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No matter how much money you are making online you can always make more. We are going to take a closer look at how you can make more money from your visitors with Affiliate and Advertising Sales.

Affiliate Sales

There are literally thousands of affiliate programs on the Internet. Some of them pay a percentage of the sale, some pay a flat fee and some pay a residual fee every time the customer you referred makes a purchase. You can usually find a company’s affiliate program by scrolling to the bottom of their home page and looking for a link that says “partners” or “affiliates.”

There are also three main affiliate networks that manage the affiliate programs for millions of products and thousands of businesses.

As an affiliate marketer they are a great resource to find out what affiliate programs are available for your target market. You can browse the amounts that they pay for referrals you can even see the average amount affiliates are making from their program!

The 3 largest affiliate networks are Commission Junction, Linkshare, and Clickbank. Clickbank only handles electronic products such as e-books and software while the other two have affiliate programs for everything from dog food to car insurance. Click here to get more info.

It doesn’t cost anything to register as an affiliate. I would recommend joining Commission Junction and browsing around to familiarize yourself with the programs available. Click here to get more info.

Ad Sales

Advertisers want their messages displayed to the largest group of people who would be likely to buy their product or service. For example, a credit repair company might want to advertise on a Website that offers credit tips. Someone advertising a product geared towards children would want their ad to appear on parenting sites. You get the picture. The more targeted your site is the more money you can make on advertising.

People are selling advertising on their Websites, Blogs, etc. Some people get paid to write. They do this by developing blogs with compelling content and then selling advertising on them (usually using Google’s AdSense program).

Ad Syndicators such as Google’s AdSense program allow you to start making money from advertisers in as little as 15 minutes after they approve you! It’s extremely easy and a lot of people are making a fulltime income by working part-time on their blogs or advertising sites.

Even though Google doesn’t disclose exactly how much you will be paid for each click that the ads on your site generate, you can get a general idea of which topics advertisers are paying the most for by using the free “pay per click bid tools” that Yahoo & Google offer.

That completes the areas to make money on the Internet that we are going to cover for now but before we move on I must mention the important piece of the puzzle that many people overlook in their rush to get started.

If you really want to develop a business that continues to pay you many times over for work you did once, you must give people an outstanding value for their money. Do not try to save a bad product with good marketing. A bad product can’t be saved by good marketing. If you don’t believe in what you are selling, don’t sell it.

I’ve seen a lot of beginners focus on getting a quick sale without focusing much on the quality of the product or service they are promoting. In some cases you might win a single sale but you lose a lifetime customer. It’s much easier to sell to someone that has already bought from you before and found great value. Your efforts will be better rewarded focusing on something that you truly enjoy & believe in.

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Successful online businesses that continue to grow and evolve have a few things in common. You probably already know that the most effective ways to build a business is to find out what people want, why they want it and how you can provide it to them at a profit. The next level is to create a business that sustains itself and continues to grow.

The 4 Keys to Creating and Growing a Successful Business …….

These are the 4 key components that I have found to be the most important to ensure that your business is successful long term. This is my own personal criteria. It is not a written law. There are many successful businesses that don’t have all of these components but I have found that most businesses could improve by adding the pieces that they don’t already have.

Here are the 4 keys to creating and growing a successful online business:

1. Simple

2. Systematize

3. Scalable

4. Residual

Simple

A famous business guru once said that a good idea should be able to be explained on the back of a napkin. Make sure your product is simple to understand. This doesn’t mean that your product can’t perform a complex process. It just means that it should be easy to explain to customers, investors, the press, etc. It should also be very simple for the customer to purchase. The fewer clicks it takes to get to your purchase page or order form, the more you will sell sale the better.

Systematize

It’s been said many times that McDonald’s is successful because of their systems not their hamburgers. McDonalds are capable of being almost completely run by teenagers because they have created systems for every aspect of their business. Every process in your business should have a written system. A good system is one that someone with little or no experience can easily follow to perform the task at hand.

Scalable

You want to create a business that can grow or scale-up quickly. If you are the only person on the planet that knows how to make your special widget, then you can only sell your widgets as fast as you can produce them. If you have clearly defined your product or service so that it is simple to understand and you have created systems for your business, it will be much easier to scale-up as it grows.

Residual

The hardest sale to make is the first one. Every sale after that get’s easier and easier as you begin to develop a relationship with your customers. Most people work so hard on getting the initial sale and then they don’t do very little to cultivate a long term buying relationship with their customers. The easiest way to cultivate a term buying relationship with your customers is to add a residual income stream.

Some examples of residual income would be monthly fees for membership sites, coaching programs, software licensing, health club dues, warranty plans, etc. If your product or service doesn’t have one already have a residual income stream built in, what can you add to your product or service that will create a reoccurring stream of income for you? The best kind of residual program is one that automatically charges your customer’s credit card a fee every month. This reduces a lot of the labor intensive follow-up, billing and collections that are required if you have to “re-sell” them every month.

So, as a refresher, the following are the 4 keys to creating and growing a successful online business:

1. Simple

2. Systematize

3. Scalable

4. Residual

Keeping these 4 key points in mind as you create your product or service will have you make more money with less stress and less work.

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High quality sites that link to your website can give it more credibility, increase traffic and improve your search engine optimization efforts. So, how do you get sites to link to you?

Most people contact the sites they want to link with and ask them for a link. If the Webmaster ever gets back to them they will often decline. This is a slow laborious process at best. Although this manual method does work, there are much faster ways to quickly increase the number of sites linking to you.

None of the strategies I’m about to give you should be used to do anything that violates the search engine’s TOS or Terms of Service. An easy way to stay in the good graces of all of the search engines without having to memorize their mile long TOS is to create high quality sites that are relevant to the keywords you are targeting and don’t do anything deceptive. It’s really that simple.

So, the Goal is to get as many “quality” sites linking to you as possible. So, what makes a “quality” site? Google has a rating system called page rank or PR. It is a scale that measures the “quality” of a website between 0 and 10 with zero being that the worst and 10 being the best.

The exact method of how they do this is a trade secret but it is believed that they base the score off of the number of links to a particular site along with the quality of those sites linking to the particular website. So in other words, it’s better to have 100 sites with a 10 PR link to your site than 100 sites with a 1 PR.

So, that leads us to the million dollar question, what is better quantity or quality? The easy answer is both. You want to monitor the quality of links you are targeting but you don’t want to decline a link from someone just because they don’t have a PR 10.

The following are some of the fastest ways to build the number of inbound links to your site.

Articles

Webmasters are always hungry for fresh content for their websites and blogs. You can write articles that are related to your website or industry and post them on article directories. The article should contain a small bio about yourself with a link to your site. Webmasters then place your article on their sites and blogs on the condition that they leave your links in place. The best part is that most article directories are free.

Press Releases

There are online press release distribution services that will distribute your press release to thousands of online news outlets. All you have to do is create a press release that contains your important keywords along with links to your site and then submit it.

Once your press release is distributed, many of the sites who receive the release will appear as sites linking to your site.

Blogs

Be sure to include your link in your blog posts when relevant. Ask other bloggers to link to your site and reverence it. If you don’t have a blog you can get one. There are many free services.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) & Paid Links

An easy way to get links to your site is to pay for them. You can do this by purchasing a link for a set amount of time (day, week, month, etc.) or you can pay per click.

Link to Yourself

If you have multiple websites or domain names don’t forget to link the together. This is assuming that they are real sites and not just a bunch of UGS (Useless Gateway Sites) that you threw together.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs provide Webmasters with codes that they put on their website to track any sales that they refer. When a webmaster puts this code on their website it creates a link to the site they are promoting so as you are building your affiliate business you are also building your inbound links.

The above link building strategies are meant to give you a general overview. With a little well directed effort consistently applied, you will have an impressive number of sites linking to you in a very short time.

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There are many ways to make money online but most of those fall within three main routes for making money on the Internet. I have simplified these 3 routes from the perspective of someone looking to start or expand an online business in order to give you a general grasp of the information. As you progress you will find that some products & services will overlap into more than one category but don’t worry about that for now.

Many volumes could be written about each of these areas so I would recommend you invest some time to find out more. Right now, I just want you to get familiar with these to help you decide what type of business model you want to use as we move forward. The 3 methods for making money on the Internet include:

• Direct Sales

• Affiliate Sales

• Ad Sales

Direct Sales

This is the area that most people think of when they think of starting an Internet business. In this method you are selling the product directly to the customer and processing the payment through a payment processor of your choice such as Paypal, Clickbank or your own merchant account.

There are two main types of products you would sell through the Direct Sales, physical products and information products. Physical products can include books, shoes, perfume or anything that requires shipping. Information products on the other hand are usually downloaded or accessed online and require no shipping. Electronic products can include e-books, software downloads, Membership Websites, coaching, teleseminars, special reports, etc.

Affiliate Sales

An affiliate is the term used to describe someone who sells another company’s products and services on the Internet. There are thousands of companies that will pay you a commission or referral fee for any sales or leads that you generate.

Once you signup as an affiliate for a company, you will be provided with a special link to refer people to their Website. When someone follows this link and makes a purchase (or starts a free trial, etc.) the company will know that the sale was referred by you and they will pay you a commission. This is a completely automated process. Many people make a very lucrative living by marketing other people’s products and services as an Affiliate.

Ad Sales

You can either sell advertising space on your Website, Newsletter or Blog directly to the advertiser or you can signup with an Advertising Network like Google Adsense who gets the advertisers, sells the ad space and handles all of the advertiser’s questions & complaints and gives you a percentage of the advertising fees for everyone who clicks on the site every month.

Once you sign up with an Ad Network you will be provided with a small piece of code that you or your Web person adds to your site (it’s super simple and takes about 5 minutes). Once the snippet of code is added to your site it automatically puts text ads (like the ones you see next to the Google search results) on your site. These text ads match the theme of your site and are displayed in areas that you have chosen. The Ad Network also rotates the ads so that the ones that make you the most money are displayed most often. Google’s Adsense program is the leader in this field and many people are making an incredible amount of money with this.

Each of these three methods has its own positive features and potential drawbacks. Take a look at how all three could be applied to your business and you can turn your hobby or idea into an Internet business.

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Once you’ve spent a little time researching what people are searching for, you will unleash a flood of ideas you can use to develop a hit list of potential markets and product ideas. Today we are going to discuss my favorite way to turn your hobby or idea into an Internet business.

Today we are going to take a closer look at Direct Sales businesses on the internet. As a refresher, Direct Sales is the type of business that most people think of when they think of starting an Internet business. Direct sales is selling a product or service directly to the customer and processing the payment through a payment processor such as Paypal or your own merchant account. Affiliate sales could be lumped into direct sales in some instances but for simplicity we will cover that in depth later.

Once you master this type of sale, you can literally sell your products - or someone else’s product - 24 hours a day. If you have ever wanted to write a book, this can literally turn you into a best selling author overnight. If you don’t have a product or an idea for anything you want to create that is OK. You can sell other peoples products and get a big cut of the profits.

You don’t even need to create the product you are selling yourself. If you have an idea for a book or an audio product, you can post the project on sites like elance.com to get bids from providers around the world who can write, produce and market your product relatively inexpensively.

Here are some examples of successful direct marketing products and services:

E-Books

An E-Book is simply an electronic version of a book that people can download instantly. It really is the perfect product. People can buy them 24 hours a day and you never have to ship anything!

A lot of people find e-books to be good promotional tools and offer their e-books for free. The e-book usually provides some good information along with the product or service that the creator is promoting. E-books are a great place to start for many people.

There are many ways to CREATE an e-book. Notice that I didn’t say WRITE an e-book. Writing an e-book yourself is probably the longest way to create an e-book. Here are the 3 main ways to create an e-book:

Public domain – You can reformat books and material whose copyright has expired.

Outsource – There are dozens of sites that allow you to post your project and have providers from around the world bid on your project. This resource can save you thousands!

Transcription - You can interview an expert or record yourself speaking and then have it transcribed & edited into an e-book. You can also have this all done through one of the freelance websites.

Membership sites

A membership site is a site that allows people to access information in exchange for a monthly membership fee. Usually the member’s credit card is automatically charged a flat up-front fee or a reoccurring monthly fee until they cancel. This is the model used by many dating sites, DVD rental sites and it is the same model Jiggerbug.com uses to rent audio books and courses.

You no longer need to have extensive & expensive development done by a high-priced Webmaster. There are many turn-key solutions that can get your membership site up and running in a matter of days. All you have to do is add content.

To have a successful subscription site you must have extremely compelling and unique content that isn’t easily available for free. In most instances, someone just starting out doesn’t have enough compelling content to start with this type of product but there are always exceptions to this rule.

Audio Products and Home Study Courses

The popularity of i-Pods and MP3 players combined with faster internet connections and ever increasing hectic schedules have helped make recorded audio content more popular than ever.

People are also busier than ever so if you have a solution that you can deliver to them while they are driving or doing something else your chances of success are greater. People will pay you for solutions to their problems or the methods to fulfill their desires in the form of an audio product. You can make your product available on CD, cassette and even instant download.

This doesn’t have to be a Hollywood production. You can simply record and sell interviews with experts in your field, record a speaking engagement or record sessions with a client or friend. If you would like more information about creating audio products, click here.

Teleseminars

Teleseminars are conference calls where many people are connected on the same line. Coaching, specialized training or interviews with industry leaders are just some of the things teleseminars are used for.

Some people offer free teleseminars in order to get a group of qualified people on the line to sell them a related product or service. You can get more information on setting up your own teleseminars here.

Coaching & Apprenticeship Programs

Sometimes people need additional coaching to help them implement what you are teaching or providing. This has opened the door to online coaching programs via e-mail, chat and live telephone coaching.

Coaching programs are relatively simple to start-up and can be a great profit center. Some business coaching services charge in excess of $14,000 per year.

The direct marketing channel is a fantastic area to start with. It gives you the opportunity to help people solve their problems, fulfill their desires and make a nice profit in the process!

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