How Do I Choose An Affiliate Marketing Program?
Of course, you want to be successful. If you are doing affiliate marketing that means you must be successful in the amount of commissions you earn. Of primary importance to this success is the choice of a program.
1. Is there a demand for the product? Is it of high quality? Is it popular? Do your research. Be sure to keep your standards high. You are building a reputation that will make or break your business.
2. Is there a cost to participate in the program? There are many affiliate programs that are free to join. At the very most there should be just a nominal fee.
3. Are there necessary marketing tools available? If you want to market your link and make sales quickly, you must have the proper tools and any other necessary support.
4. How are commissions paid and how frequently? You should not wait for a long time for your money. You made the sale. They got their money. You deserve prompt payment.
5. Does the program pay reasonable commission? You can expect to earn commissions between 30% and 70% per sale. Promotion of products with high commissions is the only way to maximize your earning potential.
Choosing an effective affiliate program is the only way to maximize your earning potential online.
Why Should I Use P L R
Maybe you’ve heard that to be successful in internet marketing you should really consider using PLR.
But why is that? Isn’t it better to write my own stuff so that I know what I put out there is good quality? I mean, some of the PLR out there isn’t very good. Besides, I like to write and I don’t mind doing it.
Here are some good reasons to use PLR and you can decide if they’re good enough for you:
1. This is my favorite – using PLR is the most effective use of your time. Grab a PLR article bundle related to your niche from one of the quality PLR sites that abound, do some light rewriting, and you’ve got 5-15 articles just waiting to be added to your website or blog. How long would it take you to write all these articles yourself? Where would your time be better spent?
2. Using PLR is cost effective. You can get a quality article for $1. Why waste an hour or two of your time writing an article when you can buy it for $1, spend 10 minutes or so tweaking it, and use the rest of your precious time working your business and making money. Eventually you’ll get to the point where you see that every $1 article you buy will give you $$ in return.
3. I like to think of using PLR articles as my way of “outsourcing” my article needs, but with known quality results. I can pretty much get what I want, when I want, and I feel a little important because I am outsourcing like the gurus keep telling me to do. J
4. Using PLR articles allows you to post regularly, and posting regularly helps establish you as an expert in your field. If it takes 5-7 times of being seen by a potential customer before they buy, why not use PLR to help you get in those 5-7 viewings quickly and consistently?
5. Whether you have a PLR article bundle or a PLR product, you are able to change it up a bit or add value to it and have your own product to sell. You can do this fairly quickly and easily – definitely so when compared to coming up with your own product from scratch! More on this later. I’m putting together an ecourse that explains how to do this.
6. Even when you change a PLR article and put it in your own voice, you still come out a winner because you had to do zero research. All that time-sucking research was done by the person who wrote the PLR.
7. If search engines love to see new content on your website, they’re going to love you as you make it a habit of getting yourself some PLR and adding it to your site regularly.
Peggy Baron at http://www.allstarplr.com
Organizing Your eBooks and Hard Drive
EBOOKS YOU ACQUIRE FOR POSSIBLE RESALE
Ebook Plan #1
Folder for ebook listings — names in alphabetical order
Folder for sales pages –- each file with name of ebook and sp at end to make sure they don’t accidentally get mixed up with the ebook listings
Folder containing folders named for ebooks with each individual ebook folder holding items related to it — download pages, thank you pages, one-time offer pages, etc.
Ebook Plan #2
One folder for each ebook in alphabetical order
Each ebook folder contains the ebook (PDF and zip), sales page, download page plus any other material relevant to the ebook
I use Plan #2 but I take it a step further. I have a folder for each major topic – Health, Sports, Cookbooks, Internet Marketing, etc. I locate the ebook folder in the topic folder that is the subject of the book. Internet Marketing is divided further into Affiliate, Article Writing, Blogs, etc. By dividing the books by subject I am able to go to that folder and find a book on the topic I need. You will never remember all of the titles. Some will be obvious but many will be obscure.
I go even further. I keep an Excel spreadsheet on every book showing subject, type of rights, author, the available resale resources (graphics, sales page, etc.) and any negative or positive comments I might want to make. This spreadsheet can be sorted in many ways depending on the information I need. If you would like to receive a template of the worksheet, just email your request to carol@stepbystepinternethelp.com
YOUR OWN EBOOKS
It is always best to keep structure to your project. If it is an ebook you wrote, I believe it is best to have a folder called My Ebooks. This includes some positive thinking because it sets forth the premise that there will be more books. You can’t have just one book in a folder that is named ebookS.
That folder should include the original source document for your book, the PDF copy, and the ZIP file. There should also be a folder in it called “graphics” or “Images”. Other things to include are those items created for the book – squeeze page, thank you page, one-time offer page, download page, etc.
HOW TO HANDLE DIFFERENT DOMAINS
You will undoubtedly be having more than one domain as you develop your Internet Marketing Business. Therefore, it is best to keep your original domain organized. I keep each domain in a folder under My Documents. However, I move the one that I am working on to my desktop so that is readily available.
There are a few required folders as far as I am concerned. Under the domain I always have these folders:
Website This is an exact mirror of my website.
Links to Copy and Paste This is a page in some text editor or word processing program. Every link is copied from the browser address bar after the link has been verified. This is used anytime I need to post my URL. This avoids the possibility of typing errors.
Subjects to Cover in Blogs or Articles This folder contains idea sheets and information pieces that might be used for Blogs or for Articles.
eBooks Written for This Domain On books that are written especially for this project, I maintain 3 folders books – source, books – PDF, and books – ZIP
Other folders are included as the need arises
DESKTOP ORGANIZATION
I keep my Desktop arranged in very deliberate order. The software that I use frequently is together at the bottom. Software used less frequently is listed on the right side.
In the middle I keep the eBook folder that I talked about in Plan #2. In that same area I keep a folder called “Zipped Downloads”, one called “Unzipped Ready to Move”. They give me a place to download files and books and then extract them to the other until they can be moved to the appropriate folder.
One last folder is always on my desktop. It is my “TO DO LIST”. I have two files in that folder. One is a list of jobs to be done that I enter in priority order. The other file is a list of things that I must remember to do daily.
Develop your own organization plan. It doesn’t have to be like mine but you absolutely need a plan.