Post by merlin on Jan 11, 2010 7:50:15 GMT -5
We all know that the internet has untapped potential. We all know that there is money to be made and that there are online marketers who are making a killing with luck, timing, good marketing tactics and hard work. Most of us have also heard about Affiliate Marketing and Clickbank. This article talks about the pitfalls many of us face and offers some help.
I started marketing on the internet 8 years ago. When I started, I was full of wonder, excitement and hope that I'd found the answer I was looking for. An easy way out of "9 to 5". An end to the office commute. Turned out things were not as easy as all that. There were a lot of ways to lose money and comparatively few ways to get out more than you put in.
Someone told me that if I was really serious about making a living on the net, that I should get myself a website. So I did. And I worked real hard to wrap my brain around all the technologies one could employ to make a website prosperous as a sales tool. You know, memberships, auto-responders, newsletters, payment processing, help desks, statistical recording and behaviour tracking. The works. And it was fun I have to admit. I am an IT super-nerd and loved every minute of it.
After a year or so, my website was working like a well-oiled machine, but I wasn’t making very many sales so I went back to the drawing board and started learning all I could about SEO/SEF, visitor retention, Search Engine submission, Site ranking, Joint venturing, ONOs and Pay Per Click advertising.
And after all of that, my sales did improve, but I was still no where near to where I needed to be, if I was going treat this as a means to quitting my day job. I earned a healthy income in my day job (in excess of 100k) but wanted more control over my life.
I treaded water for a few years, spending time on my site and on marketing efforts more as a hobby than as a medium to another life. All that knowledge was great and I was making a healthy income from it, but not enough to give up my day job. The time commitment was what was holding me back. I needed ways to streamline my advertising processes so that I could get more done in less time.
To that end I outsourced unique article production and looked around for all the tools I could find to assist with the marketing of my affiliate products.
I’ve been a member of Clickbank for the majority of my time in this business, and know they can be relied on to be fair to both merchants and advertisers. Still, marketing their products was time consuming if I did it right, and there was little point in doing it any other way.
You have to set up a capture page, make it visually pleasing, write ad copy and make it mentally pleasing. You have to track movement through the page, capture user details wherever you can so that you can keep them on your database of potential prospects for other related deals you might have in the future. Even if you’ve done all this a thousand times, it is always time consuming and can become tedious, so that you are not as careful as you should be and sometimes go to market with broken links which is very embarrassing.
I came across a vendor who does all this for you, and does it with total professionalism, saving you all the time and headaches you would otherwise experience. I grabbed a membership immediately. They provide you with a professionally built webpage, with the easiest tracking imaginable, list capturing and a lifetime of visitor follow-ups until the visitor opts out.
There’s another side to this you might not have immediately focused on. That is, with a membership like this, you do not need any of the expertise I spent years learning. You do NOT need your own website even! All you need is a membership and a couple of hours a day to track and maintain your advertisements using the tools provided. In a matter of weeks, you could be earning as much as I am, and because this membership site maintains customer contact with your leads for you forever, you are not limited to a single sale. This baby rocks and grows in the nicest way – steady and constant. I whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone wanting to fast-track their online marketing experience. Let this resource pay for your next holiday, your next home, your retirement.
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I started marketing on the internet 8 years ago. When I started, I was full of wonder, excitement and hope that I'd found the answer I was looking for. An easy way out of "9 to 5". An end to the office commute. Turned out things were not as easy as all that. There were a lot of ways to lose money and comparatively few ways to get out more than you put in.
Someone told me that if I was really serious about making a living on the net, that I should get myself a website. So I did. And I worked real hard to wrap my brain around all the technologies one could employ to make a website prosperous as a sales tool. You know, memberships, auto-responders, newsletters, payment processing, help desks, statistical recording and behaviour tracking. The works. And it was fun I have to admit. I am an IT super-nerd and loved every minute of it.
After a year or so, my website was working like a well-oiled machine, but I wasn’t making very many sales so I went back to the drawing board and started learning all I could about SEO/SEF, visitor retention, Search Engine submission, Site ranking, Joint venturing, ONOs and Pay Per Click advertising.
And after all of that, my sales did improve, but I was still no where near to where I needed to be, if I was going treat this as a means to quitting my day job. I earned a healthy income in my day job (in excess of 100k) but wanted more control over my life.
I treaded water for a few years, spending time on my site and on marketing efforts more as a hobby than as a medium to another life. All that knowledge was great and I was making a healthy income from it, but not enough to give up my day job. The time commitment was what was holding me back. I needed ways to streamline my advertising processes so that I could get more done in less time.
To that end I outsourced unique article production and looked around for all the tools I could find to assist with the marketing of my affiliate products.
I’ve been a member of Clickbank for the majority of my time in this business, and know they can be relied on to be fair to both merchants and advertisers. Still, marketing their products was time consuming if I did it right, and there was little point in doing it any other way.
You have to set up a capture page, make it visually pleasing, write ad copy and make it mentally pleasing. You have to track movement through the page, capture user details wherever you can so that you can keep them on your database of potential prospects for other related deals you might have in the future. Even if you’ve done all this a thousand times, it is always time consuming and can become tedious, so that you are not as careful as you should be and sometimes go to market with broken links which is very embarrassing.
I came across a vendor who does all this for you, and does it with total professionalism, saving you all the time and headaches you would otherwise experience. I grabbed a membership immediately. They provide you with a professionally built webpage, with the easiest tracking imaginable, list capturing and a lifetime of visitor follow-ups until the visitor opts out.
There’s another side to this you might not have immediately focused on. That is, with a membership like this, you do not need any of the expertise I spent years learning. You do NOT need your own website even! All you need is a membership and a couple of hours a day to track and maintain your advertisements using the tools provided. In a matter of weeks, you could be earning as much as I am, and because this membership site maintains customer contact with your leads for you forever, you are not limited to a single sale. This baby rocks and grows in the nicest way – steady and constant. I whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone wanting to fast-track their online marketing experience. Let this resource pay for your next holiday, your next home, your retirement.
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Erich Winnecke
Forum Administrator
Work At Home Directory.Com[/url]
Google Income[/color] [/b]
Top Pick Work At Home Opportunity [/color][/b][/size]