Our $50 winner this week is Daniel L. Eaton ll says: April 16, 2011 at 11:32 am(Edit) Hi Anthony, I do plan on using this technique and learning more from you as well, thank you so much for everything!!! God Bless You & Your Family! Feeling Good Now, Daniel L. Eaton ll CEO. Congrats Daniel please email me your info and ill send out your $50 gift card now!
As humans, we are conditioned to follow a series of steps in order to receive optimal results. That’s why manufacturers include steps on their products. For example, if you download software, you will see a step-by-step guide that you will need to follow to complete the download. The same is true if you start a diet, wash your hair or enroll in school. Most things in life have steps, so people are used to following those steps. They know they need to complete each step to receive the best results, so they don’t even consider eliminating a step. They go on autopilot and complete all of the steps so they can receive the results they want.
You’re probably asking, “How does this apply to affiliate marketing?”
You can link products together and include a step-by-step process. When you do this, you will sell more products, since people will feel compelled to complete each step.
Let’s see how this works.
Assume you market health care and fitness products. You currently advertise for a:
You start off by marketing each product individually. You’re making decent money, but you would like to increase your revenue. In order to do that, you would stop marketing the products separately and start advertising them as parts of a three-step fitness process.
You would throw your old marketing methods out the window and replace them with your new process. Your new plan would look like:
3 Steps to a Healthier You
Step 1-Take the Cleanse
Step 2-Start the diet supplement
Step 3-ride the exercise bike for 45 minutes each day
Follow these three steps and you will have a new, healthier you in as little as two months!
When people see this, they will feel compelled to follow each step. If they only take the cleanse, they won’t receive optimal results. The same is true if they only take the cleanse and ride the bike. They need to follow all three steps if they are going to get the body they want, which means they have to purchase all three products.
Look for products that you can link together and start your own step-by-step process. Then, let me know how this system works for you in the comment section.
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This weeks $50 Winner is Dave Knob says: April 9, 2011 at 9:16 pm(Edit) The ideal world is elusive yet somehow possible. Sometimes it gets in the way of action and creates a less than ideal situation. Like most people I like to dream but obviously need to focus on current success and baby steps to progress to the my ideal world. Taking action is the current dilemma. Congrats Dave! Please email me your info so I can send out your $50 gift card.
We’ve been hitting Facebook advertising hard recently, and today, we’re going to add one more concept into the mix. Facebook recently unveiled a new form of social advertising called Sponsored Stories. Sponsored Stories include “Like Stories” and “Page Post Stories.” Today, we’re going to cover “Like Stories.”
Before we dive into this topic, let’s take a look at Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site. That means people’s actions rely heavily on what their friends are doing.
For example, let’s say you log into Facebook and notice that one of your friends liked a news story. Chances are, you’ll click on that story to see what it said.
Why?
Because your friend did it, so you should try it too.
This is a herd mentality, and you can capitalize on it with “Like” Stories.
When you use “Like Stories,” ads will appear every time someone likes your page. These ads will show up on their friend’s pages.
For example, if Max likes your page, an ad will display to his friends. The ad will say, “Max liked Business Name.”
Now let’s look at what will happen.
Max’s friends will see Max’s name associated with your business page. this will grab their attention. They will think, “Max likes this page. I need to check it out.”
They will click on the ad and like your page so they won’t be left out.
By capitalizing on the herd mentality, you can get hundreds if not thousands, of Facebook fans. Then, you can begin marketing to those fans and driving traffic to your website.
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This weeks $50 Winner is Joshua Zamora says: April 2, 2011 at 9:19 am Never ever give up! It’s easy to quit that’s why so many people do it. Like you said people want easy and if success was easy everyone would have it already. I think going through the struggles can also be part of the fun on the journey to success. Those things you look back on when you make it! Congrats Joshua send me an email and ill get this gift card to you asap.
That’s a pretty interesting yet maybe confusing question for you to answer right now isn’t it? Let me ask you this question one more time and then i’ll explain what I mean by the question. Is YOUR ideal world crushing YOUR success? Ok so here is what I mean by this and hopefully you’re going to learn a lot from this blog that can help you create massive success in not only business, but also everything else in your life. You see so often we are fixated on what we perceive to be the “ideal model” that we stress out day in and day out to achieve what we believe to be ideal and forget to focus on the success we’ve had at up to that moment.
We all have our ideal world for whatever we like to do. If we like real estate investing maybe we constantly aspire to be like Donald Trump. If we like sports we always want to be Drew Brees or Alex Rodriguez. If we love business we always want to be CEO and live that crazy luxurious lifestyle. Having this whole “ideal” world is perfectly fine as long as you know how to keep it in it’s place and realize it’s not reality all while pulling new goals for yourself from your ideal world.
Let me give you an example.
You watch my TV show and see how successful I am. You are inspired by my story and success and decided to buy my book and do what I do. Maybe at this point let’s say you know nothing about affiliate marketing, Internet marketing or doing anything on the Internet beside maybe reading email.
Alright so fast forward say 4 months. Let’s say you now have your own blog and it’s coming along nicely. You’ve also setup advertising accounts on Bing and even Facebook. You’ve generated a few hundred dollars and your moving in the right direction.
Here’s where the problem starts. You continue to look FORWARD and think to yourself “well look what Anthony’s doing” and you get caught in this cycle of being unhappy because you constantly feel as if you are not where they need to be. Constantly focusing on this ideal world rather than focusing on how far you’ve come.
Really you should look back at where you started…. you knew nothing about the Internet, nothing about Google and never made a dollar online. Now you have a blog, know how to advertise and have even made some money in the process. Reality is you should be happy and excited about your success right? I mean don’t you deserve a pat on the back?
My point this week is it’s important to pat yourself on the back for the success you’ve had so far rather than punish yourself and stress out because you haven’t reached your ideal goal yet. So make sure this week you focus on being happy with your progress while still pulling new weekly goals from that ideal world you have so you can continue to grow and realize more success.
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Last weeks $50 Gift Card Winner is Patricia Grant says: March 26, 2011 at 3:06 pm(Edit) Excellent idea writing and prioritizing the order. Lots of great info keeping us informed. On job and in transit by train/bus here in NY. taking time to study and taking lots of notes to get business off and running to obtain my goals faster. Have notepad/pen at my reach at all times. Patricia congrats on winning! Please email me immediately so I can ship out your gift card.
I have heard so many people say “ahhh I am giving up it’s not working” about things they do in their life. It doesn’t matter if it’s a new job or a new business this seems to be the “mindset” of most people. Failure should be looked at as something that is necessary for success. It’s very rare that any entrepreneur becomes successful without some degree of failure. We all want an easier life, but you have to be ok with those bumps in the road on the way there right?
One thing that all successful entrepreneurs seem to have is a very short “recovery period” meaning they recover from failure really fast. They analyze why they failed and then quickly implement strategies to keep it from occurring again. Entrepreneur’s use this “failure” as a way to learn how to be successful not as an excuse to give up and quit. Successful entrepreneur’s learn and grow from failure and eventually come out stronger, better and more profitable from this “learning process”.
My advice to you this week is don’t let failure keep you from achieving your goals. Think like an entrepreneur and let failure teach you the lessons you need to learn to create the success you want to achieve.
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Last Weeks $50 Winner is laura smith says: March 19, 2011 at 6:32 am(Edit) New Trying to learn !! Great info you have !! Just trying to study more and impement your info Thank you !! Comment #1 last week. Laura congrats and email me your information so I can ship out your $50 gift card immediately!
The past few weeks we have been discussing Facebook advertising and no doubt your head is spinning with ideas right now. Perfect! that’s exactly what I was hoping for to be honest with you. I want to spark that creative part of your brain into overdrive, and hopefully that has taken place the last few weeks. This week I want to focus more on how to reduce your stress level. It’s obvious that no matter what business you are currently running (or starting up) that with business comes stress. It’s just something I have learned to deal with over the last six years or so because I know it’s coming no matter what I do. My technique for reducing my stress level is something that I personally think can and will help everyone.
Typically in business your stress comes from having to many things on your plate and just simply not being organized. It’s hard when you have 15 things to do and they are all running through your mind at one time. You’re trying not to forget anything while attempting to get things on the list done at the same time. This is a formula for disaster and stress. Let me show you so you can visualize here…
TRYING TO REMEMBER YOUR LONG LIST OF THINGS TO DO + ALL RUNNING THROUGH YOUR MIND + ATTEMPTING TO COMPLETE = MASSIVE FRUSTRATION = MASSIVE STRESS
Get it? Now here is what I do that drastically reduces all this stress. I simply write everything on a notebook. I know I know “anthony that’s just silly” or “uhh to simple I am leaving this blog” ok fine your opinion DOES count, but honestly what do you have to lose by trying this? When you write things down it changes the way your brain processes everything associated with what you wrote down. Just simply knowing everything is written down nicely on a notepad clears the mind and eliminates part 1 of this equation (the all running through your mind part). If you can eliminate parts of this equation you can eliminate some of the stresses. You no longer have to try to remember, you no longer have to keep these things on your mind AND if you check things off your list you can visually see when you “complete” things on the list. This alone gives you a sense of accomplishment and therefore reduces your stress level.
Try it out for me ok….. bet it works!
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Last Weeks $50 Blog Post Winner Was Jude Maceren says: March 14, 2011 at 10:59 am(Edit) Wow this is great! Thank you for showing us a new secret about advertising in FB. I will definetely apply this. Looking forward to your new post. Thanks! Comment #49. Jude Please email me asap so I can send you the gift card!
Continuing with our Facebook advertising tips I want to take a moment to discuss the CPM model that you can utilize while advertising on Facebook. As you know most of the time we advocate Pay Per Click advertising, which simply means only pay when someone clicks on your ad. This is great, however, it does have it’s downside also. When you’re paying per click it’s rare that you are going to get much of a “discount” on your advertising. With CPM advertising you pay for “views” not for clicks so it is possible to start saving on your advertising by simply increasing your click through ratio. Take for example:
If you are running an ad on Facebook and paying a $2.00 CPM (meaning $2.00 for every 1000 views) and your CTR (click through ratio) is .04 that means you are getting 4 clicks for your $2.00 so you are averaging about .50 per click. Now if you do anything to INCREASE your CTR that simply means you are going to get more clicks at the same cost, therefore, reducing your actual amount you spend to get visitors to your website.
CPM advertising isn’t hard, but it does require that you pay very close attention to getting increased click throughs on your ads. The previous blog post I put up about split testing images and targeting ads to specific types of people should help you with increasing your CTR and getting more traffic for less money from Facebook. Enjoy!
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Continuing with our Facebook marketing blitz this week I want to give you one tip that I think can really help you explode your Facebook marketing results. Since places like Google, Yahoo! and MSN don’t really offer an “image” option when advertising I have found that many people just discount it’s importance when advertising on Facebook. The great thing about Facebook is the fact that they do, in fact, allow you to use images in your ad copy. Images in turn can help or hurt your results.
Many people just search real fast to find some sort of relevant image and as long as it fits what their ad is about they use it. That is a really bad idea since images can greatly increase your click through ratio. My advice is to make sure you split test many images with your ad copy and find the one that really works for you. Some examples of how I use different images with different ad copy for different target audiences are below:
Ad 1: Goes To Females
Watch Movies
Anytime You Want
** The image that I use with this ad might be of a movie like “The Notebook” something women like. This should increase the click through ratio for the ad.
Ad 2: Goes to Males
Watch Movies
Anytime You Want
** The image used with this ad might be of a movie like “Transformers” something men like. This should increase click through ratio on this ad.
So these are just two short examples. Use images that appeal to your target audience and you can get some much higher click through ratios! It’s important to make sure the images you are using are not copyrighted or if they are that you get permission to use them. One of the places that you can get many pictures for use in Facebook ads might be stockphotos.com or something of that nature. Just remember that your image should be EXTREMELY relevant and eye catching and if it is it’s going to result in far better results from your Facebook marketing efforts.
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So we all know that affiliate marketing isn’t the “easiest” thing in the world. I am sure you can all find other jobs, businesses and activities that are probably easier than affiliate marketing. With that said I think it’s also important to realize how easy it is when compared to the revenue you can generate from it. Working at home, sitting on my computer, marketing other people’s products and earning money is a lot easier than being the CEO of some major corporation, and I probably make close to the same money. So when you put it in perspective it’s not really “that hard”, right?
Anyway the goal of this post is to share with you one thing that you absolutely must do as an affiliate. You have to target the customer YOU want and ONLY that customer. You don’t get paid when people just browse around you need them purchasing things so you can earn commissions. One of the easiest ways I have found to really refine and target your audience is to use Facebook as a marketing platform.
Remember when you sign up on Facebook they ask you just about every questions you could possible dream of about yourself which is a marketers dream. Now as an advertisers on Facebook you can target by things such as age, gender, relationship status, college, education level, city, state, hobbies, interest and so much more. This makes targeting that exact customer pretty easy.
Over the next few weeks I am going to share some really cool Facebook marketing tips with you so it’s best you don’t miss any of the blogs coming your way…
Here’s my tip for this week.
Use the Facebook “Birthday” feature. This allows you to target people on their birthday’s. So let’s say you have an ad running that says something like:
Happy Birthday
Click here for your gift
www.yourwebsite.com
Now the ONLY people that will see this are people who login to Facebook on their birthday’s. This allows you to use “happy birthday” in your ad and really increase your click through ratios….. go use it! Check back next week for more tips!
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I gotta say videos like this are what really make me excited and happy that I am doing what I do. You should watch the video below, submitted by Carol Amato, about her experience and thoughts about my books Advertising Profits From Home and The Hidden Millionaire. It’s interesting that she says “Anthony never gave me all these false claims of making thousands of dollars.” I am SO GLAD she mentioned that because that’s what I really strive for each day. I don’t want people to think what I teach is going to make them millions and billions of dollars… I want you to realize that if you listen and learn, hey it’s possible to generate some cash online…. maybe not millions or even thousands…. but every little bit helps, right? Watch the video and judge for yourself.
Carol has a really cool blog up at Carol Amato’s Blog – my suggestion is that you check it out! Also, Carol is a very active member of our Live! Community. So, if you haven’t joined, do so now, and you can connect with Carol and ask her questions about her success, and how she’s been able to grow to what she says double this month. I want to make it very clear I am not posting her video/story to get you to buy something else or anything like that. This is just a true story of success, and I think everyone should hear about it to inspire them to do great things. If you don’t want me to teach you that’s fine, but the fact is you should educate yourself about how to make money on the Internet.
I don’t necessarily believe “who teaches you” is the most important part of the equation. I think the “You are learning” part is far more important than who actually teaches you. All of us so called “gurus” have our own way of doing things and for the most part, they are things that have just worked for us. The great thing is there are so many ways to create success online. Each guru might teach something different, but it’s probably something that actually does work. Finding the right “guru” to teach you may be challenging…. I do my very very very best to make it as easy as possible to follow my courses, implement my techniques and create some level of success…… So I want to know….
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I know many of you are new to the affiliate marketing industry so I want to make sure you take full advantage of everything available to help you create success. In this blog I am going to list some of the things that you can do to help prepare yourself for success and to avoid the pitfalls that some new affiliate marketers fall into. So without further waiting….. here are my tips:
1. Attend Industry Events - Attend trade shows such as ad:tech and Affiliate Summit. While you are there you can walk around and meet with affiliate managers from the networks, find new networks to work with, and chat with some of the most successful affiliates on the planet. These industry events are surely the best way to make the connections you need to help further your success in this industry Many of the most successful affiliates attend these events year after year to continue learning from each other. This is a great way to get “insider” tips from super affiliates without spending any money on other educational courses. These events always have “seminar sessions” where some of the top affiliates and marketers will share tips, techniques and information to help you jump start your success. I’ve been attending for years now, and so should you!
2. Pick a Vertical – Some of the most popular verticals are Credit, Dating, Diet, Auto, Education, Mobile, Coupons. Once you select your vertical stay true to it and continue to market offers within that vertical. The reason I think this is so important is because as a new affiliate it’s hard to learn everything at one time. It’s like building a house you need to do it step by step and in a methodical manor. Running out here and trying to dominate every vertical isn’t smart, especially if you haven’t even found success in anything to date. So my advice is to pick a vertical and stick to it. Learn it and master it. Once you create success in order to make your business grow, simply go into other verticals and learn them one by one.
3. Choosing Your Traffic Source – Again it’s very important to select one or two types of traffic and master driving traffic that way. It makes no sense to try to learn everything at one time. There are affiliates making money in every vertical with every combination of traffic source you can think of, trust me. So that means no matter what you choose you have the potential to be successful. I suggest you start with search and display advertising with a mix of social media. Once you’ve mastered this you can move into some of the more advanced “and risky” advertising like direct cpv and media buying. Following this pattern allows you to limit your “risk” and still obtain that reward you want, which is successful campaigns.
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We’ve been hitting Facebook advertising hard recently, and today, we’re going to add one more concept into the mix. Facebook recently unveiled a new form of social advertising called Sponsored Stories. Sponsored Stories include “Like Stories” and “Page Post Stories.” Today, we’re going to cover “Like Stories.”
