One aspect of Internet marketing that I suspect most newbie marketers tend to neglect is the importance of participating in online Internet marketing forums.

Why are Internet marketing forums so important?

There is no better way to learn how to make money online than by interacting with the people who are actually doing it.  Internet marketing forums are filled with people who are more than happy to answer your questions or help you out with a problem you are having.  In most cases all you need to do is ask.

There is also the networking aspect of participating in Internet marketing forums.  It always helps to get to know who the big players in any industry are but it’s even more important that they get to know who you are.  Internet marketing forums are a great way to socialize and interact with these people get to get to know them on a more personal level.

And of course there is the traffic!

While you usually can’t openly promote your affiliate links on Internet marketing forums you can often add them to your signature which appears beneath all of your posts.  The more posts you add to the forum the more likely your signature will be noticed by other forum members.  If you’re lucky the thread you are posting in might even get picked up by some of the major search engines giving you even more valuable traffic to your links.

But no spamming is allowed!

You can’t join an Internet marketing forum with the goal of getting your links into as many threads as possible.  Most members can spot someone doing this right away.  I can guarantee you won’t last long if you approach Internet marketing forums this way.

When joining a new Internet marketing forum it’s a good idea to just read the new posts for a few days to get a feel for the conversations there and to see who are the most active members.

Before you start posting it’s always a good idea to introduce yourself to the other members.  There is usually a specific part of the forum dedicated to new user introductions.  Just tell everyone a little bit about yourself so they will be more likely to recognize you when you start adding to the conversations later.

Of course make sure you read and understand any forum rules before you start posting.

Once you have a feel for the forum and you’ve introduced yourself you can start adding to the conversations.  Just be yourself and try to add relative content to the conversations.  Try to avoid adding one line responses like “I agree”.

It can take some time to start seeing results from participating in Internet marketing forums.  That’s why it is important to try and stay active and visit your forums at least once every few days.  It might take awhile but the information learned from forums and the relationships built from them can become invaluable to you in the future.

And just for fun… here’s a little video I found from the 1950′s with a less than serious way of explaining how to get started with posting in forums.  Enjoy!

Happy Monday!

Nearly every day I receive an email from a reader who is struggling to earn their first dollar working from home.  More often then not, they tell me that they really want to make money on the Internet but they don’t want to spend any money to get started.

Personally, I am more than happy to invest money into my business if I know I can make a profit.  If I can spend $20 to make $30 i’ll do it over and over again all day long.  However, I understand that some people are just not in a position where they can spend a lot of money.

I had to ask myself…

Is it really possible to make money on the Internet without having any money to spend?

I’ve been looking around for awhile now to find a system that people can use to make money that won’t cost them any money to start.  The best method I have found for me is to make money with affiliate marketing.

Unfortunately if you don’t already know what you are doing learning all of the necessary steps to become a successful affiliate marketer can be quite a daunting task.

That is until now…

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This is a complete system that will show you how to make money using only free resources that are readily available on the Internet.

I am so excited that I can finally offer this system to you that I have decided to slash the price of the No Money System for a limited time.  But don’t wait!  Depending on the response i’ll probably be raising the price really soon.

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When you are looking for the “right” affiliate program to market there is one single important criteria that you need to consider.

No, I’m not talking about how big the commission payout is and I don’t mean how good the product is either.

I am talking about DEMAND.

Is there a demand for the product in the first place? The reasoning is simple… if no one is searching for the product or need the product to solve a specific solution, nobody will buy it!

For example… no matter how much traffic you manage to muster up you won’t make a dime promoting a guide that teaches people how to master Tic Tac Toe. Even though almost everybody knows how to play Tic Tac Toe there just isn’t a niche (or demand) for it.

When I say “niche” I mean people want it AND people do SPEND on it. Given this example, who actually spends or invest in any area of a Tic Tac Toe game?

When you search for affiliate programs to join consider the demand for the product first. You can easily conduct a search on Overture or Google and even observe the current trends in popular forums.

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Before getting started with affiliate marketing it is important to have a good strategy in place to maximize your profits.

Why?

I know sometimes I must sound like a broken record but it’s true.. “The money is in the list”. Btw, I am talking about YOUR list and not the list of the person who owns the product you are selling.

Here’s why: As an affiliate marketer it is your job to locate people who want to buy the products you are promoting, right? In order to do that you need to create an ad and start sending people to the website where they can buy these products.

Here’s the problem… anywhere from 60 to 95% of the people you send to the sales page probably aren’t going to buy the first time they see your product.

Why is this?

1. Most people want to be sure that they’re making the right decision. They may need to see or hear from you anywhere from 5 to 12 times before they actually make their decision to buy.

2. If you’re paying for the advertisement you are wasting your money on the people who don’t buy right away and are gone forever.

3. Of those who do buy, if you’re only sending them to the sales page, you are still losing them forever because you have no way of knowing who they are.

Here’s my strategy:

1. Write your ad and instead of sending people to your affiliate website send them to a well-written squeeze page instead – YOUR squeeze page.  A squeeze page is simply a webpage that is designed specifically to convince your visitor to give you their contact information.

2. Offer your visitors an incentive to give you their contact information. This could be a free report or an ebook. Just make sure it’s related to the niche or affiliate product that you are selling.

3. After they’ve opted in to your autoresponder, send them to your affiliate sales page.

4. Follow up with your prospects on a regular basis giving them a mix of good information, free bonuses, and other affiliate products.

Do this for each affiliate product you are promoting.

By using this affiliate marketing strategy to follow-up with your prospects the entire process runs almost on autopilot. You simply need to find quality products to give away and then market those products to your target audience. I recommend using Jeff Dedrick’s “Viral Ebook Explosion” site which will let you create your own free viral ebooks.  It’s free and super easy to setup.

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If you really want to make money as a successful affiliate marketer you must first learn to identify the possibilities of making money online.

Basically, there are two ways to make money with affiliate marketing.

1. One-Off Commissions

Using this method the affiliate marketer earns a percentage of the product price every time they help make a sale. When selling these kinds of products it is best not to focus on products that pay $10 or $20 commissions. You are better off focusing on higher priced digital products since digital products will often reward you with 50% commissions or higher.

The idea behind this is that it takes just as much effort to promote a $10.00 product versus a $97.00 product so you are better off selling higher ticket items. If you do the math you will see that you would need to sell 9-10 copies of a $10 product to earn the same amount as selling one copy of a $97 product.. assuming the commissions are 50% for both products.

Where minimum effort maximum efficiency is concerned, you are better off promoting higher ticket items with high payouts as well.

2. Recurring Commissions

This is what all affiliate marketers should be striving for if they want to make their one-time promotion effort pay off residually. Sometimes, a recurring affiliate program will offer anywhere from 30 to 75 percent in commissions.

Keep your eyes peeled for membership and service oriented sites that off this kind of program. It always helps to focus on promoting at least a few of these kinds of affiliate programs that reward you on a recurring basis.

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Are affiliate marketers still in demand today? Absolutely! As a matter of fact… affiliate marketers are more in demand than ever!

You see, digital products are being created at a dizzying rate by creators from around the world everyday. When these products enter the marketplace hot and new they often missing one vital marketing component: affiliates.

Basically, every affiliate program needs competent affiliate marketers to help spread the word about their new product or service.

In the digital marketplace, affiliate programs can pay out as much as 50 to 80 percent (and sometimes 100%!) in commissions to motivate affiliates to help market their new product.

The idea behind this is simple: an individual can only do so much on his own when it comes to marketing, especially when compared to matching the marketing power of hundreds or even thousands of performing affiliates.

There is a huge piece of pie out there for everyone. However, there is one small problem: Have you ever noticed that in every affiliate program there are probably 90 to 95 percent of the affiliates who aren’t generating any sales? Chances are, you are one of them.

Tonight I had a chance to read an ebook by Edmund Loh which shares some of his affiliate marketing success strategies. If you would like to tap into the minds of the top 5 to 10 percent super affiliate marketers, I suggest that you get a copy of “Affiliate Partner Success Secrets”.

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