The first things to look at are:

• Is the page clear and easy to follow?
• Are there a lot of fields to fill in that might deter your prospect from completing the form? (A good general rule is 5 or less fields. This isn’t something set in stone though.)
• Are the form fields above the fold? (Above the fold is a common expression used to describe the screen you see without having to scroll down the page.)
• Are there clear instructions including a call to action?

Important landing page elements to look closely at when evaluating an offer include:

The Headline
The most critical part of the page. It should pull the prospect in by appealing to the emotional element related to the product or service being offered. People are more motivated by emotion then logic so that is where the headline’s focus should be.

Clarity
Clean design with clear, easy to read text. The design should look nice, but not distracting. If there are any images they should be highly focused on the product or benefit and not distracting.

Relevance
Make sure that what the prospect gets matches up with the ad, banner or link they used to get to the landing page. This is especially important if you are using a paid traffic source like Pay-Per-Click. PPC is a form of traffic that charges you for every click you get. In order to pre-qualify your traffic you should make sure that they click on a banner or link that clearly tells them what the offer is related to.

Scarcity
Believe it or not, Fear of loss will get action before any perceived gains. So if you can find an offer that provides some sort of fear of loss then you will be more likely to get conversions. This can include a limited number of available items or a time limit for when the offer expires.

Social Proof
Customer testimonials provide what is called social proof. This shows that other people have used and benefited from the product. Celebrity endorsements also add an additional level of credibility where available.

Call To Action
Most importantly the page needs to tell potential visitors exactly what to do and how to do it. This should be above the fold as mentioned.

Although these items should help you when selecting a CPA offer to promote. The best way to truly find what works and what doesn’t is to split-test. Something that works great in one niche may not convert at all in another niche.

The main reason for this is because offline business owners are seeing the possibilities of the internet. They are anxious to build a presence on the web, but have no idea how to do that. They are not aware of how profitable this market can be and how to take advantage of this free marketing avenue, which brings increased sales and profit for them.

We, as internet marketers, have an opportunity to show them the tricks of the trade. Keeping in mind that when they know nothing anything you can show them that generates business without creating a massive marketing bill is going to interest them. Any semi-successful business is already familiar for various marketing techniques and are likely spending huge amounts of money on their marketing.

Using Internet marketing, they can save while we earn!

Most business owners have no idea how much cheaper and profitable internet marketing can be. In most cases the local niches for offline businesses haven’t been touched. They are easy to rank high in with little effort. Instead of spending money printing coupons, we can teach the offline business owners how to use online coupon companies for free. And instead of getting listed in the yellow pages, we just have to show them the global audience the business gets by listing their business in online yellow pages and directory sites.

We can also teach workshops to show them all there is to internet marketing and earn money charging the seminar fee and gain customers as they see the potential in internet marketing. Many will be too busy or technically challenged to run their own online marketing plans. You can help the business owners setup blogs, manage them by adding fresh content on a regular basis, and by starting an e-newsletter for interested people to sign up for.

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Any good system needs to have an autoresponder account, squeeze page, thank you/download page, graphics to give the pages a professional look and feel. Is your head spinning yet? Well, that’s not all. There’s more.

You would also need preloaded emails, something to give people of value for them to give you their contact information. And of course a product to offer on the backend for sale with a professionally written sales letter.

Coming up with all these pieces can be daunting task. You need to hire a writer, graphic designer, web programmer, and purchase resale rights to a product or create a valuable product using even more costly resources.

Clickbank Pirate gives you all this in a single package. They choose high-converting sales pages using products found on clickbank. They create squeeze pages for you including a free report to provide to your prospects. They also load and manage a list for you sending them more information related to the main product as well as other Clickbank products related to the one they signed up for.

I have bought into many internet marketing programs. Several of them have been good products, but I still had trouble getting all the pieces together and functioning. When I found CB Pirate I just had to try it.

I immediately started seeing results and only a week in I have a doubled my list and made real profit.

Since I have only barely started traffic generating I can’t wait to see my profit in a month. Best of all they will continue sending relevant offers and information advertising Clickbank products using YOUR affiliate id to the people on your list as long as you are an active cb pirate. You could continue making profits off the same person months or even years after they sign up. This gets the most out of your advertising dollars.

Clickbank Pirate is great for someone with a list to promote online income generating opportunities and it also works well for someone just getting started.

I am in a position where I don’t have the resources to put together a phenomenal product, follow-up campaign, generate traffic, create graphics, sales pages, thank you pages, blah blah blah. Sure I have the ability to do all that, but the time and money hasn’t been there for me.

I found cb pirate and realized right away that it has flaws. On the other hand it has everything I was lacking for a profitable program and I could start making money on day one. I’m not going to bore you with the sales pitch – you can get that here.

There are 3 problems with this program and I think they can all be worked around.

1 – You are growing Soren Jordansen & Cindy Battye’s list.
If you are in any kind of internet marketing then you should know that your list is your goldmine. So if you spend all your efforts growing someone else’s list then you are ripping yourself off. That being said they addressed this problem right away by saying that all emails sent out would have your affiliate links. They will continue to promote to “your” list for as long as you are a member of CB Pirate. This is great for getting started, but they also provide some auto responder messages. I would recommend that if you have about $19 a month for an aweber or other autoresponder account then you should consider that.

Work on your own capture page, fill the autoresponder and grow your own list. In the meantime you can use theirs so you don’t have to waste any time learning how to set that up before you can start making money if you don’t want to.

2. Reporting – The reports aren’t detailed enough for good statistics. You do get a report that says how many clicks and how many conversions you have had. This doesn’t give you the information that I think you need to know if people are unsubscribing or if they are checking their emails. You can use clickbank to see if people are at least going to your order form and of course if they are making any purchases. You can add a code at the end of your link to at least track how different campaigns are doing.

3 – The biggest problem is that all the products appear to be online money making opportunities. Although there is money in this niche, it is HIGHLY competitive and it would be nice explore other niches. This could change in the coming months as new products are released. I have sent in support tickets to ask for upgrade options with no success.

There are a lot of great bonuses for purchasing the product and I love that it comes with the squeeze page, thank you page, free report, graphics, emails, popups, twitter posts, and several other great tools.

You really only have to drive traffic to your squeeze pages to start seeing results. Not as easy as it sounds, but WAY easier then having to fit all the other pieces together along with getting traffic.

Good luck to you if you are considering cb pirate or whatever you decide to go with. I would love to hear your comments about the product. You can also check out the warrior forum to find out more. This is a great forum for any internet marketer.

Great affiliate programs can get you from making little or no money to financial freedom. You need to know how to recognize a great affiliate program though. Affiliate programs are cheap and easy to get signed up for. With any luck, all your job is to get traffic to your affiliate links. Great affiliate programs should make your heart race and fill your stomach with butterflies at the possibilities.                

Many companies offer affiliate options for individual products or product groups. These can be good programs, but you also don’t want to waste a lot of time trying to sift through website after website to find the one for you. A great affiliate program can help you sift through the mountains of data and get right to the details an affiliate marketer cares about. Affiliate programs consolidate company information and manage money distributions for multiple companies. It reduces the headache of trying to search through website after website to find an affiliate option for you. Not to mention it also means less websites and logins to remember for each company you become an affiliate with.

What are the features of a great affiliate program?

Offer high commissions – This shows that companies believe in the program and are willing to give a bigger share of the profits for the reduced hassle an affiliate program offers them and because they know companies know that the bigger the reward the more motivated affiliates will be to sell their products.

Marketing Tools – great affiliate programs should offer some marketing tools. These could include articles, blog posts, autoresponder messages, keyword research, traffic reporting, and graphics to use in your promotions. Not all affiliate programs come with the items above, but the more they offer the better easier they should be to promote. Obviously the quality of the material will be important too. Take a look at what you can to decide to whether the quality is there or not. Some affiliate programs will even offer website templates, free content,  along with information about the specific niche the offers fall in.

Training - This is especially important for anyone new to the affiliate arena. You need to know what you can and can’t do and the right way to do things for return. Just because you think you know how to do something doesn’t mean there isn’t a better way. Just keep that in mind before you blow by valuable training opportunities.

There is no finite answer or magic button to bring in the affiliate cash. Just work at it and take advantage of the tools and training you can find. Great affiliate programs will definitely help you on the path to financial independence. They should convert well and spend a little time reading up on good sales letters. The more you learn about good sales letters the better you will be at recognizing an product you could make money off of.

Take a look at Clickbank and MoreNiche as possible affiliate options. They offer great affiliate programs with lots of support and products to choose from.

You may also want to look into CB Pirate if you are in the making money from home niche. They have a great program with everything already setup for you. Including squeeze pages, reports, pre-written emails and other tools that will help in your affiliate efforts. This will help get on the fast track to success. They work with clickbank products so you will need an account there to receive your commissions.

Are you looking to make money online, but have no idea where to start because you do not have a product or service to offer?

Good News! With affiliate marketing you can leverage the efforts of others and market their products.

As an affiliate, you will market the product or service of another marketer, and in return you will receive a commission on the amount of the sale you make. The commission’s can be as low as 10% or as much as 100% of the sale. This depends on the terms offered by the product owner.

Product owners will (in most cases) provide you with everything you need to get started selling their products online. They handle everything from providing the product or service, to processing the sale, and they will even handle all of the customer service.

When you get started as an affiliate of a product, they will provide you with a link that you can start using in your marketing efforts. Whenever a customer clicks on your link it sends them to the sales page associated with your affiliate ID so you get credit.

In most cases the link will be their main web address with a slash and your affiliate id. This allows them to track what affiliate sent the customer to the site, then that affiliate receives credit for the sale, and gets the commission.

The sales page for the product you become a affiliate will often include some sort of free offer to try to get the contact info of the person visiting the site even if they decide not to buy. But keep in mind that in most cases this contact information is going into someone else’s auto responder and you will not have access to it.

This is alright to get your started, but if you are want to make real money then you need to get your auto responder and start growing your own list. I’ll cover that more in another article.

Now a few of the things that good affiliate opportunities should provide you are:

1. Stats on web traffic and conversion rates
2. High-converting sales page
3. Good customer service
4. High value for the product cost
5. A variety of materials to help your marketing efforts (banners, prewritten articles, prewritten emails, graphics)

Some affiliates will offer more tools than others, but before you sign up with any affiliate, you should make sure that they at least have a quality product for you to offer. If you start marketing a low quality product it could give you a bad name.

How do you get started as an affiliate?

Becoming an affiliate is easier than you think. You can find plenty of affiliate opportunities if you type in affiliate in a search engine of your choice. You will probably have the best luck if you choose products in similar categories. Focus your attention on a single niche while you get started. Choose a niche that you already know a lot about or want to learn about.

There are also affiliate services that allow product owners to list their products and set up affiliate terms for a percentage of the profits. Some popular services are Clickbank and Commission Junction. With these services you quickly can setup an account for free and search through a very large pool of affiliate opportunities.

Keep in mind that although you don’t usually have to buy a product to become an affiliate you may want to consider it. Credibility is very important for online profits and as mentioned above, if you put your name on bad products then customers won’t be coming back to you. You may want to consider reading customer reviews online also.

One thing you may want to consider also is gathering names through your own capture page and then to your affiliate sales page. This way you will be building your list even if they do not end up buying from you.

You can create a set of related affiliate products and as you send out emails to your list you can include affiliate links throughout your messages. This way you get more value out of each potential customer.

This strategy can be used on websites and blogs also. Provide content around a particular topic and ad affiliate links where they are make sense.

Many website owners are desperate for content and just copy content from other sites or books. By doing this they are missing out on a lot of opportunity. There are plenty of reasons why original content is important and critical to the success of your web page or blog.

Some of the top reasons you want original content are:

• Search Engine Ranking: If your content isn’t original then most search engines will penalize you. Search Engines can provide valuable free traffic, so you lose a lot if you don’t take the time to create original content.

• Interest: To really create a loyal following you need to show people who you are. By writing your own copy you can add in things specific to you. If people can relate to who you are then they will be much more interested in what you have to say.

• Credibility: You build credibility in your name if you are offering valuable, original content to readers. The readers will be more likely to listen to what you have to say. Let’s face it most people aren’t creating web copy just for fun they also want to make a profit. If people aren’t reading what you write then there is no chance you are making any real profit from it.

Coming up with original content does take more time and effort, but the rewards are well worth it. Increased readership and more search engine traffic can be a huge benefit that will make up for the extra hassle of using your own content. Writing your own content also gives you a way to find out more about the topic your content focuses on. Hopefully you have picked a topic that actually interests you.

There is a lot more to consider when writing web content. More to come on that in future posts…

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If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention.

Be patient. Try each method in promotion until you acquire the best, free promotion there is. You have to accept trial and error for your web site to reach the top.

There are many ways for your web site to be seen. Here are some free web site promotions you could try until you find the most effective.

• Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted. Make sure to check your web site’s ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.

• Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites. Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience.

• Find free classified ads that could boost the promotion of your web site. These ads could be seen by other people who you are not targeting for, but may as well be interested in your services.

• Free and low-cost internet banners are spread all through out the World Wide Web. Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audience’s attention.

If your web site and its free promotion did not work even after accomplishing these methods, analyze your web site. Track down all visitors, advertisements, and transactions. Then locate errors in your web site. Upload new files to your web site continuously for audience to return for new products and services. Monitor your own web site if it’s up in the market or down.

Then be ready to try the methods again and surely it will work.

It has always been said that the best things in life are free. Yes they are. And as soon as your free web site promotion proves to the audience its worth, then you’ll believe it’s true.

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1. Does the company offer free website design?

Even if you know your HTML, it is still more advisable if a professional team does it for you. Some internet marketing sites offer free web design to make sure that your site’s needs are met. It’s a must that marketing is integrated to the web design.   If the company requires you to pay more than fifty bucks for the web design, then so much for straight-forward internet marketing! Look somewhere else!

2. How many keywords does your web site cater to?

Having too many keywords or key phrases to focus on will make your page ranking drop. Creating smaller web pages with content that emphasizes only a few keywords will serve Internet marketing endeavor better.

3. How search engine-compatible is your website?

Internet marketing is coined “aggressive” only if it is a hundred percent search engine-compatible. There are about 10 major search engines online and your site has to work accordingly with them. Find out if your internet marketing site is expert on search engine optimization.

4. Do you know your competitors?

Affordable aggressive internet marketing pushes your business forward by taking note of your competitors. Analysis and evaluation of the competition is mandatory to figure out your shortcomings and advantages over them. If this feature is excluded from your internet marketing plan, you’re getting a mediocre deal.

5. How efficient is the monthly marketing plan?

Usually, you’re asked to pay a monthly fee for the marketing plan. For a marketing plan to be efficient, it must zero in on the following things: webpage development, link exchanges, web content, updates and technical support. Of course, also included are the standard SEO, competition analysis and keyword density.

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Make use of your online power – through Internet marketing. Here are simple methods that you may employ to boost the visibility of your business without shelling out more than what you can afford. However, these techniques need patience and some footwork to produce agreeable results.

Firstly, you need a website before you can make use of these low cost Internet marketing strategies. So go create one or hire a web developer. It will display your products and services. This will be used in employing the following Internet marketing techniques.

1. Affiliate Marketing

This is the process of recruiting a network of smaller websites known as affiliates to drive targeted traffic to a website. Ad copy and links will be provided by the advertisers. You will have to pay a certain percentage of the sales profit to your affiliates.

2. Links

One of your goals should be to attain a good ranking with search engines. One way to do it is through link building. This could be done through trading links to other businesses that are related with yours.

3. Newsletters

Sending out newsletters to your subscribers (those who signed up for your newsletters) will help greatly in establishing a good working relationship with your customers or prospective customers. It has to be short, sweet, consistent and written for a general audience.

4. E-mail Marketing

As one of the best cost-effective Internet marketing tools, it stays as a very important method of keeping your customers aware of your products and services. Just make sure to avoid spamming or soon enough you will have to close down you business due to complaints.

5. Articles

If you put quality content in the form of articles in your website along with your products and services, search engines will have to index your website. Getting you website indexed by popular search engines means more traffic for you.

6. Forums

Expand your Internet network is through joining forums that mainly discusses stuff regarding or related to your products and services. Actively posting responses or answers and asking relevant information will build your reputation as that forum’s member and boost your company’s visibility through your signature files. These signature files are those that go with your every post. Links to your website could be included in this signature.

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