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		<title>Internet Marketing’s Best Money-Printing Systems Revealed June 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On June 2nd, Vince Tan and Dave Lovelace will launch the “must not miss” event of the year.</p>
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<p>These two guys have individually created some of the most successful events on the Internet. In fact, collectively, they have created events that have pulled in over $400,000 in less than 10 days!</p>
<p>While that’s impressive, just what does that mean for you?</p>
<p>It means that the events these two marketers organize are EXTREMELY popular and sell like “hot cakes” because of the high caliber of training and massive value that is packed into these events.</p>
<p>These guys have a real talent for getting the attention of elite marketers and convincing them to hand over their most guarded secrets for building massive businesses online and twisting their arms to let them go at a HUGE savings to you the consumer!</p>
<p>Individually, Vince and Dave have had incredible successes.  And now for first time ever, the two will join forces to bring the most exciting event of the year &#8211; Internet Marketing MOST WANTED (Fast and Furious Edition)! Its going live on 2nd June 2009 at 12 p.m. EST!</p>
<p>Internet Marketing Most Wanted will feature ONLY THE BEST and the FASTEST ways to make money on the internet by some of the world’s BEST MARKETERS!</p>
<p>As I’m writing this, over a dozen marketers have agreed to release their proven blueprints for generating cash quickly on the Internet! Collectively they generate millions of dollar in profit every single year!</p>
<p>So if you want the opportunity to get your hands on the fastest money-printing systems available online from some of the most successful marketers in the world, while literally saving hundreds of dollars, then mark your calendar right now.. for Tuesday, June 2nd!</p>
<p>IMPORTANT &#8211; there’s a catch, so pay attention..</p>
<p>This amazing event will only be open for 10 days only! Once the doors close, it’s gone forever.</p>
<p>So go to the link below right now to get onto their advance notification list. Register immediately and you’ll instantly be in the running to WIN the entire package (valued over $600)!</p>
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		<title>Using Videos for Affiliate Marketing Promotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 06:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When videos started to grow popular on the Internet in the past couple of years, the Internet Marketing landscape started to change.
Affiliate Marketing was not exempted, either.
The most classic mistake people tend to make in affiliate marketing is not capturing the opt-in leads first before sending their visitors to the merchant&#8217;s website.
So what smart marketers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When videos started to grow popular on the Internet in the past couple of years, the Internet Marketing landscape started to change.</p>
<p>Affiliate Marketing was not exempted, either.</p>
<p>The most classic mistake people tend to make in affiliate marketing is not capturing the opt-in leads first before sending their visitors to the merchant&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>So what smart marketers often do is that they would have their own Squeeze Page for the visitors to opt into their list, before sending them to the website they are an affiliate for.</p>
<p>This is so the affiliate marketer can build his own opt-in list and do his follow-ups later.</p>
<p>A few but exceptionally smarter marketers, on the other hand, take this to the next level.</p>
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<p>You probably notice most top Internet Marketing experts are now using videos on their Squeeze Pages. And smarter affiliates are also doing the same for their own, for one obvious reason:</p>
<p><strong>VIDEOS CAN SKYROCKET YOUR TRAFFIC AND SALES CONVERSIONS!</strong>
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<p>Unfortunately, the problem with video marketing is that to begin with, you have to know how to make your own videos.</p>
<p>And even if you could do your own videos, what if you learn that the affiliate program doesn&#8217;t convert well for you after all?</p>
<p>Affiliate Power Videos remove all these barriers.</p>
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<p>At Affiliate Power Videos, you get 10 unique, high converting Video Squeeze Pages, and 5 new ones every month.</p>
<p>So all you have to do is:</p>
<p>Step 1: join any or all of the listed affiliate programs (free)</p>
<p>Step 2: Upload the video and squeeze pages to your web host</p>
<p>Step 3: Start driving in traffic, build your opt-in list and rake in affiliate sales!</p>
<p>You might be thinking that this is going to be a costly monthly membership &#8211; maybe $97, $197 or even $297 a month.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re going to be in for a pleasant surprise &#8212; this one&#8217;s on the house (read: zero cost)!</p>
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<p>Sign up for your free Silver membership access now and don&#8217;t delay &#8211; because I know you could very well have your own string of affiliate video businesses up and running by tonight, with or without any techical experience on your part!</p>
<p>Adios,</p>
<p>Jeffrey Levesque<br />
The Affiliate Mechanic</p>
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		<title>Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Own Membership Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 23:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should people join your membership site?

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<p>Have you ever been confronted by individuals, asking you to join their gym, their video store, their charity or their phone service?</p>
<p>Of course you have. We all have at some point.</p>
<p>And the main question you ask these people is &#8220;why?&#8221; Why should I join your gym? Why should I spend money on your product? Why should I choose your service over the competition?</p>
<p>These are the exact same questions your potential customers will be asking themselves. What makes your membership site better? What can I expect for my money? What can you offer that others will not?</p>
<p>Your business depends on your answers.</p>
<p>This is why a USP is of utmost importance when pitching your membership site.</p>
<p>So, what is a USP?</p>
<p>A USP is the unique selling proposition, the benefit you can deliver that is not offered by any of the competitors. It is what gives you the extra edge, what makes your website unique, what makes your website valuable. It is one of the fundamentals of effective marketing business.</p>
<p>Spending that extra time and effort discovering the best USP is vital to your business. However, if you&#8217;re having trouble or need a little extra advice, then check out <a href="http://www.theaffiliatemechanic.com/membership-sites-made-easy" target="_blank">Membership Sites Made Easy</a> <strong style="display:none"><a href="http://audioporncentral.com/?the_secret_life_of_bees">The Secret Life of Bees dvd</a></strong>
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<p>After all, we could all use a little help getting started.</p>
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<p>Have you heard that the hardest part of starting your own business, whether on or offline, is attracting customers?</p>
<p>Well, it is.</p>
<p>But it doesn&#8217;t have to be the hardest part. In fact, it can be made relatively simple. All you need to do is give your prospects reasons to join your site.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve already set up the perfect unique selling point to enhance your website and ensure your customers that your membership site is the one for them. But now they want more.</p>
<p>And so, you have to give them more.</p>
<p>One of the best ways to prove to your potential customers that your website is the perfect choice is through social proof. People want to be shown that your membership site is worth their money.</p>
<p>And people trust other people, especially those who have tried, tested and continue to use the product or service.</p>
<p>So you need to offer them the proof they want. Testimonials and endorsements from existing customers work wonders. Potential customers like to relate to someone, especially someone who shares their passion.</p>
<p>Try before and after pictures, screen shots and videos if you are promoting a product that guarantees change.</p>
<p>Finally, make use of graphs, statistics and charts to endorse your website and give your customers facts they can easily see and understand.</p>
<p>Oral, visual and factual evidence that your website is truly the best out there will convince the customers to join and keep the paychecks coming in.</p>
<p><strong>The secret of getting more customers without getting more traffic</strong></p>
<p>As a new membership site manager, you&#8217;re well on your way to a successful online business. You&#8217;ve created the best website in its field. You&#8217;ve attracted your potential customers to your site. You&#8217;ve created the perfect USP and credible social proof.</p>
<p>So, now what?</p>
<p>How do you get your potential customers to actually sign up and join the membership site?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all about conversion rates.</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s a conversion rate exactly? Essentially, it&#8217;s the percentage of visitors to your web site who take the desired action of purchasing a membership. The higher the conversion rate, the more residual income and the higher those monthly pay cheques will be!</p>
<p>In order to get the most customers, you need to make it impossible to resist signing up for your site.</p>
<p>And the first way to do this is with a strong sales letter headline. You need to grab people&#8217;s attention and keep them on your site. The headline must be catchy, unique and eye grabbing.</p>
<p>You can use a thought provoking question or an outrageous comment. Some headlines even contain rude comments to anger the readers just enough that they want to read on.</p>
<p>Put in some extra time and play around with different approaches. Get the opinions of your friends and family and see which headline reels you in and won&#8217;t let you go.</p>
<p>No matter what type of business you are in, you need customers to buy the product or service to make you money. Without customers where would you be? Nowhere right?</p>
<p>But you already knew that. In fact, you&#8217;ve mastered the art of customer attraction. You&#8217;re website gets thousands of hits a day with visitors, and potential clients.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to get more traffic (although more visitors to the site most likely equal more sales).</p>
<p>Instead work with the visitors you already have.</p>
<p>The previous email called attention to the importance of a strong sales letter headline, something attention grabbing and unique that will make your readers continue on.</p>
<p>The next step to increasing conversion rates is a powerful call-of-action.</p>
<p>So what is a call-of-action? It&#8217;s simply a call of action. It&#8217;s the time in your sales pitch when you call on your potential customers to take action.</p>
<p>Call now! Enrol Today! Buy Immediately!</p>
<p>You can use something as simple as &#8220;order now&#8221; or as elaborate as a seven-step plan of action. However, you must inform your potential customer that now&#8217;s the time to take that extra step into action.</p>
<p>Suggest your call-to-action early in your copy. In fact, bring it up several times. Remind your visitors how and why to take action right then and there.</p>
<p>A sales letter headline that demands the visitor&#8217;s attention is the cake.<br />
A call-of-action that screams to your customers is the icing.</p>
<p>But now you need the cherry on top.</p>
<p>And a low-priced or free trial offer is just that &#8211; the perfect topping to an already irresistible membership site deal.</p>
<p>Offer your clients a free introductory membership for joining. Or, offer your clients 50% off the first two months with a one-year contract. Anything like this sweetens the deal and makes your membership site even more tempting.</p>
<p>People love knowing they got a deal so make them feel special when signing up for your membership site.</p>
<p>Just keep in mind that, in order to keep your customers paying each month, after the trial period and free offer is over, you must use forced continuity. Ensure they continue to pay after their trial is over. Make is easier for a customer to continue their membership rather than cancelling it.</p>
<p>Besides, after they look around your website, why would they want to cancel anyway?</p>
<p><strong>Secrets of customer retention <span style="display: none; text-decoration: underline;"> </span> </strong></p>
<p>Stop. Take a breath. Put yourself in your customer&#8217;s shoes for just a moment. You are not a manager of a membership site anymore. You are a customer searching your monthly website.</p>
<p>Now, relax for a moment and think.<br />
If you were a customer, what things would you come to expect?</p>
<p>Quality, up-to-date content?<br />
Most definitely.</p>
<p>Reliable and knowledgeable articles?<br />
Of course.</p>
<p>Entertaining information every month?<br />
Without a doubt.</p>
<p>Good. Now, step back into your own shoes of a membership site manager. The above elements are vital to your success. However, it&#8217;s what your clients are not expecting that is even more valuable.</p>
<p>In fact, it&#8217;s what your customers are not expecting that keep them happily paying and fully satisfied with your site.</p>
<p>The secrets of customer retention begin with surprise over-delivering. Unadvertised bonuses, occasional extra freebies and customer reward points are all unexpected surprises that will wow your customers.</p>
<p>Letting them know that they are appreciated and rewarding them with surprise additives will boost your member&#8217;s mood towards your site. In fact, over-delivering is a proven method to show your customers that you really do care.</p>
<p>After all, it&#8217;s the little extra that makes a world of difference.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got the website up and running.<br />
You&#8217;ve got the marketing method down to perfection.<br />
You&#8217;ve got the customers wanting more and more each and every month.<br />
So now you can just sit back, relax and watch the money roll in, right?</p>
<p>Well, not quite.</p>
<p>Although the hard part is over, you still need to retain your customers. You still need to keep them hungry for content and satisfied with what you deliver.</p>
<p>So, how do you do that?</p>
<p>With a continual membership program.</p>
<p>Most people like the idea of a goal and to know how long until a membership runs out. When you work towards this goal, your members are less likely to cancel. Instead of an open-ended membership, set up memberships that last for a certain time. A year perhaps? Maybe six months? It&#8217;s up to you.</p>
<p>Each month during that time, choose content that works up to the final month when your customers&#8217; contracts end. At the end of the year offer them a free month or a bonus to continue on.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great for you as the manager because you know your members will continue to pay. It&#8217;s also great for them because they know what they expect to pay and are not left with the decision to continue their membership each month.</p>
<p>To learn more about the topic and to make the most of your new business, read what the experts say:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theaffiliatemechanic.com/membership-sites-made-easy" target="_blank">Membership Sites Made Easy</a><br />
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<p><strong>Jeffrey Levesque<br />
The Affiliate Mechanic</strong></p>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Affiliate Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>It’s one of the primary rules of the game: always choose the right – if not the best – affiliate program out there.</p>
<p>Of course, that’s easier said than done.</p>
<p>With tens of thousands of affiliate programs in existence today, scrutinizing each and every one of them can be quite a chore.</p>
<p><strong>Warning Signs Of A Disaster Waiting To Happen</strong>
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<p>Nonetheless, there are clear cut signs of a bad affiliate program.  Let’s take a look at them:</p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
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<li>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.”</li>
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<li>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.</li>
</ul>
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<li>The affiliate program has a dubious history in its dealing with its clients and partners.</li>
</ul>
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<li>The affiliate program is struggling when it comes to its finances.</li>
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<li>The affiliate program is being operated by a person or persons who are quite hesitant to introduce themselves.</li>
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<p>If these signs are present, do take heed.</p>
<p>Remember, there are a lot of other choices out there… options which will prove to be better for your interests.</p>
<p><strong>Characteristics Of The Right Affiliate Program</strong></p>
<p>So, we already know what to avoid.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to discuss what to look for in an affiliate program.</p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>The answer, of course, is to choose the latter.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In choosing an affiliate program to join, always choose one which has highly sellable products because you’ll never be wrong with such.</p>
<p><strong>How Many Affiliate Programs Can You Join?</strong></p>
<p>Since affiliate programs are regarded as supplementary earning opportunities, you are not bound by exclusivity. </p>
<p>You are not limited to just one affiliate program.</p>
<p>You can join as many as you like.  There is absolutely no limit as to how many affiliate programs you enroll with.</p>
<p>But here’s the deal&#8230;.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>There is no bar as to how many affiliate programs you can join.</p>
<p>The only restriction is one of efficiency.  You&#8217;ll be more productive if you concentrate on two or three programs throughout your affiliate marketing career.</p>
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		<title>Selling The Merchant’s Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>So, What Is Pre-Selling In A Nutshell?</b>  </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I’m going to break down pre-selling into three important components:</p>
<ol>
<li>Finding prospects</li>
<li>Gaining prospects</li>
<li>Conditioning prospects</li>
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<p>All the secrets of affiliate marketing success will revolve around those three components, so I pray that you memorize them, dear friend.</p>
<p>Again, for emphasis&#8230;.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Cool!  Where Can I Find Affiliate Programs?</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>It’s finding the niche or the market that you want to focus on that might provide a little challenge.</p>
<p><b>What Do You Mean By Finding A Market?</b></p>
<p>There are many fields that you can concentrate on.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Your choice of market will depend on a variety of factors:</p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>How big is the demand in the said market?  This is the first component of economic success: that demand should be high.</li>
<li>What is the size of the competition in the said market?  This is the second component of economic success: that supply should be low.</li>
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<p><b>Low Supply + High Demand = Profitable Market  </b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You see, high yielding enterprises are not born overnight, and neither are they born out of whim.</p>
<p>They are products of meticulous study and consistent hard work.</p>
<p>And it all begins from selecting the perfect market for their ventures.</p>
<p>There are many online tools that you can use to determine the variables at play with the formula above.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You will want to choose subjects with high numbers of searches.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>This is how you find a fertile market on the World Wide Web.</p>
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		<title>Your First Steps In Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 11:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, affiliate marketing success does not start with the application of a particular strategy.
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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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contrary to popular belief, affiliate marketing success does not start with the application of a particular strategy.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing success starts with the right attitude.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>But if he does not possess the right mentality – the mentality to WIN – then his chances of victory will be slim.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The boxer will lose the fight… because he never believed he could win.</p>
<p>The same goes for an affiliate marketer.</p>
<p>If an affiliate does not possess the right mentality, he will never achieve success in this field.</p>
<p>And what is this mentality?</p>
<p>I call it the mindset to succeed.  It’s quite simple really.  </p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>And this is what I want you to realize…</p>
<p>It all begins by wanting it!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Is Affiliate Marketing a Viable Business Model for Successful Businesses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of the most popular &#8220;how to&#8221; courses, bootcamps and seminars are built around affiliate marketing as a business model for success.  If you do a search on the Internet, you&#8217;ll find literally thousands of E-books, Homestudy courses, and affiliate marketing products for sale.</p>
<p>But can you really build a business around selling other people&#8217;s products?</p>
<p>Yes.  And no.</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is, there is a specific formula that can lead to success if you decide to base your business around selling affiliate products.</p>
<p>But if you do it wrong, you may never make more than enough to cover your Internet connection and telephone costs each month.</p>
<p>Why is there such a huge disparity between the really successful affiliate marketers (those who make several thousand dollars each and every month) and those who are barely eking out a living?</p>
<p>Like with any business, it all boils down to creating solid systems that are scalable and can be duplicated to bring income from as many different sources as possible.</p>
<p>Here are some things to keep in mind when getting started:</p>
<p>Start with one product.  Do your research.  Find a market with a product that people want and are buying.  Set up a system for promoting that product.  (Think article writing, white papers, case studies, product reviews, e-books, workbooks, etc.)<br />
Find additional and complimentary products or services that you can sell after you&#8217;ve started making a profit with the first one.</p>
<p>Create a squeeze page where you can collect names of people who want to find out more about the affiliate product or niche market.</p>
<p>Drive traffic to your Squeeze Page and offer them valuable information in exchange for their contact information.</p>
<p>Create a way to keep in touch with the people on your list, and continue to promote the additional products to them over time – but make sure that you&#8217;re offering good solid information to them as well, to help build your credibility and their loyalty.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve got your first affiliate product selling well, it&#8217;s time to start cross selling and upselling.  This may take you from a few weeks to several months – but like any other business, it&#8217;s important that you are willing to spend the time and money necessary to build your affiliate business.</p>
<p>As soon as you&#8217;ve got the first product and cross sells operating at a profit, you can expand.  For example, you could go into another complimentary niche.  Or, I you want something a little more advance (and this one is a trick used by some of the Internet Marketing gurus in many different niches), go into competition with yourself.</p>
<p>That may sound a little crazy – but think of it this way: by competing against yourself – especially if you&#8217;re able to grab onto the two of the top five positions – you&#8217;re really just giving yourself a bigger piece of the pie!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re the type who gets bored easily, or is always looking for a new challenge, you might want to go into a totally new niche.  Find something that doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with your first niche.</p>
<p>Whatever you decide to do, just make sure that you&#8217;re following the proven formula for success.  Build each product or niche until it becomes profitable before moving on to the next one.</p>
<p>After that, you can just &#8220;lather, rinse and repeat&#8221; to your heart&#8217;s content – and you&#8217;ll be able to watch your bank balance grow too!</p>
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		<title>Understanding the Resources for Your Business Increases Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important considerations of running a successful and profitable online business involves resources.  By resources, we are referring to the suite of online resources that you use in your business on a daily basis.  Regardless of whether you are an internet marketer or online entrepreneur focusing on another niche, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most important considerations of running a successful and profitable online business involves resources.  By resources, we are referring to the suite of online resources that you use in your business on a daily basis.  Regardless of whether you are an internet marketer or online entrepreneur focusing on another niche, it is vitally important that you document the most common online resources that you use in your business.</p>
<p>There are three main reasons why it is important to know, document, and utilize essentially an electronic Rolodex of online resources.</p>
<p><strong>1)  Save time -</strong>
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<p>  The first and largest factor of utilizing an online Rolodex of resources is to save time.  How many times have you went to add a script to your website only to have to waste 30 minutes searching for the script?  When you cannot find a resource at the appropriate time, you are subjecting yourself and your business to inefficiencies that lead to lost production.</p>
<p><strong>2)  Save money -</strong> When you know where to find your resources it will keep you from &#8220;Googling&#8221; to find a resource and from getting hooked on someone&#8217;s sales page.  About the time that you need a specific resource and cannot find it, the next obvious step is to search Google for that or a similar resource.  Just record your resource links to avoid this time wasting and money spending activity!</p>
<p><strong>3)  Improved products -</strong> <span style="display: none; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></p>
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<p>  It takes time and money to buy resources.  When you&#8217;ve purchased something once&#8230;&#8230;don&#8217;t waste time looking for alternatives or waste money purchasing competitor&#8217;s products.  Focus on the resources that you do have &#8211; use them daily and become an expert in the application of those resources.  Over time, your products will improve due to the consistency of use and of the resources that you use to complete daily tasks!</p>
<p>Overall, it is important to record your online resources for quick and efficient reference.  By doing so, you&#8217;ll improve business efficiencies leading to saved time and money!</p>
<p>You can download 10 step-by-step &#8220;Visual Rolodexes&#8221; for free by visiting:</p>
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<p>If you downloaded the <a href="http://www.theaffiliatemechanic.com/ProductivityReport.zip" target="_blank">Productivity Report</a> the other day, you would have seen that there was a recommended resource listed at the end of it.</p>
<p>It was created by someone that gets hired by Fortune 100 Companies to show them how they can be more productive, so I&#8217;m sure he can teach you a thing or two!</p>
<p>His name is Brad Semp and he&#8217;s the mastermind behind <a href="http://www.ResourceCashmaps.com" target="_blank">Resource Cashmaps</a>.</p>
<p>And in case you didn&#8217;t download the report or &#8220;think&#8221; you don&#8217;t need it, here&#8217;s the link:</p>
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<p>I met Brad at JV Alert in Philly during a lunch presentation he did and I was immediately intrigued by what he had to say.</p>
<p>In fact, his presentation took him longer than expected and when his time was up, everyone in the room voted to let him continue, rather than get up and return to the seminar!</p>
<p>When he was finished, I happily handed him my order form to be involved in a $500 private webinar series that he conducted over the summer.</p>
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		<title>Creating a Productive Workspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like most people, when you hear the word &#8216;productivity&#8217;, the things that come to mind probably include activities like prioritizing your chores, creating to-do lists, deliberate planning and so on. 
These are essential, yes. But here’s one that most people leave out: Creating  a productive workspace. Here’s how you can create your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’re like most people, when you hear the word &#8216;productivity&#8217;, the things that come to mind probably include activities like prioritizing your chores, creating to-do lists, deliberate planning and so on. </p>
<p>These are essential, yes. But here’s one that most people leave out: Creating  a productive workspace. Here’s how you can create your own:</p>
<p><strong>~~> Create a cone of silence.</strong>
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<p>  If you’re constantly interrupted by the  phone, the door, emails and your child’s questions, you&#8217;ll never get anything finished. You need to clear out the distractions and create a “cone of silence” in your workspace.</p>
<p>If you’re doing work at home and there are others living in the house, it’s next to impossible to have a completely distraction-free day. As an alternative, schedule specific times of day where family members and friends aren&#8217;t allowed to interrupt you. Explain that it’s no different than if you worked at an office.</p>
<p><strong>~~> Clear up the clutter.</strong> Your idea of clean is someone else’s idea of clutter. And that’s all right. The idea here isn’t to create a workspace that meets another persons idea of clutter-free. Instead, you should create a workspace that’s organized in a way that you can find things quickly.</p>
<p>If that means using milk crates instead of a filing cabinet, so be it. As long as you can quickly get to the items you want when you need them – and as long as you’re at ease with how your workspace looks – then that’s all that matters.</p>
<p>Personally, I like to have things around me within an arm&#8217;s reach.  I place small piles on the floor so I can spin around in my chair and grab them.</p>
<p>I once went on a month long trip, attending seminars around the country and came home to find that my wife decided to &#8220;tidy things up&#8221; for me. It took me a month to get things &#8220;back to normal&#8221;.</p>
<p>Create a workspace for yourself, not to impress someone else.</p>
<p><strong>~~> Make your workspace &#8220;yours&#8221;.</strong> <strong style="display:none"><a href="http://funwish.net/?jerry_maguire">Jerry Maguire full</a></strong>  That means putting up pictures, memorabilia or anything else that makes you feel like this is your space. I&#8217;m a big NASCAR fan, so my wife calls my office, &#8220;The Race Room&#8221;!</p>
<p>If there are other people in the house, simply ask that this space be yours. I joke with my friends that I only own two rooms in my house.  The office, which I share with an alligator and the kitchen. The rest belongs to my wife! </p>
<p>If your workspace doesn’t make you feel creative and energetic, then you&#8217;ll need to make some changes. It can be as easy as making sure it&#8217;s the right color or that you have enough light.</p>
<p><strong>Making small changes like these could mean a world of difference to your productivity!</strong></p>
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		<title>Introduction to Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 20:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Levesque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing presents a fantastic opportunity that boasts of the following things:</p>
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<li>Minimum to zero financial investment to start out with this earning stream;</li>
<li>A variety of programs to choose from;</li>
<li>Unlimited number of programs to join;</li>
<li>Extravagant commission schemes ranging from 20% to 90% of the selling price;</li>
<li>Get paid as you produce results. You’re not handcuffed by time, you can work at your own pace;</li>
<li>No limit as to how much you can earn.</ul>
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<p>Because of these amazing benefits, millions of online users have tried their hands at affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>I will not sugarcoat the facts.</p>
<p>A great number of them fail. The majority of them can’t even earn a single buck from their efforts.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>It’s not because affiliate marketing as a system is flawed.</p>
<p>It’s because tried and tested strategies were not implemented in their campaigns – if ever those who failed were aware of them.</p>
<p>And this is what this eBook is all about.</p>
<p>You’re currently reading the first of two comprehensive volumes that aim to become the ULTIMATE resources for online affiliates all over the world.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This is the knowledge that not many are aware of.</p>
<p>And by simply knowing them, you will have an advantage.</p>
<p>Keep an eye out for my next post!</p>
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