15 Year Old CEO’s

Personal August 17th, 2007 Say Something (2)

Motivation

I was doing a bit of reading in one my magazines this morning and came across this article about a very young man, Harrison Gevirtz. He is 15 years old and owns his own company called Gevirtz Media, LLC employing around 38 people outside of the U.S. I always here about whiz kids around the internet marketing world making their thousands at the tender age of 9 or even 12, as with Harrison. It fascinates me that the kids nowadays are able to begin their businesses so early and create such awesome projects on a whim or a quick idea they had while taking out the trash.

Harrison was featured in “Revenue” magazine, one of the many I read from, july/august 2007 volume 4. Just visit www.RevenueToday.com and check out his story.

Cameron Johnson is yet another young man who got his start at age 9! Of course, he started out with ebay selling, working his way up to building companies and consulting firms and becoming a CEO at the age of 15. He does have a book out now called “You Call The Shots”. Just head on out to his website, www.CameronJohnson.com , to check out the book and many aspects of his life.

I just thought that my readers would enjoy a little kick in the butt as to never give up your dreams and keep on going. I know kids nowadays have way more advantages than we

(the eighties kids) did, but that is no excuse to go out and put in the work and bust you r knuckles to get it done. Working from home will be a reality for everyone who decides to do the labor and research it takes to achieve it. Theses young examples prove it.

What’s LinkShare, And Do I Need To Use It?

Affiliate Marketing August 11th, 2007 Say Something (0)

If you are interested in affiliate marketing but are finding it hard to look for affiliate programs, affiliates or merchants, you can start by checking sites of various affiliate networks. Many affiliate programs in the Internet are being offered through an affiliate program network, which acts as a link between the merchants and individual affiliates.

LinkShare

Among the most popular is LinkShare, it is through it that merchants and affiliates meet. LinkShare maintains and manages affiliate marketing programs for a great number of merchants with various kinds of businesses, products and services. It also has over 6,000 affiliate site members in its network. It gains profit from the set-up fees, monthly account maintenance fees and commissions. Joining networks like LinkShare can be of great help in establishing your online marketing business. Whether you are a merchant or an affiliate marketer, you need to research well on your partners in order to choose the best for you.
LinkShare provides the facility of acquiring access to a large network of advertisers (merchants) who offer their affiliate programs to publishers (affiliates) who are willing to promote their products. In the same manner, it gives the merchants access to a large network of affiliates who are searching for affiliate marketing opportunities.
LinkShare is especially beneficial for an affiliate in choosing his partners since he can find his options all in one location. It would be easier for him to compare products, commission rates and other benefits given by the merchant. The merchant usually just waits for interested affiliates to sign up in his affiliate marketing program but being in the network increases his chance to promote his products to a larger market, thus, maximizing his potential to gain huge profit.

Is LinkShare Right For You?

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Here’s Why You Need To Use Landing Pages

Affiliate Marketing, Internet Business August 9th, 2007 Say Something (0)

All the products that you want to sell online are ready. You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliate’s site. Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online businessman. But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare? Maybe none. But how about your landing pages? Are they all set for your business?

Landing Pages

Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad. For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate’s website. Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site. Some online marketers would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads. Are these marketers making a big mistake? Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads?
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Why You Should Promote Residual Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Marketing, Internet Business August 9th, 2007 Say Something (0)

The biggest asset now, next to your list, is the continuity programs or residual programs. Essentially the same thing, and the like Membership sites.

Affiliate Marketing
As I mentioned before with previous posts, affiliate marketing is, by far, the most easiest way to earn your first dollar online. So, some questions to ask, are you in need of additional income? Or are you planning to set up an online business but you still don’t have any product to sell? Then, affiliate marketing may be the best solution for your problems. With affiliate marketing, you won’t need to worry about the products you have to sell or inventory. All you need to have is a website with sufficient contents that are related to the products of a certain online company offering affiliate programs. By becoming a member of the program, or by becoming an affiliate, you can start earning a certain amount of money right away! Affiliate marketing is some sort of business relationship established between a merchant and his affiliates. In affiliate marketing, an affiliate agrees to direct some traffic to a merchant’s website. If that traffic is converted into some kind of action, like a visitor purchasing a product on the merchant’s website or a visitor becoming a lead for the company, the affiliate who directed the traffic will be compensated. Compensation may take the form of either a percentage sales commission for the sales generated or a fixed fee predetermined upon the application of the affiliate on the merchant’s affiliate program.

Benefits
Promising a lot of benefits both for the merchants and the affiliates, affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular online marketing methods today. In fact, almost every merchant or retailer site today offers an affiliate program that any one can join into. Most retailers would entice people to become affiliates or members of their program by promising great benefits like large commissions, lifetime commissions, click through incomes and a lot of other benefits. But would all these affiliate programs bring off the same benefits?

One Time Commissions
Most affiliate programs would pay you, as an affiliate, a one-time commission for every sale or lead you brought to the merchant’s website. Commissions for this kind of affiliate programs are usually large, ranging from 15% to a high of about 60%. Other affiliate programs would pay you a fixed fee for every click through or traffic you send to the merchant’s site. Programs like this often pay a smaller fee for every click through, usually not getting any larger than half a dollar. The good thing about this kind of program, however, is that the visitor won’t have to purchase anything in order for the affiliate to get compensated.

Residual Commissions
Another type of affiliate program is the residual income affiliate program. Residual affiliate programs usually pay only a small percentage of sales commission for every sale directed by the affiliate to the merchant’s site. This commission often comes only in the range of 10% to 20% sales commission. Because of this, many people ignore residual affiliate program and would rather opt for the high paying one-time commission affiliate program. Are these people making a mistake, or are they making the right decision?

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