Ziki De Naim's Internet Marketing Blog

Hi my blog readers,
I'm sorry for not posting lately, I'm too busy creating a new membership site for soon to be successful affiliate marketers.

It will be launch sometime next month and you will be among the first to know about it. It's going to have huge members area full with step by step video tutorials that will cover all areas related to affiliate marketing. I walked back and documented each step that made me earn a living online, each and every software I use to create my affiliate sites and offers, innovative traffic generation techniques, profound understanding and the importance of the profit funnel, email marketing and global marketing strategies, and basically all you need to know in order to be successful creating your affiliate marketing online business.

In the next days I will upload an optin form where you could sign up for the pre launch notification list and for a great opportunity to promote and make money as an affiliate or JV partner.
 
Based on my latest activities I've decided to start a new posts series about affiliate marketing because it is one of my main income sources and hopefully I will be able to provide you with some useful content so it may become yours as well...
  
Essential Steps in Affiliate Marketing

So you have decided to become an affiliate marketer? Before proceeding further it is best that you know what you will be doing as most affiliate marketers aren't so successful as they want you to believe. What I have learnt the hard way, is that you must have the proper mindset about online marketing, you must feel and vision your success while not letting your head's little voices to let you down when it gets tough, because when you yet to master most online marketing areas, affiliate marketing might be tough sometimes.

I would like to share a little secret with you, all successful online marketers had bad times, difficult learning curve and failures before achieving their success. Not succeeding is an integral part of success. We are all different so each individual while experiencing his own failures, will learn from his own experiences and with each failure, will be a step closer to achieving success. I've heard about people who were born rich but never heard about one that was born successful.

Having said that I would like to clear up another point. You should ideally prepare a step by step approach about how you will begin your campaign of affiliate marketing. To begin with, you will first need to tie up with companies that promote affiliate marketing. You can maybe try to find out a market segment that will excite you such as sports, travel or something similar. 

Once you have found out which market segment you are interested in, you can proceed to narrow down your component. For example, if you have chosen sports then the smaller component may be golf products and then breaking it down to sub niches. Once you have decide on your marketing component you can proceed to select the company who is marketing the related products. You can then read or find out the credentials of the company such as its commission structure, whether it pays on time, etc.

Once you have decided the product and the company for whom you will be doing affiliate marketing you will have to do it in a planned manner. It is best that you prepare the necessary steps to action on your computer or on paper. After you have found out that market segment in which you want to do affiliate marketing you will have to select a product for which you will be doing marketing.

Try to promote those products about which you are confident in marketing. Also you should choose those products which interest you otherwise that natural flair of marketing will not come into you. There are several people who end up marketing the products that don’t interest them with not so great results. It is natural that you are bound to do a good job about a product that interests you. You must consider that if you are going to make money with promoting that product you are in for the long haul, so you'd better choose according to your interests.

Once you choose the product that you want to market you should learn all details about the product. This way you can market confidently about the product and you will also be able to answered questions that the customers ask about the product. However, at least at the beginning, your main job is to lead customer’s to the company’s website and normally the product development department answers questions posted by the customers.

The next step is to find out what your niche market is and this normally depends on a few factors, the chief amongst them being the type of product that you are selling. For example, if you are selling golf clubs then you should target the American and the Japanese markets first as people in these countries love to play golf. You should ideally come up with content to describe the product and the company you are promoting. The content should contain important keywords that are normally entered by customers in a search engine such as Google. For starters, you can join a company such as Clickbank that has lots of products that you can choose and promote.   
 
Please note that It's useless to find a niche with high demand and high competition as this might get much longer to achieve results so you'd better find even a small sub niche within that niche and here comes the big secret of successful affiliate marketers, KEYWORDS. Keywords is the only element that may hide the big online money and keyword research is key.

After finding the niche that you are interested by, you must do a complete research to be sure that there’s a high demand for that niche and if that niche has less competition, you should move forward and start a deeper research before going for it.

It would take a lot of time to get into the niche and keyword research process here but just to highlight some important steps for the new affiliate marketer, if I would start keyword research for any niche, that's what I will put most of my time into. I will try to find a group of keywords that will have a decent amount of monthly searches with the least competition possible, A decent monthly searches per month would be 5k -20k and if that word hasn't less competition, I would search for as many related keywords to that top one and would certainly prepare an affiliate marketing campaign.   
 

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

In the previous article of this series, I've covered some of the basics on how you can make money online with affiliate marketing. In this post, we will see how you can earn loads of cash by employing affiliate marketing strategy.

Lately I’ve read a post where the blogger thinks that affiliate marketing is soon to be dead because of Google's recent updates and to his experience with affiliate marketing which led him to conclude that it's getting harder and harder to make money with affiliate marketing.

A few year back, affiliate marketing was compared to the rush for gold, many jumped on the opportunity and have found that gold while Google's recent updates simply wont allow any more to dig the way they did. I still think there's a lot of gold to be digged, the only difference is that today you should acquire marketing knowledge and use different approach and tools to dig for that gold which is still out there in huge quantities.

I found my self reading that posts comments, many of them opine that the days of affiliate marketing have come to an end thanks to Google. However, this is far from truth, and top affiliate marketers are raking in chunky commissions even today. Many of them will even tell you it's easier if you know how and what you are doing.

As long as there are people who are searching for information and products online, affiliate marketing will never die. I can agree with the argument that Google's recent updates has changed the affiliate marketing game and forced us to change the way we do business online, but I think that these changes are better for global internet users and if we, affiliate marketers, will adapt ourselves to the new methods affiliate marketing is forcing us to use, it might be easier to make money online simply because a big part of the new generation of affiliates aren't real marketers who are prepared to put the extra effort into their campaigns so, a big number of them are leaving the affiliate marketing arena and leaving us, marketers, a lot more of space.

I've seen many of them heading to FaceBook as they can reach a big slice of FaceBook members without really changing their affiliate game and some are making money but still, I think that real targeted buyers are easier to find on Google and although FaceBook has a bigger slice of the global internet traffic today, it's a social network and a big number of it's members are there for different reasons except for buying. Google can not be neglected, Google today is by far a lot more targeted and if you are planing to build an online business, you should adapt to it's rules.

Today, we will talk about affiliate marketing strategy that will have your subscribers jump in and buy what you are selling. So, instead of randomly picking up any product to promote, follow the steps mentioned below, and you will see that your sales will pick up and you will be earning commissions round the clock.

Affiliate Marketing Strategy

Choosing a niche: Ok, you are not creating your product, but you still need to select a niche where people are willing to throw open their wallets for you. But the trick is to find a niche where you don’t face severe competition. For example, there’s a huge demand for weight loss programs, but then, there is even severe competition in this niche. So, within weight loss program, you need to identify areas where the competition is less. For example, you can narrow down competition by selecting vegetarian diet food and even narrow down that sub niche to find a smaller one which still have the demand – searches with less competition.

Google's update – Adding Value to your webpage and Giving Value to your customers

Now, most affiliate marketers fail because they simply use a non search engine optimized landing page or they are using the same landing page as the product creator uses, they provide a link with a subscription box and except their customers to pay. Well, that was in the past. Google is not indexing these pages any more and banned users accounts who uses that strategy.

Today, you need to give value to your customers. Taking the vegetarian diet food example further, you should add value to your landing pages by having an SEO unique content of approximately 500+ words on it that is relevant to the page search terms while putting attention to the page meta tags, H's and all SEO components that a web page should have. If you are using WordPress there are many useful plugin's that can help you with these SEO tasks, and never place the subscription box at the beginning of the page, you can place it on the right side or closer to the end of the page.

You should change the way you used to think about landing pages. These are web pages that needs to be indexed and climb their way on the search engine results page – SERP. Use RSS submissions, article marketing, bookmarking, blog comments, social marketing strategies and content syndication plugin's etc. to build links to that web page, that's the way to build passive income from affiliate marketing.

You can prepare a report on say weight loss advantages of the vegetarian diet or whatever your narrowed niche is. You can also include tips on healthy cooking and some quick recipes in your report and if you are using email marketing, send them to your subscribers for free. Just ask them for their name and email address when they download your free report, without making any sales pitch at the moment.

You can also upload that report to free downloads sites so it can go viral and if you have followed Google's rules you could re-use their PPC platform to drive targeted traffic to your web page.

Your subscribers will definitely be impressed when they see a content rich report. After another week, you can create another report on say harmful effects of junk food. Try to include some research and statistics in your report to make it valuable. You can also engage in a conversation with your subscribers by asking them to post their comments and views on your landing page. Do make a sincere effort to reply to their queries.

And then, a week or so after that, you can pick up an affiliate program to promote vegetarian weight loss diet, and ask your subscribers to click on the link to buy the product.

Since you have created trust amongst your subscribers, you will see that they will not ignore your mail, and you will receive a better response.

The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you can promote another product after a few weeks in the same niche, or you can choose another niche of your liking. Whatever you choose, the above strategy will drastically improve your sales and of course your commission, and your list will grow bigger and bigger, with every successful offer.

I'll appreciate reading your thoughts, so .. Affiliate Marketing - Is The Rush For Gold Ended?

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

Affiliate marketing is what you do when you promote products and services on behalf of another merchant. The merchant can be a store, or it can actually be the inventor of a certain product. When you sign up to be an affiliate, Click bank, commission junction, link Share etc. you're given your own unique affiliate code. You embed this code in all the promotions you do online, so that whenever someone clicks on one of your links, the merchant will know that prospect came from you. If the prospect you sent makes a purchase, you get a commission on the sale. Sometimes those commissions can be pretty hefty! There are affiliate marketers that make $10,000 a month and more!

You can start affiliate marketing today. It doesn't require any special skills or equipment. All you need is how to find the right product to promote, and a knowledge of how to promote effectively.

Some people start affiliate marketing with no money at all, simply using free blogs to promote their affiliate products. However, it takes a while for traffic to start coming in this way, so you need to be patient if you choose to go that route.

You'll do much better much more quickly if you have your own website on your own domain name. Fortunately, you can get both for less than $20.Unlimited BlueHost com domains hosting is my favourite, and you can get a blog/website set up within minutes by simple script function from your cpanel . Search engines pick up these types of sites pretty quickly,

If you are going to use a blog you can install some powerful plugin's that will help to get quality  back links and traffic you need to make sales a lot faster.

These days i'm publishing a list of my favourite plugin's that I use in most of my blogs, some of them are common plugin's that you can get from wordpress org - and other powerful plugin's you'll be able to get after reading “my favourite plugin's blog posts series” that I will be publishing almost every day during the current month.  

There are literally dozens of creative methods you can use to promote your affiliate products...far too many to list all of them here, but the one that working very good for me is by writing and submitting articles to the main articles directories.

By investing into your real home business to buy a comprehensive affiliate marketing training, you'll be putting yourself leaps and bounds ahead of your competition. Invest in yourself intelligently, and you'll be well on your way to making good money online.

The most comprehensive affiliate marketing training “The ClickBank Code” was created by Michael Jones, a well appreciated affiliate marketer and products creator and I give it my highest recommendation. I used his methods and still using them in almost every promotion and it works like magic. You will be able to learn everything from choosing the right product to promote, highly effective niche research techniques using various free tools and traffic generation techniques.
 
Or.. to start by

Signing up to receive "The Affiliate Marketer's HandBook" which outlines Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online.

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

Lately i've got a few requests from a growing number of this blog readers to write more about affiliate marketing. After i've responded to some of the emails i realized that what i was thinking obvious, isn't at all especially to new marketers.

I've started a few years back and back then, the information wasn't all over the place, what could be found had a lot more value then these days and it was easier to see results for the efforts we, marketers put into promoting information products as products creators or as an affiliate marketers. 

I think that there's no way around but searching for knowledge online and it can be found all over the net, you just need to open your eyes and mind and to be willing to learn as all is out there lying in front (Warrior Forum), and i mean good and valuable information But, as there's a lot of S__t stuff going around and many people just rehash the information they just bought and are trying to sell us the same old info that they didn't take the time to test to see if it work, i've decided to write a few posts and a few reports that will describe some of the affiliate marketing principals and the ways that worked for me, from driving targeted traffic to affiliate offers, how i'm creating my landing pages, how i'm doing my niche and products research, and which are the most interesting affiliate networks i'm using to generate leads and money. I will also mentioned some of the products and their creators that helped me along the way and if they are still available i will send you to their site.

I know that some of the visitors are a few of the big names in the industry and that most of them aren't going to learn new strategies from what I’ll be revealing, but please keep on coming as this series is for the new marketers who are willing to dive into our industry. We were all at the same starting point not so long ago and the only difference between us is that we had our guides/mentors who leaded us to see clearly the pitfalls, so if we can help others it will pay it forward. Now that being said.. let's have a quick look at Internet Marketing in global.

Believe it or not, Internet marketing has definitely had an effect on offline business practices. The Internet has started a vast array of original markets, which were impossible prior to the invention of the information super highway. The interactive world of the internet, and the small costs involved in getting a foot into it and reaching a worldwide audience creates an extremely attractive marketing model for any offline business, regardless of size. That's how I got into it.
 
Internet marketing is basically the process of running a business and market it online. It is cost effective, as information for your website can be found all across the web itself, and hosting for a website has a minimal price tag. In fact, all you really need to get started is a domain name, a web host, a good idea or being able to search for one. Best of all, this area of marketing is open to EVERYONE, so anyone in any part of the world that has internet access can effectively make a nice income from home.

Not only that, you can work from any location. When you run an internet marketing business, your business can travel with you, as long as you have your computer or access to one. This gives you ultimate freedom of movement and makes your schedule your own. You can work any time, anywhere, and still have time to do the things you love. It's a perfect integration of work and family life that many people covet.

You can get started today your online business simply by setting up a simple website as an affiliate marketer. An affiliate marketer is someone who sells another person's products for a commission. Find products to sell on websites such as Clickbank, linkShare and Commission Junction, put up photos of the products, reviews, have fresh and unique content describing the product, you can get great content articles here, include your affiliate link throughout the site. With a little bit of promotion, you can start making money right away, and that's a great feeling.

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

If you are considering starting a home business and reviewing potential opportunities you need only to research on the Internet to discover a great deal of suggestions.

Right now there are any number of things you can do to generate income from home. The usual connotation of the phrase 'business opportunities' would for example involve a franchise, partnership or distributorship. A franchise or partnership would typically involve a large investment of money to start up. Often times becoming a distributor involves buying and storing an inventory; so again, a substantial investment of money and other resources are usually required. However, there are exceptions to this and sometimes other arrangements are possible.

The least pricey and simplest to start up and maintain homebased business opportunities are affiliate marketing programs. In this model, you can earn commissions without any real start-up costs or inventory, other than sometimes a small monthly membership fee. A few affiliate programs may also charge a nominal, one-time 'administrative' fee to get started.

Affiliate marketing programs are good first-time homebased business opportunities because they give you everything you need to start earning money. They handle your sales transactions and accounting and just pay you commissions when you make a sale. Your only real task is marketing and advertising.

Utilizing the net as the medium for your advertising and marketing is significantly less costly than offline. You can reach a massive audience without paying postage, printing and ad publishing charges. There are other things you can do that would also constitute homebased business opportunities, such as if you are able to create your own product. Whether virtual or physical products, the Internet is still the best place to do your marketing and advertising to sell it.

In order to find out about any of these possibilities, you can use the search engines to enquire as to where you can find resources and information to help you get started. Just go to Google.com, Bing.com, or Yahoo.com and submit a query. You will get thousands of results with sites that you can go to look at that will help you all along the way.  Review Proven Home Business Opportunities!

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

If you are not informed about an affiliate program here is a short explanation. Online businesses offer programs for people to join their company as an affiliate marketer. As an affiliate you will be paid a commission for any sales or leads that are sent to the company through a link you will be given. That link has your information embedded in it so the company can keep track of how many sales or leads came from your link.

Being an affiliate for a merchant is very popular because you do not need to have a product of your own to sell. You can make money when someone follows the link you were given and either buys something or fills out a form. This can be an effortless way to make money. There are thousands of merchants looking for people to help them sell their products and get them leads. You can use the link you were given in your email signature, or create ads for the company using the link and putting it on a search engine, you can post the link on blogs or forums that are relevant to the merchant or you can have your own website to put the link on.

All of these are different ways of affiliate marketing. Try to find companies that sell things that interest you. It is better for you and the company. Go to any search engine and put in a few of the things that interest you. You will see a list of hundreds of companies that sell what you like. The majority of these businesses will offer affiliate opportunities. The procedure to sign up to become an affiliate is easy once you decide you want to do it. You will need to give your name, address and email, there are companies who will want to know if you have a website and if you do, they will want to see it before approving you to make sure that it is suitable for them.

If you decide that you want to promote your affiliate links on your own website, free ones are very easy to get and put together, it will be a great place to put your links. Make sure your website has content on it that is relevant to what the companies are selling. For example if the companies sell craft items you would want to have some information about these on your site. Maybe what kind of crafts you do and what supplies you use.

Go to the websites you are getting your links from and make a record of any phrases they use or specific words. Put these on your webpage. When one of the hundreds of thousands of people that search the internet every day goes to look for crafts chances are they will go to your page. When they click on one of the links they will be directed to one of the companies you are an affiliate for. If they choose to sign up for emails you make money, if they buy something you make money. An affiliate program is good for the company and you. The company gets to advertise at a low price and you make money.  

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters

It has been said by many super affiliate marketers and internet business experts that people shopping online do not buy products, they buy solutions. With this said, covering both the tangible and intangible benefits to your offer in your ad copy is a crucial step to converting prospects into customers.Below is a simple checklist that you can use when addressing the benefits and solutions your product offers.

- Tell clients how much better they would look when they have the solvent (your product)

- Tell clients how unproblematic it is to implement the solvent (your product)

- Tell clients how unproblematic and reasonable your solvent (your product) is equated to the customer attempting to solve their trouble unaccompanied.

- Tell clients how safety, self-assurance and gratification are made into the solvent (your product)

- Tell clients how the purchase of this solvent (your product) might solve additional troubles, as best as prevent existent singles from worsening or recent singles from developing.

Let's search at everyone of these matter in a tiny additional particular. First, state the clients how much better they would look when they have your solution. This assists to construct believe with the customer good outside. The customer desires to look better and they require to solve their trouble. By stating them how much better they are going to look once they buy your solvent, the customer would be additional calm, ready to hit that arrange button and fewer impending to have consumers remorse. Second, state the customer how unproblematic it is to implement the solution.

The easier a solvent is to implement, the better read more chance you have for a auction. Be certain to exhibit particular models if possible. Third, state clients how unproblematic and reasonable your solvent is equated to the customer attempting to solve the trouble unaccompanied. A great deal of clients would attempt and solve their trouble first by themselves. When they lose, they would impending be a bit frustrated.

By stating the customer why your solvent is going to produce things easier for them, you would separate unhappy their fright of possessing the alike trouble they are already confronting after expending money on a solution. Fourth, state clients how safety, self-assurance and gratification are made into the solution. Ideally, you require to marketplace a manufactured goods that has a 100% money backward warranty. This assists again to construct believe with the customer so if they are not satisfied, they can have their money support. Also, if viable you will have to let in manufactured goods testimonies and preferably review the manufactured goods yourself before marketing it to others.

Last, state clients how the purchase of this solvent might solve additional troubles, as best as prevent preexisting singles from worsening or recent singles from developing. This is like a without charge additional benefits to your solvent and clients would observe solid value to your manufactured goods if it could not just solve their actual trouble, although too solve another associated or coming trouble. It's like a 100% secured auction.

Thank you very much for dealing the period to ready my clause on concrete and intangible benefits to your offer for affiliate dealers. I desire that you would get these tips and put them to excellent apply in your individual cyberspaces job.

The "AMMO" - 100 Day Affiliate Marketing Money Online Training - Guru's Techniques On How To Build Your Affiliate Marketing Online Business? - Gain Instant Access For Only $1.00!

FREE - "Art Of Better Conversions" - Elite Copywriters Guide For Cracking Out High Converting Sales Letters