You certainly won’t go wrong by hiring a good writer to create a really good e-book, but think about how much a good writer is going to cost you. Wouldn’t you rather spend that money on getting visitors to your site so you can make more money?

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I spend hours each week just reading up on the latest internet marketing happenings and news. In my latest search, I came across a website: PLR Wholesaler

Note: Private Label Rights – Content produced by a 3rd party and made available for several purchasers to use. These products can then be used as-is or edited as the purchaser desires – within the guidelines of the PLR company.

Now the name is pretty self-explanatory. This site was created by an internet marketer for internet marketers, and it’s a one-stop shop for PLR material. Software, e-books, reports, training videos and e-courses.

The good thing about this site though is that membership is free. You can sign up as a VIP Member, which won’t cost you a cent, and you can download a huge amount of high quality PLR material for free.

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You can sell that material yourself as part of your own internet marketing business, and of course, you can change any part of the product to suit your target audience.

In addition to the material you can download as VIP Member, you can also access information about how to improve your internet marketing business.

You also have the option of paying a small one-time fee to become a Full Member of the site, and that will entitle you to even more PLR products to download and sell, plus you can become an affiliate of the PLR Wholesaler website itself, and receive a commission whenever somebody you refer signs up as a Full Member.

This is a site that’s definitely worth a visit regardless of your level of experience in internet marketing.

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If you have decided to start building a website you are about to embark on a wonderful journey that offers you tremendous amounts of benefits. Follow our simple advice to quickly pull your market value up, and get your message out to your clients faster.

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In the video above, Stefan Mischook (he built his first web site in late 1994) give you some additional tips, and insightful thoughts on some of the many Internet Marketing phenomenons, but also some advises about starting a website based business.

Be User Friendly

The first thing you will want to do is work on designing your website to be as user friendly as possible. If the users cannot find information they are looking for they will quickly loose patience and head off to another site. The key is to place the most relevant issues at the top of the page, and design a link system that is easy to follow.

Getting Some Visitors

Now that you have established your site, it is time to get the word out. One of the easiest ways to do this is by setting up a system that can keep your potential clients interested through something they already use – Social networking sites! It is very easy to distribute your site to large groups of people through social networks. One message that everyone can see is much faster than having to send out messages to everyone separately.

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Another way to bring prospects to your site is by designing your site to take advantage of Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Read up on the easiest ways to get this implemented on your site, and you will see a rapid increase in visitors, because the search engines will see that your website offers quality information that people are interested in learning about.

Understand What Your Visitors Want

Install some form of visitor tracking technology, that way you will gain better insights into the type of people who are coming to your site. This will give you an edge when it comes to tailoring information. You will be better able to fit their needs. In the end, the returning visitors will be most cost effective and you will begin to gain customer loyalty. There are many different internet applications and scripts available to help you achieve these goals. It ultimately comes down to your preference whether you wish to use a commercial product or an open source alternative.

Make A Newsletter

Another way to keep your visitors coming back is by establishing a quality newsletter. Send out your newsletter to anyone who is willing to receive it. All you have to do is simply install a small piece of scripting on your site to allow them to subscribe. If you choose to do an email campaign, sending a monthly letter usually works best. Having an RSS feed is another way you can generate newsletters without having to do anything extra. As soon as your content is updated, the RSS feed registers it as new information on the clients end.

Final Words

While there are many other ways to generate returning visitors to your site, you will find that just by implementing these easy ones will drive incredible results to your site almost immediately. With just a small investment of your time, you can begin to take advantage of the massive online world that is available to you.

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If you try to build a list or just sell a product, you can with advantage use landing pages or squeeze pages, you can find them all over Internet, but Cashrevelations have a landing Page Package with a lot of templates and under two years you can also get help with setting them up – it is practical if you fell unsure about HTML or are an absolute beginner in Internet Marketing. You can find the URL to those landing pages below.

• Huge Landing Page Package

As we wrote in the beginning of June, we are building up an affiliate program. It is a joint venture between Cashrevelations.com and Cashpromotor.com to sell digital products online. Cashpromotor.com is a “sister” site to Cashrevelations and will exclusively offer support for our affiliates and customers. We are now very happy to announce that our Affiliate Program is Online.

It is still a work in progress, but we decided to put it online already now. It is some cosmetic work to do and to make the Affiliate Support Page more effective.

Our very first product is an easy to use template package for affiliate marketers and others with two years friendly support. If you want, You can see the sale page here: Massive Landing Page Package.

Right now, we are searching for affiliates – we provide you with some promotional material but it is not so much yet. It will come more promo material later as we think support for our affiliates is of huge importance. If you are interested, do not hesitate to contact us for questions or suggestions, but remember to become a Cashrevelations affiliate today!

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This time we are giving away 5 money making reports by Welly Mulia (an established Internet Marketer and one of the founders behind the ,among affiliate marketers, increasingly popular Profits Theme) filled with insightful insider tips on affiliate marketing.

The Money Making Reports

The package contains these five money making reports.

• How To Fail Online
• 2 Steps To Building A Profitable List
• 3 Important Internet Business
  Requirements
• Email List Building Is Wrong…
• How To Generate More Buyers (Instead
  Of Just “Traffic”)

The reports provide, especially to newbie Internet marketers, practical tips and some useful resources on how to be more a successful Online Internet marketer.

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The download of this package requires no registration or e-mail address -Just right click and choose Save AS… – The size of the download is 1 Mb.

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Download and uncompress the ZIP archive. If you have problems with uncompressing (unzip) the templates you could try an online tool like WobZip.org.

I surprisingly often get questions on how to capture leads – and it seems like the answer is simple and obvious, but if you are a brand new online marketer without any HTML knowledge it might not be so easy to know all those obvious things.

In this article Cashrevelations gives you a few easy to follow tips on lead capturing – this article is for all those who are all new in affiliate marketing and without knowledge of HTML.

Capture Leads

If you want to capture a lead (name and email), you need an online lead capture page (or a landing page). There is a lot of landing page templates you can use on Internet, both premium and free. Some of the free templates you can find here:

Free Downloads

and here:

150 Free Landing Page Templates

Hosting

And then you need some type of hosting, and as always with Internet, there are free and premium hostings (search on Google). Personally, I prefer a premium hosting because it is less trouble with them and they are more reliable. We use and have good experience of One hosting.

A free alternative, yet very limited, to all that is for example Blogger. They have a very easy set up and they are completely free.

Lastly you need an auto-responder. One auto-responder we use in the past and have good experiences from is GetResponse (if I don’t remember wrong, they offer even a lead capture page). GetResponse is a premium service, but you can try it out for free if you go here: GetResponse Free Account.

The free alternative is this:

FreeAutoBot Free Autoresponders that follow-up leads automatically

I tested them for many years ago and the service works, but they are limited and cluttered with irksome ads.

If you wonder how to edit the landing page templates, then you can find some information here: How To Edit HTML Templates – Tutorial.

Since closely three months back, we are building up an online business where we will take in affiliates. This is a joint venture between Cashrevelations.com and Cashpromotor.com to sell digital products online. Cashpromotor.com is a “sister” site to Cashrevelations and will exclusively offer support for our affiliates and customers.

Our first product will be an easy to use template package for affiliate marketers with one year support (if practically possible). Right now we are working with some technical and practical issues around our affiliate support – since it is very important for us to help our future affiliates in the best possible way we can.

Further announcements about this affiliate program will com within a near future and can be found here on this site. If you have any questions, feel free to leave comments on this post – we will answer you as soon as possible.

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SpiderScribe is a user friendly, free and online collaborative mind mapping tool for project management and brainstorming. With this flexible tool you can create freestyle and multi-directional maps – and combine them with elements such as images, text, files, calendar events and geographic locations. The SpiderScribe application is still in Beta stage.

Unlike many mind mapping tools with a design that seems to be inspired by psychedelic intoxication, SpiderScribe offers a clear and intuitive environment for your mind maps – it feels easy to work with SpiderScribe, and that fact plus the simple and clean design give this application the potential to be an effective and useful working tool.

The SpiderScribe Features Include:

• Text, images, files, calendar events and location maps stencils
• Quick search through maps
• Small preview navigator for large maps
• Maps are stored online
• Private or public maps
• Online sharing and collaboration
• Undo and redo actions
• Real time updates

At least for the moment, the use of this tool is completely free – but one big question is if SpiderScribe, like many other popular online applications before, will become one of those paid applications once it moves out of beta?

• Visit SpiderScribe Online Mind Mapping Tool

WinkPress (info on WordPress plugins and themes) has released a user friendly affiliate links manager plugin for WordPress. This practical WP plugin helps you to easily create friendly affiliate redirects and track them in Google Analytics.

But there is one important requirement. To make this plugin to work properly, your site must use pretty permalinks. Further information about permalinks, and how to setup and how to use them, you can find in the WordPress Codex.

Once you have installed the plugin, the usage is simple – and it has possibility to be a popular WordPress plugin amongst affiliate marketers, especially considering it is all free.

• Download Affiliate Links Manager Plugin
• Visit Affiliate Links Manager Plugin Site

Ambition, determination and commitment are the three strong pillars of successful online marketing. On those pillars you build your business with marketing tactics that attract visitors and drive sales. You will fail, you will make misjudgments, you will loose money – I would say that 10 out of 10 business projects fail. But those who try the 11′th time are those who succeed – you will need all your ambition, determination and commitment.

The good news is that there have been many people who have tried, failed, tried again, failed again, and finally succeeded in identifying the most effective marketing tactics for an online business. Learning from the mistakes and also the successes of other marketers are necessary if you want to have a future in online marketing.

Wikipedia: The concept of revenue sharing predates affiliate marketing and the Internet. The translation of the revenue share principles to mainstream e-commerce happened almost four years after the origination of the World Wide Web in 1994.

What you need, except ambition and determination, are adequate marketing tools and a basic business plan. It doesn’t need to be something fancy and extremely complicated – avoid complicated things that are hard to understand. The simple outline could for example look something like this:

1. Take action
2. Establish goals
3. Define your business
4. Basic marketing tactics

There is absolutely nothing new or sensational about this information, but it will give you the basic structure you need for your future work with your online marketing business.

In this article we will briefly go through some proven affiliate marketing tactics used by the most successful marketers on the net – and in the end of the article Cashrevelations presents some highly useful marketing tools that you can use already today.

Take Action And Establish Goals

One of the first rules of online marketing is to take action. Internet is a dynamic, growing medium where businesses are created every moment. If you just sit and think about what you are going to do and never take action, you will never ever get where you want to go. Marketing tactics are totally useless unless you take action and execute them.

This takes you to the next critical stage of online marketing. You must truly know and understand where you want to go before you begin your journey. Without a really clear understanding of where you want to go, how to know what you need to do? How do you create tactics and take action? Would you build a house without using a blueprint?

You need to establish goals. Goals lead to strategies and then to tactics – plant your goals firmly in your mind and envision yourself succeeding with your online business.

Define Your Business

Starting your online business means understanding what your business is all about. What do you need to do to reach your goals? What marketing tactics will help you succeed? As you can see, there is a lot of questions you have to ask yourself.

Success is dependent on your ability to dissect and understand your business. You must be somewhat authoritative in your own niche and you must carefully evaluate what your future customers want. Once you identify what they want and need, it is very essential to determine how you can deliver those results for your potential customers.

Basic Marketing Tactics

Now that you have your business outlined and clarified, deploying basic marketing tactics is next on the list. And that starts with knowing how to market what you have to offer.

Basic marketing tactics include:

1. Creating a ‘brand’ or identity around your product
2. Creating a simple marketing message
3. Establishing a credible website
4. Creating a presence as an expert in a niche
5. Defining the benefits or value of what you have to offer
6. Developing your site content to drive traffic
7. Deploying SEO (search engine optimization techniques) to drive traffic

Build your business step-by-step and do your homework to evaluate the most effective marketing tactics. Learn from other marketers (read their blogs) and save weeks, months, and years of effort by taking advantage of proven techniques whenever possible.

A word about SEO. For many years ago, as an Internet newbie, I tried just about every SEO trick there is. I was reading the words of those big SEO gurus like a sacred text – I really tried hard to be a hit on Google. Of course it didn’t work. Finally I decided, “Google gives a shit about me, and I give a shit about Google”. I stopped using any type of SEO (I’m still very minimalistic in my SEO efforts). Since then, my relation to Google search engine has improved dramatically – and now it feels like we have a good working relation.

My point is, use all the SEO you are capable of, perhaps it works for you, but don’t get fixated and spend all your time on SEO tricks. There is no SEO trick that can replace good site content. If you want web traffic, you need good content. And if you must choose, spend your time on developing your content before spending it on SEO.

Marketing Tools You Might Need

Apart from things like landing page templates, blog platform and other necessary tools, there is a few more handy tools that might make your online marketing a lot easier.

Business Planning

Here are some examples of business planning tools you can find on Internet. There is more planning tools you can use for free, but if you are really dedicated you could, or maybe should, choose to invest in a more flexible premium service (but test a few free services first – do not invest in anything before you are sure that marketing is for you).

Ganttic – Resource Management & Planning
Ganttic is an online project management software for scheduling business resources and projects. The handy online scheduling software provides user friendly graphical interface and interactive Gantt chart for real time collaboration.

Business Calculators – Bplans
Bplans, a site with a large collection of free sample business plans, offers a set of online business tools you can use to quickly and easily evaluate different aspects of your new online business. These calculators can also be added to your own business website.

NEBS Business Plan Tool
This is a handy interactive tool you can use to write your very own business plan in a comfortable and easy step-by-step fashion. Just read the instructions and suggestions accompanying each section and then answer the questions posed.

DoubleClick Ad Planner – Google
This is a free online media planning tool by Google that can help you identify websites your target customers are likely to visit – you can easily build media plans for yourself or your clients. Access unique users data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.

Plan Cruncher – Easily Create A Small Business Plan Online
Plan Cruncher creates a standard one-page summary of a business plan for a start-up company. You do this by choosing icons that represent some of the standard answers that a business plan must provide.

Tracking & Executing

Tracking the result of your marketing efforts is important – especially if you for example spend money on advertising. VendorSeek has a nice article, Tips for Online Marketing Analysis, where they explain the importance of tracking you marketing actions. Below you have some online marketing tools that are all free of charge (at least on basic level).

Marketing Return on investment (ROI) Calculator
This user friendly online tool lets you find out if Twitter, Facebook, or other campaigns are making you money. Calculate if you are really making or even losing money on your online marketing – and discover how much you need to spend to earn every $1.

Tout – Track & Organize Your Repetitive Emails
Tout is an online service that lets you create custom marketing email templates that you can track, organize and schedule. You can send a maximum of 7 emails per day with the free account – with a premium account you get features like tracking and scheduling.

SampleWords – Free Business Forms & Templates & Planners
Browse and download printable documents including premium and free business forms, accounting forms, personnel documents, communication documents, sales organizers, letter templates, planners, basic organizers, calendars and much more.

BitNami – Open Source Simplified
Bitnami offers open source installers or software packages for web applications as well as Virtual appliances. You can for example easily install WordPress on your PC to test new functions (landing page templates etc.) of your marketing blog before going online.

Google Analytics – Web Analytics
There is a lot of analytics services you can use, but Google Analytics is free, effective, flexible, easy to use and reliable. Track sales and conversions and measure your site engagement goals against threshold levels that you define for your affiliate marketing.

Clicky – Web Analytics In Real Time
Clicky is a real time web analytics service. This means that when you login and view your stats, you are seeing up to the minute data on the traffic to your web site. There is a free version and premium versions – you can see a demo of the service HERE.

Your Personal Online Presence

Creating a strong online personal presence is essential if you want to be successful in Internet marketing. Luckily there is a lot of really useful (and even free) tools you can use. Here we present just three good and effective alternatives.

AboutMe – Online Personal Profile
This stylish and free online tool allows you to quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web. Statistics over how many persons see your profile – but slow downloading of the profiles is a problem.

SocialURL – Showcase Your Web Profiles
This very easy to use and free online tool allows you to organize all of your social network profiles in one link that can be accessed in one click or link – very suitable for email and forum signatures. You can also keep track of people visiting your SocialURL page.

Retaggr – The Definitive Online Profile
This easy to use online tool lets you aggregate all your online social profiles and contact details into a portable interactive profile – rich with content. You can have a look at the different solutions they offer HERE.

Final Words & Warnings

Online affiliate marketing is very much a question of trial and error. Your first try will probably fail, but you shouldn’t be discouraged by that – just try again. But don’t spend money on extensive advertising campaigns, eBooks with affiliate marketing tips, expensive memberships in different guru jippos, or whatever – remember that you can find almost everything free on Internet. There is no reason for you as a marketing newbie to spend a lot of money. And, most of all, watch up for people who promise you incredible wealth and economic independence – statistically those wonderful guru proposals almost never work. In many cases, a “marketing guru” is a shark on a hunt for a marketing newbie just like you, and your meeting will leave you with a thin wallet and disillusioned mind.

That ends our brief roundup of proven affiliate marketing tactics and useful marketing tools. Good luck with your online affiliate marketing and be prosperous.

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