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Ebay Cash Flow Site for Hard to Monetize Niches

March 9th, 2008Affiliate Marketing, eBay No Comments

There are some niche markets where a lot of money is spent that are not really easy to monetize. Collectibles are an example of this. They are physical products that few people have but that many people want.

So how are you gonna monetize a niche like collectibles? Well, a lot of them are sold at eBay. And eBay has an affiliate program that is wide open at Commission Junction. So why not make a niche site with affiliate links pointing in to eBay?

The eBay Cash Flow Site is designed to do just that. Of course there are other ways to monetize your site. And you could fiddle around with eBay links and do it manually. But then you’d have to update your links all the time.

Ebay pays a slew of money out to its affiliates. Why not get a piece of that bigger and bigger pie? The Ebay Cash Flow Site makes sure your links point to current items, so that you have the best chance to monetize your “hard to monetize” niche.

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Does Your Affiliate Marketing Suck?

February 12th, 2008Affiliate Marketing No Comments

Affiliate Marketing as a way to online business success is a precarious model. Why do I say that? Because the cost of entry is so low and because to really succeed you need to do the things that advanced marketers do to get traffic and sales.

Most newbie affiliate marketers give up all to soon because they’ve made no real money, blame the merchant for their failure, and then move on to the “next big thing.” When they fail with that, the cycle is repeated, often times over and over until they totally give up. And that’s why affiliate marketing can suck.

There is a better way. To do well as an affiliate you need targeted traffic. Then you need to build an email list with the traffic. Repeat, you need to capture names and email addresses for further follow up. And let’s not forget, you need a converting offer. If it doesn’t convert, you won’t get paid.

So to make your affiliate marketing NOT SUCK:

Find a converting affiliate offer in a profitable niche.
Drive traffic to an optin page which captures their information.
After they sign up (or not) redirect them to your affiliate offer.
Use the email list to contact them over and over about the original offer AND other related offers

After a while you have a targeted list, you’ve made some money promoting the original offer and other related offers, and things don’t SUCK. Now you can really take this process to the next step: your own product to sell to the niche you have selected.

If you’re failing at affiliate marketing, ask yourself if your affiliate marketing process sucks. I’ll bet the answer is yes. Above you’ll find a simple outline of how to make it work. Follow it for a while and your affiliate marketing will start working.

More on this in future posts and perhaps a report to guide you through the process of un-sucking your affiliate marketing as well.

Turning Affiliate Marketing Around

July 25th, 2007Affiliate Marketing, Recommendations, Strategy No Comments

Almost anyone who is selling anything on the web should be doing affiliate marketing of some kind or other. If you’re an affiliate, turn it around. Get a product, recruit some affiliates, and pay them to sell more product for you.

What’s stopping you? Getting set up to recruit some affiliates is one thing, I bet. Here’s a simple solution: Kavi’s eBizABC.

Not only will you have an affiliate solution, but an ad tracker, unlimited autoresponders, membership site management, and more. All integrated into an easy to use online software solution.

If you’re a vendor who hasn’t tried recruiting some affiliate partners to sell for you, why not recruit some? If it’s the problem of not knowing how to install and run a software solution, then you can join an affiliate network like Commission Junction or ClickBank. Or, better yet, run your own affiliate program.

EBizABC lets you sell downloadable OR physical products. It doesn’t matter. So turn the affiliate marketing equation around, and become an affiliate vendor with your own crew of money crazed affiliates selling for you, and reap the rewards of being an affiliate vendor with a turnkey, integrated affiliate marketing solution like ebizABC.

Are you building a business or money chasing?

July 10th, 2007Affiliate Marketing, Strategy No Comments

There’s so much noise in the Internet Marketing world, sometimes it’s hard to figure out which way to go, what you really need to succeed, and how those that do succeed actually do it.

But it’s no big secret. The successful are building a long term business. If you’re still chasing opportunities rather than building a business, I offer this simple plan, which is based on a formula.

CO+L+T = D

I call it the COLT formula.

It stands for:

Converting Offer + List + Traffic = Dollars

These appear in the formula in reverse order of the difficulty of each item.

Traffic is the hardest to get.

Can a dog help you with this?

See the Barking Videos to find out.

How about a list? Everyone says you need one. Do you have one? Leads? Prospects? Customers?

List basics:

List mechanism like Aweber.
Subscribe incentive (bribe to subscribe.)
Sign them up (get their info and the click)
Stay in touch (forever.)
Move leads to prospects (or not) to customers (or not.)

And then there’s the converting offer:

If you already have one, what are you waiting for? If you don’t, does it sound difficult? Well it’s not really. It is difficult to come up with your own - maybe. Especially when you’re new to the game…but I have something for you (you knew I would…) that will fix that.

ClickDen is full of converting offers. And you can sell them as an affiliate.

Click on the graphics on each summary there to see each individual CONVERTING offer. There are plenty more to come, eventually there will be forty to fifty converting offers for you there. That should be enough, don’t you think? Sign up as an affiliate and promote. You’ll make money. There’s probably something at ClickDen you can use yourself.

Now you’ve got no excuse. Lay some foundations for your long term online success. Start building a business.