Sunday, May 13, 2007

What Internet Gurus Don't Want You To Know

You have been searching for ways to make money & you have come to the wonderful world of Affiliate/Internet Marketing. You are excited, pumped & raring to go, huh? Well, I am here to tell you what the Gurus don't want you to know in plain & hard facts. You have been at this for awhile, you are probably wondering why you aren't converting & what the heck the deal is. The deal is you are following a lead that is specified by your affiliate manager, who'd that be? The person who created the material for you to go out & market for them. Have you ever noticed after you signed up with a product that you find interesting enough to sell, looks like it has potential. They give you all the tools that you supposedly need but why is it the photos of these supposed great great keywords being blacked out? They seem to leave the most important stuff out such as without quotations, the keywords are seriously overplayed.

They expect you to follow their lead because remember they are showing the proof in the pudding with those snapshots, you'll see the numbers but most won't see that there is a black spot there. They try to tell you they can't show you because something or another will happen. I see Google getting blamed for it alot. Do you really expect them to give you the secret to their success so that you can just go out there & make money like none other? If they showed you everything they know, in turn, you'd make them bucket fulls of money. Yet their fear is that you'll take it & run with it, go make your own formula to success. Reminder, you shouldn't all be selling the same thing. There is plenty of stuff to find & promote.

Have you ever researched those "great" keywords that they gave you? They produce alot of results back huh? I remember when I finally caught on to that, I was like well then how in the heck am I supposed to get on the first page with that crap??? Now I personally suggest organic searching where I put the quotations in around the words that I am using, it helps me really decipher what is there & what is really saturated. It sounds pretty repetitive huh? Well it is but wait, weren't you trying to make money on the internet?

I know this sounds like a lot of work but in the long run, you'll benefit from it like none other. You remember back in high school when it was super boring & unfair when you got a B and maybe Mandy Sue got an A & you had worked your rear off? Well Mandy Sue, probably put in 10 extra minutes to ensure that she got a decent grade. You can do this too with Internet/Affiliate Marketing. You'll be more happier because you'll see the product of your work when green paper starts flooding your bank account.

I don't claim to be a genius on the whole IM/Affiliate Marketing stuff, but I like to think I am pretty smart & I enjoy watching others succeed. I don't recommend anything that I haven't personally tried myself.

With this said, Good Luck!

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Email Marketing in 2007

Email marketing has been in the past considered as the last method for product promotion but not anymore, thanks to skyrocketing online awareness and broadband penetration that has taken the internet to another dimension. More and more people across all ages and nationalities are coming to the internet and email has become for most of them a necessity. It is this growing number of online users that has drawn the attention of marketers all over the world who have been craving for new mediums with most of their conventional sources being either saturated or depleted.

The internet promises to be the medium of the future and if present conditions are any thing to be taken into consideration then more actions online are in the offing. The email is a person's online mail box just as the conventional one and has more features and options than the conventional one and the fact that this mail box can be accessed no matter where you are makes it everybody's necessity. Even before the penetration that we see today, email marketing did existed but based on different rules and criteria's. At those times marketers would rather send the same message to thousands of addresses without knowing whether the recipients are interested or whether they will be ever read. The allied applications are technology was rather primitive and they had no other comparatively better choices but to initiate mass mailing like carpet bombing without knowing who is the target.

Then why should go for email marketing if that's waste?

Gone are the days where you lacked the techniques and tools for email marketing and most importantly you can get quality and targeted addresses of people who are likely to respond positively. You can at least know what type of people and there preferences even though arriving at a sale is far more complex.

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