Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
September 2010 Software Billions Club Update
We’ve been quietly spending the summer preparing for the launch of Chad Timothy’s newest opportunity “The $50K Instant Cashflow System” Offline edition.
As some of your know the online version was recently launched.
We expect to launch this new offline system soon and will provide more details at the end of September.
Chad Timothy's new $50K Instant Cashflow System will provide all of his members with access to the same exact sales materials that Chad Timothy has been using to generate a six-figure income and will include a carbon-copy website, training materials, video and more.
Affiliates earn a 50% commission on ALL SALES plus 50% monthly on recurring subscriptions from customers you refer.
This new program differs from the current “$50K Instant Cashflow System” because you don’t need a PayPal or PayDotCom account and everything can be tracked from right inside the Software Billions Club Members Area.
Stay Tuned for information on how to upgrade your membership to include Chad’s NEW $50K Instant Cashflow System for FREE, which also includes unlimited access to our brand new $50K Members Area!
New Winners Announced...
Congrats to our September 2010 winners:
This Month’s Featured Prizes
Win A $15 Starbucks Gift Card
The Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world! As a member you could be selected as our winner of a FREE $20.00 Gift Card to Starbucks! Enjoy a sensational Starbucks “summer cool down” courtesy of the Software Billions Club!
You Could Be Our Next FREE JEWELRY WINNER!
Each month the Software Billions Club will randomly select a member(s) and will send the winner(s) a genuine crystal earring and matching necklace jewelry set. We have crystal crosses, hearts with keys (key to my heart) and many more. You will automatically be entered to win this great prize by simply logging in to the Members Area at least once during the month.
Each and every day, all month long members can log into the Members Area and click on the “Contests and Giveaways” link to enter our monthly contests. Be sure to visit our Winners Circle at the end of each month to find out if you’ve won!
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We will be posting our newsletters here at the beginning of each month so be sure and check back.
To your Success,
Dustin Drorbaugh
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Powerful Facebook Marketing Blueprint For Generating More Leads on Facebook
…by Chad Timothy and the Software Billions Club.
Did you know According to Alexa, Facebook is the second most popular website next to Google. It’s True; Facebook currently has 300 million subscribers and is growing rapidly. 50 Million updates are made on Facebook every day and world wide users spend around 100 billion minutes per week.
Facebook is the newest advertising revolution. What does it mean to you as an online marketer? It can be a huge cash explosion waiting to happen.
I Chad Timothy will verify for you that strategic Facebook marketing is the new online revolution when it comes to Free advertising on the Internet.
However, how do you position yourself to stand out so you can promote your business on Facebook considering the Millions of updates being posted on Facebook every day? How do you capture the attention of the Facebook users? The purpose of this article is to make you aware of the basic Facebook marketing strategies and tools that you need to successfully generate leads and dominate your niche.
You need to always keep in mind Facebook is a social network and should not be used to pitch your business. Prosperity in your Facebook marketing is directly related to the number of true relationships developed with fellow users. So, Lets gets started.
Step 1. Create Your Facebook Profile
- A picture is definitely worth thousand words. At all costs, make sure to add a picture in your profile
- Be sure and fill in your past information such as your prior schools you attended and make it public so that people can find you through a quick search.
- Fill in your interests and hobbies and make them public so all subscribers can relate to you
- Include all your websites such as a Twitter, Blog, and your other social media pages or even capture pages on your profile. By default, only your primary website is displayed on your profile. I recommend you to display all your websites in your profile. Anyone visiting your profile page could click on your URLS and learn more about your business.
Step 2. Add Friends
After creating a profile, don’t wait for people to come to you. Find and add at least 35 new friends a day every day. Excessive adding of friends can result in your account being deleted or suspended.
Step 3. Interact with friends
Once you have added a couple dozen friends and see their content on your Facebook wall (or main page), start interacting with them by commenting on their updates. Commenting on updates may likely result in a viral effect. I see lots of new traffic to my Software Billions Club website due to this viral effect.
When you comment on an update, your comment will show up on the updater's wall and is clearly visible to all his friends. So, it pays to make intelligent comments so you can get more traffic back to your page.
Feel free to share posts, quotes, videos and any other content that had a positive impact on you. Your main goal should be to interact with Facebook friends as much as possible. The more you get your name out there in the Facebook world the better off you will be.
Step 4. Add Pictures To Your Facebook Photo Albums
Next it’s important to share your pictures and videos with all your new friends on Facebook. People would love to know more about you through pictures and videos. Absolutely any kind of pictures will work. If you are promoting a product or service you can upload pictures that represent your product.
Step 5. Add Facebook Videos (optional)
In the last couple years video marketing has been growing at a rapid pace and has proven it’s here to stay. Facebook allows you to either upload pre-made videos or you can shoot a video on the spot through your Facebook page.
I teach my students to use the video feature of Facebook in a couple of ways.
A. Introduce yourself to recently added friends. A short video describing who you are and telling them you look forward to learning from each other is all you need.
B. I also recommend that you use instant Facebook video to record birthday wishes and Holiday wishes to all friends.
Step 6. Create or Join Facebook Groups
Creating your own group positions you as a leader and shows the value you can provide to other networkers. Facebook users who join your group can be converted to prospects for your business by using effective attraction marketing strategies. It pays off to establish a group and provide value to the members of the group through emails, invitations to an event, commenting, etc.
Step 7. Create Facebook Wall Posts Frequently
Your Facebook wall is the main page you see when you login to your account. Most of your time will be spent in this area. This is where you can post messages on other people’s wall and moderates the comments made on your wall.
If you are an advanced Facebook user, I am sure you are already posting and promoting your content on your wall.
One powerful strategy is to post your content on walls of the members having a huge number of friends. This way, more people will see your message and potentially visit your page resulting in more traffic and sales.
Be sure to post content of links on your wall often. Post daily if you have the time. You can simply post links to online articles you recommend. You can post pretty much any content you wish. The key is to provide quality content so you satisfy your existing friends and you’ll gain new ones as well.
Step 8. Facebook Notes
Do you have a self hosted word press or blogspot blog? If no, I would highly recommend you to start blogging and provide valuable content. Finding content is easy nowadays since you can repost already existing articles.
Facebook notes is an awesome feature you can use to make your valuable blog content visible publicly to all members of Facebook. Also, there are applications that import your blog content into the notes in an automated way.
This feature would increase your blog traffic tremendously and ultimately your sales.
I hope you have enjoyed this article. I hope you put these powerful Facebook tactics to work for you and your business as well.
To more sales,
Chad Timothy
Software Billions Club, Founder
P.S. Be sure and become a Fan of Chad Timothy and the Software Billions Club on Facebook. You'll get all the latest updates and information from Chad Timothy. Click here to become a Fan today: Chad Timothy Fan Page
P.S.S. Follow Chad Timothy on Twitter
http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com
Did you know According to Alexa, Facebook is the second most popular website next to Google. It’s True; Facebook currently has 300 million subscribers and is growing rapidly. 50 Million updates are made on Facebook every day and world wide users spend around 100 billion minutes per week.
Facebook is the newest advertising revolution. What does it mean to you as an online marketer? It can be a huge cash explosion waiting to happen.
I Chad Timothy will verify for you that strategic Facebook marketing is the new online revolution when it comes to Free advertising on the Internet.
However, how do you position yourself to stand out so you can promote your business on Facebook considering the Millions of updates being posted on Facebook every day? How do you capture the attention of the Facebook users? The purpose of this article is to make you aware of the basic Facebook marketing strategies and tools that you need to successfully generate leads and dominate your niche.
You need to always keep in mind Facebook is a social network and should not be used to pitch your business. Prosperity in your Facebook marketing is directly related to the number of true relationships developed with fellow users. So, Lets gets started.
Step 1. Create Your Facebook Profile
- A picture is definitely worth thousand words. At all costs, make sure to add a picture in your profile
- Be sure and fill in your past information such as your prior schools you attended and make it public so that people can find you through a quick search.
- Fill in your interests and hobbies and make them public so all subscribers can relate to you
- Include all your websites such as a Twitter, Blog, and your other social media pages or even capture pages on your profile. By default, only your primary website is displayed on your profile. I recommend you to display all your websites in your profile. Anyone visiting your profile page could click on your URLS and learn more about your business.
Step 2. Add Friends
After creating a profile, don’t wait for people to come to you. Find and add at least 35 new friends a day every day. Excessive adding of friends can result in your account being deleted or suspended.
Step 3. Interact with friends
Once you have added a couple dozen friends and see their content on your Facebook wall (or main page), start interacting with them by commenting on their updates. Commenting on updates may likely result in a viral effect. I see lots of new traffic to my Software Billions Club website due to this viral effect.
When you comment on an update, your comment will show up on the updater's wall and is clearly visible to all his friends. So, it pays to make intelligent comments so you can get more traffic back to your page.
Feel free to share posts, quotes, videos and any other content that had a positive impact on you. Your main goal should be to interact with Facebook friends as much as possible. The more you get your name out there in the Facebook world the better off you will be.
Step 4. Add Pictures To Your Facebook Photo Albums
Next it’s important to share your pictures and videos with all your new friends on Facebook. People would love to know more about you through pictures and videos. Absolutely any kind of pictures will work. If you are promoting a product or service you can upload pictures that represent your product.
Step 5. Add Facebook Videos (optional)
In the last couple years video marketing has been growing at a rapid pace and has proven it’s here to stay. Facebook allows you to either upload pre-made videos or you can shoot a video on the spot through your Facebook page.
I teach my students to use the video feature of Facebook in a couple of ways.
A. Introduce yourself to recently added friends. A short video describing who you are and telling them you look forward to learning from each other is all you need.
B. I also recommend that you use instant Facebook video to record birthday wishes and Holiday wishes to all friends.
Step 6. Create or Join Facebook Groups
Creating your own group positions you as a leader and shows the value you can provide to other networkers. Facebook users who join your group can be converted to prospects for your business by using effective attraction marketing strategies. It pays off to establish a group and provide value to the members of the group through emails, invitations to an event, commenting, etc.
Step 7. Create Facebook Wall Posts Frequently
Your Facebook wall is the main page you see when you login to your account. Most of your time will be spent in this area. This is where you can post messages on other people’s wall and moderates the comments made on your wall.
If you are an advanced Facebook user, I am sure you are already posting and promoting your content on your wall.
One powerful strategy is to post your content on walls of the members having a huge number of friends. This way, more people will see your message and potentially visit your page resulting in more traffic and sales.
Be sure to post content of links on your wall often. Post daily if you have the time. You can simply post links to online articles you recommend. You can post pretty much any content you wish. The key is to provide quality content so you satisfy your existing friends and you’ll gain new ones as well.
Step 8. Facebook Notes
Do you have a self hosted word press or blogspot blog? If no, I would highly recommend you to start blogging and provide valuable content. Finding content is easy nowadays since you can repost already existing articles.
Facebook notes is an awesome feature you can use to make your valuable blog content visible publicly to all members of Facebook. Also, there are applications that import your blog content into the notes in an automated way.
This feature would increase your blog traffic tremendously and ultimately your sales.
I hope you have enjoyed this article. I hope you put these powerful Facebook tactics to work for you and your business as well.
To more sales,
Chad Timothy
Software Billions Club, Founder
P.S. Be sure and become a Fan of Chad Timothy and the Software Billions Club on Facebook. You'll get all the latest updates and information from Chad Timothy. Click here to become a Fan today: Chad Timothy Fan Page
P.S.S. Follow Chad Timothy on Twitter
http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Tips and Tricks To Higher Converting Squeeze Pages by Chad Timothy
Tips and Tricks To Higher Converting Squeeze Pages by Chad Timothy
*Your Headline should be intriguing and exciting. It must arouse curiosity from the reader.
*Call to action should be ONE sentence max.
*Should use a single option. JUST EMAIL ADDRESS. NO NAME. This will GREATLY improve your conversions. Use aweber.com for single opt-in.
*You must have a photo of yourself on squeeze page. People need an identity to attach to the FROM: name on their email. People need to remember you and signing up for YOUR list. So many marketers will just send a free gift or eBook and the prospect may not even remember who you are.
*Customers want instant gratification –AKA FREE STUFF. You cannot force people go to their email after they opt in. You must have them click submit and have that take them to an in between page where they get their “free gift”.
*Be sure you have a nice picture of yourself on this page as well. On this next page you must also give away some very useful content in just a few sentences. Two paragraphs max. I recommend that you use same design on this next page as the initial page. I would leave the end of this page with a CLIFF HANGER. Something like, “Well I have good news and bad news…” CLICK HERE or NEXT PAGE
*This is the exciting part. Little do they know, but the next page they are taken to the NEXT PAGE. It has the headline of what you told them on the page before, like “The Good News and Bad News”
*Do not worry about losing click thru’s. I have that solution for you as well.
*It’s been proven by the time prospects get to the sales page they have read the powerful short ad copy on the page before and they are basically HOOKED. I would tell them the bad news is that there is a limited amount of people we are offering it to but the good news is that if you get in you will experience some incredible results. This is where the sales page comes in and does all the telling and selling for you.
Now as far as the email from you goes…
*The email they receive from you should always start with name identity reference. ”Hi, Chad Timothy here- The reason you’re getting this email is because you put your email into the form found on this page “link to SALES PAGE” goes here.
You need to remind them who you are so that if they haven’t checked their email until days after they opted in, they will go, OH YA I REMEMBER CHAD TIMOTHY.
*The initial email you send them should have the same ad copy as that in between page they go to.
*Email 2 should be a completely different angle that is NOT on the sales page.
*Email 3 should be another interesting angle that isn’t on the sales page and tie it to the offer you are promoting.
If you follow this criteria you should see your opt in percentage increase as well as your overall conversions.
I hope you enjoyed this article. I will be releasing more articles in the near future. Check back soon.
To more sales,
Chad Timothy
P.S. Be sure and become a Fan of Chad Timothy and the Software Billions Club on Facebook. You'll get all the latest updates and information from Chad Timothy. Click here to become a Fan today: Chad Timothy Fan Page
P.S.S. Follow Chad Timothy on Twitter
http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Friday, December 11, 2009
4 Retirement Traps to Avoid
We all make mistakes. The key, of course, is catching them early and correcting them before the damage is irreversible.
Retirement planning, with all its moving parts – finances, families, health care and legal issues – presents lots of opportunities to get things wrong.
With that in mind, we asked some pros to talk about the more common mistakes they see these days from clients walking in the door.
1. Misreading Bonds
Lawrence Glazer, at Mayflower Advisors in Boston, meets with retirees who are hesitant to own stocks because they don't want to lose money. But they don't have the same concerns about bonds.
"It's a fallacy to think you can't lose money in bonds," he says.
A bond is basically a loan to an issuer who promises to pay interest on the loan, and ultimately return the principal to investors. One risk is credit risk – that the bond issuer won't make its interest payments, or even be able to return all the borrowed money.
As investors in Lehman Brothers debt found out last year, outside of government–backed debt, defaults can and do happen.
A more common risk is that bond prices fall, most commonly as interest rates rise. The degree to which bond prices rise or fall depends not just on the kind of bond but also on the maturity. Longer–term bonds are generally more prone to price swings than short–term debt.
With interest rates so low these days – a U.S. Treasury two–year note yields just 0.7% – many investors are stretching for higher yields on debt with longer maturities and greater credit risk, such as junk bonds.
In a rising–rate environment, losses on even "safe" debt such as U.S. Treasurys "may come as a shock to investors," says Mr. Glazer.
2. Overspending
"People show up, in their 50s, with no retirement plan and $500,000 saved up and think they are going to retire and spend $5,000 per month," says Ronald Myers, a financial planner in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But even if they earn 8% a year on their investments, at that rate they would run out of money in 10 years.
Part of the equation is having a realistic spending budget and matching that with a sustainable withdrawal rate. Most financial advisers recommend a 4% annual withdrawal rate.
But Mr. Myers says retirees often don't factor in two other variables. The first is inflation. "At a 4% inflation rate, your expenses are going to be double in 20 years," he notes. Medical costs – a big expense for retirees – are rising much faster than the overall rate of inflation.
Second, retirees often don't allow cushions for unexpected big expenses or hefty investment losses. "You'd better understand what's going to happen if your accounts go down in value," Mr. Myers says, "and whether you're going to be able to adjust on the fly."
3. Forgetting Names
A big concern for many retirees is ensuring that when they die or are incapacitated their property and savings go to the intended recipients and that decisions are in responsible hands. That means keeping a will, health–care proxy and the beneficiaries on retirement accounts and insurance policies up to date.
But many people wrongly assume that a will takes care of all those things, says New York attorney Philip Bouklas. In fact, the laws and regulations are much more complicated. For example, parents will often add one child to their bank or investment accounts for convenience. But irrespective of what it says in a will, when the parent dies the account passes to just the child whose name is on the account.
Another common misstep Mr. Bouklas sees is not naming a beneficiary on a retirement account.
When the account holder dies without a designated beneficiary, the account is distributed to the estate and passed on according to the will. But to do so, the estate has to take the distribution from the account in a lump sum and pay income taxes. That's less beneficial to the heirs. If they were named as beneficiaries, heirs would be able to draw down the account slowly over their lifetime.
4. Failing to Talk
"People don't like to talk about their own mortality and their own infirmities," says Bernard Krooks, a New York attorney who specializes in elder law. "I have a bunch of clients who say they're not going to die," he jokes.
It's not just what will happen in the event of death that families should discuss, but also long–term health–care plans. People often assume that they'll have plenty of time to make arrangements for long–term care or discuss care–giving plans with their children. But a stroke or accident can happen at any time.
These discussions should even include unpleasant conversations, such as a parent explaining to a child why a sibling is getting a bigger share of an inheritance. It may not be an easy conversation, "but it's less likely to result in problems after the fact," says Mr. Krooks.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Income System
Retirement planning, with all its moving parts – finances, families, health care and legal issues – presents lots of opportunities to get things wrong.
With that in mind, we asked some pros to talk about the more common mistakes they see these days from clients walking in the door.
1. Misreading Bonds
Lawrence Glazer, at Mayflower Advisors in Boston, meets with retirees who are hesitant to own stocks because they don't want to lose money. But they don't have the same concerns about bonds.
"It's a fallacy to think you can't lose money in bonds," he says.
A bond is basically a loan to an issuer who promises to pay interest on the loan, and ultimately return the principal to investors. One risk is credit risk – that the bond issuer won't make its interest payments, or even be able to return all the borrowed money.
As investors in Lehman Brothers debt found out last year, outside of government–backed debt, defaults can and do happen.
A more common risk is that bond prices fall, most commonly as interest rates rise. The degree to which bond prices rise or fall depends not just on the kind of bond but also on the maturity. Longer–term bonds are generally more prone to price swings than short–term debt.
With interest rates so low these days – a U.S. Treasury two–year note yields just 0.7% – many investors are stretching for higher yields on debt with longer maturities and greater credit risk, such as junk bonds.
In a rising–rate environment, losses on even "safe" debt such as U.S. Treasurys "may come as a shock to investors," says Mr. Glazer.
2. Overspending
"People show up, in their 50s, with no retirement plan and $500,000 saved up and think they are going to retire and spend $5,000 per month," says Ronald Myers, a financial planner in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But even if they earn 8% a year on their investments, at that rate they would run out of money in 10 years.
Part of the equation is having a realistic spending budget and matching that with a sustainable withdrawal rate. Most financial advisers recommend a 4% annual withdrawal rate.
But Mr. Myers says retirees often don't factor in two other variables. The first is inflation. "At a 4% inflation rate, your expenses are going to be double in 20 years," he notes. Medical costs – a big expense for retirees – are rising much faster than the overall rate of inflation.
Second, retirees often don't allow cushions for unexpected big expenses or hefty investment losses. "You'd better understand what's going to happen if your accounts go down in value," Mr. Myers says, "and whether you're going to be able to adjust on the fly."
3. Forgetting Names
A big concern for many retirees is ensuring that when they die or are incapacitated their property and savings go to the intended recipients and that decisions are in responsible hands. That means keeping a will, health–care proxy and the beneficiaries on retirement accounts and insurance policies up to date.
But many people wrongly assume that a will takes care of all those things, says New York attorney Philip Bouklas. In fact, the laws and regulations are much more complicated. For example, parents will often add one child to their bank or investment accounts for convenience. But irrespective of what it says in a will, when the parent dies the account passes to just the child whose name is on the account.
Another common misstep Mr. Bouklas sees is not naming a beneficiary on a retirement account.
When the account holder dies without a designated beneficiary, the account is distributed to the estate and passed on according to the will. But to do so, the estate has to take the distribution from the account in a lump sum and pay income taxes. That's less beneficial to the heirs. If they were named as beneficiaries, heirs would be able to draw down the account slowly over their lifetime.
4. Failing to Talk
"People don't like to talk about their own mortality and their own infirmities," says Bernard Krooks, a New York attorney who specializes in elder law. "I have a bunch of clients who say they're not going to die," he jokes.
It's not just what will happen in the event of death that families should discuss, but also long–term health–care plans. People often assume that they'll have plenty of time to make arrangements for long–term care or discuss care–giving plans with their children. But a stroke or accident can happen at any time.
These discussions should even include unpleasant conversations, such as a parent explaining to a child why a sibling is getting a bigger share of an inheritance. It may not be an easy conversation, "but it's less likely to result in problems after the fact," says Mr. Krooks.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Income System
Monday, December 7, 2009
The low down on Affiliate Marketing
Here’s a basic understanding of Affiliate marketing and what you need to know.
Online Affiliate Marketing is a derivative of Internet marketing where the promoter gets paid for every customer or sales provided by him. Affiliate marketing is the preferred marketing avenue for thousands of Internet marketing experts.
In this type of marketing, affiliate management companies, in-house affiliate managers and third party vendors are effectively utilized to use Email Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, RRS Capturing and Display Advertising for the success of the product.
All the web traffic can be tracked with the help of a third party software in most cases. A lot of work is involved in this process. More than most people understand.
At first marketing by this method involved lots of spamming, false advertising, trademark infringement, etc. But, after the invention of complex algorithms and advance security this has been regularized to make it safer for doing business and shopping online.
This even led to the better scrutinizing of the terms and conditions by the merchants. Affiliate marketing became more profiting with the opening of more opportunities but at the same time it also increased the competition in marketing.
Due to this pressure in house affiliate programs for merchants became a thing of the past and were replaced by out-sourced programs.
The companies that offered this service have expert affiliate and network program managers who have various affiliate program management techniques. These affiliate networks have publishers associated with them who help them with the advertising part.
Affiliate marketing was started by cdnow.com who had music oriented websites. They placed list of music albums on their site and they paid others if they put those links in their websites when a visitor bought their album through their site.
The first company to link with cdnow.com was Geffen Records. Two months later, Amazon was offered by a woman that she would sell Amazon’s books on her website and she should be paid a certain percentage in return if she sold Amazon’s books through her site.
They liked the idea and started the Amazon associates program. It was more of a commission program where they received a commission if a visitor clicked their links and banners on other’s site and bought anything through it.
Since its invention, the affiliate network has been adopted by various businesses like travel, education, telecom, mobile, gaming, personal finance, retail, and subscription sites, the most common being adult and gambling sectors. In the US alone, affiliate marketing produced 4.6 Billion.
The compensation methods used are Cost per sale (CPS), Cost per action (CPA), Cost per mile (CPM) and Cost per click (CPC). The first two are the more famous methods today.
This is because in CPM and CPC, the visitor which turns up on a particular website might not be the targeted audience and a click would be enough to generate commission. CPS and CPA have a compulsion that the visitor not only clicks on the link but also buys something or signs up for some service after it which proves that he is among the targeted audience.
Only in the above case the affiliate gets paid. So the affiliate should try to send as much targeted traffic as possible to the advertiser in order to increase his/her returns and for this reason affiliate marketing is also known as performance marketing because it totally depends on the performance of the affiliate.
The affiliate team can be differentiated from a sales team from the nature of their jobs. The job of the affiliate team is to drag targeted traffic to a point and from that point it’s the job of the sales team to influence the visitor to buy the product or the service.
Affiliate marketing can be extremely effective if used correctly.
This is a very effective kind of method because the money is being paid only when results have been achieved. The publisher incurs all the cost except that of initial setup and development of the program, which is incurred by the merchant. Many businesses give credit to this method of marketing for their success.
I hope my article has given all you Internet Marketing beginners a better understanding of how it all works. I wish you incredible success. Feel free to browse my more advanced articles on Affiliate marketing and social media.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Instant Cash Flow System
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http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Watch for our new Internet Billions Club membership site to launch soon http://www.internetbillionsclub.com
Online Affiliate Marketing is a derivative of Internet marketing where the promoter gets paid for every customer or sales provided by him. Affiliate marketing is the preferred marketing avenue for thousands of Internet marketing experts.
In this type of marketing, affiliate management companies, in-house affiliate managers and third party vendors are effectively utilized to use Email Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, RRS Capturing and Display Advertising for the success of the product.
All the web traffic can be tracked with the help of a third party software in most cases. A lot of work is involved in this process. More than most people understand.
At first marketing by this method involved lots of spamming, false advertising, trademark infringement, etc. But, after the invention of complex algorithms and advance security this has been regularized to make it safer for doing business and shopping online.
This even led to the better scrutinizing of the terms and conditions by the merchants. Affiliate marketing became more profiting with the opening of more opportunities but at the same time it also increased the competition in marketing.
Due to this pressure in house affiliate programs for merchants became a thing of the past and were replaced by out-sourced programs.
The companies that offered this service have expert affiliate and network program managers who have various affiliate program management techniques. These affiliate networks have publishers associated with them who help them with the advertising part.
Affiliate marketing was started by cdnow.com who had music oriented websites. They placed list of music albums on their site and they paid others if they put those links in their websites when a visitor bought their album through their site.
The first company to link with cdnow.com was Geffen Records. Two months later, Amazon was offered by a woman that she would sell Amazon’s books on her website and she should be paid a certain percentage in return if she sold Amazon’s books through her site.
They liked the idea and started the Amazon associates program. It was more of a commission program where they received a commission if a visitor clicked their links and banners on other’s site and bought anything through it.
Since its invention, the affiliate network has been adopted by various businesses like travel, education, telecom, mobile, gaming, personal finance, retail, and subscription sites, the most common being adult and gambling sectors. In the US alone, affiliate marketing produced 4.6 Billion.
The compensation methods used are Cost per sale (CPS), Cost per action (CPA), Cost per mile (CPM) and Cost per click (CPC). The first two are the more famous methods today.
This is because in CPM and CPC, the visitor which turns up on a particular website might not be the targeted audience and a click would be enough to generate commission. CPS and CPA have a compulsion that the visitor not only clicks on the link but also buys something or signs up for some service after it which proves that he is among the targeted audience.
Only in the above case the affiliate gets paid. So the affiliate should try to send as much targeted traffic as possible to the advertiser in order to increase his/her returns and for this reason affiliate marketing is also known as performance marketing because it totally depends on the performance of the affiliate.
The affiliate team can be differentiated from a sales team from the nature of their jobs. The job of the affiliate team is to drag targeted traffic to a point and from that point it’s the job of the sales team to influence the visitor to buy the product or the service.
Affiliate marketing can be extremely effective if used correctly.
This is a very effective kind of method because the money is being paid only when results have been achieved. The publisher incurs all the cost except that of initial setup and development of the program, which is incurred by the merchant. Many businesses give credit to this method of marketing for their success.
I hope my article has given all you Internet Marketing beginners a better understanding of how it all works. I wish you incredible success. Feel free to browse my more advanced articles on Affiliate marketing and social media.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Instant Cash Flow System
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http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Watch for our new Internet Billions Club membership site to launch soon http://www.internetbillionsclub.com
My Top four Techniques for getting the absolute best results from your Google AdSense Ads
These tips can help you boost your AdSense efforts with little additional effort. The money that you make from Google AdSense program is 100% dependent on you and your efforts.
Here are some tips that you can use to get the best results from your Google AdSense Ads:
1. You should be using channels: Channels help you conduct a better analysis of the performance of your Google AdSense Ads and so much more. Channels allow you to monitor what web pages are making more money and which ones are not doing as well. It's true, custom channels can be used for conducting analysis on several aspects all at the same time. You can use this analysis for making amendments to your AdSense Ads or website content in order to get better results.
2. Google Ad customization and positioning: Size, Shape and color are the 3 aspects of your AdSense Ads that you can easily control and customize in a way that the Ads don’t look out of place when served on your website. You can either make your Ads stand-out from the rest of the content on your webpage or you can make them blend with the overall webpage.
Moreover, you can identify the hot spots on your site and position your Google Ads accordingly. Ad customization and Ad positioning are, in fact, the best ways to attract more clicks to your AdSense Ads.
3. Google AdSense Content quality: ‘The best generally overcomes the rest’ – is a very true saying. If you host quality content on your website and provide regular updates to your visitors, you can expect more traffic to your website. This will in turn lead to more ad impressions and possibly more clicks.
4. I recommend Using AdSense Ads on all pages: If you have multiple web pages on your site, you should add AdSense Ads on all of them. Since the visitors can enter your website through a number of different pages, having AdSense Ads on all the pages will surely increase your earnings.
Here's a bonus section I wrote to help you with AdSense feeds. Tips for AdSense for feeds:
Google AdSense for feeds is currently in beta testing phase and the programmers are just waiting for the flood gates to open in order to start making money with the AdSense Ads in their feeds. Here are the top 3 tips that will help you fully capitalize on this revenue earning opportunity:
Google Content quality: You will earn Google AdSense revenue only if people subscribe to your feed. The more subscriptions you attain, the better are your chances of success with AdSense for feeds. Since most people would be looking for quality content, you need to make sure that your feed contains up-to-date quality information that is presented to the users in an easy-to-understand language. Besides that, the feeds should be free from grammatical and spelling mistakes.
Google Content quantity: Include as much content in your feeds as you possibly can. The more the better. Remember Google loves content. Again, the aim is prove that the feed is useful and comprehensive (so that more users subscribe to it). If you feel that the complete article cannot go into the feed, include a good summary of the article.
Limit the ad units: If the users find that your feeds contain too much Ads, they might not subscribe to your feeds at all (and the whole purpose of feeds would get defeated). In order to ensure that you get good subscription to your feeds, you should limit the ad units to one per feed. Another good way of ensuring that your feeds don’t look like an advertising medium is to place the Ads either at the end of article or after having sufficiently discussed the topic.
So, get ready for enhancing your ‘AdSense for feeds’ revenue with these sure fire tips. I wish you luck. Feel free to check back for further updates from me on Google marketing.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Instant Cash Flow System
****************************************************************************
http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Watch for our new Internet Billions Club membership site to launch soon http://www.internetbillionsclub.com
Here are some tips that you can use to get the best results from your Google AdSense Ads:
1. You should be using channels: Channels help you conduct a better analysis of the performance of your Google AdSense Ads and so much more. Channels allow you to monitor what web pages are making more money and which ones are not doing as well. It's true, custom channels can be used for conducting analysis on several aspects all at the same time. You can use this analysis for making amendments to your AdSense Ads or website content in order to get better results.
2. Google Ad customization and positioning: Size, Shape and color are the 3 aspects of your AdSense Ads that you can easily control and customize in a way that the Ads don’t look out of place when served on your website. You can either make your Ads stand-out from the rest of the content on your webpage or you can make them blend with the overall webpage.
Moreover, you can identify the hot spots on your site and position your Google Ads accordingly. Ad customization and Ad positioning are, in fact, the best ways to attract more clicks to your AdSense Ads.
3. Google AdSense Content quality: ‘The best generally overcomes the rest’ – is a very true saying. If you host quality content on your website and provide regular updates to your visitors, you can expect more traffic to your website. This will in turn lead to more ad impressions and possibly more clicks.
4. I recommend Using AdSense Ads on all pages: If you have multiple web pages on your site, you should add AdSense Ads on all of them. Since the visitors can enter your website through a number of different pages, having AdSense Ads on all the pages will surely increase your earnings.
Here's a bonus section I wrote to help you with AdSense feeds. Tips for AdSense for feeds:
Google AdSense for feeds is currently in beta testing phase and the programmers are just waiting for the flood gates to open in order to start making money with the AdSense Ads in their feeds. Here are the top 3 tips that will help you fully capitalize on this revenue earning opportunity:
Google Content quality: You will earn Google AdSense revenue only if people subscribe to your feed. The more subscriptions you attain, the better are your chances of success with AdSense for feeds. Since most people would be looking for quality content, you need to make sure that your feed contains up-to-date quality information that is presented to the users in an easy-to-understand language. Besides that, the feeds should be free from grammatical and spelling mistakes.
Google Content quantity: Include as much content in your feeds as you possibly can. The more the better. Remember Google loves content. Again, the aim is prove that the feed is useful and comprehensive (so that more users subscribe to it). If you feel that the complete article cannot go into the feed, include a good summary of the article.
Limit the ad units: If the users find that your feeds contain too much Ads, they might not subscribe to your feeds at all (and the whole purpose of feeds would get defeated). In order to ensure that you get good subscription to your feeds, you should limit the ad units to one per feed. Another good way of ensuring that your feeds don’t look like an advertising medium is to place the Ads either at the end of article or after having sufficiently discussed the topic.
So, get ready for enhancing your ‘AdSense for feeds’ revenue with these sure fire tips. I wish you luck. Feel free to check back for further updates from me on Google marketing.
I hope you found this article useful. Feel free to leave me a comment.
To Your Success,
Chad Timothy
http://www.chadtimothy.com/
http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Chad Timothy's 500K Instant Cash Flow System
****************************************************************************
http://www.chadtimothy.com/ Chad Timothy is the CEO of the Software Billions Club in Portland, OR. Having started off in Internet Marketing in 1998 Chad Timothy is considered a respected pioneer. He is committed to helping others by writing about what he has learned about strategic Internet Marketing.
In addition to developing scores of websites and online stores and consulting with many companies large and small, he is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.
The Software Billions Club can be found at http://www.softwarebillionsclub.com/
Watch for our new Internet Billions Club membership site to launch soon http://www.internetbillionsclub.com
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