Biggest Firesale in Internet Marketing History…

Vince Tan is at it again!

In case the name Vince Tan is not yet ringing any bells with you, this is the guy that pulled off one of the biggest firesales of 2007, doing $69,000 in sales in a mere 7 days.

Yes, he came out of nowhere and racked up the kind of sales that some never accomplish after years of being online.

He proved that it you WANT it you can do it. In fact, Vince became quite the inspiration for many a marketer who never thought this kind of fast online success to be possible.

So, here’s why we’re talking about this now, in 2008. you see, Vince is going to do it again, this time shooting for 6 or even SEVEN figures with NO out of pocket expenses!

Vince has made it his personal goal to show that ANYONE that wants to accomplish this kind of success online can do it, regardless of how much money they have OR don’t have to start with.

Vince’s firesale will go live on 18th November, BUT for now, you stand a chance to win the complete firesale package plus some other extra stuff worth $1,500 (or more!) by going to the site below and guessing the total value of the firesale package! And also a $47 instant gift waiting for you there if you join now.

Remember, that’s 100+ top IM products that are currently selling in the market Today!

Of course I’ve already put in my guess!

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Vince has already managed to get over 100 Top Marketers to join forces on this, again, without spending any of his own money, so you really should follow this closely, and be on the lookout for the official launch on November 18th, 2008.

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Choosing the Right Affiliate Program

You can’t expect a great gastronomic experience if you’re in the wrong restaurant, right? In the same light, you can’t expect a rewarding affiliate marketing experience if you’re enrolled under the wrong program.

It’s one of the primary rules of the game: always choose the right – if not the best – affiliate program out there.

Of course, that’s easier said than done.

With tens of thousands of affiliate programs in existence today, scrutinizing each and every one of them can be quite a chore.

Warning Signs Of A Disaster Waiting To Happen

Nonetheless, there are clear cut signs of a bad affiliate program. Let’s take a look at them:

• Offering a product that is of inferior quality. This product may fill a need somewhere, but because of its poor quality, refund requests will pour in. You may be able to refer some sales, but the refunds will take away your commissions. Worse, you might lose credibility amongst your prospects for leading them to a bad product.

• Offering a product that is difficult to sell. This is self-explanatory. You won’t be able to realize your commissions if the product you’re tasked to pre-sell is a “hard sell.”

• The affiliate program has a history of failing to pay its affiliates. Nothing is more frustrating than working for something, but being deprived of the rewards for some reason or another.

• The affiliate program has a dubious history in its dealing with its clients and partners.

• The affiliate program is struggling when it comes to its finances.

• The affiliate program is being operated by a person or persons who are quite hesitant to introduce themselves.

If these signs are present, do take heed.

Remember, there are a lot of other choices out there… options which will prove to be better for your interests.

Characteristics Of The Right Affiliate Program

So, we already know what to avoid.

Now it’s time to discuss what to look for in an affiliate program.

• A hot-selling product. Personally, this is my number one concern. I will not be able to earn as an affiliate if I cannot pre-sell any products, right? Hence, I always look for programs offering products that have a proven value in a particular market, or at the very least, products which offer a lot of promise.

• Gratuitous commission scheme. This is secondary only to the factor above. The minimum commission rate for me is 50%. Anything lower may take more consideration. This shouldn’t be a problem though, as most affiliate programs offer 50% commission per sale these days.

• A program that is well known for its credibility. Who would want to associate themselves with flash-in-the-pan, fly-by-night establishments, right? You want to be a winner? Stick with a winner! You will need to rely on recommendations and your own exercise of due diligence to find such an affiliate program.

• A program that has an excellent post-sales service. In affiliate marketing, refund requests are your enemies. You may be led to believe that you have bagged a sale, but if a refund is requested later on, you won’t get any commission. A program that has excellent post-sales support will be able to minimize such requests, and consequently, will be able to protect your interests.

Commission Rate Vs. Salability

A lot of potential affiliates are in a state of quandary when it comes to the choice of joining an affiliate program that offers a high commission rate per sale for a slow-selling product and a lower commission rate for a high- selling product.

The answer, of course, is to choose the latter.

A product may be selling for $100, and the program offers you 80% commission, or $80 per sale. But if that product is not sellable, you’ll never be able to see some earnings.

Another product may be selling for $50, and the program offers you 50% commission, or $25 per sale. The product is a proven seller. You will earn more with this system than the previous one.

In choosing an affiliate program to join, always choose one which has highly sellable products because you’ll never be wrong with such.

How Many Affiliate Programs Can You Join?

Since affiliate programs are regarded as supplementary earning opportunities, you are not bound by exclusivity.

You are not limited to just one affiliate program.

You can join as many as you like. There is absolutely no limit as to how many affiliate programs you enroll with.

But here’s the deal….

Yes, you can join hundreds of affiliate programs, if you wish, but will you be able to concentrate on all of them? Each campaign for a particular offering of a particular program requires your time and effort. Will you be able to handle hundreds of demands just as easily?

There is no bar as to how many affiliate programs you can join.

The only restriction is one of efficiency. You’ll be more productive if you concentrate on two or three programs throughout your affiliate marketing career.

SCGM V7, Free $100 Bills & Economic Stimulus…

There are several big things going on today which you need to know about immediately.

First, Jeremy Burns has launched Version 7 of his super successful Source Code Goldmine package.

That’s 10 hot products with full Private Label Rights ready for you to grab, slap your name on and sell for big profits.

These sales have sold out every time for a long time and this time Version 7 is going to sell out MUCH
faster!

Why?

Jeremy is literally giving away crisp $100 bills!

In the first ever Source Code Goldmine Stimulus Package Jeremy is helping all of us being affected by the down economy by putting cash money back in our pockets!

We’ve all been affected by the downward trend in the economy in one way or another whether it be the loss of a job, loss of hours at work or even a decrease in sales or affiliate commissions online.

Jeremy came up with a sure fire way to counteract the down economy as well as give you 10 ways to generate lifetime income in the process!

I’m sure that you’ll agree that is doesn’t get much cooler than that.

Jeremy is only doing this for the first 200 people who get through the doors on opening day after which the price will increase to $197.

If you’ve been looking for a way to get started online and start raking in the cash, this is certainly your
ticket to doing so.

One look at the products in Version 7 and you’ll be convinced…

Source Code Goldmine 7

To your success,
Jeffrey Levesque

P.S. If you aren’t one of the first 200 people that grab their package, you won’t be able to get the $100 fast action bonus so make sure you get moving…

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Selling The Merchant’s Products

Actually, “selling” is not the correct term for the affiliate’s job. The affiliate is tasked to “pre-sell.” Pre-selling is very much different from actual selling.

Actual selling requires you to garner leads, convert them into sales, process payments, deliver orders, entertain refund requests, provide post-sales support and technical services, and the like. As an affiliate, you are not bound to these responsibilities.

Pre-selling only demands that you refer people to the affiliate merchant’s sales page. The affiliate merchant would then take care of the rest.

So, What Is Pre-Selling In A Nutshell?

If we are to define pre-selling, we can say that it is the process of conditioning your prospects’ minds to buy something and leading them to the mechanism that will convince them to make a purchase.

From the definition above, you’d know that an affiliate’s task is NOT to convince the prospects to buy. No, no, no. The affiliate’s job is merely to lead people to the affiliate merchant’s sales page. Better yet, the affiliate can also condition the prospects’ minds to make a purchase so that the sales page will have an easier time converting them into sales.

I’m going to break down pre-selling into three important components:

1. Finding prospects
2. Gaining prospects
3. Conditioning prospects

All the secrets of affiliate marketing success will revolve around those three components, so I pray that you memorize them, dear friend.

Again, for emphasis….

Your job as an affiliate is to PRE-SELL the affiliate merchant’s products. If you’re able to master the components of pre-selling, then I am fully confident that you will make it big in this field.

Cool! Where Can I Find Affiliate Programs?

There are thousands upon thousands of affiliate programs on the World Wide Web. Each niche, no matter how big or small, has merchants that are employing affiliate systems to increase their direct sales. With information at your finger tips courtesy of this thing we call the Internet, finding these affiliate programs is easy.

It’s finding the niche or the market that you want to focus on that might provide a little challenge.

What Do You Mean By Finding A Market?

There are many fields that you can concentrate on.

You like dogs? Maybe you can consider the broader subject of pets, or a more specific breed like Chihuahua. Better yet, concentrate on a more particular branch, like dog health or dog care.

Your choice of market will depend on a variety of factors:

• How well do you know the said market? Passion will bring you a lot of benefits, so you might as well choose a market that you are passionate about from the very beginning.
• How interested are you in the said market? Knowledge is an ongoing commitment. You have to update yourself CONSTANTLY so as not to get left behind with the latest trends and tactics in your particular industry. Might as well choose a market that you are interested in to make the constant search for knowledge more enjoyable and fulfilling.
• What is the outlook for the said market? Naturally, you wouldn’t want to focus on a dying market where the products you are trying to pre-sell have saturated the digital shelves. You want a HUNGRY market, one which will be able to sustain profitability for a long, long time to come. This brings us to the basics of economic success
• How big is the demand in the said market? This is the first component of economic success: that demand should be high.
• What is the size of the competition in the said market? This is the second component of economic success: that supply should be low.

Low Supply + High Demand = Profitable Market

This is the ONE FORMULA you should remember when choosing a market. It’s the basic rule of economic success. It’s the secret of many high profit businesses throughout the ages.

You see, high yielding enterprises are not born overnight, and neither are they born out of whim.

They are products of meticulous study and consistent hard work.

And it all begins from selecting the perfect market for their ventures.

There are many online tools that you can use to determine the variables at play with the formula above.

To determine demand, simply go to www.nichebot.com . Type in a subject you have in mind. You will then be taken to a page where a number of keywords and key phrases are suggested, together with the number of times they have been searched for in the search engines.

You will want to choose subjects with high numbers of searches.

My personal determinant is at least 1,000,000 searches per month. This will assure me that there are a substantial number of people very much interested in the said subject.

Now, finding a sub-topic that commands many searches is not enough. You need to determine how many websites are catering to them, since you’ll be operating on the Internet.

Run a search of the sub-topic at www.google.com . Look at the number of web pages that appear, as indicated on the top area of the results page.

If the subject commands 1,000,000 searches per month and there are 2,000,000 websites catering to them, then the supply outweighs the demand and the chances of succeeding as an affiliate in such a field will be slimmer.

But if the subject commands 1,000,000 searches per month and there are only 2,000 websites catering to them, then you have for yourself a goldmine!

This is how you find a fertile market on the World Wide Web.

Great! When Can I Start?

You can start as soon as possible! You can even start right now, while reading these pages.

As they say, experience is the best teacher, and what better way to learn than to immediately apply what you have read.

Your First Steps In Affiliate Marketing

Contrary to popular belief, affiliate marketing success does not start with the application of a particular strategy.

No.

Affiliate marketing success starts with the right attitude.

A nice analogy would be a boxer who is scheduled for a prize fight. He can learn all the tricks of the trade with his trainer. He can train for hours upon hours on end to build his stamina and endurance. He can eat the right diet to build his power.

But if he does not possess the right mentality – the mentality to WIN – then his chances of victory will be slim.

His confidence inside the squared circle will be shattered. His punches may connect, but his self-doubt will lessen their impact. His moves will be tentative. And when push comes to shove, he won’t have enough to muster his second wind.

The boxer will lose the fight… because he never believed he could win.

The same goes for an affiliate marketer.

If an affiliate does not possess the right mentality, he will never achieve success in this field.

And what is this mentality?

I call it the mindset to succeed. It’s quite simple really.

Ever wanted something so bad that you spent many countless nights thinking about it? You may have even told yourself the line, “someday, it will be mine.”

After a few weeks, months, or even years… do you remember how that particular thing you’ve always wanted came into your possession? It was a dream come true. You willed it to happen. This is the power of positive thinking.

And this is what I want you to realize…

It all begins by wanting it!

You have to WANT to become successful. You must desire it so badly and will it to happen. Consciously and subconsciously, you will be able to take every step necessary to make your dream come true. This is positive thinking at work.

Of course, it’s not enough to merely want something to happen, you have to do things to make it happen. I’m telling you right now, this is the easy part. Once you have the will to win, everything else will follow suit. The spirit is already there. You are already willing to try everything that is needed to succeed.

All you really need is knowledge on the best tactics to implement.

Keep an eye out for my next post!

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing presents a fantastic opportunity that boasts of the following things:

• Minimum to zero financial investment to start out with this earning stream;
• A variety of programs to choose from;
• Unlimited number of programs to join;
• Extravagant commission schemes ranging from 20% to 90% of the selling price;
• Get paid as you produce results. You’re not handcuffed by time, you can work at your own pace;
• No limit as to how much you can earn.

Because of these amazing benefits, millions of online users have tried their hands at affiliate marketing.

I will not sugarcoat the facts.

A great number of them fail. The majority of them can’t even earn a single buck from their efforts.

Why?

It’s not because affiliate marketing as a system is flawed.

It’s because tried and tested strategies were not implemented in their campaigns – if ever those who failed were aware of them.

And this is what this eBook is all about.

You’re currently reading the first of two comprehensive volumes that aim to become the ULTIMATE resources for online affiliates all over the world.

In succeeding chapters, you will be introduced to some amazing concepts, that will in turn introduce some magical techniques that, when practiced, will almost always guarantee success for your affiliate marketing campaigns.

This is the knowledge that not many are aware of.

And by simply knowing them, you will have an advantage.

Keep an eye out for my next post!