Thursday, May 1, 2008

How You Can Massively Increase Website Search Ranking Using Search Engine Optimization Technology

You can build the most beautiful site with the best products in the world but if no one is able to find your site out of the millions of websites on the internet, you are as good as being non-existent. What you need is to attract people to your website by either getting free traffic or to pay for it through advertising. Any internet marketer should use a combination of both strategies. But I will just concentrate on a very powerful free traffic pulling technique available called search engine optimization or simply SEO technology.

For any person to search for information online, for most of the time it would be though a search engine like Google, Yahoo!, or MSN. In fact, expect more than 50% of your potential customers to find you this way. The only problem is that by statistic, surfers only bother to look at the top 10-20 search results out of hundred of thousands of websites that turn up on each search. Therefore it is definitely essential to get ranked amongst the top 20 in order to even have any chances of being clicked.

So how the search engine decide how to rank websites is this: Search engines have ‘spiders’ that crawl the World Wide Web and index the millions of web pages based on a complicated mathematical formula the measures the website content to the searched keyword and the more popular your website, the higher your search rankings will appear. So to be rank the top 20 in a search, there are 3 strategies you can use concurrently.

Strategy 1: Boost your Link Popularity

Search engines measures your website’s popularity based on the number of incoming links to your websites called ‘Link Popularity’. This is to say the more incoming links you have, the higher your link popularity and the higher your chances of getting ranked high. You can use a special tool at linkpopularity.com to monitor the number of incoming links. One thing the note here is that the place that links back to your site must be relevant to your sites. If not, you could mat be penalize by search engines for that.

Strategy 2: Choose and Strategically Place the Best Keywords

Keywords are what search engine look for when ranking your website. The greater the density of the keyword used in your websites, the more likely it will get a higher rank. While you are building your website, you may want to place the most important keywords in your domain name, title tags and throughout your sales copy.

The important keywords that you chose play a critical role in SEO technology because there is a measurable indicator in SEO called KEI indicator, which means “Keywords Effectiveness Index”, represent keywords with a combination of a high number of searches and a low amount of competing websites. KEI simply measure to allow you to quickly identify which keywords will give you the best results.

One of my favorite SEO analyzer by far has to be WordTracker. You can sign up for a free trail of WordTracker, although you are limited to 30 keywords and only 1 search engine in the trial version, it should be more than sufficient for any novice user.

Once you're logged into Wordtracker I recommend using the "Keyword Universe" to brainstorm for keywords. You just need to type in any keywords related to your area of interest in the left hand panel and then use the thesaurus to find related keywords and synonyms. Wordtracker returns 300 related keywords.

If you click on the keywords that you are interested one at a time you will see a list of searches that include this keyword phrase. Click on any keyword, Wordtracker returns 118 rows of keywords. If you like the look of any keywords you can just add them to my virtual basket and continue choosing keywords until you have about 100s of keywords and proceed on to the third step by clicking on "Competition Analysis".

At the competition analysis phase you will face with a number of search engines, directories and pay per click engines to choose from. I normally tend to just go for Google, since it represents near 50% of all searches. So, you select your preferred search engine directories and hit the proceed button, then wait for Wordtracker to return the competitive analysis from Google.

The tabulate result display the first 100 keywords from earlier keyword selection. The keywords are displayed in order of KEI, and for each keyword there have the following information:

KEI - this is just a measure to allow you to quickly identify which keywords will give you the best results. Keywords with high KEIs are the best targets as these represent keywords with a combination of a high number of searches and a low amount of competing websites.

Count - This is the number of times that the keyword has appeared in the Wordtracker database

24 Hours - This is the predicted amount of traffic for a single day, for this search engine only (Google in the case of my example)

Competing - This is the number of competing websites for this keyword phrase.

Spend at least a few hours using Wordtracker, brainstorming, choosing keywords and analysing the results. Remember to save all your good keywords. And once you have your keyword list ensure that add your keywords to your website’s page title, H1 and H2 tags, image ALT tags, keyword meta tags. Also make sure that you include the keywords in the anchor text when you are linking to your site from another site.

Going through this exercise of choosing keywords each time you set up a new website or create a new webpage will ensure that you have the best chance of getting targeted search engine traffic to your site.

Strategy 3: Submit Your Site to All the Search Engines

Once you have optimized your site using keywords and inbound links, your site will get indexed even faster if you submit it to all the possible search engines and directories. You can either submit your site manually by going to the search engine homepage or by using powerful submission software like WebPositionGold.com that will do it automatically for you.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Creating Multiple Streams of Income on Internet Business

Isn’t it wonderful to build a money making business and at the same time working on area where you are passion in? To do thing you have passion with, and generate income streams for you, and there are different types of passive income you can earn from setting up your business on internet.

So instead of searching for the most profitable business to start up, searching for the great money making schemes & highest money making products available, why not start an internet business by first evaluating on your own self, creating a business plan tailor-made to fit into your own lifestyle. This will be the most ideal and most profitable business to start up for you.

Identify your Passion and Interest
This is the best and ideal business one can ever go into. To do something you are interested in are the easiest business to start and work on. So the first step you should do is to brainstorm and identify all your passions and interests, or any field in your circle of expertise. Your desire business may not come from your most desire passion or interest because it is not about what you know best, but more on what others know least. Remember that you are building a business after all.

Find a Hungry Niche Market
The next step you need to know is who you are going to sell to by finding the hungry niche market. A Niche market is a group people searching in the internet for a solution to a problem and not finding many relevant results. There are two factors that determine the ultimate hungry niche market to go into. First, is the amount of traffic searching for the specify keywords. Logically, the more traffic, the hungrier niche is. However, the second factor also play a major role in a successful internet business is competition. You do not want to challenge a popular niche that already has many solution providers. You can do all these research to find the ultimate hungry niche market at WordTracker.com. WordTracker are powerful site to analyze keywords traffic and competition.

Therefore the key to finding the ideal niche market to go into is to find a specific niche keyword that don’t get a lot of traffic, instead are much targeted. Because if you don’t get a lot of traffic, you get less competition; and it cost you less expensive advertising for the specific targeted niche market.

Create Products
Having decided on the specific targeted niche market to go into, you will next decide on the product to sell. Since it is an internet business, it would be best for you to come out with digital products so that to save you lots of resources that is needed when dealing with a physical product. Digital products can be any solutions where niche searchers could purchase and deliver online. Products like eBook, music, information products in audio or video format, software, or even services. But if you really don’t have a product to create, you can always become an affiliate marketer to sell other people’s products and received huge commission for directing leads to their sale page. You can go to ClickBank.com or CommissionJunction.com to join any affiliate programs you wish to promote.

Design & Build Your Website
In order to promote your product, you need a place to hold your leads attention before you can sell them what they are searching for. Registration of domain name, finding a web host, and designing & building a website are essential in any internet business. If you don’t have the expertise in designing website, you can always get someone to do it for you. Try Elance.com, you can find varies outsourcing projects services there, from web design to ghostwriting services at affordable fee to select from.

Write Powerful Sales Copy
Again, having your website set up in place is like having a well stock-up store. Your website needs a good sales copy to convert visitors into buying customers. This sales copy act just like a salesperson in your store. Before you can start writing, you need to know you unique selling proposition. What make your product superior to your competitors? Next, you need to know who your target market is, get into the mind of your target market, and sell them the ways they want to be sold. The first impression usually is the lasting one. Therefore your sales copy must have powerful headlines, grabbing your visitor’s attention and draw them in to explore your site.

Pulling Traffic
This is one vast topic to discuss, which I have written and posted many articles solely on this area. Traffic pulling or traffic pushing are the key factors you need to pay more attention on especially when you first start an internet business.

My strategy in advertising is to concentrate on building traffic puller network that works in long-term passively. Techniques such as article writing, blogging, social bookmarking, SEO of website. These are ways you can create long lasting traffic pulling effect to your site. And the best part is that these techniques are virtually cost free, and only take up part of your time and effect. Of course you can also adopt other forms of advertising means to get instant traffic to your site like Pay-Per-Click Ad, Ezine Ad, Pop-under-window Ad etc. They cost you some penny to do it and save you time in return. But these techniques aren’t generating passive traffic to your site so these techniques should be of secondary importance to you.

Sell Advertising Space
Continue to attract traffic to sites by consistently provider visitors with rich content information. Once you succeeded in doing so, it put you through into another types of passive income opportunity by means of selling advertising spaces on your website. Google AdSense, or AdSter, AdBrite, are some service providers that you can tag on to earn passive income for you whenever visitors on your sites clicks the Ad put up by these service providers.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

How the Wealth Academy™ Program Massively Supercharged My Level of Financial Intelligence in Just 4 Days

MY Background
I worked as an engineer for the past 3 years with a Japanese MNC after I got my engineering degree. My annual income has past SGD40K then, an average income enough for me to lead a comfortable life, considering my easy lifestyle. But having the all the luxuries in my comfort zone, I quit my job. I quit without knowing what is coming up next. What is running in my mind then was life seem to get stagnate, I lost my motivation in life & I just thought it's not right.

The Roaming Soul
Since I had all the time in the world after I left my job, I have been thinking and reflecting on myself about how far I have gone all these years. I attended a few free introductory seminars by Mirriam MacWilliam, Wendy Kwek, Adam Khoo, Peter Sun, etc. They are all successful millionaire individuals who created wealth and million-dollar net worth in their own field of expertise.

After attended all these seminars and with much consideration, I actually signed up for the Wealth Academy Program held by Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG). Not because that the program offers the most affordable course fee, though I’m surviving on my reserve fuel right now. But it actually covers wealth management in a much wider aspect.

The Awakening Dragon
And after the 4 days intensive program, that have really change my prospective toward achieving my desired wealth destiny. It is such a realistic and beneficent training that I told myself I must share with everyone and anyone I could possibly reached out to, about this transformational & empowering program I been to, which is the purpose for me in writing these article.

Through my past 16 years of education, NOT a single lesson I attended teaches me how to make money. Many may of you agree; “Money is not the most important factor in life. Money is not everything”. But having said that, are you aware that you actually contradict our belief with our action. Most of us are working hard with the primary purpose of receiving our month end paycheck, thinking that this is the safest security we can even get. I thought for awhile, if money is neither everything nor important, why are we all working so hard in this rat race. I brainstormed two solutions for me to live to this belief. First is to be financially free. Second is to be a monk. And if I’m in neither position right now, I just got to accept that Money is almost everything and Money is indeed an important factor in life.

I was brought up in a typical way. That is to; “Go to school, study hard, to get good grades. So that you can secure a good job, get good paycheck and you guarantee yourself a comfortable life beyond retirement”. Does it sound familiar to you too? In fact this is the teaching to most of us, I suppose. But sad to say, these past teachings aren’t valid anymore in this current Information-Technology Age. I am not saying my parents brought me up with a wrong mindset blueprint. The fact is they went through pure hardship which I have never been through or could imagine, so they value the importance of education. And they are not wrong. 20 years back, the bigger the cert you got could mean a higher assurance stamp, higher price tag on your forehead. But we have past the Industrial Age. By getting good grades in school does not guarantee success in life. So if you have kids, please inject the right teachings to them. Education is important, but to be successful in life, it’s now beyond just getting good grades in school.

Take for example, 2 students. First, the ‘A’s student earns $5K/month after 5 years at work. The second, an average graded student earns $20K/month with assumption of all other conditions remain equal. Similarly, A PhD graduate earning $10K/month. Does it mean that he is wealthier than someone earning $5K/month? Answer is Not Necessarily. The amount net worth one own is determined by the mindset & beliefs one possess, the habits one own, the value one create, and the people one associate with.

So the only person who can provide you with the real financial security in your life is none other than yourself, not your employer. In fact, by having a sole fixed paycheck job in today’s society is the worst security we can posses. Like it or not, we got to accept the fact that the “security” we posses right now is just a security by illusion, be it you are holding an executive or director position in any public or private organization. We should be fearful. If this doesn’t drive fear in you, there can only be 2 possibilities. You have either seen it and have positioned yourself well enough, or you just have not looked far enough. I cannot imagine what kind of position I’m in; in 15 years time if I carry on to leads my life the same way I used to do.

I was really inspired and motivated at the WA program by the master trainer of AKLTG, Adam Khoo, a self-made millionaire at the age of 26. Guess what? He has 16 streams of income up to date, most of these streams are passive or residual income, and more streams are under massive piling. So what makes him so successful? Yes, he is an ‘A’s student, but not all ‘A’s students are as successful. I can’t help but to ask myself, “What the heck have I been doing?” I felt kind of ashamed when I put myself with him. I just suddenly picture myself going back to school attending PE lesson where teacher asked me to do jogging-on-the-spot. Well, I can choose to continue to feel ashamed, and I can also choose to do something about it. I have the choice. You have a choice too. But I don’t expect myself or you to be like Adam or Eve, because we are all different, we have different goals in life, we share different passion and life purposes. The key is you need to have these strong goals that drive you forward.

So do you think Adam has the special talent that is inborn? “Yea, if not he won’t have written and published 6 books to date.” … NO! You think his ideas and informative content in his book just pops up from his mind like popcorns? NO! He actually reads many books, models every book he read and come out with his versions of ideas, words, and present in his own style. Sound very familiar to me. That’s seem like what I used to do best during my university report writing. Words lifting or simply call it modeling… But why am I still nowhere near scenting my financial success? Well, it all voice down to my mindset, my wealth habit, and more importantly, my level of financial intelligence and management.

In fact, if you happen to read all the bestselling books, authors like Adam Khoo, Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Allen, Harv Eker, Napoleon Hill, Jay Abraham, Anthony Robbins, Stephen Coveys…& Marcus Yeo. You name it. Among the list (other than the last in the list), what makes them the special ones? Do you find the same ideas or concepts just recurring among the special ones’ book? Just that they are phasing differently, but the genetic ideologies are there. Therefore the point is; you no need to own a unique ideology to be successful. You can always model successful people and their habits.

Robert Kiyosaki, well-known “author” of the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. But do you know that this bestselling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, is not even written by Robert Kiyosaki himself. He had his co-writer and ghostwriter to do it for him. He did that just to allow himself to build his business behind the book. A math teacher turns multi-millionaire, Tony Buzan. He don’t invent the concept of accelerated learning techniques using a tree-like diagram that link, interconnect, organize ideas to a central concept. In fact, this technique existed centuries ago, Tony Buzan use this concept and registered a trademark named Mind-Mapping. And he makes millions from royalties. These are all great successful people, who have the ability to turn opportunities into their advantage, to take actions and do whatever it takes to make things happen. You can choose to hate them. But it is only by admiring these successful individuals that you can become as successful.

The Wealth Academy™ Program
From this WA program, I actually learnt and model millionaire mindset. Not to become a millionaire, but to have this winner mindset to view things differently, and apply in my daily routine. I was also train to manage wealth effectively. How can I increase my income from my primary stream of income as well as creating multiple streams of income by constantly adding value in my work? How can I track, control and manage expenses? How can I have a delayed gratification habit to save for future? How to invest to make money work harder for me?

These WA program are tough, intensive, with all financial know-how packed into these 4 days duration. Information and knowledge streaming happens from early morning till after midnight. It’s a tiring and mental-straining training but definitely fun and beneficent. Take this with you, after all, if you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy. But the WA program don’t just end here, there are unlimited coaching and mentoring, follow-up sessions, participating activities in next 18 months and beyond. This is the most essential in any learning because the real learning experience actually starts after the course ended.

I truly recommend everyone and anyone to at least spend an evening to attend a FREE 3 hour Introductory Seminar put up by Adam Khoo himself. I must say he is such a powerful motivational speaker with so much energy and drive in his words. You definitely gain something from this preview alone. Without a doubt, you will gain more than your time spent in front of TV.

To know more about this empowering program, go to this link www.AKLTG.com/WA to check out the details.
To register for the free preview, also go to this link www.AKLTG.com/WA to submit your particulars and their representative will contact you for the available sessions.

Just for your information, this chap charges a crazy SGD$10K per hour to speak on a private function. Bastard! (This is his famous saying) So for attending this 3 hour preview seminar, you logically will gain SGD$30K worth of information plus motivation for ABSOLUTELY FREE! And at the end the preview, if you think this Wealth Academy Program is worth the investment for yourself, then I strongly recommend you to go for it. It is ultimately your choice. However, for any reason you think this is program is not for you, just bring along what you gain from the preview and walk out. Not a question asks.

That’s not the end, as a WA graduate; I became an automatic referrer for any AKLTG program. So you can include me as your referrer upon registration for the WA program, or in fact any AKLTG programs and I’m more than willing rebate a MAJORITY of my referral fee back to you just to offset a fraction your course fee. Just drop me an email at marcusyeo79@yahoo.com.sg and tell me you made the choice or check with me on any AKLTG program referral rebate details. You may want to take this down:

Your Referrer Name: Marcus Yeo Choon Leng
Your Referrer ID: 96302401

And if you are wondering how much the course fee for this program is, I afraid you got to check out during the preview yourself. Because this program got so popular since it first launched few years back and course fee simply goes on a bull run. By the way, this WA program currently runs in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Jakarta Indonesia. And different venue offers different course fee.

To be truly honest with you, the reason I wrote this very long message is not about how much I made as a referrer. I just thought, the entire lesson learnt during this WA program is so realistic and applicable to life, that everyone deserved a chance to know. And the fact that it is so realistic, the return on investment is unlimited. I mean I spent SGD$4K per semester for my degree. For the amount of lesson learnt, how much of it do you think are applicable in my work or life? Probably 20%! So what’s the ROI in comparison aside from the piece of “assurance” I actually earned?

Of course I could have also recommended other AKLTG programs such as the Patterns of Excellence, Wealth Academy Trader, I am Gifted So Are You program (For Kids Only) etc, which I believed are as equally enriching. But I’m not going to do so because I have yet to attend these programs. But you can check out further yourself if you are interested.

Lastly, if you think any part of the above information are helpful to you. Then help me by sharing it with your friends.

I am truly thankful for you, for taking your precious time having to survive reading through my message up till this point. Thank you so much. Just for that, you deserved to achieve a lot more in life. So register for the FREE Introductory Seminar HERE now.

Marcus Yeo, The Inspired eBiz Entrepreneur
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Monday, April 21, 2008

7 Highly Effective Ways to Advertise your Internet Business for Free

Putting up advertisements for your business are the essential basics to pull in any potential customers to your sales site, irregardless of which business you are in. However, a lot of business people failed to do so after having spent a ton of efforts and money on marketing and promoting their products. But you know that the sales returns are not dependence on the amount of money spent on advertising your product. In fact you can advertise for free and yet get massive return from your sales. And here are 6 ways to advertise your internet business for absolutely free.

Existing Customer Follow-up

Based on research marketing survey, it is 5 times easier to sell to your past clients than to get a new customer. Thus, your existing customers are definitely most targeted buyers. Since you have established your reputation and contact with your existing customers, you can sell something else to them by direct mail. It is by far the most efficient way to get more business. You can even twist around to acquire your existing customer as your “free sales person” by tell him/her if they are to brings in 3 new customers for you, they get your new product for a huge discount or even free.

Articles Marketing

This technique is one long-term advertising strategy you can explore. The most amazing part about articles publishing is that it can be free. The reason why I say "can be" is because you can also hire someone to write articles (Ghostwritten) for you. You can also hire services to automatically publish articles for you. But you can choose to do it yourself, it only cost you a bit of your time, you get sense of pride and accomplishment for publishing something you know of. There are so many resources on web providing all these services.

Blogging

Another free marketing technique you can deploy to draw visitors to your site. You can setup a blogger account free and Blogger.com and later move and republish your blog to your own domain if you wish to. Though Google provide free server for your blog, there are better benefits if you have your own blog hosted under your own domain. So what do you write in your blog? It can be anything, your thoughts, your product review, etc. Remember to point links related to your business to your homepage. Adding rich content to your blog regularly can generate free targeted traffic to your site that never stop coming.

Forum Marketing

Forums are places where targeted people with like interests can congregate and talk about what they like. But you cannot simply join a forum as newbie and sell and advertise your products right away. You need to build relationship with forumers, you need to add value and become a respected member within the forum. Only then people accept your information. For start you need to be actively involved in the forum, post valuable information, ask real question, answer questions before sending people to your pages.

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking site help user to create pages about themselves, build network of friends and getting to know other people. Some site like mySpace.com and Squidoo.com. Here allow you to post content that you can later point interested people to your pre-sale page.

Writing Testimonials

Writing testimonials for 3rd parties’ websites not just served as confident booster for visitors to the 3rd parties websites. But it also means to create another channel to attract these visitors to your own website. Visitors usually are keen to know the source and reputation of the testimonial writers. Therefore, don’t be surprise to see interested visitors will click to your website to understand about you, and therefore bring additional traffic to your site.

Pay-Per-Click

You may be a little surprise to see PPC Ad as a free advertisement, but it is indeed no gimmick. Few are actually aware that you can advertise your Ads on Google AdWords for Free. It is legal and the fact that you need not worry about the cost per click, you always get rank top 3 positions. However, I cannot give away the secret here, because I’m not authorized to publicly review. But I have been using this “trade secret” to pull in massive traffic to my website for free. You can check out the secret here at Get Google Ads Free .

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Finding the Ultimate Money-Making Affiliate Marketing Solutions

This article inspiration comes from Stone Evans, a washed up restaurant worker turn multi-millionaire from his affiliate marketing business. But his success does not come overnight. In fact Stone Evans takes 8 long years, spending tens of thousands dollar, tested countless of products and systems, failure after failure, before finding the ultimate solutions in affiliate marketing business.

Why you want to be an Affiliate?

Have you ever have the urge to start your online business but was hinder by not having your own product to sell? Well, you are not alone. When I got online looking for ways to supplement my income, I didn't have my own product(s) to sell. Even if I would have had my own products, I didn't have the know-how to sell them online.

Later I learned that there are companies on the Internet that will provide the products for you to sell and you earn the lion’s share of the sale as commission. The companies give you websites and marketing tools to sell them with, follow-up with any prospects you send their way, close the sale, ship the products, handle customer service and complaints, and do virtually all the stuff you would have to do if you were selling your own products.

As an affiliate, saving the unnecessary time providing the product or service, following-up, closing the sale, handling customer satisfaction issues, etc. You only simply focus your effort on the high value task of bringing prospects to the table and letting the company do all the "dirty" work for you. It's a win-win situation.

What can you expect as an Affiliate?

The fact is, as an affiliate, you are creating the highest value task in any sale business. Why would companies adopt affiliates strategy rather than to employ their own sales personnel? Reason is simple. Because companies understand this, finding and pulling in new prospects for the companies are the hardest obstacles they face. Companies employing their own sales personnel are usually getting fixed plus variable paycheck. And the fact that this approach has no guarantee of positive results could mean a liability to them. Which is the reason why companies would rather have affiliate? Affiliates get paid on 100% performance basis at a much higher commission rate. Yes! I mean high commission rate, anything less that 75% commission are not high. Because as an affiliate, you deserve that! Remember… You are creating the highest value task in any sale business; you deserve a lion’s share of the profit.

Many companies understand that, many don’t. Therefore, it’s the affiliate him/herself responsibility to make sure they get paid fairly by selling the “Right” program. There are many companies are willing to pay affiliate more than they earn themselves for making a sale. For example, there is one affiliate program I do very well with called Empowerism.

You can take a look at their website here: http://www.empowerism.com/

Through an online traffic generating strategies, I send hundreds of people to that website every day and a bunch of them sign up for an Empowerism membership because they see that Empowerism offers a great service for a good price. Empowerism charges $24.95 to become a member and guess how much I get paid for referring a new member… I get $20.00 per sale. That's an 80% commission!

If you think this what I mean by the Right program through high commission, then you are only half right. The Right program not only pays out a lion's share of the commissions to affiliates, but there is another extremely important factor that determines success or failure as an affiliate marketer. That is whether or not the company pays you one time or pays you residual income for a single sale.

Residual income is basically selling a "subscription service" so that when someone buys the product you get paid a one time membership and then each month when that person's subscription renews with the company, you get paid again, and again, and again... Every month for as long as that person continues using the service.

Empowerism charges $19.95/month to maintain a membership and gain access to all of their proprietary Internet marketing tools and training. As an affiliate for Empowerism, you earn $20 up-front when one of your prospects joins the program and $7 per month for the life of their membership. Now can you see a Right program like Empowerism actually generates passive income for you? That is a huge difference endorsing for a “low commission” program and for a “Residual High Commission” program.

How you can be a Successful Affiliate?

You know the value of an affiliate. You know the right affiliated program to promote. Finally you need a system to put everything together. In another word, you need a place to promote your affiliated product(s). On the Internet, you simply need your own webpage to present your product(s) to your prospects before you can send them the company’s sales page.

Many affiliate ‘So-Call-Gurus’ said, “You don't need your own website to promote affiliated product. All you need is to direct prospects to the standard affiliate website.” Well I cannot say it’s a wrong strategy. But by just doing so, you actually lost your ground. You lost the advantage edge of holding on to your prospects attention. You have minimum control over the time factor on your prospects.

One of the big reasons people fail as affiliates is because they never invest in getting their own domain name and website setup. Somehow they think this is an unnecessary thing when the fact is, having your own domain name is one of the most necessary things of all to succeed in this business.

If you're promoting affiliate programs right now and you're doing it without having your own domain name and website, you're absolutely shooting yourself in the foot. You might as well be playing ping-pong without a paddle or canoeing without oars. Having your own domain name and website is a required ingredient to succeed as an affiliate.

You have to be able to control your own website. Affiliate links don't let you do this. You need to be able to add your own flair and personality to your site. You need to be able to add and promote other products you believe in. You need to be able to change the color, the type of font, the message, etc. Ultimately, you need to be in full control of your own website.

One of the best ways to promote affiliate products online is to get good free rankings in the search engines. But you simply can't do that with affiliate links. However, if you have your own domain name and hosting account, all you need to do is put up a site with unique content on it, get a few links from other sites and you're on your way to getting lots of natural free listings and traffic from the search engines.

When I first started my affiliate business, I do not have the know-how to choose the right programs, set up my own website, or promote my affiliated product. But I took the advantage of riding on to Stone Evans’s 8 years of Internet sales experience & hard work by signing up for Stone Evans Plug-In Profit Site. A 24hr-ready-to-start system that selects the Best Right affiliated programs for me, set up my own domain and website for me. That's a serious shortcut to success.

You can take a look at Stone Evans website here: The Plug-In Profit Site

Selecting the Right affiliated programs and putting them into place on your own website is only the hardware in a successful affiliate business system. And a successful affiliate business system can only be complete with a well-structured marketing strategy to draw, hold, and promote the affiliated products to prospects. The amazing thing about Stone Evans Plug-In Profit Site is that he design a knowledge-based system, creating a learning ground for newbie who sign up for his system, to pick up marketing and advertising skills progressively to build a network of effective “scouts” that draws massive traffic to your website.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

MY Wealth Mindset Transit

Even since leaving my post as Engineer in Kenwood, I have been looking around not only for a career, but also opportunities to learn to lead a different lifestyle. Having attended varies seminars; I finally decided to join the Wealth Academy Program by Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group. A 4 days intensive training at AKLTG have been so enriching in helping myself to change my financial mindset forever…

Here are the summary of the curriculum highlights:

Learning how Rich think
Millionaires think and see the world very differently. This is why they take different actions and produce such different results. Where most people see problems, those with millionaire’s mindset see money-making opportunities.

Cash Flow Management Strategies of the Rich
My wealth is not determined so much by how much I earn, but rather by how well I manage my cash flow. I learnt why some people earn high salary and yet struggle financially every month. And how do I optimize my income to build a high net wealth as early as I can.

Design and Achieve Financial Destiny
I start to define my dream lifestyle and learn how to build a solid roadmap to achieve all my financial goals.

36 Way to Massively Increase Income without Quitting Current Job
Most people are limited by the belief that they can only increase their income by 10~20% by working harder or finding a better job. In Wealth Academy, I learn how anyone can double or triple my earnings by creating multiple streams of income through investing, business and intellectual property. By the end of the day, my head are busting with tons of moneymaking ideas that I can implement immediately. Whether I am an employee or business owner, I learnt how to boost my income.

Smart Money Management Tips
Do you find yourself wondering where your money has all gone at the end of the month? There is no use in increasing income unless there is a specific system to manage money and control expenses.

Principles of Multiplying Wealth at Millionaire Returns
Most people believe that the safest thing to do is to keep their money in banks that earn them meager returns. Yet all of us know that investing is absolutely crucial in building a high net-worth. I learnt how the best investors in the world making 15% to 46% return annually with minimal risks… and more importantly, how I can do the same!

Low Risk Stock & Options Strategies for Generating High Returns
I was amazed at how I can make consistently high returns with minimal risk through a range of stock and options trading strategies.

I made it through the entire 4 days training. And this is not the end; this is just the beginning of my new journey. A new journey with direction and goals. A new journey with plans and strategies. A new journey with commitment that I do whatever it takes to succeed.

I do recommend this Wealth Academy program to everyone who really wants a change in your financial mindset, and to achieve financial freedom… Both Adam Khoo and Conrad Lim are fantastic trainers. Very proficient! Very professional! It is every penny well spent in investing on myself.

Do get back to me if you are interested for more information regarding to the program. One thing I can be sure of: is that you will be amazed by how much your prospective can change and grow by the end of the program.

Marcus Yeo, The Inspired eBiz Entrepreneur
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Winning Formula in an Affiliate Marketing System

In regard to making money on affiliated marketing business, are you aware that 80% of affiliates actually fail and give up in this business within a year. With such a high failure rate, it is not surprising to hear numerous negative feedbacks from past affiliates or even green horns around affiliated business. But of course, there is a minority of them actually done really well in this business, making a fortune for them. So what are the factors that separate the minorities from the majorities? Here are few critical points that could really determine one failure or success in this business.

The Right Mindset

Most people who try to build a successful Internet home business are looking for the quick fix. They want it to work immediately and so they usually fall prey to business opportunities that promise to help them get rich overnight and advertising scams that promise to deliver thousands of hungry prospects to their website in the next 24 hours. Of course, these opportunistic schemes are really just geared to steal people's hard earned money.

It is usually this mindset of making quick money that planted the evil seed into your business. People with this kind of mindset dives in action really quick but realize shortly that they have not achieved the results they desire for, and sadly fall out from there. No one should believe in making quick money. Rome wasn’t built overnight. Same goes to your business. You need to put in consistent effort and hard work before ever thinking of harvest. Try twisting your mindset. Convince yourself that you are doing it for the passion, for your learning experience. Concentrate in long-terms gain, think of generating “passive” traffic flow to your sales rather than instant traffic. Concentrate on your fundamental by building a strong foundation base for your business and harvesting will arrive as bonus.

The Right Affiliate Programs

So many people fail in this business simply because they joined the wrong program(s). They put their heart and soul into promoting it, but it never produced big profits for them.
These people leave the Internet thinking that affiliate marketing is a scam, but the truth is often that they just joined the wrong programs. If they would have put the same energy into another affiliate program, they would have succeeded.

Affiliate marketing can really only be the easiest and best way to make money online if you choose the “Right” programs to promote. A good program to promote is one that pays out a lion's share of the commissions to affiliates. As an affiliate, you need to work with companies that put you first. After all, you're the one driving the traffic to their site and they don't have a lot of risk since they only pay you when you generate a sale. You should be looking at programs that give a minimum of 60% commission in order to benefits from it.

Apart from commissions, there is another extremely important factor that determines success or failure as an affiliate marketer. That is whether or not the company pays you one time or pays you residual income for a single sale. This is a big factor you need to consider before you join any affiliate program. You absolutely must focus on promoting residual income affiliate programs if you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer. I don't care what programs they are right now, just make sure they are residual! This is often the biggest difference between success and failure for most affiliates.

The Right Mixed of Affiliate Programs

The fact is that there are many people who are a member of “Too Few” affiliate programs and there are many people who are a member of “Too Many”.

If you're relying on just one or two affiliate programs to pull in the bulk of your income, you're extremely vulnerable. Even if you've built up a big residual income in a program, if it goes out of business so do you. Joining only one or two affiliate program does not give you enough experience to compare strengths and weaknesses of different programs.

On the other hand, if you have too many affiliate programs, you'll get way too distracted. Focus has great power and if you have too many things to think about at one time, you'll get confused. When you're confused, you don't take action. When you don't action, you don't make money. People also won't take you seriously. If you're promoting everything and anything, people will sense your lack of sincerity and have no desire to do business with you. One of the big secrets to affiliate marketing success is promoting things you have some experience with and believe in.

So I will say 5-6 different affiliate programs in a niche is the generally the best starting point. This gives you enough experience with different programs to compare their strengths and weaknesses. It gives you enough diversity so you can offer your prospects the right solution at the right time.

No matter what niche market you are in, I encourage you to you diversify your affiliate portfolio and get at least 5-6 high quality, top paying affiliate programs to promote in order to ensure your short-term and long-term success.

The Right Website Ownership

One of the big reasons people fail as affiliates is because they never invest in getting their own domain name and website setup. Somehow they think this is an unnecessary thing when the fact is, having your own domain name is one of the MOST necessary things of all to succeed in this business.

If you're promoting affiliate programs right now and you're doing it without having your own domain name and website, you're absolutely shooting yourself in the foot. You might as well be playing ping-pong without a paddle or canoeing without oars. Having your own domain name and website is a required ingredient to succeed as an affiliate.

You don't want to put yourself at the mercy of the company you are promoting. You want and need to be in full control of your business at all times. What happens if you've spend a lot of money and/or time promoting your affiliate link all over the Internet and then the company you are promoting changes the structure of their affiliate links or goes out of business.

Yes, it is possible to sign up for an affiliate program, grab your affiliate link, promote it directly and make money. But to really get an affiliate marketing business off the ground, you need to have your own website. One that you control… One that is on your own domain name...

I hope this serve as valuable information to you in your road to affiliated marketing business success. And for anyone who has no idea where to start of, I highly recommend the Plugin Profit Site where it provides solutions of proven residual programs, website setup, lessons & support to kick start your affiliate business on a right note.

Marcus Yeo, The Inspired eBiz Entrepreneur
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