any list that’s sending out recommendations more than once per week.
How many great ways to make money online are out there? If someone is sending you more than one recommendation per week, you’d be right to be skeptical. After all, if this individual was touting Super-Adsense-Earnings-Through-Sky-Diving one week as the greatest income opportunity ever and then the next weeks says that Dream-Profits-Super-Affiliate-Mega-Articles is the way to go, then which is it?
Opt-in or not, this tactic is just barely legitimate and smacks of spam marketing.
5. Don’t believe outlandish promises.
When you’re starting out, you CAN NOT make $34,769 in one week. No way. Forget it. Unless you’re willing to run drugs across the Mexican border or rob a bank, it ain’t going to happen.
Not in a week.
Now, this doesn’t mean that using a particular system for a while with hard work and sweat that you couldn’t get to that point, but for now? Dream on.
But what about the screenshots from the gurus that show how they made that much in seven days?
Well, for one, they could be faked. Photoshop and similar programs make that a fairly simple task.
But more likely than not, you’re looking at these seven days out of context. These marketers have been building momentum for some time. They’ve taken the time to work at building their mailing lists, building and optimizing their sites, and developing products. What they’ll never show you is a screenshot of their FIRST seven days in business!
So there you are. Five simple pieces of advice should help you hold on to most of your cash while you work at building your business. Now there are times to spend money, but tread carefully, and take another look at this article before you do.
