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- 7/26/2004
10 Ways Affiliates Can Help Improve Performance
Simply placing a link on your page whether it’s a text link, a banner or a product feed isn’t enough to maximise your conversion rates. Extra effort is needed to improve your pages and make a big dif...
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- 7/6/2004
Testimonials Convert Prospects Into Buyers
Big businesses get instant credibility with their well-known
company name or brand name. But small companies have to
create their own credibility. One of most powerful tools you
can use for this...
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- 6/28/2004
Affiliate Managers: Your Top Five Biggest Affiliate Program Mistakes
In this article I will show affiliate managers the mistakes they should avoid if they want to build a successful affiliate program.
I felt compelled to write this article after seeing the same m...
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- 6/1/2004
11 Powerful Marketing Tips
Each of these 11 marketing tips is based on a marketing
strategy or tactic proven to boost sales. How many are you
using?
Tip 1:
Your customers buy your product or service to fe...
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- 5/17/2004
How Do I Roll Out an Affiliate Program?
Is An Affiliate Program Right For You?
Successfully developing an affiliate program requires strong commitment – both in terms of time and money. If you cannot make a commitment, the resu...
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- 5/10/2004
Spyware - An Increasing Problem for Affiliates
One of my most profitable affiliate websites recently became a victim or 'target' of some spyware. As a result, I lost a great deal of money and it made me really mad. So I've carried out some quite d...
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- 5/4/2004
Uncover Your Hidden Markets
Want a simple, low-cost way to boost your sales? Just uncover the narrowly defined sub-markets hidden in your main market. Then create special versions of your advertising to focus on the specific nee...
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- 4/27/2004
What are the Benefits of an Affiliate Program?
Developing an affiliate program is no small task. It requires a dedicated program manager, financial investment, a solid strategy, and a focus on finding and keeping the best affiliates. Done right, i...
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- 4/13/2004
Does Your Domain Name Work Without The ‘www.’?
Go into your browser and then enter your website address without the ‘www.’
eg. yourdomainname.com
Press the ENTER key and see if you can still reach your websi...
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- 4/6/2004
Modern Marketing With Postcards
Postcards may be one of the best kept secrets of modern marketing. They produce even better results now than in the past. That's probably because postcards deliver information the way people want to g...
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- 4/1/2004
Affiliate Marketing Myths Exposed!
The following is an interview with Jonathan Miller, Team Affiliate team leader and affiliate
management guru. Jonathan tackles the myths of Affiliate marketing, as well as exposing the
secrets...
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- 3/23/2004
Invite Questions to Boost Your Sales
Do you invite your prospective customers to ask questions...or do you try to avoid getting questions from them? You're walking away from many easy sales if you don't encourage prospects to ask questio...
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- 3/11/2004
How to Review an Affiliate Program
So you've decided to write a review of an affiliate program. What should your review include? The focus of your writing should be information that will help readers decide whether or not to participat...
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- 3/4/2004
Removing JavaScript from a Web Page
As web pages get increasingly more advanced so does the amount of code needed. The result may be a beautiful looking page that performs many things well...except ranking highly in the search engines. ...
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- 3/4/2004
Hiding Your Affiliate Links
When some surfers see an affiliate link they can just open a new browser window and then directly type in the merchants url and go straight to the site, this results in you getting no referral.
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- 3/4/2004
Finding Affiliates
One of the big questions for any business contemplating starting their own program is, where will I find my affiliates?
Even those affiliate managers that run a program within a network will soo...
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- 3/4/2004
Site Map’s Are Important
From the usability side of things, site maps are very handy in helping your visitors navigate your site and find everything you want them to find. A simple link to your site map on every page will he...
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- 12/16/2003
How To Boost Sales During The Holidays
You can maximize your sales during the Holidays ...even if you have to deal with more intense competition - or if you normally experience a drop in business because your products and services are not ...
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- 11/20/2003
7 Surefire Ways to Get Leads for Your MLM Business
After you join an MLM business, it's usually smooth sailing for a few days or weeks. You have plenty of leads--well, you have your family and friends--but those leads don't last forever. When
you...
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- 11/13/2003
Getting Started with Affiliate Marketing
New marketers are coming online everyday. If you're one of them, I'm sure you've been asking yourself, "where do I start?"
There's so little time and so much information to absorb.
<...
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- 11/12/2003
Keyword Ownership: What It Is and Where It's Headed?
Have you ever got one of those silly emails that offers to let you own a keyword? Silly question. How many such emails do you get every day?
A number of such services regularly email me off...
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- 11/12/2003
8 Simple Rules for Web Writing
Writing for the web is different than writing for print. People read differently on the web.
They scan text looking to pick out information rather than read your article word-for-word. He...
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- 11/12/2003
12 Profit Increasing Tips For Ezine Publishers
1. Provide your subscribers with special offers, discounts or sales that only they are privy to.
This could include subscriber only bonuses for purchasing your product, a two for one sale,...
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- 11/7/2003
Your Valuable Marketing Tool
A lot of marketers talk about their best marketing tool.
Ask a group of marketers what their most valuable marketing tool is and you'll get a variety of answers.
Some of the repl...
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- 11/6/2003
Reach Your Web Site Goals By Attracting the Right Visitors (Part 2 of 2)
An important question to answer when creating or revising a Web site is "What are the goals of this site?" because the answer will drive your site design and marketing decisions.
In Part 1 ...
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- 11/5/2003
The truth about Affiliate Programs
The truth about affiliate programs and online marketing is that most people think that being a successful affiliate consists of purchasing their own website, pasting it with banners and links or placi...
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- 10/23/2003
The Latest Innovation in Search Engine Algorithms . . . User Popularity
For years, the search engines have continued to introduce new factors into their algorithms to make their search results more relevant and to keep savvy search engine marketers from "cracking the syst...
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- 10/15/2003
ARE YOU MARKETING WITH A DEAF EAR?
Can you imagine having a phone conversation where you couldn't hear what the person at the other end was saying? You would have difficulty getting much done and you certainly couldn't tailor your resp...
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- 10/14/2003
New Search Engine Ranking Algorithm - An Interview with ExactSeek.com's Mel Strocen
ExactSeek.com has teamed up with Alexa to provide a brand new search engine ranking algorithm that ranks sites based on content relevancy and Alexa user popularity data.
This unique ranking...
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- 10/6/2003
HOW TO BRAND/MARKET YOURSELF AND YOUR BUSINESS ON A "SHOESTRING
Here are some tips in writing some articles to "spread the word"
about your business, as an internet marketing strategy...
and especially on the smell of an oily rag"...
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- 10/6/2003
How to get free publicity to your site?
Write and submit Articles to EZines and Newsletters. This is probably more effective then all other things combined. It costs
almost nothing and brings BIG results. I said almost because there...
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- 10/6/2003
3 Ways to Make Money From Pay Per Click Advertising
If you own a website, you've probably looked far and wide for ways to
increase the income from it, right? And chances are, you've tried or
thought about trying, to use Pay Per Click to your ...
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- 8/12/2003
Google AdSense Rewards Content with Advertising Revenue
If you've been looking for an easy way to increase your website's revenue, Google AdSense may be your answer.
Google AdSense is a phenomenal new advertising revenue program that is taking t...
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- 8/12/2003
Pay-Per-Clicks . . .One way to boost traffic to your Web site Part 2
(Continued from Part 1. For the complete article, write to Robin
Nobles at robin@searchengineworkshops.com)
Advantages to Working with the Pay Engines
The pay engines offer ...
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- 8/12/2003
3 Advanced Marketing Strategies!
1) Most people want to make the people around
them happy. Tell your prospects how happy their
friends or family will be if they buy your product.
For example, you could say, "Order befo...
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- 8/12/2003
Get Clients to Use your Service Again and Again: Two Solutions Part 2
Your Online sales copy matters. Did you know that 95% of small businesses fail because their owners don't pay enough attention to staying in touch with their clients with magnetic sales copy?
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- 8/12/2003
10 Ways To Keep Your Visitors Coming Back
1. Invite your visitors to add their articles, ebooks, affiliate programs or resources and make your site into a valuable directory.
2. Keep your site regularly updated with useful content ...
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- 8/12/2003
Marketing Your Website: Domain Names 101
Any new website venture online will include a domain name. Sometimes the domain is purchased from a domain broker - someone who specializes in reselling domain names. The majority of the time, howeve...
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- 8/12/2003
Marketing Your Website: Domain Names 101
Any new website venture online will include a domain name. Sometimes the domain is purchased from a domain broker - someone who specializes in reselling domain names. The majority of the time, howeve...
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- 7/29/2003
PPC advertising vs. SEO advertising
These following acronyms are probably two of the most important terms in the world of Internet advertising: PPC and SEO.
First we have PPC. This is also called CPC. This stands for Pay Per ...
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- 7/23/2003
5 Tips for Joining Affiliate Programs
Let me get straight to the point! There is a jungle of affiliate programs on the net. Some are good, but very many are mediocre. If you don't know what to look for when choosing who to go into partne...
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- 7/23/2003
3 Web Site Traffic Triggers!
1) Make Money
People want to make more money. They may want
to start their own business, get a higher paying job
or invest in the stock market. This will make them
feel succ...
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- 7/23/2003
Bloom into a Super-Affiliate this Spring!
You’ve been trudging along spending a few hours a week adding and replacing links on your site. You’ve started to receive some pretty decent commissions – nothing to retire on just yet – but you feel ...
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- 7/17/2003
Online Promotion Beats Traditional Seven-One (Part 1)
While traditional marketing can work for the book author or publisher, the return is dim for the huge effort it takes. You must promote 90% of the time to even get a milligram of attention.
While...
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- 7/17/2003
3 Simple Changes to Huge Affiliate Checks
Affiliate programs are a great way to earn money. As an
affiliate I get regular checks from a couple dozen companies.
Sometimes they're small--$25 or so--sometimes they're large--
$1,0...
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- 7/17/2003
Are YOU getting your Money's Worth When Buying Traffic? . . .
If you're just beginning to try your hand with the pay-per-click
engines, one thing you need to know is the importance of setting
up tracking URL’s so you're better able to track click-throu...
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- 7/16/2003
Set Your Goal ... Take Aim ... Fire
How many times have you come up with a new idea that is going to make you a ton of money?
You've come with something new, that no one else is doing, and you know you'll have no competition....
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- 7/16/2003
How To Use Articles To Build Your Affiliate Program
Articles are the perfect promotional tool for your
affiliates - they bring in more sales than banners, book
covers, and ezine ads. Your affiliates can post them on
their website, use th...
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- 7/16/2003
6 Ways Search Engines Find Your Web site
1) Your information contained in your domain name
Example: www.CoachMaria.com
2) The words used in the name of each pages
Example: www.CoachMaria.com/business/webmarketing...
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- 7/15/2003
10 Ways To Electrify Your Copy And Pull More Sales!
Electrifying, razor-sharp "bring in the money" sales letters and
ads can be yours when you follow these
simple rules....
1) Write Like You're Talking To A Friend -- Really. People...
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- 7/15/2003
Understanding the Difference between Marketing & Promotion
Are you an online marketer? Or do you simply promote affiliate
programs? Marketing is truly the most misunderstood word in use
today on the Internet. Let me see if I can clarify this issue...
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- 7/15/2003
Zine / newsletter resources
A list is the simplest way to keep in touch with your clientelle when you have a
situation subject to changes that the client base needs to be kept aware of. It can
announce new releases, ...
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- 7/15/2003
3 Profitable eBook Income Streams!
1) Sell Advertisements
Make money selling advertising space in your ebook.
You could charge for full page color ads, classified
ads or banners ads. You could also trade advertisin...
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- 7/9/2003
Twenty-Five Tips in Writing Articles for the WWW
Writing articles can provide you with enormous amount of exposure on the Web (sounds "rude, that). You are branding yourself on a shoestring budget - it hasn't cost you a cent, but a little time and ...
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- 7/9/2003
Use an 'Affiliate Network' to Boost Your Commissions
Most affiliates concentrate exclusively on direct sales. For affiliates this means joining an affiliate program and marketing the product or service through their web site or via email. The affiliate ...
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- 7/9/2003
The Power Of Burning Desire Backed By Unwavering
I'll bet you've never heard of David Braden. He's not the type of teenager that makes the national news.
It's sad, but true, that bad news travels the globe before good news even has it's ...
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- 5/15/2003
Taking It Personally
So, finally, you have finished the design of your web site, or your targeted email ad that is going to blow your counter off of the page-and a fine piece of work it is! You've got the scripts, the app...
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- 5/15/2003
The Ugly Side Of Internet Marketing, What The Gurus Won't Tell You
That's nothing to sneeze at! Your headline can literally make or break your advertising campaign.
The headline is the most important part of any sales letter. It has to grab your prospects attentio...
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- 5/15/2003
Top Ten Junk Email Do's and Don'ts
It seems that email usage has turned from being a window on the
world to being in a cell in a fortress or castle. You are
afraid that you don't have enough defenses. You don't like
being in t...
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- 5/15/2003
How to Make Your Website Visitor Trust and Like You
At first, all prospects are distrustful when they first come into contact with your website. All they want to know is what's in it for me? You are asking them to trust you, trust in the benefits of ...
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- 1/28/2003
3 Quick And Simple Ways To Improve Your Ad!
2) Make It Stand Out
Make your product’s list of benefits and features stand out by using a symbol in front of each of them. The symbol could be a dash, solid circle, star, etc. Also inde...
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- 9/13/2000
Sticky Sites Sell!
A "sticky" web
site refers to a web site that can keep its visitors on their web pages for
a long period of time and also get the same vis...
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- 9/13/2000
Choosing an Affiliate Program
No matter what business
you are in, the largest investment you make will be customer acquisition. If
you have your own product, and have a...
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- 9/13/2000
10 Explosive Ways To Turbo-Boost Your Sales!
1. Design your web
site to be a targeted resource center. Choose one subject and build on it. You'll
gain repeat visitors that are ...
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- 9/13/2000
Free Tools for Webmasters
Here is a URL link that
will enable you to submit your webpages to over 500 search engines and link
pages for FREE! Simply go to 9/13/2000
E What? Ya Who? Amazon Dot Huh? Does Anybody Out There Know Who You Are?
What comes to mind? Hamburgers.
Soft Drink. Computer Operating System. Online Auction House. Premier Search
Engine.
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- 9/13/2000
Newsgroups
Simply put, newsgroups are
a group of people who exchange information in a way that is very similar to
email,
although these groups...
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- 9/12/2000
Traffic Driving Linking Methods
Today, the banner
confines have been lifted. Affiliates can drive traffic to their merchants
with a variety of cr...
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- 9/7/2000
Are You Surrounded by Flowers or Thorns?
Sit quietly for a moment
and reflect on your garden.
Who and where are the ...
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- 9/7/2000
The TOP 6 Words to Use in an AD!
I recently saw a lot of
ads on various classified ad pages; 75% of the ads were quite terrible. They
did not try to get the viewer to CLIC...
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- 9/6/2000
Proven, Effective Direct Email Marketing
Instead of pennies, let's talk about customers. The ones who visit your Web
site and/or send you emails. Do you answer th...
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- 8/31/2000
Ezines Provide A Cost-Effective, Highly Targeted Marketing Outlet
Ezine advertising, for example,
has proven to be an extremely cost-effective way to reach a large audience.
And since most ezines have a n...
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- 8/31/2000
How to get FREE Ezine Advertising
There’s banner advertising,
classified advertising (some free, some paid), email advertising to opt-in lists,
and Ezine advertising (from ...
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- 8/31/2000
Long Copy Works Better - Or Is It Short Copy?
Those that believe
you must walk your customer through each and every benefit preach, "Long
copy sells better!" Proponents of this copywr...
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- 8/31/2000
What's In A Name?
When you started your business,
you may have done so on a part-time basis while you continued with your full-time
job.
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- 8/30/2000
Writing a Good and Attractive E-mail for Permission Marketing
In this article, we will
talk about the important components of a successful Opt-In e-mail. Those components
include:
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- 8/30/2000
The Four Best Ways to Market Your Affiliate Program
Yet for many affiliate programs,
the banner ad is simply a poor form of advertising. It encourages a limited
response, is stuck on the top...
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- 8/30/2000
The Ten Step Master Plan For Maximizing Your Profits
How many times have you
picked up a newspaper and seen other people making tons of cash from their Web
Sites without working too hard? Her...
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- 8/18/2000
How to Promote your Corporation on the Internet
But how do you make your
corporation stand out among the 200 million web sites and billions of email
messages that compete for attention? ...
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- 8/18/2000
How to Build Your Own Web Site Fast and Cheap
If you don't have a web
site to market your business to your community and the world, it's time to get
one. Web space is offered free ever...
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- 8/18/2000
Creative Marketing - How To Get Great Marketing Ideas Anytime
I got some real insight into fresh marketing recently when my wife gave birth
to a baby boy. As I stood in the delivery room, looking at my new son for the
first time, I did what most paren...
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- 8/18/2000
3 Simple Secrets to Making Money with Affiliate Programs
The people who are making
good money with affiliate programs use these programs to endorse third-party
products and services to their cust...
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- 8/18/2000
The 8 Components of Affiliate Marketing
You know,
the old adage about "walking a mile in someone else's shoes" applies
to every level of affiliate programs: If you are a merchant thinking of starting
an affiliate program, con...
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- 8/18/2000
An Introduction to Affiliate Programs
The company with which you partner supplies the products and services
and handles order fulfillment. You supply the marketing. And, you get pa...
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- 8/18/2000
Bundling Offers Can Boost Revenue
One of the best types of
affiliate programs to pair with your own site's offer is a pay-per-lead program.
These programs usually pay you a...
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- 8/18/2000
.com All Ye Faithful Affiliates
Sorry to burst any bubbles,
but the affiliate game is more complicated than recruiting a bunch of Webmasters
and getting them to add banne...
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- 8/18/2000
Rookie's Guide to Becoming a Successful Affiliate
Affiliate programs come
in a lot of different flavors… some will pay a percentage of the sale,
others pay a flat fee per transaction, an...
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- 8/18/2000
Affiliate Programs 101 - Primer for Success
An April 1999 Forrester
Research survey of marketing executives ( 8/18/2000
Writing a Good and Attractive Opt-In Email
This convenience is not limited to the purchasing
process. You need to have specialized technical services, order tracking and
customer se...
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- 8/18/2000
Expectations, Knowledge and Fulfillment
Sometimes our expectations
are fulfilled and sometimes they are not. We can buy a lottery ticket and expect
to win, however
there ...
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- 8/18/2000
Excuse Me but, Is this a Pyramid?
When people ask me this
my favorite response is, "Exactly what do you mean by pyramid?"
8/18/2000
10 Website Essentials to Increase Your Sales
1) Creating a professional website designed
to sell will take a great deal of time and effort, as there is much more to
take into c...
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- 8/18/2000
Placing Classified Ads
Let's start with writing
your ad. Think first about who you are targeting this ad to. If you use the
phrase "easy work" you will find folk...
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- 8/18/2000
How to Write a Good Article
I believe the essence of
writing a good interesting article is simplicity, but with a touch (or could
it be "tinge" of the unusu...
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- 8/9/2000
Seven Headlines to Energize Your Ads, Sales Letters, and Website Copy
Headlines range from newspaper "hit-you-in-the face" to more subtle ones that don't seem like a headline at all. Use a short three word headline for classified ads. Use
headli...
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- 8/9/2000
Two Top Ways to Use Autoresponders
A woman told me this week,
“Your advertising is wasted if you don’t follow-up on your
leads.” Her solution is to use a multiple autoresponder that
sends her prospe...
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- 8/9/2000
Promote With Newsletters
If you're promoting your small business on the
Internet, you aren't alone. The latest surveys show that small
businesses outnumber larger firms on the Internet by a margin of f...
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- 8/9/2000
How To Promote Your Business With Your Own Articles
Here's a simple method for tapping into an
outstanding source of low-cost publicity for your
business.
by Dr. Kevin Nunley
...
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- 8/9/2000
How to Get Ahead by Using the Media to Publicize Your Product, Service, Organization, or Idea
It happens everyday. Luck? Sometimes. But more
often than not, the business succeeded because its leader knew how to
use the media. We live in a huge mass society. Even if you ...
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- 8/9/2000
Email strategies to get thousands in free media publicity
Never before has there been so MUCH media. Internet, cable, satellite, and new low-power TV add to the already staggering number of radio stations, newspapers, and
magazines.
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- 8/9/2000
Get a Web Site That Sells!
Don't get too carried away with bright colors,
patterned backgrounds, or big graphics that take lots of time to
load. Recent surveys show that over 78% of your customers will b...
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- 8/4/2000
Best Ways to Promote Your Website for FREE!, by Terri Seymour
Link Exchanges
Set up a link exchange page
and find sites that are c...
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- 8/4/2000
Creating Doorway Pages, By Sumantra Roy
Before I discuss how you
can create such doorway pages, I must tell you that I am no fan of these doorway
pages. Firstly, if you are targe...
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- 8/4/2000
The Importance of Closing the Sale, By Barrett Niehus
The reason that I am relaying
this information is to convey the extreme importance associated with asking
the customer to make the purchas...
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- 8/4/2000
Testimonials And Bonuses
The importance of seeing
one anther's testimonial is one of The biggest reasons people purchase on-line
and off. Combine this with your ow...
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- 8/4/2000
'How To Choose the Right Ezines For Your Ads', by Michael Southon
Take 'The Free Directory
of Ezines', for example. There are over 800 Ezines in the Directory that accept
paid ads. How do you decide which...
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- 8/4/2000
Webmasters, Make More Money With Lead Based Advertising, by Jeff Gorelick
Consider an affiliate program
that compensates you based on actions performed by the visitors to your website.
This is termed "lead-based"...
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- 8/4/2000
What is an Autoresponder?
Very simply, an autoresponder
is a bit of software that sits on a server and automatically delivers your information
to anyone who asks fo...
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- 7/5/2000
Seven Deadly Sins Of Affiliate Programs
If you are conducting business online, the question is no longer whether or not you should have an affiliate program. The question now is how to set up a successful affiliate program.
Forres...
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- 6/30/2000
Debunking the Affiliate Program Myth
Who's
right? Well, IMHO, they are all correct. Li...
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- 6/30/2000
Affiliate Programs ... A Not THAT Easy Start To Your Own Online Business, by Elena Fawkner
"Where is all the help
I'm supposed to get. I have been buying ezine and classified ad builders and
sign...
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- 6/29/2000
.....3 Reasons Why Most Affiliates Die a Slow, Agonizing Death
BEING THE TOP AFFILIATE
GUNFIGHTER
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- 6/29/2000
Can I Really Make Money With Affiliate Programs and MLM's on the Internet?
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