What Affiliate Marketing Mentors to Follow, and Why?

Affiliate Marketing August 24th, 2007 Say Something (0)

Affiliate marketing has been in the Internet industry for quite sometime now and it is among the most popular tools used by many online entrepreneurs today. It is a great option for those who want to put up an online business quickly and cheaply. However, there is still a large number of the population who knows a little or even nothing about it. And most of the people who have just discovered this business usually assume that they can easily make big bucks out of it. Well, they’re definitely wrong. As I found out in the beginning. It took a long while before I learned that there is much research that needs to be done before you can just throw some links and ads up.

Misconceptions

To be successful in affiliate marketing business is not an easy task and it will never happen overnight. It’s just like an ongoing assignment where you need to find out and try various advertising strategies and tactics. This may even require you to sign-up with numerous affiliate programs just to determine which merchants performs well.

Another misconception that affiliates have ‘bout this kind of business is that they expect to gain more if they place about 20 affiliated banners on just one niche. Well it will not really work the way you think it would because once your site is flooded with too many banners, it will look like a link farm and visitors won’t be interested and won’t even bother clicking on any of those banners. So if you really want to promote several affiliate programs in your website, make sure that they jive with the theme and topic of the rest of the content on your niche. Bear in mind that three or four affiliated links in your site are enough, depending on the size of the web page or type.

There are also some who think that if they add affiliate materials to their site, they can receive sales right away. Maybe they just don’t know that affiliate marketing is all about advertising. If there’s no traffic coming to your site, how can you expect to get any sales? Remember that the more you advertise your affiliate link or the site where the affiliate links are placed, the more clickthru’s these links are likely to receive.

If you want to be involved or you’ve already joined an affiliate program, but you have the above misconceptions regarding affiliate marketing, then, you might need a mentor to help you figure out where to start and what to do in order to succeed.

Mentors

In the dictionary, the word mentor is defined as a wise and trusted teacher or counselor. Usually, these persons are experts in the field they are into. They can give expert advice and guidance as well as supervision to another person. So when we say affiliate marketing mentors, they are experienced counselors that have made affiliate marketing their specialty. Affiliate marketing mentors can be those persons that have already been successful in affiliate marketing and are always willing to share their experienced-based knowledge from the viewpoint of both the affiliates and the web merchants. And that’s the reason why we come up with this page. It is aimed to give you the stuffs that affiliate mentors should possess and follow and why do they need these things.

Of course, it is good for an affiliate marketing mentor to know and apply some theories and generalities regarding your business but there’s nothing more helpful and effective than telling you what works today and what are the things that could probably work in the future and if the trend changes. As a mentor, you should be one of the sources of knowledge for your client and the first one to teach them on how to generate more affiliate income. You too, need to be knowledgeable and equipped with the keys to success for affiliate marketers as well as for merchants. And you should guide your clients as they try to do the things that can help boost their profit because once they do well in that business, it can be counted as one of your great achievements. This also makes you a successful mentor.

There are some articles on affiliate marketing that says, in order to be triumphant in affiliate marketing business, you need to encompass and develop these traits: persistence, patience and thirst for knowledge. And as a mentor, it is your job to help your clients take in these traits within themselves. Once they’ve already developed the abovementioned character, it’ll be very easy for you to explain to them that attaining success in affiliate marketing requires sweat, blood and of course, hefty time commitment. These traits will also teach them not to give up.

Moreover, before you train your client to be proficient in search engine optimization, link exchanges, email marketing, newsletter marketing, reciprocal exchanges and advertising in forums, you should first become expert on these fields. They will surely find it hard to learn these things alone and without supervision from the one who knows best. So make sure that you are knowledgeable on these things before you accept any invitation to be a mentor. Yes, being a mentor is way harder than succeeding in affiliate marketing but this task is very rewarding especially if your client become victorious. The failure of your client is your failure too so you must do your very best to be able to bring your client on the road to success. Again, it is never an easy task and there’s nothing you can do about it. After all, that’s what affiliate marketing mentors are for.

Is the Internet dumbing us down?

Personal August 22nd, 2007 Say Something (0)

Just a quick blurb.

I am enrolled in an online windows class and the professor had this interesting article to show us.

This article is about a man named Andrew Keen who wrote a book arguing that YouTube, Wikipedia and Web 2.0 will ruin our culture.

Check out this article here : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19196474/

Wordpress Private Tutorial

Internet Business August 21st, 2007 Say Something (0)

When I first started blogging, it was about a year ago, my platform that I used was blogger. I never heard of wordpress or typepad. Blogger was the big deal back then. I was introduced to wordpress through my many late nights surfing the net trying to learn how to make money online from blogging. I’m sure a lot of you have that same background. So with all those late nights of scouring through way too many blogs and ‘how to’ sites, I came across this one site that offered video tutorials rather than just typing what to do. I am not sure about you but I’m a visual learner, rarely I need just the words to figure it out. Of course, wordpress uses CSS and coding for its themes and blogger uses just that front HTML page to make the changes you need. We can’t use the basic WYSIWYG type editor for our wordpress themes to make changes… we have php files and stylesheets that take us beyond the level of just using those easy editors.

Wordpress Private Tutorial

I came across this site one late night that offered video tutorials along with explanations to start and tweak your wordpress theme. Granted the language barrier of the author, the site is still very understandable.
You head here to the ’sales’ page, I will admit I am not a fan of hypey sales letters, and read about what he offers. The cost is $7 for the program, can’t beat that for some great videos on a ‘how to’ for wordpress.

Inside The Private Area

This is the area you will end up once you are inside the paid members area:

Clearly, you can see that you are able to have three levels to the program giving you access to different tutorials. This particular shot shows that I am a silver member but I am really a paid member. I was apart of this from when it first launched and was given that gift.

The Paid Members Area 

This is just a small screen shot of what you get inside the paid members area:

The unadvertised bonus is well worth the measly $7 you pay to gain access to all these tutorial videos, audios, articles and more. I just figured that people with the tight budget would find some value in this if they are having trouble with wordpress. As soon as I get the ball rolling I plan to launch my own site dealing with wordpress tweaks and such…

Wordpress Private Tutorial < Visit the site here, check out my testimonial!

How To Add ‘Comments’ To Wordpress Pages

Personal August 21st, 2007 Say Something (2)

As I am going through my learning process of blogging and wordpress, I find that I would like to do some tweaking myself and outsource other tasks. Today I wanted to write a little how to on adding the “comments section” to your static pages. For example, the about me page or your resources page. So people could leave comments on every page you offer valued content, not just your blog posts.

Lets get started:

1. Go to your theme files (either from your ftp program or your server)
2. From your theme files, find your ‘page.php’ file.
3. Place this line of code or tag:  <?php comments_template(); ?>  to that file.

I placed that tag before this line of code in my theme: </div><!–/content –>
and this did the trick.

So to rap up this easy addition to your theme just do this from your Cpanel:

/public_html / “yoursitename” / wp-content / themes / “yourthemename” / page.php

 From there click that file to edit it and add the code. Your done!

Let me know if  anyone has any questions.