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Just an update on our newest eCommerce site…

We launched this site on Aug. 24th and so far we have grossed over $500 in sales. This is way better than we had anticipated due to the stiff competition in this market. We are going to be launching a new promotion to see if we can get even more highly qualified and targeted traffic to this site. It will be hosted on Facebook, so it will be more viral in nature.

Stay tuned to this blog for more information coming soon!

If you would like to become a fan of Scented Bargains on Facebook then click the link below:
http://bit.ly/cQL05

This is an exciting time! We will be posting some of the ways that we were able to get a considerable amount of traffic from Google within a short amount of time!

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Hey all, I have just launched my latest site! It has nothing to do with the Internet Marketing field. It is an E-Commerce site that I will use as a case study. I am going to experiement with different marketing methods and I will post my results here.

Marketing an e-commerce site is a little different than marketing a normal one page sales site. So I will be interested to see just how much harder or easier it will be.

If you would like to see the new site you can visit the link below:
http://www.scentedbargains.com

Stay tuned for updates on a regular basis!

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In the following article we are going to discuss how to use viral marketing with affiliate marketing to increase your traffic, subscribers, and customers.

Using viral marketing via ebooks to promote affiliate programs can produce some pretty amazing results. If you run an affiliate program, just allowing your affiliates to rebrand your viral ebooks can be enough incentive for them to promote them. Rebranding simply involves giving your affiliates the ability to insert their affiliate links in the ebook. This will enable them to make a commission when someone buys your product through their rebranded copy of your ebook. In turn, you gain from increased traffic to your website. It is a win-win situation for both you and your affiliates.

To make sure your ebooks are effective, you should make sure that you insert a plain “call to action”. This means that you should leave no doubts in the readers mind as to what you request them to do. Make it crystal clear so that the reader knows exactly what to do next. It is highly recommended that you make the process as simple as possible. Try to avoid making things complicated or you will end up confusing the reader which cause them not take any action at all.

For example, avoid using too many links. Having too many links will overwhelm your readers and they may end up getting sidetracked and not take your intended action.

In viral marketing, it is important for you to remember the K.I.S.S. principle. This is the Keep It Stupid Simple principle. The incentive for your affiliates should be laid out in clear and concise terms. It is estimated that your readers will look at your offer for about 7 seconds before they decided to move on. If you haven’t told them exactly what you want them to do in that 7 seconds you have lost them. Also, don’t be too vague or too tricky with your message. It has been recommended that you write your ebooks for someone at an eight grade level. This ensures that majority of the intended readers will understand the message you are trying to present.

Once you have created your ebooks, let your affiliates know about it and tell them just how mutually beneficial it will be for them to promote them as freebies, gifts, and bonuses!

As you can see using viral ebooks to promote your affiliate program can be highly rewarding if done correctly. Viral marketing is only one technique you can use to generate targeted subscribers, visitors and customers to your website. Once you have harnessed the power of using ebooks as your persona viral salesmen, you will see that it can be the easiest and most effective method of driving traffic to your website…guaranteed!

Now that you know how to create viral ebooks to help your affiliates make more money with your product or service, you should consider combining this power marketing method with other viral marketing strategies to really increase the effectiveness of your promotional efforts.

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The one true goal of an aspiring affiliate marketer is to find that one golden market that they can use to earn a big paycheck. Most people that are new to affiliate marketing think that there is some sort of magic formula to finding that golden market. The truth of the matter is that there isn’t a magic formula, it is just plain ole’ fashioned good marketing. These are marketing techniques that have stood the test of time and have continued to do so for a countless amount of years. There are some methods that have worked in the past and still work to this day in the online affiliate marketing arena. Armed with the 3 tips in this article, you will now be able to increase your affiliate sales and survive in the competitive world of affiliate marketing.

Are you ready for the 3 methods?

Here they are…

1. Unique Product Pages

Make sure that you are creating unique and useful pages for each of the products you are promoting. Don’t lump every product you are promoting onto one page. This will only make people click away from your page in a hurry. They get confused and the only thing they can do once they get confused it move on or hurry and click the back button.

If you really want to set yourself apart from the average affiliate marketer, you could even create a separate site for each product. There are many hosting services that offer reseller plans that you can use to host as many sites as the plan will allow.

When creating your sites or pages, make sure to always include product reviews, so that your visitors will know just what this product can do for them. It is advisable that you own the product before writing the product review so that you can give your own personal endorsement. You should also include testimonials from the product owner’s website to further add credibility to the product you are promoting. Make sure that you have the permission of the customers to use their names, photos and testimonials on your sites or pages.

2. Giveaway A FREE Reprot

To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should also have a free report to give to your visitors. Your visitors would get a helpful report that relates to your target market in exchange for their name and email address.

Then you would set up an autoresponder series that continues to provide quality content while still promoting your chose affiliate product. You should insert your affiliate link in these messages to ensure that you get credit for the sale. According to the research done, most sales are made by the 7th contact with a prospect. So make sure that you have at least 7 messages setup to automatically go out to your subscriber list.

When a visitor reaches your page or site, they can either buy or leave. By having a way to contact them you increase your chances of making a sale. Make sure your messages don’t sound too much like a sales pitch. Your messages to should key in on the specific reasons they would want to purchase the product.

Whatever you do don’t try to sell them on the features of the product. You focus your attention on the benefits they will experience by purchasing the product you are promoting. Using these benefits in the subject line will also increase the chances of your message being read. Keep in mind that since most ISP have SPAM filters, it is not a good idea to excessively use the word “free”. Your overall purpose is to convey to your list that they will missing something big if they don’t follow your advice and purchase the products and services your promote.

3. Generate Targeted Traffic

As an affiliate marketer, you don’t want to waste your time or money by writing articles, using pay per click, and etc. The best way to avoid this is by generating targeted traffic to your sites and pages. If you send a visitor who isn’t interested in your chosen market then they will be one of the people who will leave your site never to return. This would be an absolute waste of all the hard work that you put into getting them to the site in the first place. Writing articles is one of the best ways to get that targeted traffic you want. Once you have written an article you can then search for ezines, newsletters, and etc. to get them publish.

Writing at least 2 articles a week will help you generate as much as 100 visitors a day to your site or page. On average, 1 in 100 will purchase your product or service, so generating 1000 visitors a day could result in 10 sales a day!

The tips in this article are not hard to do. They do require you to roll up your sleeves, create an action plan and then implement that plan, but once you get going it the rewards will make it all worthwhile.

Go and get started now! Find a few different programs and use these tips on those programs. When you find a winner, start the process over and over again. One day you will look back at your path to becoming a successful affiliate marketer and realize that it wasn’t hard as you originally thought!

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This email marketing course is designed for those who are just starting out with email marketing. Email marketing is a powerful way to market on the internet. It provides a great way to contact prospective customers about your offers and also to provide quality information that your list members are able to access at their convenience. In this email marketing course, we are going to discuss some of the easiest ways for you to get started with email marketing.

The first thing you are going to need to get started in your list building endeavors is an autoresponder. There are several different options for autoresponders available on the internet right now. Choosing the right one the first time will save you time and money later on. The autoresponder of choice for most of the successful internet marketers is provided by a company named Aweber. Coming in a close second is a service provided by a company called GetResponse.

The reason why using hosted autoresponders is the best option is because generally these companies work very hard to ensure your emails get delivered. With the emergence of more and more SPAM filters, you will want to make sure that as many of your emails get delivered as possible.

The second thing in this email marketing course we are going to suggest you should acquire to get started, is your own web hosting account. Having your own web hosting account increases your credibility and improves your chances of having more successful email marketing promotions. In addition, by having a web hosting account, you can better test and track your email marketing campaigns. Testing and tracking will enable you to completely optimize your marketing methods to make sure that you are running at the highest efficiency possible.

The last thing we are going to discuss in this email marketing course is the need for quality content. The better the content you provide to your optin list, the more successful your email marketing campaigns will be. If you don’t think that you can provide the quality content yourself, then I suggest that you hire someone to create it for you. You can hire professional writers from sites like Elance.com to create quality content for your list members. Alternatively you could also go to your local college, if you have one, and hire a starving college student write content on your chosen topic.

Over this entire email marketing course, we will be sharing some of the best practices you should use as you enter into list building and email marketing. This email marketing course will also help you shorten the learning curve by showing you how to avoid some of the common mistakes made when just starting out. In order to get the most from this opt-in list course, you should remember that you may fail at first but if you remain determined and motivated you will succeed eventually.

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Recently I obtained a copy of Jonathan Leger’s Instant Article Wizard. This is a desktop software application that will assist you in doing in-depth article research. Instant Article Wizard has the ability to make you look like an expert in any niche you choose. In this review you will get an objective view of this software product to help you decide if you should invest in this product. We will discuss the most important pros and cons of Instant Article Wizard so you can see the overall picture.

Pros:

1. Easy to use – Instant Article Wizard 2.0 is extremely easy to use and straight forward. You simply plug in the keywords you want to write your article on, click a button and the software goes to work. You can then pick and choose the sentences that you want to include in your article. It is really just that easy!

2. Huge Time Saver – When doing article research, it can take a lot of time to go to a search engine and then read through tons of websites in order to gather data for writing articles. Reading all of those web pages can take a huge chunk out of your day, causing you to take longer to pump out your traffic generating articles. With Instant Article Wizard 2.0 you will save a ton of time and energy because the software finds the websites and filters out the relevant information in a matter of seconds.

3. Versatility – Instant Article Wizard 2.0 has various options you can set to determine how it goes out and does your article research. Having these options ensures you get the data and research done just how you want it done. This also gives you the ability to use the output data in a multitude of different ways.

Cons

1. Export Function – It doesn’t really have one. You ultimately have to copy and paste your created articles into a text editor. This is not really a big deal because of the way the software gathers data, you should rewrite the articles anyways. It would be easier if it had some sort of an export function.

2. Panel Adjustments – The Instant Article Wizard 2.0 user interface is divided into you panels. Unfortunately you are not really able to adjust the dimensions of the panels. Some people may want a certain panel to be larger to accomodate viewing more information.

My overall rating of Instant Article Wizard 2.0 is A+. This software product is a god-send to those who are using article marketing. It is especially useful to those who really want to amp up there traffic generation efforts. This product is moderately priced at $67 and is worth 10x that amount. This is a must buy even if you are just beginning in article marketing or internet marketing. You can’t go wrong with investing in IAW 2.0.

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If you are not using viral ebooks to generate traffic to your products or affiliate programs, you are leaving a huge chunk of money on the table. There are a lot of different reasons why you should be using viral ebooks to drive traffic to your products or affiliate programs, but we are only going to cover 3 of the most important reasons in this article.

The first major advantage of writing and distributing viral ebooks, is the cost. The only cost associated with distributing brandible ebooks is the software used to compile your ebooks. Some of the different formats to choose from would include PDF, EXE or even DOC. For favorable results, it is advised that you use the PDF format due to compatibility with both Windows and Mac computers. There are also many ways to change your new viral ebooks into PDF format for free. So you can really reduce the cost of producing viral ebooks and viral reports.

Just as a side note, it is important to let you know that although we are discussing viral ebooks, this information also applies to viral reports, articels, and software. There many different ways you can use viral marketing to your benefit and the more creative you are the better the results.

The second major advantage of using viral ebooks, is the potential exposure to your product or affiliate program. The reason this method of marketing was named after viruses is because of how rapidly viruses spread. It is the same thing with word-of-mouth marketing which includes viral reports, viral articles, and viral software. All of these vehicles can product a massive amount of exposure to your product or affiliate program. It is important to remember to structure your viral products to achieve the best possible result.

The third advantage to using viral ebooks, is name branding. One of the reasons the internet marketing veterans get such a favorable response to emails, blog posts and other promotions is because of name recognition. Think about how more likely you are to purchase from a name you trust as opposed to a product from someone you don’t know. There is an inherent trust issue there and viral ebooks help to conquer that. If you write a viral ebook, and 4000 people acquire your ebook, that is 4000 people who are now familiar with your name. The next time you release a product you have at least 4000 people that already know your name.

So now you know why you should be using viral ebooks to drive traffic to your products or affiliate programs, now all that is left is for you to take action. Do some research on what you target market wants to know about, create your viral ebook and let people know about. Then sit back and let it work on it’s own to drive traffic to your product and increase your profits.

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If you are looking for a great way to really amp up the traffic to your website or affiliate program, then viral marketing is the answer for you. The use of viral marketing has been in use for a very long time. The term viral marketing has recently come to describe word-of-mouth marketing. This is the most effect method of marketing because people trust people they know.

Please enjoy the 6 methods outlined below. Once you have mastered these methods you will be ready for more advanced strategies to spread the word about your product or offer.

1. Acquire the branding or rebranding rights to a viral ebook.

There are ebooks already created that are available for you to buy. Then all you simply have to do is allow your affiliates to give away your new free E-book to their affiliates. Then, their affiliates will in turn also give it away. If everything goes right, this will continue indefinitely which is how viral marketing works.

2. Use viral marketing scripts.

If you know how to install scripts on your site, then another option you have is the use of viral marketing scripts. If you don’t know how to install scripts, you can hire someone who does from a site like Elance.com. A great example of a viral marketing script is the Tell-A-Friend script. This is a script that allows your visitors to tell their friends and associates about your product or offer. This used, in combination with the other methods in this article, can be a very powerful way to explode your promotional efforts.

3. Create viral templates.

Do you know how to design graphics or web pages? If so, then you could design a package of templates that include a link back to your web site. Then you simply allow your affiliates to give them away with the contingency that the link back to your web site remains in place. Since there are a lot of people that are looking for templates this could also be a very effective viral marketing tactic.

4. Write your own ebook.

If you find writing easy, this is yet another great way to kickstart your viral marketing campaign. Simply create your own ebook of 5 – 15 pages and allow your affiliates to give it away. It is advisable to include a way for your visitors to rebrand your ebook to give them additional motivation to pass it along.

5. Write articles with reprint rights.

Along the same lines as creating an ebook, you could also write a series of articles and allow your visitors to reprint them in ezines, newsletters, and other online publications. Make sure that you state that your resource box must remain as a contingency to use your articles. This will ensure the viral effect remains in tact.

6. Locate software with branding or rebranding rights.

You can easily find products on the Internet that will sell you a license allowing you to distribute the product free of charge to other people. Look for those products that provide “branding rights”. That is where you can include your own name, web site, and contact information.

So now you have 6 simple viral marketing techniques you can begin using right now to drive traffic to your site. Also an added benefit of using this marketing method is that it also help with name branding. The more people that see your ebook, report, or list-building site, the more people will learn to trust you and will follow your recommendations. This will go far in making your future promotions successful. Viral marketing can be your ally as you launch your internet marketing career. If used correctly it can be your most powerful weapon.

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