Friday, May 15, 2009

Affiliate Marketing - Choosing Pay-per-Lead Over Pay-per-Sale Programs

Pay-per-sale programs are so attractive to affiliate marketers because they involve higher commission rates. What they don't realize is that they can actually make so much more from pay-per-lead programs. In this type of program, affiliate marketers simply need to gather information from visitors in order to gain commissions. Even though commission rates are lower, you can potentially gain much more because generating leads is definitely much easier than generating sales. Keep in mind that it is easier for more of your visitors to fill up a registration form than to actually make a purchase on your mechant site. This is especially true if you attract them to sign up for something worthwhile such as a newsletter or a free gift.

When you promote high-ticket items for a pay-per-sale affiliate marketing program, you can reach the typical conversion rate of 0.5%. If the program pays $50 for every sale, you can earn $50 for every 200 visitors to your site. While this may seem like enough money for you, you should consider how much more you can make from pay-per-lead programs that have typical conversion rates of 20% to 40%. Even if the program paid just $2 per lead that you generate, you can earn anywhere from $80 to $160 for every 200 visitors at these conversion rates. Just imagine how much you can earn if the program's commission per lead is higher.

That is the reason why so many affiliate marketers succeed with pay-per-lead programs. Because conversion rates are higher, all they need to worry about is attracting targeted traffic to their affiliate site. Among the most popular ways to do this is through the development of a content-rich website or blog that directs traffic to your affiliate link. You can also benefit from Google Adwords. Through a successful Google Adwords campaign, you have the potential to earn so much more with pay-per-lead affiliate marketing programs.


Make Money With Adsense
Posted by Alan Liew 9:58 AM 8 comments Guest post by Justin Vanhove

If you want to build residual income on the internet you should look into Google AdSense. The opportunities out there to make money with AdSense offer beginners the best change of building a passive stream of income from the internet. Perhaps the best part about learning to build residual income with AdSense is you can start off small by writing articles on website's that already have prominent search engine placement due to their high page rank, inbound links, and large number of pages.

The disadvantage to this is that all of these article websites that pay members are revenue sharing systems. You get to publish articles on their website that will achieve high search engine rankings because that website is an authority. Then after you get a good understanding of this business model you learn how to build your own website in which you do not have to share revenue.

This is basically article distribution. The only difference is you are writing articles for money instead of links to your website. Websites that you can write articles on and get paid for it are referred to commonly on the web as "paid to write" websites. These types of websites make it easy to build nice looking articles with little to no HTML skills. Then those pages will be indexed by search engines, especially Google and yahoo. They deliver free traffic to your articles and when someone clicks on the ads you get paid for it.

Eventually you can upgrade to building your own website. I did this myself. I started out on Hubpages where you can write articles that get lots of page views. Those articles have Google AdSense ads on them and earn money when search engines deliver free targeted visitors to click on those ads. This is how you make money with AdSense without your own website just to get the hang of it. It wont take long to realize that this business model is quite effective in building residual income and worth learning before you take the time to learn site building.

Once you learn how how to build a search engine friendly website you can use AdSense to create multiple streams of income. The type of AdSense you use on paid article sites is called "AdSense for content". It is for monetizing content pages hints the name. You can also place AdSense ads on RSS feeds, site search results, mobile webpages, and domains. When you have your own website built you will have all these options since you can easily create a site search engine using Google's tools, build a RSS Feed with Feedburner, convert your pages into mobile ones, and you will of course have tons of content pages to place AdSense ads.

Once you complete this you just let your website run on autopilot. You may want to add some things that will increase the amount of residual income that you make such as an autoresponder ecourse that you either charge money for or contains affiliate links that will earn you commissions on products if you do not have your own. Both options are good money makers. Another thing you can do to increase your amount of residual income is incorporate user generated content. You do this by buying software that you can use on your site that will allow site visitors to create their own pages within your site.

Soon your site will double in pages. There is one product that stands alone in this niche. It is called Content 2.0. It is a software product offered by SiteSell for $100 a year. It easily allows site visitors to create their own content pages that will get indexed by the search engines and return significant traffic to your site. The best part is you can make money with AdSense using this product. On each user generated content page small discrete AdSense link units appear. They earn you substantial money and do not appear to be spammy due the little amount of space they take up.

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Is It Time To Quit Your Job
Posted by Alan Liew 10:41 AM 5 comments Guest Post by Michelle Meine

One of the main reasons why an individual is unsuccessful in their job is the fact that they do not like their work. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing you are much less likely to put as much commitment, effort and enthusiasm into your work as you would if you liked your job. If you agree with any of the following questions, you may need to consider leaving your job and pursuing the world of online marketing and freelancing. It is relatively easy to earn money from internet, but if you don't love doing that, don't.

1. My job is boring, I just wait for the clock to reach 5pm so I can go home but the day seems to last forever.

When you work at home and start earning online, you don’t need to worry about practicing a 9-5 schedule. You pick the hours you work and when you work them. If you need a break, no one will stop you. You are in complete control.

2. I need more flexible working hours to accommodate my family schedules, but my job is too strict.

You decide how much or how little you work. If you need more money, work extra hours. If you need some time off, simply take it when you need it. Flexibility is a key benefit of working for your self.

3. I keep going from one job to another. None of them seem to satisfy me.

Perhaps regular jobs just aren’t for you? There’s nothing quite like being self employed, it’s both invigorating and provides the ultimate workplace freedom.

4. My salary is far too low, I deserve much more than what I’m being paid.

You set the wage you want to earn, set your rates per hour and work out your business plan. Then work to it as much or as little as you like. This means your earnings are almost limitless; all the money just goes directly to you.

5. My boss doesn’t know what he/she is doing; I wish I could be my own boss.

You can, start earning money online today and become your own boss.

6. I hate having to grab holiday’s a year in advance or fight with other co-workers over a day off. I wish I could just go on holiday whenever I needed or wanted to.

As your own boss you don’t need to ask permission to book a holiday. If you need time off, take it off. It’s up to you when you work.

7. I’m much happier when I’m working online on my computer; I wish I could use that to make money!

Making money online is easy and fun with a little time and effort on your part. If your favorite hobby is computers, you’ll have no problems at all making money.

8. My commuting time is ridiculous and costs me a fortune. I wish I didn’t have to travel to work.

You don’t need to go to an office to work online. All you need is a computer and internet access at home and you can eliminate traveling to work altogether. Just roll out of bed in the morning and there you are!

9. I simply can’t do full time work anymore, I need a part time job that’s flexible.

You don’t have to earn money online full time. You choose your hours and how many of them you do. It’s completely your choice.

10. I’m not happy in my job; I want to do something that really makes me enjoy my working day.

Earning money online can help you to achieve job fulfillment. If you put in enough time and effort overall, your online business can provide you with enough regular income to free up your time and allow you to concentrate on more important and more fun activities. Making money online is easy and fun, once you know how.


MyBlog2Day.com Contest - Win Cash and Money Making Products
Posted by Alan Liew 12:17 PM 1 comments My friend Lee just started a blog contest on his blog at Myblog2day.com. I thought you might be interested to join his contest. The contest winners will get cool prizes like cash prize, blog theme, domain name and web hosting package, solo ads and other prizes that are helpful for you to make money online.

Lee has invited me to participate in his contest as a sponsor and I accepted his invitation. If you are the lucky person who wins the grand prizes, I'll be one of the sponsors that will pay you $50 cash prize via PayPal.

Lee will run this contest for a month ended on 10th July. You can participate before the date. The requirements for joining the contest are simple. You just need to own a blog that already indexed by Google with at 10 blog posts published.

If you are interested to participate, visit Lee's blog at http://myblog2day.com for more details about joining and wining the contest.


Tips for Building a Website Suited for Affiliate Marketing
Posted by Alan Liew 10:47 AM 3 comments Even though many affiliate marketers have made money online without a website, you should realize that having one increases your potential to earn huge amounts of money. It will help you build a professional reputation as well as brand your affiliate marketing business. Apart from that, having a website will give you a venue for building a community of like-minded people that will form your customer base. Keep in mind that having a community within your website means encouraging repeat visits. Repeat visits will then translate to an increased potential to make money.

If you study affiliate marketing websites that have proven to be successful, you can get an idea of what elements, in terms of content, design, and user-participation, are crucial.

Content

To make your affiliate marketing website interesting and useful to your target market, you need to publish tons of unique and relevant content on a regular basis. What works best is publishing reviews for affiliate products. This would allow you to pre-sell them and entice your visitors to make a purchase. Other than product reviews, you can publish information on other things that are relevant to your offerings as well as to your target audience.

User-Participation

Apart from the content that you publish yourself, you need to provide space for your readers to publish their own content. You need to allow them to participate in your site so that they will keep visiting it and spend more time there. What you can do is create a forum and encourage your visitors to discuss issues that are relevant to your offerings. This way, you can get more of your visitors to build interest in your business and gain insights from what they have to say at the same time.

Design

A website suited for affiliate marketing is not only pleasing to the eyes and easy to use. To make your website successful in getting leads, you need to make sure that the most important information is easily visible to your visitors. Apart from that, you need to make your affiliate links accessible no matter where in your site a visitor is. Just be sure that you don't overdo it or you might just end up annoying your readers.

Keep these things in mind when developing a website suited for affiliate marketing and you can be sure to have a website that generates and converts leads.


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  1. Thanks for sharing this Informative Post!
    It is relevant for publishers looking forward to Monetize their websites/Blogs.Publisher should choose affiliate programs with high pay out.

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