As an online marketer, you will come to experience situations where you really need to buy a product but your transaction just wont go through despite your card being valid and still active.

This problem is very common with many online merchants and it surprisingly does not affect everyone but a selected few. It can happen to you when you are trying to buy membership into Empowerment Network, Xplocial, The Wealthy Affiliate University, etc...

When this happens, all kind of thoughts are likely to run through your head and when, they overwhelm you, you simply conclude it is probably for the best & you just avoided being scam. There are those few individuals that wont simply quittrying to figure out why the merchant wont simply accept their money. You will probably go mad and start droping all sort if profanity like "just accept my money my money b!tch!!!!" Well, I know Jesse Pinkman would say something along those lines. 

Don't worry and quit just yet until you had tried some of these tips. 

First you will want to establish that the problem is not with your credit card. Call your bank or credit card company and ask them to verify that your card is still active and if they can detect any activity related to declined transactions. Also ask them about the card online purchasing limit just to make sure you stay within. 

You should also check and verify that the credit card information you entered are correct. Then contact your merchant and ask them to check and investigate. You must always contact them via their support email and live chat if they have one. You are probably not going to get much help from them but the least they can do is to delete your credit details so that you can enter them again. Also ask them to escalate the query to their technical department. Also ask them to wipe your checkout bucket clean and load it again with the product you are buying. 

If your card is still declined, then its about time to contact your merchant credit card processing company. The one you want to contact has to be provided on the checkout page by your merchant. Some of the most common credit card processing companies are Flagship Merchant Services, Merchant Warehouse, Chase Paymentech, Allied Wallet, Ignite Payments, PayPal, etc

Go to your merchants preferred credit card processing company website and head straight to their support page. You can read their FAQ page later. Look for their email & send them a quick email explaining your problem. Also start a live chat session if they have one and ask them to escalate your issue to their support page. 

You don't want to call any of these companies because you will end up losing lots of money. Calls might be redirected to call centers in India first and you will have a hard time trying to figure out the accent. 

If you have not yet exhausted your payment attempts for the day which is normally 5 times, use a different browser on the same computer to make the payment. 

If it is still declining, whip out your smartphone & try paying from two different browsers. 

If it is still declining, go to another computer on a different network like at your friends place and try paying from there. 

If none of these methods help you, the last resort will be to cancel your credit card and apply for a brand new one. 

If you have had problems with a merchant declining your credit card, use the comment section and share your experience. We might just learn a thing or two. 

I’m not really in a position to tell you what Xplocial is. All I know is that it is a multi level marketing business that has the potential to earn you a reasonably realistic residual income. They are not confined to the US, everyone in any country can join. The advantage of Xplocial over all other home based business or MLM companies out there is that you DO NOT HAVE TO SELL ANYTHING. At least that is exactly what every other person trying to recruit you into their downline will tell you.

My timeline on Twitter and Facebook have been flooded with post suggesting that they are making money in their sleep with Xplocial. Some even go as far to say join my company and I will show you how to get it like me.

The secret to succeeding in this kind of business is by building the biggest downline and you as the leader making sure that your downline keeps growing. In MLM terms, a downline is simply a list consisting of people you introduced to the business and those people they introduced.

If you signup to an MLM program, whoever introduced you becomes your sponsor. You signup you son and wife, you become their sponsor. Your wife and son both go on to introduce 3 of their friends each, hence becoming their sponsors. Their friends then go on to introduce more people to the business and the downline keep growing.

Below is a typical downline in an MLM business.

Typical mlm downline

Xplocial is divided into two membership types. There is the gold membership that cost US$29 and the Platinum going for US$54. Most people would advice you to have both gold and platinum memberships so that you can earn more money per new signup. What they are really is saying join both so that I can make more money. 

If you sign up 65 people, you will be earning yearly income of US$100 000. That is US$ 8000 per month! Imagine your earning potential should you signup 100 people…

Below is a table summarizing the fees involved

Memberrship Type	Membership Fee	Administrative Fee	Total
GOLD	USD 29	USD 24.95	USD 56
PLATINUM	USD 100	USD 54	USD 154

What they say at Xplocial is that you only need to introduce a minimum of 4 people and they should each introduce a minimum of 4 people and you would definitely in no time be earning $3000 per month. This means, get four people under your downline and help your four get their 4. This is what they mean when they say the power of 4!

According to mlmranking.com, Xplocial is ranked number 1 way above wakeupnow. Other MLM programs you probably know of or heard of are Avon, Amway, HErbalife, GNLD, Ariix, Kleeneze, Moxxor, Neways, Forever Living, Nu Skin, 5Linx, Monavie, Pur3x, TrumpNetwork, Nova Nutria, Carbon Copy Pro, Genewize, YTB Travel, etc. Xplocial is not like any other MLMs because they do not require you to sell nutritional and cosmetic products. They also give small business loan for small or startup companies to a tune of $250 000.

Larry Marcus

Xplocial was created by Larry Marcus who has been in the affiliate marketing business for over 30 years. He describes himself as the chief adventure officer of Xplocial. Note the ADVENTURE in his title, not EXECUTIVE! No one running a serious business calls themselves a CAO, its always CEO or director.

Now ask yourself, is Xplocial the home based business that will turn your life around and take you out of those huge debts? I have read the website and seen some of the awesome benefits members get to enjoy as part of both the gold and platinum membership program. but the real question is if the benefits justify the earning members are earning?

Share your thought with the rest of us in the comments section.

You might have read or heard of crazy ways to get traffic to your newly build site or traffic.

Sometimes back, I posted an article on this blog called How to Drive Web Traffic to Your Website and this were the points I touched on.

Use Proper Meta Tags
Optimize for Search Engines
Submit Sitemap to Main Search Engines
Blog Commenting
Valuable Link Exchanges
Appear As a Guest Author
Create RSS Feeds
Make Use of Online Forums
Give Out Freebies
Free eBook

Those are techniques work & are still relavant when it comes to driving traffic to a website.

The reason why I recalled this article is because I just read 13 Ways To Get Traffic To A New Blog written by Nick of Nick's Traffick Tricks.

Go checkout his post becasue it is interesting.

As a bonus, Nick will personally give you an ebook with all his traffic generation secrets for free.

Let me tell you a little sumthing about making money online. Just Like I had said before, The best way is to use Google money making machine Adsense, Click Bank & Adwords. This are not the only ways, There are more. If you do not want to spend that much money, then Adsense might be the best way to do it. It is very vital that you make the most out of it by using the most high paying keywords in your articles. Just imagine the stream of traffic you are going to drive at your website by using some of this keywords? That is not all, you also get some people to click on the Google ads placed on your site.
Below is a list of some high paying keywords that you can use when writting articles related to SEO.

search engine optimization web $9.96
search engine internet marketing $9.93
high search engine ranking $9.82
search engine optimization services $9.79
search engine optimizing $9.71
ppc search engine marketing $9.52
indianapolis search engine optimization $9.47
professional search engine optimization $9.41
search optimization $9.21
cheap search engine optimization $9.20
search engine optimization $9.01
optimization services $8.91
search engine optimization consultants $8.86
search engine optimization firm $8.85
search engine promotion software $8.76
search engine optimization specialist $8.63
search engine optimization search engine placement $8.55
search engine optimization tips $8.39
search engine optimization guaranteed $8.27
search engine promotion company $8.24
economical search engine optimization $8.17
optimization web $8.14
search engine marketing and optimization $8.13
search engine optimization website promotion $8.01
search engine placement optimization $7.97
florida search engine optimization $7.94
search engine placement $7.93
philadelphia search engine optimization $7.87
search engine optimization promotion $7.86
search engine optimization companies $16.34
search engine keyword promotion $16.27
search engine optimization cost $11.98
search engine marketing firm $11.69
search engine promotion service $11.38
search engine promotions $11.15
search engine optimization strategy $11.14
search engine advertising $11.10

I was checking out the net the other day and found a few random high paying keywords. I took som time to put them in categories even thou some of them do not fit in. You might also want to use these keywords in some of the articles you are going to write on these topics. All you have to do is sit back and watch as traffic comes your way.


Movies
blockbuster dvd 14.91
blockbuster movie rental 14.97
blockbuster location 14.94

Computers
google email account 14.93
spam stop 14.91
hosting services 14.91
high speed internet deal 14.97
desktop computer rental 14.98
asp hosting net web 14.95
keyword advertising 14.95
cheap domain 14.96

Cars
car sell used 14.93
sell used car 14.93

Porn
8th steet latinas 14.91
8th steet latinas 14.91

real estate
avalon real estate agency 14.89
best home mortgage rate 14.97
best mortgage rate 14.92
cheap mortgage 14.98
best mortgage rate 14.92
avalon real estate agency 14.89

Finances
card credit deal 14.88
balance transfer uk 14.9
platinum card 14.91
card credit deadit 14.96
balance transfer uk 14.9
best personal loan 14.91
card credit online processing 14.92
0 credit card offer 14.92
bad credit student loan 14.99
card credit secured 14.98
discover card services 14.96
transfer credit 14.96
uk debt consolidation 14.96
card credit online processing 14.92
0 credit card offer 14.92

Insurance
compare car insurance 14.88
broker insurance medical 14.93
50s insurance 14.93
broker insurance medical 14.93
insurance mexico 14.94
kit car insurance 14.95

I came across these high paying keywords and they literally blew me away. If you write articles in this fields, I am sure that you probaly now understand why you were getting big checks from Google. I still cannot believe that bids can go as high as this!

Insurance
universal life insurance quote $55.46
florida auto insurance quotes $54.75
best term life insurance rates $62.39
term life insurance quote$54.61

Lawyers
austin dwi attorney $58.30
denver dui attorney $62.17
dwi austin texas $61.00
san diego lemon law attorney $74.39
los angeles criminal defense attorneys $71.27
california dui lawyers $59.41
dwi austin $66.89
san diego drunk driving lawyers $66.20
federal stafford loan consolidation $59.61
dui lawyer newport beach $87.88
dui lawyer seattle $60.29
seattle dui lawyer $60.29
san diego criminal defense attorney $60.20
irs tax attorneys $57.53
san bernardino dui attorney $58.16
dui lawyer torrance $76.60
los angeles drunk driving lawyer $60.68

Loans
studen loan consolidation $78.18
student loan consolidation rebate $76.15
student loan conslidation $60.72
college student loan consolidation $60.55
student loan debt consolidation $57.03
student consolidation loan $56.91
consolidation interest loan low student $64.21
school loans consolidation $60.02
student loans consolidation $59.03
federal student consolidation loan $58.58
education loan consolidation $58.05
acs student loan consolidation $57.34
student loan consolidation programs $57.14

I am pretty much sure that some peoples are struggling to earn money online. If you are so desperate to earn your 1st check, you should take a look at online paid surveys. I have come across a number of articles where by paid survey sites are ruled out as scams. I am sure that if you have searched the web for online paid survey scams, you must have come across things like “paid survey sites are scams because they con you into buying lists which one can get for free” well…I do not know where you stand on this but try searching for some of these companies yourself, you might end up with nothing.

Let me just say that I personally believe that paid survey sites are not necessarily scams because there goes a lot of work into identifying and obtaining details of those particular organizations willing to pay their consumers for their opinions. Those who maintain these sites are simply trying to get paid for their hard work. The sign up cost most survey sites charge is a bit high but it is also justifiable.

Most of the survey sites you will come across will say that you can earn up to $100 per day which can be true if you had registered with most of these companies. Remember that the more companies you sign up with, the more survey invites you receive which in turn means, your daily/weekly earnings will increase. Since the companies are a lot, It would be wise to open up another email account specifically for the use of these surveys because you will get lots of invites which will most likely flood your inbox.

I decided to go through the trouble of finding some of these companies of which the majority are based in the US & Canada. The list is absolutely free and I should warn you that I cannot be held liable for any mishaps that you encounter. Take your time and go through the free paid survey site list and decide for yourself the companies you want to join.

ACOP - International
BigBuck Surveys - US
Consumer Expressions - US
ECN Research - US
Global Survey Group - US
Global Test Market - International
Home Business - Online Profits Now - US & Canada
Ipsos i-say - US & Canada
Survey Matrix - International

The rest of the list can be accessed here

There is no point of having a website that gets no visitors or worse, it does not rank in the first five page of a search engine results page. If this is the case, it is time you do some serious work and start building targeted web traffic. It will probably take a while before you start seeing results but if you do it the right way, you will be amazed at how much you will be earning. There are many ways of building web traffic but not all of them are guaranteed to work. Below is a list of 10 ways one can build targeted web traffic to a website for free i.e. without paying for advertising space.

· Use Proper Meta Tags
The meta tags you might want to put in place are the title, description and keyword meta tags. This will not guarantee you high ranking in search engines results but they will be used by the search engines to display information about your site in the results. The meta tags should appear below the head and before the opening body tag. You must note that they are not written using the same format. i.e. if you have a blogger site, the format is not the same as a .com site.

· Optimize for Search Engines
You should make use of free html code validating site out there. What this sites do is, they will analyze your website html and content and give it a rating. Some of them go to the extent of pointing out flaws in your coding. The best part is that they will give you feedback on the effectiveness of your meta tags. If you are to link back to certain sections of your site, use non-singular keywords instead. i.e instead of using extra money, use how to earn money online.

· Submit Sitemap to Main Search Engines
This is a must do for every website owner. If you want search engines to pick up your content faster even thou they will eventually after a long time, submit the sitemap to the main search engines. It will take a while but if your content is rich, you will love the traffic streaming to your website. Do not submit your sitemap more than once, you will get your website banned for spamming. Learn how to submit your blogger sitemap to Google and other engines.

· Blog Commenting
If you have enough time to comment on blogs, do it but make sure that the comments are useful. The other thing is to make sure that you only comment on blogs that are related to the theme of our website/blog. The idea is to leave an impression on the webmasters so that your comment can be approved and then the readers might find that comment and eventually continue to your website for more.

· Valuable Link Exchanges
You need to partner with other webmasters on this. Search engines rank websites depending on the number of quality backlinks. To get the highest score, only link with sites that are relevant to your theme otherwise your site will be penalised and ranked low regardless of the number of links. Better yet, make use of contextual links to rank higher. Contextual links are links that appear within the body of an article.

· Appear As a Guest Author
This method works very well and both parties involved benefits as you get free publicity and traffic and the other gets a break from writing. Contact webmasters of sites related to yours and discuss about this. You should have a couple of sample articles ready just in case they are interested.

· Create RSS Feeds
Feeds are great for getting your message out and quick. Most internet surfers do not return to website they had just visited, they subscribe to your feeds if they liked what they saw. Your feeds will be delivered to their email addresses and they can come back and read more articles if they think it is a good piece. Do a little search on the net and see which feed syndications you might be interested in.

· Make Use of Online Forums
This works like commenting on blogs. Instead of just leaving a comment, you can take part in discussions, recommend product and give readers sound advice. The best part about this is that you are allowed to have a signature file to your profile and every time you post, it appears with the link to your website. If you are having trouble finding forums related to your website, use search engines with your search query ending with forum. For example to find a forum in the digital devices field, use keywords like “iPhone forum”, “digital camera forum” and so on.

· Give Out Freebies
People do like to get things for free. What you can do is create something like a good desktop wallpaper or screensaver with your website address displayed. You can also force people to take part in small contests. Most webmasters achieve this by having people link back to you as the entrance condition.

· Free eBook
Just like the point above, people love free stuffs. If you can write a great article on a topic of your choice and give it away as an eBook for free, you will definitely get traffic. For example, I could have written an eBook on How to Drive Web Traffic to Your Website explicitly and given it away as an eBook to every visitor to my website. The best part of free eBooks is that if the content is rich, it will always create a buzz and find its way to eBook portals and other webmasters. The best way to write an eBook is by doing it offering guidance to a related topic related to your website theme. The trick here is to have links back to your website placed at the right places.

There you have it. The 10 most simple and free ways of driving targeted web traffic to your website. I know, I could have exploited the points explicitly but I hope you get the idea. If you prefer paying for traffic, it is also an excellent method but for most people who cannot afford to buy ad space, this is generally the best and only way of doing it.

Scour is one of the cool search engines that are not Google. It is no ordinary search engines, it is an all in one search engine, image search engine and video search engine that retrieves its results from the 3 big search engines i.e. Google, Yahoo & Live Search. It also includes search results from Twitter, Digg & other social network sites.

Scour is also a paid search engine that award its users a point each for searching with it, commenting and voting on the search results. The commenting and voting are partially used to influence the search results ranking. A bonus point of 50 is acquired upon registering and the rest comes from referrals. Their referral system offers a whopping 25% commission which makes it a good affiliate program.

Once a user has acquired a certain number of points, they are paid out either via Pay Pal or a visa gift card that can be used at any ATM that accepts visa cards.

An account is terminated if any of these guidelines is abused:

• Invalid searches

• Comment abuse

• Email invite spam

• Multiple account

• Abuse promotion

All points are lost if any of the above guidelines are abuse. If any of the referrals abuses them, a few points are deducted. Signup with Scour and make some money while you surf the web.

I am sure that by this time, you have selected a product that is worth promoting from one of the affiliate programs. This is the time to figure out how you are going to promote that product. If you are doubting the product, do not hesitate to do a little research just to make sure that the market is hot. If you are not sure how, read Choosing the Best ClickBank Affiliate Program.

There are various ways of promoting affiliate products but it is recommended that you use these methods:

• Article Marketing
Writing an article requires you to know a little something about the product. This is not a problem because most product owners provide some of this information in their affiliate centres. The article need not be about the product, it should be on a problem that can be solved using the product. People usually refer to websites for solution to their problems. A well article that addresses their problem is more likely to convert provided that you introduce the product as a solution as well.

Below is a list of some of the websites you can use to submit your articles.
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.contentdesk.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/

• Review Pages
This is a bit different from article marketing. People searching for products normally want to see reviews that will help them decide if they should go ahead and buy. A review page or as they call it a landing page needs to have a lot of useful information and this can be put in the form of a comparison. What you can do is compare the product to an existing one and make sure those pros and cons are tabled out. If you know nothing about the product, contact the product owner or check the product affiliate centre. The affiliate centre will probably contain pre written articles, keywords, banners, etc for you to use in your campaign.

• Pay-Per-Clicks
This is the most expensive way of promoting your product and you are more likely to waste more money if it is not done the right way. If you have chosen to use this method, do some keyword research and learn a little bit of SEO. It is possible to link the PPC ad directly to the product page but it would help you if you point it to a review page. Sometimes it is a good idea to target keywords with low CPC. If you do not want to lose that possible buyer, have them signup for your mail list.

Remember that if you do not want to waste your marketing efforts, do some research and try to spend as little money as you can on your marketing campaigns.

Remember what I said in the post Earn Money Online With ClickBank? It ended like ... promote all sorts of junk. Choose products that are really going to help people out. The last thing you want them doing is asking for a refund ...

It will really suck if you are promoting all sorts of junk that will not sell nor help people make something out of themselves. Choosing the right product or as people say the right niche is the first important thing that you must do. There are many ways of choosing the right affiliate program and this is what this article is all about.

If you do a search in the market place, you will notice that there are stats like $earned/sale: $25.45, %earned/sale: 75%, referred: 70%, gravity: 154 and so on. The most important stats that you need to look at apart from the knowing that it is a product people are going to buy is the gravity score, %referred and the % earned. You will need to aim for affiliate programs that payout more than 50% commission and with at least 60% referred customers. Those stats will tell you how popular the product is amongst other affiliates. The gravity is not of importance but a higher number means you stand a good chance of earning an income from that affiliate program especially if you join it whilst it just launched.

If you are not sure if your niche is hot enough, you can do a little research on:

· Google Keyword Tool and have a look at the search volumes
· Google Trends and see the trending topics
· SemRush and see the websites you have to compete with for a keyword
· Amazon best selling products page and see if your niche is amongst them
· High traffic shopping websites like eBay and Yahoo

If you want to jump into the ClickBank best sellers, you should go to ClickBank Analytics or ClickBank Trends and check out the stats. The downside of this method is that you will probably be a bit late because the competition would have stepped up by then. I would suggest that you join a hot niche while the competition is still low. This way, you will be ahead of the other affiliate marketers joining your program late.

I will say this again just in case you had forgotten. Promote an affiliate product that people will want to buy, not junk! Nobody wants to waste their time putting in so much effort just to promote junk affiliate programs and make no sales, it is wrong and embarrassing!

Taking online surveys has proven to be an exciting, legitimate way of making money online. Market research companies have questions they want answered, they pay you to answer them, and consequently are able to make better marketing decisions regarding their products and services. It's a win-win situation.

Unfortunately however, there are few people who are able to generate large amounts of income from online survey taking. Most panelists participate in one or two surveys monthly, and not on a weekly, nevermind daily basis. Why is this?

1) Panelists limit registration to one or two market research companies - there are no rules that state that one cannot register with more than one online survey company. Then why limit yourself? Statistically the more market research companies you register with, the better your chances are of being invited to participate in an online survey.

2) Panellists never confirm their registration - some people assume that just because they've filled out an online registration form with a survey company, that they are part of their database of panellists. This is untrue. Many market research companies require applicants to verify their e-mail addresses by clicking a special hyperlink contained within an e-mail sent from the market research company to the potential panellists e-mail address. Clicking on this hyperlink and verifying one's e-mail account is an important final step in the registration process.

3) Panelists never check their e-mail - this is so obvious yet is overlooked many times. Online survey invitations are sent via e-mail. If an e-mail account is never checked, how can one expect to participate in survey and make money? E-mail accounts should be checked at least twice a week, but preferably, daily. This ensures that survey invitations are received and that they haen't expired by the time they are read.

By following these simple suggestions, one can get a head start with online survey taking. Getting paid for your opinion is fun and can act as a great way to supplement one's income. Good luck and have fun!
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Veronica Dubak is the owner of the successful SurveyBounty.com, http://www.surveybounty.com/ free online paid surveys directory. With a comprehensive listing of market research companies classified by region, and background information on the online survey industry, SurveyBounty.com is the legitimate source for online survey information.

Most people will type make money online or any other related search query in search engines hoping that they will find a plug and play earn money online program. Guess what, it does not work like that even when the ads say automated affiliate website or automated money making machine. You will still need to do some work to get that monthly check rolling in.

ClickBank is a website where vendors and affiliates meet. On ClickBank, one will find digital products such as eBooks and software’s. The most important part is that it takes only a few seconds to register. Once you become a member, you can start promoting any product of your choice. The market place has many products and picking one is easy. All you do is create a hop link (this is your personal affiliate link) and that is it, you are ready to start earning money online.

The relationship between ClickBank and its members is so strong such that they have always paid their affiliates on time. Payouts vary depending on the commission of the product one choose to promote. Commissions can be as high as 75% and as long as you keep people finding and buying from your affiliate link, your commission will keep coming in.

Driving visitors to your affiliate link is the most important thing because if you don’t have web traffic, you won’t get paid. There various ways of promoting your affiliate link. Common practises include setting up pay-per-click campaigns, writing review pages (also called sales/landing pages), and writing articles.

If you are using articles, make sure that you have review pages also. Your articles need to link back to your landing pages. This will help your pages rank better in search engines results. It is also important that you learn a little bit of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) & SEM (Search Engine Marketing), it will help you out big time. If you are a ClickBank member, click here to join.

NB!
Do not be a greedy affiliate and promote all sorts of junk. Choose products that are really going to help people out. The last thing you want them doing is asking for a refund and this will hurt your income.

Earn Money Online is dedicated to teaching you how to earn an online income.

How to Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Products
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
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There must be a reason why some affiliates succeed and some fail, a reason why some affiliates profit moderately and some affiliates profit substantially.
There must be a reason.
There is.
And that reason is this: "super" affiliates start, sustain and strengthen relationships with subscribers.
It begins and ends with a list. Even a small one can be a powerful, profitable mechanism if you follow these 7 guidelines...

1. CAPTURE THE OPTIN FIRST.

Instead of sending traffic directly to your affiliate link, send them to YOUR site where you offer some kind of list for them to join. (Hint: Mini-course works best) Once you have them on a list, they become an asset. If you send them directly to an affiliate page and they don't buy, they're gone forever. On your list, you can follow-up with them indefinitely.
Note: You can even redirect them to your affiliate link AFTER they join your list, effectively getting them where you wanted them to go in the first place.

2. DIFFERENTIATE THE OFFER.

Instead of sending out the same, tired, lame advertisement that every other affiliate in the world sends out, write your own. Trust me when I say that many people find it OFFENSIVE when they receive two dozens duplicate emails from two dozen list owners all promoting the exact same thing in the exact same way. And even if they don't find it offensive, it's not as effective if you simply rinse and repeat what everyone else is doing.
Hint: Here's how you differentiate...

3. SPEAK FROM EXPERIENCE.

Nothing - nothing - nothing speaks louder than RESULTS. If you want to lose a few pounds, who do you turn to? Someone who is still struggling with their own weight or someone you've seen drop 35 pounds? Exactly.
The way you make your mailings / ads different is you speak from your own personal experience. This product or service that you are promoting as an affiliate, how has it been useful to you personally? What results have you personally achieved? When you used it, what happened?
Note: If you haven't personally used the product, then shame on you for trying to make a quick buck from it hocking it to others!

4. OFFER A COMPELLING INCENTIVE.

Another way to be different - and to dramatically increase your chances of getting a sale as an affiliate - is to offer some kind of compelling incentive if someone buys the offer through YOUR referral link. Whether it's a special report or access to an audio recording, personalized consultation or advertising, a private training call or existing products and services, this can be a highly effective method of converting fence-setters into paying customers.
In order for it to work well, it must be UNIQUE (I.E. You’re the only one making the offer) and USEFUL (I.E. Something of great perceived value to the reader).
Note: Don't have anything to offer? Don't worry! There are many ways to easily obtain extra incentives: conduct an interview, hire a ghost-writer to create articles / reports for you, buy reprint rights to other products, assemble a bunch of free articles and other resources into a private access site, etc.

5. LOOK FOR RESIDUAL OPPORTUNITIES.

Rather than exhaust your efforts on purchases that give you a one-time commission, why not make the most of your marketing by looking firstly for offers that pay out ONGOING monthly commissions for your referred sales?
There are many different residual income generating services such as membership sites (ranging from PT Cruisers to weight loss), stock photos and clipart, hosting, autoresponders, databases (from hiking trails to sermon outlines) online magazines and a variety of other subscription based opportunities that reward you with monthly recurring commissions.
While you definitely want a mix of types of affiliate programs to promote, your priority should be in identifying and promoting those services and programs that will pay you month after month, instead of only one time.

6. BUILD A SALES ARMY.

One of the biggest untapped sources of income in any list is that of "turning subscribers into partners". In other words, find those on your list who are interested in making money and provide them with training and materials to promote affiliate programs as well.
This has a two-fold advantage for YOU:

* First, if you find 2-tier affiliate programs, you can get your subscribers to join the program through your referral. Anytime they get a sale, you'll earn a commission as well. You effectively get free commissions from their effort.

* Secondly, you can use their efforts to build your own assets. For example: If you provide them with a 10-page report to giveaway to promote their affiliate link, you can include a page in the report promoting YOUR list! You effectively get free subscribers from their effort.

7. MONETIZE FOR MULTIPLE STREAMS.

As your own list continues to grow, you certainly want to diversify in your offerings. (Not to the point of bombarding your list with offers every day of course!)
* Promote other affiliate programs
* Create your own products. (Even short $10 reports will earn profit!)
* Establish joint ventures
* Co-author products
* Cross promote
* Conduct surveys.

There are MANY ways to make money from you list and keep your list growing, growing, growing!
Remember, it all comes down to: starting, sustaining and strengthening relationships with subscribers.
And that's how you make a fortune as an affiliate promoting other people's products.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea! Visit his website.
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NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
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The word "overhead" is not a favorite among those who run businesses of any kind. Nobody likes the expenses of operating a business. And nobody really talks about them much when it comes to promoting all of the "money-making"products and services online.
But, don't kid yourself, there's a lot of overhead.

That brings me to the fifth reason why I love affiliate marketing...

** You don't need a big budget to make it work **

Do you have any idea how much money is spent running an internet business?

There are monthly fees for...

* Autoresponders

* Hosting

* Management

* Advertising

* Scripts

* Much more

There are regular fees for...

*Licensing

* Outsourcing

* Support

* Customer Service

* Maintenance

* Development

* Recruting

Much more It's not uncommon to spend tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dollars in operational costs -- which is fine if you've been in business a while and are making the bucks. However, if you're a newcomer, it can be taxing on your budget!

SIDEBAR: I paid one girl over $30,000 last year just to oversee one small part of my business. No one talks much about it, but there ARE a lot of expenses involved before you get to the "bottom line" of profit.
BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don't need a big budget to make it work! You can simply use a variety of free and low-cost marketing methods to generate clicks to your affiliate link.

That's why I love affiliate marketing.
You don't need a big budget to make it work.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea! Visit his website.
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Interested in taking online surveys but not sure if you should? Here some tips that will help keep your personal information safe, and will help you reap the rewards of being an online surveys panelist.

1. Register only with online survey panels that list a privacy policy on their website

2. Look for panels approved by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and that have privacy policies reviewed by TRUSTe or features the WebTrust for Online Privacy Seal of Assurance.

3. Beware of "survey websites" asking you to receive information for special offers and other survey panels during registration - these websites may sell your name and information to other companies that will send you spam.

4. Always set up a separate e-mail account exclusively for survey invitations. This will make it easier for you to see how many surveys you have received, and will avoid spam being sent to your personal e-mail address, should you make a mistake and register with an unreputable surveys website.

5. Beware of "survey websites" that ask for overtly personal information such as your bank account information, credit card numbers, full names of family members, etc. A real online market research company would never ask you to provide this type of information.

6. Be cautious of "get rich quick" websites. You cannot get rich taking online surveys. However, you can make a decent amount of cash on the side participating in surveys.

7. Legitimate online survey e-mail invitations will provide information on the type of study being conducted, the survey length, and the incentive for completion. Do not respond or click on e-mail "survey invitations" that feature ads to win products, cash, etc. These e-mails are not coming from legitimate market research companies!

8. Some research companies will ask you to download software after registration. This software usually tracks your web browsing habits and the information is then sent to marketers. It is ok to download this software if you can verify a legitimate market research firm is running the site - do your homework to make sure that this is indeed the case.

9. Look for mentions of marketing association memberships on survey panel websites. Reputable associations include CASRO (Council of American Survey Research Organizations) and the AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research).

10. Your opinion counts! Marketers truly are interested in what you think, enough to reward you with cash and prizes just for sharing your thoughts. Stay cautious when registering with online survey panels, but when you've found a reputable panel - have fun and reap the rewards of being a panellist!

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Veronica Dubak is an SEO expert, internet entrepreneur, and owner of the successful SurveyBounty.com free online paid surveys directory. With a comprehensive listing of market research companies classified by region, and background information on the online survey industry, SurveyBounty.com is the most legitimate source for online survey information.

NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
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I'm sure by now you are well aware that there are those who have reported HUGE amounts of money being made with their online businesses. What you may not be aware of is the amount of work involved in generating those "sales" (not always net profit, mind you ... this isn't "spendable"income in a lot of cases.)

That brings me to the fourth reason why I love affiliate marketing...

** You don't need to manage an entire business **

While it can be quite lucrative, running an entire business with employees, inventory, partners, vendors, and other associates can be a time-sucking, frustrating ordeal.
Imagine...

* Processing refunds

* Putting out fires when partners SPAM

* Managing day-to-day operations

* Overseeing projects you've outsourced

* Recruting new affiliates

* Training everyone to help you

* Paying taxes

* Taking care of the paper trail

* Doing all of the "stuff" that business owners do.

Didn't you want to start an internet business to make more time for important things in life?
Why not make a lot of money WITHOUT making a lot of extra work for yourself?!
It can be a lot of extra work and stress. BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don't need to manage an entire business! You are simply responsible for promoting your affiliate link... someone else handles all the rest.

That's why I love affiliate marketing.
You don't need to manage an entire business.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea! Visit his website.
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Interested in maximizing your online paid surveys income? Here are some tips to help you out!

1. Register With As Many Online Survey Companies as Possible
- This will increase your chances of being invited to participate in online surveys. More surveys equal more opportunities to earn cash.

2. Create a Separate e-mail Account for Your Online Surveys
- This will keep your personal e-mail separate from survey invitations and will make it easier to see when you have received an online survey notification. .

3. Provide Real Contact Information During Registration
- If a survey company has a privacy policy on their website, it will likely mention that panellist contact information is used only to send payments - actual survey responses are kept anonymous. If you provide fake contact information during registration, don't expect to receive any payments.

4. Complete as Many Online Surveys as Possible
- Not only does completing surveys earn you more money, inactive panellists are often removed from panellist databases, so don't decline to fill out too many surveys!

5. Surveys for Points and Prizes are Valuable Too!
- Not all surveys reward panellists with cash, but for example, would you rather receive $3.00 for completing a survey, or a one in 500 chance of winning $1500? Some panels offer points redeemable for merchandise, store vouchers, or gift certificates. These types of panels can be valuable too because you use cash to buy products anyway.

6. Comment Boxes Can Increase Your Chances
- When a survey questionnaire contains an empty comment box that asks for your opinion on something - provide as much detail as possible. As a result, you may be considered a "high quality respondent", which may result in more survey invitations for you to complete.

7. Keep An Active List
- Make sure to keep an updated list of panels you've registered with so that the next time you come across a panel, you'll know if you've registered with it before or not.
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Veronica Dubak is an SEO expert, internet entrepreneur, and owner of the successful SurveyBounty.com free online paid surveys directory. With a comprehensive listing of market research companies classified by region, and background information on the online survey industry, SurveyBounty.com is the most legitimate source for online survey information.

NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
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Some people have the ability to persuade others and talk them into just about anything. Especially when it comes to influencing their buying decisions. They know how to push the right hot buttons, say things the right way and generally get consumers into an emotional frenzy to the point they are ready to click an order button.
There are two key words in that paragraph that really need to stand out in your mind: "some people".

Not everyone has this ability. In fact, only a few do.
That brings me to the third reason why I love affiliate marketing...

** You don't need to write a world class salesletter**

Have you ever tried to write a salesletter? There's a reason why professional copywriters charge up to $10,000 (and sometimes even more) for a SINGLE salesletter. It takes a lot of experience and skill to write a top-gun salesletter, which is why most people have a hard time convincing people to buy if they do create their own products and website.
They simply don't have the right salesletter in place to make it all work. Without good copy, it really doesn't matter how spectacular the offer is, you're simply not going to get many sales.

SIDEBAR: The average conversion rate of site visitors who become buyers is reportedly less than 2%. That means 98 out of every 100 do NOT buy. That's why sales are so incredibly bad for a poor site ... you *might* get 2 sales out of every 300-400 visitors.
BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don't need to write a salesletter! You simply direct people to someone else's high-octane salesletter for THEM to convert your leads into commissionable sales.

That's why I love affiliate marketing.
You don't need to write a world class salesletter.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea! Visit his website.
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The REAL SECRET To Consistent Commission Checks
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
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It's important that you understand something about affiliate marketing from the very beginning -
Earning affiliate income isn't easy for the average person.
Let's face it, there are 50 gazillion other people out there doing the exact same thing you are doing - if you could remember what it is that you are doing. :)

So, that's what I want to address. Here's the mindset that I want you to remember: there are only so many customers out there. And each affiliate in the program is doing basically the same thing to try to reach them. That's why you are going to be different. Got it?

Before I jump into what I consider to be the "real secret" to earning commissions with affiliate programs, let me share with you a basic concept that is going to be important to what you are going to learn today.

Here is how the average affiliate approaches promoting their affiliate link...
A) Send out a mailing. Purchase ezine ads. Get a few pay-per-click keywords. Post a few links. Make a small profit. Get discouraged. Move on to the next affiliate program.
Or, if they are slightly more aggressive...
B) Send out a mailing. Purchase ezine ads. Get a few pay-per-click keywords. Post a few links. Write a few articles. Create an eBook. Do a joint venture. Swap ads. And they continue promoting that same affiliate program until they (along with a few other aggressive affiliates) have found every potential customer on the face of the earth. Make a decent profit. Where do I go now? Move on to the next affiliate program.

While I certainly agree that the "slightly more aggressive" affiliate is on the right trail with their approach, it still leaves a common problem that all affiliates have...Finding NEW customers.

You make an affiliate sale. Great. You make another one. Great. You keep working and working and working to make another sale and another sale and another sale. Now, remember, there are a gazillion others out there trying to do the same thing. And, even if all of these other affiliates only make one or two sales each...that's a LOT of customers that you WON'T be selling to!

For example: If there are 10,000 affiliates promoting Product A and they all, on average, sell just 2 copies each, that's 20,000 customers that are immediately unavailable for you to sell to.
Doesn't matter how hard you promote and how much you do, you WILL NOT sell them a second copy of something they have already bought. Even if they love it. They won't buy another copy.

So, here's the "real secret." While everyone is promoting the heck out of all of the same programs you are, you need to refine who it is that you are promoting.
***Bottom line: Start FOCUSING on those affiliate programs that offer MONTHLY commissions.

Here's why. Let's say you promote an absolutely awesome product by Mr. Guru that sells for $29.97. And Mr. Guru gives you 50% commission. By the time all of the processing fees are out of the way, you earn about $14.00 for a new customer.
And you're done with that customer -- it's time to move on and find the next guy.

HOWEVER, if you promote an affiliate program that pays MONTHLY, let's say a membership site, then here's what you would find happens...
The membership site is $27.00 PER MONTH. You earn $13.50 perMONTH for every referral you make for as LONG AS THEY REMAINACTIVE!

With the $29.97 product, you earn $14.00 for all of your efforts in finding a customer. One time commission. That's it. Time to find another customer. With the MONTHLY service, you earn about the same commission for that same customer. Then, next month you earn that commission over again! Month after that, you're still earning that same commission from that same customer. For each and every month that the customer continues to use the service you continue to bring in the commission without finding a new customer.

Do you see the potential here?
It makes much more sense to focus on promoting affiliate programs that bill monthly and pay commissions monthly. That way, you continue to earn profits from the...Same customer base!

If I am going to buy ads and purchase pay-per-click keywords and create eBooks and bust my behind to get those customers, I'd sure rather get paid every month (without doing a bit of extra work, mind you!) that to only earn a one-time commission.

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While this isn't as good as MONTHLY income, choosing an affiliate program that offers you LIFETIME customers is the next best thing. For example: With some programs when you recruit a customer , they are yours for life. If they purchase future product releases, then YOU receive the commission as the original referrer. It's a good second option, but it's not as good as getting paid monthly!------------------------------------------------

So, what should you promote? Your eyes have been opened. You've seen the light. You realize that what you've just read does make sense. And you want to get paid monthly!
So, what should you promote? While you definitely need to check things out yourself and make that determination on your own, let me give you a short list of TYPES of offers that you can promote that bill monthly and award monthly commission checks.

* PLR AND RESALE RIGHTS CLUBS
* MEMBERSHIP SITES
* WEB HOSTING
* AUTORESPONDERS AND LIST MANAGEMENT TOOLS
* COACHING CLUBS
* PAID NEWSLETTERS
* SERVICES (AD TRACKING, LEGAL DOCS, MANAGEMENT, ETC.)

The important thing is for you to identify at least one really good affiliate program that offers residual income possibilities for you.
Once you find the right program to promote, it's a matter of getting as many different people to click on your link as possible. How would you like to have someone teach you ONE simple way to promote your affiliate links everyweek? Read on for details...
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in the bank without a website, experience or even an idea! Visit his website.
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