Make money from your website

March 19th, 2008

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Now you have got a web site, whether it is only for a hobby or a home based  online business? The big question is how do you make money from your website. The answer is simple – with Affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is absolutely the best way to get your home based online business off to a fast start and this is primarily because you can either  get paid a commission for selling goods as an affiliate or you can open up an account as a Publisher  and promote your own product. Now you are leveraging the work of others and  they will spend to promoting your business for you.

What is affiliate marketing.
In affiliate marketing, people that have nothing to do with your  home based online business or your product, will sell your product on your behalf in exchange for getting a cut of the profits. For example, on a major affiliate marketing website like Clickbank or PayDotCom a typical product that is sold for $50 might give anywhere between $20 and $40 of that money to the affiliate that created the sale.  
How to Start with Affiliate marketing
Usually the process of signing up to be an affiliate is fairly simple. You will be provided with an affiliate marketing ID and a Sales page in most cases. The requirement from you is to advertise that Sales page in order to sell the products or get others to sign up as an affiliate. You will earn a certain amount of commission on all the sales you make and the sales your referrals make.

 But remember sell only products that are related to your niche. If your home based online business website is about exotic fish, most of your site visitors are probably interested in fish. Products having to do with breeding fish, fishtanks, making money with exotic fish, and buying exotic fish at a discount are all products that would do well. Most of your visitors would not be interested in music CD’s, computer games or dog supplies.

Promoting your affiliate Marketing business

Incentives For Buyers
 You must always be one-step ahead of your rivals to ensure that you capture a significant share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every possible means to encourage people not only to visit your home based online business  site but also to click and proceed to the websites of the products and services you are promoting. Building an opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free softwares, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Social networking
 In Social networking  each site has it’s own individual regulations. In some sites, an affiliate might be allowed to link directly to an affiliate marketing product or program for instance, while in other sites, you may be restricted to some links which lead to your own blogs or  home based online business websites only.
 
By joining social networks that allow users to link to an affiliate marketing sales page, or to your own Web site or blog, you can considerably increase the amount of profits you’re making as an affiliate. This will do well as long as you play by the specific regulations of the networking sites you’re using, and constantly do your promotions well.

Article Marketing
One of the best ways to  get long term traffic for your home based online business website is by  submitting articles, with your website’s link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

Finally
Market your home based online by  using a number of different marketing techniques. Write articles, place free ads, place paid ads, use solo, ezine and classified ads, email, ppc,etc, and as many other different marketing techniques as you can think of. By using a diversified approach, you can determine which sources work best for you. Then focus on those methods that perform the best.

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Regards

 Alan

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9 Rules for a Successful Home Based Online Business – part 2

March 7th, 2008

This is the second part of the article “9 Rules for a successful home based online business”, here is the next 5 rules that you should follow if you do not want to suffer from information overload while starting your home based online venture.

It does not matter which plan  or internet program you are using, as long as you keep the following 9 rules in mind, you will be successful in your online business.

To Read Part 1 of this article 
Rule 5 - Use  email marketing .
It  does not matter if your home based online business site is getting 300 or 3000 visitors a day, most visitors will read only 1 or 2 pages then disappear forever, so you need to capture their email addresses before they leave.

This can be done by using pops-ups offering a free report when they visit your site or a pop –under when they close your site.
 
Then you need  to stay in constant contact with your visitors to establish a relationship with them.

Email marketing is the most effective way to do this, you can show your subscribers you really know what you are talking about and make them comfortable enough to make a purchase from you.

By staying in constant contact with your existing subscribers you can keep them informed of any new products that you might have in your home based online business.

Rule 6 -Sell new products to your existing customer base.

It takes on average four to seven contacts with someone before they will be comfortable enough to purchase something from your home based online business.

The best way to cement your relationship with your subscribers is to do the following,

  •  Offer products that complement their original purchase.
  •  Send out lots of helpful information.
  •  Include an offer for related products on your thank you page.
  •  Sell affiliate products that complement your product or service

 Rule 7 - Write a compelling sales copy.

The sales copy is the most important part of your home based online business  web site, it will be the first contact that that most visitors will have with you..

 Writing a compelling sales copy is not hard, all  y ou need to do is  focus on how your product will solve people’s problems or improve their lives.

  •  Include a headline and sub-headlines packed with benefits.
  •  Use Testimonials to build credibility.
  •  Offer a strong guarantee.
  •  Add bonuses.

Don’t forget to emphasize the benefits of your product not its features. You want visitors to have a clear idea of how your product is going to improve their lives.
Rule 8- Have  a winning web site to convert visitors.

Remember Rule 1, first find a hungry niche, before you find the product. It is the same with the home based online business website, you should only start building your web site, once you know what you are going to sell and have written your sales copy. That way your site design will facilitate the sales, rather than get in its way.

Keep your site simple, you only have 10 seconds when someone arrives at your web site to grab their attention.
 Rule 9:- The power of affiliate programs.

One of the best ways to grow your home based online business is to launch your own affiliate program.

Affiliates are people who promote your products on their website for a cut of the selling price, every time they send you a buyer, you pay them a commission.

As your army of affiliates will do the advertising & selling for you, you save all these costs and the best part is that you only pay them when they make a sale.

Conclusion.

Thank you for reading my article, on how to start your own Internet Business, this is just a brief overview of all the steps involved, but they are the 9 most crucial steps if you want to have your own successful home based online business.

1. Find a hungry niche –
2.Find a product that your niche wants
3. Write a compelling sales copy
4. Have a winning site-.
5. Use top search visitors to drive tons of targeted traffic
6. Use sources of cheap or free traffic.
7. Apply the power of email marketing
8. Sell new products to your existing customer base.
9. Unleash the power of affiliate programs

Regards

Alan
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9 Rules to a Successful Home Based Online Business

March 6th, 2008

Anyone wishing to start a home based online business is faced with thousands of options and opportunities and  it is very  easy to suffer from information overload, however having a successful home based online business involved 9 simple rules.

It does not matter which plan you are using, as long as you keep the following 9 rules in mind, you will be successful in your venture.

I have had to write this article in 2 parts, here is the first 3 rules, the correct sequence of steps will summarised at the end of the article

Rule 1 - Find a hungry niche market First.

The reason that most new  home based online business’s fail is because people make the mistake of locating a “hot product “first, then they try to find a market to sell there product to.

Most people do not go online to buy something – they go online looking for information or to solve a problem. Like where to find home based  online business opportunities.

To identify your niche market will require you to do a little research, you need to establish what words people are using on the internet to look for a particular product or to solve a specific problem.

By doing some simple keyword search research,  use tools like,

Keyword Tracker
Overture

There are loads of free programs that you can use on the internet that will help you identify words that people use on the Internet while searching for something.

Enter these words in Google in quotation marks and see how many pages are listed, play around with various words and use long-tailed-keywords, instead of using terms like “Internet Business”, try words like “How to make money with a Internet Business

Rule 2  -  Find a Product that Your Niche wants.

Once you have identified your hungry niche market, now it is time to find a product that they are desperately looking for, keep in mind, people are using the Internet to look for information and you need to provide this information.
Various products that you can promote in your home based online business are,

  • Create your own product, like a recipe book, or if you have a skill that will help people.
  • Promote a product as  an affiliate.
  • Get a PLR, product that you can rename and sell as your own product.

Rule 3 -Send tons of targeted traffic to your site, by using search engines.

Now that you have got your niche, written a compelling sales copy and have a dynamic website – how do you get traffic to your site? The answer is by using search engines.

The two quickest ways to drive laser-focused visitors to your site is by using pay-per-click (PPC) programs like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search marketing.

As soon as you have some paid traffic coming to your site, and you have figured which are the best performing keywords, you will need to optimise your web pages for those keywords, to get your home based business income opportunities site showing up in the organic search engines as well.

Rule4 - Use sources of cheap or free traffic.


Your reputation as an online marketer, is one of your most important assets, people need to know who you are, and why they need trust you.

The best way to “spread the good word”, is to utilise the following effective methods,

  •  Give away free expert content.
  •  Issue a press release about your business.
  •  Become an active expert in industry forums.

Your name and home based online business website URL linked to your articles, will boost your rankings in the search engines listings, since every site that posts your content will link back to you.

Conclusion

Please read the rest of this article in Page 2, on 9 Rules for a successful home based business. If you are looking for FREE REPORTS to enhance your own home based online business the go to this SITE.

Regards

Alan

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