I also was overtaken by the guru high pressure sales pitches also. The answer is not the software; it’s the discovery of buyers’ wishes and services then filling the gap. Affiliate marketing is about getting the products to the people that have a need. It’s time to come to reality and get with the basics in order to excel in affiliate marketing. Then use one of the multitudes of keyword tools like the Google Keyword Tool, to research the words people use in search engines. Finally apply those keywords to your method or methods of marketing.

Your marketing method is often set by your cash flow available. Chat rooms, articles and blogs are effective but take more work to start making sales. Pay per Click, Adsense and paying for solos convert quickly but can be expensive and some have to work up to it. The truth is that there are numerous ways to make money out there. However, good money will be loss if you keep falling for every software product offered. Success will not come by reading or falling for all the free eBook available. Latch onto recently successful as well as experienced marketer that has walked the path to success in internet marketing.

By John Colanzi

We love the stories of the average person who hops on the net and makes $100,000 their first year.

The problem is these stories and these individuals are the exception, not the rule.

They end up reinforcing the “get rich quick” easy money mentality. A newbie starts marketing and after a week or two starts questioning why he isn’t making a ”boatload” of money yet.

He’s frustrated because he’s made the exceptional, rare case his yardstick, instead of learning the truth about how much time and planning goes into building a business.

He hasn’t made a long term commitment to his future.

It’s time to start setting goals based on reality.

So what is the truth?

It takes the $100,000 a year earner around two to three
years to reach their income levels.

It took most of them six months or more to reach the goal of m.aking $1,000 a month.

What do those statistics tell you?

Most of the highest earners had committed to a two to three year game plan.

They were willing to hang tight for six months or more before they reached their first $1,000 a month in profits.

Are you prepared to do the same, or are you still expecting to make $15,000 in your first 15 days?

If you’re not willing to make that type of commitment, you’re better off going to the track or the casino.

If you’re not ready, willing and able to make a long term commitment to your future, save yourself the frustration of setting yourself up to fail.

Ignoring the facts and burying your head in the sand, will keep you hopping from program to program. You’ll never give any program the time necessary to show a real profit.

It’s in your hands. You can make a long term commitment to building your future, or you can stay frustrated and eventually stop trying.

The choice is yours.

Commit or perish.

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An effective way to increase your profits and sales is to bundle many products or services together into one package. This gives people more reasons to buy your products and services. People also have come to believe package deals are a better value.You wants althea products or services to be closely related. For example: if you’re selling a computer you could add in software, hardware, computer furniture, etc.

There are many ways to go about choosing the right products or services to bundle into one package. You could survey your customers and see what products or services they would like you to offer in the future. Spy on your competition and see what products and services they’re offering or not offering. If you would like to, bundle unrelated products or services together, ask your customers which ones would be of interest to them.

Bundling can also increase your target markets which in return would give you a larger audience to sell your products and services. For example: if you’re selling a baseball magazine you could add a free baseball when someone buys a subscription. You’re now targeting people who want the baseball magazine and those that want to play baseball out in the yard. Some people buy a package deal just to get one of the products.
There are many sources where you can find products and services to create a package deal. You can buy them from wholesalers or drop shippers. You can buy the reproduction/resell rights to other people’s products. Team-up with your competition to create a package deal. You could joint venture or cross promotion deal with other businesses. You could also create your own products and services. Be creative!

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You’ve been working at the bank now for several years, but you’re tired of the nine to five lifestyle. So, you’ve decided to start your very own online business. You’ll be working at home, and you’ll have more time for the kids. You know what you’re going to be doing, and you know how to do it but you want to ensure that your business is going to be successful. To make sure you can take your business to the top, you need to remember three things.

First of all, you have to get traffic to your website. If no one sees your website, no one will know about your product. Getting people to your website is one of the most important aspects of an online business. You can get people to your website a few ways. You can advertise with commercials and flyers, making sure to mention your website several times so that people know the address. You can also try article marketing. Article marketing is writing articles related to your business, putting them on different sites, and including links to your website throughout the article. If someone types a product like yours into a search engine, they will come across articles about that product and it just might be one of your articles, filled with your links.

Secondly, make sure your website is in tip-top shape. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to have a nice design. Ask around amongst people you know and see if anyone can help you build it for a small fee. If you can’t find someone, do it yourself. Building a website is easier these days because websites like WordPress provide templates and other tools for you to use.

The thing you need the most comes from inside. You need to want your business to succeed. You need to eat, sleep, and breathe this business if you’re just starting out from the ground up. It’s going to take a lot of work at first because you won’t start out with a customer base. Once you get a customer base, your business will start taking off. Until then, you have to understand that sometimes things don’t work out. Don’t get discouraged if a business plan that you had doesn’t work, just keep trying. Eventually, with a lot of work, your business will get going. You just have to want it to succeed.

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Ieishah Edwards, a network marketing coach and online expert author, teaches Techniques In Creating A Profitable Home Based Business by providing simple “Show Me How to Do It” details to help you find solutions to supplement your current income. Want to sponsor more people into your business using simple techniques that also cultivates leadership development? Use these Online Marketing Training Secrets and Strategies.

Many people don’t have the time or skills to write and create ebooks to give away to their web site visitors. Giving away ebooks from your web site can easily increase traffic and sales. Why notcreate promotional ebooks for other people to use so they can promote their web site.

First, you will need to write and create your own ebook to give away to your visitors. If you don’t want to write one, you could ask permission to use another writers’ articles or material. Be sure to include your text or banner at the beginning of the ebook.

Once your ebook is uploaded to your web site you can allow people to download it and give it away to their web site visitors. Your ad will continue to be spread all over the internet.

You can take this strategy one step further to make it even more powerful. Allow people to sign-up to get a version of the ebook with their own text or banner ad included in it. With their own ad included in the ebook, they’ll work harder to promote it. That means your ad will be seen by even more people. It’s now a win/win situation for you and your visitors!

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It’s important to follow-up with potential online customers. Following up with them can increase your traffic and sales. The more times people see your ad, the greater chance they will buy your product or service.

Before you can follow-up with them you need their e-mail address. You can get their e-mail address by having them subscribe to your e-zine, fill out a web site form, or e-mail your follow-up auto-responder.

Most people won’t give you their e-mail address unless they get something in return. The most effective way is to offer them an internet freebie. Here are some ideas.

Free E-Gifts

It could be free software, guest books, web space, graphics message boards, etc.

Free Internet Services

It could be free e-consulting, search engine submissions, web design, etc.

Free E-Information

It could be a free e-book, e-report, web book, e-course, e-zine, etc.

When you follow-up with the freebie, you can include yourad somewhere on the freebie. If it’s a free service, have your ad in the follow-up e-mail. Make sure you always get their permission before you follow-up with them by e-mail.

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1. Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic. Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by linking to it. Put your business advertisement at the top of the director’s home page. This technique will get lots of people to link to your web site and give you free advertising.

2. Do you have a product or service that doesn’t sell well? Offer it as a free bonus for someone else’s product or service. Get free advertising by placing your web site or business ad on the product or in the product package.

3. Trade auto-responder ads with other businesses. If both of you send out information with auto-responders just exchange a small classified ad to put at the bottom or top of each other’s auto-responder message.

4. Start a free tip line. Offer a free daily, weekly, or monthly tip recorded on your voice mail. The tips should be related to your business. Include your ad for your web site or business at the beginning or end of your message.

5. Exchange content with other web sites and e-zines. You could trade articles, top ten lists, etc. Both parties could include a resource box at the end of the content.

6. Offer to insert ads into your product package for other businesses. Just ask, in return that they do the same for your business. You should only trade insert ads with businesses that have the same target audience.

7. Offer a free daily class in your web site’s chat room. The class should be related to the subject of your business or web site. This will get people to visit your web site everyday.

8. Do you have a product that doesn’t sell well? Offer it as a free bonus for another businesses product or service. You’ll get free advertising by placing yourweb site or business ad on the free bonus.

9. Place different emotional response ads for the same product or service all over your web site. One ad may hit their hot button to buy more than another ad.

10. Publish your e-zine in e-book format. You could offer a larger number of articles per issue. It also allows you to include graphics with your e-zine. Your advertising revenue would increase because you could charge businesses for large color ads.

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I’m sure you’ve seen those ads that grab your attention and have
you ready to pull out your wallet or credit card. They are making
you an offer you can’t refuse.

Don’t you wish your ads were that persuasive?

Are the marketers who wrote these ads natural born writers, or is
there a formula that you can learn?

Writing to persuade is a skill that can be learned, like any other
skill. It’s just a matter of breaking down the process into four
simple steps.

Step # 1.

The first step in writing your killer sales letter is to identify
your target market.

This seems simple enough, but how many marketers do it?

When reading some of the ads I get in my inbox, I have to wonder.

I don’t want to burst your bubble, but the truth is, not everyone on
the planet is a prospect. Concentrate on those who are.

Before you begin your ad campaign identify your target audience.

Step # 2.

Once you’ve identified your target market, determine what their
major problems are.

* Do they need more money?

* Do they need to save time?

* Are they interested in improving their health?

Sit down and determine every problem that your prospects have and
decide how your product or service can help solve their problems.

There are no shortage of problems, but there is a shortage of
problem solvers. Start becoming a problem solver and you’ll always
be in demand.

OK, you’ve identified your market, you’ve determined what problems
they have, now you’re ready for the next step.

Step # 3.

The third step in writing your killer copy is to let your prospects
know that there is a solution to their problem. Not only is there a
solution to their problem, but you have the solution.

Remember these three magic words, “I can help.”

Identifying the problem is not enough. You have to show the reader
that there is a solution and you have it.

Tell them every benefit they will get when they order your product,
or take advantage of your service.

Let them know you can help them

* Make more money

* Save time

* Improve their health.

Step # 4.

The final step in creating killer ad copy is getting the prospect to
take action.

Identifying your market, determining their problems and letting them
know you have the solution, is not enough.

You have to make them act.

You have to create a sense of urgency.

There are many ways you can do this.

You can offer a special discount for fast action.

You can offer special fast action bonuses.

Ask for the order.

Let them know they don’t have to put up with their problems another
day.

You can solve them right now.

These four steps are a basic outline to get you started.

Start studying the sales letters you read and break them down into
the four basic steps.

Determine how effective the writer was in covering the bases.

Make notes on how you could improve on the sales letter.

Learning to write persuasive copy is a life – long venture.

When you’re writing your next sales letter, remember the four step
formula.

1. Identify your market

2. Identify their problem

3. Let them know how you can solve their problem

4. Ask for the order

Wishing You Success,
John Colanzi

Copyright (c) John Colanzi.

Many marketers have compared the art of marketing to the art of
war. Some of the names used by marketers for their systems bears
this out.

Don’t think so?

What do these programs bring to mind?

* Guerilla Marketing
* The Warriors
* Stealth Marketing

Looking at those names you know these guys mean business. So what
separates these successful marketers from the 95% who fail?

They’re not smarter than the average marketer, but they do market
slightly different.

The vast majority of marketers are going to battle with a shot gun.
They have no clear cut target. They are closing their eyes, pulling
the trigger and hoping they hit something.

They may occasionally hit something, but sooner or latter they’re
going to run out of ammunition. Unless they are extremely lucky,
their advertising budget will be spent with little or no sales to
show for their efforts.

The top marketers on the other hand, think like a sniper. They know
that they may only get one chance to close the sale. They take
careful aim and make every shot count.

They know their target.

So what do these snipers do?

The most important element in their arsenal is their targeted list.
They are masters of building and working their list.

By targeting their market they place the odds in their favor.

By making every shot count they have enough reserve funds to turn
around a losing offer and make it into a winner.

If you truly want to succeed, learn the difference between a
suspect, a prospect and a customer.

Put away that shot gun and make every shot count.

Start targeting your advertising campaigns and remember, “One shot,
one kill!”

Do that and you’ll avoid being the next casualty.

Wishing You Success,
John Colanzi

Copyright (c) John Colanzi.

Imagine if you never had to sell again and opportunities just
fell into your lap.

Does this sound impossible?

Does it sound like a daydream?

Well it’s not.

Not if you’re a problem solver.

Whether you offer products or services, there’s one thing we all
have in common.

We’re all in the problem solving business.

Think about it.

Once the word spreads that you’re a problem solver, prospects will
beat a path to your door.

Why?

Everyone on this earth has problems.

Once you’ve developed a reputation for problem solving, you’ll never
be idle.

There are more people with problems than you could help in ten
lifetimes.

What’s the quickest way to develop a reputation as a problem solver?

Writing articles.

Once I started writing articles, everything changed.

I went from an unknown, unprofitable marketer, to an expert problem
solver.

Guess what?

You can too.

Once you’ve launched your article virus, you won’t have to look for
opportunity, it will come to you.

Join me in the problem solving business and you’ll never look back.

Wishing You Success,
John Colanzi

Copyright (c) John Colanzi.