May 14th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Leo Ling
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best and easy way to earn online income. This give everyone to have a chance to earn profit through online without much investment needed. Since affiliate program is easy to join and start, more and more people are jumping into this great business opportunity.
However, in every business there are always have mistakes in business and same for affiliate business. Committing mistakes will lead to decrease in profit earn from the business. So it is best to know what are the 3 common affiliate marketer mistakes make before you become one of the victim.
Mistake 1: Choosing wrong affiliate product
People are excited about earning money as affiliate marketer. So they will tend to rush and in the end choose a bandwagon product. This is the product that they think is “hot” without considering the product is it appeals to them. This is a very bad move obviously.
They should choose a product that they are interested in. Then take some time to plan and so some research on the product to see if the affiliate product is it in demand. It is best to promote a product that you are passionate about than promoting a product just for the sake of earning money.
Mistake 2: Promoting too many affiliate products
As an affiliate marketer, you can choose many affiliate products to promote. And many new affiliate marketers are tempted to promote many affiliate products at once to try to maximize the earning. Yes this can multiply the income you earn, but this prevents you on concentrating promoting on each product. In the end the profit you earn will not be as much as you focus on promoting one affiliate product first.
The best way is to focus on one affiliate product and concentrate promote on the product. Very fast you will start seeing you making a very good profit just from the individual affiliate product. When you think the sale of the affiliate product is stable, you then move on to promote next affiliate program and do the same thing to multiply your income.
Mistake 3: Not buying the affiliate product or the affiliate service
Many affiliate marketers choose not the buy the affiliate product they promoting are because they want to save money. But to promote effectively, you always need to try out the product you promoting first before you can even convince your customer to trust you and buy from you.
Try the product or the service first before you start promoting to find out whether the product you promoting delivering what it promise. After trying out, then you will be the first credible and live testimonial to your customers. This gives your customers the confident and trust in you which is very important in affiliate marketing. And this will make them willing to try out themselves.
Remember this 3 common affiliate marketer mistakes to prevent you from failing as an affiliate marketer and avoid falling into the same mistakes as other affiliate marketers had make. Time is the key. Take your time when choosing the affiliate product and always remember to focus and make sure you are on the right track. I am sure this will help you maximize your profit as an affiliate marketer. 
Posted in: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: affiliate marketing, affiliate product, affiliate service, common mistake
May 14th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Leo Ling
Affiliate Marketing involves three roles,Merchant, Affiliate and Affiliate Network. Merchant is the person who developed the product or service then Affiliate help to promote Merchant’s product and earn commission for every sale the Affiliate had made. Affiliate Network is the third party which brings both merchant and affiliate together. I will explain their role more in the later part.
Affiliate marketing had become one of the very famous ways for earning online income. Because the investment needs can as minimal as $0! Which is 100% profit for every sale you make or your affiliate help you made.
You can easily start joining affiliate by register account at affiliate network website. Here are some of the famous affiliate networks which many people joined.
ClickBank
CJ ( Commission Junction)
Once you create account, you can choose to be merchant or affiliate or even be both roles. It is all up to you.
As a merchant,
1) You are the one who operates and maintains the affiliate program. You need to do the researching part of the market you want to target and create a product that can help to solve the problem for the targeted market.
2) You need to create advertising tool for your affiliates such as banner, sale page, and any tools you want to create to help your affiliate.
3) Lastly, you are the one who decide how much you willing to pay your affiliate. Recommend percentage is 60-75%.
Next is affiliate,
1) You are the web site owner which promotes the merchant’s product. Your website topic must be related to the product you are promoting.
2) Your website is the site that gives knowledge about the market you choose and convince that the product you are promoting will help them.
3) Lastly, you need to bring them to merchant’s sale page and your role end here. The merchant will do the rest of the job to convince them to buy their product.
As an affiliate, choosing which product to promote is very important. If you are new in affiliate marketing I will recommend you choose the product that is related to your interest because you have more knowledge in the field and easier for you to promote.
There are many professional internet marketer earned up to six figure income in affiliate marketing. But all these take time and commitment to achieve. Whether you will success in affiliate marketing or not is all depend on you.
Posted in: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: affiliate, affiliate marketing, clickbank, commission sale, merchant
May 7th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Leo Ling
Setting correct pricing is one of the most important components to increase your sale in eBay. Because eBay is an auction site and pricing plays very important role like how much you set it, what is the maximum starting bid and how you use your pricing to attract people look into your list and etc….
In eBay, there are four types of pricing you can set for the eBay auction: ‘starting bid’ price, ‘buy it now’ price, ‘reserve’ price and ‘shipping’ price. Out of these four pricing, ‘starting bid’ price is a must to have for eBay auction, and ‘buy it now’, ‘reserve’ and ‘shipping’ are optional.
I am sure everybody don’t have problem with ‘starting bid’ price, but I have one tip for you guys, your starting bid set as $0.01. This technique is very powerful, as it attracts people attention which means more views, when there are more views means more bids on your listing. Don’t worries about selling your item under price at the end, because your item will be sell at the price it is worth.
Next is ‘buy it now’ price is very straight forward. You set the price that you want to sell, and buyer can immediate buy the item without waiting for the listing to end. This pricing is optional, but it is recommend that to put when you know how much your item worth.
Next is ‘reserve’ price, this pricing can save many eBay sellers from making great loss in their items. In the earlier part I mention about ‘start bid’ price starts at $0.01, and this ‘reserve’ price can help you get rid of the problem that selling your item way below the item worth and make a great lost.
Last is shipping price, many buyers take this as one of the important factor to bid or buy your item. You can increase the number of bidders in your item by offering them free shipping. Make sure your buyers know that you are offering free shipping by include in your item’s description.
Before you list your item, make sure that you know how much is your item worth in order to maximize your profit and always set the correct pricing to increase your bidders.
You can check it out how I make pure profit with $0 investment in eBay using ‘Drop Shipping’ method. This is highly recommend for people who want to earn more income in eBay.
Posted in: eBay
Tags: ebay, ebay business, internet business, price guide
May 7th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Leo Ling
Many people want to have their own business, but most of them have the same problem which is no money. What if you can start up a business without any capital and don’t even need to have own product? And many people have proven become success using this method. Will you be interested to know? If yes, then continue to read because I am going to introduce you this powerful and simple method to start your very first eBay business.
The answer to the method is Dropshipping. Dropshippers send merchandise to your customer and they will offer you wide variety of stock to your eBay store, without you finding a big warehouse for all the merchandise!
All you need to do is list your auction and sell the product and send your customer’s information to the dropshipper, and they will do the rest for you. You don’t even need to worry they will put their company’s information on the delivery package. When your customer received the merchandise, they have no idea that it is not sent from you.
It is best to establish good relationship with several dropshipping companies in order to become successful. This helps you increase your merchandise variety and you don’t have to worry if one your dropshipper company is down.
When you set up your eBay auction make sure that your reserve price is set higher than the dropshipper is charging for the merchandise. Because doing business is all about profit! You can do a simple research on the merchandise you are selling and see what the price your competitor are selling. Then you will know how much you need to markup.
Doing eBay business using dropshipping is total as simple and easy as ABC. There is no financial risk, you don’t need to worry about finding a place for warehouse and they do all the packaging and delivery process for you. This help you save a lot of time! I personally have used this method to earn an easy extra income by using an hour a day and earn up to minimum of $400+ per month.
Posted in: eBay
Tags: dropshipper, ebay dropshipping, internet income, no investment income, online income
May 3rd, 2012 / No Comments » / by Leo Ling
I noticed that new internet marketer or online business owner having lot of problem or struggling to get traffic to their site. Or paying lot of money for traffic to their site.
So I specially created this post to list down 5 ways to drive traffic to your website.
1. Article writing – write article related to your blog / website topic and submit to article directories. You can do simple ‘ article directories’ or ‘article submission’ search on Google and submit your articles to them.
Remember to include your link back to your website so that they can visit your website to find more information and this help to increase your search engine ranking too.
2. Forum Marketing – find few forums that are related to your website topic and be active by answering questions or posting post that can help other people by providing useful information. This will help you build credibility and popularity of yourself in the topic field. And the best part is you are communicating with your target audiences.
Put in the link of your site if possible, but do not spam on every post or reply. Remember to edit your signature and include your website link.
3. Yahoo! Answer – similar to forum marketing, but this is by answering questions and helping them solve their problem. Search for questions that related to your website topic, and you will find your target audience. Help them solve their problem, and include your site as the source. When I mean include your site link as the source means your site do have the informations that solve their question! If not you will have bad reputation as spammer or get ban by Yahoo!
If your answer is chosen as the best answer and the source is your site link, this will give you really good quality backlink to your site which did great help in your Search Engine Ranking.
4. Guest Blogging – Use Google to find blogs that related to your site topic. Post quality comment to their post. When I mean quality comment means not those 1 or 2 phrase or 2 sentences comments. I mean useful comment such as provide additional tips and guides to the blog post.
5. Social Marketing – Make use of your social network site as such Facebook, twitter, MySpace and other popular social site. I am sure there are people in your contact list are interested in your website or products. But don’t keep spamming or promoting your website, control your limit.
These are the five simple ways for driving traffic to your website. Remember commitment is important and don’t expect overnight result. You need consistency to success and soon you will see the result.
Posted in: Driving Traffic
Tags: article marketing, drive traffic, forum marketing, guest blogging, social marketing, yahoo answer
