Your success in the affiliate marketing business will be directly proportional to the promotion which you apply to it. Ideally, this promotion will involve a multi media approach, using pictures, graphics, audio, video and most importantly, the written word.
Like it or not, your writing skills will become your most powerful tool and will be critical in successfully promoting your online affiliate marketing business.
If you like, you will need to strive to become a ‘Word Smith’. Embracing your chosen product and driving it forward to your customers, with your expert use of language.
You naturally believe in your product or business brand unequivocally. More than in any other form, conveying this faith and belief to your prospective customers and partners will almost certainly be achieved by your usage and command of the English language. Pictures, graphics, audio and video will all play vital strategic rolls in your promotion campaign. However, your future customers and partners will gain the greatest insight and information in regard to your affiliate marketing business through your written descriptions. They will serve as reference material to be accessed again and again by many. Remember, written sales copy, press releases, blogs and articles will be posted on the internet and quite possibly be read by thousands, if not millions of people.
Therefore, it is certainly worthwhile, in the humble opinion of this author, to pay due courtesy and respect to your readers [potential customers & partners] and to yourself. To expand on this point, I would suggest that you give your fullest possible attention to spelling and grammar, typographical errors and proof reading. This process is often discouraged by other experts in this field, who advise that quantity is far more important than quality.
You may have already come across articles by experts in this field, which read similarly to the following; “Get as many articles and blogs posted [containing links to your affiliate business website] as quickly as possible. Your work does not have to be perfect; you just need to post lots of it!” I have even heard experts in this field suggest that actually being an expert in your chosen field is certainly not mandatory and that posting large quantities of material will better serve your business interests.
With regard to this type of advice given by other experts, you may wish to ask yourself the following questions; “Will this approach really be appreciated and convince my readers and potential customers? Will my status as an expert in this field be taken seriously if my material contains errors?”
It would seem that the answers to these questions are rather obvious and will certainly be conditional on your posting of articles at high profile sites such as Ezine Articles. Indeed, attention to correct spelling, grammar and typographical errors are set out in the author’s guidelines. The editorial staff will certainly appreciate your prompt and full attention to these matters and this may lead to your articles being processed and posted more quickly.
So make good use of your word processing program, paying particular attention to spell checking and grammar correction. Additionally, Dictionary.com is a great resource for writers and expert authors. Dictionary and thesaurus applications are available here free of charge.
Good quality, error free material will most certainly impress your customers and editors. Equally as important, is to maintain your credibility and expert status in your chosen field.
I wish you every success in your online business ventures.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Important Updates For The Promotion Of Your Affiliate Marketing Business
To promote your online affiliate marketing business, it's vital to use each and every resource available to you online. I have spoken about several methods for achieving this in my previous articles, including the use of Ebay to sell EBooks which you have produced on your niche market.
It has recently come to my attention that Ebay in Australia have instigated a new policy which now stops the listing for sale of digital products such as EBooks. They claim that the sale of multiple digital items delivered electronically has the potential to compromise the Ebay feedback system.
While this is certainly not the end of the world for the promotion of affiliate marketing products, it certainly highlights the ever changing & fluid nature of online culture and politics. Of course there are always options to work around situations such as this. As a quick and easy example, you could copy your EBook products onto CD's and sell them as a physical item which can be sent to the customer via mail. Although this method may be considerably slower than the instant nature of digital delivery, it is perfectly within Ebay policies and can sometimes actually be more comforting for a customer to receive a physical and tangible item.
On a far more positive note, I have recently found that the use of several of the newer social networking sites such as Tumblr, Twitter and Pownce are an excellent resource for the affiliate marketer to promote their products. It is possible to post "Micro Blogs" on these sites, which are quickly and easily accomplished. Pownce and Tumblr allow their users to post video, picture, audio, text and hyperlinks, which can all be very effectively used by the affiliate marketer to promote their products. Twitter is a little different as their "tweets" or posts are limited to 140 characters. It is important to create good, effective sales copy to take full advantage of what this site has to offer.
The really great part about using these sites is that they are constantly being crawled by Google and you can obtain listings and even dominate your niche market on the Google rankings very quickly. Be sure to include links to your business websites in your posts and tweets.
Jaiku is yet another of the social networking sites which are worthy of paying close attention too. They are currently in a transitional phase as they have been taken over by Google. New membership applications have currently been placed on hold while their reorganisation is in progress.
Another positive gesture I would like to make in this post is to offer my entire catalogue of EBooks available to anyone & everyone who cares to visit my business web site. Please feel free to download as many as you like and take advantage of this offer with my compliments. Additionally, I am also offering all of the EBooks which were formerly offered for sale on Ebay. To take advantage of this great offer, please click here.
As a final note I would once again like to emphasise the importance and major effective force of writing articles on your niche topic and areas of expertise. The amount of articles written by you on your niche market will have a direct positive effect on your credibility as an expert in your field with the added bonus of having inbound links to your business web sites.
So get to work tapping away on your keyboard right away and you will soon see a huge boost in good quality traffic to your sites and a giant boost to your expert status in your chosen field of business.
The best of luck to you in your business ventures. Anthony Barnes.
Anthony Barnes is an up & coming affiliate marketer. For the benefit of other newcomers to this business, he is trying to post as many articles on this topic, from his own recent experience as often as possible. Please visit my business web site for more details.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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