If your affiliate marketing commissions aren't what you had hoped — don't despair. As a matter of fact, there are a few simple adjustments you can make that will make a huge difference in the amount of your affiliate paychecks.
These affiliate strategies may not seem like huge breakthroughs at first glance, however just making one or two of these adjustments could mean the difference in bringing you the sale or having your visitor hit the back button. [Read more →]
Submitting articles to article banks, directories and newsletters are powerful methods for generating traffic, creating backlinks and establishing your expertise, not to mention, the SEO benefits they create.
Best of all –articles are cheap. You can write them yourself which costs you nothing or you can have them written for you which can run as little as $10 - $25, depending on the article.
Here’s what I’m talking about… [Read more →]
One of the most important parts of building your website is doing your keyword research.
Choosing the right keywords and optimizing each one of your pages separately is the difference between paying for traffic and getting it free. But not any keywords will do. You need to carefully choose the best keywords and that includes examining the long tail keywords. [Read more →]
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When you are in business for yourself, specifically an online business, there are several things you need to know 
about when it comes to saving time and making money. There are tons of things you need to do to be profitable but one of the best things you can do for yourself and your business is related to outsourcing.
You'll find that most successful business owners feel they have to do everything themselves, it's that element of wanting to be in complete control …and I'm 100% guilty of that one 
. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing but you can do better.
Outsourcing doesn't mean you're losing control or giving up a smoothly running business, not at all. Many online business owners are finding huge value in outsourcing, there are several outsourcing advantages and you're going to want to read on to find out just what I'm referring to… [Read more →]
If you've started a blog and are still waiting for that flood of visitors, you won't be waiting long after listening to Yaro Starak. Yaro recently wrote this article that I couldn't resist posting because it gets right to the heart of what a beginning blogger needs to know to get more blog traffic.
Enjoy! [Read more →]
Making sales from your website is a fine balance of promoting the right products, competitive pricing, optimal web site design, aggressive advertising and attracting the right online visitors.
While all of the above are equally important in achieving lots of sales, none of them will work at all if you don't target the people that are most likely to buy your products or services. These people are known as your target or niche market. Focusing on these potential buyers is what will allow you to find the people that are ready, willing and able to buy what you have to offer.
Your niche market provides you the competitive edge over larger corporations because larger companies tend to market to a much broader range of people. Their promotions are more generalized and less focused. They don't really bother much with the smaller niche markets. This is where you come in. 
This now becomes your opportunity to capture those highly defined smaller markets that the big guys leave behind. [Read more →]
In case you haven't heard 'Stomping the search engines 2' has just recently been released. There's been a lot of buzz around about it and it's gotten quite a bit of attention and it's brought to you by the Stompernet folks Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins.
You might recall that Stompernet offered an e-biz training and coaching membership that charged $800/mo. of which I've been a JV partner for and I had no doubt in my mind that this was a service that offered extreme benefit to its members, after all if you know anything about Brad Fallon, he's extremely knowledgeable in Search engine optimization and he makes thousands a month from his sites, so suffice it to say he knows his stuff and his monthly service was, no doubt, full of powerful information.
But I had a problem with the $800/mo. price tag – who starting out online can really afford that? 
It just wasn't attainable for most online business owners.
Just recently, however, Stompernet hosted their live event 'Stompernet Live6' in Atlanta, I didn't attend but I did hear rumors that something big was about to happen. I did however keep my fingers crossed that Andy and Brad would come to their senses and bring their pricing to a more realistic level or at least come out with something that would be affordable for everyone. [Read more →]
Quality customer service is the lifeblood of any business. 
If you understand that it costs more to find a customer than it does to keep one then you will appreciate the importance of good, quality customer care.
Unfortunately, with the rapid rise of so many online businesses it has become apparent that the focus has turned to pleasing the search engines as opposed to pleasing the customer. Consequently, good online customer service has dropped.
I'm not disregarding the importance of good search engine optimization but what good is high search engine ranking if you can't provide your customer with the service and support they need? You may have found a visitor but did you gain a customer?
Your online business goals should be about offering quality information, speed, convenience and customer care. Lose any one of those elements and you will lose potential business. Your visitors want to find up-to-date information fast, they want to immediately understand what your site is offering them, they want fast solutions, easy navigation and they want good service. You must be able to respond quickly to questions, emails and put products in their hands fast.
Here are several customer service tips that will impress any customer and keep them coming back for more. [Read more →]
