Internet/Affiliate Marketing - Scam Or Real?

 Today I am just writing regarding so called affiliate marketing scams. It is funny that all everyone is so skeptical now about any chance of online income. All you can think when you see a chance to make money from home is "SCAM, SCAM, SCAM!".
Not 100% true. Think about it for a second. Lets say you have come across an oppurtunity recently that has told you that you can make money from home for the low price of 29.95. They say you can "quit your job and be your own boss as an affiliate marketer". First thing you think is that it is just another rip off. But if you were expecting to start a McDonalds franchise, and they asked you for thousands of dollars for start up cost, thats legit. What I am getting at is if you want to be your own boss, you will eventually have to spend money. Point blank period. So just because it costs doesnt mean it is a scam.
Now that I have put that into your head the right way, lets get to something a little more informative. I want to tell you some things to look for to avoid getting caught up with the guru bs and getting ripped off. After all, chances are that if you are wanting to make money as an internet/affiliate marketer then you dont have alot of money to be throwing around on useless so called "push button" software.
So let me give you a few hints on what to look for in bs programs that dont work.
If it claims to make thousands of dollars overnight: Scam
If it claims you only push 2 buttons and never look again: Scam
If it has all thes pics of clickbank accounts and all that: Maybe legit but not something done overnight
If it claims to be the only of its kind: Dont Trust
Autopilot: Dont Trust
Okay, now that I have told you a few of the dead give aways let me explain a little deeper here. First, if you are completely new to making money online, the chances of you getting rich overnight are less than those of you hitting the lottery for a billion dollars. Affiliate Marketing is NOT learned over night, it is something that takes time, practice and dedication.
Also I would like to state that there is no software that you can push 2 buttons and get rich in an hour. Dont fall for these programs you will regret it I promise. I fell for plenty of them when I first started out. To make money you will have to put in time. Yes, even in internet marketing.
Now some people say that all the pics of these clickbank accounts with $100,000 are fake. Most probably are, but some are legit. The catch is is that they are usually selling their own products and have others selling their product to get that kind of money. And they have been doing it a while and know what they are doing. Also they are probably spending a good bit of that on advertising as well. (Told you that you will have to spend money eventually :D)
If it claims to be one of a kind underground software never revealed...use common since and google it. there will be many other programs of the same kind. And if they are lying to you about this, then they are probably lying about what kind of income you can expect and how hard it will be using their software.
No autopilot, as I stated earlier you will have to do something to make money, otherwise everyone would be rich.
All that being said, their are some legit ways to make money online. I have actually achieved this and I have as well a blog that is going to be revealing many of the free ways to be a successful affiliate marketer.
You can make money blogging, selling other affiliate products via sites like clickbank, commission junctions etc. You can make money with CPA. There are many good effective techniques to do this, as well as more profitable paid ways to do this. Some of the free ways to make money with internet marketing are as follows:
1: Blogger Blog (adsense monetized)
2: Social media marketing (twitter, myspace, fbook, youtube, etc think outside the box :D)
3: Article Marketing (ezine,streetarticles etc)
Now a few paid ways:
1: PPC (pay-per-click)
2: PPV (pay-per-view)
3: CPM (cost-per-milli aka cost per thousand impressions)
And many more of course. My favorite to date is PPV for the paid way, and Social media marketing for the free. Now I would like to tell you however that you can get tools to help you with social media marketing. They are by far NOT required at all, but I actually tried one recently, and it helped save me much of my time by giving me a virtual assistant to outsource my work to as well as it had a tool called Social Genius which saved alot of time by searching multiple social networks at once for my social marketing.
Well that is enough rant for today. By the way, if you guys see any FREE internet marketing information, you should look at it. It cant hurt. Some people are just honest and want to help other people. Dont just doubt it because it says "Make Money Online". Ok till next time.

Affiliate Marketing With CPA

Okay, so in my last post I was telling you about a quick and easy way to make money with clickbankC via social marketing. I know you enjoyed that article and technique, and I am positive that you have seen some profits with it. Amazing what the right free information can do for you huh? :) Thats why Im here.

But today I want to veer away from the traditional affiliate marketing plan (clickbank, commission junction etc) and talk about another type of program called CPA.

CPA stands for cost-per-action, or cost-per-lead. As a member of a CPA program, you will be promoting these "offers" in many different ways (similar to any other promotional techniques for internet marketing), but you wont necessarily have to SELL ANYTHING! This is the great part :D

Instead of having to make a sell to get paid, you could be getting paid for simply getting someone as a "lead" for the company. By lead I mean just get them to enter some basic information, often times all they have to do is submit an email address or zipcode. Isnt this amazing?! I mean think of the options I just opened up for you. After all it is a heck of a lot easier to convince someone to submit their email or zipcode than it is to get them to buy something, dont you agree?

Okay so now you know why CPA advertising online is becoming alot more popular. Now dont get me wrong, these things dont pay like selling products. I mean you could easily get $40 from selling a product with clickbank, or more. And with CPA you will only be making $1-2 per lead. But the idea is you can generate 100 times the leads alot easier than you could get one sell. So it can be very profitable. Especially if you are looking for the "quick money".

Here is a downside that many people run into, and I will inform you of the alternative that you may or may not have heard of that will counter this downside :D. (Remember, I always tell you an answer to your internet marketing problems) The downside is that you cant use PPC for email submits unless you are an ADWORDS PRO! You will find yourself paying at least 50 cents per click if not more and only with at most a 20% conversion rate.

Let me break that down for you. If you spend 50 cents for every click with 20% conversion rate you will be spending $2.50 for each lead and only making 1-2 bucks from the lead. That would mean you just wasted a dollar or more AT LEAST just to get the submit. Like I said, unless you are VERY VERY good at keyword research.

Now that being said here is how you do it. First, allow me to remind you of the social media promotions I went over in my last post. You can always use twitter, fbook, myspace, youtube, linkdin, digg and all those types of sites for free. So you get your offers in front of people for free. Read my article Make Money With Clickbank for details on how to do social marketing. It will walk you through a very effective technique of using twitter.

Now tho lets offer an alternative to PPC (pay-per-click). I assume this if you are still reading this, then you have at least 20 bucks that you are willing to spend on this method to maximize profits with minimal effort vs. social marketing. I am now going to introduce you to my little friend....PPV.

PPV stands for pay-per-view. Unlike PPC you are paying companies for everytime they actually VIEW your page and you get these views for between 1-5 cents easily. If thats not the best part, then try this on for size. IT IS ALSO TARGETED VIEWS. :D

So if you used a PPV campaign and paid 3 cents per click with 20% conversions, you would spend 15 cents for every 1-2 bucks made. Now that is pure amazing. Especially if you are promoting 50-100 products per day as I normally do. Scale it up and scale up the income ;)

So how is this achieved? How is it possible you may ask? Easy, PPV companies have toolbars and such for download all over the internet. When people download these programs or toolbars, it installs what is called adware onto their computer. Everytime they type in a word on a search engine, the adwware detects it, and pops up one of the advetisers ads up according to the keyword relevancy and bid that you have placed. Less people use this, and it is less known about, and it has a lower conversion rate is why it is so cheap. But I promise you I have always come out with a high ROI using PPV.

Now you want to know some good CPA companies to sign up with, as well as how to get started with PPV. Below are some links.

CPA NETWORKS:
Peerfly
Maxbounty

PPV:
TrafficVance
MediaTraffic
Clicksor
LeadImpact

So sign up with a cpa network as a PUBLISHER, go join a PPV network, and PROFIT. Enjoy till next time. :D

Making Money With Clickbank - Can You?

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So the answer is yes you can make alot of money online. Just as I have. It will require work. It isnt get rich quick I garauntee you that. But you WILL make money this week if you follow my tutorial below. Or BUY THIS and jumpstart your success.


Okay, so yesterday I told you guys to create an affiliate acount with Clickbank. Now I want to jump start your learning curve with clickbank and how to effectively use it to your own financial benefit. I want to be able to provide you all with a quite simple and fairly quick (compared to other techniques) income.


What I will be talking about today is using the power of social media (twitter,fbook,myspace,youtube etc..) to see income as quickly as possible as an affiliate marketer.


So lets get right to the point. First I want to outline the steps so that you know what I will be telling you to do so that you dont feel like you are wasting your time reading this. Also I would like to let you know that this will require you to spend no money whatsoever and can be achieve with a minimum of 20 or so minutes per day, of course more time = more oppurtunities = more money :)


Steps:
1: Choose a product to promote.
2: Shorten your affiliate link (make it more appealing)
3: Promote the product with social media.
4: Earn commissions
5: Rinse and Repeat.


Okay, so now that you know what the steps are in general lets go more into depth.


Step 1: Login to your Clickbank account. Click on the "Marketplace" tab. Now you use the search bar to find a product to promote. Just type something in, maybe you want to promote a product about weightloss, so type in "lose weight".


This will show alot of different products. I would choose a product with a gravity of at LEAST 100. The higher the gravity, the better it is selling. Once you find a product you want to promote, you will click on the green "Promote" button. Type in an abbreviation for the product and click "Create". Copy the top link (this is your affiliate link)


Step 2: Make your affiliate link shorter and more attractive. There are two ways to do this; buy your own link and redirect OR THE FREE WAY. So we will talk about the free option here. Thats all I'm interested in telling you guys.


So head on over to TinyUrl.com . Paste your affiliate link into the "Long-Link" text-box. Click shorten link and they will give you another shorter link. Test that link to make sure it still goes to your affiliate site. If so you are now done with this step.


Step 3: Promote it via social media. I am going to cover Twitter only here because I have seen the most success with it. But you can as well do it with youtube, facebook etc etc.


So now go to search.twitter.com . Type in "-http [yourkeywordhere]" So if your selling a weightloss product type in something like this "-http i need to lose weight". Click on Search button. This will show you a list of all the tweets in the past few days that have that in the tweet.


Click on "Reply" to one of the tweets and reply to them with something like this "If you still need to lose x amount of lbs, try this it worked amazing for me [tinyurllinkhere]" and click reply. Do this for as many keywords to as many people as you can. Just say spend an hour a day doing this. It will allow several thousand people to see your product with you only replying just a few times to people per day.


Step 4: You will soon be earning commissions from people buying your products. Remember, you already chose good selling products by selecting high gravity to promote, so you know that theyre sales page is good at converting :D


Step 5: Rinse and Repeat. I would say you should do this with about 3-4 products per day. Spending only an hour or so per day with these 4 products will allow you to start seeing some income pretty soon. Just stay persistent and success will form. Trust me.


So that is the best, fastest, most effective way to earn an income online with no money for you to have to spend. Of course I will tell you that I do like to use a tool that is available by buying FastCashCommissions. You can get it here. It has lots of video tutorials and it has copy/paste campaigns. As well as they offer you a virtual assisstant to do some of this for you. Also they have a tool to search twitter, fbook, myspace, youtube and many more social sites to reply to in the way i told you in the above steps; EXCEPT THEIR TOOL ENABLES YOU TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THIS AT ONCE. Go check it out if you want the jump on you competition and you want to make the labor part for you easier and faster. I use it every day and is very effective software. No bs guru stuff here only the real deal.


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