How To Boost Affiliate Sales With Your Own Training Site
Imagine the confusion if all McDonalds told their new franchise owners was here's your restaurant, now go to it. Not one in 20 McDonalds locations would run smoothly. Owners wouldn't know how to cook the food, promote the restaurant, or what to tell employees. The mighty McDonalds chain would fall apart in no time. I agree, this example is ludicrous. But it is exactly what most affiliate programs lay on their members. Affiliates get a link, maybe a banner, maybe even a canned web page, but ...Read the rest of this entry »
The Four Best Ways to Market Your Affiliate Program
If you look around the Internet, you would think the only way to promote an affiliate program is via banner ads. Everyone creates banner ads and invites people to place these at their site. Yet for many affiliate programs, the banner ad is simply a poor form of advertising. It encourages a limited response, is stuck on the top or bottom of the screen, and does little if anything for the affiliate, or your network. If you are going to use banner ads, be sure to drive them to one product page, ...Read the rest of this entry »
Use the 'net to become an email marketing specialist!
If you're looking for tips on email marketing, anything got much easier since the dawning of the cyberspace. Not too long ago the only choice to find news on email marketing was a public library -- and these days are still in our memories, aren't they? I bet I hit the nail on the head, right? Today there's lots of resources available due to the fact that the Internet community is getting bigger and bigger with every hour. The only thing we need is a place to begin. Google, MSN or Yahoo are ...Read the rest of this entry »
Marketing Stained Glass
I attend business workshops and seminars every month in an effort to learn more about running a business. The one common question that I hear the most is how can I market my service or product. We often have students who catch the glimpse of how great it is to do glass and they start to imagine themselves doing glass work for a living. Some have been brave enough to ask us how they might be able to make money doing stained glass. We have many times replied that we don't know, if they find ...Read the rest of this entry »
Things To Keep In Mind When Advertising Online
/p> The Internet has now become an official advertising medium. It is so commonplace on the web that virtually every page has an ad of some sort. Unfortunately, ubiquity does not translate to acceptance, as some ads do affect and annoy people. While it is a good way to earn some extra cash while running a website, you should know beforehand which advertisements work and which do not. Sometimes, some advertising tricks can undermine both the advertiser and your site's credibility ...Read the rest of this entry »
Can I Advertise My Site with a $150 monthly budget?
Assuming all other bills are covered; web hosting, list building, affiliate programs, your own ezine, etc., you only have $150 a month to spend specifically on advertising. What are the best ways to stretch that dollar to its fullest potential? Glad you asked. You will find article after article endlessly covering six free ways (except for one) to advertise. They include: Submitting articles to directories, submitting your ezine (which you need to have) to directories, exchanging links, posting ...Read the rest of this entry »
Find An Ebook Internet Marketing Strategy That Works For You
Designing the perfect Internet marketing plan to make money, maybe even enough money to be able to quit your job, can be a very complicated matter. There are many different ways to make money online, but every effective way involves putting in your own time and effort. Do not expect miracles and you certainly cannot expect to make thousands of dollars in a short period of time. There are many people and websites telling you that you can get rich in a short amount of time, but if that was the ...Read the rest of this entry »
The Body of Public Relations
When broken down, public relations is really nothing more than a set of parts placed together to function as a whole, not unlike a living body. Each of these components performs a specified function, so that when combined with the other parts, the operation smoothly performs the task at hand. Let's start off at the top. The head of your operation is the strategy you choose to use. This falls under the two options: targeted and non-targeted public relations. If you choose to target an audience, ...Read the rest of this entry »
What about Role Playing as a Marketing Tool?
In what will be hailed as a new frontier in marketing "Role Playing is about to become a major force." Heed the words of Sear Rhykan, the marketing Guru. This is marketing taken to its next level! Players will be given roles as advertising executives, newsletter writers, movie critics, copy writers, brain surgeons, kalamazoos, average Joe's, test drivers, and on and on. Other players will take the parts of the notorious "Big Box Store Owners", Mutual fund salesmen, real-estate guru, used ...Read the rest of this entry »
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGIES FOR THE
Many companies are now paying the price for following bad counsel during the 1999-2000 tech gold rush. While entrepreneurs and VCs vaguely understood that a strong marketing communications (marcom) and PR campaign is needed to create awareness, build brands, and drive sales, too many were ignorant when it came to deciding how to select the right agency to help maximize the return in investment. Using a rationale that paralleled the old adage, "nobody ever got fired for picking IBM," companies ...Read the rest of this entry »
