Sherman's Online Marketing Tips

1. CPA networks are cost per action networks. You drive them traffic and they pay you for each successful action taken by the prospect you send.

Niches they are in revolve around Insurance, BizOps, Debt Leads and more.

CPA networks often try to screen of new comers into the online marketing scene. Those good at CPA networks can make as much as $3000 a day, even more.

And thats only as an affiliate. As an advertiser, you can make up to $10,000 a day even.

In CPA networks, the way to make the big $$ is to invest in buying ads, hiring teams, or investing ones own time. To make the big dollars, its always better to leverage on money to make money.

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It still amazes me that many people don't try to build a mailing list. Without a mailing list in a niche, its very hard to keep in contact with people that are looking for information.

It used to be difficult to maintain a database. Now, there are services that you can use for cheap to maintain your mailing list.

How easy is it to make money from a mailing list?

If you're in the fengshui niche, and have a new product that has arrived. Just send out an email with the offer. Your customers will be lining up to buy.

Nerf Guns are the rage in 2010. When new stock comes in, the local department store sends out an email to all their customers to come buy.

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Quick Answer: health niches, cause its recurring sales. actually, there are so many niches, poker, lottery, work from home. i personally like health niches because it also falls in the lucrative 40 to 60 middle age income category.

spending power and have credit cards.

Affiliates allow you to earn overiding commission. That means you can get sales without worrying about traffic.

As a good vendor, you need to know how to 1st market and convert your own product.

By knowing how to market, you can test whether your product and sales copy converts.

More importantly, you don't need to rely on affiliate traffic. The less you rely on other sources of traffic, the better and more stable your business will be.

With that said, let s say you already have a good product, tested by your conversion tools.

You can start to leverage on affiliates from Clickbank.

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To find good partners, you always need to test. If you can find one at the gate go, that's great!

Most of the time, you will not successful in finding profitable new partners. You have to plough through 10 partnerships in order to find 1 or 2 you can work well with. Sometimes, a 1st business relationship might require you to take less of the cake… or it may just break even, but trust me, its a good idea to just break even at the start to get something going. Testing the performance of a potential partner and getting something going is worth it.

Once the ice is broken and there is some understanding in how each other works, more business can follow.

Most simple 2 party partnerships are a 30%-70% profit sharing, 50%-50% profit sharing, or a 70%-30% profit sharing.

1. Things that can go wrong in a 30%-70% profit sharing model

In this case, you're taking 30% of the profits. Your JV partner takes 70%. Since the JV partner is taking a larger share, he is required to do more. What can go wrong here, is the partner may decide that since he is doing more, he wants to take 90% or 100% of the profits, especially if the money goes to his bank account 1st. He may wire you a small account then what was agreed, or worst still, not even wire.

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• MLM is a great way to make money. Especially if you don't have much capital to invest.

By relying on the efforts of your team, you can rely on the efforts of others to make you money.

Some folks don't like the idea of their upline making money of them, or I often hear folks complain that their upline isn't helping them.

Look, if you want your upline who is probably well off to sit up and notice you, then you must be a successful downliner.

Success attracts success, show that you can perform, and your upline will start to notice you, perhaps do a JV with you someday.

That said, don't rely on someone else to make you rich. Count on your own, find success, learn by observing… DOING and success is around the corner.

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• The 1st job is to work as a real estate assistant. What this job comprises is to set up meetings and handle phone calls for real estate agents.

The real esate agent will conduct a house viewing and if the sale goes through, you earn a share of the commission.  The pay out would be around 20%.

• Another good job would be assisting marketing companies send out newsletter or emails. Newsletters help the company stay in touch with their customers.

Whenever you draft and email, you get paid for newsworthy content.

To Your Success!

Sherman

Seems more and more people are now getting banned by Adcenter, this July 2011. Some have been banned by Facebook, and more have been kicked off the Adwords network.

When it comes to Adcenter bans, most of this issue is coming from the billing department.

One of the worst errors from this department is you can get banned accessing your adcenter account from overseas.

If you're from the States, and you access your adcenter account on vacation in china, or thailand, your account will get flagged and gets banned.

You can call in to support but there is really not much they can do. Adcenter support will simply take your details, but 90% chance you will still get banned by the Adcenter billing department as they don't give advertisers the benefit of the doubt.

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Video marketing is a great way to get traffic. Its free and you can leverage on folks to do remakes to get your content out.

If you haven't heard of it, Vietnam Tom is a video that has been shared on youtube, now making its way to traditonal online media, radio etc.

One easy way right now to make money with Vietnam Tom video is to create a remake of the original Vietnam Tom footage, place a self defence course at the description..

"Whoop Ass like Vietnam Tom" …

If your remake is interesting, it'll go viral, and that's money in your pocket. Here's an example..

If you're running some huge numbers on Adwords, small charges can slip in from other Parasite adwords accounts. This may go unnoticed until you stop running your adwords campaigns and notice small charges still coming in.

The charges will be around $0.34. $8.20, to $10.

It can go as high as $1000.

You can write in to Adwords to refund the money, but you will still incur a banking surcharge to recover it and its around $3 to $5.00. It will not be covered by Adwords.

This is an issue of identity theft, if you run an online business, 2 things you need.

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Well not fishing exactly, gonna hop over to Universal Studios (Singapore) and check out the rides, maybe pop into the Marina Sands Casino along the way. Quick unwind after a week of slugging out there with Google and finally sit down to some needed R&R.

Random thoughts before I shut the computer down.

While Adwords can be mean (and they've been pretty mean to pretty much everyone recently), and almost everybody is jumping ship to making money with plentyoffish, myads, trafficvance, mediatraffic, leadimpact, adbrite etc, and all different types of advertising networks.

My advice is to stay with Adwords and go against the current because only shooting stars break the mould.

That means, if you're doing CPA with the networks such as C2M, or Azoogle, or MaxBounty, or Copeac… step back and source for new affiliate programs to market.

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A way to make money online is to go into product marketing. We're looking at ebay, alibaba, places where you can source for products then sell. Most of these products are manufactured in China, where the overhead and cost is low. Many good brands like the apple iphone are made in china also.

As a home business entreprenuer, you'll want to be sourcing products from the smaller local factories or from the whole sale centres. I have been in GuangZhou for 1 month already and will share 1st hand the pros and cons you can expect to find here in China.

Pros

1. Price – The cost is cheaper, and that leaves sufficient margin to be profitable in the profitable world of online product marketing.

Cons

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Buying Traffic is good because it offers a perfect litmus test before deciding whether or not to enter a market. With the right traffic souces, you can easily do about $10,000 per month online in your niche, then go into more permanent traffic sources such as blogging, or putting fresh new content on the net.

Another good thing about paid traffic is that you can localise your money spent. If you're only targeting customers in a country like Singapore, then producing content for an international audience might not even be necessary if enough paid sources of traffic are available at very cheap prices.

SEO stands for search engine optimization. Your content can be indexed by google, yahoo in many ways. Common ways are putting videos on youtube, starting a blog, or article submission. When you go by such a route, your product should be international because its more profitable that way. Traffic from all around the world will drop by your site and you want to be able to monetise your site to the max.

You would also want to go in SEO when your site isn't given a good QS by Adwords or Bing and you aren't sure how to optimise it further for a good QS. For those new to Adwords, this advertising platform is quite picky when it comes to displaying ads. So if your site isn't what they like from the start, its going to be difficult to fix it. If your business is something you berlieve in and is going to stay, then SEO is good to consider.

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You may have heard of the term list building and its usually associated with online wealth. The successful list builders have a good relationship with their subscribers and this list is often responsive to new offers available. For example, some lists that im subscribed to are new playstation 3 games where we can preorder for additional discounts when the dealer brings new titles in. 

Here're some of the customer lists you can look to build online.

1. The Mass Consumer lightning list that makes 6 figures a year

This kind of list is usually associated with products that earn you anywhere from usd18 to usd90. You will be wanting to build a list that purchases immediately after opting into your list.It can be a dating program, muscle building, male enhancement products, insurance. All consumer type products are workable here. This money can be made  quick and when you have a list building campaign that works, there isn't much to do afterward until something like the google slap comes along 3 months down the road, by then, you'd have earn a good amount of money online and ready to embark on a new product.

Such list are usually built with paid advertising such as pay per click marketing, media buys, ppv, display, banner advertising.

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These are the kinda problems the higher then average earners will face. If you're doing $500 to $1000 a day, that's good, then there're some that do $5000 per day, even better then.

1. Accounts Get Banned – There's been a major clean up over at Google Adwords. The life time ban from using the google platform has affected MANY online marketers. It does not only affect those that run the google biz type of ads, those that run poor quality acai ads, funky rebills as an affiliate are also hit. For most affiliates that have lost their adwords account, getting back into the adwords game requires tons of new credit cards, and learning how to clear cookies from your computer. Not for the faint hearted.. 

But if you have a campaign with Adwords that's earning $1000 per day, its worthwhile to get back in to the game with the big G. If you're new to online marketing, try using MSN and Yahoo instead, get some exposure there before tackling the Google giant.

2. Campaigns Get Deleted – This happened to a friend. He was an overachiever and created 10,000 keywords in 1 day in a span of 12 hours. Along came an admin who deleted the entire campaign and banned the acccount.

3. Leads Get Shaved – This happens in the CPA marketing industry. The most one can do is write in to the network and trust they'll look out for your interest by crediting you with leads that were lost. Most of the time, you can expect a return of 1/3 of the actual sales that was lost.

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Here are a couple of ways to get paid from the networks, withdraw your cash from your local ATM and spend it on your daily needs. Let's have a look.

1. Paypal Masspay

Tip: This mode of payment will have your commissions paid to your paypal account. From your paypal account, you can withdraw your money to your banking account.

2. Check

A paper check is sent to your home, where you'll cash in your check and withdraw the cash from your ATM.

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Imagine a new adwords advertiser with a keyword quality score of 7 after loading up a campaign while your ad has a similar keyword quality score of 7 as well.

If the advertiser's ad is new, his domain is new, Adwords will charge him $1.67.

If you have good adwords account history, you'll only need to pay just $0.43.

So if you' come across an advertiser that's supposedly paying for premium position for a premium keyword, don't assume he's paying $2.00 a click.

You and I as new comers wanting to advertise for that premium keyword may have to pay that amount. The current advertisor may already have sufficient good credit score built with adwords and only paying peanuts for a premium keyword, allowing profits of $15,000 – $30,000 every month.

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Before we begin: If terms like negative matching, acronyms like PPC and long tail keywords sound alien, do set yourself up with this step-by-step course 1st >>

Lets dive in…

Question: How much should we set aside to see good profits in Affiliate Pay Per Click Marketing?

Rule of thumb, if you plan to bid on 1000 keywords, you will want to set aside a budget of around $1000 and 7 days to test and get data.

Having many keywords or even long tail keywords may seem profitable, however, the truth is long tail keywords can be1 hit wonders plus you'll be spending more money weeding out the non profitable long tail keywords.

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Objective: Identify a problem then identify a product that solves that problem.

1. To look for problems, visit these sites:

-Yahoo Answers
-Wiki Answers
-Forums where people hang out. Read what they're "unhappy" about.

2. Bear in mind what people need, then write an article with a problem solving approach.

The article must have a SEO headline. An SEO headline is usually the "problem phrase"
Think of what you want to sell. If you want to Anti Dustmite bed pillows, the article
could go like this.

—–Example—

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