Have you heard of video site maps? How about using them in conjunction with your affiliate marketing? There’s a good chance you may have heard of them, but, very few people actually know how to benefit from them. Over the course of the next few posts, you will learn an EXTREMELY powerful way to stand out in front of the crowd in the search engines.

Here is a link so you can sign up for Google Webmaster Tools today. In the next few lessons we’ll be covering the whole process of doing affiliate marketing with video site maps in more detail.

Until then…all the best:)

Are women better, more focused, and more successful overall with their affiliate internet marketing business, than men? I’m not really sure if there has ever been any type of data to back any of that up or not, but, I do know that I’m noticing a trend with my own sales between the amount of women who follow through, and actually use certain memberships as opposed to men.

How am I able to tell the trend? Well, basically it comes down to refund or cancellation rates, especially of the types of memberships that are used for actually “building” a successful affiliate business. While there could be different reasons for a cancellation, what I’m really beginning to notice is that women are sticking to their guns and genuinely working towards their goals more often than men. Now, please don’t get me wrong. I’m not really suggesting anything here. I’m merely stating what the stats are telling me lately.

It got me wondering why this might be the case. Here are a few of the ideas I had pop into my head:

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When you begin your journey with your affiliate business, there are many pitfalls and hindrances that may get in your way. Hey, the thing is my friends, as marketers we are always going to prodded, pushed, and pulled, in so many different directions it’s very easy to lose your way. The people who ultimately become very successful in the end, are people who have come up with a way to master their focus.

Years ago, when I’d first started online, it was my dream to become one of the elusive super affiliates we’ve all read so much about. And yes, I certainly did get side tracked more than a few times myself. Recently, I was in jeopardy of doing that once again.

You see, the more successful you become with your affiliate business, or your online ventures as a whole, all of a sudden you begin getting all sorts of different opportunities offered to you by tons of people. Yes, some of them can be very tempting to!

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Hey guys,

Below you’ll find a video which contains a very cool way to do some niche research. Also, some quick ways to make money with affiliate marketing in certain niches.

Also, I have some updates on the Niche Research packs for you to!

Are you interested in Affiliate Genie yourself? Check it out right here…

Today, I have a video for you to watch that I think will definitely help a lot of people out there. Would you like access to my own Internet Marketing Tools, some of which, cost as high as $197 a month? Find out how below..(the video is a little smaller than I’d hoped, but, I’m sure you’ll find it to be helpful to you)

This video runs for 25 minutes or so, but, please take the time to watch it all, as there you’ll find out how I can help out a lot of people out there, who don’t necessarily have the budget to access some of these amazing internet marketing tools.

It’s all about helping one another, so watch it now, and you’ll find out how I can help you to become much more profitable in your own online business today!

Well, just recently the big boys at Google were at it once again. Unfortunately, they slapped and permanently suspended thousands of Google Adwords accounts..yet again. For affiliate marketers who rely of Adwords, many are once again devastated, and also…telling Google to “stick it up their (you know what)” and are turning to PPV to increase web traffic. Hey, and why not? For keywords that Adwords advertisers were paying around $2.00 per click, with PPV you can pay around $0.02. Yes, that is 2 cents!

Thankfully, my Adwords account is fine, and I wasn’t slapped, but, you can bet I’m looking into alternative methods for driving traffic all of the time. After all, traffic and conversion is the name of this game. Without it, affiliate marketers and online business owners do not have a business. It needs to be made the MOST IMPORTANT factor. Well, perhaps it depends on the way conversion is attained..again..against the hype thing. Didn’t I just make a post on that?

Moreover, unlike the money hungry Google, with PPV, you don’t have to worry about quality score, ads, or all of the rest of the BS that Google makes you go through just to so you don’t get slapped. Of course these factors are also necessary to keep your CPC down as well. Yes, there is competition, but far far less, than with Google Adwords.
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Finding An End To The Hype?

Recently, I received an email from a subscriber who had written in apologizing that he was going to unsubscribe from my newsletter. It’s certainly not everyday that you receive a letter from somebody actually apologizing for doing that. In the letter, he explained that he wanted to express that it wasn’t anything personal, just that he was getting so many emails from so many different marketers (somewhere around 500 per day) that he simply felt he had to cut them all off, as he was suffering from so much information overload he just couldn’t take it anymore.

I completely understood what he was saying. I wrote him back, and thanked him for writing in to me, and for taking the time to do that. I also explained to him, that I completely understood what he was feeling, as I’d went through the exact same thing myself at times. I told him that I actually urge people to unsubscribe from mailing lists all the time, even my own if need be. I also explained that personally, I had unsubscribed from hundreds of them myself, and only remained a member of the peoples lists, who I feel are still helping me to become a better marketer myself.

Recently, I have spoke to a few of my close friends in marketing about how I would like to be a lot less involved with the IM niche, by the end of the year. For some that do know me fairly well, I’ve expressed this desire quite a few times now. But, also, at the same time, I wasn’t quite in the position to walk away from it just yet. The reason being, that it does make up for a fair chunk of the profits that I do make online, to fund my business in other areas. It helps to fund things like link building services, certain memberships I need to be a part of for growing my business, and that sort of thing. And well, also of course, the funds I need to support living in general.

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Affiliate internet marketing is continuing to gain popularity at a steady pace in 2010, just as in recent years. I have to say that at times when I read certain things in online forums, or perhaps from a negative thinking newsletter subscriber I do have to sort of chuckle at times.

Often in forums you’ll read something to the tune of:

“This stuff is all BS. I’ve tried hundreds of online programs that claim to teach you how to make money online, and haven’t made a single dime yet”, or else, “None of this works anymore! Maybe back in 2002 when everybody had things so EASY, but, it’s just not like that anymore!”

Let’s analyze that first statement a little closer…as I’ve seen this a lot.

This person claims to have tried hundreds of programs or courses. This is actually the part that needs to be paid attention to. How in the world are you ever going to see any kind of success if all you are doing is bouncing from course to course, or program to program? The simple answer is that you won’t….and there lies the problem.

The second statement? Well, all a statement like that usually means to me is that this type of person has already made up his/her mind that they aren’t even going to bother giving an honest effort to succeed. They have moreless deemed themselves a failure before they have even given themselves a chance to succeed as an internet affiliate.

The truth of the matter is that there are more people becoming successful with affiliate internet marketing than ever before, and also, there is a never ending sea of products and services out there to be promoting. Which in turn, leaves the door open for people to find success than ever before. In fact, with new online businesses coming online every single day, it’s an absolute gold mine for finding profitable products to be promoting.

Achieving Success Faster With Affiliate Internet Marketing

Here are a few tips that I’ve come to know to be true in finding success faster with your online marketing. I’m not saying I haven’t went down some bad paths from time to time myself, because I have, but, in the end these are lessons that always ring true, and will always remain.

1. Once you have made that purchase of an online course that is teaching you what you need to know and do to become profitable as an internet affiliate, stick to that one course only! Yes, believe me I do know, that it’s always a temptation to purchase that shiny new course that may be the new buzz of the week. And in the IM niche, well, things that are new, and the supposed “never before released” information products do sell, but, resist the temptation if you are already implementing another course.

If for instance you purchased Commission Blueprint 2 a couple of months back (which is very good by the way), stick to only working on that course alone. I know that is a tough thing to do, with so many things being thrown at you all the time, but, in the long run, you will find success faster by only sticking to what that teaches you, if you are implementing it consistently, than buying that next new course that came out this week…which will only distract you from what you already started.

2. Learn your software programs well, and stick to them. The same thing goes here. We are constantly being promoted new softwares, tools, and aids to help us with our marketing.

Instead of purchasing everything under the sun, stick to the programs that you really like from the get go. If we are always having to learn yet another software program, it’s only going to slow the process of becoming a successful internet affiliate, and this is a HUGE time killer!

If you’ve already taken the time to learn DreamWeaver well, then you will most likely be most productive sticking with it. Or perhaps, you enjoy using Wordpress. The point is, stick with what you like, and keep using it. Just because something is new on the market, doesn’t necessarily mean it will be better, and you are better off to keep using what you have become comfortable using.

3. Do what you need to do to develop a positive mindset and outlook. Affiliate internet marketing does require that you have a positive mindset. It requires discipline. I’ve found a few different things along the way that keep me forging ahead. I like to surround myself with positive people, and positive input. You really do become a product of who you listen to, who you hang around, and all the rest of it.

If you are being fed negative input, by negative people, it’s like stunting your growth! Find the things that speak positively to you, and be inspired by it often.

4. Well, as much as some marketers may not like me to say this..”Unsubscribe from the mailing lists of the people who you really don’t care if you learn a thing or two from them or not.”

I know that might be a harsh thing to say, as a lot of my own business success comes from email marketing. But, I’ve been on lists myself, and it seems that with some, all they want to do all the time is market to you. Sure, we are all marketers in the end, but, how much do some of these people really care about your success?

You can usually tell in a short amount of time, if they are actually trying to help…or if all they want is your money. Personally, for me, Anik Singal almost drove me right over the edge with his constant, day in and day out, promotions. Sure, he makes a lot of money…but, give it a rest buddy. I know he takes pride in his aggressiveness, but to me, it only felt like he wanted to squeeze every last dime out of his subscribers.  It was never really anything that he’d line up for free for his subscribers or anything (at least without a hitch to it), usually just buy this..buy that..buy,  buy, buy. That doesn’t speak to me…you?

Of course, that is just one I’ve unsubscribed from, but, there has been a LOT.

5. I’ve mentioned this before, and will always recommend this….

Find a person as an accountability partner who’s opinion really does matter to you. I know it works for me, to keep me grounded, and also to continue striving. If I feel I’m somehow letting another person down, it gives me a kick in the butt, and yes…sometimes I need one!

I hope you enjoyed these tips on helping you to enjoy success with affiliate internet marketing faster. Always remember…stay positive…and stay the course!

Should that be you sitting in that computer desk chair building your affiliate business?

If you are reading this and taking offense, please understand that it’s to help illustrate the difference between people who actually end up making a living for themselves online, and those who drift off into the darkness.  There are a lot of people who have went on to work full time from home as a result of having their own affiliate business, or another type of online marketing model.

Every once in a while I get letters from members of my subscribers on my list. A lot of these letters are either thank you letters..or they could be letters asking for help. Hey, I get the odd “I hate all marketers” types to! But, I think most list owners come across that every once in a while.

It’s funny though, but, for every great letter I get, I probably get 5 or so that go something like this.. (yes, there is sarcastic pun intended here)

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