Your brand name is very important as people tends to follow someone who is an authority. If you are able to prove that you are the guy they should follow, they will follow you loyally till the end.

Building a list is easy. But to create a list of people who trust you require more than just setting an squeeze page to collect leads. A list is worth nothing if nobody trusts you and act on your recommendations. The money is in the responsive list. You are able to generate income at will when your lead are waiting for you to press the hot button.

Today I am going to tell you the things you should avoid doing. This is true from my experience.

If you have been in the internet marketing niche for a few months, you should have subscribed to a few lists. Usually, you sign up in return for a free gift or a report. Giving away free gifts to attract people to sign up to your list is the fastest way to build a list. But remember to be daring to promote something once in a while. It is not a good idea to just send your list free content one after another as you are just building a freebie list. These people are then conditioned to wait for you to give them another free gift and will never act on your recommendations.

Do you always bombarded your subscribers with offers after offers? If you are doing this, then you are pushing your subscribers away to other people list. No content but frequent bombardment of offers will turn people away. You won’t like people to shove you with offers but no real content. Do not do what you don’t want unto others.

Another frequent mistake people commit is that they do not follow up with their leads. Once they get people to sign up to their list. They just ignore them after sending them 7 days of messages. If nobody buys anything, they just move on to create another list promoting another product. Well nobody’s going to buy anything from someone who they don’t trust.

Building a list is simple, maintaining the list is another story altogether. It requires constant effort to maintain a relationship. The internet business is all about dealing with people. Master the people skill and you will be in for a big run.

Stay tuned for more advanced cut throat list building techniques.

Tags: List building, Building an opt in list

What happens if there is some technical glitches that prevents the system to recognize you as the affiliate who made the sales? Will you ever find out if this happens?

Sadly to say that you will never find out and you will lose out on your affiliate commissions. Ignorance is bliss but losing the commissions is the worst thing that can happen to you as you have worked hard for nothing.

It may have already happened to you. But today, I would like to teach you a method which I used to put a stop to all this nonsense.

A hint to guess the method.

“You can see this method used in almost every major launches where a mega bonus is given as a reward from buying though a guru’s affiliate link.”

Yes you have guessed it.

“Make use of your customers to tell you that they have purchased from your affiliate link by sending you their receipt for verification!”

This is a simple yet powerful method of tracking your commissions and the way to do it is to simply offer a free gift in return from buying through your affiliate link.

That’s it.

This also put a psychological effect on your customers to make sure that they buy through your affiliate link after clearing their cookies if they want your free gift.

Another advantage of this is to that you don’t even need to cloak your link if you find it troublesome since you have already tell them straight that they should buy through your affiliate link.

If you like to see an example of how I did it, go to my blog post titled “Ewen Chia Seminar in Singapore” to have a look.

Hope you find this simple method useful!

Tags: Protect your Affiliate Commissions

Take your stand.

My definition of blackhat is to exploit a loop hole to gain an unfair advantage over your competitors, and to make a huge amount of money in the process. For eg. a blackhat method is to redirect huge amount of traffic to a site monetized with Adsense to milk Google of its money. Frankly, it is not illegal, but to build a business around blackhat strategies, you need to be always ahead of the victims you exploit. If you are not technically savvy, it is not likely your business will survive. If you exploit Google’s search engine loophole, it will just be a matter of time that Google react and cut off your business by patching the loophole. Normally, when you purchase any ebook on exploiting a loophole which can earns you a huge amount of money in  a short time, that loophole will very likely be closed soon since the victim (e.g. Google) may have also bought the ebook to find out what loopholes you are exploiting. Thus, the loophole will be gone forever in a short time while the ones who sells the secrets earn a large amount of money and disappear underground.

It seems that there are always such ebooks that teach you these type of tricks. But frankly, why would anyone sell these secrets if they are making a huge profits out of it? I wouldn’t unless I know the loophole is discovered and will be closed soon. Sharing is always bad in such cases as this would cause the loophole to be exposed and closed down indefinitely.

Anything that is not blackhat is whitehat. I don’t advocate using blackhat methods but sometimes it is unavoidable. Always tweak your marketing strategies. If you are using Google Adwords, you must tweak your keywords for the best performance in terms of low CPC and high CTR. It is not always feasible to learn from ebooks because some of the techniques may be overused by the time you get them. But ebooks are good if you are too lazy to research the available marketing techniques and strategies.

One tip for people who are just starting out. Learning from an ebook is good only to identify the market trend and to know which product are popular. Remember it’s all about marketing. Marketing requires you to be always one step ahead of your competitors to be profitable. Join an insider group if you really wants to learn the latest techniques. Find the latest trend of marketing and provide a solution for the market. You may be well on your way to earning big profits.

See you at the top.

Tags: Blackhat, WhiteHat, tweak your marketing strategies

1. Choose a domain name which is related to the product which you are selling

Say for an example, you are a florist and you sell flowers. It will be best to include the word “flowers” into your domain name. It will be even better just to have your domain name as www.flowers.com. So when buyers who type in flowers.com, they will go straight to your website. However, such generic domain names are most likely be taken up by others already. Hence, you might want to add some adjectives into your domain name to make it slightly different. For instance, tropicalflowers.com. if you are selling mostly tropical flowers. In this way, your website is still given higher priority when comes to search engine results, while your “type-in” customers are not all lost. This is definitely a good method to gain both the “type-in-to-address-bar” customers and customers from search engines, because search engines will give higher priorities to websites have the exact searched word in their domain name.

2. Choose a domain name which ends with a .com

Forget using a domain name with a .net or a .org. A .com domain name is easier to remember than the rest. Most of the people are more likely to type .com, instead of a .net. Hence, do not try to be unique in this sense, because eventually it will hurt the amount of traffic going to your website.

3. Look out for expired domain names

If you dont mind using “second-hand”domain names, you can check out those expired domain names. Some of these may have done some SEO and attracted much traffic previously. The previous owners may have too many domain names to handle or they may simply forgotten to renew them. Hence, if you are able to get hold of such domain names, then much work and optimisation have been done for you. In fact, you will have instant traffic from them, right away. However, a word of caution, do really check out what that domain name is being used for. They might be used by spammers and being banned by search engines. You dont want to be associated with the wrong things and have a bad start instead.

4. Choose a short, easy to remember domain name

It is better to choose one which is easy to remember, easy to pronounce and easy to spell domain name. Though sometimes we may like to choose some thing which is unique for our domain name, we still like to make it not too confusing for our potential customers. Also, if your domain name consists of words starting and ending with the same letter, note that there many be potential confusion. For instance, Charles Socks.com. People maybe wondering if it is charlesocks.com or charlessocks.com. Sometimes, people may be confused if they should add a “s” behind the word or not. Hence, do consider all these factors, because you dont want to lose those valuable traffic away.

With these 4 points, I hope that you are able to come up with a high traffic domain name for your website.

Tags: high traffic domain names, domain names, SEO, expired domain names, address bar

I have been thinking of the reasons why some websites can move so fast up in ranks within one week. In fact, some of them can easily increase in terms of thousands of percent, in their ranks. The best part is they did it within one week. I began to check out what their websites involve with. I noticed that quite a number of the websites which are in the top 10 list of movers are news related. For instance, this website which features on the late celebrity Anna Nicole Smith has moved 18,000% within just one week. This is one kind of websites which readers will search for when an event has happened. Another will be the sports results/ events. People are anxious to know the latest sports results. Hence they will always look out at the websites to know the latest results asap.

Though these news related movers can explode their ranks tremendously within a week, their ranks usually dont stay for long. More often then not, their ranks will also drop as soon as everyone has read about the information and left. Unless the updates are so frequent like newspapers, or their websites will drop real fast. Hence, if you are thinking of using news to boost your traffic rankings, then you need to have to update your website with news almost everyday to maintain the high traffic rankings. Also, you will need to be real sensitive with your surroundings, because your website needs to be updated almost real time. If not, what is considered as news to you might already become old news to your readers already. Your readers might have read it from your competitors’ websites. Though this method is really tough to keep up, this can be one of the methods to increase traffic rankings.

One of websites which has succeeded in using news to sustain their rankings is Yahoo!. It has frequent updates on all kinds of news. Be it sports, financial, world or local news. Hence, most visitors will automatically go to Yahoo! when they want to find out on the latest news since it is reliable and most updated. Therefore, everything is possible if we just put a little thought to it and become an Alexa Mover.

Tags: traffic magnet, traffic rankings, news, alexa mover, Anna Nicole Smith, sports. traffic generation, Yahoo! 

Besides that, they also put in your website’s ranking in the different countries, on the same page for our reference.

I feel that these data is useful to me, especially to judge where do the bulk of my visitors come from. In my case, it is mostly from Singapore (which is my hometown) and United States. This particular information is important when your product is specific to a particular countries or groups of countries. Also, Alexa has included the traffic rank in other countries, which let you observe if your website has progressed in ranking in the countries of interest. Another way to see these information is the places of opportunities. For our case, we have been targeting mostly the United States and United Kingdom traffic. However, from these two data alone, we can see that Hong Kong is another area which we can look into. That is, another area of opportunity which we never thought of. Perhaps, you can also find something which you havent thought of by looking and analysing the information from Alexa.

Next, there is some changes to the way they present the reach for the website being searched. Instead of showing the exact number of internet users visited the site per million, they are giving in terms of percentage, which is kind of simple to convert it back to the exact number users. For the other two indicators, the rank and page views, they are still the same.

Though there are many websites or articles which mentioned that Alexa ranking can be easily manipulated, I find that most of the time it is the owner of the websites who manipulate the statistics, which I thought they are just cheating themselves. If the contents of the website is good, then there is no need to increase your own rank or page views. Readers will be attracted to your website to read your post and be hungry with what you have to say. In fact, I find that one should not even try to visit your own website, so that you can get the actual picture of what your website is getting. Hence, whatever data you are analysing will not be corrupted by your own actions.

In the next post, I will be mentioning more on Alexa website.

Tags: Alexa, traffic rankings, reach, page views evosuccess

 1. Have your readers in mind – WIIFM

What is it for me? That should be the No. 1 tip which every blogger should remember. Most of the readers are trying to get some information out of your post/blog. Hence, if you are able to give as much information as they need, they will be more interested to come back to your blog for more. However, remember that your viewers are also very busy people. They want information fast. Hence, keep it (your post) short and simple, or K.I.S.S in short. If you can make any explanation through diagrams, that’s even better. This will enable them to have a deeper impression on what they have read on your blog.

2. Participate in forums, related blogs or social communities

Personally, I find that participating in social communities are quite useful in attracting traffic to your blog. As forums and communities are places whereby many people come together, it is a good opportunity to introduce yourself and your blog. Also, I am fond of going to communities as there is a wide spread of viewers from different countries which we can attract to our blog. For blogs, I will like to read other people’s blogs which are related in topics. This will enable us not to be lack behind from the latest news/ information. You wouldnt want to blog on something which are old information for your readers, right? Hence, be more pro-active to communicate which other bloggers.

3. Have a goal in mind

Only when you have a goal in mind, then you can think and tweak your mind to move towards your goal. Only when you have a goal, then you will not become like a housefly (flying in circles, and not to your destination). Only when you have a goal, then you can see if you have achieved it and move on to higher targets. Of cos, you have to set reasonable targets.

One thing which I have find out is that we know there are a lot of different ways to attract traffic, do this, or do that. However, I think it is best to stick with a few methods and do it well. Personally, I used to read quite a bit of ebooks from different gurus, who explained many many different methods to achieve one aim. I got excited whenever I read a new method. However, I didnt achieve much in the end. I find that it is best to choose a few methods which you are confident of doing, and do it well.

With these, I hope you will start getting traffic which you should get in the first place. Also, remember to practise the same steps until you are good at them.

Tags: blog, blog traffic, goal, forums, social communities, WIIFM 

1. Guarantee an ON TIME Delivery

By now, it is only left with 3 days to the V day. If you can guarantee that your product is able to reach your customers on time and SUPER FAST, you have won more than half the battle already. They wouldnt want a situation whereby they are unable to give their bg/gf present on that day. (Trust me, gals will most likely remember that forever. Haha.) So if you are willing to fork out a bit from your pocket to send your products to the customers by air and make the delivery real fast, they will more likely to buy from you. If you unsure if your customers can give you the order on time for you to deliver, you can give a cutoff time after which deliver cannot be guaranteed. For instance, “We need your confirmation by 12:00 pm EST, Monday, Feb 12, to ensure on-time delivery on Valentine’s Day.”

Remember to feature this selling point prominently.

2. Additional Services like gift wraps and cards

On top of the main gifts which you are selling, you can provide additional services like gift wrapping services and cards as well. This will give you some additional income on top of what you sell. Have some e-forms for the customers to write down their thoughts on the cards and let them have 2–3 choices of cards and wrapping papers. Limited choices will help them reduce their headache of choosing again and this will also help you to have less hassle to get so many kinds of cards and wrapping papers. 

In fact, you can also tweak your delivery options so that the products can be delivered to the person receiving the gifts, instead of the buyer himself. This will save the customers some time from waiting to receive the gifts, then giving to his/her significant other. This will surely be another plus point to buy from you.

3. Emphasise INSTANT delivery

If you are able to provide instant delivery, that will be the BEST of all. Usually, that will be ebooks or whatever items which can be delivered electronically and it can be delivered as fast as your autoresponder could! Do allow your customers to print out in hard copies, if you are selling ebooks. Besides ebooks, you can also sell gift vouchers. For instance, the lady may know that his bf like something on computers. However, she is quite a computer idiot. Hence, she can just buy some online gift vouchers for him. This will allow the guy to get whatever he really needs. Besides, gift vouchers are easy available and can be delivered instantly!

In all, try to tweak your business strategies so that you can make a killing before this Valentine’s Day.

Tags: Valentine’s Day, Last minute gifts, instant delivery, guarantees

So, what is the secret formula? The formula is just good marketing strategy that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication. Nothing else.

I would like to share with you 3 top tips that have worked with affiliate marketing and will continue to work in the affiliate marketing world today. With these 3 top tips, you will be able to increase your conversion rates resulting in more sales and be on your way to great success.

What are the 3 tips to affiliate success?

1. Have unique web pages to promote different products.

Do not promote all your products on a single website just to save money on hosting. It is best to focus on one product at a time to avoid overwhelming your customers with too much choices.

Always include product reviews on the website so that customers have a clear understanding of what it can do. Be sure to include testimonials from customers who have tried the product. Do make sure that you get their permission to use their names and photos on your website promoting the product.

You can also write articles to highlight the use of the product and include them in an additional webpage. Make the pages compelling and include calls to action. Each headline should attract the readers to read more. Allow the readers to contact you for more information. Do highlight your special points and your readers will be interested to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your subscribers.

Make sure to position the free reports at the top of the webpage so that they cannot be missed. Create autoresponder message to mail to those who signed up for the free report. According to research, a sales is usually made after the seventh contact with a prospect.

There are only two outcome with a webpage alone, a closed sale or a lost prospect. By mailing them at certain specified period, you can remind them to buy the product that they want later. Be sure to include useful content that is directed towards good reason to buy your product. Remember not to make it sound like a sales pitch.

Do focus on important points that can solve some problems for your reader. Avoid using words like free so that your mail will not be treated as spam mails. Make sure you content is compelling to those who signed up for your free report so that you can convince them that they are missing out on something big.

3. Get targeted traffic to your product. Write articles and published them in ezines and reports. This way, you can drive targeted traffic to your website. Who know, your reader may well become your customers if they are interested in your product.

Try to write at least 2 articles with a minimum of 300 words. By continuously writing, you can generate at least a constant traffic of 100 targeted readers to your website per day. With an average conversion rate of 1%, if you can get at least a 1000 readers everyday, you will be able to make 10 sales per day. Isn’t this good?

The 3 tips are relatively simple to understand and follow. What you need is just determination, and a little bit of your time and effort everyday. Do make use of these 3 tips for all your affiliate marketing campaigns and you will soon earn a good source of income online. Who knows, you may be on your way to becoming the next super affiliate marketer.

Tags: affiliate marketing, super affiliate, secrets,  success, free report, articles, targeted traffic

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