Bruce's Golden Goose marketing

A lot of affiliates like the idea of a newsletter…in principle.  If you ask, though, most have never actually acted on what they know to be a very good idea.  Building a list has potential for a great ROI if you do it right.  To help you out, I’ve included a number of tips that have been helpful to me.

• Get a trustworthy mailer. I like aWeber because they’re double opt-in (that means that users have to confirm their email address to get on the list) and they have extremely high deliverability rates.  They’re also very affordable.  Click here if you want to learn more about their plans.
• Mail frequently. If you don’t, people have  tendency to forget who you are.  When your mailing finally arrives, they’re likely to hit the “Spam” button because they don’t hear from you often enough to remember when they opted into your correspondence.
• Make it timely. While this may not apply to all fields and topics, people definitely appreciate current information.  If you can save them a trip to their favorite website for the same information, you’ve saved them time and helped to win their favor.
• Keep your tone consistent with your website (if you have one) and your audience’s sophistication level.  If you’re writing about web marketing but targeting people with brick and mortar businesses, your language will be much less technical than if you’re writing about the same topic for industry veterans.
• Don’t be afraid of templates. If you have no design skills, there’s absolutely no shame in using a template.  Heck, you can even joke about it if your audience is a casual one, but for goodness sake, have mercy on their eyes.  Don’t go the DIY route and create some fluorescent monstrosity that gives everyone eyestrain.
• Keep it simple. If you want to highlight a lot of content, offer links to your website where people can view it all.  Don’t clog up their inbox with a 10,000 word email.

Are there any good techniques I’m missing?  I’m sure there are tons, so feel free to chime in on the comments.

A little over 5 years ago, article marketing was all the rage.  It seemed like everyone was writing and submitting articles to promote affiliate offers.  Then, other things gradually became trendier.  People wanted to pay for instant traffic instead of putting in the time and effort to write articles and figure out what works.  Article marketing became something that a lot of people talk down about.  It became a sure sign that you were a Digital Point newbie instead of a professional marketer.

To be quite honest, I never understood this.  Article marketing was, and still is, an excellent way to drive sales.  Yes, it does take a bit more effort up front, but it’s also much more stable than most paid advertising.  Articles that people wrote back in 2005 STILL make money for them.  Even if you have only written a handful of articles on one site and you make $50/month from them, think about the long-term possibilities of that.  That’s a $600 annual raise for work you did ONCE and then left behind.  You might have to log in once in a while and change the affiliate link, but other than that, it’s extremely low maintenance.

Now, imagine yourself doing basically the same thing, except with the benefit of a proven system and automated mass submissions.  Instead of $50/month for a few articles, you could be looking at hundreds – and if you’re ambitious, you could write a ton of them and earn thousands.  That’s what Mass Article Control does for you.  It simplifies, streamlines, and automates the article marketing process to take it from a decent side income to an amazing full-time income that lets you pay down debts or simply enjoy your life a little more.

At the moment, the Mass Article Control Blueprint is completely free if you opt into their email list.  I highly recommend that you at least take a look at it to decide if it’s right for you.

If you’ve spent much time in the make money online space, you’ve probably heard of Mack Michaels.  He’s the owner and creator of the Maverick Money Makers community, one of the top coaching forums around.  Although it doesn’t fit everyone’s style, it’s an excellent product for those it suits.  That’s not the point of this post, though.

Mack has also created a course designed to teach marketers how to benefit from the mobile marketing trend.  That course, Cell Phone Cash, will teach you everything you need to know to get involved in mobile marketing before it’s as saturated as PPC and other popular methods.

The course is a 7 week study in understanding the basics, spying on competitors, building a system, and then automating and scaling what works.  Unlike the usual one-time fee ebooks, Cell Phone Cash is a monthly subscription that is fully refundable, and which you can cancel at any time.

The most enticing bonus, though, is something Michaels doesn’t actually mention until the very end of his pitch, though.  It’s a special report on 50 things he’s done to make $500 in a month.  Even if 90% of them were useless to you, you’d still have 5 great ways to earn $500 in the very first month you sign up.  Not bad by any measure!

To check out the program and watch Michaels’ video to see what it’s all about, click here and enjoy!

Despite many industries laying off thousands of workers or even outright shutting their doors in today’s tough economic climate, there is one industry that is thriving and helping thousands of regular people make money. Some hard workers are even replacing the income they earned at their regular jobs, allowing them to walk away from the 9-5 work day for good and work from home on a full-time basis.

What is this industry? Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing programs are simple by nature: They work by rewarding
marketers for promoting products online. The affiliates are then compensated on a commission basis. Basically, affiliates get paid each time they refer new customers to the website of the company they are promoting.

Becoming an affiliate is one of the most lucrative online money-making opportunities out there, and the breadth of products that can be promoted as an affiliate is staggering. Affiliate marketing creates a cost-effective option for big and small companies alike to reach out and expose their products to a much larger audience of potential buyers. Instead of being limited to just one large website companies of any size can now offer an affiliate program and have their products promoted on hundreds or even thousands of individual sites, at no upfront cost to them. (more…)