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Sadhguru: A Spiritual Leader and Yogi
Sadhguru: A Spiritual Leader and Yogi Sadhguru, whose real name is Jaggi Vasudev, is a well-known spiritual leader, yogi, and author. Born on September 3, 1957, in Mysore, India, Sadhguru has been actively involved in spiritual and humanitarian activities for over three decades.
Best Pay Per Head Software in 2023
As a bookie, you know how important it is to have reliable and efficient pay-per-head software in 2023. Pay-per-head software is an online tool that lets you run your own sportsbook website, where you can give your players access to a wide range of betting options, casino games, live dealers, and more.
AMRYTT MEDIAPublished about 3 hours ago in Journal
I Turn $0 into $100 in 24 Hr Challenge & If I fail then I will give you $100.
So hello my dear hustlers, Yesterday one of my followers challenge me to turn $0 into $100 in just 24 hr & If I don’t win the challenge then I will give $100 to one of my random followers who comments “ $100Challenge” down below in comment section of this article.
Modern Leather Sectional: A Timeless Addition to Your Home
A modern leather sectional is a classic piece of furniture that can add sophistication and style to any living room. With its sleek lines and contemporary design, a leather sectional can be a great investment for homeowners who are looking to upgrade their home decor. In this article, we'll discuss the benefits of owning a modern leather sectional and provide tips on how to choose the right one for your home.
CHIRAG CHAUHANPublished about 4 hours ago in Journal
Vermicompost - How to Set Up a Simple Worm Farm and Make Compost in 4 Months?
Vermicompost - How to Set Up a Simple Worm Farm and Make Compost in 4 Months Vermicompost is vital to good soil. In the previous article on Organic Farming one of the sections dealt with soil and how important having healthy soil is to Organic Farming as a healthy soil equates to healthy vegetables and cattle. One of the main contributors to this process is the lowly earthworm. However, more and more people nowadays are realizing how useful this little animal is. The casts, or the manure that is produced by earthworms, is called vermicompost. The humble earthworm's activities result in numerous advantages: 1) If you start your own vermicompost heap you generate an endless supply of cheap compost that is chemically-free, eco friendly and uses up biodegradable matter that before one would dispose of. 2) The vermicompost is friable and improves not only the structure of the soil, but also the rate of water retention. 3) The soil is enriched. The concentrations of nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, and phosphates are all higher in soil that has earthworms. 4) Vermicompost also suppresses certain types of weeds that would have grown if the compost were not present. 5) It promotes better root growth and structure, and is an excellent medium for growing seedlings and seeds as it enhances germination and crop yields. So now that we know the benefits of worm farming, how do we go about setting up a small worm farm and what sort of bin should you choose? What Size of Bin and Type of Bin is Best for you? For each 500 g (1 pound) of food waste produced each week, you will need at least 30 cm squared (1 ft squared) of bin space. Therefore choose the size of bin that is appropriate for your size family. As a benchmark for 2-3 people you should have a bin measuring 60 x 60 x 30 cm stocked with 1 kg of worms. Most small bins for vermicompost use can be grouped into three categories: 1) Non-continuous : An undivided container, a layer of organic matter is placed in the bin lining the bottom. Worms are then added and organic matter for composting is added in a layer above the bedding. Another layer is added on top of the organic matter and the worms will start to compost the organic matter and bedding. This type of bin is often used because it is small and easy to build. But it is relatively difficult to harvest because all the materials and worms must be emptied out when harvesting. 2) Continuous vertical flow : A series of trays are stacked vertically on top of one another. The bottom tray is filled first, in a similar fashion to the non-continuous bin, but is not harvested when it is full. Instead, a thick layer of bedding is added on top and the tray above is used for adding organic material. Worms finish composting the materials in the bottom tray and then migrate to the one above. When a sufficient number of worms have migrated, the vermicompost in the bottom tray can be collected and should be relatively free of worms. These bins provide an easier method of harvesting, as they do not all have to be emptied out. 3) Continuous horizontal flow: A series of trays are lined horizontally. This method too relies on the earthworms migrating towards a food source in order to ease the process of harvesting. The bin is usually constructed to be similar to a non-continuous bin but is longer and lies horizontally. It is divided in half, usually by a large gauge screen of chicken wire. One half is used until it becomes full, then the other half is filled with bedding and organic matter. In time, the worms migrate to the side with the food and the compost can then be collected. These bins are larger than a non-continuous system but still small enough to be used for small-scale worm farming, with the added advantage of being easier to harvest. Setting up a small-scale Worm Farm Setting up the compost bin is easier than you may think. All you need are the following: • A plastic bin with a lid to keep away the flies and to cut down on odours while the matter is decomposing. However, your worms will need oxygen, so drill holes in the bottom of the bin for ventilation and drainage and further help this process by placing the bin on some bricks to elevate it off the ground. • Place some bedding in the bin for the worms in the form of either shredded paper (that from a mechanical shredder is perfect as it is really fine), peat moss or shredded coconut hair (coir) that can be commercially bought. Do not use glossy paper or magazines. This should not be more than about a fifth of your bin space. Remember that the worms eat the bedding, so you need to replenish this every few months. • Water to dampen the bedding. Make sure that you do not flood the bin with too much water. You just want to make the bedding moist. • Get your food scraps that you have been saving up. The best scraps are fruit and vegetable peelings, fruit skins, apple cores etc. If you want to help your worms along, some of those scraps could be liquidised in a blender to quicken the process. Additions such as cow, sheep, pig or chicken manure is a bonus, but it is not a necessity. • In setting up your vermicompost avoid feeding the worms the following: meat, fats or dairy products, citrus, onions and garlic, fish, bones, tobacco, or pet or human manure. Too much fat prevents the earthworms from breathing properly as they breathe through their skin. Also avoid using too many watermelon skins as they really don’t have a lot of nutritional value for the earthworm and they also disrupt the moisture levels of the compost. If your lawns have been sprayed with any weed killer avoid feeding these clippings to the worms. • Now it is time to place your worms into the bin. The type of worm is important and the red worms are the ones to get. These are called composting worms and known as Red Wigglers (Eisenia foetida) or Red Earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus). Make sure that you do this on a sunny day and that the sun is shining into the compost bin. Earthworms do not like the sun and they will immediately start digging down into their new home. If you do not have the sun shining for this exercise you may find that most of your worms have crawled out of the bin and left for greener pastures! The worms can be bought commercially, including over the Internet. • Now cover with two handfuls of soil to the bedding in each bin to supply “roughage” for the worms. Adding crushed eggshells provides not only roughage but also calcium for the worms, and it lowers acidity in the bin. Now put the lid down on the bin. Where should you Place your Vermicompost Bin? • Many people actually like to keep their bin inside, either in a garage, basement, kitchen or laundry area. Personally, I do not think that compost bins belong indoors at all. Rather place the bin in a sheltered area out of the sun. In winter, you could move the bin to the garage, or surround it with some form of shelter like hay bales to keep the snow, rain and cold out. Maintaining your Vermicompost Bin • You have to make sure that you have enough moisture in your bin, without it getting too wet, and Making sure that the compost is alkaline rather than acidic. You should turn the bin contents over on a regular basis, it’s best to do this every 3 days. Your worms require 3 things to exist: i) Oxygen ii) Moisture iii) Food Scraps iv) A dark place to live • If all requirements are met your worms will live quite happily in their new environment and will also procreate. Adult worms produce three cocoons a week and each cocoon will contain at least three baby worms and sometimes ten or more. Every three months the worms should be harvested or separated from the castings. • Make sure that your soil never smells sour. If this happens it means that the soil is too wet. If it smells sour then add calcium carbonate, also known as garden lime which is very different to ordinary lime which will kill your worms, crushed egg shells, dirt, sand, or more newspaper to soak up that excess moisture. • So how wet should your compost be? – About 75% moist. What exactly does this mean? I can already hear you ask. Well, if you take a handful of matter and squeeze it hard you should only get about a drop or two of liquid. This is just how your worms like their environment and will be quite happy to stay. • No only will they be happy to stay they will also multiply. If conditions are good, you will double your worm population in six months. If the worms become crowded and you do not remove any, then worms will slow down their reproduction. Feeding your Worms There are two methods of adding food scraps to the bin. • Top feeding: This is when food scraps and biodegradable matter is placed directly on top of the existing layer in a bin and then covered with another layer of bedding and soil. This is repeated every time the bin is fed. • Pocket feeding : A top layer of bedding is maintained and food is buried beneath by drilling down into the bedding. The location of the food is changed each time, rotating around the bin to give the worms time to decompose the food in the previously fed pockets. The top layer of bedding is replaced when necessary. • One pound of worms will eat about three and one half pounds of food scraps a week. If you add more food than your worms can handle, anaerobic conditions will set in and cause odour. Make sure that food scraps are always buried under the soil to avoid attracting flies and rodents. Knowing When and How to Harvest the Vermicompost • Smaller scale worm bins are harvested in a variety of ways, and the length of time it takes for the process to be completed really depends on a whole range of variables including the size of the container to start off with. In all cases, harvesting should begin when the bedding and consumed food has turned a rich dark brown. It should be moist and crumbly, with a consistency of coffee grounds. • After about six weeks, you will begin to see worm castings (soil-like material that has moved through the worms’ digestive tracts). Castings can boost plant growth, since they are rich in organic matter and the nutrients plants need to thrive, and are pulsing with biological activity that will bring life to your soil eco-system. • After about 4 months it will be time to separate the worms from the compost. If you have a non-continuous or undivided container, it is more difficult to harvest the worms. However, this situation is certainly not impossible. Take the contents and turn it upside-down on a piece of plastic such as a ground sheet or a tarpaulin. Because the earthworms are photosensitive, if this is done on a sunny day the worms will start burrowing down, and then it is easy to start scraping the compost from the top, waiting in between for them the move downwards. Wait 20-30 minutes before starting to scrape off the top layer of compost. • If, however, you are the impatient type, get yourself a fine meshed sieve, the type they use in construction yards, if your compost heap is fairly large, or a large household sieve will do. Sieve the compost until you have finely granulated composted on one side, and your worms in the other to start the process all over again. Do not be lazy and put the worms into your soil along with the compost. It is not that the worms will damage your plants in any way, but red worms are not worms that will survive for any length of time in such soil. In nature, this type of worm lives in mild climates in the leaves on the forest floor or in manure piles. • Be on the lookout for worm eggs. They are lemon-shaped and about the size of a match head. They are shiny in appearance, and are light brown in colour. The eggs contain between two and twenty baby worms. Although it is time consuming, you may want to return the eggs to your bin so they can hatch and thrive. • Another way to harvest the compost is to move the compost to one side of the box and add fresh bedding and food to the other side. Then only bury food on the new side. In six weeks, the worms will have migrated to the new bedding and you can harvest the finished compost, and replace it with new bedding. Now that you have all this compost how are you going to use it? • You can use your vermicompost straight away or store it and use it later. It will be good for about a year. Mix it into the top six inches of soil in your garden and around your trees and plants. You can also use it as a top dressing on outdoor plants or sprinkle it on your lawn like you would as if you were top-dressing. Vermicompost makes great nutrient-rich mulch so is perfect for areas that do not get lots of rain for moisture retention. • For indoor plants, you can safely mix vermicompost with your potting soil. Regarding indoor plants, make sure that you have removed all worms and eggs from the compost as they will not survive in an indoor pot. • You can also make a “compost tea” to feed to your plants. An easy recipe is to add two tablespoons of vermicompost to one quart of water and allow it to steep for a day, mixing occasionally. Water your plants with this “tea” to give them a boost.
The Bermuda Triangle and Antarctica!
The Bermuda Triangle and Antarctica The art or science of metallurgy is vital to the social structures surrounding all esoteric beliefs. They are the most tangible items of the cosmic soup that are possibly drawn to certain Earth Energy Grid locations as we shall see. The shamans who gathered meteorite material to fashion tools and weapons as well as for the use of the metals and spirits thereof became great aristocrats, as their family or heritage and legends grew. Genghis Khan (Temujin) is from such a family and most of the early aristocrats were either adept (like the House of David and Solomon) themselves or worked closely with these artisans who we could call alchemists, as Mircae Eliade does in his ‘The Forge and The Crucible’. When the Spanish arrived in Mayan lands they asked the Aztecs and others where their knives came from, they also found a meteorite at the venerated apex of the Cholula pyramid. They pointed to the heavens and the Spanish reports call this paganism. When this use of metals began is anyone’s guess. It requires no great debate or references of authorities to know the almost ultimate import of meteors in the ancient past when one considers just these two things. The Ka’aba is a black meteorite in Mecca and there is a ritual among the Islamic faithful who must visit it once in their lifetime. That ritual of approaching this sacred relic from very ancient times (before Islam) is learned by all of Islam. In Mexico there are pyramids with churches on top (now) that used to house meteorites. “In 1969, a Japanese scientific expedition was trekking near the Yamato Mountains, in the region of the Antarctic {Under international domain.} icecap that lies directly south of Africa. The Japanese found nine dark meteorites lying close together on the surface of the ice. Given meteorites’ scarcity, the expedition leaders assumed that the nine samples they found were fragments of a single large specimen that had broken apart in its fall to the ice. To their amazement, however, they soon discovered that their finds were all of different types and chemical compositions. They were not pieces of one rock. They had not even formed in the same region of the solar system. This was thrilling! The convergence of nine separate thunders tones at that single spot implied that the ice sheet itself was somehow collecting those rarities of nature and sweeping them together. The Japanese mounted more expeditions to the Yamato ice in 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1979, and they were rewarded with a grand total of 3,000 meteorites. Every year since then, during the brief Antarctic summer, international expeditions have converged on the Japanese rock gardens. Each small meteorite is photographed where it lies and then nudged gingerly into a teflon bag, which is an awkward procedure when performed with thick mittens and in deep subzero cold, with the stone skittering on the ice. Once bagged, each specimen is shipped home and studied in an antiseptic laboratory, using the same sort of apparatus built to study Moon rocks. The sample is never touched by human hands.” (1) They go on to describe the then existing theory of the Big Bang but no mention of how these rocks get there and keep getting there. What might be happening here? Is there a case of affinity at work (my encyclopedia has an in depth description of affinity)? Is there intelligent design or what? The Pasadena lab where a lot of these things are studied is known as the Lunatic Asylum. A member of my sister-in-law’s family works for JPL there, and travels all around the world doing things they never get to know about anymore. Is it because she isn’t allowed to tell them or is it because the family used to call her ideas and the things we would talk about ‘sheer lunacy’? What happened in the 8 billion years or so between the formation of our known universe and the formation of our Milky Way comprised of countless solar systems? The numbers are so incredible that the mind can’t conceive what is in just the known universe, and there are others we put outside the words ‘known universe’. Who is able to do more than worship this phantasm or orgy of ‘luna’-cy (luna=moon)? “’It looks as if Venus may have had oceans hundreds of millions of years ago,” says planetologist Jim Head. If so, Venus would have been very much more like Earth. Its continents may have enjoyed rivers, streams, puffy white clouds, and pleasant weather… Will the human volcano heat Planet Earth until all the seas go dry and lead melts in the sunlight? Are we already on the downhill path to Venus?” (2) The reason the rocks are drawn to Mt. Yamato may have something to do with the Earth Energy Grid which has two bands of energy ‘blobs’ or vortices around the world. Mt. Yamato would be a site where the opposite energy may exist. I will not be able to prove it but I will present some interesting data on the likes of the Bermuda Triangle from the early research of Ivan Sanderson whose work is continued in another very recent book which I will cover as well. First of all let me say I think a very large meteor was drawn to the area of the Bermuda Triangle in 8350 BCE or thereabouts. The cobalt and nickel left there from this meteor will throw electrical guidance systems haywire and this has been demonstrated by credible researchers. I have dealt with it extensively in other books. It is called the Carolina Bays Event and I think it provides a reason why there is a 2200 foot drop to an urban site now being looked into off the coast of Cuba. The plate tectonics of rising mountains in the Andes would be far too early to tie in with this sudden drop of a city or urban center, I think. This excerpt also addresses the region of Japan where recent finds of semi-Pyramidal structures are being researched. That site is Yonaguni and there are others near there. “The Disposition of Anomalies We have spent a perhaps inordinate amount of time discussing the things that called attention to these ‘Vile Vortices’ in order to demonstrate the extent and character of the phenomenon. I think the time has now come for some detailed analysis of and comment upon this business as a whole; and from this we may proceed to some speculation. The popular idea has been that there is one roughly triangular area with sides running from Bermuda to central Florida and thence to Puerto Rico in which a large number of planes have simply vanished without a trace. This is a glamorous notion, but on proper analysis, it does not stand up. It is not a triangle, and its periphery is much greater than the one outlined above. In fact, the area in which such disappearances, or alleged disappearances, have been recorded forms a large, sort of lozenge-shaped {These lozenge lattices are found all around many ‘keltoi’ sites like the Tarim Basin of recent discovery. Mandalas are designed according to energy flow. The energy that taught or that they observed is all important.} area which is neither centered on the Oceanic island of Bermuda not can it in any way be depended from it. We have plotted all the ‘disappearances’—and please remember that this is something quite different from mere sinking of ships and submarines, or ditchings of planes—reported from this area and found that it slops way over the original so-called ‘triangle.’ After this discovery, the question naturally arose as t the uniqueness of this funny blob, which extends from about 30degrees to 40 degrees north latitude, and from about 55 degrees to 85 degrees west. Was it unique? We knew already that there was at least one other such area alleged to exist. This lies some 250 miles south of the Japanese island of Honshu about longitude 140 degrees east. We therefore started to work, gathering records of ships lost and planes vanishing around this point which, as a matter of fact, had up till then been only mentioned—and rather casually at that. The outcome was not just amazing; it was positively startling. Plane after plane on its way south to Guam appears to have vanished, and this with disturbing frequency. So we started plotting again, and despite the usually very vague locations given—and no wonder, considering that these planes disappeared without radio signals or any trace—another lozenge-shaped blob came to light. This startled us a bit, but then one of my colleagues had the brilliant idea of getting out a map of the world! Once we had a map before us, we saw that both lozenges lay precisely between 30 degrees and 40 degrees north and also spread about 30 degrees east to west, latitudinally. This really did spark us, so we made a grab for the globe. Now the surface of our earth as seen on a globe is really very different from what we look at on a two-dimensional map, and especially one on what is called the Mercator projection. Just where did these two blobs lie relative to each other as one went around the globe? It turned out that they were centered 160 degrees apart (going around one way) and 200 degrees (going the other). In other words, there did not appear to be any noticeable pattern. If they had been at 180 degrees going both ways, they would have been exactly opposite each other on opposite sides of the earth. But then something else cropped up. We had been inundated with letters asking for more information on the disappearances of the Israeli and French submarines at the east and west ends of the Mediterranean, respectively, We were naturally unable to add anything to the news reports and official statements. However, the Mediterranean Sea just happens to form a lozenge-shaped blob, also lying between 30 degrees and 40 degrees north, and just about 30 degrees from left to right, latitudinally. Naturally, we measured the distance between these three blobs. Then something else rather startling came to light. They were arranged on an apparently strict numerical progression—from the Bermuda bit to the Mediterranean, four; the Mediterranean to the Japanese, five; and the Japanese to the Bermuda, six. Now, I don’t like such neat patterns emerging in anything in nature; it looks far too much as though somebody had got the idea first, and then tried to fit the facts into it. You can fit almost anything into almost anything else if you try hard enough; as any mathematician, statistician, or police officer can tell you. However, Nature is to a great extent fairly orderly and does display rather neat patterns. So we had three ‘blobs’ in a line—and the same line, please note—of something. But just what? At this point I started doing some hard thinking. If there are three such areas between 30 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude, could there be equivalents at 30 degrees and 40 degrees south latitude? A subsequent investigation into plane, ship, and sub losses in the southern hemisphere yielded some amazing results. There turned out to be three exactly similar areas situated below the equator. These lie off the east coasts of South America, South Africa, and Australia. All proved to be precisely within 30 degrees to 40 degrees of latitude south, and also to be about 30 degrees of longitude in width. But very strangely, they were all tilted up to the right or east, as were also those in the northern hemisphere! Frankly, this does not seem to make sense, because our planet is a sphere and the southern hemisphere should mirror the northern. So we started looking for some physical reason for this clear pattern. The first thing that emerged was that these vortices in the southern hemisphere wee precisely shifted the same number of degrees to the east in all cases. Then one further fact came to light. Of all the possible known physical factors that could cause this pattern—temperature, barometric pressure, and, above all, geomagnetic anomalies—only one fitted, and this was surface ocean currents! Five of these six areas—the Mediterranean alone being in a different category—lie on the right or east sides of the continents, {Before the African continent collided with the land north of it about 12 million years ago, this would not be the case. But it would not have been on the right of any land then. Remember this is where the Great Pyramid serves some Earth Energy Grid function and somehow is located on the nearest firm foundation to the center of all the land masses on earth.} and all precisely in curious areas where hot surface currents stream out of the tropical latitudes toward the colder waters of the temperate, subpolar and eventually polar areas. What is more, the two principal ones in the northern hemisphere, in accordance with the simple behavior of waters on a spinning globe, turn clockwise, while the three in the southern hemisphere turn counterclockwise. There is nothing odd about this; but there is about the fact that said twirls all make their tightest turns precisely in these five locations… {He goes on to detail how other occurrences are problematic in these same areas and highlights the fact that disappearances that leave no trace only happen to such a high proportion in these areas. He then got a letter from a woman whose brothers in the Navy and Air Force had told her things that result in ten ‘blobs’ or lozenges which fit the ancient Pentagon-dodecahedron knowledge which he does not mention and may not have known about. He also makes it clear he sees none of the UFO or ET things to this which Cathie and others do.} The significance of th’s may be lost on most of us ordinary and non-mathematically orientated folk, so I asked our chief geometer, who is also a specialist electronics engineer, to tell me how to put it. His reply was very clear and, to me at least, simple; namely, that there would appear to be ten funny places on the surface of our planet which lie opposite each other in a particular manner… demonstrated that all five of them {Skewers placed through the globe at the points of the lozenges.} were battling to pass through the exact center of the earth.” (3) Thus we have the Great Pyramid serving as the keystone to the surface of the earth and these vortices of energy derived out of some deep earth energy which I also relate to the meteorites from space finding a reason to collect in Antarctica or the large one drawn to the Bermuda Triangle. Research on the tensile strength of metals over these ‘blots’ shows the fields of energy surrounding the earth has a strong impact on everything and that makes one wonder about many things considered foolish about astrology or other psycho-spiritual sciences. Imagine attuning oneself to these energies and directing them. Notes: 1) Planet Earth, by Jonathan Weiner, Bantam Books/WQED Pittsburgh, NY, 1986, pgs. 167-8. 2) Ibid., pg.174. 3) Invisible Residents, by Ivan T. Sanderson, F. L. S., F. R. G. S., M. A. (Cantab.), The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland, 1970, pgs. 137-144.
Affiliate Marketing or, Blogging – What Is the Best Way to Make Money Online? 6 Quick Tips to Make Money Online Using Affiliate Marketing!
Affiliate Marketing or, Blogging – What Is the Best Way to Make Money Online? There are thousands of resources online that can help you make money online. But with these thousands of resources comes thousands of ideas. But what is the best way to make money online? Most of these resources that you find online talk about two things the most, when it comes to making money online. These are affiliate marketing and blogging. While there are some dedicated blogs and resources to help you make money online blogging, affiliate marketing advices come in the form of ebooks and audio and video files. But the dilemma still remains. What is the best way to make money online – affiliate marketing or, blogging? Affiliate Marketing – Any business is about selling products or, services. An internet marketing business too, will involve selling some kind of products and services. This is basically what separates affiliate marketing and blogging. Affiliate marketing is about selling products from other people whom we normally call as vendors. These vendors create these products and give you an option of selling it for them. They in turn are willing to pay you a commission. This is a good option if you do not want to take the pain of creating a product by yourself. It can at times be extremely difficult and a lot of people will not have an idea for a product. Hence selling a readymade product is an option that they would prefer. While affiliate marketing is still one of the most preferred way to start an online business, success in affiliate marketing required dedicated efforts on your part. Blogging – Blogging has a slightly different approach. If you are somebody who does not know how to create a product and you don’t prefer selling other’s products as well, but love writing, then you might be interested in blogging. Blogging is about blogs, the short form of web logs. People create blogs on topics of their interest and because they love writing. They will have bags full of ideas to write about and they have the art of putting these ideas onto a paper. Hence they love blogs. While the blogger is enjoying writing on a topic that he loves to write, thousands of internet surfers browse through thousands of pages on the internet looking for information on topics of their interest. If the interests of the writers matches that of the internet surfer, he might end up at your blog and may even become a permanent reader. If, you are one of the above kind, then you may prefer blogging. There are numerous ways of monetizing your blogs like AdSense and other paid advertisements. Though blogging in itself can be a good source of income, if you can combine your blogging efforts with affiliate marketing, the returns will be very high and you will be able to make a lot of money. 6 Quick Tips to Make Money Online Using Affiliate Marketing Can you really make money online using affiliate marketing? In the short answer, yes, but you need the right approach to be successful. If you want to work from home and beat the current recession you need to focus on a target market. The biggest mistake people make when trying to make money online using affiliate marketing is they jump from product to product and promotion to promotion, it takes time. Affiliate marketing is basically promoting products and receiving a percentage of the sale. It can range from 10% to 100% depending on the company and offer. The pros are you don’t need website design experience, or even your own product to sell. The most attractive aspect is the little money factor, you can literally start with zero dollars out of pocket. What do you need to make money online using affiliate marketing? 1. Everyone has a hobby, area of interest or expertise in something, so start with what you know. Find a crowd that has a burning question that needs to be answered and they are willing to pay you for the answer. A target market can be as easy as someone suffering from acne. They will do what Ever it takes to treat it. 2. Next you need to research your market, where they hang out, the age group etc. The more you know about your target market the easier it will be to align the consumer with a product. In the acne case it will be a cream or ointment to treat acne, not an e-book. Many new affiliate marketers skip on the research, and quit when they make no money online. 3. Find the exact keywords your going to target, at this point you know your market, where they hang out, and how to find them. Now we need the long tail keywords, and smaller niches with less competing pages, a narrow focus. Aim for 30- 65 searches per day and less than 5,000 competing pages. 4. Next find a product related to your research, the crowd has all ready told you what they want and why. So browse affiliate marketing sites such as ClickBank, CJ, Linkshare etc. or type your keyword plus affiliate into Google. Write down all the ideas and research the popularity of the product. 5. Build a free website with Weebly or HubPages or Squidoo, this will be your money page. Make sure you provide great info and answer the number one questions your target market has and provide the benefits of using your product. Make sure you add your affiliate links to make money online. No selling. 6. Finally pick your potion, Free traffic strategies or Paid. If your just starting off trying to make money online using affiliate marketing, then start with free, write articles on your keywords, participate in forums etc. Keep testing and tracking your results, weed out the losers and tweak the winners. This basic how to make money online using affiliate marketing guide is provided to help you see that your options are open even during the recession. Keep an open mind and pick one strategy at a time and keep moving until you make sales. I know you’re still skeptical, with all the “Make Money Online Program Scams” that exist. I was once in the same position, looking for a new job and needed a new start.
The End All Guide To Affiliate Marketing And Making Money Online For Future Clickbank Webmasters!
The End All Guide To Affiliate Marketing And Making Money Online For Future Clickbank Webmasters Firstly, know that this article is not a comprehensive “welcome to affiliate marketing” guide. I will not spend much time going over the basics, but will spotlight the actual methods you need to make money – with a bit of pertinent background to help you understand the reasons behind these methods. You beginners will find this information invaluable and stimulating. You practiced marketers will find this information accurate and refreshing, while also discovering some astonishing new ideas to employ in your everyday endeavors. So, let’s continue. Almost everyone that makes money on the internet (even the millionaires) do so through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a means of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. Compensation or commission may be made based on a certain value for each Impression (CPM), click (Pay-per- click), registrant or new customer (Pay-per-lead) or (Cost-per-Acquisition / CPA), sale (usually a percentage, Pay per sale or revenue share), or any combination of them. In very short English; there are literally hundreds of thousands of affiliate programs on the web featuring tens of millions of products ranging from magazine subscriptions to life insurance and every conceivable thing in between. An affiliate is essentially a salesperson whose job is to send people to a merchant’s website. When a predetermined “action” or sale is made, the affiliate is paid a commission. It’s the same as being a salesperson in retail, only online. I will teach you more about the actual application of affiliate marketing later in this chapter. Compensation Models Another important attribute of an affiliate program is its’ compensation model. This may have an impact on which advertisers you decide to join and how you go about promoting them. It will surely have an impact on how much money you will make. Here is a breakdown of the various compensation models that affiliate advertisers utilize. Pay-per-impression (PPI) / Cost-per-thousand (CPM) Cost-per-mil (mil/mille/M = Latin/Roman numeral for thousand) impressions. Publisher gets from Advertiser $x.xx amount of money for every 1000 impressions (page views/displays) of the ad. The Ad can be text , rich media, but in most cases, the ad is a banner running across the top, or down the side of a website. Pay-per-click (PPC) / Cost-per-click (CPC) Cost-per-click. Advertiser pays publisher $X.XX amount of money, every time a visitor (potential prospect) clicks on the advertiser’s ad; it is irrelevant (for the compensation) how often an Ad is displayed. Commission is only due when the Ad is clicked. The PPC model is used by Google AdWords, Miva and other providers. These are the ads that you see running along-side search results and many web-pages out there. Pay-per-lead (PPL) / Cost-per-action/acquisition (CPA) / Cost-per-lead CPL) Cost-per-action (CPA). Cost-per-Lead (CPL). Advertiser pays publisher $X.XX in commission for every visitor that was referred by the publisher to the advertiser (web site) and performs a desired action, such as filling out a form, creating an account or signing up for a newsletter. This compensation model is very popular with online services from internet service providers, cell phone providers, banks (loans, mortgages, credit cards) and subscription services. Pay-per-sale (PPS) / Cost-per-sale (CPS) Cost-per-sale (CPS). Advertiser pays the publisher a percentage (%) of the order amount (sale) that was created by a customer who was referred by the publisher. This model is by far the most common compensation model used by online retailers that have an affiliate program. This form of compensation is also referred to as Revenue sharing. Pay-per-call (no abbreviation exists yet) This is a new compensation model. No official abbreviation exists yet. Advertiser pays publisher a $X.XX commission for phone calls received from potential prospects as response to a specific publishers’ ad. Recently developed call-tracking technology allows to create a bridge between online and offline advertising. Pay-per-call advertising is still new and in its infancy. Choosing a Model: As you can see, there are advantages and disadvantages to the various compensation models. This can (and should) be decisive in your selection of which affiliate program to join, but depends largely on what you are promoting and how you decide to go about promoting it. For example, the paid surveys program Survey Adventure, pays out an extremely high $4.50 per double opt-in lead (CPA). The action; signing up with the company is free, so obviously, the program converts very well, but you must provide many leads in order to make a substantial amount of money. The real money is in pay per sale programs (PPS). If you have a good product and a sound marketing plan, the money will come. Affiliate Marketing & You There are many other aspects, facts, advice and information that I could share with you on the subject of affiliate marketing, but we don’t want to get too far into it. So I will briefly cover a couple of subjects quickly that apply to what I feel you will actually need to know and what you will be employing in your money-making endeavors. Web 2.0 The rise of blogging, interactive online communities, article directories, simple web sites and other new technologies and are forming the new Web 2.0. These new technologies have impacted the affiliate marketing world in a very big way. Creating a presence online used to take months as well as a number of trained professionals. Nowadays, it is quite possible for newcomers to (by themselves) “set up shop” literally overnight and with very little experience. Also, this new media allows merchants to get closer to their affiliates and improved communication between each other. What this means to you, is that you can be on your way to becoming a super affiliate master as soon as you finish this guide! Trademark Bidding / SEO Affiliates were among the earliest to adopt Pay-per-click advertising when the first PPC search engines. In 2000 Google launched their PPC service AdWords which is responsible for the wide spread use and acceptance of PPC as an advertising channel. Since then, a large number of advertisers have adjusted their affiliate program terms to prohibit their affiliates from bidding on those types of keywords. Though we will not go into PPC Marketing, you must understand that some trademarks, such as the term “eBay” are heavily restricted because of this. One area that has not been hit by new restrictions is SEO or “Search Engine Optimization”. Later, I will be teaching you how to create profiles that will trick Google and other search engines into indexing them as relevant websites and list them in top search results. Sign up for AdWords and Miva. I will show how to use these later in the guide. Why Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing is driven by entrepreneurs who are working at the forefront of internet marketing. Affiliates are the first to take advantage of new emerging trends and technologies where established advertisers do not dare to be active. Affiliates take risks and “trial and error” is probably the best way to describe how affiliate marketers are operating. This is also one of the reasons why most affiliates fail and give up before they “make it” and become “super affiliates” who generate $10,000 and more in commission (not sales) per month. You will not earn the right to call yourself an affiliate marketer overnight. You will have to work (relatively) hard and innovatively to make the kind of money that you want, but know that if you do, the rewards are very large and there for your taking. Never give up! Affiliate Networks Very few publishers handle their affiliate programs in house. Most affiliate programs are set up and managed by large affiliate networks. Most of my affiliate programs are set up and maintained by the affiliate network ClickBank, which is the largest affiliate network on the web. Some networks do not have qualification criteria, but most do. The majority of this online guide will focus on marketing strategies for ClickBank affiliates, but here is a short list of the top affiliate networks that all of the professionals belong to and you should apply to. The “Big 4” Affiliate Networks ClickBank connects over a hundred thousand affiliates with thousands of information product vendors offering a huge array of downloadable products, mainly eBooks. Because it is cheap and easy for merchants to join, the quality of the products provided can vary. ClickBank is also a great place to search for unexploited niches. Commission Junction (or “CJ”) is another very popular affiliate network. CJ brings together affiliates and product vendors, but also offers physical products for its affiliates to promote. CJ has many large brand names on its site, and is very well established. It is free to sign up, but most vendors are selective of who represents them. LinkShare features more than 600 merchants. You’ll find mostly big name and well established companies, such as Wal-Mart, Foot Locker, and Apple iTunes. Merchants are selective in representation! Performics is a highly professional site with very well known brands. Performics’ clients include: Orchard Bank, Office Max, Activa Sports, Barnes&Noble, Fossil, and more than 200 other big name, big business advertisers. Performics is owned by DoubleClick. Armatures need not apply, but may try. Getting Paid By The Networks Most affiliate networks require that you reach a “payment threshold” before they will release your first payment. While the amount usually varies from network to network, exactly how they pay you is pretty much your choice. Your three choices that you have are Check via mail, Direct Deposit and PayPal. I do not like to wait for checks so I set most of my accounts to direct deposit on payday. You may set your affiliate accounts to deposit your earnings directly to the card. This saves you the week of delivery time on the checks and the two week waits for the out of state checks to clear. PayPal is also a great option, but not all affiliate networks offer payment via PayPal. It works exactly like direct deposit. Just check your account on payday to find the money there. You may also set up a merchant (business) account like I did so that you can get a PayPal Debit card. Again, it works just like a bank. Oddly enough, when I applied for my card the interest that I was (and still do to this day) earning on my money was higher than any bank I have ever heard of. Almost up there with CDs, but that’s another story. I like to set up my finances this way so that I always have affiliate earnings separate from the other earnings that I associate with my normal bank accounts. Also, when Uncle Sam asks me about my income at the end of the year, I don’t have to worry about gathering paystubs or the like. I can just print out my account history for two accounts. Really, how you get paid is up to you, but as far as I know, fast and free is always better. ClickBank & CJ ClickBank connects over a hundred thousand affiliates with thousands of information product vendors offering a huge array of downloadable products, mainly informational eBooks. Because it is cheap and easy for merchants to join, the quality of the products provided can vary. ClickBank is also a great place to search for unexploited niches. Why ClickBank If you are wondering what an “information product” is, you have one in your hands (or at your fingertips) right now. Information products include e-books, video tutorials, audio teleconferences, software, etc. – fundamentally anything that comes in a digital form. To keep it simple; the first thing that you will do is sign up with ClickBank, get a free affiliate account and look for products you want to promote. Whenever you get a sale, your account is credited with your affiliate commission and checks are mailed out every two weeks (once you break the small minimum sale threshold). The reason that ClickBank is so popular is the large commissions. Since ClickBank specializes in information products, the product vendor’s costs are minuscule and large commissions are passed on to affiliates – often as much as 50-75%. In most cases, it is far easier to make a lot of money online earning 50% of a sale than 5% of one (which is what you will get with many products on other networks such as Commission Junction and LinkShare). For these reasons, the majority of this guide will be focused on strategies for ClickBank affiliates. ClickBank Marketplace One section of ClickBank that you will be visiting frequently during your time as a marketer is the ClickBank Marketplace. The ClickBank marketplace lists the products that are currently being sold by publishers. Once you have found a product that you would like to promote, you simply enter your ClickBank name to receive your hop-link. This will track your sales. When looking for a product to promote, you are going to base your decision on results of your target market criteria. You may for example, click on “money and employment” and search for “Make Money Online”, in which you will find too many results to count, but of course you can narrow that down to your target market by being more specific. Search for something like “Affiliate Marketing Beginners”. Once you have a list of potential products you will be searching for products by the following important factors: $/Sale: The amount of money (minus refunds) that network affiliates have earned per sale in the past. %/Sale: The percentage of profit that is paid to affiliates per sale. Most product vendors at ClickBank pay 25% to 50%. Most vendors looking to sell a lot of their products pay 75%, regardless of quality or other factors. % Referred: The percentage of product sales that were generated by affiliates rather than the vendors own promotions. Gravity: Gravity in short represents the popularity of a product – (the amount of affiliate sales have been made recently). Just because a product may be more popular than the other does not necessarily mean that the product is making more money for its affiliates. The products are arranged by their popularity. You may review the above factors as well, so you can click on the product title to have a look at the “pitch page”. You may find something you like and decide to promote it as an affiliate. What To Sell There are a many “gurus” out there that will all tell you how to promote the most popular products on ClickBank, but the truth is that not too many of them have anything great to share. They will tell you about AdWords, article writing and scamming people into buying the highest priced products you can find, all of which will cost you quite a bit of money to get started. AdWords alone these days costs a fortune to “play” in. Here Is what I say you need to do. Don’t try to go onto ClickBank and find the highest selling products to promote. Find something that appeal to your target market. Believe me when I tell you, that you can find products on ClickBank related to anything and everything, all offering affiliates great commissions. A great example would be the World of Warcraft player’s niche. This game has got to be the most massively multiplayer game in the world and one of the most popular. Personally; I think that it is for geeks, but many of my college friends enjoy playing it, ahem, “living it”. When you search ClickBank for “Warcraft”, you will find quite a few good products and about four that I would consider “great”. (Update: What was a “few” products are now a few pages of them. These things must be selling.) When you search Google for “Warcraft”, you get 10,610,000 results. On the popular social network Myspace, there are more than 3124 Warcraft groups, with the top group featuring 40,000 members. This goes to show that with a minimal amount of research into a niche with ClickBank, you cannot go wrong. I was quite literally going to save this niche for myself and use a different example for this, but then I started to feel greedy and I want this method of marketing to work for you. So, if you are the first one reading this guide, you already have a head start, but don’t be surprised to find this niche swamped soon after. Commission Junction Commission Junction (or “CJ”) is another very popular affiliate network. CJ brings together affiliates and product vendors, but also offers services and physical products for its affiliates to promote. CJ has many large brand names on its site, and is extremely well established. It is free to sign up with the network, but most vendors are selective of who represents them. Most often, a website with substantial targeted traffic is a requirement of vendors. Instead of a “marketplace”, Commission Junction arranges its advertisers in its “Advertiser List” and you may only promote advertisers once you have been approved to be one of their “publishers” which is what CJ calls its affiliates. Below is a list of the paid survey advertisers that I work with. Notice how there is a “date accepted” column? This goes to show that I grew my business relationships over time. Network Earnings: which is like ClickBank’s $/sale feature and represents the amount of money (minus refunds) that network affiliates have earned per sale in the past. $/Action: Like ClickBank, many products on CJ offer a percentage or dollar amount that you earn per sale of a product, but with CJ you may also sort by the amount earned per lead and click (CPC and CPA). EPC: Commission Junction also has a few different ways of representing the popularity of an advertiser. The most important of these is done by showing the “EPC” or “earnings per click” ratio which is represented by how much money is earned on average per 100 clicks. So a 7 day EPC of 24.69 which is the case of Greenfield Online means that in the last 7 days of 8.9 of the last 100 visitors to the site, have signed up with Greenfield and the referring affiliates have made money. That may not sound “great”, but in the world of affiliate marketing, it’s ok. What To Sell Just about all of the advertisers that I work with via Commission Junction employ the CPA compensation model. One of the most popular markets both on Commission Junction and among web-surfers right now is paid surveys. Because CJ offers the option of CPA, a great number of survey companies have signed up with them. Commission Junction has some of the best converting free to join CPA programs on the net such as the paid surveys program Survey Adventure. It pays out an extremely high $4.50 per lead (CPA). Once again, this is a high converting program because sign up with the company is free. It may seem that $4.50 is not a very high payout. That’s true to an extent. You may have to send a good amount of traffic to this company to see great results. With CPA the desired action that you want your visitors to complete is free for them, so the profits should come quickly. But Remember Your Target Market At first glance, it may look like the Network Earnings should be the deciding factor in what you will promote, but I assure you, it is not. Your target market should always be the deciding factor in what you decide to promote. Because paid surveys are so popular among college students, such programs convert very well. Once again, you really need to do just a bit of research to find out what will appeal most to your target market. For Newbies: The Easy Way To Get Into Affiliate Marketing I am not going to get into this on an in-depth level. I am just going to say it; and you had better remember it. The best way to make money selling ANY product or service of someone else’s is to pre-sell it and the best way to do this on the web is by creating a simple website that may consist of no more than a presales page. It is probably the simplest and most effective one webpage in any webmasters arsenal. Often in a "product review" format which has become wildly popular ever since the release of a number of short and sweet eBooks. The presales page can often take on many other formats such as customer testimonial, anti-scam and programs database page just to name a few. In the end, all of these are simply teasers of a product or products that are so effective, a visitor cannot wait to purchase the product(s) that you are promoting. I am not claiming this to be the only method of selling, just the most effective for you. Now a great many “gurus” would like to take credit for the key components of an effective sales-page, but the methods and theories of pre-selling have been around longer than computers. It’s just a matter of bringing them to the attention of potential webmasters while teaching how to easily implement them, so, here they are, the key components of an effective website: The Attributes of A Successful Website Give Visitors Hope: Every single day, people buy things. If what they buy is not meant to simply keep them alive, such as food, the product that they buy is meant to improve their life in some way. They hope that buying “the next best thing” will lead them to “the next best stage” in their lives. Take you for example. You are reading this in the hopes that you may apply the methods I am showing you to make money on the internet; and this money would undoubtedly improve your life. Here’s a shocker: Why do you think I wrote it? Because I want to make money and build a name for myself by helping others make money online, thus, improving my life. I have found “how to make money” informational products to be the best selling on the web, but there are many products that this can apply to. Even in a not so life altering sense. I recently saw a offer where users can “download a vast array of media and games ready to be played on the iPhone” and it was selling like crazy. I don’t care for the “locked” iPhone or Apple for that matter, but the thing insanely popular among the techies and status seekers. Anyway, these people are hoping that this product will give them an entertainment on the go, thus improving their commutes or whatever, and in some small way, their lives. When you create your presales page you will feed on this need for hope. If you decide to take the product review approach, tell visitors how “your” product is so much better than the others. If you go with the customer testimonial format; (which I suggest if you decide to market ProfilesToProfits), tell them how this product has changed your life and how it will do the very same for them. Create Urgency: In my experience, both personal and professional, the average web browser has the attention span of a goldfish. To combat this problem, a great presales page must create a sense of urgency in the visitor. Let it be known that for whatever reason, the visitor must continue to stay on your page, read the entire thing and when they finish, they must buy your product because if they don’t than they are missing out on the one thing that could have changed their life forever. Did you see that? I just tied in this urgency with the first component of a successful presales page and in doing so; I have both created more hope and a more effective sense of urgency. Many people try to do this by putting discount deadlines on their products. “Buy in the next ten minutes and blah blah….” This coming from the supposed “pros” and “gurus”. Click the back button, and then the forward button to see the same deadline. People see right through this these days. It is content that creates urgency. It is the manner in which you present your product and how you play on the many factors of an effective presales page. Once again, you must create the impression that they must buy your product because if they don’t than they are missing out on the one thing that could have changed their life forever. Be an Authority: Appearance is everything. Whether you know anything about your product or not, you must appear to the visitor as the most informed, educated and trustworthy person regarding this product on the face of the earth. You will NEVER sell a product using the presales page format if the user feels that you do not know what you are talking about. Study up on your product, use this product yourself. Turn yourself into the one person to talk to regarding this product. If that is too much work, find somebody who knows what you ought to and pay them to help you appear as an expert. I cannot stress this enough. This may be the most important piece of the presales page puzzle. If the visitor thinks that you are and idiot or that you don’t know what you are talking about, they will not buy from you, unless of course, they are an idiot! Optional Components The first three components of an effective sales page/website are not optional. If you decide to build a website and you do not factor these components in, you will not make it online. You will fail. Below are a few optional components that you can add to your website. Sometimes these components will work for you, other times they will not, so think hard on whether or not implementing them will ultimately benefit your cause, or hurt it. Appear Unbiased: This is the most effective way of gaining a visitor’s trust second only to your being an authority on the given topic. Most of the time, appearing unbiased is a tactic used by database sites. I recall a site that I went to when I first became interested in affiliate marketing (I was 16). It was a database of products to sell online. At the time, it just looked like a database. I later found that just about all of the programs listed were multi-level-marketing schemes, which means that if I signed up with one of the programs that was on this site and made a sale, the owner of the site would make money as well. No, there is nothing wrong with this. MLM is far from a scam as many like to slander. The ones who give it a bad name just suck at It. Back to the point; If a visitor comes to your site and becomes under the impression that you “just want to help”, they are far more likely to buy from you than if have a sales pitch at every turn. Review a product or products. Set up a product database. Help people avoid internet scams (you will read more on that next). Do whatever you must to make it look like you are their helpful friend. They don’t have to know that you will be making a commission from a purchase that they make. Strike Fear: This is another tactic that has gone mainstream since the release of “The Rich Jerk” and works best when used to promote products that belong to a saturated market, such as the “how to make money in real estate” eBook market and I have found it to be terribly overdone lately, especially by users of Google AdWords and other pay-per-click methods of promotion. The idea here is that you are out to convince people that there will be tribulation down the road for them if they decide to go with any product besides yours. Most people who endeavor this plan have simple anti-scam websites that consist of no more than a page or two describing the horrors of a particular market. They tell visitors that there are so many scams out there that they should not sign up for any program, unless of course, the visitor signs up for the one(s) that they are promoting (which pay the largest commissions). My name is Jason Stilwell, a business and marketing student in the beautiful State of Michigan. I started MoneyInCollege.com with the sole purpose of showing students worldwide simple, fun and effective ways of making extra money in college and to connect you with others who share in this interest. Through affiliate marketing, I have worked my way up the ranks. Once a small time advertiser for any company that would give me a chance, I now have advertisers barking up my tree every day. Once again, I am out for students and others looking to make extra money and one way I do that is by introducing them to the wonder that is affiliate marketing.
7 Simple Affiliate Marketing Tips For the New Internet Marketer! And 5 benefits of affiliate marketing!!
7 Simple Affiliate Marketing Tips For the New Internet Marketer Affiliate marketing is a great way to stat making money online. By being able to promote other people and companies products with free traffic, it is possible to get started with very little outlay and start making money straight away. Most affiliate marketing programs are easy enough to join, have good products to promote and pay out their commission on a regular basis. Because of this, there are more people getting involved in this business. As with all businesses, affiliate marketing has it’s fair share of “hard knocks” and lessons that need to be learnt to be successful. The following are 7 affiliate marketing tips that you can use to be more effective: 1. Learn what the best programs and products are to promote – Of course you want to be involved with a program that you give you the biggest profits in the shortest period of time 2. Choose the right affiliate program – that is the right program for you. So many people get started with a product they think is hot, rather than what you are interested in, only to find that there is a lot of competition and no sales. In the end if you are doing something yo don’t enjoy and are not making any money, you will quit. 3. The money is in the list – You may have heard this saying already. If not, it is a good idea to start collecting email addresses of your visitors to your website as soon as possible. Most people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. 4. Get traffic that is targeted to the product you are offering – You want people that are interested in what you have to offer. Writing article for directories, visiting blogs and getting involved will all help drive targeted traffic to your offer. 5. Use a different web page for each product you promote – do not put all your offers together on one page. Each website should have it’s own look that matches the product and niche you are targeting. 6. Ask for a higher than normal commission from the publisher – If you are having success in a promotion try and ask the merchant to negotiate a higher percentage of commission for your sales. This only works once you start getting consistent success. 7. Put similar offers on the same site and test them out – Split testing is a good way to find out what is, and what isn’t working. There are a lot of things to learn in your new affiliate career and this is just a small sample of things that you will need to learn. Take your time and do good research before plunging into any old affiliate program. The care you take now will pay off in a large way for you later on. How to Benefit From Affiliate Marketing - 5 Benefits For Stay at Home Moms If you are new to making money online then affiliate marketing is a great place to start. You don’t need anything other than drive and determination to get started. It’s perfect for stay at home moms, college students or anyone who wants to make money online without spending any money upfront. Here are 5 benefits of affiliate marketing: 1. You don’t have to worry about creating a product! When you’re a stay at home mom you don’t have a lot of spare time on your hands. I think one of the best parts about affiliate marketing is that there is no need for you to create or produce a product. That is the duty of the merchants. The only thing you need to do is select great products to promote, get the affiliate links and start marketing those products. You don’t have to worry about delivering products, customer service or anything like that. Your only job is to market the product. 2. You don’t need any money to Start Another great thing about affiliate marketing is that you can get started for absolutely nothing. No out of pocket expense. It is free to join affiliate networks and you can use free methods such as article marketing to start promoting your affiliate products immediately. Here are a few great affiliate networks you can join right away. Commission Junction Clickbank Clickbooth Hydranetwork 3. It is easy to get started Affiliate marketing is probably the easiest online business to get into. Since the merchants do all the hard work such as making products and delivering products it leaves you free to focus on promoting your affiliate links. You can sign up for an affiliate network, find a product you want to promote and start promoting it all within a matter of minutes. 4. You Can Make Money While You Sleep No matter what time of day it is you can still be making money without any extra work on your part. You just place your affiliate links online on different sites and when someone makes a purchase through your link you get paid. 5. You Can Penetrate Hot Markets Quickly! If you see that a particular product is selling really well you can apply to be a part of their affiliate program and once approved you can start promoting the product. Everyday there is a new hot market you can tap into. Just pay attention and be ready to take action when needed. Getting involved in hot markets early is a great way to earn a big fat commission check. As you can see there are many great benefits when it comes to affiliate marketing. Get started today and start reaping some of these benefits.
5 Reasons Why Affiliate Marketers Fail to Make Money Online Working From Home! and How to Choose the Right Affiliate Programs For Your Internet Marketing Business ?
5 Reasons Why Affiliate Marketers Fail to Make Money Online Working From Home In this article we will talk about five reasons why affiliate marketers fail to make money online! 1. They do not have the skills it takes to market on the Internet. Certainly affiliate marketers have an advantage in that everything is provided for you. This means you truly can make fast cash online selling affiliate products because you are given a website and marketing materials to go to work with immediately. However the problem is most affiliate marketers do not know how to make money online! Therefore to become successful with affiliate marketing you must learn Internet marketing skills. 2. The toughest skill to learn is traffic generation. This simply means how many visitors you are going to get to your affiliate website every day. Not only that but you must understand how many visitors it takes to create a sale. The way to make money with affiliate marketing is to sell the products the merchant gives you. The only way to sell them Is to drive visitors to your website and play the numbers. When you do it this way affiliate marketing is a numbers game, but you still must have traffic. 3. Building an email marketing list is an important part of making money as an affiliate marketer. Having the names and email addresses of people to follow up with is a way to make sales in the future. This is an important point because most people do not make a purchase on their first visit to a website. Therefore you need to get back in touch with them several times before they are ready to buy. If you do not have a list you are going to fail because you are costing yourself potential future sales. 4. Most affiliate marketers do not purchase the product they are trying to sell. Another excellent way to make money selling products as affiliate marketers is to create a pre sell page where you talk about the benefits of your product. You can also create a review page where you offer all the positives and negatives of your product. When you do this you are letting your visitors know that you have purchased the product and know everything about it. Reviewing products takes the sales aspect out of it, and pre sell pages allow you to warm your prospect up before passing them through to your affiliate sales page. 5. Network marketing offers the ability to make money by building a downline. In affiliate marketing there are two tier affiliate programs where you can also recruit people and earn commissions on their sales. However people who try to work this side of the business tend to fail because they spend too much time trying to motivate people who do not really want it. This can cause you to fail because it takes you away from doing what you do best and that is selling affiliate products. How to Choose the Right Affiliate Programs For Your Internet Marketing Business Looking for affiliate programs with the best advantages for your legitimate home based business can be an exhausting task. There are thousands of these programs offered on the Internet. How do you discover which ones will help your business increase it’s earning potential? Here are some great questions that can easily narrow down your choices and help you make the best decisions. Is the program reputable? Reputation should be a big factor in your decision to join an affiliate program. Imagine if you sell a product but have trouble receiving payment. It happens more than you think. Before you join a program, do a little search engine research. Are other websites promoting it? Do you find any negative comments or reviews on it? By searching online you will quickly discover if it’s worth promoting or not. Are their commission rates competitive? If you find a product you’d like to promote from a merchant, look around for similar affiliate products on the Internet. You will get an idea of what percentage of sales you should be getting for a particular item. Does the program offer residual income? This type of recurring income is preferable because you get paid every month from one sale. An example of residual income is selling memberships to a dating site. For every month a person renews their membership, you get paid as long as that person remains a member. It’s very possible to receive payments for many years just for selling once. Residual income can have a huge influence on your earning potential. Do they offer a good pay schedule? Companies pay their affiliates on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule. If you find one that goes beyond one month you should develop concerns over joining them. Some merchants won’t pay until you reach a certain threshold. For example, if the minimum balance is $50, then they won’t send you a payment until your commissions reach that point. This is normal, as the merchants can lose money by mailing out small checks on a regular basis. However, if the limit is too high, it may take you forever to get paid. You may also want to consider what payment options are available to you before joining. You may prefer checks in the mail or direct deposit to your bank account. Paypal is also commonly used to make payments to affiliates. There are some companies who don’t even give you an option, so you’re stuck with whatever payment method they use. Does the merchant provide promotional resources? It makes is easier to promote a product if there are banners, ads or even websites that are offered at no additional cost. These tools have already been professionally developed taking a lot of burden off of your hands and making your advertisement task simpler. Is there an explanation of how the affiliate program works? If you are still confused about how the program works, then you should just move on. Merchants should be able to easily make it clear about how their affiliate programs work. There are plenty of factors to take into consideration if you want to ensure that you pick the best affiliate programs for your business. When you ask these simple questions it becomes so much easier to choose the affiliate programs that will benefit your Internet marketing business the greatest.
Easiest Way to Make Money Online - Affiliate Marketing is the Best Way to Make Tons of Money Online! Affiliate Marketing Can Be A Fulfilling Online Career?
Easiest Way to Make Money Online - Affiliate Marketing is the Best Way to Make Tons of Money Online What is the easiest way to make money online? If you have just started considering the Internet as a way of making money, affiliate marketing can be a very fast and easy way to make some quick money. Now, what exactly is affiliate marketing? To put it simply, affiliate marketing concerns promoting a service or product and receiving a commission. Truthfully, you can make quite a bundle with affiliate marketing, especially when you learn the tricks. So How Can You Begin Your Own Affiliate Marketing Venture? *Sign up Beginning the process is not hard at all. All you have to do is sign up for an affiliate program. There are several companies to pick from; some require a fee, but many are free to join (another reason this is the easiest way to make money online). A nice company to start off with is ClickBank. There are thousands of products to promote with this company. *Decide What Product You Want to Promote Once you sign up, you can start promoting and finding out just how this is the easiest way to make money online. It’s pretty easy. This is a short article, so I will mainly focus on ClickBank. Go to the ClickBank market place and start looking for products you want to promote. Browse until you find a suitable match. You can view the sale page of whatever much if you are interested in, and if you like the product they are offering, you can take the next step and get the affiliate link for that product. *Obtaining Affiliate Links You are probably wondering what affiliate links are. Think of them as the code of the product you’re going to promote. They link potential customers to the page where they can buy said product. Here’s how to do it: once you find a product, click Promote – a page appears that creates an affiliate link for you. After that, just type in your unique ClickBank ID. Your ID was given to you when you signed up for ClickBank. The affiliate link helps you track sales and enables you to receive payment from ClickBank. *Promoting the Product Okay, so now you have the link. Now you can promote it! Simply place the affiliate link on your blog, website, or newsletter. Whenever a visitor clicks on it, they will be sent to the product’s sale page. If they purchased the product, then you will get a percentage of that sale. Perhaps not you see why this is the easiest way to make money online; all you did was post a link! And that sums it up. If you want to start an online business and supplement your income, I suggest you think about getting into affiliate marketing. It can be extremely profitable if done correctly. You can start with practically no money, unlike other online business opportunities. As the easiest way to make money online, affiliate marketing is definitely a smart investment. Actually, there are thousands of people making ‘MASSIVE’ amounts of money online just working a -few hours a week- and you can do it to; obviously, you’ll need to know how things work. Affiliate Marketing Can Be A Fulfilling Online Career What is affiliate marketing? It is a business in which online advertisers pay online publishers for promoting their products on their websites or blogs. The publisher is paid for each sale that is made through his/her site or published ad. In simple terms it is referred business. How can you start in the affiliate world? First search for a reputable learning source online. Pay attention to testimonials and try to contact some who are using that source personally. There are many many sources who are not reputable so you need to use caution. Check the affiliate research sites which keep a current running review of sources… with a rating of how they do according to those who have or are using them. Nothing is fool proof but with intense research you will find the right source for you. Once you have found that source, take the time to learn from the bottom up as you would anything else … go step by step. The learning curve may seem steep but it isn’t long and once you have reached the apex of that curve .. you will have learned a whole new vocabulary as well as the armor needed to launch a whole new career. Through personal experience, I know it takes years of digging, if you are starting out cold, from scratch…… to know where to even begin to find the information needed to use the internet in a profitable way as an affiliate marketer … so it makes sense to take advantage of those who have already learned it and are willing to be a mentor along the way With the right source, you will be kept up-to-date with all the changes that seem to be constant in this business and know you are always on top of things. With the right source, you will always have someone there to answer your questions or to help you when you are stuck on any step. You will have encouragement for the down days which come in any career. You will have feedback on your work if you choose to get it or need to get it. You will be made to believe you can do it .. that you can be a success at it … by people who started right from the same spot you are starting… square one. It is not easy .. but nothing worthwhile is. The big reward of affiliate marketing is the freedom it offers in life .. freedom to have your own business without the cost of overhead… freedom to own your life. It is a business you can start without money.. other than that you may pay for the education of how to do it. If you are looking for something new that offers you that freedom… affiliate marketing just may be the online career you are looking for.
3 Tips to Successful Affiliate Marketing! Make Easy Money Online!!
3 Tips to Successful Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online and if you are new or will soon be new to Internet marketing then this is an excellent place to start. There are millions of products on the market for anyone who wants to promote, so affiliate marketing is definitely a viable and great way to earn money online. There are three main components to being successful as an affiliate: 1. Choosing the right niche – The first step is to choose a market. You want to find something with great potential that has money in it. There are many ways you can do this, the easiest is to go to Google and type in something like “best niches” or “top trending niches”, these should give you lists of topics. Just type in your keywords into Google and see how many results you get, the higher the more competition. The second step Is to do your research on that topic and you want to be sure you chose something you can build a campaign around. You can do this by doing a search on Google for “top writers in that niche” and see what comes up. You also want to make sure it is a topic you can build a campaign around because you will not want to dedicate a lot of time and energy into something that is dying, especially if you can make more money promoting something else. Some people will not work in a niche with money in it, you do not want to fall into this category because you do not want to set yourself back in your career. 2. Choosing a product – the product is what you are going to promote. You want to promote great products that will help others achieve their dreams. You can see if something is doing well by entering their keyword into Google and taking a look at your results. If it does not show a lot of competition then you can have a good idea about how successful they are. Just be careful, a lot of affiliate products will come along and are probably not great, you just have to go with the ones that are good then you are sure you are promoting one of the best products out there. 3. PPC – Pay Per Click (PPC) is a marketing technique where you write articles and posts with your keyword in them and if something is in the top 5 for your keyword then you will get traffic because people know your keyword when they read your article and then there is the chance that they will click your link and buy the product. These three things are the core of being successful in affiliate marketing, so make sure you focus in on these and you will be fine. Remember that it does take work to be a successful affiliate and no one else is going to do it for you. Affiliate Marketing - Make Easy Money Online Have you ever wondered what affiliate marketing is? Affiliate marketing is essentially a way of generating money on the internet whereby you as a publisher are awarded for helping a business by marketing their product, services or website. There are a lot of different ways you can promote a webpage, but in most cases they involve you as a publisher cashing in on a commission when an individual follows a link on your blog to a different web-site where they then buy something. Commissions are traditionally a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion. Conversions are traditionally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that will allow for the advertiser to monitor where conversions come from usually by cookies. Other times an advertiser might give the publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps them trace conversions. So while there is a bit more to affiliate marketing that gives you a good idea of what affiliate marketing is. Other alternatives on this are where you receive an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example, when they sign up for a product and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.. So when did affiliate marketing online first come about? The idea of paying commission for referred business actually predates affiliate marketing and the Internet. However, it wasn’t long after the World Wide Web began that the benefits for revenue sharing on the web became apparent. In fact, only 4 years after the world web began, the principles of affiliate marketing transitioned into the world of e-commerce late in 1994. Amazon, which you most likely recognize, was one of the first big competitors in the affiliate marketing department. There were a few others, but nothing like the size of Amazon in today’s market. They began their affiliate program in 1996, and today they are generating billions in sales from affiliate marketers. That’s sales from people just like you and I and that’s money in our pocket. While Amazon is certainly one of the bigger “players” in the game, they are definitely not the only one. Today, there are thousands upon thousands of companies with affiliate programs. If they were lucky, they started out early like Amazon did. However, with e-commerce being as big as it is, it seems like there is always room for companies to jump in and become successful. The affiliate programs can reach out with almost any product. Some of the biggest markets for revenue sharing are retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, and publishing. The list goes on and on with new markets opening up daily. In 2006, it was estimated that a near 7 billion in sales was generated from affiliate marketers. With that amount of money from sales, it becomes obvious how important this business can be. In today’s e-commerce it’s almost mandatory to get your business out there by revenue sharing. Not only does it generate sales, but it generates more customers that might not have found their business without the affiliate selling their product. This need for affiliates is good for anyone wanting to pursue affiliate marketing online because there’s a huge demand, and there always will be. As you know, affiliate marketing online is most certainly a huge business. It has come a long way since its beginning in 1994. With the internet being such a big part of our daily lives today, the profits are only continuing to increase. That means, if online marketing interest you, there is definitely money out there to be made.
