Weekly Tips
Increase Online Website Traffic With Duplicate Content?
Download this report that tells you what you need to know about Article Marketing and Duplicate Content.
- stay in good standing with the search engines
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- drive loads of traffic to your site
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Enjoy!
Affiliate Marketing - The Dummy's Guide To Making Online Payments and Actually Spending the $10,000 You Made Online!
How To Make Payment Online.
When making payment online, you can use 1 of 3 modes. Debit/Credit card, Paypal or Virtual Visa.
Let's jump in.
1. If you have a Credit Card or Debit card (see your local bank), these are the most straight forward mode of payment for online transactions. If you don't have either, carry on reading.
2. If you're from the USA, things are much easier because you just need a Paypal account and simply T/T funds from any US bank into your paypal account. Then use your paypal as your internet business account. Before making payment, you just need to make sure of 2 things.
- There are funds in your paypal account. (naturally :))
- Check that the amount you're going to pay the merchant is the correct one.
In this case, you won't need a credit or debit card.
Click here to set up your PayPal account
3. If you cannot fund your paypal account via T/T because you're not from the USA and you don't have a credit card or debit card to fund your paypal account…
Then purchase a prepaid VIRTUAL VISA Card. It works exactly the same as Mastercard and Visa.
Click here to purchase your Virtual Visa Card
How To Spend The Money You Make Online On Gas, Mcdonalds, That New Mobile Phone, Cool Watch, Milk From a Shelf in Walmart.
Since this is an affiliate money magazine, i'm gonna have to assume that you're selling a company's product. After you've made money online, the merchant will send you the money in 3 ways, the 3rd way I don't recommend if you're new to the internet industry and your checks/commissions are not yet consistent.
1. Your commissions are credited into your paypal account. You'll be able to withdraw your commissions from your paypal account into your banking account (there is a "Withdraw Funds" tab in your PayPal account, just click on it and you'll know what to do instinctively). After 5 days, visit your local ATM and use your ATM card to withdraw this money. Spend that money at Walmart on that delicious bottle of low fat milk or the installment for your new car or home.
2. A check is mailed to your home. Cash in this check at your local bank. Visit your local ATM and use your ATM card to withdraw this money. Spend that money…you get the idea.
3. The 3rd way merchants pay out is by cash cards such as Payoneer, Global Cash Card. I don't prefer these payment styles for the simple reason that these modes of payment take money from you even when you don't make any withdrawals. So if you had $10,000 deposited into these accounts lying dormant, you'll find your balance dwindling each month simply for keeping funds in the account. I would only recommend you use cash cards to receive your commissions if your monthly commissions are a stable $500+ per month or more, then the withdrawal fee of about $5.00+ is neglible. But for those that have little commissions, you may find that whatever commission you have earned goes to funding your account. You won't be able to accumulate your commissions to a few $100 before withdrawing since the funds are constantly being nibbled away by the payment provider. Of course, this is my experience and feedback to you…you're free to use this payment style if you like 
So there you have it, Affiliate Marketing - The Dummy's Guide To Making Online Payments and Actually Spending the $10,000 You Made Online! Hope this post clears up any cloud and mystery about how money from the internet appears magically in your hands
By The Way…
Whether or not you decide to make online purchases using Paypal, its still a good idea to setup a paypal account. After all its free. And you never know when you might need to use it to receive your $1,000s of commission dollars. Set it up here
That's the tips I have for today.. stay safe. Think I better dance now
The End Of Commission Junction…Affiliates Woes, Deactivated & Commission Forfeit?
I was checking out couple of new affiliate networks to explore. Found a couple of posts about commission junction where affiliates were taken off the network (commissions forfeit?)
1. http://www.keithbond.co.uk/totally-pd-off-with-commission-junction-deactivated-advertiser-emails/
"Is it just me that is fed up with the standard Commission Junction deactivated advertiser email?
You have received this email because one or more of the advertisers you are affiliated with in the Commission Junction network has recently been temporarily deactivated.
Why CJ just can’t let us know who the merchant is, what the problem is it would save a lot of logging on and searching for the report."
2. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/24/affiliate-programs-commission-junction/
"Cons of Commission Junction
• perhaps a downside of the variety of products on offer is the overwhelming nature of CJ
• slightly more complicated interface than a program like Amazon
• they deactivated my account!
• application to programs within the larger Commission Junction network can be frustrating and a long process"
3. http://nostatus.com/2008/04/02/commission-junction-deactivating-accounts/
"I recently received an email from CJ stating that they would deactivate my account because the lack of activity. This means that they will deactivate my account because I haven’t been making sales. It didn’t really make much sense to me why they would do that so I emailed them back as I was given an opportunity to appeal."
Editors comment: This is one of the strangest, I never knew an affiliate network would deactivate an affiliate account with funds in it for sales inactivity? Gotta read the fine print carefully.
4. http://www.v7n.com/forums/marketing-forum/45344-commission-junction-sucks.html
"I rarely sling bad things about a company but Commission Junction really pushed all my buttons… the wrong ones, that is! It's so frustrating to see how fast they "deactivate" your working account whenever there's an alleged period of "sales inactivity"."
5. http://www.webmasterworld.com/advertising/3282352.htm
"It's so frustrating to see how fast they "deactivate" your working account whenever there's an alleged period of "sales inactivity"."
Can you imagine having your earnings forfeit without recourse?
I would recommend trying out other affiliate networks. You can find similar advertisers on other networks as well. For example, if you want to promote Dell, they can be found on networks that do not have similar affiliate woes compared to CJ.com
Piggy back on the experience of others and stay safe
"How do I receive money from the internet?" And Other FAQs
1. How do I receive money from the internet?
- You receive a check every month to your home
- Commissions are wired into your banking account every month
- Commissions are wired to payoneer which you withdraw cash from every month
Your banking account grows and you can pay for your mobile, electricity bills, insurance, kids education, home loan, car loan.
2. What amount would you consider as a full time income?
More then or at least equivalent to the working salary you would receive working for someone.
So if you're receiving $5 from Adsense, or $100 a month, unfortunately that is not a full time income. Having said that a recurring $800 per month can pay off quite a number of life's necessities.
3. Is an Internet Income stable?
Yes. And it can only keep on growing.
4. Any other tips?
Have a diverse portfolio of products focusing on the same business model. Example, if you're into selling golf items, then establish yourself firmly into that market and offer complimentary golf items, accessories… the same way Macdonalds asks if you would like to upsize your fries to go with your happy meal. A wrong way of diversification is to sell golf, then do ebay, adsense, CPA, try to start a forum, etc…
5. How much should I aim for?
$10,000 per month is the minimum one should aim for, then keep raising the bar. Do more revenue generating activities. Example, if PPC is making you money, then expand your keyword list, tighten your ad groups etc…
All the best to your internet business!
Sherman Choo
Focusing On Your Internet Business…
What is the business model that you want to do that's going to earn you $3000 - $100,000?
Have you been looking at:
- CPA (I want people to fill out my forms!)
- Adsense (Google, I won't click on my own ads..I swear!)
- Run a forum with openX advertising (Ogilvy..step aside)
- Participate in over 20 affiliate programs (I'm an affiliate junkie!)
- Sell wholesale products over ebay (I want to retail stuff bought from someone else!)
- Market your own ecommerce products
- Consulting…(Bain & Mckinsey love me!)
- PPC Affiliate marketing
- Data Entry from home (I type stuff!)
- I blog for a living…
- Filling out surveys for cash (I'm a multiple opinionated person…!)
Succeeding online requires FOCUS on 1 business model. If we try to do too many things, its easy to get burnt out, be a jack of all trades and master of none. The only time we can try a few things is when we're starting out, testing to see what we like to do. Afterwards, we aim to focus in 1 direction until we hit our income goals.
1. Example, say you want to do Adsense:
The best way to succeed with Adsense is to run a community forum. Golf site, Cosmetic site, IT site, any kind of kind discussion niche that captures interest. That way, you can leverage on content added by other people. Alot of people are interested to share ideas just out of passion for a topic, and that will help the site can ranked high in the SERPs, generate tons of free traffic for you.
2. Or, say you want to have your own info product:
Never write about what you like, find out what people want, and provide a solution to their problems. Have your work published by authority sites as well good article directories. Build up your subscriber list and ask them what they want to know. Produce your own work afterward, submit it to a network affiliate site.
3. Or, become a PPC Recurring Affiliate master:
Send PPC traffic to a landing page and offer a free download or ecourse. Share good information for 7 days then recommend a product that has worked for you. I've made tons of money this way, and its almost a brainless way to pluck cash out of thin air.
then…
Having said that, many people desire to earn a huge recurring income online. Here's the thing, intentions and feelings don't make one rich. Its similar to men wanting 6 pack abs and ladies, a figure like Keira Knightley, but when it comes to the crunch, few people will step up to the plate.
That's why there're folks who drive BMWs, and others that .. don't drive BMWs. Intentions, feelings, desires, wishing, talking, can't make anyone rich, as the Kungfu Panda said,"Enough talk, lets fight…"
Are you ready to grab the bulls by the horns and turn your internet business into a success? Before we answer a resounding "Yes!", we should know that its difficult to run an internet business whilst having an employee mindset. As an employee, we can "look" like we're working and still draw a salary. Entreprenuers, Internet business owners are "can do" people, problem solvers…result & bottom line driven.
Stay focused & all the best to your internet business!
Sherman Choo
"Sherman! Gimme Some Tips On Pay Per Click Marketing!"
Pay Per Click Lucrative Marketing is a skill practiced by mostly serious individuals who make online affiliate marketing their full time income, and rightly so because PPC is not as simple as picking up a book and reading about it. Google has courses on this subject and they have Google Qualified individuals that take these tests to help Google clients. Some internet business owners hire PPC experts to construct PPC campaigns for them.
This is my motto when doing Pay Per Click Marketing.
"For Every $100 I put into PPC, my return profits will be $700 - $1200." Having a goal setting Pay Per Click Internet Marketing mindset allows us to focus on what we're doing. If we do not set any goals, its hard to achieve income goals, as a product owner, affiliate marketer, CPA etc…
If you've heard about how PPC is turning ordinary folks willing to learn this art into minimum 5 figure earners…its absolutely true, and its 100% faster then building blogs, writing content, hoping that the search engines will pick up your work…although there is nothing wrong with those approaches, especially if you have the time to sit at your computer and write.
PPC is for the lazy person who just wants to construct campaigns and use money to make money…
Here are some tips to help ya out if you're thinking of stepping into PPC.
1. For most folks selling 1 time cj, clickbank $30 com products, don't send traffic directly through an affiliate link. Spend money to get a domain name and webhosting and send traffic to your own website 1st. If you cannot afford this, hmm, its hard to enjoy the "internet riches" lifestyle…
2. Don't bid more then $0.30. Go for low hanging fruit, if you cannot bid $0.80 to be in the top spot, don't get into a bidding war with another competitor. Try thinking out of the box and search for another keyword.
3. Always send PPC traffic to a landing page…whatever niche it is.
4. Market residual income programs with PPC, this is the surest way to give you a good ROI.
Pay Per Click Marketing can quickly and easily earn a person residual income when used correctly. The PPC mindset is = "For every $100 I put into this machine, I get $700 in profits", so $200 = $1,400…
Find a good residual income program, set aside a $200 budget and give it a spin!
To Your Success!
Sherman Choo
Affiliate Marketing - Pay Per Click Marketing For Instant Success
Pay Per Click Marketing is an affiliate marketing skill practiced only by successful affiliate marketers. The reason for this is that most affiliates do not fancy the idea of spending money everytime there is a click on their ads and one can lose money if there is not a solid business plan in place. Pay Per Click Marketing in the right hands is the fastest way for anyone to get results online, in hours or days from the day the ad was placed.
Getting started in Pay Per Click Marketing is very simple. All we need to do is go to any one of the major search engine providers such as Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN Marketing and Google Adwords Marketing and setup an account. Setting up an account requires a debit or credit card. This is also a possible hurdle for some interested in online marketing but unable to get started because of lack of this tool. Many banks now allow their ATM cards to function as a visa card.
Pay Per Click Marketing never gets saturated. Compared to other forms of advertising such as ezine advertising that can generate sales…however one needs to place ads, or solo ezine ads to test if the subscribers to an ezine newsletter is responsive to an ad. So its either a hit or miss. For this same reason, PPC is especially good for affiliates in the MLM or network marketing arena that are looking for ways to generate leads for their business. For example, while your upline may have success advertising a business opportunity in a certain ezine with 5000 subscribers, over time that pool becomes saturated with the same ad and this resource pool will no longer be beneficial to the sponsors downline.
PPC however takes some skill and time to understand the intricacies of the advertising system. The best way to succeed in PPC is to have a business model that is long term, in other words, we need a business plan that either has got many products we can introduce in time, a recurring charge business model such as a membership site or a high ticket item. Once the business model is in place, we can send instant traffic with Adwords, Yahoo, or MSN. Such business models will give you a high chance of earning $1000s with PPC in net profits!
All the best to your internet business,
Sherman Choo
Pay Per Click Marketing - How To Make Money With It?
Pay Per Click Marketing also known as PPC is a form of paid advertising. While the sound of paying money per click sounds like a big hole in your pocket, PPC is potentially lucrative in the right hands.
There are many services that offer PPC advertising. A few that I've used with good results are Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN, Google Adwords, Adbrite and Bidvertiser.
The main thing when using Pay Per Click advertising is to have some sort of tracking. These tracking codes are provided by the advertising services. All that needs to be done, is to simply copy these codes and paste them before the /body tag. If that sounds difficult, its actually quite simple once you give it a try.
Once the tracking codes are in place, we can understand what is making money, and what is not. For example, if a keyword is only giving you 10% conversion rate, then either we lower the bid for that keyword…or discard that campaign altogether.
When doing PPC, its important to understand the life time value of a customer. Ultimately, your goal for PPC is to bring a curious surfer to a customer. This is also known as conversion. From my experience with Pay Per Click Marketing, the best way to succeed with PPC is to have a product that is recurring in nature, as compared to a 1 off sale.
Products that are recurring in nature can be webhosting, membership sites, dating sites. Any product that requires a monthly subscription gives you a good chance of making good money with PPC. Alternatively, if you're looking to sell a 1 off product, then, you will need a different strategy. This will involve building an email list. This is because after a customer purchases a product from you, by being on your list, you will be able to introduce complementary products to the same customer.
Mastering Pay Per Click Marketing is an excellent skill to learn because it generates results very quickly. I have been doing pay per click for 2 years and its one of my top recommended money making methods. Give it a try, you may like the results!
How To Get Traffic To A Website - And Earn $11,737/Mo Doing It
Most sites have little traffic going to their websites, or not as much as they would like. In fact , you need only need as little as 15-40 real visitors a day to earn an internet income of $1,000 per month online. Then just by ramping up the traffic, we can expect to experience a proportional revenue increase.
1. Search Engine Optimisation
If I were to do Search Engine Optimisation, the 1st page would normally be a landing page. The subsequent pages would be either a blog, article pages with the main keywords that I want to target on each specific page. A website with just a few pages can rank very well even if there is not much article content. If the site offers a real service, and good user experience, you can expect Google to have it indexed on the 1st page.
2. Pay Per Click Marketing
This is one of my personal favourites. There are many subjects written on how to go about using Pay Per Click marketing or PPC. PPC includes Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Bidvertiser, Adbrite. Adwords actually has a course for this if you're interested to become an Adwords Qualified Professional. PPC generates both expenses as well as revenue. You will need a good business model before spending money on PPC.
3. Article Marketing
Article Marketing can be tied in with SEO. In fact, you can get your site indexed very quickly, just by writing a few articles and having a few article directory links pointing back to your site. Share your knowledge with others by writing bite size, digestable articles and Google will index the content quickly.
How To Get Traffic To Your Site?
There are many ways to get traffic to a site. The fastest of which is paid advertising. In my view most beginners don't want (or don't dare) to pay for online traffic. 6 figure earners are willing to pay for traffic because this allows a quick way to test their advertising message, which contributes quickly back to their income.
"You could say the rich get richer and the normal…stay the same…"
Its cost efficient to budget $50 to test an ad copy, then to spend 14 days getting into the indexed pages of Google and Yahoo. And even after your pages get indexed, there will be another long wait as you struggle to get repeat visits and eyeballs to your website.
Copy writing is an interesting skill. Though we can't be 100% sure of one person's reaction to a message or communication, we can with a frightening degree of certainty predict the proportion of folks, that will react to a piece of communication. Say 100 people read your message, 2 persons take action, that's a 2% conversion rate and you can demand similar results everytime 100 "TARGETED" folks read the same information.
Paid advertising can get 100s of targeted people to see your message over a few days. We then set up a "PPC tracking campaign". From there, you can check you sales profits versus cost in just days…
I often do this for new websites, and track my results with scripting to understand where the traffic is coming from. This is important because then we can understand what makes money and what does not.
Anyway..will share more on this when time opens up… meanwhile give PPC a try…because it works!
