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Earn Income From Home With Affiliate Marketing!

Louie Unga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:21 +0000

If you have a website, or blog, or any other kind of web presence you have probably heard of affiliate marketing. This can be a great way to make a little extra money. Affiliate marketing definitely isn’t for everyone. If you have a website that relies on repeat visitors, or you want your visitors to remain on your site for a long time, it is not a good idea for you to participate in affiliate marketing. Here’s how it works. You sign up (almost always for free) with an affiliate program for another website or company. For instance, Amazon.com has an affiliate program called Amazon Associates that website owners can sign up for to display Amazon.com products on their sites. When a website visitor clicks on the Amazon product on their site, the affiliate (website owner) makes money on any sale that results. So you can see why affiliate marketing isn’t for you, if your site sells its own products, or you rely on repeat visitors.

Affiliate programs work best for people who set up websites for the sole purpose of getting affiliate sales. eBay Partner Network (eBay’s affiliate program), for instance has spawned many websites that are designed specifically for affiliate sales only! (See my Build A Niche Store post) If you are interested in participating in affiliate marketing I STRONGLY recommend setting up a website for the purpose of placing your affiliate links and nothing else. There are literally thousands of affiliate programs on the web today! Some companies operate their own affiliate programs and some outsource their affiliate programs to companies like Commission Junction, or Linkshare, who operate the program for them. CJ, or Linkshare are great ones to join because you can join several affiliate programs and they will track your payments and give you ONE payment for several programs every month!

As always, make sure you research any programs extensively, so that you can be sure that they are reputable and that you will get paid. My advice is to stick with the big companies. Their affiliate programs are always going to be more profitable anyway! Good Luck!

Build An eBay Affiliate Empire With Build A Niche Store

Louie Unga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:39:19 +0000

Build A Niche Store or BANS shares a great partnership with eBay’s Partner Network and is a great way to start making money online immediately! You may be asking: what the heck is BANS? Well, Build A Niche Store is a software application that allows users to build online stores that work with eBay to make you money! Your “niche store” displays products that are currently being sold on eBay. When a buyer visits your site and clicks on a product displayed on one of your pages, they are taken directly to the product listing on eBay! If they buy the product, you receive a portion of the fees that eBay charges sellers to use the service! Simple. Easy. Even better…if your website visitor signs up for an eBay account because of visiting your site, you can receive up to $25 per new sign-up! It ads up quickly! On my site, I have made up to $400 in a month from new sign-ups alone! How does eBay know that a visitor comes from your site? When you sign up for eBay’s Partner Network, your unique code is embedded in all of your eBay links! EPN keeps track of all of your customer’s clicks and purchases and pays you each month! BANS is an exceptional way to build an online empire of eBay affiliate stores!

Once you purchase BANS, you receive lifetime updates to the software for free, and you can use it to build as many eBay affiliate sites as you wish! (You must pay for hosting of course, but your affiliate profits pay for it pretty quickly!) I definitely reccomend buying BANS and using it to build as many niche sites as you can afford (or have time to update on a regular basis!) When you buy BANS, you get the software, scripts, and a STEP-BY-STEP user manual that literally holds hour hand while you get your site set up! Even with the manual, it is VERY intimidating to set up your first BANS site, but if you follow the install manual EXACTLY, you can’t mess up.

When choosing a niche you want to make sure that your niche is not one with a ton of competition. Don’t choose a niche like DIGITAL CAMERAS. You will find yourself in a battle for traffic with companies like BEST BUY, WAL-MART, CIRCUIT CITY, and other electronics retailers. You’re not gonna win that battle with your little BANS site! Instead choose a niche like JUKEBOXES. You will find a lot less competition and there are still tens of thousands of people that search Google for jukeboxes every month. If you can position your jukebox site near the top of the Google search return for jukeboxes, you have a chance to make some real money!

The key to making money with BANS is not necessarily sending YOUR traffic to eBay…it is positioning your site between eBay and the customers that would have ended up there anyway! Make sense? Okay if I’m looking for a jukebox, I go to Google and type in BUY A JUKEBOX. The results return your jukebox BANS site and I go there. I click on a listing in your BANS store and end up on eBay! Well almost certainly I would have found out eventually that eBay was the best place to buy my jukebox, but becuase you positioned your site on Google between me and eBay…you made the affiliate sale! If you can find a specialty niche and accomplish this goal you will make a TON from your BANS site.

As far as the web design goes, BANS is a breeze! Version 3.0 is even better than the first version I tried!

If you can edit a word document and know how to use the COPY/PASTE fuction on your PC, you can buils a great looking BANS site!

Bans website design function is EASY to use!

When it comes to the eBay Partner Network, it’s not really even worth joining if you don’t own BANS! I recommend buying Build A Niche Store TODAY!

Do It Yourself Web Design!

Louie Unga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:52:29 +0000

There are many do-it-yourself website services out there. Like anything else, some are better than others. If you are looking for an all-in-one solution, then consider SiteBuildIt! When you buy SiteBuildIt, it INCLUDES a domain name, hosting for a year, and the most user-friendly site builder I have ever seen! This is great for a person who has a service or product in hand and ready to sell! You can use SBI for tangible items, digital downloads or even affiliate products! Support for hosting, easy to use web design, Google Adsense, website content, and the latest tools for search engine optimization! If you use SBI to build your website, I promise…you will never feel alone on the crazy World Wide Web! Two negatives about SBI (having only two negatives is EVCEPTIONAL by the way!) SiteBuildIt can be considered costly at $299. If you consider all that you get with the package it is actually quite cheap, and a better value than the $10/month services that people use! The other thing is that when you order SBI, they give you a TON of reading material when you order…WAY TOO MUCH in fact. But don’t be intimidated. Sort through the info and immerse yourself in the program. Learn to use and take advantage of all the tools that SBI offers…this is the best chance for your small business to succeed! CLICK HERE to learn more about SiteBuildIt!

Here are some other popular do it yourself website design services. None of them offer everything that SiteBuildIt! does, but they all have great customer service, convenient monthly payment plans and east-to-use site builders!

GoDaddy.com – GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans

BlueHost.com – Easy Web Hosting $6.95

Earn Income From Home With A Web Presence!

Louie Unga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:38:04 +0000

It’s gonna be difficult for you to make money online without a web presence. This may seem like a daunting task for someone that is not experienced with web design. NO WORRIES, PLEASE! On the web these days it is easy for ANYONE to get a web presence! Many services are available to help you along the way. This blog for instance is a great example of a web presence! Something like a blog is not going to make you a BUNCH of money, but being a writer, a blog makes perfect sense for me! A free blog like this one can do a lot of good for you if you have a specific topic that your online business revolves around! For example, if you own a website that sells fishing products, a free blog where you write regular articles about fishing can help you get traffic. WordPress blogs like this one get indexed regularly by search engines like Google. While your blog readers are reading your latest blog entry, maybe they’ll click on a link to your fishing website, and just maybe you’ll convert a few sales! Not bad for taking 20 minutes to write a blog entry every now and then!

A WEBSITE is still the best way to get your online business rolling! Websites are the best way to open up all kinds of revenue streams, including advertising, affiliate marketing, and selling your own products and services. When starting a website, remember that your DOMAIN NAME is the most important factor in determining your success. Choosing a name that mirrors the topic or product of your website will go a long way toward getting traffic to your website. Use Google’s Keyword Tool to research key search terms BEFORE you pick a domain name! It will tell you how many times a keyword gets searched each month! If you own a used cell phone site and the keywords “buy used cell phones” gets several thousand searches each month, try to get the domain name buyusedcellphones.com! (this is just an example, I’m SURE that this one is taken!) It has a great chance of getting indexed near the top of that search term on Google and that will provide INVALUABLE free traffic!

In my next blog entry, I will present the best do-it-yourself website services available on the web today…