The Affiliate Truth

Being on a billion mailing lists I get a lot of SPECIAL (cough splutter) offers though that promise me the earth and of course never deliver. I always make a special attempt to read through what is on offer even though I never buy the bonus reports etc that are being sold.

Today I recieved one that firstly wished me Happy New Year! Very nice thank you. Then it said there was a special back door automated system that was unvocered in a special report! (lost interest already but would take a look) I get to the page and I am guessing that it is around 2 A4 sides of sales page with an extra 10% off if I buy within a minute!!! OK now I don’t know about you but I like to take my time over reading these things and ensure that I get the right picture of the product.

Knowing I would never get to the bottom of the page with in a minute and having totally lost interest I clicked to close the window and then deleted the email. Potential customer LOST!

Offer VALUE and do not PRESSURE your visitors and you will get happier and more reliable customer. Treat them well with sensible offers and it will be more likely that you will get someone to return to your website over and over.

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As the year draws to a close and knowing that I will not be in any position to post tomorrow, I thought I would end the year with my wish list for 2008!

1. When someone says something is free for it to actually mean you pay nothing or give nothing away! (you know who you are and what you do!)

2. For Google to strip out spam sites completely and true content sites to actually register for their true rank!

3. Google again, stop changing the layout of all the tools you offer, change the functionality by all means but please not the layouts!

4. No more recycled products from anyone for a whole year! Seriously Guru’s try this for 12 months and in 2009 you will make so much money from recycled and relabeled products!

5. For the “No Technical Skills Required” sites to actually talk to people who have no technical skills and get them to use their products before they actually advertise this!

6. Niche areas that have little competition to actually become more competitive as competition makes life so much more fun!

Well that is it in all honesty a little bit of a moan to finish what has been a very successful year and I am looking forward to being able to share with you all more and more in 2008. Have a great New Year celebration and I will see you all in 2008!

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I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas day and this finds you relaxed and refreshed! When I was at school I have to admit I hated Languages, I struggled with English so having to learn French and German was just struggle after struggle. However when I met my wife the fact she speaks 5 different languages means I had to learn pretty quick. Little did I know at that time that I would be benefiting in my online activities as I learned!

November and December are busy times if you are in internet marketing, you have the build up to Christmas then the January sales to stay on top of but if you are lucky enough to speak Spanish you have the joys of Reyes to look forward to as well. The Spanish don’t exchange gifts until the 6th of January when the three Kings were supposed to have visited.

Two years ago I started to look at the fact that there were different days for exchanging gifts around the world. Since that time I have where possible targeted the build up to that event. For example at the moment while many markets (America and the UK) are going wild on their sales I am putting more time into the Reyes festival as it is the day when the gifts are exchanged in Spain.

A while ago I wrote a post about event based marketing and making sure you are ahead of the game. What I normally do is have Outlook installed with the public holidays of all major countries around the world that have their different celebrations. This normally means that you can plan in advance and ensure that you benefit from the markets.

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Today I am taking on a marketing opportunity that is event based. Now this is all explained in the ebook 30 day challenge so how did I do it.

Think about my bonus that I offer for the Yahoo sign up that fifty pounds made me three hundred pounds in the first 3 days of the Americas Cup. Yep all that from just the UK market. Now the $25 bonus from Yahoo US netted me $120! So if you think of the percentages back then its well worth picking up these bonuses.

These methods will be used again in this opportunity as well as those methods that have been learned in the thirty day challenge so double the opportunity. So my tips if you want to know more is find out more about Who Loves Money and the techniques, get your Yahoo Bonuses (remember a higher percentage of Yahoo customers buy on search marketing than Google Pay per Search at its best) and finally Market Like You Mean It!

And having just checked the bonus for Yahoo UK it is now SIXTY POUNDS! With visitors from 10 pence that is over 600 visitors, take the average 50 to make a sale on Yahoo UK (from personal experience) and that could equal 12 sales! Just from the bonus money that they are offering! Good luck!

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Welcome to our new look Affiliate Truth. As much as we loved the orange look we had the choice of the same in blue, red, purple or blue, but we decided that we would go with a completely new look.

We are working on selecting some killer widgets to point you to as much content as we possibly can. The Thirty Day Challenge blog is still up and will remain up as Ed and Dan have decided to continue the challenge as an introduction to internet marketing for free.

We are lucky enough to be able to offer a bigger Yahoo Bonus!!! Yep they are now going to give you SIXTY QUID to sign up to the UK version of Yahoo and I would just like to say if you sign up then drop a comment on here and let me know that you have signed up through our link and as soon as the boss has checked I will let you in on a happening niche that you can put some of your bonus money towards that will make you some money in the next two months! (through to November 2007)! Get your Bonus Today

A few posts back I mentioned a new up and coming Article Database that has been bringing in good results from the reading and the links. I have to say Helium has been giving me really good results, so much so that I am now submitting to Helium as much as I do Ezine. They also have some great competitions that you can enter and win up to $15,000! Just for writing an article!!! We Need You to Write.
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We will be trying to find you something new and exciting for you a few times a week so feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed using the great big button we have placed at the top of the page for you.

Also one final thing we are going to be putting live a product in the next few weeks which is not within the Internet Marketing Niche but we will be looking for affiliates who are interested in having an entire niche set out for them, this will include keywords you can use along with methods that you can use to promote. There is only one other product in this niche and there are stacks of keywords that will be easy to dominate and you can earn up to $35 per sale!

Again another good reason to get the bonus and the article database ready now!

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