What about work?

A lot of product owners wonder whether or not they should be paying an affiliate to promote their product. While generally, I believe the answer is yes, there are some exceptions to when you want to pay an affiliate.

Let’s face it, you can only get so many people to visit your website on your own. I mean, your pay per click resources are limited and you can only write so many articles and create so many back links before your time, and energy, are exhausted. So, if you have an army of affiliates promoting your product, you simply will be able to make more sales. If your affiliates aren’t “poaching” off the sales you would make yourself, paying affiliates to market your product is a real no brainer.

If you were selling pizzas, each additional pizza would cost you money to produce. But digital products are different. It costs you almost the same amount of money to produce one product as it does to produce a million. Therefore, why wouldn’t you want to pick up low hanging fruit by paying affiliates to promote your product?

Let us remember, once you get a customer, you can sell to them for life. If you have structured your product line correctly, you can pay an affiliate 75 percent of the original purchase price, but continue to market to that customer for the rest of their life without paying the affiliate any additional money (there are some affliate networks that offer ‘lifetime’ cookies, that is another post).

Affiliate marketers are very good at their area of specialization or they wash out quickly. Some are experts at pay per click and know how to deliver traffic to your site that converts. Others put in the time to write articles that pre-sell customers on your product before they ever land on your page. Video marketing, forum marketing, and classified ads are other specialities of affiliate marketers.

So, are there times when it doesn’t make sense to pay affiliate marketers? Yes, there are.

If you are only going to sell 100 of a single item and you have 1,000 responsive people on your personal email list, you will probably not want to pay affiliates. When you can sell out the subscription yourself, there is no need to split the proceeds, follow me?

Another time when you may want to consider not using affiliates is when you want to control exactly how your product is marketed. When you open the product up to affiliate marketers, you will lose control of the advertising process. Marketers could spam safe lists or classified sites and give your product a bad name.

Most product owners, however, find that the benefits outweigh the down sides of paying affiliates.

Clickbank is the most popular way to set up an affiliate program for digital products. PayDotCom tried to give Clickbank a run for its money, but hasn’t taken off as well as the promoters hoped. You can also set up a script to run an affiliate program.

If you are after some names, leave a comment now.

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Google AdWords is debatably the most used pay-per-click search engine. With a tiny start-up investment, you can start running your own ads on websites across the internet.

This however, as popularity grows, so has the often cut-throat competition. As we see in so many markets, getting a profitable campaign going has become a serious challenge.

This is why I am constantly looking for a new edge or tools to gain that little extra in the AdWords game. So, I was stoked when I came across a tool named, “Ad Word Generator” that promised to create up to hundreds of professionally written ads in roughly 10 seconds!!

At first I was skeptical of this claim. How is that possible?

Well, as I looked into the tool and put it work I was immediately impressed. This software works by taking proven selling phrases and combining them to instantly generate winning ads. You can even input your own selling phrases and have the software pop-out personalized ads.

All it takes from your end is a few clicks of a button!

But, Ad Word Generator doesn’t stop there. Probably, the most valuable feature is that it offers a system to manage all of your ads in an organized way. The software then uploads any ads you want right into your account with only a few clicks of a button.

And before it does that, the software even checks your ads to make sure they meet all of the advertising guidelines.

In other words, this tool is a real time saver. It takes the guess-work out of creating your ads and makes it a point and click job.

As a result, it easily saves hours a week if you have more than one campaign… and when you’ve got to run a business (where every minute counts), then this tool is a must-have.

So, the bottom line is… If you want a shortcut to profiting from AdWords, then this tool is a legitimate solution. You no longer have to stress over coming-up with good ads and just let this point and click solution make dominating AdWords a breeze!

You can pick-up your copy at:

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Traffic Python Revealed!

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I have been using Traffic Python for over a month now… Fricken awesome is all I can say!
Their affiliate program rocks too, I can’t get into enough detail here… as they have all ready done for you here.

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Do I need membership website software or Membership management software?

I can’t answer that for you, but if you have knowledge or goods (digital or tangible) then you need to consider creating a Membership Website!

Membership Website Software is soon to be released. Offering a packaged software solution to creating a membership website!

Membership Website Software [MWS] is going live at the end of May 2009. The first 10 people to purchase will receive 50% off, that’s half price folks!

So what is it?

It is membership management software which offers you the ability to create multiple membership types, both free and paid whilst controlling whether it is a monthly cycle, or once off payment allowing scope for the web business person!

Incorporating both Paypal and Clickbank IPN’s, this is a haven for affiliates and merchants alike! Secure your digital goods while delegating which member groups can access what downloads, pages and even forums or wordpress blogs! In fact, any php site that is already operational can simply copy and past 3 lines of code to secure it to specific member groups!

Beta testers are already finding out how easy this is to use with point and click accuracy! The WYSIWYG Editor (What You See Is What You Get) ensures even the technophobe can operate a membership site and create a recurring income or simply nourish a free membership site into one that generates income from adds/offers/affiliate programs etc…

To read more about this, and subscribe for early bird notification to get half price when the doors open, go to http://membershipwebsitesoftware.net/.

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There are a lot of Clickbank affiliates, usually new users, that have made 1 or 2 commissions then try to get payment as it has gone over the minimum amount (default $100). Unfortunately they seem to have overlooked these very important rules of using Clickbank. Then they are left with the issue, of generating more commissions so they can fulfill Clickbanks Customer Distribution Requirement. If this is not overcome, their accounts will soon become dormant.

Customer Distribution Requirement

ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:

* Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers; and,
* Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.

This requirement is in place to help prevent Affiliates from abusing the ClickBank Affiliate program by using their accounts for the sole purpose of fraudulently collecting rebates and/or discounts on their own purchases.

Once you have met the Customer Distribution Requirement, your account will begin issuing payments normally, in accordance with our Accounting Policy, beginning on the next payment issuing date.

So, how do we overcome this… and fast?

Download this free ebook named “Clickbank for Newbies“. It is a short ebook, in .pdf, that will show you simple ways to overcome this, and other issues new affiliates to Clickbank run into! And you will run into them!

Simply subscribe to my newsletter to receive “Clickbank for newbies” as a bonus to the other two ebooks, “Protection Proofing Your 401k” and “Viral Marketing Ebook”.

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