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With the aid of the Internet, you can almost have everything right at your fingertips.  With just a few clicks you get access to thousands and even millions of pieces of information and data on virtually any field of interest.  As years pass by, the Internet continues to effect radical changes in many facets of human endeavors, including commerce.  Experts say that the world wide web, grows by over a million pages everyday as more and more people utilize the Internet for information, education, entertainment, business and other personal reasons.  It doesn’t take a business-oriented individual to realize that this phenomenon can bring about sky-high financial gains.  The Internet’s fast-growing popularity in the recent years is surely an opportunity for business that any entrepreneur would not want to miss.

You might be thinking only businessmen or marketing minded individuals can make money from affiliate marketing, right?  Think again.  You too can earn big bucks through the Internet even if you don’t have products to sell and high-profile and established company.  How?  That is through affiliate marketing.  I am sure you have come across these words while surfing the net.  Affiliate marketing is a revenue share between a merchant and an affiliate who gets paid for referring or promoting the merchants’ products and services.  It is one of the fastest growing industries nowadays because it is proven to be cost-efficient and quantifiable means of attaining great profit both for the merchant and the affiliate and other players in the affiliate program, such as the affiliate network or affiliate solution provider.

Affiliate marketing works effectively for the merchant and the affiliate.  To the first, he gains opportunities to advertise his products to a larger market, which increases his chances to earn.  The more affiliate websites or hard-working affiliates he gets, the more sales he can expect.  By getting affiliates to market his products and services, he is saving himself time, effort and money in looking for possible markets and customers.  When a client clicks on the link in the affiliate website, purchases the product, recommends it to others who look for the same item or buys it again, the merchant multiplies his chances of earning.  On the other hand, the affiliate marketer benefits from each customer who clicks on the link in his website and who actually purchases the product or avails of the service provided by the merchant.  In most cases, the affiliate gets commision per sale, which can be fixed percentage or fixed amount.   So, how many times have you visited an adult website and “not” scrolled down to see the webmasters page?  Stop doing that!

If you want to be an affiliate marketer and make fortunes out of the Internet, you may follow the following three most basic and easy steps to start an effective affiliate marketing program.

First is to identify a particular thing you are interested in or passionate about so you won’t be bored and forced to develop your affiliate web site later on.  Focusing on a specific area you know very well will help you bring out your best without much risks and effort. This is called selecting your niche…  You can add a personal touch to your site and give your visitors who are possible buyers an impression that you are an expert in your field.  In this way, you gain their trust and eventually encourage them to buy the products you endorse.

Next is to look for good paying merchants and products or services related to your interest and create now a website.  In choosing the products, you must also consider its conversion rate—the number of visitors-turned-buyers.  There are various affiliate networks and affiliate solution providers that can give you info on the most profitable products and best paying merchants.  The key here is, be wise enough to choose the right one.

Now that you have decided where to concentrate, have chosen the products to endorse and the merchant you are supporting and have created your own web site with top level domain name and reliable hosting, you are ready to promote.  This is a crucial task, since it is through this that you would be able to increase traffic to the business website, sales and of course, profit.  In affiliate marketing, it is possible to earn large sums of money in a short span of time especially when you’re endorsing high-priced items or highly desirable items… like PORN!! Expensive products are hard to sell; however, with the right marketing strategies and sales techniques, you can draw visitors to the merchant’s site and make them buy the products.  How to promote the products, though, would need a separate discussion.  Continue to educate yourself by reading books like my ebooks or other articles online about the best advertising techniques.

Keep in mind, there is no simple and quick path towards success.  Affiliate marketing may seem very tempting due to numerous encouraging testimonials of merchants and affiliate marketers alike who have benefited from it, but it entails great deal of hard work and persistence.  Likewise, you need to be creative, flexible and willing to embrace new ideas to market your partners’ products until you find the perfect strategy that works for a specific market that you are targeting.  Neither signing up for an affiliate program nor copying ads and leading others towards the merchants’ site doesn’t guarantee success yet.  Many affiliate marketers fail to understand this, so when they don’t make sales, they quit, look for other programs and repeat the same mistake.   This is fine because there are less sharks in the water, I just want you to be one of the sharks that stays…  In the end, those people that gave up conclude that affiliate marketing is just one of those scams in the Internet.  Even as you sleep, you can work your way to great financial success if you employ the right strategies in affiliate marketing.  Be creative, be smart and surely, you’ll achieve your goals.

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The promise of earning profits without really doing much of anything has enticed a lot of people towards affiliate marketing.  But does affiliate marketing really work this way?

As an affiliate, all that is required of you is to simply place the merchant’s ad on your website.  Then after that, you virtually do nothing but wait for anyone to click on the merchant’s ad and later collect your profits.  Easy, right?  Well, not quite often.  Many affiliates earn almost nothing from their affiliate programs simply because they do nothing.  Remember that affiliate marketing is but another form of marketing, and you’ll definitely need to market your merchant’s product for you to earn something.

Successful affiliates in any affiliate program simply don’t sit there and wait for money to come.  Why?  Because there is no money in simply sitting and waiting.  If you want to be successful in affiliate marketing and if you want to continually grow your affiliate checks, you’ve got to do something.  Think of ways on how to promote your merchant’s business and products better.  Think of ways on how to induce other people to click on the link or ad provided to you by your merchant.  Think of ways on how to make your affiliate sales increase!

So if you’re new in affiliate marketing and you try to follow the easy go lucky pit that most unsuccessful affiliate marketers follow, then you’re definitely on the wrong track.  But we’re not advising you to stop right there.  No.  Rather, we want you to take some steps to make your affiliate program work better and gain more commissions for you.  How?  Here are a few guidelines that may help you to continually grow your affiliate checks:

* Become an expert on your affiliate product.

You can promote your merchant’s product better if you know a lot of things about it.  To become an expert, the best thing you can do is purchase your merchant’s product yourself.  This way, you can tell your customers about your first-hand experience using the product.  You can even write a testimonial or a personal endorsement ad about it.  But if any condition does not permit you to purchase the product, you can at least make a thorough research about it.

* Host your own website.

Or at least have a domain name that is short and easy to remember.  You certainly wouldn’t expect a visitor to remember a very long and incomprehensible URL.  And if that’s so, you also wouldn’t expect him to visit your website any time soon.  That means less traffic for your page and the less chance for your affiliate ads and links to be clicked.

It is also a good idea to create a private website and offer access to it to anybody who clicks on any of your affiliate ads.  Visitors usually get interested with these private websites.  Private websites also gives you a venue to promote your back-end affiliate products.

* Write your own affiliate ads.

Many merchants usually wouldn’t mind if you write and design your own ads for their products, for as long as you ask permission from them and present them your ad before posting it on your site.  This gives you a greater advantage over a lot of other affiliates who must be advertising the same affiliate products.

* Participate in chat rooms, discussion boards, and forums related to your product.

If you use to ignore them before, then it is time for you to start focusing your attention on them.  You can start your own chat or join an existing chat related to your product.  You don’t have to promote your affiliate product at once, but find the chance to advertise and promote it as you go along.  The same would be true for message boards, discussion boards and forums.

* Create a free ezine or newsletter.

Ezines and newsletters are periodical publications whose aim is to inform a group of people about a certain subject.  In your ezines and newsletters, you don’t always have to promote your merchant’s product for this may greatly annoy your subscribers.  Rather, find a way to insert your affiliate ads and links on some portions of the letter.  Also, don’t forget to promote your ezine or newsletter on your website.

These are but a few guidelines on how you can increase your affiliate sales and continually grow your affiliate checks.  Sure there can be a lot of other tips that out there, and if you think they would work, we won’t discourage you from following them.  What’s important is that you be able to find a way to: attract more traffic to your site, induce your visitors to click on the ads on your site, and be able to promote your merchant’s products even outside the boundary of your website.  If you can do these, there’s no reason for you to fail in affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online.  It is also one of the easiest ways for anyone with a website to make a profit online.  Affiliate Marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner.  The website owner, or the affiliate, allows the use of their site for the promotion of the merchant’s products by linking to the merchant’s website.  In exchange, the merchant pays a commission to the affiliate on all sales generated by the affiliate.  Every time someone clicks on the link on the affiliate website and proceeds to make a purchase, the affiliate gets a commission.  The merchant will pay the affiliate only when a customer clicks on the product link and makes a purchase.

Affiliate marketing programs are described as a win-win situation for both the merchant and the affiliate because of the pay-for-performance scheme.  Both the merchant and the affiliate enjoy some benefits in affiliate marketing.  There are many benefits on the merchant’s side.  It gives the merchant a wider market in which to advertise a product or service.  Affiliate marketing will give the product or service the maximum exposure that it may not get with other traditional advertising techniques.  The more affiliate sites a merchant has, the higher the traffic, which can convert to sales.  Affiliate marketing is the equivalent of having an army of sales people who will do the advertising and will only get a commission if a customer purchases.

Meanwhile, since an affiliate marketing relationship is a win-win situation, the affiliate also enjoys many benefits.  Foremost among these is the easy way to make a profit.  The affiliate can earn by having an ad or link to the merchant’s website, which prospective customers will hopefully click and proceed to make a purchase.  As soon as the customer clicks on the ad on the affiliate’s site, is redirected to the merchant’s website and goes on to buy that particular product, the affiliate earns a commission.  The more referrals there are the more profit for the affiliate.

Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to earn money while at home.  There are virtually no production costs.  The product is already developed and proven by the merchant, and all you have to do to find, as many prospects as you can that will bring in the profit for both the merchant and the affiliate.  Affiliate programs are usually free to join, so affiliates do not have to worry about start-up costs.  There are thousands of products and services you can choose from.  You can find affiliate programs for every product or niche under the sun.   Surely, there is a product or service out there that is relevant to your website.

In addition, there is absolutely no sales experience necessary.  Most affiliate programs offer excellent support when it comes to providing marketing material.  The simplicity of affiliate marketing allows you to be an affiliate marketer at the least cost and the most comfort.  You can even build a successful affiliate marketing business right in the convenience of your own home.  In affiliate marketing, your responsibility is simply to find prospects for the merchant; you do not have to worry about inventory, order processing, and product shipping.  These, along with customer service support are the duties of the merchant.

Because of the global reach of the internet, you can easily find thousands of prospects.  You can intensify your advertising campaign by exploiting more aggressive and productive strategies such as viral marketing. By attracting more prospects, you also maximize your potential to earn.  Another benefit of an affiliate marketer is the minimal risk involved.  If the product you are advertising is not making money then you can dump it and choose another.  There are no long-term binding contracts tying you to products that are not making enough money.  A simple example of a no risk affiliate program is PPC ads.  Read my post about this here.

All the same, the best benefit of being an affiliate marketer is the opportunity to increase your income; and you can make a profit even if affiliate marketing is only a sideline business.  With your own affiliate business, you can earn easily earn extra income, although you do have to exert effort and use your imagination to maximize your earning potential.  Indeed, affiliate marketing is one of the simplest and most effective business opportunities on the web today.

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Well, the first way is to sell websites that you have developed.  I have a site that I am thinking about selling that has made a ton of money in the past, but I just don’t have the time to focus on… It is a TGP site that I built a while back, and I just don’t “approve” the submissions.  I currently have 43,284 submissions to review… yeah, you read that right.  I just don’t have the time for it.  Anyway, if you are interested in making an offer…  the website is Sugar Free Porn.   If I get the right offer it will be yours.

Another way is to read an upcoming post from a good guy The University Kid I chat it up with from time to time that is sharing some of his secrets to success in mainstream marketing.  While I know how to profit from selling porn, I am trying to learn mainstreaming as well because… well… because there are like 7 gazillion people out there, and only about 4 gazillion like porn

Anyway, I thought this might be helpful for some of my customers who have also dabble in the world of mainstream too…  TUK is a good blogger, and he shows some cool tricks.  If nothing else, you will probably enjoy his writing style.

He makes a great point about blog readers:

“Of any blog, there are three kinds of readers.

1. The active reader who takes a serious interest. That is, commenting on most posts, plugging your blog when they see something they like.

2. The subscriber, who helps the metrics of your blog and occasionally buys or signs up for products and services you recommend.

3. The passive reader, who does not do anything but read posts. No comments, no subscription - nothing.”

Check it out if you get a chance.

One of the greatest difficulties in being a new webmaster is trying to acquire traffic.  This is because trying to build legitimate traffic requires both time and money.  How is this so?  Well, if a webmaster is trying to obtain traffic through search engines, they will need to spend a great deal of time with link-building and content creation.  If they are trying to get traffic through a pay-per-click program, they will have to invest hundreds to thousands of dollars if they want to take advantage of a high-performance keyword.  However, there is another alternative that can allow a webmaster to get tons of traffic without having to invest too much in time or money.  It involves purchasing expired domain names.

What is an expired domain name?  An expired domain name is a domain name that never got renewed by its owner.  This could be for a variety of reasons such as disinterest in the original website, lack of funds or something more serious, such as an owner’s death.  Whatever the reason when the renewal fees aren’t paid, the expired domain name sits out in cyberspace still functioning as any other domain name.  There is just one difference… an expired domain name doesn’t have a website attached to it, so it instead points to a 404 error page.

Indeed, it is a waste of traffic when an expired domain name points to a 404 web page.  Many domain name companies have realized this, which is why quite a few sell expired domain names either through a regular, upfront sale or through an expired domain name auction.   The prices for these domain names can range from less than $100 to over $1 million.  Some of these sales may even include a website.

So, how does a webmaster know if an expired domain name is worth buying?  First, they need to check to see the Google page rank of an expired domain name.  To do this they need to download Google’s toolbar and then type in the URL of the expired domain name.  The toolbar will then let them know what the page rank is.  If the page rank indicator is gray, the expired domain name must be avoided since this means the site has been banned by Google.  Otherwise, it should be okay, though webmasters should also take into consideration the actual number associated with the page rank.  If the number is between 6 and 10, they should strongly consider buying the expired domain name.
Secondly, webmasters need to find out the Alexa rating of an expired domain name.  The Alexa rating determines how much traffic has actually gone to a domain name.  If a website has not received a significant amount of traffic, it will not have an Alexa rating.  To determine the Alexa rating for an expired domain name, webmasters need to visit Alexa.com.

Finally, webmasters need to see how many websites are linking to the expired domain name.  To do this they need to put the command link: followed by the URL of the expired domain name into a search engine.  If a lot of links are returned, this is a sign that the traffic coming to the expired domain name originated from legitimate sources.

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So I asked some ladies and gents around the adult industry to find out what other people did to “get started” making money and selling porn.  Obviously, this is something that most people venturing into any business worry about and is often what holds many people back.  Here are the most common key points I got:

• Create a realistic business plan.  If you don’t have a plan, you should keep your day job.  Don’t spend too much time worrying about strategy here, know the direction you need to go and what steps should be involved.
• Trademark/copyright/patent any necessary names, ideas or sayings.  If you want to protect your work, this is a fantastic idea.
• Talk to your Financial Advisor, Attorney’s and any other “important” advisors.  This is a business so be prepared to take it seriously.
• Hire the right people if you are going to be an employer!  Wow, huge point here.  Don’t waste your money on useless and lazy staff.
• Find Your Suppliers - Don’t plan to sell someone elses product unless you already have a supply source.  Get to know these people, then ask for a better deal!  Building honest relationships with suppliers and treating them as partners is the only way to have long term successful relationships.
• Be unique, but not to the point that you are an asshole.  Let’s face it, there are leaders and there are followers.  But more times than not, people tend to feel most comfortable with people similar to them.  Having integrity and respect for ourselves and others is what makes the brand authentic and unique.

Hope these ideas help.  Now to my readers… what do you think are the most important pieces of starting a business?