It has often been said that copywriting is the million dollar skill, and I don’t believe that has been disputed.  Your opt in pages, sales letters, PPC ads, blog posts, emails.. nearly anything you write has one goal, to convert the customer to DO something.

This skill is not easy and expensive to outsource.  Training classes offered by the “masters” such as David Garfinkel cost thousands of dollars, not to mention takes literally years to master.  How do YOU as a person just getting started in marketing, whether it be online or offline invest that kind of money?

Honestly most cant, I couldn’t.  I did come upon a course that was offered for a very limited time and only took 350 customers a couple of weeks ago, but by the time I could get the word out.. it sold out.

Having said that a “little birdie” told me that it is available again.  Its called The Ultimate Copywriting Crash Course and finally something anyone who is serious about getting their feet wet in copywriting and being able to implement without breaking the bank is out there.

I could get all hypy and tell you this is the next best thing to sliced bread.. and for some it may be, but for me it is just real world, down and dirty education that doesn’t take years to master and has already gotten real results from people.

If you have been struggling to get your readers to convert this class is well worth the money!
You can check it out here “The Ultimate Copywriting Crash Course”

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Russell is currently running a birthday promotion.. hes turning 29.. isnt that rough.. haha, anyway where he is offering the opportunity for the “little guys” to JV with him.  It does not cost a PENNY, and could help you get a start if you have a product you can give away.. he will promote it to his list TOMORROW through March 21st and they opt into YOUR squeeze page.. that is if you have one.

I have been working with Russell’s team since December and been able to produce my own product which I will release soon.  Without his help I can honestly say I dont know how long it may have taken me so I really believe in him and his team.  Take a look if you think this may be helpful for you.  JV with Russell Brunson.

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In sites like MySpace and Facebook users create their profile pages and use texts, pictures, and videos to embellish the pages. They can then share those contents with others in their friends’ network, or the social network

In sites like Digg, YouTube, Flickr users submit a summary of news articles, pictures, videos and they vote on the contents submitted by others. Popular contents are featured on the homepage and it drives massive amount of traffic to support your Internet Marketing.

There are many variations of the two models described above, including a combination of the two.

Using the social media sites to promote your product or services (or a website) is called social media marketing. There are two types of traffic you get when your content becomes popular in a social media site.

The primary traffic or the direct traffic comes from the site where it becomes popular. For sites like Digg, it can be huge and your site should be ready to handle the surge in traffic without crashing.

When your site becomes popular in a social media site, people talk about your site and the post that becomes popular. They will put a url to the content. The secondary traffic or the indirect traffic flows from those url long after the surge due to the primary traffic is over.

So, what are the benefits of primary and secondary traffic from the social media sites? The primary traffic exposes your site to people who have no other means of knowing about your existence. Some of those visitors will become regulars to your site if you are providing something that they want on a regular basis.

The greatest benefit is the natural url to your site given by others because they want to discuss your offering. Natural url from a large number of relevant sites improve your search engine rankings and organic search traffic.

Social media & Internet Marketing lets you expose your site to a large group of people. If your search engine traffic has leveled off, shifting your focus to the social media marketing and becoming successful in that will take you to the next level in search engine traffic.

The only other alternative for increasing your search engine traffic is Internet Marketing & pay per click advertisement. If you are already running a PPC campaign, you can continue your PPC campaign through out the year to sustain increased traffic from search engines at a cost.

Social media marketing is free and making your site popular a couple of times in a year is enough to sustain increased traffic through out the year.

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According to their website:
“Rent.com is the premier apartment listings website for anyone looking for an apartment in the US.

• Rent.com is the country’s #1 producer of verifiable leases
• Rent.com serves over 2,500 cities nationwide
• Rent.com offers millions of rental units and adds thousands every day

We’re sure we can help your visitors find the perfect new home. And when they do, you’ll earn $0.20 for each registered renter and up to $70 for each verified new lease. So, sign up today - we look forward to doing business with you.”

If you would like to apply you can go to https://www.rent.com/affiliate/secure/register/

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There are several ways to incorporate your affiliate links in an article submitted for publication. The most common and acceptable way to do this is by including a short bio of yourself as author of the article along with a link to the site of your choice.

This will usually include you expressing yourself as an expert and suggesting that your readers go to a certain site for more information. You can also just tell readers that as an expert you highly recommend this certain product and have used it yourself.

This is called the author resource box and is standard practice with almost all article directories and submission sites. If you are submitting to individual sites make sure to include a disclaimer along with your article that the resource box must be included if the article is to be republished in any blog, ezine or newsletter. 

But another, albeit sneakier, way is to write a review of a certain product or service and tell the reader that they can have a look at the product by following the link in the article.

Many article directories will allow up to three such links within each article as long as the article itself is not just a blatant advertisement for said product.

This can work to your benefit as you may join several different affiliate programs within the same niche and do a comparison between them and include your link for each.

Another approach that works great is to weave your affiliate links into your articles by simply being creative with the wording.

By just describing a product or service within your article and using an affiliate link to take your readers to a page as an example that can better describe your points will more likely be accepted and also greatly increase the chances of the readers clicking your them.

Research has proven that the most effective affiliate links are text links. They far exceed banners and flash animations when it comes to click through rates. By adding these links into your articles and distributing them across the web and also using them on your own sites and blogs you will see more clicks and more affiliate sales.

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If you are thinking of doing internet niche affiliate marketing remember to work on it like a true business. Quite often some think it’s just an easy means to make money with little effort.

These are a few tips that will help you win the game of niche affiliate marketing:

1. Select your target audience first. First identify who are the people you would like to sell your product to. Start on the basic premise of identifying potential customers before actually selling your product.
2. Use Multiple domains for multiple niches. Most people doing niche affiliate marketing have multiple domains and multiple websites. You can have many domains if you have varied topics, and each of whom can warrant a website of its own.
3. Consider using competitive research tools. There are many excellent competitive research tools that can you give you a jump start into a marketing niche. Tools like SpyFu, SeoDigger, KeywordSpy are just a few that can make it easier for you to succeed in your affiliate marketing ventures.
4. Have a second-in-command. Business owners can often feel alone in the overwhelming task of running their operations. They wear many hats and are often dealing with many different issues all at the same time. Hiring someone to help run the operations can allow the owner to spend more time on other issues they deem necessary.
5. Use short paragraphs for article affiliate marketing. Use short paragraphs. When the paragraph are very long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader just looking at it It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!

Yes it’s true that niche affiliate marketing can generate good income. However you must work hard at it and it’s a respectable livelihood.

Work regularly and track what is working and things that are ineffective. You might even keep a notebook in order to visualize critical aspects of your business. You’d be amazed by daily rituals that don’t have any measurable effect on increasing profits. Test it yourself and you’ll be stunned.

Recommended Training for Affiliate Markters:

Jeremy Palmer’s Black Ink Project
Russell Brunson’s Affiliate Evolution
Armand Morin’s Internet Marketing Newsletter 
Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook 

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So, for the first time ever, Shopster.com is offering a $5 lead bounty to its affiliates. Shopster has revised their payment structure to offer a $70 per sale and position themselves as the most competitive in the e-Commerce and dropshipping arena.

Highlights of the new program include:
$5 bounty on all qualified leads
$25 per monthly subscriber
$70 per annual subscriber

“We realize that our affiliate partners are a very important part of getting the word out there about Shopster. We appreciate that affiliates work hard to send us quality leads. We want to ensure it is as profitable to be a Shopster affiliate as it is to be a Shopster retailer.”
-Trevor Jurgens, Online Marketing Consultant, http://Shopster.com

The new program launches in the first week of February and will be seamlessly integrated for existing and new affiliates. For full details of the affiliate program visit http://www.shopster.com/affiliate_program.html.

Shopster.com is an industry leader in e-Commerce and dropshipping solutions. Shopster’s affiliate program is run through Shareasale - a leading performance-based marketing network.

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