Archive for April, 2008
A 4 Year Affiliate Marketing Timeline
It must have been at least 3 years since I stepped on to the net. In this post, I thought I'd share a little of what my back ground was. 7 years ago, I graduated from Singapore's NTU. I was not the best student, in fact most people knew me more as a full time dancer rather then a student. I did Latin Ballroom and competed in Cha Cha, Jive and other latin dances. For now, I just dance socially and spend alot of time working on my golf swing.
Anyway… I came online in 2005. That was about 4 years ago. Here's a timeline of my journey, maybe its similar to yours 
2005
Joined Network Marketing because of a friends recommendation. It was an interesting journey, I actually came online and googled "How To Succeed At Network Marketing". Read a couple of articles about the subject on how others built an MLM business using just the internet and some essential tools. The idea was generally there, however there was some essential flaws that caused alot of leakage. In other words, alot of money is spent unwisely. In order to maximise and stretch our dollar means not spending on useless tools that don't add to your bottom line.
To make massive money online means a low start up cost and profits within 30 days.
2006
I paid $2300 for an Internet Marketing course. The course itself was generally ok, but not worth the $2300 price tag. In the forums, there was much unhappiness about the lack of results. When you visit a doctor, you expect to be paying for results. So when many people were not able to get the results they wanted, which was a 6 figure income in a few months, there was hue and cry.
2007-2008
This was my break through year. I can say that if you have no one to model after, learning how to create a recurring income for yourself is like riding a bicycle. You'll be falling of your bicycle at the start, but once you got those wheels turning, you'll be having a great lifestyle. And that means, going for vacations, playing golf, swimming, doing what you like to do.
Here's a break down of the 7 skillsets a high 4 figure - 5 figure income online will normally have.
- Monetisation Model
- Pay Per Click including MSN, Yahoo, Adwords, Adbrite, 123 Search
- Auto Responder Integration, knowing how to integrate Getresponse, Aweber, Ebizac into webpages, websites
- Simple Web Design & HTML
- Tracking & Tweaking
- Simply Copy Writing
- Knowing what to outsource
- Traffic Generation including, Video traffic, Article Marketing, Pay Per View, Co Reg, WEB 2.0…
- Blogging, using WordPress, Joomla or Blogger
- Bonus skill - Graphic Design
Monetisation ranks high in my list because this ties in with the importance of having a recurring income niche in your monetisation portfoilio. This can be webhosting, dating membership sites, any recurring sales products such as health food. This is the quickest way to earn a CONSISTENT Income. Some folks have good PPC and tracking skills. Thus, they are able to know which keywods are paying them, which sites to avoid having their ads show up etc. In this case, they don't need a recurring income model, they just have a consistent flow of traffic to a high converting item. The constant traffic and high conversion item becomes a recurring income model.
If once decides to go into Affiliate Marketing, there are 1000s of products once can sell. I recommend getting into a recurring income model because this sort of money increases over time.
Click here to learn how I paid for my $700,000 condomenium…
Email Marketing - Many Links or Just 1 Link At the End of The Email
If you're into email marketing, you will want to include the same link in your offer as many as 3 times. This sounds like alot, however the more times someone sees the link, the greater value the link has, and the greater our desire to click on it to find out what lies on the other side of that click…
Placing and email in your link multiple times psychologically compels someone to take action. Especially so if that person you're emailing to has opted in to learn more from you. If that person was not an opt in, then whatever one does simply looks like spam, which in any case, it is.
Email sales is about making it easy for someone to get what they want without doing alot of clicking. Clicking is tiring and takes effort. When we make things convenient for others to take the action we want them to take, they will naturally do so!
