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How To Avoid The 3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes

Moon Loh — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:56 +0000

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.

However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.

Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate

Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.

Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.

Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.

True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.

The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.

Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service

As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.

Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.

So Many Make Money Online Programs, Which One To Join?

Moon Loh — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:53:58 +0000

You are surrounding with many make money online programs everyday and you probably don’t know which one to join and all of them seems so real yet so scam!

I think I can really understand your feeling and your worry. Why? Because I also started from zero and learnt from scratch about Internet and Network Marketing. Recently I login to Clixsense which this is a program I joined since 2 years back when I was looking for make money online opportunity. Gosh! So many make money online programs there and I myself become skeptical when browsing those websites. Haaa…

If you are totally new in this make money online world, let me share with you some information that you should know. Some make money online websites invite you to join them because they are earning referral commission, which mean if you join them in the programs, they may earn affiliate commission. Give you a very real example, when you refer people to join Clixsense under you, you will earn more and faster than you yourself login everyday click and view the ads. So, what they do is, they create a “make money with Clixsense” website and invite you to join. Yes, you join free and so excited want to make money online with Clixsense. However, if you just login and click those ads everyday, you won’t get rich. This time, you may think that you get scam! The truth is, they are not scamming you, they are just doing marketing to earn affiliate commission. So, what you should do is to create a sales page to get lots of people join under your free Clixsense program. By this way, you then able to earn more and faster.

Another good example is Survey Online Programs. I joined those programs too and guess what, I didn’t get earning from there because I totally didn’t do any affiliate marketing. However, I have seen those who do affiliate marketing actively promote Survey Online Programs earn a lot of affiliate commission.

Normally affiliate commission is one time commission. Unless you choose to promote those programs that give you monthly recurring commission, otherwise you won’t earn residual income. You need to consistently put in effort to promote the products or programs to get the income you want.

Another good option to earn residual income is to do Network Marketing. Network Marketing normally refer to MLM (Multi Level Marketing). Oppss.. some people already start to feel uncomfortable when read the 3 letters – MLM.

Let’s take a pause and read what they say:

“I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.” – Donald Trump, Entrepreneur and Author

“Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki, Entrepreneur and Author

“The future of network marketing is unlimited. There’s no end in sight. It will to continue to grow, because better people are getting into it. They are raising the entire standard of MLM to the point where soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.” — Brian Tracy, Author and Motivational Speaker

That’s the reasons why today I’m in Network Marketing. Internet marketing is good, but the combination is great! When there are so many Make Money Online Programs out there and confuse you, why not take a look at the Vemma business I’m in.

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How To Become A Super Affiliate

Moon Loh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:58:31 +0000

Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money. Finding a niche market with products and services you trust and believe in is the first step to success. There are tremendous affiliate programs which offer you an abundance of tools and materials to promote and market their products. However, what you do with those tools and materials is entirely up to you. You can be just another affiliate or a super affiliate.

What Is A Super Affiliate?

Technically speaking a super affiliate is someone who generates a significant amount of profits for the products or services they represent. A super affiliate can make a healthy living from their affiliate business alone while a standard every day affiliate may need to supplement their affiliate income with, gasp…a 9-5 job!

Benefits To Being A Super Affiliate

The most significant benefit to being a super affiliate is the income. Many super affiliates make six figures simply promoting the products and services of others.

Additionally, if you’re one of the main contributors to a company’s affiliate program they’re going to pay attention to you and your needs. You may receive a higher percentage of sales you may receive first shot with new marketing materials and programs and you’ll get the support you need when you need it.

Here Are A Few Steps To Become A Super Affiliate:

Step One – Commit to publishing content every single day. Content has proven time and again to be the best sales tool available to affiliate marketers. Nothing, not even strategically placed ad copy works as well as providing quality content that pre-sells any product that you’re promoting on your website.

Possible content includes:

* Autoresponders.
* E-newsletters.
* Blogs posts
* Social networking via forums, social networking sites, and chat rooms
* Articles
* Press releases

Step Two – Track and test. Make sure you know where your prospects are coming from, what motivates them to click through and what information they read and respond to – then give them what they need. Tracking and testing is the only way to hone your affiliate program into a smooth running, money making machine.

Step Three – Use the provided marketing materials and be willing to take it a step further. Many affiliate programs do a great job of providing their affiliate with ready to marketing materials including:

1. Banner ads
2. Buttons
3. Email copy
4. Articles
5. Free promotional reports

Use the materials your affiliate manager has provided. It’s been tested and developed for results. That being said, be sure to create your own content too. Even as an affiliate you are your own company and your website needs to reflect your personality and brand. Building a community around your website and providing valuable content is a sure way to create a following that trusts you and your credibility – which will result in click throughs and affiliate sales.

Step Four – Pre-sell. The good news is that your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell products and services. Pre-selling means your content, whether it is a review, article, tutorial, course, or blog post, speaks honestly about the products and services you promote. Pre-selling is about providing value to your website visitors and prospects, making them comfortable with you and your authority to generate interest and a click through to the company website, where the selling happens.

Step Five – Follow up. Just like your affiliate manager follows up with you to see how you’re doing and what you need, follow up with your prospects. A great way to do this unobtrusively is to create a lead list by providing a newsletter visitors can subscribe, a free report, or any number of products in exchange for an email address and the permission to contact them with valuable information and special promotions.

Being a Super Affiliate is the only way to go if you want to build a successful affiliate marketing business. Find products and services you trust and believe in and then create a strategy to share information to your target audience. Test and track your efforts, focus on providing value to your prospects and leave the selling to the companies you represent. Helping others live better lives, without having to provide the products or services personally, is a great way to make a living.

Make Your URL shorter with TinyURL

Moon Loh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:13:17 +0000

If you have a very long URL and it’s really inconvenient for your posting in emails or status post, you could always choose to shorten the URL by using TinyURL.

TinyURL is a good option to turn your long URL to a shorter URL and it will not break in email postings and never expires.

For example,

The following URL:

http://moonloh.com/work-at-home-programs/

has a length of 41 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/5zgf98

TinyURL helps you to hide your affiliate URLs too. Many affiliate link has the ID or username behind the URL such as http://affiliatesite.com/refferal=123456

When people see this kind of URL they will immediately know that this is an affiliate link site and this will decrease your conversion rate.

Get your TinyURL here:

TinyURL is a totally free service to keep your URL short and it’s a great tool for your affiliate links to look “better” and hence increase your conversion rate.

Will the AIG Crisis affect Singapore?

Moon Loh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:56:37 +0000

The hottest news in town for these two days must be the AIG Crisis. The AIG subsidiary, American International Assurance (AIA) has also been affected. About 100 nervous customers on Tuesday waited outside AIA offices in Singapore to check the status of their policies. Even Monetary Authority of Singapore said in a statement that AIA has sufficient assets to meet all its liabilities to policyholders but some still wish to cancel their policies.
According to report, AIG Singapore founded in 1931 has more than 2 million policies in force. The possibility of AIG bankruptcy has brought to the fear of all the people in town and all of us are monitoring the situation closely.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and the AIG Crisis has created new uncertainties for Singapore’s economy. Singapore ecomonic growth forecast also has been revised from 5-6 percent to 4-5 percent this year.
I strongly feel the impact on the U.S. financial turmoil towards the whole environment. I am also worrying whether my insurance policies with AIA life insurance unit, were safe. Life becomes harder and I think you can feel it in some ways too. If you were to ask me what can I do for this moment, I would tell you I won’t sit there doing nothing but will work harder to make more money online to secure my future.

Affiliate Marketing – A Huge Business On The Internet

Moon Loh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:26:24 +0000

Affiliate program is one of the internet marketing that you can generate full time income working at home. The best thing about affiliate program is that You Are Guaranteed to Make Money because you only pay for sales generated.

There are three types of affiliate programs: -

Pay per click
You get paid when someone clicks through a link.
A very good example is Google Adsense. When the visitors click on the ads placed at your website, they will pay you accordingly.

Pay per lead
You get paid when your visitors sign up at your merchant site. The sign up could be in the forms of newsletter, request for a quote, download a trial version etc. Normally the sign up are free for your visitor.

Pay per sale
You get a portion of profits on everything that is sold and this is by far the most popular type of affiliate program. There are many free sites that you can sign up and choose your own affiliate products. The most popular are:

Affiliate program is just a business with low risk but high margin, you just need to start up by set up your own website and make money online today!

Why I think PayDotCom is the Best Affiliate Marketplace on the Net!

Moon Loh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:13:54 +0000

If you are familiar with Clickbank.com, or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP …

While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace… they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions…

Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE now…

It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

Yours OWN product…

- OR – (the best part)
You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace.

It is called PayDotCom.com!

Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!

This site is going to KILL all other marketplaces and I by now, almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com

So get yours now and see how much they offer…

OH! – Also, they have their won affiliate program now that pays you COLD HARD cash just for sharing the site with people like I am doing with you…

They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS, and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.

If you want an ARMY of affiliates to sell your products for you, they also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!

Even better… If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)…

…then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and get Millions of impressions per month.

So, what are you waiting for…

PayDotCom.com ROCKS!

Get your FREE account now…

P.S. – Make sure to get your Account NOW while it is Free to join.

How to deal with PPC Advertising

Moon Loh — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:24:51 +0000

Pay per click advertising is definitely not a new word for those who involved themselves in internet marketing. This advertising method is just so common like companies advertise in newspapers, magazine, television and radio to get sales for their companies. Many pay per click providers exist in the market, however the largest network operators are Google Adwords and Yahoo!Search Marketing.

Advertisers who interested in Google Adwords pay per click advertising are advisable to sharpen their Adwords knowledge at the learning center. Google adwords learning center provides lesson so that advertisers have better idea and knowledge when posting an advertisement.

Keyword targeting is a tricky one. Good keywords lead to good quality score and hence reduce the bid cost. But how google adwords determine the quality score? They will actually base on the click through rate, the relevance of keywords, ad text and landing page and other additional factors to determine it. However, the quality score might change from time to time. Hence, monitoring accounts and continuously improve the quality score is needed.

Many people do not understand the system of google adwords. They simply ignore the importance of keyword targeting and finally they lost money doing pay per click advertising in google adwords.

There are some programs that help in keyword targeting. For example, keyword elite and affiliate elite are good paid programs in helping the building of keywords list. Free keywords programs could also be found easily.

It is definitely worth to spend time and effort in keyword targeting as pay per click advertising bring immediate effect and hence lead to immediate sales generating.

Drive Traffic to Website

Moon Loh — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:11:16 +0000

Many people fail in affiliate programs because they simply do not have traffic to their websites. Try to think if you are to purchase or rent a shop to run a business, what is the most important factor that you might take into consideration? Yes, LOCATION. Location is so important to be the first factor to consider because good location means more people to come into your shop. More people to visit your shop lead to more sales. The chance of generate more sales all depends on TRAFFIC.

Today, if you have the best product and the best website but you do not expose it to your prospects, the chance of your sales is very low or even zero.

Social Bookmarking is a good way for our website exposure. We can submit our own website or favourite websites to social bookmarking websites for easy viewing and sharing. Nowadays we can easily find 200 social bookmarking websites. Examples of social bookmarking websites are delicious, digg, propeller, technorati etc.

Since these sites are very popular destinations, if we social bookmark our website periodically, we have high chances to get high traffic. Bookmark links are also provided for our websites or blogs make it easy for the visitors to save and share the content.

Social bookmarking is powerful, however many people still do not have idea or do not know how to do it. Videos about social bookmarking could be get from youtube and it just takes few minutes of your time. Watch it and do it. You will see the results by your own eyes.

Key of Success in Internet Marketing

Moon Loh — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:01:00 +0000

When people talk about affiliate marketing, blogging and various types of business model for making money online, the question people ask most is “how do I make money online?”

There are many ways, techniques or strategies we might get from our own researches and from those “guru”. However, there is a most important thing people might easily forget about is MINDSET!

Mindset is the most important things a person need to have before he/she wants to start an online business. From the day one, a right mindset might determine the success or failure the person is for online business.

The right mindset would also needed from the beginning till no end.

What is the right mindset?
First, we must treat the online business as a real business. Many people do not treat online business as a real business but have a “try try” mindset. “I TRY whether I can make money online like those people” “I TRY whether I can success or not”. This is a wrong mindset because this is not a WINNING MINDSET!

Winning mindset is a mindset that “I MUST success!” “I CAN success!” and follow by asking “how to make it?”

Winning mindset is not one day work, but as mentioned earlier, it is from the beginning till no end.

Secondly, we must believe that multiple source of income is always better than just one. Double up the income by selling or promoting various types of products and services.

Many people do not success in internet marketing simple because right after they joined an affiliate or after they started a blog, they just put it there and “hope” to sit back and receive money. This is too sorry to tell that they will never success because education is needed. We could never stop reading and learning in internet marketing. Everyday we have to learn new things and this is the learning curve in order to have achievement. Education is definitely one of the most important mindset we should have.

Lastly, always remember “Right Mindset is the key of success in internet marketing”.